What are you playing?

[2ko]

My PS5 has gotten a workout this year.
Most recently, I’ve been on Avatar:Frontiers of Pandora. It’s a good one. It’s open world Avatar goodness. I can fly on an Ikran and cause a stink for the Sky People

Mine too actually. I think I just ignored it for so long that now I have a pretty big backlog of games I want to play on it lol Metaphor is going to take a while to get through, and then after that there are another half dozen JRPGs I want to play.

Last year I think it was really only Ark Raiders and Monster Hunter Wilds that I played (I played both for over 100 hours though lol). But now there are so many games that I've put on the backburner waiting for sales that I have a pretty descent backlog of games to get to that I really want to try on it.

[kamikazekeeg]

Still making my way through Death Stranding 2, I'm not far from the end of the game, though been going back, trying to 5 star stuff, complete roads, etc, but I'll probably look at finishing it up next week.

I was gonna try Resident Evil 2 (1998), because it was brought to Steam (I believe it was on GOG before) and it's 5 bucks, but wasn't feeling it.  There's no mouse support that I could tell, I thought it was maybe gonna have that, not that I expected the slightly tweaked modern controls RE1 Remake had, but you can only keybind keyboard.  I imagine I could play it with a standard controller, but I don't know, I wasn't feeling it, playing the game is already an uphill battle for the control style to begin with and it having a really weird keyboard control setup just annoyed me lol So I'm refunding it, and maybe gonna use that 5 bucks to buy RE5 and replay that for the first time in many years.

[alligo]

Cyberpunk 2077 and I'm glad I waited, the game runs incredibly well!
I'm having a hard time stopping playing it.

I loved the mission in Delamain with the taxis that become sentient, even though I couldn't make the choice I wanted, it was funny.
I really enjoyed the Peralez quest.

I love driving at night in the game because it looks great with the city, plus it's a pleasure to be able to listen to music while walking or driving.
It's a shame that you can't romance the characters you want (even though it's not a big deal for me).

Another point: some choices don't fundamentally change the course of the mission/conversation.
You can't always make the choice you want because of a lack of points in a skill tree.

Heavy lore.

Edit : The city is beautiful from above (or from afar), but up close it looks more like a chaotic mess.
Aesthetically, it's a bit strange.

Good gameplay with various choices (approach methods and builds), except for melee combat.
The radio music is repetitive; it's always the same tracks.
It's sometimes too dark.

The Chimera boss is pretty good. The DLC concert is very enjoyable.
I didn't like the scripted sequence with the robot in the lab, it felt out of place. The atmosphere is good, though.
We're at a point in the game where we're steamrolling all the enemies, we're fighting the Maxtrac and a bigger mech right before, so it doesn't make sense.

They didn't really develop the romances (especially the dialogue) in terms of gender, so they can seem ambiguous.

You can see that there's very good level design thanks to the stealth approach (generally, there's always a way to enter undetected).

Johnny's ending was very easy, Kurt gave me more trouble, plus there weren't many enemies for a tower supposedly guarded by the elite.

A few issues and bugs:
Music cuts out for no reason.
NPCs/dead enemies don't appear on the ground; component icons are displayed, but it's impossible to pick up the item.

Kerry's story conclusion is funny, as is Lina Molina's.

[kamikazekeeg]

Put a good bit of time into Windrose, which is a decent crafting experience, middling survival/crafting/pirating experience right now, but lots of room to grow and expand, but I am feeling the burn out after like 30 hours.  It's so resource intense grind heavy right now, but with combat being kinda lacking, group fights being obnoxious as a solo, and now at an area where upgrades are coming slow from how much I need to grind, I think it's time to drop it here.  It's very much the same feeling I had with Valheim where I played enough, I can see where the good stuff will be, and hopefully it'll be that great game down the line when it hits 1.0 in like 2 or 3 years.

I think after playing kinda heavier, involved, games lately as I am just about to finish Death Stranding 2, I think I need to focus on like smaller scale or linea things for abit, so along with replaying Metro 2033 here soon due to the new game announcement, I picked up Frogun Encore also, a cute low poly 3d platformer throwback game, I think that'll be good to get into for abit.  I think that's gonna be the plan for abit.  Dark linear shooters and fun platformers lol

[sly345]

Retro Rewind which got better with the real mods for movies. Just fun managing a vhs rental game store in the 90s
Far Far West. Just started it today, love it. Robots, Wild West. A mixture of Helldivers and Deep Rock Galactic. Had fun with my friends.
Under Par Golf Architect - it has a few problems but finally a worthy successor to Sid Meier's SimGolf!
Mad Television Tycoon - from the MadTower/Mad Games Tycoon guy, a great successor to the ancient MadTV
Contractville - A ton of fun in multiplayer. Redecorate, smash, rebuild houses in a open world, shenanigans included.


Also Bully Anniversary Edition on my Retroid Pocket, got the game for free thanks to my GTA+ subscription and it's just as much fun as it was 20 years ago on the PS2

[kamikazekeeg]

Retro Rewind which got better with the real mods for movies. Just fun managing a vhs rental game store in the 90s

I wanted to use the mods for Retro Rewind, but the only one at the time that seemed the most notable had no work put into making the real movie art work with the space on the cases, so it would look really bad or the New Release standees looked super terrible, which made things so awful to look at.  I'm likely to replay it once they add all their roadmap stuff planned like video game rentals, and then see if there's an improved movie mod for the game by then.

[ssj4yamgeta]

I couldn't figure out how to add Gamecube cheat codes to RetroArch to get myself unstuck, so I've restarted my Resident Evil Code: Veronica X playthrough. I used the infinite herb glitch this time, because when a game gets cheap with me, I have no problems getting cheap with it. Also, no matter how much I love this game, I have no desire to restart the same playthrough twice. After a few hours, I'm almost back to the plane tyrant fight already. It's funny how much faster this game goes by when you know where to go.

[sly345]

I wanted to use the mods for Retro Rewind, but the only one at the time that seemed the most notable had no work put into making the real movie art work with the space on the cases, so it would look really bad or the New Release standees looked super terrible, which made things so awful to look at.  I'm likely to replay it once they add all their roadmap stuff planned like video game rentals, and then see if there's an improved movie mod for the game by then.

Yeah, the original two mods were bad, one just went Blockbuster (never was a thing here in germany, so it looks weird to me) and the other was super strange in it mix of genres and movies. There is a Mod that allows your own VHS covers and that opened the floodgates. The Authentic Early 90's one is great, has most of the classics (lacks Chuck Norris, i mentioned that on Nexus) and a ton of really deep dive cult movies and european stuff like Asterix and the Bud Spencer & Terence Hill films. It really adds so much to the game just having the VHS covers and the Posters in your store
I can't wait for the game update.

Rewind99 is kinda doing the same at the moment, albeit in a more Schedule 1 way where you "mix" movies to make new ones and fight a corporate business while everything is just bizarre, i think that one could be a blast with friends though

Current new obsession: Far Far West.
Take the best things from Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2 and mix it with Robots in the Wild West. I enjoy this game so much with my friends (and made friends of playing with strangers, sometimes all you need to do is play the harmonica in game to hit it off, it's so much fun) and it also has a good amount of comedy, quirky moments, strange moment, like the quests that lead to a quiz and all that. the game is just fantastic already.

[bizzgeburt]

I'm still playing the Game of the Year Edition of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on PS3 
260 hrs in, I've finished all main guilds and started dwelling every dungeon in the game for completion... after that I'll play both addons and THEN I'll actually start the main quest 

Now's my favourite part of playing an ES game: exploring every fort, mine, cave and Ayleid ruin in Cyrodiil

[kamikazekeeg]

Was going to wait for an actual content update to Abiotic Factor before returning, but the new Cosmic Companions update added pets, some new items, and a Voices of the Void collab, and that was enough to draw me back in.  Justifying the return by choosing to build my bases in places that aren't the most obvious for a base, like the Security Room in Offices or that nice luxury home later in the game that are clear places for bases.  And gonna try and do more with different weapon types such as blunt and heavy weapons when I'm capable. It's a perfect game to just hop in, play for abit, make a little progress, craft some stuff, and then hop off.

[ssj4yamgeta]

Finally resumed my playthrough of Final Fantasy IV Advance that I started last fall. I just got to the Tower of Babel in the underworld. The game is progressing much more quickly than I remembered from my teenage years playing the SNES version with my best friend. I'm only about 15 hours in, but from what I recall I'm pretty close to the halfway point of the game. It's amazing how much more respectful of your free time JRPGs were back in the '90s.

[kamikazekeeg]

Looking for some less long term involvement stuff still, so I was gonna check out Mixtape, it has some really dumb "controversy" right now, but chill, lightly interactive, movie could've been nice, but I couldn't get more than a few minutes as I hated the combination of low framerate characters with a high framerate world.  Always been an annoyance with me, even in bigger projects like Spiderverse.  I'm sure I would've been good with the game, 90's coming of age story, built around things like skating and a good soundtrack of the time.  Oh well.

Tried the Motorslice demo, which looked really cool and it feels like a love letter to Nier Automata, with a low poly art style art style with some solid movement and gameplay, hack and slash style, while seemingly have something slightly darker elements perhaps (Your character when they fall off into out of bounds, they die in a very quick bloody splat, before instantly reviving so you don't linger on that.  It combines that with sorta Shadow of the Colossus type "Climb the giant to kill" bosses, though done in a more straightforward platforming way as all the enemies are construction equipment.  It just feels nice to play also, I like games that don't adhere to hard to realistic physics so you can just wall run forever lol  Once I get my refund back from Mixtape, I'm definitely grabbing this.

Skater Gator 3D demo, making this my demo night I guess to clear up some demo's I had sitting around installed, and this was a nice bit of fun.  A lot of its gameplay is those areas in 3D Sonic games where Sonic is grinding on pipes and you can hop between different pipes to avoid hazards or collect items, and then inbetween that are some simple platforming stuff, this was a decent time, might pick it up down the road.

Metro Gravity demo, this was one that I went for due to the low poly aspect, the main character being abit thigh heavy, in kind of a castle, with action game type elements along with exploring a large open location is very familiar to something like Pseudoregalia I played a few years ago.  This game is trippy, your character basically just free roams across walls, ceiling, the ground becomes the ceiling, and you can control gravity directions.  It also has some general action gameplay, hack and slash with parry's and dodges, a lot of it to a soundtrack I believe, so some areas have a very definite beat so it which is interesting.  It's kinda hard to wrap your head around the movement and mechanics, but after a good 10 to 20 minutes of wandering and experimenting, it starts to become clear and the game uses that gravity mechanic for a lot of puzzle solving, block moving type stuff.  I can see this being interesting to play more long term so might pick it up later too.