Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Silksong is my main entertainment for now. Other than that, I’m playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 + its expansion again, and also getting through Factorio Space Age with a friend. A lot of fun to be had

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The new DLC for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II came out, Legacy of the Forge. I’m playing it after finishing the main game, but it’s looking like it will probably be best enjoyed when slotted into the main game. It’s early goings, but it looks like it will involve a lot of crafting and then selling things to upgrade your home, your shop, and your reputation. Still, there are new quests and more backstory for Henry’s “pa”, Martin, and I’ll take any excuse to play more of this game.

  I’ve been playing Mafia II: Definitive Edition. It’s a pretty good crime story that leans heavily on Goodfellas inspiration (I guess if you had to pick one, that’s the one to pick), but the gameplay often feels arbitrary, which is a weird way to put it but probably most accurate. There was one mission that was literally just drive to a place and drive back with some story in between. Most are simple setups where a firefight happens in the middle. There are mechanics from GTA IV present that don’t really fit back into Mafia II’s core loop. In other words, this game is totally fine but not exactly a masterpiece. It’s serviceable, and I miss crime stories in video games, so I’m playing through this series before I play The Old Country.

  I’ll also throw in an anti-recommendation for New Tales from the Borderlands. It animates well and looks nice, but this game basically is only story, and the story is awful. I played through it because I’ve now played through the rest of the Borderlands games, except Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and I suspect this game could be canon. If you don’t have the same compulsion to see the rest of the canon story that I do, steer clear. At least I’ve got Borderlands 4 waiting for me this weekend.

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• MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just finished up The Last of Us Part II, I really enjoyed it and it explores narrative themes I like.

  I just set Final Fantasy 7 Remake to download too. It’s been on my list for a bit and I’ve been lining up to play it after Part II for a while

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• Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Been playing Silksong as quickly as possible while still being enjoyable, as I'd rather avoid spoilers and quite a few of the people I follow are posting content on it.

  But once it's done, planning to go back to Final Fantasy XII and Girl from Arkanya.

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  • viral.vegabond@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How do you like girl from arkanya so far?

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    • Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Got to when Kapi is introduce. Up to that point, as a Brazilian? A bit cringe. Can't say much more about the story as I didn't play further. On gameplay, at least on that tutorial segment, it plays fantastic.

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• lazyhazy@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Expedition 33 (so beautiful it hurts) and trying to beat A20H with the Silent in Slay the Spire.

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I‘ve decided it‘s time to catch up in the gacha games I‘m playing, all stories have been pretty good so I‘m having a good time in Genshin/Zenless/WuWa

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• Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Genhsin Impact- its been a while but im obsessed again

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like everybody will answer “Silksong” for the foreseeable future lol

  As for me, I’ve been in a mood for zombie games for the past few months. There are a LOT of them, but good ones? Not very much. I finished RE2make (which I kind of liked, with reserve) and RE3make (which I despised) at the start of the year, then moved to RE8, but I found it disappointingly boring, so I switched to Dying Light, which I’ve played for the past two months.

  It’s technically a replay because I played it already a few years back, but I didn’t bother with the DLCs because I was kind of over with it by the end of the story, so I hope to 100% it this time. I really like it actually! I just find open world games exhausting in the long run as they drag on a bit too much.

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• riot@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Planet Crafter. I can't believe how much fun my girlfriend, my friend and I are having with that game. When we first picked it up, I expected we might play it for a couple days, maybe enjoy it for a couple of weekends. But it has really turned into one of those obsessions that you get from games like Satisfactory, No Man's Sky, Favtorio, etc., where the whole world just disappears around you, and a 7 hour session feels like 3 hours at most. This game has just perfectly straddled the line between challenging and relaxing for me.

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• kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was playing Custom Robo until Armored Core’s existence was brought to my attention. So now I’m working through the og title and it is crazy fun so far.

  There’s been a little Pokémon Colisseum om the side as well, as i never got to try that one as a kid. Much better than the main series and I wish they’d drop more interesting experiences like this one…but they got their money machine and no reason to risk turning it off ig. Lame-os.

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• catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Silksong coming out actually motivated me to do what I’d been putting off, which was getting platinum in Expedition 33. The Simon fight was tough but fun and satisfying, then picked up any lingering journals, music disks, and Monoco skills.

  Amusingly my final trophy was the mime you can encounter during the prologue, which I had completely missed on my first time through. So I fired up NG+ mode, knocked that out for my plat trophy, and decided to watch the Gommage cutscene one more time. It still hit me just as emotionally the second time around. This game really was beautiful and it’s going to stick with me for a long time.

  With that out of the way I’m now a few hours into Silksong and enjoying it so far. The bosses I’ve encountered have been tough but not “throw the controller and rage quit” tough. But I’m sure that is coming soon, haha.

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• rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Been playing Silksong a couple of hours each day since launch. It’s been a fantastic experience so far. Tough, but fair. Great pacing, which incentivizes getting good with the default moveset before expanding it with powerups.

  Looking forward to putting some more time into this one over the next few weeks.

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Repeat from the other thread:

  I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

  It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.

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