What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

I started Hitman on PS4. I like it so far. They give you challenges on different ways to assassinate a target.

Downloading Observer now - pretty excited for it.

I'm playing it right now. It's pretty cool!

  On 8/26/2017 at 10:18 PM, Gocab said:

I'm playing it right now. It's pretty cool!

Can't wait.

I need a good sci-fi horror mystery game, so I'm ready to indulge myself into its world.

i beat simon's quest. man dracula is fucking easy in this game. good stuff though. i don't see how anyone could've beaten this game as a kid the clues given by npcs are so incredibly fucking obtuse i almost still missed some stuff -_-

Currently dusting off DiRT 4 and Star Ocean on PS4.  

DiRT is superb, a perfect primer going into GT Sport.

Star Ocean is eh, at least the battle system is good.

  On 8/26/2017 at 1:57 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Did anyone else try to get in on the clusterfuck that was SNES Classic pre-orders? the Tai Ding bot wreaked havoc.

Preordered back in July.  And more recently, preordered the 3DS XL SNES variant.

picked up Deus Ex: Mankind Divided again after leaving it aside for a good while. started a fresh game.

advanced level hacking in this game is so much harder than in Human Revolution, and consequently very tense as you try to understand the network layout before making a move and then when the security routine is inevitably triggered you race against the clock to try whilst fumbling to remember your plan of attack. it's great, most well-crafted minigame ever.

Beatmania IIDX on PS2.

I found the only NA release and a controller on eBay for $30 total but now I'm making a .iso collection of the 15 Japanese releases. You can play imports on the PS2 using a Free McBoot memory card to run burned DVDs if you use ESR patcher on the disk image. This site (mcbpete: hell no, link removed) has most of them but I'm still looking for releases 9-12 if anyone knows where I can find these.

  On 8/27/2017 at 1:33 PM, usagi said:

picked up Deus Ex: Mankind Divided again after leaving it aside for a good while. started a fresh game.

 

advanced level hacking in this game is so much harder than in Human Revolution, and consequently very tense as you try to understand the network layout before making a move and then when the security routine is inevitably triggered you race against the clock to try whilst fumbling to remember your plan of attack. it's great, most well-crafted minigame ever.

It's been a whole year since I last touched MD. On the whole it wasn't bad, but I felt like it could've been better. I was hoping for returning characters from HR as well, but your former boss is really the only one, voiced by a different actor.

The visuals were solid, especially in Golem City. But I felt like they nerfed EMP weapons big time. Like you get EMP ammo for certain guns in addition to the grenades, but this time they only temporarily disable bots. And the flying attack drones they had absolutely zero effect on once they've already detected you, which was a load of crap.

And the Prague setting isn't bad - kind of reminiscent of City 17 from HL2. But you're spending most of the game there.

Hollow Knight is really great. I kinda feared I'd bought a game I wouldn't play but I look forward to completing it. Not an easy game, either.

  On 8/26/2017 at 10:22 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/26/2017 at 10:18 PM, Gocab said:

I'm playing it right now. It's pretty cool!

Can't wait.

I need a good sci-fi horror mystery game, so I'm ready to indulge myself into its world.

Man, this runs like ass on the Xbox

Oh man, I've had my share of slowdown, but nothing really horrible.

divinity: original sin enhanced edition is excellent. couple of times ive had to find my way by looking at a guide online because it really lets you figure stuff out yourself, no quest markers or anything, and you have to listen to everything every minor npc says if you want to figure some of the quests out, but the turn based combat is seriously addictive once you've figured it out. think im approaching the end at about 45 hours. 

  On 8/28/2017 at 1:28 AM, messiaen said:

couple of times ive had to find my way by looking at a guide online because it really lets you figure stuff out yourself

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Observer has piqued my curiosity.

reminds me a bit of Soma. am I the only person itt who played that game? I thought it was practically perfect.

I played it (Soma), I was initially a bit underwhelmed, but I ended up loving it anyway. I'm digging Observer right now (except for the stealthy stuff). Urban decay, blade runner vibes, horror and lo-tech cyberpunk, it's like they jumped into my head at age 17 and proceeded to make my dream game.

For someone growing up playing C64 games, I have to say I'd have shat myself if I knew how good games would be these days, even though people like to shit all over the state of gaming. It's never been better I tell you! Old man yells at cloud!

  On 8/28/2017 at 2:55 AM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/28/2017 at 1:28 AM, messiaen said:

couple of times ive had to find my way by looking at a guide online because it really lets you figure stuff out yourself

 

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ive not got the patience to wander round an area for 45 minutes because ive missed the obscurely titled book that tells you which order to press 5 buttons in. im a casual gamer these days, if im stuck at a dead end for 10 minutes i cheat. 

lol

Pissed that the Xcom 2 expansion is delayed for consoles! Playing Advance Wars 2 on an emulator to tide me over tho

  On 8/28/2017 at 7:08 AM, usagi said:

reminds me a bit of Soma. am I the only person itt who played that game? I thought it was practically perfect.

I played Soma, actually anticipated playing it. Didn't like it in the end. Some of the biggest cons i still recall are:

1. Idiotic voice acting of the protagonist, this generic overly sentimental videogame voice accentuating on all the wrong things, also trying to impose blindness on the player - prime example is how he couldn't foresee the ending that already happened to him in that magic chair.

2. Conflicting game mechanics of exploration and pussy-hiding from arbitrary monsters (already a numbing cliche in horror games, though Alien: Isolation is one of my favourite games, there you had multiple tools and the disposition of power was clear), basically a genre conflict of the so-called walking simulator made into a game through a non-demanding game mechanic habitual to developers.

There was a lot more in the moment, it didn't really get to me aside from the setting and the premise. 

Decided to give Mother Russia Bleeds a go. Pretty dope adventure fighting game (a la Final Fight, Streets Of Rage, that Simpsons arcade from the early 90s, etc), but challenging as hell too.

Setting-wise it's like Akira set in late Soviet-era Russia. Starts off with you beating the shit out of rabid hobos, then you get apprehended by riot cops. Then you wake up in some cold cell, after some guy in a hazmat suit injects you with this glowing green substance called Nekro. Seems the shady Soviet government was up to some clandestine fucked-up experiments, and you were meant to be one of the test subjects.

Anyway, I'm stuck on the second boss fight during the prison break where I keep getting gunned down by both the head guard and the sniper. But otherwise it's brutal fun overall.

^ looks cool. I still play SOR2. love the soundtrack.

whoa! what kind of asshole move is this?

Perfect Dark. Trying to sample the horrible voice samples they make when they die. Found my 64 and all my old games last month when my parents moved out of the house I grew up in. It's been awesome getting all nostalgic. 

"I'M DYING?!"