What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 3/22/2017 at 9:33 PM, bitroast said:

i need to replay demons souls. great game but i also kind of cheesed my way through some of it ( my memory of level 2 is mostly a bored blur, i cheesed the maneaters fight using the fog gate glitch ... couldn't beat the end boss without essentially lucking out and getting my first summon of the game and smashing the boss co-op). fun game tho and i appreciate it more as a dark souls fan than anything else. still better than dark souls 2 tho :^) 

Yeah I definitely took some shortcuts with getting help on occasion, I've done that with almost every Souls game though (sssshhhhh don't tell on me) just by way of summoning when I get annoyed. I started a NG+ on Demon's, and a second or maybe even third character, but I think all of that save info is lost with my stolen PS3....it may be saved to the cloud though, not sure if that was in place back when my shit got jacked.

The end boss wasn't that bad from what I remember, but it's been a while...I may have gotten a summon too, can't remember :) DS2 is definitely the weakest, but it has some good bits and was at least trying out some different stuff... I'm just convinced nothing will ever truly feel like Demon's/DS1 in terms of difficultly/level design/pure combat. Not that it's a bad thing, but they really had a magical combo there. That said, I love the feel of combat in DS3, and ultimately have enjoyed Bloodborne more than any of the other games, it's absolutely stellar imo. 

ye i love the level design in demons souls that pops the game up above ds2 for me. that john romero/doom style level design where shit wraps around and disorientates you and secrets are communicated visually but you have no idea how to access them etc etc.

watched those zelda Botw doco youtube vids and they talk about wanting to achieve a quality of 'stirring the soul' via the art design, and i think the souls games definitely achieve that in a weird kinda way.

also ye the souls games definitely have a difficulty option it's just not labelled as a difficulty option. easy mode = playing with online summons, for example ;) after my initial playththrogh of ds1 solo summon-free, i've now always played souls games with help from summons guilt free. i don't mind i still enjoy the games

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Andromeda is the Mass Effect 1 sequel I always wanted. It's so good <3

  On 3/23/2017 at 9:48 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Andromeda is the Mass Effect 1 sequel I always wanted. It's so good <3

It's actually good? The videos I saw looked crap.

If you say it's good I'd buy it, me and u seem to like the same games overall. I'll grab it after my new computer is built, paying for the parts tmrw =)

  On 3/23/2017 at 9:57 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 3/23/2017 at 9:48 PM, Friendly Foil said:

Andromeda is the Mass Effect 1 sequel I always wanted. It's so good <3

 

It's actually good? The videos I saw looked crap.

 

If you say it's good I'd buy it, me and u seem to like the same games overall. I'll grab it after my new computer is built, paying for the parts tmrw =)

 

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It's rough around the edges but so was Mass Effect 1 and that's still one of my favorite games of all time. It's basically a bigger and more light-hearted version of that one. Dunno what to say. I like it a lot.

I'm not far in but it's definitely clunky and dumb like Mass Effect 1, it even has a really terrible menu system. I'm not really having a good time yet though. The graphics are slick when everyone's suited up and running around, much better than I anticipated, but man, that engine fails hard when it's just people talking.

Well, maybe it's not the engines fault, I guess the team responsible might've just fucked up.

selling off the Switch. 100hrs into Zelda and can't be arsed to continue tbh...

it was good but I don't play games regularly and seem to have low tolerance for a fatigue that always sets in.

like when games are kinda complex, all the pretty art etc is like a veil that thins away as you progress... what remains is pure mechanics. Then you feel like a robot trying to work the mechanics as efficiently as possible, more or less.

guess not all people experience this.. wanna know more about it, probably someone has written a book. Dunno? When googling, all that come up are threads about open-world fatigue in games.. but all from a gamers perspective. Guess it's especially something in open world games but not only there.

  On 3/24/2017 at 3:38 PM, phling said:

selling off the Switch. 100hrs into Zelda and can't be arsed to continue tbh...

it was good but I don't play games regularly and seem to have low tolerance for a fatigue that always sets in.

 

like when games are kinda complex, all the pretty art etc is like a veil that thins away as you progress... what remains is pure mechanics. Then you feel like a robot trying to work the mechanics as efficiently as possible, more or less.

 

guess not all people experience this.. wanna know more about it, probably someone has written a book. Dunno? When googling, all that come up are threads about open-world fatigue in games.. but all from a gamers perspective. Guess it's especially something in open world games but not only there.

ha. that's how i felt with ffxv. i did manage to hammer through to the end of the story but i still had like 90% of the game left undone. just hundreds of fetch quests and kill progressively harder enemies. the couldn't be arsed to cover it up any better than that. think i spent 60 hrs on it. thought i might continue to do some of the side stuff but the one time i turned it on after completing the campaign i was like "FUCK THIS" and haven't played it since.

Games are bloated beyond sanity these days. I see gamers whining online if games only last 35 hours. Give me 6 hours of content over endless fetch quests any day, I feel like games are just wasting my time recently because that's the thing to do. sigh. growing old is hard.

yea lol. If all that's left after playing is a feeling of "why did I do this" - was it worth it?

60 hours - it's comparable to binge watching a 6 season TV show. Shows of course have plenty of filler material and other nuisances but nothing that compares to the repetitive farming/quest mechanics of the typical game.

Now with Zelda, it's filled with a lot of cool stuff, just a shame that much of it drowns in a sea of sameness.

And damn. That tune hat always comes on when monsters detect you? FUCK

yep! def agreeing with what you're getting at. the repetetiveness of the game really kicks in the more you play it and uncover a larger sense of how the game plays out in the long term. it's like, from the start of the game you can set out in any direction and start exploring and having fun. but the variety in what you discover is sort of greatly plateau'd across alot of the game. so when you get to the point of having sunk in heaps of hours into the game (especially in a short span of time), the repetitiveness is super apparent. it almost ... maybe not be the best game for binging on 24/7, maybe it owes itself to a more relaxed spread out experience? or maybe it just is what it is. it's kind of repetitive regardless of how you play it ? 

ok here comes a long switch rant so .. spoilers for courtesy here ..

switch owners out there!! i recommend making a japanese nintendo profile and grabbing the puyo puyo tetris demo off the japanese store. it's really good multiplayer. it's also on ps4, ps3, 3ds ?? vita ?? i think ?? but again, the notion of being able to take it around very easily and play it with friends makes the switch version very appealing!

  On 3/24/2017 at 3:38 PM, phling said:

selling off the Switch. 100hrs into Zelda and can't be arsed to continue tbh...

it was good but I don't play games regularly and seem to have low tolerance for a fatigue that always sets in.

 

like when games are kinda complex, all the pretty art etc is like a veil that thins away as you progress... what remains is pure mechanics. Then you feel like a robot trying to work the mechanics as efficiently as possible, more or less.

 

guess not all people experience this.. wanna know more about it, probably someone has written a book. Dunno? When googling, all that come up are threads about open-world fatigue in games.. but all from a gamers perspective. Guess it's especially something in open world games but not only there.

Have you messed around with VR at all yet? It has completely restored my excitement for video games, and since it's such a new platform there are a ton of different ideas and games out there or in development to keep things feeling fresh. 

pls rename thread to Switch Shit Innit Swiggity Swooty Blaze It Faggot

So, anyway​, turns out that outside of combat Mass Effect Andromeda is pretty much a reskinned Dragon Age Inquisition. I'll keep playing, but this is some mediocre bullshit.

  On 3/25/2017 at 4:28 AM, usagi said:

pls rename thread to Switch Shit Innit Swiggity Swooty Blaze It Faggot

lol

  On 3/24/2017 at 6:23 PM, Gocab said:

Games are bloated beyond sanity these days. I see gamers whining online if games only last 35 hours. Give me 6 hours of content over endless fetch quests any day, I feel like games are just wasting my time recently because that's the thing to do. sigh. growing old is hard.

I read a game developer say that most game design is creating mess for the gamer to clean up. In a sense, you're not exploring a world, you're just finding the stuff the developers have strewn about it.

Most gamers are just janitors.

  On 3/24/2017 at 3:38 PM, phling said:

selling off the Switch. 100hrs into Zelda and can't be arsed to continue tbh...

it was good but I don't play games regularly and seem to have low tolerance for a fatigue that always sets in.

 

like when games are kinda complex, all the pretty art etc is like a veil that thins away as you progress... what remains is pure mechanics. Then you feel like a robot trying to work the mechanics as efficiently as possible, more or less.

 

guess not all people experience this.. wanna know more about it, probably someone has written a book. Dunno? When googling, all that come up are threads about open-world fatigue in games.. but all from a gamers perspective. Guess it's especially something in open world games but not only there.

I too rarely plan video games these days, and for many of the reasons you're expressing. I feel that fatigue in so many games I've tried but I just can't care about...the thing that keeps me in games is something larger, a really unique story that has piqued my interest or something similar. There are a few games that are very interesting in a purely mechanical sense (Eden, N++) that can keep me interested in small amounts, but even them I can't fall into fully to play more than 30 minutes or an hour at a time. 

thumper was by far the biggest disappointment last year. What a piece of shit game that doesn't even test musical rhythm like it purported to do. Billed itself as "cool, alien, industrial amplitude" and instead it was about 1000x less fun that the new amplitude, even considering how bad harmonix fucked up the music

  On 3/26/2017 at 8:34 PM, dr lopez said:

 even considering how bad harmonix fucked up the music

I really wish the new amplitude had like..... a feature where you could use your own library of music and it would generate a level for you to play.

I still had a ton of fun with it but the music sucked big time (expected it to anyways but still). 

  On 3/26/2017 at 8:34 PM, dr lopez said:

thumper was by far the biggest disappointment last year. What a piece of shit game that doesn't even test musical rhythm like it purported to do. Billed itself as "cool, alien, industrial amplitude" and instead it was about 1000x less fun that the new amplitude, even considering how bad harmonix fucked up the music

you already posted this but no, it's actually a really fun game.

thumper is 

I'm playing Life Is Strange. Just started episode 5. I'm too old for all the teenage emo commentary, but the game is pretty cool regardless.