What games have you been playing lately?

freespace 2 is legendary.
Must have ploughed hundreds of hours into it back in the day.

Are you going to play it vanilla or modded?

Started Little Nightmares last night. Very Limbo/Inside feel from it.
What other games are similar to these? I played A Shadow's Tale on Wii and Typoman on Wii U

picked up no man's sky on sale recently. It has had a new expansion patch and it now supports VR. I decided to start in 2D to get the hang of the game. Really sucked me in and i have been too busy to even change to VR, must do that.

I had heard bad things about this game but i am really enjoying it.

Completely board of gaming at the moment. Summer time i suppose, other things to do. Cant find anyting to get stuck into. Might try that Renmant from the ashes game and go back to Division 2 since update... currently about 80% through Metro Exodus and struggling to go back to finish.

Glebee wrote: »

Completely board of gaming at the moment. Summer time i suppose, other things to do. Cant find anyting to get stuck into. Might try that Renmant from the ashes game and go back to Division 2 since update... currently about 80% through Metro Exodus and struggling to go back to finish.

I recommend not playing anything for a couple of weeks.
After a while you'll get the itch to go back to something you'll enjoy playing.

I've felt the same in the past. Bored, Can't find something to play or forcing myself to play something just to finish it.
Playing something else when you're burnt out will just give you a bad taste for that game.

I've found that taking a break is the best way to cleanse your gaming palette.


Remember it's supposed to be fun!!

Assassins Creed: Unity.

Hoo boy. Playing this over four years since it was released, after numerous patches and thankfully higher end hardware on the PC, at least meant I was able to avoid the technical ****show others faced at launch but what was left was...ugh. While the world was, both technically and artistically speaking, fantastic in places the characters and story were not only underwhelming in and of themselves but also within the context of the world they lived in. I never really felt part of it in the same way as the previous games. That would have been the most disappointing thing had it not been for the changes to combat which, off the top of my head, suffered from some of the worst levels of regression I can remember in a video game. Before, combat in the series could have been considered formulaic but now? Jesus.


Penumbra series

The first game in the series, Overture, was a cracking little horror title. The standout feature is definitely the atmosphere throughout its subterranean world. It's rare, even today, for a game to be able to make you feel so alone and vulnerable even with such dated technology. Conversely, the combat is truly awful but at least the developers were aware of it. That leads to the second game, Black Plague. Gone is the awful combat to be replaced with a couple of stealth sections and a stronger focus on puzzles. While the atmosphere isn't as chock full of dread as its predecessor, it still manages to convey the feeling of something awful having happened in its corridors. The story and its delivery are also improved but what starts out as interesting soon devolves into straight up WTF territory which was somewhat disappointing. As for the third game, Requiem, I've played better mods in my life than this. Total waste of time.


Dragon Age: Inquisition

Ran the full gamut of emotions on this one. Started it with my usual choice of Human Male Warrior with a keyboard and mouse setup and everything instantly felt wrong. Voice acting was uneven. The camera was all over the place. Click to move and interact was gone and combat was baffling - why doesn't my character move position when their target moves? Frustrated, I started again, this time going for a British-voiced Human Female Mage with a controller. The game just clicked, it's not Origins and it's not DA2, it's its own thing - this is fine. So began around 150hrs of some really great game. It's certainly not without its flaws and definitely has some pacing issues if you choose to do everything but I still enjoyed the **** out of it. Just finished the Trespasser DLC now and I'm currently torn between being pumped for DA4 and also rather afraid to read the Anthem-followup article on how ****ed its development is.

Oh well, at least I have its cracking soundtrack to do me for the next while. Speaking of, I'm a sucker for a cheesy, over the top cutscene but this one, after which uses a variation on the main theme with the cast singing, gets me.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition

Ugh, dont remind me. The single biggest disappointment I've suffered recently. I loved the DA series upto this, and as a keyboard & mouse user I tried to crack this. I dont recall how many hours I sunk before giving up, but I never went back.

Its a big box o'sh1te.

Anyways still playing Dictator myself. Thankfull Tropico 6 lived upto its heritage.

I haven't gotten around to playing Classic WoW yet. I played retail from a few months after release up until ICC in Wotlk. Went back for a swing in all the expansions after but never stayed for long.

I played on a few different private servers over the years too. 1.12.1, 2.4.3 and 3.5.5. When WoW classic got announced I was so hyped I went back to a TBC server I played on for 2 months and got burnt out of WoW again. So I can't yet bring myself to play classic knowing all too well the grind that is Vanilla.

At the same time I really don't want to miss out on all the world PvP that's going to happen next patch because the PvP system will be in place but not Bg's which will be a very unique experience. WoW is such a time sink for me. If I go back playing I won't play any of the other games I want to play.

All that being said, I've found myself opening the battle.net client twice after seeing a post, article or video on classic and nearly hitting that resub.