What game are you wasting time on?

[NecroLord]

I will start System Shock (the original) and System Shock 2.
Gonna have a lot of fun, though I might have to get myself reacquainted with the first System Shock's interface and controls (it's been a long time).
All hail Looking Glass Studios!

 

[Ezekiel]

What are some third-person games where you can use items or weapons while climbing? The pistol in Splinter Cell comes to mind. Otherwise, I'm drawing a blank.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

turns out, that if you don't pay for a premium nexus account, you have to manually download around 160 mods if you wanna play new vegas using viva new vegas

 

[Darth Roxor]

What are some third-person games where you can use items or weapons while climbing? The pistol in Splinter Cell comes to mind. Otherwise, I'm drawing a blank.

Sands of Time and Heavy Metal Fakk 2 for sure, I think also Bloodrayne 2 so maybe Bloodrayne 1 as well, though in 2 it came with some really clunky acrobajix that downright refused to work, so it may have been a new addition.

P. sure there's more, but it's not something particularly common. Probably because making working and *safe* ladders is already a challenge in itself.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

What are some third-person games where you can use items or weapons while climbing? The pistol in Splinter Cell comes to mind. Otherwise, I'm drawing a blank.

Drak souls

 

[Ezekiel]

New backloggery.com is terrible. I should have just learned excel years ago. Bleh.

 

[ind33d]

What are some third-person games where you can use items or weapons while climbing? The pistol in Splinter Cell comes to mind. Otherwise, I'm drawing a blank.

rainbow six series? death stranding, technically? halo 1?

 

[Ezekiel]

What are some third-person games where you can use items or weapons while climbing? The pistol in Splinter Cell comes to mind. Otherwise, I'm drawing a blank.

rainbow six series? death stranding, technically? halo 1?

Third person?

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I recently got one of these emulation handhelds. It's the Anbernic RG 35XX Plus. It was £35 on AliExpress.

I'm very impressed with it. Especially the quality of the screen. The main reason I wanted it was to play the older Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy games, but unfortunately no Dragon Warrior games came pre-loaded. I can add ROMs myself of course, and I will, but the process is a little more involved than I imagined it would be. I had assumed that this function would be workable through the usb connection, but I actually need a Micro SD reader to edit the contents of the card (It's in the mail)

Anyway, in the meantime I started playing Super Castlevania IV, Pokemon Tetris and Pokemon Emerald on it, and I'm having a blast. I honestly think this is my most satisfying video game related purchase in years. I'm considering spending quite a bit more on a much better portable emulator at some point down the line, since I've got so much value out of this. I picked this model because several youtube videos recommended it as a good starting device for portable emulation, and I think this was excellent advice.

If any of you are considering getting one of these, or something similar, be aware that they go on Amazon and Ebay for around double what I paid. I would recommend going with AliExpress if possible.

Edit: Now that I read this back I realised that, if you're in the US, you may get the best price by buying directly from the Anbernic website.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS STILL FINISH ING CONTROL AND STILL HAVING FUN

NEW FAGS OF THE FALLEN IS ON FAGPASS SO THAT IS WHAT IM UP TO NEXT IM A PRAG FOR MOST ANY SOULS WANNABE

BROS SERIOUS BUSINESS THOUGH MY WORK GOT RID OF OUR PERSONAL DRIVE SPACE THIS MANY INCONVENIENT

SO I GOTTA DOWNLOAD SHIT TO MY PHONE THEN UPLOAD IT TO GOOGLE DRIVE THEN DOWNLOAD THE GAMES ON MY MAIN WORK COMPUTER

I HAD DOSBOX SET UP I PLAYED ALIEN LEGACY AND FLOOR 13 ALOT AND I ALSO HAD AMIGA EXE FILES FOR KARATE CHAMP AND DAMAGE SADISTIC BUTCHERING OF HUMANITY

MAYBE ILL PLAY HELHERRON AGAIN THE BEST GENOCIDE SIMULATOR EVER

 

[Zariusz]

Currently im playing Tale of Immortal, already have 20 hours in it. I think its mainly because of my somewhat recent fascination with cultivation anime that i got sucked in so much. Its more of a system based open world sandbox where besides of the whole cultivation based main gameplay loop you have also text based adventure part (kinda like sunless sea though not as rich).
Combat is decent, its a 2D action rpg, atleast i can say that getting new magic abilities and seing them in action is very satisfying, both visually and numbers wise. Exploration aspect was quite fun for me, while there is a general structure to it random event nicely change stuff from time to time, you never know if you get to start new questline, find new scroll that allows you to dominate rivals or end up dying because you got massacred by a father of some asshole that you killed years ago for stealing your hardly earned magic scroll.

Tbh im not sure if people who arent at least somewhat familiar with the cultivation tropes could easily enjoy the game, main gameplay loop is grind based but that is kinda expected from the whole premise, but if you know what you are doing it can be somwehat mitigated. There are occasions for shortcuts, mainly from random events, though the biggest factor is how you are playing, like a generic gifted protagonist or some random background element.

EDIT:
Also english translation is decent, there is no esoteric madman ramblings like for example in Matchless KungFu.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Finished ASSES: Afterglow.

Pretty great shit. The shooting, level design, exploration and atmosphere are all top notch. There's even some minor non-linearity there too. One of these games that you're sad to have finished.

It's ridiculous that this is just a mod.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Played Orcs must die 3 and Second Extinction for a couple of hours visiting my brother. Both pretty fun if you're looking for coop games that work well with just 2 players.

 

[Fargus]

Played some HoMM3 maps as Castle and Dungeon, now i'm trying out Might&Magic 6\7\8 merge mod.

 

[Ryzer]

Played some HoMM3 maps as Castle and Dungeon, now i'm trying out Might&Magic 6\7\8 merge mod.

The merge mod seriously destroys the balance of these games.

 

[Fargus]

Played some HoMM3 maps as Castle and Dungeon, now i'm trying out Might&Magic 6\7\8 merge mod.

The merge mod seriously destroys the balance of these games.

How badly? If it turns your party OP i don't mind cuz i suck at these games anyway.

 

[AlwaysBrotoMen]

Finished Metroid Prime 1 - One of the greatest games of all time. Fantastic boss fights oozing with atmosphere and the levels were robust with lots of secrets.
Horizon forbidden west - Bored to death.
Grand theft auto 5 - Finished it this time it was fun in the beginning .The quality of the missions are not that good compared to gta4. All the characters in the game were irritating and bored me to death. A mediocre fun open world game with some fun activities. Side missions were boring.
Bioshock 2 - A mediocre game with a better story than Bioshock Infinite. Fun gameplay but was extremely clunky. Way better than present fps except doom 2016

 

[Ash]

You need your definition of fun checked out. It's defect. I suppose you think Skyrim is "fun" too?

 

[Hag]

Carrying on slowly with Kingdom Come Deliverance. Really one of the most beautiful game I've ever played, where every little detail is well designed, and it is a marvel to behold and a pleasure to roam.

Gameplay wise however, what a pile of jank. Fighting is not fun and complicated for its own sake (and, talking as someone with HEMA training, completely unrealistic), AI is downright stupid, the story is a big bag of tropes, fake C&C gets you railroaded into arbitrary choices hammered by long and uninspired cutscenes, and most of the time I feel I'm wrestling with the game. It tries too hard.

The good thing is that it makes for situations that are Monty Python level of absurd, and we're having a good laugh. "We" since my girlfriend is actually playing most of the game, allowing me to follow the story and see the pretty views while doing more interesting tasks.

 

[Silverfish]

I suppose you think Skyrim is "fun" too?

No, I hated having 20 ways to tackle combat encounters.

 

[Ash]

Bottom of the barrel argumentation and comprehension as is standard on the codex these days. "Freedom so it must be good!". Makes sense as to why garbage Ubisoft-style open world games is the modern gold standard, if that is as deep as one's brain can go.

 

[Silverfish]

Bottom of the barrel argumentation as is standard on the codex these days. "Freedom so it must be good!".

As a guy who got into rpgs in a roundabout fashion, yeah, I appreciate having a ton of options. It's reminiscent of the action games I was into prior.

 

[Ash]

Which action games? I don't follow. Skyrim and Oblivion offers a pretty unique brand of shittiness, and there are many Action RPGs that do it better. As for prior action games, am also a big fan...unless you're talking about the likes of Assassin's Creed, Batman: Arkham City, Just Cause...then you are beyond redemption my friend. Indeed they're similarly a big open copy-paste expanse of braindead, repetitive, shallow content.

Also why Silverfish? One of the worst fucking insects there is. I kill those bastards on sight.

 

[Silverfish]

Which action games?

DMC, Shinobi, 3D Castlevanias, Rygar reboot, Killer is Dead, that kind of thing.

Also why Silverfish?

I've always chosen unappealing usernames on boards or social media. The first message board I was a regular on was dedicated to Mortal Kombat and generally users tried to come up with '''''''''cool'''''''' names derived from the series. You can see only so many "BlazingScorpion420", "xXIcyWindXx", or "RoughRidaShangTsung4Lyfe" profiles before wanting to get as far away from that as possible.

 

[Ash]

DMC is the polar opposite with a quality over quantity approach, all its content has very explicit purpose & cohesion, it is somewhat linear, minimal rehashing - a few levels toward the end only in 1 & 3, and this was already pushing it. DMC 2 and 4 rehash a fuckton in a very lame way however, but I digress. Freedom? Which upgrade to buy first, which combat methods to use, how thorough to be with the sprinkles of side content. Otherwise Skyrim couldn't be further removed from DMC and it is a shame this (Skyrim) is how you landed on ARPGs.

Here, the ARPG goats are:

Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Arx Fatalis
Morrowind (flawed as fuck, but 10x better than shitrim).
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (why you playing the declined 3D ones bro?)
Fallout: New Vegas (yes, this is completely different in quality than Skyrim, Oblivion & to a lesser extent FO3 almost across the board)
Dark Souls 1 & 2

Runner ups:

Stalker 1 & 3
VTM:B
NDS 2D Castlevanias
Ultima Underworld
Parasite Eve 1 & 2
Severance: Blade of Darkness
Brahma Force
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams
Vagrant Story
Prey 2017 (with mods)
Many modern Action Roguelites

I am probably missing something.