Who here likes video games? Anyone?

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somecanadian said:
I’m so late to this thread. Haha. Has it died already?
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Welcome to the party. 🙂

The forum transitioned to a new platform in September of last year. That change brought with it the new feature that threads automatically close after 2 weeks of inactivity. So far, this is the only thread I know of that is still going from before that transition. I aim to keep it going as long as possible. 😁

I haven’t played any of the games you mentioned, though. I’m a Mario and Zelda kind of guy.
 
Haha! I love that you’re trying to keep it alive.

Mario is fun! I only like the old school version though. I have Mario 3 on my DS and Super Mario World on Super Nintendo! Haha. It was a wedding gift.

Never did play Zelda but the hype is real and I’m told repeatedly I must.

Have you heard of games called Harvest Moon and/or Rune Factory? Rune Factory is Harvest Moon but with monsters to fight. Haha. But both are crazy fun and innocent as heck. My mom is obsessed with Harvest Moon but has played it so much there’s nothing left for her. She keeps begging for a new one. Haha.
 
Yes, give in to the Zelda hype. 😜 I’ve been making my way through the newest one (Breath of the Wild) for over a year now. I’m almost done. 😆

I’ve long heard of Harvest Moon, but never actually played it. I’m not sure why not as I’ve heard lots of good things about it over the years. I haven’t heard of Rune Factory. That’s nice your mom likes it. My parents only play Wii Party and Dr. Mario. 🤣
 
Oh gosh, Harvest Moon is deceptively simple! It’s soooo addictive. I can’t even explain! Lol! You’d have to try it to understand. I was pretty skeptical my first go but after that first go I was hooked. Only reason I don’t play it now is because my mom stole my copies. ROFL!
 
The Smash Bros. presentation yesterday was pretty exciting! (Although I heard at least some of the new announcements were leaked, I didn’t spoil myself ahead of time.)
 
Indeed. Simon Belmont and King K. Rool join the party! And it indicated they were not yet done introducing new characters, nor game modes. I’m still holding out hope for a 1 player mode a la Subspace Emissary. And I would like to see a return of the Stage Creator feature. My daughter enjoyed using that in Smash Bros. Wii U. But even as it stands now, the game is going to be great.
 
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Has anyone checked out We Happy Few, which got released in full this week? I don’t have the time to invest in playing something like that, but I watched a playthrough and was definitely moved.
 
I’m currently playing Sonic Mania. I’m absolutely loving it. It does a good job of bringing 2D Sonic into the modern day - better than Sonic Generations I feel.
Seeksadvice said:
Skyrim was all about the eye candy, and was dumbed down to absurd levels.
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I like that Skyrim focused more on giving a base experience that could be expanded through player freedom and modding. Sure, it makes the base game bland, but the final experience gave me a lot more enjoyment than either Morrowind or Oblivion.
somecanadian said:
Anybody play Witcher 3?

Honestly it’s simultaneously the best and most disturbing game I’ve ever played.
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I played the first game and liked it. It wasn’t as smart as it tried to be, but I thought it did a decent job of providing an experience that felt like a really adult-oriented fairy tale. Geralt even calls it a fairy tale depending on choices you make in Chapter 3.

I absolutely hated the second game, though. It tried way too hard to be dark and edgy, had absolutely no sense of pacing, had a horrible combat system, and was all around just a nonsensically designed game from a system’s standpoint. (The first game was simple, but it at least had some thought put into it.)

Unfortunately, my experience with the second game really has put me off wanting to get into the third game. I know everyone calls it a masterpiece, but they were saying the same about the second game when it came out.
Mike_from_NJ said:
Has anyone checked out We Happy Few, which got released in full this week? I don’t have the time to invest in playing something like that, but I watched a playthrough and was definitely moved.
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I got really excited for that game when it first revealed. It looked like an decent survival game set in a Bioshock-inspired world.

By now, though, I didn’t even realize that it was released. It’s a bit weird since I was constantly checking for updates a few years ago. However, as time dragged on and as more criticism from early players rolled in, it seemed to not be able to lift itself beyond being a mostly standard survival game. The mixed reviews seem to indicate that it never really developed beyond that.
 
Good call on shades of The Prisoner (although the last scene isn’t yourself wearing a monkey mask 😃 ) There is also a very strong Brave New World thing going on, with everyone constantly on drugs to wipe out any possible unpleasant moments. Like @ZMystiCat mentioned the reviews have been mixed. As someone who only watched a playthrough I was spared some of the tedium that the gameplay seems to have and focus more on the story.

As far as games I’m eager to play, I am super excited for the Cuphead DLC to come out next year. I’m curious to see Vane (made by some of the crew that worked on The Last Guardian) whenever that eventually gets released. And supposedly Playdead, the developers of the great Limbo and Inside, have something in the works
 
I go through times like that.

In truth, I stick to a few core games. I’m not well versed in the ‘new things’ because they’re often disappointing.
 
I’ve been known to play some Mario, Minecraft, and occasionally Pokemon lol
 
As far as new games goes this year is kind of weak, IMO.

Into the Breach and Monster Hunter World are the only two 2018 releases I’ve even played yet. I’m pretty excited for Spider-Man next month and Smash Bros in December though.

Playing the original Paper Mario game on my Wii U for the first time. It’s pretty good so far.
 
God of War! I still haven’t played that but what I’ve seen is pretty slick so far and FAR different from the other versions of the game (gameplay wise)
 
Bumping this thread before it is closed. We only have ~50 posts left until it’s closed at the 1K limit. I know we can do it guys 🙂

I ordered Pokemon Ultra Sun last week but it has not arrived yet. For whatever reason Pokemon has calmed me down in the past so I am looking forward to its arrival. I have not played a 3D main-series Pokemon game yet so we’ll see how that matches up to the earlier versions (Diamond being the last one I had). The Sun mascot looked more interesting to me than the Moon one so I opted for Ultra Sun.
 
Very few… but I do like Angry Birds Rio and Cookie Cats Pop.
 
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I do…although I primarily play time management/puzzle/WordswithFriends type apps. We also don’t have console type games in our house. I also really enjoy reading, crochet and “grown up coloring”, which I find really relaxing. And, obviously, social media. It’s all good, LOL 🙂
 
I recently got done playing through South Park: The Fractured but Whole, and yes, a title-relevant joke does appear in the game. It is a bit more reliant on toilet humor than the first game, which I felt got old quickly, but it is also way less reliant on self-referential jokes, which makes the humor overall stronger in my opinion. I absolutely love how they implemented the standard RPG character sheet into South Park’s usual humor surrounding identity politics. I sort of wish they hadn’t changed the combat system so much, even if it made for more interesting boss fights.

Now I’m playing Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle and am nearing the end of the second world. It definitely feels like a faithful Mario adaptation of turn-based tactical games like XCom or Shadowrun, for better and for worse. I’ll wait until I beat it before offering a final judgment, but overall, I’m enjoying it, even if it so far has felt a bit too easy.
 
You know, it took me an embarrassingly long time to catch on to the word play in the South Park game’s title.

Still not as long as it took me to catch on to Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest = Diddy’s Conquest. Someone just pointed that out to me a few weeks ago. Only took nearly 25 years. 😳

I’m curious to hear your impressions of Mario + Rabbids once you are done with it.
 
I’m playing Mario & Luigi partners in time for the 3DS right now. It’s a great game, and reminds me of Mario RPG for snes. Although, I’m not a fan of the gimmicky use of the touch screen and gyroscopics. I’m pretty excited for spider man that comes out this week on the ps4.
 
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