What are you playing right now?

[c-no]

FINALLY got around to playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
It was kind of boring in the beginning, but then...

Spoiler: Spoilers

WHAM! Motherfucking psychological horror Malkavian mansion pops up and I get totally sucked in.

Don't know why, but the game just went from a 6/10 to a 9/10 after that part. Having a complete blast now.

The charm with VTMB does lie in Malkavian's. If you play as one, the dialogue takes a different turn in terms of what you say to people. Nosferatu also get a change in responses from NPC's, one of which kills them via heart attack just because of your horrifying visage.

Been playing more Stranger of Sword City. With how the game is sucking me in, this may as well give me something to do for gaming until I can get the money to replace the CPU and motherboard I accidentally ruined (along with an operating system because Microsoft doesn't let me reuse the same code and changing motherboards means OS corruption that can only be fixed by reinstalling an operating system).

 

[Mimic]

Finally finished off PersonaQ (Persona 3 side anyway) and am contemplating fast-dashing through the P4 side, or just moving on to Stranger of Sword City.

I mean Stranger has this guy:

How can I say no?

 

[Ravana]

I'm on a trip for work so it was time to blow the foot of dust off my Vita and make some progress in Corpse Party: Blood Drive. If it ends up bad, it at least won't be as bad as Book of Shadows... hopefully.

 

[c-no]

Aside from Stranger of Sword City, I gave Max Payne 3 a try on the PS3. Playing the game (along with replaying the first) shows how much I really have to git gud. Still, the games are a refreshing change as shooting games.

 

[Burned Man]

While I was away for a couple of Weeks my brother and his friend continued their hardcore Diablo 3 run and I came back just in time for my brother to die. He was level 70 the cap and near the end of the game when his controller ran out of batteries in the middle of a fight. So once that character was permanently dead he got demoralized. So I made a new character for him and leveled him up to where my demon hunter left off. We get to the final boss of the game both level 70 and he dies again. I paused the game trying to figure out what went wrong and then finished the fight. I laughed that after I killed the boss it still dropped loot for my brother. Luckily since I killed the boss we unlocked adventure mode making leveling up much easier. We reached the cap again with much better equipment this time. He was a tank that couldn't die and I was damage dealer that melted enemies. I got careless and got killed by an enemies post death explosion and lost all my great equipment. I went back to other 70 character and ended up completing a set that makes my character do ridiculous damage. I can one shot any boss or enemy that doesn't have a special script to make them impossible to kill in one hit.

 

[Tame Sake]

I've sunk 17 hours in the last two days in the indie game "Kingdom"

It's not even that good, I just have lost all control of my life. (Crap AI, more RNG luck than actual strategy, fairly short once you figure out the objective.).

Fucked up my last session at day 58 because I got greedy. I think I did something I wasn't supposed to and found a bit of an exploit. I focused almost entirely on just making as many archers as I could and kept buffing them every three days. I never upgraded my Kingdom to the final tier, leaving me to keep getting my daily 6 gold regardless of my 200+ man army. I kept taking down trees and making more and more outposts further and further away from my territory.

It got to the point where I almost never actually saw monsters at the outer wall and I had more money than I could actually properly use. I probably could have conquered the entire map had I not been a dumb ass and got myself stuck between two portals during an invasion.

I never wanna play again it eats time like a motherfucker.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

Playing XCOM 2 right now with my high school mates and myself as the soldiers. (I got a Specialist, wished I was a Grenadier tbh).

So addicting, it takes time from me visiting KF lol. Also avatar related.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

The long awaited sequel to Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon... Trials of the Blood Dragon. Oh boy.
So, it's a platformer game. A platformer game that pretends to be a shitty late 90s Cartoon Network cartoon, judging by the cutscenes, their art style and the shittiness of the plot.. It has biking levels with the most awkward driving sections since those old Gravity Defied games for J2ME phones, and on-foot platforming levels with the most awful controls I've ever seen. Apparently they get really worse later. The soundtrack is predictably nice - Power Glove did a very good job, but it can't salvage the game all by itself.

Franchise ruined/10.

P.S. At the game's Steam page, note those big pink numbers in the screenshots. They show the number of times you've failed the level. Even the devs couldn't master the controls of their own game!

 

[c-no]

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Think of a mech anime as a first person shooter. It was made by Monolith, a developer known better for Blood and FEAR. So far, the game has its moments of fun, especially when the mech you pilot can one-shot enemies that aren't tanks and mechs.

 

[Overcast]

Last night, I was attempting an Expert run on Swamp Fever in L4D2. We got to a witch, one of us was warning us to be careful.

But then, another guy typed in "Witch ain't nothing!" He went over and attempted to crown her, and then proceeded to get murdered.

Had a good laugh out of that.

Meanwhile, Darkest Dungeon is kicking my ass. I made it to the Champion tier levels, and I'm having a hard time just getting to the bosses before everyone starts losing their shit. On top of that, a band of brigands invaded the Hamlet. If I didn't fight these guys, my upgraded buildings would get attacked. So I sent in some of my higher level guys, who then proceeded to get wiped. At least my buildings are alright!

:/

So far, I lost a large chunk of my higher level heroes, and I'm always low on funds. Also, the RNG seems to be completely against me, as the amount of crits and dodges the enemy is performing on me is ridiculous. I think part of it is that not all my skills are fully upgraded, but holy shit.

And to think, I thought I was in a pretty good position.

 

[MMX]

Just finishing a week long smite binge
Then in playing homefront revolution for shits and giggles

 

[Burned Man]

and I'm always low on funds.

I don't know if this is still a viable tactic since I haven't played the game in a while but I learned a good way to make money is to just send new heroes on low level missions with no supplies at all or 1 meal a piece if you feel generous and just let them fail or succeed. Of course there will be a lot of causalities and when people inventively go insane you just cut them loose.

I've been continuing my Diablo 3 hardcore with my brother. He wanted to make a wizard for some reason and got one to 70 before dying. So yesterday was spent power leveling. we got some of his friends to clear out rifts while he got xp for being in the room. Since I have to share a screen with him anyway I guarded him. So we get him to like 68 and he gets killed. He got cocky and was trying to pick up loot and we ran onto enemies with the shielded property and I couldn't one shot them because of it. He makes a new character, this one gets to 50ish before someone we were playing with accidentally pulled some enemies back to him while he was in menus so I couldn't do anything. The enemy ignored me and the other guy and killed him. He had another wizard die around 70 that I forgot the details of. It was pretty funny just laughing at all the dead hardcore characters he has.

 

[Spellskite]

I'm just finishing Kirby: Planet Robobot. Holy cow, this game is fun. The level design is fantastic, it has lots of fun modes for more replay value, and the soundtrack is glorious. There's even a remix of my favorite song from Kirby 64:

If you have a 3DS and like platformers you should give it a shot, but if the $40 is too steep I'd recommend Triple Deluxe, since that Kirby game also kicks ass.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Elite Dangerous.

I've been playing far too much of it, in fact, on account of I foolishly went on a lengthy exploration stint and ended up over 40,000 light years from the bubble and now need to get back...

 

[Overcast]

I'm just finishing Kirby: Planet Robobot. Holy cow, this game is fun. The level design is fantastic, it has lots of fun modes for more replay value, and the soundtrack is glorious. There's even a remix of my favorite song from Kirby 64:

If you have a 3DS and like platformers you should give it a shot, but if the $40 is too steep I'd recommend Triple Deluxe, since that Kirby game also kicks ass.

My brother just played that game, and he apparently loved it. Might have to borrow it from him at some point.

Anyway, my brother and I are going to watch Finding Dory, and we went to an arcade within a theater. I decided to try DDR. At first, it took a bit to get used to the dance pad, but I really got into it. I attempted a song at a more difficult setting, and then failed within ten seconds. xD

Meanwhile, my brother was playing a Batman arcade game where he rides the batmobile. He just stopped the Joker from firing a missile, and there was a sequence where he had to ram into the Joker's vehicle to catch him. He missed, the Joker taunted him, and the words "The Joker got away" on screen.

I know what song I'n going to sing to him for the next few days. ;P

 

[Guardian G.I.]

Making History: The Great War - the derpier, turn-based counterpart to late-game Victoria 2. It has that ahistorical chaos feel of the vanilla Vic2, but here it's fun. Border gore rules the day, though.
The civil war mechanics is something Paradox should borrow, though - if things go bad for any country, it may collapse into 2 or even 3 warring factions. In Victoria 2, it's impossible to achieve without scripting it in advance.

EDIT: you can't change your government form without editing the scenario files in the editor. Technically you still can - there's a "support coup" button in your government panel, like in all others, but using it leads to a game over.
Thus, you can pay people to overthrow yourself from office.

 

[c-no]

After replacing a GPU with a new one (same model, different manufacturer), I managed to try out Dark Souls 3. It was mixed in what happened. The good thing was that I managed to fight up to Iudex Gundyr. The bad was that I got a couple of freezes that required hard resets. From here on, I'm just going to not play the game until maybe after fully cleaning out my computer of any dust (it's not dusty but should still keep it clean), making sure wires aren't in the way, and updating drivers (provided the Nvidia driver of today doesn't brick my GPU).

Also managed to play some FEAR 2 and thankfully, it didn't even do any hard freeze on my computer.

*Edit: must of been bad Nvidia driver. Skyrim required a hard reset the second time I booted it. After doing a roll-back and booting it a third time, the game allowed me to go pass the execution and I managed to make my way into the wilderness. Thanks Nvidia for bad drivers.

 

[Sable]

I'm playing Fire Emblem.

I realised that the golem faces reminded me of the Giantdad face, and now I can't stop laughing when I encounter them.

 

[Dane]

I started a new game in Witcher 3 and worked my way up to the level range to start Blood & Wine/Heart of Stone, unfortunately the process of spending 40 hours getting up to that point in the game burned me out on Witcher and now I've gotta put it away for a few days before actually starting the DLC so the whole thing doesn't feel like a chore.

Other than that I'm playing through LISA for the first time and learning how to play Dwarf Fortress.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Played a bit of shadowrun returns. Pretty good game. Id recommend it.