What are you playing right now? VI

[Manco]

What do you mean by that?

Older MGS games have a sharper learning curve to them than a lot of other games do, and the older entries in the series in particular have clunky controls as part of that.

Oh no, it doesn't. It's just pushed further into the game.

I should add I’ve already seen most of the game in video form – the weirdness is definitely way more subdued. It’s mostly down to the general lack of cutscenes, crazy boss characters, and the more serious tone of the voice acting and script. Also, the absence of nanomachines.

[Varrok]

Older MGS games have a sharper learning curve to them than a lot of other games do, and the older entries in the series in particular have clunky controls as part of that.

That's a surprising opinion. I've always considered the MGS franchise games with great controls, and I can't simply remember any difficulty spike early in the games, and to me they started pretty ok-easy. They even have all difficulty settings, with the lowest ones being so easy that's almost unplayable for me.

I should add I’ve already seen most of the game in video form – the weirdness is definitely way more subdued. It’s mostly down to the general lack of cutscenes, crazy boss characters, and the more serious tone of the voice acting and script. Also, the absence of nanomachines.

I'll just say that after you get the credits, it's not the end of the game yet, there are further missions which you, for the sake of argument, should play :P

[Manco]

That's a surprising opinion. I've always considered the MGS franchise games with great controls, and I can't simply remember any difficulty spike early in the games, and to me they started pretty ok-easy. They even have all difficulty settings, with the lowest ones being so easy that's almost unplayable for me.

They’re basically like big, well-oiled machines: they work very consistently and once you learn the mechanics, they will always work – but there’s so much that you have to learn up front to be able to do anything that it can be very perplexing if you’re not used to it.

I'll just say that after you get the credits, it's not the end of the game yet, there are further missions which you, for the sake of argument, should play :P

I know. I’ve not personally seen it, but I’ve read all about the twists in the ending.

[horiZon]

I played the "remaster" of AC2 + BH + Revelations. Since i'm a Big Fan of the Series. But got to say, even they didn't make any changes(even old Bugs are included!), it was awesome playin' them again.

Right now, i'm up at the Arkham Trilogy. Beated the First Part of the Story a while ago. Now i'm at Arkham City & im really impressed of the Series. Need to play all 3 of them, before i catch myself up with Kingdom Hearts 2.8 . And now that Soulstorm is incoming, i know already my new Project after KH. This is going to be a great Year for Gaming to me.

[Alf Shall Rise]

I played Star Wars Bounty Hunter again last night after not playing it for over a decade, and man, now that I'm older I realize how bad that game is.

I still like it though.

[Pohatta]

Titan Quest Anniversary Edition.

[tmakz]

Im playing Hatsune Miku Project Diva and Dead or Alive atm

[horiZon]

Anyone's playing Pokemon Go ?! :<

E: Yup, i do.

[Nate]

Anyone's playing Pokemon Go ?! :<

I don't know. Are you playing Pokemon Go? This is the 'What are you playing right now?' thread...

[Varrok]

At the moment I'm playing the "Don't fall asleep at work" game. It's not a video game, it's one of these fancy IRL games.

The video game I played yesterday is Parappa the Rapper. This game has a broken timing and/or unclear rules, and it's gonna drive you a little mad on the Normal difficulty, but the visuals and presentation is great. Everything in this game could be a meme.

[horiZon]

I don't know. Are you playing Pokemon Go? This is the 'What are you playing right now?' thread...

For Gods sake! Stop the hate, Nate !

E: before the Toxic Nate comes back cuz of no reasons, im playing now Brave Frontier RPG.

[Crashpunk]

Still playing the loving christ out of Overwatch. As you can probably tell by the avatar. The new event just came out and they added a Capture the Flag mode. Always loved that mode in other games, especially in TF2. So I'm glad to play it in Overwatch.

Apart from that, I played Donkey Kong Country for the first time with a mate and enjoyed the hell out of it. It gets pretty tough at times, The controls were a little weird to get used to at first, but I picked it up quite easily. It's a very solid platformer which I've been told only gets better in 2.

Anyone's playing Pokemon Go ?! :<

E: Yup, i do.

I do actually. I still have a friend who plays it, so we sometimes just wander out and get the stops and stuff. It's a nice chill game which gets me outside. Although I do miss the times in the summer when I used to join huge groups of people playing the game. I highly doubt that game will ever have that much amount of popularity again.

[OANST]

For Gods sake! Stop the hate, Nate !

E: before the Toxic Nate comes back cuz of no reasons, im playing now Brave Frontier RPG.

Nate told me he doesn't like you.

I'm playing Mega Man 9 because I want to.

[Varrok]

Well today I played UnJammer Lammy. It's a spinoff of Parappa the Rapper. If you loved the former, you're gonna love this one as well.

They fixed up the timing detection a bit, although now it requires mashing more buttons faster, so, yeah, you're still gonna be mad.

[Alf Shall Rise]

I played Resident Evil 7 with VR yesterday and it creeped the hell out of me up until the first encounter with the protagonist's wife. That wasn't creepy at all. It was fun though. I only played for about half an hour but so far I really enjoy it. Though to be fair, it would be really unimpressive without VR (from what I've played).

[TheParamitePie]

Nate told me he doesn't like you.

I'm playing Mega Man 9 because I want to.

Mega Man 9 is awesome. Huge Mega Man fan myself. Though IMO Mega Man 10 was better. Though some of the 360 achievements were down right impossible.

[Mr. Bungle]

I've been playing too many games. Most recently started a new file in Final Fantasy V because I'm an idiot and ended up with a dumb magicless team on my first run. So yeah. Started over.

Might be my favourite FF game from a pure gameplay/roleplaying perspective. Story is pretty whatever and dumb, but works perfectly fine for the game so I don't care.

[horiZon]

Started Batman: Arkham Knight today. Cuz i love Scarecrow. But, i don't like a GTA - Style with the Batmobile. I prefer more the hidden Kill Strategy in the past 2 games.

[Mr. Bungle]

I've been playing too mucn Monster Hunter and I've still barely scratched the surface.


fuck

[Lord Vhazen]

I've been switching between Creatures 3, Halo Wars 2, TF2 and Black Ops 2.
I'm mostly just trying to learn the ropes of Halo Wars 2 and its new gameplay in multiplayer. I'm doing pretty shitty since I seem to be going up against people who already have experience with the beta, but I'm a fast learner so far.

At any rate, the playerbase doesn't seem as invincible as Starcraft II's elite leaderboards so far.

[TheParamitePie]

I've been playing through New 'n' Tasty again, but in non in non Oddworld gaming I've been playing 7 days to die and The force unleashed. It was free with XL Gold for 360 this month so I figured I'd give it a go.

[Phoetux]

Playing Age of Mythology. I'm addicted to it now. again...
Perfect meme content tho

[tmakz]

Hmm well been playing Tomba/Tombi plus im really Excited for Crash N Sanity Trilogy So Excited!!!! And playing crash 2 to prepare ^•^

[oblivionkeeper23]

Apart from replaying Oddworld, Overwatch!

[Shrykull43]

I've been playing FFXV and there are a lot of things I like, it's more like the old games mixed with a little DA: Inquisition, and is leagues better than FFXIII (any of them). The only thing I dont like is it seems way too scripted for me. Everything has to be done in order and there are no workarounds for locked areas (like leveling up the chocobo in FFIX). For the first while this didn't bother me but now that I'm almost 100 hours in, it's incredibly frustrating as well as the fact that as far as I can see the whole fucking game looks exactly the same. Also shout out to the new XP system, and the nixperience band, it kicks ass.

[Acclivius]

I've been playing a lot of virtual pet games like Dragon Cave and Furvilla. Also been playing Zelda Breath of the Wild. It's really good so far!

[kjjcarpenter]

I've been playing FFXV and there are a lot of things I like, it's more like the old games mixed with a little DA: Inquisition, and is leagues better than FFXIII (any of them). The only thing I dont like is it seems way too scripted for me. Everything has to be done in order and there are no workarounds for locked areas (like leveling up the chocobo in FFIX). For the first while this didn't bother me but now that I'm almost 100 hours in, it's incredibly frustrating as well as the fact that as far as I can see the whole fucking game looks exactly the same. Also shout out to the new XP system, and the nixperience band, it kicks ass.

Did you like the story?

[Vexen]

I'm mostly just trying to learn the ropes of Halo Wars 2.

Is it worth a buy?

[Yokai]

I just finished MediEvil, and am now playing The Legend of Mana and Tomba!

[AlexFili]

I've been holding back on quite a few new games as I'm trying to complete some of the older ones I didn't play much such as Witcher 3. Pretty much finished all of MGS: Phantom Pain now so I'm mopping up sidequests and fultoning the skulls unit so I can get some sweet camo/ability unlocks. Decided to play Wave Race 64 again, it has such good courses, even if the graphics are a bit jagged in this day and age. Besides that I can't wait for Shadow of War to come out as that looks so good! (I played Shadow of Mordor for a very long time)