What are you playing right now?

[Kheapathic]

Dragon Quest Warriors 2; because I like Musou games and hate my life.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Got my creampie of Hunter loaded. Looking forward to playing Yukon, New England, Mississippi, North Mexico, and Siberia. Not paying those prices for that shit. (Though maybe that's unfair. It seems you get mission packs, and the maps are very large and graphically detailed. I think it's cool that the game does try to have something resembling a plot with each map having a reason why your super-elite-wow-he's-so-cool hunter be there.) Having a savannah map but not including any distinct African animals but lions is the height of laziness and ridiculous, and you'd think maybe could throw in horses for the vaquero map, but oh well. If I like it enough I might pay, I know a lot of pirates do that.

Edit: Apparently older games in the series had coonhounds and retrievers, wtf is this shit. Full on Paradox-style feature removal.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Little Inferno...mindless game where you set things on fire.

 

[MichałDrzymała]

Playing Returnal atm after finishing Hogwart's Legacy. Game is good but frustrating for me lol.

 

[Monuklear]

Little Inferno...mindless game where you set things on fire.

It gets a bit more interesting in the end

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

I just finished my first playthrough of Mortal Shell. It's one of the free games Epic gave away during the holiday. It's a souls clone, and while it's no elden ring, it's actually really good. I really thoroughly enjoyed it more than some actual souls games tbh. I went into it expecting it to be kind of shitty so maybe my low expectations set me up for the pleasantry. Though I want to play it again, which is not something I do often with single player games. It's really fucking hard at first until you figure out all the little mechanics and then it becomes really fun. For the price of free, I have zero complaints.

 

[Mega Black]

I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy. It's genuinely pretty good as far as AAA goyslop RPG fodder goes. Your choices don't mean much but the world is brilliantly well realized and fun to explore, initially I was put off by the fact that it is less wizard school simulator and more Ass Creed at Hogwarts but even the stereotypical bandit camp clearing and fetch questing is a lot of fun because of the magic system and transmog loot. Assassin's Creed puts all of the cool armor and aesthetics behind paywalls for helix credits but I've been able to make my Ravenclaw look dripped out from the start and I really appreciate that.

So far it's a solid 8/10, maybe not the ultimate Harry Potter roleplay experience people are after but it harkens back to the original tie in games a lot in the sense that it's a great adventure game using the setting very well.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Little Inferno...mindless game where you set things on fire.

I haven't played in many years (though I should really go back and see what that update/expansion was all about), but I still have that little jingle from the intro in my head.
♫It's Little Inferno just for me!♫
It's a neat little game.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Still playing Fallout 3 because it’s the most detailed and expansive game I ever played. Plus, I actually want to play the original Dead Space game for the PS3 next.

 

[Dysnomia]

I was looking on Steam for some demo I could play on my potato. I found this game called Radio The Universe. It's a very strange post-apocalyptic 3/4 overhead platformer. You are immortal. And your respawn animation is rather disturbing. I'm not sure if you re a cyborg or what. You have hydraulic legs but I don't know if they are some type of boots or your own legs. You can't tell from the sprite. You look like a kid in a raincoat.

You solve some minor puzzles and kill robots. For a demo it sure is long. I played for two hours already. The bosses have a ton of HP for the amount of damage that you do. So you have to strategize how to kill them. You have to make good use of dodging, charging and your limited but auto-reloading ammo. You also have a sword. Later on you can get access to some lil' robot buddy who lays mines. It's a bit hard to use though. Every action takes a bit of time so you can't just mash buttons and win.

Every once in awhile you get a very strange and unsettling cutscene distorted by white noise. A man on a subway train, a girl walking into the ocean. The game is very dark and eerie and desolate in general.

There's a skill tree that's a bit confusing at first. There are payphones scattered around that let you upgrade skills. You need to collect battery cells to upgrade skills and skills have to be adjacent to something else to upgrade. So just because you unlocked something doesn't mean you can use it yet. I'm not sure if the game is a bit clunky or it's just my hardware. But it's not all that noticeable once you get used to how to murder robots without dying. The power ups that are right before boss fights respawn so if you die you can just grab them again.

I really like it. I just hope that it doesn't turn out to be some tranny nonsense at the end.

 

[Tarka Dhal]

After years of putting it off, out of fear that I may one day run out of new old JRPGs to play. I finally started on Chrono Cross.

I’m about 20 hours in and generally enjoying my time with it. The visuals and music are definitely its strongest suits; gameplay is just sort of there, like most older JRPGs. It has interesting ideas - like removing traditional exp and levelling, but doesn’t give you any replacement incentive for participating in battles.

The sheer number of party members available is neat, and probably the game’s most distinguishing feature, but with only three party slots (of which one has been locked to the protagonist so far), opposing elemental affinities, and the hassle that comes with swapping characters from your party - it’s a chore to actually try them all out. Even when you do, the characters aren’t that distinct in terms of gameplay. It doesn’t help that virtually none of them have a good cause to be following you around on this adventure.

Spoiler: Plot spoilers

The story does have me interested, the concept of aborted timelines from the first game is neat, but from what happened in the Dead Sea it does put a real downer on the events of the first game.

I wish that the two worlds were more distinct from one another. While I get that, strictly speaking, neither has a strong reason to diverge from the other’s timeline - it still feels like a missed opportunity.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

I was looking on Steam for some demo I could play on my potato. I found this game called Radio The Universe. It's a very strange post-apocalyptic 3/4 overhead platformer.

Oh shit, I think I threw a few bucks at this on Kickstarter fucking ages ago. I forgot all about it. I need to check it out.

 

[Syikeblade]

Just finished playing Li Gator Game, it's a fun and chill game. It's a cute open world that's fun to explore and even has some funny moments. It's usually on sale for $13

 

[Kerr Avon]

Persona 3 Portable. Never played it before and it's eerie playing a game where one of the VAs featured prominently here , Vic Mignignog

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Hunt: Showdown is REALLY good. It has the best/grittiest gunfights I've seen in multiplayer, weighty, high-stakes, but not inaccessible and no demand for huge time sunk in or very low success rates (like battle royale games tend to, or I hear people say Escape from Tarkov is). It seems like every match ends up with a siege situation and is an interesting tactical problem.

 

[M3xus]

Hi-Fi Rush is great. Thoroughly enjoying it despite my sense of rhythm being near-nonexistent.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Got the mod installed that makes Titanfall 2 multiplayer actually work again. I only ever played it on console before so I suck ass at this, but it's still a good game. I thought it was brilliant both in its seamlessly tying together two completely different styles of play (rapid wall-running jumping and sliding twitch shooting and slower, more strategic hero-like shooting), and how it used low-level trash enemies to create a wonderful sense of scale, take the sting out of doing badly (because you still feel productive killing AI ground forces), and contribute to a power fantasy. I think after Titanfall got big everyone focused very heavily on the movement system and overlooked the importance of that latter feature.

I decided to go home in a day or two to visit my mother, regardless of what she claims she wants (this being about the brother that died), and I guess it's just as well that I should have that time as a forced break from the games.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

Metroid Prime Remastered. I can't believe it's been 20 years since Prime came out. I bought it back then on the GC and beat it but haven't touched it since so it's been crazy replaying it now. I never got around to the sequels back in the day due to being poor as fuck in my late teens/early 20's so I hope they remaster the entire trilogy.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Fishing Planet. Figure out how to make my controller work with it and some other problems. When I first loaded it up, because I saw someone here say it was the best fishing simulator, I was repulsed; as far as I was aware there was no way to cast, no hard setting (? when you have to drag the pole opposite the fish's direction to hook it from the side), and without a controller no vibration, so a very shallow experience consisting of tossing the hook a few feet in and then immediately pulling out a fish.

Well, the fishing was apparently made especially easy for babby's first lake and all the casting stuff and other physical aspects of fishing were just hidden without explanation. Now it's at least as good as anything else, but with the addition of much more detail in the fish behavior. Don't ever see anyone talking in it although it's multiplayer (you'd think it would be

I wish these features were rolled into a broader hunting game, because the way I generally like to fish is to have a destination I'm moving towards, cast my line way far out (past where I see activity on the surface), slowly reel it in, and if I didn't catch anything move down a little. Hunting works naturally in the same way because you can set a destination to work towards (with detours and changes of destination as you get to tracking specific desirable targets). Merging the two together, and with watercraft (I go kayaking in real life), would make a more seamless game. I was interested in frontiersman/pioneer type outdoorsmanship before, but with stuff like The Hunter I've developed more of an interest in the contemporary setting (I've spent a fair bit of time in national parks doing illegal drone photography), so there is definitely a potential for the ultimate "parks and recreation" type game where you have features of not just hunting, trapping, fishing, and foraging but also things like climbing and caving, photography, snowboarding and skiing, horseback riding, mountain biking, and so on all bundled together.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Hi Fi Rush

I love the ever loving shit out of this game.