What are your most recent games played?

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You hide cards at night in the forest for fun? Seems like a solitary type of game to play.

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- Hehe you're right kinda.
  
  I take my phone data offline after about midnight and if I can't sleep I'll do Solitaire or crosswords.
  
  If I'm really wanting a good game, Zen Pinball is my poison. One day I plan to get an old TV and turn it into a Zen Pinball machine, as others have done on YouTube.
  
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Repostin'. Trying out Arcanum for myself for the first time.

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Love seeing FNV there. I recently got around to beating it a few months ago and it was amazing

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Stalker 2, RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress and Project Zomboid.

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Good taste my friend

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Switch:

Witcher 3 (don't judge)
Eiyuden Chronicles

PS4:

Code Vein
Disco Elysium

PC:

Torchlight 2
YGO Master Duel

Phone:

Pokemon TCG Pocket

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Witcher 3 can't be worse than Xcom2 on the switch. No judgement here.

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I play games too much, so I'll categorise them:

New ones I've finished and absolutely loved: Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Star Wars: Outlaws

Not new ones that I'm currently playing and really like so far: Days Gone and Mad Max

Not new ones that I'm currently playing that I'm unsure if I like, be it because of the game itself or technical issues: Enshrouded, Horizon Forbidden West, and Satisfactory

Ones I've played for some time and won't stop playing anytime soon (and obviously love): Warframe and Minecraft

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Mad Max is fun. But it never holds my interest for long.

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What'd you like about veilguard? Were you a big fan of the series before? I want to buy it but the changes from the first one put a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

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- Not OP, but it's a very good game that gets better the longer you play it. It more like Mass Effect than Dragon Age in many ways though, but the final stretch especially was almost on the same level as the suicide mission of ME2 IMO. Characters and gameplay are great, dialogue and level design could have been better and the only element that really sucked for me are the godawful outfits and weapons and lack of variation thereof.
  
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Currently playing Half Life 2. Got it for free and i love it.

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Elden Ring. Only the base game, and this is my first run. I have been very thorough with it, though. I'm currently trying to beat Malenia, then it's off to do the last boss
Victoria 2. Weekly multiplayer session with a couple of friends. It's 1915, and my people have just elected an anti-military party that is really hampering my efforts to swing a big imperialist stick around
Lorn's Lure. PS2 graphics, generous 3D platforming mechanics, and an impossibly vast and desolate megastructure to explore. Well I'm playing the demo of it, anyway. I am going to get the full version, it made a good impression.

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My friend that really doesn't play many games loved Elden Ring. And ive listened to a lot of lore videos from Dark Souls to Elden Ring. But my PC probably can't handle the game. I can't wait to eventually be horrible at it though.

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- I don't like souls like games. I LOVED Elden Ring. It was the exact balance of controller destroying and fun.
  
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- It's great fun! So long as you're on board with the experience it is trying to create, of course. FromSoft are good at what they do and don't much care for whether or not what they do is everyone's cup of tea
  
  I'd love to try Bloodborne, because that gameplay combined with a bit of cosmic horror sounds amazing to me. I'll have to either wait for a PC port or learn about emulation, though
  
  The thing that stuck out to me more than I expected about it is how painterly it often feels. It's exceptionally good at framing its environments in a spectacular or pleasing way even while the player has full control of the camera. I'm not usually one to worry about visuals too much, but this game's environments really stuck out to me. And while it is very high-fidelity and nicely rendered, it's less about the actual graphical performance than it is about the design of the environments
  
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I’m old and just started playing Far Cry 5 (haven’t played any of the others before). Very fun.

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Im old too. I played the first FarCry. It was amazing. That was a time that driving a vehicle in first person view, having moving shadows based off of light sources, being able to see far away, and being able to shoot out lights was ground breaking. (To be fair 007 GoldenEye had lights you could shoot too)

Now there aren't any games that let you shoot or destroy light sources.

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I highly recommend the first one, Far Cry 3 and its stand-alone expansion Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Also, the first Crysis game which is very similar to Far Cry.

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I have played every Far Cry since the first. In my opinion FC5 is the worst. Boring setting. Far more mundane and repetitive than the others. The forced kidnappings were annoying. The ending was meh. I think FC6 was a refreshing change.

Personally Far Cry Blood Dragon is the best overall. The Vietnam DLC for FC5 is also excellent, even though short. FC4 is also great, and has a truly unique setting and was a lotnof fun with the gyro copter and Yeti. FC3 is good and fun, but it's overrated.

FC2 I think is the best FC in a spiritual sense. For all its flaws, it truly set out to implement a unique concept the other FC's have forgotten.... that is you set out to accomplish something and everything will go wrong. You were supposed to be frustrated and overthink things. The setting was cool, the story was effed up, and the buddy system was kinda neat.

All Far Cry's suffer from underdelivering on the story. So much potential with the villains, yet barely seen. People who brag about how cool Vaas is seem to forget you only see him like 3 times, he's gone by like mid-game, and he wasn't even the main villain.

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Kiddos have been playing Space Engine on my account, but otherwise this is what I've been playing lately.

Garden of the Sea, I am Future, Havendock, Dinkum, Fallout 3 GOTY, Broken Lens, Bugsnax, Cult of the Lamb

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Been playing Animal Well, an astonishingly cute and insanely frustrating metroid vaniaesque puzzle platformer.

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Half Life 2, I got a new laptop a couple of years ago and it was the first that could actually play it properly but I never got to it, then the big update came out and wow, so worth it, loving it.

TES IV Oblivion. Love it, so silly, I love thieving.

Autonauts vs Piratebots, such a fun and cute little programming game.

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Mostly Spyro (the PSX one) and both versions of Cyberpunk 2077. Alternatively Muse Dash if I don't have much time (or will) to go for a longer session.

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I respect the love of a PSX game, thumbs up.
What do you mean by both versions of 2077?

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- I really like checking out oldies in their original form, even if there's a "better" remake/remaster available. It's fun to see what those games had to offer in their prime.
  
  As for Cyberpunk, I'm playing both the most up to date version (2.13 with Phantom Liberty + mods) and the legacy one (version 1.16).
  
  There were a lot of gameplay and design changes in the 2.0 release. Since I played the game before that, I had a constant reaction of some things being... off. I wasn't sure whether my mixed feelings had to do with nostalgia or if I really liked some of the old gameplay more, so I decided to reinstall the legacy version to confirm (thanks CDPR for keeping it available).
  
  Long story short, while I do like some of the things they did with the game and genuinely believe it's a better product overall, I'd be lying if I said I prefer the new version. I still have fun and all the technical improvements, free content and access to mods make for an easy choice but boy do I wish there was a way to port those to the legacy version. There are a few mods that restore some of the old design choices which gives me a sliver of hope for a potential larger restoration in the future. For now though, I'll just keep enjoying what's there.
  
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A ton of Darktide.

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I just finished Ace Attorney Investigations II and I am at that stage confused for where to go now after finishing a game (is not that I do not have a backlog lol).

Anyway, I continued Pokémon Omega Ruby yesterday but I have that one, TWEWY, BOTW (both for Switch) and Chrono Trigger for DS sitting in the middle of a playthrough and I don't know where to go now.

I just went to Pokémon because I never finished the GBA version and it is the easiest IMO, TWEWY I beat the DS version multiple times and I consider that one better than the Switch one (gameplay wise) maybe that is why it hasn't caught up my attention so much.

BOTW is MASSIVE! And the joycon drift demotivates me lol And Chrono Trigger... I am pretty sure I am about to finish the 1st ending... But I am kinda lost in the plot lol.

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8bitdo controller. My joycons died during BotW too. I haven't had a single issue with the 8bitdo controller I got immediately after.

Also, Tears of the Kingdom is like three times larger, when you get to that one. Very fun.

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Honkai: Star Rail and Ys IX: Monstrum Nox. Took me multiple chapters to get into Ys IX (very unusual for me, I love the series) but I'm finally starting to enjoy it.

Also started a replay of The Witcher 3.

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Heh. I love Ys, and yet EVERY SINGLE TIME I am initially disappointed, and I have to stick with it, and it eventually gets insanely good.

Just how Ys games are I guess. With Ys X I went into it knowing this and really overlooked a lot and told myself to ignore my criticisms cause I've been through this rodeo like 6 times now. 50 hours in, yeah it's awesome. The story especially.

I don't hate Monstrum Nox like so many do. It's refreshing they will always try wildly different things.

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- That's me with Atelier. Usually I'm good to go right away with Ys right from the start, even with the ones I don't like as much. Ys VIII was especially good as soon as the island landing.
  
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I've been getting back into boomer shooters and dungeon crawlers.

I've been playing more Selaco, and I'm excited for the next chapter to be released. Also Burger Flipper has taken my spare time in that game while I'm playing it (it's the idle clicker game-within-a-game).

I reinstalled Lunacid to jump back in and hopefully finish that at some point soon. I've been playing fun demos like Mohrta and Hark the Ghoul too.

And of course Project Zomboid.

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Satisfactory, Black Ops 6 (yeah yeah) Zelda echoes of wisdom

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How far you into Satisfactory? We just got our turbo fuel powerplant at about 30% capacity, enough for Ficsmas!

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- I'm in the last tier, nuclear power, but I am extremely choked on computers right now. I'm a spaghetti mess and considering a restart to be more organized.
  
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Top three are: The First Descendant, Elder Scrolls Online, and just started Lords Of The Fallen (which is pretty tough TBH).

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I was very very hesitant on ESO. But it's probably the best Elder Scrolls game we'll get. Playing with friends is a blast, as well as wondering around doing random quests in each "country".

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- I tried it out because I love the setting and we've obviously been somewhat starved for anything else Elder Scrolls, but I just couldn't get into it. It felt like it never rewarded me for exploring like the main series does. There's never something cool to find that's just hidden out of the way.
  
  I did also feel a bit miffed that the Northern Elsweyr story (the new one when I played, and the reason I wanted to play) was just the Skyrim civil war again, but without even the interesting idea of the rebel faction being nationalists against an empire. It was very little to do with anything about Elsweyr, and then dragons became the focal point again anyway
  
  Obviously each to their own. I do see the appeal of it. It's just not for me
  
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- I'm actually a new'ish gamer. I did a little Final Fantasy 14 but didn't get into it. I read about this a little and decided to give it a try (it helped it was on a massive sale on the PlayStation store). This will be the game I will probably be playing for a really long time.
  
  The random quests and wandering around are the best parts IMO. It amazes me how much time I can waste walking around going "what's behind that building (or rock, or hill, etc.).
  
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Sifu

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Cult of the Lamb

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That looks like fun

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- It's extremely addicting. Hours seem like minutes sometimes...
  
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Love that game! The prep for the last boss is a real challenge

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- I'm right at the point where I'm supposed to wake up the One Who Waits. Lol
  
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- Did it change anything from the release? I know I beat it on my first try but I also remember that I was lucky with something because of something. This was in the first week of the release.
  
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Grim Dawn - love it.

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Elite: Dangerous, Tiny Glade, BG3

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UFO 50, Ghost of Tsushima, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and Cassette Beasts

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Stardew Valley

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I just cleared $1 million on my current save. Spring of year 3.

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Nintendo Switch: FF8 Remastered
Xbox: Sea of Thieves
PlayStation: Fallout 4
Mobile: Balatro

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Finished all battles in Easy Red 2 and started again.
Just started Spell Brigade.
Tried to get back to Astroneer, but don't seem to find myself playing it.
Tried to get back to Elite Dangerous, but no.

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Playing Another Crab’s Treasure - a Soulslike with a humorous tone. I had the game on Xbox, but abandoned that and replaying on Steam. I think having a calmer, more analytical mood to the difficulty is helping me make progress faster.

There’s a region where you need to stick to the path lest you awaken a gigantic and threatening enemy bearing an instant-kill attack. I just returned to that area and killed it.

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Talos Principle. I set it down months ago when I got stuck on a puzzle. Solved that shit in 10mn yesterday

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The factory must grow

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Balatro, Octopath traveller 2, AC Valhalla, Baldur's gate 3, Crosscode, Tales of grindea, AC Odyssey.

I've only completed the last two, and I'm currently rotating through the others depending on what I feel like playing the most.

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Factorio - Space Age, Frost Punk 2, and Balatro Mobile

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Half life 2 , black mesa, Tloz links awakening via yuzu, Mario kart 8 via cemu, vampire survivors

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Street Fighter 6

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Graven on Steam.

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The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess, Phantasy Star I&II and Shinobi III.

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Europa Universalis 4 with friends, Rune Factory 4 and Rhythm Heaven Megamix on my 3ds, Balatro and Yugioh Master Duel because I'm a card nerd.

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I am shocked the lifespan EU4 has. I played hundreds of hours of it on my (melting) laptop in college a decade ago. I'd let it run a bit while studying in the library, and kind of make slow moves and changes between studying things.

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Mine are

Enshrouded - Got just over 100 hours in the past month
Against the Storm - been playing on and off over the last year as new patches/DLC release.
God of Weapons - not a huge fan of this type of game but it's fun for short bursts between other things

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Duelyst II
Cassette Beasts
Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship 2011

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Been grinding Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

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Gundam Breakers 4

Void Crew

NGU Idle

Satisfactory

Dokapon Kingdom Connect

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Last game on console was Civilization IV. Too steep of a learning curve for me.

Since then, I started terminalQuest and it reminded me that I have a bunch of outstanding itch.io games from the bundles during Covid/Ukraine to tackle. Currently playing:

CrossCode
Celeste

And in the wings I have

Night in the Woods
A Short Hike
Oxenfree

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Civ 4 is on console? Are you sure it's not a spin off game?

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- Whoops, Civ VI
  
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danmaku unlimited 3 (pc), ketsui deathtiny (ps4), ketsui death label (3ds), battlefield 2042 (xbox series s)

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Hogwarts Legacy, RDR2, Elite Dangerous, Sea of Thieves, and Spider-man.

Grabbed Hogwarts on sale, and damn I don’t get where all the (non-political) hate came from. It’s pretty solid, as far as open world adventure games go. I’m not even an HP fan, but it’s a blast.

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Finished Fallout London last week.

This morning I finished replaying Grim Fandango for about the 12th time.

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Slitterhead, HoloCure, Noita, Zenless Zone Zero

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Balatro. I wish there was a cross save between mobile and pc though

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Almost everyone that's responded has included that game. I don't even know what it is, going to have to check it out.

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Wait, Zelda's on Steam? Why can't I find it?

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I already commented about that in another reply. And you can add non steam games to your library.

https://lemm.ee/post/48710089/16567290

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I like Halls of Torment

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