What Are You Playing?

[Smues]

I am finally, FINALLY done with Xenoverse 2, so now I'm working on Mario + Rabbids Kingdome Battle and I just started Binding of Isaac Afterbirth. That game is going to kick my ass so hard so many times.

 

[Kageho]

Only things I've touched in the last while is a bit of FFXIV, RL and a bit of just mindless FE:F grinding on the way to and from school.

 

[Valeyard]

MGS5. Just from a gameplay perspective it's some of the most fun I've had in years and I keep going back.

 

[Sabre]

MGS5. Just from a gameplay perspective it's some of the most fun I've had in years and I keep going back.

See i found the opposite, i just couldnt get into it which bugs the shit outa me because i loved them. I dunno if its the controls or the mission aspect but i just couldnt pay enough attention.

 

[Valeyard]

I love the controls. Just very intuitive and fun to me (until you unlock everything and break the game, but so it goes). The story falls apart like no other, so I can absolutely understand why people would just tune out. But for me if MGS3 had that engine it'd likely be my favorite game ever. All personal opinion, of course.

 

[Sabre]

Well I know the 3rd person camera that came with MGS3 substance or whatever it was called made it wonderful even tho it was very primitive.

 

[Damaramu]

I just beat the main quest of Shadow of War. Apparently there's a lot more to do after the main quest. I'm such a story driven gamer that I lose interest in a game after the main quest.

 

[TheSSNintendo]

Finished the main part of Super Mario Odyssey over the weekend. Now I'm Power Moon collecting.

 

[Master Thrasher]

Near Christmas I try to play games I got in the past. I'm going play but not finish:

Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2
Soul Calibur

I would also like to finish Tekken 7 and start Final Fantasy X-2 before the year ends.

 

[Smues]

I've been hooked on various pinball tables in Pinball Arcade the last few weeks. But I finally picked up No Man's Sky so I plan to start that soon. I also picked up Mass Effect Andromeda, which I am not excited at all to play but I'm curious to see how bad it is.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

COD WW2 might literally be the worst COD game I've played. The controls are loose as shit even with custom settings, hit detection is shit (makes GTA look incredible by comparison), and even the campaign is generic.

5/10, at least it's pretty.

 

[KingPK]

The more I get into AC: Origins, the more I'm liking it. Bayek is basically an Egyptian Witcher without the magic ability and the game is structured unlike any AC game they've done (but similar to said Witcher games). The modern day stuff is about as superfluous as it gets, though. They could have cut that stuff out entirely and it wouldn't change the game at all.

 

[Damaramu]

As you all know I am not a fan of online gaming. I'm a curmudgeon that wants to play alone.

However the replayability of FPS and fighting games is terrible compared to completion time and such versus something like Skyrim or Fallout.

So I don't really play those games unless it's something with a story I like such as Bioshock or Gears.

But for Christmas I got Tekken 7 and my son got an XBox with CoD Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare.

I decided to give online Tekken a try. I won my first match. Awesome. Then I gave it another try. Bad idea. I was dominated 3 straight in the next two matches. In one I ended up getting juggled in the air nearly the whole match.

Then I decided to try to play CoD Infinite Warfare in my son's room while he built legos. I played a free for all death match. I got one kill and then died 28 times most of them from getting shot in the back.

 

[ViciousFish]

Lately it’s a replay of Fallout 4 with all the DLC and Civ 6 which I think desperately needs the upcoming expansion.

 

[NoCalMike]

A co-worker is putting together a Rasberry Pi build for me. For now probably I am just going with the SNES/NES games build. Might convert to N64 in the future. I am getting it for nostalgia but also to try and ween my oldest daughter off of tablet games and onto console stuff. She needs a little bit more difficulty and challenge outside of the infinite runner games.

It's crazy how she knows Sonic & Mario more for their cartoons then the games. (I guess it isn't too crazy given her age, but still)

 

[Kageho]

Fate/Grand Order. A gatcha game that I'm strangely enjoying. Probably because the story is surprisingly interesting and fun. That is if you can get over the magibabble. And the fact that the grind is heavy. Probably more enjoying it just because I love the Fate/ multiverse.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Dragon Quest VII on the 3DS. I never really got very far in the Dragon Quest series, mainly just VIII on the PS2, but I got this one for Christmas so I'm playing through it and enjoying it.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

After the disappointment of COD WW2, I ordered Battlefield 4, due in any day now. To prep, I've been hopping between Blacklight Retribution and Planetside 2. It's pretty sad that a pair of indie freemium games are more competent shooters than a top-selling AAA title, but I'm hoping BF4 will give me that hectic-but-tactical feel I'm looking for.

 

[Valeyard]

Trying to play Banished, an RTS/city builder. Once you learn how to stop dying in the first five or so years, there's no reason to keep playing, but I am. Something will happen, I know it.

 

[Kageho]

Oh hey, my dad used to play that game a ton. Banished was created by one dude, so he loved it because of that fact.

 

[vivisectvi]

A co-worker is putting together a Rasberry Pi build for me. For now probably I am just going with the SNES/NES games build. Might convert to N64 in the future.

Is it a RetroPie build? If so, I believe it should support N64 games either way.

 

[Sabre]

So i just found out Command and Conquer: Red Alert from the windows 95 days is now freeware. Ive been playing skirmishes on my laptop all day.

 

[Valeyard]

Oh hey, my dad used to play that game a ton. Banished was created by one dude, so he loved it because of that fact.

Oh cool. I've had for a while but just now am messing with it (less-than-stellar health problems made me want something I could basically play with minimal movement). I just have no idea if I've technically beaten the game. Steady food, steady materials, everything going perfectly. I just feel like I'm waiting on natural disasters. It's an awesome little game, just gets very repetitive. Fucking cool one guy did it.

 

[Kageho]

Yeah, it is pretty amazing that this guy did it all by himself. I'm not sure if now he's got a team but the game was released by himself, which means it was a passion project and pretty amazing that he did it. I think you might be scott-free though if you've successfully keeping things up. The only disaster I think in the game the last time my dad played it was winter itself and I think wolves, so yeah. You might've won the game if you keep thriving. Though I think the challenge from there is making the colony much bigger and trying to make it as big as possible.

As for myself I'm trying to get Franchise Hockey Manager 4 to work right. The guys who work on OOTP created it. Just having a rough time getting it to work all the time. I'm thinking though it is something on my end, since I seem to be having a lot of issues on my end (read only on everything being one of them). Quite a fun little sim. I managed to get a full season done as GM of Spokane Chiefs before expanding the NHL for a Kansas team. Then crashing a plenty.

It is a fun game, though I would say it isn't as polished as OOTP is. Though OOTP is like years of work in it.

 

[Valeyard]

Yeah, it's either been winter, tornadoes, or mines collapsing that's really caused problems.

 

[Black Lushus]

Spent the last year 100%ing Witcher 3, Ghost Recon and very slowly now slogging my way through Mass Effect Andromeda. I may not finish this one as I've been wanting to play Horizon Zero Dawn and it's been collecting dust on my shelf this whole time...

 

[KingPK]

Skip Andromeda and get into Horizon. You'll be better for it (and I'm someone who didn't hate the game as much as most, but I'm not planning to finish it).

I'm still exploring around AC: Origins. That's just a pretty world to ride around in.

 

[Black Lushus]

I have that one as well, gotta get to it eventually!

 

[Sabre]

Dare i say i "liked" Andromeda. If it wasnt a Mass effect game it would have been perfectly fine. Just didnt live up to the name.

Horizon ZD is one of those games that is too open and i get bored, even tho it is amazing.

 

[Damaramu]

That's how I felt about Andromeda. It played like Dragon Age Inquisition in space to me. But overall I enjoyed it, but it wasn't Mass Effect nor do I felt it held a candle to the others.