What game are you playing? Thread

Impulsive wrote

Finished VA-11 HALL-A for the first time a little while ago and taking a break from it before I give another route a shot.

I really oughta play that game. On that note, you should totes check out danger/u/ sometime. They even have an Android app! ^^

The usual. FFXIV, PUBG, and PoE.

XIV has Eureka coming out soon so I'm super stoked for that, but I've been leveling an alt for funsies.
PoE has it's new league coming out over spring break and I actually cannot wait. Looks like a lot of fun and some of their balance changes are going to really make this league more enjoyable for a lot of people.

Backlash wrote
Impulsive wrote

Finished VA-11 HALL-A for the first time a little while ago and taking a break from it before I give another route a shot.

I really oughta play that game. On that note, you should totes check out danger/u/ sometime. They even have an Android app! ^^

Would definitely recommend it. I really like cyberpunk settings and 'slice of life' style plot so I really enjoyed it.

I remember danger/u/ pop up on my recommended apps before I played it and was really confused as to what it was about. Going back to it, it looks really chill and nice ^^

seel wrote

The usual. FFXIV, PUBG, and PoE.

Man I love that 802.3af

Impulsive wrote
Backlash wrote
Impulsive wrote

Finished VA-11 HALL-A for the first time a little while ago and taking a break from it before I give another route a shot.

I really oughta play that game. On that note, you should totes check out danger/u/ sometime. They even have an Android app! ^^

Would definitely recommend it. I really like cyberpunk settings and 'slice of life' style plot so I really enjoyed it.

I remember danger/u/ pop up on my recommended apps before I played it and was really confused as to what it was about. Going back to it, it looks really chill and nice ^^

I noticed Steam installing updates for VA-11 HALL-A fairly often last year. Curious to see what all might have changed since I last played.

11 days later

Recently I've had a bad habit of starting a game and getting too busy to continue it. Saints Row IV, Battlestations Pacific, Tales of Beseria; all games I loved, but never had the chance to complete. Maybe I'll be able to fix that once things let up.

7 days later
All in One wrote

Fire Emblem Fates has been keeping me occupied these past few days. I decided to just get the Nohr route out of the way since it's the harder one. Difficult but satisfying.

Well it took me a fucking year but I've finally progressed past a certain bottleneck without losing any troops.

Today I put to rest a period of my life. When I was a kid, my mom was very strict on letting me have games, so I never had a console until I bought my own a few years ago. It was because of this that I didn't really understand the appeal of gaming until I was older. However, I did play some games at friends' houses. But these rarely had such an impact on me.

I was spending the night at my best friend's house and we were playing Lemmings on some system, either SNES or PlayStation. So it would have been that time period, around the late 90s or, most likely, the early 2000s. I didn't have any games at my house, so I thought Lemmings was the shit and wanted to play all night, but my friend was getting bored of it, so his father-in-law let us try one of his games out. His father-in-law was from Turkey and was a pretty artsy guy, in the US as part of a modern dance company and ballet troupe.

Anyway, we tried the game, which turned out to be some kind of JRPG. Of course, I didn't know what an RPG, much less a JRPG, was back then. I think it was a bit out of my friend's range too, so we were both being too young and stupid to understand it. Neither of us had played anything like it. I remember that it had something to do with kids in a school with some kind of paranormal activity. It opened with a bunch of kids in a school, or a hospital, or a school's nursing office, or something (really narrows down JRPGs, eh?). But what I remember most is that it opened with that classic Taoist quote of "I dreamed that I was a butterfly, or did the butterfly dream it was me?" I remember that making an impression on me because it was the first place I'd ever heard that quote. But what could the game have been??? I was stumped for years, but curious.

I finally found out what game it was today: the first Persona game. I had my suspicions that that was it for a while once I heard that it had butterfly imagery, but today I downloaded a ROM and verified it and almost shit my pants. This is the opening image that has been lurking in my subconscious for years:

Unfortunately, I found out that the English version is a complete travesty in that during "localization" they changed half of the character artwork and made a garbage translation. So what will I do? Play it in Japanese, naturally! I've read manga in Japanese before, but this will be a step up (and probably a good primer to reading untranslated VNs). I have no controller for ePSXe and I'm not sure if it's the kind of game that needs one. I couldn't control Silent Hill worth a shit on this without a controller.

Heidegger wrote

Persona 5
Man, this game is my life.
Soundtrack awesome.

That game ate up all of my free time when it first came out

7 days later

Rune Factory 4! It's not quite as full-featured as Stardew Valley, but between its vibrant artstyle and charming characters, it's made me feel like I'm living my fantasy life. ^^

Also, is it me, or does the female player-character lowkey look like Zuikaku from Kantai Collection? Dem twintails are purdy. <3

15 days later

Y'know... For some reason, I really, really want to play Overwatch again. I had a tonna fun zipping around and flanking as Tracer and S:76, back before anyone knew the "proper" way to play. But just before I left, it felt as if the entire community had come to revolve around Competitive. Wonder if that's still true?

Met some cool people in FFXIV and I've been playing more of it lately just to hang out with them.

seel wrote

Met some cool people in FFXIV and I've been playing more of it lately just to hang out with them.

I'm also back on my bullshit with FFXIV. Game is too addictive.

I'm playing Tears to Tiara, a harem game where you play as the Maou (Demon King) that mixes 2.5D RTS RPG and VN. It has an anime adaptation, I saw it and it's one of my favorite animes, but the game is even better, longer and actually shows the H scenes, making the character's intimacy more evident.

gtswaifuism wrote

I'm playing Tears to Tiara, a harem game where you play as the Maou (Demon King) that mixes 2.5D RTS RPG and VN. It has an anime adaptation, I saw it and it's one of my favorite animes, but the game is even better, longer and actually shows the H scenes, making the character's intimacy more evident.

Looks amazing! I'm definitely gonna swashbuckle it sometime soon. :3

Not gonna lie, it kinda reminds me of when I played Princess Waltz, another VN with significant combat and RPG elements. The art was gorgeous, the music was surprisingly good, and the characters actually felt like genuine people; but in eight years I've never quite made it past the first couple hours. Might hafta fix that sometime this summer.