What game are you wasting time on?

[Abu Antar]

At 121 hours, I have completed Persona 5. What a ride!

I've reached the final dungeon in Bravely Second at 52ish hours. I'm not going for a 100% run. I'm missing lots of weapons and some jobs.

My true reason to post here is that I started up South Park: Fractured But Whole. I got an update prompt and it turns out that it is bigger than the actual game. WTF!?

 

[Naraya]

Persona 5

I think this is the only game I'm waiting for to play on PC.

Oh, and also ALL the Yakuza games.

 

[cosmicray]

The Witness. I'm in love with design and minimalistic approach. And puzzles are properly hard, not some Portal bullshit.
Sometime after several hours it got somewhat repetetive, but once I began doing something else it became more interesting. Stuck on specific puzzle - take a walk, there are lots of other puzzles to learn.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Speaking of disciplines, i am not sure what my Christof should focus on for i got plenty of options.

Dude can access every spell in the game so user it to your advantage.

 

[Valky]

Due to my incredibly developed biological processing unit, I've started a second process that I am now playing Adjacent: Robot in.

 

[ShadowSpectre]

Baldur's Gate 2 main quests, after completing most of the side ones. Dragons and liches down, Irenicus to go.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Playing Shenmue, I can see why people liked it. I do like the fighting system.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

BattleTech
Reinstalled it after leaving it behind since release. Still a resource hog. Still got all the social justice bugaboos. How they managed to emasculate a game featuring giant killer robots, I will never know.

"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD." - Deuteronomy 23-1

"No one who allows pissy Muslim women to tinker with giant killer robots shall make video games." - Neuteronomy 12-3.

 

[A_boring_GOG_bot]

Jigsaws Galore . Made a custom jigsaw out of this :

 

[Puukko]

Finished KOTOR II. My opinion of the game waned a bit towards the end and I did not like having to solo metric fucktons of sith at the end even if I had great tools for it. My favorite parts of the game involved developing party members and whenever it gimped me by forcing me to go solo or with a pre-selected party I wanted to get those bits done as quickly as possible. Other than that, this game ranks comfortably above 1 for me and I am glad I finally got around to it.

 

[pakoito]

I'm playing Sangokushi Taisen on Japanese arcades <3

 

[Strange Fellow]

Looks like my Severance: Blade of Darkness adventure is dead, owing to a seemingly unavoidable CTD in the Oasis of Nebjebjejbjeb level. Shucks.

Then again, I didn't find it to be anything more than all right, really. I played as the amazon, and once I'd gotten the hang of directional attacks combat never posed much of a challenge. For some reason, I had an enormous amount of trouble performing the combos, and of the seven or so weapons I found, I could only reliably pull off one of them. That one turned out to be enough to OHK all normal mooks throughout half the game, with larger boss-type enemies taking about three hits, with the result that I didn't switch out the weapon in question even when I found ones that dealt more than twice as much damage with normal attacks. It trivialised the game, but honestly, it wasn't hard anyway, as dodging blows was trivially easy, with the amazon's dodge roll being about as overpowered as Geralt's in The Witcher 3. It's essentially an invincibility button unless you happen to be near a ledge, from which you could fall off if you're not careful.

Level design was pretty cool, but very monotonous. It's fun to crisscross the maps pulling switches and picking up slews of keys like you're playing a shooter, but I'm not sure how many more drab gray-brown castle/cave levels I could stand. Maybe it gets better, but I won't be able to see it. I probably would have completed it if it hadn't died on me, but as far as I got, I failed to see the magic.

 

[J_C]

Started playing Soul Reaver. I played it a few years ago once, but I abandoned it after a few levels, locations. I just loved the atmosphere of this game, but something didn't click for me regarding the gameplay. I'm giving it now a second chance.

 

[Kabas]

Started playing Soul Reaver. I played it a few years ago once, but I abandoned it after a few levels, locations. I just loved the atmosphere of this game, but something didn't click for me regarding the gameplay. I'm giving it now a second chance.

Never played the soul reaver, but i can understand this sort of feeling when it comes to some other games.

 

[Beowulf]

Looks like my Severance: Blade of Darkness adventure is dead, owing to a seemingly unavoidable CTD in the Oasis of Nebjebjejbjeb level. Shucks.

Then again, I didn't find it to be anything more than all right, really. I played as the amazon, and once I'd gotten the hang of directional attacks combat never posed much of a challenge. For some reason, I had an enormous amount of trouble performing the combos, and of the seven or so weapons I found, I could only reliably pull off one of them. That one turned out to be enough to OHK all normal mooks throughout half the game, with larger boss-type enemies taking about three hits, with the result that I didn't switch out the weapon in question even when I found ones that dealt more than twice as much damage with normal attacks. It trivialised the game, but honestly, it wasn't hard anyway, as dodging blows was trivially easy, with the amazon's dodge roll being about as overpowered as Geralt's in The Witcher 3. It's essentially an invincibility button unless you happen to be near a ledge, from which you could fall off if you're not careful.

Level design was pretty cool, but very monotonous. It's fun to crisscross the maps pulling switches and picking up slews of keys like you're playing a shooter, but I'm not sure how many more drab gray-brown castle/cave levels I could stand. Maybe it gets better, but I won't be able to see it. I probably would have completed it if it hadn't died on me, but as far as I got, I failed to see the magic.

Amazon is the easy mode because of her superior reach (she uses mostly polearms and spears from what I remember) and this dodge-roll.
Not much changes in the later levels regarding the visuals.
I understand that you think it's just all right, but back in the day it was the best melee slasher with one of the best looking environments. And it hasn't been dethroned for a very long time (some might argue that it still sits at the top, perhaps together with Die by the sword).
It had water reflections, dynamic shadows and whatnot - visually it was a very atmospheric game.

 

[Strange Fellow]

I understand that you think it's just all right, but back in the day it was the best melee slasher with one of the best looking environments.

Fair enough. "Good for its time" is usually a disclaimer meant for people who can't handle older games, but I guess that isn't the case here. I'll be setting the hounds on myself now, but I can't see any sense in which Dark Souls doesn't trounce this game. Individual map size/complexity is maybe the only thing, if we are to take each named DS area as its own separate map.

I'll grant you that with the shadows and water reflections it is a very good-looking game.

 

[Azalin]

Finished Resident Evil 6 mostly played coop with a friend of mine,not a bad game,it's not a survival horror game but an action game with zombies in it,so if you want a horror game you will be disappointed.There are some problems with it like the clunky controls and camera but I liked the fact that there are 4 parallel storylines you get to play to get the whole story and you get some coll and fun moments,some qte/action sequences suck balls though.Recommended only for coop sessions with a buddy.

 

[Average Manatee]

Finished up DF2:Jedi Knight. Think this is the first time I've finished it completely legit. When I was a kid I'd always have to resort to cheats at some point or just get frustrated trying to figure out how to progress and warp a level ahead, but this time was all the way from beginning to end on hard. Great game.

Really like the weapon/saber balance and how everything feels like it has a use (well, maybe not the Bryer pistol and the mines). Never been a fan of how JK2 is 95% about the saber and 90% of non-saber enemies become completely effortless with how easy it is to block. JK feels more "real", like how Han Solo would fight if he was a jedi. Throw a couple thermal detonators down the lift before going down yourself. Save the saber for the ambushes and duels.

The Stormtroopers really are great. For a game that has pretty much one enemy type for most of the game they do a good job of being fun to kill, with good hit reactions, death screams, and always a bit dangerous to fight but never due to superhuman reflexes or anything lame. I think they rank up there with DOOM's Zombies and Shotgunners as some of the best general fodder that you can always have fun mowing down. Fuck Trandoshans though, it's a good thing that they only exist to ruin a handful of areas.

P. sure Jedi Knight forces (ohoho) 2 or so levels in force jump upon you by assigning them automatically because a handful of places do require you to use it, so that's a negative.

Can confirm that there is absolutely zero need to use force powers to finish the game, and there is no auto-assignment of powers. All progression blockers have a method of completion that involves not needing force jump. Finished with zero assigned powers (ending cinematic still shows Katarn force-pulling Jerec's saber). You'll definitely miss out on tons of secrets though.

Was also surprised that the ammo/health pickups seemed well balanced throughout the game for not using force powers, e.g. they didn't stop giving you adequate supplies on the assumption that you'd just be using force healing or force destruction all the time.

 

[HansDampf]

Can confirm that there is absolutely zero need to use force powers to finish the game, and there is no auto-assignment of powers. All progression blockers have a method of completion that involves not needing force jump.

Which is why JK > Outcast.

 

[octavius]

Nearing the end of Diablo 2 1.09 on Nightmare with seven different characters.

Most deadly enemies:
The Ancients. My Bowazon can melee all the uber bosses without much problem, but The Ancients rape her. Guided Missiles worked wonders, though.
Bosses with Multi-Shot and Lightning Enchanted. There's no real defense against those big fat bolts of lightning; Diablo's breath is like a gentle breeze in comparison.
Nilathak's Corpse Explosions. Tricky for those that can't summon cannon fodder.
Undead Dolls; glass bombs.

 

[Azalin]

Finished Pillars of Eternity 2 and 2 of its dlc(Beast of Winter and Forgotten Sanctum),didn't bother with the other since I read that it's mostly various challenge battle and I am not really interest in that kind of stuff.I would say it's mostly an improvement over the first game,setting,quests,gameplay are all better imho although the main quest/story is once again just meh.Still I would say a better game than the first one.Recommended

 

[Bigg Boss]

Started playing Soul Reaver. I played it a few years ago once, but I abandoned it after a few levels, locations. I just loved the atmosphere of this game, but something didn't click for me regarding the gameplay. I'm giving it now a second chance.

The gameplay was never that good. When it came out it was known for a few things:

1. No load times.
2. Voice acting
3. Music.
4. The story.

With the actual game being more of a chore to get to the story. Many games have this flaw, but this one has it the most. That is why you can find the entire story of the series on Youtube in a well edited package. I've heard the second Soul Reaver holds up a little better gameplay wise.

 

[eXalted]

Finished Pillars of Eternity 2 and 2 of its dlc

Did you play real-time or turn-based?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Soul Reaver is great, fuck you.

 

[J_C]

Started playing Soul Reaver. I played it a few years ago once, but I abandoned it after a few levels, locations. I just loved the atmosphere of this game, but something didn't click for me regarding the gameplay. I'm giving it now a second chance.

The gameplay was never that good. When it came out it was known for a few things:

1. No load times.
2. Voice acting
3. Music.
4. The story.

With the actual game being more of a chore to get to the story. Many games have this flaw, but this one has it the most. That is why you can find the entire story of the series on Youtube in a well edited package. I've heard the second Soul Reaver holds up a little better gameplay wise.

That's my experience as well. PS1 era controls are terrible, I'm constantly struggling with it. I'm a few levels in the game, but I'm seriously considering just watching the story.