Discussion Video games you're playing or might have recently finished.

[Skathon]

"Pathfinder: Kingmaker".

 

[Panna]

Persona 5 r

 

[Green Destiny]

Yes I like mods. I have heard of Sim Settlements, but I will read more into it - thank you for the suggestion. Do you know of the Durable Vertibirds mod? It makes them stronger so they are less likely to spawn in and instantly nose-dive like what usually happens. It is a good one to have even if you do not like using mods.

Haven't heard of that one yet. I'm a sucker for gun Mods and story Mods mostly. But thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Imaginos]

Hope no one minds if I bump this thread. I'd just like to keep it alive, if possible.

Anyway, I've been playing Disco Elysium lately. I gotta say, it's got some incredible writing so far. The world building is a little iffy and kind of tedious to read through, but everything else has been great. I actually didn't expect it be so surprisingly funny. As of now, it's gotten a genuine laugh or two out of me here and there, which I appreciate. Outside of its gallows humor, it also explores issues of politics and philosophy and often directly incorporate that into how you wish your character to be. There's also a great sense of detached aloofness to everything. Concepts like nihilism and deep pessimism have a clear and welcome presence in this game. And then, of course, there's the subject of suicide, which this game doesn't shy away from discussing at all. That alone gives it huge points in my book.

Anyway, it's a very raunchy, yet unmistakably tasteful game at the same time. I'm not sure if the story will eventually go down the crapper or not, but so far it's good and the character's are great (especially your partner). I decided to go with the crazy, drugged out cop persona, and I feel like that really suits the flow of this game best versus the other two. Random aside, but this game feels very French to me. It seems like it's taken a lot of inspiration from French existentialist films and such like that. In a weird way, it kind of reminds me of stuff like "Un homme qui dort", if it were mixed with crazy gonzo stuff like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

 

[UseItOrLoseIt]

Fallout New Vegas, for the nth time.

 

[Life sucks]

My playtime has been reduced when I started drawing and doing other stuff. I'm planning to replay KH1 soon and collect the missing stuff.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I got back into Animal Crossing New Horizons. Haven't played since like May I think. The fact that there's a future update coming that will introduce warp pipes means I can redesign my island to be even more tortuous as a result.

 

[Green Destiny]

This game hasn't come out yet (hopefully it'll come out this decade) but I really want to play From Software's new game in production, Elden Ring. George RR Martin's is also a part creating of the games story lore and development.

 

[neitherherenorthere]

Finished Song of Horror the other day and have pretty mixed feelings about it. Point and click + survival horror is maybe not the best combination of genres. I wouldn't call the game a waste of time, but it got incredibly tedious by the second half and certain things were straight up aggravating. I like the concept and the plot, but it's clear what the game is aiming for and it doesn't manage to get there. I wouldn't spend more than $5 on it.

 

[grungeCat]

I've finished Ib recently, really good psychological horror.

 

[Shero]

Finished Little Nightmare recently. It's quite cathartic as it over visualizes certain paranoias and phobias I have and doesn't increase my anxiety.

I usually always tend to play indie titles because they are often artistically unconstrained, targeting mostly a niche audience, and therefore can express their vision to the fullest.

 

[Panna]

Been enjoying eiyuu golden, its similar to katawa shoujo in the sense that it has h scenes, (though I skip those). I really enjoy the friendships the mc builds throughout, (its also kinda weird seeing famous people from columbus to cook to napoleon and alexander gen swapped). It's been doing a good job keeping me busy until bravely default 2 comes out.

 

[neitherherenorthere]

@Panna Just a few more days :)

 

[Panna]

@Panna Just a few more days :)

A fellow enthusiast :D, I cannot wait, I have been dying for it since last year, and everyday this month I have been thinking about it, I don't know how to spend the last three days.

 

[MrBigSad]

I got a ps1 emulator on my phone. Lately dragon warrior 7 is the main I'm playing. But been dipping into Lsd emulator, tekken 3. And I'm just about to finish downloading beyblade. I used to play it all the time even though it was in Japanese, picked it up for 50p irl so can't complain. But have since lost the disc.

 

[Nolen]

Started Soma again

 

[WornOutLife]

I feel like playing RPGs so much! The last one I played (like for a 20th time) was FFIX.
I'm planning to play all final fantasy saga! (except for FFVII: remake because I don't have a PS4 lol).

 

[ashedout]

Little Nightmares was good - I really liked the art style and music. I'm not any good at shooters but I've enjoyed watching streamers play Valorant

 

[Now_And_Then]

The Mystery Case Files hidden object games

I am currently on the Black Crown

 

[Imaginos]

Finished Song of Horror the other day and have pretty mixed feelings about it. Point and click + survival horror is maybe not the best combination of genres. I wouldn't call the game a waste of time, but it got incredibly tedious by the second half and certain things were straight up aggravating. I like the concept and the plot, but it's clear what the game is aiming for and it doesn't manage to get there. I wouldn't spend more than $5 on it.

Ah, yes. I remember seeing/hearing about that game a while ago. I've been meaning to get around to checking it out myself actually. Sucks to hear that it has its problems. Personally, I don't mind a horror game being a bit mediocre, or even somewhat bad, since I'm often a sucker for anything in the genre. If it weren't for me struggling with my anhedonia constantly, I'd probably have played every horror game in existence by now.

I've finished Ib recently, really good psychological horror.

Yeah, I liked it a lot too. The moment I finished it, I then played it again immediately afterwards just to get the best ending.

Spoiler

First ending I got was almost the best one, but Ib and Gary (I think his name was?) didn't remember each other, so I played it again to make sure their hidden relationship stat was high enough so that they did.

I'd recommend also checking out The Witch's House, Stray Cat Crossing, Yume Nikki, Off, Suits, LISA: The Painful, OneShot, and even To The Moon (although those last three aren't technically horror games). Assuming you haven't played them already, that is.

I usually always tend to play indie titles because they are often artistically unconstrained, targeting mostly a niche audience, and therefore can express their vision to the fullest.

Same here. In my case, I also tend to gravitate towards them on account of how low the cost of investment is. They're usually short enough that they can be finished relatively quickly which, for me, is a huge plus. I just don't often have the wherewithal for anything greater these days, like 100+ hour RPGs or what have you.

As far as indie horror games are concerned, the stuff Puppet Combo has put out over the years has been great. Day Seven and These Trees Have Spectral Fingers were both especially unsettling. Day Seven was probably the most unnerved I've been while playing a video game in a very long time. If you're looking for psychological horror, it doesn't get much better than that. It's very short, but less really is more, at least in this case.

A couple other random indie horrors which come to mind would be Lost in Vivo, Into The Gloom, My Lovely Daughter, and nearly everything from the Japanese indie dev on Steam called "Chilla's Art".

For what it's worth, the most personally grueling horror game I've ever played would have to go to Corpse Party. Now that's a fucked up game. Like super fucked up. To be honest, it kind of borders on torture porn a lot of the time, which is kind of distasteful if you ask me. It mostly works in CP's case, but damn did it get exhausting after a while. Couldn't stomach any of the sequels. Still might get around to them someday, though.

 

[Imaginos]

Well somehow, against the odds, I've managed to play and finish something recently. They're two puzzle games in the same series called the "House of Da Vinci". They're modeled almost exactly off the "The Room" games, which I really love. The puzzles are great and everything about them feels as polished as those from The Room series. The two series are so similar to each other in fact, it almost feels like plagiarism frankly. But yeah, that aside, they're still some great games. The story's not anything spectacular, but the atmosphere and puzzles make for a very comfy experience.

Spoiler

That damn numbers based puzzle in the second game really tripped me up though. I swear I must suffer from dyscalculia or something for missing something so obvious.

I'll also mention that Disco Elysium was really great and, although the ending was super abrupt that not very satisfying, I still really enjoyed it overall. There were actually a lot of unique/satisfying dialogues I wished I screen capped, to be honest. One in particular is where your character can just randomly say to some kids, "It's alright to kill yourself you know. That's probably what I'm going to do right after I'm done with this case.". It's just that type of thing which made this game very memorable for me.

Spoiler

I also really enjoyed the showdown between the mercenaries and the dockworkers near the end of the game. Felt like a genuinely hair razing situation. I'm just glad I managed to successfully hit all my dice rolls during the course of it, which definitely enhanced the payoff of the whole thing.

I also forgot to mention that the ending to Planescape is actually really great as well. A lot of my complaints about it were alleviated once I actually experimented more with how the final confrontation can go. Definitely one of the best RPGs I've ever played.

 

[Hirokami]

Metro 2033. 'Tis free on Steam until a few hours more, so I figured, "Why not?" So far, it's as good as everyone says it is.

 

[neitherherenorthere]

Devotion is finally available for sale through the developer's eshop! Just bought it, might be a little while before I actually play it since I'm replaying The Evil Within 2 and Ocarina of Time right now. (I've waited 2 years for this game, I can handle another week or two.) But seriously, support the developer. https://shop.redcandlegames.com/

 

[nerve]

3 months after release and I still have a toxic relationship with Cyberpunk 2077...

 

[signifying nothing]

Started working my way through Prune. It's kind of like my life at the moment - trying to find a way to grow towards the light... or otherwise die.

 

[Makko]

Not exactly recent but I've finished the whole Cube Escape series of point and click games. The Rusty Lake setting has such excellent comfy-creepy atmosphere. I plowed through them all in a row including spinoffs when stuck at home with Covid last april.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

After having a stint of playing Fallout 4 I have lost the desire to play it for the time being; which makes me sad because I want to keep playing it, but building Vault 88 has burnt me out.

I am still playing through Prey - slowly. I have started playing Cold Waters again as well... But failing miserably at it; who knew that active sonar(s) could be such an annoyance when they are being used against you? Ha!

 

[Inkling]

Right now I'm playing Lost Planet, mostly because I remember playing it when I was younger and robots are cool. Before that I finished AI Somnium Files which was fun enough, had some nice characters. I also play a lot of Hunt Showdown to pass the time.

I am still playing through Prey - slowly. I have started playing Cold Waters again as well... But failing miserably at it; who knew that active sonar(s) could be such an annoyance when they are being used against you? Ha!

I finished Prey some time ago, I really liked the space walks, and the DLC is pretty cool if you like optimizing runs.

 

[Imaginos]

Devotion

It's crazy to me the controversy over that game. In my case, I played/finished it not long after it came out the first time (which must be almost a couple years ago now which, again, is just crazy), since I quite liked the developer's last game Detention, and I enjoyed Devotion just as much. A bit too short and not very scary (at least for me), but overall still okay.

Cube Escape

Yeah, I did the same a couple years back. Played through all the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake games back to back right up to Paradox. For me, I just really enjoyed the visual storytelling, along with the macabre art style, unorthodox puzzles, and Twin Peaks-like atmosphere. Another game in the series has come out since then called "The White Door" and I'll probably be playing that pretty soon. There's also Fran Bow and Year Walk if you're interested in something similar.

Fallout 4

I still haven't even played New Vegas yet. There's so many mods for it that somehow it's always kept me avoiding it.

I finished Prey some time ago, I really liked the space walks, and the DLC is pretty cool if you like optimizing runs.

Same here. I was never the biggest Dishonored fan, but I quite liked Prey. I don't think it's as good as SS2, but I still enjoyed it. The DLC was indeed really great. I loved how each character had their unique strengths/weaknesses and, if anything, it was the closest the game ever got to feeling like System Shock. In SS2, your character class actually mattered, whereas I feel that in Prey's main game it was too easy to become a master at everything.

Right now I'm playing Lost Planet

Yeah, Lost Planet is great. I replayed 1 & 2 after I finally checked out/finished 3 a couple years back. Not enough games have you fighting giant monsters in mechs.

 

[poppeye]

Playing another Skyrim playthrough for the millionth time this time I'm going a sneaky destruction wizard.