Just finished Marvel's spiderman (main storyline) and it was really great. Loved the graphics, the story telling and especially this view from the top of the Empire State building
Still playing Diablo IV (just hit level 72) and Puzzle Quest 3 (because functional addiction, which probably applies to Diablo IV as well).
Oh, and Cookie Clicker -- 459 days and counting.
FFVIIR and enjoying it. I’m getting the hang of the hybrid battle system, it’s a good balance of the two, curious about other titles that mix action and almost turn based style commands. Still a little annoyed at the camera and target locking, but have gotten used to it after switching to d-pad targeting.
Also just escaped fort joy in Divinity Original Sin 2. Such a great game.
Ar Tonelico (the 1st one on ps2).
I've played this when I was a younger but never finished. Was bored and picked it up.
It's still a fun jrpg, the song magic amd reyvatail mechanics are a neat twist to the basic turn-based action.
And "Diving"/dating sim mechanic of the game is a fun way to add some social aspect (besides the story).
I just bought Sun Haven to play with my girlfriend. I'm enjoying it so far, we kinda lost track of time playing lol. Though it seems like whatever job the host has, the players that join will have that job too which kinda sucks. Maybe I messed something up though. It doesn't seem to matter much because you can kinda just ignore your job and do other things.
Hades. I bought it a few months ago and finally installed it yesterday. Only played about 30 minutes, but love it so far. I didn't even know it was a roguelike -- I thought it was more like Diablo from the screenshots. I just bought it because everyone said it was amazing, and I think I'm going to agree with them.
Nice, enjoy it. Remember to chat to all the characters every time you can - the writing is as important a part of it as the hacking and slashing.
Factorio again. Maybe one day I'll move on.
I've been mostly playing Risk of Rain 2, but over the weekend I finally beat it after about 30 hours lol. I honestly didn't even try to beat it, I was just having fun killing a bunch of things. I think it's one of the only games where I don't feel bad losing a 1hr+ run
After finishing this game, I think I might have the confidence to go back and try to finish Enter the Gungeon. This time I might just look up a guide on how to finish it since I've been strictly trying to beat games without outside influence in recent years and I have no idea about anything outside of what I have discovered in the 15+ hours of gameplay I have so far
I've just finished FF XVI, and while it's certainly not a perfect game, I really had a fantastic time with it.
Now onto either of Soul Blazer, Parasite Eve or Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, I've yet to decide which to start with.
I've got a brand new intel nuc 12th gen i7, 4070 graphics, 32 gig ram, Samsung 990 hard drive.
Cost me a pretty penny, and a lot of time to put together. Not to mention all the time spent researching parts and agonising over choices. Then the wait times for deliveries and redeliveris of the orders I messed up (had to return ram twice, once because I accidentally ordered the wrong ones, and once became a stock was faulty).
Eventually have everything set up.
So of course I'm using it to play ksp1.
I've been playing a couple of neat games.
Time Bandit is a really unique mix of genres focused on real time-based interactions. There's puzzles you solve that take hours and you have to leave machines running and check back later, people you meet at certain times, stores that have different schedules. It's a dystopian setting where you work in a factory, and there's this guy you meet early on who's with a rebellion group that teaches you about communism. It's really neat, and less of a time commitment than it might sound like, most of my sessions have been like 10 minutes just checking in on stuff, sort of like a very weird animal crossing. It's pretty cheap and getting a criminally low amount of attention for how cool it is.
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is a roguelite boss rush shmup. Really approachable for that genre. I got interested in it because the dev got hired by the Revita team (one of my favorite games from last year) to work on the expansion for that, and it definitely has some similarities to that, also kinda reminds me of Undertale combat. It's got a ton of content and does a great job at pacing the unlocks and stuff.
Last, Pseudoregalia is a 3D movement focused metroidvania. It's very N64 inspired in style. You're exploring a big castle, with a lot of platforming and interesting movement abilities. There's no map, so it definitely requires some patience with that, but it's a really neat game overall. Seems to allow a lot of sequence breaking. It's looking to be fairly short as well, which is nice.
Still deep in Tears of the Kingdom, but I am close to 100% of shrines and light roots. Have not even tried fighting Ganon yet, but with my power level it shouldn't be that tough. Gonna finish it this week and then hop back to Final Fantasy 16, which I binge played release weekend and got over 50% through according to the PS5 progress indicator.
I just finished Tears of the Kingdom last week. No spoilers, the final boss fight felt like a dragon ball Z episode. The health bar busting out of its usual bounds and hitting the edge of the screen was a "shit just got real" moment for me and the kids, lots of hype. I didn't think I would see anything top Breath of the Wild in this generation but glad to be wrong.
The House of Da Vinci. I got it in the Steam summer sale and needed something like The Room games. I had no idea it was so much like The Room games. I'm glad I bought it with a huge discount. It's not worth the full price, which is the only difference I see between The House of Da Vinci and The Room. The Room is definitely worth full price on Steam and a huge value if you get it on sale. Anyway, I'm happy. I get more of The Room, but it's in The House of Da Vinci. Great puzzle game to play clicking on stuff with your mouse and feeling relaxed.
Ohh nice I played that one. I agree it's not nearly as good as the room in my opinion. Idk why exactly, but it just seemed less polished. Still worth it on discount imo though
The "less polished" feel, I think, comes from the way sometimes the double-click doesn't focus right depending on the angle you're looking at objects from and also the way sliding objects don't slide the way they're supposed to. The sliding objects get wicked fiddly, sometimes. The camera isn't as good as in The Room, either. The Room had all of these aspects perfectly polished, it was just easy and intuitive to interact with. The House of Da Vinci, lacking this perfection, pales in comparison. The regular price now is 19.99. It used to be twice that. I got it for 7.99. Having payed 7.99, I'm OK with the major wonky. If I had payed 19.99, I would be very unhappy. If I had payed 39.99 I would be very seriously pissed off. I have to say, though, too, that I like the addition to the looking glass, where it lets you see things in the past. I really think it adds a little more depth to the puzzle solving. Plus, you get a Renaissance bionic arm thingy. Kinda cool. This game is keeping happy. In a place where I need more of The Room and I finished all of The Room. 8 bucks well spent and I'm happy.
Nice! Yeah I didn't even consider the PC price. I played all these games on my phone and I think I got house of davinci for like 99c on sale, so I think that wasn't a bad price at all haha. I would not be super happy about paying full price yikes.
I can't imagine playing this game on a phone. I guess 99 cents isn't so bad. Do you still have eyes after playing this game on a phone? LOL. I wonder if the phone version and the PC version are different. Like, on a 17" screen, I've had to adjust brightness to see things and then re-adjust brightness to see other things. LMAO. I could play this on a tablet, though. Totally could see things on there. With brightness adjustments available on the fly. I can totally imagine The Room being accessible perfectly on any device. That's the "polished" you couldn't quite put your finger on. The Room was carefully created for all devices. The House of Da Vinci is a blue light special.
Just finished Yakuza 3, started Yakuza 4. Enjoying the visual bump, and some refreshing changes to the combat, though I loved the story of Y3. Also playing through BotW for the first time (very late to the party).
Trying not to get sucked in too deep by my return to OSRS on top.
I just finished replaying the Arkham games. Thinking about not moving to the Uncharted series since I’ve only ever played the first game, a tiny bit of the second, and half of the fourth. Want to experience the series / story in full.
Gaming
From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!
Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.
See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.