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What games have you been playing lately?

Links234

Fairly self explanatory post, what have you been playing and how are you enjoying it?

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Links234

Doing the high stakes gwent tournament in Witcher 3 atm.

Azza

You ever try the mini game modes in the older Resident Evil games Rope?

Links234

Been quite enjoying Quantum Conundrum, very nice game to play on a lazy Saturday morning, and quite a pleasant surprise from the Square Enix mystery box. To think I was initially going to give it away.

Glebee

Picked up Minecraft for the young lad last week. Never really understood the hype about it but after playing a bit i must say its an addictive game.

TetraxShard

A lot of Arkham games for a start. I finished Origins last night and really enjoyed it. Nice little game with some great boss fights, probably the best in the series outside of the Mr. Freeze fight in City. I moved on to Knight today, hoping for some improvements since launch. Even though I moved the game to an SSD and locked it to 30, performance is....barely adequate. The game itself is alright. I've been playing four hours and only seen one supervillain, it feels more like a dreary installment of Splinter Cell than Batman Simulator 2015, which was the draw of the earlier entries for me. Still though, considering I got both for free (Knight with my 970, Origins as part of the compensation package for Knight) I've got plenty of entertainment for no money. Oh, and the Batmobile's hot garbage. The shopping trolleys at Aldi handle better. I will finish Knight, then all I will have left is Blackgate. Then, no more DC games, at least until Injustice II (or Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe II: Dawn of Johnny Cage, whatever you're having yourself Warner).

As WrestleMania Week is next week, been dipping into WWE 2K16. The port is a lot better than last year, runs absolutely fine this time. Mostly playing the 2K Showcase mode, focusing on the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin, and the MyCareer mode. MyCareer's pretty fun, it feels like a wrestling RPG in many ways, sort of how Tiger Woods PGA Golf career mode feels like a golf RPG. You make your dude, have a match, cut a promo with Telltale-esque dialogue choices afterward and then level up your dude for more matches. I'm chasing the NXT Championship at the moment, hoping for a title shot soon.

I picked up Rise of the Tomb Raider again, having been stuck on a puzzle since shortly after launch. Turns out I solved it in the wrong order, I had done the second part while walking past the first part. Game is absolutely stunning from a graphics perspective. The PureHair tech, ugh, so good. Gameplay, it feels more bloated than the last one. There's a lot of feature creep. "We have to have more guns! And a crafting system! And more collectibles! Did I mention the crafting system?" I do enjoy the Challenge Tombs, but it's good they're optional for players who can't be bothered. It's a nice feeling when you solve one though.

I got a second screen this week, which can rotate, so I've been playing Pinball Arcade vertically on that and it's glorious. I loved playing it on tablet but it was hard to hold after awhile. Playing with the DX11 bells and whistles is fantastic. Rebuying the tables sucks, but I had Kickstarter codes from the licensed tables so I had a few, plus I bought Season 1 and 2 when they were on sale. I tried the Pinball FX2 tables from the Humble a few weeks back. I love the licenses they have for that game, but the physics are wayyyy off. They feel too bouncy, and video gamey, for want of better terms. Plus, I like playing on the tables from Pinball Arcade since they physically existed at one point. Is it possible to feel nostalgia for things you never actually had as a child? Because I get that from this game.

Grinding gold in Hearthstone for the upcoming Whispers of the Old Gods expansion, playing silly concede decks to make the games less tedious. I can't wait for Standard mode. The meta won't fundamentally change as aggro is naturally superior when it comes to a ladder, 1vs1 1-game format. You can play more games, in less time, to do quests faster and get your 10 gold for every three wins even faster.

And I'm losing nights to Undertale, which is fantastic, but the less said on that one the better. It really is better to go into that one completely blind. In short, I'm transfixed. The music in particular is great, so evocative for chiptune stuff. I've been humming the first boss' theme all day.

Links234

Just blasting away at Darkest Dungeon lately. One Necromancer Lord has been taken care of!

Digital Solitude

Dedends on yourself I guess, I wasn't mad about the game as a whole, barely reached Novigrad. But I'd say over half the time I've been playing has been in Gwent

chrislad

Links234 wrote: »

What? :eek: Best thing about the game!

You should be on a pyre in Novigrad for such heresy! :pac:

I have enough of card games with Hearthstone. There was more than enough content to keep me enthralled without it. I'm just a wandering witcher now, finished the main story just wandering the map, finding new places and killing monsters

Glebee

chrislad wrote: »

I just finishing the Witcher 3, in as much as you can really. I've done most of the quests, bar the Gwent ones (which I just don't have an interest in), and I'll probably pick up the season pass tomorrow. Fantastic game. Really involving with a great story, and characters.

I skipped all the Gwent stuff as well:p

Links234

chrislad wrote: »

bar the Gwent ones (which I just don't have an interest in)

What? :eek: Best thing about the game!

You should be on a pyre in Novigrad for such heresy! :pac:

chrislad

I just finishing the Witcher 3, in as much as you can really. I've done most of the quests, bar the Gwent ones (which I just don't have an interest in), and I'll probably pick up the season pass tomorrow. Fantastic game. Really involving with a great story, and characters.

Links234

So I'm giving Quantum Conundrum a go, picked it up in the Square Enix Easter mystery box. I hadn't even heard of it before, and my first thoughts were "Ooooh, John DeLancie!"

It's very Portal-lite, then I read up the wiki article and found it was designed by Kim Swift who worked on Portal.

Yakult

Started playing Outlast recently, in the dark and with surround sound.

Possibly the only thing to scare the **** out of me. Hate to love it!

Gbear

Deleted User wrote: »

I played about half of ME1 and ME2. Neither could hold my attention til the end. The combat definitely had a big part in that. The same "whack-a-mole" strategy can be employed throughout. I think I have a fundamental issue with cover-based shooters. They bore me to tears.

I think something a lot of people forget in the heat of the moment (and also in MP, because the mechanic doesn't exist there) is that the game is a tactical shooter.

Particularly with the skill-based classes and with zealous use of the tactical pause you don't have to cower behind boxes all the time lobbing bullets and spells out wildly.

The Vanguard is the best example, where you only need to briefly take cover between cooldowns of Biotic Charge, but particularly with a few upgrades to make you less squishy and more unlocked powers, you can go fairly gung ho with Engineer, Sentinel and Adept as well.

It's hard to get out of the habit though, and the game basically punishes you for doing it (or at any rate, you die a lot before you discover your rhythm) but if you make the effort to play the game more aggressively it's a lot more rewarding.

[Deleted User]

I played about half of ME1 and ME2. Neither could hold my attention til the end. The combat definitely had a big part in that. The same "whack-a-mole" strategy can be employed throughout. I think I have a fundamental issue with cover-based shooters. They bore me to tears.

Korvanica

Playing some Paragon over the last few days. Very much alpha, assets etc need work. But its a fun game. Look forward to see what becomes of it Hope its not going to be another Dawngate

[Deleted User]

Playing through Spec-Ops: The Line after hearing so much about it for so long. It's combat is dire; think Mass Effect without the RPG elements. Covered based combat has always been terrible imo. It offers no challenge. You get shot for a bit, you hide for a bit and then continue to play whack-a-mole with the enemies. Repeat until you reach the next area with waist high walls. It's storyline keeps it interesting.

According to Williams, they hoped that players would start the game with relatively low expectations or that they would consider the game as another typical heroic war shooter, then by seeing the transformation of these characters, they would be shocked by the game's narrative and be "engulfed by the darkness".

Pretty much sums it up. The game is a pile of ****e at the start on purpose apparently. Tiresome. I kept with it as there is allegedly some moment which sets this game apart from the rest. It does deliver. The main character pretty much loses his mind and its very effective.

degrassinoel

XCOM2 & the division

Glebee

Been searching for a while for some game to fill the void that was The Witcher 3 and its DLC with no success but I think ive found it. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, only just started but its is very good indeed. As usual with MGS solid I have no idea whats happening but still game play is excellent.

Sonics2k

Fist of Jesus.

Nothing fantastic, but what a fantastic game.

Burning a lot of hours in a Classic WoW server, which I have to say has been a lot of fun and the community has been very good. No haxx, cheats, botting, or gold-buying/selling going on. In fact they recently banned 700 accounts for gold buying/selling recently to keep the server working well.

chrislad

The Witcher 3 is the first game to have broken Rocket Leagues hold on me in a long while! I'm about level 24 now, and about 26 hours in, just pissing about doing all the side quests before I go back to the main story.

kearneybobs

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Been pissing through my backlog recently, I've hit bumps in Rouge Legacy and Mark of the Ninja.

Rouge Legacy gets so fun once you start getting upgrades, it's the kind of game I want to quit, then read my next characters traits, forget to quit and keep playing for another hour I'm really enjoying it thus far.

I played it on PC and enjoyed it but I REALLY enjoyed it on Vita. The Vita thumbsticks were perfect for that game, for me. Didn't quite make it to the end but loved it.

kearneybobs

After getting it free some time ago on the Epic Games launcher I'm currently playing through Shadow Complex.

It's incredibly janky in terms of execution but it's still REALLY good fun to play. Textures aren't great, voice acting is terrible and the mo-cap isn't good either. Always wanted to play it when it released on Xbox 360 and dont regret starting it.

Jumped into this from KOTOR 2 (with the patch). Something about those games that about 1/3 of the way through I get bored/lose interest. Happened with the first one too, twice!!! I dont know if I need something more focused in scope. who knows but I love the mechanics etc but the overloading of conversations throws me off, possibly.

CastorTroy

degrassinoel wrote: »

their new one one is due out this year afaik, The Fractured But Whole

I'm ashamed to say that it wasn't until someone put a smiley after the name before that I realised the humour in there. Was just the way I was reading it I suppose

Digital Solitude

Been pissing through my backlog recently, I've hit bumps in Rouge Legacy and Mark of the Ninja.

Rouge Legacy gets so fun once you start getting upgrades, it's the kind of game I want to quit, then read my next characters traits, forget to quit and keep playing for another hour

I'm really enjoying it thus far.

Mark of the Ninja is so pretty, it's got spotty controls but I might give it a keyboard and mouse whirl and see. Only a few levels in, but I'm really enjoying it. No chance of hopping Dishonoured as my favourite stealth game.

degrassinoel

their new one one is due out this year afaik, The Fractured But Whole

wotzgoingon

Korvanica wrote: »

Just Started South Park: The Stick of Truth

Enjoying it a lot so far.

That was one good game.

Cravez

Still playing alot of R6: Siege and also working my way through XCOM 2. Then dipping in and out of various other games if I am in the mood of.

Waiting on the Escape from Tarkov alpha to start sometime this month also!

Korvanica

Just Started South Park: The Stick of Truth

Enjoying it a lot so far.

Links234

Following the Thread, the one where you're meant to help Lambert. Got as far as the point where you're supposed to meet him in Skellige, but just went straight ahead and did the main story quests there and then went to pick up Uma and on to Kaer Mohren, which once I got there, Lambert was there and the quest failed.