General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Yeah I'm not too keen on paying for online with the PS4. That was a thing that kept me from using my Xbox 360 a lot. My internet isn't worth a damn either so PS+ isn't as useful anyway. I have problems downloading updates enough as is, so all the focus on online kills my gaming selection. I can't play any FPS games hardly. I'm lucky if I can get a couple games of Mario Kart online. Playing any fighting game with such a connection is pointless as well. I've gotten accused of using a lag switch my connection is so bad. :?

I'm not a huge JRPG fan anymore because of the grinding. It really depends on how good the combat is. If it is quick and painless then grinding isn't as much of a chore. If the load times take too long it kills a lot of interest for me. The Final Fantasy 6 port for PS1 was bad about that. Hell a ton of early cd based games were like that. It makes going back and playing them a chore, especially if you don't have nostalgia goggles equipped. I have enough points in Wisdom to tough it out if the game is worth a damn though. :grin:
 
Started playing Grand Tefth Horses on my new old ps3. The first missions are boring, the control is pretty clunky and Cowboys dissolve in the water apparently, 10/10.
 
Well, I suppose it's been a while since I stated any updates with my goal to "complete" Ninja Gaiden Sigma... Once I completed the 2nd highest difficulty, Very Hard, and I landed my 10th place in the world leaderboard spot, I felt really motivated to replay the bottom (scored) difficulty, because I felt like my 250th or whatever spot was kinda shameful next to such a great spot on a MUCH higher difficulty. Plus, replaying the game on a lesser difficulty was going to be a nice vacation from all the stress it puts me through, and I came away from that endeavor with a 17th place global ranking on the leaderboards for Normal difficulty. Not bad! NOW I'm well into my attempt at a good score on the top difficulty, Master Ninja, and at Chapter 6 (out of 19), I'm about 250,000 karma behind the world number 1, and he's ahead of world number 2 by about 400,000 karma, so at the rate I'm falling behind I doubt I'll be cracking top 10, but if I do, I'll feel immeasurable satisfaction over that accomplishment! =D

Didn't intentionally take a break from Dota2, but I haven't found myself playing it as much as before, these last couple weeks. It was hit with another major patch not long ago, and I'm having a blast watching the pros adjust to the differences, but not spending all that much time playing it and adjust to them, myself. Even then, I haven't been enjoying that many tournaments to view, cause lots of teams took weeks off for Christmas and New Years, so the action's hit a bit of a lull.

I HAVE sadly stopped playing Shadow Warrior, though not for lack of appreciation of the game. I just didn't play it one day, then the next day, then the next, and that just sorta continued. I still wanna beat the game again for the first time in over 15 years, but I haven't made ANY progress on that front this past month or so... >_<
 
ARGH! I fucked up my character on Shadowrun twice now. Now I'm stuck at a hard part. Don't you hate that?
 
Company of Heroes 2, Hearthstone, (When out and about I'm replaying Persona 4: Golden) Shadow of Mordor, and some custom Warcraft 3 Campaigns.
 
At times I wonder "Why should I bother?"

Back in 2009 (or was it 2011?), I felt pumped at the prospect of moving on to Master Ninja in NGS and beating it with a "respectable score". Then I felt quite dissatisfied with my performance, so I tried again. And again. And again. It wasn't really so much a matter of progressing inch by inch so much as accomplishing much the same, and feeling increasingly pissed about it, because my perfectionism demanded better of me. So I put the game down, and it took me all these years to come back to it.

A few days ago, I (thank God) made a separate save of my progress on a Chapter in my current run, where I decided to answer the question, "Why should I bother?" with "Eh, I don't need to." The next day, I decided I COULD do better, and I deleted the newer save, reloaded from the older save, and retraced my progress and did MUCH better! Yet, I'm once more at a point when I find myself repeatedly making no progress, and I feel the urge to cave in and stop trying. "Just go with this score. It's acceptable." No! "It's fine, no need to spend more time trying to do better." NO!

This is one instance where "perfection is the enemy of 'good enough'" can be a bad thing. On the one hand, it's over with much sooner if I just let myself slide and accept "good enough" scores. On the other hand, I wouldn't have gotten a great score to be proud of if I'd given up on my recent runs. Ugh, this game is so awesome and doing well at it feels so rewarding. BUT it's so damn draining, too..... ~_~

Only 5 Chapters down, still 13 and some change left to go.

Anyway... frustrated rant. Yeah.

EDIT: Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did a dry run of "beat the rest of the chapter to see how much spare time I have left to use to farm essence (money) when I go for the finished run", and I went over the time limit! This means a HUGE chunk of points goes entirely to waste. My only save that wasn't compromised by the time limit fuck-up was from the beginning of the chapter, so now I have to start this entire chapter ALL OVER AGAIN!!! T_T

And after I thought that rant would help me vent my frustrations so I could continue on slightly more relaxed, I find out it was all for naught. *sobs*
 
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Finally saw some videos of Bloodborn in Jim Sterling's video about this year's upcoming titles, cause otherwise I never would have bothered looking for that stuff. Looks pretty cool, though like Fable II before it, it worries me that changing the "aesthetic" of the series from medieval to victorian will diminish the gameplay because... pistols. But then Fable wasn't exactly a revolutionary RPG when it came out (though it certainly marketed itself as one), so perhaps FromSOFT will do a fantastic job on the title? Time will tell. It's still nice to see that they're (seemingly) sticking to a winning design formula, so I should perhaps be looking forward to it? STILL haven't picked up Dark Souls 2 yet, so I can't say from personal experience if I'm still okay with the direction their games are heading. I still need to knock out this final NGS run before I decide to tackle that game. Again, time will tell.

Speaking of which, all this playing has REALLY made me good at Ninja Gaiden Sigma! In just a few hours I retraced AND improved upon my lost performance that took me several days to achieve before the save file bungle. It also taught me the valuable lesson that I can ALWAYS delete unwanted saves, but I can't recreate saves out of the ether if I've overwritten them, so save often, save separately! I STILL would have preferred not having to redo Chapter 6 all over again, but you live and you learn.

Reading some of the forum posts from the user who set the world #1 record a couple months ago, it didn't escape my notice that he, too, took several months to complete his run. So I can expect this endeavor will continue on till at least February... unless I lock myself away and decide to finish this and do nothing else, that is! =D

And meanwhile both my PS3 and PC are showing signs of begging to be put out of their misery. Gotta hurry! XD
 
I would let jim sterling bukkake on me. I've been listening to his podcast; it doesn't suck.

Anyway I'm playing Dark Souls 2 mostly blind and just sucking HARD!
 
mobucks said:
I would let jim sterling bukkake on me. I've been listening to his podcast; it doesn't suck.
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Or, as an inside-joke on the RT podcast often pronounces it, "byoo-cake". XD

But yes, The Podquisition is pretty good. I just kinda wish they'd mix it up a little bit with different speakers sometimes, but if they wanna keep it to those 3, it's their podcast, they can do what they please. =)

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EDIT: Fuck rushing. I was worried about being too distracted with stuff in a few weeks' time so I'd want to hustle and finish this NGS run, but I did a few re-attempts and score MUCH better on various encounters. So rushing this shit be damned! I'd get shit for points if I finished 1 chapter per day and finished the game again just in time for my schedule to get busy in late January. Or I can keep doing what I'm doing, and slow down even more when my schedule gets hectic and actually land that deliciously high score I've been dreaming about. Yeah, I'll be DYING for some variety in my games, but I won't regretfully feel like I need to come back and attempt this all over again in another 2-5 years. A few month's delay is worth the years I'll save. =D

That copy of Dark Souls II is just gonna have to wait a little while longer.
 
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Let the hate flow!

On a side note it's only 5 days left for Re remake remake :) Can't wait!
 
Finally finished Shin Megami Tensei IV but didn't got the neutral ending, which I worked hard for, so I said f*** you to angels,demons and even humans and went for the nihilistic ending.

Started and finished playing Game Dev Tycoon, good game but 35 years in game equals 5 hours in real life so the campaign was short. It let you continue playing but the only motivation would be achievements, good thing the workshop is full of them.

I also started playing Postal 2 but I quickly dropped, traveling in this game is so painful and slow, when I got to Wednesday the game told me to go extremely north and extremely south and I said that's it.

Finished playing Choice of Robots, it is sort like cyoa and interactive novel, I quite liked it. There is a lot of reactive so if you choose differently each run the game will be different ( in the context of the story of course). I quite enjoyed the writing and it looks that the developers freely provide the engine for the fans to create their own games, I think I will create one, I have some weeks till the end of my vacations so I think I got enough time.

Started playing but not quite there the firs STALKER, Democracy 3 and Pyscho Waluigi.
 
SnapSlav said:
TorontRayne said:
Makta said:
Let the hate flow!

On a side note it's only 5 days left for Re remake remake :) Can't wait!
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Me too. Finally.
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Are there even any details about it? Like gameplay footage? All I've seen were the Steam adds for it, which gave me pause because I had to register that they were making a SECOND remake to a game when I saw it, not advertising a sale on an older game.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/304240/?

Was looking for a game cube for a few years but i'm cheap so i never got to it.. And i never found a package that i would like. Now there is no need for that :) Especially if they add some more of the "older" re games to PC.
 
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