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It's pretty inconsistent with my friend groups, but most frequently revolves around either Apex Legends or a mix of fighting games, currently Street Fighter 6. Monster Hunter often enters the rotation, as well as other cooperative games.
I've been trying to get folks to play Omega Strikers with me but have had little luck so far, nor have I really had the time to really get into it and get very comfortable with all the mechanics.
Team Fortress 2! We queue Casual and just laugh at funny ragdolls, cosmetics, and the bizarre fever dream interactions that can only happen in TF2 π
My group plays Dota 2 and Arma 3, both poorly.
I built one of my best friends a retro gaming station out of a raspberry pi 2. Its called the Nicolas Cage SuperStation. We've been playing old school streets of rage with our ps4 controllers.
You can download the operating system, LakkaOS, from here: https://www.lakka.tv/
We also play Death Stranding and were about to get into the new Marathon too
Vermintide 2, Civ V, never liked CIV VI, Left 4 Dead, Risk of Rain 2. We are interested in that extraction looter that got removed from steam, Dark and Darker. We just haven't bother to get it through the BitTorrent links instead of steam. But we all love these types of games and dungeon crawling so it looks good.
Brawlhalla, hands down. A Free-to-play platform-fighting game that is surprisingly technical with its movement and combos, so it can lead to very interesting and epic moments.
It has a huge roster but you need to pay in-game currency to access most characters, which you gain very quickly by just playing the game, so its a non issue.
Terraria Minetest Minecraft Team Fortress 2 Factorio
League of Legends is the game we all share (it's how most of us met each other) but there are other games that some of us play together from time to time.
Deep Rock Galactic, Risk of Rain 2, Remnant: From the Ashes (sequel next month), Minecraft, and ARPGs. Just to name a few.
It's not uncommon either for us to just be playing out own thing and streaming to the others.
It used to be Overwatch but I definitely feel like we're drifting away from it thanks to the chsnges made in Overwatch 2.
Hopefully we can all migrate back to Final Fantasy XIV. That was very chill and the game itself is amazing!
We have like a solid list that goes back a few years
But we just added some new ones:
We are very competitive gamers, so the list is:
When there are more players:
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League of Legends, but with the attitude of "We really need to try more games, but this is the only one we all play."
We've also played Overwatch and FFXIV, but they don't really stick that well long term.
We keep coming back to Risk of Rain 2
Most of my friends arenβt real βgamersβ, but theyβll enjoy playing things like Geoguessr and scriblio, so we still get to play games.
Our current rotation of games is GTFO, Back 4 Blood, Ready or Not, Starship Troopers: Extermination and The Division 2.
We used to play quite a bit of Grand Theft Auto Online (PC), but too many games got ruined by blatant cheaters and griefers so we quit. We also had a Project Zomboid server, which was super fun, need to go back to that game sometime!
I've been playing Sons of the Forest with my friends. It's still in Alpha so it's been fun discovering the game together through the regular updates.
Mostly Rust, these days. However, we have played (and enjoyed) Valheim, Satisfactory, Raft, For the King and Heroes of the Storm. I want to get back to multiplayer Minecraft again though. Playing alone is getting old.
Mechabellum, Fortnite no build, pummel party
Typically we break into smaller groups to play gta v or golf with your friends. But we have a valheim server we chill on and this week we all got really into battle bits
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!
How is Omega Strikers? I've had my eyes on it but it's not really my friends' type of game. I might play it on my own because I think it looks really cool.