henke on 27/4/2020 at 15:52
Playing:
Cloudpunk - Hover-car delivery driver adventure thingy. It's more about the experience than the challenge, which is perfectly fine. I like games where you're just a person doing a job, and this is that. You run into some interesting characters, and it's got a gorgeous rain-soaked voxel-aesthetic.
Train Valley 2 - I liked the original Train Valley so much I made (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyjg2_EpbQ) a timelapse video out of it. The sequel expands on the train-management-puzzle formula in some interesting ways. No longer are you just sending trains between different colored stations, now there's more logic behind the transports and more challnging win-conditions. You have to send workers from the cities to factories and mines, and then the mined materials to factories, then the resulting product to yet another factory which also needs workers, then the finished products back to the cities. A solid entry in the LOGISTICS PUZZLES genre.
Days Gone - Still playing this, it's my big weekend game now. This game just goes on forever, man. It's... fine. If you're sad TLOU2 is delayed, this'll provide the same stealth-action thrills and American post-apoc ambiance, tho it won't have the same story-impact or interesting characters.
DarkForge on 28/4/2020 at 09:06
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Haven't played much in around a year (finished Shadow Warrior 2, which was fun, can't remember if I posted it here) but I've been dinking around a bit in Murdered Soul Suspect. It's....kinda shit. It's basically 'wander around annoying environments and click on things' and then it throws up puzzles that are so simple it actually makes them harder. For instance, it will say "what would jog so and so's memory about the murder?" and you have a bunch of related info but the one it wants is literally called "THE MURDER". So I keep actually spending time thinking about the questions when the game goes out of its way to punish thinking about them. Weird shit.
Ah, Murdered: Soul Suspect. I played that not too long ago; yeah the game pretty much holds your hand the entire way through and it really doesn't take a lot of brainpower to do the so-called "detective work". A shame that it was so simplistic. In its defence though, the actual story was good and it was the strength of that which saw me through to the end. If it were ever made into a TV show or something, I'd probably end up really enjoying it.
sean121 on 28/4/2020 at 12:30
I am playing Shovel knight. Did anyone hear of this game?
Tony_Tarantula on 28/4/2020 at 13:20
I need a recommendation for a good JRPG.
Preferably not anything too weird or emo (like nu-square). I'm looking for a good old fashioned, globe-trotting adventure like we used to get from classic square games and from more recent "retro style" games like Blue Dragon.
Jason Moyer on 29/4/2020 at 06:54
Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky
Edit: Er, that's a recommendation and not what I'm currently playing.
Renault on 30/4/2020 at 19:50
Death Stranding - One of the stranger games I've ever played. I sat down just to do all introductory cutscene BS (which granted, considering who made the game, I knew it might take a while), and pow, 4 hours disappeared like that.
I'm still not sure exactly what happened during those 4 hours, but I'm intrigued enough to keep going, that's for sure.
Anarchic Fox on 1/5/2020 at 04:47
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
I need a recommendation for a good JRPG.
Are action-JRPGS okay? If so, I highly recommend
Crosscode. I've also heard good things about
Dragon Quest XI, but haven't got around to playing it yet.
Sulphur on 1/5/2020 at 05:38
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky
More like Legend of Heroes:
ChemTrails in the Sky
Renzatic on 1/5/2020 at 05:42
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky
Edit: Er, that's a recommendation and not what I'm currently playing.
There's Bravely Default II if you've got a Switch. I played the demo, and it's about as throwback to oldschool Final Fantasy as you can get.
Dragon Quest IX is also good. Make sure you play it with the extra hard enemies, and no experience from monsters after you're so many levels above them modifiers. Otherwise, it becomes something of an easy slog through pushover enemies.
Both of these are Squeenix games, sure, but they adhere to their roots far more than their more emo-y stuff.
Taffer_91 on 3/5/2020 at 10:24
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
I need a recommendation for a good JRPG.
Preferably not anything too weird or emo (like nu-square). I'm looking for a good old fashioned, globe-trotting adventure like we used to get from classic square games and from more recent "retro style" games like Blue Dragon.
Final Fantasy IX is what comes to mind for me, but I'd imagine you played that already judging by your post.
I would also recommend Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (preferably with the Hardtype hack) but that does fall into the “weird” category of JRPG's. Still, if you ever want to try something different I highly recommend it.
Anyway, been playing Thief Gold and even downgraded it to TDP to try out the levels as they were before Gold.