Games

Was out of town for the weekend. But I picked up Dave the Diver, and have been continuing to play Oxygen Not Included. Still trying to get back to Zelda.

My favourite genres are strategy and action/adventure.

Most of the games I've been playing for a while have been infinite time sinks. But I did recently finish a game of Victoria 3 as Nejd. I finished the game as a great communist power, after having unified Arabia. It was challenging, and was some of the most fun I've had in the game so far. I really like the game, but I can see why some people would want to wait.

Finally playing through GoW Ragnorok. My thoughts so far are that I hated elves in the last game and I hate them in this game too.

Currently I'm hooked onto Mystery Dungeon/Roguelike-esque games. So right now I'm playing Touhou Genso Wanderer and some Shiren the Wanderer.

There are no games that I've finished recently, though have gotten very close to it. Sonic Mania is one such game. I've reached to the final stage, but with powercuts being so frequent I was unable to beat the stage because if you get to Act 2 and decide to quit, you'll have to start from Act 1 again for some... unknown reason. So yeah.

I'll probably complete Mystia's Izakaya in the future though.

It's been months since I picked up a game.

RPGs are my favourites.

The last game I tried to play was Days Gone? Far too tense. I couldn't continue.

Anyone know any good text based games in Spanish? (Or, while I'm asking, French, German, or Chinese?)

Playing danganronpa, as well as a lot of minecraft. Do check out our server.

Kinda bouncing around a few games right now, mostly though I picked RimWorld back up, been having fun with that, as well as getting back in to pushing m+ in wow, which I always enjoy

Just cranked out the Red Faction series. Wanted more out of Guerilla, but the online is dead. Somehow found myself playing AC4 next. Oddly okay with this.

I like sandboxes I guess.

It's fortunate to see this thread, as I just so happen to have something games related that I want to rant about and see the opinions of the comrades. Glad to see you back, Makan.

So. About ten or a bit more years ago, I was at this superhero RP place (I was younger, cringe and marvelbrained), and many folks there were big fans of the Metal Gear series - to the point of blatantly ripping off concept and characters. One fellow even made a "Diamond Dogs PMC". Others were all "Remember the basics of CQC" and all that jazz.

Listening to them talk about MGS made it appear as a serious and immersive stealth thriller, with a deep lore and deep philosophy that makes one pause and ponder. Now, ten years later, I was randomly reminded of MGS existence by a colleague (as I understand he just likes stealth actions). So what do I do? I go and see if my steam library has any. It does - my brother has MGS V in his library which I can access! Hurray!

So I've decided to try it, and well... Let's just say I liked the Ultramarines movie more.

The loading before the main menu is an endless slog of "dlc this, logging into servers that, look at our privacy agreement, and now another one". Okay. Start the game, and that's where the real show begins. It takes one hour or more just to waddle through what is essentially a prologue and teaching the controls. And it's trying SO hard to be "cinematic" it just ends up silly.

Oh here we have a spy thriller intro, with gritty stuff like human teeth embedded in your skull! Oh next we have a super sneaky spec ops chick killing a nurse while the doctor doesn't notice! And the protag apparently can't even gesture to bring Doc's attention to it!

Now we have Satan Man! Oh no, he's impervious to bullets! But wait, he is defeated by a sprinkler! And there's creepy gasmask girl that looks like everyone's edgy OC from 00's! She has much telekinesis! Except she apparently can't move people and just throws rocks and shit. And it just goes on and on with this. Spoopy gasmask wearing russkies indiscriminately murder random patients! But also can't notice two guys hiding under the bed.

Oh no, they're checking the bodies and popping them in heads just in case! But now they've decided to stop, because our protagonist can magically hold his breath (despite being unable to walk five minutes ago) and also because mysterious helper peed under himself or something. The horseback chase was just one ginormous pile of ridiculous, and I'm saying this as a Warhammer fan ffs.

Also the helicopter looked stupid, why not just use a proper Mi-24?

The first actual mission is taking place during "Soviet invasion of Afghanistan", with Ocelot (fuckin cowboyyboo) ranting about le ebil Soviets and brave resistance and how protag's supposed "private army" (!) is helping them resist. Wew, such Rambo. And it straight up lists "Soviet airborne brigade" as the enemy - right after taking a pause to add Ocelot's eyewear to the title screen. Because I guess it's funni. The titles, my god, the endless titles. It's trying to be a movie, to the point I have to wonder why it was made a video game to begin with.

So all in all, I am not merely disappointed, I am severely displeased. What was originally sold to me by the fans as this cool spy thriller, turned out to be nothing more than capeshit in a different wrapper.

Rant over.

I'm playing Jedi: Survivor. I really like it both from exploration and story. Think the grand master difficulty isn't well tuned. I keep getting one shot here and there. Sekiron felt more fair.

Planned to continue Chains of Echo. The turn based system in this game is interesting and isn't most of the turn based RPGs.

Guess my TOTK playthrough has to stay on hiatus for a while.