December 2025 General Games Discussion

[Zed Clampet]

Apparently nothing defines a man's worth more than his ability in the game Assetto Corso Rally. I asked if there were difficulty options, and you would have thought I'd slapped the baby Jesus.

 

[Pifanjr]

I looked it up and it honestly looks really fun. I've never played a major modpack like this before, so having to relearn simple things like where to find soul sand would be a fun challenge. It requires Minecraft Java to play these mods correct? I think I have it... I mostly played the Bedrock edition because then my wife could play with me on our Xbox One.

Yes, it's for Minecraft Java, but I'm pretty sure that's included in the regular Minecraft launcher on PC.

One of the things I really like about this modpack is that it's probably the best documented modpack I've played. Oftentimes when playing a modpack I'm spending as much time on a wiki as I am actually playing the game, but this modpack has a lot of useful information on the quest pages, plus you can always get the manual for the specific mod you're working with. Though it probably does help that I'm already somewhat familiar with a lot of the mods and with Minecraft mods in general.

As for my power problems, it turned out that the generator I made isn't really suited for burning fuel, but it generates power passively when surrounded by lava. I made a new generator that specifically runs on fuel and only needed a couple pieces of coal to get enough power.

Of course once I reached the next chicken tier, I immediately wanted to upgrade again, but now I need something to crush crystals. I could use a mill stone, but that requires a multi-block setup that uses actual kinetic energy, including gears and pistons. I could use a single powered machine, but that requires plastic which is proving to be really slow to get. So instead I'm going to summon and bind a spirit to crush stuff for me.

I really enjoy having so many options to reach the same result. And I'm probably going to get into the other mods I didn't choose this time because they do something else easier or better, so it gives a lot of variety as well.

 

[neogunhero]

Wife is out of town until late tonight, going to be a good day for gaming.

Blood West is free on Epic, I've had my eye on that for so long. It's got a lot of immersive sim elements which I love. Going to check that out, then I also saw that Splitgate got re-released as Splitgate: Arena Reloaded. If you remember, Splitgate 2 came out in beta earlier this year and a lot of people didn't like it. I believe it was mostly people mad that it was too different than the original game. They took it offline for a while, reworked nearly every aspect of the game, now I'm seeing a lot more positivity for it. It's a pretty standard online FPS game with unique portal mechanics but what I liked about the original launch version is how tight the gunplay felt. It's completely free so it was fun for a couple hours on deathmatch.

Besides that I may play some more Yakuza Kiwami. I'm starting that up again, about three hours into it, I think I'm going to stick with it. I've got too many games in my rotation currently to the point where I'm not really focusing on one or another. I really should because then I'll just keep bouncing around so many different games, but as they say, variety is the spice of life. When I'm tired of the shooters, Yakuza is always a great pick to fall back on.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Blood West is free on Epic, I've had my eye on that for so long.

I was just getting ready to post about that. It looks really good.

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I was en fuego in Darktide today. It may be the best I've ever played a shooter, and I think it is the result of having gotten two nights of 8 hours of sleep in a row, which is crazy rare for me.

 

[Pifanjr]

I reached the next tier of magic chickens in the StoneBlock 4 Minecraft mod and immediately started work on the tier after that. I'm not entirely sure why I've decided that making the ultimate magic chicken was my main goal, but it's turning out to be a great way to sample a bunch of other mods.

For the next tier I need a ghast tear. Normally you'd go to the Nether and just kill a ghast, but there is no Nether in this modpack (at least, not reachable in the regular way). The only way I can get one is to either summon a ghast with magic or to build a machine that can generate any kind of mob loot. Both take quite a lot of time and resources to set up, but I think the latter will give me access to more useful stuff in the long run.

I'll probably need to find a better power generator though. I was still lugging around the single coal generator to every machine that needs power, which isn't ideal. I'm going to need to find some more advanced generators and then create some wires to hook up everything so I can keep everything charged.