What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

looking forward to getting back into the world on Nioh with the new demo that came out today on ps4.

Just noticed Obduction is out now, thinking about picking it up.. I was pretty obsessed with Myst and Riven as a kid. 

Is anyone besides Joyrex on the Titanfall demo?

  On 8/24/2016 at 11:34 PM, bitroast said:

((( tbh ... i'm gonna try and sit on this one until both DLCs are out and then give the game a proper replay i reckon ... maybe ... )))

  On 8/24/2016 at 1:11 PM, Gocab said:

Bought Abzû, because I absolutely loved Journey and it looked like a lush game to chill out with. Not feeling it at all, something's off.

Any game that I see that essentially says "IF YOU LOVED [iNSERT VAGUELY SIMILAR GAME HERE]...", I have found it usually isn't. I looked at it, and thought it was pretty poor and honestly didn't see the Journey connection everyone was making. 

  On 8/24/2016 at 11:34 PM, bitroast said:

Dark Souls III dlc trailer is out !! time for HYPE all over again. 

 

 

((( tbh ... i'm gonna try and sit on this one until both DLCs are out and then give the game a proper replay i reckon ... maybe ... )))

That looks amazing - I always like the winter environments in Dark Souls. The one in the DSII DLC was one of my favourite parts... those crystal reindeers tho...

Does it seem to you that DSIII died off pretty quickly after release (moreso than DSII)? I dunno, but I practically forgot about it after beating it and doing PVP for awhile.

  On 8/24/2016 at 11:36 PM, cloud capture said:

looking forward to getting back into the world on Nioh with the new demo that came out today on ps4.

I saw that a new demo came out, and actually unlocks some DLC if you beat the demo? I wanna try this again, as I liked the original demo. Will be interesting to see how much more they've been able to refine it.

Inside is finally out for PS4 - need to pick that up!

  On 8/25/2016 at 8:27 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Is anyone besides Joyrex on the Titanfall demo?

i tried it but it looked and felt really bad. my buddy came over and we played advanced warfare instead which is almost 3 years old? and it played so much better =\

doom is $20 new at gamestop so i'm thinking of price matching that at bestbuy if it's still valid tomorrow

  On 8/25/2016 at 4:57 PM, Joyrex said:

Inside is finally out for PS4 - need to pick that up!

Oh, and Abzû is made by the art director of Journey (and Flower), and the music is by the same composer, so the connection is not that far fetched.

redout looks like a dope way to tide myself over until formula fusion is released. out 9/2 for pc: 

From the original developers of Myst and Riven, Rand Miller and Robyn Miller as composer. Can't wait to play this.

Love the intro from Myst:

i constantly get that little melody stuck in my head.. soo nice. 

very keen to check out obduction. glad it came out to strong reviews :^)

  On 8/25/2016 at 4:57 PM, Joyrex said:

 

Does it seem to you that DSIII died off pretty quickly after release (moreso than DSII)? I dunno, but I practically forgot about it after beating it and doing PVP for awhile.

 

my thoughts on this ... apologies for following wall of text:: 

i reckon ds3 is fundamentally a great game.. but in comparison to the previous games it's easy to be nitpicky. 

for me personally.. the removal of the open-ended integrated 3d "metroid-vania" world design is one stinger that probably bugs me more than anything else. it's not just an appreciation thing for the design of ds1 ... but there's something about the constant onslaught of choices and having to learn the best route and make up your own decisions .. having the capacity to outright walk in the wrong direction and not immediately realise, that added a lot to the immersion and overall difficulty (and overcoming of difficulty) of the earlier games. 

ds3 still has branching paths but to a much lesser extent. the game world even visually evokes a literal straight line, with the player's goal being following the giant linear wall downwards. 

the interconnected world design also plays a big part into replayability. 

i can replay ds1 from scratch and straight off the bat i could go to a. undead burg, b. the catacombs c. new londo ruins d. with the key, you can work your way through valley of drakes and sneak into bighttown e. the forest, etc.etc.etc. 

replaying ds3 = following more or less the exact same route. 

there's also the obligation thing of tying the series back to ds1 and ds2, and bringing closure to it all. which more than anything made the game feel like a big glorified nostalgic homage to ds1. which seems weird to me considering how still relatively new and replayable ds1 still is (especially to the hardcore devoted fanbase who may or may not be replaying the game every couple years/months). 

i think more than anything, from a new dark souls/fromsoftware game, i'd more just want a fresh new experience ... and there's something about ds3 that feels just a smidge uninspired .. especially after looking at bloodborne and seeing how fresh and full of inspiration that was. it felt like fresh blood. 

^agreed on all points.

To further the DS3 lack of replayability, I'd say that yes it's all that above, but there's a bit more also that everyone is on top of this game from day one, so any mystery that was similar to the first game (mechanics, triggers for events, etc.) was quickly discovered and documented and had 25 YouTube tutorials dedicated within a few days of the game being out...which was itself botched being that it came out almost a month early in Japan and to special early players. That lack of mystery and questions doesn't help the desire to replay the game, at least to me and to some;that was much of my draw into the first games.

Hell, even in Bloodborne there were secrets being found in the chalice dungeons months after release.

Agree with you both, but I can't help but be excited by the DLC.

I bet (just a guess on my part) the next big From Software game is going to be Demon's Souls remake. People still play that damn game!

i mean. i'd be fine with a demon's souls remake as i've never played anything in the series and would like to start from the beginning, but i'd rather the next big thing be a new armored core or tenchu. they're long over due.

playing through doom 3 bfg starting w/doom 1. i've never beaten it before (gasp!). i beat doom2 like 20 years ago when my friend loaned me his 7 floppies -_- 

i've never played doom 3 at all

gonna try and scoop doom 2016 on the way home from work for $20. fyi it's currently $20 on amazon for xbox1 and ps4. gamestop has ps4/xbox1/pc for $20 as well.

They probly uprezzed the PS3 or PC version, so the textures and polygons are still dated, but I'm gonna play the shit out of it anyway.

Finished Death Road to Canada twice, managed to get my own Bechuga character to survive all the way the second time. Sure, I made it as a dog, but I survived!

  On 8/27/2016 at 9:16 PM, Rubin Farr said:

They probly uprezzed the PS3 or PC version, so the textures and polygons are still dated, but I'm gonna play the shit out of it anyway.

 

best resident evil game imo

How they fucked up 5 & 6 so hard I will never understand

The Dream Machine.

I felt incredibly stupid in the first episode that asks you to remember the address of the new house. I still feel stupid.

  On 8/27/2016 at 9:20 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 8/27/2016 at 9:16 PM, Rubin Farr said:

They probly uprezzed the PS3 or PC version, so the textures and polygons are still dated, but I'm gonna play the shit out of it anyway.

 

https://youtu.be/hrVzRtmLAsc

best resident evil game imo

 

How they fucked up 5 & 6 so hard I will never understand

I was about to say that it was because Shenji Mikami wasn't involved but then I remembered The Evil Within.

5 was just an amped up version of 4 and it was way more Japanese than anything should ever be. It was fucking terrible and they reused so many animations from 4. I only played the demo for 6, but oh man...

  On 8/26/2016 at 1:24 AM, viscosity said:

 

From the original developers of Myst and Riven, Rand Miller and Robyn Miller as composer. Can't wait to play this.

Do they finally have a date for that?

I'll probably jump back into DS3 when the DLC comes out... A new Tenchu would be badass.

Tried the beta for Titanfall 2, pretty damn fun, I'll probably pick that up in Oct as well.

Also recently finished Until Dawn, definitely one of the better horror games I've played in a while, I need to go back and save everyone though... I had just about everyone alive until like  the very last scene where I guess I picked the wrong thing and killed like 3 of them all at once, I also missed a trigger and got Chris killed a little before that. 

  On 8/29/2016 at 5:27 AM, ghOsty said:

 

  On 8/26/2016 at 1:24 AM, viscosity said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=2wCPOTK587o

 

From the original developers of Myst and Riven, Rand Miller and Robyn Miller as composer. Can't wait to play this.

Do they finally have a date for that?

 

 

I'll probably jump back into DS3 when the DLC comes out... A new Tenchu would be badass.

Tried the beta for Titanfall 2, pretty damn fun, I'll probably pick that up in Oct as well.

 

Also recently finished Until Dawn, definitely one of the better horror games I've played in a while, I need to go back and save everyone though... I had just about everyone alive until like the very last scene where I guess I picked the wrong thing and killed like 3 of them all at once, I also missed a trigger and got Chris killed a little before that.

As far as I know Obduction is already out?

  On 8/27/2016 at 9:16 PM, Rubin Farr said:

They probly uprezzed the PS3 or PC version, so the textures and polygons are still dated, but I'm gonna play the shit out of it anyway.

 

Still move like a tank, and zombies just home in on your position... no thanks. RE has been surpassed by other zombie/survival horror games, IMO.

i actually had a good time playing 5 online coop with my best friend. i mean the atmosphere wasn't like re2 for sure but the game really wasn't that bad...

4 is fun yeah. guessing there's more or less been radio silence since they announced the remake of 2, yeah? that should be interesting

+ resident evil 7: biohazard being announced and demoed