What games are you playing currently?

[JirinPanthosa]

Bought the Megaman X legacy collection, started with X2 because X1 is only one I finished as a kid.

I love the Megaman series but this is reminding me what I think is a fundamental flaw of the formula. The way the first level of the game is always the hardest. You start out weak and kind of have to guess which level is the easiest. Then the X series doubled down on this mechanic, starting you with half health and putting the health increases in places you couldn't get to without stuff you get from other stages. Which to me comes off as an obnoxious way to artificially lengthen the game.

Enjoying the games, but they REALLY should have tried to find a way to make it so difficulty goes from easy to hard, not hard to easy. Thinking of cheating and looking up location of enhancements just to not have to deal with this backtracking crap.

 

[JD]

My wrist is finally feeling good enough that I was able to work on a bit more Witcher III this morning.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The one thing that's annoying me most now about MMX2 is having to take all this time to refill the sub tanks every time I fail on a boss.

 

[BigFoot]

I got Mass Effect: Andromeda for $7.50 during the latest Playstation Store sale. So I've been playing that for the last few days. I'm about five or six hours into the game and I'm actually enjoying it so far.

 

[SPCTRE]

I got Mass Effect: Andromeda for $7.50 during the latest Playstation Store sale. So I've been playing that for the last few days. I'm about five or six hours into the game and I'm actually enjoying it so far.

at that price point you are actually getting your bang for the buck

at full price, that game was embarassing

 

[Sarxus]

I got Mass Effect: Andromeda for $7.50 during the latest Playstation Store sale. So I've been playing that for the last few days. I'm about five or six hours into the game and I'm actually enjoying it so far.

Have fun! ME: Andromeda is actually awesome in my opinion and I say that as someone who has played and loved the original trilogy a lot. Until now I don't understand why it had to face so much criticism. I personally find the story of exploring space in order to find new places to live very interesting and at some points, the game reminds my of Star Trek somehow. I also like the new characters and love spending time going through the ship with my character and talking to them. What's more, I think the combat system is much better than it ever was in ME.

For me, the best game of the franchise is ME 2, but in my opinion Andromeda beats at least the third part of the originals. The only thing that annoys me a bit of Andromeda is that it is literally so full of quests that you loose overview at some point. I can barely focus on completing one quest without opening two or three new ones But well, this also means that the game is keeping you busy for a long time.

 

[SPCTRE]

Until now I don't understand why it had to face so much criticism.

Did you think they made good use of the premise of leaving the Milky Way and basically sidestepping the conclusion of the Shepard/Reaper arc?

 

[Sarxus]

Did you think they made good use of the premise of leaving the Milky Way and basically sidestepping the conclusion of the Shepard/Reaper arc?

I didn't find anything to complain about this, let me put it that way. But to be fair it must be said that it's been a while since I had played the first three games. The question is: What is the conclusion of the Shepard/Reaper arc? I think there exist about three or four possible endings of ME 3, right? I've only seen one of them to be honest, so that's why I also might have a limited view on that issue.

 

[JD]

I think I just figured out why I got stuck on the Bloody Baron quest last time I played Witcher III. This time I played through the Crookback Bog quest dealing with the Crones first, so Geralt recognized the mark the guy who helped the Baron's wife drew as being theirs. Last time that didn't happen, so I couldn't figure out what to do after I talked to him.

 

[Jax]

20 Hours+ into Skyrim but I've loss Lydia after getting drunk and ended up on the other side of the map. I got a message later saying my follower had gotten tired of waiting but according to people that means she should return to my house or where I found her at Dragonswatch but she is at neither

 

[Sarxus]

20 Hours+ into Skyrim but I've loss Lydia after getting drunk and ended up on the other side of the map. I got a message later saying my follower had gotten tired of waiting but according to people that means she should return to my house or where I found her at Dragonswatch but she is at neither

That's strange, she should be in one of those places. With getting drunk, do you mean the quest where a... hmm... "stranger" invites you to drink? If so, maybe you look to the place where the quest started, perhaps she is still there.

 

[Jax]

I was in Riften, a guy challenged me to a drinking contest and we both got drunk and trashed a temple it seems that I woke up in. Never seen Lydia since but oh well I have a new mage companion who is powerful as hell so I'm happy.

 

[Happenstance]

The Shenmue 1&2 HD Collection should be arriving for me today so I'm looking forward to playing those again. I still own them both on Dreamcast but I haven't properly put time into playing Shenmue 1 since release and I never did complete 2.

 

[JD]

After finishing up the stuff with The Bloody Baron, I'm now finally at the farthest point I've ever made it to in The Witcher 3. I'm going to finish up some more of the side mission and contracts, and check out some more of the undiscovered locations in Velen before I move on to Novigrad.

 

[Random_Spock]

Finally beat the main part of King Oddball (Vita Version). Now I'm working on the extras. Still working on the PS3 version. Also been playing Sparkle 2 on my Vita and on my PS3. Played some Salt and Sanctuary and Plantera too. Had to recalibrate my Vita's controls last night though as both them and the touch screen were acting up. Now they're working fine though, thankfully.

 

[BillJ]

Have fun! ME: Andromeda is actually awesome in my opinion and I say that as someone who has played and loved the original trilogy a lot. Until now I don't understand why it had to face so much criticism. I personally find the story of exploring space in order to find new places to live very interesting and at some points, the game reminds my of Star Trek somehow. I also like the new characters and love spending time going through the ship with my character and talking to them. What's more, I think the combat system is much better than it ever was in ME.

I think there was a good game in there, it just got lost in mind-numbing repetitiveness.

 

[SPCTRE]

Played a bit of Titanfall 2's multiplayer with my buddy as well as PES 2018 (both XBONE).

 

[kirk55555]

I recently finished Assassin's creed Syndicate, the only AC game I beat and I really enjoyed it. It basically copied the Batman Arkham combat, and it was so much better then the combat in the older games. It also had enjoyable protagonists, and skipped as much of the present day stuff as Ubisoft probably allowed them to do (there are only cutscenes in the present day, absolutely no game play, and there are only about 5 moderate length cutscenes overall). I also enjoyed capturing parts of the city (I'm a sucker for that in open world games), and the time period (Victorian London) made the world much more enjoyable then the (to me) boring worlds of aC II and Black Flag (the only other AC games I've tried). I'm pretty excited for AC Odyssey because I like Ancient Greece and the game seems to have become more Mass effect-ish in the story department, which is cool.

After beating Syndicate, I started Far Cry Primal. the only FC game I've beaten before was FC 3. Its gameplay was fun enough, but its story was ass. This game has the interesting twist of being set 10,000 years ago, and you basically get to be a Beast master, so I'm having fun so far.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

^ Wenja! I also enjoyed Primal (wasn't sure I would without series mainstay like the grenade launcher and flame thrower). I hope you keep at it. One of my favorite Far Cry character's ancestors shows up a ways into the game and give out amusing missions

 

[BigFoot]

I completed ME: Andromeda yesterday and I really enjoyed it. Sure it had it's flaws, but overall I'm definitely glad I played it. It sucks that there (most likely) won't be a sequel. I mean, I'm sure they'll make a new ME game eventually, I just doubt it'll be a sequel to Andromeda.