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Topic: So, what're you playing? (Read 2200775 times)
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Yegolev
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If you return to No Man's Sky, start a new game.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I got Champion in Rocket League. I had to tell someone.
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Trippy
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gg
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schild
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I got Champion in Rocket League. I had to tell someone. I have a gift copy I never even redeemed.
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Viin
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Hey nice, I'm right on the edge for Diamond.
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- Viin
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Gimfain
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Finished my playthrough of hellblade: Senua's sacrifice. Its one of the more stressful gameplay experiences I have had. Its a combination of the light and darkness, the constant noises in her head and the story being told in combination with the excellent animations of senua.
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When you ask for a miracle, you have to be prepared to believe in it or you'll miss it when it comes
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Yegolev
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Too quiet, puts my wife to sleep.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Yegolev
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Excellent.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Falconeer
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a polyamorous pansexual genderqueer born and living in the wrong country
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I am playing a lot of Street Fighter V, but I am terrible. Pretty much everyone in both casual and ranked mops the floor with me. Yet I refuse to give up. "Fighting game is something so great."
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Tried playing Fallout 4 again since I never beat it the first time. It does not play well with ultrawide. I installed some mods and got it working, then decided to install the HD textures (68GB, ouch). At this point I had probably already played for 6 hours. Well, that broke everything. UI was all messed up. Then it froze up at the menu every time. So, screw that.
Dead Cells, some LoL arams, and small amount of Conan Exiles. My Khitan village is impossible to wall in. I may just tear down the thousands worth or bricks that I put into it.
Thinking about Prey or Horizon: Zero Dawn next.
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-Rasix
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Finally got around to Darkest Dungeon. Love it, great style and atmosphere.
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Ginaz
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Finally got around to Darkest Dungeon. Love it, great style and atmosphere. I have it on my Switch and I somehow enjoyed it more there than on PC.
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luckton
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Got Two Point Hospital, because the simulator itch in my brain hasn't been scratched since Anno 2070. Feels good, man. I can retire my copy of Theme Hospital.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Trippy
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Got Two Point Hospital, because the simulator itch in my brain hasn't been scratched since Anno 2070. Feels good, man. I can retire my copy of Theme Hospital.
For others who may be interested in the game be warned that Sega snuck in Denovo copy protection at the last minute (it wasn’t listed as being present when I preordered).
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schild
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Lol copy protectinot getting it
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Cyrrex
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Finished my playthrough of hellblade: Senua's sacrifice. Its one of the more stressful gameplay experiences I have had. Its a combination of the light and darkness, the constant noises in her head and the story being told in combination with the excellent animations of senua.
I guess this is supposed to be fabulous in VR. I bought it, but haven't played it. Skyrim VR is still the best video game probably ever, so that is what I do with most of my gaming time.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Druzil
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Mostly Dead Cells. I wish I had a way to practice Hand of the King, he's still ruining the bulk of my good runs.
Excited to get home tonight and play Dragon Quest XI. Been playing a little DQ 8 on my phone in the meantime.
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Yegolev
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Donut County.
My save file in Fallout 4 is dated Aug 2016 but I played that last night for some reason.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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Excited to get home tonight and play Dragon Quest XI. Been playing a little DQ 8 on my phone in the meantime.
So far it seems like the best DQ yet, but I'm only an hour or two in. So pretty. That said, I maybe should have bought Spiderman instead because web slinging looks awesome. Ah well, there's always next month.
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Falconeer
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So far, DragonQuest XI is pure shit. But let me spend another night with it.
EDIT: Ok that's too harsh, but wow the characters and the story in the first two hours are so bad that it almost feels like the parody of a generic JRPG. I am all in with the old school mechanics and lack of innovation, it's why I bought the game. But I have rarely seen such an uninteresting bunch of people in the beginning of ANY rpg.
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« Last Edit: September 04, 2018, 06:37:34 PM by Falconeer »
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schild
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supposedly the only good part of dragon quest xi is after you beat the game
have fun
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I've now taken to quoting Darkest Dungeon in every day life. And making up similar quotes, in the narrator's voice. Also quoting Lovecraft.
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Falconeer
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a polyamorous pansexual genderqueer born and living in the wrong country
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supposedly the only good part of dragon quest xi is after you beat the game
have fun
I got so depressed that I went to Walmart (!) and bought Ni No Kuni 2.
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Selby
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I am all in with the old school mechanics and lack of innovation, it's why I bought the game. But I have rarely seen such an uninteresting bunch of people in the beginning of ANY rpg.
It’s Dragon Quest. If you’re in it for the story you’re doing it wrong. The writers know it’s a parody and the mechanics are ancient by modern standards. I’ll get my 100-150 hours out of it no problem.
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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I played DQ1 (Dragon Warrior) on NES with my dad, we rented the game from a local video store and played it for two weeks straight together, from start to finish. I'm pretty sure we spent more in rental fees than the game cost.
DQ games might not be the best rpgs, but for me it always reminds me of good times with my dad which were few and far between as I was growing up.
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Velorath
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I am all in with the old school mechanics and lack of innovation, it's why I bought the game. But I have rarely seen such an uninteresting bunch of people in the beginning of ANY rpg.
It’s Dragon Quest. If you’re in it for the story you’re doing it wrong. The writers know it’s a parody and the mechanics are ancient by modern standards. I’ll get my 100-150 hours out of it no problem. If the story isn't good and the mechanics are ancient, what's the draw that keeps you playing that long?
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koro
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I am all in with the old school mechanics and lack of innovation, it's why I bought the game. But I have rarely seen such an uninteresting bunch of people in the beginning of ANY rpg.
It’s Dragon Quest. If you’re in it for the story you’re doing it wrong. The writers know it’s a parody and the mechanics are ancient by modern standards. I’ll get my 100-150 hours out of it no problem. If the story isn't good and the mechanics are ancient, what's the draw that keeps you playing that long? It's the known quantity of being able to just pick up a DQ game and have a pretty good idea of exactly what you're going to get. I've heard the Japanese call it "video game comfort food". Of course, that tends to mean that if you've played one DQ game past maybe the first couple, you've more or less played them all.
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Cyrrex
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The idea that it is an old school, cliched rpg is actually drawing my interest. It is turn based, no? The original Dragon Quest is - while not on my non-existant top 10 list - one of the most influentual games I have ever played.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Jeff Kelly
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I'm an apathetic, hedonistic, utilitarian, nihilistic existentialist.
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I unsuccessfully tried to start 3 different playthroughs of Hollow Knight on Switch which I all abandoned a few hours in because of the way the in-game map system works. Wandering aimlessly around large samey looking levels and getting utterly lost in the process because I somehow missed the map guy is not my kind of fun, apparently.
I also played through Guacamelee! 2. Which is more of the same just with more cruft added on top of the mechanics while fixing none of the flaws of the original game. Getting the good ending in that game requires you to suffer though a lot of bullshit gauntlets using controls that are never tight and precise enough to make you feel in control over what the game demands of you. So just like the first game.
I also tried The Golf Club 2019 which is PGA branded and distributed by 2K but looks and feels like an early access steam release with stock Unity assets and has one of the most weird shot mechanics I've ever seen in a computer golf game. This game feels only half finished, looks ugly - even compared to the abomination that is Rory McIlroy's PGA tour by EA - and lacks content but is somehow a full price title. Thank God for refunds.
So I ended up playing the 8,99 Picross! on Switch instead
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schild
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Switch Picross (both of them) are excellent.
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Jeff Kelly
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I'm an apathetic, hedonistic, utilitarian, nihilistic existentialist.
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I've played - and loved - the first installment when it came out on Switch last year and only now realized that they have put out a second one. As a bonus it's only 8,99 on the Switch store so it was a no-brainer.
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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53 hours in Dead Cells. Yikes. Tried the D:0S2 DE. I may have just put too much of this game (112 hours) to appreciate the differences. I haven't noticed many so far. Also, this is like the fourth or fifth time I've done Fort Joy. Done with LoL for now. Somehow this game is really difficult to play while playing Dead Cells at the same time. I guess you know you're old when going from controller to mouse/keyboard during the same gaming session throws you off. Plus, I've gotten to the point where my MMR in ARAM has me playing with/against people that are WAAAAY better than I am. Also, there are more assholes per game. Not surprising.
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-Rasix
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Started Prey. Manages to be creepy even though I was prepared for creepiness going in. I heard it has a poor final act, but so far this seems pretty System Shock 2ish. I like.
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-Rasix
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Ironwood
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It pretty much stays System Shockish throughout and I didn't find the final act any less good than the rest.
It was a surprisingly enjoyable romp.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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