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What games have you been playing lately?

Links234

Fairly self explanatory post, what have you been playing and how are you enjoying it?

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TetraxShard

Wrapped up Arkham Knight pretty quickly. Disappointing ending to an overall great series. Was hoping for a surprise with the Arkham Knight himself, but I guessed it from the first trailer and it turns out I was right. Knightfall ending just made things more confusing. Still interested to see if Rocksteady announce anything at E3.

I started to dig into the copy of the other game I got with my GFX card, The Witcher III. About ten hours in and yep, this game's absolutely badass. Cleared most of the question marks in the village. There was one I couldn't get to because I couldn't see a path but I got the rest. Otherwise though? Fantastic apart from the slightly overbearing music (it's good, there's just too much of it, occasional quiet would be nice). The Batman-esque planning to kill that griffin was excellent stuff. I get a real kick out of stuff like that. Sidequests are pretty good so far as well. I liked the one with the ghost of the lady who was killed in the well, even though I had to reboot the game because I somehow broke the dive button mid-quest. Then I got to Velen....zoomed out the map....saw ALL the question marks. I was not prepared. I'm going to be here awhile I think. I just cleared the first grown-up Ciri section. She's pretty cool, plays differently enough from Geralt with the teleport dodges and health regen, but no silver sword for monsters.

My armour's ridiculous though. Geralt looks like a tablecloth. I take it the shaving sequence was all stuff from Assassins of Kings? I played most of it on 360, but too many fantasy names, so I couldn't remember what I did. Tried to answer as close as I could, we'll see how that turns out.

I'm digging into Enter the Gungeon. I really like the idea of roguelikes but they often put me off thematically. I love the look and feel of Gungeon though. It's just really fun and crisp to control. Have switched to KBAM for this one and it got a lot easier. The main problem is that they have all these awesome guns, they're just so hard to come by. But even when you're losing badly, game is fun, and that's a sign of a great title IMO. Fabulous soundtrack as well.

I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider. Overall, I liked it, but I liked the last one a lot more. There was just a ton more flab in this one, lots of bolted on elements to tick marketing boxes. What a game graphically though. Stunning stuff, especially the PureHair tech.

Dabbling with a few other things like Invisible Inc, Stardew Valley and WWE 2K16. More thoughts on those another time.

And spent today in World of Warcraft to get my Liadrin skin for Hearthstone. Haven't been back since the WOTLK days. It was fine, tedious but fine. Got through a bunch of podcasts and an audio drama so that was good. Love her emotes though, especially the weapon attack one, it's just "BURN!" Simple and to the point, I like that in my elven paladin ladies.

Links234

Got as far as the west boss in Hyper Light Drifter, but got absolutely destroyed by him, so thought I'd come back later and do another wing of the map, collect some more chips for upgrades. Did the north wing last night and beat the boss there, got a rail gun type thing which is excellent. Went back along the north a second time trying to pick up on any secrets I missed, and managed to get quite a few upgrade chips that I spent on an extra bomb and extra ammo. Going back along the west, picking up a lot of missed chips. Hopefully I'll be able to kill that boss when I get to him again.

pablomakaveli

Stardew Valley is my indie game of the year so far. It does Harvest Moon better than Harvest Moon itself. All the more impressive considering it was all made by one guy.

Anyway I ended up dropping Ori and the Blind Forest. Just didnt have the patience required for it right now so its been shifted to my unfinished pile. Might return to it at some point as I still think theres a good game in there.

Started playing Deus Ex Human Revolution instead. Had this on PS3 and finished but I havent tried the Directors Cut so wanted to give it a try.

Also been playing Fallout 4 with my saracastic female character. I know the dialogue in this game is a bit trimmed down in this game but some of the sarcastic replies are brilliant.

Also been playing a bit of Terraria and I'm starting to understand why its so popular.

degrassinoel

Links234 wrote: »

I hear so many people raving about Stardew Valley, but it just seemed to pass me by.

Bought it, played it for an hour, got a refund, dull as dishwater imo

kevovek

Got back into dark souls myself watching streams made me want to give it a go again (I previously gave up after 15 hours) and Im enjoying it a lot more this time with the help of guides

Also hopping off ESO 100% extra xp this week too has me flying through the levels haven't really tried the PVP aspect yet I think I'll wait till I'm a much higher level.

Links234

I hear so many people raving about Stardew Valley, but it just seemed to pass me by.

Sephiroth_dude

Started star dew valley also.

mahoganygas

I picked up The Forest (still in Alpha) and i'm loving it.

Such an immersive game. After a few practice starts I've finally found a beach area that i like and i'm starting to law down the basics for my camp. I've big plans for this area, but i must remain patient.

Not usually a fan of survival horrors. Thankfully no major jumpy moments so far. I don't know where I'm going to find the courage to venture into a cave.

No noticeable glitches so far. A truly beautiful game.

[Deleted User]

Links234 wrote: »

I've really been flip-flopping through games the last couple of days, played a bit of Warframe, Renowned Explorers, Hard West, FTL, Witcher 3, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Dark Souls, and Tales From The Borderlands. But seriously enjoying Hyper Light Drifter. Got as far as the boss in the west, absolutely got destroyed constantly, so I decided to go a different direction and come back to it when I get more upgrades. This game is positively fantastic.

It seems to be one of those games where you can take a variety of paths. I went east and just finished that area. Somehow beat the boss on my second attempt with only one health refill tank. In you didn't know, there are 5 shops in town! Not two like I thought at first, and you can buy multiple upgrades from some of them (sword and speed shops), not just the one like I thought

I bought the triple dash thinking it was the only option. Luckily I probably would have got that first anyway. Its really useful for some of the more tricky dexterous areas.

Also I found the game far easier once I realised that you can touch most enemies and not take damage. Its just their attacks that damage you. That might be obvious to some but I've been conditioned by the likes of Mario all my life not to touch the bad guys.

Links234

I've really been flip-flopping through games the last couple of days, played a bit of Warframe, Renowned Explorers, Hard West, FTL, Witcher 3, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Dark Souls, and Tales From The Borderlands. But seriously enjoying Hyper Light Drifter. Got as far as the boss in the west, absolutely got destroyed constantly, so I decided to go a different direction and come back to it when I get more upgrades. This game is positively fantastic.

Links234

I have completely forgotten how to Dark Souls! :eek:

Muscle memory is instinctively going to X and Y, so I'm running up to enemies and drinking estus flasks...

Everyone laugh it up

Links234

Deleted User wrote: »

I got that recently after you were yapping on about it. The art style sold me. Its a nice little metroidvania style game with a "Zelda: A Link to the Past" thrown in.

Hope you enjoy it!

But yeah, I yap about stuff a lot don't I?

[Deleted User]

Links234 wrote: »

I'm just after hitting my first boss in Hyper Light Drifter... Holy ****! :eek:

I got that recently after you were yapping on about it. The art style sold me. Its a nice little metroidvania style game with a "Zelda: A Link to the Past" thrown in.

Kiith

Been playing a bit of World of Warcraft again recently, as it's nice and easy to just run through at the moment. Saw some videos of Warframe on one of TotalBiscuit's streams, and it looks great though, so i'll give that a go over the weekend.

Cravez

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Started x com 2 last night, its awesome.

It really is, I just finished it and probably gonna do a Commander difficulty playthrough next.

Sephiroth_dude

Started x com 2 last night, its awesome.

Links234

I'm just after hitting my first boss in Hyper Light Drifter... Holy ****! :eek:

Links234

Space ninjas!

It's co-op. Or you can just solo it

Taylor365

Links234 wrote: »

I was gonna boot up some Warframe today, but gigantic fecking patch! :eek:

FTL instead it seems.

What is warframe about?

Futuristic cod?

Lyaiera

After breaking back into games with Stardew Valley I've gone a completely different direction with my latest game, Arma 3. I know it's a few years old now but that just means they've ironed out everything.

I joined a group in multiplayer last night. I don't know if I actually shot anyone but I'm sure my suppressing fire was a big help to the fire squad.

The thing is, after multiplayer, and playing with non-scripted players I'm not too sure if I want to play the single player. Especially now I've a crappy weapon after running out of ammo in my first mission.

Links234

I was gonna boot up some Warframe today, but gigantic fecking patch! :eek:

FTL instead it seems.

Thinkingaboutit

Total War: Attila, Bully (again), Empire TW (again), Fallout IV obviously.

froog

the division
black desert online

and the old reliables

fm 2016
dota 2

_Godot_

Links234 wrote:

I heard they might be releasing Breath of Fire III on Steam in future, if so I'll have to grab it and reexperience what was one of the best jrps ever.

So good I bought it twice (PSN and UMD), and I haven't even played it yet.

Azza

Capcom how I love and hate you at the same time.

Links234

RopeDrink wrote: »

I seem to recall spending way too much time enjoying fishing and plot-building in the likes of Breath of Fire III back in yesteryear.

I heard they might be releasing Breath of Fire III on Steam in future, if so I'll have to grab it and reexperience what was one of the best jrps ever.

Azza

RopeDrink wrote: »

I did indeed, from the 4th Survivor & Tofu, to Mercs in RE3 - I've played all RE's except Zero, Code, the rail-shooters, the multiplayer (was it GC or Dreamcast) ones, and RE-R1. I would have liked RE-R1's Raid mode and thought I'd get to experience it in RE-R2 but that version is dumbed down drivel in comparison. Was fun for a bit but then you reach max-level and it's just an easy grindfest in tiny maps.

I've always loved Mercenaries in RE - RE4/5/6 took it to over-drive and viewers love of RE4 videos back in the day made it even more appealing (one of if not the most successful collection of things I've done for YouTube, beit Mercs matches, modding, or just derping around in professional).

Played RE6 Mercs hardcore for ages and lord knows how I past-held two world records but that's how seriously some took it - but it's much harder to get decent games there compared to RE5, which people are still playing. As much as I want Capcom to go back to roots, I am usually comfortable in knowing that it is very rare for them NOT to include at least one enjoyable mode regardless of whether I like the core game/principle or not. For now I've gone from RE5-GE Reunion to standard Mercenaries -- funny how that's harder than Reunion, but I've seen far too many inspiring pro-vids recently, makes me want to kick some Majini buttocks.

The original Resident Evil on the Sega Saturn had a Battle Game mode, featuring a Gold Tyrant and a zombified Wesker. I'm imagine very few people have played it. Also had a reskinned hunter in the main campaign called a Tick. Chris had to fight a second Tyrant in the lab as well.

Been looking over the various ports of the first 4 Resident Evil games, trying to decide which port was the best one to collect. Lots of difference between them.

Best ports like to be Resident Evil Directors Cut on PSX.
Resident Evil 2 on Dreamcast.
Resident Evil 3 on Gamecube.
Code Vernonica on Xbox 360/PS3.

Going to try to pick them all up at some stage.

Links234

Fired up Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, been meaning to play this for ages, but it has been sitting in the backlog for a while. Fancied something I could play through over the space of a weekend, and it was meant to be quite short. And sometimes, you just gotta kill loads of nazis.

Also had played a little Infested Planet again, which is SUCH an amazing game.

ED E

Robert ninja wrote: »

Recently been trying out Insurgency. So damn fun. I wish I had given it a proper shot earlier. Missions are really easy to jump into yet I can tell there's a lot of potential strategy. Most people use mics and the mic quality is really clear and immersive; people actually sound like they're on military radios when far away and it changes to positional audio when they're nearby, even with echo effects on the voices when were in a large hallways.

Gunplay is really responsive and just feels awesome.

I played it like 4-5(?)yrs ago when it was only a mod, janky graphics but awesome game. Remember countless hours trying to fight up that mine entrance tunnel.

Must give the standalone game a real shot (own it but only 5 mins on the clock).

Robert ninja

Recently been trying out Insurgency. So damn fun. I wish I had given it a proper shot earlier. Missions are really easy to jump into yet I can tell there's a lot of potential strategy. Most people use mics and the mic quality is really clear and immersive; people actually sound like they're on military radios when far away and it changes to positional audio when they're nearby, even with echo effects on the voices when were in a large hallways.

Gunplay is really responsive and just feels awesome.