What Are You Playing? (Winter, 2014-15)

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Originally Posted by Finch

The whole world is on its last legs, like if METEOR or whatever wasn't going to end it all, it would've eventually rattled to pieces anyway. Even Midgar was a huge dump. Wutai wasn't a threat to Shinra, and that's the point. The whole nation of Definitely Not Japan has been stripped of its powers and brought down to nothing by Not the US, and now it's just kind of waiting to die like the rest of the world.

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The world never felt pre apocalyptic to me. There were several pretty nice areas. I just assumed the poor areas were a result of classism

Playing Ultimate NES Remix on 3DS. It does a good job at breathing new life into early NES stuff. I still hate how slow NES Donkey Kong is, though. I mostly played the speedy VIC 20 version back in the day.

The Talos Principle.

You guys are going to love this when you decide to stop waiting for 3 dollar Steam sales. Or when it hits 3 dollars on Steam, whatever.

I was planning on snagging that.

I finished the all the existing episodes of Saturday Morning RPG, which is fun but left me feeling unfulfilled since the final episode has yet to be completed. Apparently the sales sucked and the guys making it ate working on a final episode between other projects that actually pay the bills.

Episodic gaming, bleh.

I'm really irritated about Mind Control Tech being all over the meta right now in Hearthstone because it ruins my favorite class: Shaman.

Law & Order Legacies (PC) - It's amazing how much better Telltale got with their more recent stuff than their earlier stuff. If I weren't a complete police procedural wonk, this wouldn't have lasted long. It's too nit picky, and the actors don't sound anything like the ones from the show. At least it was only and finally $5. Maybe I would have been better off it stayed more forever...

Shin Megami Tensei (iOS) - With Demon's Souls complete, I picked this back up in earnest. I am determined to finally finish a game in this series, and this seems like the right place to start. I'm still very early. I just got to Shinjuku. For better or worse, it seems at least loosely following a FAQ is a good idea if not necessary.

I started playing Ocarina of Time. Navi actually feels refreshingly hands-off after Fi.

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

The Talos Principle.

You guys are going to love this when you decide to stop waiting for 3 dollar Steam sales. Or when it hits 3 dollars on Steam, whatever.

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Just want to say I am on this bandwagon something fierce. Not every puzzle is a winner, but I'll be damned if this isn't the best game last year.

I'm 12 hours in and I still have a lot of work to do. And it doesn't get old.

Is it worth $40? I seriously thought it was $15 or $20. I don't mind spending $40 on a good game though.