So basically, im just looking for some friends to game with.. Im the only one in my friend group that really plays games, and it can get a little boring playing alone all the time.. im on Ps5, but I am down for any cross-platform options.. M in my 30s in EST..

My main 2 are Overwatch and Rivals, but I will play basically anything..

SURVIVAL: Palworld, Ark, Grounded

SHOOTERS: Overwatch, Rivals, battlefront 2, Apex

COLLAB: Big Walk, Overcooked, Human Fall Flat, etc

CHILL/COZY: Minecraft, Stardew

SPORTS/RACING: Wwe, Nba 2k, Crew Motorfest

CARD/BOARD: Uno, Monopoly, 4 Kings Casino

CO-OP: It Takes Two, Unravel, Cup Head, Sackboy

MOBA: Smite

RETRO/CLASSIC: Sunset Riders, Tmnt Collection, Maximum Marvel Collection

Thats just some of them, and I have loads more that I probably either forgot to list or just didn't get to. I just scrolled down my library a little and listed what I saw that was multi-player.. I also have other games that I haven't played or only tried very little that I'd be open to getting into.. DBD, Runescape Dragonwilds, Fortnite,

And obviously, I can get any other free games or games on the playstation plus catalog..

im also open to buying something depending on the situation, lol.. content warning, backrooms, gang beasts, etc.. dont matter as long as we have a good time

If at all interested or curious about a game, just dm or comment, and we can at least give it a shot! If nothing else, we are both right back here where we are now, right? Lol.. what we got to lose? 😃

TIA. HAPPY GAMING EVERYONE!

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i just finished a game i went into thinking would be total fluff and ended up genuinely emotional about it. curious if anyone else has had that experience where a game just hit different than you expected it to. what was it for you?

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I've been thinking about how the games we play can really depend on where we're at mentally. Like I picked up Spiritfarer recently after moving to a new country and it just resonated so hard with me in a way it might not have a year ago. Curious if anyone else has had that experience where a game just felt perfectly timed.

What's going on with AAA PC games lately? It feels like optimization keeps getting worse, and even having a 5090 doesn't save me from spending time figuring out why a game is stuttering.

I play a variety of AAA games, and my usual starting point is the highest graphics preset. But at 4K, I keep running into stutters and inconsistent performance. Then it's off to Reddit or some other forum to figure out which setting is causing trouble this time.

The frustrating part is that every game seems to need a different fix. I can't just find settings that work and get on with playing. Modern Warfare 4 is my latest example: gameplay was smooth, but the cutscenes kept freezing, including the audio. Turning off Enhanced FOV fixed that for me. That's a setting I wouldn't have expected to need to touch just to watch a cutscene properly.

I can accept turning down demanding settings at 4K. What wears me out is having to research weird problems in each game, even on hardware like this. I thought a 5090 would mean spending less time in settings menus and troubleshooting threads.

Has anyone else been feeling this lately? Which games have actually given you a smooth 4K experience without a whole troubleshooting session first?

Maybe the world hasn't noticed this little game yet. Or maybe it's simply not as good as I think it is.
But I'm still here, building it, one day at a time.
And next week, Map 4 arrives.

I know it was goofy and seen as a FF ripoff but it really found me at a time when I needed a 4 disc game. So much lore and a world to explore. I’ve only revisited it twice since my first time.

I finally completed my dream pc building it for like 3 years now because price in my country is too high now that i got it i dont even know what to do with it 😭 i dont feel like playing games in it like literally bored as hell i only watch youtube in it it seems i think its because while you dream of it makes you feel excited but when you felt it it doesn’t feel exciting anymore.

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Just looking for some friends to game with.. Im the only one in my friend really games and it can get little boring playing alone all the time.. im on Ps5 but am down for any cross platform options.. M in my 30s in EST..

I will play basically anything.. I'll play survival stuff like ark or palworld, I'll play shooters like overwatch and rivals, I'll play collab games like human fall flat or big walk, human fall flat, etc.. chill games like minecraft or stardew, etc.. sports games like nba 2k..

JUST SOME OF THE GAMES I HAVE THAT ARE MULTIPLAYER ARE:

My main 2 are overwatch and marvel rivals

But i also have and can play:

aniimo

runescape dragon wilds (never played it tho, it was just free, looked interesting, and had good scores)

palworld

big walk

Human fall flat

Wobbly life

fc26

The crew motor fest

grounded (1, not 2), but never played it

Wwe 2k

apex

monopoly

Uno

battlefront 2

insurgency sandstorm

Four kings casino and slots

tmnt cowabunga collection

sack boy a big adventure

cup head

unravel 2

Cat quest 2

ark evolved and ascended

stardew

sunset riders arcade archives (old snes game on ps store)

smite 1 and 2

valorant (never played it tho)

Fortnite (barely played)

Dbd (never played)

Nba 2k27

And obviously can get any other free games or games on the playstation plus catalog.. im also open to buying something depending on the situation lol.. There are probably some other games im not thinking of or didn't list.. i just went down my library list a little bit and listed what I saw that I know is multi-player is all.. but theres probably more

If at all interested or curious on a game, just dm or comment and we can at least give it a shot! If nothing else we both right back here where we are now right? Lol.. what we got to lose? 😃

TIA. HAPPY GAMING EVERYONE!

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I've been playing through a load of older RPGs lately, mainly FFV Advance, Breath of Fire and Koudelka, and honestly I'm surprised by how well some of them hold up.

There's something about these older games that I find more enjoyable than a lot of modern releases, even with some of their dated mechanics and lack of quality-of-life features.

It's got me wondering how many other great games I've overlooked over the years.

What older games would you say have genuinely stood the test of time? Especially ones you'd recommend to someone playing them for the first time.

Spent the entire weekend digging through cardboard boxes in the garage and came across my old Xbox 360 gear. Buried underneath a pile of tangled controller wires was a dusty copy of NCAA Football 06. Holding that scratched-up disc hit me instantly. I wasn't thinking about the game mechanics or the soundtrack; I was thinking about Coach Miller.

Back in high school, I was an absolute nightmare. I had this chip on my shoulder the size of a boulder, flunking classes, mouthing off, and daring anyone to try and fix me. I treated the football team like a joke and treated the coaching staff even worse. Miller pulled me into his office one afternoon after practice, not to yell, but just to sit across from me while I played a quick franchise mode match on his old CRT monitor just to kill time. He didn't lecture me about my attitude. He just told me I was wasting a lot of good energy being mad at nothing.

It took me ten years to realize how much patience that man had. I finally tracked him down on LinkedIn last night and sent a ridiculously long message apologizing for being such an unbearable kid and thanking him for keeping me on the roster when I deserved to be cut. Still feels weird being on this side of growing up.

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Eating cup noodles at 2 AM on a squeaky metal chair really makes your brain wander back to random PS2 games you completely obsessed over as a kid. For me, it's definitely Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. I still think about calling in that bunker buster airstrike on North Korean radar towers once a month like clockwork.

Back in 2005, that game was basically my entire personality. I'd sit there in the living room with the old CRT television buzzing softly, totally ignoring homework, just blowing up bridges and collecting bounties. My older sibling used to walk past, shake their head at the screen, and ask if I was ever gonna turn off the Playstation.

Now I'm sitting in a cramped apartment with a flickering desk lamp, staring at my Steam library thinking nothing quite hits the same way. Games nowadays look photorealistic and cost seventy bucks, but none of them let you level an entire city block with a deck of cards. Idk, maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but booting up an ISO on a laptop at midnight still cures a bad Tuesday.

Anyone else have that one weird relic from the 60hz era living rent-free in their head.

Stumbled across my old dusty console in the garage yesterday and booted up Ninety-Nine Nights. Ngl, the frame rate is an absolute disaster and the voice acting makes me want to crawl into a wall, but I used to sink entire weekends into that mess. Back in high school I was a miserable, angry kid giving everyone at home and school a hard time, and zoning out with mindless hack-and-slash games was literally the only thing keeping me sane. Anyone else have that one weird obscure game from 2006 they randomly remember while trying to fall asleep?

Hey 30 male with a full time job just looking for friends that know what it’s like to be busy but can play the game together when we just randomly are online at the same time! I play and have tons of games some of my usuals include .

Dead by daylight
Fortnite
R6 siege
RuneScape dragonwilds
Once human
Baulders gate
Halo campaign evolved
Halloween

And eventually soon GTA6

Also a big horror movie lover so if you love horror movies or games I’m also your guy!

Looking forward to playing with you all!

Premetto che non giudico i gusti di nessuno.

Io personalmente non amo il genere souls banalmente perchè sono cresciuto in un'epoca in cui non esistevano e dove il principio base era: livella e tutto diventerà semplice.

Ora ho 40 anni, lavoro e quindi ho poco tempo da dedicare alle ore di gioco e, soprattutto passarle incessantemente sullo stesso boss. È per me, personalmente, troppo frustrante.

Detto ciò, ho visto il clamore per l'uscita di Phantom blade zero e le infinte discussioni su "è un souls/non è un souls", quasi a voler dire "anche se non è un souls sarà comunque vicino all'idea di difficoltà".

Da qui la domanda: ma questi souls piacciono davvero così tanto?

Was up at 3 AM replaying The Thing on the original Xbox because insomnia is cool like that, when my brain just hit this weird friction point. Like a sudden urge to turn around from my CRT setup and check the kitchen window for no logical reason.

I live in an older house with drafty double-hung windows that rattle when the wind picks up. But there was no wind. Just a weird, quiet gut feeling that something was off, my hands kinda sweaty holding the controller.

Walked into the kitchen in the dark, stubbed my toe on the trash can, and saw a slow orange glow coming from the basement door crack. Turns out the old space heater my roommate left plugged in near some cardboard boxes was literally starting to char. Unplugged it, threw water on it, and just stood there shaking in my socks realizing how close that was.

Anyway, what obscure game keeps you up at ungodly hours?

Need help deciding!
I currently have the Xbox Series S and have been thinking about upgrading to the Xbox Series X, either new or pre-owned, but most likely pre-owned.
I know Microsoft is planning to release its next-generation console sometime in the next few years, potentially around 2027 or 2028, but that still feels pretty far away. I also don’t really plan on switching to PC gaming. Gaming PCs seem crazy expensive, and honestly, keeping up with all the different specs and figuring out what you need feels a little overwhelming. So, realistically, I think I’ll be sticking with Xbox.

With that in mind, do you think it would be worth upgrading now, or should I just wait? I’m still looking around for a good deal. GameStop has pre-owned Series X consoles listed for around $700, which seems pretty steep. I’ve also been looking online, and I might be able to find one for around $500 on Facebook Marketplace, since that seems to be the going price around my area.

I’m just trying to figure out whether upgrading now makes sense or if I’d be better off holding onto my Series S for a while longer. What do you guys think?

tbh i didn't even mean to open that old storage box in my closet. i was just tryna find some old charging cables when i found it. an old physical copy of Army of Two for the 360. and taped to the inside cover was a folded piece of lined notebook paper from literally ten years ago.

my hands are literally shaking typing this rn. it was a letter from my best childhood friend, Sam. we used to spend entire summers locked in my basement, screaming at the screen, beating co-op shooters till 4 am. before Sam passed away, we made this dumb pact as kids about who would finally 100% our backlog if anything ever happened.

my partner walked in while i was sitting on the floor just ugly crying holding a dusty game case, looking at me like i lost my mind cuz they didn't understand why a stupid Xbox 360 game had me completely spiraling. like, nobody in my current life even knows about the pact we made. but sitting there staring at Sam's messy handwriting... it hit me like a brick. i loaded up my old console just now and loaded our ancient save file. i'm sitting here playing solo, and it hurts so damn much.

Gaming Nights are for fun nights that happen on Saturdays and on Fridays, they are not mandatory or anything, they are just for Fun, we will give you a game to play and try out. plus it can be one of your favorite games!

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