What are you currently playing?

[thebobmaster]

And now I'm completely finished with P3R. Got the good ending, feel no real drive to buy the Answer DLC. Was planning to go into Metaphor ReFantazio again, but after P3R, think I need a breather from that style of massive story-based RPG. I'll wait until after my doctor's appointment tomorrow to determine if I can take the brace off my wrist to determine if I'll still need to stick to my PC, or if I'll be able to start playing on my PS5 again to catch up on my backlog.

 

[Drathnoxis]

"I am playing Tomb Raider 2. Now here's a bunch of reasons why a completely different game that I'm not playing is terrible, with no detail about the game I'm actually playing."

You really just can't help yourself but whinge and moan at every turn, can you? It's like you're not capable of enjoying anything except by not enjoying things.

Not everybody has sunny personalities, or fulfilled lives that enable us look on the works of man and god with contentment. Some of us are cynical, critical, and have few sources of enjoyment. It may bother you occasionally, but we have to be around ourselves 24/7.

 

[BrawlMan]

Some of us are cynical, critical, and have few sources of enjoyment. It may bother you occasionally, but we have to be around ourselves 24/7.

Oh, it's so hard being a "genius" who brings constant misery on themselves. That us peons will never understand.

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I did a round of Survival in Final Vendetta. I replayed some of my favorite levels in Modern Warfare 2 Remaster on Hardened. I noticed MW2's Hardened is actually easier compared to MW1's Hardened.

I played some Alpha 2 Gold and Alpha 3 MAX earlier in the weekend too.

You really just can't help yourself but whinge and moan at every turn, can you? It's like you're not capable of enjoying anything except by not enjoying things.

Told you he can't enjoy much of anything, aside from blind nostalgia, sometimes Max Payne 3, and Streets of Rage 4. I learn to ignore is nonsensical bitching over nothing.

 

[Ezekiel]

Not everybody has sunny personalities, or fulfilled lives that enable us look on the works of man and god with contentment. Some of us are cynical, critical, and have few sources of enjoyment. It may bother you occasionally, but we have to be around ourselves 24/7.

I mean, I've talked about my recent progress in Tomb Raider II on the other forum, but there's no real community here anymore to copy those posts over for. No responses when I talked about Tomb Raider III and the original five to seven months ago. But of course I will come over to post the more negative posts now and then, because I have a name to live up to. This last one was copied from there as well. Seldom post anything here first. No offense.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I've beaten Kaycee's Mod in Inscryption with every starter deck (but one, more on that) and as far as I'm concerned you might as well scrub anything that isn't the Black Goat deck or the Mantis God deck ASAP. The worst offender is the Mysterious Egg deck, which starts you with three bunk cards and zero damage output. What the deck wants you to do is amass a veritable menagerie of cards representing at least 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 attack points, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 health points, and cutting across all 5 types (avian, reptile, canine, cervid and insect). And THEN each egg will hatch into an absurdly overpowered hydra. But if you somehow made it so far into a run to manage to collect all that shit, you're probably not hurting for hydras.

Inevitably I end up furnacing all this extraneous stuff just to replicate the same deck every run, decks & RNG notwithstanding: whittle down every deck to a single low cost card (which is forced into every first draw) that is either a Black Goat with an unkillable sigil that lets me play an OP card, or a buffed the fuck up Mantis with double base damage. There's a gimmick to every boss that can be worked around with specific items, but that's pretty much it. If you can make it past the first map you're probably good for the rest of the run.

Currently parked in front of the final boss, with the final deck I need for Plat. But I'll leave it at that and go play something else to farm the other 158 trophies I need to match Inscryption's Plat to my 9,000th overall, because I like it when the milestone pics on PSN Profiles match games that I really like.

 

[BrawlMan]

I decided to try out Secret Base's Devil's Dare. The updated version with the name, Streets of Red. This is the spiritual predecessor to Double Dragon Gaiden, and it shows. There's no tag mechanics, but you can go up to 4 player co-op. I am still early in the game, but loving it already.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Oh, it's so hard being a "genius" who brings constant misery on themselves. That us peons will never understand.

Who said anything about being a genius? I said some people aren't happy and it makes it hard to be positive.

 

[BrawlMan]

Who said anything about being a genius? I said some people aren't happy and it makes it hard to be positive.

I know. I was mocking him. Hence the quotations on genius.

 

[BrawlMan]

I finished Devil's Dare. Beat it on the first attempt, and only died twice. And that was only at the final boss. The game does stand up on its own, and you can see the DNA of what would become Double Dragon Gaiden. Great game, though Devil's Dare is not better than it's spiritual successor. I still do recommend playing this game, because all of the fun gaming and movie references sprinkled out through all the levels. That is a high recommendation for @NerfedFalcon, @Worgen, and @ExtraWildGames. I played the PS4 version on my PS5, but it's available on all modern platforms.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

I finished Devil's Dare. Beat it on the first attempt, and only died twice. And that was only at the final boss. The game does stand up on its own, and you can see the DNA of what would become Double Dragon Gaiden. Great game, though it's not better than it's spiritual predecessor. I still do recommend playing this game, because all of the fun gaming and movie references sprinkled out through all the levels. That is a high recommendation for @NerfedFalcon, @Worgen, and @ExtraWildGames. I played the PS4 version on my PS5, but it's available on all modern platforms.

I just checked on Steam and there's no option to buy it. Might not be available in Australia.

 

[BrawlMan]

I just checked on Steam and there's no option to buy it. Might not be available in Australia.

WTF? Why Steam?

Sorry about that. I didn't even know that could happen with certain Steam games.

Edit: try typing in Streets of Red. See if that does anything.

 

[Worgen]

I just checked on Steam and there's no option to buy it. Might not be available in Australia.

Does this not link to anything for you?

 

[Ezekiel]

Playing Tomb Raider II, I discovered that you can skip the cutscenes that follow when you press or pull certain switches by going into the inventory and selecting a weapon. You can still move around during those cutscenes, but if you need to (two scenarios where I've made use of this exploit) get into position for enemies coming through a gate or for a deadly obstacle course that's on a timer, not being able to see makes that harder. The next animation that I already commanded takes precedence over the cutscene.

Edit: Oh, someone just informed me that the look button disrupts all cutscenes.

 

[BrawlMan]

I am doing another run of Devil's Dare. I am playing as Axel this time. He's basically Link, if we were a modern day human, instead of an elf. My first playthrough was as Queenie. A lady who fights in a mini mecha. Fancy trivia, her mech was a bulldog pet she owns. I completed two stages and stopping for now.

@Worgen, I am playing Black Ops III (PS4) right now. I got it from my local comic book shop. They had it for $9.99; cheaper than GameStop. GS expects people to pay for this 2015 game for $18 used. Right now I am playing Dead Ops Arcade 2. It's automatically in the bonus menu, because of the previous updates, so I got it mainly for that, and the main campaign. Wish me luck. I'll get to the main game when I lose all of my lives.

 

[Satinavian]

Does this not link to anything for you?

Can't speak for NerfedFalcon but it does not link to anything for me.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Can't speak for NerfedFalcon but it does not link to anything for me.

It has to be regional, then. This is what should be visible:

 

[Worgen]

@Worgen, I am playing Black Ops III (PS4) right now. I got it from my local comic book shop. They had it for $9.99; cheaper than GameStop. GS expects people to pay for this 2015 game for $18 used. Right now I am playing Dead Ops Arcade 2. It's automatically in the bonus menu, because of the previous updates, so I got it mainly for that, and the main campaign. Wish me luck. I'll get to the main game when I lose all of my lives.

Good luck.

Still stuck in Phoenix Point and I understand why the festering skies dlc has a bad rating. Conceptually its interesting, but the dog fight mechanics suck and the enemies after the first invasion will just outclass your fighter so you had better have been using materials on making new fighter aircraft and weapons or the big bad enemy flyer will just be eating havens. Unlike the rest of combat in the game, it seems like hitting and missing are totally random, for normal combat you do have randomness but you can see the cone of fire for your attacks, with the aircraft you just miss or hit with no idea what the % chance even is, very lazy and not well thought out.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Started South Park: Stick Of Truth. I'm a shameless fan of South Park, but never got around to their games, then saw a bundle with Stick Of Truth and Fractured But Whole for $12, and bit. I'm only about 10 minutes in, and already loving how it seamlessly looks and feels like the show, even how the game teaches you to play it feels like the show. 10/10 for faithfulness to the source material so far; I hope it keeps this up. Already thinking of starting a second character using the "Jew" class just to see if Cartman gives differing responses to me! This one feels like i could be a fun run for 100%, and that's something I've not felt in a LONG time.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Playing Heavenly Bodies, which was free with PS+ at some point.

It's one of those infuriating physics puzzle games where you're asked to perform actions with a finesse and precision at odds with the limited control you've been given. Here you're a lonely astronaut floating in a bunch of spaceships and stations in zero-g and given (separate) control over his two arms, with no way of moving but flailing them around, catching them in angles or grabbing onto surfaces and propelling forward. The mere act of sliding a door open, pulling a lever or hooking up your suit to a tether is a challenge. Your one risk is the possibility you'll drift away helplessly from the ship with no way to counter the momemtum (no jetpacks for this dude), which is played up very effectively as a primal fear despite the general comedy tone.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

Started South Park: Stick Of Truth. I'm a shameless fan of South Park, but never got around to their games, then saw a bundle with Stick Of Truth and Fractured But Whole for $12, and bit. I'm only about 10 minutes in, and already loving how it seamlessly looks and feels like the show, even how the game teaches you to play it feels like the show. 10/10 for faithfulness to the source material so far; I hope it keeps this up. Already thinking of starting a second character using the "Jew" class just to see if Cartman gives differing responses to me! This one feels like i could be a fun run for 100%, and that's something I've not felt in a LONG time.

I love Stick of Truth.
Yes there are a couple of different dialogue results for the Jew class. (lol there's a Jew class).
A 100% achievement run will require a guide but I highly recommend it for a second play-through, it's fun.
IMO this game was the last genuinely funny, original, interesting thing that came out of South Park.

"I was into this before it was cool" warning: When I was in college I got to see and spread the original Christmas card video that would eventually get the attention of Comedy Central to turn that stupid little video of swearing kids egging on Jesus to fight Santa Clause into an actual TV show because our uni had a local TV station and I was friends with the A/V media nerds (my own attempt at a radio show was not good). Still kind of crazy that it became a huge phenomenon and is now like the Simpsons, just going on way too long.

Fractured But Whole is not nearly as good, not just because it's a sequel but also because it is about their MCU spoof which is less funny and biting than their fantasy/RPG spoof.