What Games Do You Play? (Changed from "Computers ...")

I have been on an Infinity miniatures kick lately. Unfortunately, my poor Morats keep getting shot up by the Nomads every time I get them out.

I have been playing a bit of Diablo 3 on the PS3 and some old school Master of Orion 2 on DOSBOX.

I'm a board and card game kind of girl. Lately my favorites are Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, and Hearts.

Damn you, Chrono Stone! XD (An Inazuma Chrono Stone boss kicked my butt. I will need to level up and train some more!)

ETA: UGH, this boss team is a bit annoying, lol. I really don't like this sequel's mechanics. The multiple mechanics keep confusing me, and uses up so much of my team's energy. I'm glad the developers are taking out one mechanic for the newest game...Unless they add an even more annoying mechanic.

My wife and I do a Youtube Let's Play channel (I would post a link but I think that's spammy advertising?)and since we lost all our old data (like 4 games worth) for the time being, we picked up Chrono Cross and Star Ocean: First Departure. We're planning on Silent Hill 2 and Parasite Eve for the holidays coming up.

I rarely play new titles anymore (save, say, Star Ocean I&F / 5 or Pokemon) so I like to go back and play all the old RPGs I grew up with. Now I get to share them with the world, and with my wife, who is experiencing some of these games for the first time. Others, we're both huge fans of, and rarely, there's a title she has a lot of interest in that I don't care for much. It's a good way to spend quality time together. ^^

I tip my hat to you. Let's Play channels are fantastic entertainment, as well as a great way to get a sneak peek into a game I'm unsure whether to buy or not. I've contemplated starting one of my own, but my life is a bit too busy for that. Plus I'm kind of rubbish at most games.

Aw, thank you Cliff Face ^^ If we ever recover our files, we would have completed episodes of Digimon World 1 and a near-complete Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. We also had files for Digimon Adventure and Banjo Kazooie (wife was playing Kazooie, since I suck at platformers; save Alice: Madness Returns). I exclusively stick to JRPG and non-FPS horror for the most part. I'm really bad at stuff like Banjo, Mario, Sonic... lol I do enjoy the occasional Harvest Moon / Animal Crossing, too ^^

Ah, I watched a LP series of Alice: Madness Returns recently, actually. My thesis for honours in creative writing is looking at the Alice stories (along with some other stuff), so I watched Let's Play of both the Alice video games. Not actually using the games for my thesis, but it seemed quite relevant. Madness Returns is a seriously beautiful game.

I love watching Let's Plays!

I sometimes watch them to "preview" a game that I'm interested in, or to see how to get past a level I'm stuck in. (Oooh, speaking of which, I must watch to learn how someone can get past a level I often get stuck in Mass Effect 2...)

Most of the time, though, I watch Let's Plays of people being funny playing with games I'll never play (like horror games).

PC-games-wise, I have been playing some Sims. Planning to continue Stardew Valley. (I've been addicted to my 3DS Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons games in that genre.)

Sims 4. I have played the whole series.

I got World of Final Fantasy as an early Christmas gift. I gotta say that while the stacking system might look silly (and boy does it look silly), it actually is a pretty good combat system. Essentially, the two man characters, Reynn and Lann, are largely blank slates. It's who you attached to them that determines their strengths and weaknesses, meaning you can basically have them be however you want as long as you find the right monsters to link them up with. Though only having two "stacks" for battle compared to the three or four characters you normally have is odd, but I've gotten used to it.

Also, puns. There are a lot of puns.

Shadow Dragon said:

I got World of Final Fantasy as an early Christmas gift..

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I played the demo, and for some reason I got really bored. Probably because I waiting for the ATB bar to fill up isn't as super as it used to be for me. o.o

Melanii said:

I played the demo, and for some reason I got really bored. Probably because I waiting for the ATB bar to fill up isn't as super as it used to be for me. o.o

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Not sure if it was in the demo but in the full game you can essentially put it in fast forward during battle with the R1 button.

My father got me the King's Quest chapters, because my family loved the original King's Quest series.

The new one's different and has more "action-y" parts, and more simplified (and easier) for casual players, but I really liked it. There are some parts of the game where there are multiple solutions and choices, including dialogue choices. It's pretty cool. Reminds me of the visual novel-ish mechanics of those story-oriented Telltale games (and Bioware games), but not as indepth as those mentioned games.

I did like not dying as much like in the old Sierra games. The new game sometimes gives you warnings about the dangers, which I really liked. I hated dying too much or getting into dead ends with the old games, so this is an improvement for me.

I enjoyed the first chapter enough that my father gave me the later chapters as part of my Christmas present.

Yes, I am still a spoiled Daddy's Girl.

Cath said:

Okay, so PC games aside, what else do you play? Do any of you run D&D campaigns? Are you DM's in your spare time?

I'm mostly a PC gamer, but I have friends tempting me to join their D&D shenanigans. *watches writing time slipping away*

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D&D and other pen & paper role playing games have actually INCREASED my creativity by leaps and bounds. It fires my imagination (as so much of it happens there), and it can be good for me to interact creatively with others live (writing can be a lonesome process). Plus, nothing has ever strengthened my creativity and ability to adapt to an ever-changing story than DMing/GMing.

I hope you try it!

I play The binding of Isaac rebirth and enter the gungeon

I have played Enter the Gungeon once or twice or for 200 hours or something...

I'm close to the end of Dragon Quest 8 for 3DS, mostly been bingeing on weekends. I'm liking it better than the original. Two great new characters, but I'm still pretty much just using the original team. I just got used to their dynamic. It's so much easier to grind in this version, too. Instead of random encounters, you can see the fights on the overworld and just adjust the view to force a different monster spawn. Find an area where metal slimes spawn, force respawns until you find one, fight, level up, repeat. You can do in a few minutes what used to take hours now. I'm having a great time and I'm standing at the door to the final boss, I think.

Hey, does anyone here play Hearthstone?

I spent most of the day trying my hand at a Hearthstone article I might sub to a site that takes freelance stuff. (The pay is low but it's not nothing and it's stuff I spend too much time writing about for free on forums anyway.) It would be nice to have a beta reader with a writerly eye who wouldn't be completely thrown by game jargon. The target audience would be people familiar enough with the game to know the rules and a lot of the terms but is still largely a beginner. Familiarity with collectable card games other than Hearthstone would work too.

I don't play Hearthstone, but I watch a popular Youtuber play it on Twitch sometimes. He says its very pay to be competitive.

Lately we finished Life is Strange. The sequel just got announced, too. It's a quick-time-event / visual novel style about a girl who can reverse time in set intervals and has to save her town. It's very good, even cosplayed the lead at a recent convention. Only one episode to go.

We're currently branching out into podcast with Digimon and plan to start streaming with a subtitled version of the Digimon Adventure PSP game. Side LP is the HD remaster of Final Fantasy X.

Almost forgot: I picked up Alien Isolation casually. Christ that Xenomorph literally snuck up behind me, scared me to death. I don't scare easily at all.

Lately, I finished The Sexy Brutale, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's like if Clue met Groundhog's Day in video game form

You play a man with the ability to keep reliving the same day over and over again, working to stop the murders of a bunch of people in a casino/mansion called the Sexy Brutale. You have to sneak around (you can't be visible in the same room as any other character, or you'll get chased out) and figure out how the murders happened and how to stop them in roundabout ways. It's not super long, so it may be one for the Summer Steam sale, but the music is stellar, the writing is mostly pretty good and aside from some animation that could be smoother, I REALLY dug the visual style.

Now back to Persona 5 (And writing my next D&D game >.>)

My ex has gotten me pretty heavily back into Magic: The Gathering.

Since she moved out, I don't get to play her as much now, but going to actual tournaments is scary. I don't much like being one of only two or three girls in the room.

Story of Seasons Trio of Towns. Having a hard time deciding on a bachelor. That's what you get with three different town villages, lol.

Been playing a lot of Stellaris lately. The learning curve is a bit difficult, but it is addicting as hell! You'll sit down to play for a few minutes, and before you know it, three hours have passed and you'll have built yourself three new colonies, a dozen new starfleets with accompanying ground forces, be mining every rock within your borders, be in contact and trade with about five different star nations, you'll have forgotten to feed the dog, and you need to leave for work in 20 minutes.

My all time fave game is Counterstrike

sunna said:

Er....chess?



(God, I feel so boring now.)

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You must be strategic.