What are you playing right now?

[BlackDragoons]

Two Seperate games right now.

I'm in the process of learning Twilight Inscription and the other Septerra Core.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Been playing Rimworld now that the new Biotech DLC has come out. I think it's pretty good, though I haven't had enough time to really mess with the genetics side of things. The mechanitor start is actually one I've wanted to do from the game's beginning: one dude living on his own with an army of robots handling all the labor as a challenge. But when I got a message about a kid getting hunted down, I felt too bad to leave them on their own. The child raising stuff seems good, as it's almost entirely hands-off, and they'll still perform labor in-between their learning sessions (running around outside, skywatching, drawing doodles on the floor, etc.). I was a bit worried it was going to be very tedious and require a lot of micro, but I think most colonies can handle one or two kids and raising them to the max growth level of 8 without much hassle. Tribal starts might have a harder time, but maybe the learning desires change based on what's available/tech you have.

Also been trying to get into AI War 2, but haven't gotten far enough to really make a decision on it. It's a good game, but like the first one, is pretty complex.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Replaying Crazy Taxi for the Sega Dreamcast, and it’s amazing how much LA has changed in the last 20+ years. The fact that there used to be a Tower Records, KFC and Pizza Hut that looked like something out of a 90’s circular that used to get in the mail with all of those advertisements about electronics and Toys R’Us toys really show that the game has aged well, even if it is dated.

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

I picked up Metro: Exodus for like $8 on steam. I heard it was widely praised but I'm not really getting into it. I thought it was supposed to be like a semi open world FPS but so far it is the overly produced cinematic bullshit that I hate where they hold your hand through gameplay. Does it get better or should I expect this the whole ride?

 

[Fools Idol]

SIGNALIS on the PS4. Really fucking cool game but I'm a bit torn on the aesthetic. I love the PS1 inspired graphics and the retro future German/Japanese look but the anime parts can be jarring. Some times they look good and fit the scene but I feel like there's something of a disconnect there. I think it might be the pixel art for the characters, it's not bad and I like it in a vacuum but sometimes it doesn't fit the over all aesthetic and unfortunately character design just isn't doing it for me.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Completed Geist on dolphin there, was a decent enough game,

Gonna start a game of Viggo's revenge end of the month, loved fur fighters as a kid on the dreamcast.

Replaying Crazy Taxi for the Sega Dreamcast, and it’s amazing how much LA has changed in the last 20+ years.

Is the first Crazy taxi not supposed to be set in San Francisco?

 

[Iron Jaguar]

 

[Jones McCann]

Finally playing Fallout New Vegas, and I gotta say its amazing. Had a mod issue that kept crashing my shit for a while but finally fixed, I'm only about 2-3 hours in now. I was playing Fallout 4 briefly beforehand but New Vegas is just superior in every way once you mod in some QoL and gunplay stuff.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Is the first Crazy taxi not supposed to be set in San Francisco?

I be.I eve that there were only a few locations that seemed to take place in San Francisco. At the time, I just kept noticing downtown LA with how the beaches and the city markets looked.

 

[Soycast Guy]

I finally picked up Dark Souls 2 again after two years and I LIKE IT.

 

[std::string]

Saturnalia.

Roguelite horror adventure. Kept flipping between really good and really bad. Weird fucking visual style with the most aggressive cel shading I've ever seen.

I'd wait for it to go on sale. It's not worth 20 bucks. Ten is more like it. It's not bad though.

 

[Fools Idol]

So I've completed Signalis, here are my thoughts.

Spoiler

As a game it's pretty good, not perfect but very good. The main problem I have is the super limiting inventory, 6 items is just not enough. It's not game breaking because the game was balanced around it's not that big of a deal when you get "it" but it is a pain in the ass. I really shouldn't feel like I'm wasting my time going back and forth between the item box to get something I need. The puzzles aren't very difficult but they are where the small inventory really shows it's ugly head. Combat wise it's fine, not all that challenging but it works.

I'm still torn on the anime aspect of the aesthetic, I like Tsutomu Nihei's work but I don't feel like it meshes well with the overall look of the game. Overall it's a very good looking game, it mixes most of it's visual elements together well but the anime stuff feels somewhat tacked on. I think they just need to tone it down somewhat.

The setting is pretty interesting too, retro future East German/Japan in space is a very unique. I like how the Replikas (robots/cyborgs) and Gestalts (Humans) are treated by this weird society. You'd assume the Replikas would be bottom of society, basically just slaves but they aren't, the Nation in question doesn't seem to treat them particularly bad. They even have considerations made for their health in the same way you'd look after a piece of hardware. The Gestalts don't seem to have any protected status either and are under the direct supervision of the replikas or work alongside them. I get the felling like both the Gestalts and Replikas are both as disposable as each other. The Replikas are also an interesting concept themselves, they aren't robots but I don't feel like cyborg is right either. They are more like biomechanical androids, partly organic tissue, partly steel and plastic.

It's hard to talk about the story or characters without major spoilers but I just say that it's pretty vague. You sort of find out what's happening and why but there's some huge holes that the game just ignores. The main objective you have does get solved so it's not a incomplete story but there are questions. I'd like to see some DLC by expanding on some of the characters but the main character story is fairly self contained and I can't see anymore content there. Maybe they could do a HUNK or survivors type DLC for the game, either way I'd like to see more from the setting.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

Deep Rock Galactic. It was a lot more fun than I expected.

 

[The Feline Solution]

I downloaded Shadow over Loathing, Pentiment and Sunday Gold yesterday. Gonna start with Pentiment tonight, i don't know what to expect from it, i hope Obsidian's writing hasn't lost its luster. Shadow over Loathing i got because i played KoL for years and already liked West of Loathing a lot. Sunday Gold has a cool artstyle but also not sure what to expect.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Replayed Prince of Persia: Warrior Within after not having touched it for over a decade and I gotta say, even though everyone hates it, I actually think it aged the best out of the 3. Sure it panders a lot to the horny teenage boy demographic (as if that's a bad thing, who do you think buys most games) also FUCKING GODSMACK but the storyline is actually surprisingly deep, gameplay is more satisfying and Kaileena is a way more compelling character than Farah (legitimately, not saying this just because BOOBS or something). It's kind of a shame that they mostly tossed it by the wayside in the third game and tried way too hard to go back to the original style.

Also gave another shot to the Starcraft 2 after having rage-quit midway through and nope, still insanely stupid. I have no idea what possessed Blizzard to suddenly try and make their Tyranid rip-off into harmless alien fauna when not being controlled by LE EVIL HIVEMIND/ALIEN GOD and turn an infested genocidal psychopath into a misunderstood gud girl who dindu nuffin while also not attempting to stop her doing evil shit in the process but it fucking sucks and ruins the entire experience. Though to be fair, seeds of this shit were planted in Brood War but Starcraft 2 is legitimately insulting in how it tries to gaslight its audience. Even Warcraft 3 wasn't this stupid in making orcs le gud bois, at least orcs in Warcraft aren't a mindless monster race who only exist to parasitically destroy and consume everything. What Blizzard did there was the equivalent of trying to make the Necromorphs from Dead Space into a heroic misunderstood faction of monsters while also continuing to depict them mercilessly slaughtering their way through masses of humans and the Unitologists as the good guys instead of crazy cultists.

Go to hell Metzen, that shit made me legitimately angry.

 

[Dieter Laser]

Currently playing Link Between Worlds on the 3DS. Never played it before, I dig it.

Also pretty hooked on Warzone 2.0

If you’ve got friends to play with it’s one of the most fun I’ve had playing CoD in a decade.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Septerra Core.

That is a real throwback! Please post your impressions if you finish it or give up, it will be interesting to hear.

Maybe you should give Silver a shot after that?

 

[Baraadmirer]

I'm halfway through finishing Vampyr right now. Combat feels a little wonky, but it's an interesting game nonetheless with all the temptation of murdering NPCs for experience.

 

[Stasi]

Slowly grinding my way through Nioh. Man this game is a fucking slog. Getting real tired of fighting the same enemies over and over again, and playing the same levels over and over again.

Its at best a 10-15 hour game thats been artificially padded out into a 40 hour game. I'm in too deep though and I'll probably end up playing it to the end.

Would not recommend though.

 

[Road Work Ahead]

Slowly grinding my way through Nioh. Man this game is a fucking slog. Getting real tired of fighting the same enemies over and over again, and playing the same levels over and over again.

Its at best a 10-15 hour game thats been artificially padded out into a 40 hour game. I'm in too deep though and I'll probably end up playing it to the end.

Would not recommend though.

I gave up on Nioh pretty early. I wasn't a fan of the mission structure the game has and the way loot/equipment worked really añnoyed me.

It's a shame, I liked the gameplay but everything else about it just pushed me away