What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I was a knight, just so I could go monster-surfing. Being a wizard sounds pretty cool too.
 
I quite liked Kingdoms of Amalur but never finished it. The combat was fun.
 
Nintendo finally announced that Persona 5 Royal, and Personas 3 and 4, are all coming to Switch. I might actually finish 5R at last!

Aaand . . . NieR:Automata


 
Heia Safari. A game that covers the fighting in East Africa during WW1. Interesting, easy to learn and looks like a boardgame. Reviewers have criticised the AI but I’m pretty hopeless so I should still find it challenging.
Ticks all the boxes for me.
 
I've played Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and it's just excellent. Everything it needs to do, it does really well. A classy product.

Dragon's Dogma is a laugh: much more stupid than Skyrim, and much smaller, but with more impressive combat. The dialogue is terrible, like when Edmund Blackadder ridiculed Shakespeare, and there are no memorable characters, but running about the countryside with my little band of idiot sidekicks is fun. "Mayhap this is ought of use, Master," says my assistant, picking up a small rock from the ground, shortly before we climb up a giant and hit it in the face.
 
Toby, I've been playing Dragon's Dogma too.

Also into Wasteland 3. Whilst post-apocalypse really isn't my favourite setting the game's very well put together (rare bugs aside). XCOM in combat and a great RPG out of it, with plenty of comedy along the way.
 
Bugg said:
Nintendo finally announced that Persona 5 Royal, and Personas 3 and 4, are all coming to Switch. I might actually finish 5R at last!

Aaand . . . NieR:Automata
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I keep hoping Nier doing well will mean we get remastered Drakengard games (esp if they get put onto switch/PC as well).

Though I'm also still waiting to see if Advanced Wars on the Switch ever gets released.
 
Yeah, I've reached what (for me) is uncharted territory. More importantly, I now have a goat following my party.

Interesting that ammo's suddenly starting to become an issue, despite a good mix of differing weapon types. Glad crafting makes it easy to acquire more on the road.
 
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I keep hoping Nier doing well will mean we get remastered Drakengard games (esp if they get put onto switch/PC as well).

Though I'm also still waiting to see if Advanced Wars on the Switch ever gets released.
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Yeah. Also, with Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes coming next year I keep hoping they might port the first two Suikoden games to Switch. Very, very unlikely, especially as they were PS1 games, but I can hope :LOL:
 
Currently playing Jedi Outcast.
Fun game so far and I'm enjoying the story. I'm not a fan of the save point mechanic and the mobs getting respawned every time I save/heal, but what are you gonna do? I have to get used to playing with a controller instead of my usual mouse/keyboard, too.
 
Got myself an Atari Flashback, and really enjoying the old days of hi-scores.

This plays 100-odd Atari 2600 games, including some Activision titles such as Pressure Cooker and my favourite of all time Frost Bite. And on my first go in years I got 100,000 points which I was really pleased about. The thing is that I've played these games on console and using gamepads, and the accuracy of those controllers just isn't sufficient for arcade style games. Having the Flashback, it came with controllers very similar to the original VCS, and I realise now that I haven't lost my hand-eye co-ordination as much as I thought I had - a lot of it was down to simply using a gamepad when I should have been using a joystick. Which was nice.
 
I've been very tempted by the mini-Amiga. The idea of playing Dragon's Breath again is very appealing.

A friend lent me Spider-Man on the PS4. I don't know how good it is, but swinging between the buildings is amazing.

By the way, is the remade version of Fable worth getting? I really like Fable 3.
 
I started playing Citizen Sleeper, a narrative RPG, yesterday and I'm enjoying it so far. My gaming has been heavily restricted due to hurting the tendons on my right hand, so a game where I mostly just have to click a mouse and read is ideal. The story has started strong and the soundtrack is fab, so I'm excited to dig deeper into it. The game seems like it'll reward multiple playthroughs too, which is always nice.
 
Hades. An addictive rogue-like about a rebellious son of Hades trying to flee from the underworld. You have to advance through rooms full of enemies (like any rogue-like) until you leave Hell, but you have to start over when you die.

I had this game installed for quite a while, but some things were keeping me from playing it. Now I can see that it lives up to the hype. I really like the depiction of the gods.
 
Getting quite close to the end of Wasteland 3.

I like the difficulty of a central moral choice when both sides of the argument seem legitimate.
 
There was a sale on at Good Old Games and I bought something called Eye: Divine Cybermancy (?!) for £1. It seems to be a little like Deus Ex, with a slightly Warhammery look, and is badly translated from what might be French. It also seems genuinely interesting, if ridiculously over-complex.

I really like it when computer games try to do something new and interesting: the potential for unusual games and visuals is huge, but I've rarely seen anything better on the screen than a Roger Dean Yes album cover, probably because bigger studios have to play it safe. My hope is that Eye ends up like a more-modern Morrowind, with a different look and feel to the standard big-budget SF and fantasy games. That remains to be seen.
 
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Hmm. Eye is potentially really good, but hampered by an awful interface and an offputting amount of complexity. I have a suspicion that it's really a re-skinned Deus Ex, too. I think it's too baffling to be worth me playing, to be honest, but I'm not angered by it the way I was by Mordheim. I do find it interesting, though, that a game could be released in such a strange state. Didn't someone point out to the developers that it was really hard to play, even down to the inventory screen being too fiddly? It needs one good mod to overhaul it, and it would be a very promising game indeed.
 
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