What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 4/27/2019 at 4:10 PM, Hk47 said:

Took a break from Crimzon Clover: World Ignition and DDP Resurrection to try and feed my metroidvania addiction.

I wound up getting Hollow Knight.

I hadn't read anything about it (not even the game's description on Steam) or seen any of the trailers - I bought it because it came up when searching 'meteoidvania' and it's rating is CRAZY high (36,000+ reviews and something like 95% of them were 5 stars) so I went in completely blind.

 

My first session with it, I played for 4 hours straight. This game is MAGNIFICENT! No hand-holding what-so-ever, beautiful atmosphere, cool character designs, awesome music and effects (and the voices of the NPC's are almost always cute as hell-especially that little kid digging away in the mines), the lore that's slowly fed to you is very interesting and the controls/physics are top-notch... I just... can not talk this game up enough.

 

I'd fully recommend any metroidvania fans here to pick it up if you haven't already.

+1

Hollow Knight is a weird one. i feel you either love it or you don't.

i look at Hollow Knight and something about the visual style just instantly bores me. tried playing it for a bit too but the visual style was so aggressively boring and uninteresting to look at, that i could not stand playing it much at all for long sessions. it's just that bad, boring and generic looking. 

I get that.

Personally, I really like it. It kind of reminds me of Machinarium. With a sort of Limbo vibe.

=P

And once you start opening up new areas, there's a bit of variety. Admittedly, I have no idea how much variety, as I've only opened up my 3rd area, but the atmosphere in each is definitely different than the last.

<shrug>

But I'll totally agree with the love it or hate it statement. I spent a bit of time reading some player's posts around the net and I don't think I found one post where anyone said it was alright. They either absolutely adored it or couldn't stand it.

ATM, I'm definitely falling into the adore it camp.

=P

A very close friend recommended and sent me a copy of GRIS a few months ago, and today I just got a new graphics card for my laptop, so I went ahead and installed it.

All I've read about it so far has all been praise for the graphics. Admittedly, I'm not a graphics whore.

My top 5 games of all time are Metroid II, Final Fantasy Tactics: WotL, X-COM (UFO: Enemy Unknown), Mario 3 and Silent Hill 2.

... graphics never really impact my opinion or enjoyment.

It has a sort of... Transistor vibe to it so far... but other than that, I'm not too impressed.

I'm hoping the gameplay gets a LOT more interesting because right now I'm wondering if I really should have put Hollow Knight on hold so I could dive into this...

  On 4/28/2019 at 12:05 PM, bitchroast said:

Hollow Knight is a weird one. i feel you either love it or you don't.

i look at Hollow Knight and something about the visual style just instantly bores me. tried playing it for a bit too but the visual style was so aggressively boring and uninteresting to look at, that i could not stand playing it much at all for long sessions. it's just that bad, boring and generic looking. 

yeah. i played it for about 45minutes and was completely underwhelmed by the art and atmosphere. felt good, but definitely didn't draw me in first play. and i love metroidvanias. beat the bloodstained 8bit prequel recently. that was fun. hoping the real game is decent but not holding my breath

neither. i'm the opposite of holding my breath lol.. 

how exciting.

how is jim carrey still getting comedy gigs after his recent descent into nihilistic, depressive hippy chat.

this looks bad.

what are your top relaxing games?

  On 5/1/2019 at 10:54 AM, bozhang said:

what are your top relaxing games?

Sekiro

doing a quick playthru of dark souls 1 and being familiar with it is legit pretty relaxing. 

mini metro is another good one but that also gets pretty stressful. 

  On 4/30/2019 at 4:07 AM, ManjuShri said:

 

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What's more nihilistic than taking the piss?

Edna & Harvey The Breakout on Ipad

Bought Dreams on PS4 yesterday, we should do a WATMM thing there!

I'm trying to get on the watmm leaderboards

  On 5/1/2019 at 11:40 AM, triachus said:

Sekiro

  On 5/1/2019 at 11:50 AM, bitchroast said:

doing a quick playthru of dark souls 1 and being familiar with it is legit pretty relaxing. 

mini metro is another good one but that also gets pretty stressful. 

only yesterday i realized i can't play these titles (among others) for relaxation because i get too competitive and tryhard. it's not the difficulty as much as my own mindset when i get to it. had this banale yet important epiphany that i shouldn't be playing video games that aren't inherently relaxing. bought journey and had a good time until it started crashing on me lol. might look into no man's sky. it seems sweet

that looks like an april fools joke what the heck? earthworm jim is on that?

I remember when that was announced, we had a good chuckle at that on the Amiga forums.

Back to what I've been playing lately…

I completed the recent Wolfenstein games... The New Order, The New Colossus, and The Old Blood (in that order). Gotta say that The New Order feels the tightest and best of those three, the gameplay mechanics, the feel of the weaponry, the changes in pace of gameplay, the character building, music, all on point. The New Colossus felt a bit hodge-podge. The Old Blood felt really out of place, with the zombie stuff. I know that stuff was in the original Wolfenstein 3D, and in RtCW and Wolfenstein 2009. But considering the direction that Machinegames are taking the IP, it felt out of place. Still enjoyed playing it though, so it didn't absolutely wreck it for me.

I particularly liked the efforts to give all the characters light brush strokes of humanity. Honestly felt bad for Klaus and Max. And the efforts to humanise the Nazis in the game were a smart touch.

  On 5/1/2019 at 1:16 PM, chronical said:

Bought Dreams on PS4 yesterday, we should do a WATMM thing there!

You mean you bought the paid early access? It's not out yet, is it?

  On 5/1/2019 at 11:42 PM, Joyrex said:

You mean you bought the paid early access? It's not out yet, is it?

Yeah pretty much. You get the full version when it releases, at half the price, while figuring out things will take time anyways. Seems fun so far, time consuming though. Love the way it renders things, has this kinda washed out look, hope I can make a few things for a short film idea with it, not sure how far you can go with importing your own music, and exporting it for further copyright use and all!

Umihara Kawase Fresh! demo off the JP eshop.. love this series of games. bouncy fishing line grapple madness. this one has a bunch of basic story/quest type stuff i could do without but apart from that, it's rad! as maddeningly difficult and satisfying as ever.

also Dragon's Dogma again... why is it so good...