What games are you playing currently?

[jenji120]

It's amazing how sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I by no means am an "old games suck" type, on the contrary. I probably PRIMARILY play older games.

It's just, some are still 100% perfectly playable and enjoyable, some are not. '

It's odd though. Battlefront? Godawful (IMO). KOTOR? Still perfectly playable and enjoyable. 10/10.

For the longest time, I mostly played old titles. I had missed about a decade's worth of games from when I just wasn't gaming much at all and so went through a ton of them. It's never graphics and very rarely just combat that makes or breaks older games, imo. It's usually in QOL stuff where there was no tech reason to do something so stupid -- just a why the hell did you design it this way?! -- that breaks them. If I had to guess, they were original gripes for players even when the game was new but now that they're older graphics or gameplay doesn't make up for the level of annoyance.

Also, a great story or a world that I want to be in (made well enough that it really does feel like it could be real) will make up for a metric ton of sins in an older game -- at least for me.

ETA: And I still need to play KOTOR. Ironically, I bought it about a year and a half ago on the recommendation of a 20 year old.

 

[evilchumlee]

Also, a great story or a world that I want to be in (made well enough that it really does feel like it could be real) will make up for a metric ton of sins in an older game -- at least for me.

There's no magic bullet for me. There's just... a "feel". It's hard to articulate, but it's the way a game "feels" that can be a deal breaker.

Graphics are largely irrelevant to me. I really don't care at all. The only graphics-related issue I care about are actual, gameplay-affecting graphical bugs or some such. Otherwise, the graphics really are utterly irrelevant.

Controls are a big part. Some old games still control just fine. Some don't.

There's the "jank" factor. Some old games are smooth as butter. Some games are just... janky as hell.

UI can go into it. There are some games that might be good, but the UI makes it way too much of a chore to actually enjoy.

KOTOR is a weird outlier one because like, the controls aren't... great. There is a reasonable amount of "jank" to it. The UI is not great. But... it all works well enough, and the game is still amazing.

 

[USS Firefly]

ETA: And I still need to play KOTOR. Ironically, I bought it about a year and a half ago on the recommendation of a 20 year old.

KOTOR is my first RPG and also one of my favorite game. Great storyline and music

 

[jenji120]

Dragon's Dogma or Rise of Ronin? Which to play/buy first?

 

[Owain Taggart]

The original Dragon's Dogma is a bit janky by modern standards, but the combat is so much fun. Once you get a good group of pawns, you can pretty much become unstoppable. My hope is that they streamline the leveling system a bit. It can become a little confusing. And I'd also like if pawns could automatically level-up as you do. That was one quirk of the original game; your pawns wouldn't and you'd often have to swap them out, though that was mostly due to the fact that pawns could be characters other players created. That was an awesome feature as well. I hope that carries over to the sequel. And I hope they go further with it and add co-op.

Personally I feel a little overwhelmed with all the games currently out. It feels like a good month for releases. One game I have my eye out for is Outcast: A New Beginning. This is a sequel that's been a long time coming, with the original game having come out in 1999. That was a brilliantly original game, if a bit janky. The developers managed to get the rights back to the original games and released a remastered version on Steam several years ago, and then went ahead with a completely-from-the-ground-up remake in 2019.

This is a good overview and history of the first game leading up to the sequel. The sequel gives me huge Avatar vibes.

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[thribs]

Just finished Final Fantasy Rebirth. The South Park game is probably next for me

 

[BigFoot]

Personally I feel a little overwhelmed with all the games currently out. It feels like a good month for releases. One game I have my eye out for is Outcast: A New Beginning. This is a sequel that's been a long time coming, with the original game having come out in 1999. That was a brilliantly original game, if a bit janky. The developers managed to get the rights back to the original games and released a remastered version on Steam several years ago, and then went ahead with a completely-from-the-ground-up remake in 2019.

This is a good overview and history of the first game leading up to the sequel. The sequel gives me huge Avatar vibes.

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Well personally I'm having so much fun playing FFVII: Rebirth that I can't really complain. Anyway, I'm also looking forward to Outcast: A New Beginning. Here's Digital Foundry's preview of the game if you're interested.

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[hbquikcomjamesl]

None: GNU Backgammon is one of the things I'm giving up for Lent.

 

[Owain Taggart]

For the longest time, I mostly played old titles. I had missed about a decade's worth of games from when I just wasn't gaming much at all and so went through a ton of them.

For some reason, I missed this post when you first posted it, but same here. My old computer was too outdated to play anything recent and pretty much kept to older games (yay GOG!), but I got a new computer in January and I feel like I've been playing catch up with the last decade.

Anyway, I'm also looking forward to Outcast: A New Beginning.

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who knew about this game Watching some of the previews gives me some serious Avatar vibes, moreso than the actual Avatar game. Did you play the original game? Remaster? Remake?

 

[BigFoot]

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who knew about this game Watching some of the previews gives me some serious Avatar vibes, moreso than the actual Avatar game. Did you play the original game? Remaster? Remake?

Yeah I played the original back when it was first released like 25 years ago or so.

 

[John Clark]

Yeah I played the original back when it was first released like 25 years ago or so.

Me too. It didn't feel like quite that long ago though it will have been

 

[Owain Taggart]

I originally watched my brother play the original game, and it was just mesmerizing how detailed a world it was, especially impressive for its time as there weren't as many open-world games as there are now. But everything in voxels, and I remember the water being very impressive and it held up for at least a decade in being the best water effects. About a year or so ago, I played the remake aka Second Contact, remade from the ground up in a different engine. It was still pretty much the same experience, and you could tell it was from a different era as there wasn't much handholding, if at all. You could easily get lost in the game.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Horizon Forbidden West is amazing on PC now if they can fix a particular performance bug I'd be happy, The game plays fine but cutscenes somehow go choppy then it reverts to good and fun again and it's annoying.

 

[Kor]

I've got Princess Peach: Showtime on order, on my way to get it soon.

Kor

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've got Princess Peach: Showtime on order, on my way to get it soon.

Kor

I just bought a Switch on a whim and that was the first game advertised when I open youtube on my PC.... What's it about and what's it like?

Is the nintendo eshop as bad as people say?

 

[Kor]

I just bought a Switch on a whim and that was the first game advertised when I open youtube on my PC.... What's it about and what's it like?

Princess Peach from the Mario franchise goes to the theatre to see a play, but some masked ne'er-do-wells take over the place, so she has to go through the worlds of different stage plays defeating them. So far it's fun, if somewhat simple. Good if you like more casual gaming.

Is the nintendo eshop as bad as people say?

I haven't used it much, myself.

Kor

 

[BigFoot]

I finished FFVII: Rebirth last night. While I have some issues with the final two chapters, I really enjoyed the game overall.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There's a few FF games on sale on steam Nixxes sale

 

[USS Firefly]

Finished bridge commander, with a lot of bugs. I skipped some missions because of it.

 

[jenji120]

Horizon Forbidden West is amazing on PC now if they can fix a particular performance bug I'd be happy, The game plays fine but cutscenes somehow go choppy then it reverts to good and fun again and it's annoying.

Cutscene problems are often harddrive related. Do you have an SSD/m.2 etc? And if it's on that - do you have enough space? Check your virtual mem. It's usually virtual mem. Check those settings and increase it.