What have you played in the weekend?

[vinraith]

It’s exactly the same campaign structure as the first DiRT Rally

Your memory is failing you. You had a LOT more options to set up a campaign championship in Dirt Rally 1, whereas you have none here essentially. You could set up something of custom length and still play it in campaign mode in DR1, so it was flexible. That flexibility is gone in 2.

Found it: it starts here.
A really major element of the game UI had totally gone by me, and was impending my comprehension of it.

Awesome, thank you!

[Rock8man]

I guess I never used custom campaign options in the first game, so it’s the same campaign structure to me.

EDIT: Ah ok, my memory wasn’t failing me. Custom Championships were a late addition to the game. They weren’t added until November 2015. I had already been playing since April 2015, so it was a late addition for me. Most of my campaign playing was already done by then.

[Brakara]

This the weekend of:

With a mix of:

And the continuation of:

But mostly it will be (as usual):

[vinraith]

EDIT: Ah ok, my memory wasn’t failing me. Custom Championships were a late addition to the game. They weren’t added until November 2015. I had already been playing since April 2015, so it was a late addition for me. Most of my campaign playing was already done by then.

That makes sense. I didn’t get the game til after that point, so just assumed they’d always been there.

Hmm, would be great if DR2 followed suit and added them, but I guess there’s probably little chance of that at this point.

[Anklebiter]

Where is Bejeweled or Angry Birds?

Actually like the list. Cool to see Dark Souls at number 3, and yes the majority of those games are quite good.

Will be getting my Harrier on in DCS VR this weekend.

[Papageno]

They’re bananas if they think BioShock was better than RDR2, though. It was a good game, sure, but let’s not go crazy.

'course, that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

[CraigM]

The list is hot garbage. Limbo, Overwatch, Sing Star? Zero strategy games, no Kerbal Space Program, Halo top 10?

We both already wasted too many brain cells on it.

[Jorn_Weines]

Probably nothing.

[Papageno]

In terms of what to play this weekend? I’m torn. Want to go back to Rebel Galaxy Outlaw but I feel like I have to upgrade to a better ship to do the EMP mission and that involves more grinding (how the hell anyone does the whole game in the starting Platypus is beyond me BTW).
Fired up Shadow of War the other day after a long hiatus, and it was as fun as I remember it, though I’m pretty rusty on all the moves.

[TheRockSal]

Link’s Awakening
Street’s of Rogue
Torchlight2

Switch weekend!

[Nightgaunt]

[Profanicus]

I’ll be playing Borderlands 3.
Because of that I’ve been losing steam/interest in Greedfall but I’ll probably put in a bit more time there.

[WarpRattler]

This week I’ve been messing with homebrew on my Vita, primarily as a way to play my PSP games again. My actual PSP doesn’t have a working optical drive anymore (though I did rip my own copies of most of what I wanted to play back when it did), and a lot of the stuff I want to play either doesn’t emulate well or is just better suited to being a portable pick-up-and-play game. With all that said, here’s stuff I’m planning on playing both on my day off on Sunday and whenever I get a free moment at work:

Pangya: Fantasy Golf

A very anime golf game, spun off from the now-defunct Korean MMO of the same name. The PSP game has an enormous amount of content, including a full multi-character story mode, tournaments versus AI or human players, challenges, and dress-up mode, across nine full 18-hole courses. I put quite a bit of time into this when I first got my PSP; sadly, it never got a digital release, doesn’t emulate well, and has a rather wild antipiracy setup involving checking load speeds against the expected load speed from UMD and crashing on boot if it’s too fast. The workaround involves extracting a specific file from the ISO and changing a few bytes in a hex editor, so that’ll be fun to deal with, but I really want to play this dang golf game again.

OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast

OutRun 2 should need no introduction, and the PSP version is pretty nice once you’re running it at the system’s maximum clock speed instead of its base speed. Great for playing on breaks and such.

Fate/Unlimited Codes

Back before the series became an international phenomenon with a billion spinoffs and a wildly successful mobile game, there was an official Fate/stay night fighting game, which got a PSP port that randomly got a US release. The game’s decently fun, though it’s horribly unbalanced for competitive play, and the home versions (there was also a Japan-only PS2 release) have some fun minigames and such that are worth playing around with.

The 3rd Birthday

The oft-maligned (and unfairly so) third game in the Parasite Eve series, and a major departure from the first two on PSX: while the first game was an action RPG and the second was a survival horror game, the third is a third-person shooter with RPG mechanics. The game’s core mechanic is the “Overdive” system, where your time-traveling consciousness possesses a human body in the past and can “dive” between different humans to get a fresh pool of health and a new viewpoint; in practice, the system is quite effective for moving between different bits of cover and for moving through areas more quickly than just running on foot. (Also, in case you didn’t figure it out already, this game is very Square Enix.) The biggest downside of playing The 3rd Birthday on PSP (and I played through it over a dozen times back when it came out) was having to use its awful analog “stick,” a problem the Vita doesn’t have, so I’m looking forward to digging back in.

Aside from all of that, I’m playing Final Fantasy XIV whenever I feel like I can put a few hours into it, and still enjoying it quite a bit.

[FinnegansFather]

Looks like a Gloomhaven weekend. I’m enjoying Adventure mode, and it is a good fit for scattered bits of time to play on my laptop.

[lordkosc]

Gears of War 4
My Memory of Us
Natural Selection 2
Dishonored 2

[Left_Empty]

That’s like Retro Gaming for the Komrad of South California!

[kerzain]

Gears of War 5: Kait Cries a Lot.

So far this weekend has been all about Gears 5, the new idiot simulator developed by whoever Microsoft hired to replace Epic Megagames behind the wheel. The only Gears game I played before this was the first hour or two of the very first one back in 2006 or whatever, so basically I have no idea at all what the hell is happening in this game, but if I see stuff I shoot stuff, and that tends to work well enough to push the story forward.

I’m sure there’s a good explanation why Kait is bawling her eyes out five minutes after I’ve taken control of her. And I’m also sure it’s totally cool to give someone weapons and armor when they spend half the day flailing about from intrusive thoughts and visions. And, of course, it’s no cause for concern when they’re obviously just a wee bit unstable, suicidal, homicidal, and paranoid all within a span of a minute. But if any of this stuff is explained, I’m guessing it happened somewhere else in the series, and perhaps jumping in at 5 wasn’t such a hot idea. But hey, the game is free on Gamepass, and by all accounts Gears 4 is hot garbage, so I started where all the good reviews are.

So far the shooting is really great. Various standout encounters are also great, but I’m seriosuly not a fan of the game being a 20-hour escort mission for the most retarded partner in the world, Del. His contribution can be summed up as: “Everybody sucks, except for Jack the Robot. Oh and by the way, help help, I’ve been shot and I’m down again, better drop everything and come way, way over here and save me, because apparently positioning and tactics mean dick and squat in this idiotic game because what’s most important is keeping King Del alive at all times so you don’t fail the mission.”

But aside from Del, and aside from Kait, and and aside from an incomprehensible story for newcomers, and aside from too many encounters designed with co-op in mind even though you might be playing solo and the ai partner(s) suck compared to the little cat buddy in Monster Hunter World, I’m actually having a helluva time with the game.

[vinraith]

…and maybe some other, lesser games if I have time.

[rhamorim]

This weekend should be all about Cat Quest, The Surge 2, and figuring out the best way to publish a blog about programming (mostly in Elm and Rust) to build a portfolio to enhance my hireability (and help the community in both of those ecosystems).

Of course, the latter is not about games. But it can be fun on its own way.

[Rock8man]

This weekend I’ll try to catch up somewhat on the Indie Games (Probably) thread, since I notice that @robc04 tagged me there. But if I read his post, I’ll lose my place, and I’m about 500 posts behind in that one. But I can’t go through that thread too fast, because I actually like clicking on the links and checking out the trailers for the games, etc if I have the time. Which is why I can’t go through it very fast.

The nice part about that is that since I’m so far behind, whichever games people have mentioned have been out for a long time now, and there’s already a critical consensus behind them, usually.