What are you playing nowadays? Share yo' thoughts.

[GodisanAtheist]

On the "Final Mission" of Wolfenstein Youngbloods. Heard bad things about the tankiness of the final boss and I've kind of just been putting the mission off for a while.

Having a blast with YB so far. I completely understand the initial hate behind it from Wolf fans but it's really a damn good "popcorn" game and a totally serviceable side entry into the franchise.

Just hope we'll be getting a proper Wolf 3 sometime soon.

Otherwise my Wife is playing through Portal 2 so the kids and I will sometimes just hang out and watch her play in lieu of TV time and we've all been having a blast (and my daughter especially is much better at solving the puzzles than my poor wife is).

Glados is such a well written female antagonist, her barbs and quips just hit my wife different and draw her into the game in a different way than they did to me.

 

[thejunglegod]

Glados is such a well written female antagonist, her barbs and quips just hit my wife different and draw her into the game in a different way than they did to me.

Everything in Portal 2 is so well executed. The Wheatley character arc is something that i will never forget ever. I just wish Valve never stopped making games.

I'm playing Red Matter on PC VR at the moment and holy hell it's polished. Pretty easy puzzles but the visuals and the entire atmosphere in that game is so surreal. Instantly grabbed Red Matter 2 as well to have a go at after i finish this.

Also playing Hogwarts Legacy and i have mixed feelings about it. It seems to bundle a lot of fetch quests in the guise of main quests. I'm hoping it picks up gameplay wise. Such a beautiful looking game though.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Glados is such a well written female antagonist, her barbs and quips just hit my wife different and draw her into the game in a different way than they did to me.

How far has she/your daughter gotten so far? After a certain point (when you get outside the lab), the puzzles stop making sense. Or I'm just really bad at thinking about portals in open areas, instead of confined ones.

 

[sze5003]

The entropy centre is also similar to portal. I have it but have not tried it yet. Recently finished portal with RTX and it was a fun experience but after a while the puzzles do get annoying. I can't remember if I beat portal 2 a long time ago but I remember getting frustrated as well in that regard.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Also playing Hogwarts Legacy and i have mixed feelings about it. It seems to bundle a lot of fetch quests in the guise of main quests. I'm hoping it picks up gameplay wise. Such a beautiful looking game though.

- Spoilers: It doesn't. The game is like a huge demo or proof of concept more than anything else. I liked the game cause its low stakes, pretty, and very well executed. But its really a very paint by numbers Ubisoft-esq open world game.

I hope we get something much more Bioware-esq in the inevitable sequel.

How far has she/your daughter gotten so far? After a certain point (when you get outside the lab), the puzzles stop making sense. Or I'm just really bad at thinking about portals in open areas, instead of confined ones.

- Still pretty early in the game, where Glados is still the primary antagonist. When I played it I didn't have too much trouble, but there were definitely a handful of rooms in the caves that absolutely stumped me and I had to look up the solution. That said, my wife is having a rough go of "thinking outside the box" even within the sort of tutorially initial test chambers.

 

[Remobz]

Heroes and Generals was the ONLY game I played since 2015 and yesterday the servers closed for good. It worked great on my old integrated Intel graphics laptop. Now, I am in withdrawal mode and sad the game is gone forever.

No clue, what to play now WW2 style and not so harsh on lower end laptops.

 

[sdifox]

Heroes and Generals was the ONLY game I played since 2015 and yesterday the servers closed for good. It worked great on my old integrated Intel graphics laptop. Now, I am in withdrawal mode and sad the game is gone forever.

No clue, what to play now WW2 style and not so harsh on lower end laptops.

There is always enemy territory

 

[Remobz]

There is always enemy territory

Thanks. I will look into Enlisted as well. Still sad though Took me years to grind for stuff in that game. Just feels like years wasted for nothing in some ways.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Beat Wolfenstein: Youngbloods.

Very solid game. Gunplay is fast and light, movement is floaty and arcady, leveling up feels meaningful and fun (and the guns end up looking absurdly cool), the Twins are appropriately obnoxious (be anywhere near teenagers for 15 minutes and you'll see MachineGames has done a superb job of capturing the cringiness).

If you get it for $5 and you know you're getting a looter shooter in the Wofl universe then you'll be very very happy.

 

[thejunglegod]

- Spoilers: It doesn't. The game is like a huge demo or proof of concept more than anything else. I liked the game cause its low stakes, pretty, and very well executed. But its really a very paint by numbers Ubisoft-esq open world game.

I hope we get something much more Bioware-esq in the inevitable sequel.

Ahh...this was my biggest fear. Nothing makes me push to get to the next objective. I mean, everything is so pretty and perfectly presented but it feels like there's something seriously missing. Bioware-esque would be something incredible. I mean, imagine DA-Origins with the same visual assets as Hogwarts Legacy.