What games do you play?

[Steve1981]

Hello everybody. Just curious, what games do people play in their spare time? I'll go first:
Destiny 2
Dead By Daylight
TMNT: Cowabunga Edition AND Shredders Revenge
Fall Guys

Just to name a few.

[Jason]

On 9/27/2022 at 8:09 PM, Steve1981 said:

Hello everybody. Just curious, what games do people play in their spare time? I'll go first:
Destiny 2
Dead By Daylight
TMNT: Cowabunga Edition AND Shredders Revenge
Fall Guys

Just to name a few.

I’ve been playing Borderlands 3 and I did a play through of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands but I just couldn’t get that much into it. I’ll play some Call of Duty every once in a while but that franchise is doomed at this point 

[Blarg]

I have scaled back a lot over the last couple years. I was playing Outriders with my sons. A Polish game that was translated to English so all of the cut scenes are a little loose on lip sync. After you complete the storyline it's all about grinding for superior armor, skills and weapons. Not a big fan of grinding the same mission over and over. The playstyle is third person shooter. 

 

[Adam]

On level 4758 of Candy Crush

[Jay]

My wife bought me an Xbox when they first came out in 2001. I played a couple of James Bond games. Nothing since then.

[Crampknees]

I used to play Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo nonstop trying to beat the game on the highest level.  When my Meth lab got raided they confiscated it. 

[Salty Shakas]

MLB The Show

Call of Duty

Halo

[Jason]

On 12/23/2022 at 12:05 AM, Salty Shakas said:

MLB The Show

Call of Duty

Halo

I have been a Call of Duty player since Call of Duty 3 but Cold War was the last title I played. The multiplayer is no longer fun with skill based match making 

[Crampknees]

On 1/4/2023 at 8:43 AM, Jason said:

skill based match making 

Seems all you guys problem. 

[Jason]

26 minutes ago, Crampknees said:

Seems all you guys problem. 

I miss the days when a lobby would stay together for long periods of time. Made gaming friends and nemesis' that way 

[Taylor]

I've been playing game from 2019 called Outer Wilds. It's become one of my favorite games of all time. It's an open world space exploration game that is a little like Myst. 

It's best to go in totally blind. Even the Wikipedia description spoils a major plot point in the game.

[Jason]

On 1/9/2023 at 1:05 PM, Taylor said:

I've been playing game from 2019 called Outer Wilds. It's become one of my favorite games of all time. It's an open world space exploration game that is a little like Myst. 

It's best to go in totally blind. Even the Wikipedia description spoils a major plot point in the game.

Too bad it isn't available for Game Pass. I just downloaded Skyrim (All Bethesda games are on their) for Xbox One and am going to play that one again. I put about 200+ hours into the original one about 10 years ago so I'll just do it again but with a different character

[Blarg]

The Skyrim cheat for leveling was craft hundreds of knives. It's boring but gets you to level 50 quicker than the storyline. 

[Taylor]

36 minutes ago, Jason said:

Too bad it isn't available for Game Pass. I just downloaded Skyrim (All Bethesda games are on their) for Xbox One and am going to play that one again. I put about 200+ hours into the original one about 10 years ago so I'll just do it again but with a different character

Bummer, Outer Wilds just left Game Pass a couple weeks ago.

When Skyrim first came out I put easily 150+ hours into it.

[Brandon]

Just downloaded this tonight for free. It was on the PS Store list. Kind of neat as it's for PS5, free, and I know a couple of you dudes like Radiohead. Seems to be kind of a puzzle game with music integration.

[Taylor]

Hogwarts Legacy rules.

[AngelsLakersFan]

On 1/4/2023 at 8:43 AM, Jason said:

I have been a Call of Duty player since Call of Duty 3 but Cold War was the last title I played. The multiplayer is no longer fun with skill based match making 

I hear this from a lot of people, and I think it's pretty true. Unfortunately I'm not sure if going back is the right move either. The skill based system is there to try and balance out your enjoyment of the game... if you are winning too much it will make you lose, and if you are losing too much it will make you win. This keeps newer, crappier players sticking around and prevents them from getting frustrated and quitting the game. Unfortunately it also means that if you aren't in top form, or just want to mess around, you are going to get wrecked for awhile.

Some of the fun of older online games was getting good at the game, going online and just destroying noobs, lol... An all time great gaming experience that is lost to time.

[Blarg]

My sons and I have been setting aside Saturday afternoons to play Golf with your Friends on steam. It's a silly mini golf game that can be fun and frustrating from hole to hole. There are completely annoying mods you can turn on like collision. You can hit or be hit by your opponents ball which can knock you off the course or bounce you to a position where you have no shot at the flag. There are ant hills from hell, gravity changes, portal, black holes, courses that you can use a jet pack and if you drop in the water you can possibly bounce yourself out back into play.

[WicketMaiden]

Scrabble. The analogue version.

[Jason]

32 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I hear this from a lot of people, and I think it's pretty true. Unfortunately I'm not sure if going back is the right move either. The skill based system is there to try and balance out your enjoyment of the game... if you are winning too much it will make you lose, and if you are losing too much it will make you win. This keeps newer, crappier players sticking around and prevents them from getting frustrated and quitting the game. Unfortunately it also means that if you aren't in top form, or just want to mess around, you are going to get wrecked for awhile.

Some of the fun of older online games was getting good at the game, going online and just destroying noobs, lol... An all time great gaming experience that is lost to time.

While this is totally true, I remember the earlier versions of the game having ranked play which was pretty much skill based play. They could always bring that back to appease the noob stompers. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

27 minutes ago, Jason said:

While this is totally true, I remember the earlier versions of the game having ranked play which was pretty much skill based play. They could always bring that back to appease the noob stompers. 

They could, though separating out the skill based match making into rank vs non-ranked has some issues. With two separate groups you have increased wait time for matchmaking. Plus you are likely to see the best players flock to unranked play which will make it harder to find even matchups in ranked play.

I don't think there are good solutions to this, but I do think the best answer is tweaking their matchmaking algorithms to try and better align with what players actually enjoy about online games.

[jeskola]

On 10/14/2022 at 1:35 PM, Blarg said:

I have scaled back a lot over the last couple years. I was playing Outriders with my sons. A Polish game that was translated to English so all of the cut scenes are a little loose on lip sync. After you complete the storyline it's all about grinding for superior armor, skills and weapons. Not a big fan of grinding the same mission over and over. The playstyle is third person shooter. 

 

Outriders was the  shit going through the storyline a couple times. They dropped the ball on turning it into a service type game or maintaining an end-game so I guess we wont be getting a sequel, but the story mode is worth a playthrough for sure.

 

[jeskola]

For me its EverQuest still. 25 years yo

https://www.pcgamer.com/everquest-2024-roadmap-25th-anniversary-expansions-events-calendar/

[Jay]

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Candy crush.