General Gaming Thread - 2022

[RPS]

15 hours ago, Igwollie said:

I've never had an interest in online games or first person shooters (bar DOOM because DOOM bangs), neither genre has ever really spoke to me and I'm not very good at them and I'm really antisocial when it comes to gaming.

That has now all changed thanks to Overwatch 2 and Destiny 2. Been playing both of them fairly consistently with Cecily over the last week or two and I absolutely adore them both. Both of them play so fluidly.

Now I feel like I've missed out on a bunch of dope games.

First person shooters are my jam. Love them. I have tried most of the major ones out, with a few exceptions. 

They are great with friends because once you get into the groove of the game you can just chat with friends. Me and my brother play Fortnite once a month or so. We squad up, chat for an hour and kill some players. I play more regularly than him so I carry him, but it's still fun. I also play with my son, who is more interested in mucking around than actually winning the game. 

[TheGrandAvatar]

So sucked at Mortal Shell for a few days. However took some series strides today and took down my first boss. Really just loving exploring and the combat with skills. Also it is fun learning who the shells are and unlocking pieces of them. Understanding the story not so easy. Do like the calmness of it in a few places. This is like when you catch a glimpse of the sun in Dark Souls or the moon in Bloodborne. 

[probablyoliver]

I have deleted Destiny 2 from my playstation in a fit of blind rage.

So me and Snowball downloaded Destiny 2 because it's FTP and that's pretty neat. We had fun shooting some aliens for a couple days and then we were like "oh, hey, where's the story?" and turns out all the stories are in the DLC and there's no actual story in the FTP version. That's fine, I totally get that.

So I had a look online and found out that basically the initial campaign and the first couple DLCs are 'vaulted' which is apparently a new fangled word for 'deleted' and they just don't exist anymore. Alright, that's a shame, but whatever, I get it.

I then find that the first 'available' DLC is Forsaken, which has a campaign and all that good stuff and that's rad because I don't mind if the story is good or coherent, I just wanted some kind of narrative between doing a bunch of pew pews on these aliens, because if I'm just left to my own devices of pumping led with no context I'll inevitably start feeling the existential dread on whether or not these scumbags have families.

With that, I bought Forsaken on both the playstation and xbox so me and Snowball could play it together and we'd have a dope time.

Nope.

Turn on the game this evening to have some fun rootin' rootin' alien shootin' times (on our damn birthday no less) only to spend a good ten minutes living out that awesome John Travolta looking for something gif because there seems to be no marker to start the campaign I just dropped twenty bucks on.

A few Google's later and as it turns out, they also removed the Forsaken campaign earlier in the year and that what I bought basically amounted to a couple fancy hats and a raid which we are in no way prepared for.

Destiny 2 is an incredibly fun but disastrously opaque experience that has absolutely zero regard for shepherding in new players.

But hey, there was a lady selling pumpkins or something, so I guess that makes things better?

This is why I stick to single player games.

[Ruki]

I'm playing through DioField Chronicles at the moment. A fine game, nothing crazy gameplay or storywise. But the mission titles leave something to be desired (especially when their characters have insane names):

-Escort The Archbishop

-Escort The Priests

-Defend Duke Hende

-Quell The Riots

-Go To The South

[Draevyn]

1 hour ago, Ruki said:

-Escort The Archbishop

-Escort The Priests

Escort quests are the bane of my existence in video games. Endwalker for FF had like 6 of them so far and I'm not even 1/4 of a way through this expansion.

[Kaney]

2 hours ago, Igwollie said:

I have deleted Destiny 2 from my playstation in a fit of blind rage.

So me and Snowball downloaded Destiny 2 because it's FTP and that's pretty neat. We had fun shooting some aliens for a couple days and then we were like "oh, hey, where's the story?" and turns out all the stories are in the DLC and there's no actual story in the FTP version. That's fine, I totally get that.

So I had a look online and found out that basically the initial campaign and the first couple DLCs are 'vaulted' which is apparently a new fangled word for 'deleted' and they just don't exist anymore. Alright, that's a shame, but whatever, I get it.

I then find that the first 'available' DLC is Forsaken, which has a campaign and all that good stuff and that's rad because I don't mind if the story is good or coherent, I just wanted some kind of narrative between doing a bunch of pew pews on these aliens, because if I'm just left to my own devices of pumping led with no context I'll inevitably start feeling the existential dread on whether or not these scumbags have families.

With that, I bought Forsaken on both the playstation and xbox so me and Snowball could play it together and we'd have a dope time.

Nope.

Turn on the game this evening to have some fun rootin' rootin' alien shootin' times (on our damn birthday no less) only to spend a good ten minutes living out that awesome John Travolta looking for something gif because there seems to be no marker to start the campaign I just dropped twenty bucks on.

A few Google's later and as it turns out, they also removed the Forsaken campaign earlier in the year and that what I bought basically amounted to a couple fancy hats and a raid which we are in no way prepared for.

Destiny 2 is an incredibly fun but disastrously opaque experience that has absolutely zero regard for shepherding in new players.

But hey, there was a lady selling pumpkins or something, so I guess that makes things better?

This is why I stick to single player games.

I had enjoyed the very little I played of the first Destiny but it was very late on in the development and came across a similar predicament. I know there was plenty of content when I tried it but fuck me if I could figure out where the main campaign began, let alone how to access missions or in what order. The base gameplay felt great which is a massive shame that it felt like, if you weren't an early adopter, they stacked the deck so heavily against you.

[Benji]

Remembering old arcade punch game Super Sonic Blast Man. What a blast.

 

[9 to 5]

On 21/10/2022 at 15:15, Forky said:

I feel like I've fallen out of the gaming scene since I got into FFXIV and WoW but I'm trying to diversify my video games to try to move away from WoW and make some time to play other games. I'm very out of the loop on current RPG's that are out or new ones that are on their way out. I've looked through some of the anticipated games for 2023 but because I'm so far out of the loop, I'm unsure on which ones honestly fit my style. My style being anything that feels like FF, Dragon's Quest or Dragon Age.

Try Wasteland 2 +3.

On 25/10/2022 at 19:02, Igwollie said:

I've never had an interest in online games or first person shooters (bar DOOM because DOOM bangs), neither genre has ever really spoke to me and I'm not very good at them and I'm really antisocial when it comes to gaming.

That has now all changed thanks to Overwatch 2 and Destiny 2. Been playing both of them fairly consistently with Cecily over the last week or two and I absolutely adore them both. Both of them play so fluidly.

Now I feel like I've missed out on a bunch of dope games.

Ever considered giving Rainbow Six Siege another try? 

[JasonM]

Played through Wasteland 2 earlier this year and it's definitely a suggestion, but it has some levels of jank in places that shows that it was a crowdfunded low-budget game. The lore saves it, though, the story is about 7/10 for me and by the time I hit the last stretch of the game I was proper getting a bit jaded with it, partly because I made sure to do everything in the one playthrough.

Character creation also feels very overwhelming and underexplained, with a host of skills being presented to me where I had no idea what I would have to pick up and how they would work mechanically... Also, mild annoyances when I would inevitably find recruitable characters that had overlapping skillsets making those feel completely redundant. (i.e. My main techie having high computer skills, and the first major recruitable having high computer skills too... You only ever need one of each of non-combat skills.)

Anyways, my own gaming adventures.

Picked up "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" on recommendation from a few friends when I was looking for a story focused JRPG to play. It's from 2004, originally a PC game that was ported to PS3 before being localized to the US about a decade ago. I had never heard of it before, but I was intrigued by the graphics that look like a cross between Suikoden and Harvest Moon.

Having really enjoyed it thus far, it's quite whimsical but interesting. To my eternal happiness the game has a turbo mode so I can really zip through traveling and non-interesting combat at a speed much more logical.

Also been playing through the Tekken series, Started with 4 because I don't have the hardware or desire to go further back and the start of the PS2 era is a good enough place for me. Tekken 4 was fun, enjoyable, but when I booted up Tekken 5 after running through all the story stuff in T4 it blew that out of the water and made Tekken 4 look like a boilerplate dev demo in comparison.

Thus far of all the characters i've played, somehow the character I am gelling the most with thus far is Hwoarang both in terms of aesthetic (ticks every box 14yo me would've found cool as shit) and mechanics. He just works for me, even with his elaborate moveset where you can switch stances and all other sorts of crazy stuff.

Ironically, Christy/Eddy I genuinely struggle with when they're supposed to be the braindead button mash meta. I guess i'm just built different?

Only negative about Tekken 5 is the absurdly unfun and unfair final boss fight Jinpachi Mishima. The only character who can stun you through your block, and further throw a fireball that eats 70% of your health with one hit, which also is unblockable.

Probably will pick Tekken 6 up after this, before maybe going with Tekken 7 ahead of an eventual Tekken 8 release? Idk if i'll finish all of T6/T7 story things though, since there's a lot of stuff gated behind DLC there, and I sure as hell am not interested in paying just for completionism.

[tristy]

I don’t even know how to describe this game, but Signalis is a beautiful little indie sci-fi horror game. Has the dread of early PS1 games like Silent Hill, the pixel art of years past, and very heavy cyberpunk anime vibes like Ghost in the Shell.

It’s great. It’s on Game Pass if you have that, but it’s on every platform too (PlayStation, Switch, PC).

[GoGo Yubari]

I've played some fun 2022 games but I don't know if I'll get anything more satisfying in any of them than when my opponent in Marvel Snap decides to go double-or-nothing on how much we're wagering on our match and instead of retreating out of the match I just go along with it and beat them anyway.

[tristy]

7 minutes ago, GoGo Yubari said:

I've played some fun 2022 games but I don't know if I'll get anything more satisfying in any of them than when my opponent in Marvel Snap decides to go double-or-nothing on how much we're wagering on our match and instead of retreating out of the match I just go along with it and beat them anyway.

I expected to hate Marvel Snap but it’s probably my favorite Marvel mobile game they’ve done, and I’ve played them all. Strike Force is fun, but you eventually hit a wall unless you pay for energy or upgrade material.

Snap is so much fun that I’m seriously considering doing their Battle Pass. Only other mobile game I’ve ever spent real money on was WWE SuperCard.

[gunnar hendershow]

2 hours ago, JasonM said:

Picked up "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" on recommendation from a few friends when I was looking for a story focused JRPG to play. It's from 2004, originally a PC game that was ported to PS3 before being localized to the US about a decade ago. I had never heard of it before, but I was intrigued by the graphics that look like a cross between Suikoden and Harvest Moon.

Having really enjoyed it thus far, it's quite whimsical but interesting. To my eternal happiness the game has a turbo mode so I can really zip through traveling and non-interesting combat at a speed much more logical.

The first Trails in the Sky is a blast, but playing on turbo mode is smart since there is a fair amount of filler you can (and should) bypass. It's a very abbreviated game conceptually, and is in many ways just a prequel.

Trails in the Sky SC is a much better game and improves on most of what the first did without changing a lot of the core gameplay. But it's also much longer and is much more dungeon-focused. I much preferred it to the first one in hindsight, but I do caution at times it'll feel like a bit of a slog and you'll encounter a lot of "I did this before" moments.

Meanwhile the 3rd game is almost all about dungeons. 

[TheGrandAvatar]

Played a few different games over the last couple of day's. Spending time on Fifa. Mars Horizon. Mortal Shell and a few other little fun one's thrown in. Generally gaming wise it depends on the mood I'm in and what I fancy at the time. Seem to have a very broad game selection and not all one genre that I like. 

Lately Mortal Shell is the one I'm enjoying the most. It is kicking my behind badly. But I have satisfied my curiosity by keeping going and learning how enemies work and what I can from each failure. Managed to clear out some of the hard enemies, grab all the shells at the start area and weapons with tasty upgrades. The setting is beautiful at the start of the game. The story is slowly becoming told over it and I decided to check out the trailer to the game as it was not one I had watched before. It's delighed me even more that I'm sticking with the game and look forward to getting even further into it. In a way it had me like I was in Dark Souls spiritually thinking of the life and death. The shells that our bodies that we carry, and a lot of thought's really. 

 

[Chris2K]

I'm not as down on Gotham Knights as a lot of people, but there are two things causing me issues;

- Not being able to jump unless it's off a building/ledge. It feels so annoying to want to jump but not being able to, particularly during battles because they feel so similar to the Spider-Man games where jumping is a key mechanic in fighting. I'm fairly sure Batman is able to jump in the Arkham games, but I could be wrong. 

- The grappling mechanic feels off, there will always be an instance every few minutes where I grapple somewhere that I'm not intending to go to without any particular reason, usually going straight up instead of the point in front I was aiming for.

I'm also not making much story progress, although that is almost entirely down to getting bogged down going to every crime incident on the map every patrol until I run out of health packs.

[fourstarfizzle]

On 31/10/2022 at 19:50, Chris2K said:

I'm not as down on Gotham Knights as a lot of people, but there are two things causing me issues;

- Not being able to jump unless it's off a building/ledge. It feels so annoying to want to jump but not being able to, particularly during battles because they feel so similar to the Spider-Man games where jumping is a key mechanic in fighting. I'm fairly sure Batman is able to jump in the Arkham games, but I could be wrong. 

- The grappling mechanic feels off, there will always be an instance every few minutes where I grapple somewhere that I'm not intending to go to without any particular reason, usually going straight up instead of the point in front I was aiming for.

I'm also not making much story progress, although that is almost entirely down to getting bogged down going to every crime incident on the map every patrol until I run out of health packs.

The grinding of crime incidents is really wearing me out now, it's so repetitive and never really changes.

I feel like it's missing something, but I can't put my finger on it. It definitely makes me pine for a new Arkham game though.

[Bobfoc]

1 hour ago, fourstarfizzle said:

The grinding of crime incidents is really wearing me out now, it's so repetitive and never really changes.

I feel like it's missing something, but I can't put my finger on it. It definitely makes me pine for a new Arkham game though.

Rocksteady is releasing a Suicide Squad game next year, so that might be what you're looking for.

[Ruki]

So good

[TheGrandAvatar]

Two temple's down and fully upgraded the first vessel shell you get in Mortal Shell. Have also tried the hunt in the fog which was fun. Managed to get pretty okay at some of it now and understand the game better. 

[Benji]

Most of the way through, and Ghost of Tsushima is fantastic. No spoilers because I can't be arsed sorting the tags and for some reason they still haven't been restored, but the side quests really are very well done and make me feel genuine feelings for the other characters which is so rare for an open world quest game.