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What are you all playing lately? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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I'm always wishing there was more interaction and discussion on the niche Lemmy groups. Today I got to wondering if there were some games we could focus on to help foster our small community. But what is everyone playing or interested in playing? Are we all off playing our own obscure indie favorites or are there some games we share?

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[–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I consider myself a Souls veteran and more toward the 'gud' side of the scale but Shadow of the Erdtree was a real kick in the teeth. I mean I loved it but Fromsoft didn't hold back on the difficulty. Even with all of the new collectable powerups it's burly as hell.

On the driving topic - maybe you can help me. I've got a bunch of racing games but am having trouble picking one. It'd be nice to have one that's easy enough to get into but realistic enough that it takes a while to master.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (15 children)

    Putting the blackgaol knight where he is is a frankly hilarious statement of how the DLC is gonna be. I'm good enough at the games to beat everything without cheese or summons (I do think that summoning is fine, I just don't personally enjoy it unless it's an NPC I like), but I find that some Elden Ring bosses push the edge of what I have the reaction speed for. Morgott and Maliketh were particularly troublesome for me. I haven't gotten to anyone in the DLC that has hit that mark of pace yet, but I assume someone will

    I'm not super knowledgeable on racing games, but I'm happy to try to help! What have you got available and what do you like?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I had to skip that knight! I got deaded too many times and just left hahaha. I’m in my third legacy dungeon in Shadow and it’s pretty brutal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Which one is the third? I've done Belurat and Castle Ensis (if it counts?), only just started poking around in Shadow Keep but it looks absolutely wild so far. I also made it to the putrescent knight's arena but I've not tried actually fighting it yet, just jumped in once to see what was going on at the end of a session

    The knight was pretty brutal, but fortunately this run has been my "learn to parry" one, so I came basically perfectly equipped to fight any player-model enemy that isn't using colossal weapons

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    There's one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can't wait

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oh man… i don’t wanna spoil anything, but uhhhh I think I have to come back to it with full blessing. I can’t get close even with a buddy who’s extremely good.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn't played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Did you go into a regular, boring, nondescript building and then take the longest elevator ever? Because I did the and it brought tears to my eyes when I finally got down there (also first real souls game, I only played a bit of Demon’s Souls PS3 before Elden Ring)

    Edit: also this tree is far beyond any boss in the main game, and insane compared to the other expansion bosses. I don’t even think I need to kill it to progress.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.

    I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it's intended as an endgame expansion and it's also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system

    I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they're just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I’ll have to explore much more! I’m so curious as to how much more I haven’t explored, but I haven’t looked anything up—I played through the original game blind and I want to do the same with the expansion. But it’s soooo difficult!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This exchange just popped back into my head for some reason. Your description of the approach to the flower was spot-on! Turns out it just happens to be a similar approach to Siofra. Took me a few attempts, and fire damage is a bit of a miserable situation for my dex build with a bit of int (level 150, scadutree... 9, I think? Maybe 10?), but I got there. I found that the best thing I could do was actually just to absolutely max out my own durability and accept that I was only getting one attack off per opportunity. I was having a really rough time avoiding the thorn eruption attacks, so the crimson seed talisman basically giving me two extra flasks worth of health was great. So long as I used fire damage and hit it in the "face" I didn't really need to do anything else to get plenty of damage

    I have since gone through the specimen storehouse and found my way into Rauh, which I was absolutely delighted by because it looks exactly like Shadow of the Colossus and I'd been itching to get there ever since I found that waygate that gives you a preview of it

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ha yeah that knight is a pretty brutal eye opener!

    I got a Humble Bundle with a bunch of racers so I have a bunch but I'd even buy one if it's the right one. I'd love to relive the glory days of Gran Tourismo with the career mode and collecting cars and modifying them. I've done Horizon and that sorta scratches the itch but it's just soooo arcadey. But it's the closest I've found so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh hey, I grew up playing Gran Turismo as well! I actually dug out the old Playstation 1 when I was seeing family last Christmas and we had a splitscreen session racing each other on the 1997 one. It was a blast

    That kind of in-depth career mode is oddly rare in modern sim racers. A lot of them are very online PvP-focussed. And I get that, but still, it'd be nice to have more. Things that come to mind are:

    • The original Assetto Corsa is a bit old now and the Content Manager and Custom Shader Patch mods are basically mandatory, BUT it is extremely flexible to mod and you can make it look exactly like a Gran Turismo game if you want. It has a career mode, but it's only a series of specific racing challenges and there's no collecting or modifying of cars
    • Assetto Corsa Evo is in very early access right now, but it might just be exactly what you're looking for when it does fully come out. It's due to have a single player career mode, it looks like it's going to do some kind of car collection mechanic, and it even has honest-to-god Gran Turismo style licence tests
    • Automobilista 2 does not have a career mode (yet? It's on the main menu but greyed out), but apparently a fan decided they were going to do it themselves. AMS also comes with the advantage of having much better multiplayer than Assetto Corsa if you want to play with friends; AC's multiplayer is quite limited and does not let you add AI to fill out the grid
    • Grid Legends might be worth a look, but I can't tell you what it's actually like to play because I haven't tried it. I have played Dirt Rally 2 by the same devs and it does have a very GT-esque career mode. It describes itself as simcade, though, so it may just be another Forza for you depending on how it drives
    • Le Mans Ultimate is a more specialised experience, of course, but it's due to get a proper in-depth career mode soon

    It is a pretty dim time for the single player sim racing experience, but there's fun to be had!

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