fumanstan

As someone who launched the game and tried it for 30 minutes with no idea what to do and became annoyed enough to switch to another game, this makes me relieved for when I go back to it

slop101

The advice that helped me most was this: RUN to the first boss, avoiding everything along the way, not to fight him, but to get the "insight point" you get from just seeing him that is required to awake the "doll" at hunters dream from whom you can level up. Then grind, and level your ass up, learning the mechanics along the way. From there, it's all gravy. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two.

gerrythedon

starseed1981

Just finished Gravity Falls Legend Of The Gnome Gemulets. What a refreshing change of pace after a dozen ginormous open world titles in a row.

gerrythedon

gerrythedon

The Questyen

Still playing Rock Band 4 (XB1) sporadically.

Played about 25 hours so far of Gems of War (PS4) which is the Puzzle Quest sequel I always wanted.

Started Oxenfree (XB1) yesterday and am about an hour in.

mattysemo247

I spent the past two weeks playing Bioshock Infinite and all of the DLC. That was a damn good game and the first DLC I can recall in recent memory worth recommending to anyone.

fumanstan

Just finished up Valiant Hearts. Cute little game, I really liked the "history lesson" aspects of it about World War 1. Pretty simple and easy game play, but the art and characters were enjoyable and the story was decent.

I think i'll start Deadpool with the movie coming up now.

mattysemo247

I also picked up Deadpool on XB1 from our library. I'll be starting that soon as well.

Kedrix

Just stick with it a little while. The humor is what grabs you, but you really have to spend some time (and get up your stats) for the fighting to be satisfying. Invest in hammers, once fully powered up, they are ridiculously overpowered. I played it quite a bit on the 360 and would play it on XB1 again once the price is right.

Actual Game playing (XB1): Started episode 5 of Tales from the Borderlands last night, should be done in a week. Been fantastic so far. Started The Golf Club, pretty good, just have to learn the system. Outside of that, Level 42 in Gems of War and now in Act III in Gears of War UE.

gerrythedon

playing this for the first time

brainee

Earlier in the month I finished up Shadow of Mordor (PS4). I quite enjoyed it, though I think I had my fill after logging about 40 hours of game play (I left a lot of the optional missions on the table). Similar mechanics to the Arkham and Assassin's Creed games made it feel comfortable. The story for the main quest ended up being rather disappointing, with a very underwhelming finale. But overall I'm glad I played it.

Last week I played all 5 chapters of Life is Strange (PS4). I really liked it. As someone who plays games for interactive storytelling, it's exciting to see designers actively push the genre forward as an art-form in that vein.

I started playing Dark Souls 2 (PS4), but after putting a few hours into it I'm really not sure. I hadn't played any of the Souls games before because many of the features sounded like things I wouldn't enjoy (needing to replay the same battles over and over, punishingly difficult timing-based combat, unavoidable PvP, lack of emphasis on story and characters, no in-game pausing, no in-game map, infrequent save points). Though there was a sale later last year of the complete addition, and I thought I'd take a chance and give it a try (given how widely acclaimed the series is and how I generally love RPGs). I know I've hardly put any time into it. But being older and busier, life is too short and free time too valuable to sink hours into something I'm not having fun with (and reading that it takes 50-100 hours to finish this, with a "learning curve" period of at least 10 hours is not motivating me).

I know I lose all credibility to "hardcore" gamers if I bail on this. But I think I might want to put this aside and get into Witcher 3 instead (having loved the first 2 games in the series, I know that's a good long game that I can really get into).

Maxflier

Infrequent save points? Dark Souls is constantly saving.

brainee

You know what I mean. Progress save points ... the campfires. If I spend time exploring and have to stop playing, I have to replay everything since the last campfire when I play next. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with how Dark Souls does things. Just that it is not my gaming preference. I knew that going in, but wanted to give it a shot anyway. I've played, and enjoyed, many games that have a "checkpoint" save system rather than letting you save anywhere. I guess it comes down to how much time it takes for me to get to the next checkpoint, and how annoying/frustrating I find replaying sections.

slop101

Not at all. DS2 is actually considered the weakest Souls game and a bit of a disappointment compared to DS1 and Bloodborne.

Witcher 3 is easily my game of the year, and one of my top 10 of all time. I wish I could play it again for the first time.

The Questyen

Pretty addicted to Gems of War. I just hit level 50. They need to balance the PVP though. I'm constantly getting matched up against people 40+ levels higher than me who can kill my troops in one hit. In the last week I haven't been matched up with a single person who wasn't at least 10 levels higher than me.

Also played through the first world of A Boy and his Blob which recently got released on PS4 (a port of the Wii game) and it's quite fun. I could see it wearing out its welcome though, it took me around 2 or so hours just to play through the first world and judging from the trophies there is 6 or 7 of them.

james2025a

I finished up Just Cause 3. Played about 2 hours of Black Ops III and then spent most of my time getting into Fallout 4. Need to make progress on that one as the collected version of Dying Light is due out earlier February and want to get my hands on that.

starseed1981

Just wrapped Undertale (PC). IMHO, that's insanely overrated.

Solid Snake

Getting all the trophies on Shadow of the Colossus. All I have to do now is get all the fruit, beat hard mode, and beat Hard Mode Time Attack. Easy stuff. Time consuming but easy.

wlj

Lego Dimensions
Disney Infinity 3.0
Skylanders SwapForce

mhg83

Just picked up today. Played an Hour so far. Love this series

Osiris3657

I'm close to finishing Rise of the Tomb Raider. That'll be my 3rd game to beat this month. Haven't done that since my college days.

foxdvd

Rebel Galaxy on the ps4. Fun space combat rpg game...Combat a bit like the ship combat in Black Flag.

Brian Shannon

Fallout 4