Still gonna keep this goings; people from before will be pinged.

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements?

and

What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming?

Well, a lot of bad news has happened politically IRL, but let’s make this thread a good one, and enjoy ourselves here!

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    Just played The Quarry, and it was a blast. Can highly recommend if you enjoy choices based story games. My favorite genres are story games, turn based tactical, and roguelikes. I find I don’t have a huge amount of time to play, so I like games that aren’t too complex and that you can pick up and play without having to remember how the game works.

    Didn’t follow TGAs this year. For 2024 games, I really enjoyed Selaco, Spiritfall, Portal Revolution, and Arco.

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    I only played around 5 minutes of the My Sims Kingdom that came out on the Switch. I am in my finals week so I haven’t been able to play anything, but after the 19th I’m free (until January)! My favourite genre seems to be cozy games, so that’s interesting, although I also like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Legend of Zelda, so I don’t know what to say about that.

    I don’t pay attention to the game awards, I think CaseOh won something. I liked playing my switch games and some on steam this year, not much gaming from me unfortunately. I imagine next year will be even less games because it’s my final year of undergrad which means I have to lock in.

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    This was probably the best TGA ever. Even the skits were funny. Definitely intrigued by the idea of an Elden Ring spin-off but the football game from the Sifu devs looked really cool too.

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      Yeah, definitely the best TGA ever. And I’m actually interested in the Elden Ring spin-off. I actually want it, warts and all. I know it’s a GaaS-type deal. But I don’t care, provided it’s done well for a good enough time, at least…

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    Still on factorio. About 120 hours into the save. Pausing now to study programming a bit, but will play less hard, for the upcoming months, likely.

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    Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!

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      Damn, flash games. They still around? What about Tetris on the Internet or as a flash game?

      I was watching a video saying that they were held in “flash base,” as an archive.

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    I’ve been playing some Pokémon. I’m mostly finished w/ Fire Red, just need to rematch the Elite 4, and I’m mostly done with Let’s Go Pikachu too, which I started playing because a friend is also playing right now. And although it is extremely easy difficulty wise, I’m doing a living dex since catching Pokémon in this game is, at least, fun.

    I’m getting the urge to go back to Baldur’s Gate 3, Breath of the Wild and Disco Elysium, all which I haven’t finished yet, unfortunately.

    About TGA, I wasn’t expecting another FromSoftware game, and it being an Elden Ring alternate reality 3-player roguelike? SIGN ME IN, the trailer was cool, I want to see where this goes. Other than that, the only other games that caught my attention where the football game which looked so fucking cool, and this comes from someone that absolutely hate sports games, specially Fifa; The Long Dark looked super cool too and the new Ninja Gaiden looked amazing. I’m also interested in Onimusha after the trailer on TGA, so I’ll take a look into the games some time.

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      Ah, I can see that you have Kras Mazov as your username, but you haven’t finished Disco Elysium.

      Shows the effect the game had on you just like it did to all of us…

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    caves of qud 1.0 out now babeyy!!! also been playing gyruss for the arcade and panel de pon/puzzle league/tetris attack.

    fav video genres are roguelikes, puzzle games, and arcade games like shmups.

    there was a game awards…?

    ring racers is THE game of 2024 in my heart and soul and spirit and its factual go play ring racers

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    I was soooo excited for Veilguard. Guess which game I kinda hate? 😅

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      I will never forget the intense and deep disappointment I felt after playing DA2. I hear Inquisition was better, but the entire series was dead to me from that point forward and I lost faith in direction of the series from that point.

      I’m not the “stop having fun” type, but it’s a bummer to hear that they never managed to bring it back to the great to the same spot that made the first game so phenomenal.

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        I know what you mean. I really enjoyed Inquisition, I still play it today. It’s not perfect but it’s great. Veilguard just feels like a bad cartoon. Example: I’m playing as a Shadow Dragon and everyone keeps explaining to me what the Shadow Dragons do. Ok, yep, read the codex, read my own intro, I got it.

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          It was originally supposed to be a heavily monetized live service game and they had to pivot really late in development because of backlash during playtesting. A lot of the weirdness you see like that is because they were reworking what basically amounted to a bad mmo. I hear the last few hours of the story are pretty good though.

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      Damn.

      I want to desperately enjoy The Veilguard and I still plan to buy it. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition growing up.

      Too bad only three decisions carry over from the third game…

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    Just about finished up playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage, was waiting for it to come out on Steam. Have definitely enjoyed it a lot, was nice to play a new AC game thats closer to the originals in style, as I like the stealth gameplay. They did a super good job recreating 8th century Baghdad, clearly a lot of care went into it. I love little details how like if you go to the market area you can hear foreign traders speaking their own languages. The attention to detail in the city is really good and the place feels very alive. It makes me really want to see them do another game in this style focused on maybe 2nd century Rome, as I still have yet to see a game properly tackle recreating Rome at the height of its wealth and power. If anyone can do that justice its this team as they nailed Baghdad.

    As much as I enjoyed the game it also made me realize that I kind of like the more sprawling RPG direction games like Odyssey and Valhalla took. It makes me excited for the new Japan AC next year. Ubisoft gets shit on a lot for good reason but I really like the open world games they make, I have a lot of fun with them.

    I didnt watch The Game Awards but I saw some of the announcements, definitely interested in the new Turok and Okami games. Nothing else really stuck out for me, Witcher 4 looks cool of course but for whatever reason I’ve always bounced off of the Witcher games, tried all 3 at various points and have never been able to enjoy them. Maybe this one will be different who knows.

    2024 I actually played a lot of games, probably more than I should have. None of them were games released recently really but I had an absolute blast replaying Fable Anniversary and Zelda Wind Waker HD this year. Also played through Dark Souls remastered for the first time this year, extremely good remaster of a great game. I also played 2 and 3 again this year but after playing them all in quick succession I think DS1 is my favorite. Such tight level design and atmosphere, and the game suits my preferred playstyle of hiding behind a shield and smacking people with a mace.

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      Assassin’s Creed Mirage looks great, but it just seems too in-line with the recent AC games for me and I just don’t like how the modern-day story-line has went. I’m interested in Assassin’s Creed Shadow though. But again, I just hate how they killed off Desmond Miles. A 2nd century Rome game would be nice. They once did a comic set during that era. Maybe during the Byzantine empire as well?

      Also, I liked Odyssey. Never played Valhalla but I want to. Valhalla actually looks gorgeous, from gameplay videos I’ve seen, especially when you’re riding your horse through the coast-line of Scandinavia.

      Turok looks great, though some people didn’t like how it looked; I don’t mind the third-person shooter design though.

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    I finished Tactical Breach Wizards recently, which is weird, because I usually bounce hard off turn based tactical games. I also generally suck at them. That doesn’t stop me trying them every once in a while because I really -want- to get into them. TBW is one of those rare ones that plays more like a puzzle game and I really enjoyed it. I played on easy and found the mechanics very forgiving. Gameplay mostly revolves around setting up combos with each character’s unique skills, allowing for some very satisfying outcomes when everything goes to plan. Writing is top notch; the story is fun, funny, engaging, humorous and touching with some really good character moments. Art style is very much low-poly pastel indie style, but it’s well executed and looks good IMO. Veterans of the genre might find it a little simplistic, and the main campaign is fairly short, but I absolutely loved it.

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      Yeah, I generally try hard turn-based tactical games, even though I’m not that good at them.

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    Replayed Assassin’s Creed Syndicate(relevant), goated game and last good AC in my opinion.

    Next whatever is on sale on Steam.

    Favorite genres are horror(any kind), action/adventure and SCI-FI.

    I didn’t see it tbh and except SH 2 remake, there’s nothing special in particular this year.

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      The last good Assassin’s Creed game for me was Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. I love nautical games. What else can I say?

      I have yet to play Silent Hill 2 Remake. I hear it was great, but yeah, the only real one this year. There’s also Evil West but that’s not really horror. Well, more macabre than horror.

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        Black Flag ruled, definitely one of my favorites, Unity was… eh. Syndicate is best for me because Victorian Era and has my favorite Assassin and gear.

        Yeah it was, Konami somehow exceeded expectations, I didn’t play it, but from what I checked, it seems that it’s shooter rather than horror.

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    i like to play hitman, and i was playing again deus ex: mankind divided. is a pretty nice game, breach mode is pretty cool too

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      Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is the best Deus Ex game that’s not the very first one lol

      But I liked Human Revolution, just not as much as Mankind Divided.