What have you been playing lately?

[DragonMals]

The rules of this thread are simple: Post what video game you're currently playing, what platform you're playing it on, and what you think of it. Feel free to comment on the choices of your fellow members, too.

Ive been playing WarioWare: Twisted! For the GameBoy Advance. What i think of it? Its one of the best games on the GameBoy Advance, thats for sure! They took every aspect of both the GameCube Mega Party Games and the first GBA entry and put tons of effort into it. Its the first WarioWare game Ive felt compelled to play and finish, and its also home to one of the best songs in the entire game: Mona Pizza! (Although I kinda like the lower octave version of the song than the original higher one featured in the Japanese version and Smash Brawl)

A lot of people are saying that its hard to play the game nowadays but they fail to realize that phones are capable of gryoscope control and that with emulators like MyBoy and Delta, they can run the game on the fly with little to no issues at all. Now for a physical perspective.... good luck.

 

[scottelot]

I'm currently playing Super Robot Wars Z for the PS2! I've been quite enjoying it!

 

[JackNoir413]

i've been playing persona 4 golden and sonic adventure DX both on pc.
On persona 4 i can say its definitely better directed than persona 3 was, and as a persona3 fan it hurts to admit that p4 is way more engaging in gameplay and writing. So far im at naoto's dungeon and my favorite character is yosuke because he's so real he's just so real.

Sonic adventure is pretty fun so far but its a stalker situation where im really liking it but i cant defend it. the plot sucks the voice acting sucks the levels are all over the place but you start the game and its fun i cant explain it. i beat the tails story about 15 minutes ago and his gameplay was pretty dope i really liked what they did with his flying gimmick.

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I need to hop on BoF so badly, I LOVE the artstyle from it

they're pretty good. 4 is the best one imo but all of them are fun(before 5 anyways, i didnt play that one yet).
if you play bof3 it has the same issues with loading times on the ps1 that chrono trigger had. if you can look past that its really good.

 

[CaptainToad]

I've been playing the Elden Ring DLC on PS4 on and off for the past like 4 months. Since Halloween, I guess. I went to it just before the end of the main game, which was possibly a mistake. The main game is so long and to unlock the DLC is so late in the game that it's awkward to play due to the weird pacing it adds. I really wish games would try to integrate DLC into the main game better if they're going to do it so often.

Also finally started the PS4 remake of Shadow Of The Colossus. The original game, or specifically the PS3 release, is one of my favourite games ever. I do find this remake, outside what the human characters look like so far, very beautiful. I think it clashes with the thematics the original had where the land felt kinda' empty and sad, which made the rides to the colossi a nice counterpoint to the intensity of the colossi fights. But I really, really like how looking down at the river from the castle-area looks, so many other places look and feel so pretty. I wish other games could have worlds like this (Elden Ring's DLC comes close, maybe).

Also been doing a daily playthrough of LSD: Dream Emulator on PS1 where I play one in-game day each real-life day until I beat the game by the end of the year. 21 says in so far and it's already getting repetitive. Not sure if I'd find it better if I binged it for hours at a time for a couple weeks compared to how I'm playing it.

 

[Anonicus]

Mostly been playing Freedom Wars Remastered and Mario Kart Double Dash.

Freedom Wars is REALLY fun but very dialogue heavy at times.

Double Dash feels so weird to play to me. I understand the appeal of two player tag team with special abilities that kart drivers can have is actually really cool, But that Driving is so... Not great LOL.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I've actually been playing some Castlevania: Rondo of Blood on the TurboGrafx-16 lately. It's just...perfect. Incredibly consistent from beginning to end, well-crafted...and it just quite never stopped being quite the looker. The art style aged marvelously. Hard to believe it's been over 30 years since its release. Love it.

No wonder ther next game in the series was a direct sequel to it and the psp got a collection of both, it mustve been a big deal in japan

 

[zacharinolongpants]

My goal this year is to blast through as many PS1 and PS2 games as possible. We'll, particularly ones I never finished as a kid, or ones that had my interest but never really played. I just finished Xenosaga III, and I'm making my way through Breath of Fire 3 now. I want to start Grandia 3, as I've beaten the first two and loved them, but I'm going to try to keep it down to one RPG at a time lol.

I AM playing something not "retro" and that would be Pentiment, which is one of the coolest games I've ever played.

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No wonder ther next game in the series was a direct sequel to it and the psp got a collection of both, it mustve been a big deal in japan

I think Rondo is my fave Castlevania tied with IV. Love the atmosphere, visuals, and music. It's pretty damn tough, too.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

My goal this year is to blast through as many PS1 and PS2 games as possible. We'll, particularly ones I never finished as a kid, or ones that had my interest but never really played. I just finished Xenosaga III, and I'm making my way through Breath of Fire 3 now. I want to start Grandia 3, as I've beaten the first two and loved them, but I'm going to try to keep it down to one RPG at a time lol.

I AM playing something not "retro" and that would be Pentiment, which is one of the coolest games I've ever played.

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I think Rondo is my fave Castlevania tied with IV. Love the atmosphere, visuals, and music. It's pretty damn tough, too.

I wanna get through all the ps2 rpgs too but it's opretty damn hard to find the time haha

I did get trough Koudelka and Shadow Hearts 1 and loved them

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I wanna get through all the ps2 rpgs too but it's opretty damn hard to find the time haha

I did get trough Koudelka and Shadow Hearts 1 and loved them

Yeah it's a slow endeavor. Grinding out work and balancing other hobbies means I probably have around four or five hours a week to do any gaming right now. But that's been awesome because too much time can give me a sort of option paralysis or I just hop between too many titles. Now I know if I want to beat a long game, I need to pick a lane and stay there, which helps me actually focus and sink into the game better anyway. It took me like a whole year to beat the most recent Xenoblade Chronicles this way lmao.

I do want to give Koudelka another shot eventually. Somehow, I never got around to Shadow Hearts but it seems like my time of game as well.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Yeah it's a slow endeavor. Grinding out work and balancing other hobbies means I probably have around four or five hours a week to do any gaming right now. But that's been awesome because too much time can give me a sort of option paralysis or I just hop between too many titles. Now I know if I want to beat a long game, I need to pick a lane and stay there, which helps me actually focus and sink into the game better anyway. It took me like a whole year to beat the most recent Xenoblade Chronicles this way lmao.

I do want to give Koudelka another shot eventually. Somehow, I never got around to Shadow Hearts but it seems like my time of game as well.

Koudelka despite being a wopping 4 discs you can finish in a day or two, it's an awesome mix of Biohazard and RPGs, and has some of the most violent things Ive seen on ps1 (an old lady shootsherself with a rifle and a girl can get her face melted off!) plus it has motion capture! Its quite surreal to see psx models move like that

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Koudelka despite being a wopping 4 discs you can finish in a day or two, it's an awesome mix of Biohazard and RPGs, and has some of the most violent things Ive seen on ps1 (an old lady shootsherself with a rifle and a girl can get her face melted off!) plus it has motion capture! Its quite surreal to see psx models move like th

Koudelka despite being a wopping 4 discs you can finish in a day or two, it's an awesome mix of Biohazard and RPGs, and has some of the most violent things Ive seen on ps1 (an old lady shootsherself with a rifle and a girl can get her face melted off!) plus it has motion capture! Its quite surreal to see psx models move like that

Oh wow you have me very interested in getting Koudelka going soon. I remember it having a really distinct mood and liking what I played, but it's been a super long time. Sounds unhinged and ambitious - as a good rpg should be lol

 

[homesforgnomes]

I'm finishing up a playthrough of Vagrant Story. I love the atmosphere and story of this game. Probably tied with Threads of Fate for best cutscene direction on the PS1, too.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I'm finishing up a playthrough of Vagrant Story. I love the atmosphere and story of this game. Probably tied with Threads of Fate for best cutscene direction on the PS1, too.

I haven't beaten Vagrant Story yet but it's on my list for games to beat this year. I've started it so many times and always get distracted. Not again! This next run will be the run lol

 

[Somnia]

Finally got around to playing The Order 1886 and wow, I'm still disappointed and I didn't even pay for it! All these years I've let its somewhat cult classic status as "a cool game if you didn't pay $60" convince me that I'd enjoy the thrillride whilst appreciating its production values. Sure, I did in fact appreciate just how gorgeous it is 11 years later but I was shocked at just how lifeless the gameplay and world are outside of raw fidelity.

The story was definitely cool as many defenders seem to say and the setting is a dream come true but the story we have feels like a prologue rather than a full entry in a potential series. Having it end so abruptly and with such a bizarre amount of cliffhangers doesn't really help matters.

What a shame...

 

[fake-kun]

MMBN5DS will never let me go...

 

[Perseonn]

I'm about to jump to Metaphor ReFantazio, last RPG I played before that was Dragon Age The Veilguard, and I played Gunslinger Girl vol 1-3 and Until Dawn in order to avoid RPG fatigue.

Kirby and the Forgotten World beckons tho, but Metaphor first. Chores has to be done before getting reward

 

[DanCalibur]

My gaming year hasn't started yet?. I'm just doing post game quests and grotos on DQ9 and fishing/fossil hunting on Animal Crossing GC.

 

[PhrawzT]

Got back into the Hitman trilogy on the PS5 to complete the miscellaneous challenges that I did not do when I first played through over the last couple years.

 

[Deean]

I'm currently in a mood for playing Koei's musou games.
A few days ago i finished Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires to get all of the ending.An underrated DW Game IMO.

now i'm replaying Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends on PS3.
While they fixes some of the problem from the vanilla version(duplicate officer and frame drops),the game adds some minor gameplay change that made it less fun than the vanilla DW8.