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Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #26

I love the Indian Fallout 3 memes so much.

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Played some Civ6, it's a lot better than I expected but I really dislike how the expansions are broken into separate game modes and can't be combined. The handling of districts and wonder taking up tiles is very interesting and over all I think the city management is better than 5 due to having to make either/or decisions instead of being able to get everything without a downside. Haven't played too much so can't give a super deep opinion.

Beat House of the Dead Remake, it was fun, but would never recommend buying it since it's like 30 minutes long. Fun though.

Slowly making my way through Quake.

Also finished Milk Inside a Bag of Milk, “nice” little visual novel. I can see why the people who recommended me it enjoyed the game. Will play Milk Outside a Bag of Milk soon.

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I'm playing shadow of war. It's janky and shit.

Kill me now

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>what are you playing

LoL, was bordering plat 3 before some r-slur threw. For the solo player im doing cyberpunk 2077 to prep for the expansion.

>starfield memes

Game isnt even out yet where the frick are these coming from? Ngl though am hyped for the release.

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Minecraft.

Just trying to work on my castle and my neurodivergent butt decided that the courtyard needs those blue mushroom tree things that you can only find in the nether and it's been the shits. The nether portal dropped me in the middle of soul sand and a skeleton spawn that's on a cliff over lava, and these stupid ghasts won't stop spawning over my head.

:#peterdead:

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I played Psychonauts 2 and it was moderately fun. I like those kind of story-driven third person platformers although I play very few of them. They're better than strategy or puzzle games for :marseygigaretard: like me. Saying that, I do sometimes enjoy puzzle games.

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I was pleasantly surprised that a sequel to a cult classic after 16 years didn't end up being trash. Usually a long time between sequels means the talent and spark is gone and it's usually mediocre at best.

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Finally started playing BOTW on cemu. It's pretty fun. Had to use my phone for the shrines that require motion controls.

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Is that new vegas dialoge actually real or is it a mod?

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Oh if you Civ VI I got a gang of people you'd like to know. It's a pretty fun game, and we could always use one more.


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I'm not depressed enough to get into civ beyond 2 games. I already uninstalled

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Unironically probably for the best.


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Those Fallout 3 memes are fricking KINO :marseyxd:

I've been playing a lot of Xbox games for cheevos, alternating between them. Fallout 3 is one of them because I want to finally finish the achievements. Dunno if anyone here is familiar with Oddworld but I'm also playing Stranger's Wrath.

I also bought a collection of arcade games for a few dollars. All these years and I never knew the Pac-Man ghosts have preset routes that depend on what moves you make. :lemindblown:

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I love the Indian Fallout 3 memes so much.

They're great. Were there any made for Fallout 4?

Anyway, I've been playing Gothic for the first time. I'm still on the first chapter, but it's been pretty good so far. The workshop support is nice, too, the game plays very well using zGamepad.

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Gothic is overrated

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Warhammer total war 3 campaign with some friends. It's so much worse than older total wars but still fun.

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I've just finished max payne 2 for the first time (played before but never actually finished).

Wanted to do it before playing the 3rd one... so I'll be playing that one.

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Mtg limited again

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Did you try the new m30 anniversary draft?

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Yea i have a shitty white weenies with overcosted shocks and pacifisms :marseytearsofblood:

I'll 7-2 anyways tho:marseygem::marseygem::marseygem:

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I went in blind and drafted a control deck with like 7 creatures. Only got 3 wins and decked myself 3 times. There's too much removal with all these vanilla creatures in the draft

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Tragic

Lotr is bomb tho

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I think I've done 100 lotr drafts. Good format but everyone is basically playing the same deck. Lorien revealed is gas

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Real but birthday escape is bae. I'll force it errytime

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Darkest Dungeon. It's so trash.

Heart attacks ruined the game. It's bad enough that healing is shit and negative afflictions take away control from your character. It doesn't need an instakill mechanic

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My cracked Hellion died and I stopped playing.

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That game has always interested me because of the concept and aesthetic, but everything I've heard about it sounds stupid; honestly, the idea of a roguelike having runs that take as long as some JRPGs is fricking r-slurred, it seems to completely miss the point of roguelikes, but again, haven't played it so this is just going off what I've heard.

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It's not a roguelike at all. It's closer to xcom, where you have a squad, you level them up, you send them on missions, you improve your base, etc.

But it's full of BS, and a good enemy roll can frick a squad over and force you to gring 3 more hours.

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I love that game but never could beat it. It's so hard

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Hearthstone

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Mech Rouge slaps the tits off most decks.

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it's so nasty, that shit is getting nerfed without a doubt lol

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I love it tho. Its a turn 5 turn win so i get why its bad but the deck will die with the nerf. The 1 mana draw 3 makes it so nasty but it gets shut down hard by silence. Its sucks because it plays like an aura deck from magic and i love that so when it dies there probably wont be another deck for a long time where i can all in on one minion to win quickly.

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No vidya this week. Still on RDR2, working on various challenges.

Camping this weekend and flying to Washington on Monday. Should be some decent money -- the project manager booked me a room and job-costed it, but i still get my full per diem.

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Gonna take a crack a peepeepunk 2077

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I am mad.

Your memes upset me too.

No time to think, I need to spam the spacebar in BG3. Only 32h so far. Game is out for 48h. I'm such a casual. Old me would be ashamed. Still not sure if this game is good.

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You will never enjoy an entire space. Gay s*x? Hip hip hooray!

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Finally got around to playing Max Payne 3, it's definitely up there with the best games I've ever played and puts the series as a whole as my favourite. The first 2 are hardly cheery experiences but 3 is insanely bleak, the level in the condemned hotel especially.

I miss good single player shooters, other than Doom we've had frick all the last 10 years

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I just finished today max payne 2 to play the third... this has made me really look forward to it

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Playing Skyrim Requiem. I was just spamming Frozen Atronachs near mudcrabs in order to level up my conjuration.

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The dawntrail trailer made me remember that FF14 existed so I'm trying to catch up before patch 6.5

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I'm still in stormblood because I'm an indecisive pit slut 😭

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I've been looking for a game to play with 3-5 friends (with, not against), and after exhausting DRG we're gonna try PUBG (again). I gave it a couple hours this week but I'm getting my butt kicked six ways from Sunday so I don't know if it's gonna work... I don't know if running around picking stuff up for 30 minutes then getting oneshot by a guy with 6000 hours in the game is going to be all that fun, and at this point there isn't much chance I'm gonna git gud, never mind the other people who play even less.

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Project Zomboid.

Enable griff and play 2vs2.

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I don't know if running around picking stuff up for 30 minutes then getting oneshot by a guy with 6000 hours in the game is going to be all that fun,

It does get tiresome, doesn't it? You have to be constantly on your toes, so you can't really kick it with the boys. But it's fun if you want to sweat a bit.

Remant's cool.

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How about darktide :marse#y40k: or vermintide? :marsey#ban: :marseymou!se:

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Been playing X4, i got a fleet of like 100 elite vanguards just flying around blowing up the xenon attacking my miners while my poorly designed hull parts factory continues to bleed credits

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Playing muv luv extra it's like I'm watching an earthly endless stream of nonsense with random constant visual effects

Milk outside a bag is a very mid sequel which leans too much into the quirky anime girl ms paint mentally eel wacky angle

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leans too much into the quirky anime girl ms paint mentally eel wacky angle

Well only mentally ills have recommended me it tbh

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My issue is more that its way too wacky and cutesy with random cuts into dark moments. It just seems like its pandering to hard to appeal to weebs while the first one was a short but solid look at schizophrenic thought patterns.

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I can fix her

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Muv luv was such a slog, everyone jerking themselves off on how Alternative is such a great VN worth the payoff for the first two. I rather :hanging: then ever try finishing the series.

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Tried giving minecraft a try after seeing some zoomer online making some interesting shit, but it just ain't the same. I feel like mojang are killing the game with these meaningless updates that seem fun on paper but in reality take like 10 minutes to rush through and never return back to because there are better options available.

To me it almost seems like minecraft is a game that is more fun to watch than to play

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I remember years ago I said, "If I wanted to play Terraria I would just play Terraria, it'd be dumb if minecraft went that route."

Lol

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It really is bizarre how meaningless, the updates feel, and how sluggishly they are release. There is content that is good there, but there is so little of it spread over too much time to feel impactful.

People often say that the developers release the updates slower than modders make new mods (much more expansive than any official updates mind you), because of quality control, cohesion, etc. But at this point it just feels like the team handling the game is just sluggish, and incompetent. Worst of all, completely sold on the vision of Minecraft being a game for kids, to the detriment of players wanting to adventure in it.

And the vision is barely coherent, which you could see with the: "oh no frogs can't eat fireflies they are poisonous", and then having the frogs eat cubes of magma.

TLDR: Fire everyone working on Minecraft right now! (Jeb can stay to collect his retirement money.)

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Literally just mod it up the wazoo.

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I really wish we could've seen minecraft from an alternative timeline where Notch didn't sell it and kept in charge

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I heard good things about Vintage Story, which looks like a Minecraft mod, but is a completely separate game.

No idea how good, or how similar it is though, I don't really have time and energy to check it out properly (too busy with drama browsing, and other important tasks).

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It's good but the dev has been a little sluggisher than I'd like. Substantial updates are still coming but they could just happen more often. The game is still missing a couple musthave features.

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Finishing the Oblivion leg of my pilgrimage. For all its flaws with the levelling system and the generic fantasy tone, it still does a lot of things right. Since this is the game that started the radiant AI meme, it utilises it the most of our any Bethesda games. The behaviour and the schedules of NPCs are truly remarkable for how much they are trying to simulate a living world. Multiple characters can travel from one city to another on a monthly basis for either work or pleasure and some of them are even quest-related, so you have to learn of their plans in order to know where to search for them. One big discovery for me was that the Bravil mages guild “Ayleid Expert” who tells you of a nearby ruin actually visits it twice a month for research. He is not connected to any quest and there is no reason for you to visit that ruin besides the loot, and yet the designers at Bethesda still gave that schedule to the NPC for him (and by extension the whole game world) to feel real and purposeful.

It's a bit sad that Bethesda scaled back from these systems in future games, although the possibility of things breaking and important characters dying to wolves or bandits on the roads was too much of a hassle for the devs to figure out. As it stands, Oblivion is the most ambitious simulation of a world by Bethesda in a handcrafted environment.

On the topic of your images - which are quite funny in an ironic way - I still don't get the animosity between FO3 and NV fanbases. It feels like I am a minority that likes both of the games. Not equally, as you could probably gather from my username, but I still consider Fallout 3 a good game, both as an rpg and as a Fallout game.

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I've tried three times to get into Oblivion but it's ugly as sin and I despise the leveling :doomclown: I do kind of like the writing though.

Also the animosity between 3 and NV is for turbo autists, the kind who will still argue about Legion vs. NCR or for that matter Stormcloaks vs. Empire. They also way over-hate Fallout 3 for being different than the originals — For example, complaining the character always comes out of Vault 101 when 1 and 2 also gave you defined origins or complaining about the shooting but apparently not having a problem with the same engine in NV.

Most normies played and liked both. I like both though I agree New Vegas is a little better.

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The animosity in the fallout community, I think, largely stems from the original fans vs fo3 fans, with the original fans spilling over into nv fans because they argue that's how to correctly do fallout instead of fo3. I'm pretty sure no mutants allowed us still seething about bethesda fallout after all these years. I know it's older drama and likely barely documented so hard to find, but there were years long spergfests related to nma and bethesda before fallout 3 was even out

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I know about the nma drama quite well, observing it live in some instances. They still argue which of the original two Fallouts is the best, willing to slit each other's throats over it. Most of time it just boils down to the age-old art vs entertainment argument that plagues vidya communities. FO1 is the artsy side with its grim tone and slim structure while FO2 is the entertaining side with tons of content and pop humour around every corner.

I just doubt that the average nma user is sitting on /v/ or the YouTube comments where these arguments take place. You might be right in that younger audiences were blackpilled through the New Vegas community with a few olds sowing the seeds of hatred towards FO3. Maybe I just have a terrible taste, but after spending a lot of time in Oblivion, I can definitely say it is a worse overall package, both content and gameplay wise, and yet it is still beloved by many. I guess it is because it was their first TES game and maybe even their first rpg, so the rose-tinted view is understandable. Why FO3 doesn't have the same reception despite being released roughly in the same period is a mystery to me, since there must've been some overlap with Oblivion players. Guess Fallout is just a more toxic community overall - comes with the genre.

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Why FO3 doesn't have the same reception despite being released roughly in the same period is a mystery to me

It was absolutely not the same time period. Oblivion was almost a launch 360 game and a huge part of the nostalgia is due it being so early and showcasing what the new consoles could do. I know the first 360 game I saw (and probably more than few other people) was Oblivion at a friend's house. Also just personally I never was as interested in the world of fallout and they smoothed out a lot of the silliness that gave oblivion character

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I dunno, maybe I am just getting old but the whole pre-Kinect era of 360 just mixes into one time period for me. There was a lot of excitement which you are talking about and it lasted for some time even after launch. In my opinion, FO3 still got released in that period of hope, although I do agree that the circumstances with Oblivion's release are a bit unique.

Some argue that Oblivion's success primarily comes from being released so early into 360's lifecycle. There weren't that many games coming out initially and most just wanted to play Halo 3, which was a good deal of time away. Many who never would've touched a role playing game picked up Oblivion to pass the time. It's a theory, of course, but I believe it has a lot of ground to stand on.

The silliness in Oblivion was completely unintentional, which gave it most of the charm. The dev documentary makes it clear that they saw it as a serious fantasy game in line Jackson's LoTR films. The potato characters and the radiant shenanigans were a technological setback, that they couldn't remedy in time so they had to roll with what they had. In FO3 the devs actually tried to be silly on purpose, because FO2 was silly and they had to live up to the expectations. This was a big mistake in my opinion, as Fallouts can be done with humour taking a backseat. As a result, this forced tongue-in-cheek style comes across as patronising and boring.

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The silliness in Oblivion was completely unintentional, which gave it most of the charm.

This was stuff you didn't notice that much at the time. Playing Oblivion, you might think the characters looked "unique" but them being potato charming quirky was something that only came later. Oblivion as a whole looked amazing at the time, from a console perspective. Even the ragdolls were wow epic next gen so realistic. I saw some video of the old console far cry game on xbox and 360, and the enemies will literally T-pose if their body is moving while they died, and that was tolerated and considered pretty good console graphics at the time. FO3 came out 3 years after the 360 release and two and a half after Oblivion. I guess people were kind of used to that size/scope of game by then. There was a whole genre of Oblivion rip offs that came out between those two games, like Two Worlds.

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was right with you until you rated FO3 above "literal dogshit", KEEP YOURSELF SAFE and have a nice day

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What is your problem with it? I can accept complaints about the writing and the overall narrative - it is a bit too neurospicy for everyone, but do you have problems with the actual gameplay component? I find that FO3 handles moment-to-moment gameplay much better than Oblivion.

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Little weapon variety, the color pallette used for the game is hideous and not in a good "this fits the setting" way, world feels very empty, and DC itself just feels like a bunch of the same assets reused and reshuffled between a bunch of rooms.

Plotwise there's a lot of nonsensical, creatively bankrupt recycling of THINGS THAT PEOPLE RECOGNIZE AND WILL CLAP AT like Super Mutants and the Enclave.

Game just feels hollow and bland and isn't super exciting to explore

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>little weapon variety

Can't argue with that. Bethesda has no actual people dedicated to guns, so they always come out as uninspired in their games. New Vegas had the benefit of Sawyer's gun autism.

>the colour palette is hideous

There are many ways to portray post-apocalypse. Mad Max and A Boy and His Dog are not the only examples of the genre. The green tint of FO3 makes me feel like the world is sick, with a miasma of radiation enveloping the atmosphere.

>the world feels empty

Almost like it is by intention. I prefer FO3's world to FO4's overpopulated mess.

>same assets reused

Don't boot up the original games if this is a significant problem for you. Modern mega-cities are jungles of concrete and glass and if all of that falls down you will hardly separate which part belonged to which building.

>the plot

Emil Pagliarulo is a terrible writer. He writes exclusively cringe-kino without even realising it. I love him

>hollow and bland

I feel like the game nails the isolation aspect of post-apocalypse quite well. It definitely has an overbearing atmosphere of dread. It's not as bad as Kenshi, for example, but it is still pretty grim

>isn't exciting to explore

I find it fun :marseyindignant:

Most of our disagreements are subjective. There is no definite way to do post-apocalypse and every one needs to find the interpretation that suits them. Just happens so that we have different views.

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Posts like this is why I do Heroine.

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