The "What are you playing now?" Thread

[Chris]

Hogwarts Legacy looks goooood

Shocked it is getting good reviews. Now days I generally keep a list of games I want throughout the year, and just buy them at half (or better) price on black friday or christmas. Think I’ll add this one.

 

[CardiacCavs]

I remain dubious of Hogwarts Legacy. Certainly a game I will wait to see how it does upon release.

 

[Chris]

I remain dubious of Hogwarts Legacy. Certainly a game I will wait to see how it does upon release.

To be fair, if anything, this game would have gotten crushed unfairly in reviews, not propped up.

 

[eChameleon]

Finished Persona 5 Royal today. What a four month journey it was. I actually got choked up at the ending, something that has never happened in my many many years of gaming.
Now to take a break for a month and then tackle Persona 3 Portable.

 

[letgocavs]

I'm two chapters into a tales plague innocence and man it's boring. I usually buy games that have good reviews without seeing gameplay. This game is like the most minimal amount of gameplay and is damn near point and click. Walking game. I'll give it a few more chapters. If it still sucks I'll probably put it down. Replay red dead 2

 

[sportscoach]

Finished Persona 5 Royal today. What a four month journey it was. I actually got choked up at the ending, something that has never happened in my many many years of gaming.
Now to take a break for a month and then tackle Persona 3 Portable.

I don't know how you can honestly make a better game than that in that genre... if they try a Persona 6, they will have a lot of work to do...

Ps. Persona 3 Portable, in my mind, was the wrong version to bring to the switch. It doesn't have the interaction and avatar movement. I just don't like how they did it personally. FES was so much better in my mind.

I also don't like Engage as much as Three Houses... Engage cut a lot of the relationship, character flexibility and level grinding that Three Houses had. It's more traditional FE so I am a bit disappointed in a sense.

 

[NMCav]

I don't know how you can honestly make a better game than that in that genre... if they try a Persona 6, they will have a lot of work to do...

Ps. Persona 3 Portable, in my mind, was the wrong version to bring to the switch. It doesn't have the interaction and avatar movement. I just don't like how they did it personally. FES was so much better in my mind.

I also don't like Engage as much as Three Houses... Engage cut a lot of the relationship, character flexibility and level grinding that Three Houses had. It's more traditional FE so I am a bit disappointed in a sense.

I feel like Three Houses did too much with the relationships and Engage does too little. They need to find a middle ground. Combat in Engage is better overall though which I like. I wouldn't call FE3H or Engage better. They are just different. Both have pluses and minuses. Hopefully they can find a nice middle ground for the next Fire Emblem game.

 

[sportscoach]

I feel like Three Houses did too much with the relationships and Engage does too little. They need to find a middle ground. Combat in Engage is better overall though which I like. I wouldn't call FE3H or Engage better. They are just different. Both have pluses and minuses. Hopefully they can find a nice middle ground for the next Fire Emblem game.

See I like the side stories and relationships since it creates more character depth... I like to develop every character and max them out lol Engage doesn't have that sadly...

Which chapter are you at? And what is your normal team?

Ps. I did something weird... I changed Citrinne (Aka the Mage with no defense) into a Sword Armor when she got to LVL 20 as a mage and gave her a Levin Sword... She ended up being actually pretty good that way. She's back as a mage with way better defense and I'll make her a mage knight next lol

 

[TyGuy]

Shocked it is getting good reviews. Now days I generally keep a list of games I want throughout the year, and just buy them at half (or better) price on black friday or christmas. Think I’ll add this one.

Don't worry, there are plenty of activists errr I mean journalist reviewing the game also.

 

[MattyFos.]

Don't worry, there are plenty of activists errr I mean journalist reviewing the game also.

They're upset with the game because of JK Rowling... right?

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

They're upset with the game because of JK Rowling... right?

A large portion of the LGBTQ community and allies decided to boycott the game for that reason.

I, personally, don't care--they're welcome to boycott the game. I think it's more productive to have people play the game.

If you have some average Joe hopping on Twitch to watch a streamer play Hogwarts Legacy, I'd rather have them go to someone who might be able to talk about any issues that may arise.

If the queer community eats itself so hard on this one that the only people playing the game are anti-LGBTQ individuals, then guess what perspective that Average Joe is going to get?

As for the Wired review, I have no idea. What they're saying might be accurate. It might be total bullshit. I haven't played the game or really looked into it. The last time I paid attention to the magazine was probably over a decade ago. I don't know where they stand nowadays.

I do, however, know exactly where the Twitter user @TyGuy posted stands based off the inflammatory language they use. I wonder why we're posting blatantly political bullshit like this outside of the politics section.

@Sebastian

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

There's certainly nothing wrong with a reviewer blasting a game because they don't like some of themes, background, or whatever. If it's political, that's fine as long as they're upfront about the real reasons they don't like it

I do think it's bogus if a reviewer dishonestly criticizes something about the gameplay, graphics, etc.. simply because there is something they don't like about the politics or whatever.

Whether that happened in this case, I have no idea.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Personally, I've never really understood what all the fuss with Harry Potter was about anyway. Maybe it's because I started reading adult fiction in middle school and had already read better books by the time Harry Potter became a thing, but when I finally got around to reading it in college after the entire series was released, I thought the books were...fine? Not awful or anything, but nothing special. I guess by YA fantasy standards, they're above average, but that's also not saying much. Joe Abercrombie's Shattered Sea books are way better in the genre, though, and are really the only YA fantasy books I feel compelled to ever read again at this point in my life. Maybe the Mistborn books too if you count those as YA.

If I play the Hogwarts game, it'll be when it's twenty bucks or less on a Steam sale anyway. I don't see much of a point in buying single player games when they're brand new anymore except in a few rare cases, and this ain't one of them.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

If I play the Hogwarts game, it'll be when it's twenty bucks or less on a Steam sale anyway. I don't see much of a point in buying single player games when they're brand new anymore except in a few rare cases, and this ain't one of them.

Same here. I rarely do multiplayer, and for single-player, might as well wait a year or two.

I might make an exception for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, though. Really liked the first set, and wouldn't mind spending extra for some Ukrainians.

 

[Chris]

There's certainly nothing wrong with a reviewer blasting a game because they don't like some of themes, background, or whatever. If it's political, that's fine as long as they're upfront about the real reasons they don't like it

I do think it's bogus if a reviewer dishonestly criticizes something about the gameplay, graphics, etc.. simply because there is something they don't like about the politics or whatever.

Whether that happened in this case, I have no idea.

That is exactly what happened in this case. Exactly what happened. Egregiously.