The past few nights have been all about Metal Gear Solid 5 for me. I've followed the series since Metal Gear Solid back on the PS1 so this was really a must have for me.

I finally did complete Super Metroid, 100% in under 3 hours.

I then moved on to Axiom Verge, and played through twice. Really liked it, warts and all.

And finally I beat Shovel Knight yesterday. Great game. NintendoHard, but I ground it out.

Just finished The Evil Within.  I liked the story and about 80% of the gameplay.  The stealth sections were challenging without feeling cheap.  My biggest problem was with the number of 1-shot kills the game served up, especially during boss fights with multiple stages to them.  It just felt cheap and caused me to just stop playing a few times after dying 6-7 times in a row and having to start a whole sequence over again.

I also beat LEGO City Undercover which was terrific LEGO fun.  I'll likely go back later and complete all the little side bits, but for now I'm moving on.

Right now I'm going though my backlog of PS+ free games and some other indies I picked up over the last year.  Bastion is first on the list and so far it's good.  I love the narration.

I'm also still playing FFXIV pretty regularly.  I've almost got my two main jobs up to the new level cap of 60.

I was playing Earthbound Beginnings (aka Mother), but I can't seem to keep putting in the required level-grinding for an NES-era JRPG...which is a shame, because I like the game and want to finish it. I just can't seem to muster up the time/energy required to do so.

I've been playing a lot of Rebel Galaxy. It's a pretty good Freelancer/WC: Privateer alike, but with a naval combat focus (broadsides are the main weapon) rather than a fighter focus. It's also more Firefly than 'glorious shining future'. The soundtrack is a pretty good mix of alt-country. I like it a lot. Also it's like $20, so pretty cheap.

Just picked up Gargoyles for the Genesis and Darkwing Duck for the NES.

Haven't had a lot of time to play recently. Played about half of Doom 3 but got board. It was good but there's only so many dark corridors that I can clear before I lose interest.

Playing Armello with friends. It's probably only good with friends talking over skype, I can't imagine waiting for my turn with a bunch of online randoms who can only communicate using the artificially limited "select what you can say" chat options (hurrah for cowardly PR-conscious censorship! /s)

It blends elements of running a single character with manipulating events in a  region in a way that makes me want to run the Birthright setting.

Anyone playing the Warhammer Fantasy-themed first-person slasher/shooter Vermintide? A friend's encouraging my wife and I to pick it up and it's not like we have the HD space to spare...

Quote from: The Butcher;862725Anyone playing the Warhammer Fantasy-themed first-person slasher/shooter Vermintide? A friend's encouraging my wife and I to pick it up and it's not like we have the HD space to spare...

Here I thought that was still in beta?

Quote from: Doom;862828Here I thought that was still in beta?

It's up for sale at Steam.

People have been comparing it to Left 4 Dead, apparently. Which is okay, I guess? Never played either L4D.

Quote from: The Butcher;862840It's up for sale at Steam.

People have been comparing it to Left 4 Dead, apparently. Which is okay, I guess? Never played either L4D.

Weird, I'll have to look into Vermintide.

L4D is fun, and multiplayer is amazing, at least for the 1 game in 50 where you get a "real" multiplayer game. Usually, players are in such a constant state of ragequitting that the games are total routs.

I bought Blood Bowl 2 for my Xbox One, and have barely seen the sun since.

(granted the timing coincides with recovering from surgery, but it's the most fun I've had with a video game...well, ever)

Have had a quick look at Blood Bowl 2 (PC Version on a friends PC) having been a veteran of every version of the board game and all the PC games (including the DOS one).

BB2 doesn't bring anything new to the table which you can't get in Blood Bowl Chaos Edition (and in Chaos Edition you get a load of races which they are clearly wanting to gouge more cash from in a BB2: Whatever edition in a few months time), which is on steam sale http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/ till November 6th. That's just my opinion, yours of course may vary and each to their own etc.

In time I will take another look at BB2, but only when the price has dropped some (and yeah, BB2 is on sale right now, I just don't think its worth it...)

I've been playing through the campaign and Bloodbowl 2 definitely has an audience the first didn't. People new to Bloodbowl. If you want something to hold your hand before it smashes you into the wall of Nuffle, this is the game. Play the single player campaign and it'll teach you the basics right quick.

As a returning player, graphics are pretty, interface is easily five times better for actual play, while the team management interface is... well, it does what it needs to but doesn't give powergamers everything they want(which you can read in great detail on the steam forums). If you want to check out actual play look up 'crendorian invitational' on youtube a bunch of youtube personalities with half a clue playing each other. Should be perfect for seeing what game play can be like. I'd say this is the best one thus far, but most of the week 2 games were good.

If you know bloodbowl, or just like building teams at random, the first may be better for now, but to be honest I'm enjoying 2 more even if the single player mode has been stripped down a little.

I've been playing my way through the Final Fantasy games for the first time, starting with I (the GBA version). Now I'm starting IV but I'm not sure how far I'm going to make it... I've liked each one progressively less than the one before it. III just felt like a whole bunch of grinding with no story to it.