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i'm playing watch dogs 2 as well - somehow, even although it's an improvement on the original in every way, i'm still not enjoying it very much :(

pretty sure the 15 games won't be roms, they'll be made for the system or freeware or indie games they get ppl to release versions of on the console.

yeh there's plenty of indie developers out there making new NES/SNES etc. games who are more than happy to put their stuff on any new hardware - people like CollectorVision and Piko Interactive were up for putting their games on that super shady Coleco Chameleon ffs

stardew valley finally came out for ps4 today

"...just one more day..."

been playing steep on xbone - it's really fun, kinda like a cross between a more-chill ssx and pilotwings

i haven't played much of the actual structured game, i'm just enjoying scooting around the slopes on snowboard / wingsuit / paraglider

rocket league still lots of fun. hoops has really upped my aerial game. they have some christmas-themed snow added to some areas too so yay

arenas even

finally got around to sunless sea, is as great as expected

Overwatch. It's like I'm Jimmy Stewart in the last act of Vertigo, dreaming of the old Team Fortress 2

Watching Westworld + my high level of suggestibility = me finally starting Red Dead Redemption

(Can't connect to any online servers so I guess that ship has sailed?)

oh man, rdr is so good. my favourite rockstar game for sure

i hear it's on PS Now for PC and have been thinking of trying that out. has anyone here tried it? as a lover of emulators i don't really mind lag unless it's a huge issue.

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The Battle of Polytopia

yeah I love Polytopia, good quick simple civ fix.

Tower of Fortune
Tower of Fortune 2
soon: Tower of Fortune 3

as pixel art tappity tap RNG games go these things are great. total brain check out

mario run. it's............. good.

the black coins are tough

waiting for a new pc monitor.

so just listening to Slayer. A lot.

Beat Watch Dogs 2 very very early this morning. Good but mixed.

Played a bit of Pony Island, which is a good joke so far.

Picked up the latest Deus Ex. Realized during the opening briefing scene that dude isn't trying to do Keanu, he's doing Snake Plissken(as featured thru Keanu).

Filtered thru, rather

Finished Witcher 3 and Inside. Both excellent. Now playing Mankind Divided and it's also excellent!

Geralt is a better gruff character than Jensen tho.

take the time to break into apartments and wander around and be a dick in new deus ex--the main story is kinda dumb and ends abruptly (imo) but the side stuff is real fun

i was thinking how great it would be if the witcher guys were making the deus ex games instead and then i rememberd that they kinda are!

Can't stop playing pro evo at the moment

The Witness. Started off amazed, now amazed and frustrated, graaargh. Don't want to read the dedicated thread for fear or spoilers.

there was only one puzzle I had to look up in inside. the one where you climb a chain, hit a button and the chain starts moving from right to left... I was going down the wrong alley completely with that one

Ledge if you want some nonspoilery suggestions/advice just let me know! I also hit a wall a few times but was lucky to have a small group of friends that to play through it together and brainstorm.

Anybody else playing Minecraft IP Theft Simulator Dragon Quest Builders? Can't decide whether it's actually a good game or not but I've been playing a lot of it, and it's pretty decent handheld fodder.

xp thanks! I think i've still got enough unexplored terrain to be getting on with for now. i am starting to wonder if it's some kind of self-help course disguised as a videogame though...

wow, titanfall 2's singleplayer campaign is really really good - probably the most fun I've had with a shooter since portal 2?

not that portal is really a shooter but you know what i mean

Titanfall 2 singleplayer is incredibly fun - best single player FPS in years and years

What games is Titanfall 2 most like? It sounds a bit like Crysis, is that right?

Also, what kind of game is Mass Effect and its sequels? Looking for a kind of FEAR/STALKER/MGS5/Crysis type game at the moment, am I barking up the wrong tree with that (and T2)?

mass effect is a bioware rpg, like knights of the old republic crossed w a hasty fps; it's got shooting but i don't think it'd scratch that itch. the bethesda fallouts would be closer, even, i think, and they're nobody's idea of a nice crunchy shooter.

the new DOOM is closer to crysis than to the other games on yr list -- you just shoot stuff and upgrade stuff. a joy to play as long as shooting stuff and upgrading stuff is what you want to do. if you want something more like the complexity, semi-freedom, character dev choices, plot etc of MGS5 or STALKER -- have you played any deus exes?

i think RAGE is an underrated fps -- fallout-style setting w no RPG pretense, shooting shooting shooting, carmack engine.

also mentioning this because mass effect is a pretty old game itself -- if you haven't played half-life 2, half-life 2 is still about as good as linear single-player fps design gets.

Thanks for that. I've tried the first Deus Ex (Human Rev DC) and it didn't grab me, seemed kinda dumb and schlocky - is it worth persisting with? Kinda interested by Doom but is it not a bit one-note? I like the Far Cry-style freedom of Crysis and Doom seems to be that linear style that made me hate the Uncharted series.

Feeling bereft at the moment as Mafia 3 is a load of crap. I'm betting Dishonored 2 will be perfect but it's out of my budget right now. Liked Half Life 2 but not sure if I finished it, got that weird nausea thing playing it but I'll revisit.

And cheers for the Mass Effect warning, will avoid!

I've tried the first Deus Ex (Human Rev DC) and it didn't grab me, seemed kinda dumb and schlocky - is it worth persisting with?

this is the second deus ex actually (first in the recent revival) and yeah it is kinda dumb and schlocky -- if what you mean is, is the plot worth persisting with, no. the fun of playing it does peak in the middle but if you weren't having fun at the beginning i'd guess it's not gonna work for you. the original (PC-only) deus ex is imo a towering masterpiece, of both (broken) mechanics and (schlocky) plot, but it's from 2000 and looks it (actually it looks worse).

Kinda interested by Doom but is it not a bit one-note?

haha, this too is true. it is a satisfying note that is hammered w ever-increasing speed and intensity, tho. i've only played like a fifth of one uncharted but it seemed to be full of cutscenes and pseudointeractive sequences where you press a button to make your guy perform some contextual feat of insane james bondery, and there isn't any of that. it's v much a 90s throwback. nb: i did not finish it, because it was a bit one-note.

rage has some modest open-world stuff actually! also driving. the reviews seemed to wish it had neither but i think part of that may have been them craving fallout. half-life 2 absolutely does not have anything like an open world, but it modulates pace and style and challenge v well.

maybe a borderlands? more experienced people than me could recommend a specific one.

the third actually! the original had an [underwhelming] sequel

oh duh! i've beaten that game, even. memorable.

the fun of playing it does peak in the middle but if you weren't having fun at the beginning i'd guess it's not gonna work for you.

would like to revise this as have just remembered that the very beginning is a long cutscene followed by a bland corridor shooter level followed by a long cutscene. what i meant was the first mission proper, the first time you have to infiltrate a place -- crawling thru ducts, choking out guards etc.. that's when you could be sure whether or not you were interested.

i think the second (new) one is better. i'm near the end and it's well-paced, the levels are interesting [enough], the opening is engaging, the plot is not terrible. it actually gives me some hope that the series will continue to be decent. i'm assuming cyberpunk 2077 blows it away when it comes out but until then and there's never enough cyberpunk RPGs anyway

that is interesting! i used the lukewarm reviews as an excuse to save $60 (then over christmas as an excuse to save $30) but the lukewarm reviews mostly were like "it's more of the same and too short" and that would v likely be the gamecrit reaction to something tightened+refined. will pick it up eventually.

anyway obligatory me being like, BUT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GREATER VIDEO GAME OPENING THAN LIBERTY ISLAND IN DEUS EX (2000) AND IT IS OF OPEN FIELD WEST OF A WHITE HOUSE LEVEL IMPORTANCE.

titanfall 2 is brilliant though the game it's most like in terms of gameplay-loop is probably the original CoD4. the campaign is really surprisingly good but the MP is just stellar

this video gives good summary of the MP beginning at 9:13 (talks about the SP beforehand too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TW3ceuTWEQ&t=615s

long cutscene followed by a bland corridor shooter level followed by a long cutscene

this is exactly right! seemed like every other dumb shooter. i'll give it another hour or so and see the rest picks up. not heard of RAGE so i'll look into that. and yes, loved borderlands. doom seems a bit too straightforward - im guessing it's like CoD where it's kinda fun but it feels like you're on a railway track and mustn't/can't make any deviation.

i've got this quantum break game that sounds interestingish but the whole opening bit of zero fun and constant exposition for what felt like hours has put me off massively. pure deep loathing of anything that relies so heavily on cutscenes and dreary plodding about with no 'game', especially when most games are written so badly when it comes to plot/dialogue. (despite turning out to be crap, mafia 3 does have fairly decent writing behind it, or not offensively bad writing anyway).

have you played the saint's row games?

What games is Titanfall 2 most like? It sounds a bit like Crysis, is that right?

the magic of titanfall 2 (singleplayer anyway, i haven't yet touched the mp) is that it's basically two very different shooters in one. you play as a titan pilot who fights either on foot or in a giant mech bristling with weaponry and both are immensely satisfying in their own right.

on foot you have the ability to chain slides, double-jumps and wall-runs to make graceful lines through levels, which feels super-slick and exciting, and in the mech you're basically unstoppable until you meet another titan, where it becomes more of a cat-and-mouse war of attrition where you have to balance various offensive and defensive powers.

the singleplayer story is pretty straightforward point-a-to-point-b shooter but it's exceptionally well-designed and there is one section, where you have to manipulate time to solve puzzles alongside the shooting, which is genuinely one of the most inventive and delightful fps levels i've ever played. seriously, it's good enough that i'd play a whole game based on that mechanic.