What are you playing?

[Space Lynx]

Completely finished all Dishonored DLC, starting up Dishonored 2 tonight on Steam Deck. (these are my first playthroughs of the series, just a side note)

 

[AlwaysHope]

Been into a modded Oblivion GOTY edition now for the last 6 months already, I love approaching the game with different character builds & reinventing everytime how the character does stuff. Especially so with my list of mods. Are there any newer games that have this "magic" in them today with open world RPG?? Think a lot of them rehash old formulas that made this game infamous during the 2000s.

The mod "000 136 Complete BSA Installer EXE-1526-1-35b" is one of my favourites, this mod is a compilation of many other mods.

A fun moment....

 

[Space Lynx]

Been into a modded Oblivion GOTY edition now for the last 6 months already, I love approaching the game with different character builds & reinventing everytime how the character does stuff. Especially so with my list of mods. Are there any newer games that have this "magic" in them today with open world RPG?? Think a lot of them rehash old formulas that made this game infamous during the 2000s.
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The mod "000 136 Complete BSA Installer EXE-1526-1-35b" is one of my favourites, this mod is a compilation of many other mods.

A fun moment....
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saving this mod list! I have been playing Oblivion off and on (not really playing, just dabbling) recently got it for free on GoG during one of the giveaways. My first time playing it, so just doing vanilla right now, and I really like it even just as vanilla so far, surprised I never gave this game a chance. I will def use these mods on a playthrough of the entire story someday though, thank you for the screen shot!

 

[Beginner Macro Device]

Starcraft: Brood War and Starcraft II (my skill is a negative number, I play just for fun).
Cyberpunk 2077.
Worms: Armageddon.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018.
Max Payne I and II.
Grand Theft Auto III.
Postal II.
FlatOut II.

 

[AlwaysHope]

saving this mod list! I have been playing Oblivion off and on (not really playing, just dabbling) recently got it for free on GoG during one of the giveaways. My first time playing it, so just doing vanilla right now, and I really like it even just as vanilla so far, surprised I never gave this game a chance. I will def use these mods on a playthrough of the entire story someday though, thank you for the screen shot!

It's a good game if you can handle the limitations of DX9 but some mods can improve visuals. The creativity in making this game in the first place is one of the best open world RPG ever made imo. I thought Skyrim was awesome but now Oblivion took that title. Hope TES VI is at least as good when its released.

 

[Klemc]

Marlow Briggs (needs DSR set to desktop) 5k on 1440p OLED

EDIT: i just killed a dragon... in MBriggs !!

 

[KrazyT]

I remember scaling difficulty and loot in Oblivion...
I think is a bad idea, it completely cut the exploration.
In Morrowind, it was worth checking and sneaking everywhere, good loot to find.
What I rembember of Oblivion was checking some cave only to find rusty swords :/

 

[SN2716057]

Well shit. [Arma 3]

The 8 exploded just before 'landing' in the water.

 

[Splinterdog]

Play something else.

Again, play something else.

No thank you.

 

[Klemc]

Dishonored, near end

 

[64K]

Dishonored, near end

Great game. Did you play it like a stealth game to avoid the rat and zombie attacks? The DLC is decent to. Worth a playthrough if you already have it.

 

[Klemc]

Great game. Did you play it like a stealth game to avoid the rat and zombie attacks? The DLC is decent to. Worth a playthrough if you already have it.

No, i'm not good enough, i do how i can...

... i've this OLED 27" now, will start play in half an hour, level is when the guy driving the boat tells what he thinks about the main chatacter...

Oh PS, it has HDTex mod applied too, not played since i added it, justs tested (Nexus)

 

[lexluthermiester]

No thank you.

Then deal with the lameness of EA's nonsense.

 

[Vayra86]

I think that's your 8700k crying in pain. I see locked 144 or 165 fps in linux and windows @ 1440p ultra settings with really low GPU utilization no matter the scene.

You'd see much better performance by upgrading to either Raptor Lake or Zen 4.

Yeah having played more I can confirm. Definitely feels like cpu stutter

I definitely prefer the _other_ paradox game... games. Stellaris seems to remove a lot of things that gave the other games depth and strategy.

Like leaders are here in Stellaris, but the royal lineage system from Crusader Kings is just better. Ship combat is interesting in Stellaris, but Hearts of Iron really mastered army compositions and I had way more fun with that combat-wise than the "group into a death ball" meta that Stellaris turns into. (Like, actually having a defensive line is possible in Hearts of Iron due to "Front" mechanics, and stacking too many units in one area leads to supply-issues in HoI3... but there's no supply line in Stellaris)

Stellaris seems like an honest attempt from Paradox games to take their engine and try to make a 4x game out of it. But... Civ is just better at 4x. What Paradox Games is good at, isn't 4X, but these other "grand strategy" games like Hearts of Iron or whatever. IMO anyway.

You hit the nail on the head there. Stellaris still isnt a fantastic 4X. Immersive yes. But not as good as a game

 

[nomdeplume]

I believe Snowrunner is famous for violently launching you across the map in a whirling ball of metal due to some quirk of the physics engine.

It took a few minutes of head scratching after reading this to remember what you were talking about. Want to say I had this happen to a trailer once while (dis)connecting to it under challenging circumstances.

Which brings me fully back into mind why I put this game down for my own continued health. Every (I own no DLC) vehicle in the area you start at is mediocre to task at best. They are staged there to make you learn the game well enough to appreciate what lies in the next area(s). Being the dummkopf I am, I decided turning early game into an endgame like scenario by pushing through it was going to be fun and challenging. One mission intended to be dealt with after progressing much further ended up breaking me when skill and patience proved inferior. All of this was done in hopes an update would arrive bringing certain behaviors more closely into line with previous releases in this series.

It's a pain in the rear but what to do if it's not available anywhere else? There are no NFS games on GOG and on every other platform such as Steam or Game Pass, the crappy EA app is mandatory.

Made the same hard decision with FH.

 

[Space Lynx]

No, i'm not good enough, i do how i can...

... i've this OLED 27" now, will start play in half an hour, level is when the guy driving the boat tells what he thinks about the main chatacter...

Oh PS, it has HDTex mod applied too, not played since i added it, justs tested (Nexus)

Don't feel bad, I was only able to balance about half in half of non-lethal to lethal playthrough of Dishonored. It is hard to do full stealth.

 

[silentbogo]

Catching up on some older stuff which I missed over the past few years. This time Wasteland 3 is on the menu.
I'm on my 3rd run, trying to finish the game on Supreme Jerk difficulty, and then all I have left is some achievement hunting.
The game is very underappreciated. Unfortunately I did not buy DLC right away, but even the base game already ate up over 120 hours of "me-time".

 

[jormungand]

Rank 30 grinding a lot waiting for a friend to catch up so we can continue to Rank 40
The division 2 is really immersive and time consuming lol

 

[Klemc]

OLED, yes, not a game, this technology is addictive, i will play a lot af games starting from now on

 

[Frick]

Catching up on some older stuff which I missed over the past few years. This time Wasteland 3 is on the menu.
I'm on my 3rd run, trying to finish the game on Supreme Jerk difficulty, and then all I have left is some achievement hunting.
The game is very underappreciated. Unfortunately I did not buy DLC right away, but even the base game already ate up over 120 hours of "me-time".


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How is it compared to the second game? I really wanted to like it but found the combat to be a bit dull, and there was too much of it.

 

[nomdeplume]

Hunter: COTW is finally starting to get rewarding enough to casually jump into without needing to be prepared for lethargy just in time for the next major update to reset everything. Taken a fair amount of time and work to recover from whatever horrid effect cheaters in mp had when I was unknowingly acting as server.

Trophy level female are highly rare but not as exceptionally so as say a Diamond Albino. EGS = No in game screenshots, so potato.

 

[silentbogo]

How is it compared to the second game? I really wanted to like it but found the combat to be a bit dull, and there was too much of it.

Haven't played the second one, but W3 is still combat-centric. Though, according to reviews many things have been improved and simplified comparing to Wasteland 2.
At least for me their formula works. After a couple of playthroughs you start to think more about preparing for combat rather than combat itself. Character development, tight skill specialization, and loadouts matter a lot. And once you get accustomed to how things work, you usually end up beating each encounter in 2-3 full turns anyways (except for highest difficulty, but even then it's not that tedious).
I think the only game from inXile that I've played in the past was The Bard's Tale(2004). But I spent my happy student years playing the s$%t out of Fallout, Arcanum, Desperados etc.

Don't feel bad, I was only able to balance about half in half of non-lethal to lethal playthrough of Dishonored. It is hard to do full stealth.

Dunno, the first game was super-easy. I think I only messed up Brigmore Witches on my first attempt, but both main campaign and Knife of Dunwall - first try.
Dishonored 2 was much harder in that regard.

....which reminds me... I still have 5 more achievements to get in this one (all from DLC challenge maps). Probably next on my playlist.

 

[Laurijan]

Just beat Vampire Swansong. Despite of Metacritic fail I liked it. Now I get to test my new RTX 4070 TI with RE4 Remake

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

Currently i've been playing (with all settings set to Ultra):
1. Assassin's Creed: Unity
2. Assassin's Creed: Origins
3. Far Cry 5
4. Far Cry 5: New Dawn

 

[Vayra86]

The last blow from the Shambler...

Had it at 3 HP! AArgh

Also. --> Post #18,000. Wow