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When hanging out with friends in discord or whatever, what games do you all tend to sit down and play with one another? For me it's some combination of Valorant, Guild Wars 2, and Omega Strikers but I'm curious what everyone else plays with their friends :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Deep Rock Galactic is in heavy rotation with my group. Barotrauma too if we have the time and at least 4 people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory

V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)

Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a small group at the moment so we tend to stick to Valheim. Very little progress each time. Usually a lot of catching up on talk and building a slightly bigger building.

Will throw in a multiplayer humble game every now and then to switch things up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Table Top Simulator is great for group fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bro, Viscera Cleanup. It's like space janitors talking while cleaning up the remnants of an alien infestation.

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

I have been gaming with the same group of friends for the last ten years. We're three people busy with real-life commitments, live on different sides of the country, so we try to play games where they act as a social arena as well. The conversations we have are more important than the game itself.

We've been gaming Valheim, Raft, The Forest and Risk of Rain 2 for the past years. We've also played some Elden Ring and Hunt: Showdown, but neither works as well as the beforementioned.

On that note, can anyone reccomend games like the ones above? Been eyeing Grounded...

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

Y’all have friends who will play multiplayer games with you?

… or who will deign to sit on Discord? 🥲

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

I've got a couple groups of friends that my wife and I play Jackbox with over discord, it's almost as good as being in the same room!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends on the group.

  • Group 1: Halo, the old ones on MCC. Just goofy customs and fucking around.
  • Group 2: More recent multiplayer games, bit more competitive, though Titanfall is always on the list
  • Group 3: Strategy. AoE, Rise of Nations, Supreme Fommander
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Titanfall 2, I've yet to find a game like it. There's so much going on and I feel that not being a twitch shooter means I can keep up more easily with the young-uns.

Criminally underplayed game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TF2 got freaking murdered. Me and friends keep going back to it again and again. I'm so happy northstar exists now, it's too bad it can't do anything for console players.

Also, come say hi at [email protected]

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

we play Dead by Daylight mostly. Sometimes we do fortnite, and have an unironically good time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No1 is probably Valheim, but also WarThunder, Hunt: Showdown, and GTFO. But I wish it was Eve Online 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Almost nothing.

We’ve all such different tastes, but the last thing we played was Forest 2 and Grim Dawn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A mixture of Dead by Daylight, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim and V Rising. Depends who and how many of the group are online and what kind of mood we're all in!

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

Damn, I wish my friends liked good games too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A couple of friends and I will play Hunt: Showdown pretty frequently.

Sometimes Deep Rock Galactic or Warframe as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Rocket League.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here's some of my friend group's favorites with old and new games mixed in, we go all over the place!

RTS:

  • Beyond All Reason - If you're a fan of Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation, or if you like RTSs and want to be in control of tons of units on huge maps check this out! It's Open Source and free.
  • War40k Dawn of War - One of our favorite RTS's, the mix of unit loadouts and varied factions is amazing! Make sure to get the FoV and Widescreen mods here.
  • Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Classic RTS, Now free through cncnet. Subterranean APC Detected!
  • Age of Empires 2 - Classic, Wololo
  • Gates of Hell: Ostfront - Really underrated RTS, the sound design, ballistics, attention to detail and variety of units is awesome. Allows direct control of infantry and vehicles, has a inventory system, you can steal weapons off vehicles, repair etc.

FPS:

  • Half-Life (GoldSrc Engine) Deathmatch - Classic DM game with fun weapons, The tension on the crossfire map after the button is pressed inside the bunker is amazing. Tons of mods available for it such as: The Specialists, Zombie Panic, Pirates, Vikings and Knights, Science and Industry and more! Oh my god, we're doomed!
  • Half-Life 2 (Source Engine) Deathmatch - Throw toilets at each other's heads with the grav gun! There's tons of mods!
  • Garry's Mod: The Deathrun game mode specifically, Most extreme challenge with a cruel twist, one friend will be picked per round to set off traps and environmental changes as everyone else tries to get through an obstacle course of death.
  • Titanfall 2 - One of the best twitch FPSs since Tribes, CS, HLDM, Quake II, and UT. The movement is incredible and gunplay amazing. Try the Northstar client if the official servers are under attack or you want more variety with mods.
  • Natural Selection 2 - Really good blend of FPS and RTS elements, 1 player on each side is a commander and choose upgrades, where to build, drop supplies, give orders etc. Aliens vs Marines with strategic depth. Can be a steep learning curve for some.
  • Arma 3: SOG Prairie Fire DLC - One of the best Arma DLC's out, lots of free updates have happened, If you like Vietnam era vehicles and infantry and co-op with friends it's great. You'll need a group of friends to play. If you want something more modern in both theme, game engine and quality of life, wait for Arma 4.
  • Alien Vs Predator 2 - Face hug your friends, catch them in the Predator's net, Enjoy that classic Pulse rifle sound and screaming ! Any servers still surviving likely won't be populated depending on the time of day. I don't know where to buy this officially anymore, there must be some kind of rights issue going on for re-releasing it. Game Over, Man! Game Over!

TPS:

Strategy:

  • Total War: WARHAMMER III - The Immortal Empires mode is really fun, warning though, there's a lot of DLCs, your favorite army or one you're interested in might be locked behind one.

VR:

  • Pavlov VR - Awesome FPS, semi-realistic firearm operation with mod support!
  • Phasmophobia - Ever wanted to feel what it'd be a paranormal inspector, possibly scoping a place out to validate if the Real Ghostbusters should arrive or not?
  • Forewarned - A unique take on the Phasmophobia type game, Egyptian tomb themed, if you die you can come back as a good mummy to help friends or bad mummy to annoy friends!
  • VTOL VR - Semi-Sim Flight, Co-op, You can actually reach out and flip console controls / switches! It has VTOL, Jet and Helicopter vehicles.
  • Iron Wolf VR - Really amazing WWII Submarine co-op game, I really wish development could have continued but one of the lead developers has unfortunately passed away who was the best friend of the other dev. Tragic but they left behind something awesome for people to enjoy.

2D Mayhem

  • Duck Game - Pure madness, a 2D Shooter with Ducks, Crazy weaponry from a mind control gadget to a simple banana. Great online and even better if you can all get together in the same room to see everyone's reactions. Quack!

The following three games are meant for local / couch gameplay, but using steam remote play or parsec works.

  • Crawl - Really cool, it's a dungeon crawler except only one player is a human, the others are monsters. If a player monster kills the human, they take their place. The final boss's body is controlled by the monster players! You can choose a deity and set of monsters you might spawn as and upgrade them as you play and become more powerful.
  • Towerfall Ascension - 2D Archery combat game, really intense short matches, the mechanics are straightforward but hard to master.
  • Hidden in Plain site - Fun little party game, you try to blend in with a crowd of NPCs to achieve your goal or avoid being eliminated by other players.

I hope someone finds something new in this list, or perhaps some good memories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Vermintide 2, Civ V, never liked CIV VI, Left 4 Dead, Risk of Rain 2. We are interested in that extraction looter that got removed from steam, Dark and Darker. We just haven't bother to get it through the BitTorrent links instead of steam. But we all love these types of games and dungeon crawling so it looks good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fortnite. It's free!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have two groups, one that plays Overwatch. And another that tends to play coop survival games. Valheim, 7dtd, V Rising, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Y'all play games with friends? My irl friends only really like FPSs, and since that's not my jam we don't really play together. And most of the people I know online are more into single player games until I found them in an mmo (but even then we tend to only play that one together).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Late night Uno sessions are a great way to pass the time. It's a shame that Ubisoft's version of the game doesn't have cross-platform multiplayer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a big Tabletop Simulator / Tabletop Playground guy myself, and it tends to be the easiest way to get a bunch of real-life friends together when we can't actually be together. I tend to like longer form slower paced games that can be played passively, like 4X games; it's just a more fun environment when you just want to chill and chat/play.

For fun competitive games where chatting is secondary to the competitive experience, probably Age of Empires 2!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brawlhalla, hands down. A Free-to-play platform-fighting game that is surprisingly technical with its movement and combos, so it can lead to very interesting and epic moments.

It has a huge roster but you need to pay in-game currency to access most characters, which you gain very quickly by just playing the game, so its a non issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most of my friends aren’t real ‘gamers’, but they’ll enjoy playing things like Geoguessr and scriblio, so we still get to play games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Final Fantasy XIV, Terraria, GTFO, Killing Floor 2, Guilty Gear Strive/Xrd Rev 2, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, and recently some of us have been playing MegaMan Battle Network VS matches. What is popular changes quite often

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm big into splatoon, and some of friends are varying degrees of also into it, from "as invested as me" to "will play it but will make a good-natured fuss about it". It's the most fun shooter I've ever played, despite its terrible jankiness sometimes.

We also play a lot of boardgames on tabletop sim, if that counts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Escape from Tarkov with a few buddies, counterstrike with another group.

Both groups I sometimes play a variety of other stuff with but these two are the main stays

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rocket League, mostly. I play casual matches with my peeps, but my son and I play competitive together. We’ve won some tournaments, even. We also play Fortnite.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Valorant, Deep rock galactic, Sea of Thieves, and soon Titanfall 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wish I had friends who play what I play. I'd love to get back into Guild Wars 2, but I just never have a group to play with!

And, my friends are never playing when I play, but back in College, my friends and I would play CSGO, Minecraft, Oldschool Runescape, and a few other games.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We keep coming back to Risk of Rain 2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's pretty inconsistent with my friend groups, but most frequently revolves around either Apex Legends or a mix of fighting games, currently Street Fighter 6. Monster Hunter often enters the rotation, as well as other cooperative games.

I've been trying to get folks to play Omega Strikers with me but have had little luck so far, nor have I really had the time to really get into it and get very comfortable with all the mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For in person, we do a lot of Jackbox.
When online, SCP Secret labs has been a favorite. Every few weeks someone will usually want to play and we'll do a few rounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Over the last few years it's been Final Fantasy XIV, Vermintide 2, Valheim and some Generation Zero.

Hoping to get to Deep Rock Galactic and Sea of Thieves some time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Drg is a great one, highly reccomend.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We met via tabletop RPGs and that's what we still do every two weeks but if we're hanging on Discord it's mainly Overwatch but also Wildermyth and Mech Warrior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Once in a while farming simulator 22

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My group plays Dota 2 and Arma 3, both poorly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mostly Rust, these days. However, we have played (and enjoyed) Valheim, Satisfactory, Raft, For the King and Heroes of the Storm. I want to get back to multiplayer Minecraft again though. Playing alone is getting old.

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