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?

  • Grangle1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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          1 year ago

          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.

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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    still tears of the kingdom. before that was a long dry spell for the switch because of the steam deck I got

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      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?

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    Same for me. I will keep going with tears. I am 80 hours and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface. There’s so much to do.

    Also I will play a bit of Pokémon Scarlet to farm the Chesnaught and Donphan paradox forms raids.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it seems like it’s a minimum of 100 hours game, unless you don’t do anything other than the main quest.

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    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)

  • soybeanscheesesticks@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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      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.

    • iamlyth@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

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    1 year ago

    Finally finished my vanilla Persona 5 playthrough on my PS4 a few weeks back, so last week started my playthrough of Persona 5 Royal, and will likely continue that.

  • PencilPossessor@lemmy.world
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    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

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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      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.

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        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 ;)

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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          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 😀

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

    This is me right now. I owe myself do some exploring of the depths and sky islands. Having played BOTW the surface is so familiar that I kinda went quickly around it and probably advanced way too quickly on the main quests. It’s time for me to slow down and do the exploration.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPM
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      I played BOTW at launch, so while I do recognize few places here and there, for me most of the land mass is new, and with the different abilities, and all the caves and wells, there is so much to explore.

      Sky islands I have explored least of, and need to focus more on. Specially because there are some things you can only get on Sky islands. 😀

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        Yes, of course. I need to explore more caves and wells too. And even familiar places have changed. But I feel like I went too fast because, despite the changes, it’s still very familiar. It took me no effort to get to the main villages, because I kinda knew how to get there. It felt familiar yet new.

        But that familiarity kept me from exploring the new places -and the dangerous places in the surface too-. I want to focus on that now. It’s gonna be fun.