What are you playing right now?

[Jarch6]

The creator has a long standing crippling fear of TBOI being considered too easy. Combining this with is apparent design philosophy of "if every run is interesting, none of them are" has caused the last few expansions to be bogged down with item bloat. For every new interesting item, there are 5 more that are just "like X but worse."

Ah, ok. I understand the idea because the appeal of TBOI for me was the large variance, having high highs and low lows, alongside learning how to better improve your odds at getting better items including taking risks to get them - reducing these odds through dilution may be a symptom of appealing to the hardcore, thousands and thousands of hours, audience which almost always leads to harming the experience for the average and casual playerbase.

I used to be a huge Destiny 1 player back in the day, so I redownloaded it, kept all my DLCs and I've been strolling down memory lane. It's harder to play since there are less people to fill out strikes and Crucible now but it's still cool, I remember why I loved it so much compared to the crappy sequel.

But Bungie has detected that people like me exist and they've promised to come in and ruin everything with a remake since too many people are still enjoying the game they didn't ruin.

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I’m in the same boat of having been a D1 player who didn’t get into the sequel (partially because my friends didn’t either and Destiny is a very socially oriented game). Can’t wait to see how badly nuBungie fucks up this remaster. I knew the studio’s soul was rapidly deteriorating when they got rid of Marty - to add, all the corposhills who sided with 343 and nuBungie against him, for being a milquetoast conservative, deserve the deluge of micro transactions and slop content that they have been and continue to be fed for that alone.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Finally had my fill of Remnant 2, after soloing a Gauntlet on Apocalypse I’m done. Next up is Dragon’s Dogma 2 which I hope to have finished up by 3rd December when Darktide is finally out on PS5. Apparently it’s PS5 Pro enhanced so I can pretend that buying one wasn’t a terrible decision, at least I picked up an optical drive before the went out of stock everywhere.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I haven’t played TBOI in a long time, did they really nerf all the OP items into the ground? If so, why?

Brimstone took a lot of nerfs... And a lot of other itemd.

Worst of all they added a mechanic where the bosses take less damage the more dps you deal; effectively a soft damage cap that makes most builds unsatisfying to play as.

 

[Oulun]

The last time I played RTS was with Warcraft III and Starcraft II, styling on South Koreans, and I've been trying to get back into it. My most recent positive experience was with TFC: The Fertile Crescent, an indie where you advance a civilization from the stone age all the way to the early bronze age. After advancing the baseline tech to the start of mid-game, you pick one of three cultures: Babylon, Assyria, or Egypt, each with unique tech trees that play to different strengths. I played it with friends, we all liked it.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Apparently, while I was looking up reviews for the original Xbox version of Manhunt, someone brought up the game Carmageddon to check out:

Admittedly, this is the first time I’ve ever seen this game, so I think this should be pretty good. It’s also $10 on both GOG and Steam.

 

[56 others]

Trying to replay all of half life 2 on hard again, just realized I played all the way through the shit parts of ep2 on normal and will have to play them again

 

[YourFriendlyLurker 2.0]

Right now I'm trying to decide if I want do by a legal copy of Frostpunk 2. On the one side, I quess I want to support such games financially. On the other, I have my doubts about endless and I really play those games only in endless.

 

[Xev]

About to get on that Stalker 2 and immerse myself in some euro jank until I rage quit

 

[Dysnomia]

Zero Time Dilemma. The lack of linearity is confusing. Staying with one team at a time until there's no available fragments doesn't help. I know the game is structured that way for a reason given the plot. But it's a very odd way of doing things. You can pick whatever available fragments you want to enter from any of the three teams. And you have to die a lot to unlock more. Deaths are brutal.

There's still that feeling of satisfaction when you complete an obtuse puzzle. Yay for brain stimulation.

English voice acting is abysmal. But the subtitles are too small for my special eyes. So I couldn't do Japanese voices this time around. Really bad choice of subtitle font and outlining. It needs to be bigger with better outlining. At least you can view the log and it includes cutscene dialog. The skip button has to be held down though. This is annoying if you just want to skip to the decision segment of a chapter you've already played. I understand wanting to get to a specific part of the cutscene. But there should be at least a toggle to advance directly to the decision portion. That's why most people would be repeating a fragment. To make a different decision.

There's some cringey scenes too like Chad- Ahem, I mean Carlos, standing in front of the American flag talking about how he became a firefighter. Mira's ridiculous boobs are always in your face. But the ladies have Carlos. And Sigma if you're into big eyebrows. So it's all good.

 

[Miller]

I have re-installed Dead Island 2. I wanted to see how the Heroic Launcher would handle the cloud saves and it works fine.


>Welcome to City 17, it's safer here
I decided to replay Half-Life 2 since they have released the anniversary update. The game runs really well on Linux.
It's a shame that it doesn't have 5.1 surround support but it's ok, they were using a different audio solution back in the day.

 

[Fellen]

I played Astro's Playroom on the PS5. I had a lot of fun with it and I hope to get Astro Bot soon.

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

metal gear solid 3

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Zero Time Dilemma. The lack of linearity is confusing. Staying with one team at a time until there's no available fragments doesn't help. I know the game is structured that way for a reason given the plot. But it's a very odd way of doing things. You can pick whatever available fragments you want to enter from any of the three teams. And you have to die a lot to unlock more. Deaths are brutal.

There's still that feeling of satisfaction when you complete an obtuse puzzle. Yay for brain stimulation.

English voice acting is abysmal. But the subtitles are too small for my special eyes. So I couldn't do Japanese voices this time around. Really bad choice of subtitle font and outlining. It needs to be bigger with better outlining. At least you can view the log and it includes cutscene dialog. The skip button has to be held down though. This is annoying if you just want to skip to the decision segment of a chapter you've already played. I understand wanting to get to a specific part of the cutscene. But there should be at least a toggle to advance directly to the decision portion. That's why most people would be repeating a fragment. To make a different decision.

There's some cringey scenes too like Chad- Ahem, I mean Carlos, standing in front of the American flag talking about how he became a firefighter. Mira's ridiculous boobs are always in your face. But the ladies have Carlos. And Sigma if you're into big eyebrows. So it's all good.

I loved the first 2 games but this didn't click with me, I don't know why exactly.

 

[Focken Kiwi]

I'm playing The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker. The game takes a lot of inpiration from Ultima Online and Runescape and is quite grindy with 12 different skills to raise from levels 1 to 100. The main story is fairly simple and linear but character progression feels nice. I beat the main story once but decided to start over choosing a few different skill traits along the way. I've put in around 70 hours so far and can see that ballooning to around 200. It's a pretty damn good game for 15$.

 

[thejackal2]

I'm playing The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker. The game takes a lot of inpiration from Ultima Online and Runescape and is quite grindy with 12 different skills to raise from levels 1 to 100. The main story is fairly simple and linear but character progression feels nice. I beat the main story once but decided to start over choosing a few different skill traits along the way. I've put in around 70 hours so far and can see that ballooning to around 200. It's a pretty damn good game for 15$.

Ty for that I was on the fence about picking it up but that's two endorsements now from people that like similar games as myself. I've been playing Stoneshard again (another hidden gem) as they are about to release a massive update and saw people on the stoneshard forum recommending this game as well.

You might like Stoneshard it's an open world turn based RPG with an incredibly deep combat and survival system and almost unlimited potential hybrid builds. Right now I'm playing a battle mage electromancer.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Just finished killer 7 and while I throughly enjoyed it, it felt really undercooked in places. It's just really frustrating that the story tries it best to ignore all the interesting things it set up and instead focuses on stuff that was obvious from the beginning. I really loved it's weird on rails adventure game gameplay but God 90% of the "puzzles" are fucking brain dead or completely pointless like the handsome men color samples keys you find extremely easily before even finding the door they go to.
The game really show the problem of trying hard to make something weird because while finding a talking head that talks with emoticons and gives you puzzle items is indeed weird, the 4th time you see them it's just routine. Still really loved it, the art, style and character is just phenomenal but i really wish there was more. Apperatetly a ton of the game was cut and it just leaves me with a bittersweet feel of "what if", still it possible everything cut had good reason to be but we'll never know, sometimes being left wanting more is better.

 

[mirai gadget 8]

Zero Time Dilemma.

oof. If I had to say something nice about it, at least it isn't as long as vlr.

 

[SP:OP]

My daughter brought to my attention this fuckin AI escape room game. It is called AI2U. You can talk to it through the mic or type to it while you try to escape a room. She wants you to stay and will try to kill you or unwittingly help you if you can swing it.

It is fun for like 10 minutes. I told her that trannies should die and Indians are a menace to North America and should be deported. That was a fast way for her to murder me. There might be potential in fucking with the AI, other than that it is very skippable.

 

[Oceanic Navigator]

I used to be a huge Destiny 1 player back in the day, so I redownloaded it, kept all my DLCs and I've been strolling down memory lane. It's harder to play since there are less people to fill out strikes and Crucible now but it's still cool, I remember why I loved it so much compared to the crappy sequel.

But Bungie has detected that people like me exist and they've promised to come in and ruin everything with a remake since too many people are still enjoying the game they didn't ruin.

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I think you and a lot of the "I MISS D1 BRO! *game is still up and nothing is stopping you from playing it*" crowd have some serious rose tinted glasses on. Most of the time D1 nostalgia is some kind of baitpost.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

I recently (re)discovered Def Jam FFNY after seeing Snoop Dogg getting aggro at his own playable character getting defenestrated by Sean Paul. A few minutes later in the same video, Busta Rhymes fucking curb stomped Sean Paul into the edge of a pool table, and I was hooked on finding out what the fuck game it was.

I had heard of it before but assumed it was just some Member-berries meme game with no merit, but it turns out it still has a competitive scene that runs tournaments and everything.

Even if you give zero shits about early 2000s rappers, it's a really fun fighting game with a fairly short story mode, where you create a character and level them up to use in normal non-story modes as well. It's now one of the best fighters I've ever played, perhaps one of the best games I've played full stop.