What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 6/16/2019 at 6:14 PM, onecaseman said:

Finally finished Red Dead 2. Like the first, the game dragged on, and I just wanted it to be over. But still a lot better than the first. I wish the fast travel system worked better. So much riding across the map.

I think I'm finally going to play Breath of the Wild now.

Half the fun is exploring the map, though. And all of the random encounters on the way to where you're going.

  On 6/16/2019 at 4:35 PM, ambergonk said:

I've been paying almost no attention to E3 this year. All I heard is that the Bethz conference was a pile of poo.

Doom and Wolfenstein look great, nothing new there. Death Loop has me excited.  

  On 6/16/2019 at 4:35 PM, ambergonk said:

I've been paying almost no attention to E3 this year. All I heard is that the Bethz conference was a pile of poo.

it was crap except the It's Spooky bit. Bethesda haven't made a great game in nearly 2 decades so no surprise there. Some good ones, but nothing special. Not talking about games they produced.

Enter the Gungeon is free on Epic Store til 6/20:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/enter-the-gungeon/home

  On 6/16/2019 at 11:37 PM, Crossword Enthusiast said:

Doom and Wolfenstein look great, nothing new there. Death Loop has me excited.  

Doom Eternal looks promising for sure, but I'm gonna need new hardware if I have any hope of playing it. And getting an upgrade won't be cheap, unlike me.
 

  On 6/16/2019 at 11:56 PM, Brisbot said:

it was crap except the It's Spooky bit. Bethesda haven't made a great game in nearly 2 decades so no surprise there. Some good ones, but nothing special. Not talking about games they produced.

Yeah Ikumi was adorable. I think Fallout 3 and Skyrim were still the biggest heavy hitters from their in-house devs, and I still occasionally play Fallout 4 with mods. But their development future looks bleak, especially with the advent of CD Projekt Red and Cyberpunk 2077, which is all but guaranteed to eclipse them.

  On 6/16/2019 at 3:15 AM, Hk47 said:

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! I picked it up about 5 or 6 days ago, and have REALLY been enjoying it. Actually, probably more than Axiom Verge ATM. I dunno, I guess I'll see once I complete it. 

 

I also picked up the early access build of Wayward Souls on Steam. I've gotta say - the changes that they've added so far make it seem almost like a sequel when compared to the state that the mobile version is in. And playing with a controller is fuck'n awesome. And I also got Hyper Light Drifter last night. Knowing nothing about it other than it being an ARPG/Metroidvania mashup, I was incredibly surprised at how good it is so far (about 4 hours into it). Chances are it'll wind up being one of my top 10 favorite games that I've played this year (sucks I didn't hear about it back in 2016 when it was released). 

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You might also want to look into Gato Roboto, a metroidvania keeping my attention at the moment...

Oh yeah, Gato Roboto is the closest non-Metroid game out there to classic Metroid. I think I'm about 12 percent in, but keep getting distracted by my second Void Bastards playthrough. Having trouble lately deciding which game to commit to.

Also, Carrion looks pretty savage. (Probably NSFW)

All kinds of awesome AND free:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

Castlevania Collection updated to include uncensored Japanese versions:

https://gonintendo.com/stories/337944-updates-now-available-for-both-castlevania-anniversary-collection

Contra Collection as well.

Outer Wilds is fucking amazing. 

  On 6/17/2019 at 5:58 PM, ambergonk said:

Oh yeah, Gato Roboto is the closest non-Metroid game out there to classic Metroid. I think I'm about 12 percent in, but keep getting distracted by my second Void Bastards playthrough. Having trouble lately deciding which game to commit to.

Also, Carrion looks pretty savage. (Probably NSFW)

 

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Damn, that game looks good. Hope it's for xbone when it comes out.

  On 6/17/2019 at 5:37 PM, ambergonk said:

Yeah Ikumi was adorable. I think Fallout 3 and Skyrim were still the biggest heavy hitters from their in-house devs, and I still occasionally play Fallout 4 with mods. But their development future looks bleak, especially with the advent of CD Projekt Red and Cyberpunk 2077, which is all but guaranteed to eclipse them.

Yeah but as games they weren't that great.  Oblivion and after for them I find their stuff generally alright to boring. There's 1 or 2 good quest lines per game but besides that they lost the plot a long time ago, and each game gets worse. As one example, In the Elder Scroll series they used to have interesting multifaceted dungeons in Daggerfall and Morrowind. Which became worse over each game till Skyrim which literally has linear dungeons with the treasure at the end. Yeah graphically it looked amazing in 2011, especially the northern areas, but it's just not that good of a game. Weak lore. Weak characters. etc etc.

This is why I dont videogames any more

Just stick with indies. The AAA companies are becoming bloated, corrupt, and impotent, like the US government. Maybe it's a late-stage capitalism thing, I dunno. But I'm seeing nuanced parallels.

To me it seems the 2000s were ruled by Western developers when they had 8 years of strong Xbox 360 sales and user base, which also translated into the thriving PC games market.  Then they got lazy, and as the graphical power of consoles grew in the HD era, Japanese devs were more able to put a Japanese / anime style to their games.  Now I prefer Japanese games, they just seem more innovative, colorful and fun.  Plus they age better.

grabbed Vader Immortal (rift) -- i'm not that much of a SW guy, but this is great. short, but great. gives me the same feels that Disney's Star Tours did back in the 90s

Proper late but I finally got Persona 5 on sale and haven't stopped playing since

i regret buying yoshi's crafted world after beating it last night. WAY TO EASY. Everything else about it, Great, level design and the look of it and all. I wish i hadn't paid full price for it. Anyways i guess it's time to shelf it and continue some other games i haven't finished, shame.

beat castlevania 1, then botw and simon's quest last week. trying to beat 3 now which i've never done before. got past ghost ship without dying on first attempt. only been this far like once before.

Blazing Chrome is an homage to Contra and games of its ilk:

My friends and I are having a race to see who can 100% Lego Star Wars (complete saga) first. I'm currently at 74.8%!

New Samurai Shodown (Spirits) comes out tomorrow! Hype!

glad i decided to pass on the c64mini. now i can look forward to the real c64

  On 6/24/2019 at 6:42 PM, juiceciuj said:

beat castlevania 1, then botw and simon's quest last week. trying to beat 3 now which i've never done before. got past ghost ship without dying on first attempt. only been this far like once before.

I'm trying the Japanese ver. of Castlevania III

Portal 2 is currently 99 cents on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/620/Portal_2/