WHAT VIDEOGAMES ARE YOU PLAYING RIGHT NOW?

author=Dudesoft
Not me, but my friend is playing SNES Mario with his grandpa, who isn't doing too well. But he is really funny. This is his explanation of Super Mario World:
"You're the man. He jump and go in the pipe."

Ha! That's perfect!


As for me, I just bought and have been playing Dragonball Fusions. There's like a whopping 1013 characters BEFORE you start fusing people together. The game is a lot of fun so far.

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale.

At first, the game was amazing. It was a fun foray into managing an item store. I enjoyed learning how to read customer reactions to prices and adjust offers accordingly. The dungeon crawling was simple, but filled with surprising depth. To make as much money as I could, I had to work with the market value of specific item categories and gauge each individual customer's behavior and appearance to judge how much they could afford to spend, and negotiate a price for each individual item. It wasn't long before I made a killing.

But then the weekly debt started rising.

Suddenly, every penny counted. I contemplated letting my adventurer partners suffer more in order to keep them from consuming precious product to restore health. I watched the pain flicker across the faces of my once loyal customers when they heard my outrageous price demands. The very lives of my adventurer friends were secondary to the precious bottom line. A mere 10 PX price hike each time a regular came to visit, pushing them closer and closer to the limits of their wallets and patience. But it was necessary, as failiure meant I would be thrown out into the streets by the heartless loan shark shadowing my every move.


I came for the cute game about item store management. I left a morally broken shell of a man who robbed blind his closest friends and the young and naive.

So it sounds like I should not start up my copy of recettear...

I absolutely adore Recettear as well! It's certainly very different but a whole lot of fun ^_^

Anybody want a kitten that is about to get dead?? :)
The cat I had for 17&1/2yrs had to go to sleep :( and the Vet. talked me into taking a kitten someone left at his front door....part Abyssinian, really cute but a monster. He gets into everything and my arms are all scratched up. What a little monsters...but purrrrrrs like crazy:)
Now, the ex. wife called and wants to go for a ride. My life is hell :)

As for games.....I read several pages of about the games all you folks are playing and I wonder why I'm so hooked on Breath of The Wild.
It's the only game that has ever hooked me till the end.
I've got about 25 games sitting on the shelf for 3 other consoles and Zelda is the only game I can still play :(

Ah, maybe I should go whine on another forum thread?? :) hahahahaha
Hope you people can manage to finish a few games so you can have a life outside your cave :) haha

Crash Bandicoot is kicking my ass. Got soft in my old age.

Final Fantasy Tactics, sort of. Apparently, the codes for In-Battle HP and MP are wrong, or mislabeled. Like, one of the MP codes actually altered HP, and I think I saw a Ramza's level at 37 (with 42 Max HP?) when trying to save Algus from the bandits at the beginning of the game.

I think I've got the codes figured out now, but, that session took quite a bit out of me. Then again, I seem to remember using those codes forever-and-a-half ago when I was involved with the CodeTwink community. Maybe it's just an emulation thing, then?

Whatever. Too tired to think straight.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

I'm only about an hour in, but I'm already in love. It feels like a perfect blend between action game and horror, and the atmosphere is killer. The main character has Psychosis, so you hear voices in your head constantly, both giving you hints on how to play and berating you to make you question what you're even doing there.

Not only is the game itself interesting, but the story around the game is interesting, as well. Apparently Ninja Theory went out of their way to consult mental health experts and people with Psychosis in order to depict it in the game as accurately as possible, which is admirable. Plus, this game was developed with the goal of giving a "AAA presentation and feel, but with the budget of an indie title." To reinforce this, the game is only $30 at launch.

I hope this game succeeds. It'd be nice to see other big developers follow this kind of attitude.

I've been mucking about with powersaves on some 3DS titles I've beaten as a post-game sort of thing - one of those "done everything the hard way, now let's toy with stuff!" outings.

Otherwise - been plunging back into some old PS1 games of mine: Alundra and the Arc the Lad trilogy.

Mass Effect Andromeda. Feels a bit flat. Characters don't seem to emote much during conversations, and so far most of them have the same personality. Menu & upgrade system giving me a headache. I liked the simplicity of the earlier games in that regard.