What games have you been playing lately?

Tony EH

Links234 wrote: »

Gave Tharsis a playthrough, resorted to cannibalism, then my ship blew up. Brilliant!

Is that game any use Links?

I was interested in getting it, but the reviews made it out to be a ridiculously punishing game. Seems like there's little the player can do to stop the game form screwing you over.

Links234

Ain't given it too much time yet, and it's definitely a bit of a punishing RNG hell, but I really like it so far, and I got a copy for my girlfriend as well, and she has already beaten it on easy after a few hours. Honestly, I see why there's mixed reviews and what people don't like about it, but that's just the type of game it is and totally wouldn't be for everyone. I can't say it's not punishing, because it is, but I kinda love games like Darkest Dungeon and FTL that are super punishing so again it's kinda horses for courses.

Tony EH

RNG.



Random is good for a game in a lot of circumstances. But too or totally random is a terrible way to make game difficulty. The player ends up relying in mere luck rather than logic. Not saying that 'Tharsis' does that, but some games definitely do.

TheWarChicken

Decided to give wargame red dragon single player another go. Much better once I looked into a few guides first. Turns out the China versus USSR campaign is nearly impossible due to the USSR getting modern attack helicopters and prototype bombers, against my rusted out ww2 era rubbish. Having better luck working for Thatcher to defend Hong Kong and probably end up invading half of China "by accident"

Doge

Ive gone back to playing a Combat Flight Simulator called Super EF2000 which came bundled with my first Windows 95 PC!
Playing it using the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS mapped with JoyToKey on a 50" plasma TV.

It just has a certain charm to it modern sims like DCS can't match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX6s-1S89Kg

This sim was way ahead of its time, it came with keyboard layouts printed on glossy posters, and the manual for the thing is inanse.

The graphics were amazing for the time - you can see the full cockpit in all its detail from outside the plane, a rarity in those days even in car games, they just had opaque windows.
And the scale of the open world is huge too, loading times were quick.

It may look low on the polygon count these days but the detail blew me away back then.

The funny thing is it was released before the Eurofighter Typhoon even went into service.

Its a really diverse sim and even has a generated Campagin mode.

Destiiny

Elder Scrolls Online, add me @estwist
ARMA 3 Battle Royale - Great fun
DayZ - Hit me up if you wanna play.
No Man's Sky - How the **** do I play.
Skyrim - Great and diverse
Need for Speed, Origin Access game. Great graphics.
Battlefield 4 , evanos38 - hit me up if you wanna play.

pablomakaveli

Been playing TW Warhammer a lot over the last couple of weeks as I've had 2 weeks off. Just finished the Dwarf campaign. Probably the most fun I've had with a TW game since Medieval 2. Cant wait till the whole thing is complete with all the factions and the rest of the map.

Robert ninja

Still Doom. Waiting on my GPU. When I get it I'll be able to enjoy the mods at 120fps again. Project Brutality has lots of frame drops.

blockfighter

Returned to pc gaming for the first time in about ten years last month. Slowly getting back into it. Loving all the cheap deals online. Been playing Mafia II alot lately and really enjoying it. Playing my first football manager game too since Championship Manager 2003. I still suck at managing. Something's will never change

madcabbage

Mainly Battle Royale on ARMA 3 for me, bit of Overwatch. Finally got around to finishing Life is Strange this week, had been sitting there for some time. Really enjoyed it must say.

Links234

Finished Gunpoint, was fantastic. Also played a bit of Planetbase last night, my first attempt ended when the O2 generator ran out of power and my colonists suffocated to death. Fun stuff.

Encrypted Pigeon

Bouncing between games lately, never committing to finishing anything, but back playing Darksouls again because i need that constant reminder of failure. Also trying Dreamfall chapters - Was hoping for something different from this but its becoming a chore now just to get through it. Maybe if i played the previous game i might be more invested in the story but I'm not doing that.

Also dabbling in NMS, not sure how much more I can do with that though.

ionapaul

I've started Mad Max - 2 hours in, enjoying it so far but still at the 'getting my head around the controls' stage, using an Xbox controller and of course buttons do different things depending on if you're in or out of the car.

I stopped playing Endless Legend. I really, really wanted and expected to love it, but just couldn't get my head around it. Doesn't seem as military focused as Civ V and that's quite off-putting to me, I like building up 30-unit armies and steamrolling my erstwhile allies, EL doesn't seem to facilitate this.

Internet Friend

Skyrim and I intend to actually finish it this time...

ShiverinEskimo

Decided to replay the entire Mass Effect trilogy back to back. Tried to go back to it before and for some reason couldn't go back to ME1 - must have been too soon after playing ME3 maybe. For whatever reason I found it enjoyable to go back this time and I stuck at it. The Mako missions in ME1 are still an absolute chore but I persevered.

Played as an Infiltrator the whole way through originally so I went with Biotics and played as an Adept this time. It was like a different game. The fun I had flinging enemies around and setting up big detonations was brilliant. I really missed out on my original playthrough in that regard. I also played as a renegade this time instead of a paragon. More fun again but led me to having to

shoot Mordin Solus in the back.

The ending wasn't quite as annoying as the first time either but you'll never replicate that first time feeling so that's understandable.

All in all, 90 entertaining hours of my life for €6. Can't complain really.

Completed Starcraft 2: Heart of the swarm last week.
Another excellent single player campaign from Blizzard.
Love the variation in the mission structure although I admit Wings of Liberty is slightly better in that regards.
Halfway though Legacy of the Void now and enjoying it thoroughly also.

wandatowell

Took Spec Ops for a spin last week. Thought it was a very good. Great great value for money.

I've limbo in my library for a few years now so that next up or maybe Portal....

Tony EH

Tried and failed to get into the following games.

'Amnesia'

'Batman - Arkham Origins'

Not sure why.

J_E

N++. It's pretty much a perfect sequel, so smooth and beautiful with the new aesthetic. Love the soundtrack. The only slight shame is online multiplayer but I never used it in N+ so I don't mind really! Over 2000 levels, wow...

teatreeshamble

raibow six siege.. bit repetitive & restricted settings. very modern warfare

IvoryTower

teatreeshamble wrote: »

raibow six siege.. bit repetitive & restricted settings. very modern warfare

Loved this game, didn't find it repetive at all. You have to be in a squad though to get proper feel for it

raze_them_all_

IvoryTower wrote: »

Loved this game, didn't find it repetive at all. You have to be in a squad though to get proper feel for it

this, if you aint in with at least 2 others on mics its pointless

Voide

wolfinstien the new order is so worth the 20 euro i paid for it

Sephiroth_dude

Witcher 3

Robert ninja

^ Same I've been loving it with my stronger GPU.

Also been playing and streaming Bioshock. I must have completed this game 4 times or more on my old family computer back when it was new and thanks to the steamgifts thread I won it and am going through it again. Still a brill game from start to finish! I installed the physics FPS fix this time though so no more 30fps ragdolled bodies.

Also a bit of Killer Is Dead, Doom (1995), Warframe and Dragon's Dogma here and there.

Maguined

I have also jumped on Witcher 3 band wagon. I purposefully avoided it at the time as I knew I was too busy with other games and then I recently decided it had been a while since I played an engrossing single player RPG so I bought it and I have enjoyed it even more than I thought I would. I loved both previous Witcher games and this is a solid improvement over the previous games. I love the gitty and dark setting with adult morality in the game compared to most bland RPGS that have a childish good guys and bad guys theme.

Shlippery

Upgraded to RX 480 so now going back about 2 years to visit all the games I wasn't able to play on my old HD 6870 card, starting with AC Unity as it was going cheap, and apparently fixed from its disastrous release ages ago...I do have some sort of guilty pleasure for the Assassin's Creed games and enjoying the new one so far...map is outrageously big.

Have The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, MGSV, Rise of Tomb Raider and a lot more to tackle yet...just in time for the autumn/winter season!

Shiminay

I've been mostly playing Defiance (solo and with a friend - really enjoyable game) and yesterday I threw myself back into Rebel Galaxy which I finished the main story of after an I don't know how many months rest. Managed to get the 17million credits necessary to buy what I believe is the biggest ship in the game - the Blackgate - it's hilarious how quickly things melt under a broadside of 20 beams and supporting mining and viridian lasers

pcuser

Shlippery wrote: »

Upgraded to RX 480 D

How are you finding the 480?

Encrypted Pigeon

Have taken a break from DS1 and moved to Dark Souls 3. The whole try, fail, repeat pattern offers a certain attraction to me, it is fun though that one time I don't fail.