What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now?

[Vokoca]

Playing the Nioh beta. I haven't realised how amazing the idea of Souls with a Ninja Gaiden/Onimusha flair sounded until I actually played it for myself.... damn this thing is is cool!

[Mkilbride]

 

 

 

[Kurisu-Chan]

And here is my danganronpa : happy trigger havoc review, if i consider it as a game.

so, this game has some gameplay elements : you can walk around the school, talk with characters, give them presents and dig up their backstory. That's the free-time gameplay.

But, when the story starts really, and...someone gets killed, the game finally start, first of all, you'll have to investigate the crime scene and speak to all the witness, and, like a detective, prepare your arguments and your proofs before the real battle starts.

The judgement, in the judgement phase, you'll have a collection of minigame, where you'll have to use both your dexterity and your logic, in order to achieve the ultimate truth, and find out the true culprit! (like sherlock holmes but more...shota) 

The cases are...uneven, they are globally easy, especially one of them where you can pretty much guess the culprit after 3 seconds, but even so, it's still a good game to play, the gameplay is good, and entertaining enough, so it works out well, even if it gets a bit repetitive.

Gonna give it a solid 7/10 if i consider it as a game, it has a good story, a good artstyle and the gameplay is rather good, but it has also a lot of flaws in my opinion. 

[Darklord Rooke]

1 hour ago, Kurisu-Chan said:

And here is my danganronpa : happy trigger havoc review, if i consider it as a game.

To me, Danganronpa will always be a poor man's Phoenix Wright  

[Kurisu-Chan]

1 minute ago, Rooke said:

To me, Danganronpa will always be a poor man's Phoenix Wright  

It is too easy but Phoenix Wright doesn't have best gurl.  

[Riku]

9 hours ago, Rooke said:

To me, Danganronpa will always be a poor man's Phoenix Wright  

I don't know. As a series, yeah, I prefer Ace Attorney over DanganRonpa. But as a single game, I like DanganRonpa 2 as much as I like Gyakuten Kenji 2 (AAI2), which is my favorite AA. (even if it's a spin-off)

[Funyarinpa]

18 hours ago, Rooke said:

To me, Danganronpa will always be a poor man's Phoenix Wright  

Vice versa for me, but then again I've played all three Danganronpas and caught up on DR3 while for Ace Attorney I only played AA5 and AA1 (no money to buy the Trilogy on 3DS lol)

[Deep Blue]

Finally finished dues ex, bittersweet ending... after 45 hours nothing really happened >_> they are leaving all the good plot for the new DLCs which sucks.

I will point out the bad stuffs only that are almost game break:

Having to travel from one part of the city to another shouldnt take 6 minutes of constant loading screens, you need to take the sub....load...cops inspect you....run from one point into another to then someone tell you "you need to go back AGAIN!" 
seriously I don't know how this passed as a good idea, it was dreadful! specially when the city was under the curfew ASDSFDGFDGFG they kinda forced you to use one of the "cheat augmentations" like the one that blends you in with the environment , why not just put everything under one big map? why leave that little part aside and make it travel all the time from one place to another, again and again and again >_> pure bad gaming design 

Other than that well the story was actually nothing until the very ending not even the ending itself but a little cut-scene between the ending credits which took around 15 -20 min to roll (I'm not joking...)

Prague was ok and was big enough but I really wanted to see something else..more variety, like in human revolution where you start in detroit and move to china later on and you can actually see the difference. 

[Dark_blade64]

On 2016-09-04 at 2:22 PM, Deep Blue said:

Finally finished dues ex, bittersweet ending... after 45 hours nothing really happened >_> they are living all the good plot for the new DLCs which sucks.

I will point out the bad stuffs only that are almost game break:

Having to travel from one part of the city to another shouldnt take 6 minutes of constant loading screens, you need to take the sub....load...cops inspect you....round from one point into another to then someone tell you "you need to go back AGAIN!" 
seriously I don't know how this passed as a good idea, it was dreadful! specially when the city was under the curfew ASDSFDGFDGFG they kinda forced you to use one of the "cheat augmentations" like the one that blends you in with the environment , why not just put everything under one big map? why leave that little part aside and make it travel all the time from one place to another, again and again and again >_> pure bad gaming design 

Other than that well the story was actually nothing until the very ending not even the ending itself but a little cut-scene between the ending credits which took around 15 -20 min to roll (I'm not joking...)

Prague was ok and was big enough but I really wanted to see something else..more variety, like in human revolution where you start in detroit and move to china later on and you can actually see the difference. 

My thought. (They detached actual parts including on the game, to sell it like dlc. Like seriously I won't believe the story dlc are releasing so soon, unless they are surprisingly short.)

[Jibril]

Binging Life is Strange after delaying the game for a year. Now I feel empty..... but hey, at least

Spoiler

The yurism is there in the end. So I guess I got that going for me which is nice.

 

[Fred the Barber]

It's been a while since I last made a concerted effort to raise my weeb level, so I thought I should try to get into this whole Touhou thing. I picked up the just-localized Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet, and played it a bit this morning (watched the tutorial, and then took Reimu through Story mode). I was honestly kind of disappointed that I beat Story Mode without losing a set, seeing as I literally never play shooters, but whatever; I don't mind things being not super difficult, and I was really, really close to losing both of the last two sets anyway (I actually made a pretty big comeback while on my Extend, or however you call it when you're down to where one hit will kill you), so it's not like it was actually easy.

It was kind of fun, I guess? The gameplay was all right, but I don't think I could see myself really enjoying spending a whole ton of time with it, unless there's a substantially higher level than the last boss of that Story Mode I just finished (and some reward, ideally story-related, for achieving that higher level). People often talk about these games like they have an interesting story, but the one in Reimu's "story mode" was about as weak as they come. I'm not trying to diss it or anything, by the way; just wondering what I'm missing here.

[Eclipsed]

Aight bois, my fking Cold Steel II is finally here, omg hype , and just showing the LE contents of the first game cuz why not

P.S. l0l 

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[Fred the Barber]

1 hour ago, Eclipsed said:

P.S. l0l 

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You saved $0.03 with Amazon.com's Pre-order Price Guarantee! The price of the item(s) decreased after you ordered them, and we gave you the lowest price.

The following title(s) decreased in price:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - PlayStation Vita
              Price on order date: $39.99
        Price charged at shipping: $39.96
 Lowest price before release date: $39.96  
                         Quantity: 1
                    Total Savings: $0.03

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I get this all the damn time. Always three cents. Until this week, when my new Touhou LE came in, and it was $10 saved; non-trivial amount of money, get!

I really need to start playing the Trails games at some point, huh...

[Jibril]

4 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

It's been a while since I last made a concerted effort to raise my weeb level, so I thought I should try to get into this whole Touhou thing. I picked up the just-localized Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet, and played it a bit this morning (watched the tutorial, and then took Reimu through Story mode). I was honestly kind of disappointed that I beat Story Mode without losing a set, seeing as I literally never play shooters, but whatever; I don't mind things being not super difficult, and I was really, really close to losing both of the last two sets anyway (I actually made a pretty big comeback while on my Extend, or however you call it when you're down to where one hit will kill you), so it's not like it was actually easy.

It was kind of fun, I guess? The gameplay was all right, but I don't think I could see myself really enjoying spending a whole ton of time with it, unless there's a substantially higher level than the last boss of that Story Mode I just finished (and some reward, ideally story-related, for achieving that higher level). People often talk about these games like they have an interesting story, but the one in Reimu's "story mode" was about as weak as they come. I'm not trying to diss it or anything, by the way; just wondering what I'm missing here.

Touhou Genso Rondo is a fan made game that just gets ported to PS4 by NIS. It doesn't have any affiliation with ZUN the original creator of Touhou nor is he involved in it's development. And yes apparently the Touhou fans have already mixed reviews on the game with its lengthy tutorial, lack of unique modes, shallow story, low-poly models and bland backgrounds while positive ones tends to praise the soundtrack, interesting concept of mixing bullet hell and fighting, fast-paced gameplay and colorful bullets and animation.

Actual Touhou games are still hard as hell and has more story in it.

[Fred the Barber]

3 hours ago, Jibril said:

Touhou Genso Rondo is a fan made game that just gets ported to PS4 by NIS. It doesn't have any affiliation with ZUN the original creator of Touhou nor is he involved in it's development. And yes apparently the Touhou fans have already mixed reviews on the game with its lengthy tutorial, lack of unique modes, shallow story, low-poly models and bland backgrounds while positive ones tends to praise the soundtrack, interesting concept of mixing bullet hell and fighting, fast-paced gameplay and colorful bullets and animation.

Actual Touhou games are still hard as hell and has more story in it.

Thanks, that explains a lot. What would be a good entry to try to get into the series, ideally one with a more legit story? I admit I mostly picked this one up because it was available on a console; I really prefer gaming there, if possible, over the PC (yeah, yeah, I know).

[Jibril]

7 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

Thanks, that explains a lot. What would be a good entry to try to get into the series, ideally one with a more legit story? I admit I mostly picked this one up because it was available on a console; I really prefer gaming there, if possible, over the PC (yeah, yeah, I know).

Gameplay wise, The 8th game Imperishable Night is the easiest to get into, story wise the 6th game Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and working your way up from there. IMO the best console for Touhou games are arcade consoles since bullet hell games are easiest with those (huge screens for the bullet hells and responsive, sturdy controls). But hey, Touhou is originally made on PC so there's that....

Oh and Touhou 7.5, 10.5, 12.3, 13.5 and 14.5 are all fighting games. They're also canon. Touhou 1-5 is considered non-canon by ZUN even though he made it himself. They're games from the PC-98 eras so maybe that's the reason. You don't need to start from there though, most would recommend 6th for beginners who want the stories.

[Vokoca]

Picked up Final Fantasy Type-0 on the PSP. I haven't played much, but I am impressed so far. The tone/setting looks great, the mechanics look complex (the amount of stuff seems pretty intimidating, at least at first glance), and the entire game seems to be hard as hell. Side-objectives that kill you immediately if you fail them? Damn this thing isn't messing around...  

[BookwormOtaku]

Just started playing God Eater Rage Burst and it's been fine so far, my only real complaint is the lock seems almost useless especially since it doesn't help you aim your gun much.

[DarkZedge]

Been playing AoT:Wings of freedom and Rabi-Ribi which I had stalled

[Eclipsed]

On 9/7/2016 at 3:41 PM, Fred the Barber said:

I really need to start playing the Trails games at some point, huh...

Yes

 

On 9/7/2016 at 7:34 PM, Fred the Barber said:

I really prefer gaming there, if possible, over the PC (yeah, yeah, I know).

[Jun Inoue]

My Trails of Cold Steel II came in yesterday, so... time to dig in!

On ‎08‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 0:41 AM, Fred the Barber said:

I get this all the damn time. Always three cents. Until this week, when my new Touhou LE came in, and it was $10 saved; non-trivial amount of money, get!

I really need to start playing the Trails games at some point, huh...

That's not the proper phrasing. You should HAD ALREADY played them all. Every single second that you're late to the party is a grave offense!

[havoc]

thinking of getting myself a new game, still have not decided what to buy though.

Doubting between Overwatch, Dues ex mankind dived, mirrors edge catalyst and battlefield one.
Dues ex seems like a lot of fun, but im not to fond of the micro transactions and the potential massive amount of DLC for the game. 
Same kind of goes for battlefield one, and well EA is publishing it.

[Jun Inoue]

3 hours ago, havoc said:

thinking of getting myself a new game, still have not decided what to buy though.

Doubting between Overwatch, Dues ex mankind dived, mirrors edge catalyst and battlefield one.
Dues ex seems like a lot of fun, but im not to fond of the micro transactions and the potential massive amount of DLC for the game. 
Same kind of goes for battlefield one, and well EA is publishing it.

The answer is OW, and then to play it with me.

Btw, the micro transactions on Deus Ex are some weird extra shit. You don't need anything to play the campaign (except maybe the game itself).

[Vokoca]

Looking at all the hype here.... I should probably finish Trails of the Cold Steel and play the second one, which has been sitting on my account for over a year now... I like the gameplay and the music, but I can't say the same about the story. I've been playing Cold Steel for like three quarters of a year now with all the breaks in between, the extremely slow pacing is killing me. I've decided to stop bothering with doing every single (hidden) quest at around chapter 4-5, but it still feels so slow. I get that this is the first game in a trilogy, but all that really ever happens is world building, more world building and hints at a plot that might sometimes even happen - but it never really does, and I'm almost in the last chapter. I suppose I'm just not a fan of RPGs that focus on the world more than anything else, I feel like the amount of story I've gotten is disproportionately low compared to the 50-60 hours I've spent on the game already.

[Eclipsed]

Ya Trails is a veeeery slice of life oriented JRPG and as much as I enjoyed it even I dreaded moving onto a next chapter at times since you just know you'll have to grind through several hours of exposition again and check in with all the NPCs you were interested in before you can finally roam around; very tedious