Games you are currently playing - Part 7

[Unholy Diver]

Guardians of the Galaxy - Do not buy. Horribly executed.

That's disappointing, I had seen some decent reviews

 

[Dolemite]

That's disappointing, I had seen some decent reviews

The story is great. The mechanics are buggy AF.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Started Back4Blood on Game Pass, just a few chapters in but kinda "meh" so far

 

[Frankie Spankie]

Finally started Divinity: Original Sin 2. I forgot how hard these games are to start. I feel so underpowered and can't take on most of my encounters.

 

[Mikeaveli]

Currently playing:
Sonic Mania - I'm about halfway through and it's excellent so far. One of the best games in the franchise.
The Outer Worlds - Doing a second playthrough because I want to beat the DLCs. Supernova difficulty is pretty rough when you're trying to actually keep your companions alive.
Forza Horizon 4 - I reinstalled this because I'm hyped for the new game that comes out next week. It just looks and plays great.

Finally started Divinity: Original Sin 2. I forgot how hard these games are to start. I feel so underpowered and can't take on most of my encounters.

Playing through Divinity: OS2 with friends is one of the most fun experiences I've ever had with a video game. One day I will go back and play through it solo in order to actually understand the story lol

 

[Andrei79]

I'm now at a bit more than the halfway mark of Sekiro from what I've read (going to sunken valley) and I can say that this game is without a doubt a masterpiece. I don't know how FromSoft does it so consistently.

 

[Frankie Spankie]

Currently playing:
Sonic Mania - I'm about halfway through and it's excellent so far. One of the best games in the franchise.
The Outer Worlds - Doing a second playthrough because I want to beat the DLCs. Supernova difficulty is pretty rough when you're trying to actually keep your companions alive.
Forza Horizon 4 - I reinstalled this because I'm hyped for the new game that comes out next week. It just looks and plays great.


Playing through Divinity: OS2 with friends is one of the most fun experiences I've ever had with a video game. One day I will go back and play through it solo in order to actually understand the story lol

I tried playing the first with a friend of mine but he didn't want to listen to any of the story and then he had no idea where to go and got frustrated lol.

It took a long time for me to give it another try and loved it. I had 2 weeks of vacation back to back, just halfway through it now, so I was waiting for that to start 2 so I could really focus on it. I just finished Act 1, the first 5-6 hours are so tough you feel really underpowered. After that, I started cruising through a lot of the fights. The last fight of Act 1 was pretty tough but not overwhelmingly so like some of the other earlier fights. That's the thing about these games, they're amazing once you get into it but it can be really tough to get into it. I feel like the Wasteland series is more "noob friendly" because you never feel as underpowered near the start. That's not a shot at Wasteland either. I personally prefer the really in depth combat of Divinity but enjoy the story of Wasteland a lot more. I feel like Wasteland's story isn't nearly as confusing as Divinity's.

 

[Unholy Diver]

After playing thru Mario Golf I still have a golf itch so I restarted a Everybody's Golf playthrough

 

[Frankie Spankie]

After playing thru Mario Golf I still have a golf itch so I restarted a Everybody's Golf playthrough

Have you played Golf Story? That game was great.

 

[tacogeoff]

Started Back4Blood on Game Pass, just a few chapters in but kinda "meh" so far

tried it as well. Very glad it was on Game pass. after exclusively playing Warzone and Battlefield V for the last year and a bit this game is almost unplayable for me. The movement, gunplay and mechanics are just so terrible lol.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Have you played Golf Story? That game was great.

I did, quite an enjoyable twist on golf

 

[Commander Clueless]

1) Age of Empires IV (PC/Xbox Game Pass)
-Very much enjoying it. My current Game of the Year, although granted I've only played a few games that came out this year so it's a pretty low bar.
-Essentially a modernized Age of Empires. A little faster and more streamlined. Sound design is great. Could use a few QoL improvements.
-The campaign is awesome so far. Sort of a game within a historical documentary

2) Back 4 Blood (PC/Xbox Game Pass)
-Exactly as would seem to have been advertised - a modern Left 4 Dead with all the pros and cons of that series
-Fun to blow crap up with friends, but otherwise very mediocre so far.
-I don't think it's worth the asking price of $60USD/$80CAD. Game Pass makes it worth a go.

3) Ghost of Tsushima - Survival Mode (PS5)
-Very fun co-op multiplayer mode. Combat is great.
-Still need to play the single player one day...

 

[PK Cronin]

Picked up Hell Let Loose, it's got a steep learning curve but it's been enjoyable so far. I don't think it's something I'll become addicted to playing, but it's a nice change of pace. The games are so incredibly long it's hard to grind it.

 

[Osprey]

I'm still playing Far Cry 4. It's impressive how little respect Ubisoft has for the player. The non-skippable cutscenes are big pain in the butt. Fortunately, they still run while I'm alt-tabbed out and checking the internet, so I don't have to sit through them. The fact that vehicle radios can't be permanently turned off is also irritating, as are the tedious radio towers that must be climbed. The blurry, dream-like missions are annoying, as well. Finally, it feels like progress is really slow because I've been doing almost nothing but campaign missions for the last few days and have gone from only 40% completion to 49%. I'm done with almost all of the grinding to upgrade my equipment and get the best weapons, yet it still kind of feels like I'm grinding away at completing the game. I've put 20 hours in and I hope that it doesn't take another 20 to finish it.

Edit: I just finished the campaign and am at 55% completion, so I guess that that figure counts all of the game's quests, not just the campaign quests.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

FC4 I think is a better game than 5. I legit couldn't finish 5 because it bored me so much.

 

[Osprey]

FC4 I think is a better game than 5. I legit couldn't finish 5 because it bored me so much.

That's what's frustrating. The game is fun when it's open world and lets me do what I want to do. It's when it forces me into a linear experience that it stops being fun. For example, another irritating thing that I forgot to mention is the missions that must be played a particular way or else you fail them, such as "kill the target with this particular weapon, take a picture and escape without being detected." If I want to go in like Rambo, cause a huge scene, kill everyone with any weapon that I feel like and then take a photo of the target, I should be able to.

 

[PepperKeenan]

That's disappointing, I had seen some decent reviews

GotG is absolutely not horrible. Played a few hours yesterday and it was a lot of fun!

 

[Frankie Spankie]

That's what's frustrating. The game is fun when it's open world and lets me do what I want to do. It's when it forces me into a linear experience that it stops being fun. For example, another irritating thing that I forgot to mention is the missions that must be played a particular way or else you fail them, such as "kill the target with this particular weapon, take a picture and escape without being detected." If I want to go in like Rambo, kill everyone and then take a photo of the target, I should be able to.

I feel like too many AAA games in general do that kind of shit these days. Rockstar Games is a huge culprit for it too. They can't decide whether to make it open world or linear. Either one is fine but when you start mixing the two it feels like such a drag. The last Far Cry I beat was 3 and the only fun part of it was taking out outposts because you could approach it from your own angle and do things how you want to do them. I loved setting up traps, opening up the tiger pen, causing an explosion on one side to alert all the guards to it and then taking some out silently from the other side. Then you play a mission and it's like, "Go kill these guards in a Hawaiian shirt in this cave. Now drive to this cave where you can shoot more guards in Hawaiian shirts but the cave has a little bit of sunlight in it now so it doesn't feel exactly the same."

 

[Soedy]

Halo: MCC
Anno 1800
Age of Empires IV
NHL Legacy Edition (RPCS3)

Just finished AC Odyssey the other day and I am ready for Forza Horizon 5, Jurassic World Evolution 2, Battlefield 2042 (will try it out first) and Halo: Infinite.

 

[Osprey]

I feel like too many AAA games in general do that kind of shit these days. Rockstar Games is a huge culprit for it too. They can't decide whether to make it open world or linear. Either one is fine but when you start mixing the two it feels like such a drag. The last Far Cry I beat was 3 and the only fun part of it was taking out outposts because you could approach it from your own angle and do things how you want to do them. I loved setting up traps, opening up the tiger pen, causing an explosion on one side to alert all the guards to it and then taking some out silently from the other side. Then you play a mission and it's like, "Go kill these guards in a Hawaiian shirt in this cave. Now drive to this cave where you can shoot more guards in Hawaiian shirts but the cave has a little bit of sunlight in it now so it doesn't feel exactly the same."

Yes, exactly. There's even a mission in FC4 where there's a meeting going down between an ally and some enemies and you have to watch from a long way off through your sniper scope until, as expected, the deal goes bad and you have to assist him. It's a carbon copy of at least one GTA4 mission. Then, there are several other missions in which you have to follow an enemy in a vehicle but can't get too close or too far away or else you fail the mission, which are just like some GTA4 missions, as well. The devs clearly just copied from Rockstar, such that it sometimes feels like I'm playing a GTA game instead of a FC game.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Starting to clear out my backlog now that I'm done with Tales of Arise.

Starting with Darkest Dungeon. I've put this off way too long it feels like and it's been pretty enjoyable so far.

Playing Battlefield 4 on the side still along with Dead by Daylight.

 

[pistolpete11]

Started Sekiro. I got through the first couple of mini bosses without too much trouble. The parrying system isn't quite clicking with me yet, though, so it kind of feels like dumb luck and the inevitable ass kicking is right around every corner.

Is the Chained Ogre their joke similar to the wooden shield in Bloodborne? Like, "This is what you are used to in our previous games, right? Hehehe."

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Myst (1993) - Since my 2nd playthrough a Quern: Undying Thoughts my fiancée and I have been really looking for another puzzle game to get into. We hadn't found one that really pulled us in, so I figured we might as well go to one of the early predecessors of all puzzle video games. I had played around in Myst on my mom's computer when I was young, but never actually played it. We're early in, but we're really loving it so far.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I realize the games been going this way since MW2 but man I just picked up Call of Duty Cold War, first Cod I've played since Ghosts.

This game is literally just a mobile game you pay for. I'm trying to actually play a game and it just keeps flashing cards and packs in my face. Just crazy.

 

[RangerDoggo]

Oh man. Lots.

Doing a hard mode playthrough of Metroid Samus Returns and Metroid Dread. I’m on a real Metroid kick.

Picked up Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity again. I’m a big fan of stupid hack and slash action.

Started Star Fox 64 3DS and DKC Tropical Freeze.

And there’s more to come. I’m probably gonna get the GTA Trilogy because I never played the originals before.