What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

I bought Dark Souls 2: Sins of the Whatnots on a whim, because I remember the first one being a fun, if tough game. Peas and rice. I had no idea what I was doing, or how to get away from the starting area. Some clacky dog things killed me while I tried to shoot them with arrows. At some point I ran out of arrows and had an axe. I killed the clacky dog things, some big fat troll, and finally, exasperated, did for all those cackling old mares in the hut. Never did find any way out of that starting area. That was after an internet search trying to find how to jump (nothing worked). There were some fallen trees that looked choppable, but were not.

I played through Oxenfree, which happens to be free right now on Xbox One. It's a short adventure about a group of teens who go to an island for a night of drinking, and things go awry.

You make virtually no decisions, and the game mostly leads you around the nose. The story has its moments, but overall, I was not engrossed. I did finish it, though.

JEM wrote: I bought Dark Souls 2: Sins of the Whatnots on a whim, because I remember the first one being a fun, if tough game. Peas and rice. I had no idea what I was doing, or how to get away from the starting area. Some clacky dog things killed me while I tried to shoot them with arrows. At some point I ran out of arrows and had an axe. I killed the clacky dog things, some big fat troll, and finally, exasperated, did for all those cackling old mares in the hut. Never did find any way out of that starting area. That was after an internet search trying to find how to jump (nothing worked). There were some fallen trees that looked choppable, but were not.

Click in the stick for jump. Terrible place for that control.

Yeah, forget that troll dude for now and keep moving to Majula. Almost every souls game has some difficult enemy you don't actually need to kill near the start just to fuck with you.

Gary Sax wrote: Click in the stick for jump. Terrible place for that control.

Can you jump from standing still? I always thought it was only possible to jump by tapping the run button while running.

Yeah, I think you're right. Missed that part.

Believe me, I tried everything. I even mapped it to B, and it made no difference. Maybe it's a bug with XBox One controllers on Windows. Anyway, I couldn't see any way out of the start area so I just quit.

I used an Xbox One controller on Windows (via USB cable) and never had an issue.

I thought DS2 was kind of weak, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Finished Shadow Warrior. Oh, wow. It's such a great game. The back story is very sad/romantic/tragic... and the game did a really nice job of revealing it layer by layer.

Unfortunately it suffers from repetitiveness, and very weak mid game. Some enemies just break the pace. Hated the harpies, suicidal dudes and the chargers/berserkers. The harpies are just flying and shooting from the sky. Cannot use melee attack on them. Suicidal dudes are just... well let's just say the game's frantic with lots of movement except when these dudes are around. The chargers have exactly one weakness and fighting them became routine, then chore.

I can't recall any game, ever, that had flying enemies that didn't suck.

Destiny 2