What are you currently playing?

[BrawlMan]

I got the Nigh Springs Expansions for Alan Wake II. The Deluxe Upgrade is on sale for $16 until 6/13/24, if you only bought the standard edition at the time. Get it while you can. I plan on getting the physical version of this game later, now that it has been announced. I'll be playing later tonight.

 

[laggyteabag]

Man, Half-Life 2 is way better than Black Mesa.

I can actually point at a guy, and my bullets will actually hit them.

There were a few frustrating sections driving the boat where my health was low, but nothing multiple retries couldn't solve.

I'm missing about in Ravenholm at the moment, and the gravity gun is a lot of fun.

Its especially impressive seeing as this game came out in 2004!?

Its a solid game, and i'm looking forward to finally tick this game off my backlog.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Man, Half-Life 2 is way better than Black Mesa.

I can actually point at a guy, and my bullets will actually hit them.

There were a few frustrating sections driving the boat where my health was low, but nothing multiple retries couldn't solve.

I'm missing about in Ravenholm at the moment, and the gravity gun is a lot of fun.

Its especially impressive seeing as this game came out in 2004!?

Its a solid game, and i'm looking forward to finally tick this game off my backlog.

Oh yes, the physics in the game is quite impressive, and some games today don’t let you have that much fun experimenting with objects.

Im SURE episode 3 will happen soon! /s

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I'm missing about in Ravenholm at the moment, and the gravity gun is a lot of fun.

I've played the Half-Life 2 VR mod. Ravenholm hits different there. Those sawblades are HUGE.

 

[Piscian]

I started playing Genshin impact for an hour but decided these Gacha games are bit beyond me.

The game is actually supposed to be a fun single player JRPG lacking any of the competitive elements that drive the casino gacha genre. The problem is the first hour time I logged in I was inundated with notifications and resource crap that I didn't have the faintest clue how any of it worked or what it was for and the game does a really pisspoor job of explaining anything.

So you know I go online and everybodys like " no no you can play and have fun for free ignore Gacha stuff", but literally within the same videos its also explained that if you don't do everything just right and follow these guides and start with this build then you can't finish the late game its too hard. Addition you need to save X whatever for certain characters you only randomly can get in the casino and it's just like



That combined with the fact that I guess the games story isn't even over? You want me to put 40 hours into an incomplete RPG?

 

[Worgen]

Beat Selaco. Its really cool, but it does cliff hanger. Also nothing is explained in the story, so don't go in expecting any questions answered. Still no idea who the invading force is, or what they are since they have purple blood so they obviously aren't human, or at least aren't from Selaco. I think I would still recommend Hedon over it, but we will see when the other chapters of Selaco release.

 

[Dalisclock]

Im SURE episode 3 will happen soon! /s

Too Soon.

 

[meiam]

I started playing Genshin impact for an hour but decided these Gacha games are bit beyond me.

The game is actually supposed to be a fun single player JRPG lacking any of the competitive elements that drive the casino gacha genre. The problem is the first hour time I logged in I was inundated with notifications and resource crap that I didn't have the faintest clue how any of it worked or what it was for and the game does a really pisspoor job of explaining anything.

So you know I go online and everybodys like " no no you can play and have fun for free ignore Gacha stuff", but literally within the same videos its also explained that if you don't do everything just right and follow these guides and start with this build then you can't finish the late game its too hard. Addition you need to save X whatever for certain characters you only randomly can get in the casino and it's just like

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That combined with the fact that I guess the games story isn't even over? You want me to put 40 hours into an incomplete RPG?

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So you can do 99.9% of the game by completely ignoring the gacha mechanic, the only part where it matter is some optional arena that gets new content every 2 weeks (and is really boring) and whose only reward is a minimal amount of premium currency. If you really care about the gacha part, literally the only thing that matters is primogem that you can spend on the banner, every other currency is either primogem in another name or can just be ignored for now.

But otherwise the game difficulty is a walk in the park and you can even lower it at will (if you don't care about maxing out the character efficiently).

That being said, 40 hours isn't even close to how long it'll take you to reach the current content at this point. 40 hours is maybe half the length of all the cutscene you'll need to watch to get there. And most of these are the equivalent of filler episode where nothing happen and the character just repeat the same information to you over and over again. Genshin is worth playing for the great open world, the rest isn't that great.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

I got a laptop with a dedicated graphics card- hooray for Microcenter sales! I guess it's sort of "lucky" my regular laptop started falling apart around the same time as Summer Games Fest so I been spending this morning playing a bunch of demos.
Favorite one is Pepistrello and the Magical Yo Yo or some such, a standout from the Latin American Games showcase, which is a pixely action game where you're some creature with a yo-yo.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Alan Wake 2 DLC: The Fan.
It warns to complete the main story before starting this, but to be honest is just way more darkly disturbingly humourous knowing less plot cause holy hell are we playing through some poor working-class lady's mental illness as she experiences a psychotic break egging her shooting spree on. Still bout halfway through the campaign due to tendencies.

 

[Piscian]

I got a laptop with a dedicated graphics card- hooray for Microcenter sales! I guess it's sort of "lucky" my regular laptop started falling apart around the same time as Summer Games Fest so I been spending this morning playing a bunch of demos.
Favorite one is Pepistrello and the Magical Yo Yo or some such, a standout from the Latin American Games showcase, which is a pixely action game where you're some creature with a yo-yo.

Which laptop did you get? Main reason I ask is that if you got a lenovo I'd consider googling Lenovo fan control. I have a Microcenter Lenovo legion 5 and the fans are always on 24/7 so somebody write an APP to fix it and properly manage fan speed.

 

[FakeSympathy]

I am now about 9 hours into the GoT Iki Island expansion.

Honestly, the experience has been great so far. I thought it was just gonna be killing more mongols, but I was surprised with how personal this journey has been for Jin. Him reflecting both his parents was really interesting, and sometimes heartbreaking. In the main game Yuriko the caretaker explained how Jin's father Kazumasa was less rigid than Lord Shimura. But during the memory sequence, it seems Kazumasa was still strick in his own way. He was also kinda brutal and didn't show mercy during the invasion. Maybe that's where Jin gets his Ghost side from, but instead directing his brutality against the Mongols?

Kinda wish we got to see more of Jin's mother, though. She sounds like a witty, funny, gentle, and wise woman

I love the new armor! The ability to keep going after perfect parry is awesome.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

Which laptop did you get? Main reason I ask is that if you got a lenovo I'd consider googling Lenovo fan control. I have a Microcenter Lenovo legion 5 and the fans are always on 24/7 so somebody write an APP to fix it and properly manage fan speed.

Acer V something something, with a 3050RTX card

 

[BrawlMan]

I got Jistu Squad off of a Steam sale. Sale ends in less than 24 hours! Act fast!

 

[Worgen]

I got Jistu Squad off of a Steam sale. Sale ends in less than 24 hours! Act fast!

I didn't really like that one. I found it weirdly stiff to play.

 

[BrawlMan]

I didn't really like that one. I found it weirdly stiff to play.

If I don't like it, I can get an easy refund.

 

[Worgen]

If I don't like it, I can get an easy refund.

For me it was the attacks that I got tired of really quickly. Cause they tend to take a long time and string together, but you are locked in place while doing them.

 

[FakeSympathy]

I am now about 9 hours into the GoT Iki Island expansion.

Honestly, the experience has been great so far. I thought it was just gonna be killing more mongols, but I was surprised with how personal this journey has been for Jin. Him reflecting both his parents was really interesting, and sometimes heartbreaking. In the main game Yuriko the caretaker explained how Jin's father Kazumasa was less rigid than Lord Shimura. But during the memory sequence, it seems Kazumasa was still strick in his own way. He was also kinda brutal and didn't show mercy during the invasion. Maybe that's where Jin gets his Ghost side from, but instead directing his brutality against the Mongols?

Kinda wish we got to see more of Jin's mother, though. She sounds like a witty, funny, gentle, and wise woman

I love the new armor! The ability to keep going after perfect parry is awesome.

Well it took three more hours and now the expansion is done!

I really liked the ending here. Jin finally seems to have a closure on his guilt and struggle. And I like to think this is how his story ended

Those shrines referencing other PS games were awesome! The Kratos paint looks so fucking good!

Don't really have the energy to go for new game +, though.

 

[BrawlMan]

Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper (GBA) - I slept on this version of Alpha 3. I really wish I got this back on the GBA. Great news is that I am playing this on the Myoo. This version, along with the PSP version are the most content rich. The only thing the GBA version lacks is the reverse dramatic battle and World Tour Mode. Otherwise, it has more going for it than the PS1 and Sega Saturn version technically.

 

[Dalisclock]

After poking around some different games to find one that grabbed me, I started Little Nightmares 2, because I really enjoyed Little Nightmares. And while it makes me anxious to play Little Nightmares, I just fucking love the surreal creepy fucking vibe the whole game gives off. And Little Nightmares 2....it's pretty much more of that from what I've noticed. Well, it's not entirely the same thing. While the first game was set entirely in a large ship/submarine/floating thing called The Maw, this game seems to have a larger variety of locations. So instead of one big building thingy, LN 2 starts in a dark forest and eventually leads into a decrepit mostly abandoned city that looks like it's about to fall over at any point and most of the population seems to have just...vanished. Like you find empty shoes and clothes all over(like everyone was raptured or something) but very few people. Also creepy TVs that apparently can suck people in or something.

The other big different is that early in the game your character, a little boy named mono with a paper bag on his head(because reasons) meets another child who accompanies him along the way and I'm almost completely sure this is six, the little girl protagonist from LN(except without her bright yellow raincoat). So a number of puzzles involve Mono and Six helping each other traverse obstacles and out of trouble. Six also occasionally gives you non-verbal hints of what to do next if you take too long or seem to be struggling(like she'll start poking at a thing you need to interact with if you seem to be struggling figuring out how to progress). There's also small quality of life features like characters putting keys in their pockets so you don't have to carry the key around manually until you reach a lock(bigger objects still need to be dragged/carried around through)

So basically, so far anyway, if you like Little Nightmares, you'll probably like Little Nightmares 2 because it's picking up where the first game left off(well, not plot wise, but everything else feels really similar).