What games are you playing now?

[Veinz]

I picked up Black Mesa which was on sale for $6.49 cdn. I hvaen't played much Half Life but I plan on beating this before Half Life 2 RTX comes out.

 

[Hollow]

Squirrel with a gun.

 

[Spacegoat]

Got around to finally renewing my PS+. So I downloaded Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 because I had a good time with the first game. And its okay? Don't think its a massive upgrade over the first one in particular anyway, aside from there being more cars. Its something I'll definitely play on and off for the time being though.

 

[kjb]

I bought a used copy of Ghost of Tsushima as I had sold my original copy. I got it in the mail yesterday so I got a chance to play it last night and it was fun. I had finished the game but I haven't taken out all of the Mongol strongholds and there are still some items I don't have. I want to do them before I start Iki island.

 

[Chris30]

I'm playing Frogger(1997 version) at my cousin's house, he has a ps2 where you can play old ps1 games, he got a used ps2 in 2020.

 

[TypeRDC5]

Just finished Half life 2 Episode 1 and about to start Episode 2.

Very nice of Valve to give these games away for free. Hadn't played these in a good 15 years.

 

[sirjim73]

I'm playing Frogger(1997 version) at my cousin's house, he has a ps2 where you can play old ps1 games, he got a used ps2 in 2020.

Did you have to cross the road to get to his house...? 🤔

 

[SPhilli911]

Just finished Half life 2 Episode 1 and about to start Episode 2.

Very nice of Valve to give these games away for free. Hadn't played these in a good 15 years.

Probably been about 15 years since I've played any Half-Life too, been meaning to give those another go. My brother just finished up Half-Life: Alyx (with a mod to play without VR) and said really good things about that too, so I'd like to play that one in VR.

 

[Nacho Libre]

In 2004 I was not even remotely close to being a PC player (At that time I hopelessly held to my Dreamcast and later would buy an Xbox), so I'm experiencing Half-Life 2 for the first time. I'm surprised how lean is the experience (no handholding, no bloated menus, clean HUD, no maps, etc.) and how responsive it is with a gamepad, and I can see why it's so important and influential. Thanks for the freebie Valve!

 

[TypeRDC5]

Probably been about 15 years since I've played any Half-Life too, been meaning to give those another go. My brother just finished up Half-Life: Alyx (with a mod to play without VR) and said really good things about that too, so I'd like to play that one in VR.

Half Life:Alyx non VR mod, interesting... will haven't look into it. Although I doubt the Steamdeck will run this and I don't have a PC.

 

[sesselpupser]

I, being a fickle idiot, have sidelined yet another game in favour of a new one which is Chinatown Detective Agency, an indie point and click adventure game with SCUMM-inspired but ultimately nowhere near as good pixel art graphics which feels extremely familiar, its hook is that the clues it gives you are based on readily Googleable things for you to, well, go and Google.

I didn't understand this at first and it gave me a quote from a book and a computer with which to find the book and it asked for the "author, title or keywords" so I thought I was supposed to search for key words in the quote to find the book, it took me an embarrassingly long time to just type the first six or so words into Google to get the Author's name, typed that into the computer in the game and that was the solution.

It's not bad, but so far the clues aren't all that complex and some I haven't even needed to look up. I also kind of hate how it looks because it really does look like basically any other 2D indie game, but I'll probably get over it. It also bugs me that the little pictures of people who are talking don't look much like their sprites in the world.

 

[Nacho Libre]

So, Stalker 2 became available today via Game Pass, so I installed to see what's about and... I uninstalled within an hour. It's odd that a 20-year-old game (Half-Life 2) has hooked me from the start while this game with fancy new graphics (that didn't impress me) just alienated me in quite a short time.

Scratch another high-profile disappointment together with Starfield, Senua's Saga Hellblade 2, Atomic Heart, Redfall, and NFS Unbound (and half a dozen more, mostly indies).

 

[zaxs]

Yesterday I started with Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 Turbocharged.
Like the game, specially the aspect there are no weapons.

 

[35mm]

I, being a fickle idiot, have sidelined yet another game in favour of a new one which is Chinatown Detective Agency, an indie point and click adventure game with SCUMM-inspired but ultimately nowhere near as good pixel art graphics which feels extremely familiar, its hook is that the clues it gives you are based on readily Googleable things for you to, well, go and Google.

I didn't understand this at first and it gave me a quote from a book and a computer with which to find the book and it asked for the "author, title or keywords" so I thought I was supposed to search for key words in the quote to find the book, it took me an embarrassingly long time to just type the first six or so words into Google to get the Author's name, typed that into the computer in the game and that was the solution.

It's not bad, but so far the clues aren't all that complex and some I haven't even needed to look up. I also kind of hate how it looks because it really does look like basically any other 2D indie game, but I'll probably get over it. It also bugs me that the little pictures of people who are talking don't look much like their sprites in the world.

I remember trying Chinatown Detective Agency a while ago and eventually gave up, exactly at the moment I realized it was a "Google this and Google that" game. A shame, because otherwise I was enjoying the dialogues and general atmosphere of the game.