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

[TatteredSeraph]

Woohoo!  Go, Shiroi!  Congrats!

[Shiroi Koumori]

Thanks guys! 

Next stop at the end of March, that upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD remix of 6 games.
Oh my... how long will I finish that? Hahaha.

[Aceearly1993]

Watched some clips of AGDQ2017 and I'm too eager to play The legend of Dark Witch 2. The first game had some great, neat idea but the control scheme and engine was not very polished. Some stages (final stage in default difficulty as an example) went way too tough for wrong reasons IMO. (No recovery items drop after beating a rematch boss. - only the easiest difficulty gave you recovery items. Give me some mercy please? It is not Gradius! And when you died once It's the impossible game ala Gradius- you need to collect enough purple butterflies to power-up your shots and the bosses all have tons of invincible times...The Gradius-esque-but-worse weapon style is too much for me and it's also the major flaw of the game. Dang.)
Still, a great game worthy for retroisms. Waiting for the day that the second game arrive PSV...! The second game looks much better in control system and boss battles...The boss quick kill is awesome! Kinda reminds me the awesomeness of Mega Man ZX! Can't wait to play it…! (I kinda wish there's a patch that could fix the flaws in first game.)

[squaretex]

Several months ago, I thanked y'all for pointing out how the Souls games were a spiritual successor of sorts to CastleVania, and grabbed Dark Souls: Prepare to Die. I wasn't playing it much recently due to seasonal work with the Postal Service (whew, that was intense!), but really got back into it once the holiday drive ended. I am legitimately surprised at how far in the game I got. (I'm at the start of Blight Town... *shudder*)

...and that was BEFORE I found the true Pandora's box...the Dark Souls DEBUG version. o_O

That thing is DANGEROUS. Among the myriad abilities it has are level previews with a max-state character wearing sweet gear, the review demo, the ability to set starting attributes, gifting of items and gear at any time, TAKING CONTROL OF BOSSES, etc etc ETC.

Now, I am NOT using this tool to alter my main character, as I fully intend to beat DS the RIGHT way. BUT...one of the fun things I did on the side was create a new character called Belmont and gift him a fire whip at the start. And oh, how fun that is! In the early goings he's truly OP, as most undead beasties he's fighting are weak to fire. BUT...since I did not tweak his stats, he's still squishy. And thus, there's still a challenge.  It truly nails a CastleVania feel!

Like I said, Dark Souls really needs to be experienced properly. But for those who have sunk a lot in it and just want to goof around in awesome ways, it's REALLY worth hunting down.

[Bloodreign]

A pair of games that makes the Dark Souls games cower in fear, Ninja Gaiden 1 NES, and Ghosts N Goblins arcade.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I just started playing The Witcher Enhanced Edition. I may not finish just because the combat is such a clunky messy turn off for me. Like, I'm a huge fan of the story (I'd started reading the books before I even knew there were games), but the gameplay between those moments of story is just... disgustingly bad. Also Triss' costume design couldn't be at more odds with how she's described in the books if her hair were blue. Later games were most definitely better by light years.

[affinity]

well I already had my School Girl Zombie Hunter marathons.

I played more Samurai Shodown VI, and some Star Wars Battlefront (upset how they handled all the DLC, so didnt buy the DLCs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFKtg-9HhsQ

might buy Double Dragon IV next week, but wanna check how hard it is to unlock all of the characters, and learn more about the total amount of stages, stage sizes, soundtrack and stuff.

FF is gonna be announcing things tommorrow and next week, perhaps FFXII The Zodiac Age is coming Q1
ESRB already rated it 2 months ago, and this week the trophies are revealed

https://www.exophase.com/game/final-fantasy-%e2%85%ab-the-zodiac-age-ps4/trophies/

Atelier Firis is in like 2 months

http://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/firis/

[Abnormal Freak]

Finished all the Shantae games and then moved on to Monster World (MWIV and WBIMW beat). Can't wait for the remake of Dragon's Trap and also Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom.

[X]

Yesterday I just picked up Dragon Quest's VII and VIII. Didn't think I'd be buying them back to back that day. lol. I was waiting for VIII to make an appearance as it was originally released for the PS1 back in the day. Guess they finally got around to it.

[Flame]

Anyone played Nefarious?

It's a game where you play the villain, and fight the hero in reverse boss fights.

its pretty good.

[zangetsu468]

Finished all the Shantae games and then moved on to Monster World (MWIV and WBIMW beat).

WBIMW and MWIV are really good games. When I was a kid I played the former and didn't even know the latter was a game until its appearance on the PSN. MWIV wins out for me though, it's a good game, I think I may still be on the leaderboards for time attack.

[JR]

Still playing PSN downloads to see which ones I should keep. Ultratron was fun, but eventually you get all the upgrades and you're unstoppable. I couldn't even keep up with what was going on in later levels, but still had enough firepower to survive.

Teslagrad was next. Not a bad game, might go back to it.

Now playing Transformers Devastation. Didn't know Platinum did this one...seemed kind of boring at the very beginning, but it's not too bad now. I never knew after all these years that Megatron turns into a tank now, instead of a handgun. Makes more sense, I guess.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Been playing nothing but Stardew Valley.
But I got a PS4 from a friend, so now I may get started with some Bloodborne.

[TheTextGuy]

Now playing Transformers Devastation. Didn't know Platinum did this one...seemed kind of boring at the very beginning, but it's not too bad now. I never knew after all these years that Megatron turns into a tank now, instead of a handgun. Makes more sense, I guess.

iirc, part of the reason G1 Megatron is a tank in Devestation was to promote his Combiner Wars toy, which was G1 Megatron as a grey tank (though this wasn't the first time Megatron was a tank).  The fact that Combiner Wars was a thing explains one detail of the ending too, but not gonna spoil.  It also explains why Devastator and one other boss are in it I guess.

I kinda thought the game was going to be very repetitive when I fought both Megatron and Devastator twice in the first chapter, and combined with the fact that I kept getting my ass kicked by the first Devastator fight in the first chapter kinda didn't make a good impression for me.  But then I kept playing and now I have 66 hours clocked into this damn game.  Yeah, the base gameplay holds it up very well imo.

[X]

In Transformers G.I.Joe comics the Cobra organisation retrofits Megatron into a tank.