Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Power Glove]

Getting harder and harder to play games as I'm getting older. It's hit hard the last month or so. Really gotta force myself to stay on a game even for an hour. Not sure how much longer I can do this. Barely play anything now.

Anyone else out there feeling this?

Most definitely. I'm getting close to 40 and I'm feeling a shift in what I enjoy. I used to raid in WoW, now I barely do anything in the game where I am dependent on others. I enjoy open world games a lot more, where I can choose my own pace of doing things, and I hate using the word but find some "immersion" in the world displayed before me. But every so often a game like Project Warlock enters my life and I'm back to being the 90s gamer, blasting through it in one sitting. But that is a rarity these days.

 

[Dvsilverwing]

I find myself re-installing old games a lot more than buying new ones. Relevantly, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was just re-released on Steam and I played that a lot when I was younger, so it's neat to go on there and see tons of full servers for the time being.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I find myself re-installing old games a lot more than buying new ones. Relevantly, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was just re-released on Steam and I played that a lot when I was younger, so it's neat to go on there and see tons of full servers for the time being.

I feel you on that. One of my favorite platformers, the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series has HD PC releases and the games are a blast to play.

 

[Pig Boss]

I find myself re-installing old games a lot more than buying new ones. Relevantly, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was just re-released on Steam and I played that a lot when I was younger, so it's neat to go on there and see tons of full servers for the time being.

I just went crawling back to Neverwinter Nights again after leaving it for WoW more than a decade ago. I can't believe some of the people that I used to talk to when I was a teenager are still hanging around in the Prisoners of the Mist server.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Hey where my Jade Empire bros at?

 

[Mooger Meng]

Hey where my Jade Empire bros at?

Sad that even old Bioware couldn't get the morality system right.
God help us if they try to remake it in Current Year. There's no possible way they could make the Open Palm/Closed Fist split anything other than "pure virtue vs. eat all the babies" even if the idea doesn't get shouted down for some manner of political horseshit.

 

[FunPosting101]

Getting harder and harder to play games as I'm getting older. It's hit hard the last month or so. Really gotta force myself to stay on a game even for an hour. Not sure how much longer I can do this. Barely play anything now.

Anyone else out there feeling this?

I think it's more that you've become more jaded as time passed, age alone doesn't explain this unless you're so old that your reflexes are starting to go. I recommend trying new stuff and remixed versions of older things.

It's perfectly understandable why you're jaded BTW, a lot of modern games are desperately trying to be interactive movies, and the stuff that doesn't is of varying quality.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Getting harder and harder to play games as I'm getting older. It's hit hard the last month or so. Really gotta force myself to stay on a game even for an hour. Not sure how much longer I can do this. Barely play anything now.

Anyone else out there feeling this?

I sometimes get burned out. Then I just switch it up - read some books, watch some movies I haven't seen before and eventually something captures my attention and I get sucked back in. Variety is the spice of life, as they say.

 

[The Ugly One]

Getting harder and harder to play games as I'm getting older. It's hit hard the last month or so. Really gotta force myself to stay on a game even for an hour. Not sure how much longer I can do this. Barely play anything now.

Anyone else out there feeling this?

Your brain is shifting modes from "acquire and consume" to "pass it on."

 

[Least Concern]

I really, really like Picross for the SNES. It's in the Switch's SNES emulator, although it's in Japanese - I guess it didn't have a domestic release, even though I seem to remember seeing ads and/or articles on it in Nintendo Power. It's basically a logic puzzle where you have a grid of boxes and each row and column of the grid has a header with numbers in it. You use those numbers as hints to punch out a certain pattern of boxes in each row and column in the grid until you reveal a simple low-resolution picture. There's kind of a barrier to entry since some (but not all, oddly) of the interface is in Japanese, but once you've got the actual gameplay rules figured out it's no problem. I've spent more time playing Picross than any other game in the SNES or NES emulator, and even more than some Switch games I've paid full price for for that matter. Definitely recommend you have a look if you like logic puzzles. Here's the cover of the game if you want to find it in the emulator.

 

[OctoChef]

Picked up Ys: Origin yesterday. It's a fun little action RPG hack n slash with some puzzle elements througn in. What i like about it, is that the whole game takes place in a 25 story tower so you can skip by the story and lore if that's not your thing. Down side is that it's a Falcom game, and for those unaware, the company is infamous for including LOADS upon LOADS of NPC text and dialogue. This game is no exception and has no option to quickly skip through it. Aside from the mountains of dialogue, it's a pretty fun game for my attention-deficient ass.

 

[Power Glove]

If I might give a little recommendation, for those who like Shadow Warrior 2 gameplay, minus the elemental BS that they added to that game... I give you Bright Memory: Infinte. Great game to just mindlessly shoot and slash things, it's a very short game so paying full price on Steam might not be advisable, even if it's fairly low prices to begin with. Given the fact Steam has enough sales throughout the year ,this is bound to end up in one.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Hey where my Jade Empire bros at?

Played it in 2015 or 16. My memory is a little fuzzy on it, but I clearly finishing it and thinking "That was a good, solid, fun and unique RPG".

It's worth your time.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I really, really like Picross for the SNES. It's in the Switch's SNES emulator, although it's in Japanese - I guess it didn't have a domestic release, even though I seem to remember seeing ads and/or articles on it in Nintendo Power. It's basically a logic puzzle where you have a grid of boxes and each row and column of the grid has a header with numbers in it. You use those numbers as hints to punch out a certain pattern of boxes in each row and column in the grid until you reveal a simple low-resolution picture. There's kind of a barrier to entry since some (but not all, oddly) of the interface is in Japanese, but once you've got the actual gameplay rules figured out it's no problem. I've spent more time playing Picross than any other game in the SNES or NES emulator, and even more than some Switch games I've paid full price for for that matter. Definitely recommend you have a look if you like logic puzzles. Here's the cover of the game if you want to find it in the emulator.

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One of my biggest failed predictions was that picross(picture crosswords) would take the western world by storm. Instead we got sudoku in every newspaper. I would have preferred picross.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Pocky & Rocky might be the first remastered Nintendo Switch game that I might enjoy this Summer Season, right up there with Klonoa.

 

[El Goblina]

Getting harder and harder to play games as I'm getting older. It's hit hard the last month or so. Really gotta force myself to stay on a game even for an hour. Not sure how much longer I can do this. Barely play anything now.

Anyone else out there feeling this?

Totally feeling this. There aren't many games that I can suffer through for very long. Occasionally, I'll boot up some old classic. Master of Orion 1 has long been a favorite, and I go back to it pretty often. The 1oom remake of it is great, and provides some QoL. A while back I made a point of playing a game of Civilization on every version up through 4.

These days it's mostly nostalgia. I find my aging reaction times preclude me from enjoying some of the new titles. Only got so far in Metroid Dread before I set it down. Couldn't hit any of the boss counter-reaction timings. Most of my "gaming enjoyment" these days comes from watching other people play at much higher levels than I can on twitch.

 

[DavidS877]

These days it's mostly nostalgia. I find my aging reaction times preclude me from enjoying some of the new titles. Only got so far in Metroid Dread before I set it down. Couldn't hit any of the boss counter-reaction timings. Most of my "gaming enjoyment" these days comes from watching other people play at much higher levels than I can on twitch.

I've never been any good at the fast twitch stuff. I just want to go in and smash things not remember that combo number 32 is R-L-L-L-R-L-L-Up. This includes parry timing, etc.

Any time there's an 'optional' thing like the Melee Pits in H:FW or the Bamboo things in Ghost of Tsushima I just skip them. Both were also particularly annoying with their 'Hey, why don't you unlock some more stupid combos with the skill points you have.' No, where's the 'blow things up real good' skill?

 

[Lisafrank420]

If you like Pokemon at all, they found a Game Boy Color version of Pokemon Picross that was complete, but never released, in the 2020 gigaleaks.

Also, Picross DS is excellent, and uses the touch screen exactly how you'd expect.

Only thing better than Picross DS was 3D Picross. Its on the DS as well and has a sequel on 3DS (tho I didnt play much of that one). Also the Picross E series of game on 3DS was pretty good too. They added some neat new things like combining multiple puzzles to create classic paintings.

 

[FunPosting101]

I sometimes get burned out. Then I just switch it up - read some books, watch some movies I haven't seen before and eventually something captures my attention and I get sucked back in. Variety is the spice of life, as they say.

What this guy said, you need to vary the entertainment you consume in your free time, otherwise you could have the reflexes of a pre-teen on a sugar high and you'd still wind up getting bored playing the same modern "cinematic" action setpiece games over and over again.

 

[SandyCat]

I hope Darktide is gonna be good. Vermintide 2 is a lot of fun with how they handled the melee combat but I'm not sure how well they're going to manage to pull off the shooting side of things