What's everyone currently playing?

I completed Portrait of Ruin. Awesome game of course. Last saturday I started playing Order of Ecclesia for my second time. I haven't played it since 2009. Damn is it ever hard compared to Portrait of Ruin.

Tonight I completed Doom 64 EX. Fantastic game, solid shooter with amazing horror atmosphere. I haven't really scratched that itch for classic FPSs though, so I realized that I've been on E3M3 of Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders for a while. Time to finish that one.The idea to apply the Doom mechanics and engine to a fantasy world was really awesome, kudos to whoever had it first. Everything is really cool, and the game is tough as nails.

I have been playing Custom Battler Bomberman (Also known as Bomberman 2, but that title just creates confusion anyway, due to the actual Bomberman 2 and other Bomberman games with 2 in the title) on the Nintendo DS.

It's very interesting.
Unlike most Bomberman games, you get items to equip, you level up (which means you can use better equipment, since there's a limit to what equips you can you use depending on your level).
These items upgrade your stats differently, and are each useful on different situations.
Some may give you new abilities if you equip them, or if you equip them along with some other equipment.
You can go back on stages as much as you want, and sometimes you need to if you want some equipment that you couldn't get previously because you lacked an ability that could grant you access to said equip.

It's a fun game, although there's no much to it, I honestly believe it could be incremented.

The idea is simple, and I would love to see Konami exploring these alternative Bomberman games since they're bringing the series back.
Bomberman has always worked very nicely with experimentational gameplay changes, due to the basics going down to the gameplay and character mechanics itself. In a way not unlike Kirby.
On a side note, it's still so weird for me to get used to the fact that Konami owns Bomberman now, especially since they never did anything with it until Super Bomberman R.

I've been Playing Fate/Grand Order now available in North America.

I don't know how to feel with Hercules (Beserker) and Carmilla (assassin) as my top servants.

I've only got Episode 5 of Heretic to complete.

I've been continuing The Evil Within. The game is really hard and sometimes frustrating, but its aesthetic is really good. Sort of medium ground between Resident Evil and Silent Hill. I have to do Chapter 11 ATM.

Courtesy of Steam sales, I am also playing Darkest Dungeon and Hollow Knight. The latter is sucking up most of my spare time, it's honestly that good. One of the best metroidvanias I've ever played (I played a lot!). Darkest Dungeon is a bit complex and stressing, it's awesome but I have to be calm to play it. Right now I have to face a difficult exam so I tend to play only relaxing games, this is also why I've been mostrly playing Hollow Knight and not the other games in this few days.

I have been playing the upcoming old school FPS Dusk. You can play episode 1 (of 3) if you preorder the game, which should be out on October 31st. Absolutely fantastic FPS, it's incredibly solid and atmospheric with perfect mobility and gunplay. It's like the 90s never stopped and devs from that era acquired additional mysterious tools to make even more amazing games. Can't wait for the full experience.

I am also playing Wolfenstein The Old Blood, it looks like an extremely solid expansion in these two chapters that I played.

Three games I've been dividing my time with lately:

Zelda: Breath of the Wild - I haven't finished it yet. I've got all divine beasts conquered, and at 98 shrines unlocked. But I haven't fought Calamity Ganon yet. I've been taking my time with this title and am enjoying the world exploration for more shrines and korok seeds. Eventually I'd like to go through the ending and then work on the DLC.

Tekken 7 - I've been playing fighting games for a long time now, since the early arcade days. I wasn't really a Tekken fan before, but with the failure of Street Fighter 5's gameplay and lack of features, I decided to try out Tekken 7. I was pleasantly surprised how fun the game is, and the overall polish and completeness of it is. I just got to Grand Master ranked online, which took a while for me.

Final Fantasy 7 - Yup, on my old PS1. I play this game through about once every few years, and about 3 months ago my co-workers and I were having a conversation about the game and I decided to play it again. I think the game still holds up. Even the characters; I do think there is a charm to that low-polygon segmented character art. The music is still great, and the storyline is still interesting. Materia is also a great system for abilities and magic. I'm looking forward to the remastered version.

Because I suppose you could label me as one of those "patient" gamers, I just finished Yakuza 4. Before that I beat Doom 1, 2(which took forever), Quake 1(which also took forever), and I guess Batman the Telltale series season 1.

I still have nightmares and day dreams of dodging those ogre grenades in Quake 1.   Ugh...what a ride that game was.  I don't think I'll play a better old school shooter like that.  Too bad it glitched on me to where it made me lose all of the items.  So I couldn't fight the final boss, but I learned that the final boss involved pushing two blocks and walking through a portal.  I think I'm good.  Also yes, I did try the command console and looking up a fix.  Nothing.  I didn't feel like starting over either, I wanted to move on to Quake 2 which is what I'm currently playing.  It took me a while to answer that question, huh?  

So yeah, Quake 2 right now and the original Paper Mario.  I'm on chapter 3 in PM and the torture prison in Quake 2.

I might start Yakuza 5 later, I think I need a slight break.  It's exciting to finally play that series with the new engine.  It won't be full potential until the PS4 games Zero and Kiwami, but I'll take what I can get until we can get some enhanced ports.

My shooter summer is going to extend into winter as well.  My list got too ambitious and I had to cut a few titles like Blood and Shadow Warrior.  Those will be for next year.  Turok/Turok 2, Sin, Unreal, and Half-Life will be finished by the end of this year.  That's a promise.  If I break this promise, I'll change my name to "Punished Kiryu" and put a really terrible picture as my avatar.  I'll even throw in a self-deprecating signature if someone would help me make one.

My marathon might be impossible for me as far as keeping my attention fully for all the games I had planned, but I can still get the ones I mentioned done. I beat Quake 2 just now. Next up is Sin. The idea for this FPS marathon was to go by the year it was made. That way, I can see how the genre has evolved, get better at it, see if I really prefer old school to new school, and to scratch that itch. I won't bother with expansion packs, I'm going through the regular games. Sin Gold should be a tough one though.

EDIT Sin Thoughts:



Enough history.  The next game is Turok.  I'm going with the remastered version on steam.  After that is Unreal, then Turok 2, and then Half-Life.  If I beat all of these before holiday, I'll squeeze in Return to Castle Wolfenstein as well.


EDIT 2 Turok thoughts: 

Next up is Unreal.