What games are y’all playing? Suggestions/Reviews/Thoughts? Hyped up for anything and want to share? I’ve been devouring Dragon Quest XI and Little Witch Nobeta, needed an RPG fix badly! DQ actually greatly benefits from whatever graphic engine they are using, the cartoony style for Toriyama design is great (although he keeps reusing the same faces/archetypes for everything). Nobeta actually harder than dark souls for me, I can’t parry to save my life and am still stuck at the second boss. Also picked up SinOAlice because why not, peeps are still in quarantine here anyway.
Also, can we get a Vidya tag, please?
This shit has finally motivated me to greatly cut down on gaming. Completely removed anything blizzard from the PCs and all mobile games except pokemon go which isn't really a game.
But occasionally I'm still playing Hades which is a great refinement of the Binding of Isaac style. Has really good art and a fun story. I like it enough that I'll probably buy it again when it comes out on Switch just to have it there.
Pokemon Go is US spyware.
This is such a disappointment. Big time.
Same man. I uninstalled all Activision Blizzard shit. I got annoyed at Rocket League. I've tried firing a few things up but I just don't care.
The only thing I've been able to play is Mario games. I'm not sure if it's anhedonia or if I'm associating all these companies with negativity.
The lack of being able to shit talk for fun has ruined every game for me anymore. That was half the fun. Something as simple as you suck or nice shot it enough to get you banned anymore. A picture of Trump as an avatar gets you banned in almost every game. It is the epitome of cancel culture.
playing anything Blizzard gives me a feeling of deep depression... gaming industry as a whole bowing before the alter of BLM Marxists is furthering my depression... having more fun taking care of my lawn these days.
I used to be the biggest Blizzard fanboy. Was even one of the best in WoW and got a quest in game referencing something I did.
I'll never touch that company again. They can't even figure out what made the original Blizzard great in the first place.
I'm playing AC Unity because I heard it got fixed of bugs and shit.
Oh my god is this game frustrating as hell. I can understand making combat more "difficult", but the game straight up removes a ton of features from the previous games and does not replace them with anything worthwhile. They removed the whistle to lure guards to a hidden assassination spot, and replaced it with... cherry bombs that are completely ineffective. Arno can no longer use two hidden blades, meaning you have to "unlock" a basic feature since the second game. They put a ton of gear and skills behind story progression, and gave you extra points for engaging in co-op, except the online is deader than my first dog and most of these co-op missions are insufferable without at least one or other person. When you're over-leveled they are doable, but I wouldn't recommend playing them at all... except you have to if you want to unlock skills without pushing the story too far along.
The Guard AI is just insane. The riflemen on rooftops have sharper eyes than a hawk and will spot you from three districts away, and before you have a chance to react they're pelleting you with musket fire that will bend time and space to deliver a killing blow straight to your face. All of this leads to far more combat and far more violence than in any other Assassin's Creed I've ever played. Arno Dorian is quite possibly the most inept assassin in franchise history. He's like the Inspector Clouseau of AssCreed, bumble-fucking his way to success through sheer happenstance.
The parkour is nice, though.
I really hated how so much 'progression' got forced into the games all the way back to Ezio. It just ends up getting in the way of its own enjoyment. It'd be much better served with a simple toolkit that combines well within the set and then use enemies and environment to force adaptation. One of the largest victims of the 'RPG elements' craze a number of years ago and they just kept adding on to it.
I agree and I disagree. I don't mind getting new tools and new abilities as the game progresses, so long as the new tools and abilities are new. When Ezio got his second hidden blade in AssCreed 2, it was a way to broaden the toolbox without overwhelming the player. It think it's a good design choice to introduce new elements before things get stale.
The problem with Unity in particular is that they remove a bunch of stuff you're accustomed to having from the beginning of the game, and choose to return only a select few of those tools. It's bloody annoying.
Even when they add new functionality through new tools they're more of an optional thing to use anyway, especially if they're locked behind side quests and such. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for optional approaches they allow but there's too much painfully obvious scripting of sequences that stand out like a sore thumb in the environment.
I find what is added is often underutilised and when they take things away to give back later it's often in service of elongating the progression cycle of the game. The only exception I find okay in most games is the trope-ish got imprisoned and have to reclaim all my equipment. It's the kind of thing I'd see better served in 'Don't use X tool' challenges and such. An AC/Hitman hybrid with that format would be fantastic but i'm really not a fan of the newer Hitman games either.
I don't know. The way I see it AC is lost at sea and doesn't know what to do with itself, so it trundles along like it's expected to until it spots something worthwhile to incorporate and hopes for the best.
Been replaying Hollow Knight lately. I didn't have a console growing up, so it's pretty neat to see myself playing significantly better the second time through.
Heresy.
Boardgames.
Edit: WoWS. I bought the 40k battleship.
Surely I'm not alone but my copy of Gloomhaven arrives this month and I'm looking forward into digging in.
Same situation but for Paiko. I was impressed by Catalyst Game Labs with The Duke.
I've been going on an emulation spree because even before recent political events forced me to focus more on the home front so to speak, I've come to believe (with regard to gaming) that the only way forward is back. NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Master System, Playstation 1 & 2, Commodore 64/128, Commodore Amiga, DOS-era games, even Flash games (because lets face it, the vast majority of games on Android and iOS were done better and for free on Flash).
I started emulating GameCube games cuz I more or less missed that entire generation other than Smash Bros. For whatever reason Nintendo games are all I feel like playing lately. I don't really give a fuck about modern games right now.
I've been playing Paper Mario and it's making me want to just play Mario RPG instead cuz it's really that much better.
Lol I also started emulating GameCube games recently. Got the itch to play Skies of Arcadia from when I was a kid.
I’ve been doing the new league in Path of Exile. I know some people here avoid them like the plague because their association with Tencent, but I find it to be the best arpg since diablo 2.
I'd love to dive into PoE but as you say, I'm one of those people -- no Tencent if I can help it.
It really is a good game. Fwiw GGG has stated that Tencent doesn’t interfere in any way with development of the international version and only includes “requests” about features for the China only version.
Just gameplay-wise, it's an excellent ARPG, and you can get enough out of it completely free to decide if you want to carry on with it.
Good game but I hate following build guides so I end up getting bored in maps or bankrupting myself on experimenting with a build (mostly SSF).
At the moment:
Theoretically XCom2. Just "finished" (as in I didn't care to do the last mission) a somewhat modded run. I'd really love to have Long War of the Chosen (I stopped LW2 because of the fucking UnrealEngine-Bug nobody cared to fix in the basegame) finally released. The actual status is to unbalanced to be fun.
Dota, because I didn't think I hated people in general enough yet. Minor venting but climbing out of shit ranks as support is a harrowing experience and finding people to play with is just overall terrible. I can only take so much feel good, eternal positivity bullshit and passive aggressive blame shifting you find in discord groups for the like. I'm probably going to have to suck it up and accept that people in my games expect their support duo to be pos 5 + the other pos 5 and play accordingly. Bad habit formation be damned.
Tried the Kingmaker turn-based mod. It slows the game down way too much, you can brute force a fight by RNG faster than it would take to finish it with turn order half the time. It is agonisingly slow for little to no benefit.
Feels like I haven't played anything good in a long time. Certainly nothing this year so far unless you count a rerun of Legend of Dragoon.
I know it's silly and not going to happen soon, but I hope a dota2.win site pops up. I'm going to miss that banter and analysis.
I've had to stop playing Dota finally after this bullshit cancel culture on Tobi and Grant.
Motherfucking GrandGrant, the heart and soul of NA Dota, canceled over drunken sex and literal handholding. Dude worked his way up out of alcoholism and working at Walmart and now he's completely fucked by some fucking thots.
Allowing women into gaming was a mistake. Especially esport scenes when all they offer is their body (cosplay), because they're not good enough to play or even analyze at the high level
The Redeye one annoyed me most, they brought the wife and kids into it. Social justice is mob justice and mob justice can go fuck itself.
dota2.win would be absolutely dope. The sub has been a shitshow for the past month and intermittently for the past couple of years. They ran Drakus out of town (ironically, for posting on The Donald).
I was getting back into playing more and then the Battle Pass pissed me off and I quit again for a while. They're asking for too much money for the content they're offering. The first couple hundred levels are basically empty in terms of what they offer vs what I want.
I transitioned to mostly playing Ability Draft for a while just to mix things up. It was a bit of a palate cleanser.
Yeah, I skipped the BP this time because the only reasonable thing within the amount of cash or grind I'm willing to do was the map. It looks so clean compared to the default, it's great. I don't think there's even anything of value up to that point and then another large gap.
I might be some sub 2k pleb but down in this shit every core is playing carry in every lane, including the offlane carry jugg who dives spec under tower at level 2 while I go and stop/interrupt a pull. Yet somehow it's my fault they died. Or the pl that jungles at 10% hp for 10 minutes while pinging everybody who dies telling them to stop feeding Bloodseeker. I could go on for days with this shit. BP tends to make this shit worse as players come back but it'd make that grind even more unbearable if i did buy it.
I ended up playing nothing but Arcade section games in Dota before uninstalling (since I had to crank up the studies). I'm never quitting Dota proper but the occasional month-long break helps when I get that 10 streak loss in a single day.
If you've never played the metro series, play the metro series. They're games made for the sake of making good games and they're done really well.
Just got done with Last Light today. They are beautiful with just the right amount of suspense. They don’t rely on cheap jump scares for horror either which is always nice to see.
Personally couldn't get over the janky weapons feel of these games...
Satisfactory hit steam the other week, and has been devouring my time ever since.
Honestly I've taken a significant break from playing most modern games. I haven't seen much innovation in gameplay for a decade now, and I've already played most of the exceptions. Now I play DOOM and DOOM II: Hell on Earth through GZDOOM so that I can play all of the mods and wads from 27 years of player created content. It's been phenomenally fun so far. There are maps where you fight 40000 enemies and are brutally difficult, but fun to overcome, demon infighting maps, puzzle maps, and mods to improve the graphics and gore. There's an entire 3D Sonic Game in DOOM somehow thanks to a dedicated modder, an amazing series called The Golden Souls where you play DOOM in Super Mario World with platforming, Mario enemies, and an overworld, and many other complete retoolings of the game from harder maps to different weapons, to completely different games. It's been awesome, and it only cost 5 bucks to get DOOM II so that I could play it all.
Op is weeb so fuck you
That said I just got done with my first play through of the pc version of Persona 4 Golden. This makes it just the second time I bought a version of Persona 4 since I never got a Vita.
Just tried out the Tales of Hero series and while the combat is great for a turn based game the story and characters are max anime. Trails of Cold Steel and Toyke ex faggot max +, or whatever it's called, tries to take from the persona series without the seriousness Persona gains from its SMT roots it just comes out real cringe. Graphics and art direction are shit too.
Overwhelming Postive my ass
Trials of Sky was pretty good tho, I just ran into a soft lock.
I'm currently in the middle of an intense political debate with myself on whether or not to actually begin playing ARK: Survival Evolved. On the one hand, it has dinosaurs, which is the very essence of video gaming. On the other tiny, two-clawed T. rex grasping thing, I hear it's poorly-optimized even on decent PCs.
Kenshi is fucking great, try it.
And I finally got a chance during lockdown to spend the time to delve deep into Path of Exile and learn it. And left disappointed at the absolute shit the endgame is.
I finally picked up Titanfall 2 when it came to steam (I know, I know, supporting EA makes me a faggot...) and finished the campaign up last night. Whole lot of fun, the movement mechanics and gunplay feel smooth as hell and is just a blast to play.
Still have to try out the multiplayer when I have the time.
Titanfall 2 is the best shooter I've played in a very long time. Great story, and the time-travel mechanic they have later in the game was really well done.
I also have not played multiplayer.. Maybe this weekend.
Finally got a Switch. I had a 3ds with homebrew on it that died. I did a quick "homebrew on Switch" search, saw that it was possible, and bought a Switch Lite.
As most probably know... you can't put homebrew on this thing. Apparently you can only put homebrew on a now hard to find gen1 Switches.
So I bit the bullet and shelled out $80 freakin dollars for Fire Emblem 3 Houses. And you know what? I'm enjoying it. I'm not sure if this is one of those psychological effects like how you feel more invested in a sporting event if you are gambling money on it, but I am pretty into this game for now.
I picked up Darks Souls again. Trying to speed run when you don't remember where you're supposed to go next is a blast.
My experience with Dark Souls was "yeah I can train myself to do this but it doesn't feel rewarding enough to make me want to do it"
My other hobby is banging my head against brick walls until they fall down. The walls always win.
If you need to train yourself, overcoming the obstacle is the reward.
Been playing a bunch of Neon Tail the last few days. It's an [Early Access] indie game, so be aware that it still needs a lot of content and polish, but I'm really enjoying it.
The game is a JetSetRadio clone, and certainly has a great feel too it. Somehow the default music track hasn't gotten old 8 hours in.
Kenshi is fucking great, try it.
And I finally got a chance during lockdown to spend the time to delve deep into Path of Exile and learn it. And left disappointed at the absolute shit the endgame is.
Comment was duped but I upvoted both because Kenshi is fucking great and mentioning it twice is even better.
Dupe comment.
Currently playing "Way of the Samurai 4" Fun little game, good fighting, reminds me of PS2 era gameplay where things didn't take themselves so serious.
Anyone else play Sentinels of the Multiverse (tabletop or video game)? That company became super cucked, but they weren't so bad when SotM was made.
My friends and I played tons of the card game. The android version is OK. The tactical computer game that was released in early access was TERRIBLE but I assume it will get better as it is developed.
Yeah, I haven't played the tactical game because it looked less than good. The steam version of the card game is pretty good, I assume it's similar to the android version.
Civ 5 and CKII. Don't care for Civ 6 (I own it but cba to buy all the DLC) and probably won't play CKIII when it comes out, seeing as I spent a bunch on II already. Both fun games that I will forever play.
Another game I tried to get back into is Quake Live, for nostalgia. Sadly it's pretty dead but if you picked it up for free before it got ported to Steam, you can still find a server occasionally.
I was never a user of KIA of any sort but a TD.win user and Reddit refugee that enjoys some game talk. So for now I'll just try both KiA and see what I think and make my own judgements.
As for games, I've been hooked on Yakuza Kiwami the last few days. I go up and down on this series based on my mood really. I find it can be a little slow and talky and sometimes I want to blast things.
Any that haven't tried it and are interested, I started with Yakuza 0. Series is basically a Japanese mafia crime drama. No SJW BS. The side games can be addictive. I particularly liked the slot car racing and many people like the Cabaret club manager.
Yakuza 0 was a blast, but it was huge, so I needed to take a break before getting into Kiwami 1/2 etc.
These games don't take place in a giant, open-world map, but they're stuffed to the gills with content, and they're basically collections of mini-games with a story to tie them together. I can't speak for Kiwami (yet) but Yakuza 0 was earnestly trying to be fun, which isn't something many games try to be these days.
I love that the world is small. I get burned out on how everything has to be a huge open world. I don't remember how much time I spent in Yakuza 0 but you're right there's so much extra to do.
I'm about 8 hours into Kiwami. It's certainly got less but it's still a great continuation.
Kiwami is a re-make of the original 2005 Yakuza game in Zero's engine. As far as I know, Sega is planning on Kiwami-ing all five Yakuza games made before the release of Zero, so there'll be plenty more content as long as the games continue to sell.
From what I've read, Yakuza 2 has a lot more content than Yakuza 1, and the same holds true for the Kiwami remakes.
I wonder if they already have Kiwami-ed the rest of them? They are sellling a Yakuza Remastered collection on PS4 now. I haven't bought it because I'm not ready to play 3-5 yet so I figure I'll wait for a better price.
The release order so far is:
Yakuza, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 0, Kiwami (remake) 1, Kiwami (remake) 2.
As far as I know, Kiwami 3 is up next, but I could see a Yakuza 0-sequel at some point. There are a few years between the end of Yakuza 0 and the events leading up to the original Yakuza, I think.
I wouldn't mind a Yakuza pre-prequel with the older generation, either. A game focused on Shintaro Kazama, Tsukasa Sagawa, and Masaru Sera could probably work, and it would allow for another change in setting - men in their 50s or 60s in the 1980s would have their gangster days in the 1950s, in a very different Japan.
I'd love a list of noncucked video games, and gaming peripherals. The "blacklist" maintained by OAG is effectively "every company you've ever heard of except for Nintendo of Japan and Steam".
Looking forward to Star Wars Squadron in VR, Resident Evil 8 in VR, the Playstation 5, and playing all my PS4 VR games on the PS5.
Currently playing Mario Kart 8, Saints and Sinners, Earth Defense Force 5, and Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain.
Won’t be playing The Last of Us 2, ever.
Darkest Dungeon for the 10th time. I find it very stress relieving, as odd as that sounds.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
Because hitting a zombie at at 125 mph in a jet-engine powered steam roller is satisfying.
After 20 years and all the games that have come out... when the lustre wears off, I always fall back to good old counter-strike (global offensive nowadays) . I just play arms-race and deathmatch with a lil dangerzone to mix it up. Aint got time anymore for waiting for rounds to end in the competitive or casual games, though. Also i sell every skin i earn for steam credit.
Theres a cool lil arcade shooter for quick games called Nova Drift in early access i been enjoying.
I've been jumping from Minecraft to Dirt Rally (got it free from HumbleBundle) to emulating the PS3 to play Fight Night Champion. Been playing Stalker Anomaly here and there.
well, before Triple A was crap because of their bad practices, now add pandering on top of that. Old games are great, indies are great, and I'm currently playing the original Deus Ex which i really recomend.
I do a gaming podcast as a hobby so i play a lot of games
crisis 3: kept having issues due to glitches/characters going through walls/fps drops. didn't like the gunplay either and fighting the aliens were just annoying not hard.
raft: actually had a lot of fun with that. on the last island now. friend sacrificed themselves against mama bear so i could get a machete, boats kinda big i might suggest we cut down on the size and move upward.
MK11+dlc: MK11 proper was just ok. didn't really like shao khan going out like a bitch, didn't care for the final boss (who is annoying to fight since basically no special attacks/grabs work. only combos). Now the dlc was absolutely amazing. Shao Kahn/sindels relationship was great, the absolute smugness irradiating from shang tsung, I know it wont happen but i hope the bad end is the "true" ending.
Digimon cyber slueth: to speed things up i used cheat engine for movement (and so i can get my beloved hi-andromon back). I played a quarter of the way through on ps4 but stopped since something came out around that time. having fun really. i like digimon but fell off the horse decades ago. some monsters make me go "who are you?" but
I want to buy Samurai Showdown 2019, is it worth the price tag? Grew up on Street Fighter, Mortal kombat, and whatever Samurai Showdown was on Sega. Just want a fun game to indulge from time to time.
Just started Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It seems interesting enough to be worth the £10 I got it for in the Steam sale.
I've been playing and enjoying Cook Serve Delicious 2 and the Zero Time Dilemma games. Csg2 is the closest thing to a "dark souls of cooking games" you could find, and ZTD is an... Okay visual novel. Its boring me right now but my laptop can't play much else.