What are you playing?

nomdeplume · Sep 19, 2024

Broke into top 100 of worldwide ranking in FH5 Hide and Seek. Top 25 would mean dedicating 7x more hours daily just to stay 7x behind.
Honestly where I stopped is a pretty low bar I have every intent to move away from before (cheaters discover an exploit in time for the next update) getting crushed.

Frick · Sep 19, 2024

Frick said:
So restarting Fallout New Vegas and the Steam version is ... really shitty. Installing the mods that are supposedly bug fixing made things like buildings and entire mountains flash in and out of existance until I alt-tabbed out and in again, until alt-tabbing back stopped working. I'm just going to find the old "aquired" installation files because the first full playthrough I did didn't have any bugs at all that I remember. Everything sucks, why do everything suck so very much and why does everything suck more with each passing day, even decade old games? I hate everything so much.

So instead I'm playing Rimworld while watching Agents of SHIELD, remembering a time when there was some things that weren't sucky (MCU Golden Age).

And hey the flickering? It's in the save file! Completely reinstalling the game and the mods I used (the ones that were supposed to fix the bugs in the Steam version) and the flickering remains, and loading the save in a completely new install still flickers! At this point I will confidentaly say mods ruins more things than improves them (seeing how many hours of gametime I'm loosing because I'm playing modded games, I had a survival-Skyrim thing going and there were some updates and POOF nah, no more, it's all gone, worth nothing).

I HATE EVERYTHING SO MUCH

SN2716057 said:
Thank dog my old save (now without mods though) still works. On to nuclear powerrrr!

In addition to the above it might be that Bethesda are especially bad at EVERYTHING and when they make their most coherent game in modern times (Starfield) people get angry at them, because what people want from a Bethsoft game is bugs and a shitty engine and shitty writing so their little minds can focus on something other than wanking for a minute and turn to modding and thinking metric shitloads of bad writing is what makes for immershun.

Phew that "other version" works, with the save that Steam can't handle. STRANGE ISN'T IT

Vayra86 · Sep 19, 2024

Finally started with Death Stranding. Kojima, you're a fcking legend. Its the most tedious and boring looking gameplay but he had me by the balls straight from the prologue, I forgot to pee for 5 hours straight I think. And it just looks absolutely fantastic, too. I'm collecting wallpaper material like a madman here.

Hyderz · Sep 20, 2024

Vayra86 said:
Finally started with Death Stranding. Kojima, you're a fcking legend. Its the most tedious and boring looking gameplay but he had me by the balls straight from the prologue, I forgot to pee for 5 hours straight I think. And it just looks absolutely fantastic, too. I'm collecting wallpaper material like a madman here.

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oh very nice ultrawide

Vayra86 · Sep 20, 2024

Hyderz said:
oh very nice ultrawide

Yeah... 98% ultrawide apparently, strangely, the game always cuts off a bunch of pixels on every UW res.

Frick · Sep 20, 2024

Vayra86 said:
Finally started with Death Stranding. Kojima, you're a fcking legend. Its the most tedious and boring looking gameplay but he had me by the balls straight from the prologue, I forgot to pee for 5 hours straight I think. And it just looks absolutely fantastic, too. I'm collecting wallpaper material like a madman here.

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I will also say I don't think I have laughed as hard at a game as when I saw that baby. Absolutely bonkers, but it also makes sense, doesn't it?

Sithaer · Sep 21, 2024

Slowly making progress in Warhammer Martyr 'around lvl 30 atm' and also playing from one save point till the next in Callisto Protocol. 'I actually kind of like the game so far'
Other than that I'm busy playing my free2play gachas as usual, have to say Wuthering Waves is my big 2024 surprise.
Yeh its a gacha but it doesn't force it up on you since even the free characters are capable once leveled/geared up and if I can pull a limited character every 2-3 months then I'm all good.
The side stories and events are great and the cut scenes are simply amazing at this point. 'combat is insanely fun and addictive at least for me as an ex Vindictus player'

@jormungand

We got the free skin for the most popular voted character in the game and well yea.. :laugh:

For the record she HATES it. :laugh:

jormungand · Sep 21, 2024

Jumped in my EGS library to see what i got that could get my interest back again for gaming and
found Trek to Yomi. So simple straight forward and at the same time refreshing to lay back , grab the controller
( rare the time i play with that) and enjoy the game.
i appreciate the UW support in this kind of game.

Ruru · Sep 21, 2024

Nah fuck all the modern games. I'll start a season in NHL 98!

Aken Bosch · Sep 21, 2024

Frostpunk 2. I'm pulling my hair out and I'm loving it!

Vayra86 · Sep 21, 2024

Frick said:
I will also say I don't think I have laughed as hard at a game as when I saw that baby. Absolutely bonkers, but it also makes sense, doesn't it?

I don't know yet I'm in chapter 3 now, the basic sense of what they do sure, but clearly there's more?

Aken Bosch said:
Frostpunk 2. I'm pulling my hair out and I'm loving it!

Is it a good 1.0 release? It looks like they did touch on all the points that made part 1 not last quite as long as I'd wanted.

lexluthermiester · Sep 21, 2024

Ruru said:
Nah fuck all the modern games. I'll start a season in NHL 98!

Super Tecmo Bowl 3 thank you very much! Best football game of the 16bit era!

Vayra86 said:
Is it a good 1.0 release? It looks like they did touch on all the points that made part 1 not last quite as long as I'd wanted.

Yes. So far it does seem to be a stable bug/glitch free release.

Aken Bosch · Sep 21, 2024

Vayra86 said:
Is it a good 1.0 release? It looks like they did touch on all the points that made part 1 not last quite as long as I'd wanted.

I'm only in chapter 2 at the moment. Optimization is crap, i get 45-52 fps on ultra and 55-62 on high at 1440p.
Gameplay wise the focus moved from individual buildings to districts; politics play a semnificant role, resources are scarce as in the first part, but manageable, interface and notifications could use a bit of polish, but nothing game breaking.
Also can't say anything about the lenght of the campaign so far, but Utopia mode seems solid from what I've read about it.
Overall I'd say a solid 8.5/10 so far.

Sithaer · Sep 21, 2024

Ruru said:
Nah fuck all the modern games. I'll start a season in NHL 98!

I've always disliked the sport games, well I'm not exactly a sports person in general other than casually working out. :laugh:

I think the only 'sport' games that I've kind of liked were the old Grand Prix Formula 1 games. :oops:

'used to watch F1 back in the days, not anymore tho'

jormungand · Sep 21, 2024

Looking very close the Tony Hawk 1+2 steam, i was a big fan of the series but atm i dont know if it is nostalgia.
Game looks good but i think that still missing something... maybe cuz my fav was Tony Hawk Underground

Hyderz · Sep 21, 2024

Anyone gonna play the new silent hill 2 ?

Princess Garnet · Sep 21, 2024

Hyderz said:
Anyone gonna play the new silent hill 2 ?

I plan to, yes. We're living in a small survival horror renaissance as of the last five years or so, and I'm all for it! (Now please just let the Final Fantasy IX remake rumors come to light and for it to be good, and maybe I'll consider saying the same about JRPGs.)

I also hope they'll consider remaking Silent Hill 3 and even 4 if this one does well. Well, that leaves the original one, too.

harm9963 · Sep 21, 2024

God of War RAGNAROK

Ruru · Sep 21, 2024

Ruru said:
Nah fuck all the modern games. I'll start a season in NHL 98!

Played a match Finland vs Sweden and I won 6-5, not any modern hockey game can get that feeling as NHL98...

silentbogo · Sep 21, 2024

After a long wait I've decided to give Fallout 76 a try, especially since it went FtP awhile ago.
Overall, I'm even more disappointed than first reviewers and pre-orderers. The game has been out for so long, and still has critical bugs even in main quests.
For some reason most keycards and some interactable items don't work for me at all.
I've only been playing for 3 days and already I had to use "photo mode" glitch 4 or 5 times to be able to progress through some quests.
My internal nostradamus tells me I'll never be able to finish even the main quest line in this thing, let alone do some proper exploration.
Basically it's even worse than Fallout 4, which I've only been able to finish(for the very first time) a few months back, when the "next gen" update came out. Tried for several years, but only now I've got a semi-decent playthough which wasn't borked by a critical game-breaking bug(or didn't kill my saves).

64K · Sep 21, 2024

silentbogo said:
After a long wait I've decided to give Fallout 76 a try, especially since it went FtP awhile ago.
Overall, I'm even more disappointed than first reviewers and pre-orderers. The game has been out for so long, and still has critical bugs even in main quests.
For some reason most keycards and some interactable items don't work for me at all.
I've only been playing for 3 days and already I had to use "photo mode" glitch 4 or 5 times to be able to progress through some quests.
My internal nostradamus tells me I'll never be able to finish even the main quest line in this thing, let alone do some proper exploration.
Basically it's even worse than Fallout 4, which I've only been able to finish(for the very first time) a few months back, when the "next gen" update came out. Tried for several years, but only now I've got a semi-decent playthough which wasn't borked by a critical game-breaking bug(or didn't kill my saves).

Bethesda happens.
I have yet to finish the main story in Fallout 4 let alone a lot of the side quests.

Frick · Sep 21, 2024

Vayra86 said:
I don't know yet I'm in chapter 3 now, the basic sense of what they do sure, but clearly there's more?

I've played for a few hours (there are chapters to this game???), I'm talking about an early cut-scene.

kilo · Sep 22, 2024

Playing Ultima 7 and Serpent Isle again. I made a gif of the black sword.

As a side note, this is 7 frames at 200ms. The animation is 8 frames, however, every time I export the 8-frame version gimp glitches on me.

Splinterdog · Sep 22, 2024

It never gets old, especially since I upgraded to to 5700X3D and reset the mem to DOCP.

lexluthermiester · Sep 22, 2024

Splinterdog said:
It never gets old, especially since I upgraded to to 5700X3D and reset the mem to DOCP.
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Black Mesa? Or a texture/GFX pack for HL1?

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What are you playing?

nomdeplume

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

Vayra86

Hyderz

Vayra86

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

Sithaer

jormungand

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

Aken Bosch

Vayra86

lexluthermiester

Aken Bosch

Sithaer

jormungand

Hyderz

Princess Garnet

harm9963

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

silentbogo

Moderator

64K

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

kilo

Splinterdog

lexluthermiester

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