Ask HN: What games are you playing? I'll go first: GTA 5 and Wordle. |
Ask HN: What games are you playing? I'll go first: GTA 5 and Wordle. |
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?
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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/
Cyberpunk 2077: Played. Really a great game despite the hiccups.
Path of Exile - Sporadic league player before I burn out to due to lack of commitment/skill.
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I have a huge library of games, none of which I play anymore except the 3 above
Deliver Us The Moon
Detroit: Become Human
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!
