Currently playing...

[funkstar]

I've had a bit of fun with Pony Island, which isn't quite as original as seems to think it is. I then went through Space Marine which was... fine. The gunplay/brawl mix worked well, but the level design was, well, grimdark, in a rather boring way. (Incidentally, despite having no stake in WarHammer 40K, that tagline is really good.)

I've now started on Mass Effect. Oddly, though, after creating my FemShep, it occurred to me that I didn't actually know what to expect. And, after the first hour or so, I'm still rather uncertain as to what this game will actually be, a rather strange feeling when it's such a famous game.

Oh, also Squarecells, which is Picross as imagined by the guy who made Hexcells (which everybody should play), and Hitman GO. While Squarecells is unequivocally great, I'm still on the fence about Hitman GO. I'm getting increasingly less tolerant of filler, and even puzzle games can have that, it seems.

[Portland]

Civ VI, because reasons...

[Baggypants]

I'm coming to the end of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City that I picked up in a charity shop.

Oh boy, what a game, what a GAME!

I've not played any of the other 3D GTA's and I'm not sure if I want to. I don't think I want more GTA, I want more Vice City, more Tony Vercetti, The cast are excellent. The stations are sublime, the missions are tough but I'm managing to get through them after three or four goes which is about spot on. It's glorious. I feel I've progressed with Tony, gone from cautiously poking around stirring things up to joyfully owning the city, battering around in my favourite car and stealing tanks for fun. It's all brilliant. The ending in the mansion came about all too soon for me. I could have put it off while I mopped up the car races but there was a part of me that wanted to get to the top. Make the city mine, then I can steal the tank, clean up the Cuban/Hatain missions and spend my time picking up hookers and driving them into the sea.

I'm certainly going to keep playing for a while yet. I may even play through it again.

Help. I've been playing this for a year and I've just started the main game again. For some reason I'm obsessing over all the different ways I can get on the golf course mission with my guns. There's jumping on with a bike, climbing over a truck over a fence, using one of the many many many glitches to steal a boat or a helicopter, spawning a tank... There must be a way to get a tank over there using glitches only... At least I've not tried speed running yet.

[funkstar]

I'm just about finished with The Witness, procured in the Humble Freedom Bundle. It's amazing to me that this is the work of a small indie studio, even by Braid success standards.

Also, 'tis good - very good indeed! It may not be for everyone, but I utterly enjoy those kinds of puzzle. I remember just one unfair puzzle, and that was not quite indecipherable, just very, very obtuse. I want to say more, but even if you've read about this, there's plenty to discover.

[Chirpychicken]

I picked up dying light in the psn sale for around £15 with all the dlc.

This game somehow passed me by on release but I'm having great fun with it - it starts out extremely difficult but gets more manageable as you level up.

There are tonnes of missions, challenges and random events. I haven't even tried the following dlc, bozack mode or play as the zombie modes yet.

[WiteWulf]

I'm just about finished with The Witness, procured in the Humble Freedom Bundle. It's amazing to me that this is the work of a small indie studio, even by Braid success standards.

Also, 'tis good - very good indeed! It may not be for everyone, but I utterly enjoy those kinds of puzzle. I remember just one unfair puzzle, and that was not quite indecipherable, just very, very obtuse. I want to say more, but even if you've read about this, there's plenty to discover.

The Witness is a game I'd love to see get a VR remake (along with Everyone's Gone To The Rapture) but I'm not sure they'd handle some of the POV puzzles.

[fog]

I picked up dying light in the psn sale for around £15 with all the dlc.

This game somehow passed me by on release but I'm having great fun with it - it starts out extremely difficult but gets more manageable as you level up.

There are tonnes of missions, challenges and random events. I haven't even tried the following dlc, bozack mode or play as the zombie modes yet.

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised by Dying Light.

Nothing ground breaking, but the combat, parcour, story etc are all well done and there's plenty of fun to be had, mixed with bouts of tension and downright panic.

[MattyP]

Currently working my way through Uncharted 4 and enjoying it.... Although in the shoot outs if you are having multiple re-tries I think the game dynamically scales the difficulty... sometimes enemies remain dead initially they re-spawn... could be my imagination though.. hmmm... anyhow its fun and looking forward to the next Uncharted game due out soon...

[venusian]

Gravity Rush 2. The Vita original was one of the best games on it. Enjoying the new one so far.

[merman]

Sutte Hakkun on SNES.

Really obscure puzzle game (first released on Satellaview, then Nintendo Power's download service and finally a full ROM cartridge that is now rare) where you play Happy Drinking Bird trying to collect shards of a rainbow. You use your beak to move blocks, then fill them with colours to make them move.

[Baggypants]

I ripped my Wii disk of Animal Crossing to play on my laptop and now my life is over.

[fog]

Gravity Rush 2. The Vita original was one of the best games on it. Enjoying the new one so far.

Collecting those purple crystals in Gravity Rush is right up there with collecting agility orbs in Crackdown. Fun and addictive as hell.

[Chontler]

Sonic Mania. Grabbed it on the switch as it was getting good reviews. I wasn't much of a megadrive kid - only had one for a few months before swapping it back for the snes - and didn't think I liked Sonic so much but this is really bring back some good nostalgia about the game. I only really played Sonic 1&2 back then. Sadly the tube running special stages aren't in this, but otherwise it's absolutely great and well worth the asking price. Especially with the soft CRT video option.

[venusian]

Gravity Rush 2. The Vita original was one of the best games on it. Enjoying the new one so far.

Changed my mind about this. I'm up to chapter 16 out of 32 and it's degenerated into a seemingly endless series of chaotic aerial dogfights. Can't be bothered with it any more. I'm sure the original was more varied.

[MattyP]

Currently working my way through The Last Guardian... really enjoying it this far!