Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
(Same as last time.)
Been playing a lot of Black Ops 2 Zombies w my friends and brother lately, mostly the map with the lava all around. Other than that on my free time I play a lot of GTA 4. I fucking love GTA 4, I could spend hours talking about it and all the little tricks and exploits that aren’t as obvious in game
I’ve been playing quasimorph, mtg arena, and dragons dogma dark arisen (late to the party there).
My favorite Ludo-hauntology is if Dragon Age had more than one good game in the series, origins alone is my favorite series. I also have discovered the Like A Dragon series and appreciate the compassionate way it portrays working class, un-housed peoples, and everyone else on the periphery of society.
The last game I finished I was BG3, it was awesome how reactive it is.
Hauntology?
What’s that?
I know what “ludo” means (video games or games in general). Not sure what hauntology is but I’ve heard the term. I’ll look it up but I also want to know what it is in your own words, comrade.
It’s from Derrida. It’s basically a past vision of the future that never came to pass which we now can look backwards at with familiarity for yet it continues to haunt the culture.
I have been summoned I see.
Playing Currently:
Stellaris (I just bought the Astral Planes DLC on sale)
FFVII Rebirth
EDIT: Desynced - I forgot I was playing this one, hah. Scifi factory builder with modular buildings and programmable unit behaviours.
Favourite Genres:
Factory Games
City/Colony Builders
RPGs (MMOs or JRPGs mostly)
Completed Recently:
I just finished my latest Rimworld run, where I did a Neolithic/Tribal to Spacer tech run. Rimworld is my favourite game ever made, I do runs through it very regularly, but wanted to finish up my current game before the latest DLC hits in a month or so.
I have at least a thousand hours in Rimworld and I can’t imagine that pace slowing down a whole lot. The funny thing is I actually hated it the first couple times I tried to get into it, before something just clicked.
Ooooo, I love MMORPGs.
I still love 'em, even now (despite everyone hating 'em).
Same, I enjoy the genre a lot still despite the fact that most MMO players seem to spend more time hating them than playing them.
I am a bit tired of the genre being totally dominated by fantasy though. I miss Wildstar and Secret World.
Been into Civ 6 lately. Sometimes I kind of have to go like “ok, this is a strategy game and that’s what I’m treating it as” because the way they portray civilization can be a bit… I think maybe colonial-centric is the phrasing I’m looking for. I feel it’s very in need of a win condition that comes from deep alliances and not just faux forced diplomacy “only one person can be the winner” kind of thing. But if I treat it as a competitive strategy game with a civilization-based outfit on and don’t take the cultural influences too seriously, it’s fun enough and has a lot of depth to it for improving at the strategic elements over time. So I can really sink a lot of hours into it, if I let myself.
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, Pokémon emerald, and sonic the hedgehog 1. I’m stuck on marble zone act 3, I keep falling in the fucking lava, I miss a jump and I fall three levels down, it’s so hard for what 😭 I want to beat the original sonic games before playing frontiers.
