May 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[Zed Clampet]

Really? I think the hive-mind of gamers right now are playing and saying TBC games are peak gaming. I personally 100% disagree but i see people bullying anyone that disagrees that a turn based game is good in a lot of different social spaces.

I love turn-based, but I'm not going to declare anything "peak gaming". That just depends on personal preferences. I'm sure people are arguing about it. It never fails to amaze me when people get angry about someone liking something different.

 

[Frindis]

I'm going to play some peak gaming right now and it is called Torchlight 2 with synergy and essentials mod installed.

 

[DXCHASE]

No, no... THIS is peak gaming....

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/qtgW7XpCinc?si=ZMXs60OuNowbpUAv


Theres a skill in the game that allows you to change your opponents into cheese (the cheese gives you health)

 

[Pifanjr]

No, no... THIS is peak gaming....

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/qtgW7XpCinc?si=ZMXs60OuNowbpUAv


Theres a skill in the game that allows you to change your opponents into cheese (the cheese gives you health)

What about playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a sentient wheel of cheese?

 

[Frindis]

What about playing Baldur's Gate 3 as a sentient wheel of cheese?

So funny that you can actually do that!

 

[Zloth]

Wouldn't peak gaming involve getting over a mountain peak? You know, like this.

Well, almost like that.

 

[Pifanjr]

Things are going well in my Rimworld game. The pyromaniac went on another arsonist spree, but this time I just followed them around with another pawn and extinguished all fires as soon as she started them until she was done, which world perfectly.

Then she did it again and I accidentally clicked on her instead of the fire and arrested her, so now I have to work on recruiting her again... it's a real pain when your best doctor is stuck in jail.

But I do have three more colonists now. One I saved from somewhere in the wilderness, one former enemy who I managed to take prisoner and recruit and one guy who came to my camp followed by a group of enemies. Though he forgot to specify the enemies were following him in dropships...

Luckily I built into a mountain and littered the entrance with traps. After three enemies died by walking into traps the rest ran away. I actually haven't had an enemy get close to my base besides the two traitors.

 

[Colif]

lots of quality posts on forums today.

 

[Zloth]

Then she did it again and I accidentally clicked on her instead of the fire and arrested her, so now I have to work on recruiting her again... it's a real pain when your best doctor is stuck in jail.

What!? Move all her medical stuff to the jail cell. Now the doctor is ALWAYS in!

 

[Pifanjr]

My Rimworld colony is still going strong. I got attacked by a raid via drop pod while almost all of my colonists were outside, so I couldn't rely on my traps. Luckily everyone was close to camp, so I could attack the raiders from two directions, allowing me to flank them while having cover from their fire.

Once everyone started shooting at each other I had my melee specialist run up to distracted raiders and stab them with her plasteel knife, which was incredibly effective, downing most of them in a single strike. I even managed to capture three of them while my colonists only suffered fairly minimal injuries.

I decided to sell those prisoners into slavery and while the caravan was on its way a mechanoid ship landed in the corner of the map. So I used the money I got from the slaves to buy a Doomsday Rocket Launcher. I'm very excited to see what that will do.

I'm also getting close to the spaceship researches. I have a mod that speeds up research by allowing you to reverse engineer items and by learning from other factions. With the Hospitality mod there are almost always people from two factions visiting (who often also help out with research themselves), so it's been going very fast.

I've never actually escaped the planet before, but I might actually manage this time.

What!? Move all her medical stuff to the jail cell. Now the doctor is ALWAYS in!

Sadly you can't put prisoners to work (though there is a mod for that). With the Idealogy DLC you can make them slaves, but I just read the wiki and apparently if you arrest your own colonist and immediately release them they just rejoin your colony, you don't need to convince them. So that's good to know for next time.

 

[BeardyHat]

My Rimworld colony is still going strong. I got attacked by a raid via drop pod while almost all of my colonists were outside, so I couldn't rely on my traps. Luckily everyone was close to camp, so I could attack the raiders from two directions, allowing me to flank them while having cover from their fire.

Once everyone started shooting at each other I had my melee specialist run up to distracted raiders and stab them with her plasteel knife, which was incredibly effective, downing most of them in a single strike. I even managed to capture three of them while my colonists only suffered fairly minimal injuries.

I decided to sell those prisoners into slavery and while the caravan was on its way a mechanoid ship landed in the corner of the map. So I used the money I got from the slaves to buy a Doomsday Rocket Launcher. I'm very excited to see what that will do.

I'm also getting close to the spaceship researches. I have a mod that speeds up research by allowing you to reverse engineer items and by learning from other factions. With the Hospitality mod there are almost always people from two factions visiting (who often also help out with research themselves), so it's been going very fast.

I've never actually escaped the planet before, but I might actually manage this time.



Sadly you can't put prisoners to work (though there is a mod for that). With the Idealogy DLC you can make them slaves, but I just read the wiki and apparently if you arrest your own colonist and immediately release them they just rejoin your colony, you don't need to convince them. So that's good to know for next time.

I fired up Rimworld with your mod list and promptly realized I've forgotten how to play. Weird for something I've spent 300-hours on, so I'll have to spend some time getting reacquainted.

I also fired up Yakuza: Like a Dragon last night and that just slipped on like an old pair of shoes, so that was nice. Still a really great game and just too funny.

 

[neogunhero]

Being in a rut has made me thoroughly examine any game I may be interested in as to not waste time by playing for an hour then dropping it. I've looked through my entire library to start and could not find anything that was really intriguing me. I didn't want to replay anything either, so I was looking for unplayed/low play time games only. I then decided to buy a game, but I would do research before landing on something.

I think the game I'll pick up is Dysmantle. It's a top down action RPG with survival elements. The reviews are great, there seems to be tons to do, the gameplay loop looks very satisfying, and it works great with controllers, all of these things caught my eye. I proceeded to watch some videos, ask around on the Steam discussion boards, and felt this may be a really great game to unwind with. Plus, the sale is very steep so it's a good time to get into it. The complete collection is on sale cheaper than just the base game without a sale.

 

[Colif]

Maybe in a few weeks I will have time to play the game I bought a few weeks ago.

I need to buy an Xbox Wireless adapter for PC, as it will have a better connection speed for my controller.
So I won't play game until I buy one of those... expensive time of year so might be a few weeks.
Not going to try to play game on keyboard.

Should look on Xbox gaming and see if anything worth getting there too.
have plenty of space to fill.

Downloads Oblivion remastered - really slowly
might take a while, its download speed is stupidly low... wonders if he on vdsl1 again

 

[Zed Clampet]

Being in a rut has made me thoroughly examine any game I may be interested in as to not waste time by playing for an hour then dropping it. I've looked through my entire library to start and could not find anything that was really intriguing me. I didn't want to replay anything either, so I was looking for unplayed/low play time games only. I then decided to buy a game, but I would do research before landing on something.

I think the game I'll pick up is Dysmantle. It's a top down action RPG with survival elements. The reviews are great, there seems to be tons to do, the gameplay loop looks very satisfying, and it works great with controllers, all of these things caught my eye. I proceeded to watch some videos, ask around on the Steam discussion boards, and felt this may be a really great game to unwind with. Plus, the sale is very steep so it's a good time to get into it. The complete collection is on sale cheaper than just the base game without a sale.

I'm going to put you on ignore. Every time you mention a game I end up buying it.

 

[Zloth]

Hey @neogunhero, got any commentary about this website?

Ships - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

robertsspaceindustries.com

 

[Zed Clampet]

Hey @neogunhero, got any commentary about this website?

Ships - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

robertsspaceindustries.com

Won't work with that one.

I will say one positive thing about their business plan. They are going to have a greater variety of spaceships than any other space game thanks to selling them for real money. Also, can you imagine what their list of suckers, I mean customers, must be worth? If you had a product to sell, having the contact information for everyone who bought a Star Citizen ship would be like having your own money printing machine.

 

[Pifanjr]

So I used the Doomsday Rocket Launcher against the mechanoid ship in Rimworld and it did jack all. 200 out of 1200 hit points from the ship and the explosion completely missed the mechanoids around it. I had to take pot shots, retreating after two or three shots each time to wait until the mechanoids lost interest. I still lost a colonist when one of them got a hit in, killing it instantly, but I managed to kill them all.

Now I've just finished the first starship research and got a notification that when the starship is done, it'll need 15 days to power up, during which I'll be attacked by waves of raiders and robots. 15 days is a long time in Rimworld and I only have 1 guy left who's any good at shooting and two decent melee fighters, which isn't much. But I'm also out of steel, so it's going to take ages to build the starship and then build enough defences to survive.

I'm not sure if I'll have the patience for this, but I do want to properly finish the game at least once.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I'm at a bit of a loose end after finishing Clair Obscure Expedition 33. Quite often seems to happen to me after finishing something I liked so much.

Ive played the first level of Doom: The Dark Ages and liked it well enough, solid shooting and movement but doesnt feel like its doing anything quite as interestingly different as both Doom 2016 and Eternal. Think I agree with the PCG review that said its different to the other games but in a safe way so far. Might give it more of a chance but it hasnt excited me yet.

I downloaded Metaphor: Refantazio and played the intro because I was thinking after E33 maybe I'd be more into JRPGs than I though previously. First impressions are not great, this is anime as hell and I cant help it but find it offputting. Contrast that with E33s intro where I was fascinated with the world and characters from the start, and eh. Incredible production values and the voice actors are doing good work but the script and style I find really hard to take seriously.

I also carried on a little on a second Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough, in the Druids camp so only a couple hours in. This is a Dark Urge playthrough, and the problem I have with RPGs is the same as always. I'm not all that interested in actually roleplaying, I tend to respond and act according to my own morals and ideas, so I just end up making pretty much the same decisions. At the moment all the dark urges are completely ignorable and Im just able to act as if theres nothing up. Its a bit incongruous with the way I'm acting all honorably, when the option comes up in the camp site to tell Shadowheart that I dream of killing people and wearing their entrails after saving the Tiefling children or whatever. I hope it forces you to do some narky stuff at some point, if not thats a bit of a missed opportunity. At least theres some variety in the character classes that make it feel a little different, so I'll probably keep at it.

 

[Frindis]

@Kaamos_Llama Depending on your difficulty (tactical/honor mode) in Dark Urge playthrough, there is also a "small" difference in certain....happenings.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm at a bit of a loose end after finishing Clair Obscure Expedition 33. Quite often seems to happen to me after finishing something I liked so much.

Ive played the first level of Doom: The Dark Ages and liked it well enough, solid shooting and movement but doesnt feel like its doing anything quite as interestingly different as both Doom 2016 and Eternal. Think I agree with the PCG review that said its different to the other games but in a safe way so far. Might give it more of a chance but it hasnt excited me yet.

I downloaded Metaphor: Refantazio and played the intro because I was thinking after E33 maybe I'd be more into JRPGs than I though previously. First impressions are not great, this is anime as hell and I cant help it but find it offputting. Contrast that with E33s intro where I was fascinated with the world and characters from the start, and eh. Incredible production values and the voice actors are doing good work but the script and style I find really hard to take seriously.

I also carried on a little on a second Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough, in the Druids camp so only a couple hours in. This is a Dark Urge playthrough, and the problem I have with RPGs is the same as always. I'm not all that interested in actually roleplaying, I tend to respond and act according to my own morals and ideas, so I just end up making pretty much the same decisions. At the moment all the dark urges are completely ignorable and Im just able to act as if theres nothing up. Its a bit incongruous with the way I'm acting all honorably, when the option comes up in the camp site to tell Shadowheart that I dream of killing people and wearing their entrails after saving the Tiefling children or whatever. I hope it forces you to do some narky stuff at some point, if not thats a bit of a missed opportunity. At least theres some variety in the character classes that make it feel a little different, so I'll probably keep at it.

I'm also going to try Metaphor since it's on Game Pass, but the screenshots with the anime make it seem so...trivial and even childish (to me anyway). And you know it has to have that typical, heavy-handed JRPG moralizing story about the power of friendship, or some such thing, that they lifted from an episode of My Little Pony.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

@Kaamos_Llama Depending on your difficulty (tactical/honor mode) in Dark Urge playthrough, there is also a "small" difference in certain....happenings.

Its on tactical. I heard that it affects the story later on in a spoilery way, thats part of the reason I went for it. I may allow the character to follow the urge against some that I think deserve it if theres a chance.

I'm also going to try Metaphor since it's on Game Pass, but the screenshots with the anime make it seem so...trivial and even childish (to me anyway). And you know it has to have that typical, heavy-handed JRPG moralizing story about the power of friendship, or some such thing, that they lifted from an episode of My Little Pony.

At least there doesnt seem to be much fan service just yet, but yea it does seem childish in a way I find hard to get past as well. This is coming from someone who has always loved fantasy and Sci-fi so I understand that some people feel like that about genre fiction without being to see past the top layer.

Ive liked some anime over the years, I found One Punch Man pretty funny, the Cyberpunk 2077 one from fairly recently was alright, and some old stuff like Akira, stereotypically I like most of the Ghibli stuff Ive seen, so it isnt just because its animated. There are some styles of it that its just very hard to take seriously, Metaphor seems to be one of those.

If the combat is really good it might bring it back for me a bit.

 

[Pifanjr]

I also carried on a little on a second Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough, in the Druids camp so only a couple hours in. This is a Dark Urge playthrough, and the problem I have with RPGs is the same as always. I'm not all that interested in actually roleplaying, I tend to respond and act according to my own morals and ideas, so I just end up making pretty much the same decisions. At the moment all the dark urges are completely ignorable and Im just able to act as if theres nothing up. Its a bit incongruous with the way I'm acting all honorably, when the option comes up in the camp site to tell Shadowheart that I dream of killing people and wearing their entrails after saving the Tiefling children or whatever. I hope it forces you to do some narky stuff at some point, if not thats a bit of a missed opportunity. At least theres some variety in the character classes that make it feel a little different, so I'll probably keep at it.

I started my Dark Urge playthrough by giving in to every urge that came up. Some are even kind of funny, but stuff got a bit too dark for me eventually, so now I'm reformed. I don't remember the last time I got an urge option though, it's been quite a while. It seems that if you're not going for a full on evil playthrough as the Dark Urge it's pretty much just like any other playthrough for the most part, though I'm only on the start of Act 2.

There's one urge in the goblin camp that's pretty funny, just make sure you've saved recently in case the consequences are more than you can handle.

 

[Zed Clampet]

@Kaamos_Llama @Pifanjr

I believe that Guido and I are sliding along the edge of an unofficial Dark Urge playthrough. We're being surprisingly pragmatic in determining how we handle situations.