What games are you currently playing?

[Odysseus]

Nomura had this style he pretty much only used for Ehrgeiz, Parasite Eve 2, and FFVIII, that he never used again.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Nomura's pure and refined anime style of the 90s.

Granted he still uses it sometimes. Just depends on the game. Kingdom Hearts still sorta has it. But he has evolved.

 

[Odysseus]

So I found this magazine ad

Spoiler

I don't think I've ever seen that render of Sephiroth before, anyone know where it's from?

 

[Keveh Kins]

It looks like his render from the FMV where he pulls Jenova's statue down, just from a different angle maybe?

 

[Makoeyes987]

No, that's new.

The bangs, his expression.... That's an unused CG model for Sephiroth. It has not appeared in anything else. More than likely made did Ehrgeiz but for some reason never used again.

 

[Odysseus]

It's just odd that they would make a new render for Sephiroth when all of Cloud's are reused from promo material for FF7 itself.

 

[JBedford]

I noticed the characters are all voice acted, are these the same people who would go on to play them in KH and AC?

Interestingly enough, Yuffie's VA has remained the same since Ehrgeiz.

 

[Ghost X]

Played the beginning of Phantasy Star 2 and 4 on a Sega emulator thing. I think I once hired a Phantasy Star game as a kid (or something with a battle screen very similar), but couldn't get into it for what ever reason. I liked PS4's visuals and UI better, as one would expect an improvement on an older title. Thing that bothered me was I couldn't understand what the spells and skills and stuff were, as they're all labelled in a 4 letter abbreviated form or something. Probably easy to find out, especially in the age of the internet, but I was half-arsing it and couldn't be arsed. Curious how long the games were to play, given the limited space on older systems. Dungeon crawlers on the Amiga were enormous, so storage capacity on a cartridge could be similarly deceiving, I guess.

 

[ForceStealer]

I love Phantasy Star 4, the only one I played. THe spell names thing was kind of annoying, yes. I used this list until I got used to them. A basic thing to remember is that the prefixes "Gi-" and "Na-" are the equivalent of FF's "-ara" and "-aga," respectively.

 

[Asterisk]

Finally got around to playing and finishing Trails of Cold Steel 3 and 4. After that I got the urge to go back and revisit the first two games again.

It's kind of nice to see all the announcements about the other games in the series getting ported and re-released, kind of sucks that it's going to take a while for a localized version of the to hit the west, not to mention the next game in the series getting announced.

After I finish up with my replay of these, I'm going to have get into Death Stranding. I actually forgot this game even existed until I had the music video for Ludens pop up in my feed a few weeks ago.

 

[Ajexmi]

FFIV, currently heading towards the final battle for the first time - waiting for NEO:TWEWY to come out tomorrow!

 

[Saven]

FFIV, currently heading towards the final battle for the first time - waiting for NEO:TWEWY to come out tomorrow!

I actually just picked this one up this past Thursday for another playthrough!
I am nowhere near close to the final battle just yet though lol. I just got the airship.

 

[Ghost X]

Not exactly on topic (see: not currently playing) but an arcade game I played once about 23-24 years ago at a mall had such an impact on me (certainly compared to other games I only played for a few minutes), and I just found the name of it: Virtual On. I don't even remember if the gameplay was great, just the mech elements and visual sequences were very influential for me.

 

[BlueCollarNerd]

Trying Albion Online. Anyone ever played it? Been working on crafting and find it rather relaxing gathering materials for an hour or so before bed. Combo seems fun but haven't really spent much time fighting. Seems like it could be a fun sandbox to play in, but it's definitely a grind.

 

[cold_spirit]

Not exactly on topic (see: not currently playing) but an arcade game I played once about 23-24 years ago at a mall had such an impact on me (certainly compared to other games I only played for a few minutes), and I just found the name of it: Virtual On.

Oh hell yeah, I recently played Virtual On (at an arcade too, granted that arcade was inside of Yakuza 2 ). I was not good at it.

 

[Fangu]

lol, same! I actually got the in game completionist badge for it, but I spent HOURS on it. Was kind of a fun challenge tho

 

[Ghost X]

Most envious. Haven't played Yakuza 2. Didn't know Virtual On was in the game either .

 

[Clement Rage]

Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. They still stand up, especially the writing.

 

[Rankles]

Spending far too much time on Survival mode in Streets of Rage 4.

 

[cold_spirit]

About to go challenge the last boss of No More Heroes III. Looking forward to it, Prince FU is definitely the best villain yet in the series.

 

[niis]

Fallout: New Vegas. Quite interesting game. I love to hardcore roleplay this sort of video games.

Just started playing drift hunters: https://drifthuntersgame.com/

 

[Fiz]

Just finished Tales of Arise... and still processing what I think about it. It’s good, I enjoyed it but so many “buts”.

 

[ForceStealer]

I'm just moving into the third region now

 

[Fiz]

I'm just moving into the third region now

Have fun

 

[Strangelove]

i just started remothered tormented fathers which i got on sale

Spoiler: minor spoilers

when the player character says she can’t take anymore of this, that’s me having to look at mr felton’s scrawny old man ass while i am hiding under a chair

why does he keep bending over