Hello Everyone!

It’s time for this week’s, “What are you playing” thread.

I wasn’t able to give as much time to gaming as I thought, who knew running a community can take so much time. Even when all members are so great, and I don’t have to moderate anything.

I am still playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, mainly focusing on side quests and exploration right now. With so much to explore, this is going to take a long time.

Other than that, me and wife just got NSO Expansion pass, and started the Happy Home Paradise DLC, while resuming our Animal Crossing play-through. Just cleaning the long neglected island, and helping Harv build the shops.

What about all of you? What are you playing?

  • soybeanscheesesticks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I never got around to playing Breath of the Wild so the release of ToTK felt like a great time to finally give it a try! Still working my way through veeeery slowly, just about to take on my second divine beast.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Heh, I do that too. With so many games to play, many times I only end up playing the game when it’s sequel is announced or released.

      BOTW is a great game, no need to rush through for TOTK, it’s not going anywhere. Just play at your own pace and enjoy the game.

    • iamlyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      They have completely separate roles and moods. Breath of the Wild feels so much like Princess Mononoke and it’s space and exploration feels like a gaming equivalent of meditating

  • Grangle1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Almost at the end of the vanilla portion of my 100-hour journey through Persona 5 Royal. That’ll leave just the extra semester/true ending left to play before I can finally move on to Tears of the Kingdom, lol. I tend not to play more than one game at a time, especially not really big games like P5R or TotK. Each deserves my full attention or I’d never finish them.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Are you planning to Play Persona 5 Strikers and / or just announced Persona 5 Tactica?

      I am right there with you with not playing more than one big game. They do deserve the full attention.

      • Grangle1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Not Strikers, I have enough musou-style games and I don’t need another one. I haven’t seen Tactica’s trailer yet, but if it’s a strategy RPG like Fire Emblem or Triangle Strategy I’ll probably get it since that’s my favorite genre.

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Tactica looks like a tactical game like FE or Triangle Strategy, with chibbi-ish characters. Would like to hear your opinions when you finally see it.

  • missingno@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m getting ready for a local Splatoon 3 tournament in Philly this weekend, put together a quick pickup team for it. Also slowly working through Persona 5 Royal, just finished the third palace.

  • cities@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    still tears of the kingdom. before that was a long dry spell for the switch because of the steam deck I got

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Switch is a great place for indies… but Steam is even better.

      How is Steam Deck’s size, looks too big for longer sessions. Is it comfortable?

      • cities@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        never had an issue with it. it’s ergonomically perfect for me and more comfortable than switch with original joycons. I do often play it docked though.

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          That’s nice. I haven’t actually held it, just thought it looked too big from online photos.

          Good to know that it’s comfortable.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Octopath Traveller is pretty high on my list. I never got around to playing the first one, so want to play it soon, so that I can get ready to play Octopath Traveller 2 in a few months.

      • spectrologist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Nice! Yeah the second one is way better imo – a lot of these games involves grinding and they introduced the ability to run combat at double speed. I can no longer play the first one because it feels so painfully slow to me 😅

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          That is why I want to play the first one first. I have heard the second one improves everything about the game, so going back to the first one will be really tough afterwards.

  • djidane535@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    FF Thearythm & Zelda TOTK on Switch, Baten Kaitos on GC, and Mario & Luigi Superstar saga on GBA (only short games of course :p). Oh and I am also playing Pokemon Stadium 2 on N64 😅.

    Jokes aside, I started too many games this time, I am not generally this busy ^^.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Heh, I have sometimes done the same thing, but when I do that, I end up not finishing any of them. So, now I prefer to start only one big game.

      As I mentioned in the post, I just got NSO Expansion pack, so going to try all of these, but one-by-one, not all at once 😀

      Any games that you specially recommend?

      BTW sorry about those test replies, I just couldn’t reply to your message (or anyone’s from kbin.social, finally figured out, have to select English as the language, or it won’t post)

  • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I am still playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, mainly focusing on side quests and exploration right now. With so much to explore, this is going to take a long time.

    This is me right now. I owe myself do some exploring of the depths and sky islands. Having played BOTW the surface is so familiar that I kinda went quickly around it and probably advanced way too quickly on the main quests. It’s time for me to slow down and do the exploration.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I played BOTW at launch, so while I do recognize few places here and there, for me most of the land mass is new, and with the different abilities, and all the caves and wells, there is so much to explore.

      Sky islands I have explored least of, and need to focus more on. Specially because there are some things you can only get on Sky islands. 😀

      • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yes, of course. I need to explore more caves and wells too. And even familiar places have changed. But I feel like I went too fast because, despite the changes, it’s still very familiar. It took me no effort to get to the main villages, because I kinda knew how to get there. It felt familiar yet new.

        But that familiarity kept me from exploring the new places -and the dangerous places in the surface too-. I want to focus on that now. It’s gonna be fun.

  • farizer@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    Monster hunter rise was on sale so I might give it try I loved the previous game in the series. I also need to “finish” kenshi at some point

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      How do you play Monster Hunter? Single player or with friends?

      I have been thinking about trying Monster Hunter World with some friends, if there are enough of use who are willing to play it.

  • RoyalishEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’ll probably be playing TotK until Starfield comes out. Though playing TotK makes me want to play other Zelda games so I might try to squeeze in WW or TP.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Starfield is my most anticipated game, but I don’t have a PC that can play it (or an Xbox), so won’t be able to play on launch. Hope they don’t mess it up.

      I am also looking for more Zelda, but not going to start anything until I finish TOTK.

  • PencilPossessor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Oh yeah TLOZ:TOTK is my go to right now. I’m at the point where I can battle Mr demon king but been side questing and all that jazz now first. I wanna go in and just obliterate him, so I’m focusing on getting the rest of the shrines etc beforehand and collecting better armour blah blah blah

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I hope the final fight is better than BOTW. Calamity Gannon was kind of anti-climatic boss. Fighting a group of Guardians was tougher than Gannon. 😀

      Good luck clearing the game.

      • enzyesha@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Disclaimer I also haven’t fought the final boss.

        I wouldn’t count on the Demon King being a terrible difficult fight. You have to remember that it’s a storyline quest, so it has to be achievable by the least common denominator. If you really want a challenge, you should explore the depths under the southwest region of Hyrule Field ;)

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          You are right, it makes sense.

          I actually don’t want a very tough fight either, I remember some older games where I wouldn’t have any trouble through out the game and then I would get stuck at the final boss. But they have conditioned me to not feel the game has ended until I go through a tough final boss.

          I actually did explored those area, but I was mostly running away from things 😀

  • jaded@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Probably some D4 and street fighter 6. Picked up Steins gate elite on sale though so might start that.

  • thebutler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    nearing the end of the ToTK main story (i think), so i’ve been debating how heavy i want to go into all the side quests. I can’t believe how much this community has grown, you’re crushing it as the mod!

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Thanks, it’s really appreciated.

      The game is huge, and sometimes it’s okay to consider the game finished after the main story is done, nothing wrong with that. For instance, I am never going for all the koroks. Even all the shrines aren’t necessary, but I’ll try to do most of the side-quests. At least that’s the plan for now.

  • SnekInTheShell@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been attempting Etrian Odyssey III on the switch but the controller feels clunky for mapping and the game feels so much more challenging than I remember ~10 years ago? lol.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I think we were used to playing difficult games back then, with all the improvements and changes in game design, the old games feel more difficult than they used to.

      Have you tried auto-mapping? Does that make game less clunky? Or does it reduces the enjoyment of the game?

      • SnekInTheShell@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Thanks for the reminder about auto-mapping! I haven’t got to try it out. I feel like that will help, I loved mapping on the 3DS but I don’t think It’ll hinder my enjoyment on the switch.