What video game(s) are you playing at the moment?

[Ben H]

MouseCraft.

Really good game actually...

The first few levels were a bit too "talky" narration-wise to explain what was pretty obvious, and there was a bit too much hand-holding for my liking. But once you get past that, it's really quite enjoyable.

[Minim]

Ah yes! I remember Mousecraft very well. I even mentioned an article on that just in case if you're interested. It's over here.

[GigaLem]

Amiibos i've collected recently

[namida]

So, I've been playing Final Fantasy X again lately (one of my favorite games of all time). I'm doing the insanely-ridiculous NSGNSNCNONENNENBB challenge. I've previously done it minus the NENNENBB part, and I'm currently up to where I got to on that eventually-abandoned attempt; just after Macalania Temple. Have to repeatedly try fighting Wendigo until it drops an SOS Haste armor for Rikku; although the challenge is possible without one at this point (and one can be obtained much easier later), I think I'd rather farm Wendigo for one now than go without one until much closer to the end of the game.

I've also been a bit stricter on the No "No Encounters" part of the challenge than most players usually are. Generally, it's taken to just refer to literally having an armor (or weapon) with the No Encounters auto-ability, but I've also interpreted it as not doing anything else that actively prevents random encounters, such as activating the butterfly minigame in Macalania Woods, or riding a chocobo (unless it's for the explicit purpose of getting to somewhere you can't reach without riding one).

I've done some fairly insane challenge runs before, but this one is really in a league of its own... wow.

[mobius]

CC2 was very entertaining and on a whole I was happy with it. For some reason I totally lost interest in it for a while. Now I've started playing Dark Souls PC edition, which is great fun. It's a game that seems overly difficult at first but a large part of that is because the game is so complex. And in the beginning there are multiple paths to take, some harder than others, and there's no clear indication which path to take. I believe it doesn't matter anyway.

[GigaLem]

got this last night

[607]

got this last night

We can't access your Gmail...

[chaos_defrost]

Undertale.

It's technically an RPG, but there's very little grinding (unless you want to) and battles play more like a avoidance game/shoot 'em up than an actual turn based RPG. The major selling point of this game is that you can defeat enemies without killing them (but you can kill them if you want), so the menu parts of a fight if you go that route are more puzzle-like than RPG-like.

The story is also pretty amazing, there's some great characterization and the writing is charming and pretty funny at times. There's also a small mechanic in the game that can be a bit of a mindscrew but YOU CAN PET MULTIPLE DOGS THAT'S COOL RIGHT

But yea. Very highly recommended, even if RPGs aren't really your thing.

[Lemika]

Sounds interesting!

I've been playing a lot of Pillars of Eternity lately, after having to avoid starting in on the game for months after I got it due to being too busy. It's been very good, so far, so I'm happy about that. It's basically a new game in the style of the old Infinity Engine RPGs made by Black Isle, although there are certainly differences. Definitely not recommended if you don't like RPGs, but if you do (and especially classic RPGs), so far I'd recommend it quite highly. I've not finished it yet, but it's been a long time since I've had this much fun with a new game.

[607]

I bought a Wii U with Super Mario Maker last week. Me and my brother played Mario Maker for over 22 hours already It's a great game. It has quite a few flaws, but for what it is, it's incredibly well done.
It's really fun to create levels. If only more people would play them... :3 (nobody has beaten any of my levels yet, I made them very challenging )

[chaos_defrost]

More of a "what games HAVE I played recently" thing:

https://coinplay.io/bundle/weekend-4

5 games for a literal dollar. Two of these (Nihilumbra and Back to Bed) are games I've heard are quite good, so much that I've purchased both, independently, for about 3 bundles worth of money, on sale.

One of the others is the game I literally have the most playtime of all the game I have on Steam for. It's a pretty great game, about permuting. I'll buy this package for literally anyone on this board who wants it. If only for Great Permutator. Oh and I GUESS those other 4 games, 2 of which I think are probably also reallllly good.

[ccexplore]

"Spoiler Alert" (no really, that's the game's title)

Ran into this recently on Amazon Appstore (but apparently had been available for a while on various platforms, though only free on Amazon currently).

A bit on the easy, short side but cool concept--tagline: "the platformer you play in reverse" (even if ultimately, it's not actually that different from regular gameplay):

http://www.amazon.com/tinyBuild-Spoiler-Alert/dp/B0170PHO9W/ [free but requires installing Amazon Underground app for Android]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spoiler-alert/id575634541?mt=8  [$0.99 USD]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinybuild.spoileralert [$0.99 USD]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/spoiler-alert/9wzdncrdh5kw [$0.99 USD, requires Windows 8 or 10]

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"Monument Valley"

As for this puzzle game, it has been around for a while; I tried and finished it sometime last year when it was available one day as "free app of the day" on Amazon Appstore.  More recently, it now appears there is a regularly-free version on the "Underground apps" section of Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015OQVN8C/ [free but requires installing Amazon Underground app for Android]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monument-valley/id728293409?mt=8  [$3.99 USD]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley [$1.99 USD]

Not too hard but certainly more cerebral than "Spoiler Alert", this is another cool concept: how to get around in a world of Escherian geometry.  (They didn't do a good job highlighting that aspect though in the stores' descriptions, screenshots and not even that video on Google Play's.)  Example: rotate your view of the 3D world into a certain angle, and two pieces of platform that doesn't actually connect together in 3D space will look connected in that particular point of view, and this allows you to walk from one platform to the other in the game.

If I have time I might check and see if this currently free Amazon Underground version has the extra chapter of levels available for free as well.

[mobius]

"Monument Valley"

that looks very fun, I think I'd like it. Thanks for posting.

[mobius]

I've been making a ton of CC2 [chips challenge 2] levels and I know at least one person plays this game here. If anyone would like to try any of these out, please let me know

[mobius]

I've also been playing a Steam game called "Lost Marbles" which basically takes the concept of Marble Madness except this game is good.  [I hate Marble Madness]
So far all the levels have been fair and fun and challenging.