What are you playing now?

[AlexM]

I own them all, they are in my steam pile of shame. I might give the first 2 a try this summer. I remember playing the demo for FEAR1 what feels like 15 years ago and really liking it.

I really gotta stop buying video games

Edited June 28, 2022 by AlexM

[ZZZ]

Megatextures really look good from a distance, but extremely low res up close. The wasterland's design is very good.

Just learned something new from Rage. If the player visits an area and then has to go back to the beginning of it. Either make the mission end near the beginning or give the player a shortcut, like they did with ziplines to go back to the beginning.

Edited June 29, 2022 by 0kelvin

[Dabu]

I brought a lot of games during the summer sales such as Deus Ex, Saint Row 3, GTA IVA, Serious Sam, Bioshock Collection, Sonic Mania, Amnesia, Halo MCC and etc.

 

Also I've been playing earlier DUSK it's such a fucking amazing game if you're into horror, Quake or any fps such as Half-Life.

New Blood is amazing

[ZZZ]

Rage isn't a bad game, but it's not exceptional either. Right before the journey to the other wasteland, where the sky is dark, I dropped it. The env art in this game is really excellent. I saw how much effort they put in to make a believable wasteland. The thing is, megatexture made it all static. There is nothing to interact with. All you do in this game is to accept a quest, go to a place, then comes a door and a loading screen. Once in you kill everyone there, do your job, return to the outdoor wasteland, drive back to the city and go to the next mission. There is no plot to explain the lives of each character, each place you visit. It comes down to "bandits are trying to explode the blablabla, go there and stop them". It's not like bioshock where the whole world has a background story from its creation to the current time where the game takes place. It's doesn't offer much beyond killing enemies. I don't know if the hardware at the time imposed serious bottlenecks or if the script writers didn't develop the world any further than just give an excuse to explain that the world was destroyed by an asteroid. Take out the enemies from each level and there is nothing left to populate it. It has good mechanics, various weapons, different tactics, but the world itself seems a wasted potential. Compared to bioshock it is way easier to earn credits and obtain ingredients.

[blackdog]

13 hours ago, 0kelvin said:

Rage isn't a bad game, but it's not exceptional either. Right before the journey to the other wasteland, where the sky is dark, I dropped it. The env art in this game is really excellent. I saw how much effort they put in to make a believable wasteland. The thing is, megatexture made it all static. There is nothing to interact with. All you do in this game is to accept a quest, go to a place, then comes a door and a loading screen. Once in you kill everyone there, do your job, return to the outdoor wasteland, drive back to the city and go to the next mission. There is no plot to explain the lives of each character, each place you visit. It comes down to "bandits are trying to explode the blablabla, go there and stop them". It's not like bioshock where the whole world has a background story from its creation to the current time where the game takes place. It's doesn't offer much beyond killing enemies. I don't know if the hardware at the time imposed serious bottlenecks or if the script writers didn't develop the world any further than just give an excuse to explain that the world was destroyed by an asteroid. Take out the enemies from each level and there is nothing left to populate it. It has good mechanics, various weapons, different tactics, but the world itself seems a wasted potential. Compared to bioshock it is way easier to earn credits and obtain ingredients.

I mean, Carmack is also famous for the quote “story in videogames is important as story in pornos”… they are not really known for their storytelling.

The tech was ported even to mobile, there was a mobile on rail shooter for iPhone.

I haven’t played it yet, always admired the fantastic art, everything is chiselled by hand… but all the rest takes a back seat. I remember the critiques and prob a reason why I never prioritised playing it. At the time I was expecting what Mad Max by Avalanche came to be. That one is fantastic visually and also fun, despite the repetitiveness. (Although every outpost or hideout is actually different)

[Vilham]

I finally tried wolfenstein young blood as everything zenimax was moved over to steam a while back. To be as polite as possible, don't play it.

Also been playing Dyson Sphere program, its pretty good but it lacks the clear progression and ability to easily monitor your "progress/status" of your economy when compared with Factorio. The fact that your economy is split up onto different planets and you can see everything at a glance like you can on the factorio map makes it difficult to see what you need to do next throughout your galaxy.

[FMPONE]

Still playing a lot of Hell Let Loose. The sad part is, everything I like about this game was in Day of Defeat, and none of the stuff I don't like was in Day of Defeat.

[ElectroSheep]

Playing a lot to hunt showdown since almost a year. One of the best mp experience i've ever played.

[Jim F Kennedy]

Been playing quite a lot of Lost Judgment since it dropped on Steam, honestly one of the best combat systems I've ever played. Giving a bit of inspiration for my game's combat.

Edited November 15, 2022 by Jim F Kennedy

[Vilham]

On 11/14/2022 at 4:12 PM, ElectroSheep said:

Playing a lot to hunt showdown since almost a year. One of the best mp experience i've ever played.

That reminds me actually, now I have a new PC I should actually play it.

[AlexM]

Ace Attorney on the NDS. Finally getting around to it like 15 years after I bought it.

[WD]

PS plus has been amazing for me since I've never owned a Playstation until I got PS5. Since the last year I've played most of the exclusive series from back to back, Uncharted, God of War, Last of Us... but just recently they unexpectedly pulled all the Metal Gear games when I was just about to start to play them. Talk about a big massive fuck you to a lot of people, including me, thinking 'classics catalogue' would be something that would be constantly expanding once the time goes on. I hope that means PS4 and PS5 are getting Metal Gear remasters, which will probably be dog shit knowing who's behind the publishing.

OK enough about the rant.

Been enjoying God of War Ragnarök, though the core gameplay is so much of the same as the last one. I feel it's wearing down on me although It's constantly making it's best to mix things up.

[blackdog]

I started COD Cold War.

Its beautiful, I like the idea of the board but it’s so simplified and only revolves around finding bits in other missions, I’m not sure it’s possible to work out by yourself the solutions? I mean the target is young kids so I get it…

Anyway the temptation of reviewing it 3/10 is super strong, simply because the terrible installation process.

I deleted a couple games to make space on my PS4 and wasn’t enough. I make more space, and the installation starts, I leave it on all night and when I go to play it two days after… only the multiplayer was installed!

Theres actually a file/package manager built in the menus: never seen something like that in a console game but most importantly why the hell you don’t prompt me on what I want to install at the beginning, if MP is all it was fitting in the drive??

I removed the MP from the menu and tried to start the SP download and nothing happened. So I uninstalled the game, made even more space and then the game asked what I wanted to install. There were 3/4 packages labelled “campaign no. X”, I select them all and finally after another night of download the campaign is playable.

Now every time I turn on the PS4 i get an error message of not enough space, something like I have less than 4gb… despite there’s like 6gb?

So infuriating.

Edited December 9, 2022 by blackdog

[Jim F Kennedy]

10 hours ago, blackdog said:

I started COD Cold War.

Its beautiful, I like the idea of the board but it’s so simplified and only revolves around finding bits in other missions, I’m not sure it’s possible to work out by yourself the solutions? I mean the target is young kids so I get it…

Anyway the temptation of reviewing it 3/10 is super strong, simply because the terrible installation process.

I deleted a couple games to make space on my PS4 and wasn’t enough. I make more space, and the installation starts, I leave it on all night and when I go to play it two days after… only the multiplayer was installed!

Theres actually a file/package manager built in the menus: never seen something like that in a console game but most importantly why the hell you don’t prompt me on what I want to install at the beginning, if MP is all it was fitting in the drive??

I removed the MP from the menu and tried to start the SP download and nothing happened. So I uninstalled the game, made even more space and then the game asked what I wanted to install. There were 3/4 packages labelled “campaign no. X”, I select them all and finally after another night of download the campaign is playable.

Now every time I turn on the PS4 i get an error message of not enough space, something like I have less than 4gb… despite there’s like 6gb?

So infuriating.

cw felt like a very lifeless game, especially in the zombies mode. im sure to someone new to cod, it could be fun, but its definitely a downgrade from black ops 3 and even 4.

Edited December 10, 2022 by Jim F Kennedy

[blackdog]

On 12/10/2022 at 5:39 AM, Jim F Kennedy said:

cw felt like a very lifeless game, especially in the zombies mode. im sure to someone new to cod, it could be fun, but its definitely a downgrade from black ops 3 and even 4.

I always played COD for the campaigns, I've always been in for the rollercoaster.

The last CODs I remember playing were COD4 Modern Warfare and then Ghosts.
Black Ops I tried the demos that were available on the X360 but I disliked them.

Then I think twice and realise I did also play WAW (during lockdown, freebie someone had put out), and last year I got WW2, because it had been marketed mostly around the campaign... but was a real disappointment (missions were incredibly short and is not like the story was engaging). I tried the Zombies in WW2 and seemed somewhat playable alone, but spiked fast... I think the original Zombies from WAW was better paced - I still sometimes turn on the X360 just to shoot some heads on there.

Cold War I'm mostly impressed they have managed to weave in some player agency with the choices in situations, dialogues, the board... the Russian spy mission really captured me, it feels like a super-dumbed down immersive-sim, which is pretty much the most I can take for the time being. In terms of missions, they do still feel too short* and hardly challenging (I think I'm playing Veteran, the second hardest difficulty?)

 

*which makes me think of those topics where devs complain about players not buying at full price... wtf, if I'm interested in 1/3 of the product, which gives me 1/100 in actual playtime compared of the other two components i'm not gonna pay more than $20.