What are you playing this weekend/these days?

[PowerGod]

How long is the game? Or how long can you play the trashy part without getting tired?

It's pretty short for an open world game, to 100% main game+DLC required 15 hours, and I took my time. Maybe the longest parts are the optional quests, but you get boosts from them.
The maps are full of references of movies if you enjoy looking at the details. I didn't like only some mission in DLC where you were forced to throw stuff with the tail, but later you'll get some power up to deal with that.

 

[Todespreis]

That's... short. On the other side, i can't imagine to eat fish in a game for 100 hours.

 

[matzesu]

Also the Android Version only got the main game, and not the DLC, its short, but funny ..

 

[gunrock]

The biggest time waster in my life is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
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Tried it for the first Time on Pandora (thx @ptitSeb !) And now i can't even tell, how many tousand hours i trew in that thing! XD Don't play it, it's addictive like nothing else

I was intrigued and looked into the Pandora release, wow! Waaaaay back in 2012/2013 for the original Cataclysm, 2016 for this version. It's a roguelike which puts it into "ocassional distraction" territory for me.

 

[Todespreis]

I can't play it every now and then. If i put it on hold for a week, i just can't remember, what was going on. What was i doing? What was i searching for? Where were the npcs? It's easier to start a new game in such cases

Especially on Pandora the game teached me, what emergent narrative means. I played a really beaten down survivor with no gear, no skills. At one point i noticed a large group of zombies on the streets and took cover in a building nearby. Suddenly a zombie hulk breaks THROUGH THE WALL into my room!!! My character gets blasted away and hits the wall on the other side of the room. I'm getting up - somehow i survived. My limbs are broken, pain on the highest level, crtical bleeding everywhere. I take out my 9mm in last desperate action and fire at hulk. Well, that was the last deed of my survivor. That zombie hulk smashed me again and the zombie dogs ate my corpse after.

I know, it sounds not really exciting here on paper, but back then i lost my shit, as i saw it!

 

[netcat]

It pains me to admit I have given up on Orbitals. It's got gorgeous graphics that take me back. But the controls are klunk and the puzzles are lame. I got it to play with my daughter, it's a two player only game, and the nail in the coffin was inability to get to an auto-save point before dinner. I couldn't stand the thought of repeating the drudgery. I'm ok playing through kinda boring games by myself but not two player.

 

[gunrock]

I recently(ish) played some Split Fiction with my 15 year old son. It was good fun but chaotic in places and I felt all of my 56 years! Plus he kept whipping me with his electro-whip thing his character has....

 

[renun3]

Been on a retro handheld kick lately myself, working back through some early-2000s handheld RPGs in the evenings. Funny how the well-designed ones still hold up while so much else from that era hasn't aged well at all. Split Fiction with your son sounds like the perfect way to play it too — the chaos is half the fun with those co-op games.

 

[Todespreis]

Been on a retro handheld kick lately myself, working back through some early-2000s handheld RPGs in the evenings. Funny how the well-designed ones still hold up while so much else from that era hasn't aged well at all. Split Fiction with your son sounds like the perfect way to play it too — the chaos is half the fun with those co-op games.

Handheld RPGs? What are you playing?

 

[renun3]

Handheld RPGs? What are you playing?

Mostly GP32 titles for testing our emulator lately. Honestly, commercial RPGs on the GP32 were extremely rare—pretty much just Astonishia Story R. So it's mostly been Astonishia Story R on repeat to check stability and scaling on modern screens.

 

[matzesu]

I did last Thursday and yesterday play a lot The Legend of Zelda Okarina of Time Remake, on Switch2, im quite pleased whit this Version actually, its looks cool, but still keeps the spirit of the N64 Game, but whit some modern Features like an Phone/Tablet App Connection, too bad I don't have a proper way to hold the Switch2 and my iPad mini, but to watch the Map of Secrets, or other things its quite useful .. and you don't need this feature the whole time, if you need it anyway, which you don't do ..
Im on the Story up to the Part where you did Visit the Gorons, did visit Salia for the Song of the Woods, and I did got now my first 4 Hearths Parts so I have now 5 Hearth Containers ^^

 

[netcat]

I tried Nintendo Switch Online again with my friend in Japan and his kids. Was embarrassing because we couldn't get a lot of games working. Mario Wonder, Smash Bros, Street Fighter 8 all didn't work for various reasons. Mario Kart World and Switch Sports Resort did though. I would have expected the experience to be more streamlined, not having to manually enter room codes for friends you are currently chatting with. Game Chat and online games are separate things, I learned. We'll try again next weekend.

 

[netcat]

Just finished Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on Switch 2. Mostly. There are still more "outer" missions but they are all battles which I can't be bothered with. I love the sneaking but the grueling battles not so much. It's a handheld game so like an MGS lite. Still campy, tactical stealth with very satisfying mechanics. The bosses are all AI's who speak like little girls. Terrifying.

 

[Todespreis]

Just finished Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on Switch 2. Mostly. There are still more "outer" missions but they are all battles which I can't be bothered with. I love the sneaking but the grueling battles not so much. It's a handheld game so like an MGS lite. Still campy, tactical stealth with very satisfying mechanics. The bosses are all AI's who speak like little girls. Terrifying.

Oh, i love that game! There are so many different weapons and gadgets through the game, it felt very different from all the other games on psp back then. Did you fight the Metal Gear Zeke at end?

 

[netcat]

No.... I thought the end was Peace Walker. Then the last main missions were Zadornov escaping repeatedly. And the side ops are just repeats of existing bosses. Am I a pussy for not 100%ing it?

 

[Todespreis]

No, you are not. After you defeat all the different types of Metal Gear you get that sequence, where you can enter the pod wit the brain of the machine and extract the single circuits to build your own Metal Gear. And, if i remember correctly, you have to do enough side quests, where you send out you soldiers to do that auto battles, where you get just the results. At some point you will be notified, that the Metal Gear Zeke becomes hostile and you have to defeat it.The gamefaq that i read back then, said, that mission was worth the effort, but... I did'nt do all the side quests either

 

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