What are you buying?

  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just to throw in a different genre, I’m currently enjoying Car-X Street, Forza racing, and need for speed heat.

    • Unlearned9545@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Factorio never goes on sale, but Shapez and shapez 2 are on sale and they are in the same genre but more beginner friendly.

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        2 months ago

        Shapez 2 was great. I got into last night. Lovely and relaxing. No stress, no resource management, no time limits, no enemies. Just cozy thinking about production and how to optimize. Right up my alley.

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        2 months ago

        No, not trolling. I’d never heard that they had a policy against it until I looked it up just now.

        Somehow I was under the impression that devs didn’t even get a say as to if or when Steam would put their games on sale. I thought I had heard that as a major gripe of devs who list games on Steam.

        Now I’ll have to decide when I feel like it’s worth the remainder of my life and $35.

        • StuffYouFear@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          As someone with 902 hours on steam and about that much on the standalone client, I highly recommend you dont. It will consume the next month of your life. If you do buy it. Learn about blueprints and how to import them. Dont have to use others but one of the better teaching tools in the game for belt mechanics. If you like trains, use the mods, the train logistics mods make them so much better, but do take some study to make work.

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      2 months ago

      Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 400 hours into that one with co-op.

      • mellow@lemmy.wtf
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        2 months ago

        Oh waw we bounced off pretty hard on that one playing coop. After spending so much time in BG3, the “look at player 1 when they’re talking to someone” was a major downer. I think we spend one evening in that game. I can totally see it shine as single player, but coop - can’t recommend.

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          2 months ago

          We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Argenta she wasn’t needed - go stay on station, and punted Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.

          We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go on adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator that bends the crap out of 5e rules. BG3 just gets so boring come Act 3 and falls apart. Brain worms just don’t make for an interesting premise I guess.

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    2 months ago

    I still want to play MGSV, but it’s currently not on sale. My guess is because of the latest remaster.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I might pick up monster train and doom eternal. Yeah, I still haven’t played doom eternal.

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    2 months ago

    I’d like to buy Sea of Stars or Dungeons of Hinterberg. They’ve both been on my wishlist for a while. But I can’t really justify the cost rn, and I already have a huge backlog to work through. So I’ll probably skip this autumn sale as well.

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    2 months ago

    Atomic Heart and Cyberpunk 2077 are the only two on my list that are discounted enough.

    Maybe, maybe not. I’m not close to running out of unplayed games.

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      2 months ago

      CB 2077 is really good and probably worth it if you enjoy open world games like GTA, skyrim, or RDR.

      Atomic Heart I have been having a hard time getting into, for all the commonly cited reasons. The game looks gorgeous and its a fun setting, but you actually spend a lot of time in boring grey hallways fighting the same robots, and the combat just isnt especially great. Performance has been real hit or miss as well (I’m on Linux through proton).

    • Flamekebab@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      I played Atomic Heart on Game Pass around the time it came out and… I cannot recommend it. The actual game was really rather dreary.

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    2 months ago

    Darktide 67%, X4 at 75% and Hades 75% off are all extremely tempting. I need to start seeding the idea of buying darktide to my friends. I dont even think its worth buying any of these when im so hopelessly addicted to Beyond All Reason.

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      2 months ago

      Darktide is fun with friends, but it’s still a good game without. My friends all burnt out on it after 30ish hours but I’ve almost hit 100 now and still having fun every now and again. Scratches a very particular itch

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    2 months ago

    I bought “Cult of the Lamb”. It’s not a spectacular discount but good enough to go try it out.

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        2 months ago

        I just got the base version. If I like it enough I can wait for another sale for the DLCs

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          2 months ago

          Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I’m a completionist. I’ll either get everything or nothing. Which means games with lots of DLC are generally a no no for me.

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      2 months ago

      We made our entire cult out of cats 😁. If we ever end up with a non-cat, they’re first up to be sacrificed lol.

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    2 months ago

    Picked up Doom Eternal for like $4, which is not bad at all. Believe can get $4 of gameplay out of it even if its not as good as predecessor.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.

      DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.

      DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.

      I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.

      I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!

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        2 months ago

        I really want to finish DOOM Eternal but it’s exhausting game to play just one level. Plus what Bethesda did to Mick Gordon is just plain dirty and left a bad taste in my mouth.

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        2 months ago

        DOOM Eternal is to 2016 as DOOM 2 was to 1.

        New guns and an encounter design built around forcing you to be much more aggressive. 2 did it with the addition of the Archvile and Pain Elemental who were enemy spawners that would drain all your ammo if you just bunkered down near a corner. Eternal does it with the much greater emphasis on using special moves in combat to restore resource.

        I haven’t tried Dark Ages yet because of BDS and all that. But from what I have seen? Not super excited. Eternal is honestly one of my all time top 20 games because it just felt so good once you flowed. Taking that away and emphasizing blocking/reflecting is just… lame?


        And one of the biggest tips to vibe with DOOM Eternal: Play at least the first mission on Ultraviolence. The normal difficulty curve is such that you can mostly ignore all the new features and combos until you hit a wall and suddenly need them. Whereas UV forces you to engage with them as they are introduced so that it all kind of just flows. Feel free to knock it back down if you are sane and don’t feel like realizing you are physically exhausted after a single DLC level, but the game really benefits from jumping into the deep end to start.

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      2 months ago

      Doom has maybe 49¢-worth of gameplay by modern standards (even at launch), but if you’re happy then it wasn’t a waste of money.

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    2 months ago

    Playing Hades 2 on desktop, Hollow Knight on deck, and Anno 117 is coming out in a month… Not to mention the five other games I added to my backlog this year and haven’t touched yet.

    I will be skipping this sale, methinks.

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      2 months ago

      I’m barely into act 2, and then Supergiant had the Gall to drop Hades 2 on me as well.

      I’ve been playing a few rounds of H2 when I rage quit Silksong because of platforming shenanigans / Hard ass boss fights / getting bodied by nobodies while trying to reclaim my cocoon.

      Gonna be a bit before I’m buying new games.