What are you playing?

[Klemc]

Harold Halibut, a game dev took fifteen years to make !:

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Playing Painkiller RTX

 

[Sithaer]

Finshed DOOM Dark Ages and I've really liked this one and it might be my fav one from the reboot serie, the combat is so damn fluid and smooth + the slayer is even more badass than usual.
I guess the only negative I can say about it is the soundtrack which is still the best in 2016 imo. 'Mick Gordon did not compose for Dark Ages'

Borderlands 3 a little now since it was on sale for like $4

For $4 you really can't go wrong, I've paid the full price for the entire game and its DLCs which was a lot of money but I have zero regrets since I've ended up with ~1100+ hours spent in BL 3 so it very well paid for itself in my case. 'Buying BL 4 on day 1 too, pretty sure that I will get my money worth all the same..'

 

[Ruru]

Continuing some comfy driving in Gran Turismo 6. Still hella amazed how good a PS3 game can look.

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Finshed DOOM Dark Ages and I've really liked this one and it might be my fav one from the reboot serie, the combat is so damn fluid and smooth + the slayer is even more badass than usual.
I guess the only negative I can say about it is the soundtrack which is still the best in 2016 imo. 'Mick Gordon did not compose for Dark Ages'


For $4 you really can't go wrong, I've paid the full price for the entire game and its DLCs which was a lot of money but I have zero regrets since I've ended up with ~1100+ hours spent in BL 3 so it very well paid for itself in my case. 'Buying BL 4 on day 1 too, pretty sure that I will get my money worth all the same..'

Heh, still haven't played even Eternal, bought it previously from Steam sale for 10EUR. Doom 2016 was dope, gotta admit, awesome OST!

 

[Cvrk]

yes. it's out on PC.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Finished The Witcher III a few weeks ago, amazing game. I then started playing through the Souls games again. I'm not great at these tbh. Getting nearer to 50 and my reactions are not what they once were I've had at least one ending though in all of them now so DS1, DS2, DS3, Bloodborne, Elden Ring & Sekiro. All of them apart from Demon Souls. I'd love it if they brought the new one to PC as I've never played the original. Tempted to use an emulator and play through it but not sure.

Currently playing through DS2 again but trying out magic for the first time with a character. I love the hub of Majula, the feel and the music are so relaxing. Using only visual mods as I hate altering gameplay unless it's tragically broken and needs it.

DS2 SOTFS

 

[Shihab]

Started playing The Sinking City. Made the mistake of running the "remastered" version first, and even before the first frame finished rendering, the fans of my card blasted like a turbofan taking off. Damned thing brought my 1080 to its knees even with everything at low! Only with 720p+FSR could I get it up to 60hz.

The original version performed much better, although I have to admit, the atmo of the remaster was much better (but I'm pretty sure the "I need that 300m far away brick to render as sharp as the my crosshair's tip" gang would disagree). Pity it costs so much to run it, but I suppose we can't avoid the logarithmic nature of the fidelity-perf cost relationship.

That said, I'm finding it difficult to like this game. So far, its only pulls are the aesthetics and the "lore." I do enjoy reading the letters and the notes, and the level artists really went to town (pun partially intended) with Oakmont. I can't say I like the combat, and I *want* to say the detective side seems promising, but I'd hardly call walking around till I find something with an action prompt hovering over engaging. I was intrigued by the research mechanism, but now I'm starting to feel that it itself is limited by the hand-holding, prompt-driven system (it practically tells you when you need to do it). Saying this after wasting 10 minutes at the police station trying to look up the records of anything relevant to what's in the letters the innkeeper gives you.

I'll give it one more run tomorrow. Perhaps it gets better as you play through it.

 

[Sithaer]

Yep I think I will be busy with this for a while. 'I'm still waiting to get my new card but luckily it runs really well on my 3060 Ti so its fine'
+Stellar Blade collab in Nikke so I'm maxing out the culture now.

 

[Princess Garnet]

While I'm certainly glad that gaming has gotten more narrative over the years and offers deeper worlds, stories, and characters (one of my favorite genres is JRPGs, after all), sometimes I wish there were still games where the primary focus was on their gameplay loops, and then only layered as simple a story as necessary on top.

Case in point; the villains in the older Spyro games has a bit of a "Saturday morning cartoon" feel, and I wouldn't mind seeing it a bit more. It's cheesy and campy but that's not always a bad thing. No deep lore that you need to engage in forum discussions after finishing the game to fully realize, no entire wikis necessary because the game doesn't explain itself, you can just pick it up and play. It's not necessarily bad when those aforementioned things are true, but it's also nice to have a simpler game once in a while to balance those things out. I know there's plenty of games that still meet this (namely indies and probably Nintendo titles in particularly, and maybe some first party Sony games to a lesser extent with things like Rachet and Clank), but I wish there were still more higher budget/polish triple A/PC games that were like this.

Nearing the end of Year of the Dragon now.

This mini-game (if you want to call it one) pleasantly surprised me. Even near the end of the game, I'm finding new ones, and I loved going down the slide! This one (Year of the Dragon) really does improve on the second one (Ripto's Rage) by not feeling like its overusing any single mini-game/power up too much.

Lara Croft reference? It was easy to think "oh, that's an obvious reference because it's so known as its older now" only to realize the reference would have been current day when this game was originally released.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Enjoying Stellar Bunzz so far, I mean Blade....

 

[Shou Miko]

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Yep I think I will be busy with this for a while. 'I'm still waiting to get my new card but luckily it runs really well on my 3060 Ti so its fine'
+Stellar Blade collab in Nikke so I'm maxing out the culture now.

with a price between 81-90euros I feel this is really expensive to be honest.

I tried the demo on steam and it feels like it's running really well on my rig.

 

[Sithaer]

with a price between 81-90euros I feel this is really expensive to be honest.

I tried the demo on steam and it feels like it's running really well on my rig.

Got it for 67.
That and it does have a decent extra value in it for me since I do play Nikke on a daily basis and the complete edition comes with a gacha skin for one of my fav character in the game. 'That skin on its own cost about 50-60 depending on your luck and I wasn't planning to buy that skin but now I can have it as an extra'

 

[Frick]

you played the planet crafter? The world changes as you progress the game.

Spoiler: hint & spolier

From a desert to a jungle

Sorry for the snarky reply man, I just re-read it and it was bad.

Anyway my base is flooding! This is a really nice game. The Planet Crafter, I should add.

Anyway Deathloop was free on Epic last week so I'm trying that and my first reaction is holy moly mouse look is slow. In FPS games I like to (sort of) follow the old wisdom "you should be able to turn around on a quarter" and in this game it's impossible no matter the settings and no matter what settings I change on the mouse. If I max out everything my medium sized mousepad is just big enough to do a 360 degree turn.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Got it for 67.
That and it does have a decent extra value in it for me since I do play Nikke on a daily basis and the complete edition comes with a gacha skin for one of my fav character in the game. 'That skin on its own cost about 50-60 depending on your luck and I wasn't planning to buy that skin but now I can have it as an extra'

Same.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Suddenly I felt like replaying Metro Last Light because I got flashback on some of the scenes. I have the Redux version and play that one first but I haven't touch the original version at all so I just give this a go. Still, just look at it. I'm totally fine if newer games uses this engine. Still looks great, and runs on 3050 mobile just fine.

 

[TommyT]

online

Vermintide 2 and darktide ...

 

[FairThunder]

Look at this:

 

[Frick]

So Deathloop got all that praise, and from the tutorial/intro I fail to see why.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

So Deathloop got all that praise, and from the tutorial/intro I fail to see why.

From paid by the publisher critics sure, From actual real people it was mixed with some loving it and others hating it.

 

[overclockedamd]

So Deathloop got all that praise, and from the tutorial/intro I fail to see why.

It was mediocre at best in my opinion I paid full price almost day one because of the hype. Never finished it and don't have any want to. Super repetitive boring gameplay imho.

 

[kurosagi01]

Yeah boyyy after 10+ attempts of trying to beat the demi-fiend on hard + challenge difficulty on the virtual trainer.
I am finally triumphant, don't think you can call it a cheese strat as i've built all my demons accordingly which is a must.
The finally clutch moment using the 4 hit move Magatsuhi.

The squad

Part 2

Didn't really use Artemis, Namaah, Dagda,Shiva and Lucifier or the Riders.
MVP:
Comboing Beelzebub + Abdiel to KO Pixie ASAP with dark moves.
Masakado with his unique Almighty skill which is near guaranteed criticals
Khonsu Ra with his unique skill to do fire damage + lower atk, Amon with his unique AOE that has piercing damage
Healers - Idun, Tao and Sakuya. Danu was backup