What Video Game Are You Currently Playing?

[Wyrmwood]

40 minutes ago, Clippy said:

I got addicted to this eat venture phone app game while I'm waiting for things it's pretty fun I get to be a chef

 

I hate cooking but one of my secret guilty games I don't tell anyone about is a copy of Cooking Mama on Nintendo ds. It's surprising hard!

[BedrockCastle]

Been playing a lot of Tony Hawk's Underground Pro recently

[heliumlamb]

caves of qud

i'm fascinated by roguelikes but not fanatical, only really got "super into" dungeon crawl stone soup around a decade ago. with occasional nethack/adom and angband binges once every couple of years, but dcss had always been the one that vibed the best with me. never really played any of those more recent "roguelites" either.

thankfully qud has a mode that doesn't invoke permadeth! something like that does wonders for a new player's experience. i love the tileset also? i don't think i've been able to say that about the tilesets of most other (free and ASCII) roguelikes.

my favorite "phase" of playing a roguelike is when i've no clue about what i'm doing, or what to do at all. i have to cherish this feeling while it lasts. with or without permadeth, just stumbling into a situation where you're no more than 10 turns away from some bonkers death never ceases to make me lose it (good), and i learn something about the mechanics in the process (retrospect). right now i am an amphibious bogchamp.

[MrFroz]

Return of the Obra Dinn with Zenith ZVM 1240 graphics styling. Already got 15 fates uncovered after starting the game yesterday.

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

Just finished Elder Scrolls Arena, it was actualy a prety fun game though it got somewhat repetetive towards the end

[MrFroz]

About to begin playing Vampyr.

Edited October 31, 2022 by MrFroz

[Alfwin]

49 minutes ago, MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai said:

Just finished Elder Scrolls Arena, it was actualy a prety fun game though it got somewhat repetetive towards the end

Oh, nice!  Arena's super underrated.  Sure, it's nowhere near the scope of the later Elder Scrolls games, but it's a fun little dungeon crawler.  In fact, my profile pic is actually supposed to be my current Arena character!

 

I've been hopping around a few different games lately, but the one I've been putting the most time into recently is Diablo 2.

[Rudolph]

I have been going back in forth between Fallout and Fallout 2 lately. The fact that the two games are so very similar means that whenever I discover something about one, I cannot help but feel like going back to the other to see if I can find it there as well. For example, ever since I have discovered just how powerful the VATS system can be in Fallout 2, I just had to go back to Fallout 1 to start a new playthrough as a Finesse One-Hander character; so far, it is going well and the greatest challenge has been to keep my crew alive because of how erratic the companion AI can be. Maybe I should try a solo playthrough so I do not have to worry about these doofuses getting in the way...

Edited October 31, 2022 by Rudolph

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

5 hours ago, Alfwin said:

Oh, nice!  Arena's super underrated.  Sure, it's nowhere near the scope of the later Elder Scrolls games, but it's a fun little dungeon crawler.

Oh nice another Arena respecter, it's so nice to find people that apreciate the first two elder scrolls games, since a lot of people started with Morrowind.

 

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In fact, my profile pic is actually supposed to be my current Arena character!

Let me put my Arena knowledge to test: your character is a female Breton with default head.

Now the class would be harder to determine but since Bretons are talented at all things magic then I guess your class is mage or some of it's subclasses (probably battlemage or even sorcerer as those are pretty popular choices)

[Alfwin]

7 minutes ago, MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai said:

Let me put my Arena knowledge to test: your character is a female Breton with default head.

Now the class would be harder to determine but since Bretons are talented at all things magic then I guess your class is mage or some of it's subclasses (probably battlemage or even sorcerer as those are pretty popular choices)

Hah, good guess!  She is, indeed, a female Breton with the default head!  She's not a mage, though; she's actually a knight.  (shameless self-promotion:) I'm doing a Let's Play series with her over on YouTube.  It's definitely not as OP as a spellcaster class, but so far I'm having a lot of fun.

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

24 minutes ago, Alfwin said:

Hah, good guess!  She is, indeed, a female Breton with the default head!  She's not a mage, though; she's actually a knight.  (shameless self-promotion:) I'm doing a Let's Play series with her over on YouTube.  It's definitely not as OP as a spellcaster class, but so far I'm having a lot of fun.

Oh nice knights are also great choice due to their imunity against paralysis and auto repair which combines nicely with Breton resistance to Magic.

Funnily enough my character that I just finished the game with was a Dark Elf knight.

[Azuris]

6 hours ago, MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai said:

Oh nice another Arena respecter, it's so nice to find people that apreciate the first two elder scrolls games, since a lot of people started with Morrowind.

 

 

 

I started the two a few Years ago, first with Arena and then another Try with Daggerfall.

It is a really brutal start and you really have to get into how the Combat works.

Coming out the first Dungeon alone feels like you have accomplished to beat a Game :>

 

But when the Game than opens up and you can choose how you play and what Combats you take, it really shows all its Benefits.

 

I am right now playing Might and Magic VI and comparing it to Daggerfall, Daggerfall is much more immersive and the Combat feels more personal.

 

I am playing more or less a Rogue and sneaking through Dungeons, being nervous about what lies behind a Door or Corner (because everything could possible kill you) - such a great Thing.

 

I have spend about 30-40 Hours in the Game and tried out to merge my Save Game into the Unity Port.

Sadly it doesn't take your Progress of Quests, only Level and Inventory.

Thats why i am not sure if i have the Motivation to go to such Stuff again, but the additional Content in Form of Mods could be great, as it makes the World even more vivid.

 

 

[Rudolph]

7 hours ago, MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai said:

Breton

?!?

 

Why are there people named after the denizens of Britanny in a fantasy video game? XD

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

36 minutes ago, Rudolph said:

?!?

 

Why are there people named after the denizens of Britanny in a fantasy video game? XD

Cause Bretons are magical irl, crazy I know.

[Rudolph]

Ils sont des magiciens, vive la Bretagne!

[ducon]

Ils ont des chapeaux ronds !

[Wyrmwood]

1 hour ago, Rudolph said:

?!?

 

Why are there people named after the denizens of Britanny in a fantasy video game? XD

 

Aside from the Elder Scrolls games there's also Bretonians in the older Warhammer Fantasy games (the new Total Warhammer games are set in the old Warhammer world, it's complicated) but they are supposed to be kinda based on medieval French. The Empire is Germany and Brittania is Britian, Kislev is Poland etc.

[Rudolph]

Yeah, I guess so, but it still sounds so funny to me. It reminds me of the time when I watched the movie The Scorpion King, where bad guys refer in a dramatic fashion to the Dwayne Johnson character as an Akkadian. Now, I know that Akkadians were real people, but the word sounds exactly like Acadians, i.e. a French-speaking ethnic group in North America made of descendants of 17th-century French settlers, as as such, it sucks the gravitas for me, as I cannot help but imagine The Rock suddenly throwing catchphrases in a Cajun accent. XD

Edited October 31, 2022 by Rudolph

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

37 minutes ago, Rudolph said:

Yeah, I guess so, but it still sounds so funny to me. It reminds me of the time when I watched the movie The Scorpion King, where bad guys refer in a dramatic fashion to the Dwayne Johnson character as an Akkadian. Now, I know that Akkadians were real people, but the word sounds exactly like Acadians, i.e. a French-speaking ethnic group in North America made of descendants of 17th-century French settlers, as as such, it sucks the gravitas for me, as I cannot help but imagine The Rock suddenly throwing catchphrases in a Cajun accent. XD

He'd be like: "I'm from Acadia, hon hon hon, let's eat some frog legs in cajun sauce"

[Lippeth]

Just played over 30 hours of Cultic after hearing about it in another thread and I couldn't put it down until I finished it on every difficulty and completed 100% of achievements (which I've never done before in any game, and have never cared to do). I'd say it rivals TMNT: Shredder's Revenge for my favorite release of this year. It then had me go back and play Blood all the way through. I started with Fresh Supply but ended up starting over with the original exe from the now discontinued GOG release, using an updated DOSBox Staging.

 

I wanted more cult vibes after that so I decided to give Dusk another shot, and I'm going to stubbornly attempt to finish it this time. The setting and atmosphere are really cool, but it's been a challenge to enjoy the voice acting and sound design, and there's something about the combat, level design, music and overall presentation that are really falling flat for me. There's something about it that comes across more like a mod than a game, and I don't even know what that means. I do like the weapon designs, and overall atmosphere as I said, so hopefully that can be enough to get me through because Dusk is so insanely popular that it makes me wonder where I went wrong in my life to not posses the ability to fully enjoy a game that should by all accounts be right up my alley. I want to enjoy it.

[vyruss]

Decided to start a new run in Bloodborne because spooky month (haven't even touched a videogame in over a month tbh).  Saw Cleaver, woo.  Made a very fast run to Cleric Beast then decided to run around and get distracted by collecting shinies.  Made it to BSB then stopped for the night.  Hope to get through Shadows of Yharnam during tonight's session.

Edited October 31, 2022 by vyruss

[Stethr1]

Right now I'm in the middle of replaying Saints Row 2. It's definitely one of my favourite games of all time and probably my favourite open world game. It feels like 12 year old me made my dream version of GTA San Andreas. I just love how dense and detailed it's world is and how memorable each district is. The world honestly feels 10x bigger than it really is. The fact that there's just tiny little mini-games that you can seamlessly enter by just screwing around is awesome. The fact you can walk into a music store, buy songs you heard on the radio and make a custom playlist is something I've always wanted in GTA.

 

It's just a shame the PC version is so completely scuffed. I Have a 5600 and a 3050 and I struggle to get 30fps at times despite the game being over 10 years old at this point. It also just seems to randomly crash with no real warning or reason. It probably has to be one of the worst PC ports out there. I'm convinced that once 360 and PS3 emulators are easy to run for your average user it'll be easier to just emulate it than suffer through this port.

 

Right now I'm playing it with Gentlemen Of The Row installed and a few visual mods that increase the draw distance and darken the nights along with a custom reshade preset I've made. Mostly tweaking the contrast and vibrancy along with Marty Mcfly's RTGI shader to replace the game's own AO and HDR. I think I've found a nice balance between improving the look without pushing the colours too far (I tried not to make the character's skin glow orange for instance).

 

Spoiler

 

[MrFroz]

SOMA. I really like how this game starts...

[Optimus]

I decided to play Lunacid that I recently bought for Steam. It looked like oldschool 3D era dungeon crawler but with great atmosphere, and basically it's inspired by King's Field series which is predecessor in some sense of Dark Souls. I recently was into Dark Souls and started being curious about other older games from FromSoftware. I've seen the PS1 King's Field in some youtube videos, thought hmm,.. no matter how awfully dated it looks, that could be something I could get into if the difficulty/controls are not that awkward.

 

Long story short, I still chicked out from trying any King's Field, so I thought, "What the hell? If Lunacid is inspired by the oldies, but as a newer game it might be a bit more sanitized and easier to get into, I'll give it a try". And I wasn't dissapointed! I tried to check it for half an hour, ended up playing 4 hours straight first day, then I wanted to come back, because it's first person dungeon crawler, with very immersive ambient music/sounds and minimalism and lighting, but also it has those elements of a big world interconnected, with places you can't reach at first but might reach much later from a loop, just like Dark Souls. But in first person perspective which is more immersive in my opinion. And the game is a bit grindy at first, but later you get stronger and it's quite easy. There are just some areas, very well done though, where it's insane atmosphere, being in the dark chased by grotesque monsters, that your weapons don't damage unless you know what element to use, it doesn't tell you, it lets you find things on your own. And there are many secrets and surprises, some of them I had to see walkthrough to be sure I didn't miss anything.

 

So, yes, it totally immersed me, and now it makes me curious to actually go play the King's Field series or other similar.

[Lippeth]

13 minutes ago, LightyM said:

I started Demon's Souls two days ago. I should say, it is very atmospheric and beautiful looking. I'm not sure whether I’m a fan of the whole dark/white world concept, but I have fun with it.

PS3 or the remake one? I've had hours upon hours of fun with the original and found the world tendency mechanic to be really interesting. I could never get into the look of the remake for whatever reason, something about it looks very bland compared to the original, but I imagine it would be more enjoyable having not played so much of the one on PS3.

[heliumlamb]

5 hours ago, Optimus said:

So, yes, it totally immersed me, and now it makes me curious to actually go play the King's Field series or other similar.

please do. all 4 king's field games are fairly easy once your mind adjusts to its pace. king's field 3 is the most "like a field". the controls are close to the same as ps1 doom's defaults, with shoulder button strafing.

eternal ring is mid but sometimes that midpack still hits.

the shadow tower games are a bit "closer" to the conventions and structure from later adopted in the demon's darks (nexus in abyss, soul points, no music)

evergrace is.


other games i find similar to king's field that aren't from's softs (and one of its direct inspirations):

• ultima underworld and system shock (not enhanced, with original controls [digital turning, fuck mouselook] and adlib soundtrack).
  system shock in particular feels closer to KF than underworld, as KF's progression is *mostly* based on inventory and exploration.

 

• dagerfall if you want a messy rogue-esque take on ultima underworld.
• virtual hydlide also hits the rogue-esque mess marks very highly :^3c (but is 3rd person)

fun king's field 4 fact:
it takes 7-8 seconds to do a full 360 degree turn with the run button depressed.

fun doomworld user heliumlamb fact:
i can't play the demon's darks because i have to dissociate the player character model from the world the entire time in order to enjoy it.

[Majin]

just finished ai somnium nirvana trials

i liked it

soundtrack was nice

and the story was good, though the 3rd act may have been incredibly underwhelming, as is standard with the development team behind it

[Osmosis Bones]

I bought System Shock 1 & 2 recently cuz they were on sale. I'm playing the first right now. It's good, but holy hell I should've read the manual first, the controls take some getting used to.

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

12 hours ago, Lippeth said:

PS3 or the remake one? I've had hours upon hours of fun with the original and found the world tendency mechanic to be really interesting. I could never get into the look of the remake for whatever reason, something about it looks very bland compared to the original, but I imagine it would be more enjoyable having not played so much of the one on PS3.

The remake from what I saw looks like a knockoff blizard game with how everything is overdesigned.

Compared to the original where the visuals and enemy design were much more subtle and atmospheric.

[Rudolph]

2 hours ago, Osmosis Bones said:

I bought System Shock 1 & 2 recently cuz they were on sale. I'm playing the first right now. It's good, but holy hell I should've read the manual first, the controls take some getting used to.

The Enhanced Edition features much more intuitive controls, thankfully.