What games have you been playing lately?

08-07-2020 5:17am

Has anyone tried Desperados III yet? I picked it up and finished the first mission. Pretty much works the same as Shadow Tactics and it's in that genre that Commandos started.

I'll get it into it next week when I have more time. Loved Shadow Tactics and only came across it because a poster in this thread mentioned it.

scilover · 08-07-2020 5:24am

Been playing payday 2 again lately. Every time they release a new update to the game, I jumped back right into the game. So far I think i got 300+ hours to the game.

amusicalfrog · 11-07-2020 11:21am

Finished Ori 2 the other day, really fun game and I thought the new hub area gave a pretty satisfying sense of progression. Adding NPCs wasn't a game changer but it was a nice way to mix things up. Core movement was fun but got pretty trivial when you were fully upgraded, a problem I find with most metroidvanias really. The game stuttered an obnoxious amount for me but looked gorgeous. All in all, worth the 23 beans I paid for it.

Now playing Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2. It's actually been a surprisingly long time since I played a singleplayer FPS campaign, but both are fantastic so far. The movement in Doom is exceptional, and the gunplay and level design of Titanfall 2 is super satisfying. Bought RDR2 but waiting till my new PC arrives to even bother trying to play it.

dreamers75 · 11-07-2020 11:15pm

Battlefield 4.

Eventually a damn good game.

Glebee · 16-07-2020 8:42pm

Watch Dogs 2.
Im trying to like it but just cant get into it, cant see me stick it out for too much longer.

wotzgoingon · 16-07-2020 9:15pm

Glebee wrote: »

Watch Dogs 2.
Im trying to like it but just cant get into it, cant see me stick it out for too much longer.

What do you not like about it. I loved the first and also the second. You need the drone and rc car to take full advantage. Spend some time collecting skill points as well as the skill tree helps a lot. You don't have to go mad searching just when you are in an area send up drone and points of interest will be shown.

If you are just starting the game collect some piles of cash by sending in the rc car to collect the money and hack peoples bank accounts until you have enough money for the drone.

The drone is the game changer as you just send it up and see everything and send it inside buildings to see what you are up against and plan things out.

ShadowHearth · 16-07-2020 9:30pm

Back to work for the last 3 weeks ish, so gaming time got cut to hell:

Factorio ( again ) - heard a lot of good thinks about Krastorio 2 mod so decided to give it a go. Was surprised how well they made mod installation. You can just do it all in game. Mod itself is fantastic. Not crazy bobs+ Angels stuff, but more of normal factorio, just expanded. Love it.

Tropico 6 - bit the bullet and bought it after all. 40h after its the best Tropico 6 in gameplay, but the worst in Story and silliness. Definitely a good game in the end. A lot of good changes and fixes to previous versions.

Runescape - yeah yeah, I know. But since lockdown, I still play it. Nice for relaxing grind while watching netflix and playing on mobile helps hehe.

16-07-2020 10:45pm

Replayed Return To Obra Dinn after a failed attempt at Bloodborne. I wanted something I knew was good. I left it long enough to forgot a lot of it. Finished it in 2 days. What a game. More games like it need to be made.

Kiith · 17-07-2020 11:12am

Finished Trails of Cold Steel this morning, and really enjoyed that. Think i'll jump straight into the 2nd one, as the ending was great.

Remouad · 21-07-2020 2:34pm

Frostpunk.
Have it on game pass and been meaning to give it a go for ages.
Started it up the other night and all of a sudden 5 hours had passed!
It's AMAZING. Hits all the right boxes: Compelling gameplay, great post-apocalyptic setting, fantastic story, atmospheric music.

It doesn't hold your hand and I find I really enjoy it when I fail.
Chalk it down to lesson learned and straight back into it.
Although I still can't bring myself to condone child labour...

21-07-2020 2:38pm

There will be no slackers in my utopia. The children must work.

It's so good. Only downside is it's lack of replay-ability. Once you've done a scenario trying both tech trees, there's not much else to do.

Glebee · 21-07-2020 5:20pm

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What do you not like about it. I loved the first and also the second. You need the drone and rc car to take full advantage. Spend some time collecting skill points as well as the skill tree helps a lot. You don't have to go mad searching just when you are in an area send up drone and points of interest will be shown.

If you are just starting the game collect some piles of cash by sending in the rc car to collect the money and hack peoples bank accounts until you have enough money for the drone.

The drone is the game changer as you just send it up and see everything and send it inside buildings to see what you are up against and plan things out.

Trying to get into Watch Dogs 2 but just cant get into it. Hate thecharacters, the settings, the tech, its just not for me i guess. I recall likeing the first game but just cant click with this sequal.

youcancallmeal · 21-07-2020 9:45pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There will be no slackers in my utopia. The children must work.

It's so good. Only downside is it's lack of replay-ability. Once you've done a scenario trying both tech trees, there's not much else to do.

Yeah I played it a lot including the dlc but once you've mastered the mechanics it gets a bit repetitive and easy to beat. Increasing the difficulty to extreme doesn't really appeal to me as you just have less resources and need to micro manage more. There's still one more dlc, 'on the edge' or something like that, I'll give it a go when it's released. There's also a board game coming which could be interesting

_Kaiser_ · 21-07-2020 10:08pm

Mostly playing COD Warzone with the lads , but bit of the Armada 3 mod for Sins as well.

Woshy · 24-07-2020 11:11am

I found the Commander Keen series on Steam for e5. I've been reliving my childhood and it's scary how well I remember it, even where all the hidden things are in the levels!

froog · 26-07-2020 1:14pm

kinda stuck for a game to get into right now. burned out of wow classic, got me through the lockdown but there's really nothing to do at endgame in between waiting days to do a raid. tried FFXIV and the levelling via main story quest is the worst leveling experience i've ever seen in a game, tedious beyond belief. no zone or global chats makes the game feel empty and dead too. i think i've finally given up on mmorpgs tbh, so much potential but so much bad development choices.

a few big games on the horizon that i'm looking forward to but many months away; cyberpunk 2077, new world, elden ring, baldurs gate 3, grounded

downloading warzone again for a multiplayer fix.

z0oT · 27-07-2020 8:41pm

I've been playing the Outer Wilds this week.

I don't know how I missed this in 2019, definitely one of the best games I played in ages.

youcancallmeal · 28-07-2020 9:23am

Oxygen Not Included. Very steep learning curve but addictive. I'm following a detailed steam guide for the last few weeks and I'm still only half way through, there would be much more trial and error without it as some aspects are not intuitive.

Glebee · 28-07-2020 6:01pm

Farcry:Primal.
With Farcry 6 on the horizon I said I go back to Farcry:Primal which I skipped. Very good game in fairness with a new slant to the Farcry franchise. Just want to pull out a machine gun and start blasting..

brckmrphy · 29-07-2020 12:16pm

I have been playing Seikiro. It is the hardest game that I have ever played.

Dcully · 29-07-2020 12:59pm

Downloaded Sea of Thieves on game pass , click play and servers are down for the day lol.
Doubt ill bother now at all, was ready to give it a fair go for a few hours.

Glebee · 29-07-2020 2:23pm

Dcully wrote: »

Downloaded Sea of Thieves on game pass , click play and servers are down for the day lol.
Doubt ill bother now at all, was ready to give it a fair go for a few hours.

I want to like Sea of Thieves but just cant be bothered with it, even with team mates.

Dcully · 29-07-2020 3:07pm

Installed more out of curiosity than anything else.

Robert ninja · 29-07-2020 3:43pm

Glebee wrote: »

Farcry:Primal.
With Farcry 6 on the horizon I said I go back to Farcry:Primal which I skipped. Very good game in fairness with a new slant to the Farcry franchise. Just want to pull out a machine gun and start blasting..

I stopped playing the Far Cry series after 3 because I was dissapointed with it. Just replayed Far Cry 2, though. Amazing game. Balls to walls hard on the Infamous setting.

Started Sleeping Dogs again. Not sure if I'll stick with it, was getting a bit bored because it's kinda easy.

Also trying to get through Half-Life Opposing Force and Sunrider MoA. Applied the uncensor patch to Sunrider cause I hate playing anything knowing there's something missing if I can put it back in. Half-Life Opposing Force feels very true to the 1st game so far.

Tried Peggle from Popcap. Seemed like a little fun, might be something to replace Huniepop (match 3) on the 4:3 thinkpad until Huniepop 2 drops. I just love match 3 with pleasing aesthetics and unlikable American bitches in the background.

ShadowHearth · 31-07-2020 4:21pm

Got Snow Runner last week. Absolutely love it. I tried previous game and it was fun, but this one is just turned to 11. I love that it is open world and you get payed for jobs, so you can buy upgrades and trucks etc. Makes game so much better then just a string of missions.

Kintarō Hattori · 04-08-2020 3:55pm

I hadn't played the PC in years. It was located in the bedroom (couldn't play after the missus went to bed) and it was long in the tooth being based on a Q9300, a R270X etc. I really wanted to play Toy Soldiers again so looked into the most cost effective means to get back playing my Steam library. Ended up going with an Optiplex running a 3rd gen Core i5, 16GB of DDR-II, an SSD for the OS, a 500GB hdd and sticking in a motherboard powered GTX1050Ti.

It's great to be back playing those games. I've played lots of Toy Soldiers again and just bought the Cold War expansion. I bought FarCry 4 pretty much as soon as it was a decent price on Steam but the old machine couldn't handle it. I've been playing away in the living room as soon as everyone else is in bed. It's great.

shootermacg · 04-08-2020 4:14pm

Decided to give Mad Max a go. It's a bloody great game! Really enjoying myself

iLikeWaffles · 04-08-2020 4:17pm

Came across Cookie Clicker through one of those random website generators and I'm hooked. Very well put together browser game.

madcabbage · 05-08-2020 2:35am

Tarkov tarkov tarkov with a hint of fall guys.

07-08-2020 11:00am

Put some hours into the Secret of Monkey Island this week. Will probably do more over the weekend. Good game.

Gbear · 07-08-2020 11:06am

The way the football season ended felt a bit anaemic, even for me as a Liverpool fan. The games were robbed of atmosphere and after such a long gap I lost the thread of the season.

It gave me a hankering for some Football Manager. The most recent version I have is 2016, so I've decided to take a dive into that.

Honestly, I don't really care that much about the mechanics of the game. I endlessly savescum. I'm mostly interested in crafting a narrative and role-play.

I've thus far managed Portsmouth back into the Championship and I've done the thing where you create another manager to get Man City to buy your **** players for £50m a few times, but it's not like Messi wants to play in League 2, so I've still had to spend time looking for bargains and unknowns, as well as a few wonderkids that every edition of FM has a list of online.

07-08-2020 11:14am

Tbf, it sounds like you're robbing your game of atmosphere as well... Where's the excitement.

ancapailldorcha · 07-08-2020 11:15am

I play Paradox games and hate save-scumming unless it's something I feel is unfair or something that'll kill my entire run.

Games are supposed to be fun though. To each their own.

Gbear · 07-08-2020 5:54pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbf, it sounds like you're robbing your game of atmosphere as well... Where's the excitement.

Well I'm not playing it for excitement.

I'm pretending to be a manager following a particular fantasy run.

In a sense, I'm not actually particularly interested in the game itself. It's a vehicle for me to muck around with.

I have a similar experience with Cities Skylines.

One could approach the game as a challenge that involves slowly building up a city while managing budgets and the demands of citizens, but when I play it, I pick a giant flat map with all regions unlocked, unlimited funds, and a single big river running through the middle of it, and I build a city based on my whims.

The challenges, in as much as they exist, are the little optimisation puzzles, such as smooth traffic flow given infinite resources in Cities Skylines, or finding a team and staff that are satisfying to me in how they play, or who they are (like getting a player who's a known superstar in 2020 and getting them in your team when they're a 17 year old purely for the novelty), in FM.

It's just comfort gaming to me. Stress free. I stick on a podcast and craft the footballing narrative of my choosing.

If I want an actual challenge I stick to puzzle games. Opus Magnum or that sort of thing. I've ultimately bounced off of games like Super Meat Boy or Hotline Miami, and I have no interest anymore in competitive online gaming because they just seem like too much hard work to me.

Taylor365 · 07-08-2020 7:14pm

Gbear wrote: »

Well I'm not playing it for excitement.

I'm pretending to be a manager following a particular fantasy run.

In a sense, I'm not actually particularly interested in the game itself. It's a vehicle for me to muck around with.

I have a similar experience with Cities Skylines.

One could approach the game as a challenge that involves slowly building up a city while managing budgets and the demands of citizens, but when I play it, I pick a giant flat map with all regions unlocked, unlimited funds, and a single big river running through the middle of it, and I build a city based on my whims.

The challenges, in as much as they exist, are the little optimisation puzzles, such as smooth traffic flow given infinite resources in Cities Skylines, or finding a team and staff that are satisfying to me in how they play, or who they are (like getting a player who's a known superstar in 2020 and getting them in your team when they're a 17 year old purely for the novelty), in FM.

It's just comfort gaming to me. Stress free. I stick on a podcast and craft the footballing narrative of my choosing.

If I want an actual challenge I stick to puzzle games. Opus Magnum or that sort of thing. I've ultimately bounced off of games like Super Meat Boy or Hotline Miami, and I have no interest anymore in competitive online gaming because they just seem like too much hard work to me.

What? You tryna say getting Exeter City to Champions League winners ain't a challenge!?

:pac:

Headshot · 07-08-2020 9:11pm

I don't understand why developers refuse to have cut scenes in 21:9 but have no trouble having game play as 21:9

so ****ing irritating

ShiverinEskimo · 07-08-2020 10:13pm

For most it's because a lot of cutscenes are pre-rendered videos - not live scripted gameplay. Given consoles exclusively operate in 16:9 they make them once. It's a tiny compromise. Doesn't bother me in the slightest and I play at 32:9.

TheRepentent · 10-08-2020 5:56pm

Just bought Hell Let Loose..ww2 FPS (more a mil sim I would think) enjoying it so far but its fairly unforgiving and near impossible to squad up without a mike. Oh and it has Carentan as a map

stuff.hunter · 11-08-2020 8:17am

TheRepentent wrote: »

Just bought Hell Let Loose..ww2 FPS (more a mil sim I would think) enjoying it so far but its fairly unforgiving and near impossible to squad up without a mike. Oh and it has Carentan as a map

its a great game mate, all you need is a squad where guys using their mikes

btw, if you're looking for someone to play with, our clan is recruiting for both, competitive and casual gaming

details on www.1ad-clan.com or drop me a dm

TheRepentent · 11-08-2020 10:02am

stuff.hunter wrote: »

its a great game mate, all you need is a squad where guys using their mikes
btw, if you're looking for someone to play with, our clan is recruiting for both, competitive and casual gaming
details on www.1ad-clan.com or drop me a dm

I will.....just waiting on an adaptor so I can use my headset (texting in sqaud chat just doesn't cut it.

Thanks

Glebee · 11-08-2020 11:55am

65% through Far Cry:Primal at the moment and the bloody thing has started to crash on every game load.

. Some sort of graphics error I think. Its a decent Far Cry game but as with all Far Crys gets very repetive after a while.

ancapailldorcha · 11-08-2020 12:35pm

Glebee wrote: »

65% through Far Cry:Primal at the moment and the bloody thing has started to crash on every game load. . Some sort of graphics error I think. Its a decent Far Cry game but as with all Far Crys gets very repetive after a while.

Windows has some sort of touch interface that makes Far Cry 3 crash. I had to disable it.

Have you checked PCGW?

Glebee · 11-08-2020 1:03pm

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Windows has some sort of touch interface that makes Far Cry 3 crash. I had to disable it.

Have you checked PCGW?

No, its only just started happening. Maybe its because of a graphics driver update.. I load into the game, screen flickers for a few seconds and then freezes. Ive tried reducing the res but still no luck. Whats this PCGW?

ancapailldorcha · 11-08-2020 1:07pm

Glebee wrote: »

No, its only just started happening. Maybe its because of a graphics driver update.. I load into the game, screen flickers for a few seconds and then freezes. Ive tried reducing the res but still no luck. Whats this PCGW?

Pcgamingwiki. It's how I solved my issue with Far Cry 3.

Glebee · 11-08-2020 3:29pm

And all of a sudden without doing anything Farcry:Primal works again... I dont think I have too much of the main story left. Time to finish it off and move on.

Retr0gamer · 12-08-2020 11:55am

In the post game of FF13-2. It's a truly disgusting conversion and even the fan patches cant get it to run at a steady 60 fps. It's more 30 FPS with drops to 15. Also needs fan patches to get the game working properly with surround sound headphones as well as to stop it crashing when it exceeds 512MB RAM usage

But I've really enjoyed playing it. But I'm just glad we are beyond the days of painful conversions like this. Apparently the XBOX One X version has been heavily optimised back to run at a constant 60 FPS but very much doubt we will see those improvements back ported until the inevitable FF13 collection.

ancapailldorcha · 12-08-2020 12:08pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

In the post game of FF13-2. It's a truly disgusting conversion and even the fan patches cant get it to run at a steady 60 fps. It's more 30 FPS with drops to 15. Also needs fan patches to get the game working properly with surround sound headphones as well as to stop it crashing when it exceeds 512MB RAM usage

But I've really enjoyed playing it. But I'm just glad we are beyond the days of painful conversions like this. Apparently the XBOX One X version has been heavily optimised back to run at a constant 60 FPS but very much doubt we will see those improvements back ported until the inevitable FF13 collection.

The Lightning Returns port is actually decent. Not amazing but it runs reasonably well whereas this sounds truly horrendous.

12-08-2020 12:12pm

I just completed Homeworld: Deserts of Karak

Picked it up for like 3 euro

Such an underrated RTS

Glebee · 12-08-2020 11:31pm

Was between games so subbed to Uplay plus for a months to try out some games id missed. After finishing Farcry:Primal started into Ghost Recon:Breakpoint, christ it runs very poorly for me.. Wildlands ran great. Breakpoints seems to have a very different feel to it from Wildland, dont think Ill stick with it, it runs so poorly. PC is starting to show its age I guess.

Glebee · 15-08-2020 6:35pm

Glebee wrote: »

Was between games so subbed to Uplay plus for a months to try out some games id missed. After finishing Farcry:Primal started into Ghost Recon:Breakpoint, christ it runs very poorly for me.. Wildlands ran great. Breakpoints seems to have a very different feel to it from Wildland, dont think Ill stick with it, it runs so poorly. PC is starting to show its age I guess.

Gave up on Breakpoint. Switching between Division 2:Warlord of NY and Assassins Creed: Odyssey. WOW, two excellent games. Odyssey is the first game that might just be as good as Witcher 3. Think ill stick with 1 and stop switching so I can really get the most out of each game.

What games have you been playing lately?

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