What are you playing right now?

[spc_daicon]

Been playing some PS1 classics since I discovered Retro Archivements.

Finnished Parasite Eve and planing an EX run to 100% the Chrysler Building but it seens I will need to grind for some levels and better equip for a smoother run

Vagrant Story will be my next game on the list

valkyrie profile for the first time. cool presentation & novel combat gimmick for its era but one of those gamefaqs-tier 90s rpgs that basically requires a guide open at all times. even the difficulty settings are misnamed. "hard" is actually normal and "normal" is hard

I love Valkyrie Profline but I hate the fact that you need to keep using an guide to actualy see everithing you can

 

[phtalto]

Warframe has returned with a vengeance to consume my life, wallet, and free time...


I'm not against it.

 

[Niche]

I'm knocking out Mad Max 2015 now after getting through more of my library (The Dishwasher, Charlie Murder, Xanadu Next; I've been on a run with Falcom's games, I started Trails of Cold Steel on my Vita too), and soon, Phantasy Star Online! I made a character thanks to a friend plus impulsive action, and here I am having set it up now, lol.

 

[inlinesix]

honestly me and friends have been playing AssaultCube, which is an old open source fps that's still in development somehow.
we used to play it on the school computers in highschool and have started playing again lol

 

[Transendium]

170+ hours and counting

 

[Andrew]

I haven't felt well enough to play a lot of games lately, but I did pick up the Switch remake of Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate.

It's four dollars on the eShop for a game with twelve words in the title. How could I not? Anyways, the game's a delight. I love tactical they-move-when-you-move dungeon crawlers and this sparks a part of me that hasn't fired up in some time.

 

[inlinesix]

dead space remake and stalker 2 (although I'm waiting for stalker 2's CPU perf to be fixed)

 

[Scott]

booting up Witcher 3 again for no reason in particular. i don't trust myself to complete a full series replay atm but I never played the DLCs and i think it's time to rectify that

 

[mercedes]

enjoyed the vf5revo beta so much i think ill buy it to play over christmas break

 

[jukemix_]

silly cod zombies browser port, I like the Christmas special map

 

[Scott]

booting up Witcher 3 again for no reason in particular. i don't trust myself to complete a full series replay atm but I never played the DLCs and i think it's time to rectify that

thronebreaker was also on sale for like $8 so i picked that up also and uhhh it kind of rules? i thought it was just "a side game with gwent being the main gameplay element" and that's mostly true, but there's a lot of puzzle battles and resource management i wasn't expecting, especially on hard ("bonebreaker") difficulty. i feel like i'm always low on funds and now I've reclaimed a city but don't even have the money to make up for the losses. it's awesome. i also enjoy seeing monsters in this setting from the perspective of someone who isn't a Witcher, and love that the tutorial for "sometimes you should just forfeit a round when you're overwhelmed" is shown as ghouls coming back stronger after feasting on the corpses left from the previous round. meve's forces charge, retreat as they realize they're in over their heads, and then rally once they weather the storm. it paints really vivid imagery through the cards and their mechanics in a way i find fascinating

 

[seven scars]

been playing a lot of Black Ops 1 zombies lately, thinking about replaying Silent Hill 1 & 3 pretty soon

 

[Lesdeux]

been playing a lot of Black Ops 1 zombies lately, thinking about replaying Silent Hill 1 & 3 pretty soon

Definitely give SH 1 & 3 a shot. Then curse Konami for whatever they did to get Silent Hills trashed. Shit would have been cash. SH as a franchise has inspired a lot of my personal tastes.

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

so you know how around the end of August I finally got back to playing Yakuza 5?

well, I just beat 8. I may have locked in harder than I thought I was going to lol. had a great time finally getting caught up but I'm looking forward to playing something else now

probably gonna flip a coin between starting unicorn overlord or metaphor refantazio tomorrow

 

[Andrew]

probably gonna flip a coin between starting unicorn overlord or metaphor refantazio tomorrow

Either way let me know how it goes lol. I adored the demos for both.

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

started Metaphor yesterday, already liking it but I didn't really get into the meat of it

but instead of playing more of it today I randomly decided to beat Mega Man 1 for the first time. only ever beat 2, 3 and the Zero/ZX games before. 1 is definitely rough around the edges but I still mostly had fun. a pretty good start. I used the pause trick for the Yellow Devil please do not make fun of me

I then went "sure I'll play 2 as well, why not" lol. first time beating that since like 2012-ish. big improvement in basically every way, really impressive that they improved so quickly. had a great time. except for wily fortress 4, that level is evil

I want to say I'll play more Metaphor tomorrow, but I might just play more Mega Man instead lol

 

[mercedes]

started gta iv.. niko is badass, story seems promising
and resident evil 5 is so fun with couch co-op

 

[Super Crab Deluxe Turbo X]

I ended up playing all the NES Mega Man games since that last post. I used to see people always act like none of them past 3 were worth talking about and I gotta say: I want a signed apology from the people who were saying that shit. Mega Man 4 and 5 are great! (and 6 is pretty good too. little too simplistic and easy in places though)

I definitely want to play the rest of the games (and the X games and so on) sometime soon, but I'm taking a break for now. Played more Metaphor, killed a dragon the game told me I was supposed to avoid, got a cool sword for doing it. that's the good RPG Sauce right there

 

[Laqzi]

i have recently been playing team fortress 2 classic and not gonna lie, i like it more than normal tf2, the visuals of the mod are super good and its actually well optimized for my laptop LOL

 

[Scott]

finished base game witcher 3 + hearts of stone after finishing all the witcher books. when I first played W3 i thought it was excellent and after this replay I feel similarly but probably for different reasons. there were a couple times where I just really could not give a shit to go do every "?" on the map like my first playthrough, but basically every single thing about the story and its characters was made better after having read the books. stuff like Yennefer's romance quest being called The Last Wish (the name of the first collection of short stories & the story of how her & geralt met) and directly continuing/addressing that story was mostly lost on me in my first playthough. though CDPR do try to give you the essentials and the glossary is pretty detailed for most characters, it really doesn't compare. i'll be here for several days if I point out all of the narrative stuff though so I'll spare the literary analysis.

the gameplay itself I'm definitely a lot more lukewarm on now though. it's why I skipped most points of interest, especially in Skellige. it's definitely not the most Open World Bullshit i've played, like any recent assassin's creed, but my tolerance for Fight Three Dudes and Get A Sword That's 2 Points Better Than Your Current One is waaaaay lower than it was, and I was fresh off the books and just wanted more of that instead. so it kind of evens out my enjoyment in the end.

hearts of stone was really cool and would feel right at home in The Last Wish or Sword of Destiny. a nice, complete little story mostly removed from everything else that's going on. liked it a ton and am pretty stoked to get further in Blood & Wine, which has been pretty good even with how little i've played it. again mostly because of Book Stuff but Toussaint itself is sooo fucking gorgeous that it makes wandering around doing points of interest slightly more appealing.

in less witcherly news, the Kingdoms update and the Abomination dlc for Darkest Dungeon 2 came out and that drew me right back in for a few runs. kingdoms adds a new mode that's more about positioning units on a map and managing your party's fatigue by swapping in and out new members when you can, and it's a fun change of pace that kind of forces you into weird team comps as the enemy ramps up their sieges and your units are spaced out. very much my shit and I'd probably get lost in it for a while if I wasn't set on finishing Blood & Wine.