What are you playing this weekend? 2025-07-25 (lemmy.world)

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This week was mostly just Donkey Kong Bananza

Couldn't play as much as I wanted to, but have reached the 3rd world, and am about half-way through that too. I am going slowly by collect 100% stuff in each world, though mainly focusing on Bananas.

Still, most of the time is spent just moving around smashing through stuff.

For the times when my Switch 2 is hijacked by the little ones, I have started AI: The Somnium Files , it's a detective VN / adventure game. It was on my wishlist for a while, and with 3rd one releasing recently decided to finally give it a try.

Investigation works somewhat like in Phoenix Wright, you go to a place, and 'investigate' things / talk to people by clicking on them with the cursor. No moving around or anything. The tone is much darker, but there are some comical dialogues or descriptions. There are also some sequences where you have to move around and interact with some stuff, they are different from the normal investigation parts, but are still part of solving the mystery.

I am only on 3rd day or so, enjoying the game so far.

Certain things are alluding to certain truths already, but I wonder if it's a red herring or they are giving away stuff already.

Didn't play Marvel's Midnight Suns last week because of Bananza, but will be getting back to it on this weekend. Hope to clear Part 2 of the story soon.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also, I can't remember if I mentioned this previously, but I bought a secondhand 2DS a couple of months ago so I've finally got around to starting Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. The DS Layton games were some of my favourites but because I never owned a 2DS/3DS, or a portable device that could emulate them well, I have held off on playing them until now. Layton games are best played in a cosy space, like in bed or an armchair with a rug, with headphones on and the weather has been colder and wetter here recently which is perfect for this type of game!

Other than that, I haven't had too much free time for gaming lately, and to be honest I haven't really had the drive for it either. I am approaching my mid-30s now and sometimes wonder if I'm going to "grow out of" gaming as a main hobby at some point in the near future.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I've had that thought about "growing out of" gaming several times. Even when I was younger, there were times when I would just play my old consoled a few times a year and thought about getting rid of it all. But then something new comes out that catches my eye and I will get right back into it, or I just rediscover some game.

I turned 40 recently and I've been enjoying gaming as much as ever. Sometimes life just gets in the way or we lose interest in gaming for a while. And it's also completely fine if you just grow out of it. But you can always come back to it if it's something you enjoy. Anyway, enough rambling, back to my cave...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I guess part of the reason I think about it quite a bit these days is because almost all of my friends who are my age and older have mostly stopped. The guys who haven't are the ones who are still single, living by themselves with no responsibilities to anyone beyond their employer.

One guy I know has vlogged and blogged quite a lot about his experiences "quitting" video games. The realisation he came to was that gaming was holding him back in many other areas of his life, and that he had been reluctant to acknowledge this earlier in his life because he was scared about what that said about all the time he had sunk into video games instead of solving his problems. It's not that severe for me, but I do wonder whether it's a hobby I maintain out of laziness/fear of trying something new, rather than because I still love it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Congratulations on getting 2DS! I had been thinking about getting a 3DS but eventually decided against it. Can't even manage current systems, don't need to add older ones too 😄

I have heard good things about Professor Layton games, looking forward to the next one, it was announced quite a while ago, hopefully we will be getting it soon. I think latest update said in year 2025. Let's see.

Don't worry about growing out of gaming. It's just a hobby, and there is nothing wrong with switching them up once in a while. That being said, I am nearing my 40s and haven't grown out of it yet. There was surely a lull for a few years, but that was more because of family and kids then due to age as a number. Though the amount of time I can give to games has surely decreased, and I am much more willing to drop games I am not liking then I used to before, which is more of an evolution then anything else.

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