Yeah what a retarded take. NMS is a lonely boring experience with the dullest ditch water plot (love those vague-nothing dialogues lol) and the worst gameplay loop in a while. Don’t worry they’re adding x pointless feature in an update!

Granted I’m waiting on release to play SF, but no fucking way are the games similar.

I really despise that 3D no texture / low poly look. On Reddit when you see those ‘I have a dream, quit my job and now I’m making ………. Game!’ posts, some concepts sound amazing; aaaaaand it’s one of those game.

Settlement Survival is one. Big Banished fan, and Ss’ graphics just look worse to me. Like a cheap mobile game.

Not to say all of these are bad, Deep Rock looks gorgeous and smashes it in the art direction department

2D I don’t mind as there’s a lot of wiggle room to play with stylistically.

Not the right place to ask, or maybe to be seen. But I watched ACG’s video on this and I LOVE the classes and how meat n potatoes they are. No guffy [what I call] Horde style shit like Necromancer or whatever.

I’ve only ever played DnD once IRL in a discord and some online board thing, but I enjoyed the dice rolling and how posistioning worked. Is it a bit of xcom meets diablo if I twisted your arm to compare to another game genre? A friend and I tried that Gloomhaven game and we HATED it lol, but this looks a little more engaging at least from a very first glance.

Plus a few friends have picked it up, so i’m not sure if I could join their game to help kinda like we did with D4 which was super fun.

I saw purchases carry forward which is nice as I have a few stashes on file that I got somewhat recently.

Raft!

Totally random purchase with a friend and we have loved it and have been hard lining it.

Pretty much at the end now post story but now we’re just finishing off the ship. It’s been so nice I’m kinda sad it’s almost over.

We did originally mean to play Conan Exiles one night but just randomly grabbed raft, it’s really really good.

I miss the days of CD keys and multiple disks, oh and owning a cd drive within the last decade. Oh wait, nah I like my expansive day 1 regged steam account with everything in it, ever and cheap keys.

Although I do miss manuals. A good manual in the pre-smartphone world was epic toilet reading. Or a good bradygames strat guide. The GTA:SA one was soooo good.

Still no word on the friendly blue triangles? They desperately need range settings🤞

Good stuff, gonna be interesting to see how it’s showcased.

BF3 and cod for sure. You’ll get sprayed by someone with a meta vector who is also leaping through the window at the same time.

The game winds me up, but it’s enjoyable when I’m drunk. Make of that what you will

Nice man, I failed to mention also; you can host your game online so playing with friends, or having the game open is a thing. It’s quite fun when someone joins the enemy team, they provide that little bit of spice to an otherwise, potentially easy mission. Doubly so if they comandeer a tank or something - uh oh!

Good stuff, I enjoy a good meme every once n a while but if lemmyshitpost is anything to go by, can completely overwhelm a feed with stupid stuff.

Grabbed this for my wife whos a big Poke head and enjoyed FO:NV. What a steal for 9 quid. So far she’s loving temtem (she’s a ROM-hack kinda gal, and found other Poke-likes on steam a bit shit in X or Y regard).

IMO OG WoW and even the tiny bit of WoW Classic I played…STILL featured the best social pick-up-COOP-questing. Hell even the pre classic private servers I played still had a sense of community. Granted the later years were less social, covid really did a number on roaming chatters; I think everyone became more world weary.

After reading so much hatred towards retail WoW I finally tried it [as a Vanilla fan] and er, yeah it was ok but socially it was a ghost town outside of that weird Airport hub in the sky [Shadowlands]. My heart broke a bit when I did chromie time in Azeroth, not only were the zones like Westfall fucked up, I saw absolutely no one during my time questing in westfall. Just…sad times.

Overall retail WoW was good on the tail end of Shadowlands, but the end game being just Mythic dungeon and Raids for a chance at maybe one bit of good gear is shit. I prefer more chill exploring, questing and a bit of collecting. Transmog farming was boring, and old quests were pointless as they weren’t level scaled. So I ended up quitting just before dragonflight. Still have good memories of Vanilla’s original 1-60 journey, but it’s not that game anymore.

I saw so much love for Guildwars 2 over the years, but my WoW brain bounced off it so hard about three times. Until last Christmas, on a whim I bought the complete package and I found my new MMO home.

Exploration, XP for everything, level scaling and world events which makes every zone somewhat relevant. Easy and no gear-treadmill (your shit will always be good, forever). The story is linear and makes sense, unlike WoWs scattered expansion packs and timelines, jesus.

Plus, my human male is voiced by Nolan North, so in my head he’s a teleported Nathan Drake from Uncharted now in a weird fantasy land lol. I’m not really bothered by side characters in these games, but i’ve grown attached to the cast too, the chemistry is pretty decent bless it’s heart.

GW2 does some good account bound stuff too like your mounts, currency and masteries (kinda like skills for X things) all apply to toons so no repeat grinds/unlocks per alt which is absolute BLISS!

I also made a random friend-for-life after asking in map chat for a hero point train in the Heart of Thorns map. Any game I make a genuine friend gets massive marks, it’s so hard to find good people in any game these days. GW2 is very nice in that regard, i’d recommend joining a guild, to which there are some nice ones in the NA region.

You can try GW2 for free, just give it a while for it to tick. It does some things differently and especially if you’re coming from a WoW, gear mindset…you’re gonna have to check it at the door. Loot is mostly materials and random shit like boosts. Your gold assets are tied up in those materials vs fat gold stacks from mobs.

I like logging on and map clearing when i’m in discord with my lads and we’re waiting to play something proper. You clear maps by opening up the fog of war, collecting waypoints [teleports all over said map], hitting points of interests, doing favor hearts [very basic ‘quests’] and hitting up vistas [quick, panoramic cutscenes of an area of interest]. It’s so chill to whack a podcast on and do these, and you benefit greatly from completing them, more so if you do the whole map too.

I could be here all day waxing lyrical about GW2, it is the best MMO for me these days. I’ve still not completed the story since December, i’m currently on the start of LWS4. Still got End of Dragons and then the new expansion too, good feels!

And the best bit? Even if I don’t return for months or years, all my gear will still be as good as I left it. No ‘power creep’ I believe the word is?

Easy Red 2.

WWII fps/tps made by a small team. Did you like BF1942 maps and bots back in the day?

This is the first ‘bot game’ which is actually very good and wwii focused. Others like ravenfield were too spread out, scope wise, or too twee like Brass Brigade.

It’s just had Normandy come out and first person animations tweaked and it’s in a really good place.

Custom maps and soon to have custom assets on the workshop so workshop maps are about to blow up big style!

Would love to see more wwii game fans try it out, even off sale it’s FILTHY cheap. Can highly advise the recent Normandy DLC too, the quality of the maps are leaps and bounds over the base campaigns, Stalingrad is also very good too if you’re an eastern front kinda boi.

Russian Fishing 4. I’m not an IRL angler whatsoever but I love games that lean hard into real gear and simulation (as much as possible in a video game).

Rf4 just has a good chunk of content and feels good. The other fishing games out there are a joke in comparison IMO.

It’s unpopular because of grinds and the fish spawning, but I chalk it up to real life …sometimes, the day isn’t yours right?