Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!

Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’m playing Lies of P and it’s amazing. It’s been a long time since a game was able to draw me in like this.

  • Duenan@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Playing Dave the Diver at the moment.

    Disappointed that it went on sale hours after I bought it but even at full price it’s worth the price of admission.

  • Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I finished Chants of Sennaar a couple nights ago, it was a lot of fun. Language-based puzzle game inspired by the Tower of Babel. It’s very pretty to look at, and a lot of the puzzles were really clever. My only real complaint is that I was really expecting the final level to be much more difficult, requiring me to do a lot of synthesizing of ideas from previous levels, but instead the final puzzles were pretty easy and linear. I’d still recommend it though, the first 80% of the game is great, and if you get that far, you’ll probably have the momentum to finish, the end doesn’t take that long.

  • SynopticVision@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    After many years, knowing all too well that it’s the kind of game that would have driven me crazy, I started Factorio. I am indeed struggling not to have it swallow my life whole.

  • KMRamos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I played 72 hours of Stardew Valley 3 years ago and I got back to realize…that I know nothing!

    What is this chest? What is this thing standing beside my scarecrow?! What are all these machines doing?!? What am I planting?!?! Who is my boyfriend?!?!? Why is he my boyfriend?!?!? In short, a lot of things happened and I have amnesia now. And I thought that only happened in Rune Factory.

    Anyways, I’m playing it again. But now, dived face-first into modding it. And lo and behold! 133+ hours in, and I’m still not in the second season of the game cause I spent most of my time getting mods and testing them Skyrim modding session flashbacks All my men are yandere now and that wizard is now a hot ikemen(who I can marry in the future). I can’t wait to play!

  • RinseDrizzle@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Baldur’s Gate consumed a bunch of my time, but I’ve had on hold for a bit. Got obsessed with Armored Core 6 which has been a ton of fun. Bit biased though, played AC series growing up, big Fromsoft fan in general.

    Most recently been hitting that Mario World Wonder on switch for quick casual time kill, then Predecessor on PC for scratching competitive PVP itch. Got so tense playing it the other day I managed to tweak a muscle somehow 😂

  • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Warhammer 40k Darktide. Love my lil sexy Zealot. Always looking for new people to play with by the way…

  • Cavemanfreak@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve actually started playing Genshin Impact, and it surprised me how fun it is! And it’s nice to be able to play on the phone when travelling/sitting in the sofa, and then hop on the PC when the kids and wife has gone to bed.

    • RinseDrizzle@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Was in there way back when it was fresh. Caught a couple extra rare characters too, but got burnt out fairly quickly on the grind.

      Still, quite impressive for what is technically a phone game.

      • Cavemanfreak@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I can see myself getting burned out in a few weeks as well. But so far the combat is really fun, and the stories are interesting enough to keep me playing.

  • cultcult@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Dragons dogma on switch. I tried to get into it on PX a few years back but it’s really clicking now. Looking forward to 2 in march

  • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been playing the original Call Of Duty games, starting at the first one. I beat it and United Offensive. I’m working on the second game.

    It’s all in service of a write up about the core identity and the design philosophy of the games. How the original games were fresh for their time, and how COD4 used a lot of the sensibilities of the WW2 games that preceded it. There’s a lot to mine and digest in the old games, COD4, and Modern Warfare 2 as a contrast and turning point. I just don’t know if people care enough to follow it.

  • Nacktmull@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Dead Cells with all the DLCs. After being obsessed with Nova Drift for several months I got burnout and looked for other games to play.

    Mafia definitive edition was on sale, so I got that. However, it quickly showed that in fact I don´t enjoy 3D shooters as I used to.

    So I thought about what I really wanted to play and it was clearly roguelites with retro or at least highly stylized graphics. The DLCs for Dead Cells had been tempting me for some time already and most of them were on sale at that point, so it was pretty much a no-brainer. I erased my progress from years ago and started over fresh and it´s so much fun!

    My best run yet was when I found the Hotline Miami reference lore room, which unlocks and drops the (level I) baseball bat. Now the Baseball bat does not have particularly high base damage but very good crit damage and guaranteed crits on stunned/rooted targets. That is already really cool when you combine it with stunning enemies by stomping but I was sure I´d have to replace that weapon later in the run because it was just a level I item. A few levels later I stumbled over a golden altar with a legendary Boys Axe. This item is a throwing axe that roots enemies on hit and as I told earlier you get auto-crit hits on rooted targets with the baseball bat, so obviously I ditched my rampart shield for the Boys Axe and from there on a virtually all my baseball bat hits were crit hits. But it got even better!

    Shortly afterwards I found a sinew slicer, which is a trap that causes bleed on hit and then I got incredibly lucky and was able to roll +60% damage on bleeding targets on BOTH, the baseball bat AND the Boys Axe! Obviously from there I just breezed through the rest of the run and killed the Hand of the King in just a few seconds with a level I baseball bat as my main weapon :D

    On top of all that, during the run I was also able to figure out how to use certain weapons like they were one, as it had been possible years ago but was patched out. This also added to making the build ridiculously strong since I could spam the baseball bat and the Boys Axe like they where just a combo of the same weapon.

    TLDR: Dead Cells is crazy! If you enjoy roguelites, get Dead Cells!