What are you currently playing?

[Shadow Wolf]

I found the gain setting on Rocksmith, and my game performance has gotten even better. I can even play C-Standard tuning (two steps below the "normal" E-Standard tuning) now, which was pretty much impossible on the default gain setting as the game was barely able to detect anything.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Clash at Demon Head. And I'm determined to actually finish/beat it this time around. Such a fantastic and fun game, but I don't think I've ever gotten that far into it. I'm kind of surprised they've never remade it.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Today it was kerbal space program. :0)

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I finished Clash at Demonhead. I'd like to see the game remade, with the story expanded some.
I think I'll play Chrono Trigger next as a game to play that I've started, gotten some ways into, but haven't finished.

 

[1137]

This weekend I've mostly been at Dark Souls I again, but made slight progress in Metro.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I decided before I get to Chrono Trigger, I am going to finally beat Dragon Warrior. And the game is so much more tolerable when you hold a throttle button to make the game go faster. I also learned that Dragon Warrior/Quest is another video game franchise that started the year I was born.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Being able to use fast-forward has cut out sooooo much time from Dragon Warrior. In just a few hours of game play the only thing left I have to do is get Edrick's Sword, grind a few more levels, and finish the game.

 

[Shad]

Back to Stellaris for me after the last few patches fixes some issues. I made a game version of the Imperium of Man (W40k). I was able to use game ethics so every alien is now called a "Xeno blasphemer or heretic". The Great Crusade has begun! (genetic manipulation unlocked) For the Emperor!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think I want to learn about game modding, starting with the NES and Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy 1 so I can up the amount of gold and experience points from monsters to make them less of a grind-fest.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

YAY! I finally beat Dragon Warrior!

 

[SomeRandom]

The NES hands down has some crazy hard games. Contra frequently appears as one of the hardest, as does Battletoads, the first Castlevania game (with many reviewers failing to acknowledge that it has a hard mode), the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, Kid Icarus, Smash TV, Legend of Zelda, Ghost 'n Goblins, and some others. Punch-Out is also a pretty hard and also really fun game, a boxing game where every match is pretty a boss fight with having to learn enemy attack patterns and discover the best methods of attack. Some people say Mega Man is pretty hard, but I've always thought it was pretty easy.
And with newer gaming, I'd say pretty much starting around the PS1/N64 generation, the "art of the jump" became a thing of the past. With those older games, it just wasn't about figuring out how to defeat enemies while dodging their attacks, but frequently you had to figure out some tricky jumps that would eat through your lives and continues pretty quickly until you figured them out.

Oh Ye gods the old games! I lost count how often little me rage quit on NES titles (that were owned by someone's older sibling, obviously. I got a PS1 like just at the end of the gen, well for America it was. Our tech always seems to lag behind yours.) I think Battletoads was responsible for a brief falling out of mine lol.

Games nowadays excepting the Dark Souls types are hella easy, probably to accommodate the growing casual market. Even GTA used to be more difficult with it's kind of blocky controls, now it just stays on easy mode all the way through.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Battletoads was responsible for a brief falling out of mine lol.

It wouldn't surprise me if Battletoads ended friendships, caused broken bones among siblings, and is responsible for at least half of all broken NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers, and the cause of over 80% frustration and rage over the older games. Those games are so much fun but good god damn they are so hard! Those games are definitely games that you'll pretty much master and get through taking very little, if any, damage by the time you're good enough to beat them. And the only one I've beat is Battletoads & Double Dragons, and I've only done it once. I've beat Mike Tyson in Punch Out more times than that (though I have yet to score a knock out against him).
I've not played the Dark Soul games, but the only recent games I've played that I can say are legit tough games are the two Prinny games on PSP (so hard are they that you get 1000 lives for 10 levels, with three hits per life on normal and one hit per life on hard), Demon's Souls for PS3, and Ninja Gaiden for XBox (which is suitable given the original NES games are some tough ******** to beat).

 

[SomeRandom]

It wouldn't surprise me if Battletoads ended friendships, caused broken bones among siblings, and is responsible for at least half of all broken NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers, and the cause of over 80% frustration and rage over the older games. Those games are so much fun but good god damn they are so hard! Those games are definitely games that you'll pretty much master and get through taking very little, if any, damage by the time you're good enough to beat them. And the only one I've beat is Battletoads & Double Dragons, and I've only done it once. I've beat Mike Tyson in Punch Out more times than that (though I have yet to score a knock out against him).
I've not played the Dark Soul games, but the only recent games I've played that I can say are legit tough games are the two Prinny games on PSP (so hard are they that you get 1000 lives for 10 levels, with three hits per life on normal and one hit per life on hard), Demon's Souls for PS3, and Ninja Gaiden for XBox (which is suitable given the original NES games are some tough ******** to beat).

Oh the pain that Battletoads hath wrought upon humanity!

I think I managed to master one of the Mega Man games when I was a kid. Probably gave me arthritis but I did it lol.

I recently played GTASA on the 360 out of nostalgia and I'd forgotten just how much I take for granted in the later games. In V you can turn a plane on a dime in SA I barely passed the tutorials lol
I remember I think it's in Vice or number 3 there was this level in a construction yard and you had to fly a tiny helicopter or plane around and do ****. My friend ended up burning that game in the back yard after too many rage quits lol

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I recently played GTASA on the 360 out of nostalgia and I'd forgotten just how much I take for granted in the later games. In V you can turn a plane on a dime in SA I barely passed the tutorials lol
I remember I think it's in Vice or number 3 there was this level in a construction yard and you had to fly a tiny helicopter or plane around and do ****. My friend ended up burning that game in the back yard after too many rage quits lol

I've never been able to get into the GTA games. Just not my cup of tea.
I am think about playing the GBA version of Shining Force due to the progressive difficulty rating (enemy stats get abit higher with each game+). I've beaten the Genesis version a bunch of times, and the GBA version once when it came out and I got it, but I've not took advantage of the progressive difficulty, which is something I need because there is just no challenge left in the game for me, but it's such an awesome game.
But at the same time I want to keep up my streak of beating games that I've started but never finished. Clearing Dragon Warrior feels great, even if I did speed up the game (even way back in the day it moved way too slow for me). And I feel like I'm missing out by being able to say I have not yet finished Chrono Trigger (I've not even played Chrono Cross).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Chrono Trigger it is!
I started the GBA Shining Force, but it was kind of a "meh" because I already know how it will unfold. Max, Luke, and Gort are going to be in the front, take heavy damage, and Tao will roast everything, boosting her level much higher than the rest of my party until she is herself an army capable of killing off pretty much everything. And then I'll get Zylo, and he'll tear everything to shreds, and then Hanzou and Musashi who give a quick slice and kill to everything. And then I'll try and set it up for Max to deliver the final blow to Dark Dragon because it gives him a special animation for his attack when you kill Dark Dragon with him, but will most likely end up accidentally killing him with Zylo because he does such crazy high damage (it often happens that I'll end up getting a critical/deadly attack or double attack).
About the only thing I haven't managed to do in that game is getting Bleu up to level 20 and then promoting him, which is apparently supposed to allow him to become an insanely powerful character (I've heard the most powerful), despite him starting off as a terrible weakling.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Interesting how my + four year old GTX 680 4GB OC can run GTA5 and Witcher 3 better than latest gen consoles. I guess it is the VRAM since I do see use higher than 2GB use (3.4GB in GTA5) which is used in the much more common mainstream GTX 680's.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I was actually able to get logged in to Pokemon Go while I was in town today, and I was able to use a few Pokestops, got three 5 km eggs, a 10 km egg, and caught a few new Pokemon for my Pokedex, including Tauros and Gastly.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I went on my regular walk, and in front of the house where three Pokemon spawn, today rather than the slew of Pidgeys, Ratattas, and Weedles that normally spawn, there was one Pidgey and two Eevees!

 

[Smart_Guy]

Found this totally awesome run 'n gun game called Gun, Gore and Connolly. I re-lived the days of Metal Slug of lock on target and shoot before others interfere.

 

[Nyingjé Tso]

Vanakkam,

Hooked on Furi ! I can't affort it on PC but my brother got it for free so we're sharing the controller. Can't remember last time I played a good game from my country but damn, this been a while !

Art direction is flawless, but bit disappointed on the animation and 3D. A lot of (rookie) mistakes that are very easily seen by 3D artist like me, and could be very easily fixed too xD (some skinning problem and a missing key frame on the walk animation, IT'S SO BUGGING ME AAH. .... Even more when I think I almost worked on that game ;__; I haz sads.)

Usually very quick paced action/boss rushes kind of games aren't really prone to deep stories, but the scenario and endings are well worth the trouble. Because this game is hard. VERY hard. The music is perfect, character design incredible, gameplay is both nervous and calm/calculated at the same time... You can't even get mad at the game, because you know each hit you take is because of your own mistake xD

All this from a little studio. I hope it gives them the means to grow and make more good games !

It's really worth a try !