What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

SGR · 02-28-2022, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Key

Elden Ring

Typically when I hear of a Souls like coming out, I'm not super excited due to not being too great at these games. However, I felt like jumping into Elden Ring just to see what it's like, and I'm already about 25 hours in. This game is fantastic. It's definitely a Souls like when it comes to combat and bosses, but also takes a lot of inspiration from Breath of the Wild in the sense that the world is massive, and filled to the brim with interesting things to find at every corner. Maybe if you go this way, you'll run into a giant beast that's too high level to kill, or you just feel like riding your horse across the plains just to see what lies beyond the hills while collecting materials to craft items to use on said high level beast. There's so much more freedom than I expected and that's a good thing. The game doesn't force you to do anything, just grind on the same enemies over and over to level up or do whatever you want the way you want and just run around collecting stuff, or take on dungeon bosses if you'd like. It's your call. Never once have I felt like the game was forcing me to go somewhere.

It is truly the best game to come out this year so far.

Looks like a sweet game, but I can't justify buying it until I make it through the Demon's Souls remake

The Batlord · 02-28-2022, 09:42 AM

I don't play Souls games for similar reasons but this does look intriguing.

SGR · 02-28-2022, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I don't play Souls games for similar reasons but this does look intriguing.

I honestly don't think they're as difficult as people often make them out to be. You just gotta be persistent with them. The games do have cheap deaths, despite what many of the fans say. It's never a good time when I come around a corner only for a giant boulder that I had no clue would be there plows over me and sends my lifeless corpse hurtling into the abyss.

The sense of progression in the games that comes from the victories and successes is excellent though.

The Batlord · 04-29-2022, 08:48 AM

The Last of Us Part 2 ****ing rules. Even aside from the great story the gameplay is super satisfying and feels very visceral and intense. I just took a sniper shot at some dude I could barely see and missed so he called out "She's by the truck!" Since I was in fact by the truck I placed a trip mine and skedaddled. About fifteen seconds later I hear the BOOM (explosions and gunshots sound so ****ing good) followed by one of his compatriots crying out "BRIAN!!!" Mind you these are unnamed peons, but I still get to feel like I gave someone lifelong trauma. 5 stars.

The Batlord · 05-03-2022, 01:22 PM

Does anybody else's butthole involuntarily clench when they take a flying leap in a game?

GD · 05-09-2022, 01:33 PM

Re: Elden Ring

So I've had this in my library for weeks already but barely touched it. I was playing Bloodborne (which had been sitting on my shelf for a while) in anticipation for ER arriving in the mail, and to warm up for it so I wouldn't be getting completely stomped by the game upon picking it up.
But in the meantime I got more than mildly addicted to Bloodborne, so when Elden Ring arrived i just kept playing BB lol. Although I'm probably less than halfway through the game it has quickly reached the status of one of my all-time favourite games, it's just that ****ing good. Then I got busy with Uni assignments and didn't really have time for either of them for the past few weeks.
I also couldn't resist watching YT let's plays of it when ER came out (bc of all the hype around it), so the early portions of the game are already fairly familiar to me at this point. Figure I'll wait a while longer to start really getting into it, so the game feels more "fresh" to me when I do start exploring it for real.

TL;DR: Bloodborne is a very good game

SGR · 05-09-2022, 03:44 PM

Elden Ring was the moment Souls really hit the mainstream. It's a pretty great game, but I do have small gripes with it.

My favorite Souls game is still DS2.

The Batlord · 05-09-2022, 05:40 PM

Bloodbourne wasn't mainstream? That game was huge.

BloodFoxTK · 05-09-2022, 07:16 PM

been playing a tonne of Ghost of Tsushima lately.

one of my all-time favourite Playstation exclusives and my personal number 1 game of 2020.

SGR · 05-09-2022, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Bloodbourne wasn't mainstream? That game was huge.

Not like Elden Ring - it wasn't helped by the fact that it was a Playstation exclusive. It sold somewhere between 3-4 million copies total. Elden Ring has sold 12 million copies, and it's only been a couple months since it launched. The open world aspect is drawing in a lot more casual gamers i think.

05-09-2022, 01:33 PM	#12886 (permalink)
GD ???pp? ??snW Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: NO Posts: 686	Re: Elden Ring So I've had this in my library for weeks already but barely touched it. I was playing Bloodborne (which had been sitting on my shelf for a while) in anticipation for ER arriving in the mail, and to warm up for it so I wouldn't be getting completely stomped by the game upon picking it up. But in the meantime I got more than mildly addicted to Bloodborne, so when Elden Ring arrived i just kept playing BB lol. Although I'm probably less than halfway through the game it has quickly reached the status of one of my all-time favourite games, it's just that ****ing good. Then I got busy with Uni assignments and didn't really have time for either of them for the past few weeks. I also couldn't resist watching YT let's plays of it when ER came out (bc of all the hype around it), so the early portions of the game are already fairly familiar to me at this point. Figure I'll wait a while longer to start really getting into it, so the game feels more "fresh" to me when I do start exploring it for real. TL;DR: Bloodborne is a very good game __________________ lasty\|rate-y music-y

05-09-2022, 07:16 PM	#12889 (permalink)
BloodFoxTK the only fox you need! Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: South Island, Mobius Posts: 233	been playing a tonne of Ghost of Tsushima lately. one of my all-time favourite Playstation exclusives and my personal number 1 game of 2020. __________________ https://card.psnprofiles.com/2/BloodFoxTK.png

05-09-2022, 03:44 PM	#12887 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,326	Elden Ring was the moment Souls really hit the mainstream. It's a pretty great game, but I do have small gripes with it. My favorite Souls game is still DS2.