What video game are you currently playing?

[AutistAcolyte]

Well, I started playing Final Fantasy 8 again! I'm trying to get better at Triple Triad right now. I like that they created a whole card game to play within the game! I also used some birthday money to get Resident Evil 4 (never played it before, but i really enjoyed the recent RE2 remake as well as the Netflix series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness), Shadow of the Colossus (a comfort classic), and Ribbit King (a fun gimmicky golf game)

 

[BrokenNeedle]

I didn't plan on starting any new games until after I've moved later this week, but I went ahead and started Outlast. I'm a big fan of horror games no matter what time of year it is, but I always save one or two good ones for October.
This game gets pretty tense, especially if you're wearing headphones. A couple of the jump scares got me, but I like that it doesn't just rely only on cheap jump scares like a lot of other horror games seem to do.

 

[mysterionz]

funny squid game aka splatoon 3

 

[Jonn]

I didn't plan on starting any new games until after I've moved later this week, but I went ahead and started Outlast. I'm a big fan of horror games no matter what time of year it is, but I always save one or two good ones for October.
This game gets pretty tense, especially if you're wearing headphones. A couple of the jump scares got me, but I like that it doesn't just rely only on cheap jump scares like a lot of other horror games seem to do.

If you are interested in "Rage Quit" games, (if you you don't pay for level-ups/weapons/armour) I suggest you play "Elden Ring".
Prepare to die dozens of times against some of the main bosses in the game.

I played the game "legally" the first time and then paid to level up after that.
While the first time was an experience and a half, and I got my money's worth multiple times over, I did find the "pay to win" aspect of the game much more enjoyable.

Once you conquer the game, you can either start from scratch or keep your levels, armour, weapons, and inventory and play at the beginning again.
I found the latter much more enjoyable, but I may be unusual here since I am not a masochist.

 

[Knower of nothing]

Finally 1cc'd Metal Slug 1. Something I've been throwing attempts at for the better part of 2 years off and on. I was unfamiliar with the genre when I started, found out quickly the bullethell skill does not translate that much (beyond stage-learning ability). I remember feeling this was surely just made too hard to get money out of people at arcades. But now that I died only twice and feel that even those deaths were silly mistakes, I know better. Superb game all around, deserves its reputation. Once I'm cooled off I'll probably check out the sequel.

 

[Krazydayz]

Minecraft

 

[Jonn]

Hearts of Iron IV.

It is a damned hard game, and people need online tutorials to play it well.
I have been playing it for many, many, many years.
The newer version seems to be easier than the earlier ones.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/Hearts_of_Iron_IV/

 

[Metal316]

I have never played them, exception - about a year ago I got a free thing.
Voxel invaders, and I got through it all on hard mode.

I still have it, the adverts have all disappeared now.
I realise this is laughable to the game experts, go easy

 

[BrokenNeedle]

I started up Horizon: Forbidden West on PS5. This is one of the nicest looking games I've ever played. I've only played for an hour so far, I can't wait to play more later tonight. The first Horizon game might be my favorite game from last-gen consoles so I have high expectations for this one.

 

[Shevek]

I used to play "Tanks," the next game after Pong, by visiting the waiting room of a trendy restaurant. I think that was enough. Since then, I've been tinkering with reality. However, I remain fascinated that the female superheroes generally have big gaps in their armour, but never so much as a band-aid on their exposed skin.

 

[Jonn]

I started up Horizon: Forbidden West on PS5. This is one of the nicest looking games I've ever played.

I don't know it. I might look it up.
One of the most amazing-looking games I have played is Elden Ring.

 

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Also a pretty game, similar type of game to Age of Empires.

 

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Just going through my games list looking at what I feel like playing next, I think it's going to be Black And White, haven't played that one in quite a few years now. I still think it's one of the greatest games made, but it's now more than 20 years old and can be found for free on abandonware sites.

Black & White (Windows)

 

[SplooshDmg]

I pulled the trigger and purchased Star Ocean: The Divine Force on Steam last night. I got to play an hour before bed, and so far, it seems the franchise is moving in the right direction again. I'm very excited to play more this weekend and see how it pans out.

 

[SplooshDmg]

Just going through my games list looking at what I feel like playing next, I think it's going to be Black And White, haven't played that one in quite a few years now. I still think it's one of the greatest games made, but it's now more than 20 years old and can be found for free on abandonware sites.

Black & White (Windows)

Black and White is a classic. Peter Molyneux of course is out of the picture now, but I'm very excited to see what Playground Games does with the Fable franchise. I really hope they can recapture Lionhead's quirky British humor, which it helps that Playground is also a British studio. It's a shame it's taken this long to get a new installment in Peter's legendary franchise.

 

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Peter Molyneux of course is out of the picture now....

I was so disappointed when BaW 2 came out, truly upset and broken hearted, but the original was a hard act to follow.

One of the interesting points about that game: it was translated in to many different languages but many people in Europe went to great lengths to get hold of an English copy because they liked all the different accents.

 

[SplooshDmg]

I was so disappointed when BaW 2 came out, truly upset and broken hearted, but the original was a hard act to follow.

One of the interesting points about that game: it was translated in to many different languages but many people in Europe went to great lengths to get hold of an English copy because they liked all the different accents.

It's interesting how voiceovers do that. It's become pretty common for Japanese developers to seek British voice actors for RPG games, because the developers feel the accents are more appropriate for the games than North American English speakers. It just seems hard to have any sort of medieval-type fantasy and not have UK accents. It's like trying to play a Samurai game with an English voice over. It just comes off as very unauthentic.

 

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A friend of mine's son ended up working in Japan for a while as an English teacher at a private school. He was paid really well too. Apparently there's a bit of a class distinction thing going on in Japan. Wealthy people speak English with a British accent, the US accent is for poor people.

I couldn't watch Game Of Thrones because I'd already read the books and too much in the film conflicted with my own imagination, part of that was the accents. Yet HBO did a spectacular job with language and accents in Vikings.

 

[SplooshDmg]

A friend of mine's son ended up working in Japan for a while as an English teacher at a private school. He was paid really well too. Apparently there's a bit of a class distinction thing going on in Japan. Wealthy people speak English with a British accent, the US accent is for poor people.

I couldn't watch Game Of Thrones because I'd already read the books and too much in the film conflicted with my own imagination, part of that was the accents. Yet HBO did a spectacular job with language and accents in Vikings.

I actually had a friend do that as well. She taught in the JET program. She apparently did it long enough that she started dreaming in Japanese instead of English. But that's fascinating about the accent. We English speakers of course just get used to what we mostly hear, but it really is a very flexible language in terms of regional dialects. I know even in Japan, if you go from one prefecture to another, you can find lots of variance in the dialect. Which is fascinating because it's geographically not a particularly big country. But I definitely can see British English being associated with the upper class, it is the Queen's English after all.

 

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I grew up in Adelaide, the city with Australia's highest concentration of British migrants. As I travelled around my country I had a lot of people ask me how long I'd been in Australia or if I was a Kiwi.