What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

A completely valid viewpoint. I have found that when playing with people you know, you can stick together and kind of get a "co-op" feel just trying to keep each other alive.

When playing by myself I find it liberating because I can just hide in a bush and snipe people instead of worrying about "winning". With such huge population counts there is no pressure on ME to do well.

There is a mode in this one called Hazard Zone (I think) that sounds like a take on Hunt: Showdown or Escape from Tarkov. Several squads of 4 all trying to get "data drives" and then catch an evac helo. Haven't tried yet but I want to check it out.

Ah_Pook wrote: I appreciate the concept of the Battlefield franchise, but I just don't enjoy large scale fps games at all personally. Goes for the large modes in COD and etc too. They never feel like I can have an impact on the match, and everything I do is just futilely running towards a thing and then dying when I get there.

My kid learned this lesson the hard way with BF2042 this weekend. He's used to fortnites more generous 'death' system when on a team.

Nothing beats Arma 3. 20 minutes of stalking to get into position, only to be collateral damage from some random artillery, back to base and start all over again...

I got For The King on Steam and bounced off it hard. It’s board gamey, and yet somehow too fiddly even though there’s a computer to track all this shit.

My kid is now into Cuphead. Beautiful art style, but DO NOT get this game unless you have a lot of soft pillows in which to throw your controller as you rage quit again and again

Today I finally got the opportunity to order the ATGames Legends Pinball table (digital, comes with 22 tables and you can get others). I took the opportunity and am declaring it my Christmas present to my entire house. I will keep it secret from the kids until Christmas. Not that they will give a shit, it's pinball.

I hope it's good, because they aren't giving them away.

I’ll be very interested to hear how you like the pinball table.

Finally swallowed my reservations about Facebook and nabbed a black Friday Oculus Quest 2.

HOLY SHIT is that a massive leap forward from my old Samsung gear vr! It's mostly gonna be a toy for the kids but that thing is legit awesome tech for 250 bones.

Gonna see how best to play HL Alyx.

Have a look at Demeo- it’s kind of a Heroquest style DC played in VR. It’s really neat. And if you are like me and the motion sickness bothers you in VR, it’s very comfortable.we also got A TON of mileage out of the mini golf thing whose title escapes me. It’s -really- fun.

jason10mm wrote:

Ah_Pook wrote: I appreciate the concept of the Battlefield franchise, but I just don't enjoy large scale fps games at all personally. Goes for the large modes in COD and etc too. They never feel like I can have an impact on the match, and everything I do is just futilely running towards a thing and then dying when I get there.

My kid learned this lesson the hard way with BF2042 this weekend. He's used to fortnites more generous 'death' system when on a team.

Nothing beats Arma 3. 20 minutes of stalking to get into position, only to be collateral damage from some random artillery, back to base and start all over again...

Ha, I was going to recommend Pook stay away from Arma and Squad. I've spent hour long Squad matches building Fobs and not firing more than two of three rounds.

Again, I appreciate the concept of these things but that doesn't mean I want to play them.

Speaking of which, I picked up the new COD game for by brother and myself on Black Friday as an early Christmas present. Only been out a couple weeks and already in sale for $40. I wasn't going to buy this one since it didn't look particularly interesting even by COD standards, but hey it's a lot of fun. By which I mean it's exactly like all the other recent COD games. This one's got lots of maps at least, which is a nice change after the last one launched with like 6. Anyway, not much to say about COD at this point I guess.

Also I'm still entirely cracked on shell kaizo levels in Mario Maker 2. Playing and making them constantly.

Still loving Battlefield, but wow… if you are up against someone who actually knows how to put a helicopter to work, they are a terror.

As for the ground game, my son and I tried a hilarious technique yesterday. He threw explosives on my drone, and I flew it next to an enemy tank and he detonated it. Works perfectly.

Early on in the pandemic I played the Spider-Man game and really enjoyed it. I was worried it would be more than I wanted to deal with but I put the combat on super easy and ignored all the gadgets and suits and powerups and junk. Just slinging webs and punching guys.

Then I did Ghost of Tsushima. Again, put the combat on easy. It was fun, I had a good time, I killed the main guy and was in the endgame and...I just stopped. I don't know why. I was enjoying it. But I stopped and haven't touched the PS4 since. It's been months.

I also bought at some point the Miles Morales game, but it's sitting on top of the Ghost of Tsushima box.

With my interest in Game Maker Studio, though, I'm thinking of trying to re-play through the Ultima series. But I know that's 80% nostalgia talking. Just like replaying Fallout 1, it seems like a great idea until you're in that fucking radscorpion cave at the beginning, saving and reloading a million times.

I also downloaded a game called Caverns of Qud. I've always been on paper interested in roguelikes, but in practice I don't have the patience for them. I've tried to find one that has a genuine newbie mode, where items are already identified and lethality is turned down, but it seems like everyone feels like obfuscation and lethality are baked into the form and can't be negotiated. That's another reason for GMS2. Caverns of Qud supposedly has a mode for me, and also rewards exploration, not just fighting increasingly tough monsters, which is my holy grail. But I haven't run it yet.

hotseatgames wrote: Still loving Battlefield, but wow… if you are up against someone who actually knows how to put a helicopter to work, they are a terror.

As for the ground game, my son and I tried a hilarious technique yesterday. He threw explosives on my drone, and I flew it next to an enemy tank and he detonated it. Works perfectly.

Works perfectly in real life as well, to the point where they will probably be a primary terror weapon going forward. Skeet shootin' specialists are gonna be prime security consultants!

Legomancer wrote: I also downloaded a game called Caverns of Qud. I've always been on paper interested in roguelikes, but in practice I don't have the patience for them. I've tried to find one that has a genuine newbie mode, where items are already identified and lethality is turned down, but it seems like everyone feels like obfuscation and lethality are baked into the form and can't be negotiated. That's another reason for GMS2. Caverns of Qud supposedly has a mode for me, and also rewards exploration, not just fighting increasingly tough monsters, which is my holy grail. But I haven't run it yet.

I've had tons of fun with Jupiter Hell. It is basically turn based DOOM, and easy difficulty is very tolerable.

So much Wii Sports. Borrowed the in-laws’ Wii for the Thanksgiving weekend, and the boys are digging it hard. They’ve never gotten less than the highest score in golf because the real goal is to always swing as hard as you can. They do reasonably well on bowling and tennis though.

The oldest sometimes struggles with winning and losing with grace, but he’s getting there.