General Game Comment Thread. What are YOU Playing Today?

[WarmSignal]

Different daylight setting I've seen in Daytona CE (J) and it was only cosmetic, so nothing that added to replay.

It breaks the monotony of running the same tracks again and again. I think daylight settings (or cycles in modern games) is almost essential to any racer that you're going to be spending a lot of time with. My favorite rally game Top Gear Rally has all manner of daylight settings, rain, fog, even snow which does effect the handling.

Never!

But I get it. It's not about of who's right or wrong, but this is simply a clash of philosophies regarding games. I'm an arcade enthusiast, so a high-quality arcade racer like Sega Rally suits me just fine: very easy to learn; hard to master. I can play it for 5 minutes or an hour and it will be always a time very well spent.

"How can I improve my time?" or "what's the best way to make this turn?" - the tracks and the game itself is like a puzzle and I need to find the most appropriate solutions. This is what I most love about games and that's why a quality port like Sega Rally on the Saturn suits me just fine.

Have you tried the japanese version of Daytona CCE ? It's Daytona with that extra content that you talked about.

I'll keep my eyes open for High Velocity; I really like racing games even though I don't like driving lol

I haven't. I do understand the challenge you're talking about in regards to arcade racing, it's just that there are other titles which present similar challenges with difficulty modes and those games have a lot more content overall. I guess I prefer a game that can keep me engaged for hours, by offering plenty of variables to break up the repetitiveness of just one puzzle. This is where racing sims also fail, ironically, in being too overthought and too slow paced to be fun.

[The Jackal]

Dying Light. As zombie survival games go, this one actually is pretty damn good.

[Bottino]

Ah, the joy of having Deathsmiles running on my prehistoric laptop

[cleeg]

I have a Wii, and a recently bought, yet to be tried Wavebird control pad. Which version of Metroid Prime is recommended: Wii or GameCube? I have never played any of these games before, but this title is piquing my interest...

[DrunkenHigh]

The Suffering(PS2) in short chunks. Not a bad gory horror TPS/FPS. Just a little samey at times. Have no idea where the story is going.

[Thief]

Dark Souls III



Mostly PVP around the swamp PVP hotspot area and some progress through the catacombs. Smoked a few puffs of a joint halfway through and played some more.

[Raijin Z]

Terranigma, in bits and pieces, and cycling between Final Fantasy 4, 5, and 6. Really just seeing how useful my Super Everdrive is.

[midnightrider]

The reason I haven't been around as much(aside from moving a bunch within a 2 year span), is that I got a bunch of games for the handhelds recently. Well, just River City: Rival Showdown for the 3DS(much prefer Tokyo Rumble to be honest), the rest were for the Vita, and I was dumb enough to make most of 'em RPG's(no random battle, menu based crap though). I'd like the Vita more, but it needs more action oriented games for physical releases, instead of RPG's and Visual Novels. Anyway, hopefully it'll be soon(I've at least seen a credit sequence in every game), but once I'm done, I'm done with modern-ish gaming on the whole(give or take a potential physical release here or there), and going back to emulating some Genesis on the Raspberry Pi.

[Thief]

Don't you have a platform to play one of the Dark Souls or Bloodborne games, midnightrider? It's old school classic Japanese gaming action at it's finest. Considering how we all grew up on classic Japanese action gaming I'm amazed so many here haven't played this series.

[midnightrider]

Nah, the only reason I have the handhelds is the cartridge-like format(well, I didn't even want them, but I got the 3DS as a Christmas gift, and then I saw the Vita had Dragon's Crown, which was ultimately not what I was expecting, but not terrible either, plus a MK game and UMvC3). I hate discs. A lot.

I will say though, if I did get a modern console, the PS4 would have my eye(Fire Pro World, which I'm sure is digital, which is something else I'm not terribly fond of, and I am aware of the Arkham-like Spider-Man game), but I really don't want to put up with discs ever again.

Plus modern gaming is more time consuming than I want to deal with as well. I like a game I can beat in an afternoon.

[Mad Moham]

I've had a GBA for a long time, but for the first time ever I just tried a Pokémon game (Emerald). Great game, I wish I had tried Pokémon sooner.

[DrunkenHigh]

Asking for a recommendation because I really don't want to start a meaningless topic for it. What's a good space combat game I can sink my teeth into for consoles PS1/N64 and reverse? Or PSP/DS and reverse if they exist?

I liked Shadow Squadron for 32X but found the ship selection to be weird. With managing energy reserves or whatever on the best ship.

I played Colony Wars before but found the way you need to switch weapons to lower a shield and then again to kill ships odd and cumbersome. And it was too hard with dumb escort missions and rare save points.

[Thief]

Some DSIII, like some progress through Irithyll of the Boreal Valley and the boss fight. But lost interest near start of next area. ... Still, seem to have over 60 hours into this game anyway, since most of it was exploring some PVP through wanting to complete all covenant challenges. Only one more covenant to complete (30 kills to max out covenant rank), which I can begin in this area I'm in as soon as I reach that room under the long ladder.

None of these covenants give out trophies, not that I ever play for trophies, but it was an interesting observation. Guess they don't allow online trophies for games with both online and offline so not to upset players being forced to play online (as if there's any other way to truly experience these games).

[BubsyFan1]

My girlfriend and I imported our characters from Champions of Norrath to Champions: Return to Arms. There is this lady at the beginning, and not only is her dialog and voice acting ridiculous, so are her movements and mannerisms. She is completely over the top B-movie status. They went all out, and if they keep this up, this will easily be my favorite hack and slash that I have played recently.

[Allard]

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

I love me some Assassin's Creed and I love me some Victorian London, so it was a match made in heaven for me... a pity all the great stuff is in DLCs, but the base game is a good time.