What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 9/4/2020 at 12:45 AM, Braintree said:

Katana Zero was on sale so I snagged that. I need to get a decent controller for my computer.

I like this game so far, but the controls are kind of bad. Maybe it's the animations or something, but I always get caught hitting a wrong button at inopportune times.

  On 9/9/2020 at 8:20 PM, onecaseman said:

This is the way.
 

Thanks. I can do this.

Dunno how bad the lag on AirPlay will be though...

+1 for Mandalorian quote!

  On 9/6/2020 at 3:20 PM, Rubin Farr said:

DOOM & DOOM II received some QoL updates, including gyro controls:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/09/hell_yeah_new_doom_and_doom_ii_update_adds_gyro_aiming_and_widescreen_support

I'm not ideologically a purist or anything, but I played so much Doom as a kid that anything beyond WASD control and always-run messes with my head and makes it hard to play.

I just got a text from USPS, my used copy of Beautiful Katamari was delivered early!

Wipeout

  On 9/12/2020 at 4:20 PM, demo said:

Wipeout

which one? I miss these DLC levels

  On 9/12/2020 at 4:56 PM, chronical said:

which one? I miss these DLC levels

 

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Yeeeaah! I liked this one too!

PSP ftw!

Started Hyper Light Drifter and beat the East. I die a lot.

  On 9/13/2020 at 4:42 AM, onecaseman said:

Started Hyper Light Drifter and beat the East. I die a lot.

Sounds like you're on the right track.


Also, Control is starting to piss me off.

Finally getting into Into The Breach - what a great game! I'm seeing robot chessboards as I fall asleep now.

Played and completed: Dust: An Elysian Tail (2012)
✪✪☆ Good Game
Hack-and-Slash Platformer Game.
+ Fun Button-Mashing Combat
+ Some good Exploration / Metroidvania Elements
± Rather Easy
± Ok Emotional Story / Characters
± Ok Anthropomorphic / Furry Art-Style

Spelunky 2 

  On 9/15/2020 at 8:29 PM, Enthusiast said:

Spelunky 2 

I tried beating the first one, but I only ever got as far as Area 3: The Ice Caves.
After trying several other rogue-lites I concluded that I plainly just terribly suck at them.

Oh I suck at these games in a big way. This is even harder too. 

My newest cities:skylines project in the works.  Inspired by Tom Jenkinson.  Besides the main Highways that come pre-installed with the maps, there are no curved roads.  All roads are matching 90/45/135 degree angles which I really enjoying looking at from above:

  On 9/8/2020 at 10:36 PM, Hugh Mughnus said:

looking to play something new on PC....

Done with Doom Eternal for now and RDR2. Feel like I need a good RPG. Any recommendations from anyone?

I realize this is quite late but check out Enderal if you haven't yet

PS5 out November 12 for 399 USD (digital-only), and 499 USD for the UHD BD version

And Final Fantasy 16 will be a PS5/PC exclusive

I preordered the disc version. The digital seems to be in very high demand. I could go either way, I'm 99% digital games and movies these day.

  On 9/17/2020 at 10:39 AM, Enthusiast said:

I preordered the disc version. The digital seems to be in very high demand. I could go either way, I'm 99% digital games and movies these day.

The last game I bought on disc was Diablo III in 2012.
I remember the day I bought it:
The game released on a particular warm day here in normally grey and temperate-cold Belgium.
I had to go from store to store as most of them had sold out.
I was so happy when I finally found a copy.
In the end, the game itself was a bit disappointing. Well, it was ok, but I had expected more from it.
I see that game / time-period as the start of the stagnation and decline of Blizzard.
I truly loved their previous games: Diablo II, Warcraft III, StarCraft II,...
And I thought at the time they were one of the greatest game-developers of all time.
Oh, how times have changed.
Now they mostly seem to make okay-ish money-grabbing multiplayer games.
Not my cup of tea at all.
Anyway, I sold Diablo III a year later.

Over the years I sold most of my physical game-collection.
Now, the only physical games left in my collection are:
Starcraft II (2010), Mass Effect (2007/2008), and Age of Empires II (1999).
With Starcraft II and Mass Effect as being games I really liked.
And with Age of Empires II as being the first computer game I ever bought with my own pocket-money.
The Euro-currency wasn't even in circulation back then.
I paid 2000 Belgian Francs for it.
The game came in a big box, and included was a hefty full-colour manual.

I kinda regret selling Black & White 2 (2005), as to this day that game can't be bought digitally online.
I read somewhere this is because of some idiotic copyright reasons, and the original dev doesn't care I guess.
I also kinda regret selling Neverwinter Nights (2002), as it's one of my all-time favourite games.
Although I now actually have 3 digital copies of that game in my digital collection.
I buy all my games digital now. I even re-bought the ones I bought as a physical disc back in the day.
I use GOG Galaxy 2 as my collection hub for computer-games.
It combines all digital stores / game-clients together in 1. (Steam, GOG, Epic, Ubisoft Uplay, EA Origin, Blizzard Battle.net,...)

I sometimes think about restarting a physical collection, but that would just be a heck of a job.
It would just be something one can only look at from afar.
It would have no actual function. I don't have any disc-drives anywhere any more.
Maybe I can buy a bunch of empty dvd-cases and print out the covers of my favourite games.
Displaying them for shits and giggles...

  On 9/16/2020 at 11:52 PM, Joyrex said:

And Final Fantasy 16 will be a PS5/PC exclusive

Or maybe just timed exclusive?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-17-final-fantasy-16s-exclusivity-is-a-mess

  On 9/17/2020 at 1:44 PM, Squee said:

Or maybe just timed exclusive?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-17-final-fantasy-16s-exclusivity-is-a-mess

Yeah, PS5 first, and then PC a bit later no doubt

Taking a break from Control because it's being a bitch. So I started 2006 Prey. Let's hope it never becomes VR-compatible.

  On 9/21/2020 at 3:14 AM, timbre monke said:

2006 Prey

Hope you're not going in with high expectations.. I remember thinking that game was kinda crap and I played it in like 2008

  On 9/21/2020 at 3:59 AM, markedone said:

Hope you're not going in with high expectations.. I remember thinking that game was kinda crap and I played it in like 2008

Doom 3 engine, so not really. I think the weird gravitational manipulation shit is what made it unique more than anything. Otherwise I don't really take it seriously.

EDIT: Someone at Valve probably played OG Prey and got the idea for Portal from it back then.

  On 9/21/2020 at 4:15 AM, timbre monke said:

Doom 3 engine, so not really. I think the weird gravitational manipulation shit is what made it unique more than anything. Otherwise I don't really take it seriously.

I enjoyed it tbh. Obviously the remake (system shockish version) was 100x better but the original was fine for what it is as a 2006 game