What are you playing?

[EzioAs]

Finished A Hat in Time. Definitely a great and fun game and totally worth subscribing to the Humble Monthly to get this one. Next, I'll try completing God Eater Resurrection by the end of the week (don't know how far along I am now) and then start to find a new game to install.

 

[rtwjunkie]

It is, but I invest pretty much all points and resources into neuromods and it balances out the difficulty for the next runs very nicely. Ammo and guns are very ineffective in prey,they're fine againt small enemies. Investing in alien dna is the shit, against bigger enemies you really have to jedi mind your way through, and it gets easier with better skills.

Next time you play the main game, do it as pure human, no alien DNA. It make the game a lot more challenging. I played that way and loved it!

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I feel like it's only a couple days ago since you said you were waiting for it to finish download

July 22 is when I bought it and it took 3-4 days to download. Been playing it ever since (80 hours at this point). Only missing four achievements from the base game. One will take a long time because I need to let one of my fortresses get overrun.

 

[tami626]

#cantcuckthetuck

So, I recently started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and I thought I could try my luck at cucker tarlson's awesome giveaway.

 

[Space Lynx]

#cantcuckthetuck

@cucker tarlson
i just downloaded this yesterday on Origin Premier, first Madden game on PC in a long time, i still am not good at it. I think I prefer Madden 2008 on PC still to these newer ones, they just feel so clunky.

 

[StrayKAT]

Downloading my whole game library on new machine. I might actually play through Diablo though.. with the HD/Beelzebub mod.

^ That vid is wrong though.. "any resolution" = 4k seems to align everything off screen. I've had that issue with a few old games. So 1080p it is.

 

[Disparia]

Finished Rise of the Triad (2013), was alright. While I do have some nostalgia for the original ROTT, its mostly from the multi-player experience. So like the original, the story mode is one and done for me.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I haven't even played 8 hours of No Man's Sky yet and it's on the verge of putting me to sleep twice. Coming from the high intensity/action of Shadow of War to No Man's Sky and...my body wants to nap.

 

[StrayKAT]

I haven't even played 8 hours of No Man's Sky yet and it's on the verge of putting me to sleep twice. Coming from the high intensity/action of Shadow of War to No Man's Sky and...my body wants to nap.

It's because it's not a game

Even the damn "Start Screen" is pretentious.

 

[cucker tarlson]

spread the word

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/frostpunk-giveaway.246481/#post-3879891

 

[arni-gx]

MMO WOT, WT, AW ..... ^^

 

[gamerman]

playing all of time chess games,now Sparkchess and windowschess and Virtualpool 3 offline,sometimes online also not so offen virtualpool 4

and,myfavorite are fps games, all crysis,Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six games and other... im fps player,usually offline, online games are too active & hurry.

but i plan to start anytime The Witcher 3

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I think I've had all I can handle of No Man's Sky. It's literally put me to sleep three times in 17 hours. The UI is terrible, controls are poor, and game design is atrocious. I was hoping they fixed the issues with the patches but apparently they did not. I thought DAI and MEA suffered from MMO grind but this is far worse. Inventory is too small, everything requires a lot of materials, and I feel like a slave monkey playing fetch quests all the time just to progress. Then I upgraded my multi-tool and it lost the upgrades I just slaved over to upgrade my previous one. Planets only have limited resource types so you have to planet hop to, for example, repair a crash landed star ship. Taking off requires launch thruster fuel and you need fuel to travel between planets with the pulse engine so go fetch material to do a thing to do another thing to do the things you actually want to do. Layers of grind! Seriously! Bioware would be jealous!

And the UI is beyond stupid. Almost every action requires holding the mouse on it. Apply graphic settings? Hold the mouse on it. Quit? Hold the mouse on it. Are you sure you want to quit? Hold the mouse on it. It's almost like this game (a glorified walking simulator) was designed for tablets.

Not to mention the !@#%ing sentinals. They'll pursue you on the ground and they'll pursue you in space. If you're not near a planet in space, death is guaranteed because their numbers are infinite and you can't escape them without flying at a reduced speed (because enemies, oh no!) for probably an hour (it was showing 40 minutes in my case) with them hot on your tail the whole way.

I finished what I assume was the tutorial and now it shows a path to get to the galactic core. Is that where I'm supposed to go to progress the story? If yes, !@#$ no! One jump away from my original star system and now I basically have to start over because of my tiny inventory. I have no antimatter to get back to where I came from. Yay, grind some more! Progress feels like regress. Judging by the universe map, I'm going to need a nap every 5 hours of playing this game and there's at least a dozen more jumps to the galactic core so 60 more naps? [facepalm.jpg] I don't want to play this any more. Offer me $1000 to finish it and I'd decline it.

I'm so disappointed, especially considering how they've extended support to fix the issues. There is fun to be had in this game but it's so buried behind poor game design.


Edit: Looking at the recent reviews on Steam, they echo what I said above. Like literally word for word:

The game is 5% 'Oh wow special gaming moment', 10% 'I feel alive exploring the universe' and 85% mindless resource gathering and crafting / managing meters. Like any addiction, you live for the high of jumping to a new system, then deal with the much longer low of resupply.

Edit: I'm going to tear into Shadow of War's expansions now.

 

[OneMoar]

https://xboxdvr.com/gamer/onemoar/video/36383516
EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Started The Blade of Galadriel and recorded one of the fights for @cucker tarlson

#cantcuckthetuck

I'm liking this expansion because she's got a very different play style from Talion (also a nice departure from the duldrums of No Man's Sky). Speaking of NMS, I'll probably come back to it within the next month breaking out the h4x to vastly reduce the grind.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Loving prey mooncrash more and more as I progress. I recently tried some multiplayer games, played more than 200 hrs of division and battlefront 2. While they are good and provide hundreds of hours of pretty cool gameplay modes,a good single player can really immerse you more. 10 hrs of mooncrash dlc and I remembered how much I love what arkane has done with prey and dishonored 2. And as soon as I'm finished with with prey I've got death of the outsider to try,and I'm sure it'll kick ass.

 

[spectatorx]

Post for frostpunk giveaway. #cantcuckthetuck

 

[rtwjunkie]

I've been playing Echo. This game is stunning looking, bug-free, and has legitimate AI that learns from your actions. It is challenging, and fun.....but dang, after 2 hours it is already a grind. Endless hallways to next objective to pick up a key which brings you to a door to open and head to next objective. Yes the lights go out occasionally. That is where things get interesting. In the dark, the AI "resets", and learns to do what you did in the previous light period. So, if you shot a bunch of your lookalikes, they will shoot at you. In the dark however, you have free reign! Shoot as many as you encounter without worry. You can stealth, you can leap down balconies....and there you go. That's about it. Yeah, grindey.

Yet, I want to finish. The story goes on in the excellent dialogue between your character, voiced flawlessly by Rose Leslie, and her AI computer aboard ship, voiced by Nick Boulton. He also does an excellent job, and the antagonism between them is believable, with London (the computer) grudgingly doing what he must to keep her suit and weapon in working order in between debating and arguing.

I think short spurts can get me to the end of this without being put off too badly by run, sneak, kick, hide, wait for dark, shoot, jump a railing and run down the 100th mile of beautiful palace corridor, and then repeated again.

 

[Disparia]

Just finished up first run of Torchlight II, quite good.

 

[StrayKAT]

Digging up patches for a few more old games (like Diablo above). Kotor surprisingly sucks though.. there isn't anything reliable to get widescreen working correctly. :\ Anyone manage this?

I had a CRT monitor up until last year, just lying around. Now I wish I never got rid of it.

 

[Space Lynx]

Digging up patches for a few more old games (like Diablo above). Kotor surprisingly sucks though.. there isn't anything reliable to get widescreen working correctly. :\ Anyone manage this?

I had a CRT monitor up until last year, just lying around. Now I wish I never got rid of it.

I also regret getting rid of my CRT monitor.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I think I either played KOTOR windowed or 1600x1200 (which my 1920x1200 monitor natively supports). I still have two functional 17" CRTs here but I don't use them for anything other to check if they still work.


Finished Blade of Galadriel and almost ready to finish Desolation of Mordor. I think I like the gameplay/mechanics of Desolation of Mordor above the base game and Blade of Galadriel. The pressure of knowing you only have one life coupled with an endless inventory upgrade system make for a much more fun and tactical experience. If they make another game, I hope they build it off of the concepts pioneered in Desolation of Mordor.

 

[Space Lynx]

I think I either played KOTOR windowed or 1600x1200 (which my 1920x1200 monitor natively supports). I still have two functional 17" CRTs here but I don't use them for anything other to check if they still work.


Finished Blade of Galadriel and almost ready to finish Desolation of Mordor. I think I like the gameplay/mechanics of Desolation of Mordor above the base game and Blade of Galadriel. The pressure of knowing you only have one life coupled with an endless inventory upgrade system make for a much more fun and tactical experience. If they make another game, I hope they build it off of the concepts pioneered in Desolation of Mordor.

Lot of people in Steam reviews seemed to say the same thing about the DLC for that game. I really loved the first game, especially when I would start chaining combos at the end game, it was quite the thrill with Uruks on screen. I am still waiting to play Shadow of War, I think I am going to start up Ni No Kuni II tonight, I am getting bored of Madden.

 

[StrayKAT]

I guess Windowed mode will have to do for Kotor.

I still haven't played the first Mordor game... but I own it.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I still haven't played the first Mordor game... but I own it.

It's worth playing just to experience the Nemesis system. It is very unique.


Finished Desolation of Mordor and I'm very disappointed in my score:

There's a few achievements I want to get in Shadow of War before I move on to Niffelheim tomorrow.


Edit: Took hours but totally worth it ("It came from within" achievement where you install spies as all of the warchiefs so when you go to siege the fortress, only the overlord is an obstacle). There's only four achievements left and I have no interest in doing any of them so on to Niffelheim!