Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 42: Oct 17th - Oct 23rd, 2022)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I am at the final chapter of Judgment. Very tempting to just rush to the ending, but without main story motivation I would never be able to finish the optional stuff, so it is best to hold off until I have completed most of the side content. Already done with the baseball center. Going after the girls and arcades next.

Also started on the Witness. Good change of pace from Judgment. The game looks gorgeous on the deck.

 

[Kvik]

I've finished with Trails from Zero over the weekend (more on that in the OT later), so it's time to tackle the next blitz game, Lightning Returns.

Also continuing my reading of Never 7. I relented and consulted a flowchart since I didn't get the route I want.

 

[ExistentialThought]

Almost easier to say all the games I keep putting off playing all of them

I have been playing the following:
DJMax Respect V - Season 7 dropped this month and it is my favorite rhythm game of all time

Warhammer 40k: Darktide Beta - Technically the beta is ending on the 16th/17th, but the game went from low to high interest. If they can improve performance, I might have grab it day 1. Reallyyy enjoyed Vermintide, but skipped over Vermintide II.

Dome Keeper - Interesting game, not sure how long I will play it, but seems like it has an addicting loop.

Cultic - Only tried a bit and then had some family duties to attend to, but game seems really good.
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Later this week I plan on nabbing P5R though I need to have a serious heart-to-heart with my love of JRPGs and ask myself if I will ever finish one ever, since I keep starting them and never finish them *cough* Trails from Zero *cough*

 

[curi0usBystander]

Vampire survivors, shit's addicting.

Also continuing my Trails from Zero.

 

[Li Kao]

Uh, so let’s not list all the games I started and listed in prior threads, cutting to the chase.

Persona 4 Golden is a given. I’m past where I dropped it years ago and want to see what’s coming. On the downside it’s also boring and the dating sim gameplay stresses me the fuck out. I have very high regard for Persona 3, but I’m not sure that’s a template that warrants a whole series.

Other than that I don’t know, there are obviously the metric ton of games I started but this week has a few new releases that interest me.
I should also really play Cultic, but as I’ve played Dusk and Amid Evil back to back, I’m a little full in the shooting people in the face front.

 

[LEANIJA]

Dark Souls III

 

[Cacher]

I forgot to do online checkin after updating Proton Experimental, so I can only launch Retroarch on the deck during commuting today. Played a bit of Super Mario RPG. The graphics, the Shimomura music, the charm... I was extremely sleepy after a 12-hour work day, but the game blows my sleepiness away.

This game is just timeless. So good.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I'm still playing DEATHLOOP and juggling the new Forza Horizon 5 update and Need For Speed: Heat. I may also keep playing Humankind but this week will be a bit hectic to juggle different games.

 

[Parsnip]

I finished Paradise Killer, just need to check a few things about it and its structure that I'm curious about before uninstalling.

After that I might install the first AC Chronicles game, China.

 

[Ascheroth]

Same as last week and the week before: Trails from Zero and Genshin.
Slowly working my way forwards in the former, but I'm currently also binging a really cool webnovel, so reading time eats quite a bit into gaming time

 

[Parsnip]

I cleaned up Paradise Killer and poked at the mechanics a bit to know what I wanted to know.
I was curious if the guilty people were fully predetermined, or if the game would mold the results based on who you accuse. By which I mean that if for example I accuse Acid for killing K. HX, the game would switch to an "Acid guilty" path and she would confess. But nope, no confession. So there's only really one real truth, you just have the choice of which parts of that truth you are presenting to the judge.

Definitely neat.

 

[Prodigy]

Going through Plague Tale on Gamepass, really enjoying it (adored the first as well)
Replaying Wolfenstein the new order for like the third time before starting the second game.

Going to start the new call of duty campaign later today. First time i have bought a cod day1 in years.(Weirdly glad Gotham Knights isn't scoring as high as it makes me glad I skipped it for this).

 

[Li Kao]

Going through Plague Tale on Gamepass, really enjoying it (adored the first as well)
Replaying Wolfenstein the new order for like the third time before starting the second game.

Going to start the new call of duty campaign later today. First time i have bought a cod day1 in years.(Weirdly glad Gotham Knights isn't scoring as high as it makes me glad I skipped it for this).

I'm interested in the new COD, but I just can't justify the price they demand for it

 

[Prodigy]

I'm interested in the new COD, but I just can't justify the price they demand for it

Yeah I had some refund money that was sitting in my Steam account, which made it seem better in price (even though its still all my money).
I really enjoyed the open beta, there seems to be a lot of content in the game, I think that all helped.

 

[FunnyJay]

BTW, regarding HITMAN 3.... I never bought HITMAN 1 GOTY (just had the regular full release), and never bought the HITMAN 1 GOTY upgrade for HITMAN 2, but for some reason, IOI decided that I could get the HITMAN 1 GOTY access pass for HITMAN 3 anyway.

Not complaining, just confused.

 

[Stevey]

Replaying Max Payne

 

[Parsnip]

Been playing AC Chronicles China. It's a bit strange that to get the best score (and most upgrades) you can only kill your targets. Like, in the mainline games your body count must be in the thousands, here there are missions you don't kill anyone if you actually want to play it "right".

Also it's kind of wild that Ubisoft just disables achiements/core challenges for "legacy" titles. Like, sure, this isn't the newest game, but I just looked it up and AC Odyssey is considered a legacy title now. That's like 4 years old game. Somehow they couldn't figure out how to make all the older titles work in Ubisoft Connect I guess, surely some kind of translation layer from Uplay or Ubi Club to Connect would have been possible, but nope, they just disabled it all instead.
They really just don't give a fuck.

 

[Cacher]

I started playing Poison Control on the Switch lately. A janky third person shooter made by Nippon Ichi that will probably never port to PC. The performance is solid in most area, but once I reached the first boss fight, the game started to stutter, and honestly I haven't seen stutter so bad since Mass Effect 1 on the 360. The game literally froze for 0.5 second every few seconds and it nearly made the fight unwinnable.

On the other hand, I really like the soundtrack, and the writing is mediocre but also interesting at times. Overall I like the game. Going to keep playing it.

 

[spiel]

Procrastinating on 7 Billion Humans because the cloud save didn't sync and I'm too lazy to launch the original device I was playing on. Started Control and wow, this game oozes style. I'm constantly dying because I pick up explody things then accidentally launch them into my own face. But eh, despite all those dumb deaths, it's been a blast so far.