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Sunday was gaming day! What did you play? Weekly thread (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by Sickos@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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I have continued my Kenshi antics, killing slavers and freeing everyone. I have most of the UC slave farms down now and finally finished my "I got the Phoenix" world tour and handed him to the Shek.

Also bashed through a lot of Jump Space with friends. 4p co-op mission-based PvE space FPS, think Deep Rock on a ship. Love it. Incredible pacing, honest. Could use some player progression, but I'm assuming that's just the early-access-ness. If this is all that ever comes of it, I'll still have gotten my money's worth and would just think of it as a bit repetitive on the content. But fun as hell.

Tried Arc Raiders. Absolutely furious about it. Gamers suck. Thought this could be a learning moment for them since all meaningful loot comes from not-other-players, so the PvPvE should really lead to mostly PvE play and freeform team-ups, but gamers are gamers and deserve the gulag. It's just another Tarkov; most players are pieces of shit. (Note: I have not gotten good, but the moral judgement stands.)

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[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After some procrastination, I finally finished Death Stranding 2 over the weekend. My thoughts overall are complicated, but it's Kojima at his most bombastic. It's a unique piece; some of the ideas are so far out there, I can't imagine anyone but him being given the budget and time necessary to see it through.

Overall, having played both back to back, I'd say the narrative is stronger in the first game. The sequel has higher highs than the first, but it's more inconsistent. The gameplay in the second is best-in-class. It feels like the logical continuation of what was started in MGSV, which is why I've heard that it's so MGS-like. You have a large sandbox of toys and you get to choose how you want to proceed. Also, DS2 took a good look at the UI in DS1 and corrected pretty much every issue I had with it.

All in all, I'd say DS1 is absolutely required reading before playing DS2. The games are waaay too interlinked to skip it. For the future, there is a very obvious thread to pull on for another game, but so much of what was built in the first two games is over that you'd really have to take things in a different direction. I'm curious about OD, but I'm more interested in seeing what PhysInt is going to be.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

i can't wait for DS2 to hit pc so i'm stuck here just avoiding spoilers for the next like, year