Games besides 14 u play

This is the only game I play. For the last 15 years I played WoW. That being the only game as well. I quit a year ago, because the game got too boring and I was busy doing other things, like cgi and animation. But I wanted to go back into gaming. I had heard about FFXIV and decided to try it out on the PS4. Fell in love with the game from that moment. So since last october, I bought all the expansions for the pc. Just last week I removed everything WoW from my system...I will never go back.

Depends. When I play I like involving my BF as much as I can. Tried out DMC V recently and Yakuza: Like a Dragon before that, and they're both quite nice, but ever since I got him into FFXIV we've been only playing that, lol. We also play Path of Exile sometimes.

By myself I just play on my FFXIV main, and Diablo 3 on season launches. Maybe I'll play Diablo 4, but it's extremely expensive so probably not on launch.

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Originally Posted by rainichan

I remember the first time I was on the ferry to Selbina or Mhaura and pirates happened... I was like level 15, that was definitely a "oh god oh god stay in the corner and hope they don't see me OH GOD THEY OPENED THE DOOR I'M GONNA DIIIIIIIIE"

Or just running through to Jeuno as a wee babbin and being in the middle of bunch of mobs that could easily wreck me in two hits when "Invisible is about to wear off." happens...

Man I love FFXI lmfao

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I am probably going to buy a second character slot and make a new character on XI to be honest, I kind of want to play through it all again.

Besides FFXIV I've been bouncing around between games that I recently bought off of Steam with some Christmas money.

The games I'm currently focusing on are CrossCode, Harvestella, and Octopath Traveler. After I'm done with those I'll be trying to focus on Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Bravely Default II, The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky, and Graveyard Keeper.

But after Octopath Traveler II comes out though I'll be hard focusing on that alongside my FFXIV sessions.

As online games go, this is my main but I also play ESO. It's too monetized and the developers have made some off-putting choices just (I suspect) for the sake of being different, but there are also parts of it I enjoy a lot. Assassin's Creed Odyssey is my most recent favorite single player.

Aside from XIV, my other "background game", aka game-I-can-always-turn-to-if-I'm-bored, is Destiny 2. Helps that it provides a much more... kinetic experience compared to XIV, being a different genre and all.

As for other games, well, it's been tough. Recently went through Pokemon Violet and enjoyed it a bit. I only briefly played Legends Arceus, and Violet kinda kindled that long-lost interest in Pokemon. I might pick Arceus back up or pick up the new Snap game if I'm feeling like something a bit more nostalgic.

All in all, it has been a real challenge to actually complete games while in residency. I have a predilection for JRPGs and those can be kind of long. Depending on the rotation that I'm on, I may or may not be able to play them semi-consistently. Presently, I'm on Psychiatry rotation, and have a lot more time to play video games. That said, my responsibilities in clinic have doubled since we're now squarely on second half of intern year. My issue is that if I am, busy, I go on long stretches of time between play sessions and it really just sucks going back to an RPG and feeling rather lost about the world, its characters, the plot, etc... If I'm only a few hours in, I may even consider restarting it, but if I'm say, 20+ hours into it, yeahhh no chance. Would likely have to read a bit of a summary to catch back up. The last one I played, and still haven't finished, was Tales of Arise. Now, fortunately those games have a "diary" function that can help catch you up on what you were doing but mannnn, it still sucks lol...

This is to say nothing of XIV and Destiny 2. Regarding the former, I've also noticed a tendency to forget a bit of certain plot points in the time between patches. Some of this is no doubt due to my ADHD, but I feel like the game, for obvious reasons, just doesn't occupy the same headspace that it used to. Back when I was in college, I feel like I could remember details of the game easily because I'd let them marinate in my mind. Nowadays it's more of a "get through this. OK GREAT. NEXT THING." sort of mentality by necessity. With regards to Destiny 2....... well, I very much enjoy the lore of that game, as I did since I started playing vanilla D1 back in 2014. Problem is, as you may have surmised, that it's actually kinda hard to keep up with lore of two on-going games and work an average of 80-hour weeks... lol.

Well, can't say I don't try hahah

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Originally Posted by Lelila38

Try Thymesia. It's a soulslike I currently play. Feels like a mix between Bloodborne and Sekiro. It's on Steam.

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I have Thymesia and really like the gameplay and aesthetics. Currently stuck on a boss though, so I'm gathering patience to try again :p

Tales of Vesperia, FF9, Xenoblade chronicles 2 and 3, pokemon sword.

I'm going through all my Crystal Project videos from last year, and I'm reminded of a curious fact that my FFXIV raiding experience actually helped me quite a lot with formulating strategies and party builds for that game. Since it's one of the few turn-based games with an actual aggro/threat system, proactive mitigation and countering enemy actions is FAR more effective than raw healing in most cases (especially because eating an AoE from late-game bosses without any mitigation will probably result in a party wipe).

The developer was a FFXI player - I never played FFXI myself, but after reading about XI in this thread, it reminds me of how you could absolutely wander into higher level areas or run into hidden bosses in Crystal Project that would absolutely kick your ass before you come back to wreck them later. I think a lot of the classes in Crystal Project are actually designed around concepts that existed in XI too - like Samurai was supposedly a tank class in XI, and they seem best utilized as a tank in Crystal Project too (since getting hit by physical attacks charges your AP faster, and Samurai has the ability to spam multiple attacks per turn as long as they have the AP to do so).

This is the only video I recorded that doesn't veer too far into actual spoiler territory, showcasing a lot of the concepts behind Crystal Project's combat.

Namely, my tank is utilizing a Reaper/Warrior build, which is basically 'your max HP is your mitigation' tank build. Reaper has the ability to increase their max HP with every successful hit, along with some lifesteal abilities. A popular mid-game build is to give them the Counter passive and lifesteal gear, though it falls off later on due to Reaper having lower accuracy (by endgame you want accuracy accessories instead). Warrior has general tanking abilities designed around aggro management (their most damaging attack requires the enemy target to consider them the top threat) along with useful debuffs and stances. Yes, stance dancing is a thing for some classes in this game, though I build my party around enabling my tank to remain in the damage increasing Berserker Stance as much as possible (the stance also comes with a physical defense penalty, but I get my Assassin/Rogue to blind the enemy if I see a physical attack incoming - a lot of Rogue skills require them to be the lowest threat among the party, and are best utilized for their ability to interrupt enemy spellcasting and blinding enemy physical attacks). My Warlock/Hunter is basically Red Mage with a bow, with a wide variety of useful buffs and debuffs along with decent physical damage. My Cleric/Scholar (the latter is basically Blue Mage) is my main mage, though I only ran that build for the buff that blocks fire damage in this fight.

Accuracy rates are only as low as they are in this fight because I'm challenging this boss like 5-8 levels earlier than intended, with my primary mage possessing a spell that nullifies all fire damage (though it doesn't block burn debuff damage).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_anxWyVxM

This game's turn-based combat is so good. Straight up ruined most other turn-based JRPGs for me. Sometimes you can just straight up humiliate bosses by outsmarting them and countering everything they do ahead of time.

Crystal Project and Divinity Original Sin 2 were the only two turn-based games I've played in the entire past decade that were able to convince me that turn-based games still have a valid place in the gaming industry.

Currently also play Diablo III, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Resident Evil 0, Dark Souls Remastered & Tom Clancy's: The Division 2.

Almost finished with my replays of RE & DS. Then I'll replay Dark Souls 2 & Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Elder Scrolls Online for the PvP

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Originally Posted by Antharaes

This is the only game I play. For the last 15 years I played WoW. That being the only game as well. I quit a year ago, because the game got too boring and I was busy doing other things, like cgi and animation. But I wanted to go back into gaming. I had heard about FFXIV and decided to try it out on the PS4. Fell in love with the game from that moment. So since last october, I bought all the expansions for the pc. Just last week I removed everything WoW from my system...I will never go back.

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Np in that, u chose an awesome game to make your sole game, I usually play just 1 or 2 games myself instead of multiple games but this year has some interesting prospects I gotta play.

Some of friends are like me & some of my friends play tons of games at once, I can't play a bunch of stuff at once cause it prevents me from diving deep into one game if I'm playing multiple games at once.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Yeah, it's kind of one of those games where you will either like it or you will not. It can be very rewarding but also very punishing. It is designed by default to frustrate its players to some degree. I'm not a huge Souls person, but I did play Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 (and got pretty far in both) and I've gotten pretty far in Elden Ring as well.

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I keep trying to get some of my friends to get it so we can multiplayer it, I wonder if that would make it easier? I loved the Samurai class on there what little bit I got to experience it.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

https://youtu.be/0yPpBKFZvW0

Nuff said. Warrior was 2nd. Escape Slash was broken.

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Nice vid, immolation is the greatest move for climbing damage imo on Dogma, especially if you got the opportunism argument as well as clout/ vehemence augments

I've seen Niliho vids, I think that's how his name is spelled, about warrior moveset, next time i do a warrior playthrough I'll try escape slash out, when I play warrior I like using corona slash and that move that does the running charge, plus i use double barbed nail rings with warrior.

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

Nice vid, immolation is the greatest move for climbing damage imo on Dogma, especially if you got the opportunism argument as well as clout/ vehemence augments

I've seen Niliho vids, I think that's how his name is spelled, about warrior moveset, next time i do a warrior playthrough I'll try escape slash out, when I play warrior I like using corona slash and that move that does the running charge, plus i use double barbed nail rings with warrior.

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Immolation is hilarious. Even more that they gave it to a freaking archer class, and it's a legit amazing ability for so many reasons regardless.

You know shit just got real when the magical archer sets themselves on fire and decides to kick your ass in melee.

Dragon's Dogma was so ahead of its time. There's some useful really obscure things you could do in that game, like picking up beholder eyes and using them to petrify enemies. Or letting a fighter pawn only equip a shield and watch as they stunlock the hell out of everything.

It depends on the mood: Civilization 6, Splatoon 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses.

But it is few minutes here and few there. I love my Nintendo Switch for that.

Oh and I will probably buy Triangle Strategy soon.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Immolation is hilarious. Even more that they gave it to a freaking archer class, and it's a legit amazing ability for so many reasons regardless.

You know shit just got real when the magical archer sets themselves on fire and decides to kick your ass in melee.

Dragon's Dogma was so ahead of its time. There's some useful really obscure things you could do in that game, like picking up beholder eyes and using them to petrify enemies. Or letting a fighter pawn only equip a shield and watch as they stunlock the hell out of everything.

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I never heard of that trick, ty for the tip.

Is it something u got a small window of picking up or just as long as you do it before the beholder melts away after u kill it?

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

I never heard of that trick, ty for the tip.

Is it something u got a small window of picking up or just as long as you do it before the beholder melts away after u kill it?

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I'm referring to the little mini beholder eyes. I assume you need to need to be a vocation capable of grappling, like Warrior (assuming grappling/pinning is vocation-locked, I don't recall). I never tried this as a Magick Archer main.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNmvg_gdLM

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Originally Posted by Renalt

Tales of Destiny 1 and 2 are both very solid.

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Wait you mean the actual Tales of Destiny 2 right?

My word, somebody other than me that played that game

Is trolling in other forums a game? :p

I play very often other mmorpgs like WoW, Swtor, Lost ark etc. But also some older games on my SNES mini, or on an Amiga emulator. :)

Cheers

I mean for me FF14 is my main game but I have been dabbling with COD MW2 on the side, outside of that playing through older RPGs I never got round to as a kid via my steam deck or playing newly released indie RPGs like Chained Echoes. I am also going through life is strange with my partner because she wanted to see my reaction to the story and it gives us stuff to bond over outside of the usual horror games that she enjoys but I do not haha.

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Is trolling in other forums a game? :p

I play very often other mmorpgs like WoW, Swtor, Lost ark etc. But also some older games on my SNES mini, or on an Amiga emulator. :)

Cheers

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I do that too on emulator, still in love with Secret of Mana and Chronotrigger. And on ps2 emulator Alundra.

Right now its mostly Okami HD or Disney Dreamlight Valley. (And of course mostly FF14)
In the recent past I also played Dead by Daylight and Ark but after getting a new pc I just did not feel like installing those huge games again. Maybe some other time. Oh and I also got some hours into Sims 4.

For the future I am looking mostly towards Kingdom Hearts 4 and Breath of the Wild 2. Maybe the Harry Potter game too if it get good reviews.

I'm hyped for the Harry Potter game launching in February :P

Should be fun.

right now.. some Destiny 2 here and there, Prey and now Forspoken

my usual "I need to kill some time" game is Fallout 4

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I'm hyped for the Harry Potter game launching in February :P

Should be fun.

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Oh yeah, neither my daughter or I are Harry Potter fans but both of us think it looks good.

I'm patient though; I'll wait for reviews at that price.

I recently took a short break and played Kenshi.
It's a bit janky but it's interesting and fun. If you play it tell Beep I said Hi. I still owe him a leg.

Tales of Arise ,Life is Strange,Tokyo Xanadu ex+,The Artful Escape ,Last day of June.

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I am probably going to buy a second character slot and make a new character on XI to be honest, I kind of want to play through it all again.

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Me, looking at my alts to hold all my extra crap.... I could probably take one of them through the base story again, it's one of my faves. Since I wasn't all that great when I played originally I recently finally beat Zilart and Promathia (knew the stories because what I had played resonated enough with me for me to make the connection of "man this is what Shadowbringers is" back in 2019; I had gotten near the end of both by then) and had a big cry over Promathia's end. I'm working on Aht Urgahn now and will get Wings and Adoulin after. I'm really diggin Adoulin's aesthetic.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I'm referring to the little mini beholder eyes. I assume you need to need to be a vocation capable of grappling, like Warrior (assuming grappling/pinning is vocation-locked, I don't recall). I never tried this as a Magick Archer main.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNmvg_gdLM

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Ty for that vid, I'll try that out during my next playthrough, just like people in the comment section on that vid said, game still surprises ya even after being on it awhile, truly Awesome game ahead of it's time.

I never played Dragons Dogma Online, was it as good as Dogma?, I'm hoping Dogma 2 will be just as good if not better.

I've been playing a lot of Fire Emblem Engage, ever since its release. Another game I play often is Smash Bros Ultimate. Sephiroth main baby.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Other than XIV, I mostly just play old games. Like really old. I recently got ahold of an RGB handheld, and have been playing many of my favorite NES classics like Super Mario Bros. Contra, and Mega Man. Even some arcade classics such as Golden Axe, Sengoku, and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles are all on it. I had forgotten how frustrating those old quarter munchers used to be, and was never good enough to figure out how to manipulate the AI of the CPU on my own.

I'm also a huge Metroid fan, and Samus Aran is my favorite all-time protagonist out of any series be it game, book, manga, movies, etc. I never played Other M and would really love to get my hands on it. I'm also tempted to get a Switch so I can play Metroid Dread.

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Did you model your character after Samus? Looks like her. :)

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Is trolling in other forums a game? :p

I play very often other mmorpgs like WoW, Swtor, Lost ark etc. But also some older games on my SNES mini, or on an Amiga emulator. :)

Cheers

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You gotta troll here at home, it's funnier that way, that way if someone sees ya in game they can say there's that trash poster lol

That's my goals at least for when I'm trolling, most of the time I just try to use my Lalafell cuteness to meet new friends, Elderly Women love me in game, and I love them to, I say friend I am your son till your real son comes home, it works out perfect cause they think I'm adorable and I like being mothered.

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Originally Posted by Alrin

It depends on the mood: Civilization 6, Splatoon 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses.

But it is few minutes here and few there. I love my Nintendo Switch for that.

Oh and I will probably buy Triangle Strategy soon.

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Let's go Fire Emblem. Did you pick up Engage?

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

You gotta troll here at home, it's funnier that way, that way if someone sees ya in game they can say there's that trash poster lol

That's my goals at least for when I'm trolling, most of the time I just try to use my Lalafell cuteness to meet new friends, Elderly Women love me in game, and I love them to, I say friend I am your son till your real son comes home, it works out perfect cause they think I'm adorable and I like being mothered.

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The amount of people who have picked me out from the forums and a certain reddit subreddit while in game it larger than I thought it would be.

Too many games to list.

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The amount of people who have picked me out from the forums and a certain reddit subreddit while in game it larger than I thought it would be.

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I know I gave u a shout out when I was telling sassy assassin u and her are my fav forum posters, I'd say u can go see the thread but it got locked due to heated belief system wars.

I usually just walk up to random strangers and do the cheer emote till someone responds, most of the time I get ignored and sometimes I get told to go away potatoe, and when i finally get pats or friendly emotes back then i know right then i met a new friend lol

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Originally Posted by Leifei

Did you model your character after Samus? Looks like her. :)

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I did! Every facial option I chose was the one I felt was the closest to Samus. I even use her beauty mark. Though I'm currently not using Lyse's hairstyle, which is probably the closest to Samus' we have available. Omega F's is even closer, which was a big reason why I was so upset when it did not come with her outfit. I was also bummed out that the melee versions of the Lost Allagan gear cannot be equipped by MCH as this gear is the closest match to her zero suit, and MCH is the job that fits her best.

Fingers crossed that I can someday cosplay her in game. Believe me, I've tried. Thank you!

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

I keep trying to get some of my friends to get it so we can multiplayer it, I wonder if that would make it easier? I loved the Samurai class on there what little bit I got to experience it.

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I played DS3 and Bloodborne almost exclusively with a friend. It's more than doable, and it does make things slightly easier. If nothing else, misery loves company. :p I've been on my own with Elden Ring though because I have it on my PS5 instead of PC. You can summon random people to help if all else fails. Just had to do that with a boss myself who is arguably the hardest boss in the game. Took me a bit, but I got it. I think it helps that if people have gotten past a certain point, then they've been conditioned pretty well. lol

I don’t know what to play anymore :( I want something super cute…and pink maybe