What games are you currently playing?

Wol

None Shall Remember Those Who Do Not Fight
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Rosarian Shield
Playing Another Eden, so many allusions to Chrono and the music has that Mitsuda vibe, a multidude of characters as well.

It feels like you're playing a classical old-school JRPG. I gotta say that this is the first time a chibi-looking title didn't put me off, everything looks beautiful, lushful, and colorful.

The story is promising, and already has so much mistery and intrigue, with mcs and npcs exuding so much charisma.

Can't recommend enough.
 
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LNK

Pro Adventurer
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Nate
Just beat Ghost of Tsushima. Loved everything about that game, especially the score.
 

Cthulhu

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Yop
Factorio again, it hit 1.0; can't see any major changes since last time I played so probably a lot of quality-of-life things.

and the Spidertron, :awesome:. I am pretty sure this will be the end of active development though, iirc they said as much, and it's been over eight years. The main guy behind the game had a bit of burnout a while ago as well.
 

Lex

Administrator
I searched for Celeste on the board to see if we had a thread and found your post.

After trying for a good year on and off, I finally finished all of Celeste's B and C sides tonight. Probably the most challenging game I've ever played, but what a euphoric feeling to finish. 10000 deaths lmao

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Hardest level is 7C IMO.

Now on to chapter 9! (Free DLC)
I have a colleague who plays it, I wonder how far he gets. He just beat my fastest time in Classic at 2:51 or thereabouts, :/.

I returned to Celeste in the past week because I've been thinking about the game a lot and I wanted to build my skill level back up/ see how much I remembered. I managed to do a full clear (all strawberries) on two chapters, and only missed one or two from other chapters. I want to memorise where they are so I can do a full run through of the game without missing anything.

Anyway, I did all A, B and C sides again and my stats are certainly a lot better than my first full run of the game:

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Then I did chapter 9, which added a whopping 5 hours and 1883 deaths to the total lmao

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Celeste is somewhere high in my list of favourite games ever at this point. It gets incredibly challenging but very tight, precise platforming means it's never really unfair. I already want to play it again on that third file (if anyone is wondering about the strawberry count - 175 is 100% of the collectible strawberries, the others are challenge/ gimmick collectibles).
 

Cthulhu

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Yop
Heck! I don't think that (now former) colleague of mine got that far.

At the time I was referring to the 'classic' one (pico-8 version); I think he got the time down to just over a minute? I got pretty far as well.

Should, someday, pick this one up for the console I think.
 

Claymore

3x3 Eyes
Finally managed two complete runs on Hades. I'm now trying to unlock / clear some of the Fated Prophecies before I jump too much into the heat stuff.
 

Kai Schulen

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Trainer Red
Anyone playing Genshin Impact? I downloaded it both on my phone and my PS4, but I learned just now that I can't cross save from phone to PS4. Boo. So maybe I'll just play with 2 accounts.
 
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Belatedly playing Witcher 3.
Accustomed as I am to Final Fantasy games, where the characters can't accidentally hurt themselves, the very first thing I did with Geralt was make him jump off a balcony. He hit the courtyard three floors below and died.
Lesson learnt.
I am having so much fun with this game. I don't even care about the story, I simply enjoy the quests. I do find all the pfaffing about with alchemy and repairs and crafting and so on a bit tedious.
 

cold_spirit

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Alex T
I beat 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim last night. Vanillaware really outdid themselves with this one. Whereas Dragon's Crown iterated on Odin Sphere's beat-em-up combat, 13 Sentinels iterates on Odin Sphere's storytelling. Now there's 13 narratives to jump between and some have unique interactive elements. It's a story that can only be told through a game.

Love the combat and I plan on getting the platinum. It's a strategy game that's easy to learn. Different mechs have different specializations, each only have 6 skills, run-of-the-mill stuff. The challenge comes from managing all the swarms of enemies they throw at you. On hard difficulty you have to spend a few minutes on each move making sure you're playing optimally, otherwise you'll get overrun.

Looks great, sounds great. It's good stuff.

 

Erotic Materia

[CONFUSED SCREAMING]
Dusted off my VR set for the first time in months, and randomly fired up No Man's Sky. I've only played it once before for a couple hours, but this go-round I took the time to look up guides to tweak the terrible VR optimization so it wasn't a jittery, bloom-filled mess. Ended up playing half of the day, I'm really enjoying it.
I've been sucked deeeep into Breath of the Wild.... I should go to sleep because I have work tomorrow...but I could also just keep playing~~~~
There is no end to that game, I swear. Put down the controller for a bit, it's for your own good.
Still exploring every last corner of Geralt's world.
I jumped blind into Witcher III a few years back, and did the exact same thing. CD Projekt Red really knows how to make a quality game. The only reason I pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 is because I enjoyed Witcher so much.
 

Saven

Pro Adventurer
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Picked this up over the weekend and didn't realize I played for over 7 hours on Sunday until it was night out. Haven't been this engaged with a game since FFVIIR earlier this year. Hopefully this will be the next big game I can complete so I can finally get out of this hump of not being able to complete ANYTHING that has come about since the lockdown began.
 

cold_spirit

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Alex T
Doing a playthrough of Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age. Back in 2006 I got to the last dungeon and just... stopped playing. I think I was severely under leveled and wasn't exactly swept up in the political drama. Always loved the gambit system though. I wish every action RPG implemented a system like it. Anyway, figured it's finally time to give this story some closure.

I've read that The Zodiac Age is especially easy because it lets you choose two jobs for each character. I think having a second job disrupts the game balance too much, so I'm limiting myself to one per character. I swore I wouldn't choose "lore friendly" jobs, but I totally ended up making Vaan a Shikari and Fran an Archer. I don't have other weapons aside from their initial equipment! Of course they're going to be a Shikari and Archer for now! Will definitely experiment with all the jobs once I get the whole party together.

The game is sooo chill. I've fallen asleep twice now while letting the gambits do their thing. I don't mind this at all, that just means my gambits are working! I love optimizing the logic. So yeah, so far so good.
 

LNK

Pro Adventurer
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Nate
Was wanting to get a nintendo switch. Anyone know where I can even begin to look? I read that there's been lots of price gouging on Amazon and Ebay
 

ForceStealer

Double Growth
I don't know where you're located, but I got mine in a Target a month or two ago. They had a healthy stock of those Animal Crossing-themed ones
 

lithiumkatana17

Pro Adventurer
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Lith
Currently playing Control from Remedy Studios on PS4.

I'm loving it so far. It's unique, combat is easy but stylish and you can fight enemies using any number of combos with the cool powers you get.
 
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