What are you playing right now?

Beresford's Whip said:
Now that I've got a system that can play games and more importantly the time to play some games, I'm starting to work my through a backlog of stuff I've gotten either cheap or free. Currently playing through Dark Souls 2, first From Software game I've played, and it's pretty okay. There are a few spots where it gets tedious, but nothing overbearing.

I do want to try out Hades at some point. I like Bastion and Transistor, although I never did get around to playing Pyre.
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Just out of curiosity, why did you pick Dark Souls 2? If you get a chance, you should definitely play through the first one.

How far in are you, and which boss has been your favorite so far?
 

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Livecorpse said:
Just out of curiosity, why did you pick Dark Souls 2? If you get a chance, you should definitely play through the first one.

How far in are you, and which boss has been your favorite so far?
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I grabbed it because it was on sale for like five bucks. I'll give the first one a try whenever I get around to picking up a copy.

I'm poking around Drangleic castle, so far the bosses have been kind of underwhelming, a lot of tall guys in armor that I've mostly been able to run up to, work around behind them, and then hit them a lot with a mace. I think the one I liked the most has been the skeleton lords, individually they're pretty weak, but killing each one summons in a bunch of little mooks that will chase you around. The wheelguys were a bit of a surprise the first time.
 
Parhfinder: Kingmaker. Not sure how I feel about it yet, but I definitely like it enough to finish it so that's something.
 
Football Manager. Still on 18, got a journeyman save that's in 2045 now. Annoying that this broken mess of a series is more enjoyable than most other games out now
 
Beaten the normal route in Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. Story got a bit confusing at times, but reading some wiki stuff and revisiting cutscenes made things a bit clearer.

Now I’m thinking of taking on the “Demon” route.
 
Got into Dragon Ball FighterZ after picking it up in the steam sale. Always liked Arc System Works' fighting games but 99% of the time they are beyond dead on PC. It's nice to play one that's active
 
Beresford's Whip said:
I grabbed it because it was on sale for like five bucks. I'll give the first one a try whenever I get around to picking up a copy.

I'm poking around Drangleic castle, so far the bosses have been kind of underwhelming, a lot of tall guys in armor that I've mostly been able to run up to, work around behind them, and then hit them a lot with a mace. I think the one I liked the most has been the skeleton lords, individually they're pretty weak, but killing each one summons in a bunch of little mooks that will chase you around. The wheelguys were a bit of a surprise the first time.
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I'm guessing you're playing Scholar edition. Which is the bad version of the game. The graphics are improved but enemy placement is made much worse. They introduce new obstacles which add nothing to the gameplay and just frustrate you. I think many people's issues with the game come from playing Scholar over the base game, which is flawed but not trying to troll you at every turn.

I'm playing Cobra Kai the Karate kid story continues. It's a 2.5D side scrolling beat em up with some interesting mechanics. It leans heavily on special moves and combo counters that restore your health as you build them up. It's janky and has issues but I'm having a good time with it. There's a full progression system and you have to buy characters special moves/improve the moves which is a little lame but not too terrible. It's not as good as streets of rage 4 was, I would give it a solid B or B+ and pick it up in a sale/torrent it. The musics worth playing the game for, despite the soulless voice acting.
 
I've been playing Mechanicus and enjoying it quite a bit. It feels like they set out to be a mix of what Darkest Dungeon & X-Com without all the RNG bullshit baked in. My biggest complaint is that some of the skill trees aren't as worthwhile but it's still pretty doable on normal. There's just a big gap between 'speedy melee boy' and 'motherfucker who shoots plasma and flame'.
 
Enjoying the monster Hunter rise demo, while the limited tries is stupid I can just delete that data to reset it.
 
Ok, this is a really shit normie game and is pretty trash, but I like it. EA Sports UFC 4. It is an objectively shit game, but I enjoy beating other people/the cpu up in an mma simulator.
 
I'm currently playing Persona 5 Royal. This is my first real SMT game (I've also played Tokyo Mirage Sessions, but that obviously doesn't count).

I was always skeptical in trying any of these games, because most of my experience with Persona was people spamming unfunny memes and Smash fans that obviously hadn't played the series but acted like they knew everything about it, and my experience with SMT fans was always reading posts from people that amounted too, "Lol, you're a fag because you haven't played this game that I have!!"

So far, I'm pleasantly surprised. I'm in the third palace and the story has held my interest.
 
Completed the "Demon" route in Soul Nomad.

It's crazy how obscenely powerful you can make yourself in this game. (Par for the course in NIS games I suppose) Especially in this route.

The last fight has all the named characters (with the exception of a few who fight alongside you) band together to fight you. But due to my set up, I was quickly annihilating them left and right with barely any of them getting a chance to attack. It does a really good job at making you feel like a final boss.

What's kind of interesting is that if you lose this fight, the ending that comes afterward ends in a rather positive way.
Rather than outright killing you, you get sealed away inside the same sword Gig was in, who ended up regaining his memories of his past life as well as his old personality. In there you also meet Dannete who does what she can to comfort and make you feel less lonely.

Meanwhile, if you do win, you kill everyone, consume Gig and pretty much wipe out all of existence.

It's kind of a shame that the game was clearly made on a shoe string budget, so a lot of the cutscenes are done in a visual novel style, minus sentences that describe what is happening, leaving the final product to seem a bit incomplete. This is especially an issue with the Demon route.

Still, it was a decent game overall.
 
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Overcast said:
Completed the "Demon" route in Soul Nomad.

It's crazy how obscenely powerful you can make yourself in this game. (Par for the course in NIS games I suppose) Especially in this route.

The last fight has all the named characters (with the exception of a few who fight alongside you) band together to fight you. But due to my set up, I was quickly annihilating them left and right with barely any of them getting a chance to attack. It does a really good job at making you feel like a final boss.

What's kind of interesting is that if you lose this fight, the ending that comes afterward ends in a rather positive way.
Rather than outright killing you, you get sealed away inside the same sword Gig was in, who ended up regaining his memories of his past life as well as his old personality. In there you also meet Dannete who does what she can to comfort and make you feel less lonely.

Meanwhile, if you do win, you kill everyone, consume Gig and pretty much wipe out all of existence.

It's kind of a shame that the game was clearly made on a shoe string budget, so a lot of the cutscenes are done in a visual novel style, minus sentences that describe what is happening, leaving the final product to seem a bit incomplete. This is especially an issue with the Demon route.

Still, it was a decent game overall.
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Soul Nomad would greatly benefit from a remake but I kinda don't want one because tons of the game's subject matter is basically impossible to portray in today's shitty social/political climate so it would be censored to shit.
 
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Ruin said:
Soul Nomad would greatly benefit from a remake but I kinda don't want one because tons of the game's subject matter is basically impossible to portray in today's shitty social/political climate so it would be censored to shit.
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Oh definitely. Anything revolving around Tricia, Shauna and their history in Yesterwind would definitely get censored.

Looking back, there was this bit of optional dialogue where in Drazil, a mother talks about how her child will eventually be taken from her to a child care facility and how she was okay with that because, "Even though it came from my body, that child doesn't belong to me. It belongs to everyone."
 
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