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Ask HN: What games are you playing?

19 pointsPandabob45 comments

I'll go first: GTA 5 and Wordle.

It Takes Two - super cute and inventive two player co-op. Perfect to play with your spouse and not too hard for non-gamers.

Deep Rock Galactic - great co-op PvE with a lot of surprising depth and cool procedural generation of levels, some really great challenges

Hunt: Showdown - intense PvPvE with fantastic gunplay in a well-drawn, period-accurate Lovecraftian setting

Phasmophobia - ghost hunting co-op with enough randomness and variety to stay spooky over hundreds of hours

I like co-op. What can I say?

> It Takes Two - super cute and inventive two player co-op. Perfect to play with your spouse and not too hard for non-gamers.

Kept trying with my spouse but I got too stressed out actually. Reminds me of overcooked. I could only keep going with overcooked after watching people play the levels on youtube (so, cheating basically).

What part did you get stuck on?

The vacuum monster I think.

A lot of VR lately. I got a Quest 2 not too long ago. Haven't really messed with VR since the Virtual Boy, so it's been quite the education how far VR has come since.

A lot of what I keep going back to for it is Beat Saber, Ragnarock (Viking drumming game, reminds me of when I played Timpani in band back in high school, I even had four drums like the game does), Puzzling Places (putting together a 3D puzzle, works super well in VR), Lone Echo, Half Life Alyx.

It quickly made me change my plans for a video game I'm working on in my spare time, and now I'm planning to add VR support to it. Always kind of wanted to anyway, but it was more of a "well, maybe someday". It's a higher priority now.

Walkabout Golf VR is amazing too. I dismissed it as some cheap generic game, but it's really well done, feels just like mini golf, except with courses that can't exist in real life, and it's tons of fun.

Resident Evil 4 VR is also an amazing port. Really looking forward to more VR ports of older games because it's a totally different experience.

Oh man, I absolutely meant to include Walkabout Golf VR. It's excellent. I do keep coming back to that. Its mini-putt physics are dead-on.

Also Elevens Table Tennis is great too. Feels pretty accurate to me. Also seems like if I played it enough I could get better at real life table tennis.

I'm having a bit of difficulty getting into RE4. I kept getting killed in the first village where the chainsaw man is, near the beginning, and I was playing it on the easier setting.

I'm not bad at games or anything, I did fine in Half Life Alyx for example, but for some reason I kept getting swarmed and I run way out of town while shooting at them and run out of ammo then getting bit as I try to melee them.

I'll give it a try at some point, but for the moment I deleted it to make space for other games (I've been trying quite a bit, trying to get a good feel of what's out there as "research" for my game...

Just found out about Viveport the other day, where you can pay a monthly fee to play a bunch of VR games. Assuming that works with the Quest 2 I'll sign up for a subscription so I can knock out a bunch of games and find out which ones I like.

> I'm having a bit of difficulty getting into RE4. I kept getting killed in the first village where the chainsaw man is, near the beginning, and I was playing it on the easier setting.

I agree that was quite a shock for me too. The enemies are infinite, I ended up circling around the village until the bell rang. However you can find a shotgun/grenade in the second floor of one of the houses, you can then exit to the roof and run around there, you can also lock yourself in the top of the bell tower (via ladder) and hide in a corner so the molotovs don't get you. You can also barracade yourself in one of the houses and push wardrobes so they cover the windows. Lots of options, but the game design isn't great!

Another general tip is to headshot them until they stumble, then run up to them and kick them. When they're on the floor slash them with the knife until they die. That's the most efficient way to kill them and save ammo. Headshots seem a lot easier in VR than with a controller! Later on when underground, if you see water below you with fish in it, throw a grenade then climb down and collect tons of free food!

(Separately) I am enjoying the Quest 2 but would be open to buying a gaming PC if PCVR is worth the money. Any PCVR-exclusive games you've enjoyed? Other than Alyx of course!

Yakuza 0. I've been playing it as "virtual tourism", it's a faithful recreation of one small part of 1980s Tokyo. The environment is really lovingly crafted, and the main story is B Movie schlock in the best way.

I used to game casually on PC years before.

I don't anymore. I have other things to do that I give more priority to.

I played GTA 5 some months ago. The whole story mode.

I have purchased Factorio some weeks ago and I love it. I have played it for some hours. Would love to play more.

Read Dead Redemption 2 looked very interesting when I saw a friend play it.

I would like to buy and play it someday.

Into The Breach is another game that I have played recently.

Are you saying you quit playing on PC to play on console?

What? No.

I always play on and played on PC.

Something I tried for a while, but it did not stick much mostly due to lack of time (and interest)- emulating old comsoles like Nintendo 3DS on laptop and playing them with a USB controller.

I just wanted to check out the Zelda series. I played one for a while, but the game has glitches.

I will return for more when I have time.

I play this -> https://wallsmash.com/

you just took an hour from me!!! :shakes fist:

I usually play 2 games at a time: one with story and more or less complex, which requires my attention, and another (usually sports games) to listen to podcast in the background. Right now my first one would be completing the 100% of the last Kirby, and the second one would be Gran Turismo 7 (what a great game).

I just finished Outer Wilds, it was a surprising game, worth to play.

I've been curious for a while with this game. Seeing it on HN, maybe it's time to give it a chance.

It's a kind of game that I think the less you know, the better the experience. At least for me it was quite enjoyable in this way.

It’s one of the greats in my view. They also released a DLC called Echoes of the Eye that is good to try out even if it’s highly recommended to play through after finishing the base game.

Fifa 22 occasionally and nothing else. Anybody interested in learning can get in touch. Disclaimer: i can only teach actual gameplay, not tactics, game glitches etc.

Currently playing The Mana World, a 2D MMORPG that has GBA graphics Here's a screenshot: https://wiki.themanaworld.org/images/thumb/5/52/Caution_Avoi...

Half Life Alyx. For the second time. Just epic.

Elden ring, Halo Infinite

Zandronum online, mainly CDI, Shotgun Frenzy.

Recently (after another HN thread) picked up Tiberian Dawn in OpenRA. Despite 20 years since the last time I played I still get outraged when my MRLS get ravaged while tanks (even on attack anything setting) doesn't care a bit.

Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

Grim Fandango

The LOUD mod

Halo Spartan Assault + Strike

I keep a blog about the stuff I've been playing: https://theandrewbailey.com/index/Gaming/

Factorio + Space mods - can colonize other planets and build space ships

Europa Universalis: It never ends. One thing I really like about this game is the ability to build complex diplomatic relations.

Cyberpunk 2077: Played. Really a great game despite the hiccups.

Dota2 - There simple is no better MOBA.

Path of Exile - Sporadic league player before I burn out to due to lack of commitment/skill.

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Still fun.

indeed

Chess, Factorio and Sudoku.

I have a huge library of games, none of which I play anymore except the 3 above

SOMA - really awesome survival horror game with a great plot.

Deliver Us The Moon

Detroit: Become Human

Quake remastered. The new episodes are pretty good.

Call of Duty Warzone. It's free

Fallout New Vegas and 4, on Linux

Street Fighter V, Skullgirls.

Magic the Gathering: Arena

I used to play Pokemon Trading Card, the game, and started to realized I didn't have any chance on getting good cards from the packs I got for free. Like if you don't pay they make the game real difficult, doesn't this happen with Magic?

I only play limited (draft and sealed deck) game formats, where everyone is by definition on equal footing. There are entry fees to these games and prizes for doing well, so if you do well enough, you don't need to pay anything. Also, Arena has a system for constantly giving you some gold if you play often enough, which also helps. In my case, I've put in $100 into my account last August, have easily played couple hundred of hours since then and still have around $40 left. I'm a decent player though.

Roguebook, Rocksmith 2014

Oh and Semantle

Deep Rock Galactic

Warcraft 2

EVE Online

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