WHAT VIDEOGAMES ARE YOU PLAYING RIGHT NOW?

I have finally finished Pokemon X. Never really been a fan of pokemon, only finished the original GB Red version before. Great game with lots of charm, the 3D battles look really great, and the story ending actually got me a little teary-eyed. Game is a bit on the easy side though, beating 3 of the Elite Four with just one pokemon each felt.... weird. I actually lost a battle only once in the whole game, very early with some random trainer. Nevertheless, awesome game, now I want to get OR/AS.

Aside from that, I am currently playing DA: Inquisition (the biggest surprise in recent years). I bought it expecting nothing, but it is shaping out to be one of the best RPGs I played. 33 hours in, no end in sight. Still so much stuff to do. And most of it is FUN. Great party-members, I really wish the party could be bigger, I can never decide who to take with me, because of COURSE I wanna take Sera with me, and Iron Bull, and Cassandra, and Solas, and Dorian, and Cole, and Varric, and.... all of them have their awesome little (or big) quirks and personalities.

Also finally playing Persona 3 Portable again, this time determined to get to the end. There is something incredibly appealing about living a normal school life during the day, studying/making friends/attending school, and fighting monsters crawling through a dungeon at night. Game has some seriously great writing, story, and enjoyable combat to boot. Very japanese, which is perfect for someone like me :)

AND I have also been trying out Don’t Starve and failing at... not starving. And when I am not starving (rare), the game throws some other "fun" stuff at me, like standing near water and getting attacked by a herd of seals, or burning so many trees for light during night that one of those trees decided to kick my butt, fire didn’t seem to bother it at all. Very unique game, and can get a bit creepy when it is night, your sanity meter is dangerously low and the game throws a lot of strange noices and haunting music at you. PLAY IT!

PS: Also bought FF 9 to play it on my PS3, and the game feels soooo right. These old JRPGs have a strange charm to them that not many modern games seem to "get". Though it has some issues typical for some of those old RPGs, like going waaaaay too long without save-points (I once went around 40 minutes, 2 boss battles and a bunch of lengthy unskippable cutscenes without a chance to save in between, holy shit I would have been pissed if I lost the last battle). Game seems a bit on the hard side, got annihilated in a random encounter in a dungeon in which I was doing well so far. Also the loading times to enter battles take a bit too long, which really makes the game slow-paced, and it requires some time commitment (partially also due to the save-points and long story sequences). I was enjoying it a lot anyways, but I have to put it on hold, at least untill I finish DA:I. Juggling too many big games O.o

Working my way up to Dragon Age: Inquisition, by playing the first two first, with Dragon Age Origins being what I'm working on currently. I've played the first one before, but that was ages ago and I'd like to carry over my heroes/saves, even if its not a lot that carries over. Mostly because Dragon Age Origins is fun.

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I finally got my hands on Rune Factory 4 (it's for sale in the eShop for PAL now) so I've been sinking a lot of time in to it.

I love it.

It is a little clunky in some areas - the old Harvest Moon games know how to switch between items easily but RF still has to learn that little thing. Instead of just pressing a button and switching, instead you need to constantly go into a mini menu and scroll through all the items in your pack before equipping the weapon/tool you want. It gets a bit tedious when you're constantly scrolling between weapon/hammer/axe/watering can/etc.

That said, it's cute as fuck and I love all the bachelors and bachelorettes to bits. Currently going for Dylas (though I'm considering Leon as a possible second) though Arthur and Vishnal both love me to bits by just talking to them.

It's a pretty good game. Best thing they ever did was take the farming elements of Harvest Moon and combine them with RPG elements and a story~<3

I really liked HM for DS, but it wasn't exactly polished. How's the translation/localization? Can you be gay?

You can't be gay yet, but you can still flirt with the same gender, tell them you love them and get their relationship high enough to have sleep overs~ It's progress. One day it'll get there.

The translation is pretty good, though. It has to be with the insane amount of dialogue in the game - each character says something new every day (there's some recycling but not too much) and there are many events that you can trigger. They even interact with each other. It's great.

Some of the dialogue can be a bit kitschy but the story so far has been nice (and in some places, heart-warming/touching - no tears yet, but I've smiled a LOT) and the characters are well-crafted. I really enjoy interacting with all of them and there's quite a few (plus extra tourists and cameos from previous games).

Frankly, I really recommend it.

Oddly enough, I've noticed that the same reactions you get as a girl from the bachelors can be gotten as a male too - this leads to some instances of unintentional romantic occurrences. Even if you don't get to marry the same gender, it's still a nice thing to see. ^.^

Hopefully the next game will allow for such a thing. Frankly, I think part of the reason they don't have it is due to the whole 'have and raise a kid' thing. It made sense in II where you actually got to play as the child eventually, but III could have swung it within the story - your main character was a monster that turned human and they could have made it possible to have a kid even with same gender.

Still, give gifts to the cute boys and girls is a thing you can do.

Liberty, good to know. Next time I see it on sale I'll consider grabbing it. Need to finish PQ though, and Etrian Odyssey V is coming... I just really like some silly cute shit every now and then.

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Your files won't transfer to Inquisition. You need to do the Dragon Age Keep and fill out a questionnaire about your actions in Origins and DA2. It really sucks, but that's what you have to do. Don't worry, though, because Inquisition is so. Much. Fun once you get to it.

It's not too bad. You can even have Varric read your story out loud to you!

https://dragonagekeep.com/en_US/

You can import your saved character so that YOUR Warden and YOUR Hawke show up in the Keep, but yeah, you get to pick all your own choices for just about everything in DA:O/II. It's pretty neat, especially since I was able to do some stuff that didn't actually happen on my first/personal canon playthough, like keep Wynne alive and stop Kitty.

edit: MOG, you can just skip over stuff you don't really care about. Just set your romances and endings and play Inquisition. The little stuff matters some in DA:I but if you don't care, you don't care.

I agree, that's a lot of stuff to remember. It doesn't help that most of the plot in DA2 was rather forgettable. If your files do import directly into the Keep, I wouldn't know. I filled it out when the Keep was still in Beta, so perhaps that's been fixed by now? It took me about 30 minutes to answer all the questions the first time, so it's a bit of an investment.

Anyway, the Keep was implemented to accommodate for players getting new consoles. I wish I could just import my saves since I got the game on the same console that I played the others. Oh well.

Is it even necessary to play the first Dragon Age? I know it's probably a stupid as fuck question but I keep hearing these great things about the second/third, and I could never get into the first.

Anyhow, I beat Metroid Prime once again when I got home for Christmas, and now I'm getting through Echoes. I'm hoping to finally beat Echoes and get through the third one, just to finish it up for real this time. I'm way overdue on this shit.

I also just bought LISA on Steam which I am super jacked to play.

Smash has kinda interrupted it, but I've been playing Psychonauts. Its... unique. Mechanically, its a pretty typical 3D Platformer (which thankfully doesn't REQUIRE you to pick up all the collectibles), but some of the shit you see and do in this game is just weird. Unfortunately, the version I'm playing is the PS2 version, which has an abysmal framerate and way too much loading (they have to load the file select screen ffs!). There's a Steam release, and its also available on XBLA for anyone interested.

Ha, glad I'm not the only one who thought of 90s cartoons while playing this.
But Tim Burton? I suppose I can kinda see it. A sort of Tim Burton crossed with a touch of "derp" (Tim Derpton?) I guess, given all these lopsided eyes and sock-puppet mouths going on.
(But the director of the game is TIM Schaefer! Coincidence?! ... Yeah, probably...)

Just started playing Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome. I have to say that the first scenes of the game were of the funniest that I ever saw in videogames! It took me a while to adapt myself to the combat system, but I managed to get through it so far. I cannot wait to see what happens next! :D