What a week, right?
So we had the GTA 6 announcement for an announcement, BG3 had another massive patch (so much for a finished game on release lol) that addresses issues in the endgame and finally fixes the epilogue, elden ring had leaks or something for a new DLC, there's peter griffin in fortnite and cs2 had a patch that made the game go from a 3/10 to a 3.5/10 and Faker got the title for the best esport player of the year. Also, World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery released which added tons of new content (LOL) for a 20 year old game. If you find Retail too mechanically taxing but at the same time too easy, and you're desperate to relive the glory days of 2012 when you first played Vanilla on shitty private servers, or if you're just looking for an excuse to play the same game again and again, this is the best time to jump in. I heard SoD was the baby mode of an already easy game, but you have to keep everything in perspective as Classic Andys are a sensitive bunch and 2004-2006 was a different time. Please do not cope in the replies.
What are you playing currently? !g*mers
Previous Iterations:
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly “What're You Playing” Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #7
#8 - [18 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #8
#9 - [25 Mar 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing?' thread #9
#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
#11 - [8 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' Thread #11
#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly ‘What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend ‘What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What have you been playing?” Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly “What are you playing” thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
#25 - [29 Jul 2023] - Weekly ‘What games have you been playing' thread #25
#26 - [5 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #26
#27 - [12 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #27
#28 - [19 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #28
#29 - [26 Aug 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #29
#30 - [2 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #30
#31 - [9 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #31
#32 - [16 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #32
#33 - [23 Sep 2023] - Weekly ‘What Games Are You Playing' thread #33
#34 - [30 Sep 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread # 34
#35 - [7 Oct 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread #35
#36 - [27 Oct 2023] - Weekly “What games are you playing” thread #36 -- tulpa
#37 - [26 Nov 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #37 -- losercel
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Last week's game: Hades
- Final Score: (55+44+35+02+1*1)/(5+4+5+1)= 3.8 (not bad considering I fuecked up the survey
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Game of the Week to discuss:
Honestly I wanted to pick another comment but in the previos thread the user @Bum wrote a heartful essay about what he and his friends played and it convinced me to change the game. Much more important, however, is the fact that these few sentences radiate something that doesn't really exist on rdrama, sincerity and joy. I think it was
@Impassionata who once said that genuineness on the internet is the best compliment you can receive and we should all say thank you to
@Bum. That's why I picked Rimworld for today's discussion. Anyway, here's his text:
Yay! These threads are back.
I'm still playing RimWorld! I'm starting to consider the endgame since I have all of the spaceship parts researched now, but my colony is massive. So far I've got 70+ colonists and about 400 animals. Food is getting a bit tricky to balance at this stage; I'm having to put my colonists on vegan diets because the majority of my meat production is going towards feeding my carnivorous animals. I have 20 cougars, 50 wargs, 50 wolves and 30 cats, so it doesn't leave much room - especially since my chickens were almost wiped out by a brutal cold snap with temperatures reaching like -30 centigrade.
Other than that, I'm still playing Grounded with my friend. I kinda just want it to be over, despite how good the game is compared to other entries in the genre.
We also played Crab Champions recently - very fun game, but I feel like we basically saw all it had to offer in a single session.
I also played a little of The Binding of Isaac after getting whatever the most recent DLC was, but bounced off it quickly. I'm too rusty to handle the difficulty level of the save I have and couldn't get past the second set of levels after like 4 attempts.
Been playing SimCity 4 and Star Valor on my laptop. SimCity 4 continues to be a masterpiece and I've been experimenting with weird city layouts, with some degree of success. I'm unsure about Star Valor. I played a few hours and it felt like I'd already seen everything. It seemed like a less interesting Starsector, and if I just wanted a space-themed ARPG I'd play Drox Operative.
I also need to go finish the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I'm up to the last boss in the last game so really just need to bang that out. I cannot recommend this collection enough. The visuals, audio and just the vibes in general are impeccable.
I also bought Forza Horizon 5 and Anno 1800 in the Steam sale. Excited to play these with my friend. Does anybody have some co-op tips for either of those?
Thinking about buying Songs of Syx, Dwarf Fortress, Kenshin and maybe also SimCity 3000 soon. I also recently uncovered my trove of Skyrim mods and save files, so I might get back into a run I've been playing since 2018.
This week's entry will be Rimworld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Honestly, this is as good as it gets and if it wasn't for Dwarf Fortress this would easily be the best game in its genre. There's tons of content, tons of mods, tons of spicy mods and lots of fun. It does kinda drag on and compared to DF it seems a lot more gamey although that isn't really a minus but a different gamedesign decision. Strong 9.
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I so badly need to play Dwarf Fortress. I bought the Now With Graphics! edition on Steam recently and it's just sitting on my disk, beckoning me.
I'm tempted to see how it runs on my laptop as opposed to my gaming PC.
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DF, contrary to all popular opinions, is one of the easiest games ever made. It runs like shit in the late game (even on good machines) so I wouldn't recommend running it on a laptop. Give it a try, play for an hour or so and decide for yourrself.
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That's interesting to hear! What makes it so easy?
I played a little of it when it was just ASCII graphics but for whatever reason I stopped playing after a few hours. I think I had built a very basic settlement. This was probably like 15 years ago so my memory is pretty much nonexistent, aside from remembering that cats are represented as @ symbols
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Honestly my problem with rimworld is all the mods are bloated to all heck so you wind up with too much furniture than can be reasonably expected to be used. Sylvester gave us a solution to that problem with the ideology styles, but I haven't actually seen any mod actually make use of that. In addition my problem with rimworld is it leans too hard into the game aspect, and not enough into the sim part like dwarf fortress, so it ends up inevitably becoming a strange kind of tower defense game....
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Bro just one more vanilla extended bro just one more oskarware bro believe me it'll fix the game bro
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There's a goddarn mod called 'clean vanilla expanded' that had to be made JUST to deal with that and even then all the other oskarware it doesn't cover's filled with random shit no one asked for.
It's actually kinda funny to me how he made a 'pirates' expanded thing that no one cares about EXCEPT for the space marine armour it adds, lmao.
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I love RimWorld! I don't think a game has sucked me in so completely for so long since Crusader Kings 2 did years ago.
Funnily enough, both kind of scratch the same social sim itch for me that the lack of good The Sims games has left - but within the framework of another genre that I also really enjoy: strategy for CK2 and city-building (well, kind of) for RimWorld.
My main criticism is that it can really start to chug at the very late game if you build an enormous colony, no matter what hardware you have. I have an i9 12900k and I can get well under 30fps for sustained periods when my livestock headcount is at its maximum extent during the summer and autumn months, before I slaughter lots of them for winter.
All this and I've barely scratched the surface of the mods on offer, other than really basic stuff.
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