Pinging those that were here before.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?
and
Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?
tried playing call of duty zombies becausr hakim liked it. ended up spending so many hours shooting nazi zombies (this is a hint on an upcoming post when i come back home! any questions about “what cod did you play” will be answered there! i tried black ops 2 but i generally don’t like cod. the fact that it’s funded by the us army doesn’t help!)
i played a ton of beta minecraft. yes, i know about better than adventure. yes, i know and use beta unleashed. i built a castle yesterday.
to be honest, i didn’t play much as i focused more of my time on exams
my favorite genre is still sandboxes. i played beta minecraft for half an hour trying to make a statue and many hours on a barn (tree farm!) and a castle. juggling blocks in my inventory has never been this easy and this fun
i am looking forward to more homebrew on older consoles. the ps3 recently got gamemaker games like undertale, sonic mania is fully playable and minecraft b1.7.3 is partially playable on the wii. i want MORE. if i knew how, i’d port an underrated indie game (and a friend of mine’s favorite game) known as “aquaria” to the ps3, it already has a switch port and a psp port, why not the ps3?
switch 2? nah, we’ll already have the switch 3 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OZpH-1Qin-U
jokes aside, the only consoles i have are the ps3 and the wii. if it can be emulated and jailbroken, and it will, would be really neat. nintendo dmca-ing emulators kinda made this hard
Hakim as in the YouTuber? Nice!
Also lol about the Switch 3.
No gaming for me because school has started and this semester has been nightmarish lol. I did buy a steam deck for myself tho so thats nice.
Edit: I do not feel super strongly about the Switch 2.
Steam Deck is a good purchase and hopefully you’ll have the time to use it eventually.
I wanted it because my poor laptop is not strong enough to play certain games well (baldurs gate 3 being the main one) and I wanted a dedicated machine to take up my steam memory, unfortunately th deck can’t play Silent Hill 2.
I haven’t played on it yet but I downloaded most of my steam library and I am excited to get to it. January was super hard but hopefully February will slow down for a bit for me to play.
Yeah, January was harsh on me too.
I’m playing Advance Wars and I also started Disco Elysium. Damn, if I wasn’t doing my thesis I’d play that all day long. I had finished the Zelda Oracle games and they were alright, Oracle of Seasons was definitely a lot easier than Ages
Yeah, the Oracle games are more famous than good.
A couple weeks ago I was having a hard time finding things to play. I went back to Kenshi and Rimworld for a bit but they weren’t really doing it for me.
Then I got an emulator working for Breath of the Wild. Its pretty awesome. Its the spiritual successor to Daggerfall in that it has awesome climbing mechanics. I am really impressed by the openness of the world and the puzzles are really well designed so that sometimes I am not sure if I am solving it the way they intended or making up a work around. There were a couple spots where I had to spoof the motion controls through my mouse which was not great but otherwise everything has been working really smoothly. So now I’m looking at more wiiu games to emulate and I’ve got Skyward sword waiting for me.
I dont really care about switch 2. I haven’t had a console since the wii but I do look forward to the next installments of the Zelda franchise. PCs may be superior to consoles but I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for exclusive IP like Zelda, Metroid, and Sonic. (Mario is ok but he gets involved in too many dubious pursuits)
Daggerfall, my beloved…
Revisited Planet Crafter recently, love it. However, once I take a break from it, I can’t really get back in, because I have to acclimate to that style of uh, camera control? I really easily get dizzy/disoriented with similar 1st person POV games, not sure why but having your character model on screen has always reduced or eliminated that effect on me. I guess that’s my one gripe, I really wish Planet Crafter (or even Subnautica, another big fav of mine but can’t replay it much for same disorientation reasons) had a third-person player model, even as an option.
Anyway, been on a break from video games since then, aside from occasional “social hours” dota. Looking forward to any more news from The Bustling World, hopefully we’ll be able to play it this year? fingers crossed
edit: don’t really pay attention to console games unless interested enough to look into emulators, hehe. sorry switch
I was never really able to get into planet crafter. It feels too empty and like I’m just waiting around for the stats to build up. What tips would you give?
I played it while it was in beta/before full release and progress (terraforming %) did feel pretty slow. On my recent playthrough though, post-full release and having some understanding of the map/general progression, it went along much faster. My suggestion if you haven’t played much of it is to explore the map, the random blue chests are nice (and so are the golden ones) but the real prize is access to new/advanced resources (sulphur, osmium, uranium, etc etc). Also, the map is actually much less empty than you think it is, and it changes somewhat as terraforming progresses :)
The default starting area is fine, if a little boring at first, as you’re initially limited by how far you can explore by oxygen tank size (so at the very beginning of game you wanna focus on upgrading that first)
Never heard of this game.
Tbh, I think Switch 2 will definitely be an emulation powerhouse.
The Bustling World released a new trailer recently.
Um, it’s a isometric/top-down SIMs builder?GTA-like?Stardew Valley-elements RPG??? I’m primarily interested in its aesthetic approach, certainly heavily influenced by famous painting Along the River During QingMing Festival, although I’m not entirely sure on core gameplay/gameplay loop yet.
And speaking of core gameplay… I will say, it does feel like the devs have kept adding more features since initial trailer so I’m hoping they don’t get too caught up in those, borrow elements from too many things and end up incoherent mess…
Unfortunately, a lot of Indie devs keep adding features and that proves to be their downfall.
Still, the game looks polished, at the very least.
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@Makan i’m playing Legend of Zelda: minish cap for the GBA on an Anbernic RG35XXSP
I just finished that yesterday for the first time!
Oooo, Minish Cap! Grew up with that game.
Still just playing Deadlock since I got into the alpha back in August. Haven’t been into a game for this long in a while.
Really looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds later on this month.
Tbh, there are too many games, it feels like, at times.
Just one game or two is enough; you’re good here, I think.
started playing this game called “Skyrim”… seems neat but the fantasy/racial undertones are kind of odd.
Scandinavians are racist. I don’t see what’s so odd about it. (/s… unless…)
the empire is clearly the progressive choice if you can look past the fact that it’s named the empire, but the forlorn would be the real best choice. Indigenous population that barely gets any lore explained, because of course bethesda had to fuck it up. and they still attack you even after you help them because we have to show that the only good choice is being the dragonborn and only you gets to decide who lives and who dies.
^ reminder that over 50% of all Islamic places of worship in Sweden (they don’t have purpose-build mosques) reported being victim of a hate crime.
hmmm I’m not really sure what all that means, but I’m sure I’ll discover more as I play. but yes, this is totally a game made by white people lol
get some 15-25 levels and travel to Markarth! It’s also a pretty cool city imo
Oblivion is much better and Morrowind is better than Oblivion.
But, err yeah, the, uhh, racial politics is… Yeah.
Squad 44, Project Zomboid (b42) and Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, which is a MMO south korean logisitics/car game, really cool.
Playing signalis. Setting is interesting and some of the puzzles are good but I’m not a fan of all the backtracking. I will finish it though.
Played balatro before that, basically got around 60 hours out of it before I felt really fed up with playing it. Which is not bad.
I’m enjoying playing more controller friendly games on steam deck over the competitive kind of games I pumped so many hours into before. I think after signalis I will play through the rest of hollow knight.
I don’t mind backtracking here and there, but I guess the game does too much of it.
Haven’t been playing a whole lot of games lately because sick, but been slowly getting through Yars Rising because it happens to fall exactly within my interests, I feel like the exact target for it lol
It’s a Metroidvania from WayForward whose platforming and shooting is like Mega Man, with loads of hacking minigames that are literally Yars’ Revenge (you know, the old Atari game), playing as a cute girl with funny friends in this Japanese-inspired cyberpunk city full of Atari references (the idea is hilarious I love it) as you investigate a tech company’s shady secret
The soundtrack is a 10/10 and the girl you play as is currently one of my top fictional crushes lol, she talks too much and I never want her to shut up ❤️
It’s such a weird combination of stuff though, and it didn’t exactly get much marketing and was probably relatively low budget, so I get why it’s so overlooked currently despite being a WayForward game, especially with the genre getting so many games lately (probably not helped by Ubisoft putting out a huge budget Prince of Persia one a month earlier)
Also, I’m glad the Switch 2 is finally announced, even Nintendo games often run like total ass on the current one, hopefully this one’s size and being more round will make it at least slightly more comfortable, and hoping Switch 1 games will run more stable on it (even if target resolution/framerate stay the same without patches, I’d like games to at least keep a consistent 30)
Glad we’re finally getting a new Mario Kart too for the first time in 11 years lmao
Playing sifu rn, love the combat system.
Finished firewatch before it.
Favorite genres would be story telling games and rougelike/lite.
Not looking forward to any games. I don’t follow game releases and just get games as I finish games in my library and search for other similar games, very rarelly do I buy a game that’s isn’t already a couple years old.
Not excited for the nintendo switch 2, I never owned any consoles in my life until last year my used ps4. Like it to turn on and play some bloodborne sometimes but I like my devices to be multipurpose so am much more interested in gaming handhelds like the steamdeck or just pc gaming in general.
Fair, fair.
I just picked up Heart of the Machine. It’s a turn-based RPG/4X/city builder (which apparently also includes multiversal time travel) in early access. You play as a rogue AI trying to survive in a dystopian cyberpunk city. If that sounds insanely ambitious, that’s because it is, especially for a solo dev. I played the (surprisingly full featured) demo and got immediately hooked. The different systems seem to tie together surprisingly well; the RPG elements provide a bit of drive to engage with the strategy side, and choices influence how you build out your tech tree. Probably not for everyone but the demo is free and worth checking out if it sounds interesting to you.
Never heard of this one… Interesting!
He estado jugando últimamente a la franquicia Saints Row.
Interesante.
I just played Neva and LUNA The Shadow Dust, both were really enjoyable. In general I enjoy either games with really good stories where choices matter or roguelikes that have good action. I find nowadays I don’t have as much time and energy to play games, so I tend to look for stuff with easy to pick up mechanics and that I can pick up and play without having to build up too much context.
Haven’t really been keeping up with what big games are coming out this year, so not really looking for anything specific.I find I tend to often be most pleasantly surprised by small indie games that I discover.
Not really excited for Switch 2 here, I basically haven’t touched my Switch since I got the Steam Deck. The only game I’d probably really want to play on it would be the new Mario Kart.
Yeah, I agree.
Honestly, the Steam Deck mostly makes the Switch obsolete, but I guess it depends on if you like Nintendo’s exclusives, which are generally pretty good.
Still, it seems that those exclusives are all that Nintendo has going for them at this point.
Exactly, and Nintendo just tend to put out like same 5 games over and over. While the details are new, it’s more or less the same game you’ve already played many times.
Same IPs, and only Splatoon is the newest IP from them.
On another note, they are taking their sweet-ass time releasing their next system.
I’m curious what they come up with, one thing with Nintendo is that they do tend to be creative with their hardware.
One thing is for sure:
Nintendo is very efficient with their hardware and software.
They make every gigabyte of information count on their devices.
Meanwhile, Bethesda’s Skyrim can’t compress files for shit.
Yeah they do manage to squeeze a lot out of their hardware. I also like how they don’t focus on raw power for their consoles, but rather try to make the actual gameplay good.
Frankly, if the gameplay isn’t good, then I may not stick with a game all that much; I love storytelling and presentation, but I need it to be more than jut a “cinematic movie” where you just press buttons to progress and that’s it.
