What are you playing right now?

[ShiftyBoi]

I went back to Darkest Dungeon instead. Having fun, but I don't think I'll ever finish this game. It takes too long. Maybe I should download more mods for greater variety.

That's a big problem I have with DD. Your highs are the highest, and your lows are the lowest, but the game is a giant commitment if you wanna get to the end.

The game would be way easier if they let you sell the heirlooms you use for upgrading buildings. By the end of the game they are completely useless, especially given how much money it takes to embark on the longer more dangerous dungeons, having this resource that's just taking up space in the back third of the game is just shitty design.
I'd love to do one of those stygian runs that only gives you 60 weeks or whatever but I feel like I would break something with how unforgiving the games rng can be.
Have not played the sequel, it looks really cool but I wasted enough time on the original.

Rn I'm playing RE4 finally, the original not the remake. Mercenaries is amazing, I tried to start the professional campaign but it's really fucking hard compared to normal, I can barely get past the first village encounter.

 

[Asian tech support]

Have not played the sequel, it looks really cool but I wasted enough time on the original.

The sequel kind of does away with a lot of what made the original so interesting. Everything has been condensed into a single run through a couple of different zones with traversal between "rooms" becoming a slay the spire style selection track with this carriage driving minigame. There's no town to build up, no roster to cultivate, no trinkets to collect, and the vibe is completely different. Most importantly, Wayne June doesn't make a return, though he did make redditfags seethe for calling trannies mentally ill. Combat is similar and I like a lot of the changes there but deep into the later stages, it becomes a game of managing "tokens" (buffs and debuffs). It's worth trying but don't spend money on it.

 

[ShiftyBoi]

The sequel kind of does away with a lot of what made the original so interesting. Everything has been condensed into a single run through a couple of different zones with traversal between "rooms" becoming a slay the spire style selection track with this carriage driving minigame. There's no town to build up, no roster to cultivate, no trinkets to collect, and the vibe is completely different. Most importantly, Wayne June doesn't make a return, though he did make redditfags seethe for calling trannies mentally ill. Combat is similar and I like a lot of the changes there but deep into the later stages, it becomes a game of managing "tokens" (buffs and debuffs). It's worth trying but don't spend money on it.

Is there still Perma death? Cause that was kind of what made the original so nerve wracking was getting attached to heroes that were really good, and hyperventilating because they're on deaths door but the enemies almost dead and your healers stunned and oh my god FLASHBACKS.

 

[Asian tech support]

Is there still Perma death? Cause that was kind of what made the original so nerve wracking was getting attached to heroes that were really good, and hyperventilating because they're on deaths door but the enemies almost dead and your healers stunned and oh my god FLASHBACKS.

Not really. Every run is self contained so nothing is ever really lost. If a hero dies during a run, a replacement can be found at an inn but it'll probably fuck up your comp. Surviving a run lets characters keep their quirks and relationships (and maybe their skill upgrades and trinkets? I honestly can't remember) when used in the next run but failing a run with that hero resets that. This is what I meant when there isn't a roster to cultivate. It's all very distant. I bombed out after clearing I think it was the third final boss.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

A long time ago I tried Guacamelee and hated it, hated it so overwhelmingly I gave up in the middle of the forest.
I gave it another try today and I really like it. I think that, more than anything, I was caught off guard by the platforming in what I took more for an action game, the blandness of the action (fair, it takes a while to open up) and how godawful the humor is. Just skipping over any village exploration (knowing that nothing that comes out of a character's mouth is going to be worth reading, nothing on a poster is worth looking at) took most of the misery away.

I like the combat revolving around throwing skeletons into other skeletons

 

[Jesus Swept]

I've been playing Expeditions: Rome. Strategy games are like catnip to my retard brain and I like anything set in the ancient world. So far there haven't been any awkward shoehorned in lesbian relationships or blacks where they don't belong or any pronouns or gay bullshit sneaking in. And the combat is kind of refreshing, just stabbing people with swords when most strategy games revolve around using guns or magic.

It's a shame that the company behind it got shut down and turned into some boomer blockchain NFT thing.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Outcast: A New Beginning.

I have been dropped into a strange alien planet that I forget the name of so I'll call it Not Pandora (I realise this game is based on a game from 1999 but damn..) and set about saving the native brown peoples who need to have their portals opened so they unite against the evil colonialist humans that seek to enslave and plunder their land and also so they can mingle and fuck to bring their dwindling population up, if I understood those twin alien ladies correctly.

Their saviour? Me, an old human man with a sassy mouth and amnesia, chosen by Eywa - sorry, the "Yods" to liberate the indigenous people. I know there's inevitable similarities in a game with an alien planet and human colonisers but was this James Cameron's favourite game?

The aliens at least have a lot more character than the bloody Na'vi and have given me a few chuckles during their weird banter with Slade. Game is fun so far; the map and quest log is a bit convoluted but I'll get used to it.

 

[DavidS877]

I'm playing Horizon: Zero Dawn Remastered on PC.

What can I say, I like my slop. I like the environment. I like lighting things on fire. I like super long and totally impossible headshots with a bow and arrow. I don't like, same as many games, where you get really good at taking out 90% of enemies in stealth and then every boss fight is "Oh, hey, remember all the stealth we made you get good at. Well, fuck you."

 

[woduqu]

I've been playing Expeditions: Rome. Strategy games are like catnip to my retard brain and I like anything set in the ancient world. So far there haven't been any awkward shoehorned in lesbian relationships or blacks where they don't belong or any pronouns or gay bullshit sneaking in. And the combat is kind of refreshing, just stabbing people with swords when most strategy games revolve around using guns or magic.

It's a shame that the company behind it got shut down and turned into some boomer blockchain NFT thing.

I'm not familiar with this one so I clicked on the first YouTube video that came up and the very first line of it is: "An RPG that has you leading armies against King Mithridates one moment and trading legal arguments with Cicero on the floor of the Roman senate the next is like catnip for a history fan like myself."

IGN Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRqfGhQPOlo (fixed link)

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

I recently picked up Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher for the Switch. It's a game about raising monsters and making them fight in tournaments for you. The ultimate goal is to beat the S rank tourney and become the champion.
I really like the expanded complexity of the monster raising part compared to 2 (added anger meter, added spices with effects for food, added territory defense bonus for training, expanded errantry) but the actual monster designs are kinda weird for somebody that has no real attachment to old kaiju movies/shows. I had to get used to that though because only 2 creatures from the old Monster Rancher roster are featured in this game, all the others ones are Ultraman characters (so dudes in rubber suits).

The performance on the switch is also pretty pathetic for a game that's exclusive to the console and doesn't even look that good (but I guess Breath of the Wild isn't much better).
They brought back the monster generation gimmick of the old ones but now you have to scan NFC chips instead of using CDs/DVDs in order for the game to generate you a monster from a seed, but you can also just choose a random song and artist from a list if you don't want to scan anything to generate a monster.
All in all I think it's a pretty fun game you can sink a lot of hours into, I just wish they'd released it on PC. I also wish they'd put out another mainline entry with the regular roster (that isn't absolute ass like 3 and 5 or incredibly overwhelming like 4).

I personally started with an Alien Metron because I thought he looked funny, I got him up to A rank:

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I got Verdun for $4 on sale with no expectations. It's certainly different from Isonzo. It's way more fast-paced, both in gameplay and in the physical act of firing, shouldering a gun, moving around. Everything in Isonzo feels weighty and deliberate and that reinforces positioning. Everything in this feels like it's on crack. Mechanically, it's braindead: you move forward. The AI sucks balls (at the moment the server is about a third full) but, unlike Isonzo, it's braindead enough that I don't feel like the experience is hampered all that much for it being so.

Isonzo feels more like a game, something comparable to Battlefield, this feels like a deathmatch.

The maps are certainly different. Isonzo depicts trench warfare but it's trench warfare in a very different setting. Isonzo maps are often beautiful and visually striking and play in very different ways. Maps on the Western front are confusing moonscapes, as is appropriate. You don't really appreciate what a chaotic environment it is until you actually play on it; those shell holes are HUGE. Running around rolling hills of debris feels crazy. Uniforms melt into the background (camo, it turns out, works really well even in video games).

The unit variety is a million times better than Isonzo (again, a function of the setting mainly). I was surprised at how many different choices there are on the Allies. The Central Powers suck, of course, always Germans all the time, the killer in any WW1 or Europe-focused WW2 game. But you can be African French, British, American Army, American Marines, regular French, Belgians, lots of things, it's quite good.

Overall, dumb mindless shooter, which in a way is better than playing Isonzo for that purpose. Isonzo feels like it takes itself more seriously, which means it can be a lot better, but I burned out on it long ago. I just can't leave it alone because it's my default army man game. Enlisted has a certain piss factor about it.

 

[keep em' comin]

Playing Cyberpunk, genuinely one of the best games I've ever played as corny as that sounds, it is just a very fun rpg with a interesting story, as well it being able to make me genuinely uncomfortable and then throw me into a wholesome as hell mission is one of the best tonal changes ive ever experienced.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

After failing the same sneaking part of a mission in terminator resistance for 2 hours, I decided to pull out the rocket launcher and pipe bombs and kill all of the machines in the building. It took me less than a few minutes. Brute force is the way sometimes.

 

[Mike and Eichs]

Decided to fire up GTA online for the first time in a few months and immediately got reminded why I stopped. Anything worth checking out is a several million dollar investment that would easily take several hours to even earn the cash for base models of stuff. Missions and jobs give shit pay for time spent. If I wanted to mindlessly grind for something I'd replay Borderlands 2 for the 40th time.

 

[Wesker]

Decided to fire up GTA online for the first time in a few months and immediately got reminded why I stopped. Anything worth checking out is a several million dollar investment that would easily take several hours to even earn the cash for base models of stuff. Missions and jobs give shit pay for time spent. If I wanted to mindlessly grind for something I'd replay Borderlands 2 for the 40th time.

The last time I touched it has gotta be 5-7 years ago. I had bought a hacked PSN account years ago for like $30 on eBay that had a billion in game money. Fuck them and their (((shark))) cards.

 

[ChunkyKong]

Gamerthor had some price errors recently that they honored picked up SF6 deluxe, Dead rising remaster, and Kunitsu-Gami.
I never heard of Kunitsu Gami but for 8 bucks I was like fuck it and honestly it's a pretty relaxing tower defense game with a pretty unique artstyle from capcom. It's on gamepass too so recommend checking it out if you have that. But overall a pleasant surprise from 2024 from a major company.

 

[dame dudi jench]

And no, I'm not skipping it because I don't do that. If I'm playing Witcher 3, which everyone promises me is really good, then I'm playing Witcher 2.

I have the exact same problem as you but i just can’t slog my way through it. it’s causes me to just reinstall and uninstall Witcher 2 for like 4 years and I’ve never played witcher 3 as a result. I’m just going to go install Witcher 3 now i guess.

 

[Camo Fox]

Trying the Streets of Rogue 2 demo currently, very broken and unfinished despite the original release date being last year. Loved the original but not sure if the developer has bit off more than he can chew for this project. Really hoping it ends up as good or better than the first but it’s looking barely complete so far

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Bought this a while ago on steam when it was like $5.99. Last time I played ME1 was 2010. Finished ME1. Still holds up to this day and is really good for a game from 2007.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I am playing both Skyrim & Fallout 4 but in survival.
No fast-travel.
Is a fucking pain in the ass (at least both games have alternatives... in mid-game).