What video game are you currently playing?

[Ghostinthemachine]

This is the game I am playing the most currently

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Cat from Hell on the Nintendo Switch. It’s glitchy and a bit incomplete but you get to destroy an old lady’s house and drive her crazy.

 

[FayetheAspie]

Murder Mystery

It's a role play style game where you are a detective and you and your fictional partner have to solve mysteries. After solving a couple of cases, you end up on a lengthy case where your life is in danger as you uncover a dangerous criminal organization and have to gather evidence to find out and hopefully capture the leader as the plot grows deeper.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Predator: Concrete Jungle (PS2)
A game about a Predator - "Scarface" - who, after a failed hunt in the fictional New Way City in 1930 that resulted in him leaving some of his equipment behind after been blinded in one eye (along with a spectacular failed attempt to eliminate himself), is exiled to another planet by his clan.
However, he is brought back 100 years later when the human crime family he was hunting in the past have rebuilt New Way City into Neonopolis and reverse-engineered the Predator's technology; luring down and capturing/killing any Predators who arrive to hunt.
As such, Scarface is sent to Neonopolis in an attempt to fix his mistake from a century prior and regain his honour.

It's a tough game at first until you get used to the Predator's weapons/abilities, but pretty fun and challenging once you get the hang of it.

 

[Stuttermabolur]

I beg for a solution that will let me stop playing this game. It is in my brain, excuse the image, like a worm. Fun game, great game, they did such a good job with it but nothing is worth what it is doing to me. Not sleeping, missing eating, hurting my back, which felt good until I started the game.

I do not know if I made sense writing this note and I know I made it too long. I do not know what to say about things. I felt I had to talk about all that so you understood.

My friend has offered to buy me flying lessons for MSFS (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024). If I could start playing that again maybe it would take me away from SGW, the game I am stuck in.

All my obsessions for years and nothing made me do things I did not want to.

Thank you for helping.

Are there specific objectives you are achieving within the game, or are you just replaying the same levels over and over again?

I know that when I play a game, I tend to get stuck on them until I finish them completely. I am a completionist, so I don't want to miss anything a game has to offer. This is why I deliberately avoid large games or role playing games. I tend to only play indie games, most of which are shorter than full length games. Then, I set a goal once I start. For linear games, it's probably just to complete the story. However, most of the games I play are roguelites, and in those cases I often want to complete my in game collection, beat it with every faction/difficulty/character or, if it has one, complete the story.

Once I have achieved my objective, I immediately uninstall the game, and I don't reinstall it, even when DLC or updates are out. This leaves me with the satisfaction of having reached my objective, without risking me being sucked into an endless loop (which is a real risk for me). Is there an achievable goal you think you can set yourself in Ghost Warrior? One which would be satisfying as a milestone, but would also let you feel as if you have "completed" the game?

 

[Otenba]

I have been playing a lot of Rain World lately, before and after The Watcher DLC came out.

 

[BrokenNeedle]

Lately I've just been way more into VR games than non-VR games. My current obsession is Beat Saber. It's the first rhythm game where I've actually been able to complete a song on hard difficulty (in older stuff like Guitar Hero I could never make it past easy difficulty).

I've also been playing Arcade Paradise VR (there is a non-VR version available too). In this game (which is set in the early 90s I think) you are left in charge of your family owned laundromat while your dad is on vacation or something. You are doing management tasks like loading up the washers and dryers with customers' laundry, cleaning up the trash they leave behind, unclogging the toilet, basically micromanaging the whole operation. You then realize there are a couple of arcades in the back room (you can even play them yourself) and they are bringing in a decent chunk of revenue, and you would like to expand and start ordering more arcade cabinets but you can't convince your dad that it's worth it. I'm assuming based on the title that as the game plays out you will eventually take over the laundromat and change it completely into an arcade center. I wouldn't have expected a game like this could even work in VR, but these devs pulled it off.

 

[NB79]

I got addicted to open world games, is like i play a linear game and i don't like it. Maybe something to do with the freedom to 'live' in a world that you can go anywhere and do what you want. Also more interested in the gameplay/exploration rather than story.

 

[grommet]

Are there specific objectives you are achieving within the game, or are you just replaying the same levels over and over again?

I am doing both. There are challenges and I have done most of them but there are some hard ones I cannot do yet. I have been making progress though and improving.

I know that when I play a game, I tend to get stuck on them until I finish them completely.

I am like that. My brain feels awful if I do not finish something. But I tried playing Cyberpunk and it was beautiful but I did not like it. I do not miss it at all. Though I have it I have not played it again even a little. I wonder why.

Once I have achieved my objective, I immediately uninstall the game, and I don't reinstall it, even when DLC or updates are out. This leaves me with the satisfaction of having reached my objective, without risking me being sucked into an endless loop (which is a real risk for me).

That is what I am in with Sniper Ghost Warrior. The loop is like a nightmare. I have to keep playing. I will not play and in bed at night my brain will suddenly think of a new way to do something or something I have not thought of, then I want to try it. It is not real, only a game. Nothing I do it in it actually matters, it is in my mind. But it feels real, like I have to get the bad guys and that awful incomplete feeling because I have not completed all of the challenges. But I think even if I do my brain will make me play again.

Yesterday I played for hours just using a bow. All night I could not sleep much, my brain overstimulated because I played the game so much. It is not worth it but my brain keeps lying to me, saying it is okay, I can just play a little for fun. Hours go by and even my promise to myself while playing that I will stop after this level, I want to keep playing. I always have this incomplete feeling, like I have one more thing to do. I think that is why I keep playing. I wish it would stop.

 

[Kit]

Nicole Jr Party Adventure

 

[Heroine of Winds]

Started playing RiME again recently after I bought it during the spring sale on Steam last month. Also going through the original version of Super Lucky's Tale.