Quote from: crazyfunster;829441Demons and Dark Souls in particular felt like some of the closest experiences in video games to a particularly satisfying dungeon crawl.

Specifically, the focus on survival and forbearance in action. You cant take stupid risks without suffering for it.

Another recent title which gets that feeling across is Darkest Dungeons.

Or X-COM.

I think the next game will have very little overlap on this forum here. Generally people who like rpg's/ccg's/boardgames are people who are into fantasy, scifi, horror etc. Weird stuff.

I like that too, but I have to admit there is one game that is highly addicting and I love playing it. It's Football Manager. There, I said it. Gotta love the spreadsheets. It's spreadsheet heaven. And shouting to your screen when your best player gets a red card in the Champion's League final. WHYYYYY?!!! Oh no a penalty! And then cheering out loud when the player misses the penalty. Oh my, it's the only game that does that to me.

I liked Dark Souls too though it makes my eyes rolls whenever someone in Reddit asks for a game and there are 900 responses saying Dark Souls regardless of the topic or genre requested by the original poster!

I...just started playing Skies of Arcadia: Legends on Gamecube for the first time in 10 years.

I love Skies of Arcadia. Only played the Dreamcast one. Lent it to a friend, he moved around a bit in his mid twenties and lost it. I haz a sad, still.

Pretty easy to beat, but most JRPGs are. Great world atmosphere, though. And clever use of the rumble pak feature.

Never played the Dreamcast version but the Gamecube version was pretty challenging, although I guess I was pretty inept at it at the same time. I remember bidding on the strategy guide for it on ebay (it's one of the rarest strategy guides in the world) for some outrageous fee when I was 17.

Saw the latest trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles X, and I'm even more interested than before.

I picked up a Vita, and then my old eyes got irritated at looking at the portable screen.  So, I got a PS TV, and am playing Hyperdevotion Noire mixed in with a bit of TxK.

I'm pretty happy with my PS TV.  I'm probably more excited about it than I have been about any new console I've purchased since my original PS1 so many years ago.

Of course, the games I'm excited about are almost all PSP games, and they're ones I already own on UMD.  But I've wanted to play them fullscreen on my TV with a PS3 controller for so long that I don't mind buying them over again as download titles.

I just wish Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles was PS TV compatible and that R-Type Command was offered as a download title for the system.

Still playing Windward

It's coming out of early access today, so that will be interesting.
I can see the servers are getting busier already.

I still really enjoy playing this game. At this stage at higher level, multiplayer is the most fun part of the game.

half life 2 still holds up everything that is wrong with it was wrong with it from release

I've been playing Neptune's Pride 2: Triton recently. It's a browser based space 4x that plays most like Diplomacy. You can create a free account and be in up to 2 games at a time or you can pay $48 and get a lifetime membership and get more customization (which is supposed to include being sent an open source version of the game should the servers fold).

It's set to take place over the course of weeks and can be played real time (-ish) or turn based. I'm liking it a lot.

Here's the site.

And here's a few reviews if you want to know more:

Rock, Paper, Shotgun 'review'

A VFS Review

And a short Pocket Tactics review with the NP2 Tutorial Video embedded at the bottom.

My opinion: This is a fantastic game, and I imagine I'll spring for the lifetime membership as soon as my wife stops spending all my money.

Those reviews were pretty good. I'm adding this to my list of games to play. (That doesn't mean very much given my unparalleled ability to procrastinate but hey: intentions are good!)

Just picked up Assassin's Creed Unity, because it was half off.

I recently added a Philips CD-i and an Atari STe to my console/computer collection, essentially completing it.  Around the same time, since I was running out of actual hardware to search for, I started looking into multi-carts for the 1st-wave game consoles, which is the 1976 to about 1980 period: the Fairchild Channel F, Bally Astrocade, Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey 2, and (borderline between the 1st wave and 2nd wave periods) Mattel Intellivision.

I obtained multi-carts for the Channel F and the Astrocade, so I've mostly been rocking some simple space-shooters on those systems.  (The Channel F also has a very sweet homebrew Pac-Man port.)  I've got an Odyssey 2 multi-cart on the way, and that system has a very enjoyable Pac-Man clone on it called "KC Munchkin"; I can't wait for that to arrive in the mail.

Once it comes, then I'll look into getting flash-carts for the Atari and Inty (those two systems actually have game libraries big enough, and homebrew scenes active enough, to warrant flash-media cartridges instead of just throwing the whole library of two or three dozen games on a multi-cart).

That said, I also recently acquired a Neo Geo X and jailbroke it, which makes an otherwise crappy handheld capable of emulating the entire library of Neo Geo games, the Sega Genesis and the Sega Master System very well; and to emulate NES, SNES, Gameboy/Color/Advance, and Atari 2600 rather spottily, with the quality ranging from crappy to passable.  So the thing basically operates as a handheld Neo Geo and Sega Genesis device, which is utterly delightful.  Having recently taken it on a road-trip, I managed to get in a lot of Mortal Kombat I, II, and 3, played plenty of every Metal Slug, and started re-playing Final Fantasy IV again.

Played a bit of Witcher 3 this week. Looking forward for more quality time with it after an exam tomorrow.

Holy crap, this is game is beautiful.

Playing the hell out of some Warthunder. Sadly I invested in a Joystick only to find out that mouse aiming seems to be superior.

I'm also getting back into Dwarf Fortress, there is a lot to take in since the new release.