Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th

C4d , 7 days ago

Sniper Elite 5. I played V2 way back and fancied an updated experience. Going reasonably well so far and that x-ray cam experience remains gnarly.

K4mpfie , 9 days ago

Trying my hardest to get Legoland, a 2000s game to run on Wine. Now it only crashes when you don’t skip a cut scene or when you try to open the map

Kerb , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

i recently dusted of titanquest (diablo clone)
and even kinda got tqvault to run on linux (not very well though)

i also played a lot of streetfighter 6

hihi24522 , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Dark Souls remastered. Getting cursed just before reaching a boss and having no money to buy a cure forced me to either give up, grind, or “get gud.”

I beat the boss without getting hit once. I know other people probably do that for every boss but for me that’s a big achievement since I suck at combat and video games in general.

In other news, the game is hard but beautiful and the level design is pretty impressive. I’m looking forward to marathoning the other souls games after this.

Krucian , 10 days ago

Just finished American McGee’s Alice. I have not played this since I first played it the year it came out (2000). I have not had this much fun with a game in a while. Also, have not experienced the drive to finish a game like I did this one in a good long while.

The game is janky and difficult to control but I just found it so much fun and the atmosphere of the game is fantastic.

I cannot wait to replay the sequel.

llii , 10 days ago

Daxter on PSP and Diablo IV.

Thassodar , 10 days ago

Just got access to Baldur’s Gate 3 through family share. Reminds me of Neverwinter Nights from the early 2000s, but I haven’t played a game like it since (unless you include Dragon Age).

Also getting back into Binding of Isaac and Slay the Spire.

adonkeystomple , 10 days ago

I’ve been playing a lot of The Finals and been really enjoying it.

SimplyTadpole , 10 days ago

I’m getting back into Cassette Beasts and still am playing my comfort game, NFS Hot Pursuit 2

e-five , 10 days ago

Excited for the Cassette Beasts update next week? I've been checking to see if it'd go on sale for a few weeks/months now but I'm guessing it isn't likely to with a major update on the way. Not sure if I should pick it up or wait for the next sale, how are you finding it? Been wanting to play a creature collector recently after watching so much Persona 3 but haven't wanted to go back to my digimon/persona playthroughs

SimplyTadpole , 10 days ago

Honestly I’m very much a hermit plus I play the game very heavily modded, so I’m indifferent about the update if not worried it might break my mods lol

I think it’s absolutely amazing and I don’t regret spending money on it at all! Maybe it might be worth seeing if it’ll go on sale when the update releases just in case, but if not then I think it’s worth a full-price buy imo.

FeelThePower , 10 days ago

Modded run of fallout New Vegas at the moment. Probably gonna get the fallout 4 season pass as well.

regitseroms , 10 days ago

Just finish playing Final Fantasy VII Remake and crisis core, hoping Rebirth comes out on PC soon

Poopfeast420 , 8 days ago

I'm really waiting for Rebirth on Steam. I've been thinking about replaying FF7R, but am putting it off until Rebirth comes out.

magic_lobster_party , 10 days ago

Currently playing Dark Souls 3. Haven’t played it before, so I guess it’s a good time to check it off the list. I guess I’m near the end now.

I’m a bit disappointed by its linearity. It’s way more linear compared to Dark Souls. It’s also pretty easy compared to Elden Ring. I’m just using a base build. Mostly leveling up on strength stat without much thought.

I’m still enjoying the game though.

Coelacanth , 10 days ago

I think DS3 is great in its own way and has some awesome areas, but it’s hard to compare anything to the first half of Dark Souls. That level design is just something else.

What I like about DS3 compared to ER is there are a lot less delayed attacks and fakeouts. I get that FromSoft needs to constantly up the challenge but it makes it harder to get the same kind of enjoyable combat flow, at least for me. DS3 has some bosses that are just so enjoyable, even though they’re not super hard.

Oh and, don’t know if you’ve done them yet but the DLCs should be more challenging than the main game, if that’s what you’re after.

FlashMobOfOne , 10 days ago

I’m about 1/3 of the way through Jedi Fallen Order.

It’s a lot of fun.

I’ve also been in VR a lot this week, watching The Faceless Lady in the creepy cabin on Meta Horizon, and last night I went to a Doja Cat concert in VR too.

CharlesReed , 10 days ago

After 3.5 weeks and 140 hours, I finally finished Lies of P. The optional final boss was giving me so much trouble that it took me three days to get to a place where I was lucky enough to beat it. I told myself I wasn't going to play new game+ anytime soon, but towards the end of the week I ended up starting another round, so I guess I'm technically still working on this game.

Since I finally finished Lies of P (for the first time), I did a little cathartic rip and tearing with Doom '16. After all the trouble I had, it was very nice annihilating enemies with one BFG shot.

I've played Close to the Sun before on PC and liked it a lot, and it was on GamePass so I decided to play again. But it either wasn't as good as I remember or is just a bad console port. I'm leaning towards just being a bad port, because I like the story, and I like the characters (even though I have my very strong stance that an only child wrote this), but there was a lot of jankiness and jerkiness that was not present on the PC. Still finished it though, since it's not a very long game.

saigot , 10 days ago

Helldivers with friends have been fun, don’t think I’ll ever play with randos tho.

I picked “the swindle” back up with the intent of 100%, just got to win in 1 life, which is challenging but easier than I expected since you start making huge amounts of cash as your win streak increases. Highly recommend this game it’s got a lot of replability for what is a fairly simple game.

I also started “chronoark” it’s a deck builder roguelike. Story seems a little too verbose at times and I think I may have to ramp the difficulty a bit (I got a fun meta cut scene for winning my first run and breaking the story) which might be why I feel like I’m spending more time in story than playing. Still having fun so far.