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What is Hexbear playing during the Holidays (hexbear.net)
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My corporate overlords decided I get some vacation during this time of year, it being the holidays and all that. With some free days on my hands I'm planning to mess around with a couple games.

First up is Millennia a 4X game kinda like Civ. The twist is there are different ages that go off the rails from real history—so you can get a steampunk age or one where aliens invade and stuff like that. I barely touched it when it came out but now, after 7 updates, I figure I will give it a proper try.

Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.

EDIT: OK im feeling a bit tired so Im just gonna play my current Crusader Kings 3 save till I go 2 bed. Happy Holidays everyone

What are the fine folks on Hexbear playing obama

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[–] CanYouFeelItMrKrabs@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Steamworld Heist 2! I played it a bunch over the summer and I'd like to finish it before the year ends

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I picked up Frostpunk 2 and its cool. I just rounded up a faction of fascists and deported them to go work in a coal mine outpost. stalin-pipe

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FUCK. You make me feel like I need to go and play it right now but I already have so many games isaac-cry

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure if you played the first but it's way different. The politics play a massive part. You can end up with a devoted following of fanatics that you can recruit into a militia and crush opposition factions. Awesome game.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I played the first one for a bit and it was like a survival city builder. Is the 2nd Frostpunk more like a political sim ? If thats the case its gonna be hard to resist NOT playing it. Is it more sandboxy or story focused ? In short. Can I get a rundown how it is ?

I dont care for most city builders (like I did enjoy tropico for example) but Im not really into cities skylines stuff I think at least.

If Frostpunk 2 feels more like a politics game I would be VERY interested (the very reason why some fans of frostpunk 1 dislike game 2 might be why it could be perfect for me I guess)

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Yep. Less of a city builder more of balancing relationships with various political factions. It's been fun so far

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

i was four years clean of world of warcraft...

i have spent the holidays playing world of warcraft doomjak

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you not get tired of playing the same game for years or do you really not have a choice like in other addictions?

I played it until Wrath came out and then stopped. I tried playing it again a couple years ago and it just seemed so damn boring to go through all of it again. I also have a friend that has never stopped playing, I don't know how you can do it.

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

eh, they update things often enough that it doesn't get stale to me and i was never actually much good anyway, so its not like i see endgame content enough to get tired of it. tbh i'm a little disquieted by how much things have changed in the past 2/3 expansions that i missed, but i get that thats just me being a boomer.

having played wow (sometimes obsessively) for 15 fucking years from launch when i was 6 years old, azeroth just feels like home to me. its a comfort and anxiety thing i guess. i hear the stormwind or teldrassil ambient music and i could fucking cry. i have no idea whether its a healthy coping mechanism, but being able to go to azeroth (nice, i know whats going on, people like me) after a day of real life (terrifying and depressing) is what got me through school and my home situation. a video game thats designed so that people can comfortably spend 12 hours a day in it doesn't necessarily have to be good, it just has to be better than the alternative of dealing with real life. very comfort blanket vibes ig, and i probably should have outgrown it. after covid isolation i thought i had outgrown it but evidently not

[–] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m this way with XIV. I think it’s more common than not. In real life I have to confront unmasked faces every day in the middle of a once in a lifetime pandemic, massive -isms from everyone around me at all times without end, a world that does not give a shit if I live or die or get to work in time (or at all for that matter), and somehow even further alienation from living in the only place affordable to me: rent controlled housing in a way-the-fuck-out-there suburb with a once an hour bus schedule to get anywhere. Life fucking sucks for a lot of people and even having a support network or a decent org or whatever else doesn't really change that for me — hell a lot of the time they’re just as much a part of the problems, too, with the way things are in this stupid country. It is nice to have this thing that I can return to however frequently or infrequently I want and get lost in an evocative and equally-alive otherworld where at least people aren’t champing at the bit to hate crime me or give me the fucking pox for walking to the grocery store or, even worse, daring to suggest the real world be a little bit different. It is 100% a comfort thing to me, too. I get it. And every now and then new stuff comes along and once every few years a bunch of new stuff comes along and all it takes is spending 15 bucks a month and maybe 30-40 bucks every two years, which is somehow still so, so much cheaper than trying to keep up with the rest of modern gaming.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you have fun?

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

unironically yes. its comforting to be able to log on to a world i understand after each day of staying with family and having to endure the loud, non-optional festive bullshit. i just also know that i probably shouldn't be giving activision money and i should go outside or something instead of being a terminal G*mer again

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[–] damnatum_seditiosus@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

I'm 4 years in my relapse of Wow, exclusively classic with a bunch of nice folks, kinda wholesome too because we used to have a trans guild lead and everyone was fine with it.

I have up and downs with how much time I spend on it on a weekly basis.

[–] afters@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i just finished sekiro. isshin fight.... wow!!

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Hesitation is defeat.

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

Isshin and Gael are the two most absolute-cinema bossfights in all of gaming

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

My partner and I picked up Mouthwashing and played through it over two days. Absolutely loved it, would heavily recommend. Great indie shorter game with excellent visuals, a great story, and phenomenal sound design.

We’re currently progressing through all of the storylines in Class of ‘09: The Re-Up. Edgy early 00s /b/ style humor. Very funny. Might not be for everyone—look up “class of 09 the anime” on the Tube and if you like that, you’ll like the games.

When we’re not playing together, I’m going through the Elden Ring expansion. It is extremely hard but I love it. I was able to beat the first boss on my first try, and the fight was INCREDIBLY well-designed. Loved the monster, loved the music, loved the style… so good. Heart rate when I beat it was 170.

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

dwarf fortress, at work, on the company's dime 😎 make me come in on a holiday, I'm gonna milk it for all its worth!

[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Picked it back up, putting a few minutes into a new fortress every time my baby goes down for a ☼nap☼ over here

Playing a cozy old self modded v44.12

Surprising myself with how much menu diving is muscle memory

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Inkulinati! I'm going to pick up other stuff from sales (probably) but I got Inkulinati and Tactical Breach Wizards.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Baldurs gate 3, just got to a choice to join the mind flayers and I'm really torn as to what to do. Also walkabout mini golf and jaws pinball in VR

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fractal Block world is sick as hell

fractal based world geometry with the main mechanic being growing or shrinking by a factor of 16x

you start in the tutorial rooms and then shortly after it has you grow a couple times and it turns out the whole tutorial area was a few tiny boxes in this other tutorial room.

Then you realize the corner of your screen says level 28 now when it used to say level 30, which means the box you're in NOW is ALSO a tiny little room inside another tiny little room on an insignificant speck inside an insignificant speck on the edge of a mote of dust in the middle of nothing, and you can keep going deeper yet! (or you can also get BIGGER and see what's that way (its wild))

Most areas are recursive and interlinked between eachother in a fascinating way that feels like getting sucked down into infinity (there are also amazing areas like the Menger Sponge fractal you can just explore around and have fun!

I recommend everyone who sees this post buy it and play it if you have the means, it could run on a potato and is currently on sale for like 4 bucks on steam

amazing, fascinating game that I can't get enough of conceptually.

Its rough around the edges combat wise, so I recommend you just play on tranquility mode so you don't have to fight or grind mazes to level up(unless you like that kind of thing like I do in which case watch out this could eat your life lol), you can just explore this amazing and bizarre world

give it a look

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I won a run of modded FTL earlier today

Building a new PC with the help of my friend tomorrow after work. Gonna play the Half Sword playtest and probably torrent cyberpunk first lol

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Armored Core VI is so fucking good

This and Sekiro has me convinced Fromsoft needs to stop making Soulslikes and needs to branch out like this instead

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I too am playing binging ac6 atm, it really captures fast anime mech fighting in video game form perfectly and as always the art direction is flawless.

Post meg

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Cassette Beasts. It's so good.

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Picked up the Age of Wonders 4 expansion, so tomorrow when I'm back home, that and continuing my current game of Balders gate.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

OH nice. I really need to put some more time into AoW 4 I played it back during release for like 30h but havent really touched it since then. I did really like what I played during my time though.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Getting some hours in Victoria 3.

Also War Thunder. The grind never stops yes-honey-left

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh how is Vicky 3 going for you ? I wanted to try and start another game of it during the holidays again (I thought I knew how to play Vicky but since they introduced Mapi Im pretty bad at it)

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I'm slowly getting enough hours in to have failed my way to understanding how to play the game

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just picked up a little indie game called Dungeons of Hinterberg. So far, it's pretty neat! Got some of that Persona/Stardew social stuff along with 3D zelda (pre-BOTW) dungeons and puzzles. The combat isn't great, but the vibes of the game are interesting and I'm having a really good time with it. The story seems like it might go some interesting places with this town getting exploited by a tourism industry.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Palworld. The ball sheep yearn for the mines.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Im curious bout this game. Can you play it offline and in singleplayer ?

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I can on my pirated version at least

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[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Loaded up my Valheim world the other night so I could decorate my longhouse with wreaths and yule trees but I still had all the yule stuff I put down last time I played so I just did other stuff

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Been doing a lot of Valheim too, started a big mod world and am having a blast with some of the procedurally generated quests from the mods. Valheim is one of those games that has a lot of good bones, but IMO fails to reinforce its best gameplay loops and falls into a trap of escalating difficulty in kinda dumb ways.

[–] MrStalin@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

i've decided to pick up warframe again after ages of not playing it. i'm starting over completely with a new account and everything since i never got very far in the first place from when i first started playing

i'm actually finding myself enjoying this a bit this time

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Binding BLAAAAAADE (Roy's Departure starts playing).

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I'm on a Famicom kick and I'm playing the first DBZ game attack of the Saiyans.

[–] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

The spawn got Planet Zoo for Jesus' Birthday, so that'll be on heavy rotation. I downloaded Dave the Diver and the new Indiana Jones games but haven't gotten to them yet.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I gotta spend some time painting some Warhammer and Battletech guys. I'm hoping to finish 1000x Resist and just impulse bought Metaphor ReFantanzio

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I gotta spend some time painting some Warhammer and Battletech guys.

Hell yeah, I did some painting this morning. Check out this sick ass bird elf (extremely WIP)

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Looks great - I bet it'll be gorgeous once you're finished!

[–] MrStalin@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i got into painting warhammer minis a few months ago though i've slowed down a bit since then. i gotta get back to it because i've already gotten myself a big pile of shame

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I started with "oh, I'll just make a Kill Team set and see how that goes" a few months ago, too, and now I've just impulse bought a Combat Patrol set, which is just a "quick start your hobby backlog" pack lol.

Super slow progress all around since I'm a parent. I need to post some of my WIPs on c/hobby

I've also been digging through some of my old board games and have been thinking about painting the little figures from Shadows Over Camelot. I probably will want a break from science fiction characters eventually!

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Going through the Boonta Vista catalogue to listen to all the Clipping Reports. Oh, like games

Darktide and barotrauma because I like having a grim claustrophobic scary time

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[–] amberSuperMario@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I found out last night that Visual Pinball X actually runs on Linux now so I stayed up late trying it out. The setup is still pretty confusing but I was able to get some tables running at least!

[–] GrosMichel@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I started that SM64DS ROMhack 'The Koopa Who Stole Christmas' and the first two stages are nice but the 2 after it are really clunky, especially with the inferior DS controls. Might go back to it, but will probably drop it.

Gunna' finish 100%ing Captain Toad tonight.

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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

I picked up the original Half Life and it's been a lot of fun. Black Mesa's graphics look absolutely incredible but it's clear to me that more playtesting went into the original and that makes the game both easier and more fun.

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