What game are you currently playing?

[WarChiefZeke]

I was pleasantly surprised by Digimon Story Time Stranger. I didn’t expect a Digimon game to be that good.

Some of my friends have expressed an interest in Warframe, so I’m going to try and get into that soon.

Also, yes, I am still around. I’m not as active since I got my job, but I’ll still pop in occasionally.

There are some surprisingly good Digimon games, even though I have no interest in the series otherwise.

The oldest one is Digimon World 2, a dungeon crawler RPG for the PS1. Use a team of 3 digimon at the same time just like the later games, but the dungeon crawling itself is a challenge outside of the battles since you are working with limited resources and lots of traps.

Good game, with mods to iron out its few flaws.

 

[Cahir]

I'm currently playing Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 (after finishing KCD1 earlier) and after 42h I can say it's better than KCD1 in every way and it's the most enjoyable open world I played for a while. I like the slow paced exploration, similar to Red Dead Redemption 2.

 

[Chronicler]

Fate Grand Order is a mobile game that works on an energy system. You get one energy point every five minutes. Most quests consume 40 energy points. There are items that restore your energy but you don't want to waste them frivolously, so your play time is always limited by this energy mechanic.

But the lottery events are the big exception to this. Lottery events are the most fruitful farming you can do, and you can farm them infinitely, so when a lottery event is running you can just burn all your energy restoration items without worry. Play as much as you like. They tend to happen twice a year.

There's a lottery event running right now and I'm having a lot of fun with it.

 

[O_Bruce]

My older brother encouraged me to try Alien:Isolation. So far, it is a great game - though I don't feel like playing too much at at time, since the pressure is real, even more so if the mission is hella long.

What I got to say, the game does amazing job at conveying the atmosphere from the first Alien movie

 

[WarChiefZeke]

There's only two MMO's I like, but I like them a lot, and they are both practically OG's of the genre. City of Heroes and Everquest. And I like these two because you can play them as single player RPG's with large and rather open worlds.

Right now I am playing City of Heroes. It has a summoner class called the Mastermind that is the best implementation of the class in any MMO, any RPG, or really just any game. You get about 6-10 allies, depending on your build, and your powers can come from a vast array of sources. You can run an army of mercenaries, be a necromancer who controls the undead, make dark pacts with demons, run a clan of ninjas, even be a druid and create magical pacts with animals, and more.

I chose to run a clan of ninjas and begin my journey on Praetoria, an alternate version of the original game world where all of the most famous heroes gave into their darker sides and ran the world with an iron fist. Good and evil isn't defined by whether you are a Hero or Villain but by the choices you make as either a loyalist to the Cole regime or as a member of the resistance. You can even be a double agent and work for one side while reporting into the other and sabotaging one sides goals.

Nowadays I dual-box MMO's when i'm not running group content, as I find difficult MMO's are a lot more enjoyable when you are building two characters as mutual support. You won't be defeating Archvillains or doing the best quest-lines solo without having an end-game character (though any build can do it if you're good), so this will speed me along that path.

My second character is a katana-wielding stalker who has ninjitsu as a secondary power, so he is a perfect fit as another member of the clan. I'll send him in for his massive backstab damage, send the rest of the clan in who are controlled by the Mastermind, while he runs out and goes back into stealth. Rinse and repeat. Very efficient, though the team struggles somewhat against flying enemies. Less so now that I have an Oni who is controlled by the ninja mastermind, who has magic to take them down.