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I had a magical moment yesterday, looking at the Steam Sale and tempted to buy Dying Light: The Beast, and it hit me that I have the original Dying Light in my backlog.

Eight hours later, it's safe to say I really like this game, and spending zero dollars is pretty nice too.

What's everyone else playing?

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[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Nethack. Been playing for 30 years and still never ascended. This time I'm fully kitted out and I'll be damned if I don't get a win!

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Downloaded it because of this comment. An good starter guide / tutorial you can recommend?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Oh wow, you are going to spend a lot of time on the https://nethackwiki.com/, there's also a tutorial on YouTube that goes into the basics. First tip is: dying is fun! Just experiment a lot in the beginning. Start out with a dwarven valkyrie, that's the easiest class/race to play.

In the beginning you're just going to learn the controls and get used to visually id monsters and items. I don't know which version you play, I can recommend one with a visual GUI, I'm an ASCII purist myself, but the interface for vanilla Nethack is just brutal. There are variants like Fiqhack and Dynahack that come with a bunch of QoL improvements like separate windows for message history, inventory, stats et c.

It takes a very long time to learn and master (as evidenced by my 30 year journey), but there is just something to it, it is so well thought out and it has been continuously tweaked over almost 40 years, and sees plenty of people still playing it.

There's a nethack subreddit that I would recommend checking out when you have questions!

Welcome, and go with Tyr!

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pulling for you over here! I never made it past the fortress right after Medusa.

Imagine my great sorrow when I discovered that turning Perseus back to a man didn't make him tame! 🥺

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hahaha! First run ever that I got a wand of wishing and genuinely have nothing more I need, so I wished for a blessed figurine of an Archon and applied it, and he spawned with Demonbane and just mows down monsters like it's nobody's business. :)

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"What do you get for the guy that has everything?" 😂

Mr. "Platinum Yendorian Express" over here!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

i finally beat DCSS once, after playing it constantly for a year

[–] Azathoth@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I adore Nethack; there is so much to discover! Although, most of it is stuff that kills you. My first ascension was with the very reliable human Valkyrie.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's ridiculously deep. Like I said, I played it for 30 years and I still learn new stuff all the time when I read the wiki or watch videos, like "damn! Had no clue, that is pretty smart, what a bizarre mechanism but it's perfectly logical when you think about it" hahaha!

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn't have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I'm 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Make sure to play the second one too! It's widely regarded as the best game in the series.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love that we're all finding cool stuff we forgot about in our backlogs and saving money this year. :)

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Isn't there a open source game inspired by Thief Trilogy that tries to improve upon it, with tons of community made maps.

Can't remember the name.

Edit: it was The Dark Mod

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FTL is a standard holiday game fore, as well as getting people on a Total Annihilation server. Still super hard and still super awesome

[–] schmups@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean Fagic the Lathering?

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

No its Fart Lie

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn't able to really "connect" to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don't know why they are unable to replicate that success.

To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rimworld. As always.

How's the Geneva checklist coming along?

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm currently raising children in life pods to put them into the ripcore scanner to convert their brains into subcores to advance my mech army.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Nice. Last I played, I recently found out colonists' moods are locked the second their enter a coma. I of course abused this by turning my colonists into unaging sangophages, getting them as happy as possible, having them deathrest permanently, and then giving them a psychic harmonizer.

Eventually I got my hands on a modified sangophage gene with psychic hypersensitivity, and it was smooth sailing from there. My little meat joy batteries would each give my colonists up to like +40 mood in a massive radius around my base.

[–] xeekei@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dying Light 1 is one of my favorite games. Enjoy it!

[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Dying Light plus its dlc THE FOLLOWING are a ton of fun. The dlc is completely different from the main game e.g countryside / driving and a decent length So worth checking if you haven’t given it a spin.

[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Despite the very standard protagonist, Dying Light was a real treat.

My Christmas game this year has been Jusant. Just got to the last chapter and it's been the perfect vibe.

[–] bestbry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I’m playing lost records bloom and rage, and it’s a lot of fun, I love the stand by me vibe and it’s really well put out.

[–] NinjaTurtle@feddit.online 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just finished Alan Wake. Not what I expected from the game but overall interesting. Somewhat like the idea of making it like a TV Show. Short but story was decent.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Recently discovered The Division 2.

Apparently this game came out before the pandemic and also predicted it. So-so gunplay, great rpg progression so far (I'm level 23/40), and the world is insanely beautiful. I like dungeon crawlers, I like exploring, I like shooting stuff, so this game fits pretty well.

Unfortunately, it has this weird, mouse sensitivity jitter issue that seems pretty tied into framerate for some reason. I dropped my mouse polling rate way down and that helped a ton, but it's still there for whatever reason.

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[–] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

Against the Storm. Its a roguelike colony builder where you're trying to establish colonies and ship resources back to the queen before she loses patience with you.

Its not so roguelike that bad rolls ruin a run but also you have to deal with a bunch of fantasy races who each have their own needs.

Its pretty good.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is crazy, I just woke up and I remembered I drunkenly installed a game yesterday but couldn't for the life of me remember what the game was. I opened my lemmy app and see this close to the top and remembered it was dying light: the beast. I finished the second one a couple of months ago and wanted to take a small break before diving into the new one, while also letting some more patches be released.

I'm currently playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 too but I'm unsure if it's for me. I see why it's so loved but I'm not at all good with tight timing stuff and I feel the exploration is a bit lackluster.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same. Looks good, but not for me. Nephew loves it.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I wanted to like it but I hate the parrying mechanic so much.

[–] schmups@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wild because I couldn’t enjoy the game without it.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm glad that feature's int here for you, in that case.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The parrying/timing mechanic is what stopped me from buying it, too. I've learned I'm too particular about games to buy them on release.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Monster Hunter World has been loads of fun the last couple of days <3

[–] Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been playing absolum with my buddy, as well as playing Tainted Grail since it was on sale. Absolum is an incredible co-op game, and tainted grail surprised me with how much I've enjoyed it. Really happy with them both all around.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

TG Sims me with its banger of s demo.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ghost of Yotei. I’m not far in but it’s very good so far if you like Ghost of Tsushima.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago

I actually liked Dying Light a lot more before the multiplayer update rebalanced everything. God damn single player game is now balanced for two people, even when you're solo.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dying light is number two on my list. I am replaying factorio then I will play factorio space and then Dying light.

How is the dying light campaign?

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Unless it’s Larian, it’s backlog or maybe an expansion. I haven’t even purchased the new Civ, and I’ve been playing that one since III.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

There is a rumor that Dying Light 2 will be given away by Epic in the next week or so. They are giving away a different game every day right now.

[–] KokoSabreScruffy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Guild Wars Reforged, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, Trine 5 and Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution(on the deck). I find it hard focusing on a single game.

[–] mr_noxx@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Enshrouded - it's an action RPG/survival crafter/base builder that's quite addictive. I'm surprised that it's not more well known, because it's incredibly fun. :)

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[–] OrganicWetNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Browsed the steam winter sales, was tempted to purchase something, but instead remembered that I have Dishonored 2 and never played it, cause my old PC struggled a little with it. Now I'm playing through the original to refresh my memory for the sequel and I didn't spend a dime on the sale!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Dishonored 2 is awesome. You're in for a treat.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I’ve been playing Metroid Prime 4. It’s ok, only more of what I expected, nothing incredible like Dread was for me. You can definitely feel how it’s cobbled together after being in development hell.

I finally picked up Dave the Diver on sale, looking forward to digging into that soon.

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