What are you playing?

[Forlorn Drifter]

How bad is the... open-worldiness of the new Nier? While the next game I plan to pick up is open world, but I'm really starting to feel the grind.

While I'm at my parents currently, I've been playing Shadow of Mordor, and plan to start Mega Man once I finish that.

[Fragems]

Next game I start up is either going to be Steep or CoD:Infinite Warefare. Leening towards steep since it's nice to take a break from the norm every now and then.

[wip3outguy7]

How bad is the... open-worldiness of the new Nier? While the next game I plan to pick up is open world, but I'm really starting to feel the grind.

While I'm at my parents currently, I've been playing Shadow of Mordor, and plan to start Mega Man once I finish that.

Technically it isn't open-world. No more than say, Ocarina of Time is. There are large, open areas that are connected; sub-areas that you may not be able to access until you meet certain requirements. You may need to backtrack for side quests and such. Eventually a quick travel option is unlocked, but the combat is so much fun that I often find myself running around and destroying everything in my path. Combat is to Automata as travel is to Gravity Rush 1 & 2.

[Xeogred]

Automata is sounding amazing and as a rare guy who played and loved the first game, I'm super stoked to check it out soon hopefully. I've heard amazing things about the story too, as expected. Maybe the next pick after Zelda.

[PartridgeSenpai]

Played an hour or so of Donkey Kong 64 today. Not sure if I'll pick it back up, but I was just really in the mood for that burst of nostalgia

[Xeogred]

I need to revisit that one to start a new clean slate with it. When I played it back in the day I had mono, so nowadays just thinking about the game makes me almost literally sick haha. I don't think it was as good as the Banjo games and it's overly long, the biggest 3D platformer of all time, but yeah. It might be fun to revisit and cleanse those strange sensations around it.

[AppleQueso]

somehow i beat DK64 as a kid and i think that was enough times playing it

[Exhuminator]

Miasmata



Well, finally figured out how to do the orientation-triangulation thing, so I can start filling out my map. The island turns out to be far larger than I thought, very impressive given the small team who made this.

I had planned to only play Miasmata for just an hour last night, and then get some sleep. That one hour turned into three hours before I knew it (woops). Getting sucked into a game like that is rare for me, so that speaks volumes of how much Miasmata's design appeals to me personally.



I did run into the beast a few times last night. Turns out it likes to sulk around low lying swampy areas apparently. The first time I came across it, I was just gingerly traipsing through a bog, and the next thing I know I hear my character's heartbeat suddenly, and all the birds stopped chirping, and there I see it in the reeds... a black panther with horns. I tried to find somewhere to hide, and well, there wasn't anywhere to hide. It started running towards me, so I quickly made a torch out of nearby sticks. I tried waving it off with fire, but uh... that didn't go so well. I got devoured terribly. Now I listen carefully to atmospheric bird/insect noise, if everything starts getting quiet, I go on full alert. I successfully ran away from the beast twice now due to having a heads up on it. The best thing to do is start putting trees between yourself and it, and use those to slow it down until you can make it back to a safe camp. Also the beast can swim, so forget swimming away.



As far as the main goal of the game goes; concocting a vaccine from three chemical agents; I am 2/3rds of the way there now. I managed to collect the right ingredients and synthesize successfully using the labs the Adjuvent and Anti-Toxin. Still have to complete one more agent and rid myself of this plague. There is a possibility I could beat this game tonight, all depends on my ability to decipher chemical equations to determine the right ingredients, and then collect said ingredients wherever they are on the island. While trying not to get hopelessly lost in the wilderness, die from dehydration/lack of sleep, or get eaten by a wicked beast.

PS This game is awesome.

[BoneSnapDeez]

That beast reminds me of...

[prfsnl_gmr]

That beast reminds me of...

Not old enough! It reminds me of...