Played again the first four Silent Hill games. All of them are classics, specially 2.

I've only played 2 and halfway through 3, even though I loved both. I guess I need to finish 3. The original I never attempted to get into, even though I've got the ISO for an emulator. Even though I normally have no problem with old games, even from the early 90s, somehow I've worried that the atmosphere wouldn't survive the emulation and passage of time. Maybe I'm wrong and really should play it.

Played No Man's Sky for a few hours. I kind of wish at this point I could do away with the resource gathering: find x amount of this to make x amounts of this which is required to make this. It's getting a bit tiresome. I just want to explore planets and looks at shit. Don't enjoy the aerial combat either. Sluggish as hell. I wish it would run a bit better too.

Written by [user id=142921] on 26.08.2016 at 15:23


I'm almost happy it's getting shit on because of how vague and deceitful Sean Murray has been throughout the development process. Who am I kidding.. I AM happy.

Pretty sure they're rolling in it regardless though. A 10 man team outselling triple A titles. Probably screwed himself for the future though.

I've been playing tons of Dead By Daylight recently. It's an asymmetrical competitive survival horror game where four survivors have to repair generators to power the exit gates while one killer finds them, hacks them up, tortures them on a meat hook, then sacrifices them to a spider god. The core gameplay is absolutely fantastically done. A killer will eventually catch up to a survivor (who can't fight back) and down them, but then the killer has to carry them to a hook before the survivor struggles out of their grasp, and it takes 90 seconds for a survivor to die on a hook. In all this time, the three other survivors are accomplishing objectives around the map. If the killer camps the hooked survivor then he guarantees a sacrifice but loses multiple generators. If the killer roams then he places pressure and slows down the pace of the game but leaves the hooked victim to get saved. And survivors meanwhile have so many other ways to counter a killer: They can sabotage hooks and traps, bodyblock killers to allow another to escape, heal the wounded, blind killers with flashlights, swarm a killer with sheer numbers to unhook someone, distract a killer, or just simply break line of sight and hide from the killer. The game is still real messy in several ways (super buggy, only balanced by both sides outcheesing each other, poor netcode) but the horror aspects are incredibly well executed and few games give as much of an adrenaline rush. It's an out-of-nowhere super hit for a reason.

I've also been playing lots of Runescape recently. Not the new one, but the "oldschool" server based on a backup from 2007. The last time I played the game was literally over five years ago (when I was 12), and before then when I was 8. Being older, I'm now much better, and can do stuff that 12 year old me could only dream of. I'm doing some of the quests I was too scared to do when I was 12, at a lower level than my main account. Monkey Madness? Not too bad if you have a little gold and 43 prayer. The Fremennik Isles? Dragon Dagger burst the king down. A super long quest? Teleport to the destination repeatedly to make it a shorter one. On one hand, it's great exploring content I've never reached, but on the other hand, the magic is gone. The world is no longer a scary place when I can always just Protect From Melee, Protect Item, and Teleport To House at the first sign of danger. If I die? In the rare case I don't get my items back, I lose like 150k worth of stuff when I have 1.2 million sitting in the bank. Every fight can be cheesed with either safe spots where melee monsters can't hit you, or through Protect prayers combined with prayer potions. Players are the scariest part of the game. I'm planning on completing as many quests as I can before I get bored, then I'll likely end up playing another game. The game and combat is way too clunky and unresponsive for me to really care about the pvp or raiding. Runescape 3 (the modern runescape) is way too endgame-focused to be worth playing as well. Why would you want to raid in a clunky and laggy tile-based browser game when you can just play the super responsive WoW, Wildstar, literaly any other MMO? Still I'm having fun with it, and the memes are legendary.

Speaking of WoW, I'm getting back into it. A friend gave me a roster spot in his guild, and I have nothing better to do, so I might as well. Legion is shaping up pretty nicely, let's see if it's a Mists of Pandaria (good expansion) or Warlords of Draenor (godawful expansion). I used to be a top 100 US raider but the scene is filled with neckbeard mouthbreathers and I stirred up a hilarious shitton of drama so I'm avoiding that like the plague.

Tonight's the night. World Of Warcraft: Legion is coming. I haven't played much WoW in recent years, but my wife's a guildmaster and I helped her lvl some characters in the last few weeks, because of some party/ally 300 % EXP bonus thing and I actually started somewhat enjoying WoW again. Can't wait to send those foul demons back into the twisting nether.

So I was feeling depressed today and decided to cheer myself up by finally getting rid of my old monitor, went and bought a new one, 24-inch PLS. You know how when you're eyesight is poor and you finally get glasses and everything looks so much more beautiful and real? Well, that's how I feel now, playing The Witcher 3 on ultra settings with my new monitor. It was already my favorite game of all time for its story, characters, immersive world, music and everything else that it did so right, but now it's even better. IDK... CD Projekt did so many things so very right that it's borderline unrealistic for a game this great to even exist.

That's enough bragging and fanboying for now, I guess.

Visual Novels fall under this topic too, right?

I'm about halfway through The Devil On A G-String and it is one of the most gut-wrenching, mindfucky things I've ever experienced. The writers must have degrees in psychology, because they know exactly how to keep me on the edge of my seat and how to make me feel like I'm losing my sanity. The story and characters are great, but the tone is even better. One moment you (the main character) are chatting about nothing with your shooclmates, having fun and just being a teenager and then out of mindfuck-nowhere, the story takes a darker turn you could've ever expected and your soul is just left crushed. Can't recommend highly enough for fans of visual novels.

Written by Overrwatcher on 28.08.2016 at 19:22


Speaking of WoW, I'm getting back into it. A friend gave me a roster spot in his guild, and I have nothing better to do, so I might as well. Legion is shaping up pretty nicely, let's see if it's a Mists of Pandaria (good expansion) or Warlords of Draenor (godawful expansion). I used to be a top 100 US raider but the scene is filled with neckbeard mouthbreathers and I stirred up a hilarious shitton of drama so I'm avoiding that like the plague.

i played since closed Beta through whatever came before Mists of Panda Express. was pulled to rejoin by a friend assembling a horde side guild, grinded a DK to join their PVP team. was a lot of fun. they had top-ranked pvpers mixed with absolute noobs*, just all using teamspeak or ventrillo or whatever and on a fun wavelength. won a lot more than we lost. all while joking, drinking, karoakeing horribly (a dot lock version of bad medicine comes to mind...)

the game was meh, a nice time kill. but friday night fights were always fun.



yeah, they were a lot of fun.

enjoying Witcher III a ton, loved Fallout 4. FIFA is amusing, but really miss running amok for a couple hours with friends, drunkenly bellowing things like "Where's that healer? I'm going to kill that healer! I'm going to kill his family! I'm going to kill his dog! I'm going to kill his date to Junior Prom!" while blowing up other peoples digital avatars.



* as running around battlegrounds ws pretty much my favorite part of the game, by the time i re-signed into the game I had north of 250,000 hks, and druid ws the only class i had less than 10k with. i was a pretty decent BG player. not title-worthy, but could smoke/outdo most the others players in any rando bg. was a good team player with a reserved spot.

So I've been playing LISA, and it turns out the OST is pretty great

Haven'tplayed LISA but I've watched a few people playing it. Looks pretty memorable and bleakly funny.

I'd say it's more to the gloomy and depressive side than funny. I mean it looks funny, but when you start playing you see it's kinda dark... Funny dark. Perhaps like Earthbound's darker parts.

And I still can't get over how awesome the OST is.

Written by Karlabos on 09.09.2016 at 23:59

I'd say it's more to the gloomy and depressive side than funny. I mean it looks funny, but when you start playing you see it's kinda dark... Funny dark. Perhaps like Earthbound's darker parts.

Ah, I see.

I heard somewhere that the OST is quite good, but I guess you don't know anything about that.

Sometimes I play Brutal Doom

God damn, this game is pretty, and a lot of fun from the hour or so I've played of it. Hoping it has a Colony Wars feel the more I play it, perhaps when the story is fully implemented. Something I've been craving since... the last Colony Wars game. [Played a bit more of it; getting pretty good at it actually. Really great mechanics, but I think at this point it really needs a story mode as at the moment you seem to be doing more or less the same thing, only it gets harder. Mission based things in different sectors would really give this game its sheen, so looking forward to them getting round to doing that. Still having lots of fun just exploring each sector and slowly improving my ship. Got really far last time but accidentally boosted into an asteroid. Oy].




Also really enjoying Halcyon 6. Put a couple of hours into it so far. Kind of turn based J-RPG meets X-Com with resource management. Great artstyle and music too.






Yay for space.

None. Last game I finished was NFS Hot Pursuit (2010).

^And you guys have fucking too much leisure time.

EDIT: That was not in 2010, a couple of months back.

Written by 3rdWorld on 16.09.2016 at 22:04

^And you guys have fucking too much leisure time.

Haha! I freely admit that I have way too much time to play video games, I am one of those extremely lucky fuckers, who gets to spend a huge amount of their life playing But it's great.

Anyway, just started on Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition and liking it so far. The turn-based combat is fun. I just wish I didn't have to control 2 party members in conversations, makes me feel like a schizo. I wonder why they didn't just make it you (the player) and everyone else...

I just have an hour or two at the end of the night to do what i want. sometimes it's gaming, sometimes i watch crap movies, sometimes audio books.

Same case for me. But most of the days I am way too fucked up that I just cook, eat and doze off with most probably a new metal/electronic album playing.

I'm more worried about missing and not playing console games than PC games cause once the hardware gets stopped from production and sales, its hard to get good games and will be a liability to maintain them in good condition. Thats why I really wanna catch up on console games like the Killzone, Resistance, Gran Turismo and early MGS series games on my PS3 which I've bought but currently sitting wasted back at my parent's place.

Written by 3rdWorld on 17.09.2016 at 23:00

I'm more worried about missing and not playing console games than PC games cause once the hardware gets stopped from production and sales, its hard to get good games and will be a liability to maintain them in good condition.

That (and the price) is honestly why I don't play console games. I've got a PS2 and a few games I go back to, but it's really not worth the hassle. Too many PC games to play, plus a ton of older console games to emulate, that it's just easier to let consoles be.

I usually have 2-4 hours free time once the toddler is in bed, but often I use that watching films or reading with the wife, or writing stuff (I am writing the setting lore for an RP server we're releasing on Shards Online once it's out). I get to play a fairly good deal given my life situation, but nothing like a few years back. Maybe 5-10 hours a week, usually on the lower end of that spectrum.

You're probably right. Just looking above at how many wonderful new games people post above, mostly from steam which I frankly have no idea if they are free or paid. I probably have to start looking to play/check them out. But I am yet to explore RPG/strategy games in much detail so I haven't fell in love with it and delved deep into it yet.

And I just seem to can't write off/forget about console games very easily. The ONLY reason I bought a PS3 was to play the God of War series which I've loved ever since I've seen videos of that several years back and I finally finished the GoW1 on my PS3 last year. Similarly there are lot of real gems/games that can't be missed. Another example would be the Gears Of War series which I'm still yet to play. But hopefully since they have it on the new XBOX I can try it sometime soon.

But these days there's a pretty good chance a console game will get ported to PC eventually, barring the few console exclusives (which is why I buy a console at the end of its cycle). In the current generation there hasn't actually been too many PS4Bone games I'm envious of, as most have been announced as having ports at some point.


I'm thinking of buying Overwatch as my gateway into online gaming. Seems like it's actually fun.

I have God of War 1 and 2 sitting in my emulator folder waiting to be played. Just started Shadow of the Colossus, got to the first boss and had no idea how to proceed. It's great to be so far behind the times that once I get around to playing a game, it's already 3-10 years old and either very cheap or can be emulated. So it's not that I'm against console gaming, I'm just cheap.

Shadow of the Colossus is probably one of the few games I'd say playing the HD version is almost vital for. The original had some shocking framerate issues which emulation can't solve. The HD version maintains a solid 30fps. Still a unique experience whatever platform it's played on though.

About halfway through Pokémon Heart Gold.

Witcher 3 is turning me into fallout 4's Preston Garvey when riding the countryside.

"well, at least it's not raining."

Just learned about an indie RPG named OFF. Looks like people associate it with Earthbound, Undertale, LISA et al so it must be hella good.OSt is pretty good so far.

Shadow of the Colossus looked delicious on HD truly. I have the remastered compilation of that and Ico. Have no idea when I'm gonna play it though.

Divinity II: Developer's Cut.

Have been craving a good PC RPG for a while now ever since watching Lobos play through Morrowind (which I've played to death) so grabbed this. Not really CRPG style though, more like action RPG with huge quasi-open world maps. Despite the not-always great reviews (outside of Steam anyway where it's lauded) it's definitely drawn me in. Story seems a bit standard but the humorous writing and pretty decent sidequesting (the mind-read ability really adds to it) has kept me sticking with it. Combat is the very definition of OK, but not great in any way, not as an archer anyway. I get the feeling this game could be overly hard if I played as any other build. But yeah, nice huge open maps to explore and visually it still holds up quite well despite its age. Have played a fair amount of it but haven't actually progressed much as you're able to turn into a dragon at some point which I've not yet been able to. Have mostly been sidequesting etc. Great fully voiced cast too.

Tried playing some Gothic 2. I really want to get into this game the controls and combat are so horrible I'm not sure I'll ever be able to.

Never found RPGs interesting so far. Gave Morrowind a try though but it only made me more dizzying. Have no idea where to start now. Though I kinda enjoyed the prologue of Fallout 3. That defo looks like the kind of RPG that I would love.