What are you currently playing?

[BrawlMan]

@Worgen, I am at Chapter 8 of Serious Sam 4, and I finally got the minigun! For maximum pleasure! I also got the perk upgrade that allows you to dual wield all heavy weapons. I going to agree with you now and say that this is the best Serious Sam game ever.

 

[Worgen]

@Worgen, I am at Chapter 8 of Serious Sam 4, and I finally got the minigun! For maximum pleasure! I also got the perk upgrade that allows you to dual wield all heavy weapons. I going to agree with you now and say that this is the best Serious Sam game ever.

I know right, its so fucken good. When I finally played it I was actively pissed at reviewers who convinced me it wasn't very good. Its easily in my top 5 fps games. Which goes in no particular order.

Hedon: Bloodrite
Serious Sam 4/SM
Cultic
CoD 4
Quake 1/2

 

[BrawlMan]

I know right, its so fucken good. When I finally played it I was actively pissed at reviewers who convinced me it wasn't very good. Its easily in my top 5 fps games. Which goes in no particular order.

Hedon: Bloodrite
Serious Sam 4/SM
Cultic
CoD 4
Quake 1/2

Currently on Chapter 10 and about 60% progress on it. I am stopping for the night.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Playing Foamstars because it's free this month on PS. Have a feeling it's not gonna be long before it goes F2P.

This is an aggressively mediocre 4v4 multiplayer best summarized as "We have Splatoon at home". You run around a vaguely cybernetic Vegas Strip arena, plastering everything and everyone in foam. You pick your character from a roster of hipsters designed by committee; there's supposed to be some kind of class balance but I see no reason to ever not pick the character with the fastest mid-range weapon.

Played a couple of hours and already got most trophies. Since there's no Platinum and I'm not one for premium pass bullshit I'm quite done with the thing.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Vietnam Combat Operations Tour of Duty (Public Release 2021)

A mod, based on C&C: Tiberian Sun, set in the Vietnam War. Rather buggy, and hard to play but very impressive. Too many units to scroll through when choosing wat to build, and hard to work out wha's going on...though that could add to the realism.

 

[BrawlMan]

I finished Chapter 10. It's not that long, but not the shortest chapter. Currently on Chapter 11 of SS4. Poor Kenny. Sam's allies are dropping like flies. I feel bad for them and Sam. Good job on Croteam's part.

 

[Worgen]

I finished Chapter 10. It's not that long, but not the shortest chapter. Currently on Chapter 11 of SS4. Poor Kenny. Sam's allies are dropping like flies. I feel bad for them and Sam. Good job on Croteam's part,

I know right, even Sam's pals are great characters.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I finished Chapter 10. It's not that long, but not the shortest chapter. Currently on Chapter 11 of SS4. Poor Kenny. Sam's allies are dropping like flies. I feel bad for them and Sam. Good job on Croteam's part.

Poor Kenny.

 

[BrawlMan]

Getting towards the home stretch now. Serious Sam 4, Mission 14. I don't like how being in the oil rig slows your movement in the indoor parts and you can't run. Why bring this dumb mechanics back from BFE. No one likes it. It doesn't last long, but was never necessary to begin with. I am on the deck now and stopping there for tonight.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Argh, finally my NVA regulars and VC guerillas had irreparably damaged the USMC base, it's just another long grind to totally defeat them from here. And then the game crashes. Argh!

 

[BrawlMan]

@Worgen, I finished Serious Sam 4. Great game overall, but there's some noticeable jank and the final boss is lame. I am still going to put into 25 Best FPS of all time list. I'll pick up Siberian Mayhem next week.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I've been replaying Final Fantasy 7 Remake to prime myself for Rebirth, and I'm about 19 hours in (I'm just after the "plate" section), but I'm having a harder and harder time feeling engaged by the combat. I finished this game once when it came out walking away from it quite negatively, mostly due to the stupid meta-ghosts, but overall the game's story, characters, and scenery are very charming and adventurous. But the combat is really getting to me now. I never liked how annoying and cumbersome the materia system is, but the actual combat is feeling like such a drag to me now. It's not active enough to satisfy as a reflex based mechanic, and it's not strategic enough to satisfy as a turn-based mechanic. It limply floats in the middle. It also doesn't help that the combat pretty much stays exactly the same from the first chapter onward; hold square to auto-attack till you can pull of an ability or spell. The only character who has slightly more going on with their fighting mechanics is Tifa, but even then it still leaves you wanting.

I really hope Rebirth adds some... well, anything.

 

[BrawlMan]

Playing Tekken 8 again and playing arcade battle with various character and soundtrack changes. For those who want to fight the harder bosses, here how you do it: Getting 1 Perfect has you fight Azazel as the final boss, 2 Perfects has you fight True Devil Kazuya as the final boss, and 3 Perfects nets you True Angel Jin as the final boss.

During character customization, I tried making Azucena look like Blaze Fielding. I was able to mostly pull it off, except for the sweater underneath her leather jacket. To compensate, I made the sweater red, and the leather jacket black. Then made her boots red. I had to change her and the hair color to make her resemble Blaze more. So now I got a Latina Blaze.

 

[Worgen]

Finished 'Momodora: Moonlit Farewell' Not that long a game but a very solid metroidvania, fantastic pixel art and an interesting story with some really cool boss fights.

Also finished "En Guard!" Shorter then Momodora but so damn charming with its campy swash buckling story and over the top characters and I love how everyone in the game knows how campy it is. Even when you "kill" the enemies they still talk to you about how they meant to lose and such. Its just charming campy and fun.

Still working on Yakuza like a dragon. Im at a point where I need to get a lot of money so I'm just kinda roaming around doing random things.

Also started playing a game called Chorus. Its a 3rd person space shooter game. The plot is that you were one of the high priests or something of this religious group and your prophet went a bit nuts and started turning on everyone who didn't follow it and long story short, he had you blow up a planet and you decided after that to nope out of there with the most advanced ship they had. The game looks great, combat is challenging and satisfying and I'm interested where the story will go. Finding things can be weird, I do wish the game had a radar, when you are trying to track enemies or hidden items all you have are screen icons, which work after you get used to them but still feel awkward to me. Either way, quite enjoying it.

 

[BrawlMan]

The only character who has slightly more going on with their fighting mechanics is Tifa, but even then it still leaves you wanting.

If you combine the right materia for Tifa, she'll play like a Platinum games character.

 

[Dalisclock]

Grabbed Armored Core 6 on sale and booted it up.

Took a moment to get past that fucking helicopter( though helis were supposes to be lightly armored?) and was able to get to the part where I can take it easy a little. Did a training mission, did a sortie, and played a little bit with the AC configuration screen.

So it's interesting. True to FROM tradition I have no idea who my character is other then some guy who apparently is brain damaged and being used as a Merc for...someone. And first thing I do is drop in, apparently illegally because first mission is all about finding someone who recently died and stealing their ID to fool the system into letting me do Merc work. So that's interesting.

But there's at least some explanation for Rubicon being the way it is.

 

[Worgen]

Grabbed Armored Core 6 on sale and booted it up.

Took a moment to get past that fucking helicopter( though helis were supposes to be lightly armored?) and was able to get to the part where I can take it easy a little. Did a training mission, did a sortie, and played a little bit with the AC configuration screen.

So it's interesting. True to FROM tradition I have no idea who my character is other then some guy who apparently is brain damaged and being used as a Merc for...someone. And first thing I do is drop in, apparently illegally because first mission is all about finding someone who recently died and stealing their ID to fool the system into letting me do Merc work. So that's interesting.

But there's at least some explanation for Rubicon being the way it is.

Thats with the nerfed chopper also. At launch that thing was such a pain to deal with. Wasn't helped by really not being sure of the controls yet. I think it was bad design, not giving players access to the vr training before that stage.

 

[Dalisclock]

Thats with the nerfed chopper also. At launch that thing was such a pain to deal with. Wasn't helped by really not being sure of the controls yet. I think it was bad design, not giving players access to the vr training before that stage.

Yeah, I'd heard people talk about the chopper before so I knew it was gonna be rough.

And yeah, the game gives you a really basic AC and plops you into a mission with nothing more then "Have at it, kid". Which I guess is FROM being FROM.

At least there's the checkpoint right before the boss fight so you don't have to run the entire level every time.

I kinda stopped looking at AC stuff around the time it came out because I was waiting for a price drop(or someone to gift to to me on steam). Is there any Lore I really should know from the rest of the series or is it pretty much "People are shitty, things are bleak but hey you get to pliot a giant robot so there's that'"?

 

[Worgen]

Yeah, I'd heard people talk about the chopper before so I knew it was gonna be rough.

And yeah, the game gives you a really basic AC and plops you into a mission with nothing more then "Have at it, kid". Which I guess is FROM being FROM.

At least there's the checkpoint right before the boss fight so you don't have to run the entire level every time.

I kinda stopped looking at AC stuff around the time it came out because I was waiting for a price drop(or someone to gift to to me on steam). Is there any Lore I really should know from the rest of the series or is it pretty much "People are shitty, things are bleak but hey you get to pliot a giant robot so there's that'"?

Unfortunately, the last AC game I played before 6 was probably like1, 2 or 3 way back when and I remember nothing from the plots.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

After a bit of distraction, I finally finished Modern Warfare 2. Great game, still holds up really well, plot's kinda stupid but it's carried by great characters and action. Next on the list is Black Ops, which I remember being pretty unimpressed by when I played it a few years ago; that was the terrible Playstation 3 port, though, so hopefully with it actually looking and running good on PC, I'll be able to enjoy the plot more.