What games have you been playing lately?

Dardania

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Getting through Black Mesa (Steam Version)

Really did make some excellent changes when compared to the mod release i played through 2 years ago.

Playing that myself at the moment - it's like back to my childhood, with better graphics! Also handy to learn how to use the steam controller...

madcabbage

Stuck into Fallout 4 again, nice to find quests and other random events I didn't encounter first time around.

madcabbage

madcabbage wrote: »

Stuck into Fallout 4 again, nice to find quests and other random events I didn't encounter first time around.

Would you recommend any essential mods? I've just started it

degrassinoel

if you're going for achievements dont use any mods. I'd actually play it through without any first anyway but that's probably just me

Have a look through the mods list ingame and see what you reckon yourself - most of them (or possibly all) will disable achievements. There are some really nifty graphic mods. Some of the settlement ones are good too if you're into minecraft-like building

Zillah

In retrospect I wish I had cheated my ass off and given myself limitless crafting resources because the manic gathering of stuff is the worst thing in the game. You'll cut down on your game hours but those would be by far the worst hours.

Cheers. I have zero interest in achievements. I'll definitely be giving myself unlimited carry weight anyway. I doubt I'll do any crafting either. I'll check out the in-game list. I'm mostly looking for stuff that reinforces immersion or streamlines repetitive gameplay elements.

Robert ninja

Oh no don't make me go off on a rant about how carry weight is actually really important for gameplay and immersion. In short: If you have no reason to offload(trade/build) any resources you become a walking town and every settlement (including really nice home/bunker/settlement mods) are rendered uninteresting offering no respite or resources - breaking immersion.

Infinite weight seems to be a really popular mod for gamers to install in a lot of titles and for some I could understand it but it's really not for everything and definitely not for Fallout (although New Vegas is the only one I like).

As for me I personally love to mod Fallout New Vegas in a way where the survival elements are immersive as possible, stopping off at each town and selling some stuff, buying some clean water, food and bed to keep those survival mode bonuses up or maybe even get rid of hunger/thirst/tired debuffs if I was on the trek for a while. I also mod the survival bar timings. I don't like to become hunger debuffed 20 minutes on the road. More like an IRL hour or 40m before I lose the well-fed bonus. No fast travel is mandatory since it encourages exploration and playstyle that compliments the survival aspects but that's just a decision, no need to mod-lock it. There's also some mods to bring sleeping bags and set up camp fires along the way since there is unsurprisingly a lot of wasteland and just empty structures.

Damn, now I need to re-install F:NV and F:3 (Tale of Two Wasteland mods). Happens every time I end up talking about modding

Kiith

I think carry weight should be left on the first time you play through a game, but after that it's worth getting rid of it. I know i'll definitely do it for Fallout 4 (if i ever bother playing it again, which i doubt) and Witcher 3.

Retr0gamer

Playing a bit of Terraria with a friend and some Trails in the Sky when I have time.

Also been playing a bit of Dead Rising. It's a fantastic port although I found one really bad bug, some photos you take in the opening flyover can cause your save game to corrupt when you go to save your game. Just delete those photos and it works fine. Very strange. I've been playing the game like a rogue like, playing until I die and starting over. You keep your levels and abilities when starting over.

Not really been playing a whole lot of games at the moment and more concentrating on making my own game. Currently on the 'made a **** up in my collision code which requires an extensive re-write' stage

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Trails in the sky.....the sequel is a rip off though at 27 euro :O.

Considering some one nearly died and most of the localisation team nearly went crazy to bring us the game I was happy to pay full price

Robert ninja

Kiith wrote: »

I think carry weight should be left on the first time you play through a game, but after that it's worth getting rid of it. I know i'll definitely do it for Fallout 4 (if i ever bother playing it again, which i doubt) and Witcher 3.

If you're playing vanilla, perhaps. But if I'm replaying something like F:NV and modding it to hell I'd definitely leave it on. Plenty of mods to adjust weight behaviour and 'backpacks' to increase carrying weight by a lot to the point that if you're carrying anything more than even those can handle then you've probably got the ole hoarding items problem that people have in games.

For Witcher 3 I could maybe understand although i've got that modded and still leave weight on. I sell often to make some coin and I don't like feeling like Geralt should have tons of stuff on his person considering he's supposed to be dodging around monsters all day. It feels better to be travelling light than it does to have infinite amount of junk in my inventory.

I recently modded out weapon deterioration in TW3, though. Not that I'm against weapon damage but I felt they broke too fast and made defeating some enemies bullet sponges.

I don't hoard items. I just have zero interest in worrying item management. Once those faithful words "You are over encumbered" run across the top of the screen, I used to either fast travel back somewhere to sell stuff or drop a load of stuff on the spot; I enjoy neither of these tasks so I'll happily do without them entirely. I don't care for crafting either. That survival mod sounds like a chore. I'm not after realism. We simply enjoy different aspects of these games.

When I mean reinforcing immersion, I mean like a Witcher 3 mod which removes the waypoint from the minimap and puts directions of the screen itself so your actually taking in the environment rather than being glued to a radar. Or the auto loot mod that streamlines repetitively checking boxes while furiously tapping A.

degrassinoel

did a full ME3 characters campaign in XCOM2 over the last week, on veteran ironman - harsh, as i lost my super specialist Tali, and super sniper Garrus on the same mission.. but yeah, great fun was had and the ME mods along with some of my own voicepacks for said mods work perfectly

if anyone's interested - ye can get them all here

aside from that, i gave Fallout4 another whirl last night and ended up cheating, got bored and quit xD

So this is what i've been doing since then..

madcabbage

Deleted User wrote: »

Would you recommend any essential mods? I've just started it

Theres the unofficial patch for all bugs in the game. Defo worth adding. After that, its whatever suits your needs. For me, it's adding more radio stations and weightless junk. Don't really to be taking the fun out of the game with too many mods.

SeantheMan

Finally got around to starting the Witcher 2 yesterday....played the first 30 mins with K/M.
Then restarted it with a Xbox Controller.

Enjoying it so far, except the equiment/item menus are just all over the place.

I also started Transformers...the cartoony fast paced one that came out a year back, and on PS3 Shadow of the Colossus.(nice looking game...but....I felt awful killing the first one...I dunno if I can go through the whole game feeling like I'm beating a child against my will)

Started Fallout 4. I just can't get into it. Its an FPS

Links234

Playing Seraph, good two hours into it, and seriously enjoying it.

Glebee

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Started Fallout 4. I just can't get into it. Its an FPS

It it much different than the others???

Kiith

It's very similar, with some base building mechanics, and a terrible dialogue system.

Glebee

Glebee wrote: »

It it much different than the others???

It's vastly different to my favourite of the series, Fallout 2.

I've only played 3 hours but I just feel disgusted with the direction the series has taken. If I could get over this mental block, maybe I could enjoy but I have zero patience for it at the moment and it riles me up that I paid 60 euro for this.

Fallout is a tactical turn-based game in my mind first and foremost (perhaps I should just get over this), FO4's is a straight-up ****ty FPS game. The VATS system might as well be thrown out entirely, its useless. The combat is so drab. Usual ****e of point and click till baddy dies. I can't really play single-player FPS games any more. The dialogue options have been completely neutered with your choice seemingly having very little impact on the outcome of the conversation. In FO2, you felt like you could do anything. This is giving me the illusion of that, like those Telltale games. I had to change to FOV but now that messes with the inventory. Its tiny. Managing items is a pain on it.

All this stems from my lack of patience. I'm barely willing to give it a shot. Maybe if I gave it some time and got into the story, it could be good, but it didn't even get all that good reviews. I thought Fallout 3 was good yet overrated and this seems like a 2nd rate version of that. Maybe I should just uninstall and forget it ever existed.

grumble grumble

degrassinoel

it's really not an RPG at all, the "choices" you make don't matter. At all.

Shame too, because it had a potentially great RPG plot. It's still a really decent game but it's more akin to fallout-like shooter than it is to one of the greatest RPG's ever made.

ShiverinEskimo

Loved 3 and NV. Played 4 for about 50 odd hours and was almost entirely bored throughout bar one or two very clever and comically-grim side missions. I packed it in when I had levelled up enough to even make the combat boring.

Retr0gamer

Fallout 4 is closer to Farcry 3/4 than a Fallout game, except not as fun and a crappy plot. reviewers really got caught up on the hype with that one, it will be one of those games people look back and and think 'yeah, it wasn't all that great'. File beside Bioshock Infinite.

Links234

I think a few people here will enjoy this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ1gyIzg78

Actually, the first few minutes are a bit insufferable, but... bear with it, it's actually a seriously good indepth look at the issues going from Fallout 1 & 2, to 3, and why. But yeah, it's insufferable at first, just suffer through it because as far as long form video essays about games go, this is brilliant.

Retr0gamer

Fallout 3 is badly written and no where near the game Fallout 1 and 2 were but it's still a great game. I'll have a look at that video later.

pablomakaveli

Fallout 4s problem was that it was hyped to the moon and back. Todd Howard doesnt help in that department either. I've enjoyed Fallout 4 because I reset my expectations and I think you need to do so before playing it. I've put about 170 hours into it and enjoyed myself because of that. I know the New Orleans rumours are just the fanbase getting over excited and reading too much into nothing, but I'd love to see Obsidian get another crack. The way they were treated by Bethesda last time though no one could blame them for never wanting to do so again.

wotzgoingon

pablomakaveli wrote: »

but I'd love to see Obsidian get another crack. The way they were treated by Bethesda last time though no one could blame them for never wanting to do so again.

I'd love to see a game made by them also.

Why what way were they treated?

pablomakaveli

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'd love to see a game made by them also.

Why what way were they treated?

They were under pretty tight deadlines. They wanted to do a lot more but were pushed to complete it in about a year or so. A bit unfair as the Obsidian guys were working with Bethesdas engine which would have been new to them.

Also there was a clause that they would get extra money if the game got a metacritic score of above 75. They got 74 and Bethesda said no. Fair enough they technically didnt meet the criteria, but given how well the game did and its great reputation it seems unduly harsh by Bethesda to hold to that exact criteria.

wandatowell

Giving the Metro Redux games another go. Tried them on the PS4 and they just didn't sit well with me.

pcuser

I started playing Rome Total War again. It was the 1st game I played on PC if you dont count an amstrad cpc 464. Even after all these years its still a great game.

Links234

I've gotten extremely fed up with Overwatch, played a bit tonight, and I've just because extremely frustrated with it. I think I'll be happy ditching it for a while.