What are you playing?

yukarihinata · 2023-04-13T14:11:52+00:00

Simple thread to share games you are playing. Octopath Traveler II Such a cozy little jrpg. I never got the chance to play the first game, but I have found...

1996FordMondeo

Hard question to answer since I do tend to hop between games.
Since yesterday I have purchased shadows of doubt, this is my main game for now to play.
But I also have installed atm and I am playing left 4 dead 2 and synthetik.

TheEmeraldSea My friend has been recommending it to me.
Is it a coop shooter similar to left 4 dead?

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1996FordMondeo
DRG is comparable to L4D in that it's a co-op horde shooter with specialist enemy types. So you're a group of 1-4 players chewing their way through an endless horde of baddies, but that's about where the similarities end.
The two biggest differences: characters in DRG are class-based and the maps are procedurally generated caves.
There's also a difference in the scenario structure. Instead of running a gauntlet to get to the next safehouse, you'll instead be dropped into a cave and required to complete a series of objectives depending on the mission type, and then make a run for the extraction pod. While you're deployed you'll need to gather minerals and supplies to help you through the mission itself but also to unlock gear back at base.

DRGs big claim to fame is their cave generation system and the way they handle terrain. Each map is fully destructible, which means you can dig, tunnel, and blast your way through pretty much anything given you have the ammo or patience. Ghostship have also figured out how to work decent verticality into their generation system, which means you get to use all the fancy mobility tools the classes have.

So it's in the same general family as L4D, but the gameplay is still it's own kind of thing. I enjoy it and would reccomend it, especially if you've already got a group that plays. It's pretty easy to jump into as long as they don't drop you straight into a Haz 5 mission.

1996FordMondeo

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Honestly Im not planning on getting DRG anytime soon for 2 reasons.
1-I dont have a squad to play with.
2-I have a backlog im trying to tackle.(ironic since I did buy shadows of doubt yesterday)

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1996FordMondeo DRG is fun enough solo, and the contextual pointer system they implemented into the game means communicating with randos is still pretty easy even without voice, so don't be too worried about finding people to play with.
But yeah, if you're already working through a backlog then DRG can wait. The devs recently announced that the game will basically be going into maintenance mode as they work on newer projects so its not exactly like you'll be missing much from putting it off.

1996FordMondeo

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NGL L4D2 is pretty good already

Ross_R

Well, been a while since I've posted my status, so here's my current pile of games I've started but haven't finished:

NFS Carbon: Own The City
Galaga Legions DX
Neo Contra
Gladius
Crash'n'Burn
Jets'n'Guns Gold
Just Cause 1
Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction

Surprisingly, Gladius still has an active modding community, which was very helpful.

Ross_R

Ross_R
So, I've finsihed Galaga Legions DX, Crash'n'Burn and Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction. So far added Rockstar's State Of Emergency into my gaming list instead of those three, though I really should stop having so much unfinished games at once...
Also, one of our little modding club members updated his tools for PS2 version of Gladius, so I'm back to modding that game. Will have my drunken master soon.

RegiVAPOR

yukarihinata I always end up going back to Minecraft. Probably because I can make it whatever I want.
Wanna beat up bad guys? Minecraft.
Farming? Minecraft.
Exploring? Minecraft.
Decorating a house? Minecraft.
And if you want something that isn't in it, mods got you covered. I really SHOULD be playing my other games, but here we are.

Fantasy

RegiVAPOR I've met many people that play Minecraft exclusively. I understand it too there's a lot of mods, lots of servers, and the freedom to do a lot of stuff. But I can never get into modded servers. I try RPG ones, I try industry ones, bunch of various kinds. None of them feel right. Just like added extra bloat that don't actually make it a better game. Combat always sucks, I've never played good combat in Minecraft and it's one of the things I'd want improved over most things. But no game really does first person melee combat well.

Fantasy
I'm still working through the Xenoblade games. My XB2 playthrough is just over 100 hours now. Still have yet to beat it or the DLC. It's crazy how much content is in the game and I'm having a blast slowly working through it.
There are two games I've been sinking a lot of time into though that aren't my usuals.
Inkbound and Helen's Mysterious Castle.

Inkbound is a roguelike-ish game. It's turned based and you get tossed into arenas and get to see what each enemy is going to do on their turn and you have to mitigate damage while dealing it out. I see it as kind of a turn based MMO-style raid with all the ground indicators for damage and what not. It's very fun and I quickly sunk 50 hours over the course of 2 weeks into it.

^ Example of the combat during your turn.
There seems to be a lot of depth and for an early access game there's a good amount of polish. It's by the Monster Train developers if anyone has heard of them. Still in Early Access but I'd recommend it any day.

Helen's Mysterious Castle is just an RPG Maker game using what I think are mostly if not all default assets. But it has a custom combat system.

Every item has 3 stats: Eff, Def, and Wait. Eff is just attack, Def is Defense obviously, and Wait is how long it takes to do whatever. The enemies also have the same restrictions. Very fun to figure out how to beat each enemy. There's no leveling system, just upgrading items which has a cap and is very easy. There's almost no grind, I've played 5-6 hours without grinding once. The difficulty feels really good, very fine tuned. And if the game is too hard every time you die you perma get +1 max HP BUT you have to walk back to where you from a safe location. The writing is also really funny, it's comical. It's like $3 and I also highly recommend it.

Ross_R

Ross_R
Something clicked in me and I've installed Albion, Halcyon 6 Lightspeed Edition and Iron Brigade. So my current pile of installed games looks like this:

Albion
Halcyon 6 Lightspeed Edition
Iron Brigade
State Of Emergency
NFS Carbon: Own The City
Neo Contra
Gladius
Jets'n'Guns Gold
Just Cause 1

Primarily playing Albion at the moment. You know, buying a custom keyboard built in a shell of a Commodore 16 is likely one of the best ways I've ever spent my money. Playing pre-2000 games on this thing feels incredible. It is my own, personal time machine.
Albion in particular is amazing. The story is just my favorite kind, mixing sci-fi and fantasy, and the 90's art is gorgeous. I so, so wish I will one day be able to emulate something like 80's and 90's artwork...
Yea, Albion... The only downside is that the controls feel a bit wanky by modern standarts, but, eh, I definitely can roll with that.

Porter

My friends recently spun up a new Avorion galaxy so I've been sucked back into the blockverse and designing new ships n' stuff. I mostly spend my time on the server mining and doing other minor logistics tasks while semi-afk and hanging out in our shared voice call.

Unfortunately I have very little talent with actually making ships, but I like to think I do OK. Pic related has been my main mothership for a long time but it's looking like I'll have to engineer a new one to work around some modded weapons in our current playthrough.

Ross_R

Ross_R
Feel like writing out a comprehensive update... Do not know why, but when I ever needed a reason.

Albion - played for several month and had to drop it. Only reached about the middle of it. Boy, I forgot how big RPGs in the 90's were. That's a whole world of a game. Too bad I do not have enough time these days around just to sit down and immerse myself into it... I still aim to finish it ASAP.

Iron Brigade - haven't even touched it, really. Only looked at the menu and saw what looks like a solid modding work... Do not feel like doing that at the moment.

State Of Emergency - I pretty much finished it, but I want to unpack some files from it, and I need to write a python script in order to do that comfortably. Do not have enough free time for that at the moment, but, well, hopefully soon.

Neo Contra - still need a friend to come by and play it with me. No one has time as of now. Heck, I gotta say, my social circles kind of collaped in the last half of a year. Again. A lot of people left and stuff... Eh. Life is life. Or something.

Gladius - it's a long slow strategy game. I've been playing it on and off, but it is still a long way to go with this one.

Jets'n'Guns Gold - I'm still playing it! And it's stupid mindless fun. Thing is, I only run a level or two when I really want to dumb it all down for a moment, and so I'm still not at 100%.

Just Cause 1 - yeah, it's still around as well. I wonder if I'll ever finish it. It's been what, 17 years since my first attempt?

I also started to slowly re-play NFS: Carbon. I mean, I never played any NFSes after Undercover, and so among the ones I played, Carbon has the best muscle car customization options. And so I decided to revisit it and give my muscle cars a revamp. You can actually complete Carbon in one evening, but I've been busy doing custom textures for my lovely mechanical beasts, and so it takes some time.

The time spent is definitely worth it though.
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kroner

I have too much on my backlog 💀

Trying to complete Ghost of Tsushima right now though

1996FordMondeo

I have multiple games installed on my pc but right now I am mostly playing

Battlefield 1
Warhammer 40k spacemarine
Doorkickers

With WH and doorkickers being part of my backlog.
Luckily for me being a linux user all these games run perfectly well.
As for console games, I only own PS2(unused) and PS Vita.
On the vita I have mostly been playing:

Muramasa rebirth
Need for speed MW
Earth defense force
Midnight club games via adrenaline

Sadly something went wrong with my modded vita and I cant really use it atm and im procrastinating on troubleshooting it.

maho

Playing through iDOLM@STER Dearly Stars for the first time and trying to get decent at Puyo Puyo

Ryo-chin has such gentle eyes.

Edo

maho Has Dearly Stars been translated or are you playing the game in Japanese ? I really like the few Im@s animes I've watched but I never got to actually play the games...

maho

Edo Japanese yea, I'm not sure if there is a fan translation out there or not. It's a series totally worth learning JP for if you ask me, between the original series and Cinderella Girls there is such a massive amount of stuff to enjoy

Vesti

.Hack//G.U: Last Recode.
Specifically Volume 1: Rebirth. I'm only around 16 hours in, but I'm loving the combat, the story isn't too bad. I'm hoping it'll grow on me as I continue playing...

Fantasy

Vesti You might change your mind on the game soon. The combat is very one note for all 80ish hours. But the story to me gets better as it goes on and you get sucked into the World, pun intended.
The fake computer OS, fake forums, and fake websites ate so much of my time when I played. It's crazy how accurate they are of online forums then. Probably my favorite parts of any RPG I've played they are really well done.
I did enjoy the dungeon running. I will never ever dislike running dungeons in games even if they are super repetitive.
Also the game has great music.

Right now I'm playing through Granblue Relink. I played the mobile game years ago around when it first launched and I enjoyed it since it was my first introduction to gacha games. I never spent any money on it but did a lot of meaningless grinds. I was just playing it like an old school Final Fantasy game but instead of classes there are characters. It's nice to see so many callbacks to it in Relink. The music, characters, UI, and even the painted look the game gets at times are all perfectly in the style of the mobile game. The final boss even gets some cool hecking j-rock stuff. It's a very fun game. I've beaten it and I am now grinding through the massive endgame. I did not expect there to be so many bosses and gear to work towards. Pushing 50 hours and still unlocking new fights and finding new items. Still have to go back and beat the game on "Ultimate" mode and see if I can solo some of these bosses. Amazed at how well this turned it since it seemed like one of those development hell games.
I can easily see this taking me straight into Dragon's Dogma 2, the holy grails of sequels for me.

I've also been slowly picking away at Bloodstained Ritual of the Night. I played it on release and once more with the randomizer mode but I never 100%'d the game and never touched the additional characters. Castlevania was one of my favorite series' growing up and all three of the Bloodstained games I've found to be enjoyable and I'd like to show them a little more appreciation. But this is a long term goal since they've become my new bedtime game replacing Xenoblade. I did not get to 3 but I've got 2 done so I'll be able to pick up 3 with a clear conscience.

Ross_R

I fell ill recently, so I've had a chance to no-life a game. Chosen Halcyon 6 Lightspeed Edition and completed it in, like, three days or so.
The game is pretty much in the text files so you can do mad changes rather easily. Without much fuzz I've learned how to add pirate and alien ships into your fleet, how to assign officer of any class to the ship of any class and how to modify officers themselves. Like, there's a moment when a friendly pirate joins your fleet if you've chosen to ally with any of them; mine was Savak. He is scripted to leave after the quest is complete, but it is not hard to make a permanent pirate officer. And change his class along the way. Et cetera.
Game itself is mediocre, but if you are looking for some entry-level code modding - this is one of the best places to go.
Couple screens under a spoiler so it won't occupy too much space.

TheEmeraldSea

I'm addicted to Blue Archive bros, I must collect more waifu's!

Zergface

Lately I've been playing quite a bit of Age of Mythology, I've been playing it for the first time in 15 years or so. I'm almost done with the Norse campaign, and just as way back then the Norse are still my favorite civilization.

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