What are you playing right now?

[Burned Man]

Dynasty Warriors 9

It’s getting a ton of shit online but I like how the combat system basically takes all the elements of the standard series combat and breaks it down in a way that allows for more versatility. Plus I’m loving the Chinese dub.

Whats new in this one? I haven't looked into yet and didn't realize it was even a thing until a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Detrogen]

Whats new in this one? I haven't looked into yet and didn't realize it was even a thing until a couple of weeks ago.

The missions are now giant maps with enemy bases and sub missions scattered throughout them. It’s pseudo-open world but there are constantly skirmishes going on at all times. The combat has been broken down so that you have 4 charge attacks performed by holding a shoulder button and pressing a face button (with the ex moves from 7-8 now on a cooldown so you can’t spam them), while Square performs a basic 4 hit combo (which changes based on what charge attack you start a combo with) and hitting triangle let’s you quickly close the gap between you and enemies.

Honestly, it’s really hard to describe and people are calling it worse than 6. But I like that now there feels like a time-management element and that I can now flow from one charge attack into another without having to perform the same 4-5 hit combo to get to each one.

Real complaints though would be the frame rate and convoluted map.

Also new, as I mentioned earlier, there is a chinese dub, which is awesome. I haven’t listened to English, but apparently they fired the usual stable of voice actors and hired no-names that sound terrible.

I’d say try before you buy because it is super different and not perfect, but I am enjoying it as along time fan who’s happy for something new from the series.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

I finished my PiCade! So a lot of Tetris, a shit load of Tapper and a fuck ton R-Type. For those interested the main cabinet is built as a point of sale/internet terminal by a British engineering company. They cost upwards of £2500 new but I managed to score a free one from my old company somehow, I still don't know how. Anyway it works great.

 

[AmpleApricots]

PiCade

How's the Pi holding up performance wise these days in regards to that stuff?

I'm playing Fallout 1. Last time I played it was uh.. I think 1998-99. Can't believe that's already 20 years ago. I revisited a lot of games over the years and a lot of them didn't hold up well to be perfectly honest. Fallout 1 still does, all around fun game with an engaging story. I noticed lot of pissing and moaning about the turn based combat but tbh for me it seems perfectly fine and it's an actual RPG where stats matter and things are a bit randomized, not an FPS with a thin RPG veneer like the offerings these days. I swear to god, "gamers" are getting dumber every year.

I'm actually playing the original version on an old Cyrix 6x86 with a nice 4:3 screen. Matrox graphics card, remember these? No need for that high-res patch that IMHO looks horrible anyways. I might go with the unofficial patch you can download at NMA as the list of fixes seems reasonable. I think I'll stay clear of that big all-in-one mod though. Those things usually are unfiltered :autism:

 

[breadandcircuses]

Lately the game I've been playing Lately is Verdun and Tannenberg. I mean, there's just something so visceral about being in an FPS about WWI and going in armed with a bolt action rifle and not an arcade shooter disguised as a World War I game.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

How's the Pi holding up performance wise these days in regards to that stuff?

So I'm running a Pi2b with Retropie. I'm using it exclusively for MAME, NeoGeo and Commodore 64 emulation because I don't need to emulate anything else it's capable of because I have the real systems. Performance wise I'm not noticing any issues on those 3 systems, I occasionally get an undervolt warning from the Pi when I'm booting it or loading a NeoGeo rom but it's rare. Everything runs at a steady 30/40 fps which on arcade titles is fine. The only restrictive thing is the 0.37b5 Romset which contains 2280 titles and is missing a few big ticket games, notably Dragons Lair. This isn't a huge problem for me as being a rural Britfag my exposure to the arcades was low and I have limited nostalgia. I'm playing a lot of these games for the first time so I've got a lot of content. I think going forward I'm upgrading the Pi to a newer version and getting a better power supply that can drive the voltage it needs.

The working roms are here btw:

https://archive.org/details/MAME0.37b5_MAME2000_Reference_Set_Update_2_ROMs_Samples

I've downloaded about 150 of these and every single one has functioned perfectly on my Pi2b setup.

 

[c-no]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Fun game but lockpicking and archery are a bit of a bitch and I need to git gud with melee combat.

 

[Vault Boy]

Got finished with Fallout 3 last night, and just got started with New Vegas. Shit's gonna be fun.

 

[Sure Thing Idiot]

The little indie game Fe that just came out. It's a sort of Journey meets RiME meets Flower meets Avatar. Really nice soundtrack and visuals but the pricetag is kind of steep if you're not into repetitive platforming, and the controls are kind of clunky in places they shouldn't be. I finished it already but you can continue playing and aquire new abilities if you have enough self-hatred to go over the large map several times searching for nearly impossible-to-find crystals.

In between that, MGS Phantom Pain.

 

[Liquid Kent]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Goddamn.

 

[Red Hood]

I'm starting Diablo 3 after years of avoiding it.

It's pretty much what I expected. Fun enough, but the move to WoW-ish graphics and a sanitized game world (where are the fucking pentagrams? They were even on the main menu in D1 and D2!) robs it of the horror feel, and...god it just feels so generic. Blizzard, goddamn it.

 

[Hummingbird]

Parker & Lane: Criminal Justice. (Parker's character can be prickly, but I think the plot will starting explaining why.)

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology. I have started and got two party members.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Darkest Dungeon. Most of my heroes are between 5 and 6 but many aren't fully geared up due to lack of gold, so they die a lot.

 

[Burned Man]

Darkest Dungeon. Most of my heroes are between 5 and 6 but many aren't fully geared up due to lack of gold, so they die a lot.

Back when I was playing I kept making burner parties. I'd send new heroes into whatever dungeons to loot the place and pull them out if I didn't think they'd make it all the way. Successful or not I'd then cut them lose instead of treating their problems and send in the next batch. My cemetery might have been full but so was my treasury.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Recently begun playing Skyrim again on my PS4, starting a new character from scratch, a female Imperial that I named Clara, I'm focusing on a mix of combat and stealth for her, with her primary focus being on Smithing, One-Handed, Light Armor, and Barter, I'll put some perks into Archery later on as well but right now I'm only at Level 5.

I do a lot of smithing in this current play-through both because I think it's fun to craft your own weapons, armor, and jewelry, but also because in my little head-canon I make for each of my Elder Scrolls characters, Clara is the daughter of a blacksmith back in Cyrodill.

That's one thing I love about The Elder Scrolls games (and also Fallout: New Vegas to a lesser extent) is that the backstory of your character prior to the events of the game is deliberately left vague so you can sort of make it whatever you want to be. And since I play a lot of tabletop RPG's, I tend to give my characters backstories of my own, as geeky and potentially autistic as that may sound.

I just find it fun to do so, that's all.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I've been playing Labyrinth, which is an early access freemium tactics/ccg that just added a big single player campaign. (The freemium part isn’t too bad as you can unlock everything without paying and daily quests give a reasonable amount although quests are currently disabled to test the new campaign, a lot of the best cards you get by levelling up anyway)

It’s got a lot unique features, the main one is you don’t actually play versus people directly, you have your party of 3 playable characters (Warrior/mage/rogue/priest) and then a lair boss which is AI controlled.

The CCG aspect is you equip 20 spell/ability/weapon/structures (Iike WoW totems) (Bosses also summon minion cards ) cards and then perks which either buff cards or the character themselves for the whole duration of the match and the boss can use the perks to start with minions so it gives a lot of variety in gameplay.

The other interesting feature is the main resource is time so for example you’re got to decide if you want to cast a powerful instant spell which will leave you unable to do anything for a few turns (Although some spells can do something every turn until you move again), use a few less powerful ones before the boss can react or use one that requires a few turns before it activates which risks the AI just moving out of range.

I think it might get quite popular when it comes out on iOS.

 

[Near]

Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-. I'm liking it. It's different than the original, more limbo-like gameplay, but it's quite atmospheric.

 

[Terror Rism]

if i don't get good at dragon ball fighterz and get the john wick skin in fortnite what is my life really worth?

 

[Jequiti]

Final Fantasy XIV. Send me a PM if you're playing too and we can set up a cross-world party.