What are you playing right now?

Panty Shroom said:
Greedfall. A game about colonialism with magic and monsters thrown in. It's got janky animations, recycled character models, bland companions (Kurt and Petrus are pretty cool though) and quests that consist of "go to this place and talk to this person or faction. Maybe fight some guys."

You have three classes to choose from (warrior, technical, magic) and skills and attributes you can boost with points you get when you level up. I like charisma and inution because it avoids confrontation and opens new dialogue options.

You can romance your companions but when you get to the scene where your character gets jiggy with one of them it's like watching two puppets awkwardly embrace eachother before falling on a bed and the scene then fades out.

The monster designs are pretty cool, they're made from a combo of different animals like a cobra/komodo dragon, a shelless snapping turtle and a shark/rhino. I recently got the DLC amd there are lions that walk on their hind legs. They look goofy as fuck and were probably designed by a furry.

The natives' made up language is pretty interesting. I'd look to see if it's based on a real language but I'm lazy and uninvested.
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I've been replaying that. It's pretty cool to be fair. I liked it anyhow. I like the Age of Sail setting and the combinatorial explosion and how you have to be actually a diplomat to get the best outcomes. Only downside is that the player's own faction suffers from being a bit, well, flat.

The natives' language is sort of a mix of Gaelic and Romanian.
 
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I started up Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and it’s pretty good so far.
 
Playing a bit of FF14 again and i started Rage 2 last night.

Rage 2 is surprisingly decent.
 
I have completely neglected the last decade of JRPG's outside of Persona 5 because I never had the time to put into them but with the COVID, I've had nothing but free time basically.

So in the last half year alone I've played:

Dragon Quest XI S
Yakuza 7
Ys VIII
Tales of Berseria
Valkyria Chronicles

I'm beating myself over the fucking head for not just playing these when they came out instead of whatever crap was new or popular because I've had a shit ton of fun with them.

So now I've already built a backlog of Tales of Vesperia and Arise, Ys IX, picked up the Trails of Cold Steel because of the thread here, and I'm definitely getting the DQIII Remaster and XII.
 
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Goyaanisqatsi said:
I have completely neglected the last decade of JRPG's outside of Persona 5 because I never had the time to put into them but with the COVID, I've had nothing but free time basically.

So in the last half year alone I've played:

Dragon Quest XI S
Yakuza 7
Ys VIII
Tales of Berseria
Valkyria Chronicles

I'm beating myself over the fucking head for not just playing these when they came out instead of whatever crap was new or popular because I've had a shit ton of fun with them.

So now I've already built a backlog of Tales of Vesperia and Arise, Ys IX, picked up the Trails of Cold Steel because of the thread here, and I'm definitely getting the DQIII Remaster and XII.
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Is Tales Of Berseria any good, was wanting to try it out but got scared off by the steam page & people reviewing the game on said steam page?
 
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Currently playing Nioh 2 which has an autistic amount of content, theres five new game cycles & each one takes about 70 hours to finish along with the three extra DLC areas. Im 170 hours deep & only half way through NG+3 (Dream of the Demon) please help, i bought so many games during the Steam Summer Sale, but i cant play any of them until i get to the bottom of the 130 floor enemy rush area that is the Underworld after NG+5 help me please i am suffering mentally...
 
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Started Control for probably the 12th time, my rig always shat the bed sometime in the first hour and now I finally have a PC that can run it without setting my house on fire. Hooked in hard so far, ended up getting it right before the steam sale ended and couldn't import my save from the pirated copy I had, so had to start over again.

After I finish I'm probably gonna go back and replay all of Remedy's games starting with Max Payne (for the first time in well over ten years). Haven't played any of Alan Wake or Quantum Break but I'm looking forward to it. Sam Lake has a better grasp of American literary sensibilities than most Americans, or at least most American writers working in the entertainment industry nowadays.

Someone sold me their Index VR headset a while ago so I scored a bunch of games for that too, but I need to set up a playspace before I can do anything with that. Sitting on Boneworks, Superhot, Alyx, and Skyrim VR. Hopefully Nexus smooths out their bullshit so wabbajack lists work again.
 
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Tims said:
Is Tales Of Berseria any good, was wanting to try it out but got scared off by the steam page & people reviewing the game on said steam page?
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Yeah it is a good game, great story and the characters are well written, it is a tales game tho so the combat is smashing random buttons and every battle is the same,the visuals are a bit bland but fine.
I am playing Trails of cold steel 4 atm and that seems to be the total opposite, combat is nice and visuals are impressive but story is utter garbage and the characters are written by a child.
 
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Boyfriend bought me Bug Fables for my birthday, and having never played the paper Mario games I can see why people loved the games until sticker star.
 
Finally going through S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl.

I gotta say, this is one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played, alongside having a surprisingly engrossing open-world setting. Heck, now that I've found the GP 37 gun (AKA, the G36 rifle), the combat is also much less tedious too, and is actually kind of fun.
 
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Goyaanisqatsi said:
Valkyria Chronicles
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So many good memories with that game. It's a shame its sequel was such dogshit by comparison. (3 and 4 were pretty good though I hear)

Anyway, played through Planescape: Torment for the second time in a few years. Honestly love all the bits of foreshadowing throughout as well as stuff I missed the first time. Plus the entire final sequence still gets me emotional.
 
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Fallout 4. I wasn't too crazy about the story, or the dumbing down of the RPG elements, but the combat is much improved, a lot of the mods are pretty decent, and they did a great job creating a post-apocalyptic Boston. It was cool to wander the map and find landmarks and towns in Massachusetts I've actually been to, as I live pretty close to it all.
 
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Overcast said:
So many good memories with that game. It's a shame its sequel was such dogshit by comparison. (3 and 4 were pretty good though I hear)

Anyway, played through Planescape: Torment for the second time in a few years. Honestly love all the bits of foreshadowing throughout as well as stuff I missed the first time. Plus the entire final sequence still gets me emotional.
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Likewise. "Time is not your enemy, forever is."

I'm replaying Greedfall as I said above. This time, I am Madame de Sardet, and doing a sort of rapier in one hand, spell-slinging in the other build. Maybe this time I can get the golden ending.

I wish there were more RPGs in a Renaissance / Age of Sail setting. There's Greedfall, and Pillars of Eternity 2, and that's all I can think of off hand. Maybe some mad Eurojank developer will do a historical RPG set during the French Wars of Religion. Now that would be fucking awesome as a vidya. It's 1573 and you are a young gentleman or lady in Paris trying to make your way in a world of sectarian intrigue. You foster relations with power brokers and get things done and via combat, diplomacy, or stealth get to the attention of either the powerful and malevolent yet psychotically Catholic Duke of Guise, the Huguenot admiral Gaspard de Coligny, or the stuck in the middle queen regent Catherine de Medici. It could be on a timer and after a certain number of quests, the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre happens and you have to decide not only your side but also what you do with those you have forged relationships with and how you deal with the fact that your behind the scenes dirty work might inexorably have led to this.

Oh, and there would have to absolutely be a celebrity appearance from Ambroise Paré, the father of modern surgery, preferably played by John Cleese. And an obligatory virginity testing scene as well, because the French were weird about virginity at that time.
 
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I've been playing Monster Hunter Stories 2 for the past couple days. I'm not a fan of Riders calling their mounts "Monsties" for how childish it sounds. Though the story is far from gripping, the gameplay is solid enough for me to get over my gripes about it. I'm enjoying it so far.
 
Just finished up the Yuito path on Scarlet Nexus. It's one of those games I really liked but also thought almost everything in this game could have been done better if that makes sense. Think i'm going to replay Trails of Cold Steel 4 and by the time I work through that i'll go through Kasane's story.
 
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Tims said:
Is Tales Of Berseria any good, was wanting to try it out but got scared off by the steam page & people reviewing the game on said steam page?
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Yeah, I think so. I agree with the guy that responded initially, mostly. I had to take a break after about 60 hours because the combat can get a bit repetitive but it's a lot of fun regardless, especially the building your own combos bit. Simple yet satisfying. Your mileage on the characters may vary depending on how you like your characterization and writing but I think everyone is blast to be around and everyone has good motives for what they're doing.

One gripe is the amount of back tracking but I suppose that's to be expected with JRPG's.
 
I've been playing a game called Project Hospital a lot lately. The user interfaces are a little wonky and I think the tutorials could stand to be more thorough, but once you get past that learning curve there is a bunch of fun to be had. Vital Signs required you to be a medfag in order to play and Two Point Hospital was a little too goofy for me, but Project Hospital hits that perfect balance. If you're into simulation games I highly recommend it.
 
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