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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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[–] JellyfishGalaxy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I have too many games on the go (Blue Prince, Sea of Stars, Guild Wars 2, Grounded, way more, cause I get sidetracked) So, I decided to add Lies of P in there, since it was on PS+.

I'm not usually one for Souls-likes, but dang, the setting, style, and story in this one grabbed me. Playing on their medium setting is just the right amount of difficulty for me. I like some challenge, so I tried the hardest one, but am terrible at pattern recognition on bosses, so I'll just live with it. I don't have much time to enjoy the story, before I have classes in the autumn, anyway.

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Project Wingman

I'm almost done with the second playthrough, still having a ton of fun even if it's not perfect. While I really like Prez, limiting your plane choices to two-seaters can feel really rough in certain missions and I probably won't be doing that again in the future. It's unfortunate that all the late-game planes are solo only as stat and load-out differences can make things way easier (or at least more fun).

I also took the time to read through all the lore documents available in the game and it only made me more interested in a direct sequel. We have new conflicts against the Federation flaring up around the world, a bunch of global players we haven't seen yet (Periphery countries, West African Concordat, the European alliance). We could have Federation megacities as mission backdrops in contrast to the more natural and modern environments from this game.
There are some many interesting things they could do with all this world building, it would be a waste to stop here.

Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight / Persona 4 Dancing All-Night

I've decided to finally set up PS Vita emulation on my Steam Deck and what's better for that than Persona dancing games? Not like I have many other Vita games but still.
I had to change the graphics API to OpenGL as for some reason both games crashed with Vulkan (didn't have such problems when testing on desktop), other than that they work great.

It's been years since I last played one of those and boy am I rusty - even basic songs on normal feel overwhelming at times! I just started and should be able to get back into the rhythm soon enough but man, seeing how much I suck now was a bit of a surprise.

Umurangi Generation - Macro DLC

Finally got to it and after all this time I feel a bit mixed - both on the DLC and the game overall. I'm still mulling things over so here are the highlights:

DLC keeps the atmosphere of the base game nicely. It's cool to see how things were before the original stages.
Music is once again pretty great if a little too bombastic compared to what's happening on the screen. I don't particularly care for the edgy dolphin in the club stage though.
At times things feel like they were done in an afternoon (not literally but still):
- There are once again objects without collisions and plenty of places where you can randomly phase through when walking.
- I found a few spots where you can get stuck, sometimes in the open.
- Lighting in the club stage feels messed up (everything is super dark except for blown out "lights" that don't give any... well, light).
- The skybox of the first stage looks completely misaligned (maybe this one was intentional, I don't know - still doesn't look great).

As much as I like this title it kinda depresses me. I'm someone who takes pride in their work and spends a lot of time on even the smallest details so seeing something with this many simple and easily fixable issues being released as a finished product (and a paid one at that!) pains me on a personal level.
I realise this game is intended to exude the grungy "I don't care" and "everything is screwed" energy but that should not spill into the technical aspects in my opinion. There should be SOME bar of quality there.

I'm still glad it was created and had fun with both base game and DLC but man...

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

<< Project Wingman? Now we're talking! >>

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yup! Started playing about two weeks ago, became an instant favourite and now I crave more.

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I‘ve finished New Super Lucky‘s Tale and while it might be good for like 8y/os, it‘s painfully mid even if I ignore the glacing cringe. I‘ll give it that the DLC challenge levels were fun, but yeah, those are like 15% of the game.

Otherwise I‘m slowly crawling through DiRT Rally 2.0, I‘m not a big fan of RX but I‘ve grown to like the rallies a lot. And fuck cars with rear drive (is that what it‘s called?), these are a guaranteed eight spinouts for me.

I‘m gonna try to pick another one of my started games (64 left) back up tonight, dunno which yet. It‘s my big goal to eventually(tm) cut that pile in half, simply because I‘ve realized that I kept buying and starting new games while slowly losing the plot on games I‘ve started and liked which lead to me never touching them again cause I was midway through them with no idea as to who, why, where, what, and how (Yakuza Like A Dragon etc.). The ones I have no fond memories of will stay in that pile though (Darkest Dungeon, not my thing and Idk why I thought it‘d be).

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This week, I'm trying Dune: Imperium.

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Running with Rifles, Army Men II (comparing the game mechanics) and on my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2

[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Enjoy Mass Effect! That trilogy is one of the best sci-fi series ever imo.

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[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

World of Warcraft ascension. Free to play private server with lots of boosts and custom content based on the first two expansions and soon to be wrath of the lich king

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