I had some fun times on that. One thing I would love to do is take a ride to a city's mage guild and make as many different spells as possible. I'd have a "trigger fight" spell which did 1 damage on a huge radius so the enemies would get angry enough to fight me. I'd make other ones such as long-lasting ones and huge fireballs etc. Levitating was a lot of fun! Anyone remember the Bull/Betty Netch enemies?

They just added Team Battle Royale to H1Z1 and boy does it change how the game plays. It's great to start right next to a buddy and go raiding together. 5-man teams are even more crazy, although sometimes you do end up with a few nutters that go crazy and get you killed. Still, fun times. If you're curious about my thoughts on the game, go here! (shameless plug)

On another note, Hand of Fate is awesome. It's a randomly generated game that shuffles cards and gives you choices on what to do next. There is a lot of chance involved but it is a very enjoyable game and it gets more complex as you dig down further. Here's some gameplay!

Rocket league... Lots of Rocket League...



Oh and Styx master of shadows is free for PS plus as well, so ive been playing that. Its a bit Deus ex/MGS-ish. I dunno, I havnt played metal gear solid so I can only say it looks like it. A 3rd person stealth focused game where confrontation should be avoided. Really hard but having a blast.

Destiny PVP mostly, I actually like it better than what I played of Halo 5 in the beta, you could really customize it to your liking. Unfortunately you have to grind your face into the PVE to unlock all the worthwhile weapons and I wish it had more vehicles.

TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT is really neat. Alot like classic sonic games, in that its a momentum based mascot platformer. Im really liking it, and ill be routing it soon.

Rocket League looks insanely fun. I've got to try and convince my mates to get it so we can have a 3v3 match :)

Its SO good.

Diablo
Diablo II
Diablo III

All amazing games
the first two remind me of AO in a way. Making the most of limited technology

Played Guilty Gear Xrd last night with some friends and it was pretty dang fun. Reminds me a lot of Blazblue, especially the character designs. I'd be lying if I said I understood how to play entirely, although I think it's nearly impossible to grasp all of the mechanics for a fighting game in your first sitting. I'm a little tempted to buy it myself (we were playing on a friend's copy).

What I really liked about it was that it uses 3D models for the characters, which I'm usually not too crazy about with fighting games, but the way Guilty Gear pulled it off was pretty neat. Wouldn't mind if other fighting games used the same style.

The whole experience was also a little odd because the only other Guilty Gear game I've played was a demo of the first game for PS1 when I was like, four, and some of the sound effects in the game sounded almost exactly like the ones in the original.

Exploding Kittens. It's amazing. If you didn't back the Kickstarter, make sure you grab a deck when they are available to purchase.

Not a video game.

ROOOCKETTTTTT LEAGGUEEEEEEE.

It's pretty crazy. Easy to play, very entertaining, and satisfying as fuck when you make some good shots. I'm still learning the ropes, but it doesn't even matter if you're good or not. It's just an enjoyable game.

Apparently it works pretty well at high ping so I'd be down for an intercontinental OWF championship.

I've just finished Bioshock Infinite. It's about Infinite universes. It (bio)shocked me how unpolished and plainly boring the game is from 50% of the game till the very end. It saddens me no end-boss, and no fight with the Big Daddy bird alternative. What saddens me worse is the amount of cut content since early presentations, they worsened the game throughout the years instead of improving and polishing it

I've almost finished FF8. The gameplay balance is horrible, despite the game having many avaliable battle tactics like standard attacks/magic/summons, only the last one really works, and there is little to no limitations for using summons, which means battle consist of spamming them, and being forced to watch a 20-30sec animation each time, resulting in extremely BORING battles. SHIT.

Before that I finished FF7. It was great.

Darkest Dungeon. Recently added the feature to turn off the controversial Corpses and Heart Attacks mechanic which honestly put me off the game. (look it up)

For those who don't know. Darkest Dungeon is a RPG which has a focus on the effects and the stress of dungeon crawling. It also has a heavy focus on positioning in a turn based combat system and a light system which effects everything in the dungeon. (if it's dark, you guys more stressed and enemies get stronger)

Stress is at first hard to manage. You guys can get stressed out which effects how they act. usually they have negative effects which also drags the others down with him/her. And once your guys get completely stressed, there is very little you can do about it.

Sometimes if their stress levels reaches max, they have positive effects such as inspiring allies, becoming more focus and decreasing the stress of others.

This game is bloody harsh. Like. hard as nails. You are going to lose, your guys are going to die and it's a big grind slowly getting resources and upgrading stuff.

By god is it addictive. I also frigging adore the artstyle, music and effects.

It's not for the faint hearted, but it's a really good game. By far the best early access game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Legacy of the Duelist has devoured my life for the past 3 weeks. getting the chance to relive my childhood and make all the decks that wouldve cost me thousands in the real world.

Funnily enough, I've been playing a bit of Magic Duels, the new f2p MTG game. The campaign is pretty boring, but it's fun finding ways to grind the AI faster. If you have a few friends playing without being p2w tryhards I'm sure there's some good fun to be had. If any of you guys have played it let me know, but nobody I have on Steam has played it yet :c

Playing the crap out of CS:GO. So much fun. Feels a lot like source which I played the crap out of back in high school. Having trouble playing online though for some reason, and bots are getting real stale real fast.

Trouble as in bad or trouble as in connection?

Obligatory are you playing on wireless, ping the servers, tracert the servers, make sure people aren't on netflix or torrenting.

Nah, none of that. I play other online games just fine. Just always fail to connect to servers or find any matches in quick play.

I suspect it might be because I'm playing it through a friend's shared Steam library . Which I guess is fair? I dunno.

I am playing through darksouls for the first time with a friend. It good.

I dont think ill enjoy the souls games, but I enjoy watching them.

Good speedruns as well.

Speedrunning sections alone is fantastic fun tbh, when my friend isnt' around I like to just run through sections I've already done as fast as I can.

cant tell if serious.



Like, I LOVE the world of the souls series. Especially the creature designs, but ive played the first level of demons souls, and it wasnt exactly a pleasant experience.



(And I legit dont know if ur serious or not. Since that would be a good way to practice and keep the muscle memory while ur friend isnt on. But I also said the 'S' word which makes everyone sarcastic...)

I just got Metal Gear Solid 3DS, I loved that game on Playstation so I'm kinda excited.

dark souls is much more accessible than demons souls i'd say. hard to say which one is better but they're both among my favourite games of last gen.

You can farm health herbs in Demon's Souls easily, which is not the case in Dark Souls. That makes Dark Souls a little bit more balanced.

MGSV: Phantom Pain is really enjoyable. I love how you can take a detour on a mission and come across a military outpost. Capturing enemy soldiers increases the number of staff in your base which allows you to research weapons and other cool bits of tech. The prologue is quite intense and teaches you the basics, but overall is quite different from the open-world game where you spend the majority of your time. I've only played it for a couple of hours but already I can tell I'm going to enjoy it so much!

the new MGS game is, as always, amazing.

Picked up Splatoon for free. Well, with a gift card, but basically free.

It's very pretty, lots of fun and I'm pretty much terrible at it right now. Not sure how I feel about the control scheme, but we'll see. Only played like a half hour of it so far.

It definitely has that Nintendo polish to it though, so I don't think I'll regret picking it up any time soon.

I hope

So I just discovered that the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger franchise is still alive and they just put a Rayman-style 2D platform up on Steam. It’s fairly fun (if pretty easy) but wow it’s full of nostalgia for the old games.

Better yet, apparently they’re trying to go the Oddworld route of self-raising funds through sales to pay for HD ports of their old games to PC! I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed those Australian critters.

I hope it goes well. Krome is probably the last actual aussie developer besides 2K australia (who made borderlands the pre-sequel)

I've been enjoying The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on the Vita. It plays a lot better than my previous attempts at keyboard-only runs, and the dual stick set up is great on the vita. The only thing I'd change is letting the Pill/Card button be bound to something other than the touch screen. I've actually died at crucial moments once or twice just because it took however many miliseconds longer to drag my thumb onto the touch screen.

It feels as if an update or patch has been applied since I tried Rebirth last year, I'm less likely to run across a series of poorly-matched items and have my run bungled early on. I'd say it's my favorite way to play Isaac so far, and it seems like the only 'localization' type thing they did is change the Steam Sale ticket to a 'Steamy Sale' ticket, which is kind of cute.

As usual, I just love Azazel. I unlocked him, Cain, Maggie and Eden all in one playthrough, but Azazel is just the best. I think the riskier aspects of his playstyle make him more fun, although the relatively meagre access to Dark Bums has been disappointing. I was also fairly sure you could extend the range of his blasts, but oh well. Antigravity tears+charge attacks are delightfully finicky, and the ease of getting to Utero with even basic upgrades as 'Zaz has really smoothed my experience along.

I still loathe the Peeper boss, though. He just bugs me, as he's no doubt supposed to, with his gigantic health bar, gross piss attacks and dumb grin.

Reborn on handhelds gets patched a lot. I know the 3DS version still has some issues.

Isaac has been my obsession for a long time now. Got into it the start of the year and I've just managed to unlock all the achievements, characters and items. It was so luck of the draw towards the end though. My god, playing as the Lost is just awful...

I'm looking forward to the expansion Afterbirth, which is coming soon to PC. It should make it's way to PS4, Vita, 3DS and Wii U eventually but PC will have it first.

Oh and if you think Peep is bad. It's alt form The Bloat is just the worst.

So playing Ty 4 got me in the mood to replay the old PS2 games. I just finished up Ty 1 and I’ll be starting Ty 2 in the next couple of days.

There’s something weird about going back and playing an old game you remember really enjoying years ago – you get all those waves of nostalgia but paired with a more critical eye. Ty 1 definitely wasn’t the most polished game, but I dunno if that was just because it was an early PS2 platformer and the genre hadn’t really been polished to its best yet.

Anyway I remember enjoying Ty 2 even more than 1 so it’ll be interesting to go back on that and see how it holds up.

I love isaac... Its so fun. But im so bad... So, So bad... Like struggle to get out of caves 2 with anyone but azazel bad.

Maybe try slowing down and practice the game mechanics more

I have maybe 10-20 hours in the original BoI. After beating Mom once, I no longer felt the need to keep going with the game. Did a couple more attempts, but I wasn't interested that much anymore.

Nowadays, I just keep switching between games, I don't really have anything that I want to stick to from start to finish. Let's see...

Have been playing a fair bit of Euro Truck Simulator 2. It may have been part of a bundle once, or it might have been on sale, that's the only reason why I picked it up, but I actually found it enjoyable. Or rather, relaxing, to a point that I actually need to listen to music or a podcast while driving, otherwise I'd fall asleep after playing for 15 minutes. For some reason, however, I still keep booting it up, if only for 30 minutes before going to bed. I guess ETS2 is good for switching off your brain.

Loads of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The combat system of the Batman games and Middle-earth is a pretty safe mix with me, so I put quite a bit of time into the game recently. I haven't yet met an Orc who became my great Nemesis so far, I always manage to find their weakness or improvise so that they don't became overly powerful. It's a fun game, all in all.

Tried Killing Floor 2. I have played a lot of the first game, and the sequel is pretty great too. A lot of interesting detail has been put into it, and the combat is as enjoyable as before. Mind, it's still early access, so some things like the whole Sharpshooter perk from KF1 is completely missing from KF2, but it will be added later on, along with completely new perks. Progression is also a lot different, but this time, you actually get to customize your build by choosing skills (mostly passive bonuses) that fit your playstyle.

You know you didn't really beat Mom and you didn't even see the real ending? :P It's like playing MGSV and finishing just Act 1 (of 2)

Oh yes, I know there would be loads more to see in that game. I just didn't really care for the rest after my first successful run.

Also, I got back to WH40k: Dawn of War II recently. I still enjoy seeing the Force Commander wade into the thick of the Orc hordes with a Power Axe while the rest of the troops provide support from further away.

Hm, I've been killing a lot of Orcs in games lately...

But it's not the successful run, it's like a half of it, only.

You should try Rebirth. It's much better than the original and the game after the Mom fight only gets better.

Afterbirth is out soon too. It will be a good time to get into it.

No, it was my run that ended with Mom shutting up, which was quite a success in my book.

I get what you mean, though.

BTW, Varrok, why don't you have a custom title yet?