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 :)
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:
- Risk of Rain 2 - ALL THE ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
- Red Faction 2 - The building Destruction in this is really fun! Hitting friends with a giant hammer is satisfying too. There’s a remastered version out but I’ve never tried it.
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.
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.
Oh man, please hit me up if you’d like to jump into GW2. One of my favourite things in any game is just adventuring across the land, doing quests, uncovering and discussing characters and lore, slowly improving out items together without worrying about “trading efficiently”, taking on little challenges like Dungeons or bosses, etc.
I’ve also gotten into Raiding lately with other first timers. We literally just go in without reading any guides, no roles assigned, and just try to work out how to get past each encounter/boss together.
I might when I get my PC set back up in July. I’m about to get a Series X.
No rush dude, enjoy your Series X!
Tbh the GW2 community is lovely as they come, might be worth just trying to scope out a guild that has similar interests to you and making friends that way. I didn’t have friends that played guild wars 2 when I started but I met plenty through the game and it’s been super fun
I’m new to Lemmy and couldn’t find a way to tag you, so apologies for that! But my reply to Skiptrace was also kind of a reply to you :)
The last few games I’ve played with people have been Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2, Gunfire Reborn & Tower Unite. c:
If we’re also counting browser games, Gartic Phone and Board Game Online.
It’s funny, I feel like I’ve seen more GW2 players in the wild on the fediverse than I did on Reddit
What sorts of stuff do y’all do when you play? Most of my GW2 playing friends play endgame PvE so I’m curious how other people play the game together ^^
It really depends! Sometimes we’re playing through story together (if there’s new stuff out we haven’t done yet), sometimes we’ll be doing fractals (so technically endgame PvE), sometimes we’ll go achievement hunting together or maybe farm if there’s something we particularly need for something.
I’ve been considering trying PvP and/or WvW again, but I’m a little scared because I very much consider myself to be a casual player and I’m afraid I’d be holding my team back with my inexperience. :c
If you have any PvP questions, hit me up! I actually just finished grinding out Ascension last month and really enjoyed the process – especially because i have a background in both fighting games and battlerite, which both translate somewhat well to guild wars, and I’m always happy to help someone learn :) And dont be afraid, that’s what ranks are for! Even if someone gets mad at you for “holding them back” remember they’re in that mmr bracket with you for a reason and they’re just mad they’re not playing to their own expectation, and it’s not fair for you to hold yourself to some random person’s standard :)
What specs do you play?
My Engineer is my main at the moment, and most of the time I roll through content as Mechanist (because having a pet is so convenient, and the low intensity build is great for ensuring I can play for long periods without my RSI flaring up). When I’ve dabbled in WvW before, I’ve done so as Scrapper because I prefer support classes and Scrapper was a pretty good healer back then (I think they might still be okay now?) c:
I know PvP is a little different, so I’m not sure what I’d play for that. What would you recommend?
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.
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
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.
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 !titanfall@sopuli.xyz
Table Top Simulator is great for group fun.
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.
Deep Rock Galactic is in heavy rotation with my group. Barotrauma too if we have the time and at least 4 people.
Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory
V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)
Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited
we play Dead by Daylight mostly. Sometimes we do fortnite, and have an unironically good time
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!
A couple of friends and I will play Hunt: Showdown pretty frequently.
Sometimes Deep Rock Galactic or Warframe as well.
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
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!
Vermintide 2, Warframe, TF2, Battlefield 1, and once in a great while we get to sit down and try to play warhammer lol.
