What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

Only to get my 100% trophy completion, but because I enjoy it dammit

The guys I play PUBG with wanted me to try out League of Legends. I'm currently working with Wolff Designa on the cooperative mode for Guards of Atlantis II, so I figured, why not....

This game... it's very repetitive, and while I was having some fun playing co-op, my first match against actual people was miserable. We got wrecked, and I kept getting one-shotted by people who clearly knew what the hell they were doing. While I can kind of see the appeal, I'd much rather play Diablo.

It was useful in seeing the origin of a lot of the mechanics of Guards of Atlantis, though. It gave me a new appreciation for how great Guards really is.

Oof. Yeah. If you're not familiar with MOBAs, in general, and League, in specific, your first encounter with other players will not be entertaining. I've never played League, so I don't know if it exists, but if there's an AI mode, I'd try a couple games of that just so you get familiar with basic mechanics and so forth. Incidentally, if you end up liking that style of game, Blizzard has one called Heroes of the Storm, which includes many characters from Diablo (they just added Imperius a week or two ago.)

There is co-op vs. AI. I found that to be decent fun. The only reason I even did the PvP was because there was a mission to do it, that seemed to imply I'd get a free character as a reward. What I got instead was a "character shard", and I have no idea what that even is.

Champion shards are currency that are usually used to buy skins and other cosmetic upgrades within League, since all champions are free to play (last I knew.) So, unless you're going to be a regular... yeah, probably not worth the abuse of PvP.

Thanks. All champions are not free. You can earn in-game currency to purchase them permanently, or pay real money. A rotating subset are free all the time.

90% finishing with my Crusader Diablo 3 build. Right now TXIII is becoming a joke, and I finished Greater Rift 70 (prolly equal to non-existant TXIV) with relative ease.

DOTA2 has the all champions free always model.

Diablo III was boring me to tears. So I gave it a rest and bought Torchlight II from GOG for $4. Similar level of excitement. I'll take the blame for some of that, and revisit Torchlight 2 after I play something else for a little bit. That 'something else' lately is The Witcher III. I finished it a couple of years ago, so I thought I'd dust it off and play it again. Geralt the smartass gives me a laugh.

I'm having a lot of fun with the Resident Evil 2 remake. This and Nemesis were my only forays into the genre back in the late 90's before I went down the JRPG rabbit hole and RE itself went in a different direction.

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed the small, recursively explored space of RE2. It actually reminds me of old adventure games, where you're holding this growing inventory full of puzzle pieces and one room/board finally gives you the missing parts to one or multiple puzzles, which themselves unlock progression on multiple paths. RE2 gates this with zombies, ammo/resource scarcity, jump scares, etc, to great effect. In fact, it almost feels like it's filling in the gap left by Telltale's demise. It's kind of casual & puzzly, enjoyably cheezy, but missing some of that old Telltale humor. The writing is a little... off, but I'll take that as slight compensation for the loss of the delightfully terrible voice acting from the originals.

Someone on reddit coined an apt term for the style: Spookyvania. I hope to see more of this.

I downloaded the demo and am dying to try it

So you’ve never played RE1 or RE4? The first is terrifying, the 4th is more of an action game but might be the best video game of all time. Both are worth trying.

Yep, I was late to the game with the Playstation because I'd just moved to NYC and was living on a Starbucks paycheck (full benefits for 20 hours/week at the time; amazing). My first games on the system were Tomb Raider 2 and RE2, followed by FFVII which nudged me into JRPG territory. These came along at that "sweet spot" in my life where I had a few spare bucks per month to drop on a game & had no other obligations besides rent & a boring retail job. Good times.

After a long hiatus, I actually loaded up RE4 yesterday. Now it won't recognize my 360 gamepad so I quickly gave up after how bad the keyboard controls are.

Barney, there is no metric that has RE4 being the best game of all time. Unless it's "BEST GAME CALLED RESIDENT EVIL 4".

YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF FASHION

I went back to FTL an have been having a hell of a time trying to beat it with the Zoltan ship, even on Easy. I've gotten to the last boss 3 or 4 times, losing to the 2nd and 3rd stage a couple times each.