What games are you playing currently?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I liked driving the Mako.

I just wish it had more powerful jump jets hehe.

I hated it at first but it grew on me and by the 2nd play of Mass Effect 1 I loved the Mako bits.

 

[John Clark]

I think some people had issues with the Mako because it wasn't the easiest thing to drive. On the other hand, I liked it

I wasn't as fond of the Hammerhead, but the Nomad was ok once fully upgraded (though a weapon would not have gone amiss)

 

[od0_ital]

Been playing Assassin's Creed: Rogue on my xbox 360 the last couple of days, unlocking five achievements!

"Halcyon Days" (complete Sequence 1), "Defence First" (survive a reverse-boarding), "Ice Breaker" (break through 500 meters of ice sheets), "The End of Youth" (complete Sequence 2), and "He's Not Dead, Is He?" (complete Present 2).

I had two achievements unlocked already, "Did I Do That?" (complete Present 1) on February 27, 2015 and "Owned" (complete every activity in a single location) on April 7, 2018.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

By comparison the hammerhead was made of rice paper.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Currently, SOMA on the PC. I'm not much into horror games, but holy cow! This game is amazing. It's an exploration game with stealth elements where things can kill you, though there's technically no combat. There is an easy mode where stealth doesn't matter much. It's very reminiscent of Bioshock in terms of its setting and atmosphere, and uses that to great effect.

 

[Obsidian7]

I've been playing/streaming Hotline Miami lately. Also... I had fun with the Anthem demo over the weekend.

 

[Random_Spock]

Just tried out Ice Climber last night. It was pretty fun . Also played a bit of Pokemon Let's Go and Stardew Valley.

 

[Rusty0918]

I've been playing Marvel's "Spider-Man" on PS4, at the DLC part now. One of the missions is Nintendo Hard, if you get the gist. Overall the game and the main story are excellent, but that one mission...makes me want to throw my controller across the room!

Also playing Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, which I never played all the way through on my Switch.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I got the "Redemption" trophy on Red Dead II last night. And, I'm pretty bummed (as most people who've gotten this trophy/achievement probably were. I'm also playing New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe on the Switch.

 

[Reverend]

Currently working my way through 'Borderlands The Pre-Sequel' for the first time. I know for the first playthrough I should just stick to the main story and skip all the side missions...but i just can't help myself!

By comparison the hammerhead was made of rice paper.

Damp rice paper and it drove like a floor waxer!

So yeah, put me down as a Mako fan too. All those haters are clearly just bad drivers. That said, the Nomad beats the crap out of both of them on almost every level, it's just a shame it wasn't in a better game.

 

[Butters]

I’ve been playing the Dizzy games available at the Dizzy Age website. Lots of fan made games in the style and spirit of the original spectrum games.

Currently on Sunken Castle Dizzy. It’s very tricky.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I think some people had issues with the Mako because it wasn't the easiest thing to drive. On the other hand, I liked it

The one way it can be reconciled would be the alien environments. In fact, if anything I wish had been more complex with different gravity for each planet.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The one way it can be reconciled would be the alien environments. In fact, if anything I wish had been more complex with different gravity for each planet.

That would have been a neat idea had they tried that.

For a vehicle that can be dropped from orbit out of a ship the jump jets are not that great. How the hell does it land?

 

[SPCTRE]

Yeah, me too. I didn't understand the hate for it. When it came down to it, they were alien landscapes, so it comes to reason that maybe some of them would be difficult to navigate with the Mako due to differences in gravity.

(I also had no issues with it)

the hate came from a combination of 1) the finnicky and/or unintuitive vehicle handling / physics and 2) the fact that the uncharted worlds were pretty barren in terms of gameplay objectives

again, personally I liked that stuff, but I can see why your average player feedback in that area was negative

 

[John Clark]

That would have been a neat idea had they tried that.

For a vehicle that can be dropped from orbit out of a ship the jump jets are not that great. How the hell does it land?

I think somewhere in the background it mentioned using the mass effect fields so that the jump jets were adequate enough to slow it down?

 

[Thestral]

Yeah, part of the Journal mentions that, how they can use the mass effect fields that they only need the slight boost at the end.

I never got the Mako hate, I liked it though I do wish there had been more to do beyond collections (says the completionist who did all the collections and loved how they came back in ME3...), though the Nomad was vastly superior for sure.

The thing about the Hammerhead is that it was so obviously just added in to cater to people that wanted SOME kind of vehicle stuff, but it was so utterly tangential to the rest of the game...

 

[Owain Taggart]

the hate came from a combination of 1) the finnicky and/or unintuitive vehicle handling / physics and 2) the fact that the uncharted worlds were pretty barren in terms of gameplay objectives

Yeah, admittedly, they were pretty barren. It would have been fun if they'd added more encounters and sidequests that you could find and do that would make exploration feel more substantial than collections, like quests that lead you from planet to planet in search of npcs with specific scenarios in mind. I did like that you could exit the mako and go on foot, but they never really did much with that other than the main missions.

 

[JD]

I went back to Witcher III again earlier this week after taking a break for a while to work on the PS4 Spider-Man game.

 

[Discofan]

Still playing Chess against the computer.

 

[Whizzer]

Playing some "Slay the Spire", a mixture of a dungeon crawler with card deck building.
So far it's very addictive to fail and then try once more, hoping this time you will get the cards to beat the dungeon heart.