What are you playing?

[Frick]

Been playing Grim Dawn for a wee bit, and while I like it it's almost ... dissapointing. The setting is lovely. But the game itself is literally Titan Quest with better graphics. The map layouts are similar, the skill system is identical, even some of the skills are identical, even some of the icons are similar. The physics are identical (the enemies fly through the air in exactly the same way if you hit them hard enough). The bonus item addons are identical (gather bits of stuff, add them together and you can add that to a weapon or something for a bonus). You can only undo character loadouts with money (I don't mind having to stick to a char and i'm not a big fan of Path of Exiles totally open system), but it would be nice to have at least a possibility to do a full reset. The similarities is not a bad thing as such as Titan Quest is a good game, but I didn't expect it to literally be Titan Quest with an almost slightly new skin. The bad thing it has in common is how I'm not really a fan of the skills. In Titan Quest I have never found a build I really like, and reading on the different skills it's the same with Grim Dawn. It might be nice, but it will likely feel like a bit of a chore to go through the game.

EDIT: I wouldn't have been dissapointed if reviewers pointed out the similarity to Titan Quest specifically rather than to ARPGs as a while.

 

[StrayKAT]

Been playing Grim Dawn for a wee bit, and while I like it it's almost ... dissapointing. The setting is lovely. But the game itself is literally Titan Quest with better graphics. The map layouts are similar, the skill system is identical, even some of the skills are identical, even some of the icons are similar. The physics are identical (the enemies fly through the air in exactly the same way if you hit them hard enough). The bonus item addons are identical (gather bits of stuff, add them together and you can add that to a weapon or something for a bonus). You can only undo character loadouts with money (I don't mind having to stick to a char and i'm not a big fan of Path of Exiles totally open system), but it would be nice to have at least a possibility to do a full reset. The similarities is not a bad thing as such as Titan Quest is a good game, but I didn't expect it to literally be Titan Quest with an almost slightly new skin. The bad thing it has in common is how I'm not really a fan of the skills. In Titan Quest I have never found a build I really like, and reading on the different skills it's the same with Grim Dawn. It might be nice, but it will likely feel like a bit of a chore to go through the game.

EDIT: I wouldn't have been dissapointed if reviewers pointed out the similarity to Titan Quest specifically rather than to ARPGs as a while.

I'm surprised Titan Quest is still kicking/lucrative. It was one of the very first games I got on Steam years ago. I never really thought much of it, other than being a good Diablo clone.

 

[Keullo-e]

I said many times that I don't like Overwatch. Guess what game I bought yesterday..?

I fkin like it.

 

[StrayKAT]

I said many times that I don't like Overwatch. Guess what game I bought yesterday..?

I fkin like it.

I'd be a fan of Overwatch if it had story/singleplayer. Heh. That's just not what people play Blizz's games for anymore, I guess. Yet they still retain the same great design and world building they always had. Same goes for WoW.. they fleshed that setting out nicely.. only to block it behind Guild and Auction systems and Raids. And PEOPLE. Ugh.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I tried Titan Quest and didn't get far (like an hour in) before I got distracted/bored. Sad to hear Grim Dawn is a clone because I was looking forward to it based on other recommendations. I have it but haven't tried it yet.


Niffelheim is playable but very rough around the edges. I'm also getting a moderately strong vibe from it that it's meant to be played multiplayer (looks like four teams of four). The music is surprisingly good...very Nordic and orchestral. There's supposed to be "22 fragments" to collect and I haven't seen one yet. In terms of technology tree, I'm not quite half way done.

 

[Keullo-e]

I'd be a fan of Overwatch if it had story/singleplayer. Heh. That's just not what people play Blizz's games for anymore, I guess. Yet they still retain the same great design and world building they always had. Same goes for WoW.. they fleshed that setting out nicely.. only to block it behind Guild and Auction systems and Raids. And PEOPLE. Ugh.

Heh. To be honest, I like the campaigns in CoD's and many other FPS games..

Such a thing in OW would be more than awesome

I tried Titan Quest and didn't get far (like an hour in) before I got distracted/bored. Sad to hear Grim Dawn is a clone because I was looking forward to it based on other recommendations. I have it but haven't tried it yet.


Niffelheim is playable but very rough around the edges. I'm also getting a moderately strong vibe from it that it's meant to be played multiplayer (looks like four teams of four). The music is surprisingly good...very Nordic and orchestral. There's supposed to be "22 fragments" to collect and I haven't seen one yet. In terms of technology tree, I'm not quite half way done.

Diablo II... still the best of its kind.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I got further in Titan Quest than I did Diablo II. I really can't stand dungeon crawlers old (like Diablo) nor new (like Torchlight II).

 

[Frick]

I'd be a fan of Overwatch if it had story/singleplayer. Heh. That's just not what people play Blizz's games for anymore, I guess. Yet they still retain the same great design and world building they always had. Same goes for WoW.. they fleshed that setting out nicely.. only to block it behind Guild and Auction systems and Raids. And PEOPLE. Ugh.

With the LFR (looking for raid) system you can actually get most of the content without having to deal much with people. You have to do them with others, but they're quick and as long as you've read up on the raid and do your job they can even be pretty fun.

 

[Keullo-e]

I got further in Titan Quest than I did Diablo II. I really can't stand dungeon crawlers old (like Diablo) nor new (like Torchlight II).

I spent my whole summer of 2004 playing Diablo II LoD and hack and slash hasn't been the same since.

Titan Quest is good, but not as good.

 

[Frick]

I spent my whole summer of 2004 playing Diablo II LoD and hack and slash hasn't been the same since.

Titan Quest is good, but not as good.

Aye, d2 is still the king. Which is why I'm almost dissapointed in Grim Dawn; a lot of people said it was basically the modern D2, but as I said it's Titan Quest. Torchlight is more Diablo than Titan Quest.

 

[kurosagi01]

Finished Halo 3 from the Master chief collection on Xbone with my older bro playing co-op. Now playing Halo 4 for the first time as I never bought it on 360 at the time, still playing Shining Resonance Refrain on Switch and just recently bought Need For Speed Payback on PC.

 

[Keullo-e]

Felt good to have a comeback. Streamed FF VIII

 

[Space Lynx]

I am now playing Frostpunk thanks to @cucker tarlson good timing too, because Madden 2019 was absolute junk, I uninstalled it after two matches, terrible game... glad I only tried it through Origin Access instead of buying it outright.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Reported a lot of issues with Niffelheim that should be fixed soon. I think I'm going to have to set it aside for the time being because there's very serious balancing issues in the game that makes progress unlikely.

What is clear is that Niffelheim is intended to be a 4 vs 4 vs 4 vs 4 competitive co-op game with the goal being to collect 22 fragments (mostly obtained from killing bosses starting at floor 10 in the dungeons) to escape to Valhalla.


Oh, hey! Teleglitch is fixed so I think I'll (finally) play that!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Finished Teleglitch using Die Less tools (got no time for death). Not a fan of the controls, I don't see how anyone could finish it without hacks, but it is not a bad game.

Bought Dishonored 2 Deluxe which will take a day or two the download. Might as well hack my way through No Man's Sky (hope I don't pass out from boredom).

 

[GreiverBlade]

Shadowruns return...






i was feeling a bit old school after playing some Icewindale plus some BG 1 and 2

so i thought why not take that one for a spin

 

[seagate_surfer]

When time allows (Wife and kids) I play DayZ Standalone, Skyrim, Black Squad (new free beta on Steam), BC2 (over 6k hours) and X Com terror from the deep.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Do people still play those old BF games online ? Cause,for comparison,I tried advanced warfare not so long ago and it was dead as a dodo.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Do people still play those old BF games online ? Cause,for comparison,I tried advanced warfare not so long ago and it was dead as a dodo.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 refuses to die. EA just moved this game along with others to backup servers so it was down for a day or two. You can still find full servers believe it or not.

 

[Kursah]

I was thinking of getting back into BC2. That and CoD4 were my heyday. I am also wanting to try Angels Fall First, picked it up on the Steam Summer Sale, it has some serious promise to fulfill my BF2142 fix. I had a lot of fun in BC2, far more than I ever did in BF3 or 4.

But I'm stuck in the RTS zone, and I keep going further back. While I await Stardock to get Star Control: Origins done so they can put focus back on Ashes of the Singularity, I'm going back to RTS's and the RTS heyday. Putting the 4X's down for the moment...aside from a little GalCiv3 or Sword of the Stars here and there.

Re-installing all C&C's, lately playing C&C95, Tiberian Sun, Total Annihilation + Community Patch, and am going to get some Dark Reign going too. It truly is awesome that all of these games are still within reach and playable on Win10, albeit with some effort and not 100% perfect, but tolerable.

I'm actually thinking I may try the C&C Tiberian Dawn mod for Tiberian Sun soon too. For now, I'm wanting to go through the campaigns and recall the nostalgia of old school RTS gaming. Now if someone could get a Sole Survivor server up and running, I'd be set!

 

[jormungand]

Downloading MHW....

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I have Dishonored 2 downloaded now but No Man's Sky didn't actually put me to sleep yesterday so I think I'm going to keep playing it for the time being. Mind you, only reason why game isn't boring now is because I made 2 billion credits "accidentally" appear in my account. It vastly cut down on the grind to the point the game isn't terrible anymore. It still sucks how much you have to worship RNGesus in this game though. I want a 48 slot S-class Hauler but so far, I've only seen one S-class in total and only one >40 slot Hauler (it was C-class). The randomness of this game is its own undoing; there's not enough clear, organized progression. It shouldn't go full RNG until the second time around.

Edit: Falling asleep waiting for a timer to progress Freighter and Atlas stories two hours later...

Edit: Nap time four hours later...

 

[jormungand]

Well going for it...i dont have screenshots to show what im gonna talk about now cuz for some reason printscreen didn't work.
so far like 15 min in the game, between cinematics and gameplay, i can say this loud right now. TURN Off the Volume Rendering Quality , i havent touch anything else everything max out
AND THE GAME RUNS SMOOTH AS BUTTER , I can see my gpu usage going to 100% and ill dare to say that i havent seen the cpu cores go over 60%.
One thing i notice was that the drop from 60fps to 40s is almost or like unnoticeable because as i said the game runs so good.
Believe me when i say that i was looking for that stuttering frame drop, or another kind of trouble in the gameplay , NONE for those 15 min.
Game looks clean and beautiful.
sorry i dont have more info for now i just downloaded the game (16.7GB) but im gonna try to make those screenshots later
A friend of mine downloaded the game first and his words were...turn off just the VRQ forget about anything else the game runs smooth AF...
His system ,
7700k
16gb
GTx 1080 evga SC
monitor samsung 34 ips 100hz UW even though it doesnt have supp for ultrawide 3440 x1440 with black bars

 

[ShurikN]

Dead Cells.

Metroidvanias are some of my most liked game genres. Mix it up with a bit of Binding of Isaac, and you got yourself Dead Cells.
So far (11h in, got the game 2 days ago), the game is amazing. Looks great, plays great. Has that "pulls you in" mechanic, where you just cant stop playing. Still haven't finished it. Did probably 10 runs, maybe more...

It's currently on a 20% discount (ends Aug 14.)

 

[Capitan Harlock]

Monster Hunter World XD , looks great at 4k .
Before someone come and say how you run it at 4k , well i disabled AA , Lowered Scaling because i don't see the difference between high and medium and Ambient Occlusion lowered from High to low or even disabled and of course Volumetric Rendering off.
Runs great and looks great.