What games do your friend groups tend to play with one another?
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 :)
Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory
V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)
Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited
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.
Deep Rock Galactic is in heavy rotation with my group. Barotrauma too if we have the time and at least 4 people.
Table Top Simulator is great for group fun.
Bro, Viscera Cleanup. It's like space janitors talking while cleaning up the remnants of an alien infestation.
I have been gaming with the same group of friends for the last ten years. We're three people busy with real-life commitments, live on different sides of the country, so we try to play games where they act as a social arena as well. The conversations we have are more important than the game itself.
We've been gaming Valheim, Raft, The Forest and Risk of Rain 2 for the past years. We've also played some Elden Ring and Hunt: Showdown, but neither works as well as the beforementioned.
On that note, can anyone reccomend games like the ones above? Been eyeing Grounded...
Y’all have friends who will play multiplayer games with you?
… or who will deign to sit on Discord? 🥲
It hurts when you speak to my soul like this 🥺
Depends on the group.
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
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!
We are very competitive gamers, so the list is:
When there are more players:
Sus
Rocket League.
No1 is probably Valheim, but also WarThunder, Hunt: Showdown, and GTFO. But I wish it was Eve Online 😅
Almost nothing.
We’ve all such different tastes, but the last thing we played was Forest 2 and Grim Dawn.
A mixture of Dead by Daylight, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim and V Rising. Depends who and how many of the group are online and what kind of mood we're all in!
Damn, I wish my friends liked good games too.
Over the last few years it's been Final Fantasy XIV, Vermintide 2, Valheim and some Generation Zero.
Hoping to get to Deep Rock Galactic and Sea of Thieves some time.
Drg is a great one, highly reccomend.
Seconded!
I have two groups, one that plays Overwatch. And another that tends to play coop survival games. Valheim, 7dtd, V Rising, etc
My group plays Dota 2 and Arma 3, both poorly.
I'm big into splatoon, and some of friends are varying degrees of also into it, from "as invested as me" to "will play it but will make a good-natured fuss about it". It's the most fun shooter I've ever played, despite its terrible jankiness sometimes.
We also play a lot of boardgames on tabletop sim, if that counts.
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.
Rocket League, mostly. I play casual matches with my peeps, but my son and I play competitive together. We’ve won some tournaments, even. We also play Fortnite.
Most of my friends aren’t real ‘gamers’, but they’ll enjoy playing things like Geoguessr and scriblio, so we still get to play games.
For in person, we do a lot of Jackbox.
When online, SCP Secret labs has been a favorite. Every few weeks someone will usually want to play and we'll do a few rounds.
A couple of friends and I will play Hunt: Showdown pretty frequently.
Sometimes Deep Rock Galactic or Warframe as well.
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 :)
We met via tabletop RPGs and that's what we still do every two weeks but if we're hanging on Discord it's mainly Overwatch but also Wildermyth and Mech Warrior.
We keep coming back to Risk of Rain 2
Once in a while farming simulator 22
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!
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.
Here's some of my friend group's favorites with old and new games mixed in, we go all over the place!
RTS:
FPS:
TPS:
Strategy:
VR:
2D Mayhem
The following three games are meant for local / couch gameplay, but using steam remote play or parsec works.
I hope someone finds something new in this list, or perhaps some good memories.
Valorant, Deep rock galactic, Sea of Thieves, and soon Titanfall 2
Escape from Tarkov with a few buddies, counterstrike with another group.
Both groups I sometimes play a variety of other stuff with but these two are the main stays
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
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!
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.
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.
Y'all play games with friends? My irl friends only really like FPSs, and since that's not my jam we don't really play together. And most of the people I know online are more into single player games until I found them in an mmo (but even then we tend to only play that one together).
We go through phases. The game we will always return to when there's a new one is Monster Hunter, but we've played other games sporadically over the years. Most recently has been path of exile, which I normally get bored of relatively quickly but it's much more fun with friends.
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.
Fortnite has been our go-to for the last 3 years.
Quite impressive, considering I thought my friend was kidding when she asked me to play it with her. But it's been hella fun since!
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 typically play Destiny 1 and 2 as well as Battlefront 2 with my friend group. sometimes we quad team on minecraft bedwars. and even duel each other sometimes
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.
Honestly I love it to bits. I was top 500 for a time in battlerite royale duos, so when it died I wanted a game that scratched that same itch that actually had a marketing push behind it so people would play it. Omega strikers isn't quite the same as battlerite, but it scratches a similar enough itch to where I've been really, really happy with my time with it. Played it in beta and just got obsessed lol
I will say it's not a game I can play for hours on hours like valorant, but I spend like an hour or two with it every few days and it's consistently fun. Biggest issue is cross play with mobile players and switch players means you're pretty likely to queue with like 11 year olds that don't know what they're doing, but cross play like that is a necessary evil to keep a game like this alive. It's super fun with friends though, I can't recommend it enough
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 😅
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.
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
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?
We have a few games that are always in rotation - Left 4 Dead 2, Payday 2, Vermintide 2, Risk of Rain 2. Basically just coop FPS games that, as I list them, happen to be sequels lol. We also play Valheim when new updates come out. Lately trying out Earth Defense Force 5.
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
Fortnite. It's free!
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.
We have like a solid list that goes back a few years
But we just added some new ones:
Bro, dawn of war is what pushed me to build my first powerful gaming PC back in, like, 2008ish
It's still so good multiplayer. Easily one of our favourites.
Destiny 2. It gets a lot of hate (a lot of it deserved) but every week me and two friends run dungeons and it's always fun.
We usually go for the cheapest and dummest crap we find, with most potential.
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.
Vermintide 2, Warframe, TF2, Battlefield 1, and once in a great while we get to sit down and try to play warhammer lol.