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The Turing Test, puzzle game similar to Portal but not quite as difficult. Finished Chapter 4, so far it's okay.
 
Currently playing through The Talos Principle. I can’t help but draw some connections to Portal 2, with both how it plays (first-person puzzle game) and its general conceit (rogue AI in a post-apocalyptic world running “tests” with you for some reason while you play along and eventually try to escape).

My favorite part of the game is the open-world nature of many of the maps. Whereas Portal/2’s plot is very linear and the breakout stages feel very scripted, with this game I legitimately felt like I was breaking some rules to get to the star collectibles, with how you can set things up in one test chamber to access hidden areas halfway across the map.

Piecing together the plot through the text logs scattered around the level is pretty neat, and I liked the interactions with the AI companion character as well. The dialogue is pretty 🧐 at times, kinda made me think about my IRL philosophies.

Some of the later puzzles got a bit annoying. At the end of the day there aren’t THAT many mechanics used for the puzzles, so later levels just have you juggling large numbers of cubes and lasers in progressively larger test chambers. I wish the puzzles had more of a sense of progression, right now once you’ve beat the first half of the game it’s just a bunch of hard puzzles using more of the same mechanics you’ve played before.

Really, I see this game as a high-concept version of the Portal series, where it ditches all the comedy and overt writing in favor of difficult puzzles and a more serious plot.
 
World War 3. It's like Battlefield 4 only the team death match is actually fun. I highly recommend other kiwis pick it up if you like tacticool autism. Also I needed something to play whilst I await insurgency sandstorm to get new maps.
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Reached around the halfway point of SMT Nocturne with the Hard Type patch.

The fiend fights have been ratcheted up a notch and I'm struggling to take down Pale Rider. Might have to swallow my pride and just come back to him later, which is something I never usually did in the vanilla game. Even with a decked out party ready to deal with his attacks, he seems to do way too much damage for me to survive at the point I'm at.
 
Picked up Hyperdimension Neptunia, for some reason. I may plug through it, but right now I don't get the appeal for anyone not a massive weeb, but I suppose that's the point. The dialogue can be amusing, but the battle system is just slow and unintuitive. I'm still not sure if I'm missing something, or the game is giving me tutorials on stuff I can't do yet.
 
Megaman X Legacy Collection - it feels good to pick up a classic again and play the games I couldn't cause back then Playstation games were always sold out or most rental stores didn't have them.

Beat Saber- I finally got to try out the Oculus Quest, playing this really scratched that DDR Itch.

Splatoon 2 - because final splatfest is coming next month. (Go Team Order!)

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 - I refuse to play Odyssey till I beat these two games.

Plan to play Factorio in the future but I have Terraria as my go to build game since a new update is coming soon.
 
Picked up the Batman Return to Arkham collection with Gamepass, and I'm currently going through City.

Some good times here, I'll probably go through Origins and Knight later on as well.
 
chaosrevolutions said:
Megaman X Legacy Collection - it feels good to pick up a classic again and play the games I couldn't cause back then Playstation games were always sold out or most rental stores didn't have them.

Beat Saber- I finally got to try out the Oculus Quest, playing this really scratched that DDR Itch.

Splatoon 2 - because final splatfest is coming next month. (Go Team Order!)

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 - I refuse to play Odyssey till I beat these two games.

Plan to play Factorio in the future but I have Terraria as my go to build game since a new update is coming soon.
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Factorio and Terraria are really nothing alike. They are both great games though.
 
Dungeons & Dragons tactics.

Old PSP game I've been emulating on my phone. It's... decent. Kind of on the short side, and not a whole lot to do outside of the main campaign.
 
I have been playing Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal
It sucks the game is censored for the PS4 but I was able to buy a unopened used copy, Its a lot of fun, the game is a remake of the first game for 3DS, it sucks that that Sony now hates games like this, The Pinball game looks great though, I already have that pre-ordered. I have also been playing the No More Heroes Spin off game for Switch, its very simple but I find it very fun.
 
For those of y'all on Xbox, Too Human is free to download via backwards compatibility. Some sites are saying it will only be available for a few more days.

Being orginally a 360 game, it's less than 9 gigs if you're looking to squeeze in one more game on an almost filled up hard drive.
 
I started playing Killing Floor 2 again in the past several days.

Scrakes are still kinda terrifying, and don't even get me started on the Summer Event currently making them creepy chainsaw monkeys.
 
I've been emulating BotW and I'm not really sure how to feel about it. I really like the world and sense of scale really makes it feel like an adventure but its definitely a bit barren. Not fond of how many things can one shot you from the get-go especially when it seems like there is clearly much more use for increasing the stamina bar than anything else. Its frustrating but the game does have a lot of charm going for it to keep playing.
 
Still playing Shogun 2.

The multiplayer is insanely active. It'd be really cool if they brought back the avatar/clan system and the capture point system. Hell, they should introduce it to sieges to encourage defenders to hold the entire fort instead of just the core.
 
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Vanilla WoW on the Northdale private server hosted by Lightbringer. It's completely free to play and is pretty well maintained. It also has the largest amount of players on a WoW server I have ever seen (>5k). Unfortunately, it is likely that Blizzard will try to shut the server down when Classic releases on 8/27 this year, but I think the server owners are Russian so they might just tell acti-blizz to eat shit and keep it open.
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Cant believe classic is only 2 months away. Wonder what a shitshow its going to be at launch lol. I'm still not even sure what I'm rolling but know I'm going to need to take atleast 2-3 days off to really try and get ahead of the curve. I always played horde and know the questing pretty well but I kind of want to roll a dwarf warrior which was my first character when I started out and my main for the first year or two. Might just make an undead shadow priest or warlock and grief people. Seduce->soulfire->seduce->shadowbolt +deathcoil kills even raid geared warriors even if your lock is in pvp blues. Remember how unfair that shit was. 0 counterplay
 
Himeko Sutori. It's kinda like Final Fantasy tactics. Really good, but still in early access.

Apoth42 said:
Still playing Shogun 2.

The multiplayer is insanely active. It'd be really cool if they brought back the avatar/clan system and the capture point system. Hell, they should introduce it to sieges to encourage defenders to hold the entire fort instead of just the core.
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You played Total War 3 kingdoms yet?
 
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