Another week, another recommendations thread.
Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.
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Assassin’s Creed Unity, mods and modern PCs fix almost all the issues the game had on launch. The remaining problem is the render distance still being a lot shorter than a modern PC can manage.
I just started playing Divinity Original Sin 2. It’s been a lot of fun so far and I’m enjoying it. I’m considering adding Baldurs Gate 3 to my wishlist since they seem similar even though that is based on D&D.
I did a lil haul on Steam summer sale - Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassin’s Creed Unity, The Surge 2, The Division and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
I can recommend both The Surge games if you enjoy soulslikes, they’re nice sci-fi variations on Dark Souls gameplay, though definitely easier than fromsoft games
I’ll probably play Unity first unless my missus decides to co-op The Division with me
I’ve yet again fallen back into grim dawn. Recently got my conjurer to 100, my second pet class to hit that milestone. Running through the forgotten gods expansion before i move into ultimate difficulty.
Grim Dawn (2016) $12.49 at -50%
Both the expansions are 150% worth getting. Ashes adds a huge new campaign and the Inquisitor & Necromancer masteries - Inquisitor is a great secondary to many other masteries and Necromancer is an amazing primary. Forgotten Gods is a shorter campaign and more of a side story, but the Oathkeeper mastery it adds works very well as both a primary and secondary, and it adds the shattered realm, which functions as an alternate endgame (as well as an efficient stepping stone to get there, and a testing ground for new builds). Both expansions add a tonne more items, with AoM raising the level cap from 85 to 100 (you must have AoM for Forgotten Gods to function)
Personally, I’ve logged something like 2.5 thousand hours in the game, and i haven’t exhausted its potential yet. Just so you get an idea of what you’re getting.
Venetica: old eurojank action RPG. It shows its age and the jank is real. But underneath all that is a fresh theme, cool atmosphere and interesting story. Also, it’s 1€ during the Steam sale.
Looks similar to God of War.
Maybe graphically, but the gameplay is nothing like GoW
I’m still playing;
Elder Scrolls Online (2014) $5.99 at -70%
I haven’t bought a subscription the whole time I have been playing it, for months now and now that I understand enough systems I genuinely don’t need it. That being said, I bought the High Isle Collection which is not longer on sale on Steam due to the new expansion. Collection’s come with the game + several expansions, which adds a significant amount of content.
The combat is a little sub-par, but the voice acting is very good and there is a substantial amount of quests to do in the base game alone. It’s more of a chill and play MMO, most PVE enemies are fairly easy.
There is no levels to the enemies, they are the same level as whatever you are, the level caps at lvl 50 with an alternate system after like in Destiny. This Champion Points (level) is applied to all characters that are lvl 50.
I’m sporadic with my gaming. Couple hours here, few hours there. It’s a style of gameplay that has never lent itself to MMOPRGs. I neither commit enough time, nor do I really control when I’ll have that time. I can’t commit with a guild to a raid at x’oclock on Tuesday to take on that dungeon.
I’ve loved Skyrim though. Can you solo-play Elder Scrolls online and have a good time?
You can, the full voice acting makes solo play beneficial playing the story.
I’ve been playing Subnautica: Subzero for a bit.
But my game crashed yesterday and it doesn’t really save unless you save manually, which I forget to do size I can just put the Steam Deck in sleep and resume so I lost a few days progress.I guess I’ll play something else while I get over it.
Still not sure what to pick up next.I’ve ragequit so many games because of things like this! I feel your pain
The part that’s annoying is I don’t quite remember which things I did when relative to that crash.
So like I’m gonna think there’s a base somewhere there isn’t (yet).
There’s things I think I’ve done but won’t have.
So, I’d need to re-explore things that I know already, so would likely not go to.
Like I know this corridor is a dead-end, so I won’t go there anymore, but there was this scannable thing which I don’t really remember.Anyways.
I figure I forget a bit more I’ll be OK to start these bits over.
Currently on a factory game kick, so I’m playing Factorio and planning to get Dyson Space Program afterward. There was also a REALLY good abstract factory game I used to play on the Ubuntu software market but I can’t remember what it’s called.
This one kind of surprised me, but I have been hooked on Fight Night Champion. I noticed it on game pass and remembered having a good time with the older games in the series so I gave it a shot. The legacy mode in this game is surprisingly in depth and offers a lot of different ways to improve your skills and upgrade your boxer. The AI beat my ass pretty regularly until I started messing with different styles and techniques. At the end of the day it’s still just two dudes beating each other with their fists, but it’s a blast.
Fight Night controls are perfect.
I just started Prey. I really liked Dishonored 1 and 2 and I love sci-fi, so I’m looking forward to it.
I just finished Prey and now I’m on Alien: Isolation! I kinda preferred Prey but that’s probably because it wasn’t so stingy with the saving mechanism.
I didn’t really get into Prey as well as the Dishonored series. They went for a Bioshock kinda thing where you start off weak as fuck and, I guess, become more and more of a badass, but I’ve been quite a few hours into it and now I got myself into a conundrum I see now way out of, and I have not once felt like a badass so far.
The game really is aptly named, so no hate on Arkane on that one. You are supposed to be a prey, not the ultimate predator of the Dishonored series.
Maybe I’ll get back to it because otherwise it’s great and they did an awesome job on all the environments, monsters, in-game UI, varied approaches etc.
I just picked up x4: foundation in the steam sale and am really liking it! Ive never really gotten into a space sim before but im really enjoying having other pilots and ships doing my bidding 😊
building your economic empire is definitely my favorite thing about the X series. X4F was pretty weak when I played it on release but I’ve heard it’s much better after a few years of updates.
X4: Foundations (2018) $19.99 at -60%
Xenoblade chronicles X. I picked it up again recently after leaving it untouched since forever ago. The game was just a perfect storm of being impossible for me to play when i first got it on pre-order, both because it has really complex systems I didn’t get, and because I had extremely limited time on the sole TV in the house by nature of other people not wanting to watch jrpg side questing for hours on end.
