WHAT VIDEOGAMES ARE YOU PLAYING RIGHT NOW?

I started Dark Souls. I picked the pyromancer. I think I'll start with going for equipment that has no stat scaling, like Lightning and see how that turns out. I can always transition into something else later if needed.

The controls will take some time to get used to though. I sometimes try to attack, defend or lock on with the wrong button. The first boss went down on the first try at least, although it was kind of designed to do so.

Dark Souls 1.

I just bought and played a game called Out of Reach and it was... bad.

Well, not bad bad, just not great. Not worth the money I paid for it.

Basically I played 20 minutes of it (26 actually) and was bored out of my mind.

I went into it expecting a mash up of the best of Minecraft and Rust and got the very worst of.

The graphics were pretty damn nice - trees fell down and stayed there and were different shapes and sizes, the grass and water and plants were all really neat - but I was falling asleep by the time I finished. This is what happened in my 26 minutes of play:
- cut down enough trees to have 400 wood (it was night, I couldn't see shit, so chopping trees was go)
- made rock chips from thin air because at that point I didn't have any stones in my pack and apparently they were needed to make them
- found some rocks and beat them up for their lunch money stones
- tried to figure out the menu (pretty bad UI design)
- found some corn and kept being told I couldn't do two things at once (???) when trying to pick it
- found some cotton - this time some wait icon showed up but spamming click made it not appear
- built a spear because bitches love spears. There's a tutorial survival guide and in it the first points are find food and build a weapon. They expect an axe to be the weapon but that is stupid because I had enough for a different, better weapon. The spear did not update the 'build a weapon' tutorial in the survival guide.
- ran into a tiger
- got my ass handed to me by said tiger
- quit the game

Now that might sound like a good time to some but it bored me to death. Even the battle with the tiger was boring as fuck, which is sad since it's a BATTLE WITH A GODDAMN TIGER!!!

The menu is clunky as fuck to use, requiring you to click on choices more than once to activate them quite often. I mean, it's still in Early Access but how do you make a tiger battle that boring?

orz

I asked for a refund.

maybe you just got gud

I have been playing a lot of Street Fighter 5 lately. Capcom did a really good job on making the characters balanced(except for Zangief) and easy to learn for newcomers.

author=ZeroDigitZ
I have been playing a lot of Street Fighter 5 lately. Capcom did a really good job on making the characters balanced(except for Zangief) and easy to learn for newcomers.

Definitely. The only two people I really hate going up against are Birdie and R.Mika.

I main Kunimitsu and Lars in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and recently I played against a solo Kunimitsu that beat me 3-1. I was so impressed, I had to send my opponent a message complementing their 'Mad Kuni Skills'.

That made me wonder why losers don't complement the winners in Tekken very often...when I played competitive Pokemon, it was customary for battles to end with 'gg' from both sides. Is it because messaging people is too much effort on PSN?

author=Red_Nova
Hey, that's my endgame build!

Yeah, Irythill is a nightmare to get through, and I struggled like hell my first time. It was around then that I learned to discard my shame and whittle enemies down with bows. Have you gone to the Profaned Capital yet? If not, definitely head there, since Irythill is a late game area and all the enemies are harder than anything else you've seen so far.

A friend who went through the game with Astora's Straight Sword told me that it has insanely high stats if you infuse it with Raw, so if you have a Raw gem, try that and pump the stats you would have spent in Strength and Dex into Vigor to get that sweet, sweet HP.

I've been bow snypin' since I got the longbow! It's the best way to peel mobs apart and I make sure to have 99/99 arrows on me at all times. It's practically a time-honored tradition at this point since aiming with anything else is fucking impossible without lock ons. The second giant in the cathedral is a total chump once you pick apart all the slimes hanging out at his feet.

I'll check out the raw infusion too. I was pretty reserved on doing it since I wasn't sure if the scaling was going to improve but now I'm at +5 and it's still D/D so I might as well use the raw gem to get some free power. I also got a ton of coal from Farron so I might mix up some different elemental weapons at this point too, unless it goes full DS1 where full physical damage is the only way to go.

I just want a reason to use other weapons beyond self-handicaps really :( So far it doesn't feel like I'm finding any neat new loot. My current stats are more weighted for strength but that's me hitting min stats for a few weapons (I know I can 2H without penalty but I like to hit 1H even if I do 2H it). I think I'm something like 16 vigor, 15 stamina / endurance, 20 str, 19 dex, 14 int, 15 faith or so.

I think I already ate the soul for the hollowslayer for the spear too, I'd have to check when I get a chance.

author=TD
Does 'Gief still have to do 360s and 720s?

I believe so, but the difficulty in pulling those off have usually been mitigated by utilizing buffering, though.