What are you currently playing?

[RP]

Blasphemous>>>>>>>>Hollow Knight


Also, I bought this. I havent played it yet. Probably wont for months. But i bought it.

[Sepholio]

Almost at max level and I don't think I cross the mid-point of the story yet. So much to do.

I'm max level. Just finished the level 18 story quest lmao.

[ClockShot]

On the home stretch of Horizon: Forbidden West. Just doing some hunts to get my legendary armor weapons maxed out.

I should be done just in time for Tiny Tina's Wonderlands next week.

[Destor]

about 40 hours into triangle strategy. will probably do a second run once i wrap it up

[M-A-G]

Caved and picked up the Mass Effect Collection for the PS4 yesterday. Started a new game just this morning. It'll be interesting to see how long I go before going full douche Shepard.

[drave]

Hahaha! It was my eleventyth playthrough with the Legendary Edition, so I went total douche. Lost a lot of people on the suicide mission at the end of II because I didn't give a shit about any of my crewmates.


Haven't finished 3 yet.

[Destor]

haven't gotten to 3 yet either. itll be there once i get through like...4 games that are ahead of my replay of 3. looking forward to it though

[M-A-G]

Finished up the first mission and now I'm in the middle of exploring the Citadel. Controls for combat are giving me a rough time but I chalk that up to being used to other shooter setups. The way the conversations work is great and you can feel the effort they put into this universe.

[Destor]

the 2nd game becomes a more standard over the shoulder 3rd person cover shooter in both control and mechanics. if youre liking what theyre offering now youll love the series by end.

[drave]

And amp up the difficulty if you want a better (IMO) experience. Becomes too easy to wipe out mobs in fights when you get the mechanics down.


Adding difficulty will give them barriers, shields, etc. and FORCE you to coordinate skills and combos.

[drave]

Had the most epic game of Battlefield V and don't think I will ever replicate it.


We were on Aerodome and it was Strategic Conquest (big vehicles, bigger maps, bigger all the things).


I played support and everyone but 1 other squadmate left the squad. We were in proximity to Objective C (dead-center of map, lotsa heated battles) and there was 1 squadmate in a tank, and another random tank.


Support in Battlefield traditionally leans towards restocking ammo and repairing vehicles. There are also support stations where vehicles can refill their ammo, and support is the fastest "building" class.


I kept both tanks repaired, kept rebuilding the supply station as it would get destroyed. Repelled a few attacks with errant bombs strapped to vehicles and lunged at us. It was ordered chaos and absolutely magnificent.


End of the game saw my squadmate with 39 kills - 0 deaths. I was 3rd or 4th (in score) with only 4 kills, but I played the fucking objective and role. No doubt the other team unquestionably thought the dude was hacking, but we just perfectly synergized.


Wish I would have been able to record the whole round, but I settled for the scoreboard screenshot at the end of the round.

[drave]

looked similar to this, except I was infantry running around on foot


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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Elden Ring
WWE2k22

[ClockShot]

Finished Horizon: Forbidden West last night.

Ugh. Can't believe Guerilla botched the ending. "Transcendence Johnny Depp" is the bad guy coming. They could have done something way better like make Hephaestus more powerful than Gaia or even have Ted Faro be alive and well. They botched that too.

They sorta put themselves into a corner because I don't know where they would go next. We reached the west coast. So, unless some future DLC is going to take us somewhere else (Pacific Northwest/Seattle or South to L.A, San Diego, Mexico). Perhaps Aloy works her way back East?

Didn't bother with the Strike board game or the races because I felt like they were shoehorned in because all other open world games have been or are going that route. Did what I had to for the trophies and walked away.

I kinda agree with Seph's assessment of a crafting system. It was a pain in the ass of hunting down the same machines over and over again for parts for my legendary armor and weapons.

[weather vane]

Time Lord

[Sepholio]

Giving Tunic a go. Seems like like Zelden Souls. Very unforgiving.

[Destor]

about 40 hours into triangle strategy. will probably do a second run once i wrap it up130+ hours later i ended up playing it 5 times. outstanding game.

[Destor]

i could absolutely do another run but i think its time to dive into my backlog before it turns into a mountain...but id like to do one more true ending run...

[Sepholio]

Started Metroid Dread. Had to use a guide after the first boss. Basically locks you into a small section of the first area, forcing you to head to the second and then that area looks as if you are completely stuck as well and you have to realize there is one random hidden destructible wall in the first room that lets you go another way. Guess it was one of the few walls I didnt shoot because it looked the least likely to be a secret path. Ridiculous.

[Destor]

thats the epitome of bad game design

[Sepholio]

it honestly stands out as maybe the worst design choice I've ever seen in a mainline metroid entry.

[Sepholio]

Reeks of that Castlevania II nonsense.

[Fignuts]

Picked up Rogue Legacy 2. Never played the first, but Ive gotten really hooked on other roguelites so I figured Id give it a try. Feels really good. Looks like another crackrock to smoke in my collection of addictive roguelites.

[Destor]

Reeks of that Castlevania II nonsense.CV2 gets a bad rap due to its localization. theres at least one npc that basically tells you how to solve each puzzle somewhere in the world...in the JPN version. there's a fan port that redoes the translation and it fixes how obtue the 1st outing felt.


its a real shame too. CV2 should be considered an absolute trail blazer of a game. day/night cycle. for an 8 bit game a genuine crack at an open world as could be done with tech. among the best OSTs of all time. there's a lot to be said about it. instead we talk about the cryptic puzzles that werent meant to be half of what they were.

[Destor]

Started Control. 1 hour in and i can see why it won so many GotY awards. Very David Lynch in the best way. truly unique

[Sepholio]

Oh man. Have fun bro that's an amazing game. Love the whole thing. Theres one sequence in there that is top 5 gaming moments for me for sure, if not number 1.

[OssMan]

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I got stuck in super metroid... tell me I'm an idiot...

[Fignuts]

Gonna have to reload a save. You broke sequence when you jumped across the gap with a running start. You're meant to get the high jump boots in norfair first.

[Sepholio]

Was there no way out through the door on the right that you remember? You definitely sequence broke like Fignuts said but most of the sequence breaks end up with alternative, albeit difficult, alternate routes out. I'd maybe bomb jump back up there (I know, timing is painful, it still is in Dread) and check out the other room again for a destructible block somewhere or another place you can bomb jump too to proceed.

Or hopefully you have a recent save like Fig said. What platform are you playing this on? If you are emulating you can always just edit your current save to refill your super missiles.

[drave]

Definitely no way outta that room, save bombing his way back up, and working all the way around to the other side.


But this is fake :D

[Splaya]

Downloaded Metal Gear Solid V. Played like an hour of it before but then my PS4 crashed. Gonna try it again

[Sepholio]

Beat Bravely Default 2. Trying to find some other RPG to play now.

[Destor]

loved bravely 2. true ending was a great ride. that "post game" content was way too good.

[Fignuts]

Replayed Undertale.

Going through Deltarune now.

[drave]

Which run tho -.-

[Fignuts]

Pacifist.

Soooo good.

[drave]

Watched my son do the Sans fight. Holy schnike's Batman.


He did every ending for that game, it was his 1st "rpg".

[Destor]

i take issue with the quotations

[drave]

you take issue with a lot of things.




I do not care.

[Fignuts]

Hmmm, gotta agree with destor on this one.

Despite how unorthodox and unique it is, i'd still say it is definitely an rpg. All the core elements of a turn based jrpg are there.

It is so unlike any other rpg though, that I can understand the hestitance to categorize it with everything else.

Was explaining the combat to a friend and used Tsundereplane as an example and he lost it.

[drave]

100% believe it's an RPG, no doubt.

[Destor]

it has a ton of overlap with mother/earthbound...combat being the major departure...course it started as an earthbound rom hack so its to be expected

[ClockShot]

On vacation starting tomorrow.

Think I'm gonna take the plunge and fire up Zelda: Breath of the Wild. See what this OLED Switch I got can do.

[Sepholio]

think im gonna start y's IX: Monstrum Nox today. Also been thinking of doing another playthrough of Octopath Traveler or even going kinda old school and playing Rogue Galaxy for PS2 again.

[drave]

One of my kids decided to take a dvd out of the series x when it was trying to load it. bye bye disc drive.


reached out to blizzard to see if they'd let me convert my physical D3 Eternal to digital, no bueno. That shit is still $60 for a digital copy - noooooooooooo.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Just started with The Outer Worlds. Haven't put much time into it, so maybe this is my relative naïveté talking, but so far at least, I don't get the comparison to FNV.

[Destor]

the same dev team making it is 90% of the comparisons

[Destor]

playing Crono Cross btw

[Fignuts]

Its not just new vegas in space if thats what you were expecting, but theres definitly some of their signature in the combat and overall engine.

The humor is straight out of classic fallout though.

[Sepholio]

Y's IX down. If any of you play it, mainly RP because I know he also enjoys Y's, play it on one of the harder difficulty levels. They have scary names but trust me, normal/hard are wayyyyyy too easy. No one died in my party for the entire game and while I am good at these games, I in no way think I am just magically good enough at this game to explain never even fearing a KO. I only went below half health one time and that was due to not dodging an instant death move in time (tbf I didnt know it was an instant death move) and only survived because I was set up to take one fatal blow and survive per battle.

Otherwise the game as a pretty interesting story. Not cliche like most RPGs at this point. Gameplay is fun and it controls good and the exploration mechanics work nicely. You are gated from going to areas by story progress though so you can't just freely wander wherever you want from the start, though every chapter the area gets bigger and bigger. Soundtrack is standard fare for the jrpg genre. Nothing great but also not bad at all. Just way too easy lol.

In the end it's more Y's and I like Y's. The unique story helped this one a lot. Looking forward to the next one.

[Sepholio]

Gonna do another run through of octopath now.

[Destor]

if we're talking Falcom its all about Trails

[drave]

Just started with The Outer Worlds. Haven't put much time into it, so maybe this is my relative naïveté talking, but so far at least, I don't get the comparison to FNV.




It isn't that great, really. I dunno, I played it for 8-10 hours and had zero desire to want to finish it, and never did.

[DAMN iNATOR]

It isn't that great, really. I dunno, I played it for 8-10 hours and had zero desire to want to finish it, and never did.

Guess I’ll find out how I feel about it at that point, but I don't think it’s fair for me to say just yet as I probably have less than an hour invested so far.

[drave]

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.


Just got to the dual-class part of the game. Combat feels REALLY fun and the dual class is even more craziness.

[Sepholio]

DIABRO IMMORTAL TIEMZ

[Sepholio]

i dunno what happens later but this is far better than i was hoping for out of a mobile game. Pretty much typical diablo.

[drave]

Wait till you hit that wall with the glyphs (or wtf ever they call them) needed to do runs that actually will power your character up a bit.


You can 100p grind for them, but using the low-hanging f2p model that it is, it'll take ages.


I'll just go play Diablo III

[M-A-G]

We somehow got caught up in doing rounds of Trivial Pursuit Live. Need to get the sequel if this is going to continue. It'll tide us over until Jackbox Games decides to put out another You Don't Know Jack game.

[Fignuts]

Wait till you hit that wall with the glyphs (or wtf ever they call them) needed to do runs that actually will power your character up a bit.


You can 100p grind for them, but using the low-hanging f2p model that it is, it'll take ages.


I'll just go play Diablo III

Say what you will about Call of Duty as a series, but they've easily got the best free to play game on the mobile market. No pay wall, no time gating, no pay to win, and tons of content updated on a frequent basis. Was hoping Diablo would take a similar approach since its the same publisher, but I guess not.

[drave]

I fault them only for their ridiculous install sizes.

[Fignuts]

Shredder's Revenge

Dotemu does it again. So cool.

Maybe they can give us an actually good golden axe game next.

[Destor]

im waiting for physical but im ultra hyped

[Destor]

currently doing a visual novel. The House in Fata Morgana.

[teamXtremist]

Bioshock Infinite is probably my third favorite FPS ever made, behind Half Life 1 & 2, and Bioshock 1 is probably only behind those three and the two Portal games for me in the FPS genre. Assuming you don't count Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3 as FPS. Though maybe Portal should be thought of as more a puzzle game than an FPS, in which case my top 5 fps would probably go:

1. Half Life
2. Half Life 2
3. Bioshock Infinite
4. Bioshock
5. Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare

[Destor]

portal imo is a puzzle platformer

[Destor]

bioshock is excellent though. i prefer 1 to 3 but the dlc of 3 is on par with 1

[teamXtremist]

That PlayStation new tier subscription is live. I must say, looks very inviting.

The second tier looks like a no brainer. Has Miles Morales, RDR2, Ghost of Tsushima, Guardians of the Galaxy etc included.

Haven't seen the whole catalog but what a way to start.…

[teamXtremist]

Also Starfield looks pretty ambitious. Definitely the second best thing by far shown off in these summer reveals. With the #1 thing of course being Persona 5 Royal to PC, will be Day 1 buy so I can play it in Japanese.

[Fignuts]

Interview with Todd Howard revealed a few mor details.

Despite all the procedural generation, Starfield will have more hand crafted content than any previous bethesda studios game.

Basically confirmed that it will be just as modabble as previous games

Four major cities with one of them being the biggest theyve ever built.

Going back to silent protagonist, as opposed to fallout 4.

[drave]

Hooray!

[drave]

Jumped back into Diablo III last week.


Made a Whirlwind barb that is fucking insane and by far the strongest character I've ever made. Finding it to be super fun, and also building out a few alts for funsies.


Tiny Tina's game is alright. Super short as far as the campaign goes, and the "chaos chamber" is a poor man's end game. They have a HUGE world and so much of it is soooooo empty. They can do more with it, a shame they haven't.

[RP]

Platinumed God of war . One of he best games ever.


Playing Borderlands two again.

[ClockShot]

Interview with Todd Howard revealed a few mor details.

Despite all the procedural generation, Starfield will have more hand crafted content than any previous bethesda studios game.

Basically confirmed that it will be just as modabble as previous games

Four major cities with one of them being the biggest theyve ever built.

Going back to silent protagonist, as opposed to fallout 4.

Man, gonna be a race to see how long the Millenium Falcon, Serenity, and those other pop culture star ships are going to show up through modding.

[drave]

Done god damn everything in Diablo III and made my most powerful character ever.


Gonna hunt Rainbow Goblins for the big gay rainbow sword, wings and hamburger. If anyone plays on Xbox and wants to goblin hunt, lemme know.

[Destor]

Bouncing between Fata Morgana and Shadorun Returns. CRPGs are the best

[drave]

Oh shit, I pre-loaded the Shadowrun trilogy and forgot about it!


Gonna start that shit up tonight. Finished the 1st one, but never played the other two.


Also still blown away by Shadowrun being completely different games on SNES / Genesis.


Beat the SNES one, but not the Genesis one. Think I sold my Genesis before I did or something.

[Destor]

its a really good port. some minor bugs have cause me to reload an area but lost time. just intractables not loading properly. very minor

[Sepholio]

Still grinding out Diablo: Immortal lol. Now viable in the hell 2 difficulty. Barely. Friend I play with got a 5 star gem on a rift run and just has it sitting in his inventory instead of using it like he didnt just get whale shit direct from RNGesus himself.

[Fignuts]

Fall Guys is dumb fun

[drave]

played that with my kids till almost midnight last night. found myself enjoying it a TON more than I thought.


Tons of bots tho

[DAMN iNATOR]

Guess I’ll find out how I feel about it at that point, but I don't think it’s fair for me to say just yet as I probably have less than an hour invested so far.

Still going. I’m at the part where I once again returned to Phineas and he said something about something or some place called The Hope. I had also picked up and have completed Peril on Gorgon, and plan to also eventually pick up Murder on Eridanos as well.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Finally platinumed Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands.

[drave]

That game gets a 2/5 from me.


So short, and god damn I'm so bored I've barely touched "end game"

[DAMN iNATOR]

The third and current mirror is actually surprisingly good.

[drave]

Just finished up Far Cry 5. That was my first FC game ever, and it was alright.


A buggy fucking mess half the time, but alright. Story started off very cryptic and interesting and then boom and blah and nothing mattered anyway :D


When it wasn't bugging out, it was fun. Have to give it a 6/10 because of all the damn bugs.

[Fignuts]

You'd have told me I'd be playing fortnite in 2022, i'd have thought I was still comatose in the hospital, but here we are.

Friend in our group convinced us to try the no build mode, and god damn if it isnt a lot of fun. Guess its popular for more than just bright colors and character skins.

Weapons feel very satisfying and its definitely one of the better battle royale maps I've played. Also theres something appealing about the ridiculousness of Doctor Strange headshotting Chun Li with a sniper rifle while Darth Vader drives a Semi through a building with Naruto firing his assault rifle in the passenger seat.

[drave]

Yeah man, no build isn't terrible. That said, I still really can't get into it despite my son begging me to play.


I saw you, Berg and Ryan all playing yesterday, then my son was also playing and a few others. Was all wtf...


Then I watched my son for a bit, and I guess they added some more movement options that makes things much more fluid. They keep going and they will have TitanFall 3. Mantling was last season with the powerslide too, and now they have the super sprint into a jump that just lets you cover large distances.

[drave]

Breath of the Wild.


Fired it up for the first time in almost a year. I was in the middle of the lightning elder beast. Fuck that temple, or maybe it was just because I didn't remember where I was from the old save file, but it reminded me of the PITA Water Temple from Zelda 64. I don't even remember what made the water temple terrible..... maybe I'm misremembering.




Anyway, forgot how simply amazing this game is, just at a practical gameplay level. The survival mechanisms, the fact that "oh dry grass catches fire fast AF" and other little environmental details are just too damn fun.


Finally have the master sword, that narrative was very cool. I saw they are releasing BOTW 2, so I gotta finish this amazingly awesome game.


I dunno what it is about Nintendo, but their flagship games, namely Zelda, always have a "different intangible" that I cannot put my finger on.

[Sepholio]

Still playing Diablo Immortal because I love torturing myself.

In a weird turn of events, I logged in today to find that I have somehow been made the leader of one of the larger clans. Clan was ranked anywhere from #1 to #3 a few weeks ago and then the leadership I guess flaked off back to WoW. The algorithm somehow decided I'm it. Prob because my level is obscenely high and I have the highest shadow rank of anyone else atm, but still its weird because in terms of raw power I ain't it because I won't give them my money. Oh well, still cool to be the leader of the DI branch of No Quarter, which is a huge clan in other games.

[rez]

Stray on PS5. Love it

[drave]

Switch Sports!


Just as fun as Wii sports, but moar pixels!

[Destor]

Live A Live. Outstanding. Also pluggingg away at slay the spire

[Destor]

Live A Live. Outstanding. Also pluggingg away at slay the spireclosing in on the end of LaL. Short but satisfying. Really experimental for its time.

[Destor]

Good game is good. And for a SNES game the wild west section is really edgey. If it had came to the states theyd have had to censor the hell out of it

[teamXtremist]

Think I'd probably give Ghostwire Tokyo a 7.5/10. Combat is pretty repetitive but love being able to explore Shibuya in the game. Sometimes just walk around reading the signs and shit since I have gotten halfway competent at reading Japanese

[teamXtremist]

Decided to finally play Jedi Fallen Order despite owning it forever. Not bad thus far, wish i had got around to it sooner

[drave]

Bought Ghost Recon Breakpoint Ultimate Edition for $30. The game is a freakin BLAST so far. Feels a lot like Far Cry 5 honestly, but with "more grit" I guess.


The ability to change from 1st to 3rd when aiming, at will, is awesome. So far, the AI is impressive and hasn't done anything dumb.

[teamXtremist]

Man Demon of Hatred is kicking my ass now. Don't know why, his moveset isn't particularly hard. He does a lot of posture damage even deflecting his stomps, but the one thing that's really killing me is I'm bad fleeing from his jump attack and creating room to get away and even when I do I don't seem to be making that grapple hook back to him. Usually end up running through my gourd seeds by the time I get his second health bar down

[Destor]

Finished Live a Live. Dark moments at the end. Really dark for the era.

[Sepholio]

Just saw there is a new mobile prequel to octopath out. Might give that a go seeing as Im playing the original atm again.

[Destor]

Octopath is a top 5 game for me.. ill pass on the mobile game

[M-A-G]

Playing through the Mega Man Legacy Collection on the Switch. Just finished blazing through the fifth game, don't know if I'll tackle Mega Man 6 tonight.

[Destor]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and will likely take me a month or two to get through. Outstanding game

[Simple Fan]

NBA 2k10

[Destor]

... y tho

[Simple Fan]

I have a xbox 360.

[Destor]

Ah. Thats fair

[Simple Fan]

I play it and the last NCAA football game.

[Simple Fan]

Currently playing the Association mode controlling all teams kind of acting as the commissioner. Not really playing a lot just doing a simulation I guess. Will play the All Star games and the Finals first game. Creating the draft classes every year.

[RP]

I've been playing Saints Row IV Re Elected. Having a blast. Really fun ridiculous game.

[Sepholio]

Finished Octopath Traveler finally on my 2nd playthrough. My switch originally completely died right before I finished it (grinding between finishing all the characters stories and doing the true end game) the first time through so it was nice to finally get the real ending. Didn't like it as much the second time through honestly, the story and whole progression of the game just don't do it for me, but the battles and gameplay are still choice. Please give me new Chrono in this engine with these systems and a touch of refinement NAO.

Started playing Edge of Eternity. Enjoying it so far, but I'm barely into the game. Lots of potential for the battle system here. Seems like it will end up relying a lot on elements and statuses and it has a very basic movement grid where positioning can matter at times. Interested in seeing how it develops as the challenge increases and I get access to more abilities and characters. Think of it kinda like turn based tactics-lite w/atb and you'll have a good idea.

Graphics are pretty in a xenoblade way. Very similar looking in fact with some wild environments at times. Can def tell its made by a small team though because some of the animations get a little jank at time, especially in the distance. Sound is surprisingly great so far. Can't really tell you much about the story quality yet because I don't know much, but from the opening it seems like it may be fairly cliche. We'll see if some plot twists develop to set it apart.

[drave]

Fired up Battlefield 2042 again for the first time since they dropped the first season. It ends in 4 days.


The shittiest thing is that without cross-play, it is nearly impossible to get into games with other people. Naturally, KBM will dominate controllers without even needing to try, doesn't make things very fun.


So I played bot rounds. The bots on harder difficulty are FUCKING INSANE. Can't remember the names of the difficulties, but going from "normal" to "medium/hard" is a HUGE difference.


Anyway, the reworked maps are actually excellent. There is more cover, it actually looks like a war zone, etc. Before, sight lines were so long, 85% of team comps were snipers.


The drip feed of reworking maps will not result in bringing back a decent player base at all. In addition, at the start of season 3, they are going back to the dedicated class system that makes Battlefield great. Specialists will still exist, but will be listed as a certain class, with gadget restrictions based on class. Finally. But that's the future. They are continuing to re-work maps, but at a slower pace.


The player base on console is nearly non-existent. At least there's bots I guess.

[drave]

Re-installed Destiny 2 also. Thinking of giving it another go thanks to a suggestion from a friend. Need to get the Witch Queen expansion.


The new expansion is looking pretty cool too. I gotta go in remembering that I won't see a lot of the content tho.....

[Sepholio]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 rn then Torna: The Golden Country and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 next.

[Destor]

Playing 3 now. Outstanding

[Sepholio]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 fell victim to the same fate as my original Octopath playthrough: My switch died. Feel upset at myself for not getting around to playing it until now. So good. Forgot how much I love Xenoblade in general.

[Destor]

This trilogy is a high point for jrpgs

[Sepholio]

Kinda makes me wish Id have gotten the definitive edition of part 1 and played that again but these games are massive time investments for completionists. Not gonna go through that again before the other 2+Torna, although I do feel kinda bummed about missing what I think is a new DLC for the DE of part 1 that connects the games or something more, I dunno.

[Destor]

DEis very good and you can skip right to The Future Connected if you so chose. Its only 20ish hours.PPlay how ever you want though

[Destor]

Xbc3 will likely take me 180-250 hours

[Destor]

Im at 75 now

[ClockShot]

Re-installed Destiny 2 also. Thinking of giving it another go thanks to a suggestion from a friend. Need to get the Witch Queen expansion.


The new expansion is looking pretty cool too. I gotta go in remembering that I won't see a lot of the content tho.....

Yeah, Drave. I'm about to do the same. Been having the itch for a while and now I'm ready to scratch.

The add-ons are on sale at a good price and I think I'm just going to grab them all. Fire it up, see where my Ghost drops me and take it from there. Kinda hoping my Sparrows and Ships haven't been sent to the antique shop.

[Fignuts]

Witch queen is excellent. Both from a narrative standpoint, and the fact that theres none of the usal filler missions. Legendary difficulty adds more replay value to it as well. Hoping they add legendary versions of Shadowkeep and Beyond light as well. New smg exotic is loads of fun. Crafting is pretty cool. Only select weapons you can craft, but you can make god rolls for them, some are crazy good.

New pirate themed season is fun too. Loads of ads, and its utter chaos at times.

[Sepholio]

Xbc3 will likely take me 180-250 hours

I mean I just started chapter 6 of XB2 and I'm approaching 130. Mind you a lot of that rn is downtime and mindless farming and working on affinities while running out merc mission timers. I am obscenely overpowered for the story at this point because of this. I happened across a godly weapon chip off an enemy earlier and I am now trying to farm enough for everyone because bonuses stack. I can't imagine how ridic I'm gonna be when I get everyone equipped with these lol.

[Destor]

In xbc3 im about 25 levels over the main story. I noticed too lated that they added a mechanism for you to control your over leveling and i didnt see thats what it was until i was high level

[Sepholio]

Yeah I'm about 20-25 over rn in 2. Was wondering why they told me I didnt have to spend the bonus xp at the Inn if I didnt want to in the beginning lol. Ah well, hindsight. Either way now I'll just see how obscenely OP I can get.

[Destor]

With the way scaling works 5 levels over and youre completely busted

[ClockShot]

Yep. Downloaded Destiny 2. Grabbed all the expansions. I'm working backwards. :wtf:

Started it up the first time. Did the intro mission for The Witch Queen on hard difficulty. Bad decision.

Took a break. Had dinner. Fired it up again. Did the intro mission for Beyond Light.

Too much new stuff to learn. But I'll slowly figure it out.

[Fignuts]

Well shit at least you're going to have a lot of content to dig into. I still have to unlock all the fragments for stasis. Seems a bit grondy so Im glad they didnt take a similar route with the 3.0 stuff.

Season of Plunder is even better than I initially thought. Theres several new activities instead of just one, and the weapons are badass. Exotic is kinda boring though.

[Fignuts]

@ drave, clockshot if you owned forsaken you'll have 3 forsaken tokens which you can use to claim forsaken exotics at the kiosk in the tower.

[ClockShot]

Yep. Found those.

Gonna sit on em for a little while. Grabbed all the exotic quests and I'm chipping away at those whlist crawling through the story/stories.

[M-A-G]

Playing Mega Man 10 for the first time on the second Legacy Collection on the Switch.




On easy mode.






I am not ashamed.

[drave]

@ drave, clockshot if you owned forsaken you'll have 3 forsaken tokens which you can use to claim forsaken exotics at the kiosk in the tower.




Hmmm.... splitting time between this and the new Diablo III season. Have a few friends from work who I play with on there.


ALthough, GOT DAYUM, D2 is really fun right now. I may get Witch Queen for mah bday in a few weeks, haven't yet decided. Also thinking of getting more metal in my face.

[Sepholio]

With the way scaling works 5 levels over and youre completely busted

It is. I was running around with no aux cores and turrible accessories and didn't even notice just because of the raw power difference.

I just got done grinding Tiger! Tiger! for what must be the last 10-12 hrs of gameplay. There is only one rare drop out of stage 5 that I am missing (Double Attack 3 I believe, maybe 2, I dunno, the good one) and Poppi is now a monster. Especially Waifu Poppi. Guess I should probably get around to going to the world tree at some point.

[drave]

I've been trying to sort how the EFF I'd ever be able to play Battlefield 2042 again, as lobbies are always empty on console.


Saw a user post somewhere to "download the previous gen" version and I did just that.






Mind blown. Insta-full games and bah gawd, it's not terrible.

[Fignuts]

Use a last gen console?

Like a peasant?

How dare you, sir.

[drave]

No, just last gen software on new gen hardware. The differences are negligible enough that I had a damn good time in 2042 for the first time yesterday, for nearly 3 hours.

[Sepholio]

Man Torna: The Golden Country really refined the XC2 experience. They just about completely addressed every issue from the base game, but most importantly, the pacing. Love the whole game but this DLC is peak. And while I do miss having 3 blades engaged at a time, the way they changed the switching mechanic is so much better.

In terms of base game, I have beaten the story and other than a couple super bosses and completing affinity charts, I am pretty much done. Decided to break up the farming by jumping into Torna...which I am now just short of the final boss and farming super bosses here to try and get to the level 100 one before I finish the campaign and prepare to move on to XC3.

[Sepholio]

In regards to how to good Torna is: Even though I love the XC series as is, if they decided to stop making the huge games every 5 years and instead more frequently release shorter but still complete experiences like Torna I would be all for it. Feel like they could actually use the format to tell a lot of stories within the overall universe to flesh it out. Like do one that leads up to the "final battle" before the world is destroyed and recreated prior to the current games. Show us how the whole situation came to be in the first place (assuming they don't do this in 3 because I dunno yet). You could even do more in the pre-torna time with XC2, like a scenario about Addams dad and uncle and Amalthus when he first awakens Malos and the war with Coeia starts. You never get to see that Titan so theres another new environment there until it gets obliterated in the opening of Torna.

[Sepholio]

One of the creators said they aren't done with the Xeno series and actually have a lot planned. Makes me wonder if they will try to tie it more to the Saga/Blade entries?

[Destor]

U til 3 i thought torna was the series peak.

[Destor]

It was nearly perfect. Just an outstanding expiration

[Sepholio]

Well if you are saying XC3 is better than Torna then color me hyped. Finished that last night btw. Just an awesome experience.

Ripped XC3 from the switch to my PC and have set up a bunch of mods to make it run faster with more graphical flourishes. Can't wait to dig in tonight.

Btw, dunno if you have a beefy PC, but ripping your switch games to PC makes the vast majority of them so much better. I mainly do it so the kids can carry on with the switch and I can play my games without the fear of them wrecking/deleting them or having to fight with them over playtime.

[Sepholio]

A good example is Metroid: Dread. That game was a vastly superior experience in 4k/60fps with 16x AA filtering.

[Destor]

Thats interesting. I hadnt considered it. I like the ease of the switch but i can appreciate the obvious upsides

[Sepholio]

Its not entirely without issues on the very high end of titles, XC3 being about the peak of the switch pyramid rn. Makes emulating it more difficult because of random programming tricks the devs use to squeeze out every extra drop of power. I get some rare texture flickering in very small spots, things like that. But when I've changed the depth of field, upgraded the textures in general, have superior lighting enabled and its run smooth at 60fps in a much higher resolution, well...yeah Ill have my occasional graphical bug and be happy about it.

[Sepholio]

I used to love the switch. That was before my 2 youngest both gold old enough to join the fray over it. I don't want no part of that lol. They can sus it out, I'll just the old busted switch (screen is borked) to run a hacked OS so I can rip my carts to the PC and play in peace lol.

[Sepholio]

lol getting rid of the item harvesting animations and all the field skill stuff (at least so far) is such a great QoL improvement that it alone makes this better than XC2.

[Ruien]

Starting a second playthrough of Octopatch today. Have not touched it since it launched years ago. Pretty sure I forgot half of the storylines.

[Sepholio]

Holy ballsack the world in XC3 is huge. Feel like I've covered as much ground as the original game and I'm just getting to the first settlement other than the one in the intro chapter. Kinda reminds me of XCXs world more than either of the 2 main line games, although from the scenery I have a really good idea of where I am in relation to earlier entries. Feels kinda barren though, hoping that changes.

[Lock Jaw]

Currently not playing anything.

[Fignuts]

Tried out Deathloop aince its on gamepass. Turns out its actually pretty damn good. Kind of like if Dishonored was a roguelite.

[Destor]

Its on my rader im just drowning in rpgs right now

[drave]

i tend to get annoyed doing the same thing over and over. never got into hades, despite it being a good game.

[Destor]

Slay the spire, darkest dungeon and ring of pain are good. Tactics rougelike Othercide wasnt bad but way too difficult in the early game

[Fignuts]

Tried Gundam Overwatch. Its fun, but I'm not sure its going to be interesting enough for people who aren't familiar with the mobile suits.

[Lock Jaw]

Tuesday update:

Currently not playing anything.

[screech]

Pitched a perfect game in RBI Baseball 21 during a staff meeting today

[screech]

Been playing a bunch of Neon Abyss. Fun game to jump in and get a run done on my break

[drave]

another 2042 update. they are fixing maps in a reeeeeeeeeeeally good way.




cant wait till proper classes return next season. RIP my game time

[Sepholio]

Battlefield sucks almost as hard as The Shitman.

[Fignuts]

Beat Deathloop. Highly recommended. Shame that Bethesda turned everyone off of it by shoving it down everyones throats at shows and stuff. Deserves to be regarded more highly.

[drave]

Battlefield sucks almost as hard as The Shitman.


Agreed. You clearly know nothing about fans of the genre.

[Destor]

:lol:

[drave]

Destor's emoji response says more than all those words.




If you don't know...




BF fans almost ALWAYS shit on every new game for a very long time. During that time, the previously released title will be praised, despite being shit on before the release of the new one.


So at this time..... BF2042 is almost a year old. So, it sucks, but also doesn't suck. It will continue to awesomely suck until season 3, when they bring back classes. But then, there will be new awesome suckiness yet to be defined :)

[Sepholio]

I'm just rolling back through to say again that the size of XC3s world is insane.

[Destor]

Right??? And mechanically this game is tight. 145 hours in

[Lock Jaw]

Currently not playing anything.

[Fignuts]

I'll bet no one's answer is Overwatch 2.

[Destor]

Feel like thats doomed

[Destor]

Seems like it has anti hype

[Ruien]

Will give it a go this weekend. Hoping I don't need to grind in the aimless world of quickplay to play ranked.

[drave]

They've made a lot of dumb decisions with OW2.


I just uninstalled OW so it didn't auto-update to 2. No interest at all.

[Fignuts]

Chivalry 2

If you have gamepass, download that shit right now. Its like battlefield combined with skyrim. So fun.

[Destor]

Sf6 closed beta is tomorrow. Looking forward to hearing the feedback

[drave]

Chivalry 2

If you have gamepass, download that shit right now. Its like battlefield combined with skyrim. So fun.




wat!


DOING IT NAO!

[Fignuts]

If you chop a dudes head off you can pick it up and throw it at people.

[drave]

HA!

Fucking outstanding. I'd do it that because it's in the damn game. Would be great if it demoralized them or something, affecting their stats.

[Fignuts]

You can also pick up random objects. I picked up a chicken, lit it on fire and killed a guy with it.

[weather vane]

F Zero

[drave]

You can also pick up random objects. I picked up a chicken, lit it on fire and killed a guy with it.




Flaming Cock Fatality :lol:

[drave]

Went through the tutorial, but had to stop right before the last part of it. Probably have to do it again.


It's kinda rock-paper-scissors in a way.... a but like For Honor, but maybe easier//better? I dunno, seems really cool so far though, but DEFINITELY going to take time to git gud.

[Fignuts]

Yeah when they say its a fighting game, they're not kidding. You mash buttons, you get wrecked. A lot of nuance to the combat.

[Ruien]

Played like 10 Overwatch 2 games. Same game with some slight modifications. Don't get me wrong, Overwatch is an amazing game. Just already played it for many many hours.

Was hoping for a complete tune up. What they put out makes sense because its free. I thought this was going to be a solo campaign game though? Slightly confused on that aspect.

[Fignuts]

PvE was delayed until 2023

[Savio]

Apparently Mario/Rabbids 2 replay value is as bad as the firsts. Still excited for the first playthrough though

[Destor]

I dont need repayablity from it tbh

[Destor]

Mid 80s on metacritic

[Savio]

Id like to go through the game a second time, but there is no way I am going to go through all that boring puzzle padding twice.

[Destor]

I like the puzzles :(

[Helmsphere]

Dragon Ball The Breakers. Pretty fun game thru I suck all types of ass in it.

Guess I know what Yamcha feels like.

[Big Vic]

I like the puzzles :(

I think the actual puzzles them selves are fine but doing them a 2nd time is tedious. If I recall Mario doesn't move the fastest and there is a lot of back and forth.

[ClockShot]

Gots me an invite to the Skull and Bones tech test this weekend. Catch is I gotta agree to an NDA.

Tempted to do it. But I feel like I'll just be wasting time with what I've been seeing.

[Savio]

I think the actual puzzles them selves are fine but doing them a 2nd time is tedious. If I recall Mario doesn't move the fastest and there is a lot of back and forth.

It's been fine so far, the between battle parts haven't been so bad.

[Destor]

Im still playing xenoblade but i it looks great

[Sepholio]

Destor....how far are you into XC3?

[Destor]

190 hours. Im in what i assume is the end game area


just entering the mobius base. Big sphere thing at the center of the map. Half awake and cant think of the name



edit


origin?

[Destor]

Im told theres about 10 hours of post game though and i have a lvl 110 super boss i gotta beat too

[Sepholio]

ok, so you're far enough for me to say the word I wanna say because it's been killing me.

Biffteen.

[Sepholio]

I'm pretty much where you are story-wise. Think I just hit like 140 hours. I'm grinding out all the class levels for everyone now and completing the plethora of quests that open up in chapter 7 and getting all the settlements to 5 star affinity. Haven't even started the super bosses yet, although I could probably drop the first 2 at this point. I'm not even trying the 105/110 ones yet. I'll do em all when I'm ready to fight the one thats locked behind beating the first 4.

[Destor]

I dont know how to beat a lvl120 enemy. I cant wrap my brain around it. Ive got all colonies maxed save 2. I think the quests my be locked for post game. All classes are ranked up and every hero has access to everything. They have all at lvl10 and most have 7+ at lvl20.



Biffteen had me dying

[Destor]

I could beat the 105 now for sure i just figured id save them for post game to give me something challenging to finish with

[Destor]

Only thing that would work in my head for lvl120 is load everyone with art = chain and crit = chain and use tiaon+ eunie chain for full heal every 15 to 20 seconds. The boss would kill everyone in one blow though so that might not even work

[Sepholio]

https://i.imgur.com/jUoytLW.jpg

[Destor]

Firmly cements Senna as best girl

[Destor]

Cleared the main story. What a fucking trilogy. Masterpiece? Reasonable to say. Still have 5-10 hours of stuff i want to to do. So another week or 2 depending on how much free time i get.

[OssMan]

Final Fantasy 12

God this games battle system so fucking good... criminal that no other game ever did anything with gambits

Didnt understood the story when i was 16 and i still don't but i don't care. Its so fun, grinding is fun, the locations are massive and breathtaking... I don't even hate Vaan anymore I just like to make fun of him. God i love this game

[OssMan]

Cleared the main story. What a fucking trilogy. Masterpiece? Reasonable to say. Still have 5-10 hours of stuff i want to to do. So another week or 2 depending on how much free time i get.

you liked xenoblade 1? I was hyped for it because of how much I love Xenogears but I found xenoblade to be pretty lame... similar to ff12 the battles were okay and locations/music were nice, but i found every party member to be insufferable. the premise of the story with the bionis/mechonis feud was cool but not executed well i dont think... still to this day want to vomit if i hear the word "the monado."

Also Xenoblade X was like 15 hours of really boring tutorials...never got past that

Would like to enjoy the series but was kinda turned off by my guys going ITS REYN TIME! and THIS IS THE POWER OF THE MONADO! every 5 seconds

Also been trying to play xenoSaga for years and have barely made it 10 hours into the first game... i always fall asleep

Simply put Xenogears da bess

[Destor]

It sounds like xeno may not be for you honestly. I played xbc1 after xbc2 when it dropped on the switch so its hard for me to say how id had taken it as a stand alone title. 2 hooked me not 1.

That said xenoblade 1-3 concludes the xenogears story in a very satisfying way:

what hooked me is the ending of xbc2. I liked 2 well enough. Combat was whatever. World was real cool. I liked the characters and the big ole anime tiddies were a huge plus. I enjoyed it. I didnt gush for it, but definitely enjoyed it.

When i got to the end i was blown away and slightly confused. It was a different game. i could tell it was, for the 1st time, calling back to xb1 but there was this other level that felt very familiar.

I went to Google, because the copies of xbc1 on the wii were outrageous, and read on the ending of xbc1. It was literally Klaus' story from xenogear continued. My mind was shattered. When xbc1 one dropped on the switch i played it and loved.

And xbc3 ties a bow on the whole xenosaga (see what i did there?) perfectly concluding this Klaus story in some really beautiful games.

[Fignuts]

Are Xeno gears, saga and blade all connected or is it kind of a final fantasy type of deal?

[Destor]

Written by the same guy who doesnt have the rights to the past entries. Saga hasnt been tied to blade yet but id imagine now that this arc is over it will in xbc4. Theyre connected unquestionably but youll play these 100+ hour games with zero connection and the last 5 hours will make no sense unless youve played the other games

[Destor]

Just 1st tried the lvl120 suoer boss. He was... very very easy

[Destor]

206 hours. Ill def pick it up when the expansion drops. Might go back for the next wave of dlc might wait for the expansion. DUNNO

[Sepholio]

I think Im gonna run through Origin tomorrow tbh. I've cleaned up all the quests I can find and only have 2 colonies left to max and know thats gonna be handled post game.

And yeah, I will for sure be back for the expansion but I'm going to wait to play the wave 3 content until it comes out so I can use that to get reacquainted with the mechanics before hitting the expansion. Unless of course it ends up being a standalone expansion again, in which case I'll prob hit wave 3 when they confirm that.

[Destor]

I imagine the expansion being about the cities founders

[drave]

trying out Persona 5 Royal. Love the combat, not so much the in-between exploration.

[Fignuts]

trying out Persona 5 Royal. Love the combat, not so much the in-between exploration.

I know its a cultural thing, but I hated how everyone in the beginning treats you like dogshit because you had the absolute gall to prevent a woman from getting raped.

[drave]

Yeeeeeeeah, that was a bit off-putting.


My kids were eating lunch, and as soon as I saw the jiggles, I knew where they were going. Thankfully, the 7 year old did not.

[Destor]

You were convicted as her assulter though...

[Sepholio]

Yeah I dunno what they are talking about. They didn't treat you any kind of way because you saved her, they treated you like shit because they thought you were the perp.

[Destor]

The justice system was weilded against you so effectively your own parents banished you.

[Sepholio]

That final battle in XC3 took agesssssss.

[Destor]

It was very lengthy lol

[Sepholio]

Think I'm gonna give smt5 a go. Any good?

[Destor]

Fucking loved it.

[Destor]

Yo was lifesage busted or what?

[Sepholio]

I honestly didn't tinker with lifesage much, but from what I did it seemed fairly OP. I prefer the support healer classes more though (signifier and troubadour) but I know if I ever was to hit a battle where I was struggling that I'm calling in a lifesage or 2 to rectify that situation.

[Destor]

Between the class and Nias chain attack abilities its basically auto win.

[Sepholio]

I dont think I ever used her chain attack ability tbh. Everything was already trivial anyways with the time I invested into the soul hacker class. So. Much. Damage.

[Destor]

She revives all fallen allies and they can participate in the chain attack. So heals are garunteed. Soul hacker is def legit once you get the high lvl skills

[drave]

lol, that definitely sounds like cheating :D

[Sepholio]

SMT5 seems extremely weird and I am totes mcgotes here for it.

Again I would like to praise the ease at which you can rip switch games to PC. SMT5 and XC are clearly held back by the switch. Its really noticeable in SMT5. The shadows and the jaggies made me go straight to ripping this one as well. Now instead of 720p/30fps I am playing in 4k/60 with upgraded textures/shadows and increased LOD. Also scaled back the ambient occlusion that made some things look...weird.

Honestly all of this is making me think about a steam deck so I can still kick back elsewhere and play but also get better settings.

[Destor]

Have you played other mainline smt games?


(I love my steam deck. Playing trails in the sky 3 on it currently)

[Sepholio]

Yeah I played Nocturne way back on PS2

[Fignuts]

Have you played other mainline smt games?


(I love my steam deck. Playing trails in the sky 3 on it currently)

Oh, you've got a steam deck. How is it? And have you bought fire pro yet?

[Helmsphere]

About to be heading to Bayonetta 3. So the breakers is finally gonna get a break.

Also is the steam deck worth it. Been considering it even if only for Fire Pro.

[Destor]

I purchased the steam deck because i wanted to be able to play steam ttiles on my tv. For that alone i think its worth it. As far as the handheld devide its very well built and has all the functionality youd expect from what is essentially a gaming laptop. If you play exclusively on desktop there's no need for it but i love the device a lot.

@figgy I have the latest fire pro but i havent had time for it. Huge backlog atm.

@seph you should be fine with smt5 then. QOL alone make it the best in the series for my money though the super boss is more cheap than difficult.

[Fignuts]

fyi wait for a sale on fire pro dlc. They are definitely overpriced, but worth it if you can catch them on a discount.

[OssMan]

Currently "engaged" in:

XenoGears
Secret of Mana with my friend
Final Fantasy 13 (already beat it and characters are maxed out, but I am trying to finish the last 2 hunts)
Super Mario Galaxy 2, only need a few more comet stars

Started but have not finished/played in a while:
Star Ocean: The Second Story (have been on the final boss for over a year)
Valkyrie Profile (stuck in some ridiculous fucking tower)
Pikmin
Shenmue
Super Mario 64
Earthbound Zero/Mother

Am going to play once I finally finish all these fucking games:
Rule of Rose
Final Fantasy 12 again
A bunch of stuff
Update on this post from 2010: I beat rule of rose 2 years ago on emulator after letting my friend sell my copy for 200$, and it's now up to about 600$. And i'm 50 hours into my 2nd playthrough of Final Fantasy 12 :y:

[Destor]

I love ff12

[Destor]

Are you playing the zodiac version? The leveling is way better

[Sepholio]

SMT5 is fun and is scratching my completionist itch in that I have to have every monster in my compendium. I will catch and/or fuse them all damnit, just like I did in Persona 5.

Wonder if they have the giant dick riding in a chariot again lol

[ClockShot]

God of War: Ragnarök..........in about a few hours from now.

[Sepholio]

man i was at the store to get it as soon as they opened and these fucks dont have it out yet and wouldnt go get it from the back. Too busy standing around looking at their phones.

I wonder if they'll like it later when one of their bosses gets on their ass about it because they were behind schedule and refused to take 60 seconds of their time to help a customer that just so happens to be her husband lmao. I told her not to worry about it of course because it's not a big deal but shes the kind of person that will use it to go make a point lol

[Destor]

SMT5 is fun and is scratching my completionist itch in that I have to have every monster in my compendium. I will catch and/or fuse them all damnit, just like I did in Persona 5.

Wonder if they have the giant dick riding in a chariot again lol
Mara and yeslol

[Lock Jaw]

Currently not playing anything.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Star Trek: Prodigy- Supernova.

Simple game. Full cast audio though and a good story.

It's not Pizzarific but it's not bad.

[OssMan]

Are you playing the zodiac version? The leveling is way better

yep... Although I do find a lot of the classes and weapons kinda useless

[drave]

No clue how late to this dance I am, but Godfall.




God damn, how did I NOT hear about this game before now?? This shit is AMAZINGLY fun and I find it rather unique when trying to compare it to similar titles.


I get a lil bit of Destiny, Elden Ring and World of Warcraft//Diabloish vibes from it. The combat is so fucking fast and furious and GORGEOUS.


Only gripe thus far is the main characters voice is so LOUD compared to every other voice in the game. Seventh Sanctum nearly whispers in comparison.