Gaming thread! What have you been playing recently?

Tears of the Kingdom? Diablo IV? Duke Nukem?

  • ElectricZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Aliens: Dark Descent. It’s way better than I expected, not just in the gameplay but nailing the vibe of the movie. Fireteam Elite was a fun wave shooter but it turned the xenomorphs into cannon fodder for an action shoot-em-up. Dark Descent is survival horror. Fighting is a last resort. You spend your time creeping down dark corridors hoping you don’t see a xeno, because when you do the hive wakes up and bad things happen. Like in Alien Isolation, your best bet is to watch your tracker and be where the xenomorphs aren’t. Your marines can get wounded, killed, or dragged off to be an incubator. They also suffer stress, and start to freak out the longer they are in danger.

    Really enjoying it so far!

  • dangblingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can’t deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.

  • awake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Dwarf Fortress! Tried and failed to get into it many times before the Steam release, and now completely hooked.

  • OkayMate@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Hell Let Loose WW2 shooter. It has a great in-game community, and they just released the British faction too (which is a bit rough around the edges right now, admittedly).

  • mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.

    I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.

  • OmniGlitcher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Finished up TOTK a while ago, playing Xenoblade Chronicles X currently. I plan to get the new Katamari Remake soon too.

  • serfraser@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Cassette Beasts (really good if you love Pokemon but are bored of Pokemon and want something a bit different)
    Chivalry 2 (mindless stabby fun, but I’ve gotten to a point where I’m good enough to know I suck but too old and busy to get better)
    Runescape (never played as a kid, my friends got me into it earlier this year then they stopped playing lol)
    I wish Diablo and Zelda were my answers.

    • fax_of_the_shadow@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Just started Cassette Beasts last night. It’ super cute. It’s a great change of pace from when I need a break from Diablo 4.

      edit: I just realized this mag was UKcasual and not Casual. I’m not in the UK at all, sorry :(

  • goodnessme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Playing Diablo IV! Just finished the somewhat lackluster campaign which is definitely a prologue to something much more grand coming in the future expansions. But nobody really plays it for the story, right…

      • goodnessme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It is indeed quite expensive but considering how many hours I have played Diablo 2 and 3 as well as the extreme replayability of D4, the price per hour is actually low in my case. If you like the Diablo gameplay, it’s a lot of fun!