Seeing as we just did 'favorite video game of all time' lets focus on the present.
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actuallyaseal wrote
I started playing rom hacks and now I can't stop.
Astrid wrote
Ayy someone else who knows about it! Crystal Clear is such an impressive one, easily top-tier gen2 rom hack.
I also recommend Pokemon Gaia, a full conversion mod of fire red with a wonderful new region and story.
actuallyaseal wrote
My Gaia save is sitting at 100 hours right now. I will admit I don't know how much of that is idle time when I set the DS down though.
Astrid wrote
Nice :)
Getting a rom hack onto a physical handheld console has always seemed like such an insurmountable barrier to me, I've only ever done them on PC. I've seen a summary explanation of what people do but it honestly made no sense at all to me.
actuallyaseal wrote
In this case it's just a jail broken 3DS. Other people already have guides explaining much better than me.
Most of the games I play on it are running on emulators but the portability is a huge plus.
Astrid wrote
Appreciate the helpful reply <3 I've been content with using emulators on my phone for portability. Not great for phone battery but workable with a charger. (sorry I guess I accidentally lied saying I was PC only)
Been using "John GBAC" for GBA games and "MyOldBoy!" for GB/GBC games.
xxk OP wrote
I probably should try out the newer ones. I've played red/blue/yellow to death. Even bought two transfer paks so I could trade pokémons with myself through Pokémon Stadium, haha.
I've played silver/gold/crystal to a decent degree too. The rest of them I've just dabbled with.
actuallyaseal wrote
The gen 3 games are probably my favorite. The remakes have a lot of the modern convinces while still capturing the nostalgia for me.
zedword wrote
I've really got to play Pokemon Prism. Pretty sure it's finally about done, and I've been waiting on it for over a decade.
actuallyaseal wrote
That is a good one. If I remember correctly it had one of the better stories and exploration.
My only criticism was the new types and a couple fakemons.
BellaBunno wrote
Im playing through the Yakuza games, just beat Yakuza0 and will eventual start 1. And next month I'll be getting space engineers for ps4 so I'll probably play alot of that
lazy_vegan_cat wrote
I have been binge playing Yakuza games from 0 through 7 this two years and now playing Judgment, time very well spent and I ruined my sleep regimen multiple times.
BellaBunno wrote
Yeah it's pretty easy to mess up the sleep cycle with the yakuza games. Does Judgement have abunch of mini games and stuff to-do like pool and stuff like that? I was thinking of grabbing at some point since I'm really liking Yakuza and thought it looked cool
lazy_vegan_cat wrote
I only started playing it yesterday and I'd say there are less fun mini-games than in 0 (no pool, bowling, karaoke), but it still has things to do, for example drone racing. Also I heard there are some side stories with cool side stuff to do like robotics and dance clubs.
But overall Judgement has a more serious tone to it and I think the developers wanted to tone down the silliness of the series. The story is very engaging so far and the direction is great, the game gives off this strong noir detective atmosphere.
Astrid wrote
Playing a bit of Europa Universalis 4 on my own time right now, as well as Project Zomboid and Grounded with friends.
idioomsus wrote
Not right now, and increasingly rarely, but sometimes when I'm too exhausted to do anything else I put on a show I've already watched numerous times and play agar.io - the Petri dish game where the only dynamics are eating food and other players, feeding others, exploding into pieces on viruses and shooting food at viruses to make them spawn another virus, which can be used as a weapon to make another player burst into pieces.
The European server is crowded with thousands of players and it's a chaotic and violent place. At some point I made the experiment, gave myself a Chinese name and went to the Chinese server. Ever since that's where I've stayed. There are very few players. Food is plenty. Everyone just coasts around peacefully, eating food and gobbling up viruses. Every now and then a Westerner stumbles in there, unaware of the vibes, starts up some shit, and we all gang up on them before they get too big to dominate the space.
Weirdly enough I have some "friends" there. The regulars who have stuck around for more than five years. We say "hi" to each other by throwing some food, or a lot when the other is just starting and still small, to get them on their way. It's nice. We mind our own addictive colorful-dot-eating business and when necessary help each other out to fight some intruder. It's a very simple form of entertainment just floating around but somehow it's the main low-energy game I play.
xxk OP wrote
Never heard of the game. It seems interesting.
I've got a taste of those odd quasi-friendships you can form through games with limited social interactions. In my case it's SuperTuxKart. Sure, there's a chat mechanism, etc, but there's only so much you can say in a limited span of time. Sort of quaint. Always some regulars hanging around that'll recognize you.
parasocial wrote (edited )
An unhealthily large amount of Tears Of The Kingdom, currently procrastinating on the final fight against Ganondorf. EDIT: Ganondorf is gone :)
Planning on playing some Splatoon 3 this weekend (Eggstra Work time).
I've also been playing some GTFO, Deep Rock Galactic, and MUDII as well.
xxk OP wrote
Aw... You defeated Ganondorf? Mean. He's just misunderstood.
(In theory I should like the Zelda games. And yet every time I play one I realize that I'm not enjoying it too much. A link to the past being the exception. Always good soundtracks though. I've listened to Zelda soundtracks more than I've played the games.)
zoepertom wrote
Dredge
aluminiumsandworm wrote
battlebit and the trash game (league of legends). turns out i'm still terrible at first person shooters, but i do have fun
zip wrote
been playing Opus Magnum a lot recently. it's a fun little puzzle game. I really like the fantasy theme and how alchemy is built into the setting.
Yuscha wrote
Tears of the Kingdom. Between work and other responsibilities, I'll likely be playing this game until Armored Core 6 comes out.
NoPotatoes wrote (edited )
xxk OP wrote
I really should try 0ad again. I put it aside when I got AoE II working through Wine. But I got the feeling that 0ad is a game in it's own right.
HavenHuski wrote
Recently finished TOTK and Trepang2. Excellent games
Now I'm playing Shadows of Doubt and Dead Cells in-between developing my own game.
second_pumpkin wrote
yesterday I spent way too long trying to get the world record in a specific minigame in tears of the kingdom. I got it :). it’s a speedrun kinda minigame (the valor island dive ceremony) and i’m pretty sure I frame tied 2nd place but due to weirdness with how the game rounds the timer I got the record by 0.01 seconds.
zedword wrote (edited )
Mostly Elden Ring since it came out. I've got just under eleven hundred hours in the game and eight more or less finished builds builds from level 30 to 175. So many people helped, so many stupid, hilarious invasions, so many deaths in glorious combat. I love it.
dastardly_disinterested wrote
2009scape, an open-source remake of Runescape as it was in 2009. It is being actively developed, so not everything is in yet, but it's been a nice hit of nostalgia to play it every now and then
unchowder wrote
I'm eternally playing Dwarf Fortress because it's amazing. I also just recently beat Sekiro for the first time, and started Aliens: Dark Descent (because Aliens!)
xxk OP wrote
I've never had the peace of mind to just sit down and get the hang of it. Pretty sure I'd like it, but it requires some effort to get started with.
unchowder wrote (edited )
The Steam release has lowered the barriers to entry by quite a bit. There's even a tutorial!
Aside from that you just have to keep in mind that learning from your failures is part of the Fun hehe
Oh and there's also DF Hack, also on Steam now, and free. It has a lot of QoL things that you can toggle individually, and plugins and such. It's a bit tricky to figure out but there's a lot of helpful things for when you get stuck.
xxk OP wrote (edited )
Failing is fun. (Or something like it). Isn't that the tag-line, haha?
I don't mind TUI:s, but I think that with DF you really have to keep track of the interface, options and so on, before you start to "do stuff". Otherwise you can't even fail correctly! I mean, take NetHack for example. Sort of straight-forward. And yet it takes quite a while before you stop having to bring up the help menu all the time. In comparison DF seems like quantum physics to me, haha.
I had thoughts about trying out the Steam release, but then the self-hating gamer in it reared it's ugly head. "What are you, stupid? Do it the right way. Play the original. No shortcuts, chump."
But some day I'll get around to it. I'm convinced that I would like the game.
unchowder wrote
"Losing is Fun" haha. The idea is that if you're doing everything "correctly" then you're probably not having fun.
The Dwarf Fortress community has been one of the more welcoming and open fandoms that I've seen. Of course you'll see some "you need to do it the right way" jerks, but they're the minority in my experience. I'm general the old players have enjoyed that the Steam release has brought in a lot of new players, because now more people get to see what we've been obsessing over for the last decade or two.
xxk OP wrote
I'll have to ponder upon that for a while. The idea of 'fun'. Hmm... The thought of having fun... I like it. What a novel concept. I'll have to try it at some point. Having fun. Maybe even with friends. Some of my friends like 'fun', I think.
(Making fun (heh) of myself. Not you.)
unchowder wrote
Hehe I get you. It can be a novel concept when compared to a lot of modern games. You won't find a gear treadmill or battle pass or anything like that. I don't even think there's achievements. It's just you, your dwarves, and the agitated giant great horned owl that wants to murder them.
xxk OP wrote
Don't even get me started about achievements. Like playing a good game isn't good enough, haha? Unless it's integral to the game and serves some kind of gameplay function I usually feel like: "Meh."
"Wohooo! You just killed a cheese monster with a tomato using a slingshot made of dough. Here's you 'super duper pizza master badge'. (Also: it doesn't serve any kind of purpose whatsoever.)"
unchowder wrote
Yup, agreed. There are some games where I appreciate the extra challenge, but there's so many "you completed the tutorial" style achievements that are just there for the sake of having achievements.
Sometimes they have a function and give you cool things, like in Guild Wars 2. You do a scavenger hunt, get some lore bits, and then a costume at the end. That kind of stuff I'll do all day (like literally please help I'm trapped)
MountainMan wrote
I tried real hard to get into it again after the Steam release, but I got frustrated when I couldn't figure out how to grow crops. I did what the internet said to do but eventually just gave up. I keep wanting to try it again but I end up just playing Rimworld instead.
axofrogl wrote
I've been playing a lot of No Man's Sky recently, the exploration and commanding a fleet of ships is really fun
AzureGremlins wrote
Starsector, literally sucked me right in as soon as I started playing it
WildLlama wrote
Piofiore, I’m absolutely loving it and worried it will unseat my previous favorite otome. Also playing Disco Elysium with my gf.
vimmie wrote
Right now I'm playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. I have played through the beginning so many times, but I haven't bothered to complete it, even though I love the game
JohnnyNoArms wrote
STALKER call of Pripyat is my current main game, and it's the last game I need to finish in the STALKER & Metro franchises before STALKER 2 comes out.
Slowly making progress in TES Oblivion when I'm the mood.
I plan on giving Trepang2 a whirl at some point.
ReddRaven wrote
I introduced my partner to Nier Automata and they just beat it. First video game they've ever beaten, now they're going back and doing side quests.
I've already 100% it, but it's been a few years so I'm doing it again.
beepgie wrote (edited )
been playing alot of project zomboid here recently, really like the atmosphere, one of the few apocalyptic games that actually feels like its truly the apocalypse in the later parts of the game due to how lonely it feels after a few months in
krellesta wrote
Primarily Zelda TOTK, but interspersed with No Man's Sky, Dark Souls Remastered (NG+/same avatar but game sort of resets at higher difficulty), and new playthrough of Skyrim
mofongo wrote
Unciv, a foss clone of Civilization V. Very light, it runs on a potato and multiplatform.
redditmigrator wrote
your only move is HUSTLE, and will you snail.
johakovi wrote
Tears of the kingdom 🗡️
Prismo wrote
Mordhau, because there's (practically) no cheaters in a well made melee slasher game, unlike most multiplayer FPS games. It's nearly impossible to write a cheat for a game that uses the hitbox of the moving weapon to register hits.
TelleyOut wrote
Hollow knight, OSRS, Hades, Wildfrost.
On my phone, Slice & Dice and Super auto pets.
xxk OP wrote
Me: Stardew Valley.