Feel free to let everyone know what you’re currently playing, recommend some great titles from yesteryear (especially on sale).
I just finished Yakuza Kiwami 2 and am planning to start Mass Effect 1 Legendary tonight (never played). I’m open to any tips for which talents and whatnot to pick (I know pretty much nothing about it).
Finally played Persona 5 Royal. Absurdly good game, better than the hype. Third semester made me feel things like I haven’t felt in a video game since Undertale
Just finished Assassins Creed 2 for the first time in at least 10 years and I’m currently playing Brotherhood. This is also my first time playing through the DLCs
Assassins Creed 2 (2009) $5.99 at -70%
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (2010) $5.99 at -70%
Been playing FTL off and on for quite a while. Still trying to beat all the ships on hard.
Have you ever tried the Infinite Space mod? It removes the final boss and turns it more into a “see how far you can get” roguelike.
I’ve been playing Yakuza 5 and, as always, I cannot recommend this series enough. There’s a pretty large quality drop-off going from Kiwami 2 to Yakuza 3 Remastered, but at minimum Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2 are all worth playing 100% and after the hurdle of 3 it gets great again.
The stories are well-paced crime thrillers, the characters are interesting, the combat manages to feel good without just being another Arkham clone, and the games being set in Japan makes it a fun experience to walk through as someone who doesn’t live there. They’re a blast. Not on sale at the moment, but the Steam Summer Sale starts tomorrow.
The shadowrun series, some of them are on the shorter side ( there are user made storys that you can get from the workshop) but the world / story telling of fantastic there are quirks with some of the earlier games but im really enjoying the series.
Been doing a proper run-through of Everspace 2, it finally came out of a two-year Early Access a few months ago, currently on 20% sale and has a free demo. Really enjoying it, it’s very Freelancer-esque and I’m liking the stop-start animated cutscene style.
I probably wouldn’t have tried it out without GamePass, but I’m so glad I did. I think the 3rd person works well with a controller layout, and I’m honestly having more fun flying here than in SW: Squadrons. I do admit it’s making me wish I had the full flight stick kit.
I’ve been playing Hollow Knight again. Sofar I’ve never beaten it but I have a feeling this will be the time! Generally get about an hour or two in after work while sitting with my wife as she watches garbage tv.
I know the game‘s decorated, but I‘ve only been in for like an hour or so. The generally melcancholic vibe of it hasn‘t caught me yet.
Does anyone who‘s played through the game have some tips for me (or us?) that they wished they would‘ve known when they first played the game?
I’ve finished the main story, but I am too fat fingered to do the white palace to unlock the extra good stuff
I am pulling from memory here
It is a game that rewards curiousity and will make you earn those extra rewards.
I would say always try find the map maker, he whistles when you are nearby and they allow you to start mapping an area when you contact them and buy the map.
Alternatively if you miss them in an area there is a bug lady in the base town that will sell a few things and her husband’s exploration maps too, i think you have to at least contact the map maker at least once before she sells I think.
In one on of the houses in the first area you can explore after tutorial has a cricket trapped in it. They provide a few items to save your bug coins for
Bosses seem tough until you get the feel for a fight and then it starts to feel like a dance of sorts.
If you see somewhere but can’t get there, make note of it, you will later find something to make it easier and/ or possible to do it.
If you want to really unlock the full game experience learning to nail hop is a good skill to get good at which is where I am fat finger it
I’ve just finished the final tier in Satisfactory after a two week addiction. I’ll be keeping my eye on the steam summer sale for something to get into next. My wish list is getting long.
Street fighter 6. Love it. There is unfortunately no community for it on lemmy
Unfortunately we need to stay in bigger community groups until the level activity grows to a point where a community needs to break into smaller groups for specific games etc.
Alternatively you could make a c/StreetFighter and populate it while you wait for people to slowly come, I’ve been doing that with several lemmy communities, but I can only maintain so many postings per day. That being said, the rate which each of them have grown already is greater than I could have hoped.
You would also need to factor what instance to build it on, whether it is likely to get defederated and if its going to be one which people may check etc. However, if there is no other community yet, you just need to make sure its a simple enough domain to remember, etc. You really only need to post say twice per day.
Thanks for the input! I am really thinking about making one, maybe in the lgbt lemmy, it’s a niche that really works with the new games. Now I only have to learn how to do tgat on here…
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. Finally completed the base game after falling off from the tediousness. I really hope the sequel addresses that issue because otherwise, it has fantastic combat in a world with mythical creatures.
I have it in my library. Any tips for a beginner? Anything to watch out for?
Wolves hunt in packs
Jokes aside I will say your main pawn learns by watching what you do, so it helps to have a general idea what type of character you want to play as and preferably have your pawn have similar playstyle.
It does help with their AI and also when at bars telling them to keep quiet does help your sanity.
Be careful about pawn commands, it has an effect on pawn ai playstyle weighting.
Pawns learn to fight enemies better based off a series of “weak points” that they learn by either fighting, hitting an enemy with an element weakness or hiting a enemy on a weak spot - example cutting off a chimera tail or blinding a cyclops.
And destoying weakpoints is also an way to get rare ingredients, like cyclops tusks from destoying the cyclop’s tusks sticking out their mouths.
