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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Skyrim.

My goal is to play through the entire series this year.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just started on the Witcher series. Went pretty cheap on the steam winter sale. Looking forward to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In order, from the first? I have only played W3, but I do have the classics on the backlog, or at least W2.

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[–] Thcdenton 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Im going deep into beyond all reason, warzone 2100 and speed dreams

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Beyond All Reason is the kind of rts that makes you realize chasing after Starcraft style gameplay (when Total Annihilation presented a totally different and arguably more approachable experience with shift clicking and less obsessive micro) was a fatal error for the broad popularity of the rts genre.

A competitive rts hyper focused on apm and units that move in artificial and uninteresting ways (especially airplanes) was never going to inspire a new generation of rts fans with diverse interests and brain types to dip their toes in instead of leading to a narrower and more constrained vision of what rts games are and what kind of brain types can suceed at them.

BAR is both a living breathing cryptid (descended from the ancient TA itself) that somehow survived the great RTS extinction event and also paradoxically a vision of the future of RTS games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

At some point, probably after my steam deck is fixed, I'm gonna have to start Psychonauts 1. It's been sitting in my steam library for a while and I'm positive a steam deck would be able to play through it just fine, and better than both my desktop and laptop.

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[–] ChillPenguin 1 points 3 days ago

Lord of the rings return to moria. It's basically been a valve in but with dwarves. Loving it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Resident Evil Village and Sniper Elite 4

The first has some really cool environments and storytelling. I heard it was "like a shooter" and so I put it to maximum difficulty right away. I have to say I am not a fan of having to empty several pistol magazines into the head of the first enemy I encounter and they... survive. When murder becomes a chore, it kinda takes the fun out of it. So I lowered the difficulty setting.

The second... is as bad as the one before it. Just put it to maximum difficulty and yolo your way trough all levels. Or don't, it doesn't matter. Enemies are insanely slow. You can always walk up to some nazi's, sip your tea, then remember you should find cover because one enemy just finished their tiktok doom scrolling and decides to aim their gun at you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm working my way through Valheim. I started last year and then stopped shortly before fighting the second boss and never got around to picking it back up. Now I'm back at it and working through the third biome. I still have a long way to go and hope that I can continue to sink at least 100 more hours into it.

I also got Metro 2033 and Last Light on the Steam winter sale. I started Metro Exodus a few years ago and also stopped pretty early, so I'm hoping that this time I can stick with it through the whole series. I also got Grim Dawn and it doesn't play great on the Deck, but hopefully I'll be able to get used to it with a bit of effort.

Outside of those, Wildermyth and Brotato are my main chillout games and I'm pretty sure they'll also get 50-100 hours each this year.

[–] steeznson 1 points 3 days ago

Got 5 days left to finish Indiana Jones before the GamePass subscription times out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Continuing Metaphor: ReFantazio. It's the most consistently polished game Atlus made (that I played) in years, though maybe SMT VV has a chance once I get to it. The only ones that come to mind are Persona 5/Royal (however much I prefer P3 and P4), and Etrian Odyssey V. Both of which had longer development times compared to their series, who knew?

My only complaint is that it doesn't have any 10/10 aspect that I'd love, most of my favourite games are somewhat flawed anyway, as long as they have that special aspect that clicks. But then, Persona 3 had nothing like that until the endgame, so there's still time for it to surprise me.

[–] cod 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

All of my favourite games, artists, movies, and anything else I’m interested in all have something that I don’t consider 10/10 so I definitely see what you mean

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pokémon Crystal and Red Ded Redemption 2

[–] cod 2 points 4 days ago

Two of my all-time favourite games. Both are probably top 10

[–] Pacattack57 2 points 4 days ago

You’re in for a treat. Both great games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I've just got sifu from egs and will probably get either dreadhunter or windblown somewhere down the line. Along with regular runs on Dead Cells that I'm deeply addicted to.

[–] Stormdancer 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Continuing my replay of Red Dead Redemption 1, probably followed by 2. Probably going to finish my replay of Subnautica. Not sure what new games will slot in after that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Having never played rdr1, do you still recommend it, knowing I played through rdr2 already? I'm wondering if I should put it on my wishlist to pick it up at a sale or not even bother.

[–] quinkin 5 points 4 days ago

Dredge, Disco Elysium and Mines of Moria

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I finally decided to go further than the elevator in MGS, so probably that, and hopefully follow up with the whole franchise (i only played mgs5 for about 5 hours).

I also started playing Black Book, interesting deck building game !

[–] anakin78z 3 points 4 days ago

Playing through the entire Dragon Age series, then Pillars of Eternity and Sea of Stars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dishonoured, Uncharted Collection

[–] cod 3 points 4 days ago

I love Dishonored. Never played the Uncharted games but they look fun

[–] SteveNashFan 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Fallout New Vegas, finally getting around to playing it!

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[–] shiroininja 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I’m currently playing echoes of wisdom and elder scrolls: oblivion.

Although I drunkenly played GTA4 while listening to early 2000s crunk rap in memory of it being 25 years since 2000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

next get drunk and play oblivion while listening to young scrolls

https://youngscrolls.bandcamp.com/

how about starting with Star by Adoring Fan?

https://youngscrolls.bandcamp.com/track/star

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[–] ClanOfTheOcho 7 points 5 days ago

I've just recently started playing through Wasteland 3. Been trying to start up Civ VI, but it appears as though Steam has broken it on my Mac, so I will need an alternative alternative. Maybe something from my Epic or GOG library, so my kids don't leave me out of luck when they want to use the Steam library, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Returned to Elite Dangerous after an almost two year break. Just casually space trucking to grind out some credits while watching youtube. Once I get enough to outfit one or two new ships, I plan to finally give exploration/exobiology a try, and check out the changes to the engineering grind.

When I last played, I was kind of at the end of what I'd consider "early game", but there are a decent amount of learning cliffs. Should probably practice some of the other low level content again before moving on.

One of my cousins asked for the game for Christmas and I picked it up on sale for him, so I'm hoping we can play some together at some point.

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[–] pogodem0n 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I played Alan Wake 2 last winter on my Steam Deck, fearing I would get spoilers before I build my PC. Now that I have built it, I will proceed with The Final Draft and the DLCs.

[–] SwordInStone 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

how did you manage to play it on deck?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yakuza 3. Probably for the 3rd time as well because there was too much time since I played and lost track of the plot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Nice! I just finished that game and it was quite fun. It wasn't my favorite, but the whole orphanage thing gave it a very emotional angle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I just installed MGS5 and Ground Zeros. Having never played a Metal Gear game, so I might hate it but I want to try.

[–] DamienGramatacus 2 points 4 days ago

That's a crazy one to start with but it's also a very good game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I finally got to Pillars of Eternity. (Not very surprisingly) It gives me strong Baldurs Gate 1 vibes, and it is pretty good so far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Played some Doom 2 (halfway through Deck the Underhalls) today, gonna play Skyrim now (started new playthrough few weeks ago). After finishing Underhalls I'm gonna proceed to play even more Doom, and after finishing Skyrim I definitely wanna play more Morrowind, some big things released recently [1] [2].

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Still on poe2 for now. Over 250 hours in by now and don't feel like stopping any time soon. I took time off from work when it launched and I'm getting back tomorrow so will have to learn how to balance the two now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Of newer games i am considering super mario bros wonder or tears of the kingdom. But i also never played metroid prime (had it on gc but hated the controls) - just not sure if i want to play it on wii (i liked corruption controls) or the remastered version om switch.

Ill probably also start a ds game i never got to play in parallel.

Maybe uncharted on ps3? Never playes those. As you can see i have not yet decided :p

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