What are you playing? (games)

[madbean]

Sadly, my Skyrim character has turned evil. He's killin' everybody up in there.

[stringsthings]

Bought the latest Hitman game over holiday.  50% off.  I like it.  The graphics are excellent and the gameplay is interesting.
It's quite the challenge to find all the ways to complete a contract.  It's kind of the ultimate replay game since it encourages the player
to replay the contracts in different ways.

(Some people complained that they didn't like the online connection feature, but it doesn't bother me since I play at home.)

[Willybomb]

Just upgraded to Rocksmith 2014 Remastered.

But, just finished The Fire In The Flood.  It's a bit buggy, but man, what a great game.

[juansolo]

I've been fully embracing my retro geekery today...

http://juansolo.co.uk/geekery/videowafflage8.html

[stringsthings]

While playing Hitman, there's an episode where your target is a singer in a pop rock band.   One way to get access is to disguise
yourself as Abel De Silva, a replacement drummer that has an awesome english accent.  Just did this and played the drums
as 47.   Incredibly lol funny.   

[selfdestroyer]

I just spent the last hour playing Thumper in PSVR. I love this game so much.. there is a good reason they call it Rhythm Violence.

Cody

[alanp]

Spent far too much time playing Community Test Chambers in Portal 2. There are some real crackers in there.

[m-Kresol]

I love the portal series. Glados, Cave Johnson and Wheatley were hilarious. and it's fun to have puzzle games with more story and optical finesse.
Also, the ads were awesome:

[midwayfair]

I've been playing Avernum:

http://www.avernum.com/avernum/index.html

Fantastic old epic RPG. This is apparently the third time it's been released, with an update in the late 90s (I think) as well. It's brilliant. There's a good story -- save the world if you want, but no "chosen one" crap. It's got an incredibly deep (heh) world to explore, with largely open access to the whole place (you have more than enough rope to hang yourself constantly). It's got witty dialog and a lot of really great humor scattered around, from dorky word play and star wars references to "subtler" and corny stuff (like the Gremlin creature names: Gremlin, GREMLIN, Stinky, Speedy, Holy ...). Resources are scarce enough to make you actually use items and feel bad about it on normal difficulty.

I had recently tried a couple times going back to Ultima 7 and I just can't do it. Its interface is super clunky and the graphics really don't hold up (as in, everything looks confusing and the text is hard to read). Ultima 4 actually holds up better but I'm not sure that game is "replayable" in the same way (because you make your own story, and that's more or less the point of the game.) (On the other hand, Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 actually hold up spectacularly well.) I really wish Richard Garriott had put some money into re-mastering the good Ultimas (4-7) instead of getting bogged down in what I'm now realizing has simply turned into a perpetual beta MMORPG ... I kickstarted Shroud of the Avatar because they claimed it would be an old fashioned single player with some multiplayer support, but it's been years and everything they do is just for the online version.

Anyway, Avernum is scratching my Ultima itch.

Also got a ton of 90s point and click adventures in an GOG sale. I'd never heard of this one:

https://www.gog.com/game/toonstruck

You get sucked into your own animated show, the Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun show. It looked hilarious, but check out the voice artist roster: Christopher Lloyd, Dan Castellaneta, Dom DeLuise, and Tim Curry.

[thesmokingman]

this is what happens when you find out the NES Classic doesn't have Contra https://retropie.org.uk/

[matmosphere]

Last game I played was Bravely Default for the 3ds. It's fun if you are into Final Fantasy type games. Just saw that there is a sequel, it's going to be next on the list.

this is what happens when you find out the NES Classic doesn't have Contra https://retropie.org.uk/

I think that is basically what is inside the NES Classic anyway. I've heard there is no shared technology between it and an original NES. But who can find one to check.

The classic does have Super C though, which I like better because it's a little more difficult. It also has Simon's Quest which is such a terrible game that it makes me almost not want to buy one.

[dan.schumaker]

this is what happens when you find out the NES Classic doesn't have Contra https://retropie.org.uk/

I just built myself a retropie system on a Raspberry Pi 3, using some 8bitdo NES30 Pro Bluetooth controllers.  Its awesome to be able to play through all the games I used to when I was young, and the ones I always wanted to play.  And yet, what I've been drawn to playing is Link's Awakening from the Game Boy on my 55" TV....

[alanp]

Oooo, this supports Commodore 64? Now, Now I'm tempted

[matmosphere]

this is what happens when you find out the NES Classic doesn't have Contra https://retropie.org.uk/

I just built myself a retropie system on a Raspberry Pi 3, using some 8bitdo NES30 Pro Bluetooth controllers.  Its awesome to be able to play through all the games I used to when I was young, and the ones I always wanted to play.  And yet, what I've been drawn to playing is Link's Awakening from the Game Boy on my 55" TV....

Budget wise how much did it end up setting you back?

The whole legal grey area thing is what always keeps me from doing that. Although I have a pretty good stash of games, suppose it's okay if I limited it to just those.

[thesmokingman]

I have less than a hundred in the raspberry pi and the necessary accessories. I bought it to help with university as I worked through the CompTIA Linux+ so now it needed a new purpose. obviously, you can spend more or less than I did depending on what you have on hand or how fancy you want to get with it. I didn't have controllers so I had to invest there.