What are you playing this weekend/these days?

[levi]

But not the squishy metroid amibo?

Full disclosure: I don't personally feel the need for more plastic tat to fill my house, but I've heard of more people wanting the metroid than the samus one.

 

[rygD]

The Metroid is kinda ok. Samus, in her suits*, is what I really like about the games. If you need an amiibo, get the new Samus one and send me the plastic after you pull out the piece you need. I get a cool little sculpture and you won't have to have it taking up space, but you still get to use it as if you had the full thing.


*I mean her as a character doing what she does, in the cool looking suits. I am not a fan of the so-called Zero Suit Samus look.

 

[kuru]

I never got into the 2D Metroids. Tried a few of them but didn't like how the movement and shooting felt and found the environments a bit dull.
Prime on the other hand quickly sucked me in. Every room was memorable and navigable without a map. Love the audio/atmosphere. It's the first FPS I played on Wii and I was instantly enamored with the aiming reticule not being bound to the center of the view. I kind of loathe the expression but will use it anyway: moving and shooting felt more dynamic than regular first person games. Fitting for a lass in a mobile, high tech mech suit.

 

[ible]

yeah, definitely liked the first metroid prime, i think i maybe got the second one. i like how it was very eerie, just like the rest of the series; very biologically eerie, especially the intro sequence (even before playing the game) and premise, etc.

got to the final boss in metroid 2 just now but died trying to kill it dead.

these 2d games have the thrill of the fight, but what if there was more of a hunt -- like metroids are loose, you have to worry about them "crossing screens" when they come at you, trying to finish you off if you run away. like, you also spot them eating the other critters in the environment (that would be creepy, too). also, maybe if they find them they eat your power ups and you can't get them until you kill them, etc. you could have more of a horror aspect, being chased by them (and chasing them down)?

most later games "fix" this by making it impossible to leave a screen/location when you encounter a boss, but what if they just chased you down instead?

 

[rygD]

I think I need to invest some time in all the Metroid games again soon. Might be a fun way to get ready for the new ones.

 

[WizardStan]

got to the final boss in metroid 2 just now but died trying to kill it dead.

Triggering my memory on that, terrible flashbacks. I think it was Metroid Prime 2, anyway, where it takes, like, 20 minutes just to get to the final boss from the last save. I swear I had that section memorized to the tiniest detail by the time I finally beat the boss. This isn't 1994 anymore, there's no reason to send you that far back if you fail to beat a boss.

 

[kuru]

Just finished Puzzle Agent 1 and 2. Should really have been a single game, but that's telltale for you.

Edit: Finished Sam & Max episodes 1 through 4, now 5 won't start at all. Tried known fixes to no avail. Damnit, was having so much fun.

 

[ElPoco]

Finished Brütal Legends recently. There's plenty of cool stuff, but they all fall a bit short (the nice open world suddenly turns to a series of uninteresting corridors, the combat system is fun at the beginning but lacks enough substance to stand on its own, the story is nice but it feels like they had to cut part of it), and put together (mostly into a tedious RTS minigame) they fail to build something better than the sum of their part.
It's not too bad, but it could probably have been so much better.

 

[elwing]

Starting agarest generation of war... Damn, my steam list is so huge... 1000 more left...

 

[TeDaDeS]

I have to much games on my backlog so I try not to fill steam to much, but it I haven't finished all the games on there either.
Just finished Day Of The Tentacle (remastered). It is one of the games I played as a kid but couldn't complete (I could not read English very well).
Now going to start Full Throttle (remastered), Brütal Legends is still on my backlog. I also played Full Throttle as a kid and actually completed that one after a long while.
Good thing these games all run on linux.

 

[kuru]

Finished Sam and Max season 1 via Wine, Episodes 5+ wouldn't start without the latest and greatest in Bosco te- err, I mean Microsoft software updates. Had to lug my PC to a friend with good internet and have the update assistant download a ton of stuff. Went home and let the installer run over night. Woke up to a white screen. Hours later, there was still a white screen. So restart and find that it does a rollback. Good. Start update ass again and guess what - it wanted to download everything all over again. How economic and mindful of my tortured nerves.

Replaying the first Jedi Knight now. Which would not run via Wine. So I'm back on Windows again. The good thing is just this August they fixed the music in Windows 10, which I'd absolutely hate to miss in this game. I like the level design, the many corners, secrets, moving obstacles, ah! Classic shooter bliss. It just wouldn't run hardware accelerated und thus only at a lower resolution. Don't care much about that though. Good old game.

And at my friend's house we're playing dreadnought on the PS4 and DMC on PC. Playing quite a lot lately, I'm having fun.

 

[elwing]

I started the battle of olympus now that I have m piboy zero. I reached laconia already....

 

[jeeks]

got level 22 - gary's misadventures for ps vita on thursday, finished it on friday, and today i'll get the rest of the secrects/toys i missed. it's a pretty short game, but really awesome
i'm not sure what to play next, but it'll be either oceanhorn or walking dead (bought that ages ago and never got around to play it).

 

[tigerroast]

Taking a break from For Honor, borrowed Persona 5 from a friend.

 

[jeeks]

so i thought hey, before i start to play walking dead, i should buy another telltales game because heck, i don't even know if i like their style and whatnot but why not, so i got the wolf among us, too.
turns out i love both games. the quick time event scenes have a horrible lag on the vita (it's like an accidental hard mode because once you see the button you have to press, the interaction time frame is pretty much over already), but everything else, especially the voice acting, makes up for that fail. i hope the people who made/make the ports get the chance to take another look at their work and improve the performance a bit.

 

[PowerGod]

Finally I started playing "Summoner" that was in my account for too long...

The first impression was like "Damn, this is R-E-A-L-L-Y OLD !!! And it's visibly a console game !!!", and I was a little lost because the automap didn't show directions for quests... but then I found out that I was able to manually write comments and points of interests on it, and just this changed everything... then I found many other cool things and in the end it's not the linear RPG on rails I thought it was, even if it can't be compared to games like Baldur's Gate

 

[Klumpen]

34h into Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition on Linux with this script.
No crash so far and great performance.

www.gog.com/mix/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers

 

[Null]

https://managore.itch.io/walkie-talkie

 

[jeeks]

got into the swindle (vita)(if you're into 2D platformers that are super meatboy-style difficult, check it out on steam or wherever asap), played the thing through nine times, got my switch, and now i'm a permanent resident of hyrule.

 

[TDT]

got into the swindle (vita)(if you're into 2D platformers that are super meatboy-style difficult, check it out on steam or wherever asap), played the thing through nine times, got my switch, and now i'm a permanent resident of hyrule.

This looks like a good game. What's really ironic about your comment is I came to the boards just to see if I can find something that was like Super Meat Boy, and a really good platformer - and this looks great.

Regarding what I'm playing some. I just got the GPD Win, so more or less playing a wide range of things to see how it works. Some that are starting to stick:
1) GPD: Stardew Valley, Super Meat Boy (I still have about 3/4th of this game to go yet)
2) PC: Dishonored 2 (fun game, buggy as heck), Diablo 3
3) PS4: Final Fantasy 15, Project Diva
4) Nintendo Switch: Pokemon Tournament