What Games Are You Playing Right Now?

Right now I'm deep into the clean my room and save my money so I can ditch Jersey within 11 days game

 

I think when you finish a game, you can say you beat it.

 

i don't mind primitive visuals, as long as you can tell what's going on. actually, i think pre-PS1 games were better than PS1 in that way; you never questioned where you were or what was coming after you in the classic NES games. it was when PS1 came around and they started trying to do 3D stuff that some of the games started to get really confusing as far as what is a background, or a pathway, or something you need to pick up, or an enemy, etc.

i tried parasite eve a few years ago, probably at the end of the PS2 era. i thought it had a lot of potential as a game, and the visuals were fine, but i couldn't get past her walking speed. it was like trying to play morrowind if you could only walk, never run, and your speed attribute was capped at 10. or at least that's how i remember it.

i guess it depends on why you finished it. like i was saying above, i finished playing parasite eve because i didn't have the patience for her slow walk. i finished playing scarface because it was the only game that ever inspired me to put a hole in my wall (controller throw, not wall punch). there's a bunch of games i'm finished with, that i wouldn't consider myself as having beat them.

 

Soul Reaver was great! Amazing for it's time imo. Gotta work through the choppy cutscenes, but the whole 'transferring between dimensions' thing helps to overlook that. Impaling enemies adds to that too lol.

Oh no. No, no. Nope. :d

It takes some SERIOUS dedication these days to beat a game. I guess it depends if you 'beat' the game from a casual or hardcore gaming standpoint. Or if you take games' achievements/trophies into account (Which is basically the same thing I guess?). I have a bunch of friends that are into the 100% completion thing.

But hey... ain't nobody got time fo dat.

I am going to agree with you on this one though. If you finished the storyline in a Bethesda game... You beat the damn game. lol

 

Right, I agree with what you say about PS1's visuals. For me, most 3D games are unplayable for those reasons. RPG's however, along with some games such as Resident Evil and Parasite Eve used pre-rendered backgrounds. It allowed them to put some very nice details into the visuals, and those are the visuals I find charming.

In Parasite Eve you can make your character run anywhere, therefore her speed as never been an issue for me.

 

Today is the first day I've got The last of us in my house :-D But I will attempt to finish Drake's adventures first

I ment 'fly THROUGH the chapters' obviously

 

Wow, you're finally going to play The Last of Us. I envy you being able to experience this game for the first time.

 

I don't care about Xbox points and achievements and trophies. I don't know what they do or what they unlock. But I still think once you finish a games story then you can declare it beaten. It's not like you finish watching a movie but haven't really finished watching it because you need three more attempts to piece scenes together, or you don't "not finish a book" just because you didn't understand it.

The last game I honestly finished was when the 360 came out. Gun. I finished that in about 3 days or so. Well lemme think about that, well, other than Mario kart and Mario type games.... I think Gun was it. I got kinda far in Resident Eveil Africa, lost interest.

I can't finish a GTA game because I get so bored of them after a few hours, same missions, same game, different city every release. IMO.

Oh, I finished Doom 1 the first chapter. =p

I think a part of me doesn't want to finish games for fears I'll just shrug my shoulders and assume that's it. Once you finish a games story, do you really keep playing it? Even for side quests? It was like that in Gun. I smashed the main story and had lots of shit still to do but I'd finished it... wasn't fun anymore.

 

hmm, maybe there was a run button that i just never figured out. i bought the game used, so it may have come without a manual or something, i don't remember.

to make that analogy work, beating only the main quest of a game would be like reading the last page of every chapter of a book.

i also don't care about trophies and shit. actually, they hurt sidequesting for me. back in the old days, you would do 100% of a game because that's how you got the best in-game rewards. now there is absolutely no incentive to do most of the content other than to get a trophy on your hard drive that nobody is ever going to see. the only games that i normally finish 100% now are the GTA games, just because a vast majority of what is required is actually fun. i still liked it better when each side mission gave you stat bonuses or special pick-ups.

i agree about not wanting to do side quests after finishing the main story. if i'm trying to do side missions, i always make sure not to finish the story until i'm ready to be finished with the game. which is partially why i never finish a bethesda game; i always try to do everything but the main story and i end up getting tired of it before i'm ready to do the main quest. even when i got 100% on GTA5, i got to 99% and finished the main story, and then i had about a half hour's worth of work to do to get that last 1%, and i put it off for months.

 

I just don't see how helping out let's say, helping out someone by delivering An item to someone else for them (skyrim) has any worthwhile justification to add to the main quest and storyline. It's just fluff, time wasting, it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't do anything it was just something to do, ya know?

 

^ yeah, those quests are becoming increasingly pointless. in the past, those types of quests were more likely to have a purpose. either giving you access to some sort of information about the storyline or the game world in general that you wouldn't have learned otherwise, or getting you to go meet an important character or discover a town that you would never see if just following the main quest. it seems like anymore they just throw pointless quests like that in there so that they can advertise "over 200 missions" or something like that.

 

The only reason I'm not starting it up is because I don't wanna play 4 storylines at once Really looking forward to it! Normally when I'm chilling at my friends house and one of us is has a new game we just drop right in the story where the other has arrived and watch or play along to get an impression but I was afraid of spoilers so I told him in the same lines of how you warn people about the new star wars not to give anything away

Ha it is great to see someone had the same amount of fun with Gun Gun was really only that good because there wasn't a red dead redemption yet... but I'm such a sucker for the setting that I WANTED that game. I think it's the first western game where horse riding really worked. The open world was a bit small and stuffed (esp. compared to RD redemption later) but there simply was nothing better around the time Gun was released. It was a good treat and I played the shit out of it as well (but on the first xbox, not 360 I think). But yeah once you got in every location with the main story the mystery of this little open world was a bit over. Still, great fun with the characters, movie references, typical western story and a well executed atmosphere. There just wasn't a western game before where you could roam the prairie and encounter buffalos and stuff.

I also loved the part where you had to keep the stagecoach in one piece which got attacked by indians. Did that part more than once. And the part where you had to escape from jail at nighttime

Btw I finished the main story of GTA 4 after I started with GTA 5 (just felt like playing that one too, before I got to the next gen) but still haven't finished GTA 5 yet. Around the time I played games like Doom, Blood and Duke Nukem I finished a lot more games! Or at least definitely in a shorter amount of time

And some of those trophies for 100% completion are fun and other are not. Some are quite stupid. People that aim for 100% status in all of their games must have some kind of problem. There simply is too litle of a point to do it. I can understand though when people aim to find all the hidden stuff (I recall franticly searching for all templar knights in the first Assasins Creed), or replay a level in Uncharted for example to accomplish something that earns you a trophy (like so many headshots, or a time limit etc.). I just can't be bothered with it with every game myself.

It often feels like that yeah... It is more of a kick to get something more rewarding out of it indeed. And I agree sidequests and finding such secrets are surely more fun to do before you finish the main story!

 

Oh see! Red Dead, another game I got bored with after a few days. And it was actually kinda cool. But, I don't like fast traveling in games and prefer to make the trek myself, which kills a lot of time. =\ but I can't stand fast travels lol.

 

well,
this is sort of off topic but...finally see a sale i can use this $50 psn card i ive been sitting on since christmas

 

Fast travel is optional, not required! I understand though, i only fast travel after i've been down a lenghty road often enough too

 

Fast travel is essential in these massive open world games it alleviates the boredom of traversing these vast distances that is so time consuming. However it is often unexplained how you have the ability to do this, and for me when it's done without explanation it really pulls me out of the experience.

 

im ok with fast travel...i mean no disrespect to anyone who finds a fault with it...however, its a very "nit-picky" thing to complain about :unsure:

 

son of a bitch. i did it, i destroyed the heart and killed dagoth ur, thus completing my first ever bethesda main quest. then i went to return to the next room where the victory cutscene takes place, and i got stuck in a fucking wall and was completely unable to move without casting an intervention spell back to ald'ruhn. so i guess tomorrow i'll just have to do the whole damn final battle again so i can actually officially finish the storyline.

 

It's a chance at a better weapon or some crazy atom bomb spell. Or a bit of jink for which to buy said weapon or atom bomb spell! To bring further destruction to the final boss in your destiny! Why else?

Oh, and achievements and what-not. But who cares about that. It's more personal satisfaction anyways.

Well... you sharing your interests? Can't just leave us hangin like that!

 

Yay you get to do the greatest battle twice i a row JK that sounds terrible. I reckon it was an intense battle too? (I never reached it by a long shot)

I would say after getting at such a legendary point in that game you should have saved right away but who expect you get stuck in some kind of bug right afterwards right.... Anyways congrats on getting there! :cheers2:

Now you can solve the mystery of the dwarves :-D