What game did you play last?

[artymon I\/]

Ingress and Uncharted

I finally got my first portal accepted!!! To be fair, I'd only tried to submit one other portal, but there's not much in my area that hasn't already been marked/submitted.

[Josephine Fowl]

Our Life: Beginnings & Always

A super sweet and nostalgic visual novel, set in Southern California. The story spansk three summers at three different points in your life - childhood, adolescence, and adulthood - as you live your life alongside the new boy next door, and experience your summers together as well as your developing relationship.

It's an amazing game with a surprising amount of replayability for a visual novel, as you are allowed to set your comfort and relationship level with the (potential) love interest. Potential because you don't have to date him. Actually, you don't even have to be friends with him if you don't want to.

Personally, I **** love this game. It came out in December, but is not 100% completed as there is still content coming out throughout the year. If you have like 6-8 hours to spare, I really do genuinely recommend this game, because it really hits that nostalgic nerve, and the love interest, Cove, is an actual sweetheart. He is also canonically undiagnosed autistic. It's not mentioned in game, but the devs have confirmed on their tumblr, and it's really well written.

Edit: Should've mentioned this as the very first thing: the game is free and can be found on Steam and Itch.io. It does have some DLC, one free and two that are like $5. The free DLC is just a bunch of voiced name options, which I really recommend, it's a little cringe but like in a good way. The paid DLCs are great, as they add more content to each summer. At this point there's only DLC for the first two summers though, but more will be released later in the year.

[artymon I\/]

Most recent games for me are Ingress and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

I also did a little Among Us.

Thinking about picking up Crimson Skies again...

[Josephine Fowl]

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

I hadn't touched it in a while but I couldn't remember why I stopped. I remember now. I'd played myself into a corner, that would be too much work to get out of. So now I either have to do a lot of mindless and annoyingly difficult grinding or start over.

And so I decided to just close the game and not do anything about it, lol.

[artymon I\/]

Most recent games for me are Ingress and Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

I also did a little Among Us.

Thinking about picking up Crimson Skies again...

Literally, rinse and repeat. Haven't picked up CS yet, still working it over.

...also contemplating Mercenaries. Prison Break man.

[Battery]

AC Valhalla, just finished up the Snotinghamscire arc last night.

[artymon I\/]

^Noice!

Ingress and Oregon Trail are my last played games. OT has lowkey become a fave for casual passtime....the roleplay element alone is hilarious.

[jsreed5]

I've been playing a lot of shoot'em ups recently, specifically an old freeware shmup called Blue Wish Resurrection Plus and the Cave classic Mushihimesama.

Limited Run Games has just opened preorders for Mushihimesama on the Nintendo Switch, and one item for purchase is a miniature arcade cabinet!

[artymon I\/]

Been holding off on posting here for some reason. Think this was around the official downturn, didn't quite realize, figured someone else would post....

Anyway, this'll be another thing I can edit and update. Just for my own records and amusement.

Started getting back into Overwatch. Hadn't played it in literal years, though I use my Widowmaker mousepad everyday. Never was much good, but it was fun getting into scenarios, either those high octane pushes where the clock's out of time and you're givin' it all ya got, or pull off a sneaky play of the game, or just end up befriending the enemy team.
Might just be me being sensitive, but it feels like the community for it isn't very generous, to say the least, downright salty and savage.
It's like, if you're not doing top tier plays and such, then you get flamed. Like bruh, chill. Some of us are just casual, easing into it.

Update
12/25/2022

Well, I have maintained my Christmas tradition of playing Black Flag. By next year, it'll have been out for 10 years. Wild.

I also did a little bit of Mafia II. That is unquestionably a Christmas game, despite the majority taking place in summer, the opening bits take place in winter and even feature some classic tunes.

*cough* and it's an excuse to drive around and cause chaos *cough*

Couple weeks back, I happened to find GTA V in a Goodwill. It'll load, but it seems to be having a few bugs. Might just get it on PS4.

Update
1/2/2023

Also completed my New Years tradition of spending it with Nate, Elena, and Sully.
....well, okay, it wasn't quite midnight, but look, if McCree can have High Noon anytime he wants, then I can have Low Midnight.

Officially think I've given up playing as McCree aka Cassidy in Overwatch. Widow, every now and then I can do good. But I've been sort of gravitating towards Zenyatta...and sort of actually doing pretty decent. Junkrat is sort of a guilty pleasure to play.
McCree as a character is...well, like the belt buckle says. And in proper hands he's a deadly character. I'm just not quite skilled enough.

Also have gotten some surprisingly good meme runs with Reinhardt. Literally just doing some challenges and somehow doing good too.

Update
2/15/2023

Wound up getting a rather high compliment in OW the other day; on defeat, one of the enemy team guys said they needed a better Zen, like ours, aka me
It's weird, just as soon as I think I'm getting good with a character, I turn to garbage, then pick up a random character and somehow do fantastic.
I think the game algorithm "matches" you with people that are adept at handling whatever you've been recently playing as, so when you go against the grain, so to speak, you beat the match-making and essentially break it for an easier win.

GTA V is still not quite a happy camper. I was going to try and uninstall, then reinstall and hope for some sort of patch update...only to discover my 360 no longer desires to connect to the internet.
Smart chap, probably for the best, but c'mon mate, be a team player, hey?

So still nothing on that front. Which is quite a shame. I just want to play as Trevor, hijack a jet, and go bananas.

*sighs*

Maybe when...or hopefully if/when I get a PS5....

Update
2/22/2023

Well, I uninstalled then re-installed GTA. Managed to have a run, played through the first level...then shut it off, came back a day later annnnd it basically just said no. Several times. It loaded once, ran around for a minute, then it froze. Restarted, couldn't even go to load screen.

I'm pretty sure it's not my device. I hope it's not.

Update
5/30/2023

started replaying infernal machine!!!!