Stormworks are great, from similar games there are also Simple Rockets and Simple Planes, both on Steam. Simple Rockets has KSP vibe to it.
What other games are we all playing?
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I really didn't like Stormworks initially. Then I discovered the different camera control schemes. The default one was terrible. Had to lookup block deletion, too. It really would need a tutorial.
Finished Return of the Obra Dinn on week end. Neat little puzzle game by the guy who did Papers, Please. Has interesting twist with visiting the still scenes of the fates of all the crew and passengers, some must be deduced.
Still playing The Hunter: Call of the Wild.
I think I found my new time sink in this game.
It's a relaxed game which looks incredible with quite the challenge sometimes to get what you're after.
I got about all dlc now except the duck and goose hunting and every map is verry well made with it's own atmosphere and challenges.
If you're into hunting games this is the best out there imho, on Xbox anyway.
I think I found my new time sink in this game.
It's a relaxed game which looks incredible with quite the challenge sometimes to get what you're after.
I got about all dlc now except the duck and goose hunting and every map is verry well made with it's own atmosphere and challenges.
If you're into hunting games this is the best out there imho, on Xbox anyway.
I played that one for quite a bit. (Only the vanilla when it first came out)
I can agree that it is an incredibly chill and relaxing walking sim with beautiful landscapes. I've never managed to kill anything, though. And not for a lack of trying. I just suck as a hunter, I guess. But I love hiking.
Hiking....is that like proper walking but where someone keeps putting hills in the way?I played that one for quite a bit. (Only the vanilla when it first came out)
I can agree that it is an incredibly chill and relaxing walking sim with beautiful landscapes. I've never managed to kill anything, though. And not for a lack of trying. I just suck as a hunter, I guess. But I love hiking.
I played that one for quite a bit. (Only the vanilla when it first came out)
I can agree that it is an incredibly chill and relaxing walking sim with beautiful landscapes. I've never managed to kill anything, though. And not for a lack of trying. I just suck as a hunter, I guess. But I love hiking.
When I first started I was wondering too where all the animals were, the one deer I saw ran the moment I lifted my rifle.
It's definitely not an arcade shooter and you need to take the time and use stealth to get what you want.
After a while you get the hang of it though, never run and watch the wind direction at all times lest they smell you before you spot them, quite realistic actually, also finding need zones (rest, eat and drinking) is incredibly importand since they tell you when during the day a certain animal is using it.
Once you get some callers things start to get a bit easier.
My lodge is filling up nicely with trophies now and it hardly takes more then ten minutes or so to find something.
I'm realy liking this game, hunting with a buddy in multiplayer is very nice too.
Had dropped Sekiro not long after starting it and hitting a wall in the form of the flaming bull and Lady Butterfly, and put it down as probably beyond me in terms of reflexes and coordination. Decided to get back into it last week and it clicked big time this time round, so am enjoying it a lot. The map is now wide open, I've faced a lot more bosses and minibosses, each one its own mini-puzzle, with a fantastically cinematic fight when it clicks.
Lots of Forza 7 and Horizon 4 last few days, having great fun. Also got Lego Championship for Horizon after debating it for some time thinking that its just silly buuuut... holy hell its fun! It adds plethora of ridiculous activities apart from racing and the full lego made map is a great distraction. I`m still surprised that AAA game can have SO MUCH to do in it and does not attack you with microtransactions and pay to play walls.
Got Forza Horizon 4 myself a few weeks ago, didn't play a driving game since the good old days of Test Drive Unlimited, and holy smokes, the genre has evolved quite a bit since then.... And all those cars...
Also got Ride 3, which is pretty much the same but for motorcycles, unfortunately lacks the open world roaming of Horizon or Test Drive Unlimited, but it's still a great motorbike game.
Also in the genre tried The Crew 2, but it's way too arcadey for my taste.
Meh, got a bigger dock in Stormworks. Spent HOURS designing 1st tanker. It works, yay. Then I get into storm. My first "medium ship" - it's just a fricken tiny speedboat! I've trouble gauging the scale.
Helicopter doesn't work. Autohover does little. It's more a stability assist. HOTAS dont work. Or not as it should. Planning a waterplane to get to places faster without playing yoyo like in helicopter. I need altitude hold. Or something with 2 rotors? I didn't put much work into it, though. Decapitated myself with rotor, too.
Wanted to try tanker, then found out one of my settings made dealing fluids impossible. Then started anew.
Maybe double hull ship? Ooo, something with a diving dindong maybe? But first a waterplane. I hate waterplanes. No, I don't, but I suck designing those. But since the helo failed, maybe planes are easier?
Helicopter doesn't work. Autohover does little. It's more a stability assist. HOTAS dont work. Or not as it should. Planning a waterplane to get to places faster without playing yoyo like in helicopter. I need altitude hold. Or something with 2 rotors? I didn't put much work into it, though. Decapitated myself with rotor, too.
Wanted to try tanker, then found out one of my settings made dealing fluids impossible. Then started anew.
Maybe double hull ship? Ooo, something with a diving dindong maybe? But first a waterplane. I hate waterplanes. No, I don't, but I suck designing those. But since the helo failed, maybe planes are easier?
My biggest issue with The Crew games is that they are not totally silly arcade fun like NFS and not enough semi realistic like Forza. Alho I do like to just drive around USA map in the first one. Currently uninstaller both Ubi games as Forza titles are much more in my taste. Also, "story" in Crew was just painful to listen haha.
I agree. I loved driving around Hawaii in Test Drive Unlimited, so I looked for a similar kind of "open world racing" title, and Forza Horizon 4 delivers. The only things that slightly annoying is, being in the UK, I have to drive on the wrong side of the road, but I got used to it after a while. And the car customization, out of this world.
I just wish Ride 3 had a similar open world structure, I would love cruising around with all those hundreds of motorbikes.
If 300+ hours of playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 has taught me anything it's that people in the UK are the ones driving on the wrong side of the road
If 300+ hours of playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 has taught me anything it's that people in the UK are the ones driving on the wrong side of the road
I agree, Forza Horizon 4 is also in UK so I too have to drive on the wrong side of the road. Most of europe knows how to drive properly, UK is the exception.
Also, Ireland.
To be fair though, having grown up on the right side and later moved to the left, I ended up finding the left-side driving more comfortable. It works better with right-of-way being, well, to the right. Whether you're at a junction, a roundabout, or on foot about to cross the road, you always look right first. The continent should have adopted priority to the left when they decided to drive on the right, but ah, too late for that now, and it makes an amusing twist in games.
If 300+ hours of playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 has taught me anything it's that people in the UK are the ones driving on the wrong side of the road
Euro Truck Simulator fails to convey some regional traffic quirks. For instance, italians drive like complete madman. I spent 4 days in Naples to climb Mount Vesuvius and visit the Phlagrean Fields supervolcano, and I must say that I feared driving the rental car and even crossing roads as a pedestrian much, much more than the 2 dormant (but very much alive) volcanic behemoths that surround the city of Naples. Those people when driving are completely insane. I should have a "I drove a car in Naples and survived" T-Shirt .
As an Italian, I feel entitled to consider myself rightly offended by this awfully stereotypical portrait of our-pfffft sorry couldn't keep a straight face, yes indeed, totally legit, driving in Southern Italy is total madness. Glad you came back in one piece.
It actually looks to be a trait weirdly related to latitude, the more you travel to the South the more you descend into the heart of darkness of "driving like it's Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome". I live in the North and it's already a messy affair, but compared to when I go for holidays in the center or south, my city feels like Oslo. And my city probably compares to Oslo like Naples compares to my city.
That said, the amount of times in Forza 4 I only noticed I was driving in the wrong lane when I was inches from a full frontal due to the force of abitude is, to be delicate, "embarassing"...
What an enjoyable game it is though. All those cars. Those hilariously good graphics. A bit of a shame engine sounds didn't get the same love.
From what I’ve seen, that seems to hold true no matter what country you live in. I think it has to do with how much snow drivers deal with on a yearly basis...As an Italian, I feel entitled to consider myself rightly offended by this awfully stereotypical portrait of our-pfffft sorry couldn't keep a straight face, yes indeed, totally legit, driving in Southern Italy is total madness. Glad you came back in one piece.
It actually looks to be a trait weirdly related to latitude, the more you travel to the South the more you descend into the heart of darkness of "driving like it's Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome". I live in the North and it's already a messy affair, but compared to when I go for holidays in the center or south, my city feels like Oslo. And my city probably compares to Oslo like Naples compares to my city.
That said, the amount of times in Forza 4 I only noticed I was driving in the wrong lane when I was inches from a full frontal due to the force of abitude is, to be delicate, "embarassing"...
What an enjoyable game it is though. All those cars. Those hilariously good graphics. A bit of a shame engine sounds didn't get the same love.