What games have you been playing lately?

playing Red Faction Guerilla and Life is strange at the moment. Don't have alot of time for gaming but these two gems are keeping me entertained. RFG especially is a great FPS from a number of years ago that is just alot of fun. Life is strange has a great story.

Into Dying Light at the moment, playing it on hard with tips turned off. It's proving to be a stubborn mule!

Gave CSGO a go last night after having been away since early Source. Not nearly as traumatic as I thought it would be. It would seem that five years off does not undo five years of practice.

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played rainbow six siege a bit, and christ am i bad at it the single player stuff is fine because it's forgiving but the multiplayer is cruel - also, i have probably been away from the likes of COD for so long that it was a bit of a shock to see how people talk to each other in random groups.. the smack talk was woeful

I'm the same, I'm brutal at it, probably cause the only FPS I've played in the last 2 years were Borderlands 2 and TTT in GMod seriously fun game nonetheless that is crippled with connection issues

I ended up picking up Endless Legend at some point during the sales.

Life's too short for Civ 5 to be the only 4X game you ever play.

It's interesting to see some of the relatively subtle differences that I really like, but also how much less I like it as a game on the whole despite those, although I don't want to be too critical because it's entirely possible I've overplayed Civ5 to the point where I don't like the genre anymore in general.

I love the increased granularity of resources - there's much more flexibility in how you manage your cities. The economy buildings give you huge bonuses that vary wildly depending on your terrain.

There's more balance in starting places with even "useless" tiles giving some yields.

Some of the cool faction-specific traits really change how you play the game.

I really hated 1 UPT from Civ5 - possibly the games primary fundamental weakness - so EL's take was a much better compromise IMO.

I liked the levelling system as well, but haven't quite got to grips with the inventory system yet.
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Butttt.. there's something missing.
Not only are there too few factions, but there are particularly too few "standard" factions for my liking - as far as I can tell, only the Vaulters and Elf-guys (whatever they're called) use the "normal" game mechanics.
There certainly aren't enough standard units. I know that it pushes you towards assimilated units from other factions, but it's not a good enough solution to the problem IMO.

Because of the large quantities of resources availble, the game has a pretty steep learning curve in some respects - not getting the basics, but learning how to play the AI in the same way.
I'm finding it a lot easier to fall miles behind in this, or generally cock things up beyond repair, than I would in Civ 5.

I keep wanting to go back to it, but I'm tending to quit games after about 100 turns.

been playing gta v i dunno why but it pulls me back there always fun stuff to do, I just wish there was a boards pc gaming group of gamer who could play together I find missions with mixed groups a night mare...

I've been playing some some Bf4 but I find my self getting board with it very quickly, Take War Hammer 40 K Dawn of war I'd never played it till last year but it sucked me in so much I loved it, any one any recommendations similier to that?

COH2 - completed the standard Russian campaign on hard.
Dragon Age: Inquisition - started a new campaign as a sword and board toon, annoying bugs are still in the game more than a year after release but it is a nice looking game with lots to do.

Should tide me over til XCOM2