Hello Everyone!
Another week without me playing too much.
- Playing and enjoying New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. The game is super fun, but can be a bit tough sometimes, or maybe I am just not good at platformers. I am at 2nd boss, would try to clear it and the 3rd area.
- Finished Carto, loved the game. Some of the puzzles require you to think a bit, and there’s one puzzle near the end that I couldn’t figure out. Saw a YouTube video, and cleared the puzzle, but still can’t figure out the logic behind it. Other than that, there are some secrets that I didn’t get, I may go for them, not sure yet.
- Back to Monster Hunter: World, cleared couple of missions. Going to keep at it.
Now that I have finished Carto, going to start another smaller game, not sure which one yet, have a few lined up, will go through my list and decide.
What about you guys? What have you been playing? And what are you planning to play over the weekend?
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I’ve just started playing TotK, and so far it’s great! I also try to make some time for Diablo IV and Catan with my SO.
How are you playing Catan? Actual board game or some digital version? I have the boardgame version, and just got the Cities & Knights expansion pack (though haven’t played it yet).
TotK is a great game, just don’t try to rush through it, and enjoy it at your own pace.
Who are you playing as, in Diablo IV? Finished the campaign?
Both the Catan Universe android app and board game. We just got Seafarers as well! But We’ve also been playing a bit with the 5-6 player expansion, even if we’re only two or three, and it’s been great!
Yep, I’m going to take my sweet time with it. I only have a limited time with it with two kids and my SO that also plays it (she’s only got Ganon left though).
My eternal character is an Arc Lash Sorc. I can’t say I noticed the nerfs that much, but I’m quite hyped for the buffs that are incoming! On Seasonal I’m trying out Druid. The leveling is quite slow, but I’ve heard it’s going to pick up quite a lot after 50, so I’m holding on to hope!
Will I ever stop playing TOTK?
Nope. Not for the forseeable future. 😎
Though there are some new tracks on Mario Kart 8 i might want to try a bit.
Though there are some new tracks on Mario Kart 8 i might want to try a bit.
I was wondering what I had forgotten! New tracks on Mario Kart!
TotK is a game that you can play for a long long time. How far along are you?
storywise i just have to go for Ganondorf at this point. Currently exploring the depths and using it to track missing shrines.
Now that I finished Tears of the Kingdom, it’s time to get back to finishing the last two stories in Octopath Traveller 2.
Nice! Which 2 are left? I haven’t played it yet, but have seen all the characters.
The final chapters of Agnes and Partitio. And I guess there’s gonna be a final final boss again, like in the first game.
Interesting. Good luck!
Pikmin 4. Had to get it after playing the demo. Fun and relaxing and very well suited for quick sessions… then I saw Octopath Traveller 2 was on sale and now I’m 10 hours deep into that…
Ah, didn’t know Octopath Traveller 2 was on sale, maybe that’s why so many people are playing it this week. How are you enjoying it?
I’m liking it overall. The story being 8 separate ones, one for each character, makes it so they are somewhat limited in their depth. It could also do with some QoL stuff compared to like Bravely Default 2 (what’s up with those weird jrpg titles?)… auto-battles would’ve been much appreciated with how grind-y it gets. The atmosphere and graphics are great though. It’s like how I remember rpg’s from the 90s to be
Regarding Super Mario Bros Ultimate, If you think it’s hard in the 2nd world wait till you get down the way. Especially the hidden levels and the star levels. But the game is very fun regardless.
This weekend I am off for vacation and left the Switch home so I am not playing anything
Not hard in general, but there was a certain portion in world 2 where I lost about 4 lives.
Vacations are great, stay away from screens, and have lots of fun!
I’m trying to finish Mercenary Kings. I’ve gotten a long way but it’s taking so long to finish. You really gotta commit to this game.
How are you liking the game? Doesn’t it become repetitive? I played a bit of the start of the game, and it was pretty much all in same area, doing same kind of things? (I am seeing the irony, talking about same area and doing the same thing, while playing Monster Hunter myself…)
Yeah it is at first because you do multiple missions in the same area which are very similar. As you move up the ranks you unlock new levels with new enemies that are much harder, but it takes a long time to get there.
If I enjoyed the game-play of the 2-3 missions that I did, would you recommend me to keep playing it? I just saw that it’s too long and switched to something else, thinking I’ll play it later, but then didn’t get around to it.
Honestly? No.
The game is fun and the graphics and sprites look amazing. I mean it’s Paul Robertson that did the artwork. But, man it’s repetitive. Even the bosses are always the same. One you figure out the pattern you barely even have to think.
It’s too long for nothing and you keep doing the same thing over and over.
I’ve been playing Pikmin 4, it’s chill and fun. I probably won’t get back to TotK until I’ve finished Pikmin 4. I might play some Sonic here and there too, and I’ve been wanting to get back into Smash Ultimate for some time now.
I received Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons physical yesterday. I only booted it up to download the update and have a quick 5/10 minutes play, so it’s ready for the weekend. I’m looking forward to playing that one with my girlfriend!
How good are you in Smash Ultimate? If you are somewhere between not good to bad, we can have a few challenges sometimes 😀
Double Dragon Gaiden looks pretty good. I am glad the beat 'em ups are coming back. It’s one of my favourite genre.
I’m probably as good as in Mario Kart. I think I’m good when I play with friends, but then I play online and get my ass handed to me 😆 I haven’t paid for Nintendo Online for about two years now, but I could get back to it for some Smash and Mario Kart online!
I love beat 'em ups too. I have a decent beat 'em up collection for Switch now! Both classic collections and modern ones.
@picandocodigo What are your favorite Beat ‘em Ups…I played Streets of Rage 4, have River City Girl, but I’m trying to find games that last for more than 3-4 hours.
These are some of my favourites off the top of my head:
- Fight N’ Rage, probably the one I’ve played the most on my Switch after SoR4.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, amazing game. I’d recommend the Cowabunga Collection as well, the best titles in the collection are beat 'em ups.
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
- Capcom Beat 'em Up Bundle has some amazing games. I just wish there was a legal way to play Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
I played River City Girls 1 and got the sequel but haven’t gotten much into it yet.
Still side questing/shrine hunting in TotK. Didn’t play as much as usual this week, it’s been a bit busy preparing for a vacation I’m taking next week, so I probably won’t play much next week either. Any tips on how to beat lynels?
As I told Dougas above, vacations are great! Stay away from screen, and have fun!
Any time they’re stunned you can hop on their backs!
I’m falling deep into the Pikmin nostalgia hole. Bought Pikmin 1 and 2, played the crap out of them. Beat 3 two days before Pikmin 4 dropped, now my girlfriend and eye are casually taking turns (‘2 player’s mode’) working out way through that. I’m usually the type to like difficult and challenging games, but something about the chillness of this new one has got me in a good way.
Wow, nice! I am glad you are enjoying Pikmin! I should show it to my wife too, it looks like a kind of game she might enjoy.
3 is the best for an active 2 player experience (at least as far as the story goes). The multiplayer battle modes are good in both
Okay, will show her that. Thanks for the info!
Still playing Smite but it crashes on modes that aren’t assault
Is that a known issue? Or just something with your game?
Maybe you can try contacting the devs, maybe there’s some workaround in the works.
I sent a feedback message because I’m on switch and this didn’t happen as often on pc
Been doing a side by side thing where I play my n64 games then play the equivalents or remakes of them on the switch. Think this weekend will involve some pokemon snap and new pokemon snap action.
That sounds like fun! Just having fun or do you stream / post your videos somewhere?
There’s also a !pokemon_snap@lemmy.piperservers.net community, where you can post your Pokémon Snap Snaps (though currently it’s just one person sharing their snaps, they are sometimes to fun look at)
Mainly just for fun, usually do it when I’m watching over my nephew. He just turned 10 and loves the Nintendo games, and I’m just an avid retro collector who likes to somewhat “teach” / keep the history of the retro games. He can’t get enough of “how different everything looked back then”.
Maybe I should do some documentation and share the differences some place! Thanks for pointing me at the snap community btw 😀.
I just picked up Mario + Rabbids. Just got to world 2 after beating Rabbid Donkey Kong and boy was that a difficulty spike. I’ve always been a big fan of Fire Emblem, and this is very fun with all the movement options and such.
Does anyone know how the sequel holds up? Obviously not a masterclass in terms of story, but very very fun gameplay.
I would compare it more with X-Com than Fire Emblem. Technically, they are very similar, but in my mind, they are very different games.
As for the sequel, I haven’t played it myself yet, but have heard great things about it. I loved the first one, and from what I have seen second one improves on it a lot.
Ah I never played XCOM. But from what I’ve seen they do look really similar.
If you like Mario+Rabbids, and don’t mind playing umm… a “rugged” version of it, without Mario characters, and some base-building mechanics included, check out XCom 2. They also a released a Marvel: Midnight Suns, which I think is more approachable than XCom 2, though I haven’t played that yet.
That game was so much fun. Haven’t played the sequel yet.
Children of morta! I’m really enjoying it. Didn’t like rogue likes at all before 😮
BG3 early access, want to get familiar with the mechanics before next week’s release.
Ooooh! BG 3! 💖
How are you liking the game?
It’s really similar to traditional DnD RPG but with some extra quality of life built.
- you no longer needs to press stat roll for hours to get the stat you want. It’s a bit more modernized but use the 5e rules(I am not familiar, just read it from others’ comment)
- the opening(I am about 4~5 hours in early access content wise) and think the pace is actually quite good. party size is 4 instead of 6 in older games.
- there could be more QoL change to the camera operation as currently there is only limited freedom when you operate the camera around. I understand that you can venture out of visible area(so you can’t peak into area you haven’t get close enough yet), but lack of free looking sometimes make navigation around tight corridor/cave area with multiple levels a bit tricky. (they can probably allow free look but use fog of war type to block/masking out intractable/enemies)
- That said, even in the early area, there might be some glitches for events, how the game loading stuff, schedule tasks in weird order. ie. in one of the main sequence, it loads the map and play cinematic at same time, BUT, the map finish loading first and you see the “result” of the cinematic before it cuts in and started playing. So definitely don’t expect it to be bug free, especially with the scale mentioned in the press.
- It’s probably gonna burn you quite a bit of time before you get comfortable with the system, I don’t know how far into the game to allow you respec the character( it was mentioned by larian to be a feature but didn’t know how it would be implemented), so you might play some hours and decide to restart if the respec feature is only available mid/late game to have a smoother run or challenge higher difficulty.
- some of the keywords or system might be a bit confusing but fortunately there is wiki for BG3 already form years of early access.(which also mean it may or may not be out of date because of the patches)
I think overall I can look past the short coming and enjoy the game so far, no annoying crash or very flow breaking stuff. You do need to save frequently cause the auto save spot could be far apart. Best to save before you run into group of dots on your map AND after you finish a bit fight + short resting. The reason for this is this game does have trigger zone and you can’t save during force triggered conversation/combat. If you forgot to rest it could put you into serious disadvantage(cause the high damage output spell or special skills are locked behind consumable points which only refresh after a long rest, and some events might be time relevant, so you have to weight your risk for proceed without rest and more rest but make your schedule tighter.(judging from a bit of search, it’s event related, if you trigger a start of event but then go do other stuff the event will resolve itself even if you did nothing and long rest.)
Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. Fun game, good port, and harder than I remembered.
Also putting more time in TOTK, Diablo 4, and WoW.
Wow, so many games. I didn’t know about Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, but looked up some details on launch, and now planning to play it someday.
How far along are you in TotK and Diablo 4? Finished the campaign in Diablo? And who are you playing as?
Also, how’s the WoW community these days? I was under the impression that it’s pretty much over now.
CoH is one of those games that isn’t quite a “recommended to everyone” game but it’s one that I think many will really like. It’s also only $15 right now, so not a huge investment if you don’t like it. Kinda weird there haven’t been many similar games made (I was aware of like 2).
Completed the Diablo 4 campaign. Loved the story (lots of good stories in the side quests too) and the ending cinematic was one of the best they’ve ever done. First play through was a chain lightning Sorcerer and now trying a werewolf Druid on Season 1. Have also played Necromancer and a little bit of Barbarian.
WoW’s community is kinda toxic sometimes in group stuff. Population wise, it still has plenty of people. The latest expansion, Dragonflight, is one of their best expansions. Having a lot of fun with it.
