So, what're you playing?

[Morat20]

Last couple nights I've been playing Deus Ex (the newer one) a bit. I seem to have lost most of my patience for stealth games, and despite mostly being over 'shooters', I'm playing it pretty much as a cover shooter. But it is slowly sucking me into wanting to stealth through parts...

Possibly because it's much better as a stealth game? Sneaking up on people to do the takedowns is fun as hell.

[Sky]

If only they'd legalize marijuana in NY, I'd be all over stealth games again.

[lamaros]

Anyone played frozen cortex? Is it any good.

[Samwise]

Did you just get a coupon too?   

Looks like Frozen Synapse meets Blood Bowl?

[Morat20]

I started poking at Might Quest for Epic Loot, mostly because I felt like being depressed.

There could have been a good game there. There isn't.

Way too much cash grab, way too little effective tools. Yes, please, I'd LOVE to defend my castle against enemy heroes. Unfortunately, what I've got is a pay to win system here with a poorly designed defense mechanic setup. No wonder the effective defenses are cheesy. There's nothing particularly clever you can do.

The traps and trap design mechanics are crap, the inability to really alter floor layouts (and the chosen designs) are crap, and even the creatures are crap.

I wish this game hadn't sucked so much.  I'd have played the shit out of it if it were even marginally better. Just half-assed.

[Khaldun]

I just kind of feel like "Mighty Quest for Epic Loot" is practically prepping you for feeling disappointed from the title onward. "Oh, do you feel sad and disappointed, like it's a cynical cash grab? That's totes part of our ironic take on the genre, working as intended."

[Trippy]

Ubisoft.

[Paelos]

Ubisoft.

 

[lamaros]

I'm still playing CS:GO about four nights a week. I haven't played a single game this consistently since back in the MMORPG days, and even then I'd be hitting burnout now.

This is the best CS has ever been for sure.

[Jeff Kelly]

Finished up Metroid Prime. had to start up a new game because I missed two scans. Plan on starting off Prime 2 soon.

[Lucas]

.....

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!!!

 

[Samwise]

That game is so damn good.

[Quinton]

Entry is not guaranteed.

[MisterNoisy]

"...totes..."

I don't know why, but this has been my least favorite word (particularly online) for some years now.

[ezrast]

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!!!

I gave that another shot the other day while my internet connection was down. I want to find the fun but it's the most stress-inducing game I have ever played. I just can't handle it.

[Samwise]

Working as intended.  Immersion!

[Mac]

Finished Dragon Age: Inquisition and now mostly playing Civ V and Elite: Dangerous until GTA V gets released for PC (or gets delayed again).

[MrHat]

I've been playing waaaaay too much Diablo 3.

My second character in season 2 is on his way to fully geared.

[Yegolev]

Skyrim!

Any opinions on The Order: 1886?

[Ironwood]

TV ad makes it look cool.

So it's probably shite.

[Paelos]

It's supposedly quite short.

[HaemishM]

I've been playing Hex obsessively. I finally finished a game of Crusader Kings II successfully, building my Finnish Dynasty until it ranked above the Komenian Dynasty of the Byzantines. I'll probably start on Shadowrun: Dragonfall during my lunch hours while playing Hex at night.

[Khaldun]

I finished the first Shadowrun campaign. I dunno why, it just didn't grab me, even though I think it was fine. Looking forward to trying Dragonfall, though, given how much more people seemed to like it.

I think maybe it was just that I found the combat kind of boring in a lot of cases, and the dialogue trees had relatively few branching points.

[rk47]

CK2 campaign...




The whole Spain is Sunni now, Byzantine is lead by a 'Slow' 5 year old Basileus facing a Caliphate Jihad for Anatolia at 97% warscore lead by a 6 year old Caliph.
This isn't anyone's fault btw, it's just that Paradox made Muslims too damn EZ mode for the AI now for the other beliefs to compete.

[tmp]

Any opinions on The Order: 1886?

There's a full play through on youtube that's 7 or so hours long, with all (but one) unskippable cutscenes included. You can save yourself chunk of money and just watch it, same experience. It may be even better than the real thing, because it turns the one-shot-death section into a hilarious experience as you get to watch someone else suffer through it.

[Khaldun]

It's gotten pretty consistently wretched reviews.

[Velorath]

Playing Symphony of the Night right now after having not played it since it was new and am reminded of how much better the NES games and IV are than SOTN and all the Metroidvania stuff that followed.

[Margalis]

I like Order of Ecclesia quite a bit, but yes, the NES and SNES games (well, IV, Dracula X not so much) are better.

SOTN is one of those games that was never really great but more novel and promising, but now that that sort of design has become rote the luster has worn off.

[ezrast]

Wait, really? I always thought SotN was the pinnacle of the series - not so much because of extensive personal experience; it's just the only one I ever got into and I loved it. What should I have been playing instead?

[Teleku]

I'm with you ezrast.  Loved the game, and its by far my favorite (though I havent played them all).

[murdoc]

Wait, really? I always thought SotN was the pinnacle of the series - not so much because of extensive personal experience; it's just the only one I ever got into and I loved it. What should I have been playing instead?

SotN is one of my favourite games of all time.

[Velorath]

I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it's not a good Castlevania game, and it's not really a great Metroid game either. Igarashi took away a lot of what was good about the series specifically to make the game longer, but all the backtracking you have to do just makes it more repetitive to me.

[Rendakor]

SotN is my favorite metroidvania by far, and one of my all time favorites. I thought Order of Ecclesia was the weakest of the DS offerings, because I prefer one giant map ala SotN and Super Metroid to a series of disconnected locations.

[Jeff Kelly]

I've now started Metroid Prime 2. So far I don't realy get the praise it gets from fans. The puzzles are more intricate which I like. The dark world/light world stuff and the forced damage mechanic/safe zones is just fucking annoying. Finding the right portal, moving from safe zone to safe zone. Decreased mobility when fighting enemies due to forced damage when not in a safe zone. Also several fetch quests to drag the game out even more.

And "beam weapons" now need ammo.

Also most enemies are now bullet sponges that take a long time to kill but are boring to fight (shooting was never the focus of Prime) which becomes annoying quickly due to the respawn mechanic in this game. MP 1 gets easier and more fun the longer you play because traversal of the world gets easier with more upgrades and standard enemies are no longer a hassle due to the better weaponry.

MP 2 is just a slog compared to 1

[Druzil]

I agree on SotN, I love that game.  Just the sheer amount of weapon variety that you can play through the game with gives it a replay-ability that most games like that don't have.  Order of Ecclesia and Aria of Sorrow were both pretty good but I really dislike playing games on the DS so that skews my view on them a bit.  I personally think Lords of Shadow is highly underrated though obviously not the same kind of game.

I was not a fan of Prime 2, I'm pretty sure I did not finish that one.  The Light/Dark thing was just not fun IMO.  I thought 3 was much better than 2, it had more epic boss fights and had more of the feel of the first Prime.