What did you play today?

[BugFreak]

COD: Modern Warfare 3 is free for the weekend so I gave it a shot last night. Not too bad but darn sure not worth $70. It was nice to see some of my MW2 skins carry over though. Ash Williams talking smack in a FPS game is just too good.

 

[EarthDog]

What about the BR (Warzone II - free))? Did you give that a whirl?

 

[BugFreak]

No, I don't like battle royal stuff. I played a ton of Warzone 2 multiplayer but not the f2p part.

 

[Celeron_Phreak]

I have a handful of games I'm playing through this month..

GTFO - Rundown 8 was released earlier this month, and I still have a few missions in the other rundowns to do.

Bioshock - I played 1 and 2 for the first time the last two weeks, I just started Infinite.

Battlefield 2042 - weekly missions from the battle pass to do, also play with a buddy from time to time.

Counter-Strike 2 - basically a nightly thing. A lot of casual matches and the occasional premiere match.

 

[M@rk]

Battlefield 1, havent played that game in years and its just so good

 

[Kenrou]

Call of Duty 2, there's still a small online community active and it looks great (for its age) in 4k

 

[freakdiablo]

Been getting back into FO:NV. Put a good half hour into it last night before it crashed to desktop. Gotta love it.

 

[infinitevalence]

Terraformers on Steam

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

store.steampowered.com

 

[mackerel]

Recent days I've been focusing ZZZ at the cost of other games. So many games, so little time!

 

[freakdiablo]

Recent days I've been focusing ZZZ at the cost of other games. So many games, so little time!

I've been a little curious about those f2p ARPGs. Can you get by truly on the f2p side or do they come out as money sinks?

 

[Nebulous]

I've been replaying Sniper Elite 5 & TC's Ghost Recon Wildlands/BreakPoint. Waiting on Sniper Elite (6) Resistance which has now been pushed back another month all the way to the end of Jan '25. Classic games are getting long in the tooth.

 

[mackerel]

I've been a little curious about those f2p ARPGs. Can you get by truly on the f2p side or do they come out as money sinks?

It depends on your objectives but if you play the game casually for fun/story they are entirely playable as pure f2p. The Mihoyo family of games (e.g. Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and others, but those are the ones I'm most familiar with) are single player games so there is no pay2win competitive element, nor do they gate progress by needing "strong" characters. The main risk is that if you get into the games, they do pretty well on character development so you can end up wanting more than you can attain for free.

Genshin Impact is still my main game from them. My lifetime spend on that is less than a new AAA title and that buys me... not a lot. Spread over 4 years, I feel like I owe them! HSR I spent even less on, but I have gone off that so it isn't a priority for me. ZZZ I do find fun and so far I've not spent anything at all on it. Note this type of game, like many others, try to incentivise you logging in daily. Again not necessary unless you want to maximise progress. They can also exploit FOMO through time limited events, that may never get a rerun.

 

[Janus67]

Finished Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom this week. It was fine, but IMHO a bit too easy/handholdy. I only ever needed to use maybe 5-10 echoes (out of over a hundred) regularly unless one was required for a certain puzzle.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Playing a of Ark Survival Evolved on a private server with a couple friends. Extinction map. Need to try my hand at red supply drops, capture another giga for breeding, and attempt a carchar tame.

I want to beat this map as soon as possible to move to Fjordur.

 

[M@rk]

Escape the backrooms together, pretty funny with friends

 

[Woomack]

Finished Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom this week. It was fine, but IMHO a bit too easy/handholdy. I only ever needed to use maybe 5-10 echoes (out of over a hundred) regularly unless one was required for a certain puzzle.

I'm somewhere at the end. The game is great, but sometimes too easy, like you said. On the other hand, it's nice to continue without getting stuck on something stupid for longer. I'm using more echoes, but also like you said, most can be skipped. I could use some like it was designed (some spots suggest something), but I often use the same echoes. When I can do something with 1-2, then why should I use 10 others with the same result?

 

[Janus67]

I'm somewhere at the end. The game is great, but sometimes too easy, like you said. On the other hand, it's nice to continue without getting stuck on something stupid for longer. I'm using more echoes, but also like you said, most can be skipped. I could use some like it was designed (some spots suggest something), but I often use the same echoes. When I can do something with 1-2, then why should I use 10 others with the same result?

Exactly. I can basically complete every traversal piece or puzzle with the lift platform, spider, or hover tile. Then basically used either wizrobe, lvl 3 moblin, or lynel for the last chunk of the game as well.

Rumor has it the game was initially being developed as a 'zelda maker' which I think you can see some aspects of. The horizontal scrolling with echoes list is quite annoying and further disincentivizes experimentation when it's easy to just use the most recent one or two.

Making smoothies and potions seems pretty much useless (at least at normal difficulty) as I will just pop down a bed to heal if I need to. (I never once used one of the monster parts I got from chests, drops, or rewards for example).

Maybe it's just meant to be targeted/scaled at a much younger audience.

 

[Woomack]

Exactly. I can basically complete every traversal piece or puzzle with the lift platform, spider, or hover tile. Then basically used either wizrobe, lvl 3 moblin, or lynel for the last chunk of the game as well.

Rumor has it the game was initially being developed as a 'zelda maker' which I think you can see some aspects of. The horizontal scrolling with echoes list is quite annoying and further disincentivizes experimentation when it's easy to just use the most recent one or two.

Making smoothies and potions seems pretty much useless (at least at normal difficulty) as I will just pop down a bed to heal if I need to. (I never once used one of the monster parts I got from chests, drops, or rewards for example).

Maybe it's just meant to be targeted/scaled at a much younger audience.

It's rated for 7+ years, so I guess it can't be too hard. On the other hand, I had a hard time with some older games that were rated the same.

I agree with potions/smoothies. I made one for a side quest, and that's all.

I'm using almost only beds to get somewhere higher since I can stack them, and sometimes a table or boulder. For fights also moblins or wizrobes. Sometimes bird thingies.

 

[Sologuy]

Dying Light 2 Reloaded Edition has me hooked now. Aiden has turned into a zombie blasting machine!
Averaging around 160-165fps with the DX11 renderer @ 1440x3440 Ultra settings. Just as well cause' that tops out the refresh rate of my monitor.

 

[balroger]

Tekken 7... the controls on that thing are rigged.