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!
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I’ve been playing the Cyberpunk DLC and just finished that last night. Aside from some annoying bugs that was pretty fun.
I’m nearing the end of my first BG 3 playthrough that I’ve been streaming with a friend. We decided to go Dark Urge and it’s made this kind of a weird first playthrough. It’s been fun but I think in hindsight it would have been better to have a more normal first run then go back for this. Also, found a kind of funny bug (?) in the vampire boss fight. The boss has some property that says he can’t be moved by physical or magical means. But when I threw that legendary spear that has a knock back AoE, it sent him off the cliff and that was the fight aside from mopping up the ads.
Aside from that I’m always playing TFT occasionally. I climbed higher than I ever did before: 200 LP masters before I hit another funk and started backsliding.
My first playthrough right now is also Dark Urge. I thought it would be especially hard as a good character (Paladin/Bard) but at the beginning of Act 2 I have to say: apart from an early Camp event there was nothing problematic Dark Urge related until now. Mostly murderous thoughts I could ignore without any dice rolls and a few more Camp events that only added some flavour.
I figured it just made sense to lean into it once I realized what it was. I didn’t go FULL murder hobo, but I ended up doing enough to trigger a bunch of special quest stuff unique to the Dark Urge. I still think this was probably better as a 2nd play through, but I was pretty satisfied with all the content the game had to fill the gaps caused by me… suddenly cutting off some quest lines.
Currently taking my sweet time playing No Man’s Sky. I bought it on release, never played until recently, and couldn’t be happier. Avoiding the story, building a massive base, and exploring the cosmos has never been so satisfying. Next up on my list of games to check out again is Cyberpunk. Everyone and their mother says it’s better now, so I figure it’s worth a shot.
No Man’s Sky really is a pleasant surprise. It took a few years but it’s a stellar game with so much to do.
I wonder if starfield will ever reach that level
I was playing the new DLC recently and I encountered some brand new bugs that I didn’t see on my first playthrough. Sometimes after completing a quest, the game would just lock me out of certain features like the map, journal, inventory, phone, etc. only way to fix it was to reload.
First thing that I did in the DLC was to start an original game mission that I hadn’t done on this character but I couldn’t complete it. I think that it was the one with Lizzy where you had to get into a nightclub and talk to someone. I couldn’t get past the bouncer even though I had max street cred and the two side entrances were also not active.
I’ve done the mission in another character with no issues.
I finally got around installing OpenMW and started playing.
Feels good to relive my first “serious” RPG experience.
I had completely forgotten OpenMW existed and now the rest of my year is spoken for.
Note, there are some forks of OpenMW. One fore android, one adds multiplayer, one makes it VR.
I need to get that on my phone now that I have a Backbone.
FTL
Classic
I got super into Rimworld this last month and had a blast. I am also closing out my first playthrough of BG3, doing it with a friend so it’s taking a bit longer. Picked up the new Cyberpunk DLC but haven’t really had a chance to dig into it yet.
Age of empires 2. Bloody hell, this 22 year old game is getting another dlc. It’s gona be a pain in the ass for the devs but the game is as balanced as ever and we’ll enjoy it till the servers go down.
I went on a binge with that game recently. It is amazingly deep, I never got near all the possible ways to play. I was mostly enjoying getting my ass kicked by the computer in multiplayer.
Fun game. I’ll probably get back to it eventually. Seems like it will be around forever.
ETA: There’s a pretty large AOE2 community on Reddit (still? IDK?) and frequent vids on YT. I remember some very detailed analysis vids on YT when updates came out. And competitive is still a thing too.
Still on Cyberpunk 2077. 54 hours in and I’m maybe halfway through act 2 and I haven’t started with the DLC.
For some reason the gameplay loop of this game clicked with me. I love doing side missions and gigs and making my V a netrunner God.
Death Stranding, God of War Ragnarok and Cyberpunk 2077 reignited my love for gaming in the past 2 months. I was starting to get bored and burnt out on video games, but these three games are absolutely phenomenal and they sucked me back in.
Always on rimworld. If I’m not playing rimworld , I’m planning my next rimworld session.
Been replaying Talos Principle in anticipation of the sequel coming out next month. Been having a blast with the exception of a few puzzles with mines (if you’ve played it you know). I don’t know if I’m going to 100% it again because I fucking hate those levels.
I played it through recently for the same reason.
There are some tricks to deal with mines - e.g. the “double jammer” dance will almost entirely de-risk a lot of the craziest levels.
It’s the star puzzles I couldn’t be bothered with…
Yeah that where I gave up this time too.
Still playing a lot of Lies of P recently while trying to go for 100%. I underestimated how long this’ll take honestly, it seems like you need to do 3 separate playthroughs and be very careful about easily missable quests and records. Same shenanigans as dark souls really.
Still, it’s a really fun game. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys the souls games.
Lies of P. Best soulslike game that isn’t a fromsoftware game.
I am currently playing hogwarts legacy on the ps5. Since I don’t get much playing time during the week it’s taking a long time but I am enjoying my hufflepuff character.
Been enjoying cyberpunk but I keep going back to Xcom: Enemy Unkown
I find XCOM difficult to go back to after playing XCOM 2, especially with the huge amount of easily installed XCOM 2 mods on the steam page.
After finishing a playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3, I’m now on Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Fun, but nowhere near as good as the original Tiny Tina DLC for BL2. Still, I’m 26 hours in and I’ll definitely finish it. After that… maybe I’ll go back and do a different run of BG3. I’m looking forward to getting back to CP2077 and picking up Phantom Liberty, but I’m going to wait for that to be on some sort of sale.
I’m playing Myst for the first time, and I refuse to get help online.
Good luck with that. It has some pretty difficult puzzles
