Topic: What game(s) have you been playing lately?

[DraculaCronqvist]

Far too many to count, since I play a lot of games at the same time, but the most important ones would be FFXIV, FFXV, Mobius Final Fantasy, Lecarde Chronicles 2, YGO Legacy of the Duelist, Walking Dead Season 3, Zelda Breath of the Wild and, of course, replaying all Castlevania games I own.

[Aceearly1993]

Purchased Steam version of The Legend of Dark Witch 1&2, and returned to them after a full journey of Lecarde Chronicles 2. The first Dark Witch has some really great pieces of music (06.Freesia as an example), amazing combination of Gradius and Mega Man, OK voice acting, but final level is cruelly unforgiving (No life refills in Normal difficulty after beaten a boss! Reminds me of Mega Man ZX-level of unforgiving!)
But I didn't like the second game that much for some reason. Lack of variation from first game, sub weapons are not useful at all, and there may have other reasons for that.


(PS Vita is the best console to play Dark Witch series - perfect screen ratio. Steam version has fatal quirk of key config, and the second game is not on Vita...Damn it!)

[JR]

@JR: How are the honey badgers?

Haha, they're adorable. They're cute when they pounce on Ajay and he pulls them off of him, and they're just swinging at air. I can't stay mad at them when they kill me. (Unlike yaks and rhinos, which seem to stunlock you to oblivion when there's more than one attacking...)

[X]

JR@

Oh, I get absolutely livid when developers force you to make certain choices that literally step on your own morals. It's f**king stupid of them. Especially if all the choices revolve around going against what you want out of the game. What you want to see happen in the game. I don't know why they do this. Maybe they're secretly on the lookout for the next kid criminal or something. Just stupid of them. At least in reality there's always more then two choices to be made. Like Captain Kirk had said in Operation: Annihilate; "I want that third alternative!" Damned straight 

[redrum]

also been playing outland lately on my z-box.  it's a very nice looking metroidvania-type with light/shadow mechanics reminiscent of lords of shadow.  other than that, i don't know much about it, but it's turning out to be a really, really good game.

[JR]

JR@

Oh, I get absolutely livid when developers force you to make certain choices that literally step on your own morals. It's f**king stupid of them. Especially if all the choices revolve around going against what you want out of the game. What you want to see happen in the game. I don't know why they do this. Maybe they're secretly on the lookout for the next kid criminal or something. Just stupid of them. At least in reality there's always more then two choices to be made. Like Captain Kirk had said in Operation: Annihilate; "I want that third alternative!" Damned straight 

It just makes me shake my head when you're given two horrible choices in a game. It's like the developers wanted to be thought-provoking, but this kind of situation is just so played out now. It makes me think to myself, 'oh boy, here we go again...'

also been playing outland lately on my z-box.  it's a very nice looking metroidvania-type with light/shadow mechanics reminiscent of lords of shadow.  other than that, i don't know much about it, but it's turning out to be a really, really good game.

I have to get back to this one sometime. I got about an hour or so in, but then just quit for whatever reason.

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i'm probably an hour or two in and it starts getting really good once you get both the dark & light powers.
a well-crafted platformer with sort of a bullet hell idea going on with it?  i dunno but it's quite fun.

[Aceearly1993]

Cleared arcade mode in every game in Street Fighter Collection 1 & 2. The remixed music mode in collection 2 definitely has better voice acting (?) than the remixed music mode in NS version according to demonstration videos on youtube, IMO

[JR]

Playing Wolfenstein for PS3 (the one that came out before The New Order). Fairly decent, although the depiction of BJ Blazkowicz in this one is a bit jarring after playing the most recent two titles.

The collecting is starting to drive me nuts, though. I'm on my second run of that stage where you have to get the big guy to run into the pillars, and I've (again) missed some items that I can't go back and collect, which means I have to play the level a third time. Ugh. I'm going to have to resort to using a guide now. Other than that I like it, though.

Also played some Downwell since it's free on PS Plus this month. Pretty fun, haven't spent much time with it yet, though.

[X]

Playing Wolfenstein for PS3 (the one that came out before The New Order). Fairly decent, although the depiction of BJ Blazkowicz in this one is a bit jarring after playing the most recent two titles.

Played this game but never did finish it. I felt it was just too long and I lost interest in it. I was able to finish New Order since it wasn't nearly as long, that and I wanted to see where the story was going if not for seeing BJ knocking up his nurse lover 

I've downloaded and played through Y's Origins several times already. It's a rather interesting game in many ways. The three characters you play all have their own stories that occasionally interconnect. And it is also interesting to see the origins of some of the items and weapons Adol eventually acquires, appear in this game. I particularly liked Yunica Tovah's character. In many ways she reminds me of Adol. It wouldn't surprise me if she were a previous incarnation of Adol's future character. Though her hair is not nearly as red as his, she has those same clear black eyes and determination to see the mission through.

[KaZudra]

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 - Great emulation this time around, and the checkpoint system allows you to fix a mistake or even beat wily stages at your own pace.
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Sonic Mania - VERY SOON.
Ys SEVEN - At the end of the month, Soon.
Ys VIII - Soon-ish.

[zangetsu468]

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 - Great emulation this time around, and the checkpoint system allows you to fix a mistake or even beat wily stages at your own pace

The only reason I'd get Legacy 2 is for 8, which is possibly my favourite mm game of all time, side by side with 2. Unfortunately I already have 9 & 10 and I don't really care much for 7. 

[redrum]

playing Crystalis on the GBC.
i've never gotten all the way through it, but i've heard the GBC version is more "complete" somehow?

[X]

playing Crystalis on the GBC.
i've never gotten all the way through it, but i've heard the GBC version is more "complete" somehow?

I gave the GBC version a try when it was lent to me by my bro's friend. I only played snippets of the original NES title so I cannot draw a comparison as to which is more complete in terms of story, etc. Overall it was a good game on its own.

[Ratty]

I gave the GBC version a try when it was lent to me by my bro's friend. I only played snippets of the original NES title so I cannot draw a comparison as to which is more complete in terms of story, etc. Overall it was a good game on its own.

I've never heard anything about completeness but if I recall correctly the GBC and NES games have -completely- different storylines. Not a translation thing they just rewrote the storyline for the GBC. Maybe the original "God Slayer: Sonata of the Far Away Sky" (as it was called in Japan) name and story were too controversial or cliche by the time the GBC port was made, I don't know.

Also woo 100 pages \o/