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What video games have you played recently? modded minecrap, i got an umbrella and i look very cute. also webfishing.
What are your favorite video game genres? roguelikes and sandboxes
(i didn't watch the game awards)
What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming? the fact that i am still alive somehow, i like video games. also webfishing was released like 2 months ago and somehow it's that big and very nice
did i do it right
I just finished my first (and likely only) playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West+DLC Burning Shores (I loved the previous game Horizon Zero Dawn).
I wasn't prepared to get slapped in the face with sinophobia (the writing re: the Quen) but yeah it really soured my experience. I know it's not like super overt but I understood the angle where it was coming from and what the writing was trying to communicate to its audience. Maybe I'll find it funny in a few weeks (as many sinophobic tropes/accusations are more reflective of the west than they are of china;; "moral lessons" about finding the truth for yourself is much more applicable to westerners "forced" to reiterate antichina-isms than it is applicable to whatever the average westerner thinks about censorship and free speech in china) but right now I'm just unhappy.
At least I didn't spend money on it this time around🏴☠️
Haven't been able to play much this past month due to some personal issues, but I started up NGU Idle and It's been a blast.
Favorite genres have to be city-builders/sims, and strategic or turn-based combat games.
Didn't watch TGA since it's super bloated, but I did see and enjoy the BG3 director's comments about the industry.
The thing I enjoyed most this year is personal, but I started playing a lot more of the silly co-op games with friends and it's a great way to spend time with them when they don't live close.
I like idle games. might try this one
I am playing enlisted (ww2 multi-player first person shooter) and WOWS (naval warfare simulator) as a way to disconnect my brain.
Also emush from eternal twin group project which is a recreation of a real time (multiple days) cooperative game kind of merging alien and the thing movies. The game predates among us but is kinda similar.
Quite fun due to the mistery and cooperation element, not gonna lie, but on long runs you are just fighting the environment by repairing the ship which is breaking down basically every other cycle (3h per cycle, on cycle changes stuff happens)
oh nice
I mean, WOWS is my true "disconnect brain return to monkee", point and click adventure.
Enlisted does require some thinking on where to attack from and trying to predict where enemies and their defenses will be, but the actual combat engagements is all muscle memory by now becaude I have played that shooter very often.
Played Recently:
Been on a hell of a Warframe kick, with the 1999 update releasing. I don't stick with it constantly, but it is always the live service game I keep finding myself coming back to. The amount of content is staggering, and everything always feels relevant so I never get the FOMO that some live service games try to force. The 90s theme of everything in the update is targeting my personal nostlagia centers directly and I love it.
Genres:
Automation, Factory, Strategy, RPG. I like most anything made well, though I shy away from FPS a bit.
TGA 2024 Announcement:
Intergalactic looks pretty amazing, I am a big fan of that kind of retro futuristic aesthetic as well. I am always excited to see what Team Ico pulls off, though I tend to like looking at their games more than playing them.
2024
My favourite thing from 2024 was probably Astrobot. It was just an unadultered delight of a game and won my number 1 spot on my personal GOTY list easily. The sheer volume of factory games we seem to be getting these days is also great for me. Some fantastic JRPGs with stuff like Metaphor and P3 Reload as well.
The Bazaar has been hitting REALLY nicely over the past week or two ngl, highly recommend if you’re into that sort of nerd shit
The Bazaar?
Yeah, great game. Highly recommend.
Noted!
I know it’s milsim but I’ve been playing more squad recently. Sometimes it feels good playing a resistance group fighting Americans and winning. I’ve also been playing a lot of call of duty black ops 6, it’s so fun. Haven’t had this much fun since I think MW2 from 2010(?) i for got when it came out, but it’s a blast. I also found a really interesting game called catacalismo, it’s like tower defense, Minecraft, base building, and something else combined. I really enjoy it, for my perfectionist brain making things look nice is just really fun and my diagnosed OCD enjoys the thought of optimizing supply routes through building things. I’ve played a lot of Baldur’s gate 3 this year but I only like to play it with my wife, so i haven’t touched it recently. Dragon age veilguard is also pretty fun but I can tell they just really wanted to finish this game, they put a lot of heart into it, but there’s some choices made that I feel are amateurish. Space marine 2 was fun for a little bit, since I upgraded my PC I decided to finally play a game I’ve always wanted to but never had the hardware for: world in conflict Soviet assault.
My absolute favorite is RPG but only if it allows for detailed facial and body customization, plus background information, and basically DND. Second favorite would be Mil-Sim. I don’t know why, but I think I like the teamwork involved, which is weird because I have always preferred to work alone in all my academic work. I also like guns so playing tacticool Barbie is always fun.
I liked Witcher 4, Okami 2, and fragpunk, the entire thing was more awkward than usual this year. I had to be totally stoned to be able to finish the rest.
I absolutely 100% enjoyed COD BLOPS6 the most, I’ve pulled off some crazy shit that I still think about. Also every time I get play of the game and number 1 on the podium I can shout pro Palestine stuff and they can’t talk shit cause I played way better than them. The game that I’ve put most hours in though is destiny 2, we’re talking thousands of hours, but I think I’ve finally broken up with it (unless frontiers turns out to be amazing). I get the thought to play Destiny 2 and then I remember that I have to do XYZ which is gonna take forfuckingever and feel exhausted without even playing it. I got a baby that’s about to turn one years old, I don’t have time to spend tens of hours to grind for one gun that I’m gonna use once a year. Being back SRL and I’ll play it everyday again, but right now it’s just in a bad place, I especially cannot stand that the transmog system is so damn monetized. You get five free transmog tokens that you can grind out per season per character to be able to unlock the armor you already paid for transmog. DIablo 4 being activation doesn’t monetize transmog, that’s how greedy bungie has become
Many people thought it was better this year, but I understand the awkwardness. And yeah, speak truth to power in BLOPS 6 of all games. And yeah, the problem with Diablo 4 is huge.
Also, Okami 2 looked gorgeous.
Been playing a lot of GTA V and grinding online, I still have to grind on lobbies with nobody else in there tho bc most players are assholes that ruin your missions