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What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #28 (lemmygrad.ml)

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Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?

and

Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Revisited Planet Crafter recently, love it. However, once I take a break from it, I can't really get back in, because I have to acclimate to that style of uh, camera control? I really easily get dizzy/disoriented with similar 1st person POV games, not sure why but having your character model on screen has always reduced or eliminated that effect on me. I guess that's my one gripe, I really wish Planet Crafter (or even Subnautica, another big fav of mine but can't replay it much for same disorientation reasons) had a third-person player model, even as an option.

Anyway, been on a break from video games since then, aside from occasional "social hours" dota. Looking forward to any more news from The Bustling World, hopefully we'll be able to play it this year? fingers crossed

edit: don't really pay attention to console games unless interested enough to look into emulators, hehe. sorry switch

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of this game.

Tbh, I think Switch 2 will definitely be an emulation powerhouse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The Bustling World released a new trailer recently.

Um, it's a isometric/top-down SIMs builder?GTA-like?Stardew Valley-elements RPG??? I'm primarily interested in its aesthetic approach, certainly heavily influenced by famous painting Along the River During QingMing Festival, although I'm not entirely sure on core gameplay/gameplay loop yet.

And speaking of core gameplay... I will say, it does feel like the devs have kept adding more features since initial trailer so I'm hoping they don't get too caught up in those, borrow elements from too many things and end up incoherent mess...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately, a lot of Indie devs keep adding features and that proves to be their downfall.

Still, the game looks polished, at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

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