What videogames have you been playing? version 1.22: What's with that plural?

[Synobun]

I'm finally playing Stars Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. I really like Cal, and especially like his master, Jaro Tapal. However, I am unconvinced that the zeffo arc is necessary when there's already the rakata. And the big goal, as well, seems like an obvious failure given the surrounding SW lore. I'm not finished with it yet and have just reached Ilum.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Well folks PoE2 beta will be announced in July and it looks like the release will be in 2023. It looks to be simply awesome! Walkthroughs, teasers etc. found here:

Path of Exile 2 - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

pathofexile2.com

 

[EvaDK]

I never played Diablo 3. Maybe I'll see if it's on sale, now that 4 is out.

Blizzard regularly have sales 3-4 times a year. But honestly, I wouldn't bother with D3 as a new player at this stage. You'll be so far behind the curve, considering it was released +10 years ago and RPGs are usually very time consuming. I would start fresh with D4 like everyone else or keep an eye out for PoE2, which I'll bet a casket full of legendary items that @Birdjaguar has already made a personal time schedule for.

If PoE2s Beta is released next month, that would be a perfect opportunity to check it out, before making a purchase.

 

[Fippy]

Baldurs Gate 3 release date has finally been announced: August 31st.
I am not that excited but there are prolly many interested.

 

[Akka]

BG3 is in a funny state for me.
I loved BG2 (it's really a genre-defining game and feels like the dev poured whatever they could in it), I liked a lot D:OS 1 & 2, but I really have absolutely no hype for BG3. Maybe somewhere in my brains I just don't feel there is a good mix between Larian and Bioware style and so the end product will feel like some sort of bastarized mashup, or maybe the D&D5E world doesn't keep my interest, or maybe I do feel that the Pathfinder games are actually already the spiritual sequels to BG2, but it's simply not on my radar and I usually forget about it a few hours after hearing news.
Though maybe I'll get it and have a blast, who knows.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm finally playing Stars Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. I really like Cal, and especially like his master, Jaro Tapal. However, I am unconvinced that the zeffo arc is necessary when there's already the rakata. And the big goal, as well, seems like an obvious failure given the surrounding SW lore. I'm not finished with it yet and have just reached Ilum.

I don't remember any Rakata in Cal's story. Are you confusing them with the Zeffonians?

I also really like Cal as a character. J:FO is easily the best Star Wars game since KotOR I & II.

 

[Synobun]

I don't remember any Rakata in Cal's story. Are you confusing them with the Zeffonians?

You may want to reread my spoiler. I don't think the zeffo are necessary to exist for this story when there's already the rakata in lore. There's only so many ancient wunderkind societies you can fit in the universe. It would have also been a good opportunity to expand the lore on the rakata, by showing there was a rift within their society in how to use the Force. Eno's obsession with them could have been in studying that rift. There's barely any attention given to the zeffo, so I guess it doesn't really matter overall, but it does feel like a missed opportunity to me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

If PoE2s Beta is released next month, that would be a perfect opportunity to check it out, before making a purchase.

ExileCon is late July where the beta will be officially announced and I think it will open quickly thereafter. POE and POE2 are free to play. They make their money off supporter packs and MTXs that are strictly cosmetic or QoL. Improved gear is available through in game trading of loot currency that player collect. If I find or craft an item that is particularly good or rare, I can "sell" it to other players for in game currency at a price I choose. There is no gold in the game; currency comes as many different types of orbs that do things such as upgrading gear from normal to magical or rare or adding mods to items. For those who wish, there is a Solo self found league (SSF) that is just like the softcore league except no trading or group play is available. In addition, for those who want it harder, there is Hardcore (one death and your toon is toast) and Hardcore SSF. This is not an easy game to learn on your own.

The passive skill tree alone looks like an impossible thing. In reality, it not so difficult.

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree

POE2 looks to be a serious upgrade from the now 10 year old game engine and outdated graphics. With all the upgrades, though, the game play will stay the same.

 

[EgonSpengler]

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory

Stalker, Day ~175. Fishing... fishing... more fishing... This is ridiculous. I could open a restaurant. Fishing... Fishing...

Out of curiosity, I 'cheated' and looked up how much fishing you have to do to get the skill to level 5. It turns out the increment from level 3 to level 4 is the longest: 100 fish. I seem to average 5 fish every 4 hours. From level 4 to level 5 is another 100 fish, but since your skill is higher, you'd catch more and it would go quicker. Incidentally, there's no way in Hades there are this many fish in a pond this size. So not only have I killed more wolves than live in Banff or Yellowstone irl, and a couple of bears, I'm overfishing the local watering holes. I am a one-man ecological disaster.

I went around the back of Timberwolf Mountain and realized I have the geography all messed up in my head. There are a couple of rope-drops that don't lead where I thought they led. There's one climbing spot that has no rope, that I think would be convenient for going back up the mountain, and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it is from up there, so I can drop a rope. On my way to the summit, I dropped a rope where I thought that climb was, but I didn't bother to go down it at the time. Later, I went where I thought the bottom of that rope was, and it wasn't. So now I have no idea where that rope takes you, and I'm just all confounded. I'll have to walk all the way around again, nearly to the top, and then climb down that rope, just to see where it is.

Here's my cabin, all lit up with every lantern I've bothered to bring back. A terrible waste of fuel, but if I actually bother to cook all this fish, I'll have enough oil to deep-fry a whole doe. I read a while ago that it was possible to cover that hole in the roof with either a bear or moose hide that was nearly dry (at 99%), but I tried, and couldn't do it.

Spoiler :

 

[Synobun]

You may want to reread my spoiler. I don't think the zeffo are necessary to exist for this story when there's already the rakata in lore. There's only so many ancient wunderkind societies you can fit in the universe. It would have also been a good opportunity to expand the lore on the rakata, by showing there was a rift within their society in how to use the Force. Eno's obsession with them could have been in studying that rift. There's barely any attention given to the zeffo, so I guess it doesn't really matter overall, but it does feel like a missed opportunity to me.

Finished it. It ended up being that the zeffo followed a similar Force trajectory as the rakata, as well. This supports my argument further.

Merrin is cool. The Darth Vader scene was cool. Ending was expected since it was the only way it'd make sense.

 

[Snerk]

Civ6 on PS4 is actually very playable. Should have made the move earlier.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I started Stardew Valley. So far I've wandered around and passed out, woke up minus 50 gold to a rain storm, and cut down a few trees. Not entirely sure what I'm doing but am enjoying the music.

 

[Synobun]

I started Stardew Valley. So far I've wandered around and passed out, woke up minus 50 gold to a rain storm, and cut down a few trees. Not entirely sure what I'm doing but am enjoying the music.

If you need any help/tips, feel free to ask. I know quite a bit about the game.

 

[Hygro]

I am 85 hours into the new Zelda and it is soooo fun.

Was a rough start coming off Elden Ring as the previous action rpg open world. Going from ps5 to switch graphics, having the same basic style of combat but much more basic…

But once I got into the swing of it on its own terms, it had been become utterly joyful.

 

[Snowygerry]

Civ6 on PS4 is actually very playable. Should have made the move earlier.

Interesting, my old trusty laptop I used to play civ 4 for over a decade just blew its mind out, maybe it's time to move on.

I could play civ on the large TV screen while working from home

Anyone else here playing civ on PS ?

Edit, Basic game is selling for 5,99 apparently, along with a bunch of expansions - too cheap to not try tbh..

 

[AmazonQueen]

Last train Home looks interesting.

 

[Snerk]

Interesting, my old trusty laptop I used to play civ 4 for over a decade just blew its mind out, maybe it's time to move on.

I could play civ on the large TV screen while working from home

Anyone else here playing civ on PS ?

Edit, Basic game is selling for 5,99 apparently, along with a bunch of expansions - too cheap to not try tbh..

Yes I find it more enjoyable playing on a big screen compared to hunched over my laptop. Navigating the menus and whatnot with a controller works fine too. Not ideal but fine. Lack of mod support I guess but IMO meh. Base game super cheap now yeah. But I need Gathering Storm so I went for the bundle that included that.

 

[Snowygerry]

The deal is already done, I'm watching the opening credits now

Started with the basic game, what does Gathering Storm do ? Is it an "essential" add-on, like Beyond the Sword was for Civ IV ?

 

[Snerk]

The deal is already done, I'm watching the opening credits now

Started with the basic game, what does Gathering Storm do ? Is it an "essential" add-on, like Beyond the Sword was for Civ IV ?

Yes it's an add-on with a bunch of new features. Definitely recommended if you enjoy the base game.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Was reading an article about Diablo IV this morning, about how the caster-classes are way more popular and effective than the melee classes, and also have multiple 'viable' builds. The article noted that people have already 'cracked the code' of the best builds for the melee classes, which are slower to level and less single-player-friendly than the caster classes anyway. This seems to be one of those recurringt problems in game design, like the 4X games with boring late-games, survival games with food-water-xyz management mechanics that are just tedious, or FPS games where everyone just ends up playing a sniper.

One of my fears for Civilization VII is that the developers will be too timid to really throw the table over in the late game and expect the player to adapt and overcome. Civ VI's late game is among the worst I've ever played. I've probably finished a half-dozen games, the entire time I've been playing it. Likewise, there have been multiple 'survival' games that were actually better when I disabled the survival mechanics. Melee characters in these ARPGs always seem to be 'hard mode' with no upside or reward (that is, it isn't that they're more challenging but ultimately more effective, if you can master them - they're usually just worse). For some reason I can't account for, game designers as a group seem to be terribly uncreative when it comes to game design and fall into the same traps, again and again. (I can't rule out the possibility that gamers, as a group, are so stubborn and unadventurous that the slightest deviation from the orthodoxy causes a total meltdown, and any truly inventive game design is just a waste of time and money for the studio. Easy to see how that could become a feedback loop.)