What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

I went through Aria of Sorrow for the first time the other day after grabbing an odroid go ultra.

Amazing if you want more SOTN which I perpetually do!

  On 10/31/2022 at 8:40 PM, onecaseman said:

Playing Olli Olli World. It's cool, but I keep trying to use Tony Hawk's Pro Skater controls, which are very different.

I remember trying to play Skate after lots of Tony Hawk…. I’m pretty sure that the triangle button (which put you into a grind on Tony) would bail you in Skate… 

Serves me right for being a button masher I guess

apparently the Dead Space remake will have an AI director that dynamically adjusts the amount of combat/intensity you experience in the game. cool idea but it is a big difference from the original where a cleared area would remain cleared.

very keen for this shit and Callisto Protocol.

 nice 

  On 11/21/2022 at 4:34 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 nice 

 

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I guess I'll be buying this expansion. Twist my arm...

OMFG!!!! I just spent two hours on the first puzzle in Scorn. Turns out there was a game breaking bug that prevented me from solving the puzzle.

This is amazing, if you’re a retro games fan, can’t recommend this enough. Not only does it have way more games than the past 2 Atari collections, (from every console) it has unreleased games, hours and hours of historical and BTS videos, interviews, promos, etc. AND 6 reimagined classic 2600 games that bury those terrible “Recharged” versions they did last year. And it’s a Black Friday deal on Amazon.

  On 11/24/2022 at 11:43 PM, Squee said:

OMFG!!!! I just spent two hours on the first puzzle in Scorn. Turns out there was a game breaking bug that prevented me from solving the puzzle.

thanks HR Ginger

  On 11/25/2022 at 3:42 PM, usagi said:

thanks HR Ginger

God of War Ragnarok of course. I think I'm closing in towards the end, but it's really hard to tell. 

Crusader kings 3 off and on. Don't think I like it though

playing rocket league with ae-left blank on repeat loud enough to shake the walls is a guaranteed +10 skill buff

I finally have my brand new 13900k/4090 build up and running and the first game I've picked back up is Subnautica, which is what I was just starting to get into when my old PC died.

this game is scary to me in a way that no other game can be because it plays on a very real fear I have of deep water. just being caught out in the open as the sun sets and it all goes dark and you're swimming through the murk gets my heart pounding and I have to hightail it back to base. seriously difficult for me to play this.

This one is getting its first DLC for its 10 year anniversary 

I've played through The Callisto Protocol twice now. it's... not entirely what it could have been. the main drawback is the actual combat which is jarring (the melee element mainly), repetitive and shallow. also probably the story, which will be old hat to anyone coming from Dead Space (or even otherwise tbh). but on the visuals, sound design, atmosphere and environments it delivered hugely, so I was basically happy with my experience. you will see a lot of internet losers writing off the whole game but it's still worth playing and I'd rate it at least 7/10, accounting for its weaknesses. this is particularly bearing in mind that it has been set up for sequels, and with iterative development I'm sure SDS can address those weaknesses e.g. bring deeper and more satisfying combat into the mix.

I've now moved on to Control which I am playing for the first time. no idea what the fuck is going on but it's great. pretty funny going from a slow, realism-type deal in TCP to this. I'm just glad to play a Remedy game that doesn't play like Alan pisspants Wake.

  On 12/8/2022 at 10:23 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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Jeff Minter = instabuy

I love diablo cinematics:

Pentiment. I adore it and can't stop thinking about it, but also can't decide if I should recommend it widely or if I'm just 100% the precise target audience for this game. It's on game pass, give it a shot, esp if you are a fan of Josh Sawyer's amazing writing  (he did narrative direction on Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, and was involved in Icewind Dale & Neverwinter Nights)

  On 12/8/2022 at 1:06 PM, usagi said:

I've played through The Callisto Protocol twice now. it's... not entirely what it could have been. the main drawback is the actual combat which is jarring (the melee element mainly), repetitive and shallow. also probably the story, which will be old hat to anyone coming from Dead Space (or even otherwise tbh). but on the visuals, sound design, atmosphere and environments it delivered hugely, so I was basically happy with my experience. you will see a lot of internet losers writing off the whole game but it's still worth playing and I'd rate it at least 7/10, accounting for its weaknesses. this is particularly bearing in mind that it has been set up for sequels, and with iterative development I'm sure SDS can address those weaknesses e.g. bring deeper and more satisfying combat into the mix.

I've now moved on to Control which I am playing for the first time. no idea what the fuck is going on but it's great. pretty funny going from a slow, realism-type deal in TCP to this. I'm just glad to play a Remedy game that doesn't play like Alan pisspants Wake.

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Haven't played TCP yet, but I watched a gameplay live stream the other day. I guess that GRP thingy you get is nearly identical to the telekinesis ability in Control. I think I got pretty far in that game two years ago but never finished it.

I just started a channel in Are.na with "game over" screens, if anyone is interested:

https://www.are.na/degrees-degrees-bullet-period/in-real-life-you-can-t-try-again-videogame-game-over-screens

Vampire Survivors is like the crack cocaine

  On 12/11/2022 at 1:11 AM, Enthusiast said:

Vampire Survivors is like the crack cocaine

yeppers. survivor.io = same energy..way too addictive that genre.

enjoying Control but lol at Remedy not being able to help some of their old bullshit sneaking in. this mold boss fight reminds me of some of my most hated times in Alan Wake.