What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

I like golf video games. Especially novel examples. Been playing them for years when I actually do play video games.

I saw an episode of game grumps where they are playing 100ft. Robot Golf and it looked pretty fun.

Gave it a shot, and I like it a lot. The concept alone is worth it, but each robot plays differently and its a wrestling match while you try to get your ball in the whole. Its excellent trashy fun when playing with a friend. It could be better, but for a first attempt, its kinda awesome. I hope they do a sequel with better commentary, and a bit better gameplay for both golf and wrastlin', because it deserves more.

But it costs $20, and while it is interesting, its not worth $20. Wait for a sale.

OVERWATCH has a PvE promotion going that's pretty fun. It's a little backstory on the characters, with Reinhardt, Mercy, Torbjorn, and Tracer taking on some Omnic hordes in King's Row. Compels teamwork, which is nice. And you are mobile, unlike Junkenstein. You need to capture three waypoints, then defend a payload and then advance and take out some tough guys. Good times, and cool loot.

Been playing DREAM QUEST on the Mac. Tough nut to crack, only one win so far, but that's a Rogue-like for you.

I finished up Mass Effect 1 after playing Mass Effect 2. Both were awesome. I found that the UI was tedious in ME1 compared to ME2. I also hated all of the exploration required in ME1. But, the story in ME1 was worth it.

I'm now onto ME3...

Really glad you appreciated the story so much in ME1. After ME2 you are taxing yourself on the drop in gameplay but it's cool that it didn't drive you nuts. The Mako in ME1 used to give people fits.

ME3 is going to be a huge pick up after ME1 but the jump in epicness of the struggle might be jarring. In ME1 Sovereign is very cloak and dagger, not really revealing himself until the end. In ME3, it's just all out extermination.

Have fun!

hotseatgames wrote: Just played the recently out of early access, Crawl. I have owned this game for 2 1/2 years, and it has come a LONG way.

I just watched the Giant Bomb guys play this on UPF. It looks MUCH better than the last time I saw it. The game moves a lot faster, humanity changes hands much quicker, the monsters have many more options to attack. Looks pretty good. I'll probably pick it up.

stoic wrote: I finished up Mass Effect 1 after playing Mass Effect 2. Both were awesome. I found that the UI was tedious in ME1 compared to ME2. I also hated all of the exploration required in ME1. But, the story in ME1 was worth it.

I'm now onto ME3...

I started playing ME1 this weekend. I went with an adept, because it's totally different from my usual style (stay back and snipe everything). I found the controller patch and threw in the high res texture patch. I'm trying to play as renegade also, though the dialogue options seem to come off more Kylo Ren than Darth Vader so I had no qualms in pulling up the console and dropping some renegade points there. I'll choose whatever dialogue feels thematic, and I'm only in it for the story, not for game-play challenge. The UI made me really appreciate the changes they made for ME2, and I remember being frustrated by those same changes when I played these originally on the 360 years ago. I really like the continuity of interface from 2 to 3.

I'm still playing through ME3, having just done the Citadel DLC, which was a lot of fun. So I'm now in an overlap loop of Mass Effect. It might be possible to play these games on an endless, seamless loop forever.

Picked up Inside today, and completed it in 3 1/2 hours. You really want to do this one in one sitting. It's fantastic, with only a couple annoying parts. From the same people who made Limbo, which I did not finish and wasn't crazy about. This one is much better.

Limbo is awesome. Your opinion is invalid.


....but yeah Inside is great.

Finally got some XBOX1 time in again. It's been State of Decay Y1 solo, and How To Survive 2 with mama.

She loves grindy/looty crafting games like Diablo 3 and this, so we literally did the same mission 9 times today to get the resources she wanted to build what I can only describe as "the granddaddy of all defensive walls" around our encampment. At level 45 the zombies come hard and fast for 3 solid minutes and they never even made it past the first trap series she built. If the zombie apocalypse happens, she's in charge of defenses.

State of Decay is a guilty pleasure for me but the game has some way unfair enemies and that kind of takes the shine off of an otherwise remarkable survival game. There's these giant bubba dudes that you can literally need to hit ten times, SQUARE IN THE CHOPS, with a speeding F-150 crew cab. The truck is fucked afterward. The biggest flaw in the game is that it doesn't have difficulty sliders to control zombie strength, spawn rates, and "super" baddie spawn rates.

I finished ME:3, and because I wasn't paying attention I missed which options I could take so I took the middle one . After realizing I redid it to look at the other endings. I think might be my favourite, and canon in my game until they realize they need to make ME:4.

I have the version with the Extended Cut, so I had to look on youtube to see what the problem was with the original ending and yeah, that was pretty short shrift.

Mass Effect original re-play has been put on hold because I'm now 20 hours into Fallout 4. I had Fallout 3 on the XBox 360 but kind of hated it, but I've been watching a lot of mXr's mod videos for Skyrim and Fallout 4. I've yet to mess with any mods, just working through the game. I probably should have gone to Diamond City sooner, as I got roped into Minutemen stuff out in the boonies for a while. I had some fun hours messing with the settlement workshop stuff but the resource management is kind of a bear, and not my style of game at all. I have two sets of power armour and don't like using either because I'm stressed about running the power cores down all the time. I've also found they're not always great in fights. I mostly hate VATS and don't use it, because I'm a better shot.

There's a lot of fun stuff in there, but it takes a long time to make progress compared to a story-driven game like Mass Effect. I know Fallout 4 is more of a lifestyle game people throw themselves into and the building stuff appeals to me a lot, but I'll see how I feel after playing through the story.