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So, what have we all been playing?
Inspired by similar threads on ~tv and ~music
What have you been playing? What do you think of it? Who would you recommend it to?
Inspired by similar threads on ~tv and ~music
What have you been playing? What do you think of it? Who would you recommend it to?
I started playing Bioshock for the first time 2 days ago. Loving it so far, finding it very hard to tear myself away.
Oh man, if you haven't played any other games in the series you are in for a treat. Bioshock and its subsequent sequels are some of my favorite worlds.
This is my first time playing the series. I’m just taking my time trying to soak up as much of the game as I can. I’m not very far through the first game but can already see why it’s so heavily recommended online.
Infinite has the absolute most insane ending I've ever seen in a game. Only one where I sat in disbelief for a while, then had to google explanations of what it all meant. Crazy shit.
I’ve read that the ending to Infinite is really good! Certainly looking forward to playing it once I get through 1 & 2.
Console or PC? There are mods that fix the feeling of the weapons and such. I haven't played that remaster but it maybe have fixed all those issues.
Remaster on console. Haven’t really had any issues so perhaps it was fixed with the remaster. Super fun game.
Rimworld! If you aren't familiar, colony survival simulator after crash landing on a 'rimworld'. Goal is to get off the planet by gathering supplies, researching and creating a spaceship...but hope you don't die to other colonies/tribes on the planet! Art is similar to prison architect but plays drastically different. The unstable beta is 1.0, and regular game is in .8. Game has great mod support if you play on .8 (they regularly updating and testing in 1.0 so most modders don't put the time in yet). Should be out of beta later this year. Best early access game I've played.
I've been playing a lot of Rimworld too!
It's a fantastic game, and the modding community puts out a ton of high-quality content. I've been playing around with custom scenarios to jump-start the beginning portion of the game and seeing if I can start with next to nothing but 10 colonists and get up food production quick enough to keep them all from starving.
Do you prioritize weapon research in order to kill some things for immediate food? I remember having no trouble with early food for big teams if you can start with a gun to shoot deer and such.
So far, I've been trying to find a starting amount of pemmican that'll get me to a first rice harvest, but haven't found an amount that stresses my play enough without making it impossible. I did start with some guns once, and you're right - it wasn't hard to shoot a bunch of animals and go from there.
I can't remember exactly the technology trees but is there a way to maybe give yourself just enough to get a bow and arrow? I wonder if that would make it difficult enough or just ineffective against raiders.
Ah, that's a good idea. I don't think the basic shortbow requires any research, so can just start a new game and start crafting.
The game is really interesting how you can attack issues uniquely and then you read about someone else doing it completely differently and you're just like WHY DIDN'T I DO THAT?
I've only mostly played on easier difficulties so most of the combat stuff was easy to handle. One time I picked a really mountainous region to settle and went with a cave base dug into the mountain for easier defense. But then you need the fields of food, and had to construct a giant outer wall around all the fields to keep them from getting razed every time someone invaded.
Another time I had a returning party moving very slowly from taking prisoners and carrying wounded. Realized they weren't going to have enough food to make it back and had to rush a rescue party after them with extra food. Leaving the home base very sparsely populated in the meantime.
Haha true!
I think I've only tried the large mountains biome once; I started digging rooms like I would in Dwarf Fortress and stumbled into a cave system of "stuff" that quickly killed me. I think the entire game lasted 30 minutes, resulting in total failure. It was a blast!
Oh, daring! I haven't done a whole lot with caravans myself; I usually keep to my starting zone and close trade requests. One of the motivators for me starting with more pawns is that I'd like to get to that part of the game faster, even though I do love me some new-colony planning.
Yeah I have also found those caves and you start to be able to identify which mountains on the map contain those. Usually I find a nice corner mt. and begin digging because the type of mountain with the baddies usually has to be pretty big to house the whole cave. Picking a smaller one usually is safe. Eyeballing it you can kind of tell just like which ruins have the cryo pods in the other maps.
I always set myself up with a lot more people too. Just felt so boring with 1-3 people even though that's kind of what it's balanced for. The big problem is like you sad running out of food or getting people made because it takes so long to build enough beds and rooms for people. I swear if they could just put up with sleeping on the ground for a week WE COULD SURVIVE HERE PEOPLE. That's the one thing that's pretty frustrating. Usually I start with 12 or so and end up with somewhere between 4 and 8 by the time I'm setup and running. First few things I made were sleeping areas and a prison cell because I know they're going to get mad and have to be contained until I can convince them to chill out again.
One time I was trying a run with only 2 shooter types and the first person to go mad was one of them. Shot the other right away and I was left watching him rampage the rest of the colony with almost no defense. Tried locking some doors and tunneling out the back but he got to them in a real "HERE'S JOHNNY" sort of scene.
Oh nice, didn't know that about the mountains!
Haha, they really don't like sleeping on the ground, with other people in the same room, or outside. Individual rooms is always something I have to weigh against other things like getting food up and running, a dining room, or something that can function as a jail. Plus, if you're loosing people, the stacking mood debuf from people dying will really hurt.
Oof, that's rough. It's so often the people that we don't want to go crazy that do.
Stellaris
I bought a new laptop this spring, so I finally have the required computing power to play this game. Honestly I'm not sure how much I like it. At times it gets frustrating, like when one of the horde civilisations pick you as their next target, or when you're unable to catch that damn enemy fleet you've been chasing for several in-game years. At times it gets boring, like when you have to wait for a truce to expire. With the many content patches that have been released since launch the devs have added lots of things to do during downtime, but internal politics and management is still not interesting enough.
It's a pretty good game, but if it hadn't been for a few questionable design choices and a lot of missed opportunities, it would have been great. Maybe it will be one day, after a few dozen more content patches. I think I'll continue playing until the end-game crisis starts, because I'm quite curious about that, but I'm unlikely to start a new campaign afterwards.
This is one of those games where the modding community could have been its saving grace, but since the game is still in active development, there's not much point in looking into mods yet. They'll probably break with every major patch.
I've played quite a bit of Stellaris, and I can say that the game today is miles ahead of where it was at launch - par for the course for any Paradox game.
As for mods, I have one or two from the early days that still work fine, and the "major" mods keep well up to to date. I also believe you can have Steam download and run older builds of the game if you want to keep fully functional until mod updates are released.
Fallout 4, like a lot since I got all the DLC on the cheap during a steam sale. I bought it when it launched but never beat it. The mods that have been made for it are pretty amazing and save a lot of downtime traveling between your location and settlements to drop off loot. It encourages more exploration without having to worry about carry weight of the junk.
I currently now have more hours in fallout 4 (I've started many characters over the years) than Witcher 3 after I beat it 2 and a half times.
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made on another post but here are my mods that are making it so much better to play through:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6091
You'll also need F4SE if you want to use some of these. http://f4se.silverlock.org/
Reading this thread I thought "I really need fallout 4 mods" and there they all are! you rock! I recently bought a PC (my first in 8 years) and fallout was one of the games I had to have.
This will be my first time playing with mods
I've been replaying Skyrim (the free special edition - whatever it's called - this time) and am enjoying it. I decided to for once intentionally play as an immoral character, rather than default back to the norm which is role-playing my more moral self. It's fun to be wandering around a town, hear someone say something negative towards me (I'm a dark elf, so it happens semi-frequently), and begin plotting my assassination of said someone.
I also bought Basic Origin Access the other day so I have a few games to play around with; Battlefield 1 is something I've wanted to play for a while and was the main reason for me signing up, along with 10-hour trials of the next FIFA and Battlefield games (I suspect I'll get bored of each within those trial periods). I've tried NFS: Payback a bit but the story and acting is so cringe-worthy I'm contemplating uninstalling. Then there are ABZU and Inside which were on my list for a while.
Oh, and Rocket League. I reached Champion III for the first time recently! :-)
Congratulations!
Thanks! Back down to Champ II playing with some friends, but I feel fairly confident that I now consistently enough like a Champ II that I'll be back up to Champ III soon!
Nothing wrong with that - games are supposed to be fun, so playing with friends is great, and if you've got the skills down, you won't have a problem getting back.
Funnily enough I just played my first game of the night, won, and got back up to Champ III. :-D
Fantastic!
Champ 3 it's surprising you have time to play anything else!
Ha, I do have nearly 900 hours logged, but that's over something like three years. I never practice, just play competitive playlists.
Interesting. I usually just do barely enough to get ranked pretty close to where I feel I am, the one reason I've been playing more lately is because so many people leave after 1 game and never queue up for a second with the same people. Feels like no one anymore plays with the same people unless they are partied.
I've been playing master chief collection again. I wish it worked this well at launch. It killed a lot of hype for halo.
Halo 2 is my favorite by far. The first really great online multiplayer I played. Not to mention all the fun my friends and I had playing split screen all night.
I swear I read master chef collection and was wondering for a good half minute what the hell Halo had to do with it.
I’ve been playing This Is The Police where it’s essentially a story-driven board game where you direct officers to crime scenes.
The thing that makes it stand out is that you can definitely go corrupt and do things like keeping dead officers in the morgue so that you could collect their salary, selling items you found to the Mafia from explosives to actual money (yes, you let the Mafia launder money for you) and if any officers or detectives is going to testify against you, you can always get them whacked.
I’m 25 days (in-game) into this game and it’s still pretty fun though it could get boring since it gets routine damn quickly but hey, you can always buy vinyl disks to drown out the monotony of life.
I've seen the game before on steam and have considered getting it but, I never actually have . It sounds like you're enjoying the game, would you recommend buying it?
On a sale? Definitely.
Good to know, thanks! I see that there's also a second This Is The Police have you played that at all or have any opinions on it?
I am planning to, just need to buy it at the right price.
Sun On YeeGamers never pay full price.Detroit: Become Human. Just finished my first playthrough (and nobody died!)
It's basically a visual novel (plays kinda like a Telltale), and the production value is super high. It also does what good sci-fi tends to and serves as a commentary on present-day social issues via the lens of a near-future in which general AI in the form of androids, the introduction of which pushes unemployment past 30%.
It's very well done, and worth picking up if you like well-written sci-fi and CYOA-type gameplay with brief moments of quick-time actions
My wife is obsessing me with that but we are waiting to find it at a discount price.
No matter I also love a good storytelling, I'm not gonna give you 60£ for a game with zero replayability.
There is replayability (if you want to go for completion). My sister is going for 100% flowchart completion (she's a little obsessed) and has been at it for a few weeks now. At the very least, each character has a few major divergences that interact with each other to dramatically change the ending. I'll probably pick it up in another week or two and do the opposite playthrough.
I'm talking about story replayability or enough variety of gameplay to allow having fun just because the controls/mechanics/levels are so good.
In a game that is a visual novel I see completing on 100% as just an obsession as you pointed out.
DotA2 because I'm a masochist, and I'm hopelessly addicted to the game.
I've been slowly working my way through the Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix post-game content for the first time. This stuff wasn't in the game when I was a kid, so I'm really enjoying it. There's a significantly large new area ending with 13 rematches with bosses from earlier in the game, plus an all new superboss.
For those that know the game, I'm currently trying to beat the Xigbar rematch. He's pretty tough but I'm slowly getting better at it. The timing for his shots can be a little tricky.
All the new content in later releases of KH2 really makes it something special, especially for fans of actions RPG that like the option of a serious challenge. If you're not interested in the story, I'd say go right for KH2 on critical mode (the hardest difficulty) and have a blast.
I watched an hour-long explanation of the storyline to catch up before 3 releases, and holy shit, I thought it was convoluted before
It could be worse: they could have brought Hideo Kojima and Hideaki Anno aboard to write and direct Kingdom Hearts 3.
Hey I dunno about you folks but I love my hour long cutscenes!
My wife insisted on renting Ready Player One this weekend because she was sure I'd like it -- even though I had told her I had read the first fifty pages of Ernest Cline's novel when it first came out, and had refused to read further -- and when it was over she asked me what I thought. I said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I think Hideo Kojima could have done better."
She wasn't amused, but she knew I wasn't going to enjoy it from the start. The problem with the pursuit of photorealistic graphics in video games is that they make the vast majority of CG-dependent movies look like defective video games. Every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has been one long-ass video game cutscene after another. Same with the new Star Wars movies.
To be honest, the last movie I actually enjoyed was The Shape of Water, and that was because the characters were interesting enough to overshadow the use of CG.
I’ve actually read Ready Player One and Armada. Never watched the movie.
I find them to be good reads casually.
“Objectively”, if you’d ask around in /r/books you’d be hard-pressed to find any supporters of the book since it’s basically a cash-grab with nostalgia as the selling point.
The characeters in Ready Player One were one-sided at best (one neck-beard, one Mary Sue, one that’s clearly placed to appease the LGBT community and your token characters) and the writing was painfully predictable.
In my opinion, the books are best read drunk. Well, either drunk, read it without minding too much or both.
The latest movie I enjoyed were Baby Driver and The Lego Batman Movie.
Fair enough. Not going to argue over taste or insist that you should dislike the same books I do.
I don't really care about what the snobs on r/books think. I put aside Ready Player One after fifty pages because I found the protagonist not to be only unsympathetic, but intolerably dull. I've worked with too many real-life versions of Wade Watts at my day job to want to read about his exploits in his own words.
Amen to that. Though minor spoilers but the tech-support scene is painfully accurate.
The thing that people forget is that the story is spread across 8 games, each with its own twist(s). If you play through them normally or watch all the cutscenes, it's quite easy to digest, and they explain the weird bits quite well. I think DDD is the only one that's truly convoluted, what with the (spoilers) time travel nonsense.
I've got myself battletech this weekend, what a blast. I used to play the TT while a kid and I'm having a ton of fun :).
Just got into Realm Royale.
Really enjoying the game right now, it's a BR game with reduced RNG that incentivizes fighting early, because crafting your best weapon requires killing players.
But, in classic Hi-Rez fashion, they're fucking it up next patch by increasing RNG and removing said player trophies, thus removing incentive to fight early.
I really enjoy it as a free alternative to PUBG (as I don't really like the building mechanic of Fortnite). Hopefully they manage to turn it into something really good.
Myself and some friends have went deep into Warframe. (Again) The game is a lot of fun if you have a group to run missions with. What I like for solo play is that I can run a short mission and take a break, or dive into finding particular resources I'm looking for.
It's been ages since i've played warframe, but I put a good 700+ hours into it when I had a clan. What an addicting game. I hear its coming to switch soon, I can't wait to give it a try on the go.
I've been replaying Final Fantasy XV. I had played the hell out of it when it first came out, and found things to like about the game despite its many, many flaws. This time around I've been trying to pay attention and see where additional cutscenes flesh out the story, and in at least one case they introduce a plot hole: why the hell couldn't Noctis & Co. have picked up Lunafreya outside the Insomnia checkpoint? Did she get there after they left the hillside and headed back to Hammerhead? Were they just not in touch? What's the deal, here?
Oh man, I really like FFXV. It's not the best in the series by any measure but it's definitely underappreciated. And yeah, I'm pretty sure Luna was not in touch with the boys, their only method of communication was the book, which isn't exactly instant. Plus, I don't think Luna wanted to see them quite yet, she had her own mission, visiting the astrals.
I guess that makes sense; it's not like her dress has pockets for her to stash a phone, and having seen Kingsglaive it's obvious that she gets knocked around enough that even if she had a smartphone, her plot armor probably wouldn't keep it from getting smashed to hell. It would have been fun to have her along for the ride, though.
I'd say that one of the best aspects of Final Fantasy XV is that it presents four different archetypes of masculinity without insisting that one is more valid than the others:
Yeah, might sound strange to say but FFXV really does have great "male representation". They're archetypes but not stereotypes, and the game celebrates the bond between guy friends in a very unique way. Considering we're so used to Badass McToughguy and Angsty McSadoy as our leads in video games, FFXV is such a breath of fresh air in the way it writes men. Shame the same can't be said for many of the women.
It's not that FFXV doesn't have several distinctive female characters in major supporting roles:
It's not like they're all presented as sex objects, either. Sure, Cindy's an obvious pin-up girl, and turning Aranea's model around in the dossier shows that she's no slouch in the T&A department, either, but neither Iris nor Monica are particularly sexualized, and while we're supposed to identify with Lunafreya as Noctis' love interest, Camelia is a middle-aged civil servant who resembles Helen Mirren.
The problem is that we interact with all of these characters from Noctis' viewpoint, and as such they're given comparatively short shrift in terms of characterization. We don't really get to know any of them as people; they take the stage when the plot requires it, and exit immediately after.
Yeah, this is the part I was focused on
Most of these women serve as plot points, not really characters. Aranea, Cindy and Iris are definitely the best, they all get a bit more depth as the story goes on, but it's a shame we didn't get to have them fleshed out nearly as much as the boys. I guess that's the price Square chose to pay to focus on a very small, tight-knit cast.
Bought a PS3 about a month ago to catch up on some games that I've missed over the past ~10 years. Played through MGS4 in about a week. I was a huge MGS fan back in the day and never played past MGS3. 4 was great but I think some of the magic was gone. I wasn't as invested in the story as I had been with the previous games, I don't really see myself replaying it, and I'm not in any rush to jump into 5.
THEN... I jumped into Skyrim for the first time. I was totally addicted for a few weeks and ended up burning myself out. I was having a lot of fun just messing around but I decided the amount of time I was pouring in to it wasn't worth it for me. I prefer story driven games and this one was just a little too broad for me. I was having a hard time finding things that I wanted to do and the main quests weren't really doing it for me.
THEN... I picked up GTA5. Wow. What a game. I forgot how unbelievably vulgar these games are. I almost felt a little uncomfortable playing it at first but I got past that. My wife even asked "wtf are you playing in there?" when I first started it up. But wow is this game funny and immersive. The dialogue and banter between characters is truly sidesplitting. I'm really having a fun time with it even just playing it in short 1 or 2 mission bursts. I'll probably stick with it for a while before moving on to something else.
Right now I'm trying to find a good balance between gaming and the rest of my life (married + 2 kids, 8-5 job, in a band) and it's been pretty tough. Sometimes I find myself wondering why I'm dedicating this much time to something that's not doing much for me aside from providing entertainment. I really do enjoy gaming so I've been working on my time management to make it work. I try not to play every day, try to play for shorter periods, and try to find games that I can play with my family.
Finished Pokémon Blue with a high leveled gyarados, charizard and kadabra mostly leading the way. Caught all the legendary birds and mewtoo so now I’m starting up Crystal. It’s been such a fun nostalgia trip. These games have hardly aged at all.
Frostpunk!
I've loved 11 Bit Studios ever since This War or Mine, so I was excited to see them put out another game. Frostpunk is the most fun I've had in a city planning simulator; it's got great atmosphere, great optimization challenges, and variety between a few scenarios. Also, I like how the "Book of Laws" really makes me think about how societies make decisions, and how those decisions can be either used or abused.
I really love how dark it is, in terms of like... you really do feel tense as you wait out a storm. Everything's power goes out and you just have to hope things manage to stay going long enough to make it. It really feels like you're just scraping by every time, but also without actually feeling horribly punishing.
I didn't see anyone post any boardgames yet! We've been playing Concordia a fair bit followed by some oldies but goodies like 7 Wonders, Dominion and Tokaido.
Tokaido’s fun! Just wish it was cheaper. Delux version retails for $200 at least here!
Have you tried Seasons?
I've been playing a lot of PlanetSide 2 lately. I know, I know, Daybreak Games are literally the Devil, but no other title gives me such a huge sense of scale and the feeling of really being in the middle of a battle. It's F2P and grindy as hell, and I'm sure the cons greatly outweigh the pros, but it's still a fun game to jump into every now and then.
Evil Within 2.
I only played a bit of the first and was pretty disappointed. I think I played a combined 16 hours of EW2 this past weekend as soon as I downloaded it. The combat cab be a little janky but allows for some creativity when you start to get new weapons. I found myself having a lot of fun with the open world sections, they aren't huge but they feel "full." Around Chapters 8-11 it starts to streamline more which I wasn't a huge fan of, especially considering the horror in these sections was minimal. I'm hoping for a strong third act but the pessimist in me think its not gonna happen. I'm at around Chapter 13, which opened back up into a variant of a previously open world area. Regardless of my bitching, it's a pretty solid game that gets a lot right.
I played a bunch of this game then went travelling and totally forgot about it. I need to get back into it, I was really liking it. The horror elements were a little weak imo but I enjoyed the gameplay a lot.
Yeah, besides a few sections, I was disappointment as a horror game fanatic. Otherwise I am surprised there wasn't more said about this game on it's release.
I've been playing For Honor on PS4 for the last few months but I'm getting tired of it. It's a sword fighting game with some gnarly characters, but half of them are overpowered and half are underpowered, the community is pretty terrible, and I'm about done with my limited recreation time just being frustrating. There are console and PC versions - most of the player base plays team games on the console but devs balance the game for PC duels. I don't see this one ever being a big esports game so idk what the point of that is.
I just downloaded FarCry 5, it'll be my first FarCry game so I'm excited to give it a shot. Don't think I'll be able to touch it for a couple days though.
Finally got Farcry 5 because it was on sale.
Pretty fun game so far, and I love the location of Montana for the game.
The idea of a religious state within the US seems somewhat possible so it makes the story fun to play through.
Yeah, I'm really enjoying it so far.
Heroes of the Storm. For all of its flaws in balance and matchmaking it is the minimal effort moba, and that's all I really wanted.
This is why I used to love HoTS. I transitioned from DotA and couldn't believe it was actually possible to consistently have fun in a moba. It's pretty great
Yeah it's super simple to get into and the games are nice and short. I love not having to worry about complicated build trees, last hitting minions, going to shops and all the other cruft of games like league, HoTS is just the genre distilled into its fundamentals.
I got the physical pre-order bonuses for Exapunks the other day which made me want to go back and play more Shenzhen I/O.
Starting to get a little bit burnt out on that though so I'll probably put it away so I can enjoy Exapunks more when it finally comes out.
It did also make me want to start fooling around with assembly that is a little less limited like 6502, so I started looking up NES dev stuff again before reminding myself that I don't have time for yet another project.
Stardew Valley with my SO. Honestly, there aren't like a ton of good local co-op games that are actually fun to play together, and we've been waiting for the multiplayer of stardew valley for a while now! It's very nice to be able to play it together since it's such a relaxing, fun game and we have lots of stress.
I picked up Yakuza 0 on PC release this week and i'm absolutely engrossed in it. The story is fantastic, the side stories are goofy as hell in a good way (without spoiling too much, the quest to get back Akio's videogame made me giggle like an idiot), the fights are fun even if i'm running into way to many random encounters.
I can really see myself playing through the whole series - I wonder how many are getting PC releases or if I'll need to buy a PS4
I wanted to try No Man's Sky after reading about the latest update. Having avoided it early on due to all the surrounding drama of wasted dreams and seemingly ruined childhoods, I just picked it up a week ago.
It's a bittersweet dream, exploring beautiful and dangerous landscapes, finding new ships and equipment, meandering stories, haphazardly making my way to the center of I-don't-know-what, and also the endless, unfun, and soul-crushing grind for resources to fuel every damn thing and the eventual realization that procedural generation doesn't produce anything unique, but rather variations of a same root thing, over and over again, until the patterns become unignorably clear.
That being said, the current No Man's Sky is very easy to put down and pick back up again later on, and good for kicking back for moderate amounts of time.
Yeah, I've been feeling about the same about it. I played it after getting it on a Steam sale a year ago or so - played for like... an hour, maybe two, and put it down. Picked it up for the update and like... There's so much there to like, just going from planet to planet seeing the new stuff - some of the audio is really peaceful honestly until "Environmental Protection Decreasing" every 5 seconds - the resource management stuff is annoying, and honestly I found the base building stuff kinda boring too. If I wanna gather resources and build a base I might as well just play Minecraft and get that minutia - this is a space game, I don't wanna have a base I feel uncomfortable going too far from, tbh.
Pretty much the same as the last topic: Overwatch and Rimworld, now with a dash of GW2. I played GW2 for years prior to and after the first expansion, but not much since. I'm trying to get back into it to see if it's worth it to pick up the next expansion, which I've heard is really good.
I'm playing a new game called 'Cultist Simulator'. Ignore the annoying title, the game itself is a weird exploration of a Lovecraft(-lite) world. You do have some power and capacity as an ordinary human exploring the mysteries of the occult, but it maintains HP's strange, evocative feel. The writer and designer (Alexis Kennedy) is a brilliant man who writes beautiful things.
Fair warning for anyone who's interested: it's a chance-based card game, with all the frustration that entails. What makes it worth it is the depth of lore, but that only becomes apparent a couple of hours in. Until then it's the feeling that keeps you interested. The last thing to mention, which could be a pro or a con depending on the player, is that it is very much about trying to work out how to do things. You combine cards with verbs, and sometimes you don't get a card, sometimes you do. The difference between the two isn't always clear, which makes it fascinating at best and hugely frustrating at worst.
Oh god I am so frustrated with those damn rituals. Almost made it to level 6 enlightenment of knowledge too... Fun game, really bad for my TMJ pain though lol.
How does it affect TMJ? Sorry if that's a woosh. Yeah, the rituals drive me mad. Glad you're enjoying it too though!
haha I get very nervous playing these kinds of games and clench my jaw, bite my inner lip, and tense my neck so much I developed tinnitus... Especially when I play with the trackpad and the cards don't go where they have to.
That sounds horrible! Hope you get some kind of treatment for it.
I just got home from GenCon in Indianapolis where I ran 32 hours of Shadowrun for almost 50 people. It was a great time, and fun seeing the Neo-Tokyo setting. I also got to meet up with a lot of old friends and fellow podcasters. I can't wait for Origins next year.
Wow, that sounds amazing, and kind of intense. I've always wanted to try Shadowrun but I've heard the rules are convoluted. Do you play as written or make some adjustments?
I forgot I pre-ordered WarioWare Gold and have been easantly surprised playing it over the weekend on and off. The game is the perfect casual game for every now and then and I have been getting engaged with getting unlocks. The games are cute and are decent quality for their shortness.
I usually play a game a 'last time' before I uninstall it. Witcher 3 has been sitting there for over a year. Finishing up a Ghost-mode modded playthrough in nightmare skill mode, it's been fun. Ghost mode makes the game into a 'make a mistake, you die' simulator. Enemies can die fast, but so can you - more like Dark Souls this way, or Skyrim Requiem. I enjoy that sort of thing. That is one finely polished mod, makes the game so much better.
I forgot how jaw-droppingly epic the Blood & Wine DLC was. CDPR basically gave us a mini-Witcher 4, that's my gold standard for what a DLC should really be like. Heart of Stone wasn't bad either, though smaller in scope.
endless sky. If you've ever played the game "escape velocity Nova" by ambrosia software, you'll find this game to be very similar. It's a space combat and trading game, with similar art, mechanics, and balance to EV Nova, but with a lot more freedom and QOL built in. Currently, I've been farming automata for great good.
I built a full sized arcade machine last year and am just getting aruond to playing Killer Instinct with a full Sanwa button setup.
I love the combo system, and while I'm certain that I'm mashing buttons to success, the fury of that game and the crazy announcer' voice just get me pumped every time I play.
Ok this thread's been going for a day now. Am I really the only sucker diving back into WoW for the new expansion? Playing it as an actual adult is a pretty different experience, you don't have to play 10 hours a day it turns out, just re-sub for the start of each xpak and tool around with the new content for a few months until you get bored. Rinse and repeat 2 years later. It's a damn fine game when it doesn't eat your life.
I played from launch to about 2008, and had a very different reaction coming back into it during that free week last month... I found it sort of melancholy tooling around Stormwind, I guess? Everything was just different enough that I didn't want to touch anything. It was like visiting the 24-hour donut shop where all my friends used to hang out 15 years ago -- it's still there, the place is the same, they still have donuts, but everyone I know is gone.
I guess the thing to do is make a new Horde character, since I never had one and never saw that stuff!
I'm along for the ride with you, last time I played was just before cataclysm. It's a whole new game
Currently playing through Ratchet & Clank (2016), haven't been able to play a game from the R&C series since the PSP.
I'm having a lot of fun with it and considering I usually really enjoy platformers, I feel right at home in this one.
Another game I'm currently playing is Street Fighter V since G just released and I used to main Q back on 3, so I've been really enjoying G's combos and fight style.
Capcom really went above and beyond creating that fighter, he absolutely has the most character out of any fighter released this season.
I've been addicted to Slay the Spire recently, it's just such a fun game to play and it's the right mix of strategy, action, and rogue-like pick up and play elements for me
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Final Fantasy 15
I just finished FF 9, X, X-2, and 12, and tbh they were all kind of monotonus. 9 had a fantastic ending, but the first half was super boring.
Your FF opinions are interesting. I really liked most of IX, the only lull for me was the stuff around the dwarves. Agreed that the ending was fantastic.
Also interesting that you found X dull, I found it pretty excellent the whole way through. I also don't really like what I've played of X-2, though.
I do kind of agree about XII... it's such a great setup, but it got quite boring for me half way through.
I've picked up Dying Light for PS4 and I remember quite a lot of it from my first play through on PC. It's got fun multiplayer and I haven't played any of the DLC yet so I'm pretty happy the enhanced version was pretty cheap.
I started playing Heavy Rain and I'm loving the story and the mystery. If you like the kind of games that feel like an interactive book more than a video game I recommend it.
I've gotten back into the newer Hitman game recently. I never got past the first level before honestly, despite owning the whole thing (not because of an inability, I just never got around to it), so decided to mess around with it again, and I've really been enjoying it.