Most Recently Played Video Game

[Vompatti]

In this moment I'm playing Hand of Fate. (This one, not the other one.)

[Ricochet]

Do any of you play http://slither.io? It's a simultaneously soothing and intense online game with themes of crony capitalism and the power of causality over the individual will. My high score is 26,861. Beat it if you can. Here's proof:

Wasted a weekend back when you posted this, but dropped it since. Pretty much got worse the more I tried.

On second or third attempt, I managed my best by getting into the top 10 with 8800-ish (see below). I think I then reached 10k and #8 spot, but died and forgot to prntscr in. Oh well.

[Vompatti]

In this moment I'm playing Dragon Age k

[timmer]

I suck at slitherio, but I blame my crappy mountain wifi.

Has anyone played Civ 6? Any cool changes from 5?

[Vompatti]

The word on the street is that 6 is better.

[Tangrowth]

So I bought Bit.Trip Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien on a whim based on solid reviews for it, and I'm glad I did. Surprisingly addicting and tons of fun.

[DharmaHelper]

Picked Crusader Kings 2: AGOT Mod back up today. Results in spoiler tags cuz there are some GOT spoilers maybe:

Spoiler: show

Playing as a Pirate King, getting mad wealthy and I got a dragon, a dragon egg, and a Valyrian Sword. My son is going to be set for life, probably going to start expanding my empire beyond the islands I have control of once my first character dies

[DharmaHelper]

Picked Crusader Kings 2: AGOT Mod back up today. Results in spoiler tags cuz there are some GOT spoilers maybe:

Spoiler: show

Playing as a Pirate King, getting mad wealthy and I got a dragon, a dragon egg, and a Valyrian Sword. My son is going to be set for life, probably going to start expanding my empire beyond the islands I have control of once my first character dies

Also, my current character has a load of concubines and Salt Wives, and then he later married properly. As a result, my succession is fucked up and my oldest son is by a salt wife. He's also half-Summer Islander. My wife's kid is, technically, not my heir.

[Bass_the_Clever]

Been playing the Mass effect series. So far it's a lot of fun.

[DharmaHelper]

Been playing the Mass effect series. So far it's a lot of fun.

Curious to see your thoughts on 3, once you get there.

[Bass_the_Clever]

Been playing the Mass effect series. So far it's a lot of fun.

Curious to see your thoughts on 3, once you get there.

Are you talking about the different endings because I had a friend who, just had to spoil it for me.

[DharmaHelper]

Been playing the Mass effect series. So far it's a lot of fun.

Curious to see your thoughts on 3, once you get there.

Are you talking about the different endings because I had a friend who, just had to spoil it for me.

Yes. Shame they were spoiled for you. Wonder if you're of the opinion that they were garbage

[Dom]

Spoiler: show

they are garbage

[Vompatti]

Just started Dragon Age Inquisition. What they did with loading simultaneously from the disc and the hard drive makes the frame rate horrible on my old system and there's also a lot of texture popping k

[Cryptonic]

Taking a break from playing Heroes of the Storm to play.... Diablo 2 hahahaha Needed a sandbox game that I can just play a few minutes here and there.

[speedchuck]

Sonic Mania. It's wonderful.

[Quin]

I just bought Skyrim Special Edition with all the DLC attached on the PC (my first time with the DLC, and I've yet to finish the game anyway)

Played it the entire day yesterday. Going to play it the entire day today more than likely. Creating unique characters to play is fun.

[Epignosis]

Get Cuphead.

Fun shit.

[speedchuck]

Get Cuphead.

Fun shit.

I'm planning on it. Just for the visuals and bosses.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Been wasting time with this old classic:

[Tangrowth]

Lately I've been playing Splatoon 2 off and on. Great game when I want to just take a break from everything for a little bit.

[Tangrowth]

Get Cuphead.

Fun shit.

I'm planning on it. Just for the visuals and bosses.

Definitely seems really neat, I'll have to get it myself one of these days as well.

[Epignosis]

We've got the first one. It's fun, but the network connection kept dropping us out of matches, which soured me.

[Tangrowth]

We've got the first one. It's fun, but the network connection kept dropping us out of matches, which soured me.

That's annoying. The first game was pretty good too. I prefer the 2nd mainly because the Switch controls > Wii U controls, but both are solid.

[speedchuck]

Get Cuphead.

Fun shit.

I'm planning on it. Just for the visuals and bosses.

Definitely seems really neat, I'll have to get it myself one of these days as well.

I got it. There's a difficulty spike when you get to the last third, but so far the game has been beautiful, frustrating, and very rewarding.

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Diablo 2:

Number of times killed in normal difficulty: 0

Number of times killed in nightmare difficulty: ~10

Number of times killed in hell difficulty (not even halfway finished): ~50.

[speedchuck]

I beat Cuphead

[sprityo]

I finished persona 5 today, logging a total 95 hours

Time for new game+

[Dragon D. Luffy]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

[Epignosis]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

I want to do the New Game Plus. So little time though.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

I want to do the New Game Plus. So little time though.

It's so short though.

Also trying to nail every achievement before the second playthrough is over. So far so good, but the achivement that forces me to win 5 battles with all 10 limiters is scary.

Edit: never mind, found a broken combo online which let me do it with less than 20 game overs.

[Epignosis]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

I want to do the New Game Plus. So little time though.

It's so short though.

Also trying to nail every achievement before the second playthrough is over. So far so good, but the achivement that forces me to win 5 battles with all 10 limiters is scary.

Edit: never mind, found a broken combo online which let me do it with less than 20 game overs.

Without spoiling anything, are there any story / Easter egg / new content / etc whatever that makes it worth playing through a second time? Is it supposed to be more challenging? Basically, what's the difference?

[Dragon D. Luffy]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

I want to do the New Game Plus. So little time though.

It's so short though.

Also trying to nail every achievement before the second playthrough is over. So far so good, but the achivement that forces me to win 5 battles with all 10 limiters is scary.

Edit: never mind, found a broken combo online which let me do it with less than 20 game overs.

Without spoiling anything, are there any story / Easter egg / new content / etc whatever that makes it worth playing through a second time? Is it supposed to be more challenging? Basically, what's the difference?

Not really much story, but it lets you do some things that you usually don't get to finish in the first playthrough. You start the story over with whatever level you had, and keep going up. Also the process starts at the level they were in the end of the game.

Unless you did a fuckload of grinding with limiters the first time around, you probably did not get all functions (i. e. I did not get Cull and I barely got to use Void). So replaying lets you test them. Also read the character logs that come with them.

You most likely didn't do all of those oasis challenges, either.

And there are the limiters. You probably didn't get all of them (and read their logs). Considering the process is already stronger from the start, it gets ridiculous with limiters (20 enemies at once with shields and regenerations dealing 80% of your Hp every time they hit you). So there is challenge there.

So it's not really story, but gameplay.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

Sorry I edited this post like 5 times lol.

[Epignosis]

So, Transistor is amazing and I almost regret not having a decent computer 2 years ago so I would have played it already and wanted to sign up to Epi's mafia game of it.

I'm going through the New Game Plus.

I want to do the New Game Plus. So little time though.

It's so short though.

Also trying to nail every achievement before the second playthrough is over. So far so good, but the achivement that forces me to win 5 battles with all 10 limiters is scary.

Edit: never mind, found a broken combo online which let me do it with less than 20 game overs.

Without spoiling anything, are there any story / Easter egg / new content / etc whatever that makes it worth playing through a second time? Is it supposed to be more challenging? Basically, what's the difference?

Not really much story, but it lets you do some things that you usually don't get to finish in the first playthrough.

Unless you did a fuckload of grinding with limiters the first time around, you probably did not get all functions (i. e. I did not get Cull and I barely got to use Void). So replaying lets you test them. Also read the character logs that come with them.

You most likely didn't do all of those oasis challenges, either.

And there are the limiters. You probably didn't get all of them (and read their logs). And in the New Game +, the process is much stronger from the start. With limiters, it gets ridiculous (20 enemies at once with shields and regenerations dealing 80% of your Hp every time they hit you). So there is challenge there.

So it's not really story, but gameplay.

I'm pretty sure I got all the functions and limiters and read all the backstories. I tend to be the kind of player who explores every nook and cranny of a region and tries to collect every piece of gold I can get my greedy hands on (which is probably a big reason I rarely finish games).

I'll probably replay it over the summer. It was a stellar game.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

Sounds good. It's just that most people don't do it because the game gives you limited exp, so you have so abuse limiters early on to get to a level high enough to get everything.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

There are another two games from this studio which sound really cool too. There is one called Pyre that got described as "Oregon Trail meets NBA"

I might play it.

[Epignosis]

There are another two games from this studio which sound really cool too. There is one called Pyre that got described as "Oregon Trail meets NBA"

I might play it.

I have played Bastion but have not finished it. It's fun, sort of an isometric run-and-gun deal, but not as good as Transistor.

Pyre is a title on my wish-list. I like SuperGiant Games very much.

[nutella]

ahhh I loved Transistor too!!!
I never finished Bastion, didn't really take to it as much but it was pretty and also had a great soundtrack of course but yeah I'm with Epi, transistor's better.

I started Pyre and likewise didn't get a ton out of it, it's pretty different though

[reywaS]

Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes takes up most of my game time these days. Fun fun game

[JaggedJimmyJay]

Square Enix just released a brand new, remastered, 3-D rendition of the Super Nintendo classic Secret of Mana.

That is one of my favorite console games of all time.

Mine. Now.

[DharmaHelper]

A Way Out is probably my favorite game of all time

[Long Con]

Most recently-played video game at this moment: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis.

[DharmaHelper]

I've played A Way Out and finished the most recent Batman Telltale game in the last like 4 days. A Way Out was so good, Batman was good as well. Both ambitious in their own ways but AWO was so so so so so so good.

[speedchuck]

Ah, I got a PS4 for my birthday and now I'm going full Kingdom Hearts. All of them.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

So I just beat Brutal Legend, 9 years after its release.

This game is probably the biggest and boldest challenge I've ever seen to the concept that Gameplay > All. The gameplay is... okay at best. It wants to be an RTS/Action hybrid, with elements of sandbox and car games, and it fails to justify why that combination is even a good idea, ending up with an RTS that is a little too shallow, and at the same time an action game that is a little too simple, and a focus on competitive multiplayer that failed because the multiplayer community apparently died in 2011.

(though from what I've read this is less the fault of the studio and more of EA, who was against the RTS thing from the start and pushed the studio to rush the release since they just wanted a cheap game that capitalized on the heavy metal thing for marketing)

But when you take out the gameplay and look at the aesthetic part... HOLY SHIT. The game is a masterpiece, through and through. Everything is a love letter to heavy metal culture, with attention to detail, and little bits and pieces that make the game feel more alive and more badass, from famous singer dubbing characters that were designed after them, to landmarks in the overworld that remind you of metal album covers, to the names of attacks and enemies, to the very creative plot. There is a great sense of pleasure in just hopping into your monster car, tuning on Black Sabbath, and roaming the field, mowing down emos and glam metal groupies with a machine gun, doing quests to deliver beer or playing a guitar solo to melt the faces of your enemies (literally). Once you get used to the mediocre gameplay, you want to play it just to get to the next section of the story, because the cutscenes and exploring new map make it worth it.

9/10. Give me a sequel plz.

[sprityo]

So in the past week or so i've beaten Danganronpa: THH and Danganronpa2: Goodbye Despair and it as an enjoyable experience overall. Im currently watching Danganronpa 3 which is the next part in the series but its an anime only

the game boils down to murder mystery at it's core and is enjoyable to play even through all the dying of everyone. 10/10 would recommend for any mafia lover.

bonus: wanted to [mention]Infected_alien8_[/mention] because I have Hajime as my avatar now

Puhuhuhuhuhu

[Infected_alien8_]

So in the past week or so i've beaten Danganronpa: THH and Danganronpa2: Goodbye Despair and it as an enjoyable experience overall. Im currently watching Danganronpa 3 which is the next part in the series but its an anime only

the game boils down to murder mystery at it's core and is enjoyable to play even through all the dying of everyone. 10/10 would recommend for any mafia lover.

bonus: wanted to @Infected_alien8_ because I have Hajime as my avatar now

Puhuhuhuhuhu

I'm only at early days in Danganronpa 2 but I do love Hajime

Kyoko will always be best though

[Infected_alien8_]

And oh yes I 100% recommend Danganronpa, it is incredible

[ColinIsCool]

I really want to get my hands on the Insomniac Spider-Man. The original movie games for the PS2 are some of my favorites, and this looks like those + Arkham Batman and that's just too beautiful for this world almost.