What games have you been playing lately?

Looks like a lot of people don't like the whole chaos real mechanic in campaign. It's not that rewarding for the effort you put. Specially at the start of campaing as you pretty much have to dedicate your main army to go in there for a lot of turns. There are even mods to remove the whole damn thing already, which I understand.

I personally watching on YouTube Kislev, Kathy and Demon Prince playthrougs after work, before passing out in bed. ( leave home at 10 and back at 11 at night, so not much time left to myself ) This way i Get at least some WH content during work days. So far whole Chaos realm thing just feels annoying and not very fun. I guess it's the reason why I am on turn 80 and I just went to Slanesh once to get seduced and get a good chunk of gold, that I really needed. Other then that I just close down rifts.

Actually closing down rifts a bit of a pain in a gap too, because when your empire expands, you need to keep some forces deep in your territory, just to be able to get those rifts under control.

Other then that, I really like it. One of the the things that I really like, is that you can trade settlements now. When I played WH2 as empire, I loved ability to take over settlements from non human factions that invaded Empire and then give them back to original owner. Which makes you a lot of good "karma" and you can have some good allies taking blows away from you, while you focus somewhere else. Now in WH3, I can take over settlements that are not suitable for me, but I just gift them or sell them to ally faction, to make a little buffer from me and other threats.

So I managed to finish Mass Effect Legendary edition having never played the games years ago.

Enjoyed it overall,story was good,gameplay in 3 was great,glad I took the time to play them.

I started Lost Ark the other day and I'm level 21 now so prob about 10 hrs in. The quests are awful,like the most cookie cutter quests you can imagine which let's it down,gets tedious in between combat even with a mount.

The combat is stunning but not sure I'll continue with it for the moment or not.

Still turtling away at Lost Ark here and there,gonna hit level 50 the next time I login.

Combat is so so good,slower paced diablo style combat in an MMO world.

Biggest issue is the quests are truely awful. Like zero imagination. You can literally get quests where you walk about 5 meters away from the giver to someone to talk to. Then you go back and forth between the two despite them being right beside each other about 3 or 4 times to complete the quest. Some of the worst busy work I've seen in a long time.

Just started Days Gone, decent game overall but I can see how its going to get repetitive. Was going to playthrough RDR2 again but started this instead. I really dont replay games again once ive finished them

Finished up with Days Gone and really enjoyed it. Great game and well worth a playthrough. Started Salt & Santurary and it's made me realise how much I hate Dark Souls / Metrovania type games. Rage quit and uninstalled.

Bit of a old game but managed to finally getting around to beating Warhammer 40k Space Marine.

Got the game years ago, had played two hours according to steam but between a session last night and tonight got it finished for a total of 9.2 hrs.

Really enjoyed it,ive recently started to read the 40k books as well so the atmosphere and world building was extra appreciated.

Was looking forward to the sequel anyway but even more so now.

I've been playing FTL and Outer Wilds in parallel. I don't think I'm particularly good at FTL yet but I'm getting further with each run - it's fun! I'm still in the very early part of Outer Wilds where I don't have really have any major idea of what to do; I just have a ton of sporadic bits of minor clues to go off. As the thread of the mystery hasn't really become clear yet it can be demotivating to keep playing, especially when you keep missing jumps under the surface of Brittle Hollow and have to keep doing the loop over again.

I also played Sunless Skies for a wee bit, I really like the setting and the story. The combat gameplay is relatively simple which is maybe why it hasn't held my attention as much as the others above but alongside the others I'm impressed at what small indie games can do with a high quality level of writing.

Would absolutely love to play Elden Ring but its yet another game to add to the list of things I will play once I get an actual decent machine.

Played through Borderlands 3 since it was free on Epic a while ago and never did get to play it when it released. Really enjoyable, now onto Trek to Yomi.

Shame, because it looks great alright.

Went back to see could I finish Death Stranding. Still cant make up mind if it's just completely bonkers or an absolute masterpiece.. about half way through but I'm going to stick it out to the end this time.

Im really between minds on Death Stranding, looks lovely but the story line is just mental. First game in a long time that I just cant tell if its style over substance. Ive put a good few hours in and its definitely worth a spin if you have gamepass. If it does not click after a few hours its probably not for you.

Ace Combat 7.

I got out of consoles a long time ago so I never played 6, or Zero, etc. and AFAIK 7 is the first one to land on PC.

I probably waited too long. I thought the game looked too good to run on my old rig but frankly it's pretty well optimized, unreal engine stuff.

It's kind of amazing how Project Aces pretty much just 'nailed' the source code for the game itself way back in the first or 2nd game, all they seemingly do between iterations is make new maps and higher resolution models, and new missions and narratives expand on their fictional universe with Osea, Erusea, Belka and Yuktobania, etc., and different ways to skill up or unlock new things. The actual mechanics of the game world itself, aside from adding new planes and weapons, hasn't really changed much of a damn in decades, the HUD is the *exact same* a lot of the voice cast is the exact same too lol. But I gotta say it's just damn fun to play. The fiance has taken the controller off me a few times to crash and burn. I'm also happy with some of the callbacks I was seeing to previous games - eg. attacking a base with a Mass Driver I once had to defend in AC5, the Stonehenge superweapon from AC4, etc.