GREAT video games that are helping us kill time until normalcy resumes.

[BringBackScrubs]

Been on the PS4 a lot lately. Playing a lot of Apex, Elder Scrolls, and Madden. Couldn't really get into Fallen Order.

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[Torsion]

Name the game.

 

[Birdstrike]

I still have an old Pentium PC with Windows XP running on it. It's completely off the grid so it doesn't get infected with all kinds of crap. It still plays GTA Vice City, DOOM, Quake, some other old FPS games. I can really get lost driving around in Vice City listening to the radio.

I also boot up an Atari 2600 emulator I have and play Adventure every few months. I'm amazed how the muscle memory still gets me through the mazes after 40 years.

Doom! Quake! Love it

 

[deleted109597]

Cuphead?
Hollow Knight?

 

[BoardingDoc]

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Name the game.

Goldeneye on the N64. Dam level.

You get there by going down the stairs from the bathroom you enter the level in, take a right and it's straight ahead. The door to the next section is on your left from the POV of that picture.

 

[Torsion]

A cut scene from another oldie PC classic. Yes, that's Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies

 

[Zebra Hunter]

Based on this thread, I’m planning on getting a switch. For those that have one, what games should I get besides Zelda and do y’all typically use it as a typical console or the hand-held version or do you frequently switch between the two?

 

[Birdstrike]

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Name the game.

St Patty's Day Massacre?

 

[Groove]

A cut scene from another oldie PC classic. Yes, that's Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies

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Wing Commander, oldie but goodie!

 

[Renaissance Man]

Probably not a game to re-visit, but am I only one who remembers the game you got with buying Chex cereal?...It was essentially a mod of Doom. Came out in 1996...Chex Quest!

 

[DocEspana]

easy answer: damn near anything on the nintendo switch. I bring mine to the night shifts now because they can (at times) become freakishly quiet. I am somewhat thankful that the day shifts aren't as eerily empty. Anything mario branded is a good start. Polished off mario galaxy in the early part of this whole thing while working at a FEMA tent that never quite got as busy as advertized. Always had mario kart and its a very easy way to burn time in 5-20 minute intervals (based on if you want to do one race, or the whole circuit).

But here is a big suggestion that will keep you PLENTY busy for a long time. Caveat: you have to be into jRPGs, strategy games, or both. Fire Emblem: Three Houses.




I thought that I had left jRPGs behind a decade ago and wouldnt be interested. I thought the half-anime half-cell shaded style would turn me off. I was wrong on both. This game is a behemoth of story telling. Honestly really blew me out of the water with the quality of the story. And I'm saying this having only seen one of the four stories. It does the thing every other game swears to you that it will do but never does - gives you truly dramatically different stories and gameplay when you replay it and make different decisions (in this case, which of the three houses +/- the fourth option you align with is the only difference, but its a decision made in the first 30 minutes and leads to three fully different stories with one having a second major branch point). Come for the strategy component. Stay for the story. And this is a damn good strategy game, all of your characters have perma-death. So if you **** up in deciding what they should do, you just lose them from the story (there is a limited ability to rewind your decisions but it cant save you in every scenario).

I'm rambling. Its good. Very good. Much better than it has any right to be. and I already thanked the person who hounded me for 3 months to buy it for staying on my case about it. Now I'm giving back by telling you guys about it.

 

[TwistedTea]

Title says it all. I'll go first:

Blaphemous is a 2D, metroidvania-style hack-and-slash platformer with absolutely gorgeous pixel art and is menacingly hard until you get the hang of it.

Imagine you're walking a medieval countryside. An apocalypse of biblical nature has already occurred. The remaining humans refer to it as "The Miracle", but they mean to say: "The Grievous Miracle". Cities lay in ruin. Churches are split in two down the middle. Plague and pestilence ravage the land. God is clearly a vengeful God. Nothing left to do but kick his ass and everyone else's collective ass along the way. Trailer follows:





Its so good that I'm on my third playthrough.

Reminds me of those B rated SNES games. Looks pro.
My user names gives away what I been doing

 

[p1acebo]

Probably not a game to re-visit, but am I only one who remembers the game you got with buying Chex cereal?...It was essentially a mod of Doom. Came out in 1996...Chex Quest!

I do!!! This game was actually pretty good!


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[docB]

A cut scene from another oldie PC classic. Yes, that's Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies

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Some of the actors they got to do video games back in the day were amazing.
GTA Vice City had Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzman, Danny Trejo, Gary Busey, Lee Majors and Debbie Harry.
In one game!

 

[RustedFox]

My turn.

Guess this one (PC):

 

[Groove]

My turn.

Guess this one (PC):

Dungeon Master, great game though I enjoyed Bards Tale, Wizardry series a bit more in that first person rpg genre.

 

[hoot504]

Anyone playing the Final Fantasy remakes? I bought a switch intending to go back through FF VII - IX, but so far haven't made it past BotW and a couple dozen hours of Stardew Valley.

 

[Young Chi]

Goldeneye on the N64. Dam level.

You get there by going down the stairs from the bathroom you enter the level in, take a right and it's straight ahead. The door to the next section is on your left from the POV of that picture.

Facility is the actual level, right after Dam. Beating this on 00 agent was no joke.

 

[BoardingDoc]

Facility is the actual level, right after Dam. Beating this on 00 agent was no joke.

Yep, you're right. And yeah, doing the time trial on that level was easily the hardest in the game. I think you unlocked a silver pistol or something?

EDIT: just looked it up. The silver PP7 was for the Train 00 agent time trial. Facility gave you invincibility. ****ing brutal challenge.

 

[jurassicpark]

A cut scene from another oldie PC classic. Yes, that's Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies

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Dude, I am buying up old game boxes/cases and setting up a collection in my home office and this is one of them. My wife thinks I'm nuts but she's from the Harry Potter generation.

 

[jurassicpark]

They have on Steam :
Space Quest collection
Police Quest Collection
Leisure Suit Larry collection
Monkey Island

OMFG

 

[MediMike]

They have on Steam :
Space Quest collection
Police Quest Collection
Leisure Suit Larry collection
Monkey Island

OMFG

I remember getting pirated copies of LSL on AOL as a middle-school kid. Hilarious series.

They have Monkey Island available on the Xbox store! Can't beat the original though. Steam is awesome.

 

[Fox800]

I love Monkey Island.

I just bought a new 65" TV and hooked the ol' XBOX back up. Game pass has some gems for $1 for the first month.

I just fired up Outer Wilds and I'm enjoying it so far.

I tried Stellaris but it's just too super detailed for me to stick with it. I spent hours building up my little corner of space and got annihilated the first time I picked a fight.

Anyone like Sea of Thieves? Been wanting to give that one a try.

 

[Fox800]

We should form an EM gaming group on Xbox live.

 

[jurassicpark]

I remember getting pirated copies of LSL on AOL as a middle-school kid. Hilarious series.

They have Monkey Island available on the Xbox store! Can't beat the original though. Steam is awesome.

Man, I remember AOL. Back with my 2400 baud modem, so amazed at ONLINE GAMES :-O

 

[docB]

Man, I remember AOL. Back with my 2400 baud modem, so amazed at ONLINE GAMES :-O

I still use my AOL email. Just can't be bothered to change it. Before AOL I was on Prodigy back in the mid 90s. I still remember the first time someone told me to Google something. It was when I was on my ICU rotation as a PGY2 and the Pulm/CC fellow was telling us about this great new thing called "Google."

 

[jurassicpark]

I still use my AOL email. Just can't be bothered to change it. Before AOL I was on Prodigy back in the mid 90s. I still remember the first time someone told me to Google something. It was when I was on my ICU rotation as a PGY2 and the Pulm/CC fellow was telling us about this great new thing called "Google."

God, wish I had bought stock when those things and Amazon first started, but I was still wee-little and had no money to my name. Shucks and other comments.

Ah good times!

 

[BAM!]

I played through Pokemon Let's Go Eevee with my kids. It was actually very enjoyable!

 

[GeneralVeers]

The Dig

 

[RustedFox]

The Dig

Wow.
I had this one as a kid.
Never did finish it

 

[jurassicpark]

I'm thinking about getting a joystick to play Tie Fighter or Wing Commander : Privateer again.

 

[GeneralVeers]

Wow.
I had this one as a kid.
Never did finish it

It's challenging. It had great production values. It's more puzzle-focused and lacks the constant insta-death a lot of adventure games had.

 

[RustedFox]

It's challenging. It had great production values. It's more puzzle-focused and lacks the constant insta-death a lot of adventure games had.

Speaking of similar LucasArts games, I have "Full Throttle: Remastered" for free in my GOG shopping cart and haven't yet downloaded it.

 

[Pokedoc]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but I picked up Monster Hunter World for $15 yesterday during the PlayStation sale and I can tell this is a game that I'll be sinking a lot of time into when I'm not studying. I always wanted to get into these games and it seems like this will be a great starting point!

 

[BoardingDoc]

I'm thinking about getting a joystick to play Tie Fighter or Wing Commander : Privateer again.

OMG I cannot count the number of hours I've logged playing Wing commander privateer. I had paper charts I would create which had buy and sell values for various commodities at different space stations. Definitely the fastest way to get enough cash to buy a proper heavy fighter.

 

[GeneralVeers]

Speaking of similar LucasArts games, I have "Full Throttle: Remastered" for free in my GOG shopping cart and haven't yet downloaded it.

How did you get it free? I see it at $14.99 right now.

 

[GeneralVeers]

OMG I cannot count the number of hours I've logged playing Wing commander privateer. I had paper charts I would create which had buy and sell values for various commodities at different space stations. Definitely the fastest way to get enough cash to buy a proper heavy fighter.

Definitely a classic. The second Privateer was just weird, with a story that made no sense and odd production design.

 

[RustedFox]

How did you get it free? I see it at $14.99 right now.

Part of a giveaway. Anniversary of some release or something.

 

[jurassicpark]

OMG I cannot count the number of hours I've logged playing Wing commander privateer. I had paper charts I would create which had buy and sell values for various commodities at different space stations. Definitely the fastest way to get enough cash to buy a proper heavy fighter.

I... I think I love you

 

[boolin_1]

Days Gone for the PS4. instantly one of my favorites. Also The Last of Us for those who havent heard about it. You can tell I like zombie/world apocalypse games.

Days Gone is an open world post-apocalyptic game where these zombies "freakers" took over the world. You drive your motorcycle around Oregon to join different factions and finish up missions to get points for weapons upgrades/bike upgrades. The main character is an ex-biker gang guy trying to figure out what happened to his wife the first day of the apocalypse. She was put on a rescue chopper after getting stabbed, but her chopper supposedly crashed and nobody survived. So you drive around, killing freakers, trying to piece together the story. The game is unbelievable. It got bad reviews because of the early bugs but they all got patched up. Instant classic.

The Last of Us is also apocalyptic but you play as Joel, a guy who is trying to escort this teenage girl across the world as a in return for a gun shipment deal that went bad. You have to fight of the "infected" which is are humans exposed to this fungus. It follows a much more linear story line and it's regarded as one of the best playstation games ever. No side real side quests. The game plays like a movie that you get very invested into. The sequel is coming out this year.

Both games revolve around how would you approach things. You have to find materials to craft things, and also find guns and ammo which can be scarce. Do you want to go in guns blazing? or do you want to remain stealthy and keep your ammo for something later. Both games are highly addicting for sure.


Now i'm just playin warzone with buds. tryna catch these dubs

 

[RustedFox]

Just tried for the second time to play thru the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Demo.

Its... just not fun.
I wanted to like it, but being attacked off-camera by unseen foes, not being able to keep track of things going on in battle (because they're unseen/off-camera), and having the view often completely obscured was bad enough; but then getting other party members (Barrett) to join and having to 'babysit' each party member was just it for me.

 

[24GaugeEJ]

Days Gone for the PS4. instantly one of my favorites. Also The Last of Us for those who havent heard about it. You can tell I like zombie/world apocalypse games.

Days Gone is an open world post-apocalyptic game where these zombies "freakers" took over the world. You drive your motorcycle around Oregon to join different factions and finish up missions to get points for weapons upgrades/bike upgrades. The main character is an ex-biker gang guy trying to figure out what happened to his wife the first day of the apocalypse. She was put on a rescue chopper after getting stabbed, but her chopper supposedly crashed and nobody survived. So you drive around, killing freakers, trying to piece together the story. The game is unbelievable. It got bad reviews because of the early bugs but they all got patched up. Instant classic.

The Last of Us is also apocalyptic but you play as Joel, a guy who is trying to escort this teenage girl across the world as a in return for a gun shipment deal that went bad. You have to fight of the "infected" which is are humans exposed to this fungus. It follows a much more linear story line and it's regarded as one of the best playstation games ever. No side real side quests. The game plays like a movie that you get very invested into. The sequel is coming out this year.

Both games revolve around how would you approach things. You have to find materials to craft things, and also find guns and ammo which can be scarce. Do you want to go in guns blazing? or do you want to remain stealthy and keep your ammo for something later. Both games are highly addicting for sure.


Now i'm just playin warzone with buds. tryna catch these dubs

I started trying to replay the Last of Us and forgot how utterly gut wrenching it is. It's like playing a Cormac McCarthy novel. My wife watched me play the intro then left the room sobbing.

 

[BoardingDoc]

I started trying to replay the Last of Us and forgot how utterly gut wrenching it is. It's like playing a Cormac McCarthy novel. My wife watched me play the intro then left the room sobbing.

My wife bought me my PS4 so I could play that game when it first came out, knowing how interested I was in it. Very happy she did. Will definitely never play it again.

And yeah, that opening is emotionally devastating. Last of us is kinda like Requiem For a Dream. I'm glad I watched it. I don't ever want to watch it again.

 

[Groove]

Last of Us was epic. I loved that game. I'll def play the sequel which drops on May 29th. Naughty Dog doesn't know how to make bad games. I wish they had it on Xbox though.

 

[24GaugeEJ]

Last of Us was epic. I loved that game. I'll def play the sequel which drops on May 29th. Naughty Dog doesn't know how to make bad games. I wish they had it on Xbox though.

It got delayed until June 19 and someone leaked a huge portion of it online. Watch out for spoilers! I’m being careful about all online play because of that ****.

 

[boolin_1]

Last of Us was epic. I loved that game. I'll def play the sequel which drops on May 29th. Naughty Dog doesn't know how to make bad games. I wish they had it on Xbox though.

highly highly recommend Days Gone. It feels like TLOU mixed with the open world concept of assassins creed.

 

[jurassicpark]

I am waiting for Cyberpunk 2077.. hurry up!!

 

[BoardingDoc]

highly highly recommend Days Gone. It feels like TLOU mixed with the open world concept of assassins creed.

Really? I heard it was an ok zombie game mixed with a bunch of repetitive and boring side quests without much to do in that open world.

Would love to be wrong.

 

[deleted814217]

Just tried for the second time to play thru the Final Fantasy 7 Remake Demo.

Its... just not fun.
I wanted to like it, but being attacked off-camera by unseen foes, not being able to keep track of things going on in battle (because they're unseen/off-camera), and having the view often completely obscured was bad enough; but then getting other party members (Barrett) to join and having to 'babysit' each party member was just it for me.

ahh that's a shame. I heard they've made some changes to the storyline as well, that true so far?

 

[Groove]

highly highly recommend Days Gone. It feels like TLOU mixed with the open world concept of assassins creed.

I played Days Gone but didn't get very far. It felt disjointed to me for some reason and the quests were fairly boring. I also thought the story would be more gripping. But...in it's defense, I really didn't get that far at all. I'll boot it back up if I find myself on my PS4 Pro....which probably wouldn't happen unless they drop another Uncharted. Uncharted 4 was pure crack. That's the one series that I would truly miss on the Xbox Series X. Not enough to buy a PS5 but damn....if they made another one I would seriously consider buying it just for Uncharted 5. But it would have to be Nathan Drake, Elena and Viktor. None of this Chloe and Nadine spin off crap.

Uncharted 4 was actually the first Uncharted that I played. I went back and played 1, 3, 2, then Lost Legacy afterwards.