What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

I think people didn't know what to expect, you're right. Towerfall is a great game but it isn't immediately obvious that a platformer from the towerfall designer would be great.

Somebody upload Dunkeys review if Celeste here. Barnes will love it

All thIs talk of Shadow of the Colossus might get a Ken B to appear from the wild!!

He liked it:

Rolling along on Monster Hunter World. Tonight I killed my first Anjanath. That is essentially a fire-breathing T-Rex. He took a lot of effort to defeat, but I got some sweet new dual blades out of him. If I kill one more I can get a sick new helmet.

This game is really cool, once you get past the learning curve, which is still steep. Player guides online will help a lot.

Tempted by MH World. But I don't have a playstation 4 regularly so it isn't a good fit. Nor do I play with others very often which I hear is a key.

I've been playing Darkest Dungeon. I'd recommend returning to it if you played it before and liked it but it was just too much. They added a new difficulty, "Radiant," which is not quite so ballbusting. It's still permadeath, all that, but it gives you more experience, people develop faster, and there is more treasure in the game. Great game.

Finally starting the Nathan Drake collection on PS4 I got several moons ago.
It is a great remaster of the PS3 games so far. Not quite as good as uncharted 4 since that is an actual PS4 game, but they do put the PS3 versions to shame.
Now that I have all 5 uncharted games, I think ill dedicate my time to them. The hullabaloo surrounding them seems to be on point.

I do play them on the easiest setting, since I'm more in it as an interactive movie, than a challenging video game. They definitely satisfy.

I played Missle Command at a retro arcade/pinball museum in Asbury Park today.

35 years on and I still totally suck at this game.

At least I didn't pinch that fleshy area below my thumb between the roller ball and the cabinet this time. As I recall, that would hurt like a bitch.

Gary Sax wrote: Tempted by MH World. But I don't have a playstation 4 regularly so it isn't a good fit. Nor do I play with others very often which I hear is a key.

I've probably sunk over 100 hours into various MH games over the years, mostly with 80 hours on MH4. I've never once played multiplayer, and I've liked it a lot. The thing you just need to realize is that once you get deep enough into the game, it'll eventually start pushing you into MP by making all available quests virtually impossible to solo. So you may not be able to play solo forever, but usually that point is past the 100 hour mark, which is, like, a shit ton of game, so I don't mind.

There's nothing quite like slamming a fire-breathing t-rex to the ground by bashing it in the face with a hammer that's bigger than you are.

Yeah, the lance and gun lance are calling me as a defensive dark souls player.

I have yet to venture into MP in Monster Hunter World. I have around 22 hours in, I think. I have just hit a wall in my ability to defeat the next challenge (the asshole inflatable bat creature). I suspect I may need to trade in my dual blades for a switch-axe.

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I'm trying out Descent II and wow, this is a great game! It takes some time to get used to it and I'm certain my joystick doesn't work correctly but it's fun, I'm using joystick for throttle/sideways movement, mouse for aiming which feels right but seems worse than using two joysticks (The game doesn't have mouselook). I expected it to be more Doom-like but it actually has a completely different feel and is designed very differently.

The best thing about this, however, is not the game. Is the fact that I've been gaming "seriously" again. I played for about an hour, hour and a half and it was more fun, more interesting and more fulfilling than hours of browsing the internet or checking up the first 5 minutes of games for five hours. I'm very glad to be playing this way again.

I actually streamed myself playing and Jeb even came around to say hi.

I remember playing DESCENT (2?) in my RA's room at University. God I am old. Anyway, we would play that and X-WING vs TIE FIGHTER for hours on end on his decent-for-the-time setup. Maybe sneak over to the Physics lab where we had AppleTalk'd some LCIIIs together for MARATHON deathmatches.

Of late, I got SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY and it's just unimaginably good, as you all know.

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I'm trying out Descent II and wow, this is a great game! It takes some time to get used to it and I'm certain my joystick doesn't work correctly but it's fun, I'm using joystick for throttle/sideways movement, mouse for aiming which feels right but seems worse than using two joysticks (The game doesn't have mouselook). I expected it to be more Doom-like but it actually has a completely different feel and is designed very differently.

The best thing about this, however, is not the game. Is the fact that I've been gaming "seriously" again. I played for about an hour, hour and a half and it was more fun, more interesting and more fulfilling than hours of browsing the internet or checking up the first 5 minutes of games for five hours. I'm very glad to be playing this way again.

I actually streamed myself playing and Jeb even came around to say hi.

There is a PSVR game that is rather like Descent in that movement style. it is a 4v4 arena battle type game. good stuff.

I'm playing two games that have a lot in common right now. Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls 3. I couldn't resist Dark Souls for $12 in the latest humble monthly. I just started that one, and defeated the first boss just last night.

Both of these games feature:
- deliberate combat that locks you into an animation
- wildly variable difficulty, but Dark Souls is definitely harder
- complex worlds and systems, but very little in terms of explanation
- high replay value

Monster Hunter World is definitely the deeper game. Its world is truly a simulation; everything in it has a purpose, and you are limited only by your willingness to put in effort. There's a real sense of things happening in the world regardless of you being there or not. It's also less punishing than Dark Souls. We will see how far I get in Dark Souls, but I do enjoy its world as well. Between the two though, it's Monster Hunter by a mile.

My best friend and I are debating on getting Monster Hunter World. I've never played any of them before and apparently the Xbox One version is excellent.