What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

jeb wrote: Watched some NIOH streaming and I came away a little cold. At some point, the guy was looking at this list of like, 25 armors that had like tiny little % differences and I was wondering if the game is just another min-maxy inventory fest. I have that game, it's DIABLO 3 and it's a stone fox. I liked SOULS because of the way carrying stuff and wearing armor was a big strategic decision. "Yeah, I can take another hit with this big ass boar's head, but I move at like half-speed for the pleasure." What's going on there? How often am I going to have to take a minute to think about how spiky my epaulets are?

Can anyone compare this experience to DESTINY/DIABLO on the loot side?

Sorta. Like Diablo, there are endless possibilities of equipment bonuses you can find for equipment. Unlike Diablo, player skill has a decidedly greater impact on the results of the game than equipment. I'm sure people will be beating this game at minimal level and with minimal equipment soon enough. For myself, I don't really look at what the equipment does and just swap out to weapons with higher attack rating. For armor, I pick what looks cool lol

Vlad wrote: Jeb, that's a good point.
The rate loot drop is similar to Destiny/Diablo. Maybe even higher. And it is not just loot. There are a lot of "learnable" skills, which give place to combos, which you can assign to specific key combinations, which I find very confusing. Way more confusing than Destiny or Diablo - in these games, you shoot and strike and when you notice that the enemies' health doesn't go down at a satisfactory speed, it is time for a weapon upgrade. Since fights are much more dynamic in Nioh, it leaves me wondering - even on the early stages - whether I am doing something wrong tactics-wise or whether it is my equipment or skills, or something else I am missing - there's just a shitload of subsystems.
For example, there're these particularly resilient yokai (and seemingly optional) in the caves that I'm not sure whether I am supposed to be tackling now or further on.

If you're talking about the yokai in the third stage (after the first real boss, which you beat), you should be able to kill those cave yokai fairly easily. The big cyclops ones take a fuckton of damage if you shoot them in the eye with a rifle, and the small ones with axes have incredibly predictable attacks and are very susceptible to stunlocking. I think I was level 15 or so when I cleared that stage and it's boss, but some players find the boss to be a difficulty spike.

No, I was talking about

Samoko, are you using the combos/combo customization much?

Been playing Bayonneta on XB1. Bought it used. Love it!

stoic wrote: Been playing Bayonneta on XB1. Bought it used. Love it!

Yep, that game rocks cocks. You're going to get a full blown rundown from SaMoKo now too.

Bayonetta remains one of the best games ever made and I will keep the Wii U for as long as that double pack of both games is only available there. The second one is actually better in some ways. It's even more incomprehensible, camp, and absurd. It also starts better- it doesn't try to ease you into its world like the first one does.

But where the first one exceeds virtually all other games is in how just continually ups the ante. It is like the developers were contstantly trying to top the last crescendo. It is the video game design equivalent of exploding sixes, and it rolls sixes all the way through until it ends in just about the only way it possibly could.

Follow that up with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Vanquish, Madworld, or Transformers: Devastation. Platinum is just amazing.

Their sequel to Nier, one of the most underrated and misunderstood games ever, looks amazing. The demo is available on both platforms and it is well worth looking at.

Odd that probably the only two non-Nintendo games I'm going to buy this year are Nier and Nioh.

Last night I completed the first mission of Sniper Elite 4. It took me just under 2 hours to complete every objective. I'm playing on Hard, which I think is correctly named. I played Sniper Elite 3 on normal, and it was considerably easier.

The levels are HUGE and feature a lot of ways to accomplish any given objective. So far I'm really happy with it. Except for how it completely flips out if you ALT + TAB out of it.

I've been jumping all over the place between games over the last several weeks. I only get short bursts of time to play usually so it's hard to stick with anything.

It started early in January when I was out sick from work for a few days plus a weekend and I started Subnautica. I restarted it after a while because I got tired of the grinding chore of catching fish to convert to food and water constantly when I found out there was a mode that let you skip that and play the game without it. That made it immeasurably better for me and I really enjoyed it. I normally have no desire to play a survival game, but that's because I don't like the idea of doing a bunch of work and then have it all undone by some jerk who raids and steals everything. I don't get the attraction with that stuff but to each their own I guess. Subnautica is strictly single player for now at least, so I got a lot of satisfaction out of starting with nothing and building all these cool tools and stuff.

Then I picked up XCOM2 in the humble bundle and played through the tutorial and several missions. I'm liking it so far, but I feel like I will need at least 2 hours free time to play sessions of this, which is hard to come by right now.

Finally, I remembered I had been meaning to try Limbo which has been sitting uninstalled in my Steam library for a while. I'm not sure how long this game is, but I think it's okay so far. I'm not sure, but I'm expecting some kind of twist down the line. Right now it fits as a game I can play in small chunks, which is perfect for me and a nice break form my utter addiction to Hearthstone.

Limbo is so amazing. What a zen game for me, I go somewhere else when I play it

I finally made it through once with zero deaths

Black Barney wrote: Limbo is so amazing. What a zen game for me, I go somewhere else when I play it

I finally made it through once with zero deaths

From what I've seen of the game so far, I can picture that being doable but super-hard in some parts. Jumping over a spinning razor blade section seems like it would be tough. I don't have the patience for that though. My favorite of this type of game among the modern types I've tried was Ori and the Blind Forest. That game was amazing to look at, but it's hazardous to controller health. Mine almost went through a window.

airmarkus wrote: I'm not sure how long this game is, but I think it's okay so far.

Depending on how long you take to puzzle everything out, I'd say 2-4 hours.