What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

Platinum's TMNT announcement is the main reason I'm looking into Xboxone/PS4 now... that and Scalebound have pushed me over the edge. It's funny because they were the ones who sold me on Wii U as well with Bayonetta 2. Although I ended up loving the system for many other reasons.

I still play Vanquish, it might be my favorite game from last Gen... it's just so much pure adrenaline fueled fun. I know it gets compared to Gears of War all the time but it feels like it owes just as much to Afterburner as it does anything else.

My son and I finished Superchargers recently, it's probably a better game than Trap Team but as a father son combo Trap Team was more fun. The trap concept was just so damned cool and my son loved trapping villains and then getting to use them later on, whereas the vehicles can sometimes be a bit too much for him. Both great games though and we're still playing parts of them over again. They're surprisingly re-playable for what they are and they kind of need to be if you're going to level up all the characters you end up buying. Almost done Yoshi's Woolly World too. It's still a fun if light game, perfect for playing with a 4 year old. I never played any of their other texture games (or Yoshi games) though so I really have nothing to compare it to.

I'm seriously considering picking up Chronicles X but a part of me just keeps saying hold off. The only thing I really want for my Wii U right now is Star Fox and to a lesser degree the new Zelda.

I want The Witness real bad. Because I'm cheap (not to mention entitled), I usually wait until a game get down to $5 before buying it. I'll wait years if I have to. But this game I may have to just drop that $40 right now.

I have 89 panels solved so far, but I am stuck in like four different ways. There is one common (?) kind of puzzle for which I do not understand the grammar, but I did think of an idea as I woke up this AM and will attempt it this evening. There's another one were I progressed through three or four, getting the grammar, came to the next, saw "the trick," as it were, but still can't get it. There is one location where I can start the puzzles, but only because I worked out the combinatorics of the solution space (66) and could just brute force it.

I also found what I believe to be a cipher, but it hasn't proven useful yet.

I've been trying Endless Legend a bit. It's a Sid Meier's Civilization clone, down to the food/production/gold/science breakdown, the ruins, the city state missions and buildings. It seems nice and does have a couple twists, like an Alpha Centauri unit creation tool, heroes ala Heroes of Might and Magic and diplomacy based on resources, not board position or trust.

So far I like it except for two things: Everything's way too small on the screen and there are waaay too many abilities on each faction. Like, each one has 8-9 of them, which is weird.

I liked Endless Legend because the factions felt really distinct on a fundamental level (and had their own story), but that wasn't necessarily a product of the pure stat based differences.

I actually hated the unit creation/customization and immediately uninstalled after an Endless free weekend tryout. Too bad since I really like the 1 city per region stuff & combat.

Free weekend for Sunless Sea. I'm really interested in this game so I should really play some of it. Hopefully it's enough to get a good feel for it. Though I'm currently in the middle of Wolfenstein: The New Order, which I want to get finished, but I suppose that can wait for one weekend.

Sunlight Sea is fun but difficult. It can be downright slow if you're playing it safe. And not playing it safe can go really badly.

I love rogue-likes, and don't mind repeated failures and difficult attempts.

I still find it bizaree that rogue like means what it does. I think I've always assumed Rogue = Thief, so always blindly assumed it was games that include a sneak element like, well, Thief (and I guess MGS, Splinter Cell) but it turns out thats not what people mean when they say rogue like.

/uselessthreadcontribution

One of the first games of that ilk was called "Hack" and floated around college campuses (as it ran on mainframes). When a version got ported to PCs, the name was changed to it could be trademarked, and that name was "Rogue". Hence the term.

Project: Don't Simply Play Fallout 4 Again continued last night with The Witness. It's interesting and pretty, but $40 is far too steep for it. I like how it teaches you about the puzzles, but there are some that I thought I understood the rules for but clearly don't. (Specifically, the black/white ones and the "switch" ones in the place with the ramp and elevator.) I also wish there was at least a rudimentary map.

More Darkest Dungeon. The game has improved since beta, the balance is a little better and more forgiving. The game is still frustrating and difficult but that's all intentional.

Whoa I have not heard of Endless Legend, I see it's one of those rare games that's available for Macs. Tell me more ...

metalface13 wrote: Whoa I have not heard of Endless Legend, I see it's one of those rare games that's available for Macs. Tell me more ...

Best 4x game on the market so far. It takes the formula of "almost great" from Endless Space, and addresses almost all criticisms to make it great. More or less a reboot of Master of Magic, but with far more personality and better gameplay. The only other strategy game up to it's par from recent that I've personally played is Age of Wonder III, which is a different take on strategy game (tactical battle focused).

Been breakin' ankles online in NBA 2K16. Best sports game I've played in a long, long time. They nailed the defensive AI, gotta think about the strategy of the game to get past them unless you've got an all-star Curry or Lebron on the floor and some decent stick skills.