Games besides 14 u play

[Bunnycake]

7 Days To Die, Phasmophobia and today Hi-Fi Rush.

[Renalt]

Other than 14 the last 3 games I've played is Trials of Mana, FF7R, and A Gay Love Story about Gay Love.

[SaitoHikari]

During the three years that I took a break from FFXIV due to my work schedules being rather bad, I bounced across a lot of single player games.

- Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla: Finished Odyssey, found Valhalla to be bad enough that it's one of the only games that I dropped completely without any interest in finishing it, and Origins is a great game that doesn't overstay its welcome in comparison.

- Crystal Project: One of the best turn-based games I've ever played. I wouldn't be surprised if no one here has ever heard of it, as it's a single dev indie project that was released about a year ago. Think FF5 but with a larger focus on exploration rather than an epic story (the game's plot is mostly in the background as you explore). There's platforming elements in the game's exploration, and it features a FF5-style job system and an actual aggro system in its combat, along with letting you see what move enemies will do next. Debuffs actually work as you expect them to. This actually makes the game a lot more tactically-minded than the RNG-fests that most other turn-based games are, and the game's still reasonably difficult because you can't really go into mid/late-game boss fights without a solid plan. Because of the aggro/threat system, tanks are actually very important here, while they're worthless in most other turn-based games. For example, a Reaper/Warrior build in Crystal Project is literally just FFXIV Warrior with the crazy amount of max HP bonuses/life drain effects they have. The creator was a big fan of FFXI, and it shows. (There's a demo on Steam that transfers over to the full game, and said demo is probably about 10+ hours of content on a first playthrough. Super meaty.)

- Chained Echoes: Another great turn-based indie game by another solo dev. Great pacing and isn't bloated to hell like most other JRPGs these days. The plot managed to hold my interest throughout, though the ending might be controversial (though I wouldn't say it's bad or nonsensical). The combat isn't as good as Crystal Project though, but that's a very high bar to clear.

- Yakuza Like a Dragon: Rather hilarious game, with some thoughtful writing. The modern day setting is done refreshingly well. I had no interest in doing the post-game content by the time I finished the main story though.

- Dragon's Dogma: Okay, I played this a long time ago, but OP mentioned this and I am extremely stoked for Dragon's Dogma 2. There still isn't any other game with a class like Magick Archer out there, and the spells do exactly as their animations suggest. Tornadoes that behave like actual tornadoes? There should be more of that in action RPGs.

- Tactics Ogre Reborn: I can see why this is the game that convinced Yoshi-P to join Square Enix. I did get burned out towards the end with the rather confusing and grindy post-game progression though.

- Monster Hunter Rise: I'm sure I don't need to explain this. Great fun all around.

- Genshin Impact: Very interesting exploration, and consistently high quality throughout. Pretty much the only legitimately good gacha game out there, probably because it tries its hardest to hide the fact that it's a gacha to begin with.

Stuff I'm looking forward to this year:

- Arcadian Atlas: Some of you may remember the kickstarter for this game about 7-something years ago. It's a Tactics-style game, and it looks like it's finally going to release this year. It had a demo a long while back and I think it has the potential to be really good. Maybe better than Fell Seal.

- Octopath Traveler 2: I hope it fixes the flaws of the first game.

- FFXVI: Too bad it's PS5 only. I'm going to be part of the 'waiting for a PC port' crowd. Hope the PS4/PS5 crowd in FFXIV doesn't try to spoil this game for the PC players.

- Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster: The Nvidia leaks hinted at the existence of this game. Who knows if it still does, but I hope Matsuno is working on finishing the Delita path that had to get cut out from the original game.

- Dragon's Dogma 2: Probably not releasing this year, but yeah.

- Dragon Age 4: Also probably not releasing this year, but I'm curious to see what it has turned into after it has supposedly been rebooted like twice.

[rainichan]

Depends on my mood. I enjoy jrpgs a lot, and I have some other mmos that I'll play when I feel burned out or need a break (LOTRO and FFXI are the most recent; I played FFXI for years so it's like going back to your childhood home when you go back to replay lol). For single player games, I have a HUGE backlog but I recently picked up the remaster of P3P and Sega Genesis Collection because I always have a hankering to play Phantasy Star 4. The intro music always slaps and gets me super hyped to play. How can it not?!

I also have the new Star Ocean waiting for me, but I need time to actually sit and play that, I've heard decent things about it so I'm excited to see if it lives up to some of the older titles that I enjoy. Looking forward to a new Tales game too, I'm hoping they announce one soon that isn't just a remaster (unless that remaster is Tales of Rebirth, I've been yelling for that one to be released here for years. I'd take a Graces or Xillia/Xillia 2 remaster too!); I really enjoyed Arise (miss the multiplayer battles though, I hope they bring those back for the next title!) though there was some bits I felt were rushed. I'm a sucker for Tales games, there's very few I'm Meh on compared to ones I enjoy greatly.

[Renalt]

Depends on my mood. I enjoy jrpgs a lot, and I have some other mmos that I'll play when I feel burned out or need a break (LOTRO and FFXI are the most recent; I played FFXI for years so it's like going back to your childhood home when you go back to replay lol). For single player games, I have a HUGE backlog but I recently picked up the remaster of P3P and Sega Genesis Collection because I always have a hankering to play Phantasy Star 4. The intro music always slaps and gets me super hyped to play. How can it not?!

I also have the new Star Ocean waiting for me, but I need time to actually sit and play that, I've heard decent things about it so I'm excited to see if it lives up to some of the older titles that I enjoy. Looking forward to a new Tales game too, I'm hoping they announce one soon that isn't just a remaster (unless that remaster is Tales of Rebirth, I've been yelling for that one to be released here for years. I'd take a Graces or Xillia/Xillia 2 remaster too!); I really enjoyed Arise (miss the multiplayer battles though, I hope they bring those back for the next title!) though there was some bits I felt were rushed. I'm a sucker for Tales games, there's very few I'm Meh on compared to ones I enjoy greatly.

Tales of Destiny 1 and 2 are both very solid.

[rainichan]

Tales of Destiny 1 and 2 are both very solid.

Destiny 2/Eternia is my fave retro Tales, it's so good. Graces is probably the newer fave, which is why I want a remaster haha. I want to be able to rewatch the Rockagong skits without needing to hook up my ps3 or just loading them up on youtube.

[Larirawiel]

Is trolling in other forums a game?

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

[Renalt]

I think I have like...300 hours of recorded video of doing Dragon's Dogma. I can't wait for both the sequel and for the MMO Private Server to be finished.

[Vahlnir]

I play a lot of other things, but currently my focus is Elden Ring. Picked it up while it was on sale and I've been having an aggravatingly good time.

[GTK0HLK]

XIV is my only MMO, maybe one day something else will come.[Unlikely]

As for games, recently it's been small<but now we'll known> indies. A few of the subscribe to support development games.
I used to Play GTAV/O but it was nonsense.[even more so with the sickening security breaches lately. which they may "Fix" though I'm Unlikely to return to R* anytime soon]
Day one CP2077[then almost a year later, the patched version]
Would play some single player RPGs.<but some lost my faith with either restriction, or simply not interested atm.>

if I had the time, I'd consider Atomic Hearts.[like the visuals, and honestly. been looking for something that Drew my attention like PREY]
Played some of the RE franchise.(so the remakes could draw my attention, if I find myself slowed down one day.)
asides that, I can't say I've played much recently.[and as I didn't exactly begin with easy access to older games, thus my interest isn't as spread out.]

but always interested in some MP with others.