What games are you currently playing?
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Made a lot of progress in Digimon World Re:Digitize.
I could probably finish the rest of the game with my current Digimon, Darkdramon.
I could probably finish the rest of the game with my current Digimon, Darkdramon.
I'm giving Tales of Zestiria an honest go before I inevitably decide again that Tales games are just not for me. Haven't got a clue why, but none of them I've played have ever just hooked me. But it is serving as a nice distraction from Persona 5, which I can't seem to dive back into after losing three hours of progress because of a power outage and my own being a dumbass who forgets to save.
Other than that, PUBG, Starbound (which I would still kind of like to get a community server up for, even if its main progression doesn't lend itself to multiplayer as well as others like it), CSGO, and the occasional bit of Cities Skylines.
Other than that, PUBG, Starbound (which I would still kind of like to get a community server up for, even if its main progression doesn't lend itself to multiplayer as well as others like it), CSGO, and the occasional bit of Cities Skylines.
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Spoo":1vauzqak said:
Tales of Zestiria is not a good way to get into the Tales series at all. I'd try something else tbh.
Spoo":1vauzqak said:
Star bought PUBG yesterday since he was interested. I wonder if he'll like it. o.o
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Since I beat a JRPG recently, time to go back to Fallout 4 and play for a couple of weeks. Trying to not play it all at once as I'll never get to the other games on my backlog lol.
Started playing The Witcher 3 earlier this month, still at it after 55 hours, not made much story progress in that time, could easily see myself going over 100 hours with the base game alone, and then there's the DLC too since I have the GOTY edition... I don't want to rush myself since I'm having fun taking my time (Although fuck these multiple choice games and shit, I always regret my choices after making them!), but my backlog still exists, it's still huge, it still consists mainly of time consuming RPG's, and it will NEVER disappear.
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I'm going to be leaving my laptop at home this weekend and take my PSP on a trip with me. That's where most of my backlog is.
I left off playing Mana Khemia at some point last summer, or was it 2 summers ago?
Oh wait. I forgot I moved my old save files to my computer to make room for Digimon World.
Guess I'll replay Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep. I hate that I've only played it once. But I never pull my psp out when I'm home.
I left off playing Mana Khemia at some point last summer, or was it 2 summers ago?
Oh wait. I forgot I moved my old save files to my computer to make room for Digimon World.
Guess I'll replay Kingdom Hearts: Birth by sleep. I hate that I've only played it once. But I never pull my psp out when I'm home.
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I got a few new trophies while playing Atelier Totori. Got the normal ending. There's a lot of character endings in this game, but they require a lot of event flags and multiple playthroughs.
Idk, I'm really bad at these types of games that require time management. I end up spending all my time in the workshop or traveling - that I'll miss events, and deadlines. I almost got this "fishing" event where you need A ship, a rod, a certain character, a certain fruit, and be on an island at the end of the month. I had everything, landed on the island, then Totori says "My licence expires today" and it's the end of the game. Life simulators are weird.
So now I got to do it all over again.
Idk, I'm really bad at these types of games that require time management. I end up spending all my time in the workshop or traveling - that I'll miss events, and deadlines. I almost got this "fishing" event where you need A ship, a rod, a certain character, a certain fruit, and be on an island at the end of the month. I had everything, landed on the island, then Totori says "My licence expires today" and it's the end of the game. Life simulators are weird.
So now I got to do it all over again.
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So I have watched this documentary a while back about clockwork automata, the French revolution, and a science fiction novel from 1770's that compared the Aristocratic regime to soulless automata in lace. I had never heard of these connections before, but I can see how it could inspire some of my favorite games.
The most obvious one is Final Fantasy 13. The fal'Cie are essentially crystal automata governing humans. I feel like I can appreciate the story a little better with that context as a frame of reference. The message was that machines make efficient rulers but only humans have the capacity to change themselves - so don't leave society in the hands of machines or it'll never change. Duh, it sounds so obvious. But FF13 was just that bad, it muddled the message. FF13-2 had an omen machine and it own sort of cycles it needed to break. While Lightning's Return was essentially winding down, as the god tried to collect soul seeds, because it's souls that make his creations work.
Another favorite game of mine is Threads of Fate a.k.a. Dewprism. It's another kind of Clockwork Crystal. And now I'm seeing that the the "dolls" should have been more appropriately name "automata" since the magician workshops used the French word Ateliers. The game's story about following a pre programmed destiny or your own.
Then I thought - wait. These weren't written by the same guy, where they? They ARE!
Daisuke Watanabe.
He also wrote FFX and FFXII. More stories about a escaping the machine. FFX didn't have clockwork or crystals - but it did have a perpetual cycle and Yu Yevon was essentially an automata that controlled humans.
FF12 had a secret ruling race guiding humanity with crystals too. And Revenant Wings was another perpetual cycle that used human souls to animate it.
He worked on FF13, then FF12, then back to FF13. That might explain why FF13 stumbled, he didn't work in the middle bits.
He also wrote for Kingdom Hearts, and souls in FF13 Lightning's Return seem to be the same concept of a different name.
Edit: So anyways, I'm wanting to replay Threads of Fate and try to guess at the Sequel that was never made. The trends and patterns are all there. I have to wonder if one of these other games he wrote wasn't just a recycled Threads of Fate 2 plot. That would blow my mind.
The most obvious one is Final Fantasy 13. The fal'Cie are essentially crystal automata governing humans. I feel like I can appreciate the story a little better with that context as a frame of reference. The message was that machines make efficient rulers but only humans have the capacity to change themselves - so don't leave society in the hands of machines or it'll never change. Duh, it sounds so obvious. But FF13 was just that bad, it muddled the message. FF13-2 had an omen machine and it own sort of cycles it needed to break. While Lightning's Return was essentially winding down, as the god tried to collect soul seeds, because it's souls that make his creations work.
Another favorite game of mine is Threads of Fate a.k.a. Dewprism. It's another kind of Clockwork Crystal. And now I'm seeing that the the "dolls" should have been more appropriately name "automata" since the magician workshops used the French word Ateliers. The game's story about following a pre programmed destiny or your own.
Then I thought - wait. These weren't written by the same guy, where they? They ARE!
Daisuke Watanabe.
He also wrote FFX and FFXII. More stories about a escaping the machine. FFX didn't have clockwork or crystals - but it did have a perpetual cycle and Yu Yevon was essentially an automata that controlled humans.
FF12 had a secret ruling race guiding humanity with crystals too. And Revenant Wings was another perpetual cycle that used human souls to animate it.
He worked on FF13, then FF12, then back to FF13. That might explain why FF13 stumbled, he didn't work in the middle bits.
He also wrote for Kingdom Hearts, and souls in FF13 Lightning's Return seem to be the same concept of a different name.
Edit: So anyways, I'm wanting to replay Threads of Fate and try to guess at the Sequel that was never made. The trends and patterns are all there. I have to wonder if one of these other games he wrote wasn't just a recycled Threads of Fate 2 plot. That would blow my mind.
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I've been playing a lot of Crashlands lately. I quite like it, even if it's inadequate to say it's closest comparison is Don't Starve. It's really funny too, with humor that reminds me of Battleblock Theater...if Battleblock was a bit more vulgar.
The only nitpick is that for a crafting and sandbox-esque game, I dislike how story driven it is, especially mostly because there's the negative design choice of gating vital progression recipes like a pickaxe or new crafting station behind a main storyline quest. It sort of takes away from the whole massive open-world sandbox thing it has going here, since you can only do so much exploration or resource mining until you're forced to do a quest to get something vital.
I was also playing some Stardew Valley on the sides, despite being so late to it. I feel like I've gotten burnt out on it, either because I can only find enough time to only play a day or two before I go back to busy or just the effect of learning not to play it a bunch in a single hour or two. Still a great game, though.
The only nitpick is that for a crafting and sandbox-esque game, I dislike how story driven it is, especially mostly because there's the negative design choice of gating vital progression recipes like a pickaxe or new crafting station behind a main storyline quest. It sort of takes away from the whole massive open-world sandbox thing it has going here, since you can only do so much exploration or resource mining until you're forced to do a quest to get something vital.
I was also playing some Stardew Valley on the sides, despite being so late to it. I feel like I've gotten burnt out on it, either because I can only find enough time to only play a day or two before I go back to busy or just the effect of learning not to play it a bunch in a single hour or two. Still a great game, though.
Fayte":3dicda4a said:
That game is just like the Terminator 2 movie. Everything after it sucked ass no matter how hard they tried.
Capcom needs to stop messing around. MvC3 was lame. MvC4 has no X-Men. LOL. Can we just have MvC2 part 2? XD.
I'm playing space empires 4 right now. A great complicated game.
Hybrida":275f1jye said:
Dude I feel this 1000% you may or may not be my spirit animal. I hate all this dumb gimmick shit. X-Factor and gems? Lame. This isn't power stone. Only reason I have it is because my friends PS4 is connected to mine so whatever he gets I get.. so I got it for free.
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Ys Origin for PS4.
Had a game of CS:GO today, haven't played it in many, many months (maybe even an entire year?) and I'm just as good as when I stopped playing it seems, I was worried I'd be terrible, but nope I was #1 on scoreboard consistently.
Noticed that the other players were a bit pants, though. Aiming at floor, not hearing very loud/obvious footsteps from enemy, taking a moment before spotting an enemy to actually shoot, aiming out in the open rather than at edges of corners where the enemy would logically come from.
Noticed that the other players were a bit pants, though. Aiming at floor, not hearing very loud/obvious footsteps from enemy, taking a moment before spotting an enemy to actually shoot, aiming out in the open rather than at edges of corners where the enemy would logically come from.