What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 9/18/2023 at 9:06 PM, cichlisuite said:

I like Stalker too, played the CoP and SoC but I didn't venture into mod territory. Years later I got a tiny nostalgia kick, so I checked the Anomaly. It's way harder to play because enemies are so much more dangerous, which at first was a challenge I gladly took on. Combat felt more exciting and raiding camps was fun. But the crafting (well obtaining stuff mostly) takes away too much focus and I slowly lost interest unfortunately.

Find memories of the atmosphere of the SoC and CoP games still alive tho - I hope Stalker2 delivers some more of that

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It's an amazing world, right? There's nothing quite like it. I find myself daydreaming about the Zone sometimes, even when I don't play it for years sometimes. This sort of bleak psychedelia is where it's at!

It's true, Anomaly is demanding. You can change a lot of the things you mentioned in the gameplay settings, though. Anomaly went for a Zone sandbox, so you can forego the crafting system and the repressive economy completely, but it's still fun to check it out.

I distinctly remember getting the task to kill a Bandit, saw him on the map and thought "Well, he's just out in the wild in Garbage, I'll catch him later" as I still had some other tasks on. Next morning I see he went to the Bandit base in Dark Valley. Went there to scope him out for a day from the hills and the boi just didn't move out. That was early in my run and there was no way I could take on the Bandit base. The task was about to fail due to time limit and I desperately needed the money so I roamed the map until I killed a small squad of bandits by the transition point to Garbage. Donned the bandit outfit and casually waltzed into the base at night pretending to be a bandit. In the meantime, a  rainstorm had begun raging. The guy was sitting in a busy spot with guards moving around so I had to wait for the right second to go for a stealth kill (stealth kills are always jarring for me btw, they're cold-blooded murder). Knifed him from behind and snuck away quickly. All this with the shitty green NVG which can't handle lightnings. Stealth is broken in Stalker but Anomaly implemented a pretty good stealth kill system. it worked like a charm. I felt guilty and dirty but made it back in time to Barkeep in the rain. The atmosphere in Stalker is the real deal.

Anomaly's default settings are ridiculous in some places. it is not "realism" to be spotted through dense foliage from 200+m away in the night and instantly killed with a precise headshot. I tweaked the settings manually a fair bit, particularly the stealth settings in m_stalker.ltx, till they provide a reasonable mix between challenging and playable. and yeah, the crafting system I ignore entirely, I've gotten a decent economy going (again through tweaking prices and dealer settings) so I can just pay techs to repair my stuff and buy whatever else I need. the purists in the community may spaz out over this but frankly that is their problem, people are free to create whatever play experience they like so long as they respect the work that was put in (by both the OG developers and modders). I am in it for the vibe of the Zone, not masochistic Tarkov-esque tacticool gameplay for people who want to pretend they're in the military.

the point stated earlier about the value of Anomaly capping out once you've gotten all the gear you've wanted and explored all the zones is also true. the storyline is easily the weakest part of it, I have no desire to pursue the main quest beyond a certain point. story is the one place where modded Stalker shows a real lacking over OG Stalker, there's no real inspiration there.

I doubt we're going to get this specific type of gameplay from Stalker 2 which I am expecting likely be more hand-holdy and less free play (so expect the community to flip out and review bomb it), but that is fine because modders will take it as a base and make of it whatever they desire. it's all good.

Bought Tears of the Kingdom about a month ago, it's been really fun so far. I don't think I've even scratched the surface so far despite probably like 10-15 hours, mostly just doing shrines and side tasks

I beat the Dead Space remake. Pretty cool. Glad I gave it another shot. 

Next up is probably the Cyberpunk DLC. It's getting crazy good reviews. I still need to get back to Switch at some point too and play the Metroid Prime remaster and Pikmin 4.

I replayed Signalis for the secret ending. seriously, this game. the mystery, the surreality, the layers of meaning, the atmosphere, the horror, the tragedy... it's 10/10 and it seems slept on outside of this niche. this is as close to the Silent Hill experience as you can get outside of SH1/2 (but even darker).

the music alone, that delicate piano riff/leitmotif cuts me every time.

Payday 3 came out today. Still waiting for my copy to come in the post.

  On 9/20/2023 at 7:29 PM, onecaseman said:

 

Next up is probably the Cyberpunk DLC. It's getting crazy good reviews.

Fuck yeah looking forward to playing this 

Got paradise killer super cheap.

Weird game, not sure I'm into it yet

  On 9/20/2023 at 2:35 AM, YEK said:

Would that mean no more good Nintendo games?

Probably not but there is nothing wrong with Nintendo that needs to be changed by some stronger player taking control in any way

Okay. I started the Metroid Prime remaster. This was one of my favorite games in college. It holds up so far. Atmosphere is great.

  On 9/21/2023 at 5:58 PM, milkface said:

Payday 3 came out today. Still waiting for my copy to come in the post.

Only just managed to play since the servers were down. Seems a more watered down version of Payday 2 but that game also has received over 10 years of updates but it's a shame that Payday 3 is online only, there's no crimenet matchmaking system which made the game actually good and competitive and weapon XP forces you to keep changing weapons at the expense of you enjoying the game.

Blasphemous 2 was great, albei bit of a breeze. Also locations / levels didn't feel as significant as the first one's. Looking foward to NG+ and boss rush mode (fingers crossed).

Also enjoying couch-cooping Horizon Chase 2 alot.

  On 9/24/2023 at 1:56 AM, jaderpansen said:

Blasphemous 2 was great, albei bit of a breeze. Also locations / levels didn't feel as significant as the first one's. Looking foward to NG+ and boss rush mode (fingers crossed).

this is up shortly in my queue. you should play Signalis btw, I think you'll dig it.

  On 9/24/2023 at 8:10 AM, usagi said:

this is up shortly in my queue. you should play Signalis btw, I think you'll dig it.

duly noted, thx! screenshots look promising. can't remember playing any survival horror since alien isolation.

  On 9/22/2023 at 6:51 AM, onecaseman said:

Okay. I started the Metroid Prime remaster. This was one of my favorite games in college. It holds up so far. Atmosphere is great.

Yeah it’s really good.

Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch is a really terrible port. Once more than 2 people are on the screen it really starts to have framerate issues to a point where it’s not playable anymore. Also it downloads 20 gig before you can play the story even tho I bought the cartridge version which took around 5 hours to download. My connection could have downloaded it much faster but since everyone had to do it I guess the servers when down. 
 

I kind of expected it to be a not so good port but it’s much worse 

just got to MASTER rank in sf6 with guile.

feels good. B)

I see they have making re-versions of old games I loved to play like Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and soon all the Tomb Raider games will come out in new shape. 

However.. I don't have any console now! 
What console should I buy? I would love to play the New Metroid Dread also.. 

Should I buy the Nintendo Switch and possible to go handhold which I like alot? 
Or just a Playstation 4 and get maybe more and better games like GTA and stuff? 

  On 9/26/2023 at 1:19 AM, cern said:

I see they have making re-versions of old games I loved to play like Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and soon all the Tomb Raider games will come out in new shape. 

However.. I don't have any console now! 
What console should I buy? I would love to play the New Metroid Dread also.. 

Should I buy the Nintendo Switch and possible to go handhold which I like alot? 
Or just a Playstation 4 and get maybe more and better games like GTA and stuff? 

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Switch is fine, has great games and stuff, mine's gathering dust tho cus I got a powerful-ish PC where I can play the shiny stuff.

I'd say think about what you'll do long term, if you can't do without those bigger scale games or if you'll be happy enough with what Nintendo has to offer (which is plenty tbh)

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Finished paradise killer. It's okay, not too hard but kinda tedious gameplay, not my thing but I got through it just fine. 

Now I see the witness is on sale so I'm gonna get that.

Got this from Etsy, I'd never bought a figurine before.

Im curious about the Switch Oled. The screen seems to be top notch!
But don't know so much what games there is.. I like mystery, puzzle + point and click!

Any recommendations? 

  On 9/27/2023 at 12:51 AM, cern said:

Im curious about the Switch Oled. The screen seems to be top notch!
But don't know so much what games there is.. I like mystery, puzzle + point and click!

Any recommendations? 

good one!

I'm really loving BG3 but taking my time with it since I'm usually too busy and braindead after a work day to get deep into it. Also realized there's another DLC out for Case of the Golden Idol, I love that game so much.. played the first new scenario and it's excellent, continues the story from the first DLC really well.

  On 9/27/2023 at 3:10 AM, YEK said:

good one!

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Ouff nothing against sweet little Toad but isn't there any kind of kick ass games? 

My gf thinks Im too childish playing games that is made for 3 year old kids  

  On 9/27/2023 at 12:51 AM, cern said:

Im curious about the Switch Oled. The screen seems to be top notch!
But don't know so much what games there is.. I like mystery, puzzle + point and click!

Any recommendations? 

If you like mystery and puzzles, you can play both Switch episodes of Zelda. They are both amazing games regardless of the genre.

There are good point and clicks as well (a port of Myst, the latest Monkey Island, every Deponia games, haven't tried them all).

You can also go to the Nintendo website and sort the games by genres. Cheers ! (also, get a switch)

  On 9/27/2023 at 12:51 AM, cern said:

Im curious about the Switch Oled. The screen seems to be top notch!
But don't know so much what games there is.. I like mystery, puzzle + point and click!

Any recommendations? 

The Switch OLED is a great unit, but it is significantly heavier than the OG version, it has the better battery, and a superior kickstand for tabletop play, plus integrated LAN.