WHAT VIDEOGAMES ARE YOU PLAYING RIGHT NOW?

Going to finally start my run on Kingdom Hearts 2.5 soon. Going Critical Mode to get the most out of it, since it gives you shitloads of AP apparently, and I sure do adore my abilities, sooo...

Oh, man. Have you tried the new snapshot? It's got the 1.9 features, including the new End islands and dungeons.

Ah yes, Minecraft. Can't play it single player anymore. Building all these grand buildings for hours on end doesn't have enough fulfillment just showing it off to your family.

Finished playing Dangan Ronpa 2 and I'm currently trying to max all the report cards. Voice acting has significantly improved (plus, there's Monomi's awesome after practice music <3). I have no idea how to get the last movie sequence though.

I'll probably try to finish Persona 4 asap after I'm done with DR2.

I wonder how many people here still play Warframe. Should we make a thread, or...?

author=Kylaila
Did they keep the option to speed up battles optionally?

Yes, and it's much appreciated! (going to back to slow EO1 after playing EOU and EOU2 is... interesting. I walk so slowly, I battle so slowly!)

author=LouisCyphre
I wonder how many people here still play Warframe. Should we make a thread, or...?

I haven't played that in forever, holy shit.

I really need to get around to doing so again... that game is fun as hell.

I played a little Spiral Knights with friends recently, beyond that-- modded Skyrim, a bit of Warcraft (The Legion Expansion announcement got me into it again a little.) and some Broforce.

Liberty

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Started playing Morrowind again after it came up in the FF7 Remake thread. I'm having a much better go of it this time around.

To be honest, I'm probably gonna play Morrowind, then Oblivion, and then Skyrim. May as well dig myself a fucking hole now that I'm here.

Just remember to touch base every now and then so we know you're okay and don't have to send out the search dogs~ ^.^

You'll never find my body.

Well, I stopped playing Morrowind (who saw that coming?). Got about halfway through it, right before that open ended thing where you have to become a Hortator or whatever, which is the furthest I've ever been in the game.

Good fucking god. It's like NyQuil: The Video Game. Looking back, I seriously don't even remember doing anything besides walking around and talking to people about lore. I mean, I'm fucking bananas for lore in video games, especially the Elder Scrolls, but even I can't handle the thickness with which Morrowind spreads it on.

The biggest flaws, for me, had to be the pacing and the combat. The game is paced terribly at the start. All you do is walk around the world and talk to informants for hours on end, and Caius keeps telling you to "keep your cover story current" by doing side-quests to level (or in my case, using console commands to level because seriously this is tedious enough already) like you're applying for a fucking job or something. Trust me, I get the appeal of side-questing. I love doing it in Oblivion and Skyrim- but don't force the player to side-quest if they just want to play the main story.

The missing mechanic in combat is prevalent enough to make every encounter a game of standing around and aimlessly swinging at people until you get lucky and land a fucking hit, which is sleep inducing at best and frustrating at worst. It feels like there's no real depth to anything- the weapons have different stats for slashing and thrusting, but in my experience it doesn't really matter what you do. You just throw your weapon around until whatever you're fighting dies. (and believe me, I tried in vain to play with some strategy. I would have loved if that worked out.)

Also, fuck Vivec. That's one of the worst designs for a city I've ever seen in a game. "Hey, this is a game where your character is nauseatingly slow at all times. Let's make a city as big as the fucking moon and built out of pyramids where all the doors are four football fields away from each other! That won't take sixty five fucking hours to walk through, on this mission we designed where you have to walk across the city five times!"

Say what you will about my complaints, but Morrowind is definitely not a game for me. I like some of the ideas it has- Armour being built more piece by piece, Medium Armour as a skill/class, the ability to talk to people about more things than "Rumours", the focus on remembering and following directions/using your map more legitimately. But in the end I'd rather trade those things for the better combat/story/game feel in the sequels.

So now I'm playing Oblivion with Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul put on it, which is interesting. Never done a OOO run before, but already I can feel that the balancing is better/there's more for me to discover/use in terms of weapons, spells, and armour.

I'm also playing a bit of Majora's Mask 3D. Time will tell if I keep up with that or get fed up with it like last time I tried to play MM.