What do you play now?

[Canaris]

Guess the game from these Two phrases ;
I fucking hate Udaloy.

I get PTSD from hearing "vampire"...

[Jeff_9]

I'm playing KCD2. It's been a tedious, difficult, and frustrating slog trying to build up Henry again, but I think there's light at the end of the tunnel.

 

I found something that reminded me of Skyrim. I got attacked by 3 bandits on a road near a town. One of them had some good armor. I was having trouble defeating that one guy, and I really wanted to upgrade my garbage armor. I decided to try and cheese my way to get it.  I kept backing up and blocking his attacks, leading him to the nearby town. I thought if I could get him there, then the guards would take care of him and I could loot his armor. So I lead him into town and, to my surprise, the regular citizen NPCs start ganging up and attacking him. Just like Skyrim NPCs, they were in their regular clothes, with some just using their fists. Eventually a guard joined in, but he wasn't really needed. In the end, I got my armor. 

 

[Wandering_Mania]

2 hours ago, Jeff_9 said:

I found something that reminded me of Skyrim.

  I used to need good armor. But then I took an arrow in the knee.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[porkybork]

I was feeling a little nostalgic and booted up the first Sly Cooper game. It's mostly fun and pretty easy once I got used to the controls, but all the levels that require me to do anything other than the usual platforming stuff are horrible. The driving mini games in particular are so bad that I almost turned the game off out of frustration.

[Jeff_9]

I'm playing GTA V Enhanced. The game looks warmer and a bit nicer with ray tracing. I think it needed a high resolution texture pack a lot more. R* should have at least upscaled the road and sidewalk textures. I'll be checking out mods in the upcoming days...

[Wanelmask]

On 11/3/2024 at 1:02 AM, TT. said:

have any of y'all tried The Forever Winter ? it's very special but it looks terribly promising and it's quite fun !

I'm necroing your post, because I needed to say : absolutely based.
As per the game .... Even in it's current state (early early access. Consider it still in Alpha) it's a gem, especially if the theme of hopelessness and bleak, pointless warfare is appealing to you.
Also the fcking esthetic is just perfect.

And they reworked the water mechanic with the last major update, removing the loss of it over IRL-based timer, which was the main barrier stopping a lot of player who wanted to play it.

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

On my PS5 Disc Version, I mostly play racing games such as Street Outlaws, Sebastien Rally Evo, Fast AND FURIOUS Crossroads, GTA V, Wreckfest, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed Underground, Need for Speed Heat, basketball games such as NBA 2K22 & 2K24 and fighting games suck as The Witcher and The Last of US. 

 

[porkybork]

Started playing the original Final Fantasy 7 game the other day. My experience with the FF games have been 7 Remake part 1, 12, 10, and 9, so I was curious to see why it’s so highly regarded. I got to the part where Cloud parties up with Aeris after blowing up that reactor and running away from Reno. I like it so far, but the PS1 graphics haven’t aged well at all IMO. That cutscene where cloud falls off the ledge into the church garden like a Lego character got a little chuckle out of me when I saw it. The gameplay is fun though, and that’s what I really care about.

[FauxFurry]

3 minutes ago, porkybork said:

Started playing the original Final Fantasy 7 game the other day. My experience with the FF games have been 7 Remake part 1, 12, 10, and 9, so I was curious to see why it’s so highly regarded. I got to the part where Cloud parties up with Aeris after blowing up that reactor and running away from Reno. I like it so far, but the PS1 graphics haven’t aged well at all IMO. That cutscene where cloud falls off the ledge into the church garden like a Lego character got a little chuckle out of me when I saw it. The gameplay is fun though, and that’s what I really care about.

The PS1 graphics were never good. It just took everyone else almost 30 years to realize just how rough the visuals were for people such as myself at launch. I l preferred Final Fantasy Tactics' graphics despite them being 'outdated' by comparison due to being hand drawn rather than a loose assemblage of polygons. 

[porkybork]

5 minutes ago, FauxFurry said:

The PS1 graphics were never good. It just took everyone else almost 30 years to realize just how rough the visuals were for people such as myself at launch. I l preferred Final Fantasy Tactics' graphics despite them being 'outdated' by comparison due to being hand drawn rather than a loose assemblage of polygons. 

I think the backgrounds look good, but the character sprites are pretty rough. I checked out the art for Tactics since you mentioned it, and yeah, it looks a lot more appealing. I think the fact that the character sprites don’t clash with the rest of the environment really helps make everything feel more visually cohesive.

[Wandering_Mania]

Speaking of 'graphics that aged like milk'...

I've been playing TES IV: Oblivion for the past week or so. And good lord, the character faces have come a looooooong way since that way released. Difficult to believe that we, at one time, saw that as 'good'. Especially with how the 'Licentia' mod pack for TES V: Skyrim AE makes them look.

[Canaris]

RDR 2 - love that game but the amount of shit to do, explore and experience provokes panic attacks in my brain.

[Nevadathehighelf]

I play a bottle of wine now. I just can't keep playing Skryim and fallout 4 constantly.

[Wandering_Mania]

24 minutes ago, AlbaBasket said:

Finished Alien Isolation.

I wish I could finish that. Back when it released, I got a really bad series of bugs that basically acted like 'a heavily moded version of Skyrim'. Script lag everywhere, and tons of scripted event failures all over the place. Reloading a prior save sometimes worked; But at about Act 6, right before you can actually get a way to defend yourself. It refused to play the cutscene where the Xenomorph shows it's weakness to fire.

 

Never really wanted to test if they fixed that, and waste more time if they didn't.

[porkybork]

I've been playing FFIV: Complete Collection for the past week, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. I've read that it solidified a lot of conventions in the FF series, so it was cool to see an earlier rendition of series staples like the ATB system, more in-depth storytelling, and fleshed out characters that aren't just "the fighter" or "the mage". I also like that you start the game as a troubled villain that redeems himself later on. I also really like the artwork and music.

 

That said, I definitely like the story more than the actual gameplay. Not that the gameplay is necessarily bad, but some parts of it got kind of tiresome throughout my time playing it. Most status effect spells are either not helpful or just don't work on certain enemies, so there's no reason to use them instead of just attacking. Some elemental strengths/weaknesses are really obvious (e.g. fire spell vs ice monsters), but others are completely unintuitive (how the hell does a bat get healed by lightning?). There's not enough visual information to inform me how hurt an enemy is or what status effects are on it. I know that there are abilities that let you see some enemy info (e.g. bestiary and libra), but just like the status effect spells, there's not much benefit in spending a turn to do that instead of trying a different attack, especially later on when enemies hit harder and use more status effects that effectively take away your turn (fucking malboros). I'm not too bothered by all this though, especially since it is such an old game. If anything, it makes me appreciate the newer games a lot more by showing what it was like earlier in the series.

[legendarytoyou]

Oddly enough lately I've been getting back into Skyrim.  Some reason I started feeling nostalgic for Whiterun and Riverwood.  Riverwood reminds me of my old hometown when I was growing up.  Feeling a little homesick mostly.😢

[RavenOryon]

Lately I've been all about the Oblivion remake, though still have Assassin's Creed mirage to finish and always played ESO off and on. Always find myself at home there.

[porkybork]

Just beat FF7: Crisis Core Reunion. Not sure if I liked all of it, but I had fun with it overall. I liked a lot of the ideas, but I didn't really like a lot of the dialogue or the characters (especially Genesis), and some of the missions were straight bullshit. The materia fusion system and combat was fun though.

[Wandering_Mania]

Well, I'm officially bored. I don't have a single game I haven't played a million times, and some I wish I could play again if my 360 still read disks. I haven't bought a new game in I don't know how many years now. And there's nothing that is just screaming "Buy me! Buy Me!" that I can see.

 

So I'm just dicking around in 'Thea 2: The Shattering'. But that's not much help to cure the boredom, as it's mostly just a 'click for next turn' fest.

 

Why did most of these companies have to make most of their game so inaccessible with horrible business practices?

Why did they choose to be so anti-customer to the point of 'buy our slop you pay pig'?

Why? Why? Why? Why ask why? When 'how' is so much more fun.

 

I don't know. It's times like this when I truly wish I had a woman. If even just for an hour or 2.

[Decèdere]

I am playing and loving the shit out of Oblivion Remastered. It's been a long time since I've felt this immersed in a Bethesda RPG. I keep getting distracted by the scenery and having to take screenshots. I just wish there were better looking characters and bouncing titties.

[Count Chocula]

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition with the Enhanced Edition Trilogy mod to combine BG 1, Tales of the Sword Coast, Siege of Dragonspear, BG 2 and Throne of Bhaal (plus some other mods) into one big game. I've played the hell out of BG 1 and 2, but never installed a "trilogy" mod. And now that I got my character to like 7, I discovered there's also a mod that adds Icewind Dale into the big mix. But the idea of having to start another new game makes me weary.

[FauxFurry]

Retro Demos. There are enough of them now that one can just pretend that they are one big game with immensely diverse gameplay mechanics. At the moment, I am playing one from a company actually called Retroware (just to lay it on even thicker), that being Neon Inferno. It is like Hard Corps: Uprising (the old Contra spin-off from the Xbox 360/PS 3 era) but with some Wild Guns mixed in. The female player character looks a bit like Krystal (not the Star Fos character, the one from Hard Corps) but without any scars or a missing eye.

If Konami isn't going to do it, someone else might as well especially if they do it so well.

 

Spoiler

 

[Raine_Hyd]

My "main" game is ffxiv, but I play Monster Hunter Wilds and Once Human. I play them solo since the people I know quit playing them.

[Chbaakal]

Randy, oh Randy! Didn't really like your Borderlands 3, and now with your 'Fork over the $80 bucks for BL4 or you're not a true fan.' bullshit, it looks like you've lost another possible customer, you corporate piece of shit.

 

Oh, and Oblivion Rebastard's keeping me somewhat occupied until something else comes around. Maybe the PC version of Stellar Blade, if the controls include a mouse/kb option with configurable keys and/or an intuitive layout. Here's hoping....

[Count Chocula]

VtM Bloodlines Camarilla Edition