Happy new year!
What are you all playing?
Bonus question, what’s your most anticipated game of 2024?
I splurged on the Steam winter sale and bought a set of smaller games.
Right now I’m busy playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist which has been more fun than expected. I really like the story and the multiple paths and endings. The card games are meh, but once you find a good modifier they become very easy.At the same time I’m also playing Shadows over Loathing which is very very funny in short sessions.
I’ve just finished replaying the base FF7 Remake, in preparation of FF7 Rebirth. Also I haven’t touched INTERmission yet.
Some of the games that I’m excited to play in 2024: FF7 Rebirth, Metaphor ReFantazio, Eiyuuden Chronicles, and maybe Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Started cranking Monster Hunter again.
Finally finished Iceborne. Monster hunter’s gameplay always blows me away.deleted by creator
Happy new year.
I’ve been playing Remnant 2 which I’m really enjoying. Fairly similar to the first one, the moment to moment gunplay and exploration just clicks for me.
Also done a few rounds of Take and Hold in Hotdogs horseshoes and hand grenades which is still my favourite VR game. The new Institution level is kicking my butt though, haven’t worked out the best spots yet.
I’m really looking forward to Hades 2 this year. I especially enjoyed the die to get more story mechanics from the first one.
My fiance and I just finished the DLC for The Case of the Golden Idol, and not only is that game awesome, but the story hooks for the DLC were a pleasant surprise. We can’t wait for the sequel.
I’ve been playing a lot of Pillars of Eternity, and I made it to Act 2. It’s impressive how insanely good this game is. And then on top of that, it’s impressive that I think everything I like about it is done better in Baldur’s Gate 3.
I finally made it to Master rank in Street Fighter 6! Still some input frustrations until the game can get a season 2 patch, but I’m just happy to finally have something like an Elo rather than the superficial league system, even though my master rating settled slightly below the default 1500 value.
Diablo 4 the whole week.
I’m near the end of the main story, and started the final act. It’s kinda whatever, it has some good moments, but the first half was a bit boring. After you get your mount, the world is much more fun to get around. It’s just massive and there’s so much shit to do, it’s pretty ridiculous. Lots is repeated of course, just like every open world game, but I still have a good time.
Gear progression is pretty lame right now, since I need to finish the main story to access the higher difficulties, and gear doesn’t drop above a certain level. So I’ve not really gotten any real upgrades in like 30 hours.
What’s really terrible though is the network performance. Running around solo in the world is fine for the most part, but some of the event areas, where you’re fighting alongside other players, it can be terrible. Constant lags, stutter, and rubber banding. I really need to check if it’s a problem on my end, maybe my pi-hole is blocking some domains or something.
The lags and stuttering could possibly also be a hardware issue too, depending on what platform you’re playing on. When I first started playing Diablo 4 a little after it first came out, it was on Xbox One, and I had terrible lag around legion events and word bosses, like you do. But when I finally upgraded to the Series X, I noticed that the game greatly improved, and I rarely have any lag problems anymore, so I’m sure an upgrade in specs helped.
I’m on PC, decently powerful (100+ FPS with an Ultrawide resolution). I read that maybe crossplay could be an issue, so I disabled that, and just did a Legion event by myself, but it was still horrible.
It’s mainly the Legion events, since they’re the most frequent for me (World Tier 2). I barely see any other players in the world, but occasionally in one of the Vampire zones, where it’s fine. World Bosses have been alright, but I’ve not done as much of them.
I’ve only played Civilization V since New Year, but I’m thinking of giving Old World another try sometime. On the surface it’s something I should really like, but it hasn’t really grabbed me.
Nothing I’ve seen on the 2024 slate has me really excited yet, but I’m somewhat interested to see how Manor Lords and Life by You turn out.
Diablo 4: Season 2 - Got all the items for Midwinter Blight, so now I’m back to working on season objectives. I only have 2 more to complete in order to get all the rewards. Right now my focus is on upgrading 5 glyphs to level 21. So far I’ve completed 3.
Diablo 3 - Logged in to do the Darkening of Tristram anniversary event for fun and realized I was missing a reward for a challenge I have never got around to completing, so I’m currently working on killing all the unique monsters for the event for the classic demon portrait. I’m only missing two and it seems like those bastards are just refusing to spawn.
Alan Wake 2 - I still haven’t finished this, and it’s mostly because I keep getting sidetracked with exploring and trying to find every little thing. But I am loving every second of the story, I don’t even know how to describe it. I’ve been having so many emotions seeing characters from the first game being what they are now. I’m also starting to run into some visual bugs that are weird, but nothing game breaking. I feel like I’m toward the end of the game, so I’ve been backtracking a lot to find things that I may have missed. I’m kind of hoping I get it done this week, because I would love to get to the Dead Space remake.
As for what I’m looking forward to in 2024, I’m really hoping Outlast Trails gets out of Early Access. I love the Outlast series, but don’t really like jumping into games when they haven’t been ‘officially’ released.
I think Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is supposed to come out this year (hopefully), but I don’t think I’ve seen an official release date yet.
