cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4323676
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
My favorite genres are 4X/Grand strategy and strategy games in general. I’m an armchair general by nature. At the moment, I’m just waiting for the next Stellaris and Total War: Warhammer 3 DLCs. Both DLCs might very well be some of the best ones in their respective series (based on what I have seen, read, and heard).
I’m also curious about Manor Lords, which releases this coming Friday in early access… though I’m not really in a hurry to play it. There arent that many games im waiting for in 2024 but Space Marine 2 is one of them.
I really wanted to like Broken Roads. On paper it looks fantastic: classic Fallout-style CRPG set in the Australian outback and centering heavily on moral philosophy. Somehow they managed to make it so incredibly boring, though. Couldn’t even get through it. Loved the visual style, but the quests were so buggy and combat was amazingly dull. Bummer.
The most australian game ever made. some of the dialog choices did make me chuckle. there was one where it was like
- Yeah, no (no)
- No, yeah, (yes)
I also dropped it after about an hour.
Yeah, the writing actually wasn’t bad, and again I really liked the art style. That just wasn’t enough to make up for everything else. Unfortunate, because it really did have some charm. All the buff items being different beer brands and the level up noise being a can of beer cracking also made me chuckle, but it’s like they were trying to make questing and combat dull. Every quest was a string of fetch tasks with no rhyme or reason and no guidance. “Find me 10 radio parts.” “OK good job. Now find me ten books.” Yeah, nah.
Been playing some modded Minecraft, enjoying automation and building a rail network.
Big fan of any game genre that allows for infinite expression of creativity. Sandbox games, roguelikes such as Noita, and special games like Path of Exile with deep customization.
Excited for Path of Exile 2, should come out roughly Q3 or Q4 next year with a beta/EA late this year.
edit: Forgot to mention that I’m also looking out for Dyson Sphere Program’s next update, which will introduce customizable vehicles (presumably like motherships, since the player character is a mecha that is already capable of space flight) and space stations. I feel like the combat update is missing a bit more for it to really come into shape, currently it’s all defense and no attacking. Also excited for Amazing Cultivation Simulator 2, but have no clue what it’s gonna bring.
What Minecraft mods? I haven’t played in forever but I had an old one where you could build a space program, space stations, and a moonbase, all with gravity and oxygen systems.
I’ve been playing Create Astral since you mentioned it last thread and I’m really enjoying it. I just built a dripstone cauldron lava generator and tried to use it to create an infinite lava lake, then realized it’ll take about 4000 cauldron-hours to fill and I’m going to need to build an iron generator next to make enough cauldrons to finish it in any reasonable amount of time.
Yeah the cauldron thing is a trap tbh, you’re much better off just getting your lava from one of the underground moon lakes. Getting the lava out of the moon is somewhat inconvenient but cauldrons are much slower.
I already dug the lake this is happening. Plus, I can’t even get to the moon yet.
Something being slow just means it needs to be parallelized to an alarming extent.
I’ve been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 and I’m always playing Stellaris lol I keep wanting to play SimCity 3k, but I can’t be assed to set it up on my steamdeck
I found a game called Starsector that I want to get in to. It’s like an indie space exploration game.
