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Currently giving the original Pathologic a look after having it frequently recommended to me. So far it feels like Syberia meets Planescape: Torment, which is entirely a good thing :D

Other than that I've been really enjoying Rain World lately. Still one of my very all-time favorites!
 
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Eltu said:
Currently giving the original Pathologic a look after having it frequently recommended to me. So far it feels like Syberia meets Planescape: Torment, which is entirely a good thing :D

Other than that I've been really enjoying Rain World lately. Still one of my very all-time favorites!
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lmao pathologic is great
i've never played it and i think i would hate it if i tried but that'd be the point i guess. love how every review describes how well written the story is and then the gameplay is like, the most agonizing grueling thing imaginable and it ends with "this is a great game, don't play it".
 
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lmao pathologic is great
i've never played it and i think i would hate it if i tried but that'd be the point i guess. love how every review describes how well written the story is and then the gameplay is like, the most agonizing grueling thing imaginable and it ends with "this is a great game, don't play it".
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Finished my first playthrough today! Was a really interesting experience, and a great example of how games can be engaging in different ways. Actually I wrote an article about that recently - https://ivarhill.com/meaningful-experiences/

Playing through Pathologic made me think about those things a lot - I'm glad I did a playthrough, as frustrating in places as it was :D
 
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My mental health has been preventing me from gaming lately :c but i played a bit of The Isle this week and my Oculus Quest is calling me for some reason haha
 
Yrel

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fatal frame 4 :)

it's here.. it's in my hands in an official capacity.. i didn't need to jailbreak my console to play it this time....
 
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picked up a game called vintage story recently and i'm surprised that i'm enjoying it so much considering how brutal it can be
it's like minecraft in that it's survival based and done entirely in voxel graphics (everything is cubes), but it's RIDICULOUSLY granular and harsh. you have to keep track of soil nutrients and rotate your crops, individually make molds for tools and then fill them w liquid metal (don't forget your tongs or you'll just take damage and keep dropping it), and if you have true winter enabled you need to build a cellar and stock up on food during the growing seasons so you don't starve

and then there's the temporal storms that will ruin your day. endless monster spawns and if you're not careful you will quite literally get sucked into hell (the rust world) and will have to deal w horrible monsters chasing you until the little gear on your HUD fills back up and you regain "temporal stability" (the lore is weird)
 
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Eltu

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Yrel said:
picked up a game called vintage story recently and i'm surprised that i'm enjoying it so much considering how brutal it can be
it's like minecraft in that it's survival based and done entirely in voxel graphics (everything is cubes), but it's RIDICULOUSLY granular and harsh. you have to keep track of soil nutrients and rotate your crops, individually make molds for tools and then fill them w liquid metal (don't forget your tongs or you'll just take damage and keep dropping it), and if you have true winter enabled you need to build a cellar and stock up on food during the growing seasons so you don't starve

and then there's the temporal storms that will ruin your day. endless monster spawns and if you're not careful you will quite literally get sucked into hell (the rust world) and will have to deal w horrible monsters chasing you until the little gear on your HUD fills back up and you regain "temporal stability" (the lore is weird)
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That looks quite interesting, I've always wanted to see a game in the style of Minecraft but with a bit more depth and hardcore elements to it. And even better, it has a native Linux version! I'll have to give this a look :)
 
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Eltu said:
That looks quite interesting, I've always wanted to see a game in the style of Minecraft but with a bit more depth and hardcore elements to it. And even better, it has a native Linux version! I'll have to give this a look :)
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i definitely recommend it!
you can also mod the game pretty easily , just unzipping files into the mod folder, and joining modded servers isn't even a problem bc the launcher will add those mods for you
there aren't as many mods as minecraft, obv, but there's still a healthy amount of them. stuff that can make the game even harder (like this mod that adds poison gas and air quality) or just add new content like fish and animals.

the only thing i'd warn you about is that if you have a radeon graphics card the shaders might not play nice and everything will look purple (or brown like it did for me) when you first start a world. there is a box in the options menu labeled "purple grass fix" that will fix it, but as of the current version it doesn't fix the colour of the water and kind of makes it look like red wine. so just keep that in mind and don't freak out if that's the case.
 
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I don't always play games, but when I do, I go for a good cinematic experience. In this case: The Last of Us, specifically the recently remade part I.

After watching the recent TV series of the same name, I went back to see the game it was based on. It is originally from 2013, but since it was only released for console and since I am a PC person through and through, I only ever watched playthroughs of the game on YouTube, which have specifically been put together to view as a long movie.

I don't recall when exactly I first watched the 'movie version' of the game, but I think it was somewhere around 2015-2016. After finishing the actual TV series that adapts the game sometime earlier this week, I found out that the original game had actually been remade and released for PC as recently as last month. So that's what I am playing now. Probably it is the second longest release I have been waiting for, with only the Avatar sequel having taken longer to be released ;)
 
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Work and study are what I am playing lately hahaha but in the rare occasions I find some time to play, I enjoy some Mass Effect, Battlefield, Uncharted, Minecraft (I played the version with the ocean update when I was in the worst part of my PAD and it was so amazing!).
I plan to play The Last of Us (both parts), Starfield (when it comes out) Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (when it comes out too).
 
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