Discussion The 2024 Games Thread

[Fanatical Meat]

Anyone played the Terminator games? Specifically Terminator Resistance? Or input on Dark Fate?

Should I grab Cyberpunk 2077 @ $29.99?
Or Dragons Dogma? Also Stellaris?
Anyone have input on those? besides Cyberpunk? Is the xpac official?

Took a look at Enshrouded, Still early access, burnt by Star Citizen. although I still have the 40 buck starter on that.

There definitely is a game to play in star citizen, not complete but there certainly are things to do.
I have my eye on enshrouded too. Per two friends it’s primarily a single player game. You can team up with others but is breaks the game balance.

 

[DaaQ]

There definitely is a game to play in star citizen, not complete but there certainly are things to do.
I have my eye on enshrouded too. Per two friends it’s primarily a single player game. You can team up with others but is breaks the game balance.

Yea my system would probably explode if I try to run SC at this time.

LMK if you go for Enshrouded, I may participate, I do like co-op games. More RPG or ARPG. I no longer have time for MMOs

I don't mind a single player campaign for the lore. But prefer co-op for replay ability.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yea my system would probably explode if I try to run SC at this time.

LMK if you go for Enshrouded, I may participate, I do like co-op games. More RPG or ARPG. I no longer have time for MMOs

I don't mind a single player campaign for the lore. But prefer co-op for replay ability.

Yeah that’s pretty much me today. I have little interest in single player. I am fortunate to have a fairly dependable group of real world friends to game with.
As far as SC goes, I was running it on more or less medium-low settings and at the time it was a 1660ti.
Warning I do not look at fps stats so I have no idea what I ran it at however it looked good imo.

 

[Artorias]

I bought Hades in October last year, played about an hour of it, didn't really click for me.

Well fast forward to 3 days ago. I decided to relaunch it and now have put in over 17 past two days, this is like a drug, it's got that one more turn, one more run energy. It really started to click for me after the 5 runs or so.

Game play is so fun when you start getting overpowered, still have not completed my first run though. The unique dialogue and voice acting is top notch. Fantastic game.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I bought Hades in October last year, played about an hour of it, didn't really click for me.

Well fast forward to 3 days ago. I decided to relaunch it and now have put in over 17 past two days, this is like a drug, it's got that one more turn, one more run energy. It really started to click for me after the 5 runs or so.

Game play is so fun when you start getting overpowered, still have not completed my first run though. The unique dialogue and voice acting is top notch. Fantastic game.

- Hades is really fantastic and has more or less ruined the rogue-lite genre for me. Beyond the rock solid minute to minute gameplay there is just SO MUCH narrative and story that even a failed run doesn't really feel like a failed run since you're still rewarded with little nuggets of character building and story.

I finally pulled the plug after my 10th escape and the primary plot concluded, but my understanding is there is still a ton of content I never saw and a sort of untiled epilogue if you keep racking up escapes.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Shadow of War
Dragons Dogma
Prototype 2

Tried all three of these games, all of them are excellent, but I think I'm going to stick with Dragon's Dogma for the moment, then circle back to the other two.

Enjoying the sort of low stakes (from a narrative perspective) open world + paperdoll RPG system of DD. Nice in a "low commitment, wind down after work" kind of way.

Also helps that the community is seeing a bit of a revival thanks to the impending release of the sequel as well.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If I fire up Shadow of Mordor or War I get sucked in for 3-4hrs minimum. The nemesis system helps make combat addictive.

Nightingale is accessible for gamers like myself that don't spend any real time in the survival genre. Fun enough in the 14hrs I've played thus far. With max settings including nanite and lumen I personally don't think it looks as good as Red Dead 2.

Played through Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition. It is evidently a remaster for PC? Did the training for a few hours, spent some time on the single fights, then played the story. I suck extra at fighting games all these years later. I was okayish BITD on Sega Genesis vs my friends. Whatever lite mojo I had is completely gone. Probably need a decent arcade style controller too.

Story is good, though the cutscenes have aged like milk.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Wrapped up Halo 3. Damn, what a saga.

Halo CE starts off as a sort of semi-serious Sci-Fi Mil-Sim and by the end of H3 we're in full blown space opera territory.

H3 just takes H2, juices it to the gills, and just hits the accelerator and never lets off the gas. Really enjoyed the new Scarab fights, the ability to take heavy weapons turrets with you, the new flood forms and vehicles, Elites as allies that finally don't die in 30 seconds...

Just a great 360 era shooter that really leaned into the strengths of the console and gunning with a controller and played to all of its strengths.

Ass deep in Dragons Dogma at the moment. Definitely warrants the cult following, a lot to love and a lot to hate at the same time.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Fixed in V1.04 apparently?

https://www.reddit.com/r/persona4golden/comments/vvnne3/psa_persona_4_golden_crashing_solution_for_amd

Ended up being a bug related to FreeSync. After trying 20 different things disabling FreeSync for Persona 4 Golden in the Adrenaline Control Panel eliminated the crash I was getting 100% of the time, and will hopefully eliminate the random crashes too. Ugh PC gaming is a pain, don't know if to blame Atlus or AMD here. Probably Atlus since FreeSync has been awesome in everything else I play.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Fixed in V1.04 apparently?

https://www.reddit.com/r/persona4golden/comments/vvnne3/psa_persona_4_golden_crashing_solution_for_amd

Well crap, thought that was it, disabling FreeSync let me pass a part I was crashing 100% of the time in. Then I had the game randomly crash 2 hours into a dungeon.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Then I had the game randomly crash 2 hours into a dungeon.

Maybe just buggy code where the developers tied it somehow to the speed of their development machines or some such nonsense like that.

 

[akenbennu]

Played nightingale last night. So far it is fun.
Combat feels good, haven’t built much but that feels right so far.
It is a survival game, it seems like lots of “stuff” is needed to craft.

Also been playing Nightingale. Did a run through on normal and trying a desert build on hard now.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Also been playing Nightingale. Did a run through on normal and trying a desert build on hard now.

I’ve been slowly meandering thru the game. I have done close to zero internet research as to what to do.
I have a simple stone structure built in my starter forest realm. I have my companion to carry stuff, I have bought all I can from the trader.
Pretty sure I need to craft more gear and add the enchantments to level my gear up so I can move forward.
Fun game so far, crafting is a little clunky and there is little hand holding.

 

[akenbennu]

I’ve been slowly meandering thru the game. I have done close to zero internet research as to what to do.
I have a simple stone structure built in my starter forest realm. I have my companion to carry stuff, I have bought all I can from the trader.
Pretty sure I need to craft more gear and add the enchantments to level my gear up so I can move forward.
Fun game so far, crafting is a little clunky and there is little hand holding.

Sounds like you need to craft gear to get to 20 and hit the antiquarian site of power in your abeyance realm.

Or craft the upgrade bench so you can make your gear uncommon and apply enchantments.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Maybe just buggy code where the developers tied it somehow to the speed of their development machines or some such nonsense like that.

Sega wasn't very helpful so I requested a Steam refund. Doubt I'll get it approved but might as well try when the game is broken on PC. Hate requesting a refund on one of my favorite games ever made but the crashes make it unplayable on PC and had to go play it on Switch instead since wasn't giving up on a playthrough halfway in. Actually think I'd be shocked if I get the refund since I put 250 hours into it playing on my old 1660 Super and the playthrough was so long since I was playing in Japanese where I had to look up words every couple of sentences.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Might be me or the gin talking but I'm in love with Dragons Dogma.

It's a shit RPG from 2012, dont get me wrong, but it has this inafiable quality to it that makes it so deeply endearing as a game.

A lot of soul went into this and somehow all of the game's faults somehow become strengths like WTF is even happening

 

[KMFJD]

playing closed beta for Once Human, it's an open world survival game , pve and pvp servers, seems ok

also playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor which is fun

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Fired up some Shadows of War cause Dragon's Dogma was getting kinda stale but I still wanted the sword and board thing.

God. Damn. What an incredible game. Only in Minas Ithil but dayum it's like putting on some well worn clothes, right back into the wanton Orc slaughter of Shadow of Mordor but even better.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Still playing Shadow of War.

Gawd damn this game is like crack.

So many shamed, deranged orc lieutenants, so little time.

 

[JujuFish]

I've owned Shadow of War for a few years now and still haven't gotten around to it. Not sure why, either, because I really enjoyed the first game.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I've owned Shadow of War for a few years now and still haven't gotten around to it. Not sure why, either, because I really enjoyed the first game.

-Its just Shadow of Mordor, but the mechanics are built out so much more and very seamlessly.

Almost makes SOM the tutorial for the actual game, which is SOW.

 

[igor_kavinski]

So many shamed, deranged orc lieutenants, so little time.

A mod to make them sound Russian would be awesome.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Still playing Shadow of War.

Gawd damn this game is like crack.

So many shamed, deranged orc lieutenants, so little time.

I agree it's like crack: tried it once, it hated it, never wanted to touch it again.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Ok, "beat" Shadow of War" by getting to the Shadow Wars.

Not going to engage in the end game grind, considering the game completed at this point.

The game was a masterwork, really a fantastic semi-open world design elevated by the Nemesis system and the Ork captains oozing personality.

My biggest complaint would actually be how EASY the game was on normal difficulty. Issue with this is that you don't have to actually engage with the nemesis system all that much if you're never dying and just beating orc ass all over Mordor. Should have moved all the difficulty tiers down one so normal was hard, and hard was brutal etc.

The relationships you form with your dumbass orcs, or the hatred for that one jackass that won't die or keeps ambushing you or that you keep shaming or mind breaking into oblivion cannot be understated. It's incredible and a crime against gaming that we don't see this system in more games.

Edit: I'll do the same thing with the DLCs in this game as I did with Witcher 3 - I'll save the Eltariel and Baranor DLCs as palet cleansers between other games. Still a lot of fun to be had here, just feeling a bit burned after 50 hours.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Couldn't help myself, played through Act 4 Shadow Wars in Shadow of War.

Actually a really fun, truncated fort defense act, and it wraps up Talion's story nicely.

5 total fort defenses which are actually kinda tough since it's a bunch of level 40-50 Orcs invading your dog poo level 20-30 forts you got way back during the main campaign.

Just a wonderfully chaotic end stage with the grindy BS patched out. Beat it in an afternoon.

Shadow of War is an easy 9/10 game for me, I'll take a break and play some other stuff, and then come back to beat Blade of Galadriel and Desolation of Mordor as breaks between other games.