What video games are you playing now?

[Fatima Shadow Frost Witch]

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Nearing the end of Golden Deer Storyline and will be stopping after it's over and focus on a different game for a bit

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I found that Joy Division tape in Metal Gear Solid V, so now I’m happy. I also got D-Walker and Quiet to join my squad, so that’s cool, but a little overshadowed by the fact that I also found a cassette with “Snake Eater” on it. MGS3 is the first one I played, so hearing that song from the beginning of my journey, here at the end... it’s good stuff.

Now my mission is to find “You Spin Me Right Round”, cuz I heard Quiet listening to that and now I have to get it for the YouTube Poop nostalgia.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

Monster Hunter World: Moved on a bit, most recent storyline takedown was Tobi-Kadachi. I also performed another session of sequence breaking in that shortly after arriving in the Wildspire Wastes, I decided to go kill some Rathians, and now I have a full set of Rathian armour. My newest project is Rathalos armour. I’ve got a couple pieces, and at this point, filling it out is mostly just landing a few more kills, though I do need to get a tail and a plate, which are a bit less guaranteed. Rathalos is a much harder kill than Rathian, since it can still poison me even once I’ve taken off the tail, and it spends a lot more time in the air. I’m considering switching to an insect glaive instead of a switch axe to land more hits thanks to the airtime it can give me, but it’ll also make tail chopping harder, so neither situation is exactly ideal.

 

[Tactician Karina]

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, currently alternating between my Black Eagles file and another Blue Lions run. I'm thinking of making Ferdinand a dancer in my BE run, I was originally gonna go with Linhardt for that class but I noticed that Ferdinand's charm is higher than Linny's, so I just decided to go for the easy win on that instead of trying to raise Linny's charm. And for the BL replay I might make either Dimitri or Annette a dancer this time, since in my first BL run I went with Mercedes.

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (DS) replay. I put this off for a bit due to other stuff, but went back to my replay again and I'm now at the fourth prologue, specifically Jeorge's this time over Athena's. Getting Caeda this chapter so I'm happy to use her again (since she's always been one of my favorites to use).

 

[FinalArcadia]

L.A. Noire (PS3)
On to the Vice Desk! Roy's a jerk, but man is he probably the most amusing partner in the game (my fave is Biggs though, so I've still got a little ways to see him), so I'm looking forward to seeing the cases again. Going into this one, I've got 35% trophy completion, and actually at least 60/95 vehicles, which is far better than I expected without actively seeking them out. Might not be too bad getting the rest post-game, actually.

 

[Stratelier]

Monster Hunter World: Moved on a bit, most recent storyline takedown was Tobi-Kadachi. I also performed another session of sequence breaking in that shortly after arriving in the Wildspire Wastes, I decided to go kill some Rathians, and now I have a full set of Rathian armour. My newest project is Rathalos armour. I’ve got a couple pieces, and at this point, filling it out is mostly just landing a few more kills, though I do need to get a tail and a plate, which are a bit less guaranteed. Rathalos is a much harder kill than Rathian, since it can still poison me even once I’ve taken off the tail, and it spends a lot more time in the air. I’m considering switching to an insect glaive instead of a switch axe to land more hits thanks to the airtime it can give me, but it’ll also make tail chopping harder, so neither situation is exactly ideal.

Rathalos's poison comes from the talons, not the tail. And yes, Rathalos has always stayed in the air more than Rathian -- bring an insect glaive if you want to go air-to-air, or load up your Slinger with Flash Pods.

Anyway, in my case we beat MH4U again. That is to say, defeated Gogmazios at the end of G-rank. Joined up with a random longsword hunter and we brought him down in about 30 minutes (much better than the nearly-50 minutes going solo my first time around) and right in time to level up to HR200 (not that any HR above 100 matters in MH4U). However, I absolutely need to get his rare drop (a Wartorn Dragonsphire) because I need it for crafting his insect glaive (any other weapon I can already craft, but the glaive requires his rare).

Then, on a completely different note, I finished Celeste recently. It really does live up to the hype. It advertises the narrative and the main character's "inner demons" openly on the front, but I went into it trying to ignore all the allegorical hype (seriously, my first impression of it was on an old Nintendo Direct which said almost nothing about the topic) and had a great time. Definitely made a point to only play one new chapter at a time, so that I could reflect on each one as I go and not feel like I was rushing through.

 

[Fatima Shadow Frost Witch]

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Just did the fight against the first Death
Knight(Lysithea took care of him in a OHKO)

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

Monster Hunter World: Killed enough Diablos to make a full set of the armour, but because it so inconsiderately refused to be there all the time for me to kill/capture, I had to buy time by doing the Zorah Magdaros siege and a couple of things in the Coral Highlands. I haven’t done any of the actual assigned quests there, but I’ve explored a bit and killed a few Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, as well as making friends with the local kitties, as is first priority. I’m also trying to capture one of every monster to unlock their arena quests as well. I don’t really need to do it, but I want to. It is really hard to capture the weaker monsters though. Kulu-Ya-Ku in particular. I’d either go too hard and accidentally kill it before I tried to capture it, or not go hard enough and it wouldn’t pass out when I tried to tranq it.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Correction, the Africa part of Metal Gear Solid V does not take place in South Africa, there are just a lot of South Africans there for one reason or another.

Spoiler

So I did some missions, including the one with the male Skulls, which gave me a good shock since it was my first time seeing the Skulls in Africa; and the mission where you rescue the child soldiers, which I’ve heard horror stories about, but somehow the kids got out unscathed and I got an S-tank on the mission! I guess doing the mission with no kills and no retries goes a long way, and Quiet saved my ass multiple times once I had the kids following me.

I also maxed out my Bond with Quiet and got stinky. If you know, you know. I also also painted her gold because I can’t believe something that stupid is in this game.

 

[Lone_Garurumon]

Monster Hunter World: Captured one of every monster so far, and explored the full Coral Highlands. Also killed/captured a Legiana a few times. Probably only need to make one or two more kills for that last frost sac to finish up the armour. Yes, strictly in terms of defence and skills Legiana armour is worse than Rathalos and Diablos armours, but it gives good ice resistance so I figure it'd be worth it to have on hand.

 

[Stratelier]

So a few days ago I set up an online room int MH4U and took down Gogmazios with one random hunter -- 30 minutes instead of needing the full 50. I've unlocked G-special quests, and did enough grinds to unlock the first "Aged Text" which is a Molten Tigrex (but G-rank!) -- and while I've been able to do the subquest fairly easy, boy does he hit a lot harder than the highrank versions. In the meantime, the first Battlequarters elder dragon quest has arrived (urgent quest: Teostra) and there's no doubt he's going to be a bit meaner than his ordinary G3 quest version.

 

[Tactician Karina]

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (DS) replay. Finished all the prologue chapters and finally got Marth, will be completing ch.1 and will be gaining a few other units as well (though I'm mostly happy to be getting Arran out of the four units gained tbh). I'll certainly try and play more tomorrow as well, but Three Houses is currently getting most of my attention again.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Black Eagles run and Blue Lions replay. Well, I'm mostly doing the BL route again but maybe a little later I'll get further along in BE, especially since I'm at the mission where we need to find Flayn. But for my second BL run I've decided to go with Dimitri as a dancer, his charm stat is pretty damn high so I don't have to worry about losing The White Heron Cup with him when I get to it. Anyway I recruited Ferdinand and Linhardt (of course) into the BL again, will be getting Petra pretty soon then I'll be done with recruiting, I opted not to use New Game+ for it though and I'm not bothering to recruit every single character this second BL run as well. Exception being the Black Eagles and later the Church run though, of course.

 

[MegaPod]

I played a little Mario Kart Wii with my younger brothers for the first time in a long while. I got to use Dry Bowser on my oldest younger brother's account in which he unlocked a bunch of stuff. I chose the Offroader partially for nostalgia reasons and only ended up getting 2nd place overall, but it was a real fun time!

 

[TeaWest]

Other than Pokemon Y, I've been playing Shenmue II

 

[Fatima Shadow Frost Witch]

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Went with Black Eagles(Bailed on Edelgard's route invite)just to recruit Hilda and later Ashe

 

[Cap'n Jack]

It’s Spooktober, which means it’s time for me to play some spooky games. I just got to the first time you see the Alien in Alien: Isolation and snuck past some Working Joes. Loving the game’s atmosphere so far cuz it’s definitely made for fans of the first Alien movie rather than Aliens, which is me.

 

[FinalArcadia]

L.A. Noire (PS3)
Only a few cases left to go! I've just got to finish up the shoot-out in "A Polite Invitation," then do two more cases total. If I finish them all today, I'll go back to the two cases I botched up getting 5-stars on early on (curse you, vehicle damage... but now that I got the trophy for driving 194.7 miles, I can just let the partner auto drive me safely). Then... the arduous task of getting those Golden Reels and remaining vehicles in Free Roam. And the last few street crimes I'm missing, but those are no issue.

 

[Lylian]

Gardening Mama. I'm currently growing some roses.

 

[Fatima Shadow Frost Witch]

Fire Emblem Three Houses

Slowly growing tired of playing it so much but going to anyway to hit 100% on it which means

All Goddess Tower events(both Byleths)
All Supports events(both Byleths)
All Skills for every character(all 3 Houses at S+)

 

[prog rocker]

I have been playing Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7, Mario Kart 8 and Xenoblade Chronicles.