What games have you been playing lately?

Taylor365

This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »

I'm alternating between Skyrim and Cities: Skylines.

I did try to play the Witcher but I was just not getting into it. I probably didn't do myself any favours by watching a Witcher 3 playthrough online. The graphics and gameplay are different so I kept getting frustrated with the Witcher because I was too used to what I saw of the Witcher 3. I'd like to play the games in order though so I'm sure I'll give it another go at some stage.

They say avoid the first one as it's nearly unplayable compared to the other 2.

AFAIK Witcher 2 isn't as bad. (Got it free on GOG but had already finished Wither 3 so haven't played it.)

Robert ninja

1st Witcher is great. Definitely wouldn't say avoid it. It's better than 2 which never allows you to prepare for some of the main fights.

Gbear

I took a few runs at Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 before I got into either of them.

They improved 2 with the official combat rebalance but you need to get accostomed to both games' foibles.

As an RPG I think the Witcher 1 is actually excellent. I think it'd be worth turning down the difficulty and just powering through it for the sake of the story.
Once you get to Vizima it improves a lot. It has a poor first act.

It's rough around the edges but still has plenty to recommend it.

Having replayed 2 recently I've come right around to it (with the balance patch). It's, IMO, an absolute masterpiece. In some ways it's just as good as W3, albeit with a narrower scope.

And it's still absolutely gorgeous. In some respects the world seems more alive and more vibrant than 3, which goes for a grittier, greyer palette.

ShiverinEskimo

Recently finished the Witcher 1 after the 6th time of asking - various reasons for never finishing it in the past including corrupt saves etc.

Started number two recently and got to the village but then we had a baby in real life.

Digital Solitude

I preferred TW2 to 3. Haven't played the first one but I must get around to it. Is the swamp not act 2?

Robert ninja

I think the swamp is in act 2 if my memory serves me.

Conchir

Recently started playing The Long Dark again on Steam. I bought it when alpha was released about 3 years ago but hadn't touched it since. From what I can remember of it, it's come along nicely. I don't have any long term goals for it at the moment, just enjoying trying to survive. Furthest I've gotten so far is 3 days, I might give it a proper go and attempt a long one.

Gbear

Digital Solitude wrote: »

I preferred TW2 to 3. Haven't played the first one but I must get around to it. Is the swamp not act 2?

Actually **** it yeah, the swamps not great either.

You end up having to do a bit of planning to try and do all the quests in the swamp in one go.

Still, it's fairly good.

You won't miss much, truth be told, if you want to dive into W2.
The imported saves make little enough difference. You can carry over the top end armour from the witcher as well as 2 swords although it might be more fun to not do that and have to craft your own.
Definitely play W2 though.

awec

Witcher 3 is really good but IMO the first two parts of the game are the worst and it takes a while to get into. I thought the game got a lot better after the Bloody Baron quest line.

Ozymandius2011

TW Atilla is my favourite console game.

wotzgoingon

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

Crazy Taxi on XBox360 is my favourite console game.

This is a PC gaming thread.

Ozymandius2011

wotzgoingon wrote: »

This is a PC gaming thread.

In that case Ive edited.

I would have expect TW to be horrible to play on consoles. Controlling the map, selecting units, etc, sounds tortuous without a mouse. Why would you do that to yourself?!

K.O.Kiki

I love Rez Infinite
(that's me in 7th for Area 5)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1110949823

Syphonax

Glebee wrote: »

Stared Dishonoured 2 - Could not get into it.
Started Fallout 4 - Could not get into it.
Went back to start Dying Light: The Following- What a game, brilliant.

Fallout is boss, still not as good as it will be hopefully when 5 comes out but ive literlly suck thousands of hours into it by now. Agree with Dishonoured 2 though very poor and repetitive after playing the first to death there is little or nothing new.

Sciprio

Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars is a great time sink.

eyerer

I'm more or less finished with Dirt 4, I got a bit annoyed with the difficulty curve, featuring constant wet/snow/fog/night races and I think the opponents got better too. All on the same difficulty in the menu.
I might go back to dirt rally for the comparison and then on to dirt 4 randomly generated stages.

For now I've moved on to Arkham Knight, it's taken me a while getting used to how slow batman walks in comparison to how quickly you can move in Just Cause 3. Getting into it anyway, 3 hours played this evening. I think the graphics are great. Kinda wish the ports of the older games to UE4 had made it to PC.

Motorsport Manager & Overwatch non-stop atm.

Sephiroth_dude

Sudden strike 4

ShadowHearth

Not proud of this, but one evening after browsing reddit I got nostalgic... it was a runescape thing.
So here is me, 31 and subbed to runescape for the last month. Got my old 14+ years old account going.

Sad thing is I am really enjoying it. It still has a good sense of rpg and progression. It wow you get level cap and you are done, its all about gear. In RS skill level cap is very high, which is very rewarding when you achieve milestone. Yes its grindy game, but I like it.

So there you go, you cam start laughing at me.

Baggly

Sephiroth_dude wrote:

Sudden strike 4

How do you find it?

Sephiroth_dude

Pter wrote: »

How do you find it?

I like it, makes you want too use tactics and try and flank too get around the enemy sides, some pathfinding issues and weird voice over accents but other than that I'm enjoying it, first rts I've enjoyed since Coh.

Glebee

Signed up to Origin Access since Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 popped up on it and playing Unravel. Nearly finished and really enjoying. Im a sucker for these kind of beautiful, puzzle type games...

Gehad_JoyRider

Playing war frame a lot more these days. I used to play it but I could never get into it or understand it. I play it every day now I love it. once it clicks.

eyerer

28 hours and finished Batman: Arkham Knight more or less. I'm googling to see how

many most wanted cases I have to do to get knightfall. I count I've done 6 but it's telling me I need to do 4 more.. wtf. I read 7 is what you need for the basic ending

I did do quite a few side missions and I can't really be bothered doing that much more.

Sephiroth_dude

Songbringer

ionapaul

Started Pillars of Eternity last night.

Canis Lupus

ionapaul wrote: »

Started Pillars of Eternity last night.

Say hi to the bear for me.

Sephiroth_dude

Ys seven

eyerer

Just finished Little Nightmares, an interesting little game