What Games Are You Playing Right Now?

Just got back into games after a 1+ year hiatus. I am playing Fallout: New Vegas.

 

gonnabe getting a raspberry pi 2. looked into it a bit and will do my best to turn it into a suitable platform for emulating retro games. probably all kinds of other cool applications for a pi as well ... we'll see what those are when I get it.

 

I'm only playing at my mate's house lately

We're going through the singleplayer of GTA4's Ballad of gay Tony and The lost on ps3 and Farcry 4 on ps4. And of course the occasional GTA5 online which we now also play on PS4. I still have some games to finish on my 360 before I get rid of it and also get a PS4 but I will wait for that when the weather is bad :sunny:

I take huge breaks too. Sometimes I have to start over just because I left it for too long and forgot too much of the story etc. I wanna finish AC: Rogue sometime but will probably start over with that one too

What do you game on, guerilla? PC?

 

PS3 for Fallout, I am borrowing that and Dark Souls and the latter is supposedly the owner's favorite game but he says it's extremely difficult. I decided I'd 'ease' myself back into video games with Fallout, which has even provided to be a bit challenging.

 

Yes man, I took notice of Dark Souls and Dark souls 2 as well and it appealed to me a lot because of the difficulty and setting (dark medieval fantasy). But I am already a slow gamer and when really into a game I explore different options so together with this high difficulty in Dark souls I am pretty sure I would not finish it or at least will be at it for more than a year But although I haven't played them myself I am pretty sure they are great! Only for the patient gamer though.
Fallout seems a good series too but somehow I never got one myself. Except I recall playing one of the first ones back in the day (which was 2d if I recall right )

I don't wanna buy stuff for all kind of different systems so I only have an xbox360 myself (ok still have a first xbox laying around). I am still not sure if PS4 suits me better than the Xbone (already the controller! not an unimportant part) but I will go with PS4 just so I can play online with friends every once in awhile and of course we can borrow eachother's games then

 

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

 

I was just watching some videos on how to softmod an Xbox. Luckily for me, I still have one sitting in a bag somewhere around here. Looks like a worthwhile endeavor All I need is a controller port/usb adapter and one of those funky screwdrivers.

 

I tried to mod my ps2 when I was about 12 ... didn't turn out that well. Ended up bridging a couple pins of one of the chips by having a shitty soldering technique. I couldn't ever get all of the excess solder off so yea, it never really worked again after that :/ Would have been trivial to fix with some braided copper wick but I guess I didn't know how about that stuff then.

Actually just had an idea for a cool project. Build a NES (or snes) cart dumper to make my own ROM dumps. I know you can just buy shit like that but I like building stuff on my own. I can get all the ROMs I want off the internet so it would mostly be an academic excercise. There's no real documentation for the NES/SNES hardware .. but it's been reverse engineered quite a few times so most of the work has already been done, and "documentation" is easy to find, written by "third parties" like this: http://fms.komkon.org/EMUL8/NES.html#LABC . Actually, maybe the reverse would be cooler, build a device that reads a ROM from an SD card and pretends to be a cartridge so you could play any rom on the system itself. Maybe SNES would be a better choice, since it can be hard to get a NES to play even a REAL cart lol.

I'm sure it would be a pretty big undertaking but I'd like to attempt it one day. Probably need to do a few more projects first. TBH i'm not even sure about the low-level stuff involved in reading/writing an SD card, but it's well documented with tutorials and stuff so I'd probably be able to learn that part fairly quickly. The abstract idea seems simple enough in my head (read address bus(ses), look up data in SD card, then "write" to NES data bus by driving the appropriate pins on the cart connector hi/low), but it quickly devolves into some crazy ass shit... BWAHAHAHA! I'm sure I'm going to have dreams about this tonight ...

 

My xbox is hardware modded (chip). But it is sitting in a bag somewhere as well. Together with a shitload of copied games

 

Figured this would be an appropriate place to put this...



Perhaps I should create a gaming meme thread?

 

I played Half Life a long time ago but I am not a big PC gamer. It seems like you wait years just for one game to play. Like they have been waiting forever for the Half Life squeal. I know they like to brag about better graphics but it does not seem worth it to me. Now GTA is big for them but I played that years ago already.

 

GTA5 online is still big on consoles as well. But yeah, rereleasing it on the next (current) gen with better graphics is part of that too. But also new content. I have not installed a game on my pc for probably a decade
Personally I am still not done with GTA5 (although I got slow on the singleplayer because I decided i'm gonna play it on the next gen where it is even better... yeah soon! )

 

You know Red Dead Redemption got cancelled as a Next-Gen release? It got beat by some other game by a hair!! I'm trying to find the website I pulled the info from... Can't remember what that other game was. I don't think PS3 (or 360) got the Heists expansion for GTA5 either. I was super excited about it, updated my game then cried.

 

I'm a HUGE fan of Valve games. Half-Life series, Portal... omg, love me some Portal. I've always been an avid PC gamer. There's so much more you can do with PC games, whether it's user-created mods, fan-made community updates, continued multiplayer support via workarounds or user-created servers. So many amazing multiplayer games have died on consoles because of their lack of server support. I'd give anything to play Metal Gear Solid 4 online again.

Steam also has Workshop now, where fans can create their own content for games, upload it to the Workshop and it's integrated with the game. So, with a few clicks (and hotkey combinations with Steam) you have entirely new levels and modifications to the game. Of course, the downside is hearing about something AWESOME being created... such as Goldeneye:Source and Perfect Dark:Source and watching the life slowly fade from it's development.

Back to my original post though... Lately, I've been playing Jet Force Gemini and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on N64. I never got the chance to play Majora's Mask and was turned off by the time limitations in the game, but it's actually pretty easy once you get past the first portion of the game. And time travel is pretty cool. It's sort of like Groundhog Day

I mentioned Jet Force Gemini in another gaming thread the other day. I fricken LOVE that game. In my opinion it's perfectly balanced. The controls are terrible and you can't remap them (in-game or otherwise since the C-buttons change when you go to aim), but the game has great depth to the storyline and gameplay. Science fiction, blasting giant bugs, popping off their heads with headshots and collecting them for special in-game features. Tons of unlockables, areas ranging from brightly colored starship interiors to dark, earthy swamps filled with giant slothy zombie bugs. A very nice handful of weapons as well.

I highly recommend it. As long as you can deal with the controls lol.

 

I left out the part about how it's rumored that Half-Life 3 will never happen. I have it on good authority that Portal 3 is in development though. Every PC gamer wants a new Half-Life, but Valve is probably too busy with Steam and other projects. Their game development seems to have dwindled substantially since Steam has gotten to be the mainline client for PC gaming purchases.

Personally, I go with GOG.com. DRM-free purchases, meaning you pay for it... you get an installer file (and extra downloadable game content w most purchases)... then you own the game in the literal sense. Meaning you can take the installer file and install the games on as many computers as you like. There's a huge gamer community at GOG that's very friendly as well. I've gotten at least 5 games gifted to me just by being an active forum member and helping others on the site. Good games! That I wanted, I might add. Though that portion of the site may be coming to an end, as GOG has renewed their gifting regulations on almost all of the games hosted on their site. Sad if you can't gift people anymore. It's a really fun and unique experience, but I can understand that GOG misses out on a good chunk of income from people gifting instead of actually purchasing the games.

http://www.gog.com

 

Yeah I can't deny a PC can do more. I wish I had mods on the PS4 but I heard Fallout 4 will include that.


I've been playing Until Dawn it's a really cool concept for a game. It's like playing a Friday the 13th movie. Some people seem be turned off by being "on rails" I guess you would call it. It's mostly dialogue choices and searching for clues in small areas. But I can see the fun is making the story unfold as you want it. I know I am going to have replay it because I have already let some people die :wall: and I heard it is possible to have them all survive. There are a lot of different ways the story can turn out.

 

Portal is defintely worth mentioning I agree Even though it is already years old, it is just a good game. Portal 2 as well.

I did not know.... But a new Red dead is still in the (long term) planning I thought.

About the new heists on 'old gen', I thought they got released for those too...! As I thought my friend where I'm playing GtA5 online was mentioning 'these are the new heists'. And we only switched to playing on PS4 like 2 weeks a go. But I am not completely certain as I haven't explored online fully myself and generally let my mate set up the heists and online games anyway.

 

I'm not sure if they did or not. My bro took the PS3 right after Heists was released for PS4/Xbox1. If they did, it must have gotten postponed a bit for the 'older' systems. There is a TON of stuff to do online w GTA5! I like how they have it set up. Minus the hackers that broke multiplayer in GTA5 and RDR for a while there. Though it was interesting being able to level up so easily with RDR. I kind of wish I would have took part in that while it was still hacked. Though, most of the time normal gameplay was next to impossible and eventually it would crash. It would take me a million years to do that without those glitches.

I just started playing Portal Stories: Mel on Steam. It's a pretty damn good user-created story mod. Takes you back to when Aperture Science was relatively new. Even JK Simmons voiced the intro for the mod. Which really surprised me and got me excited as all hell! LOL puzzles are pretty inventive too. I'm stumped on one and thinking about looking up a walkthrough, but I hate doing that with games that are that enjoyable.

There's also a mod for Portal 1 called Prelude that's basically the same storyline setup. A bit more basic though (as far as the storyline goes, from the few puzzles I've completed) and the puzzles are pretty hard on that one. Well worth a look into though.

Hell, I still need to finish Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2.

 

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