What are you currently playing?

[Sepholio]

I'm playing Control. I dunno what it's like on console but on PC it allows you to launch the standard version or a version with DX12 enabled. I chose DX12 even if it is a bit janky still and HOLY SHIT. I can say 100% without any doubt that this is the first truly next-gen game to release. I have never seen graphics anywhere close to this in anything before but it's a damn resource hog as such. I cant turn on the ray tracing but to think the full experience is better than what I'm already seeing is unreal.

It also helps that it is a really awesome and totally creepy af game. It's as if you are playing something like Stranger Things/Fringe/X-Files. Also very similar to the game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice in terms of some of the narrative devices. It's not an outright scary game....but it's seriously unnerving at points. It's the kind of horror that wants to mess with your head and leave you feeling like you're always being watched.

[Destor]

Just completed Fire Embkem Three Houses to do all 4 routes took 230+ hours. Worth it. Easily my game of the year so far.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Got BL3 pre-downloaded to my PS4 super early this morning...only took like a coupe hours. Meantime, I've been bouncing between 2 and The Pre-Sequel.

[Tom Guycott]

In another bout of nostalgic goodies, I'm in the throes of River City Girls. With both that and Bloodstained a bit ago, methinks this is a good year for 9 year-old me.

[Destor]

Playing the Grandia 1 hd remaster. Great game

[DAMN iNATOR]

Picked up a Switch Lite in turquoise flavor today - first time in nearly 18 years since I owned a Nintendo system at launch.

Also got a copy of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - amazing and addictive game.

[ClockShot]

Borderlands 3.

It's got it's issues. But, I'm having a good time.

[RP]

Far Cry 3

[Curtis]

Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night.

Amazing game, its pretty much a castlevania clone in the vein of the DS games, but it's incredibly fun. I love those kinds of games, too bad Konami practically gave up on making games and the 3D castlevanias have all sucked.

[Ultra Mantis]

Went through God of War, thought it was pretty good. The story is better than the gameplay though to me personally, when it camr to the end game challenges a lot of the enemies just felt unfair with their bullshit (The burrowing dog things that never surface when you're on a time limit, the perma dodging witches, the Valkyries, that fucking Dark Elf Pricklord). I like the new Kratos, he still a dick but at least hes not completely unlikeable now.

Put a few hours in to Dragon Quest XI, just got my 3rd and 4th party members. Feels very old school, the menus are so basic and unpolished that it's as if it's a SNES game. I heard murmers about it being too easy so I added the Draconic Quest to make the enemies harder and it's pretty tough so far, wiped a few times before I got a full party and then again at the latest boss. Combat is pretty fun though and the monster designs are great, i'm liking it. The beginning really reminds me of Ni No Kuni 2 (Evil King, escaping through the sewers, overtly Japanese town) but I get the feeling this is the better game. I guess they're both just going hard on the tropes.

[Sepholio]

Borderlands 3. Needs some performance issues ironed out (supposedly coming in a patch next week) but I am having a good time. I dunno if it's me or I'm just rusty but this game seems much more difficult than the previous entries which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[ClockShot]

Borderlands 3. Needs some performance issues ironed out (supposedly coming in a patch next week) but I am having a good time. I dunno if it's me or I'm just rusty but this game seems much more difficult than the previous entries which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Bosses have been tough.

[Tom Guycott]

Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night.

Amazing game, its pretty much a castlevania clone in the vein of the DS games, but it's incredibly fun. I love those kinds of games, too bad Konami practically gave up on making games and the 3D castlevanias have all sucked.

Welcome home.

[Sepholio]

Bosses have been tough.

God yes they have been with the exception of like one.

[Ruien]

Zelda Link Between Worlds.

Then Links Awakening

[Theo Dious]

I am currently playing your mom's tittehs.

[DAMN iNATOR]

God yes they have been with the exception of like one.

I'd say it personally has been a welcome change. Makes you think more about how to strategies for each of them.

[Disturbed316]

I finally finished off all the DLC for Assassins Creed Odyssey, absolutely loved it. For a change of pace I've moved onto Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

[Curtis]

Playing Ion Maiden (It was renamed Ion Fury because of some dumb controversy), it's an extremely fun old school shooter that runs on the build engine (Same as Duke 3d, Shadow Warrior, Blood). So refreshing to play this. Modern FPS games can take their graphics and "storylines" and shove them. I'd be content with FPS games just using the build engine for the rest of time.

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So good...back from a time when life was good!

[Destor]

Just be Grandia 1. Phenomenal. Everyone nearly unanimously agrees 2 is better than 1...well its got its work cut out for it.

[Emperor Smeat]

Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening on the Switch.

[Tom Guycott]

Welp, after years of faithful service, my second 1st gen DS has bit the dust (my first one was one of the launch ones; my second was a refurb). No more Advance Wars Dual Strike for me for awhile. :'(

If they would release them on the Switch (yes, I'm aware of Wargroove), I'd happily buy them all again and rock an updated system. Instead, I will have to purchase a third DS from some shady backalley eBay merchant and hope it is up to par, after other obligations are fulfilled.

[Tom Guycott]

Playing Ion Maiden (It was renamed Ion Fury because of some dumb controversy), it's an extremely fun old school shooter that runs on the build engine (Same as Duke 3d, Shadow Warrior, Blood). So refreshing to play this. Modern FPS games can take their graphics and "storylines" and shove them. I'd be content with FPS games just using the build engine for the rest of time.

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So good...back from a time when life was good!

:reads your post, then plays vid:

Me: "Duke, SW, and Blood, huh? I wonder if there are one-liners and pop culture references being spouted?"

Clip: Drops Breaking Bad and Robocop quotes.

[Destor]

Wargroove is very VERY good but advance wars is better

[ClockShot]

Starting the fall/winter backlog tomorrow by picking up Ghost Recon: Breakpoint after work tomorrow.

Wanna get through Borderlands 3 first.

[Ultra Mantis]

Heard all about DQ11 being too easy, but I ran into a very solid wall in hard mode.

A lot of bosses wiped me without any prep but they were manageable. Slayer of the Sands? That was rough but keep him dazzled and he will fall. Arachtagon? Had to level grind and set up Sylv's multi heal but he's a fair fight. Tentacular? Another grind and mastering all the gear I could do survive long enough to dazzle again.

But then...

FUCK DORA IN GREY.

Absolutely unfair. Her moveset 100% chance Beguilement, a high chance ability seal, 3 moves per turn, high agility, non elemental magic AoE (un-mitigatable), high damage single target physical, HP drain and also 100% critical physical attack. She can pep up. You need to stack all of your accessories to resist Beguile (which got me around 40% resist each because mastering them at the forge is not easy) and hope she doesn't get any procs off on the first turn. Also you need to hope she doesn't kill any of your team on the first turn and since she usually acts before you there's a good chance you've lost before you even get to make a move. Took me like ten tries, eventually managed it with Gublet (err… Hero? Luminary?) / Jade / Serena all pepped up going in, do the defence / attack buff Ult and then use Serena to use status immunity on everyone, starting with herself then Sylv, because he needs to acceleratle & multi heal pretty much constantly and until you get your 4th person buffed there's a good chance she will lock their abilities and mess up your run. Then hope a decelerate lands on her before she peps up and has the chance to do 6 actions in a row. Even after that it's still tough because you need to be dealing damage to prevent her HP drain healing her all the way back up, while managing Sylv and Serena's MP because if those run out you're fucked. So much RNG bullshit. That has been the only time so far I've considered turning hard mode off.



I've fought bosses since and beat them on the first attempt and I've been assured nothing comes close to being that hard again. So that's good. I'm heading for an important location at 50hrs and level 33, I think there's probably some way to go yet.

Also, Jade best girl.

[Sepholio]

Making me want to play again lol

[Disturbed316]

Finished off Life is Strange: Before the Storm, a nice little back story for Chole and Rachel.

Now I'm working my way through Gears 5.

[Splaya]

You know who can fuck off? Sony. Last of Us Feb 21. Final fantasy 7 remake March 3.

[Destor]

Last of us will only be 15ish hours ...thats plenty of time

[Destor]

Beat Grandia 2.


Id give Grandia 1 a 9.5. Id give 2 a 8.5


both are great


started 3

[Sepholio]

You know who can fuck off? Sony. Last of Us Feb 21. Final fantasy 7 remake March 3.

Lol don't forget Cyberpunk is coming right after those. Doom Eternal now as well. There's about a 6 week period there where it's looking like a second (and way better imo) holiday season for games.

[Destor]

Im fine with delays. Id rather buy a conplete and polished product.


Currently playing Trails of Cold Steele 1. Will absolutely be playing the others immediately

[Frank Drebin]

Yeah. Delay all you want. I don't want a game I care about being wwe 2k 20

[nevaehteekay]

right now i'm replaying the original sly cooper trilogy, as my attached trophy card should suggest. currently at the tail end of sly 2. nothing against thieves in time btw, i just don't have it at the moment.

i also play tank trouble [https://tanktroublepro.club/] recently, and i probably need to finish rooftop snipers [http://rooftopsnipersgame.com] sometime in the next 80 years.

I like online games as well, I enjoy playing Call of Duty, Dota 2, LoL, WoW, some quiz games, Happy Wheels is awesome, Soccer games, etc.

I also plan to try VR games...

[Big Vic]

What a weird bot.

[Black Widow]

New COD

[nevaehteekay]

New COD

New COD sucks, I play BO4 with my squad, we manage to win every third game in Alcatraz map. 40 players, fast matches, BO4 is cool.

[road doggy dogg]

fucking get OWNED Black Widow

[Ultra Mantis]

Finally went through Undertale and I have to get this out of the way: Undertale is incredibly overrated.

I mean I liked it, it's pretty great and a unique game and has an almost perfect cast (Looking at you Alphys) but as a video game or even a piece of media the story isn't strong enough and it's surprisingly short. It's a good little game, I'd even say very good if Sans wasn't so ridiculously OP that I can barely last six turns against him and have given up on Genocide, but that's all it is. Kinda disappointed I didn't like it more.

Accidentally killing Toriel on my first run, because I didnt realise you should never use Attack, was pretty upsetting though. Felt bad about that. Probably worse than I did about killing everyone on the Genocide run. Being a dick to Papyrus was not cool either.

Also Sans is overrated. Wouldn't even break my top 5 Undertale characters. I'm not sorry.

Night in the Woods is still a piece of shit.

[Destor]

The fandom had made me hate undertale. Worst. Fans. Ever.

[Ultra Mantis]

What did the fandom do to make them worse than Rick & Morty's? I mean I can totally buy them being a bag of shit on the over hype alone.

[Destor]

Anytime a streamer or what have you tries to do a blind play they aggressivelyshame them for "playing wrong." They refuse to let anyone discover the mechanics/true ending on their own.

[Ultra Mantis]

Ah, so they're gatekeeping by ruining the game for everyone else who tries to play it. I can see why the troll with the unfair mechanics is their hero now.

[rez]

AC:O. It's been since Unity that I've played a game in this franchise.

[ClockShot]

Back into The Outer Worlds. Running smooth since that patch.

[ClockShot]

Finished Outer Worlds this morning. 2nd run coming at another time.

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint gets started later tonight/tomorrow.

[Destor]

Just beat Fallen Order. Best star wars game ever is pretty reasonable

[DAMN iNATOR]

AC:O. It's been since Unity that I've played a game in this franchise.

I know you probably mean the more recent of the 2, but I haven't really followed the series that much as of late. You talking Odyssey or Origins? Confused.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Just beat Fallen Order. Best star wars game ever is pretty reasonable

How could anyone doubt the veracity of that statement when Battlefront II was just such a masterpiece and not at all a microtransaction packed steaming pile of goat turds?

[Destor]

...ypu do realize theres been star wars games for several decades yeah?

[rez]

I know you probably mean the more recent of the 2, but I haven't really followed the series that much as of late. You talking Odyssey or Origins? Confused.

Odyssey. It's def a long game.

[Destor]

both were good. interested in what they do next

[rez]

Just searching out there it appears a Viking AC will come out in 2020 or 2021

[Ultra Mantis]

Still filling up my Pokedex when I get a spare minute. Probably going to start REmake 2 at some point this month.

@Destor, I picked up Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2 on the Christmas Sale, not sure when I'll get to them but they're in rotation for 2020.

I also picked up Wattam, which came out today and looks so fucking weird it could end up being my game of the year*


* (out of the three games released this year I've actually played)

[Destor]

Yessssssssssssssssss cold steele is great

[AndyC]

I'm about to buy a raspbery Pi and set up the emulation software to play retro games, has anyone else here done this yet? Any common issues?? Right now cat ninja pro (https://catninja.pro) is my only beloved game :)

[rez]

I'm about to buy a raspbery Pi and set up the emulation software to play retro games, has anyone else here done this yet? Any common issues?? Right now cat ninja pro (http://catninjapro.com) is my only beloved game :)


I'm actually planning on modding my Street Fighter II Arcade1Up. I couldn't decide if I wanted to do my MK, TMNT, or Rampage cabs so I bought the SF cab...the most common modded 1. Lots of tutorials out there

[Ruien]

Finished up Last Jedi. Was an amazing game. Did some of the side quests but it's time to find a new game for my downtime during the holidays. Any suggestions?

[ClockShot]

Finished up Last Jedi. Was an amazing game. Did some of the side quests but it's time to find a new game for my downtime during the holidays. Any suggestions?

If you're looking for a slog, I'm in the midst of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Needs a lot of work, but Ubisoft is scrambling to make the fixes ASAP.

Sekiro & Control took some game of the year honors. So look into those.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm going to replay Fallout 4 over the Xmas holidays; I haven't played it in a couple of years, and about a year ago I bought the Far Harbour DLC on the cheap but never put it on my computer.

I had thought about trying to complete Dark Souls 3, but then I remembered I'd probably still be trying to defeat a boss after two weeks before having to go back down south, where I don't have access to my PC to continue the slog. I'll save that for 2021 when I'll probably be doing a Damninator and not having a job.

[Sepholio]

Just beat Fallen Order. Best star wars game ever is pretty reasonable

Yeah it is def up there. Really wish the gear pick ups were more than just cosmetic though, ie actual armor and the different light saber pieces having different stats/effects. That's literally the only thing I'd change. I'm a completionist and everything being cosmetic, and samey for that matter, kinda made the hunt feel more grindy than necessary.

[Sepholio]

So I guess I'm going to try Death Stranding again. Maybe this time I'll get it.

[OssMan]

Picked up Mega Man 9 after not playing for ten years, pretty far into the wily stages but turned off the game and lost five hours of progress.

[RP]

I thought the wily stages were not released?

[DAMN iNATOR]

both were good. interested in what they do next

I'm honestly more interested in catching up I'm the series a bit. I've only ever played maybe a 1/2 hour tops of Syndicate, back when my PS4's disk drive was still pretending to work somewhat, before it bit the dust and left me unable to continue without paying again for it via the PS Store.

[OssMan]

I thought the wily stages were not released?

It came out in 2008

[OssMan]

Beat Mega Man 9

hard...

Gamez I've Beaten in 2019:

Uncharted Lost Legacy
Persona 3
Super Mario Odyssey
Mega Man 9

[Ruien]

Playing Spiderman. Not rely enjoying it though.

[Tom Guycott]

Picked up Mega Man 9 after not playing for ten years, pretty far into the wily stages but turned off the game and lost five hours of progress.

I thought the wily stages were not released?

Methinks you're thinking of "The Wily Wars" Genesis port.

Mega Man 9 was full-on retro, NES era graphics and sound. Even the game placard in the marketplace was (on purpose) done by the same artist who made the undeniably fugly US cover art for Mega Man 1. It hit all the right notes with a lot of people, myself included, for the perfect blend of nostalgia and new challenge.

Mega Man 10, on the other hand, was just punishingly hard for no fucking reason and ventured into cheap bullshit deaths quite a bit.

By the way, thanks, OssMan... I realize I never bothered to get the "Gamer's Day" achievement. I should fix that someday soon.

[OssMan]

Yea 10 is mad hard.. Wtf

[Destor]

Just played Gris. Its probably 3 or 4 hours. Easy platformer but the journey is well worth it. Beautiful game but also very emotional.

[RP]

Methinks you're thinking of "The Wily Wars" Genesis port.

Mega Man 9 was full-on retro, NES era graphics and sound. Even the game placard in the marketplace was (on purpose) done by the same artist who made the undeniably fugly US cover art for Mega Man 1. It hit all the right notes with a lot of people, myself included, for the perfect blend of nostalgia and new challenge.

Mega Man 10, on the other hand, was just punishingly hard for no fucking reason and ventured into cheap bullshit deaths quite a bit.

By the way, thanks, OssMan... I realize I never bothered to get the "Gamer's Day" achievement. I should fix that someday soon.

Oh ya Wily Wars. Didnt they release that with the Sega mini?

[OssMan]

Gamez I've Beaten in 2019:

Uncharted Lost Legacy
Persona 3
Super Mario Odyssey
Mega Man 9
Wolfenstein: The New Order

[GD]

Just completed Heavy Rain.

[Splaya]

Just completed Heavy Rain.

What did you think of the ending

[GD]

I was sleep deprived and completed the game in less than two days. I was somewhat surprised by the reveal and didn't necessarily find the flaws to hinder my enjoyment of the game.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Beat a Sherlock Holmes game. Currently playing RDR Online.

[Tom Guycott]

Oh ya Wily Wars. Didnt they release that with the Sega mini?

Prob'ly, but it doesn't matter. I ended up getting Legacy Collection 1 & 2 on XBONE, which is basically everything from 1 through 10. (1-6 is 1, 7-10 is 2) 7 and 8 seem a bit weird because of the shift in graphics and a little of the gameplay tweaks: they feel more like playing the X series than using the Blue Bomber proper. I also still have the actual 9 (and the DLC for it) and 10 from my 360 library.

[Helmsphere]

Jurassic World Evolution.

[Splaya]

Alternating between Modern Warfare and NHL 20

[RP]

I bought 5 more physical PS3 games yesterday.

Dishonored
Deus Ex : Human revolution
Fallout: New Vegas
Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood
Resistance 1

[GD]

Super Mario Bros. on an actual NES.

[Sepholio]

I bought 5 more physical PS3 games yesterday.

Dishonored
Deus Ex : Human revolution
Fallout: New Vegas
Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood
Resistance 1

Cant tell you about Call of Juarez but all the other ones are excellent games.

[Seanny One Ball]

Fall Out New Vegas is possibly my favourite game of all time. I spent a good 250 hours playing out scenarios with that thing. Fucking brilliant. The glitches are numerous, so patch that shit up.

I just completed Battlefield 3 after buying it years ago just before my PS3 died. I only ever played online but the campaign was frantic and hard as hell. I might have to dig out COD Modern Warfare 3 and try that campaign.

I still have Assassins Creed and Assassins Creed Revelations to play plus a whole bunch of games my buddy gave me before he left town.

Deus Ex Human Revolution is one of them but I tried it and the hacking in it is an awful pain in the arse. I did like the difficulty level when doing combat missions though, that was cool.

[Seanny One Ball]

I'm also currently playing Maniac Mansion, Maniac Mansion 2 Day Of The Tentacle and Another World.

Amiga was the tits.

[Destor]

Maniac Mansion is a classic

[Seanny One Ball]

It is and it's hard.
It's not on the same level as Monkey Island 1&2 but I suppose Monkey got all of the benefits by being made afterwards.
I quite like the Indiana Jones point and clicks they made too, LucasArts had the market cornered there, I think they also made the Discworld games which I may download later.
Broken Sword games were cool too but I dunno who made them, they seemed a bit more serious and artistic.

I'm probably preaching to the choir here but give gamesnostalgia.com a go if you're ever bored and curious. It's full of classic games of all types, not just point and clicks. Most downloads are hilariously small.

No Toonstruck though.

[Seanny One Ball]

The Holy grail would be a working emulator of Bill's Tomato Game, the Rube Goldbergian puzzle game.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I bought 5 more physical PS3 games yesterday.

Dishonored
Deus Ex : Human revolution
Fallout: New Vegas
Call of Juarez : Bound in Blood
Resistance 1

I want to go back to both Dishonored and Dishonored 2 and see if I can beat them on low chaos without using powers.

[ClockShot]

Dishonored 2 ain't bad if you're doing the no powers/low chaos run.

It's mostly just knowing the safe routes and having the right bone charms equipped.

[Seanny One Ball]

My laptop just randomly deleted all of the emulators I put on it.
It did this with porn too.

Son of a bitch!

[RP]

I'm playing DMC : Devil May Cry and I like it a lot.

[Helmsphere]

Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam 2.

Poor Larry Bird dying in a church

[Helmsphere]

I'm playing DMC : Devil May Cry and I like it a lot.

The remake?

I found it enjoyable and fun and never understood why people never gave it a chance.

[ClockShot]

Finished Ghost Recon: Breakpoint

Oy vey. This was a mess. No wonder why the team is working around the clock to fix it. Jon Bernthal must have high tailed it to the nearest bank as soon as he got that check from Ubisoft. How'd they went from that hidden gem that was Wildlands to this is beyond me.

But I will say this. In terms of creating a beautiful open world sandbox, Ubisoft got the best people in the business. But in terms of telling a story, they can probably find some better people.

Really, really, want to jump back into RDR2 and go online. But, I got Jedi: Fallen Order from the Redbox clearance and my buddy says it's a do-able platinum. So, I'll install that tomorrow morning.

[OssMan]

mega man 7 last boss so fucking hard... jesus christ... can barely get a hit in

[Sepholio]

Finished Ghost Recon: Breakpoint

Oy vey. This was a mess. No wonder why the team is working around the clock to fix it. Jon Bernthal must have high tailed it to the nearest bank as soon as he got that check from Ubisoft. How'd they went from that hidden gem that was Wildlands to this is beyond me.

But I will say this. In terms of creating a beautiful open world sandbox, Ubisoft got the best people in the business. But in terms of telling a story, they can probably find some better people.

Really, really, want to jump back into RDR2 and go online. But, I got Jedi: Fallen Order from the Redbox clearance and my buddy says it's a do-able platinum. So, I'll install that tomorrow morning.

Ubi always builds amazing worlds. It's sad when one has a shit story or gameplay.

[WinterDecay]

Playing Fable Legends again ...

[Tom Guycott]

Super Mario Bros. on an actual NES.

There's nothing like the simple, old school chiptunes pumping out of modern day speakers from the actual source.

[M-A-G]

Ghostbusters: Remastered and the new DLC for Ultimate Alliance 3.

[Helmsphere]

DBZ Kaka Karret Kake I mean Kakarot

[DAMN iNATOR]

Been working through AC Syndicate as I have never done so before. Not sure how I feel about the "dual protagonists" thing though. R* gave us 3 protagonists in GTA V and I felt like it took more away from the story than it contributed to it.

[ClockShot]

Syndicate ain't the best of the bunch. Down near the bottom of the list in terms of best games of the series that I've played.

[ClockShot]

Finished/platinumed Jedi: Fallen Order.

Good. Not great. Don't know what all the hype was about it. Seems to me Stig Asmussen wanted to do God of War 3 over again but with a Star Wars skin.

He ain't coming close to Cory Barlog's masterpiece anytime soon.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Just hype there was a non-multiplayer Star Wars game again. It had been a while since the Force Unleashed 2.

[M-A-G]

Finished/platinumed Jedi: Fallen Order.

Good. Not great. Don't know what all the hype was about it. Seems to me Stig Asmussen wanted to do God of War 3 over again but with a Star Wars skin.

He ain't coming close to Cory Barlog's masterpiece anytime soon.

There aren't any microtransactions in Fallen Order, right? Ash knows I'd be thanking the heavens and gushing like crazy if a game didn't have that.

[Destor]

No microtransactions

[ClockShot]

None. But you can pay the extra $10 to the get the stuff in the deluxe edition. Which is just a few extra skins. Nothing special.

[ClockShot]

Back into Borderlands 3 and doing the Handsome Jackpot DLC.

Fun......so far. Haven't gotten to the meat of it yet.

[Helmsphere]

Still playing DBZ Kakarot. I love this game.

[GD]

Revisited Until Dawn with my brother. Uncharted 4 is next.

[Ultra Mantis]

I started a NG+ on FFXV because I upgraded to Royal Edition for like £2 months ago since it was on sale.

I'm about a half hour in and honestly I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm so over levelled combat just kind of momentarily happens around me. Just kind of fumbling around pressing buttons or watching NEW RECIPEH Ignis drive me around instead of thinking of NEW RECIPES. Quite jarring.

[Destor]

Im still playing trails of cold steel and prob will be till late spring

[ClockShot]

I started a NG+ on FFXV because I upgraded to Royal Edition for like £2 months ago since it was on sale.

I'm about a half hour in and honestly I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm so over levelled combat just kind of momentarily happens around me. Just kind of fumbling around pressing buttons or watching NEW RECIPEH Ignis drive me around instead of thinking of NEW RECIPES. Quite jarring.

Defeat the powerful monsters, get the best weapons, do the DLC, catch the elusive fish, etc.

Sadly, that was one of those games where you once you platinumed it, it was all over.

[Ultra Mantis]

I get the feeling once Im far enough in to stop curb stomping everything Im going to have no idea how the combat mechanics work and get squashed myself :lol:

[Ultra Mantis]

Im still playing trails of cold steel and prob will be till late spring

Whoa why so long?

[Destor]

Theres 3 and each are 100 hours or so. Im halfway into 2 now.

[Sepholio]

Giving Kakarot a whirl. Not very far yet but if the whole game remains as easy as this then oof.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Syndicate ain't the best of the bunch. Down near the bottom of the list in terms of best games of the series that I've played.

Only really got it is because it was dirt cheap on PS Store. I've still got Sequences VIII and IX plus the WW1 sequence in the main game (I know WW1 unlocks before the end of the main story but I'm trying to play in chronological order), and the Jack the Ripper DLC to get through.

I'd say I've had slightly more fun with it than I did Unity. Once I'm done, I may decide to cross Rogue (the remaster) off the list as I never got around to that one either.

[Helmsphere]

Giving Kakarot a whirl. Not very far yet but if the whole game remains as easy as this then oof.

Honestly the battles that shouldn't be hard such as Raditz, Vegeta, Jeice and Burter and Dr. Gero are the hardest and the others arent.

[Splaya]

Still playing a lot of Call of Duty and NHL 20. Just waiting for Final Fantasy and the Last of Us 2 to come out.

[OssMan]

Still playing a lot of Call of Duty and NHL 20. Just waiting for Final Fantasy and the Last of Us 2 to come out.

There are plenty of good games you can play in the mean time. Zone of the enders, undertale, persona 5, Madworld

[M-A-G]

Trying my hand at Ninja Gaiden for the NES on the Switch. I'm trying not to do save points and see how much my 'skills' have advanced over the years. I've never beaten it and I guess I'm too much of a masochist to just let it slide.

[Sepholio]

Honestly the battles that shouldn't be hard such as Raditz, Vegeta, Jeice and Burter and Dr. Gero are the hardest and the others arent.

I've only had trouble with one story battle and I want to say it was the opening Goku v Vegeta, but only because I kept trying to use kaio-ken at the worst possible time and wasn't paying close enough attention to how much health it was draining. Tried it again and just played as normal and wrecked Vegeta as I have everyone else.

The only true challenging battles I've had thus far (I'm just getting to Namek now) is when I tried to train for the Super Masenko for Gohan well before the recommended level. That was a train wreck lol.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Fall Out New Vegas is possibly my favourite game of all time. I spent a good 250 hours playing out scenarios with that thing. Fucking brilliant. The glitches are numerous, so patch that shit up.

I just completed Battlefield 3 after buying it years ago just before my PS3 died. I only ever played online but the campaign was frantic and hard as hell. I might have to dig out COD Modern Warfare 3 and try that campaign.

I still have Assassins Creed and Assassins Creed Revelations to play plus a whole bunch of games my buddy gave me before he left town.

Deus Ex Human Revolution is one of them but I tried it and the hacking in it is an awful pain in the arse. I did like the difficulty level when doing combat missions though, that was cool.

They did patch a lot of the most major issues after FNV released (i.e. Doc Mitchell's head rotating around like a Mickey Mouse watch, etc.), but if you're hoping for a new round of patches on a game that's not only last-gen but also nearly a decade old since the vanilla release and nearly 8 years old since the Ultimate Edition (think GotY - it included all the DLC, including Gun Runners' Arsenal) released, then yeah, no, unfortunately that's never happening. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[Purgatory]

Fallout 3
Fallout 4
Forza Horizon 4
Farming Simulator 19

[Sepholio]

Finished Namek. Only Recoome was not a pushover and only because he has an insane amount of blocking and breaks damn near every long combo you try to put on him.

Maybe I missed them or something but ffs this game would benefit tremendously from difficulty levels.

[road doggy dogg]

Been diving back into Warframe on the Switch lately. Really fantastically fun game, especially for a f2p (I've yet to spend a dime on the game but will inevitably buy some Platinum or something to give a lil somethin' to the devs). Being a space parkour ninja is cool as hell

[OssMan]

Luigis Mansion on Gamecube hell ya...

[rez]

A friend convinced me to reinstall Team Fortress 2

[Destor]

Finished trails 2. Doing KH3 dlc before i go into trails 3

[Splaya]

There are plenty of good games you can play in the mean time. Zone of the enders, undertale, persona 5, Madworld

Gonna take your advice and buy one and play it. Any suggestions

[Helmsphere]

Gonna take your advice and buy one and play it. Any suggestions

Zone of the Enders is good. Destor has the most obvious hard on for persona

[Destor]

Gonna take your advice and buy one and play it. Any suggestions
Persona 5 is one of my fav games ever. I dont know enough about your tastes, its very niche, but i love it.

[Destor]

Zone of the Enders is good. Destor has the most obvious hard on for persona
I love persona. Its in my top 3 fav franchises at this point.

[Sepholio]

Finished Kakarot. It's a lot of fun and great fan service. I hope they continue it through Super, and wouldn't mind them adopting the original DB as well. It's a good format.

But it was too easy and it never got harder unfortunately. Battles have a typical letter grading system, S rank being the best then going to the typical A-whatever scale as you go lower. I don't know that it's possible to get worse than an A though. I never did, and even they were few and far between as I easily S ranked 98% of the battles. Even the secret level 100 boss was a pushover who only hit me maybe twice lol

[Ultra Mantis]

I love persona. Its in my top 3 fav franchises at this point.

I completely agree with this sentiment. Persona is just so well put together top to bottom. I think the only thing close to it for me in terms of adoration are the Soulsborne games.

Persona Boner Squad :y:

[Destor]

P6 will have a new creative lead...hope it holds up

[Ultra Mantis]

Damn, who's replacing him?

[Destor]

The lead, who did 3-5, left before 5 released to start a new studio (but still and Atlus subsidiary.) The core tean beneath him is still there though so its not entirely new people just one of his subordinates is now the lead.


So its not doom and gloom. Its just uncharted territory

[Ultra Mantis]

Ah cool, we've got years of worrying to do before it comes out so at least it's not been Konami'd. Still waiting on news of Phantom Strikers and SMT V.

[Ultra Mantis]

Oh man, totally forgot they used the likeness of a sweaty Hurley from LOST for a sidequest NPC in FFXV and didnt even hire Jorge Garcia to voice him. Did we ever get an explaination for this? He's stood ten feet away from the Cup Noodle sponsorship stall too. So bizarre.

[RP]

I bought a shmup off Steam called Gun Wings. I like it.

[rez]

Still playing through Assassin's Creed Odyssey..keep doing side quests and exploring rather than finish the story. Fuck the haters who don't like the RPG element introduced. One of the most visually stunning games I've played

Like I said, I got back into TF2..fun fun

Also recently got back into Splatoon II

The February Stadia games are Gylt and Metro Exodus so I'll probably start those this week

Recently re purposed my SF2 Arcade1Up cabinet with a Rasberry Pie 4 so I randomly play Mame, SNES, Genesis, etc. on it

I need to get out there and get some pussy before Cyberpunk comes out. I'll be in full blown neckbeard mode

[Destor]

Youve got till september at least

[Sepholio]

Assassins Creed Odyssey was incredible, 100% agree. I also kept getting side tracked and exploring. Always "let me just travel over to one more question mark on the map" mentality. I only progressed the main story when I had to.

[Destor]

I preffered origins kver Odyssee. Origins had a better crafting and leveling system. That said stealth was much better in odysee. Both are good tho

[DAMN iNATOR]

I was working through Rogue remaster but then along comes the fucking part where you have to sink Adéwalé's ship before you can kill him. It's essentially a 2-on-1 handicap tornado match with ships. My Morrigan is quite weak compared to his ship. Kept losing badly to him because I apparently haven't done enough to upgrade it, but that requires huge amounts of material and £ and I don't have the motivation to scavenge supply camps and abandoned shipwrecks to upgrade it to the point where I could take him down, so it's most likely getting deleted soon.

[Seanny One Ball]

Command & Conquer holds up damned well for a 20+ year old game.
So good.

[Fignuts]

https://i.imgur.com/CdrGM2Z.png

[Destor]

@mantis @ossman


Tokyo Mirage sessions is super good. The story makes Persona feel grounded but the game at its core is going to feel very familiar to you. Im only a few hours in (taking a detour before Trails 3) but so far the combat seems like it will have loads of potential

[Ultra Mantis]

I'll add it to the list :y:

[OssMan]

:y::y:

[Destor]

If youre in the fence id say wait a bit because the price will drop steeply for sure but im all in on it

[rez]

I'm very disappointed on the main story line's conclusion @ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

I'll still finish up the Atlantis and side quests for a bit tho.

[GD]

FEZ

[Destor]

Fez was good

[Sepholio]

I'm very disappointed on the main story line's conclusion @ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

I'll still finish up the Atlantis and side quests for a bit tho.

The real main story line pay offs are actually v hard to get and are dependent on about 4 or 5 very key choices you make throughout the game and you are not warned of the relevance or significance of those choices when you make them.

The Atlantis content ending is the big pay off anyways and is basically the real ending. Unlike the other big DLC, the Atlantis stuff is a direct continuation of the mainline. The content also adds in a few new gameplay wrinkles that make it awesome af, particularly a couple of the craftable legendary weapons.

[Sepholio]

Also a lot of the main ending of Odyssey was tied to sidequests and other random things, so if you had a lot of outstanding quests and events then you likely missed out on a number of scenes that would have fleshed it out.

[GD]

I'm very disappointed on the main story line's conclusion @ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

I'll still finish up the Atlantis and side quests for a bit tho.

I hope you played as Kassandra.

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[GD]

I enjoyed hunting the mercenaries.

[RP]

I picked up 4 more PS3 games today. Averaged out to 4$ each

Street Fighter 4
DMC HD Collection
DMC 4
Rayman Orgins

I know i dont have a PS4, but .. Rayman Orgins looks beautiful on PS3. When i bought the PS Classic, I played Rayman a lot and thought it looked fantastic for a PS1 game.

[Sepholio]

I enjoyed hunting the mercenaries.

I remember the day I (like maybe level 50 at the time) was walking around a forest in the little area just to the west of Macedonia and saw the symbol for a merc in the area. I wasn't wanted, so they weren't looking for me, so I decided to sneak up on them and see if they were a higher or lower rank one and if they were worth bothering with. Got up on the guy and holy shit it was the level 99 guy at the top of the totem pole just off on a walk in the woods lol. I tried to do a full power sneak attack on him and barely dented him lmao. He was not impressed.

I did end up abusing the whole sneak attack and run away method for like 20 minutes though until I ended up beating him....only got moved up one rank still :/

[GD]

I’ve been in a similar situation. Very satisfying.

[rez]

I hope you played as Kassandra.

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Nah, I did not. I read ahead of time that Alexios was cannon so I went that route.

I had the option to kiss Aspasia at the end so I did that

[GD]

Nah, I did not. I read ahead of time that Alexios was cannon so I went that route.

I had the option to kiss Aspasia at the end so I did that

The general consensus was that Kassandra was the better of the two.

Pretty sure you can do the same with Kassandra

[rez]

Yeah, I figured you could. It just wasn't an option everyone got in the end. I believe there was one response with her early on that enabled it.

I'll eventually do a play through with Kassandra

[rez]

Also curious to see how much of a dick Alexios is as an NPC.

[GD]

Massive dick.

[RP]

So Steam has some great sales going on. All Capcom stuff is getting huge discounts.

I bought Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition for $4.99 . Anyone ever played this? What do you think of it?

[Ultra Mantis]

I'm up to the ending "on rails" section of ffxv and I've been playing DLC where it fits into the story.

Episode Gladio kind of sucks, worst version of Gilgamesh ever. Hes not even Gilgamesh other than in name. Gladio's sudden cup noodle fetish is also glossed over, dude eats 5 in one day and then next time he sees one he jizzes his pants.

Episode Ignis is actually great. Ignis is the best character in the game by far and this DLC not only fleshes him out and gives him a hook shot but actually gives Ravus a personality, backstory and motivation. Why they never did that in the actual game is mind boggling.

Not done Prompto's yet but from the other DLC credits I discovered he is actually Goro Akechi and now I dont trust him.

[M-A-G]

Currently playing (and losing at) online Mortal Kombat 11. I'll find my groove...eventually.

[M-A-G]

So Steam has some great sales going on. All Capcom stuff is getting huge discounts.

I bought Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition for $4.99 . Anyone ever played this? What do you think of it?

You'll probably smash your controller in a blind rage depending on what kind of person you are.

[ClockShot]

Platinum'd Borderlands 3 last night. Good times. Uninstalled for now until the next batch of DLC comes out.

Going back to Red Dead Redemption 2. Going to try like hell to knock out all the challenges, side stuff, and collectibles in single player before I make the jump into online again.

[Ultra Mantis]

I'm about to do Episode Ardyn, and kill the toise then I think I'm done with FFXV. I've definitely not tackled some of the content (those post game doors in dungeons) but I felt the same about post game last time. I did Pitioss or whatever it was called, but other than that it's just not much fun. Combat is such a downer, even now the game has caught up with my level I don't feel very involved in it.

Some thoughts on the royal edition additions (Going to spoiler tag just in case theres somebody out there on TPWW who cares about FFXV and hasn't played it yet. Of all things):


This is some content that SHOULD have been there from the beginning. The story is so bare bones that leaving huge unexplained gaps was absolute bullshit, even more so that Gladio's absence is completely shoehorned in and uneventful. The Prompto DLC and especially the Ignis DLC are REQUIRED. The sudden "Oh Ignis is blind now btw" and "Oh yeah Promto is actually a cloned murder robot" reveals of the vanilla game are absolutely ludicrous. Ravus is an actual character in the DLC. What the fuck was he in the main game. Dude shows up, owns Gladio and then just dies offscreen. Gladio why do you love cup noodles so much? You eat like 10 in a row and probably throw up from it because you're fighting off reanimated corpses and lugging around pillars you stupid dickhead. You should hate cup noodles by association!

I'm not fighting Omega Weapon, I tried him and I was doing like 9 damage a hit. He has a giant health bar. No thanks.

The absolute best thing about royal edition is they improved the ending sequence, Insomia being an actual dungeon with a boss really ramps it up. You also get to fight the founder kings after Ifrit and each of the bros get their little turn to be a badass. Makes a huge difference to everyone just immediately being KOd and Ardyn saying "lol don't need them for the final boss". It gives the ending a bit more of an emotional punch but Noctis remains incredibly under developed so it's hard to shed a tear for the guy and I do love crying at the end of video games.


I have no doubt Persona 5 Royal Edition is going to be a much more thrilling ride, but for now I have to decide which ones of my 1004 backlogged games to start on next...

[Jordan]

I have a really bad UFC EA Sports 3 habit. I have been wanting to replay GTA 5 and I saw it was on Game Pass so I got game pass for a dollar this month and maybe I'll hang onto it maybe not IDK. But I'm excited to do some real psycho shit.

[Jordan]

It took like 12 hours to download finally get to play.

[Ultra Mantis]

Started Tokyo Xanadu Ex+, which I picked up cheap like a year ago because people were saying it's like Persona. In some ways it is. There's a Rise and a Chie expy already. There's kind of social links I guess. Hidden world only visible to "awoken" people. All the usual stuff. Combat is hack and slash action though and seems kinda bad. Also the main character kind of floats when he runs and it's hilarious. Obviously nowhere near as good as Persona but it's alright I guess.

@Destor, it's made by the same team as Trails of Cold Steel apparently, I think there's even a trailer for it playing in the electronics store. From what I've read Trails is a lot better.

[Destor]

Well trails is fucking ace so im not surprised. I mean...trails is a handheld port and it shows but fuck..love trails

[Ultra Mantis]

Yeah I think this was originally on Vita too, at least I'd hope so going off the character models.

[Destor]

Finished Tokyo Mirage. Really fun. Good combat and leveling systems. Characters are pretty good too. Has some negitives though. Sidequests are formulaic and unimaginative. The leveling system, while deep, has a design flaw that adds tedium through backtracking that should just be a menu screen. Weeby to the point it will turn many off.


All that said im the niche this was made for. Even the flaws didnt phase me. The various systems the game offered me were very addicting. Constant progression and you really feel the growth as you level through the multiple advancement mechanisms.


Plus some of the characters were so kawaii it was impossible not to love them.


Also Kiria is best girl.

[Destor]

Up next....either 3 houses DLC, DQ1 or Trails 3. Im pushing trails 3 off since the localisation for 4 hasnt been announced i dont wanna be stuck on a cliff hanger :'(

[Sepholio]

Been feeling a huge diablo shaped void in my soul lately, so I decided to give Wolcen a try. Oof. So much potential, so little execution. The gameplay has all the right hooks and is fun....but the game is just too broken. For instance, gold is a fairly precious commodity and you don't get tons of it like you do in Diablo. And Endgame stuff costs a good bit of it, meaning get ready to grind...I played to the end game and had maybe 200k gold saved up, nowhere near enough for the stuff I had to pay for now. Then I found out I can just multiply item values by stacking/unstacking things. Made 661 million gold in about a minute.

You can clone your characters, dump the inventory of the clones into the shared stash, and boom, dupes.

Tons of nodes on the skill tree don't even work. They do nothing. Ended up making only 1 build truly viable for high level end game stuff. And the only reason that build worked is because all the nodes worked, but the developers apparently didn't think people would pick these nodes or something because they make you OP af, like broken levels of OP. So instead of fixing other nodes so maybe other builds could work.....they nerfed the good build to bring it in line with the broken ones lmao.

Oh and my character randomly started moonwalking uncontrollably until he was surrounded by clones of himself either praying or dancing in honor of him and then he flopped through the geometry and into the abyss.

It's a really beautiful game, and the gameplay is awesome when it works right, but they really needed to have about 6 months of testing/fixing the full version before they released it.

[Sepholio]

This brings me to the following: I am finally playing Path of Exile. I had tried it before, but the camera felt too zoomed into me and was annoying back in the day and I just didn't like the feel of it.

Apparently a lot has changed. Camera is still a little close but much better than it was and the graphics engine has been completely overhauled. The game is waaaay better looking and performs way better than I remember.

And jesus I have never seen so much content in a game like this. It's beyond overwhelming.

Very very glad I decided to cave in and give it another chance. Diablo itch scratched.

[ClockShot]

100% Red Dead Redemption 2. Some of the stuff I had to do was tedious in order to get there, but totally worth it.

Now, just gotta mop up the animal trophies and get 70 gold medals in various missions and all story related stuff will be done.

[GD]

Not feeling motivated to resume God Of War.

[Sepholio]

Well you better find that motivation.

[Big Vic]

Got Super Mario Party yesterday since it was only $40 on eShop

First Mario Party I ever played. Very Fun.

[Destor]

Gross

[Destor]

Trails of cold steel 3. I really need them to announce the trails 4 localization.

[Tom Guycott]

This brings me to the following: I am finally playing Path of Exile. I had tried it before, but the camera felt too zoomed into me and was annoying back in the day and I just didn't like the feel of it.

Apparently a lot has changed. Camera is still a little close but much better than it was and the graphics engine has been completely overhauled. The game is waaaay better looking and performs way better than I remember.

And jesus I have never seen so much content in a game like this. It's beyond overwhelming.

Very very glad I decided to cave in and give it another chance. Diablo itch scratched.

I still can't. In a problem similar problem with ESO and Neverwinter, all of the goddamn text is too small with no way to adjust it. My TV is across the living room. I'm not sitting right up on a monitor like a PC gamer. This is a basic menu thing missing that devs are taking for granted.

I cycled back to State of Decay 2 in time for their big update. Digging the new map, and to a point, the heavy weapons (seemed to be rolling powerhouse all the time on characters when it was pretty worthless, now that it is essential for better use of the heavies, I only got ONE person to roll it). They're more useful if you have help, though. And I mean actual person co-op help, since they have a huge stamina drain, and it's easy to get overwhelmed if you're solo and trying to use a hogsplitter.

[road doggy dogg]

ANIMAL CROSSING (in like 8 hours)

[Emperor Smeat]

Exit the Gungeon.

Not as good as Enter the Gungeon but its been enjoyable for the hour or so I've played so far.

[ClockShot]

Re-installed Borderlands 3 to get ready for the new DLC on Thursday. Take a short break from RDR2.

[Splaya]

Call of Duty Modern Warfare- primarily been playing war zone
Nhl2k20
Nba2k16

Getting ready for the big games to come up.

FF7 Remake Apr 20
The Last of Us Part 2 comes out in May

[RP]

I'm about to start Dark Souls.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

You will learn the true meaning of "frustration" playing Dark Souls games.

[Emperor Smeat]

Animal Crossing New Horizons

[drave]

You will learn the true meaning of "frustration" playing Dark Souls games.




Not too far off, my son ran the Genocide route of Undertale and is thoroughly getting owned by Sans.


Think its been almost 3 weeks now. He is | | to beating him.




Stay determined.

[ClockShot]

Borderlands 3: Guns, Love, Tentacles DLC. Good stuff.

Also re-installed Sid Meier's Pirates on my PC. Happy times.

[OssMan]

Deltarune... Celeste

[Sepholio]

Not too far off, my son ran the Genocide route of Undertale and is thoroughly getting owned by Sans.


Think its been almost 3 weeks now. He is | | to beating him.




Stay determined.

LMAO I just went through this same scenario a couple weeks ago. You should have heard the cacophony when he finally won.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Borderlands 3: Guns, Love, Tentacles DLC. Good stuff.

Also re-installed Sid Meier's Pirates on my PC. Happy times.

Say what you want about the vanilla BL3 but the 2 DLCs have been 🔥. Hope it keeps up with the other 2.

[Sepholio]

Playing the Trials of Mana demo while waiting for FF7. So much better than the Secret of Mana remake from last year. They really stepped their game up with this one. I'm honestly just super hyped to finally get a western release of Seiken Densetsu 3 in general as it was one of the top 5 games on SNES for me, even with the shitty fan translations I had to work with to emulate it 2 decades ago.

Demo is actually extremely large, allowing for the full selection of your 3 person party from the 6 available characters and as such has all their origin stories included. I picked my party and have been playing for hours and just picked up the second character of the 3 Ill have. Im in the 3rd town technically, but currently doing the origin story for the second character as it gives you the option to play through theirs as well as your mains.

Best part is that all progress will transition into the full game, so won't have to play through hours of content again in a couple weeks. Highly recommend giving it a shot if you like old school RPGs, particularly ones with an action based combat system.

[Splaya]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake is getting amazing reviews online. Can't wait for Friday

[Sepholio]

Big same. I got lucky and found a store with an extra copy of the deluxe physical edition that they are holding for me for Friday morning. Gonna violate tf out of the Georgia and South Carolina stay at home orders to go get that baby. I give zero shits about it in this case because FF7 is essential.

tbf I will never have to get out of my car because they are doing curbside pick up so I'll be socially distanced the entire time.

[OssMan]

Got death stranding yesterday and ff7 remake today... 2 heavy hittters... gonna play those side by side i guess

Ff7 remake i rlly dont have expectations high for... im like 3 hours in... its cool to see some stuff redone... they added a new "twist" to the story kind of... intrigued

[drave]

I read spoilers and if the "rumors" are true, its kinda shit.

[M-A-G]

I "had to" go back and pick up playing Ultimate Alliance 3 again to experience the last bit of DLC with the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom. I have to say, Mister Fantastic continues to be an underrated star throughout this series. Plus, he's rocking that sweet beard.

[M-A-G]

Well, dropped everything I was in the middle of and am now focused on Doom Eternal. I'm trying to do a mission a day. Hopefully I can finish it faster than I did its predecessor.

[GD]

God of War

I started playing it again and boy is it taxing. There’s just too much to absorb.

[RP]

Playing Ori and the Blind Forest. I recently got stuck on on spot that I simply didnt know how to get past. It felt like Ninja Turtles on Nintendo. Finally after about an hour and 60 attempts, I realized that i just needed to drop the heavy glowing rock and climb a totem wall.

I cut myself a few times after this.

[drave]

Bought Modern Warfare. First CoD I've played in a long time. it does not disappoint.


That level in the campaign "Clean House" was pretty real looking and intense as fook.

[drave]

Fallout 76 has changed in all the right ways too, with the Wastelanders update. Recently re-installed it and having a blast there too

[Sepholio]

I just started playing Days Gone. Really tense atmosphere as soon as you start it and it supposedly only gets more intense the further along you go. It comes off as pretty much an open world The Last of Us so far.

[Splaya]

I just started playing Days Gone. Really tense atmosphere as soon as you start it and it supposedly only gets more intense the further along you go. It comes off as pretty much an open world The Last of Us so far.

Was one of the games I was looking forward to and then they decided to release FF7Remake this year. Might give it a go once I'm done with that

[Fignuts]

Fallout 76 has changed in all the right ways too, with the Wastelanders update. Recently re-installed it and having a blast there too

https://i.imgur.com/KLX0JLx.png

[drave]

https://i.imgur.com/KLX0JLx.png


Definitely. Usually dozing off when y'all are nuking shit. Heisenberg gave me the green light to pop in FO1ST when I see you all on.


Looking forward to it.

[GD]

God of War

I started playing it again and boy is it taxing. There’s just too much to absorb.


I am fighting a freakin’ dragon!!!

[DAMN iNATOR]

Fallout 76 has changed in all the right ways too, with the Wastelanders update. Recently re-installed it and having a blast there too

Glad you're enjoying it. As for me, well, this is clearly what the game should've been. It's a day late and way too many dollars short. I'm never touching 76, but I still hope Bethesda can renew goodwill with Starfield in the next generation, but if it proves to be trash, too, forget about TES VI or anything else because I guarantee it will be Bye-bye, Bethesda.

[drave]

You've not played it? "I'm never touching 76" yet you hold such a strong opinion.


Get off the bucket and try it. It is honestly way more like FO3 or New Vegas.


Gatekeeping video games, GTFO

[DAMN iNATOR]

You've not played it? "I'm never touching 76" yet you hold such a strong opinion.


Get off the bucket and try it. It is honestly way more like FO3 or New Vegas.

Ah, yes, the old "How DARE you talk bad about a game I like rrh

Gatekeeping video games, GTFO

Oh, right. The old "How DARE you talk bad about a game I like that you've never played?!" argument. I don't have to have played it to know it sucks. Plenty of YT videos and online articles have told me all I need to know. Me playing it is never happening.

[drave]

you silly man, you.

[DAMN iNATOR]

you silly man, you.

Not true. I'm also never touching WWE 2K20. for perspective, I own every single game in the SmackDown! series all the way up to 19
That's how bad they fucked up this year. But do go ahead and try to convince me that I should play that too. Won't happen.

I have standards, believe it or not.

[Sepholio]

I was hyped for 76 myself. Then it bombed badly on release. They may have fixed it now but I could care less. The product should have been done right originally instead of making people pay full price to basically be beta testers for a year and a half. I'm not rewarding them with a purchase for that bullshit.

I went through this before with No Mans Sky.

Maybe if I had faith left in Bethesda I'd give it a go, but after the way they abandoned me and everyone else who bought Skyrim on PS3, they can fuck right off.

[drave]

Not true. I'm also never touching WWE 2K20. for perspective, I own every single game in the SmackDown! series all the way up to 19
That's how bad they fucked up this year. But do go ahead and try to convince me that I should play that too. Won't happen.

I have standards, believe it or not.




Nah, wouldn't bother with WWE.


Just coming from the perspective as a fan of the series. I paid full price at launch, played to about level 20 and said "fuck it".


it was hot garbage, burning even. Uninstalled it before the end of the year was up and never looked back. Despite the massive bugs that have hit it, I never experienced any of them.



Definitely nothing in it for me if you play it or not dude. Just saying from a fan of the series to another, its definitely where it should have been at launch.

[Seanny One Ball]

Started up Assassins Creed for the PS3.

Plays like Batman Arkham Asylum, which is a plus point.

[XL]

So, I’m not that up to date with games but working my way through Jedi Fallen Order. It’s a pretty dense game for me. Also, dipping into WWE 2K19 to pass 30 minutes here and there.

A week ago I was playing Goldeneye due to my XBox not working. All the nostalgia.

[drave]

Started playing Modern Warfare. Dayum




Surprised me in a very good way at how much better it is from the last CoD I played.

[Splaya]

drave if you ever want to play warzone let me know

[DAMN iNATOR]

Glad I've stayed away from 76. Evidently it has events, and in events right now, you can die and have NPC's loot your corpse.

That game has officially been compromised by Russia, I'm certain of it.

I have however recently gone back to 4 as there's quite a bit of Nuka-World DLC I haven't done yet. Just finished the side quest "Trip to the Stars" and became an AHS-8 Hubologist via 8 different "alignments".

[drave]

Still and yet, never had any of those major bugs hit me.

[Sepholio]

I mean NPCs looting you is more realistic if we're being honest. Why should they sit around when you die and not take your stuff?

[drave]

right? post-apocalyptic shit. actually, people do that shit now.


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[ClockShot]

Took longer than it should have, but I finally got all the single player trophies for Red Dead Redemption 2. Just gotta find and stable the last wild super horse and then I'll go to online.

But, I'm going to take a quick break and jump back into Borderlands 3 and see if this new event is worth my time.

Definitely getting Streets of Rage 4 tomorrow.

[GD]

Playing Bare Knuckle 3 (Streets of Rage 3) and "noticing" the subtle differences.

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[GD]

Just completed “God of War” (2018)

Easily One of the best games I’ve ever played. What a journey.

[drave]

That shit was epic - now go do it on hard.


Played through that on whatever the hardest difficulty was to get some cool shit. Took forever, but i did it.

[Sepholio]

Just finished the story for Trials of Mana. On to the post game content they added in that wasn't in the original.

The Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3 originally, never came to the west) remake is infinitely better than the Secret of Mana remake. They did way better in every single aspect, from the translation to the graphics/sound and especially the gameplay. And they fixed the biggest problem of all from SoM....they actually made it challenging. SoM remake is one of the easiest games I have ever played....this one was easy at first then suddenly it shifted and dodges/timing/pattern recognition became super important. The only thing that isn't tuned well is a spell called ancient curse. Its far too overpowered although it has a ridiculous cast time/mana cost. But if you manage to target it properly and fire it off before getting interrupted it will annihilate every enemy in a regular mob in one move. I actually ignored 2 of my party members and just spammed it with my 3rd and killed the last boss of the campaign in like 45 seconds after it handed my ass to me multiple times in a row trying to fight it straight up.

This new content seems like it might be pretty damn hard tho tbh. The first/easiest mobs at the beginning of the new super dungeon can wipe your whole party in seconds if you get complacent. Gonna try and grind it out tomorrow and see how far I can get but I already know its gonna be a blast. This is a great ARPG to scratch that old nostalgia itch.

[ClockShot]

Streets of Rage 4.

If you got the extra cash and looking for a video game nostalgia trip, this is it.

[drave]

Just finished the story for Trials of Mana. On to the post game content they added in that wasn't in the original.

The Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3 originally, never came to the west) remake is infinitely better than the Secret of Mana remake. They did way better in every single aspect, from the translation to the graphics/sound and especially the gameplay. And they fixed the biggest problem of all from SoM....they actually made it challenging. SoM remake is one of the easiest games I have ever played....this one was easy at first then suddenly it shifted and dodges/timing/pattern recognition became super important. The only thing that isn't tuned well is a spell called ancient curse. Its far too overpowered although it has a ridiculous cast time/mana cost. But if you manage to target it properly and fire it off before getting interrupted it will annihilate every enemy in a regular mob in one move. I actually ignored 2 of my party members and just spammed it with my 3rd and killed the last boss of the campaign in like 45 seconds after it handed my ass to me multiple times in a row trying to fight it straight up.

This new content seems like it might be pretty damn hard tho tbh. The first/easiest mobs at the beginning of the new super dungeon can wipe your whole party in seconds if you get complacent. Gonna try and grind it out tomorrow and see how far I can get but I already know its gonna be a blast. This is a great ARPG to scratch that old nostalgia itch.






Can we get on for a Secret of Evermore remake tho? That game is so god damn fun.

[drave]

Still playing FO76.


Started a new character a few weeks ago, hit level 24 last night. I could have started Wastelanders content but wanted to finish up the OG Story first.


This game still has its quirks, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck they've improved it drastically. Never hit any of the major bugs that made gaming headlines, just a few UI glitches that I can count on one hand.

[Emperor Smeat]

Streets of Rage 4.

Feels a bit too grindy for unlocking the good stuff and enemies can be a bit cheap at times but I've been having a very enjoyable time with the game so far.

[Sepholio]

Can we get on for a Secret of Evermore remake tho? That game is so god damn fun.

Would def be a good one. Also wouldnt mind seeing remakes for terranigma, treasure hunter g, and chrono fucking trigger remake.

[GD]

Still playing Bare Knuckle 3 (Streets of Rage 3). The Yamato boss fight was fucking awesome.

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[OssMan]

gameS i've beaten in 2020:

Luigi's Mansion
Final Fantasy 7 Remake

[ClockShot]

Streets of Rage 4.

Feels a bit too grindy for unlocking the good stuff and enemies can be a bit cheap at times but I've been having a very enjoyable time with the game so far.

Yeah.

No way am I going to unlock Shiva, God of Death anytime soon. :'(

[OssMan]

Playing Death Stranding, or as it's better know, FedEx Simulator

[RP]

I bought a Nintendo Switch Lite. Bought Witcher 3, Rayman Legends, Mario Odyesse, Astral Chain and Mega Man 11.

Thanks Donald!