What has everyone been playing lately?

What's everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?

I'm still making my way through the Diablo IV campaign, really enjoying that but looking forward to blasting and figuring out if I enjoy the endgame more than anything at this point. I'm a binge Path of Exile player but the past few leagues haven't really done it for me. It's been nice to play an ARPG again and I'm enjoying D4's slower pace. Zoom zoom is great in POE, but it's nice to get back to basics a little bit.

Went with Whirlwind Barbarian. Know it's meta, but Cyclone Slayer is my favorite POE build so I'm just trying to enjoy my time as the overpowered class rather than fighting it haha.

Played through the Lies of P demo as well and thought it was mostly great. Not the greatest example of gameplay for the genre IMO, but the production values and the vibe were stellar.

How about you guys?

funkamelon,

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    I fired up Skyrim again recently. Thoroughly enjoying it.

    Errant,
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    Cool cool! Haven't played Skyrim in years myself, one day I'll go back. Probably take me years to decide which mods to use.

    Yeah, would definitely recommend starting over if the character is old. Would start fresh and follow a build guide, the forum on the games website has loads of them. I'm usually a massive advocate for learning by doing, but Path is truly one of the few games where the experience is enhanced by having your hand held. It's just a lot otherwise. https://pathofbuilding.community is a pretty awesome tool that will likely be referenced by a lot of those guides too, really makes following things along a lot easier.

    In terms of tangible tips: biggest mistake friends of mine I've helped get into the game tend to make is just prioritizing offense. Having capped or close to capped elemental resistances (75% unless you have something modifying them!) at almost all times is basically starting point towards having an effective character.

    Ranged characters tend to be more successful and easier to play in Path of Exile as well, so maybe start that way if it's an appealing enough flavor of character!

    jennifilm,

    I spent the last few weeks finally catching up on breath of the wild so I could go in to tears of the kingdom and oh boy, it's so good and I'm having so much fun. Haven't even thought about playing anything else for a little while now - though now I'm even more keen to play through some of the zelda classics.

    acedelgado,
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    I never finished BOTW and was gonna go finish it first, but my buddy bought a Totk edition OLED switch after already having bought the game so he gave me his extra copy. I gotta say, as fantastic as BOTW is, Totk is legitimately even better! You've got a lot to look forward to!

    jennifilm,

    Oh, I'm easily 30 hours into totk already - it's unbelievable how good it is!___

    johnthedoe,

    Love both. Totk is objectively a better game. But I think there's merit in going back to play botw. There's more of an element of exploration and survival in the wilderness to it that I don't feel in totk.

    octopush,

    Everyone said “Oh my gawd, you HAVE to play Howgwartssssss”. So I did - and 30 hours later I am 50% complete.

    delcake,
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    Final Fantasy XIV continues to dominate most of my free time, but Honkai Star Rail has definitely muscled its way in too since its release. I sure won't pretend that it isn't predatory in its gacha monetization, but there's a good game in there and I'm a sucker for sci-fi settings and for JRPGs.

    On the XIV front, I've only got about half a rank to go before maxing out Island Sanctuary again from the latest update. Pretty excited to dust off Blue Mage again too when patch 6.45 drops.

    LuckyDog,

    Persona 5 Royal. Finally picked it up on Steam Deck. I’m about 15 hours in and hooked.

    ResearcherNo2939,

    Ooooooh - have fun!!!

    mycus,
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    Rain World. Game is just a masterpiece.

    Not everyone's cup of tea, though. I'd say people who enjoy struggling to progress and don't mind dying might enjoy the game. It really doesn't hold your hand.

    Doing Hunter's campaign right now, I think I might upload some of the footage bc the ecosystem is chaotic as fuck and I haven't seen any Rain World content around lemmy.

    mabd,
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    It's so weird, I played Rain World like 5 years ago for around 15 hours. It was ok, but I stopped for whatever reason. Then I decided to play a bit a couple weeks ago and now have like 130 hours in it. It's suddenly become one of my favorite games and I can't stop playing. I don't know, something just clicked. And it doesn't get old, the world is so huge and interesting, and each time you enter a different area it's a different experience (a tiny, boring hallway is a completely different experience if you bump into a lizard, for example). All the characters, hidden lore, different game modes, it feels like I could play for another 500 hours and not experience everything this game has to offer.

    HopingForBetter,

    Friend recommended Dragon Age: Origins. I heard it helps satiate the Mass Effect hunger, so I'm looking forward to giving that a try soon. My kid is playing TotK, and I get to play next, so looking forward to a nice long stint of playthroughs soon!

    SemioticStandard,
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    Horizon on my Steam Deck, and The Last of Us Part 1 on my PS5

    DunkingOreosIntoWater,

    Diablo 4, DRG, and Fallout 4 with the Horizon mod (which makes it feel very different, more hardcore survival based)

    Diablo 4 is lots of fun. Idc what people are saying about cosmetics and shit. Easy to ignore.

    TadpoleGlorifiedShape4,

    While I agree charging $20 on a full price game is a lame thing to do, I also agree with you that as long as they stay cosmetics I could not give less of a shit how many there are or what they cost.

    TadpoleGlorifiedShape4,

    Toggling between TotK and Spider-man on ps5.

    I must admit the magic of TotK is somewhat wearing off but I am thoroughly impressed with Spider-man (especially as someone who isn't a big marvel fan)

    Mrk421,

    Spider-man might have been the fastest I 100%'d a game. Nothing extraordinarily innovative but nicely polished and the swinging is just... so damn satisfying. Nice successor to the Arkham games, weirdly enough.

    Errant,
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    Agree with both of you dudes, both Spider-Man games were a blast. Just a super polished game. Pretty much everything you would want out of that IP. Trailer for the new game looks super promising as well, didn't expect to see Kraven as a big bad but the angle they're taking with it looks super neat.

    lixus98,
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    I've pretty much been addicted to Genshin Impact this past few months, the story is just so interesting to me.

    Enxtar,

    Soulstone Survivors, fun roguelike bullet-heaven on Steam Early Access, but under constant, consistent development.

    Tsukuy0mi,
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    Exams are coming in a few days so I don’t really have much liberty, but I’ve been playing a lot of Honkai Star Rail and some Diablo 4 on the side too. I’d love to have more time to play either though.

    OneMoreB,

    I spent the past couple weeks playing through TotK and it was very fun, but I played so much over a short period of time I definitely burned myself out a bit.

    I've now been getting back into Parkitect, which I highly recommend if anyone is a fan of the older RollerCoaster Tycoon games

    Lolman228,

    I've been playing a lot of ULTRAKILL for a while, but I just got Payday 2 and have been having a blast with it.

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