Still gonna keep this goings; people from before will be pinged.

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements?

and

What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming?

Well, a lot of bad news has happened politically IRL, but let’s make this thread a good one, and enjoy ourselves here!

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    I’m still playing Resident Evil 2. Now I’m doing the Claire playthrough, I’m a Jill man myself but I’m beginning to see the appeal. Anyway, I’m nervous as hell because the game keeps giving me all this ammo and all these crazy weapons and that means they expect me to use it.

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    Haven’t been able to play much this past month due to some personal issues, but I started up NGU Idle and It’s been a blast.

    Favorite genres have to be city-builders/sims, and strategic or turn-based combat games.

    Didn’t watch TGA since it’s super bloated, but I did see and enjoy the BG3 director’s comments about the industry.

    The thing I enjoyed most this year is personal, but I started playing a lot more of the silly co-op games with friends and it’s a great way to spend time with them when they don’t live close.

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    I just finished my first (and likely only) playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West+DLC Burning Shores (I loved the previous game Horizon Zero Dawn).

    I wasn’t prepared to get slapped in the face with sinophobia (the writing re: the Quen) but yeah it really soured my experience. I know it’s not like super overt but I understood the angle where it was coming from and what the writing was trying to communicate to its audience. Maybe I’ll find it funny in a few weeks (as many sinophobic tropes/accusations are more reflective of the west than they are of china;; “moral lessons” about finding the truth for yourself is much more applicable to westerners “forced” to reiterate antichina-isms than it is applicable to whatever the average westerner thinks about censorship and free speech in china) but right now I’m just unhappy.

    At least I didn’t spend money on it this time around🏴‍☠️

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    caves of qud 1.0 out now babeyy!!! also been playing gyruss for the arcade and panel de pon/puzzle league/tetris attack.

    fav video genres are roguelikes, puzzle games, and arcade games like shmups.

    there was a game awards…?

    ring racers is THE game of 2024 in my heart and soul and spirit and its factual go play ring racers

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    Finished Berwick Saga recently. Definitely one of the best and most unique turn-based strategy games I’ve ever played. Will probably take forever to play it again because the level of long-term strategy is draining at some points, but I absolutely loved it.

    Not sure if I am just too busy or if it’s an industry thing, but I honestly didn’t get excited for anything out of TGA. Don’t even know much about the nominated games. None of them run on my PC either way.

    Depending on my level of energy I might play Möbius Front or Xenonauts 1, or just sit back and enjoy some random couch co-op games with my holiday visitor.

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    What video games have you played recently? modded minecrap, i got an umbrella and i look very cute. also webfishing.

    What are your favorite video game genres? roguelikes and sandboxes

    (i didn’t watch the game awards)

    What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming? the fact that i am still alive somehow, i like video games. also webfishing was released like 2 months ago and somehow it’s that big and very nice

    did i do it right

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    I’ve been playing a lot of Baldi’s Basics Plus (0.8 update) recently. Probably going to play either more FreedroidRPG or Songs of Syx next. My favorite genres are still the same: Any type of RPG (turn-based, action, …) and RTS games, particularly more complex city builders.

    I’ve watched TGA but there is nothing really in particular that stands out to me. Maybe Witcher 4? But I want to see some gameplay first. In terms of 2024 games I really enjoyed Portal: Revolution.

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        I haven’t played too much of the main quest yet but it’s a top-down isometric ARPG like Fallout or Diablo. Basically you play as Tux the penguin (the Linux mascot) on a quest to fight rogue robots who’ll attack anyone on sight. It’s licensed under the GPLv2 so it’s libre open source software. Most Linux distros and BSDs feature it in their native package repositories but it’s also on Steam as of last year.

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    I know it’s milsim but I’ve been playing more squad recently. Sometimes it feels good playing a resistance group fighting Americans and winning. I’ve also been playing a lot of call of duty black ops 6, it’s so fun. Haven’t had this much fun since I think MW2 from 2010(?) i for got when it came out, but it’s a blast. I also found a really interesting game called catacalismo, it’s like tower defense, Minecraft, base building, and something else combined. I really enjoy it, for my perfectionist brain making things look nice is just really fun and my diagnosed OCD enjoys the thought of optimizing supply routes through building things. I’ve played a lot of Baldur’s gate 3 this year but I only like to play it with my wife, so i haven’t touched it recently. Dragon age veilguard is also pretty fun but I can tell they just really wanted to finish this game, they put a lot of heart into it, but there’s some choices made that I feel are amateurish. Space marine 2 was fun for a little bit, since I upgraded my PC I decided to finally play a game I’ve always wanted to but never had the hardware for: world in conflict Soviet assault.

    My absolute favorite is RPG but only if it allows for detailed facial and body customization, plus background information, and basically DND. Second favorite would be Mil-Sim. I don’t know why, but I think I like the teamwork involved, which is weird because I have always preferred to work alone in all my academic work. I also like guns so playing tacticool Barbie is always fun.

    I liked Witcher 4, Okami 2, and fragpunk, the entire thing was more awkward than usual this year. I had to be totally stoned to be able to finish the rest.

    I absolutely 100% enjoyed COD BLOPS6 the most, I’ve pulled off some crazy shit that I still think about. Also every time I get play of the game and number 1 on the podium I can shout pro Palestine stuff and they can’t talk shit cause I played way better than them. The game that I’ve put most hours in though is destiny 2, we’re talking thousands of hours, but I think I’ve finally broken up with it (unless frontiers turns out to be amazing). I get the thought to play Destiny 2 and then I remember that I have to do XYZ which is gonna take forfuckingever and feel exhausted without even playing it. I got a baby that’s about to turn one years old, I don’t have time to spend tens of hours to grind for one gun that I’m gonna use once a year. Being back SRL and I’ll play it everyday again, but right now it’s just in a bad place, I especially cannot stand that the transmog system is so damn monetized. You get five free transmog tokens that you can grind out per season per character to be able to unlock the armor you already paid for transmog. DIablo 4 being activation doesn’t monetize transmog, that’s how greedy bungie has become

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      Many people thought it was better this year, but I understand the awkwardness. And yeah, speak truth to power in BLOPS 6 of all games. And yeah, the problem with Diablo 4 is huge.

      Also, Okami 2 looked gorgeous.

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    I play very few games these days.

    Favorite genre is hands down RPG though I also have a soft spot for retro RTS games because the first video games I played were RTS (C&C).

    I don’t know anything about the situation (and haven’t played the game) but I also must chime in and say I think Black Myth Wukong possibly got shafted at the recent awards on geopolitical basis. I think the west is at that phase where they are going to actively suppress Chinese culture and media in ways that involve pressure and behind the scenes stuff to prevent them from gaining official recognition and a platform.

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    The Bazaar has been hitting REALLY nicely over the past week or two ngl, highly recommend if you’re into that sort of nerd shit

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    Still on factorio. About 120 hours into the save. Pausing now to study programming a bit, but will play less hard, for the upcoming months, likely.

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    Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!

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      Damn, flash games. They still around? What about Tetris on the Internet or as a flash game?

      I was watching a video saying that they were held in “flash base,” as an archive.

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    I was soooo excited for Veilguard. Guess which game I kinda hate? 😅

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      Damn.

      I want to desperately enjoy The Veilguard and I still plan to buy it. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition growing up.

      Too bad only three decisions carry over from the third game…

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      I will never forget the intense and deep disappointment I felt after playing DA2. I hear Inquisition was better, but the entire series was dead to me from that point forward and I lost faith in direction of the series from that point.

      I’m not the “stop having fun” type, but it’s a bummer to hear that they never managed to bring it back to the great to the same spot that made the first game so phenomenal.

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        I know what you mean. I really enjoyed Inquisition, I still play it today. It’s not perfect but it’s great. Veilguard just feels like a bad cartoon. Example: I’m playing as a Shadow Dragon and everyone keeps explaining to me what the Shadow Dragons do. Ok, yep, read the codex, read my own intro, I got it.

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          It was originally supposed to be a heavily monetized live service game and they had to pivot really late in development because of backlash during playtesting. A lot of the weirdness you see like that is because they were reworking what basically amounted to a bad mmo. I hear the last few hours of the story are pretty good though.

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    Just about to finish Oracle of Seasons after Oracle of Ages. It is an EASY game I have to say, specially after playing Ages which has some weird puzzles