As the title suggests, what have you been playing recently?

a lot 100% orange juice atm i 100% slime rancher 2 the other day aswell

guild wars 2's new expansion is close to ruining my gw2 obsession. the new maps are super pretty and fun to just exist in, but currently they have the best gold farm in the game.
"that's great then right? you have a good convinient reason to exist in those maps, it's a win-win!"
no. see it's like 40x better gold farm than literally any other thing you can do in the game. it's so good that it makes everything else seem like a waste. more, the gold farm involves, going to a magic mirror, shooting a moving target, which reveals several locked chests scattered around the map then looting those chests with key charges.
there is some detail about keeping number of unlock keys you have below 25, so you can't just do all the mirrors first then do all the keys. you get 10 charges on each mirror completion, and the 3 different chest sizes take 2, 4, and 10 keys respectively.
there aren't enough keys for all the chests if you just do the mirrors once, so in order to effectively do it you have to keep track of which mirrors you need to redo or every time a mirror reveals more charges debt in chests than you can cover with just that mirror open what you can then go back to that mirror, reload the map, then finish opening. that last way is pretty ineffecient in terms of charges tho because some mirrors reveal less charge debt in chests than they reveal, so you could be wasting key charges that way.

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shin megami tensei 3. tough stuff

Donkey Kong Bonanza: emerald rush

been getting back into tf2 again somewhat i was playing ffxiv for a while instead but the last live letter like actually made me lose all hope.

What's your favorite free indie game, and what do you like about it?

meichnpp has a lot of cool msx stuff on their itch.io (pigmhall.itch.io) the arcade style titles are fun

I believe most people on this website would enjoy this game. It's very nikkilike and cool.
https://hatoge.itch.io/kanaexe
The following are my personal favorites, though.
https://wekki-i.itch.io/hot-pope
https://fileto.itch.io/homehead

Mother: Cognitive Dissonance is pretty cool.

space station 13. >100 players in one lobby, open source, janky as shit, incredibly deep mechanics, highly autistic

(unfortunately game used to be much better and actually kinda sucks these days. also try getting it running on linux hahaha)

>>7
What makes the game bad compared to what it used to be?

seriously, it's really insufferable. believe it or not gambling is bad.

Shareholders + it's addictive. most of the time it is in a legal gray area as-well so they can just do whatever they want. plus like most games i see people playing are live service now and have heavy FOMO shit

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One reason is that due to inflation and the reduction in production costs the real price of vidya has been decreasing for decades, while the nominal price has stayed the same, and so companies have had to pick up the slack by including other money making ventures e..g microtransactions. you can read about it here arstechnica(dot)com(slash)gaming(slash)2020(slash)07(slash)the-return-of-the-70-video-game-has-been-a-long-time-coming

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it depends on how it's implemented, but if it's just cosmetics like csgo skins or whatever, I really don't care. I know everyone gets upset like it's unregulated gambling and it's addictive or whatever. The way I see it, I get to play a game for free which is going to be actively supported and funded because some retards are too stupid to understand probabilities, then all the better for me. In fact more things should be like this. We can run the whole economy on the gambling whales stupid tax and then I can get everything for free. Now if the gambling actually impacts the gameplay like gachaslop that's a different story.

I'd say it's because of phones

i want to get addicted to an MMO

I really wanna try to get into guild wars 2 but I never really found the “push” so to speak

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My dumbass thought you talking bout sum garden warfare two

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brb killing myself. in guildwars 2.

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I still play EVE Online. Very casual these days but I' getting stuck into the deeper economics side of the game - corp and alliance level market aspirations. I'm casually using all 3 character slots for more or less the same goal, but via different paths. Most of the time I keep characters seperate but it'd eventually be cool to interact between their various assosiates.

Most of the big alliances I've encountered so far, those recruiting at least, have no idea how to have fun in the game and just repeat the same shit everyone has been saying for the past 10 years.
It's time for new blood, OP.

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Runescape 3. Probably a good time to get into it, and as long as you like grinding, it's fun enough for a free game. I suggest getting your mining level up to the point where you can mine myth and adamant ore in the desert area thing. You'll need a good fighting level to kill the scorpions if needed. Also, get loads of feathers and fletch some arrow stalks and sell them on the grand exchange for gold coins. The fun is in the repetitive menial task of emptying your inventory into the bank and then collecting stuff again. If you turn the music off in menu, and listen to your fav music while you play, it's quite meditative.

I don't get it. What is fun about that game? Can someone please explain it to me. I know you can build stuff in minecraft but is it just about building stuff that looks pretty. I don't understand minecraft.

I liked to mess around in 2b2t sometimes, it's a pain to get any decent items but the rare times you find someones base is like gambling. When I was younger I watched a ton of MC ytbers and downloaded the mods they played and messed around with them. I remember finding random servers with cool builds and chatting with people on them. I don't play it anymore but that's what I remember mostly doing.

honestly fucking hated that game always got greifed or just friends would play when i was offline and id come back just to be given full gear that i didnt have to work for so damn boring i remember actually beating the game when i was like 12 with my big brother that was actually really cool but it just kinda got ruined when i got into highschool and nobody played the game the same way i did

i enjoy it as an art tool. its like diorama building, but you have infinite resources and the world you make is alive and inhabitable. i also get a lot out of finding picturesque scenery. it may be procgen, but the game can create some beautiful views

While I enjoy playing with friends, I have recently had the idea of playing on the Alpha version as that is the first experience I had with it.
I was talking to Mint about this the other day, might post my play sessions on my channel and do my usual rambling over it

Brown bricks in Mineycrafta

Mine is Dr. Mario

Peach and Zelda
>>17
You're too old to have accurate judgment of taste, your tastes are purely derived from soylennial nostalgia, especially if you think brawl is better than ultimate

>>18
maybe anon is lonely and likes brawl for its single player

>>19
Youre right. Maybe I was too judgmental..

In Melee, Peach.
In Ultimate, Terry.

I am terrible at Smash, however. These are the two I am least terrible with.

Little Mac all the way

Home & Dungeon clears any open-world explore & craft slop-game. Katagiri-san is relying on me has better themes than expedition 33. Rinko Kagayama's endless summer has better environmental storytelling than Dispatch. You don't even need to go dig deep into the visual novels. Even not that exceptional RPG maker smut games clear any design by committee commodity slop.

Every game that has generated profited has succeed DESPITE generating profit. Every game that reached an audience was worthwhile DESPITE reaching an audience.
They control the airwaves, they try to overwhelm us with the totalist mind control beams, they try to control our perceptions directly, they inject sublimated desire into our spinal cords. YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED, HISTORY WILL PROVE US RIGHT, WE WILL BURY YOU!

Anon what the fuck are you talking about

based

HISTORY WILL PROVE US RIGHT

If anything, history shows _they_ always win.

I am on Toram Online. It's the only one which looks cute enough and runs on my old thinkpad properly.
I really wanted to try out Ragnarock Online but the install file is huge and I get lag on private servers anyway.
I have also played all of f2p Old School Runescape but I feel like that game is only worth playing if you are willing to pay for a subscription but I hate paying for subscriptions. Runescape Private servers come and go so no point in grinding on them.
I hear a lot of good things about Guild Wars 2 but I can't play it on this PC.
So Toram is alright, it's a bit grindy but I can take it. The loading screens are alright since after I go to a place I just grind there. It's a lot better if you have friends to grind with but I don't know when I'll be able to play so I can't form a group.

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ESO but like everything else its slop that keeps you tethered through sunk cost fallacy

Refantazio is pretty good played the demo might buy, best introduction to shin megami tensei type games at the moment, no need to play another 30 games to understand story

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Not mmorpg but pretty fun

I’d say the best I’ve played to date is black & soul, the maps are pretty thought out and don’t become a crowded mess, grafically beautiful, the gameplay is pretty fun not overly simplistic like digimon hunters and it has character creation.

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Blade & soul
My bad

the lotro

I cant add people as friends because i never put 5$ of real money into my account. steam hates poor people. they are racist and hate piracy. fuck steam fuck me for using steam. fuck you for using steam.

i think steam ruined video games by normalizing they buying and selling of in-game items, in games like counterstrike and TF2. i genuinely think that fortnite lootbox microtransaction hell doesnt develop without valve allowing people to gamble for gun skins.

nah. facebook games -> mobile games are what normalized it. there weren't loot boxes in tf2 and counterstrike until sometime later.

Microsoft actually ruined video games its been downhill since

gabe got rich working at microsoft before starting valve. and thus we come full circle

Lmao I'd choose Valve any day rather that Microsoft.

fatmagic, beloved cis male clipfarmer who cherished clicking on heads and getting haccused before it was a thing, has developed a fagcent in his recent videos. i believe that the broader aiming kkkommunity is transing him through osmosis.

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