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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Awww, thank you for the shoutout!
It's cathartic to enthuse about things sometimes - it feels like opportunities to do that can be few and far between! This is what I've been up to this week:
Unsurprisingly I've been playing more RimWorld this weekend, although I've not had too much free time recently. I realized at hour gazillion that you can improve relations with other factions by sending drop pods to their settlements, so I've been making friends with the neanderthal tribe using diplomacy by way of t-shirt cannon! I really need to get round to building the spaceship, but I feel like what's more likely to happen is I'll just put it down to come back to later.
And speaking of coming back to things - I got back into playing Skyrim recently, after I found all my old saves and mods from my previous PC. I've been playing this same save off-and-on now since 2018. There's just something so comfy about that game that subsequent Bethesda games haven't even come close to replicating, even though it has its obvious issues. I could write so much about what I like and don't like about this game, but it's well-worn ground at this point... so instead, here's a picture of my very convincing chef disguise for a Dark Brotherhood quest:
Other than those two, I played another couple of games with my friend.
First was Forza Horizon 5 and between the annoying tutorials and the absolutely terrible connection problems we experienced, we really struggled with this one and it did not leave a good first impression, which was disappointing. I was kind of looking forward to something light and breezy to chill out to, but we had so many problems with convoys and game invites and the usual assortment of online nonsense that it just left a bad taste. On top of all that, my h-shifter decided it wanted to stop working properly so also throw hardware problems into the mix. ;_;
On a more positive note, we also played Anno 1800. I've played both 2077 and 2205 and bounced off them pretty quickly, but I feel like I found my groove with this one. I suppose in the past I was always put off by how they in some respects are more like a puzzle game than a straight city builder, but I've gotten over that hump. I do hope my friend wants to keep playing this one, but I wonder if it might be a bit too slow paced for them.
But that's about it for this week. I'm not sure if I'll get much time to play anything next week, in the midst of a bunch of different commitments I have in addition to a raging tire fire that's developing at work.
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Are you new to the Anno series in general? I remember when the futuristic ones released and people got really upset as they changed the entire theme and feeling of the games. By the way, Anno 1800 is definitely the best game in the series without a shadow of doubt and some boomers keep coping about it lol. Good luck at work, king.
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I guess I'm new insomuch as I didn't get very far into the ones I played previously, but 2070 is the earliest one I played. The futuristic setting was kind of neat, but I think at the time I was looking more for a more military-focused game which obviously Anno isn't. Plus I think there was some Ubisoft bullshit in both of those editions, and Anno 1404 straight up wasn't for sale at the time if I remember correctly.
I've never played any of the old school ones.
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you're fricking bananas if you think I'm reading all that, take my downmarsey and shut up idiot
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