So, what're you playing?

[Mandella]

After all the verbiage on this game, I think you guys just got me to buy a copy.

Hard for hard's sake doesn't do much for me, but a game that you need to pay attention to, as opposed to "play" while watching TV or tabbing around your browser? In 2015??

Yeah I'll play that.

[schild]

Sigh, everything everyone said about Dark Souls was said about Demon's Souls in 2009. If you didn't get on the Souls train then, you've missed out as Demon's Souls is still the best in the series by a mile.

[Falconeer]

So true.

Still, all the Demon's Souls spinoffs are still among the few games truly worth picking up a joypad for these days.

[Quinton]

Sigh, everything everyone said about Dark Souls was said about Demon's Souls in 2009. If you didn't get on the Souls train then, you've missed out as Demon's Souls is still the best in the series by a mile.

I thought we were talking about Demon's Souls!  Oops.

Once again I wish for a Remastered Edition for PS4 and/or PC.

The Dark Souls games do share many properties, but I think the original formula worked best for me.

[Ironwood]

And down goes the Drake.

Fuck you, drake, fuck you.

[Jeff Kelly]

I tried to play Demon's Souls several times, but I just can't use a Dual Shock 3 controller anymore. It's such a step backwards from the 360 or dual shock 4 that I seriously can't be bothered because it weakens my enjoyment too much.

I'd double dip if they ever did a remaster for PS 4.

[Tannhauser]

And down goes the Drake.

Fuck you, drake, fuck you.

Nice.  I'm too chicken shit to take it on yet.  Need to be at least 7th level I think.

[Merusk]

And down goes the Drake.

Fuck you, drake, fuck you.

Congrats. I started over and am finding the fights even more difficult now than before. I strongly believe they upped the difficulty somewhere.

And I now have a Cipher who's just as confusing as a Chanter....

I agree that Ciphers are confusing but Chanters are simple. They're bards who have spells they can cast based on the number of songs they've sung. I make him ranged and cast summons. Not that the summons are great powerful creatures but the ability to put a mob into a flanked position without having to worry about your party's ability navigate the HORRIBLE pathing in the game is useful.

[jakonovski]

Finished Ori and the Blind Forest. Best platforming in ages and beautiful too. The last boss fight was complete bs though.

[Ironwood]

And, just after the Drake, I come across an area that can only be called 'Drakeland', which has a cave with a teenage Dragon.

Down he goes too, after four or five reloads.

Why can't I skin these fuckers ?

[Falconeer]

Playing Disgaea 5 obsessively, taking every free minute of my day ot the point of leaving hte PS4 on for hours so I can come back and play a turn whenever I have 5 minutes. It's the ultimate Japanese tactical RPG, it'll positively haunt me for years. I HOPE I'll be done by the time Fallout 4 comes out or there will be some serious and frustrating clashing and overlapping.

[jakonovski]

I'm on a serious platforming kick, had to buy Axiom Verge to keep the fire going. This game sure doesn't hold your hand. It's great discovering stuff on your own. The music is really really good too. If you have to do pixel art do it like this.

[Rendakor]

Playing Disgaea 5 obsessively, taking every free minute of my day ot the point of leaving hte PS4 on for hours so I can come back and play a turn whenever I have 5 minutes. It's the ultimate Japanese tactical RPG, it'll positively haunt me for years. I HOPE I'll be done by the time Fallout 4 comes out or there will be some serious and frustrating clashing and overlapping.

This right here. I'm even taking my Vita around places so I can Remote Play if the WiFi is good. Fallout might have to wait; only incentive I have to switch over is a coworker who will spoil the shit out of Fallout if I sleep on it.

[satael]

Finished Rebel Galaxy. I did get about 20 hours of playtime from it so it wasn't bad for 20 euros or so (though it did make me want to look for a more complex space sim like Elite or X series, maybe when the Christmas sale on steam hits)

[Rasix]

Still D3 and Heroes Charge.  I think I'll give This War of Mine another shot when I'm in the mood for a resource management game and/or want to be depressed. 

My son, after watching some of the League of Legends World Championship, has decided to learn LoL.  Watching a 6 year old try to play a MOBA is interesting.  Right now he's just doing the tutorial map.  Remembering when to right or left click seems to be his greatest challenge at the moment and.. "son, stay behind your minions."

[Draegan]

My son is not even 9 months old. I wonder what he'll be playing in 5 years.

[Shannow]

My son is not even 9 months old. I wonder what he'll be playing in 5 years.

Ill take bets on Minecraft.

[Rasix]

My son is not even 9 months old. I wonder what he'll be playing in 5 years.

My son isn't much of a gamer (he's 6, I had just gotten a Nintendo by then), but he finds competitive gaming just as interesting as sports.  He watched parts of TI5 (enough that he ran around house pretending to be Summail for weeks or as he calls him "EG Small Coffin")_, and he's currently enjoying Worlds. He was psyched when Pray picked Ashe, who he uses in the tutorial.

He can't get away from the Minecraft chat at school, so he likes to direct me in that.  He just doesn't really do well with PC control schemes. He's much more at home with the iPad, but the Minecraft controls on that are dreadful.  He also cannot stand monsters.  He'll run from the room if a zombie gets near him.

I don't know if I'm being a good or bad nerd parent for not broadening his gaming experience.  I don't want to push it on him. I just kind of let him direct where his interests take him and try not to game around him when he's engaged in something else.

[schild]

I can't help but think that if/when I have a kid, I won't let them dick around with games on a tablet. What a worthless platform for any of the good games promote.

[Yegolev]

He will play Pokemon, and he will complain about the more bullshitty "Who's That Pokemon?" on the show.

[Viin]

But tablet games are very accessible. My kids love the Sago Mini games (like this one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sago-mini-space-explorer/id824289097?mt=8). For a 3yo and 5yo they work great and you have it in your pocket. (Try entertaining a 3yo when dinner is taking 45mins to come out grrrrrr). Though my 5yo is starting to play with more complicated games. She wouldn't be good on a controller yet.

[Rasix]

Touch controls are very intuitive for them. It's more of a substitute for television and parenting than a serious introduction to gaming.  When your kid doesn't watch TV or movies, it's about the only thing you can give them to stop them from moving around when they're sick or being jerks.

[Shannow]

I constantly have to kick my 6 year old off my PC because she says it runs faster than the old laptop I have her Minecraft set up on. Plus I have all the cool mods.

Bloody children.

[Wasted]

Just played 'The Park' which is the Secret World spin-off short horror game.  Its starts off pretty crappy, then gets not too bad then has a big WTF ending.  Not really sure what to make of it, took me about 1.5 hours playing with my wife and kids watching.  They didn't really get scared watching it, there are a couple of jump scares but most of it is creepy atmosphere.

[Yegolev]

Completed the first tutorial battle in Disgaea 5 and was awake for ~90% of it.  I need to do something about one of three time-burglars in my life.

[apocrypha]

It finally happened. I felt like a change from Minecraft. Having checked that I wasn't actually ill or something I played a bit of Shadow of Mordor. It's not bad. I, however, am incredibly bad at it.

[Shannow]

Back on a Civ 5 binge. Going for my first tourism win.

Never realized how good the soundtrack is before. However I'm convinced the guy in the opening song is singing 'Arrrbyyys' at one point. You all know which part I'm talking about.

[Yegolev]

He has the meats?

[Merusk]

Picked up Mortal Combat X because we had a game trailer at the office last week and I enjoyed it for the few vs. matches I got to play against other people who haven't touched a MK game in 9 or 10 years.

My god am I terrible vs. the Ai, though. Got my ass whupped in less than 25 seconds on 'normal' mode trying to run up the story. I may need to switch down to Easy so I can relearn how to Fighting Game on a console.

[Yegolev]

Did you at some point learn to Fighting Game on a PC?

[Sky]

It finally happened. I felt like a change from Minecraft.

I dipped in for a taste of the new TOR experience and combined with the corrupted save issue...I've been playing TOR for a week and it's awesome.

Though even I can admit it's soooo OP right now (and I love it, I'm a content tourist!). I mean...solo FPs? So overdue. I love the group dialog, it's actually my favorite part of the game, but I'm not much for PUGs or sync'ing gaming schedules with a guild.

[Merusk]

Did you at some point learn to Fighting Game on a PC?

Nope. Arcade and OLD controllers which were smaller and less 'responsive' on the thumbsticks. The precision of modern controllers combined with the increased size means I can't get a proper grip on the 'joystick' and the buttons. I often and wind up pressing forward-down instead of down or back-down or back instead of back when moving from one position to another. Most aggravating is when I do a crouch-to-backflip instead of a Down-Up teleport on Raiden. Arg.

[Tannhauser]

Back on a Civ 5 binge. Going for my first tourism win.

Never realized how good the soundtrack is before. However I'm convinced the guy in the opening song is singing 'Arrrbyyys' at one point. You all know which part I'm talking about.

Brazil is my favorite culture civ.  In fact...ahhh it's trying to pull me back in!  I have over 800hrs/played, why does Civ V keep tempting me?

[Shannow]

I knew I'd get at least one of you with that post..:D

[Ironwood]

The Master Below is just utter, utter bullshit. Most of my party killed by a one shot.