it’s very much borrowed from one of the reddit subs i frequent(ed) often, but the idea is to share what we’re playing weekly and hopefully create discussions around those games (or simply have a sort of “check-in”).

  • Shrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I have been playing Tears of the Kingdom, but when my wife has been playing I have been switching in between Serious Sam 4 and the original Commander Keen.

    Commander Keen takes a little to get used to the game feel and style, but I am actually enjoying it pretty well. You can feel a lot of what would go into id shooters. Mazelike levels with a series of key cards, but on a 2d platformer instead of a fps.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Oh man, Commander Keen! One of the first games I actually owned.

      I’ve been playing a bit of TotK, and also recently pulled out my GB pocket and started playing my old copy of Pokemon Red.

      • Shrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I never owned commander keen until recently. So I would just play that shareware episode back in the day.

        • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I got the shareware version from my cousin, it was all I played for months, got the full version for my birthday!

  • JadziaMostral@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Can’t seem to stop playing factorio, send help.

    The factory must expand.

    The factory must expand.

    The factory must expand.

      • JadziaMostral@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Still vanilla. I’ve only just started using logistic bots properly, converting the factory from centralised to modular production. I’ll give mods a try sometime soon but there’s so much possibility for expansion in the base game, who knows how long it’ll take.

    • Gork@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I installed the Space Exploration and Krastorio 2 mods and I haven’t even gotten to space yet on my year old save lol. It’s like Factorio x3 in difficulty.

      • JadziaMostral@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Space exp seems pretty amazing. Before factorio I was mostly pouring time into dyson sphere program, it’s strangely similar.

    • SoaringFox@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ugh I know the day I start Factorio is the day my life as I know it ends… not sure if I’m dreading it or looking forward to it

  • sad_distro@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been focusing most of my game time on Persona 5 Royal. It is really great. Over the weekend I played the Quarry with my family and wrapped up Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.

  • RedEagle@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been playing tears of the kingdom in small spurts and the System shock remake.

  • HER0@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I just bought Silica and Gunner, HEAT, PC!, which have both been pretty cool so far. Both are early access games that I wanted to support.

    Silica has way more to it than I expected, and I’m excited to play more (hopefully with friends, at some point).

    GHPC is sort of like single player (for now) War Thunder, with a pretty cool simulation of Cold War era tanks and ballistics while still being fairly accessible. One interesting thing it does: the tank commander will speak to you (which is where the title of the game comes from), and it will get increasingly more tense and eventually turn into panicked screams, depending on the situation.

    I’m playing these on Linux, and I have a weird audio issue with GHPC. Nobody else seems to experience this, and it doesn’t happen on my Steam Deck.

  • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I bought Gris after the Neva reveal trailer. It’s truly one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played, and the score is just as noteworthy.

  • Xer0@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve set myself a challenge to play one game for 6 months. I was jumping around games a lot and barely playing anything properly. I remember when I was younger I’d get a game for my birthday and Christmas which were 6 months apart, so I basically played one game only for half a year. Now it’s too easy to just buy and download games and switch between them.

    So at the moment I’m playing ESO until October. It’s far from the best game ever, but the amount of content is insane. And I love Elder Scrolls.

  • HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen anyone mention fighting games yet so I guess I’m going first. Will probably grind Guilty Gear Strive this weekend, as I don’t have much free time for longer gaming sessions and every set is like 3-5 minutes each at most. I’ll also try to get back into Dragon Age: Origins, if time permits.

    Speaking of fighting games, I’m also interested in getting Street Fighter 6, as a friend I frequently play against got it, but I just can’t justify paying 60€ for a game nowadays. I have so many other games on my backlog that I’d rather wait for a sale. But I played the open beta and really liked it a lot. The game feels more fluid than 5 and the new Drive mechanic feels way better than the previous V mechanic.