What game are you wasting time on?

[Damned Registrations]

Still playing X-Piratez. This thing has just absorbed the majority of my free time since I discovered it. LP has been going for 3 months now. Send help.

 

[Abu Antar]

I beat Beholder 2 via GOG. It seems that I have the first game on Steam, so I'll give that a shot.

The past few days I have been rotating Colony Ship, Football Manager 2024, and Star Ocean Second Story R.

Good times.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Just completed the episode 2 of Duke Nukem 3D

Levels are pretty great so far.

"I'm going to rip off your head and shit down your neck!" It seemed so novel at the time, that insult/threat. Then a few years later, I was in the parking lot of a pet store getting into an argument with some big, burly, bearded buffoon over how close he parked to my car, and after things escalated to threats of physical violence, he rasped with a voice that made me think he was diabetic due to his obesity and had lung disease due to smoking to boot, "Oh, yeah?! How would you like it if I cut off your head and shit down your neck!!!!" It was at that moment I realized the saying had become overused, common and was kind of retarded now that big, burly, bearded buffoons were using it.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I just might play Serious Sam: Second Encounter HD, btw. It looks cool and I'm still a bit high from Arcane Dimensions a while back. I did try the first game when it came out but I think I had burnt myself playing a lot of Quake/Quake II and their expansions around that time so I quit early on. The YT video above of the quad-damage granade launcher gives me hope that I can find all the weapons and obliterate that end-game boss in record time too.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I just might play Serious Sam: Second Encounter HD, btw. It looks cool and I'm still a bit high from Arcane Dimensions a while back. I did try the first game when it came out but I think I had burnt myself playing a lot of Quake/Quake II and their expansions around that time so I quit early on. The YT video above of the quad-damage granade launcher gives me hope that I can find all the weapons and obliterate that end-game boss in record time too.

Coincidentally I just finished Serious Encounter HD.

Compared to First Encounter (HD) it's a vast improvement, the added monsters and less serious level design make for some real fun times.

I do notice some jankiness in HD compared to the original releases from over 20 years ago. Some of the funky gravity-effects from the original didn't carry over, but they improvised most of them. I also had trouble with the sniper rifle because in the original it had four levels of zoom, but they seemed to have removed that in HD. I only learned yesterday that you zoom in the rifle by holding down the button...

As for the difficulty, the only real troublespot is the Tower of Babel-level, where the cheese jumps up a notch. Walk across a bridge and get a big spawn of biomechs, walk down a platform and get even more biomechs thrown at you, walk close to a gun and a herd of werebulls comes charging out of nowhere.

The Grand Cathedral is still one of the best SSam-levels around. The endboss fight is stupidly easy to speed through, as the power-ups respawn in that central structure right before the cathedral. Once things have cooled down just wait for the Serious-Speed and -Damage powerups to spawn, grab both and run towards the cathedral. 'Skip' the cutscene (or else the power-ups expire) and just wail on Mordecai with either the grenade launcher or the cannon. Boom! Easy.

Still, I recommend the OG-versions to the HD-ones. There's a modded-version of them available on Steam to First/Second Encounter-owners, either for free or for a very low price.

 

[Tavar]

I've been replaying Ghostrunner. Still a great game. Take a look if you like hard, close combat action games.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I just might play Serious Sam: Second Encounter HD, btw. It looks cool and I'm still a bit high from Arcane Dimensions a while back. I did try the first game when it came out but I think I had burnt myself playing a lot of Quake/Quake II and their expansions around that time so I quit early on. The YT video above of the quad-damage granade launcher gives me hope that I can find all the weapons and obliterate that end-game boss in record time too.

Still, I recommend the OG-versions to the HD-ones. There's a modded-version of them available on Steam to First/Second Encounter-owners, either for free or for a very low price.

I'd like to at least be able to play these original versions at 4K. Is there support for that with these modded versions?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'd like to at least be able to play these original versions at 4K. Is there support for that with these modded versions?

Check for yourself.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance just can't stop killing me. The game is cool, don't get me wrong, but I'm starting to get a Sierra adventure vibe. It's just way too easy to fuck up. Maybe I should've payed more attention during history classes in school.

 

[OSK]

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

 

[Gandalf]

Been playing KOTC2 lately and made a dog walk on it's own:

 

[octavius]

I had to giggle a bit when I saw how the manual had been scanned. In the paper manual the table of gun porn stats is two whole pages, and there's a blank page before it so you can see the whole table at a glance. But the person who scanned the manual also scanned the blank page, which means that you can't see the correct two pages when using the "Show Double Pages" option in Acrobat. So I had to use a third party program to edit the PDF file. (Adobe insists that you must register and use an online program to edit PDF files, for some reason.)

I'm a stupid bunt. Turns out Acrobat has a function called in English something like "Show first page when using Show Double Pages" that solves the problem.

 

[AdamReith]

Just finished Kings Field 1 (JP). This turned out to be my dream game with levels that felt somewhat realistic and not just an abstract labyrinth.

Music was also really nice, especially floor 4s sick bass which is now forever burned into my mind.

Spoiler

If I had known this game featured a Sword that doubles as a BFG I probably would have played it a lot sooner.

Heavily recommended to anyone who can stand playing it.

 

[Shuruga]

I just beat Jade Empire for the first time. It ran well once I edited the config file to uncap FPS. It has the old school Bioware vibe, I enjoyed the story, and the pacing was tight -- about 24 hours. Kind of like KOTOR, the RP was mostly limited to "I'm noble" or "I'm an asshole". The companions had some storylines and personalities, but the game clearly didn't expect me to sit around a campfire for hours exploring every companion's childhood trauma or whatever, which was nice.

I appreciated the attempt at a different approach to combat compared to the RTWP style typical of other Bioware games of the era, but really there were only a few fights where what they were going for (a rock paper scissors approach to choosing a combat style appropriate for your enemies, spiced up with the ability to get power ups by pulling off multi-style combos) really clicked for me. Usually I could stomp everyone in my way with a single style for the group and healing checkpoints were frequent enough that I rarely needed to worry about generating my own powerups. The major exception was an optional tournament near the middle of the game where a stream of enemies came at 15-ish second intervals and you had to keep an efficient pace to avoid being overwhelmed. In contrast, I defeated the much-hyped final boss in about 15 seconds by activating a combat style that turned me into a big impervious golem, so, yeah... mixed bag on that front.

Overall I am glad I played it and would recommend to fans of older Bioware fare, as long as you don't mind a different approach to the combat.

Next up for me is Control.

 

[Hag]

I'm back to Amazing Cultivation Simulator and I can't put it down. It's even more addictive than Underrail, if only because you seldom reload and because of its feel good atmosphere. Magical kung-fu is awesome.
Really kind of a dream game, with RPG, strategy, tactics, enormous content, lot of room for power play and min-maxing but also allowing a slower progression if you need or want to. A marvel of design, with many systems working together, and no element or resource is ever useless or wasted.
"Cultivation" is a right word. You don't decide to turn a character into a monstrous warrior with a power level above 900000. But with enough care, preparation, right action at the right time and the usual bit of luck, maybe it'll work. Maybe the power level will be 714000 instead. Not that bad. Maybe it will be 1420000. You have to adapt. Find synergies. Bash giant turtles with flying bags of flour. Enjoy the trip.

 

[Tel Velothi]

Bruhs, I really tried to get into old games that I played in childhood (escapism, because my childhood was not happy and lonely so I played video games all the time).
Now I browse hundreds of games on steam/gog and even if I like some game I drop it after 15 minutes. I can't get into old games, new games, indie, etc.
I feel like life hit hard and now "life" is that game I'd rather play and character skills and attributes are now not of those in game, but mine as human. So now I prefer watching some webinar or read books about psychology - and really psychology is really an RPG game where there are different magic schools. I don't know if anyone feels something similar, but now life is about being happy and joyful - to enjoy looking at trees, drinking tea and talking to people.
I fucking try to get into games and I think it's time to let go. Games were really great and they served purpose in a huge part of my life. But it's time to let go I guess
tl;dr
im not wasting my time on games instead im wasting it by watching psychology webinars (to give you an example like: how my parents affected my adult life and how can I change it; what am i thinking about myself, do I accept myself, what makes me happy, etc)

 

[NecroLord]

Bruhs, I really tried to get into old games that I played in childhood (escapism, because my childhood was not happy and lonely so I played video games all the time).
Now I browse hundreds of games on steam/gog and even if I like some game I drop it after 15 minutes. I can't get into old games, new games, indie, etc.
I feel like life hit hard and now "life" is that game I'd rather play and character skills and attributes are now not of those in game, but mine as human. So now I prefer watching some webinar or read books about psychology - and really psychology is really an RPG game where there are different magic schools. I don't know if anyone feels something similar, but now life is about being happy and joyful - to enjoy looking at trees, drinking tea and talking to people.
I fucking try to get into games and I think it's time to let go. Games were really great and they served purpose in a huge part of my life. But it's time to let go I guess
tl;dr
im not wasting my time on games instead im wasting it by watching psychology webinars (to give you an example like: how my parents affected my adult life and how can I change it; what am i thinking about myself, do I accept myself, what makes me happy, etc)

You exhibit symptoms of Quality Game Withdrawal.
Quick, find a quality 90s, or early 2000s game and start playing.

 

[The Decline]

Risk of Rain Returns. Very impressive remaster/remake of the first game. New engine, redrawn graphics (same art style, but higher res and added details/animations), optional new game rules, and a bunch of added content.

 

[Gandalf]

Risk of Rain Returns. Very impressive remaster/remake of the first game. New engine, redrawn graphics (same art style, but higher res and added details/animations), optional new game rules, and a bunch of added content.

I wasn't aware of that remaster/remake. Checking it right now, thanks for mentioning it!

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Sadly, this remaster also happened because the franchise is now owned/controlled by Gearbox. There's already a mobile f2p shooter in the works.

 

[Spukrian]

I finally finished Eschalon 2. The secret was that in my earlier attempts I had not invested in magic & spells, which made the late game too difficult. So for this last character I invested moderately into magic and suddenly the game was very easy. Oh well. I did enjoy it despite earlier frustrations.

I immeadiately started Eschalon 3 and played it through to the end. I can see why fans don't like it as much as the first two: smaller world, shorter, ends abruptly and the ending is a bit disappointing. I enjoyed it though.

I tried Balrum for one and a half hour. I was too dumb to figure out some systems... but there's something there. I'll get back to it at a later date.

I've gone back to Avernum 6. Hopefully I'll finish it before April next year (lol).

 

[Krivol]

Bruhs, I really tried to get into old games that I played in childhood (escapism, because my childhood was not happy and lonely so I played video games all the time).
Now I browse hundreds of games on steam/gog and even if I like some game I drop it after 15 minutes. I can't get into old games, new games, indie, etc.
I feel like life hit hard and now "life" is that game I'd rather play and character skills and attributes are now not of those in game, but mine as human. So now I prefer watching some webinar or read books about psychology - and really psychology is really an RPG game where there are different magic schools. I don't know if anyone feels something similar, but now life is about being happy and joyful - to enjoy looking at trees, drinking tea and talking to people.
I fucking try to get into games and I think it's time to let go. Games were really great and they served purpose in a huge part of my life. But it's time to let go I guess
tl;dr
im not wasting my time on games instead im wasting it by watching psychology webinars (to give you an example like: how my parents affected my adult life and how can I change it; what am i thinking about myself, do I accept myself, what makes me happy, etc)

Play Ashes 2063, get through the first two levels, and thank me later.

But honestly, I have the same symptoms. I tried MnM 6-8, Wiz 8, JA 3, but nothing clicked.

But Ashes... well this game is speshul!

 

[adddeed]

Current rotation:
Planescape Torment
Commandos 2
The Thing
Anno 1701
X-Rebirth
Stasis
HAWX
Apache Air Assault
Mafia 1
Fallout 3
Trackmania 1
Wings of Prey

Yes im playing these all at once. Whatever i feel like resuming at the time.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Current rotation:
Planescape Torment
Commandos 2
The Thing
Anno 1701
X-Rebirth
Stasis
HAWX
Apache Air Assault
Mafia 1
Fallout 3
Trackmania 1
Wings of Prey

Yes im playing these all at once. Whatever i feel like resuming at the time.

Rookie numbers

 

[Cyberarmy]

Finished RoboCop Rogue City, helluva game and had fun playing it. I recommend it to all 80's youth out there.

-Colony Ship, talking skill monkey run.
-Path of Exile, racing in new event get some "free" MTX
-WH 40 K : Gladius, , I'm sad that I didn't play this one before. Nice mix of WH40K and 4X
-Last Spell, I haven't touched this one for some time but Grunker reminded me, so thanks I guess. Play this one motherfuckers!
-Dark Envoy, a medicore attempt after the Tower of Time. Putting it on hiatus for now.
-Hunt Showdow, not playing a lot because some of my posse having IRL problems.