What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

[juiceciuj]

 

Yeah. I played a handful of games and at no point found myself enjoying it. At least it looks like it's doing something kinda different though.

 

is it? how's it different from other last-man-standing shooters?

have a friend w/no pc that plays fortnite on ps4, and a friend who i regularly play pubg with.

 

played about 40 minutes of fortnite w/former last nite. best game we made top 4 but never felt any tension/excitement. immediately jumped on pub w/latter friend after he got home and within second of the first drop had a super tense standoff w/another duo (that we won).

 

this weekend was final round so i played alot of tekken this weekend. there was a pre tournament on thursday where i went 4-2. at final round i went 2-2 (long standing pr at this point). went to watch tekken finals on sunday. pretty hype. usa has closed the gap on korea significantly in the <1 yr since the game came out. lil majin is such a sick king player

[onecaseman]

 

 

 

 

I bought Nier: Automata when it was finally on sale last week or so. haven't had time to dig into it yet. still futzing around with The Binding of Isaac.

 

I'm only a few hours in, but it is really fuckin good so far

 

I got a chance to play for a few hours more yesterday - I'm in the desert. Things are getting weirder in this game... I like it!

 

 

I'm a bit further ahead and it continues to get weirder than that. I don't really understand the weapons options, but I'm still slaying fools.

 

Got to play quite a bit more... getting weirder (although a bit predictable now in terms of plot). Some beautiful environments.

 

The weapon options become clearer as you upgrade them - it's typical JRPG stuff.

 

 

Yeah I don't ever play JRPG's, so I'm a bit confused. I just use a massive fucking sword and missiles now.

 

Been working my way through the Frozen Wilds DLC for Horizon Zero Dawn, excellent add-on in an overall great and underrated game. It's been a while since I jumped back to this and I'd forgotten just how much fun the combat is in this game. Might have to do a NG+ run through

 

The DLC is amazing. I loved the original game and wasn't expecting much new, but the DLC really improved a lot of areas and had a good story as well. It's harder as well.

[Kennylogg Bubblebath]

I'm just reliving my childhood of walking down country lanes on a Sunday afternoon with Sunday Afternoon Simulator 2015 (aka Everybody Has Gone To The Rapture)

 

Verdict?

 

I remember being quite interested in that when it was announced, but I clearly forgot all about it. Shall buy if decent.

[mcbpete]

I’d say ….. it depends! I can definitely see people finding the whole thing a soulless slog, but for me the atmosphere of it that has kept me going for the 8+ hours (still have a chapter or two to go).

 

It’s *very* English, tonally it feels like if Threads crossed over with The Archers, but as a child of the 80s growing up and wandering around the same quaint village/towns for much of my life it had an instant emotional connection. It’s a huge step up from The Chinese Room’s previous Dear Ester, but definitely similar in tone – So if you played that and it did little for you then you may find this title lacking as well.

[Kennylogg Bubblebath]

I never played Dear Esther, but your description of Rapture is exactly what I hoped it'd be. I definitely need to free up some time and grab this.

 

Do physical copies exist or is it digital-only?

[mcbpete]

I think it's digital only - I got my copy on Steam last year for about 15 quid. Not sure how much it is for other systems.

[Kavinsky]

Pillars of Eternity , beautiful  deep game but the loading times are killing me, its a  2D Isometric game why da fk does is need to load for  about 10 sec if  i enter a room.  Witcher 3, is  much more complex ,demanding on graphics and cpu and still the transitions are fluent. Anyone programmer here who might have an answer ?

[Kennylogg Bubblebath]

I think it's digital only - I got my copy on Steam last year for about 15 quid. Not sure how much it is for other systems.

 

Just headed over to the PS Store and saw it was on sale for £3.99 - instabuy!

[Squee]

Dear Esther is boring as ffffffffuck. And I love walking simulators.

[Silent Member]

Never played that, but I really liked Everbods' rapturin'. I can also totally understand why people might find it mindnumbingly boring.

[mcbpete]

Dear Esther is boring as ffffffffuck.

Fucks aren't boring though !

[Joyrex]

 

Dear Esther is boring as ffffffffuck.

Fucks aren't boring though !

 

depends on who's doing it, innit

[ambermonk]

I remember Dear Esther. I believe it's been out for six years now. I think I completed the first two chapters, but could never bring myself to continue because it was turning into a snooze fest for me.

I discovered yesterday that I can play classic Doom engine games like Heretic and HeXen on my Android phone, as well as other 90s DOS games. Raptor: Call of the Shadows plays quite well on a mobile platform it turns out, once the controls are set up properly.

As for Fortnite (STW), I didn't realize until yesterday that I'm very close to affording a Mythic hero (Wukong) with Event tokens. That's the highest rarity level in the game.

[onecaseman]

Okay, so I got ending A on Nier: Automata and am going to try to keep going. I hear B is a slog, so we'll see if I can stick with it.

[sine nomine]

Picked up the talos principle... and I'm loving it it's a beautiful game... It's like I'm a land surveyor for some life engineer or something ... I will fall short in articulating just what I feel when I play it but for a puzzle game so far so good :)

[usagi]

^ another game I bought on sale which I need to make time to get into

[Squee]

For those of you who are as horny for Monkey Island as I am... CMI is out on GoG for PC AAAAAND Mac. It never came out for Mac, so I'm stoked!

https://www.gog.com/game/the_curse_of_monkey_island

[juiceciuj]

Picked up the talos principle... and I'm loving it it's a beautiful game... It's like I'm a land surveyor for some life engineer or something ... I will fall short in articulating just what I feel when I play it but for a puzzle game so far so good :)

i got maybe 2/3rds of the way through talos. yeah it was really fun but a lot of the puzzles are really easy at first and then there seemed to be a pretty significant jump. then i just put it aside after getting stuck for a little bit on a couple of different puzzles. usually i come back to things like this after 6mos or a year and end up blazing through the end (looking at you antichamber).

 

i should finish it tho yo

[Guest Ovitus]

For those of you who are as horny for Monkey Island as I am... CMI is out on GoG for PC AAAAAND Mac. It never came out for Mac, so I'm stoked!

https://www.gog.com/game/the_curse_of_monkey_island

The only good unofficial sequel...

 

I really hope Monkey Island 3a sees the light of day. SIGN IT

Edited March 23, 2018 by Ovitus

[ambermonk]

Brutal Heretic RPG V2 is pretty dope. I love old school games with modern mods.

Edited March 24, 2018 by ambermonk

[Guest Ovitus]

Dunno anyone else whose a fan of MI. But if you follow Ron Gilbert's blog, he posted a video that's a great analysis of SoMI:
 

 

This game was my childhood, much love for it along with others like Loom and Grim Fandango.

[luke viia]

Finally beat Mass Effect Andromeda. Not nearly as bad as I had heard, but yeah, sheesh.

 

On to AC Origins.

Edited March 25, 2018 by luke viia

[Joyrex]

Okay, so I got ending A on Nier: Automata and am going to try to keep going. I hear B is a slog, so we'll see if I can stick with it.

Me too - I really don't like having to play through the game again (with some minor variations) from the other character's perspective...

[onecaseman]

 

Okay, so I got ending A on Nier: Automata and am going to try to keep going. I hear B is a slog, so we'll see if I can stick with it.

Me too - I really don't like having to play through the game again (with some minor variations) from the other character's perspective...

 

 

Agreed. It is going a lot faster though, and there are some new cut scenes. Unfortunately, they give more questions than answers so far.

[ambermonk]

Reviews for Far Cry 5 look promising. And having actually lived in Montana for 4 years when I was a wee lad, the in-game environments look pretty accurate for how I remember the landscape.

Really tempted to blow that 60 bucks...