What games have you been playing lately?

I started playing Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, it's control system is unique if not a bit annoying.

eyerer

Mad Max, well worth 3 quid.
The only thing I don't like is there seems to be input lag when steering the car, which makes it a challenge. Especially some of the tougher races later on

Slippin Jimmy

Trying to get into Rimworld.

Ultrflat

Any one got any recommendations for a decent RTS to play I was thinking Ash's of the singularity but I prefer something like frost punk Tried " Cities and skylines" but its a little on the boring side any one with any recommendations?

ShadowHearth

eyerer wrote: »

Mad Max, well worth 3 quid.
The only thing I don't like is there seems to be input lag when steering the car, which makes it a challenge. Especially some of the tougher races later on

One of the most under rated games for sure. Yes, it's not perfect, but if you are a mad Max junkie, then it's best thing we ever got or will get at this point. I Never finished it as it was crashing a lot on my PC and I just gave up. Might revisit it though.

Such a shame we will never see new one, because it financially tanked. Well, that's what you get for releasing same day as MGS5...

Ultrflat

Ultrflat wrote: »

Any one got any recommendations for a decent RTS to play I was thinking Ash's of the singularity but I prefer something like frost punk Tried " Cities and skylines" but its a little on the boring side any one with any recommendations?

It's a bit old but the last decent RTS was Starcraft 2. It's a dead genre.

The most recent homeworld might scratch that itch.

There is a remaster of the old command & conquer games coming out soon

Quandary

Went back to wow with my tail between my legs. Running a lot of dungeons and collecting mounts by soloing old raids, along with a bit of sight seeing of the newer content. Also levelled a demon hunter to 115. I'll probably get him to 120 and gear up a bit. Also levelled a hunter to 90 so far. It's getting boring again though.

I clocked quite a few hours into Elite Dangerous over the last few years. Think I'll eventually head back to that for a while. See if it grabs me!

I find playing MMOs to be quite relaxing. Love the freedom. Unfortunately, I tend to get addicted for a few weeks and then just slowly get bored.

Remouad

Ultrflat wrote: »

Any one got any recommendations for a decent RTS to play I was thinking Ash's of the singularity but I prefer something like frost punk Tried " Cities and skylines" but its a little on the boring side any one with any recommendations?

Have you tried the Total War games? Loads of options there if you haven't.
I'd start with Shogun 2 and the warhammer ones are awesome.

I've also heard They are Billions is good but haven't tried myself.

If you don't mind something a bit older the Dawn of war games are good (maybe stay away from DoW3)
or the Company of Heroes ones.

Deleted User wrote: »

It's a bit old but the last decent RTS was Starcraft 2. It's a dead genre.

Not Dead. Always been more of a niche genre.
And my favourite.

Dcully

I tend to get addicted for a few weeks and then just slowly get bored

Thats my pattern for the last two decades

Playing the Division 2 and Monster Hunter World Iceborne mainly but started World War Z recently and its 10x better than the release effort, tones of content now and serious progression system in place, its left for dead with progression.
Definitely worth a look if you dismissed it previously like i did.

CastorTroy

Started Transformers War for Cybertron.
Main annoying thing so far is that even though you can use a 360 controller, all prompts are for keyboard/mouse

Burgo

Got a key for the Valorant beta, only played 2 games so far but enjoying it. Plays a lot like cs1.6 but with overwatch abilities which im not too sure about yet.
It seems like its region locked which is pretty crap, used to playing with some friends in NA and can't with this which i've never come across before for an FPS.

Slippin Jimmy

Starting to get the hang of Rimworld now. Steep learning curve. Have a day off tomorrow so looking forward to getting stuck into it a bit more and learning as much as possible 🙂.

Gbear

Civ 6 expansions were (and possibly still are) on sale, so I picked them up, having bounced off the game on release.

I like a lot of the new features, but I'm yet to sink my teeth into the game. There's a lot of things in it that still annoy me.

I much prefer the handling of resources, the Dark/Golden age mechanic is fun, I haven't seen much of the world congress, but it seems interesting.

For the most part, in Civ 5, even when it wasn't perfect, I wasn't being actively irritated by the game.
The districts thing is just a pain in the arse. It makes you make strategic decisions, but they mostly seem to be which valuable tile do I want to destroy. And often it's a few tiles, because you want adjacency bonuses.

Now, in numbers, there's generally higher tile yields in Civ 6, so destroying a few might be fine in terms of output, but it feels ****ty.

Ultimately, while I like the idea of having separate districts, having them built on your territory, rather than abstracted to the city itself, just doesn't work.

There's a few obvious ways they could fix it - just make districts have no impact on the tile they're placed on, so your decision-making is positive. After all, a district in a city isn't the size of the city. There should be room for mines, or farms or whatever as well. Another one might be more work, but it'd be to abstract it back into the city UI, and give you a set of tiles there, to work adjacency bonuses and such.

Homelander

Remouad wrote: »

If you don't mind something a bit older the Dawn of war games are good (maybe stay away from DoW3)
or the Company of Heroes ones.

Dawn of War plus add-ons and Dawn of War 2 are phenomenal games. Company of Heroes is also an excellent game, and the original has aged amazingly well.

OpenRA is a totally free version of CnC Red Alert/Retaliation that runs on modern machines, and it's a major improvement on the original game - better balance, way more maps, new units, new features etc. I sincerely doubt the upcoming remaster will be any better, it's that good.

I haven't played any new RTS games in ages. I found most of them after COH2 just didn't appeal to me. Last one I tried was DOW3 and I hated it.

Ozymandius2011

Started on Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 (Xbox360).

Skerries

currently playing Far Cry 4
I played the original back in the day and enjoyed it but the 2nd one put me off the series because of annoying elements in the game such as respawning enemies, vehicles made of paper and the malaria which you had to constantly find pills to keep at bay.
I received FC 5 with a motherboard upgrade and enjoyed it so I have gone back to FC 4 as I had it in my account and may even try 3 after at some stage

ancapailldorcha

Skerries wrote: »

currently playing Far Cry 4
I played the original back in the day and enjoyed it but the 2nd one put me off the series because of annoying elements in the game such as respawning enemies, vehicles made of paper and the malaria which you had to constantly find pills to keep at bay.
I received FC 5 with a motherboard upgrade and enjoyed it so I have gone back to FC 4 as I had it in my account and may even try 3 after at some stage

Have you given FC3 a go? Probably better than 4 because of how much fresher it was. Blood Dragon is a lot of fun as well.

ShadowHearth

Homelander wrote: »

Dawn of War plus add-ons and Dawn of War 2 are phenomenal games. Company of Heroes is also an excellent game, and the original has aged amazingly well.

OpenRA is a totally free version of CnC Red Alert/Retaliation that runs on modern machines, and it's a major improvement on the original game - better balance, way more maps, new units, new features etc. I sincerely doubt the upcoming remaster will be any better, it's that good.

I haven't played any new RTS games in ages. I found most of them after COH2 just didn't appeal to me. Last one I tried was DOW3 and I hated it.

I am one of those pricks, who prefers DOW2. To my defence, I never played first one when it came out, only tried it after I played second one.

On RTS suggestions: They are Billions is great crack. Not traditional rts, but rogue like rats game. Great for people who love to turtle in rts games.

As of myself. I had a massive craving for Black Desert online. Played a good bit of it on xbox, but pc version is obviously better and more up to date. So yeah, started it from the scratch few days ago. Its on sale on steam right now.
It is an mmorpg, but the one you can actually play solo. Plus its sandbox ish. So you can do different things. Played wow for years, but just can't get in to that same crap routine. Level up, do dailies, do 5 man, hang out in orgimmar until next patch...

Revoker88

So made level 80 in guild wars 2,overall it was quite enjoyable. Especially the last 10-15 levels as I hit 80 just after as I finished the level 70 personal story so was able to jump right to the last part of the story.

The week part of the vanilla game for me was levelling between the story. I can see they made an effort to keep things fresh but things did feel a bite samey after awhile.

First time I've ever hit a level cap in a traditional MMO. Was going to try out elder scrolls online again to change it up for a bit but I watched the trailer for black desert online mentioned above and it has me curious.

Also have two expansions for guild wars to get through. Normally these games I don't have time for so thought I'd try a few while I do have the time.

ShadowHearth

EoinHef wrote: »

So made level 80 in guild wars 2,overall it was quite enjoyable. Especially the last 10-15 levels as I hit 80 just after as I finished the level 70 personal story so was able to jump right to the last part of the story.

The week part of the vanilla game for me was levelling between the story. I can see they made an effort to keep things fresh but things did feel a bite samey after awhile.

First time I've ever hit a level cap in a traditional MMO. Was going to try out elder scrolls online again to change it up for a bit but I watched the trailer for black desert online mentioned above and it has me curious.

Also have two expansions for guild wars to get through. Normally these games I don't have time for so thought I'd try a few while I do have the time.

Bdo is very different from WOW ( Everquest type mmo ). And if you solo player, then there is plenty of content for you.
The main thing in BDO is to snowball to get higher Tier gear, so you can progress further and kill stronger mobs, that drop better loot. The thing is, that gear does not go outdated with new patch or Expansion like in wow. Even right now, to get highest gear is super hard and expensive.
Its a fiver now on steam and you can play it perfectly fine for very long time. If you wont like it, then its only a fiver. The only real thing that I bought for game is pets. though you wont need any extra waaay until later. You get two early in game anyway.

Revoker88

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Bdo is very different from WOW ( Everquest type mmo ). And if you solo player, then there is plenty of content for you.
The main thing in BDO is to snowball to get higher Tier gear, so you can progress further and kill stronger mobs, that drop better loot. The thing is, that gear does not go outdated with new patch or Expansion like in wow. Even right now, to get highest gear is super hard and expensive.
Its a fiver now on steam and you can play it perfectly fine for very long time. If you wont like it, then its only a fiver. The only real thing that I bought for game is pets. though you wont need any extra waaay until later. You get two early in game anyway.

Cheers,thanks for the info:)

Was thinking Elder Scrolls just because I have it. The combat in that BDO looks like a nice change of pace though.

ShadowHearth

EoinHef wrote: »

Cheers,thanks for the info:)

Was thinking Elder Scrolls just because I have it. The combat in that BDO looks like a nice change of pace though.

Combat is really really good. It does not feel like mmorpg, because of it! Most mmorpgs you feel like hitting air, but in bdo it feels heavy and satisfying. There are combos for moves etc.
A little detail they have, but it makes such a difference, you know how in wow, you just feel like a ghost, walking through every npc and player? Well in bdo they have animations when you brush off someone, npcs and players physically there. Most importantly for me, world feels very alive, you can play solo, but don't feel isolated, if it makes sense. You can be in a town doing your things and there are ton of other people around you doing theirs. Places do feel alive. I never sensed it in other mmos.
It's not perfect game, it can be grindy and when you later in game, gear upgrades very expensive, but I personally like it. When you get that piece of gear upgraded, it feels very satisfying, because you earned it. And I do like some good mindless grind sessions where you listen to music and massacre 15 mobs in one beautiful pull.

As I said, it's 5eu, right now. Cheaper then a subway sandwich. Worth a try hehe.

Dcully

Love ESO ,great combat great world but the gear system is just weird, literally never get upgrades after a certain point and it becomes pointless.

NMHS

Microsoft FS2020 Alpha. Tons of potential! X-Plane 11. DayZ Livonia. Arma 3. Intending to get back into Star Citizen too.

KilOit

ShadowHearth wrote: »

On RTS suggestions: They are Billions is great crack. Not traditional rts, but rogue like rats game. Great for people who love to turtle in rts games.

I lost my entire weekend to this suggestion, didn't know you meant the crack you inject

Gbear

With Homeworld 3 now being produced, Blackbird Interactive (which is made up of some former Relic devs who worked on the previous games), are doing a bit of media stuff, including this pretty long interview with Ars Technica with Blackbird's CEO, and former creative lead for Homeworld at Relic Rob Cunningham.

It's interesting to hear him talk about how the original game came to be and it really underlines how it blew everything else out of the water from a technical perspective.

Kiith

85 hours into my Breath of the Wild CEMU playthrough, and just don't want it to end. Figure i'll finish it this weekend though, once i check a few more things off my list. Also still playing Starsector, with my latest playthrough going pretty well.

Think i'll go back and restart Fallen Jedi this weekend as well. Really enjoyed it, but never got around to finishing it.

Also want to do a full runthrough of the Homeworld series, so Deserts of Kharak installing now. Cleared it before, but love the series.

Mr. CooL ICE

Finished my second playthrough of Witcher 3, inc B+W. Recently purchased Halo MCC so started Halo Reach

I played Halo 1 on PC about 17/18 years ago, never played 2 (damn Vista requirement) and dabbled a bit with 3/4 on friends xboxes after those games were released, which was a long, long time ago. The shield sounds are oddly familiar

I'm playing through Black Mesa at the moment. They've done a good job of with the upgraded visuals, etc.

Kiith

Finished my Breath of the Wild playthough there, after around 80 hours. Absolutely fantastic game.

Went back and completed chapter 3 of Tales from the Borderlands as well, so looking forward to finishing that off.

Next up is either a Mass Effect re-run, or possibly doing a Wither 3 (plus DLC) playthrough. Also the Homeworld series.