What are you all playing?

Are you also going for the other Mega Man series after that, like X/Zero/ZX? I had a blast seven years ago playing through the entirety of the X and Zero series.

I'm close to finish ZX right now, and will begin ZX Advent right after it (although I may want to replay ZX on hard mode and with the other character first).

I played through Renegade Ops yesterday. It's an arcade twin-stick shooter with cars. It's not very good, as it's too repetitive and most levels are linear corridors, which doesn't go well with the driving controls (the game controls would benefit from more open spaces, like in the first level). It has a coop mode which I haven't tried, maybe it makes the game more fun.

Since I've just finished Ninja Gaiden 2 on mentor, I've decided to go on with NG 3: Razor's Edge on Hard, which is quite easy compared to the previous games. Razor's Edge fixes some of the problems I had with 2 while introducing completely different issues: on the good side, the performance is great and there's no noticeable slowdown; most enemies are focused on melee combat and ranged enemies usually die in one hit so they aren't distracting; there's less of a focus on Ultimate Techniques, which were the bulk of the combat NG2; now there's a way to counter those cheap grab attacks that were unblockable in NG 1 & 2. So I prefer the style of combat seen here. On the other hand, the story is absolutely atrocious and, at the same time, there's too much of it; the levels are just terribly designed, being entirely comprised of these narrow corridors which just aren't good for the high-mobility kind of combat of the NG series; there are no items/shops, so the game lost an important item management aspect that was a key to survive in the previous games (although NG DS also didn't have it); the QTEs are annoying at best; some sections put an emphasis on using the bow, but, at the same time, the obligatory auto-aim is not good (just look at the helicopter boss in day 3: the helicopter was right in my front, but as soon as I tried to shoot, the aim automatically focused on one of the annoying enemies that weren't even in the general direction I was looking at). Also, every legacy boss in the Test of Valor rooms is broken, not a single one of them works as they did in previous games.

Sure is! Thanks man. It's so great to have a gaming PC again.

Been playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption lately. It's pretty good. Trying hard to 100% it.

Cervantes it's a time sink. This year I wanted to play through a lot of my backlog, but if it's going to take this long to go through one game, I'm lucky to go through one game a month.

So one friend then, Cervantes?

I think we can all agree that Dan E. Kool made a very compelling argument right there.

Whereas Balder only says things that NO ONE wants to hear.