I never tried it before because I thought the RPG part would be dumb. But it’s surprisingly fun and has the great Meretzky humor.it’s even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104470/Super_Hero_League_of_Hoboken/
EDIT: GOG version is probably superior: https://www.gog.com/en/game/superhero_league_of_hobokenBeen on Monster Hunter Sunbreak for a couple weeks now. It’s absolutely become my favorite modern monhun game, and it’s significantly improved my mental state.
Also playing Redout 2 and Blue Revolver, an old bullet hell shmup that just got a massive game revision.
Other than that, I was playing NFSU2 because of the 20th anniversary and the release of a great soft-remaster mod
Does Half-Life 2 count? I played it years ago but fully replayed it over a couple of days to hear the new developer commentary. I never thought Valve would get around to making one for Half-Life 2, so I’m glad they did.
Dont know yet, but a very stressful period is done at the end of this week and i have some vacation after so from next week i will find an old gem and play the heck out of it
Factorio, checking out Space Age. Discovered that Cliff Explosives are moved further down the tech tree…
My friend and I have just been using nukes lol. Bonus is you can see where cliffs used to be in the mini map it’s fun
Same, bought space age but loading up a new save file just makes my heart ache for my immaculate bus and signal setups
Sand Land. The style is great. Story is pretty cool and well delivered. Gameplay is meh. Feels like a watered down Mad Max.
The game felt like it would be better as an anime.
Then the anime came out on Hulu.
Halo: Combat Evolved. I get what all the hype was about. This is a good game!
You are sage like patient.
[crosses legs and hums]
Can you even imagine how good that felt on an original Xbox?
Incredible, I’m sure. Especially for people who weren’t playing on PC before - it generally stands up to Half-Life in a lot of ways, including the enemy movement and maybe even AI, but the cutscenes have that more traditional cinematic look. I love the constant immersion of Half-Life, but this feels like watching an awesome sci-fi action movie, like Aliens. There’s enough survival horror and cosmic horror vibes as well to keep you going.
Consoles really didn’t have many good FPS until then. I’d say the Timesplitters series was a standout, as was Medal of Honor: Frontline.
Both of those felt kind of on rails compared to Halo though. Wide open areas, three way battles, vehicles…
Yeah, the vehicles and battlefield chaos are really well executed. It feels genuinely grandiose today, so it must have been mind blowing at the time. I can also tell the campaign is meant to teach you how to play multiplayer, which other games would go on to do in the years to come.
There’s a lot of Battlefield 3 in there. Or the other way around, more appropriately.
I experienced the whole original trilogy last year with a friend on coop. I get it now. Why so many people love Halo.
Btw, Halo 2 and 3 are much better than the first one. If you already liked that, you’re in for a treat.
I played a bit of Infinite coop - that game is super faithful, by way - and that was a lot of fun. Playing this in 2001 with a friend must have been fantastic fun.
I wasn’t very patient with that one at the time, somehow managed to get it running on my PC though and had my mind blown. Such a good game, basically everything is fantastic apart from that library level.
You know, having just played the Library level, I get the feeling that it was thematically necessary to drive home the scale of the cosmic horror you’re facing. It needs to be exhausting, overwhelming, unending…
I tried it on PC in 2004 and all I got was a slide show.
Bulletstorm full clip edition.
Really fun shooter with an interesting scoring mechanic.
I fuckin love Bulletstorm and wish it got its sequel
Just finished Death Stranding, now starting up Witcher 3.
I played death stranding during COVID and it was the perfect game to do then (no idea if that was patient at the time) the world being so beautiful and fun/ hard to navigate was great for when you couldn’t go outside. The soundtrack is brilliant too.
Yeah, playing during the pandemic made it hit harder, I feel. It really drove home the loneliness, but also the need for a connected community during unprecedented times.
It’ll always feel like a relic of that time, won’t it? I wonder how we’ll talk about it in 20 years…
I played a chunk of it then on PS4, but found the text exhausting and put it down. One of these days I’ll have to play it on PC, but it just won’t feel the same.
I played it on PS4 and beat it, then got it free on Epic a while ago. I didn’t have a PC powerful enough until I got my Asus ROG Ally last year. So, I had to replay it. I love Death Stranding so much and I can’t wait for DS2.
That is to say, it felt the same on PC for me because I used a controller both times, lol.
I’ll play it with an Xbox controller on PC, but what I mean is the thematic impact of playing it while so much of the world is also isolated isn’t - hopefully won’t be - repeatable.
Playing through Hades 1. I never got out of Hades until this time around, and I’m having fun grinding to complete some of the fated choices and lounge renovations.
Have fun, in my opinion it only gets better as you go
That’s been my experience, too! I was a little worried, after I got out the first time, that I would have no more reason to keep playing, but they did a good job giving the player something(s) to keep working towards.
I’ve finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I’m finally playing it myself - and beating it!
Fallout New Vegas! I’m really enjoying all the characters that I have met so far, but I’m starting to realize that villifying factions right from the start isn’t the best idea when trying to get to new places
Yo, I started FNV for my first time this week! A friend of mine is always raving about it, so he sent me instructions to get it all modded out (Viva New Vegas modlist), so I did that and I’m off to the races. So far so good… it was a bit of a grind to get past the first couple of quests (I kept getting my ass handed to me), but now that I’ve killed some convicts and stolen their stuff, I’m in much better shape. Also I figured out I can sleep in beds that aren’t red.
I also heard that about not getting involved with factions yet…
Got back into Slay the Spire on a whim. Nice little turn based card thingy, with beautiful art, and fun synergies.
Love slay the spire, one of my favourite rogue likes. I love how many viable builds it has, just a little knowledge and you can make most runs viable.
Spire Together (I think that’s the name) is a pretty good co-op mod as well
Cyberpunk,
Finally picked it up on this sale with Phantom Liberty.
Played about an hour so far, seems OK, have to get my Steam Controller setup properly for it still.
I’ve been playing Monster Hunter Now on mobile, it fucking sucks unfortunately, but it’s making want to play MH:World again to just grind out armor pieces casually… Although thinking about it, that’s also a chore because unlocking cosmetics is super tiduous and can be really hard… Hmm…
Also playing Legends of Runeterra.
