What game are you currently playing?

[KuchipatchiPod]

Ooh I love Puyo Puyo !! It used to be my main obsession in high school.

I started up Pokemon Shining Pearl when it came out Been kinda busy so haven't gotten a lot of time to play but I've still managed to throw 6 hours into it somehow

 

[Hoky]

I'm about 6 badges into Shining Pearl! That gen is the only one I never beat when it first came out, so I'm glad I'm getting to revisit it.

Other than that, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (really good entry in the series now that they've done some updates), and I played through Halo 1-5 since my wife is a fan and I never got around to it before. XD

 

[KuchipatchiPod]

Pioneers of Olive Town is great! I need to go back and replay it now that all the updates are out. I married Bridget my first time :3 And my P2 named Georg was named after Georg in that game ^^

 

[Alchemist Kitsune]

Oh they fixed it? I may just need to buy it once I have the time for a new game. I was very interested in that one. It gave me a Tale of Two Towns vibe, and that has been my favorite or second favorite game in the series since it came out. Heard if was so buggy and felt so unfinished that it wasn't worth picking up. Very happy to hear that is no longer the case!

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I've just gotten started on the wonderful Tanglewood, which is a 2018 release for the Sega Mega Drive.



Though it's a modern game, it was made by veteran developers using 1990s techniques and an original dev-kit, so it looks, sounds, and feels very authentic indeed. It plays like a cross-breed of several platformers that were popular in the UK during that time-period.

 

[Klonoa13]

I need to grab a copy of that game eventually. Really love at how developers are making games for these old consoles. I actually pledged to a kickstarter a few months ago for a brand new game boy game I believe called planet hop. : D

There's voice acting in Cookie Run Kingdom? I keep seeing ads for that here and there.

I'm thinking about getting back into Animal Crossing with the new update :O

Yeah there is. Originally the game just had korean VA's, but then a japanese and eventually an english dub ended up being added into the game later. : D

 

[KuchipatchiPod]

Yeah there is. Originally the game just had korean VA's, but then a japanese and eventually an english dub ended up being added into the game later. : D

Neat, I keep seeing ads for it, maybe I'll try it out XD

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I need to grab a copy of that game eventually.

It's absolutely worth it! I grabbed it from GOG.com, since when you buy it there you can just choose to download the base ROM-file on its own instead of having to run any installers and retrieve the file manually, which is handy if you want to drop it straight onto an emulation-specific device (and essential for me, since I use ARM computers, not x86, and these sorts of things still usually only target x86). I'm currently playing it on an Anbernic RG351MP handheld, using the excellent 351Elec OS - it's almost like having a new game made just for it.

Really love at how developers are making games for these old consoles.

Oh yes! There are SO MANY good things like this out there, nowadays, both free and paid - more than ever before.

I actually pledged to a kickstarter a few months ago for a brand new game boy game I believe called planet hop. : D

I'm a big fan of the Game Boy line, so I've just looked this up, and, with it being inspired by the likes of Kirby's Dream Land and Super Mario Land (two of my all-time favourite games for the original Game Boy), it looks like exactly my sort of thing. Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[Klonoa13]

Neat, I keep seeing ads for it, maybe I'll try it out XD

What's interesting is that a couple of the japanese VA's who voiced the tamagotchis in the anime are actually voicing some of the cookie characters themselves. : D I know Mametchi and Lovelitchi's VA voice some characters in the game so far, in fact mametchi's VA even voices some of the NPC's and they used the exact same voice they use for mametchi. XD I'd need to check and see if anyone else from the tamagotchi anime joined this game's cast.

It's absolutely worth it! I grabbed it from GOG.com, since when you buy it there you can just choose to download the base ROM-file on its own instead of having to run any installers and retrieve the file manually, which is handy if you want to drop it straight onto an emulation-specific device (and essential for me, since I use ARM computers, not x86, and these sorts of things still usually only target x86). I'm currently playing it on an Anbernic RG351MP handheld, using the excellent 351Elec OS - it's almost like having a new game made just for it.


Oh yes! There are SO MANY good things like this out there, nowadays, both free and paid - more than ever before.


I'm a big fan of the Game Boy line, so I've just looked this up, and, with it being inspired by the likes of Kirby's Dream Land and Super Mario Land (two of my all-time favourite games for the original Game Boy), it looks like exactly my sort of thing. Thanks for the heads-up!

Oh yeah! The fact that it looks to be inspired by the likes of kirby and whatnot was what grabbed my attention. : D even pledged enough to get a physical cartridge copy of the game when it comes out.

 

[x.Optimistic]

I hooked up my Switch to the TV earlier so I could play some video games with my parents while I'm still at their house, and we spent about four hours playing Super Mario Odyssey! A fun first time experience for everyone, myself included as despite owning the game for about three years I hadn't yet gotten around to playing it

 

[user 218042]

I am playing geometry dash. Username is BeefCat

 

[BumblingBee]

finally started playing deltarune a few days ago. i finished chapter 1 on saturday, and i'm almost done with chapter 2.

i'm just doing a pacifist run as of now; i'm too much of a softie to hurt those funky little critters.

 

[bunbun]

couple of weeks ago i began a new save file on smt: soul hackers but i took a break due to overwhelming amounts of grinding, now i'm just playing some blue reflection. i am enjoying it much more than i had initially anticipated! love mahou shoujo combat

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I've recently gotten back into Spelunky (which runs perfectly on Linux using Steam Play Proton), and I've also been getting started with the open-source game Minetest (the screenshot shows MineClone 2, which is an open-source clone of Minecraft, but plenty of other games are available for Minetest).

 

[KuchipatchiPod]

I was kinda out of gaming for a bit but suddenly jumped back in hard. During the mornings I'm playing Agarest: Generations of War, during the afternoons I am streaming Final Fantasy XIII-2, and in the evenings I'm playing Final Fantasy (the first one) in Japanese to practice my language skills.

Agarest I've played quite a bit before but never finished it. It's not a bad game, though the girls could use more practical clothing.

FF13-2 is a new experience for me. I'm not very far in, so I'm not sure if I like it yet or not. But I loved FF13 so I'm hoping I will like this, too. I've heard mixed opinions on it-- some people have said it's better than 13 and some have said it's worse. So I'm looking forward to developing my own feelings on it.

FF1 I've played tons of times over. Japanese version is not too hard to understand, as someone who hasn't really used Japanese in ~15 years. I've forgotten a lot of vocab/kanjis so I'm having to relearn a lot of those. Putting them in Anki (a SRS app) and hoping to build back up my old proficiency XD

 

[Tama-Hacker]

I've recently gotten back into Spelunky (which runs perfectly on Linux using Steam Play Proton)

Is that why you're called Penguin Keeper? Because of Linux???

Open source is the best!

I'm currently playing Blankos Block Party

 

[Penguin-keeper]

Is that why you're called Penguin Keeper? Because of Linux???

Open source is the best!

Amazingly enough, my love for penguins and my long-term use of Linux are entirely unrelated! I'm called Penguin-keeper because, when I signed up here, my collecting-goal was to obtain all of the dedicated penguin virtual pets that had ever been made - which I later succeeded at, since there are surprisingly few of them (I had to roll in a few multi-pets I wanted that also contain penguins, just to keep that goal interesting for longer).

Still, these are exciting times for Linux gaming, especially now that the Steam Deck has been launched and the further implications of Valve's investments in Linux are bearing fruit and benefitting all players, not just those with Steam Decks. Proton is in a great place and only getting better, and interest in releasing native builds seems to be increasing even though some folks were understandably concerned that Proton would harm that.

Anyway, on that note, I built the desktop version of RetroPie for a couple of my x86-based Linux boxes, too, since I've been very happy with my occasional use of it on my Raspberry Pi units, so there's some more gaming goodness right there. I might start up Game Boy Tamagotchi through that at some point, since it'd be nice to play it on a larger screen and on a device where there's no danger of losing the saves due to the SRAM battery expiring. I could open my cartridge, sure, but it's not like I game as often on my Game Boy hardware these days, so that feels like a waste of effort and a waste of a battery.

 

[KrisKris]

I've been lamenting how little time I can spend on gaming nowadays, but I've been slowly replaying the original Quake on my PS4 on Nightmare. I'm about to finish it, in fact -- just the final level of Episode 4. I'm not sure I could handle playing the expansions on Nightmare -- I already played them on Normal, and they were harder than the main Quake episodes for sure (part of that is probably because I grew up playing original Quake, but the expansions really do step up the difficulty). If I eventually go for a Nightmare run on the expansions, I should probably practice on Hard first.
I love the original Quake. I love everything about it -- the environments, the atmosphere, the weapons, the enemies.

Up next, I have Alan Wake Remastered (PS4), Aliens Fireteam Elite (PS4), and the classic Dooms on PS4 to play. Apparently I'll also be playing classic Doom on PC sometime soon for the first time in YEARS because a Facebook friend of mine invited me to play with him and offered to send me everything I need to download. It will be interesting and fun to do PC gaming again. I've been hesitant to do that since I use my computer heavily for my work and don't want to affect its performance, but hopefully just classic Doom will be fine. And this ASUS computer I have now is technically a gaming computer, lol.