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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Three day weekend ... Messed up my schedule. Oh well, what have you been playing? I've been checking out a ton of cool playdate stuff, as well as more binding of Isaac. I also picked up a game called the roottrees are dead that I'm excited to check out! It seems like a game similar to case of the golden idol which is one of my all time faves

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

As a father of a 8 month old baby, I have barely touched any of my gaming systems for the past year. Games need to be quickly accessible and possible to quit at any time for me to play. So mobile gaming is basically where I'm at.

Slay The Spire works perfectly well for Android. I've been playing that a ton.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is weirdly fun. Even though it's encouraging microtransactions and subscriptions, it's very much playable without making a single transaction. The TCG is decently interesting, though not without flaws. It's still in a very early stage, so I'm interested to see how the game grows.

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

As a father of two the best gaming thing that happened to me was my steam deck.

Biggest selling point is the sleep/resume.

It works perfectly on a lot of games and allowed me to finish for example control in short-ish sessions.

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

That's a great point. I have a nintendo switch, but I have more or less played through the entirety of all the games I have been interested in before my child was born. I did pick up pokemon violet, but the game was very short and had some disgusting responsiveness and aestetics which discourages me from grinding the post game.

Maybe a handheld pc will be my next purchase. Thanks for the suggestion!

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

As a more portable and budget-friendly alternative, consider a small emulation console. I'm very happy with my Anbernic RG35XXSP. Since the screen folds like on the original GBA SP, it's absolutely tiny and fits into any pocket - without having to worry that the screen might scratch. Configure it correctly and you can close the screen to suspend games.

This kind of system would also make for a great first gaming device once your kid is around five years old.