What games have you been playing lately?

Panic Stations · 10-02-2019 02:58PM

Been enjoying Apex Legends lately. Fun enough game, nothing too serious and easy enough to get the hang of it. Can't complain seeing as its a triple A game that costs nothing.

Shiminay · 11-02-2019 01:07PM

Apex Legends has 10 million players in less than a month. You must be some kind of I don't know what to insist that it's trash in the face of such staggering evidence to the contrary based on your not enjoying a single (but admittedly important) part of it. I think the gun play is up to Respawn's usual high quality.

I've not had a chance to play as much of it as I'd like. It has refined the BR genre quite nicely I think, but I'm hoping they do a solo version too. You will do very well if you're using voice comms and the ping system in tandem (also, their ping system is magnificent, it's got clever context recognition and simplifies the task of working as a squad even with Rando Calrisian and Joe Public). Came second in 4 games in a row with 2 of my friends - all 3 of us are only average FPS players at best these days cause we're in our 40s

11-02-2019 01:43PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Zero recoil. It plays exactly like COD black ops 4.

Absolutely not true. Plenty of the guns I've used in it have varying degrees of recoil.

cherryghost · 11-02-2019 04:02PM

Yeah, Black Ops 4 recoil is almost non existant. Apex is vastly different. Recoil is there 100%.

gizmo · 12-02-2019 01:17PM

Finished Dragon Age II last night.

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Gbear · 13-02-2019 12:44AM

Factorio.

Good heavens it's addictive.

"Ok.. that's me done for the night... hmm... wait, one of my assembly lines appears to be slowing down... mayyybe I'll just fix that..."

And so on, ad infinitum.

13-02-2019 12:58AM

Gbear wrote: »

Factorio.

Good heavens it's addictive.

"Ok.. that's me done for the night... hmm... wait, one of my assembly lines appears to be slowing down... mayyybe I'll just fix that..."

And so on, ad infinitum.

I'd love to play that on a shared server

Dcully · 13-02-2019 01:18PM

Still hooked on monster hunter world,its my go to game since end of November, i cant get enough of it :P
Also playing apex legends ofcourse but reinstalled Titanfall 2 to see the resurgence in players thanks to apex legends and im having a blast with it.
Getting games easily in 30 seconds or so on PC.

gizmo · 13-02-2019 01:43PM

Dcully wrote: »

Still hooked on monster hunter world,its my go to game since end of November, i cant get enough of it :P
Also playing apex legends ofcourse but reinstalled Titanfall 2 to see the resurgence in players thanks to apex legends and im having a blast with it.
Getting games easily in 30 seconds or so on PC.

Are you playing solo or with other folk? I've been wanting to get into a MH game for awhile and I believe it's meant to be the best starting point but I'm unsure if it'll still be fun when not online.

Dcully · 13-02-2019 02:04PM

Started solo until i could kill every low rank monster bar the odd few that i sent out an SOS for.
Ive killed all high ranks at this stage so im on tempered and arch tempered monsters now for endgame, i play 50/50 solo/multiplayer depending on the event or whatever.
Its a tonne of fun solo so i wouldnt let that put you off.
Some builds i run are better for solo play and vice versa so its down to whatever you want to do/play.

Billy86 · 13-02-2019 07:02PM

They Are Billions.

This game is f***ing crack cocaine.

ancapailldorcha · 13-02-2019 07:33PM

Billy86 wrote: »

They Are Billions.

This game is f***ing crack cocaine.

I didn't need to know that...

13-02-2019 07:38PM

Billy86 wrote: »

They Are Billions.

This game is f***ing crack cocaine.

14 hours and haven't done one successful hold

Billy86 · 13-02-2019 07:44PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Billy86 wrote: »

They Are Billions.

This game is f***ing crack cocaine.

14 hours and haven't done one successful hold

Lost track of how many games I have failed on, and I'm on all the easiest settings! Looking good on my current game though, day 80 with stupid levels of protection and troops. But I felt the same on one before and died on 105.

Taylor365 · 13-02-2019 08:21PM

Took me 70 hours to pass the first map on 100%.

Now stuck on the last one. Its ridiculous! :pac:

Glebee · 13-02-2019 08:56PM

Ive just started Monster Hunter World after spending way to long with Tom Clancey Wildlands....

15-02-2019 12:53AM

The final wave is so hard compared to all the previous ones. It ramps up the difficulty far too much.

Shiminay · 15-02-2019 01:13PM

Played a small bit of Apex Legends, definitely want to play more. Started into the new Civ 6 expansion last night and suddenly it was 1am as is tradition

Subcomandante Marcos · 15-02-2019 01:28PM

R6 Siege is free to play this weekend, probably give that a lash for a few hours.

ancapailldorcha · 18-02-2019 12:36PM

I gave Resident Evil 6 another chance and lowered the difficulty to normal.

I have to say that I like it. There's no getting away from the fact that the game is a bit of a mess. If the devs wanted to go this way, I'm amazed they didn't just co-opt Uncharted style controls and ditch the herbs. That said, some of the spectacles are great though I have only done the Leon campaign. It's really embraced the silliness compared to the previous iteration which was pretending to be a serious while retaining the awful tank controls as if it were somehow a horror game.

Here's a nice video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neAOruo0OrQ

eyerer · 18-02-2019 01:16PM

I've been playing Zelda - Wind Waker.

I didn't really gel it with it when I first played it, I gave up at the search for tri force part. I'm not that far yet this time, but I can appreciate the game more having played BotW. You can see which parts of WW inspired things in BotW.

The exploration and charting the sea is quite fun.

I have had to google a couple of times when I got stuck, which I hate doing

_Godot_ · 18-02-2019 02:45PM

Pokemon Omega Ruby, while taking a break from Etrian Odyssey V (which I had started just after beating Etrian Odyssey III). There's just something about pokemon games that bring me joy.

18-02-2019 02:47PM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I gave Resident Evil 6 another chance and lowered the difficulty to normal.

I have to say that I like it. There's no getting away from the fact that the game is a bit of a mess. If the devs wanted to go this way, I'm amazed they didn't just co-opt Uncharted style controls and ditch the herbs. That said, some of the spectacles are great though I have only done the Leon campaign. It's really embraced the silliness compared to the previous iteration which was pretending to be a serious while retaining the awful tank controls as if it were somehow a horror game.

Here's a nice video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neAOruo0OrQ

It's a guilty pleasure that's for sure.
Once you accept it for what it is. A big dumb action game.

You won't see an RE game like this again however as Capcom have done a course correction with the brilliant RE7 & RE2 Remake and have essentially rediscovered what an RE game actually is.

Billy86 · 19-02-2019 06:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The final wave is so hard compared to all the previous ones. It ramps up the difficulty far too much.

I finally beat it (they are billions)!

Build a soldier centre immediately and keep cranking out rangers, then soldiers, then snipers. Keep building loads of tents. Look to get a bank early & surround it with houses, and to get building on workshops. Most important though, is to find choke points, build lots of layers of walls (2 layers, a gap, 2 layers, a gap, etc), build a sniper tower for every 4-5 squares wide your wall it, fill all of them with 4 veteran snipers (get the wonder that turns all your soldiers to veterans!), put loads of shocking towers/great ballistas/etc behind, and as soon as the chance comes... build an engineering centre and make your no.1 priority into just churning out titan after titan after titan.

In the end my land stretched the full width of the map, and about 1/2 the height. It worked out handy because in the last wave you get 2-3 groups coming in from every direction, and it seemed like there were a lot more from the north (where they had the most space to run before meeting my walls). This gave me a huge advantage of being able to take out the east/west ones first, the south ones after, and then finally just -barely- being able to hold out the ones from the north.

Also if you get the chance like I did to the south, since I didn't need anything else, I just built another layer of walls to give myself a very large area (about enough for 20 warehouses side by side) and filled it to the brim with the barbed wire stuff, shocking towers/great ballistas/etc behind their own walls. I also had snipers on the outer-outer walls here that I pulled back when just before they zombies got through, to the walls defending my actual camp. At most, maybe 2-3 zombies made it to those walls and only needed about 15 of my 120+ snipers, and no other units to look after. This allowed me to have about 12 titans, 30 soldiers, 40 snipers and a bunch of other units to the north, which is the only reason I survived it!

BIGT4464 · 19-02-2019 06:16PM

Besides my car racing. Final Fantasy 7 , played it decades ago, its still good.

Rory28 · 20-02-2019 05:32PM

I am struggling with finding a new game. Currently For Honor and the RE2 Remake are taking up all my time but with S+ got for both Leon and Claire I am not too keen on another playthrough.

Scouring the steam library for an RPG I might have missed is depressing. Will have to give a few JRPG's a shot until something else comes along.

Can anyone recommend a decent one similar to Lost Odyssey and FF7-10?
They are the extent of my JRPG knowledge.

killanena · 20-02-2019 06:05PM

Rory28 wrote: »

I am struggling with finding a new game. Currently For Honor and the RE2 Remake are taking up all my time but with S+ got for both Leon and Claire I am not too keen on another playthrough.

Scouring the steam library for an RPG I might have missed is depressing. Will have to give a few JRPG's a shot until something else comes along.

Can anyone recommend a decent one similar to Lost Odyssey and FF7-10?
They are the extent of my JRPG knowledge.

Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best RPG's I've played in years.

Rory28 · 20-02-2019 06:26PM

killanena wrote: »

Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best RPG's I've played in years.

Truly a great game but already finished. I could try a diff class/race I suppose.

killanena · 20-02-2019 07:11PM

Mods too

Kenshi is another kind of hybrid game I would recommend. (Can be played as an RPG if you so wish). Maybe watch a few videos on it as it may not be for you but I highly recommend it.

Kiith · 21-02-2019 10:21AM

Finishing DA Inquisition and playing Anthem at the moment. Former has started to drag, so i just want to finish Trespasser, and the latter is really enjoyable.

killanena wrote: »

Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best RPG's I've played in years.

After clearing this recently, it went straight into my top 5 games of all time list. Not sure exactly what the other ones are, but this was easily one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

What games have you been playing lately?

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