What video games are you folks playing?
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I like everything about this post. I'll have to check these out.The_G wrote:Between kids, work and music, there isn't much time for gaming. So I try to play games that are easy to leave and pick up. A couple I highly recommend are:
Out There (PC/Mac/iOS)
A very elegant (and hard) rogue-like (4x) space exploration game. Similar to FTL but with emphasis on resource-management rather than combat. A bit like one of the those German board games, then. [Review of it here.]
Shadow run Returns trilogy (PC/Mac/iOS)
Isometric-view tactical RPG in the Shadowrun world (cyberpunk plus fantasy). Really addictive, fun.
Personally I'm a big fan of rogue-likes. Permadeath injected that sense of meaning that had been lost in gaming. Knowing that you could lose all of your investment from playing sloppy changes your emotional experience. Of course, I should start marking on my wall how many times I "reward myself" after a long day and then have shitty reflexes with a mushy brain and end up losing one of my main characters
The nice thing about stuff like FTL, Dungeon of the Endless, Risk of Rain and other action rogue-lites is the average game session, between 15-60 minutes they are nice, bite-sized chunks that I don't have to commit 60 hours to getting anywhere.
I hate grinding. A serious insult to the lack of time we have in life. Oddly enough idle games are strangely captivating, but leaving cycles running in the background I'd rather donate to SETI, Fold-it, google's world domination, etc.
But, I've actually been trying to reduce my gaming since they are huge time sucks that have eaten good portions of my life in the past. Shifting my gaming time into making shitty prototypes in Unity - little action experiments and getting better at coding. So far I've been having some success with top-down shmups, hackNslash, 4x spreadsheets of spaceships, and various math/inertia experiments. Kinda fun, a ways to go yet.
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I bought a Xbox over the xmas period, had a blast with Gears 4 and Witcher 3 for a few weeks now I haven't touched it since.
Kinda wished I'd spent the money on a new module, don't have the heart to sell the thing though.
Kinda wished I'd spent the money on a new module, don't have the heart to sell the thing though.
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I have just downloaded Darkest Dungeon and i have been watching this game stream of Oxygen Not Included which is still in Alpha but looks amazing.
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Anyone else here playing TLOZ Breath Of the Wild?
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Tha last game I've played on a Nintendo console was the Pokemon Yellow on Gameboy Color.
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Haha that's quite a while ago then
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Yeah I was born in a country, where the first brick Nintendo and the later versions were so popular but then we all got older and moved to Playstation 1.
I think my console history is something like:
* Gameboy first gen (Tetris, Doctor Mario, Tennis)
* Gameboy Color (Pokemon)
* Sega Saturn (Sega Rally)
* PS1 (All day every day Crash Bandicoot)
* PS2 (tons of games but most of the time the Winning Eleven series)
PS: I'm 27.
I think my console history is something like:
* Gameboy first gen (Tetris, Doctor Mario, Tennis)
* Gameboy Color (Pokemon)
* Sega Saturn (Sega Rally)
* PS1 (All day every day Crash Bandicoot)
* PS2 (tons of games but most of the time the Winning Eleven series)
PS: I'm 27.
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Dipped my toe in online play. Never really been interested before.
Anyway, been playing GTA V online. So far having a lot of fun.
Anyway, been playing GTA V online. So far having a lot of fun.
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I love story driven 3rd person RPGs like Mass Effect, Kotor... Sadly I don't have the latest gen consoles or a computer with a graphics card to play the latest AAA games of last years.
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It happened to me all my life, new title gets released, i cant even start the game on my pc.. Thats why i i bought ps4 few years ago.
Im happy with gaming console for the first time in my life
Im happy with gaming console for the first time in my life
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Yeah I've stopped console gaming after PS2, then I got really into music so I've prioritised my spending. I have an old laptop with 5650 graphics card and a desktop without any. These are the type of casual games I've been playing lately:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/342640/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/342640/
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Yes, I'm definitely looking forward to the new Mass Effect. However I'm looking forward to Persona 5 even more, my most anticipated game of the year!
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Never heard of that Persona series, must look into that one as wellMattias wrote:Yes, I'm definitely looking forward to the new Mass Effect. However I'm looking forward to Persona 5 even more, my most anticipated game of the year!
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You do that fella, it's a relatively unknown series but the third and especially fourth installments been regularly featuring "best games ever" lists all around and for good reason.
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I'm sorry but I have been playing the new Ghost recon with a couple of pals online and rather enjoying it, it's nothing new, it's a military based GTA/Farcry which is no bad thing.
Very very poor form for Ubisoft not to have a multiplayer available at release though, this game was built on that, lazy, very lazy, but one will be available soon as an added download free of charge, probably flogged it by then.
Very very poor form for Ubisoft not to have a multiplayer available at release though, this game was built on that, lazy, very lazy, but one will be available soon as an added download free of charge, probably flogged it by then.
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Playing Bioshock from the beginning again. It's a good distraction from Writer's block
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Just finished Arkham Knight. Great story, lots of feels. Very true to Batman.
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
man it's fun
man it's fun