What are you playing right now?

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Been itching for military vehicle type combat, only to turn out Sand Land is the right mix of idiotic low-brow storytelling with a big focus on tank and vehicle type slop.

Great!

 

[Clippity Klop]

Finished A Quiet Place last week and now working on Metal Slug Tactics. So far it's a decent enough roguelike turn-based tactics game very similar to into the breach. Sprite work is great for the most part although the title screen is a little ugly.

 

[WeedFaggot024]

I'm giving Nier Automata another chance. I'm playing on Easy and being liberal with my usage of healing items this time just to make sure I can beat the first boss and earn the privilege of fucking saving my game instead of losing nearly an hour and needing to repeat the same parts again...

Upon replaying this I'm noticing the Switch Lite's sticks really aren't very good, like actually pretty bad, very inaccurate. Possibly the worst I've used actually. I don't play a lot of action heavy games, especially not ones that use the right stick for much beyond camera control or something simple like that, so I guess I never realized it. Even Vita's sticks feel way better, the only thing that might be worse is the N3DS nub, but I haven't used it enough to say.

Boy you picked a bad game if a complaint is playing the same parts again

Spoiler

The start of the Third playthrough is when the game world goes to shit.

Anyway the dodge mechanic has gracious i-frames and get Beastbane/Beastlord if you aren't a spectical fighter enjoyer.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Magicraft is so good boyos

 

[Plumber's Kokoro Wish]

Just replayed Gears of War 2, felt great, was a good trip back to the CHUD era of gaming.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

This is exactly what I was looking for in a game.

 

[Angry Mug]

Didn’t realise Slitterhead was out today and it’s reasonably cheap. Can see it being destined to be a cult hit.

 

[Quijibo69]

Didn’t realise Slitterhead was out today and it’s reasonably cheap. Can see it being destined to be a cult hit.

I'll play that after I get done with the SH2 remake if it's any good. I'm getting old and can only play games a few hours at a time anymore.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

I tried to play space marines 2. between the cringy setting and the character moving slow as shit i got bored out of my mind

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Mount and Blade. So far it's kind of piss.

I like the idea of a Sid Meier's Pirates-like and I really liked commanding formation units from the officer's perspective in Battle Cry of Freedom.

With Napoleonic Wars, I think it's better than BCOF in terms of not looking like total ass, not being completely dead at the moment, unit variety, stuff like that. It's actually amazing how much that team regressed in terms of lack of content. But the flip side is that there's no column formation, no firing by rank. It's just there to toy with. AI doesn't seem to do anything in a single player battle.

Viking Conquest is really slow to get started in. I also tried Anno 1257 but was put off by the empty map (not that the forests and mountains matter, but it's just grating to look at) and I don't care for low fantasy (the base game). I've gotten up to ten men and have stalled out. Trapped on Norway with no way to accumulate money to get off or a way to break into having a larger retinue.

It's very aggravating to have to go walk around the same villages with shit-ass graphics to do what the game could have done through some premade menu. Sid Meier's Pirates was way more functional/respectful of the player's time.

 

[Pale Empress]

Restarted RDR2 after playing a bit of RDR1 for the first time. I like the first one well enough (although i think m/kb controls make it far too easy, it almost feels like cheating), but as far as overall tone and atmosphere go, the sequel blows it out of the water. Abandoning the more blatantly goofy / quirky elements was a great decision, although I wish certain things were more refined and focused. Now that I have context for many of the references, it's neat to see how Rockstar were able to weave and flesh out so many story elements between the two.

I've also got SH2R and The Evil Within on the backburner. I never played the OG (can't into tank controls), but I'm really enjoying the former so far. Haven't played the latter since it was released, and man, it hasn't aged very well, but I'm hoping the further I get into it the more charitable I'll be.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

I'm finally playing RDR1 thanks to that new PC port. I haven't looked up release years, but it feels perfectly in between GTA:SA and GTA IV on every level, from gfx to cutscene direction to physics to pacing. It's a very weird feeling. It's cool, but I'm going to play RDR2 again the next time I'm in the mood for Old West.

I'm up to Mexico, just finished all of Landon Rickett's jobs, kinda losing interest in Rockstar's very repetitive mission structure at this point and I just want the campaign to be over already so I can move on to Undead Nightmare.

EDIT: Also, credit where it's due, a lot of the music in Mexico freeroam/missions ranks as some of the best music I've heard in any videogame.

 

[Angry Mug]

I'm getting old and can only play games a few hours at a time anymore.

Likewise buddy. Likewise.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

Been playing a lot of War Thunder ground RB, managed to get premium time so taking full advantage and it feels nice not having your progress be slow as fuck but just slow instead. Even though teams are goddamn awful, still getting decent rewards even on losses now is nice.

Other than that for nostalgia's sake I've been playing an old as fuck, formerly browser based MMO Dead Frontier. I come back to it every once in a while and it currently having a halloween event makes for cozy nostalgic feelings.

 

[The Backwards Man]

I've been playing the old Stalker games in anticipation for Stalker 2 being utter dog ass.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I'll play that after I get done with the SH2 remake if it's any good. I'm getting old and can only play games a few hours at a time anymore.

Sort of how I play or am drawn to play. Either indie games that by nature are 20-30 min sessions, or games I've literally zero interest in outside weekends where I wake up early, and even then I get an hour or two in and get an urge to be productive instead. Not a bad way to play honestly. I almost refunded Elden Ring twice just cause of what an immense undertaking it was compared to funny-wacky indies.

 

[Rockzo]

4X game called Zephon came out from the studio behind 40k Gladius. I'm not usually one for 4X games so I chose to play on easy with no computer opponents because I am way more interested in the world they have here.
You have various aspects of humanity, some tainted, others cybernetic, others influenced by outsider voices. AI revolution, planetary invasion and outsiders have all fucked the planet up so you're left with trying to make a civ out of it.
This one for example is an incomplete AI construct relegated to a single city yet since I completed this event I can now build a second one.

 

[Miller]

I have re-installed Fallout 3. I thought Vortex had saved my mod list but sadly no, so I had to re-download the ones that I got on Nexus.
I laughed when I saw the message after I shot the mirelurk in the head:

(also testing Steam's new feature: game recording)

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

specifically, the fan translation of the original Saturn version. holy SHIT did Game Arts up their game (hee-hee) between Lunar and this. currently at New Parm now

EDIT: also the soundtrack is literally one banger after another

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

been trying to find time to start Final Fantasy II Pixel Remaster