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What is on your to-play list for 2024?

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What is on your to-play list for 2024? - lemm.ee

I know we’re already in February, but what are you looking forward to playing this year? I am currently limited to my PS4 and an older laptop as far as big-screen gaming is concerned, and I am going to be playing some sequels: - The Witcher II - The 3rd part is more famous but I hear 2 has the better story. I am also one of those who really enjoyed part 1! - Pillars of Eternity 2 - the first one was so good I can’t wait - Red Dead Redemption II - which I got for my birthday. It is absolutely HUGE. RDR1 is in my all-time favorite games list. As for handheld gaming, I have recently gotten a Nintendo DS Lite and a PSP so I will be playing some: - Deadeus - a 2D horror game that someone recommended on this thread [https://lemm.ee/comment/5176442] - Final Fantasy Tactics funnily enough, I never played this! I did enjoy the GBA version a lot though. - Jeanne D’Arc apparently it is one of the PSP’s best titles. As someone with a lot of IRL obligations, I will be very happy if I make it through this list. What is on your list?

Feb 6, 2024 at 9:38amWeb
Show threadMalixFeb 6, 2024

I’m trying to play through Control, finally. It’s been sitting on my to-do list for ages.

Playing on PC, with the unofficial patch (improves RT, texture streaming, stability, newer dlss… all the good stuff) and settings cranked. It’s pretty dope tbh. I definitely suck at it, but the accessibility options (extra damage/health/regens etc) are pretty nice to scale the difficulty to my level.

Got to enjoy the SCP vibes and brutalist architecture. And Ahti, ofc.

Show threadli10Feb 6, 2024

I started with Alan Wake 2, then went back to Control.

Both really great, unique games, and Remedy are now up there with FromSoftware for my most anticipated games.

Control was great, but they really hit another level with AW2 imo.

Show threadMalixFeb 6, 2024
I keep hearing AW2 is great, but… tbh I didn’t much care for the first AW (and haven’t played the dlc/expansion?). Kinda found the combat really annoying to deal with, but I was interested in the story. Does the sequel do combat any differently?
Show threadli10Feb 6, 2024

I know what you mean about AW1, the sequel is different mechanically and much more refined.

You still make use of the flashlight, but now it’s a bit more developed and for the most part it feels like a modern horror game.

You get a lot of tense situations where people are running at you and you have to hold them off with the flashlight and weapons.

I can’t really put the differences in to words, but it is just much better imo.

Show threadMalixFeb 6, 2024
welp. Maybe I’ll check some gameplay video and wait for discounts & it releasing from epic-jail :)
Show threadAshtearFeb 7, 2024

AW2 is classic survival horror combat. Limited resources and such.

I don’t like survival horror gameplay to begin with, but even setting that aside, I really think it clashes with the story at times. It’s better in Saga’s sections, at least.

Show threadWarmSodaFeb 6, 2024
Dude. I never even considered there would be a community patch for Control. You just blew my dumb mind. For some reason I always just considered it one of those It’s Done! games that magically didn’t need anything else. (Not that there are any of those games these days).
Show threadMalixFeb 6, 2024

“community patch” is technically wrong, a remedy dev made it on their free time and got permission to release it as a mod (I suppose this is so remedy doesn’t need to test/validate/etc it for different platforms or such).

But, yea, the patch is great! Also, linky for those interested: …pcgamingwiki.com/…/2581-control-hdrultrawidedlss… or www.nexusmods.com/control/mods/90?tab=description

CONTROL - HDR+Ultrawide+DLSS+RT Patch

Do not ask for DLSS 3.5 or FSR 3 please. Version 1.5.1 is up. It fixes the hiss/smoke effect on enemies being too bright in HDR. Version 1.5 is up. It improves the DLSS implementation, improves the quality of shadow and fixes the buggy/noisy ray tracing reflections that are also present in the va...

PCGamingWiki PCGW Community
Show threadWarmSodaFeb 6, 2024
That’s wicked cool. Thank you
Show threadcoffinwoodFeb 6, 2024

Star Wars: Outlaws. Looks really promising.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. I played through the base game twice, so I’ll need a bit more distance between the playthroughs.

Starfield, but only if there are significant updates, upgrades and expansions. I finished it twice back to back, so currently I’m a little tired of the game.

Any other single-player (action) RPG, that I stumble upon.

Show threadCorrodedFeb 6, 2024

Is Starfield really as dull in some sections as some people make it out to be?

I’m hoping a DLC or update helps

Show threadFermiEstimateFeb 6, 2024

Yes, it is, I’m sorry to say. At least for now.

I have a few dozen hours in Starfield, and while I wouldn’t call it extremely dull, it’s not not dull on a regular basis. The game has an uncanny talent for reducing space travel, planetary exploration, and crafting down to a series of nearly-identical nested menus. Crafting and world interaction feel like a step down from Fallout 4 in some ways, particularly how most of the junk is just useful for decoration.

It excels at giving you less when you’re expecting more, which makes it easy to overlook what it does well. There’s still a lot of fun to be had in it; it feels tighter and more polished than Bethesda games generally do, and it’s not a bad alternate take on NMS, which also isn’t exactly a 100% compelling experience even after the work it received. (I had fun in Starfield way faster than I did in NMS, for what that’s worth.)

I don’t regret my time in it at all, but it’s kind of perfect patientgamers material. Not playing right away keeps you from burning out on it before it figures out what it wants to be.

Show threadCorrodedFeb 6, 2024

Do you think updates could fix it though or do you think it’s deeply embedded in the game and would either take a substantial amount of work or reworking chunks of the game to do?

I guess what I’m asking is how long do you feel it will be until we see noticeable improvements?

Show threadFermiEstimateFeb 6, 2024

Your guess is as good as mine, honestly. Waiting for an expansion to come out and then checking in makes sense, IMO.

A lot could be improved, either by modding by Bethesda. Fallout 76, whatever else one could say about it, is in a vastly better place than it was at launch, so there’s recent precedent.

Show threadcoffinwoodFeb 7, 2024

It depends. I’ve put over 200 hours into Starfield and didn’t experience any dull or boring parts. But I noticed them.

It’s an old-school game with decades old mechanics, which happened to push all the right buttons with me. But others find it’s boring.

Show threadCorrodedFeb 11, 2024
What mechanics do you mean?
Show threadcoffinwoodFeb 13, 2024
Loading screens for nearly every door. In New Atlantis you can jump from the highest building and glide with your jetpack back to your ship. But taking the elevator and the train gets you two unnecessary loading screens. That’s just not 2023 game programming.
Show threadM137Feb 7, 2024
Not at all IMO. I love Starfield and few of the reasons people give for it being bad are objective or even true.
Show threadCorrodedFeb 11, 2024
What basic concepts are you referring to? Why do you think it’s misunderstood?
Show threaddarkstarFeb 7, 2024
Yeah it’s pretty crap right now unfortunately. I’ll be waiting at least 3 more years before I give it another try
Show threadCorrodedFeb 8, 2024
Unfortunate. I feel like this is a repeat of my experience with Cyberpunk. I only ended up playing it with the release of the Phantom Liberty DLC
Show threadcozy_agentFeb 6, 2024
I’ve just picked up Resident Evil 2 Remake for cheap, that’ll be the first one. Then I think Last of Us, not played those yet.
Show threadCorrodedFeb 6, 2024

Some that come to mind are:

God of War Collection/3 on my PS Vita

System Shock Remastered

Deus Ex Human Revolution/Mankind Divided

I’ve been meaning to play The Witcher 2 but I feel like I should play the first one before I do. There’s also some large mods I’ve been meaning to play for Fallout/Elder Scrolls games. I’m currently playing DUST for FNV

Show threadtheskyisfallingFeb 6, 2024

A friend of mine mentioned he started Persona 3 Reload (which I didn’t even know was a thing until then) so the other day I started P3P on the vita again as I never made it very far before. I was burnt out on the concept after going straight in from a P4G 125 hour game, so this time I’m looking forward to it!

I also have Driver San Francisco that I want to play through again as that game is pretty fucking awesome.

I’m going to give the first Watchdogs game a try.

I may go back and look into some other PSP and Vita games I never played or finished as well. Picking up the vita again after a long time is such a breath of fresh air. It feels so much better in my hands than the heavy and unwieldy steamdeck that I’m reinvigorated to go back to it. After playing an hour of P3 at work today I also still had 90 percent battery on it. I love this little thing!

You mentioning FF: Tactics as well, I was thinking about going back to a Disgaea title but I may try tactics again!

Show threadbionicjoeyFeb 6, 2024
  • Jeanne D’Arc apparently it is one of the PSP’s best titles.

Can confirm. It was the main disc I kept in my PSP most of the time.

Show threadLathFeb 6, 2024

Of the ones I have:

  • GTA V campaign. It's low on my priority list despite being the first one written here.
  • King's Bounty series (new ones). Finished The Legend and am halfway through Armored Princess. Not sure when I'll finish it though.
  • XCOM series (new one). Starting a 2nd wave marathon. Not sure I'll reach Chimera Squad.
  • Halo collection. Wanna go through the entire Master Chief campaign in one go. Maybe in summer.
    Other random stuff depending on the craving.
Show threadbedroomsFeb 6, 2024
Takeshi's Challenge made it to smartphones. Maybe it's time for me to try it finally after 37 years.
Takeshi's Challenge Review - NES/Famicom: The Whole (Weird) Story - Kim Justice

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Show threadcaut_RFeb 6, 2024
I wanna platinum Monster Hunter World which might just take all of 2024 alone…
Show threadsmegFeb 6, 2024
Half the stuff I’ve posted on [email protected] since summer but haven’t got round to playing yet! I’m actually very keen for Cursed to Golf, I think it was an Epic xmas freebie and I just love the concept of a roguelike golf game.
Show threadAnother CatgirlFeb 6, 2024
Factorio, Mindustry
Show threadsugar_in_your_teaFeb 6, 2024

I don’t really plan things out like that, but here are a few I’ve been putting off for one reason or another:

  • Red Dead Redemption 2
  • Mass Effect Legendary
  • Xenoblade Chronicles
  • Witcher 3

I also have a lot of IRL obligations, so I usually end up playing shorter indie games instead. I love those games, but I also enjoy longer stories, but they’re a bit harder to get into.

I’ll probably also play some classic Nintendo Switch games, like Kirby and Mario (haven’t played any this gen aside from Mario Kart 8).

Show threadverycoolusernameFeb 6, 2024
Even speaking as a big fan of Xenoblade, it is a typical JRPG with an extremely expansive story. I hope you like it an play the second part which is my personal favorite.
Show threadsugar_in_your_teaFeb 6, 2024

I’ve already started it (got to the invasion part), and I can already tell it’s going to have a great story. Just need to make the time to finish it.

And yeah, I hear the rest of the series is great, so I’ll be playing in order.

Show threadsp6Feb 6, 2024

There’s now way I’m finishing them all in 1yr, but these are currently on the list:

  • Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
  • Subnautica
  • American Truck Simulator
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Stardew Valley
  • The Witcher 3
  • Slay the Spire
  • Terraria
Show threadJakoJakoJako13Feb 6, 2024

Be careful with Subnautica. I lost 75 hours of my life in the blink of an eye to that game. It’s easily one of the best survival horror adventure games ever made.

Terraria is also up there. Once you play it you never really need to try another side scrolling 2D Minecraft like game again.

Show threadkurcatoviumFeb 6, 2024
I’m about to finish F:NV soon. Took me a while and was a great experience so far. Except for Old World Blues DLC which I really disliked and Honest Hearts (the Zion one) which kept crashing constantly for me so I had to skip it. Otherwise really good and really better than bethesdas F3, true to what everyone said.
Show threadsp6Feb 6, 2024
I got NV modded up through the Viva New Vegas guide, so hopefully that fixes the crashes for me. Figuring out how to mod it on linux was surprisingly easy too, thanks to the MO2 linux installer on github.
Show threadzerofkFeb 6, 2024

I’m finally getting around to Mass Effect. So far I’m really enjoying it. The first time you get to explore what I assume is the main hub, it’s pretty cool.

I also enjoyed The Witcher 1 a few years ago, but was thoroughly disappointed with 2.

Last year I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 and enjoyed both, though I prefer 1.

Show threadverycoolusernameFeb 6, 2024
The Mass Effect Trilogy is a masterpiece. You’re in for a wild ride!
Show threadEcho5Feb 6, 2024
I played quite a ways through PoE 1 but didn’t finish, but somehow I went through 2 much later and beat the whole game and haven’t been able to beat 1 since, despite restarting the game a bunch. Wish I’d’ve beaten it originally.
Show threadVarykFeb 6, 2024

Actually, since I heard about four, I also want to play The Witcher 2.

I loved one and three, but something about two just was so plotting that I couldn’t get into it and stopped playing twice after just a few hours.

I really cannot explain it since I got so into the first and third, but I will probably try to play the second one now so that I have the trilogy under my belt.

I think I. Got killed super easily in the beginning of the second one and I had no idea where I was going?

I do remember that the combat was super cool.

Show threadAshtearFeb 7, 2024
Most of Chapter 1 (not the prologue) is just not great. The rest of the game more than makes up for it.
Show threadVarykFeb 7, 2024

Thanks. I doubt I made it past the first chapter. I was just like what the f*** who cares about any of this. Where’s the story?

And considering how immersive the first and third games were and having so many other great games to play, I was shocked when the second one caught me with such boredom and aimlessness.

I’ll tuck in though, I am still excited at the prospect of having another witcher game to get into at all.

Show threadwizardbeardFeb 6, 2024

For Final Fantasy Tactics, if you’re playing the PSP release, install CFW on your PSP (check reddit for a comprehensive guide on that) and then make sure to look up the patches for the game.

The PSP port made the questionable choice of stretching graphics from the original 4:3 aspect ratio into the PSP’s 16:9 screen ratio, and it looks rough. Also, there’s some sort of coding issue that makes most moves with particle effects slow the frame rate to a crawl.

There’s patches available to fix both of those issues, with no bugs or tradeoffs.

Show threadverycoolusernameFeb 6, 2024
Wow, thanks!
Show threadJakoJakoJako13Feb 6, 2024

Because Cities Skylines 2 is such a letdown I’ve been trying Timberborn and wanna start Songs of Syx. City builders are my staple but it’s been years since I’ve caught the same high as when I played Sim City 4. CS1 was great but SC4 is still the best city builder game ever made IMO.

Tekken 8. I love fighting games too. Street Fighter 6 is great but I fell off that game hard. Capcom is way to slow to do anything with the game. It’s really easy to get bored with it.

After that I really wanna go back and finish BG3. I spent a lot of time in act 1 and barely touched it after that. I don’t know why I dropped it. I was having a blast. I guess that’s ADHD or something.

Show threadAngryCommieKenderFeb 6, 2024
Have you tried Open TTD? It’s retro AF, and the UI is from 1872, but it’s multiplayer and free.
Show threadJakoJakoJako13Feb 6, 2024
Yeah, I put many hours into it. It’s a blast.
Show threadkurcatoviumFeb 6, 2024

I’d be glad to finish something (anything) from the list:

  • Black Mesa
  • Pillars of Eternity
  • Witcher 2 (replay before 3)
  • Witcher 3
  • Wasteland 2
  • Bioshock

And about 100 more :-D

Show threadCowbee [he/they]Feb 6, 2024

Nothing directly. I’ve seen my backlog of 70 or so games, and now my goal for 2024 is to just let go of the feeling that I need to complete games, and just play what I want, when I feel like it.

That being said, I’m trying out Cassette Beasts! Pretty fun so far, though I’m only around an hour in.

Show threadThorny_InsightFeb 6, 2024
I think I’ll just keep playing DayZ
Show threadinsertfloppydiskhereFeb 6, 2024

As a guy with a lot of real life commitements, I’m hoping I’ll get through:

  • Death Stranding
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Half Life: Alyx

… and some recent shorter indies. But if I even finish one of the abovementioned games, I’ll be happy.

Show threadAshtearFeb 7, 2024
Haven’t played Alyx but thought all of the others were excellent. Should be able to get through Titanfall 2, it’s pretty short!
Show threadinsertfloppydiskhereFeb 7, 2024
So I’ve heard! Waiting for that kind of Sunday, so I can sit down and do a focused play through. How long do you reckon it is?
Show threadAshtearFeb 7, 2024
howlongtobeat.com says 6 hours for the main story, which sounds about right to me. Maybe on the low end.
Show threadlliiFeb 7, 2024
I’ve started Death Stranding a few days ago. I played ~ 10 hours and it’s pretty fun.
Show threadinsertfloppydiskhereFeb 7, 2024

Yes! I’ve done the opening mission where you head for the incinerator, and there something about this game that makes me bot being able to stop thinking about it.

I don’t think I’ll be able to drop +30 hours into it, but I’m very keen to play it some more.

Show threadCorrodedFeb 8, 2024
I would recommend starting with Titanfall 2. The story is linear and doesn’t take a super long time to complete but you get a strong consistent feeling of progression that’s quite rewarding
Show threadEcho5Feb 6, 2024
WarTales is on sale through May on GOG last I checked so I might pick it up. I’m currently midway through Shadow of War and Fallout IV, but I feel like I’ve hit a wall with motivation to play FO4 at least. Oh and trying to finish my Oblivion playthrough. Maybe one day.
Show threadAshtearFeb 7, 2024

Going to try to do more patient gaming this year after last year a certain popular RPG grabbed me for hundreds of hours. I’ve got Atelier Ayesha on deck and thinking about Tokyo Xanadu.

Also considering:

  • Horizon Zero Dawn: the Frozen Wilds
  • Live a Live
  • Midnight Suns
  • Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

Plus a VN, I think. Either Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice or Higurashi (which I started but hasn’t grabbed me yet). And here’s hoping OP that you starting Final Fantasy Tactics manifests a remaster finally.