What are you playing right now?

[melkathi]

Am about 10 hours into Victor Vran. I am not impressed The gameplay is different enough to at least in this respect not to feel like a cheap Van Helsing rip off, but I found it fairly unresponsive. Too often Victor does not use the ability I want when I want because he is still finishing some animation or doing something else. Of course the monsters have far fewer limitations. If a thrall hulk wants to charge you, dodging out of the way will do very little, as he'll continue charging after you until he finally reaches you. That includes charging around corners all across the map - the special move does not stop until he hits, apparently. A lot of monsters are like that: spam damage just for spam's sake.

I have now turned down the volume. The attempt at a funny narrator has failed for me; I just find him annoying. Especially when they try to copy jokes from the Van Helsing games.

Not uninstalled yet, but disappointed and considering it.

[Keyrock]

Shadwen got a little harder in level 4, nothing really brutal, but a welcome increase in challenge.  The main difficulty is clearing the way for Lily to make it through the level.  Getting Shadwen to the end of the level is a piece of cake, but clearing the way for Lily is much trickier.  So many times I am in a situation where I could easily backstab a guard and make thing considerably easier for myself, but getting through with no blood on my hands requires a lot more patience and strategy.

[Lexx]

Life is Strange which is pretty boring. 

 

See kids? This is why you shouldn't trust steam reviews.

 

Life is Strange was the first game I've seriously played from PC on my TV with gamepad. Actually liked it a lot because of this. I've seen it more like a tv show where I can run around a bit by myself and stuff, while sitting / lying on the couch. Most likely would have never finished it with sitting at my desktop.

 

Would have liked more games / stories like this, but couldn't find anything that gave me the same feels. Apparently the developers are now working on some action whatever vampire game, which I do not care about at all. What a shame.

Edited August 13, 2016 by Lexx

[Fenixp]

I assume you know about them Lex, but Life is Strange is heavily influenced by Telltale's modern adventure titles - some of them are solid, like The Walking Dead season 1 and 2, The Wolf Among Us or the more comedic Borderlands game. 

[Katphood]

Would have liked more games / stories like this, but couldn't find anything that gave me the same feels.

Try Tales from the Borderlands. Loader Bot is the best character I've seen in an adventure game recently.

 

There are also The Longest Journey games which are my favorite adventure games of all time.

[Lexx]

I've played a few of the Telltale games, but for me it's not the same. Guess to a big part it was also this lol-emo and hipster stuff in Life is Strange. :>

Especially the music.

 

Borderlands isn't really my thing. Guess the first game totally burned me out on the setting.

 

If it can be played with gamepad, I'll check out The Longest Journey.

Edited August 14, 2016 by Lexx

[Fenixp]

The Longest Journey can't be played with a pad, barring binding mouse via software like xpadder. It's a traditional adventure game. And while it's extremely well written, it is early 3d so while pre-rendered backgrounds are gorgeous, 3d models look terrible and the game doesn't even have particularly interesting puzzles for an adventure game. That being said, dat story man.

Then there's Dreanfall: The Longest Journey, which continues where The Longest Journey left off. This one is a lot prettier, a lot more polished and, to my great surprise, all I needed to do to get my 360 pad working was to enter options menu and configure controls. Writing and story are still quite epic.

Lastly, there's Dreamfall: Chapters which should be the end part of the trilogy. It follows the telltale-like structure a lot more, is fully playable on a pad, but budget restraints are visible at every corner. That's not to say it's bad tho, and Dreamfall really needed a conclusion.

[Katphood]

Guess to a big part it was also this lol-emo and hipster stuff in Life is Strange. :>

Especially the music.

Dude, with or without gamepad, you DEFINITELY need to check The Longest Journey. It has that and a whole lot more.

 

The Longest Journey needs a mouse but the sequels(Dreamfall and Dreamfall Chapters) can be played using a gamepad. Though you could use Xpadder and play the first game with a gamepad too. You just need to map the buttons.

[Mamoulian War]

Almost have the Platinum trophy in Tales of Xillia. Only need to grind for two trophies.

Much less timeconsuming than Tales Of Xillia 2 Platinum. I am stuck at combat titles, because i am little bit clumsy sometimes with chainlinking (

[Labadal]

 

Almost have the Platinum trophy in Tales of Xillia. Only need to grind for two trophies.

Much less timeconsuming than Tales Of Xillia 2 Platinum. I am stuck at combat titles, because i am little bit clumsy sometimes with chainlinking (

I don't know if I will go for ToX 2 platinum. I just got the one for ToX. Just started Tales of Graced f Future Arc, but I will not go for platinum in that either.

[Darkpriest]

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe... awesome blast from the past.

[Nonek]

 

If it can be played with gamepad, I'll check out The Longest Journey.

 

Didn't really care for the Longest Journey, not particularly original, well written or interesting in terms of gameplay if you ask me. I played Torment immediately before so that may have coloured my perspective, but I was really not impressed.

[Humanoid]

I think I got stuck within the first hour and not wanting to look up a walkthrough, ended up never coming back to it.

[Mamoulian War]

 

 

Almost have the Platinum trophy in Tales of Xillia. Only need to grind for two trophies.

Much less timeconsuming than Tales Of Xillia 2 Platinum. I am stuck at combat titles, because i am little bit clumsy sometimes with chainlinking (

I don't know if I will go for ToX 2 platinum. I just got the one for ToX. Just started Tales of Graced f Future Arc, but I will not go for platinum in that either.

Actually the ToG f Platinum was not that hard to get, just little bit time consuming. And ToX 2, well much more time consuming than the first part. At least for me. And some Battle Titles in ToX 2 are harder than Battle Trophies in SO4. So I will need somehow to train for that and reread some battle tutorials again (

 

I Took big break from gaming for some weeks, and watching Person of Interest series. In few days, I'll be at the end of season 5 and then I'll continue in another game. Probably I'll try after long time some shooter, to clear my mind from all the conspiracies in that series :-P

Edited August 14, 2016 by Mamoulian War

[Katphood]

Torment: Tides of Numenera is good stuff! I am really liking the writing and the characters.

[Keyrock]

Back to Salt & Sanctuary after an extended break due to TI6.  I fought and killed another boss, The False Jester, and got him on the first try.  It was a relatively easy battle due to how armored I am and having a large enough stamina pool to be able to cast my healing spells several times.  By the end of the battle I could not cast any more healing, but I had plenty of potions.  I only needed to drink 2 of them.  The armor was the key.  He couldn't damage me quick enough to kill me before I could heal up.

[Wrath of Dagon]

Playing Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front. Very fun game. You don't quite have the same amount of control and feedback in tactical battles as you do in Combat Mission, and may be CM is more of a sim, but this one has a real campaign!

[Labadal]

Tales of Graces f took some time to get used to after so many years, but I'm doing fine now.

 

I'm also progressing in Tales of Hearts R.

 

There was this PS+ game called Ultratron or something. You're in an arena and need to shoot everything. Decent fun in small doses.

[Tale]

I'm kind of stuck on a planet in No Man's Sky. I was sick of having the same ship for so long, so I grabbed an abandoned and started fixing it up. Little did I realize that you need the Pulse Jet to even launch. Less did I realize that this planet HAS NO ZINC. I can't fix the Pulse Jet. By the time I realized this, my autosaves no longer covered before I switched ships. I scrapped everything in my old ship, so that was no longer an option. Less an option in that I'd walked for 30 minutes and tested summoning the new ship at a beacon. So I can't even find the old ship.

 

So now I'm wandering until I find a store that can sell me some zinc. Then I'm leaving this %#@%@#^ @#^@#%@#%@#@$^ $%^#$^# OF A PLANET AND NEVER LOOKING BACK. Extreme weather planets with constant sentinels are better than this crud. This planet is half water and the swimming in this game is crap, you're literally unable to swim with your head above water. With no fast swimming option, either.

[Tel Aviv]

Saving myself for Mankind Divided. Please be good.

[Rosbjerg]

What are you playing right now - will continue right after these commercials.. 

 

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