What are you playing right now?

[SpielenDota]

Salt and Sanctuary, a soulslike 2d side scroller

Tried to play this game a while back but the art style was putting me off, now it kinda grew on me.

Hope the sequel "Salt and Sacrifice" is as good. *clueless*

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I'm playing Shield Hero Rise, a middling gacha game that's shutting down soon. We should have a good game for this series by now.

 

[Paul-Denton]

Been playing a game called Keep Driving, a euro pixel game about going on a roadtrip during your younger years. Turn-based game with skills to deal with various problems (speed cameras, sheep on the road, cops) and hitchikers are your party members. It's chill and there's a decent bit to do on any given run. Driving drunk turns it into hard mode

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Making my way through my back catalog of second hand games I got for cheap or as a present but never got around to playing. Just finished Watch Dogs, which is like GTA but you're a hacker vigilante.

Not bad, I had fun with it. Especially once you unlock more of the hacks so you can mess with bridges and helicopters to get the cops off your back. Though the opening feels like it was from a different draft of the script considering how Aiden keeps brushing off the dude who's hanging onto the guy who killed his niece. I kept waiting for Aiden to go and interrogate him, but that shit doesn't happen until the very end, well after he's useful. And it's just for one last moral choice. I shot the whiny fucker.

Only thing that bugged me was I couldn't put the game in sleep mode. Every time I switched off my PS5, I had to restart the game. Aside from that, nothing special but it was enjoyable.

I have the sequel and might give it a go, but the fact that it's in San Francisco and is seems to be about someone else makes me cautious. Anyone here play it? What did you think?

 

[Miller]

Dead Island: Definitive Edition. I remember playing a couple of missions when the game was released and found it boring. I saw a video recently about a mod that fixes the gameplay and the skills, it's called Dead World. It's really good, I've spent 6 hours so far.

 

[#1 Hot Sauce of Kiwi Farm]

Going to playthrough every goldbox game as I never got to play them.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Metal Gear Solid. I've played Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake earlier this year for the first time in my life and my perception of MGS1 completely changed because of it. It really feels like a remake of the earlier 2 games but with some gimmicky 3D shit that barely works half the time thrown in. MGS2 and later games feel much more groundbreaking in hindsight now, compared to MGS1 which blew me away the first time I played it as a kid.

 

[Imam Shamil]

Balatro is shockingly good. I like any game where I can shut my brain off and listen to vids.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Metal Gear Solid. I've played Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and my perception of MGS1 completely changed because of it. It really feels like more like a remake of the earlier 2 games but with some gimmicky 3D shit that barely works half the time thrown in. MGS2 and later games feel much more groundbreaking in hindsight now, compared to MGS1 which blew me away the first time I played it as a kid.

Hardly anyone played Metal Gear 2 on the MSX. Remaking it as Metal Gear Solid wasn’t lazy, it was practical. If the goal was to adapt a 2D top-down game into a 3D environment, it made sense to stick with a proven formula first—then take creative risks in the sequel, which is what Sons of Liberty did.

 

[4chanJanitorDefenseForce]

Just soloed into T4 in Diablo 4 season 8. I've got Space Marine 2 on the back burner, and I fuck around in Goat Simulator (and 3) every time I get the urge.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I finally bought a CD player for my computer (years ago I got my first laptop that didn't come with one stock, and then same with my desktop), so I'm installing Age of Empires III and Tropico 4 again. I never played either (AoE or a Tropico game) in years, except to boot up AoE3 DE's demo briefly. I spent most of my childhood on AoE3.

 

[Paul-Denton]

Dead thread but been playing Labyrinth of the Demon King, a sort of homage to both Silent hill and resident evil with king's field sort of gameplay. Feudal Japan, delving into the castle of a Lord who's supposedly made a deal with demons. You buy stuff from a demon cat dressed like the RE4 merchant who gives you complimentary matcha. Well worth my 15 bucks

 

[Mike and Eichs]

Dead thread

Eh, this thread moves faster than some lolcow threads. Personally I use it to find recommendations for games.

Speaking of which, a post on here made me finally check out the dead island remaster (got it for free from a friend who hated it) and the game genuinely plays like dog shit on consoles. I'll be driving and the game will immediately drop like 20-30 frames for no discernable reason or just freeze for a few seconds.

If you want to play this game but better check out dying light. It's not a perfect game by any means, but killing zombies is 20x more enjoyable. Or just install the mod in this post for Dead Island

I saw a video recently about a mod that fixes the gameplay and the skills, it's called Dead World. It's really good, I've spent 6 hours so far.

 

[Miller]

If you want to play this game but better check out dying light.

Yeah, Dying Light is way better than the first Dead Island game. There are a lot of issues with Dead Island, for example the other zombies can attack you when you are stuck in an animation so you can die while doing a takedown on a zombie. I also have a feeling that the game cheats when you have not died in a long time, sometimes the zombies start doing more damages or the suiciders spawn and you barely have time to run away.
I would say though that Dead Island 2 is a way better experience than Dead Island 1. I'm not shilling but it's currently free on the EGS (you can use Heroic Launcher if you don't want to install the Epic Chinese Spyware).

 

[Jhonny Jhon]

Been playing Fabular whenever I've some free time. Pretty decent game, but it's not finished and it will probably remain that way. Anyhow, lots of fun dodging spaceships and stabbing them in the back with my space-daggers.

 

[Muad'Dick]

Satellite Reign. For the uninitiated...

Its easy to compare this to Syndicate, but there is a lot more going on here. Semi-open world, lots of gear options, multiple ways of handling missions and for an older game (I think it released in 2015) its very atmospheric. You could accuse it of being a bit of a slow starter, but once you've been introduced to all of the mechanics you're free to tackle the game as you see fit.

Stealth is very satisfying to pull off. Theres even an achievement for going through the entire game without appearing on any CCTV cameras, which once you see the game in action, well, yeah. When you do have access to some of the better weapons though, going loud and just wrecking shit is a lot of fun.

You're not forced to keep your squad together either, which gives you a few options. Like having your hacker disable security/power as another one sits on a roof with a sniper rifle providing overwatch for the rest of your team trying to sneak around below.

If you see it going for cheap, snap it up.

 

[Elysian]

Far Cry 3!

It ran like shit on Windows 10 and would stutter really bad/crash to desktop all the time no matter what I did but on Linux it actually functions so I can complete the game.

 

[GI Robot]

A couple, Doom The Dark Ages, Silent Hill 2 remake, Oblivion Remaster, Kaiserpunk, Pyscho Patrol R, and Atomfall, along with the usual EU4, TF2, and Unreal Tournament 99/2004

 

[VIPPER?]

I keep trying to play Stormworks but building a suspension for a car always ends up bigger than the car and the nature of a voxel game means I can't do any interesting geometry. My IQ is too low for block-based builders.

 

[Miller]

Far Cry 3!

It ran like shit on Windows 10 and would stutter really bad/crash to desktop all the time no matter what I did but on Linux it actually functions so I can complete the game.

I was replaying FC3 a couple of months ago and stopped because of the constant crash-to-desktop. I didn't think about running it on Linux.
It's weird that Ubishit went out of their way to add achievements on the Steam version but didn't fix the issues on Windows 10.