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Whatcha Been Playin': Strong Alone, Stronger Together Edition
- Thread starter Strike
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Finishing my favorite game of the year so far:
I am just completing the bounty and some of the mini-games before moving up with either Hollow Knight or Ni No Kuni II.
I am just completing the bounty and some of the mini-games before moving up with either Hollow Knight or Ni No Kuni II.
Well, I dropped 60 on Anthem so I guess I gotta beat it lol gonna start tonight
Have fun with Spider-man OP, it's really fun.
Have fun with Spider-man OP, it's really fun.
Finished all 8 stories of Octopath Traveler, I'll leave the post-game for later but I've had an amazing time with this game.
I also finished Parascientific Escape ~ Gear Detective, let's call it Zero Escape lite. It's basically a 5 hour VN with escape room puzzles with a story about a detective with chronokinetic powers who finds out that there are others with the same powers that want to kill a CEO from a weapon manufacturer. It has a couple of sloppy spelling errors and the writing is nothing particularly interesting but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Today I've started playing Valkyria Chronicles Remastered and I'm already addicted.
I also finished Parascientific Escape ~ Gear Detective, let's call it Zero Escape lite. It's basically a 5 hour VN with escape room puzzles with a story about a detective with chronokinetic powers who finds out that there are others with the same powers that want to kill a CEO from a weapon manufacturer. It has a couple of sloppy spelling errors and the writing is nothing particularly interesting but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Today I've started playing Valkyria Chronicles Remastered and I'm already addicted.
Finished Far Cry New Dawn earlier this week and have been playing Metro Exodus and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy since. Not to far in Metro Exodus and about 2/3 of the way thru Jedi Academy according to walk through's.
Started playing Red dead redemption 2 yesterday. Very slow start but i'm starting to enjoy it now.
I've been playing Yakuza Kiwami but I don't think I'm going to stick with it. I like the story but I don't find anything else about it interesting.
Also tried Trials Rising, which I liked but getting enough trophies to keep unlocking new courses was too difficult for me. I'm obviously not very good at it, but it seems like you have to get a lot of gold medals to keep going.
Also tried Trials Rising, which I liked but getting enough trophies to keep unlocking new courses was too difficult for me. I'm obviously not very good at it, but it seems like you have to get a lot of gold medals to keep going.
Yo-kai Watch 3 and Etrian Odyssey Nexus for 3DS.
Man I'm tired of Etrian Odyssey games but there's not much else to play on handhelds these days so I'm stuck with this one. Why the hell every Etrian sequel look exactly like each other? Why is there nothing but goddamn leaves in every labyrinth? Why do I have to grind for every new recruit and inn's cost?
Man I'm tired of Etrian Odyssey games but there's not much else to play on handhelds these days so I'm stuck with this one. Why the hell every Etrian sequel look exactly like each other? Why is there nothing but goddamn leaves in every labyrinth? Why do I have to grind for every new recruit and inn's cost?
Pretty wide range:
Dragon Quest XI- About 50 hours in. Just a warm JRPG blanket, great story too.
Resident Evil 2 Remake- Wrapping up Leon B. Easily a GOTY contender.
MGS1- PS1 Classic on Vita. Just had the need to play through the series again. Just beat Grey Fox and met Otacon.
Dragon Quest XI- About 50 hours in. Just a warm JRPG blanket, great story too.
Resident Evil 2 Remake- Wrapping up Leon B. Easily a GOTY contender.
MGS1- PS1 Classic on Vita. Just had the need to play through the series again. Just beat Grey Fox and met Otacon.
FFIX switch. But I've been struggling to get into anything lately. It's all been uninteresting. Maybe I need a break.
Smash Bros. Ultimate, mostly just random online matches
Kingdom Hearts 3, about to do the Big Hero 6 world
Will be playing Kid Icarus Uprising in a moment, want to play through it but not sure if I should make an entirely new save or just redo each chapter from my original save.
Kingdom Hearts 3, about to do the Big Hero 6 world
Will be playing Kid Icarus Uprising in a moment, want to play through it but not sure if I should make an entirely new save or just redo each chapter from my original save.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - Got this with $2 Game Pass and almost done with the story and all the collectibles. I figured I might as well 100% it since I have GP for two months. I'm interested in the DLCs, but maybe I'll get a complete edition when it goes on sale.
Next maybe Resident Evil 2 either Hardcore or Claire A/Leon B because I'm so addicted to this game.
After that maybe Crackdown 3, although I don't feel like I'll have enough interest to finish it.
Next maybe Resident Evil 2 either Hardcore or Claire A/Leon B because I'm so addicted to this game.
After that maybe Crackdown 3, although I don't feel like I'll have enough interest to finish it.
I'm also playing DQXI, about 60 hours in. Probably the most fun I've had with a JRPG in quite some time.
Beyond that it's Tetris-99, Rocket League and Enter the Gungeon to break up the grind of DQ
Been playing Smash Ultimate with my kids. This is the first Smash game for me and what a blast! Can't believe I ignored this series till now.
Also started Metro Exodus and, while still on the early game, I'm loving the atmosphere and the sense of weight and grounding in my actions. Good old-fashioned single-player, no loot/xp grind, ignoring trophies, late night headphones on bliss.
Also started Metro Exodus and, while still on the early game, I'm loving the atmosphere and the sense of weight and grounding in my actions. Good old-fashioned single-player, no loot/xp grind, ignoring trophies, late night headphones on bliss.
Played my first game Darkest Dungeon the other day. Probably made a mistake trying to use a controller since in PC all the button prompts are for PS4 and the UI is not very clear. Spent most of the time trying out how to do basic stuff.
Also: Everspace, Steamworld Dig 2, Dead Cells
Also: Everspace, Steamworld Dig 2, Dead Cells
Anthem-having a blast playing with a buddy.
Dead Cells--hadn't played the past update, loved that they made the default difficulty way easier. Finally completed a run and did a few more to see all the biomes and get all the runes.
Tetris 99--haven't done better than 7th, but it's fun.
Apex Legends--think I'm close to bailing as my suckiness is getting more noticeable as the skill floor rises. At least got semi-carried to 3 wins earlier.
NSMBU Deluxe-still chipping away at it and mostly regretting re-buying it after having it on the Wii U.
Dead Cells--hadn't played the past update, loved that they made the default difficulty way easier. Finally completed a run and did a few more to see all the biomes and get all the runes.
Tetris 99--haven't done better than 7th, but it's fun.
Apex Legends--think I'm close to bailing as my suckiness is getting more noticeable as the skill floor rises. At least got semi-carried to 3 wins earlier.
NSMBU Deluxe-still chipping away at it and mostly regretting re-buying it after having it on the Wii U.
Alien Isolation and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
I've had Alien Isolation in my backlog for sometime and finally decided to give it a proper go. I'm really enjoying it for the most part. The alien is a bit of a bother at some points in the game. I don't like how it knows exactly where I am if I happen to set off a security camera and it seems to linger around at crucial story bits but overall It's quite good and despite dying repeatedly, I find my self trying again and again.
Link to the Past is one of my favorites and I try to play it every few years or so. I'm playing it via SNES classic with a wireless SN30 pro. I really like the controller but the buttons click a bit too much for me so I'm thinking about swapping out the guts of an actual snes controller with what the 8bitdo one comes with.
I've had Alien Isolation in my backlog for sometime and finally decided to give it a proper go. I'm really enjoying it for the most part. The alien is a bit of a bother at some points in the game. I don't like how it knows exactly where I am if I happen to set off a security camera and it seems to linger around at crucial story bits but overall It's quite good and despite dying repeatedly, I find my self trying again and again.
Link to the Past is one of my favorites and I try to play it every few years or so. I'm playing it via SNES classic with a wireless SN30 pro. I really like the controller but the buttons click a bit too much for me so I'm thinking about swapping out the guts of an actual snes controller with what the 8bitdo one comes with.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Liked previous two games, like new additions to characters' story and new gameplay mechanics. Not that far into the game but it's decent enough to hold its own in the series. Only downside are the graphics look kinda blurry compared to previous games.
I am addicted to FFXIV somehow. God I can't wait until it's June so that I can get to the expansions, which is apparently where the meat of the game is.
Currently making my way thru Metro Exodus. Having a lot of fun with that, I also got FarCry New Dawn but I may return it before finishing tbh its just not that good.
Trying to focus on just 2 games at a time to clear backlog a bit (and not buying new ones at the moment):
Finished Resident Evil HD Remake for the first time in my life, because I loved what I saw in Resident Evil 2 Remake footage and I want to play it as soon as possible. I figured that I will play the first one first. It was really fun all in all, I loved the puzzles, figuring out what to do next and the atmosphere. I did not like the clunkiness of the controls, the cameras and some of the mechanics, but these are changed in RE2 so I am happy to play it soon.
Got back to Assassin's Creed Odyssey after dropping it twice out of frustration and it being very bland. Now, I'm 16 hours in and either something clicked or I adjusted to the mindless gameplay where I just do things and other things happen without putting too much thought in it. I'm picking up colorful armor pieces and weapons left and right and Kassandra is charismatic (I think) so I will stick with it for now and try to finish main quest line at least. It's a fine game for when I'm tired after a long day at work.
Astro Bot - 1 world and 1 boss fight left. This game is wonderful. It plays really good, it has perfect amount of challenge to not feel trivial but also not frustrating to me. Great graphics, music and creative levels. I almost don't want to finish it, but I will still have challenge levels left. This would have probably been near my GOTY last year if I finished it earlier.
I've also tried Metro 2033 Redux briefly before going back to AC - another game that I started playing because I never did and new part just came out. I don't know if I will keep playing it though. It has great atmosphere, but not much else that I'm enjoying. So far I've been going through corridors and listening to others without responding (silent protagonist which I hate in games) and little gameplay opportunities that were given to me from time to time were not satisfying at all. I'm playing on Spartan so it's possible that playing stealthily makes this game a lot better, but I don't like stealth games.
I might just go to RE2 or Ace Combat 7 instead.
Finished Resident Evil HD Remake for the first time in my life, because I loved what I saw in Resident Evil 2 Remake footage and I want to play it as soon as possible. I figured that I will play the first one first. It was really fun all in all, I loved the puzzles, figuring out what to do next and the atmosphere. I did not like the clunkiness of the controls, the cameras and some of the mechanics, but these are changed in RE2 so I am happy to play it soon.
Got back to Assassin's Creed Odyssey after dropping it twice out of frustration and it being very bland. Now, I'm 16 hours in and either something clicked or I adjusted to the mindless gameplay where I just do things and other things happen without putting too much thought in it. I'm picking up colorful armor pieces and weapons left and right and Kassandra is charismatic (I think) so I will stick with it for now and try to finish main quest line at least. It's a fine game for when I'm tired after a long day at work.
Astro Bot - 1 world and 1 boss fight left. This game is wonderful. It plays really good, it has perfect amount of challenge to not feel trivial but also not frustrating to me. Great graphics, music and creative levels. I almost don't want to finish it, but I will still have challenge levels left. This would have probably been near my GOTY last year if I finished it earlier.
I've also tried Metro 2033 Redux briefly before going back to AC - another game that I started playing because I never did and new part just came out. I don't know if I will keep playing it though. It has great atmosphere, but not much else that I'm enjoying. So far I've been going through corridors and listening to others without responding (silent protagonist which I hate in games) and little gameplay opportunities that were given to me from time to time were not satisfying at all. I'm playing on Spartan so it's possible that playing stealthily makes this game a lot better, but I don't like stealth games.
I might just go to RE2 or Ace Combat 7 instead.
Bit of Anthem. There's been like 3 big Dota2 tournaments this week, so I haven't had much gaming time.
Divinity Original Sin 2 - 3rd time getting into a modern cRPG might just be charm. Bought DoS and while I really liked the battle system I found the characters/story/quests to be a drag. Tried PoE and it was the opposite. Story, presentation etc... were all great but I HATED the combat, it just wasn't fun no matter the difficulty setting. Happy to report I'm LOVING everything about Dos2 so far with no complaints.
Finished REmake 2 so I just moved on to Everybody's Golf. About 5 hours into the campaign. It is wayyyyyy too easy. I come in first in every tourney by 10+ strokes.
Currently at 31h in Anthem, though 10h of that was last weekend with basic access.
Really enjoying it and am now very close to lvl30 and just unlocked a mission that smells/screams final mission.
Thinking of getting to lvl 30, and try to get some Masterworks before going into the story conclusion.
Really enjoying it and am now very close to lvl30 and just unlocked a mission that smells/screams final mission.
Thinking of getting to lvl 30, and try to get some Masterworks before going into the story conclusion.
Started battlefront 2 campaign yesterday, finished it tonight.
Ehhhh.
It was ok. I obviously loved all the visuals and classic SW tunes, but story is meh.
Just started "Resurrection". Not sure if it adds anything worthwhile.
Ehhhh.
It was ok. I obviously loved all the visuals and classic SW tunes, but story is meh.
Just started "Resurrection". Not sure if it adds anything worthwhile.