Hello Everyone!
It’s time for this week’s, “What are you playing” thread.
I wasn’t able to give as much time to gaming as I thought, who knew running a community can take so much time. Even when all members are so great, and I don’t have to moderate anything.
I am still playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, mainly focusing on side quests and exploration right now. With so much to explore, this is going to take a long time.
Other than that, me and wife just got NSO Expansion pass, and started the Happy Home Paradise DLC, while resuming our Animal Crossing play-through. Just cleaning the long neglected island, and helping Harv build the shops.
What about all of you? What are you playing?
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I’m getting ready for a local Splatoon 3 tournament in Philly this weekend, put together a quick pickup team for it. Also slowly working through Persona 5 Royal, just finished the third palace.
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Hey, good luck on the tournament! Oh wait, is it already over? How did it go?
Persona 5 Royal is a looong game. Have fun!
We went 1-2 in the round robin, which I’m plenty satisfied with. Wasn’t really expecting to win with a pickup drafted less than a week ago, especially after seeing our first opponents had matching shirts with their team’s logo on it. But somehow that was the set we won.
I never got around to playing Breath of the Wild so the release of ToTK felt like a great time to finally give it a try! Still working my way through veeeery slowly, just about to take on my second divine beast.
They have completely separate roles and moods. Breath of the Wild feels so much like Princess Mononoke and it’s space and exploration feels like a gaming equivalent of meditating
Heh, I do that too. With so many games to play, many times I only end up playing the game when it’s sequel is announced or released.
BOTW is a great game, no need to rush through for TOTK, it’s not going anywhere. Just play at your own pace and enjoy the game.
still tears of the kingdom. before that was a long dry spell for the switch because of the steam deck I got
Switch is a great place for indies… but Steam is even better.
How is Steam Deck’s size, looks too big for longer sessions. Is it comfortable?
never had an issue with it. it’s ergonomically perfect for me and more comfortable than switch with original joycons. I do often play it docked though.
That’s nice. I haven’t actually held it, just thought it looked too big from online photos.
Good to know that it’s comfortable.
Almost at the end of the vanilla portion of my 100-hour journey through Persona 5 Royal. That’ll leave just the extra semester/true ending left to play before I can finally move on to Tears of the Kingdom, lol. I tend not to play more than one game at a time, especially not really big games like P5R or TotK. Each deserves my full attention or I’d never finish them.
Are you planning to Play Persona 5 Strikers and / or just announced Persona 5 Tactica?
I am right there with you with not playing more than one big game. They do deserve the full attention.
Not Strikers, I have enough musou-style games and I don’t need another one. I haven’t seen Tactica’s trailer yet, but if it’s a strategy RPG like Fire Emblem or Triangle Strategy I’ll probably get it since that’s my favorite genre.
Tactica looks like a tactical game like FE or Triangle Strategy, with chibbi-ish characters. Would like to hear your opinions when you finally see it.
Oh yeah TLOZ:TOTK is my go to right now. I’m at the point where I can battle Mr demon king but been side questing and all that jazz now first. I wanna go in and just obliterate him, so I’m focusing on getting the rest of the shrines etc beforehand and collecting better armour blah blah blah
I hope the final fight is better than BOTW. Calamity Gannon was kind of anti-climatic boss. Fighting a group of Guardians was tougher than Gannon. 😀
Good luck clearing the game.
Disclaimer I also haven’t fought the final boss.
I wouldn’t count on the Demon King being a terrible difficult fight. You have to remember that it’s a storyline quest, so it has to be achievable by the least common denominator. If you really want a challenge, you should explore the depths under the southwest region of Hyrule Field ;)
You are right, it makes sense.
I actually don’t want a very tough fight either, I remember some older games where I wouldn’t have any trouble through out the game and then I would get stuck at the final boss. But they have conditioned me to not feel the game has ended until I go through a tough final boss.
I actually did explored those area, but I was mostly running away from things 😀
Tears
of the Kingdom?
Correct!!! It’s sooooo good!!
It is! What a gaaaaame!
I’m bloody addicted mate!
I’m playing Octopath Traveller 2! Just grinding at this point before I start the ending :)
Octopath Traveller is pretty high on my list. I never got around to playing the first one, so want to play it soon, so that I can get ready to play Octopath Traveller 2 in a few months.
Nice! Yeah the second one is way better imo – a lot of these games involves grinding and they introduced the ability to run combat at double speed. I can no longer play the first one because it feels so painfully slow to me 😅
That is why I want to play the first one first. I have heard the second one improves everything about the game, so going back to the first one will be really tough afterwards.
Monster hunter rise was on sale so I might give it try I loved the previous game in the series. I also need to “finish” kenshi at some point
How do you play Monster Hunter? Single player or with friends?
I have been thinking about trying Monster Hunter World with some friends, if there are enough of use who are willing to play it.
Still have the Trial of the Sword quest from BOTW to finish before going to kick sludge Ganon’s ass.
Finally I managed to play and not lose interest, which is great, because I was mega hyped when it was announced.
And it is an amazin game (even if I still love A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess better)Are you planning to give tears of a kingdom a shot? I personally loved it as well
I’ll probably be playing TotK until Starfield comes out. Though playing TotK makes me want to play other Zelda games so I might try to squeeze in WW or TP.
Starfield is my most anticipated game, but I don’t have a PC that can play it (or an Xbox), so won’t be able to play on launch. Hope they don’t mess it up.
I am also looking for more Zelda, but not going to start anything until I finish TOTK.
I’ve been splitting my time mostly between ToTK and Metroid Prime Remaster, feels like a pretty good combo to break things up between. Just finally picked up It Takes Two, so I’ll probably see if the wife wants to game with me a bit tonight or tomorrow after she’s home from work.
I’m playing Tears of The Kingdom of course. Side from that I’m feeling like playing Persona 4 Golden. My local weather an vibes feel kinda like this game right now, do maybe that will inspire me trip finish it.
Persona 4 Golden is a great game, how far along are you? Or going to start a new play-through?
I think I’m currently a little after Kanji’s Midnight Channel. I’ll continue from there.
Ah, good luck!
I’ve been attempting Etrian Odyssey III on the switch but the controller feels clunky for mapping and the game feels so much more challenging than I remember ~10 years ago? lol.
I think we were used to playing difficult games back then, with all the improvements and changes in game design, the old games feel more difficult than they used to.
Have you tried auto-mapping? Does that make game less clunky? Or does it reduces the enjoyment of the game?
Thanks for the reminder about auto-mapping! I haven’t got to try it out. I feel like that will help, I loved mapping on the 3DS but I don’t think It’ll hinder my enjoyment on the switch.
Do try it, and share your feedback!
TOTK still, because once Pikmin 4 comes out I will switch to that
still haven’t even beat a single ‘regional phenomena’ yet… can’t stop myself from randomly exploring, which is honestly my favorite part of botw/totk anyway
@lackthought @slimerancher I did rito village
Recently got Splatoon 3, really fun when I don’t get disconnected
How is the network now? I heard disconnection was a common problem in the beginning?
I’ve only played for a couple of weeks, but I’d say over 50% of games end early because of a player leaving or network errors.
Oh. Isn’t there any penalty system for users who leave the game early?
Nintendo really need to improve their network, their games are most troublesome to play online. I regularly have lag when playing Smash, but I can play Brawlhalla without any issue. Same for a few other games.
