What are you playing?

[Disparia]

Finished up Saints Row: The Third. That was an improvement over 2 in pretty much every way imaginable. When I bought The Third (along with 2 and IV in a bundle) it came with all DLC too. I don't know how much that added over vanilla gameplay but it's pretty safe to say that I'll never play 2 again, but The Third has a good chance at replay in the future.



Only has a few ultra wide glitches; that gray St texture in top left never goes away and your last achievement shows fully when you get it then hides off to the right. It's otherwise a good experience. 2011 release, so no issues running maxed the entire time on my 2015 mid-range GPU.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Saints Row 2 I thought had the better story/characters. Saints Row 3 is where they started getting ridiculous and each title thereafter got more and more ridiculous. Now it's so ridiculous, they don't know what to do with it (hence no 5).

Now I have to choose between Rise of the Tomb Raider and Skyrim...

Bethesda made up my mind for me:

I'd have to play without the unofficial patch which doesn't sound very fun at all.


Rise of the Tomb Raider, here I come!

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I'm speechless right now because...

Spoiler: Oh the humanity!

First achievement unlocked:

Spoiler: There's a meme for this

...this day isn't going how I expected it to.

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Finally actually playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and so far so good...

 

[StrayKAT]

Saints Row 2 I thought had the better story/characters. Saints Row 3 is where they started getting ridiculous and each title thereafter got more and more ridiculous. Now it's so ridiculous, they don't know what to do with it (hence no 5).


Bethesda made up my mind for me:

I'd have to play without the unofficial patch which doesn't sound very fun at all.


Rise of the Tomb Raider, here I come!

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I'm speechless right now because...

Spoiler: Oh the humanity!

First achievement unlocked:

Spoiler: There's a meme for this

...this day isn't going how I expected it to.

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Finally actually playing Rise of the Tomb Raider and so far so good...

Dude, just get "Achievements Mod Enabler" if they're important. I think this was Sony and MS's doing and they didn't bother adjusting it on PCs.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/245/


edit: Same guy makes one for FO4 btw.

 

[Disparia]

Saints Row 2 I thought had the better story/characters. Saints Row 3 is where they started getting ridiculous and each title thereafter got more and more ridiculous. Now it's so ridiculous, they don't know what to do with it (hence no 5).

Early during SR2 I thought to myself I would have probably enjoyed this a good deal after GTA IV. Unfortunately regular crashes and getting rep strangled at the end soured the experience a bit. Thinking back, I can agree they did have a better range of characters. The Third jammed in more characters but didn't expand the range much at all. Ultimately though, had more fun throughout SR3. Will see how it goes in IV.

 

[Liquid Cool]

After playing Skyrim, then Oblivion into the ground...I thought I'd give Morrowind a shot. After a few minutes into the game, I decided that the controls we're a little odd/wonky compared to Oblivion/Skyrim...so I started to hunt for mods. It didn't take long to find all the nifty projects going on at the TES Renewal Project.

TES Renewal Project

Skywind initially caught my eye, but it appears as if the project is ongoing...so I just grabbed Morroblivion instead. It took me awhile, but I finally got it up and running smoothly. So...that is what I'm playing now.

Although...while I was doing research into all of the Elder Scrolls mods...I ran into quite a few S.T.A.L.K.E.R. projects too. Many of them appear to be standalone mods and don't need the base game to play. I'm currently loading up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Dead Air...not too sure what to expect....but I'll be giving this a shot as well.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Dead Air

Good times dead ahead.....

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[Frick]

I don't know how to go forward in my current CK2 game. I am savescumming to see what the future holds, and it's all bad. I'm about 10 years old, and I rule Wales (which consists of all of Wales and a big chunk of England and about a third of Ireland) and Aquitaine, which currently is made up of some provinces in Spain and Southern France.

Guaranteed to happen is my aunt revolting, wanting to claim Wales for herself. If I give in, all of my provinces in England and Ireland will fall to her, but most importantly it will make my main title King of Aquitaine, and that won't do at all. AT ALL. Most of my important nobles belong to her faction btw. They have about 180% of my own army.

I am also a claimant of Germany (which consists of huge parts of France), and depending on how things go I can end up inheriting it ... which will make every single soul in Europe dislike me, and a host of regions will rebell and try to win their independence. This I'm ok with actually. Holland can get stuffed.

And there's a bit of a catch 22 going on. All of my vassals dislike me, and most of my counsil consists of dissidents, who will oppose me no matter what I do. Most of my vassals belong to this group, so it's not very feasible to remake the council. Due to some murders and some other things I'm visigothic, so a foreigner to most of them, which means they dislike me even more. Also, when I inherited Aquitaine my demesne went up, so I now control more land directly than my stats allow, and vassals don't like that. At all. And I can't give land away, because my council must approve of it, and because they are mostly dissidents they won't allow it. They hate me but they won't allow me to redeem the situation. It's a life simulator!

A lot for a ten year old to bear. All I ever wanted was to make the british isles welsh, and throw those damned saxons into the sea.

 

[dirtyferret]

WoW Battle for Azeroth, the Drustvar zone is heavily Witcher III influenced

 

[Ahhzz]

*sigh* after a few weeks banging in Grim Dawn, I hit a wall of "blah". Looking to see what space tactical games I have in my library this evening.... Considering Wastelands 2, maybe Divinity:OS2, but I'm almost RPG'd out.... I might dig back into Nexus Jupiter incident, or Rebel Galaxy, maybe Epic Space.. M.O.R.E still hasn't gone anywhere useful.......... looked at Polaris Sector, and since it is on GoG, I might take a swing at that.... *sigh* or maybe take a few weeks off gaming, and just clean house heheh

 

[cucker tarlson]

Played first 30 mins of ROTR,looks promising,haven't played a good adventure game in a while

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yeah, it's way better than the reboot. Not so much woman screaming, more tomb raiding. You know, the point. That said, games has wayyyyyyy too much about "daddy"...

…"daddy" replaced "<woman scream>"...

...still better. Not enough tombs though and still too linear.


I think someone needs to do a George Lucas with Crystal Dynamics. The name of the game is "Force Unleashed," everything not that doesn't belong or prologue to the Force unleashing. The name on the box says "Tomb Raider." Why is less than half of the game about raiding tombs? The Tomb Raider reboot was only like 20% tomb raiding at best. So there's more here but still disappointing.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Did ROTR get rid of the jump scares where you have to mash buttons or your dead? I'm glad there is no video of me attempting to get past those damn things, I'd never live it down.... I felt like a complete idiot for having to do a Google search on how to hit the buttons properly...but frankly, I kept dying....a lot.

I've been tempted to put ROTR on my wishlist a couple of times...but the memories of the first game keep haunting me.

,

Liquid Cool

 

[FordGT90Concept]

There's no QTEs so far other than related to climbing (obviously not in your face QTEs but if you push the wrong buttons at the wrong time, dead you are).

The Tomb Raider reboot was pretty terrible. This one is better. Not fantastic, but better. It still steals your focus way too often, forces you to watch action cutscenes rather than letting the player deal with it as they see fit, the controls are still sometimes unforgiving, there's things I had to internet search for because the controls are only tutorialed once and has no entry in the "survival guide" (locking on with bow and how to swan dive into water), I've seen several animation bugs that I didn't see in the first game, and I literally just had to reload checkpoint because an animation bugged out to the point I couldn't do anything in the game. The monologues during camp fires...are annoying.

Oh, and I'm playing on Survivor Extreme difficulty and the AI suck at aiming. If I break out the AR, they don't have a chance against me. Hardest difficulty is too easy.

Overall I recommend it. It's not a bad game but it doesn't hold a light to the classics.

 

[StrayKAT]

Yeah, it's way better than the reboot. Not so much woman screaming, more tomb raiding. You know, the point. That said, games has wayyyyyyy too much about "daddy"...

…"daddy" replaced "<woman scream>"...

...still better. Not enough tombs though and still too linear.


I think someone needs to do a George Lucas with Crystal Dynamics. The name of the game is "Force Unleashed," everything not that doesn't belong or prologue to the Force unleashing. The name on the box says "Tomb Raider." Why is less than half of the game about raiding tombs? The Tomb Raider reboot was only like 20% tomb raiding at best. So there's more here but still disappointing.

Someone just needs to give Star Wars back to George Lucas, period. /unrelated

Yeah, that's my main gripe with TR.. but it's still kind of fun action in and of itself to me..

 

[AlejoZ]

Borderlands 2

 

[GreiverBlade]

i think i need a "what are you waiting on, to finish downloading" today ...
seriously...
1. Elite: Dangerous : 1.9gb
2. COD:WWII: 4.9gb (what the ... i hope it's not MP patch ... i didn't install COD:WWII MP, so i don't want useless MP patch ... tank mission fix ..... on the other hand ... )
3. Agony: 11gb after reading all the crap reviews, which are mostly related to the dev having issue (translate : being liar, for the one who bought the game) with lawsuits about censoring, and cancelling the uncut version (translate: being liar, for the one who bought the game eagerly waiting for the uncut version) i was almost ready to press the buy button (yeah, negatives review tend to make me do that) ... when my local "ebay" site notified me one of my watched auction was about to end in 1hrs ... and it was a STEAM key for Agony at 1chf/$ start price, oh well ... i got it for 1chf/$ instead of 30... (tho it was paid 30chf initialy ... no loss for the devs i guess
4. and the worse for the end ... For Honor: 50gb (not the first with 50gb DL tho iirc Doom(2016) and RTCW:OB too

Did ROTR get rid of the jump scares where you have to mash buttons or your dead? I'm glad there is no video of me attempting to get past those damn things, I'd never live it down.... I felt like a complete idiot for having to do a Google search on how to hit the buttons properly...but frankly, I kept dying....a lot.

I've been tempted to put ROTR on my wishlist a couple of times...but the memories of the first game keep haunting me.

,

Liquid Cool

missing a T otherwise ROTR: Rise Of Tomb Raider, ROTTR: Rise Of The Tomb Raider (if you put Of in the abbreviated you keep The too )

mhhh the button mash never been an issue for me as they are, well, quite much simpler than the "dynamic" type in COD:WWII

just as i loved the reboot, ROTTR is just fantastic (i think i need to play TR:Anniversary out of nostalgia now ... for the sake of replaying the 1st one with a bit more eye candy )

muh ... STEAM DL is hogging my bandwidth ... either i lower max DL rate to 1mb/s or i play an offline game... or i go to sleep ...

 

[Frick]

i think i need a "what are you waiting on, to finish downloading" today ...

I once bought, downloaded and installed ARK (~30GB) while a friend was configuring the server.

I'm somewhat stuck in Grim Dawn. Cleared vanilla on elite with a predictable amount of fuss (it wasn't as breezy as normal, bit it wasn't exceedingly hard either), but in the expansion... Bosses and unique rares are so hard for me. They have a tendency to do a lot of bleeding and poison damage, and guess which of my resistances are close to zero? I also don't hit hard enough i feel, but I can't for the life of me aquire a good 2H meele weapon. Now i'm using the Solar Sledge, a Homestead revered weapon, and it's good ... but it's a lvl 50 weapon and I'm now at lvl756. I have a recipe for a good hammer which I can use at lvl 94. So I'm kinda stuck until something improves.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Thanks for the comments. I'm no expert on the Tomb Raider series and actually passed on them for a decade. It was picking up Tomb Raider: Underworld on a Steam sale that got me interested. I really liked that game. I'm going to add "ROTTR" to my wishlist and wait for a sale. To be honest...after Skyrim....any chance of shooting anything with a bow gets me excited. Man I love using a bow in the Elder Scrolls series. Probably more than anything else I've ever played.

George Lucas. You know...my cousin took me to see that last Star Wars movie...it was a hot mess. I couldn't tell what the hell was going on and I'm going to be honest, I felt like I was watching a soap opera or something. It just didn't feel right. Growing up I had a millennium falcon and a whole squad of tie fighters, playing cards, posters...you name it...I loved Star Wars, it fed the nerd in me. . Although, the franchise has turned in to something I don't recognize.

I've already got two games I'm playing, but just talking about Underworld makes me want to have a go at it. I've got space...downloading it just in case.

,

Liquid Cool

 

[StrayKAT]

Thanks for the comments. I'm no expert on the Tomb Raider series and actually passed on them for a decade. It was picking up Tomb Raider: Underworld on a Steam sale that got me interested. I really liked that game. I'm going to add "ROTTR" to my wishlist and wait for a sale. To be honest...after Skyrim....any chance of shooting anything with a bow gets me excited. Man I love using a bow in the Elder Scrolls series. Probably more than anything else I've ever played.

George Lucas. You know...my cousin took me to see that last Star Wars movie...it was a hot mess. I couldn't tell what the hell was going on and I'm going to be honest, I felt like I was watching a soap opera or something. It just didn't feel right. Growing up I had a millennium falcon and a whole squad of tie fighters, playing cards, posters...you name it...I loved Star Wars, it fed the nerd in me. . Although, the franchise has turned in to something I don't recognize.

I've already got two games I'm playing, but just talking about Underworld makes me want to have a go at it. I've got space...downloading it just in case.

,

Liquid Cool

Ever played the old Thief series? That's what I've always hoped TES lived up to.. but it's never quite done it (still kind of fun though.. but it's stealth aspect and cityscapes leave a lot to be desired).

They're pretty damn old, but you can mod them to make them a bit more presentable.

edit: Speaking of bows and Skyrim, here's a cool mod people should try.

The Huntsman
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13703

It's a bow that starts off gimped and you can gradually upgrade as you play with new pieces.

Also works hand in hand with this equally cool looking mod (haven't tried it, but I will).

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/16190?tab=images

Signature Equipment gradually updates stats depending on what you kill and how much use it gets. So you could arm yourself with a Frying Pan the whole game and it'd eventually be legendary gear only for the Dragonborn.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

To be honest...after Skyrim....any chance of shooting anything with a bow gets me excited. Man I love using a bow in the Elder Scrolls series. Probably more than anything else I've ever played.

Crysis 3 comes to mind. Trying to think of more but I'm drawing blanks...brain fart.

Ah yes, StrayKat mentioned Thief series. That's definitely one of them. I don't really remember it as an arrow game because I usually blackjacked people out.

Now they're coming...
-Tomb Raider (no gravity)
-Rise of the Tomb Raider (no gravity)
-Minecraft
-Assassin's Creed III and derivatives (I think, forget if gravity or not)
-Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (no gravity)
-Middle Earth: Shadow of War (no gravity)
-How to Survive (don't think it has gravity but it's also...different being isometric...you don't aim so much as tell the character who to shoot)

Edit: AHHHHH! Fable and Fable III! Think they both have a gravity effect. Been a long time since I played either of them.


I played a little of the original Tomb Raider, all of Tomb Raider II, and some of Tomb Raider III. Played a little bit of a Tomb Raider in between...I forget which one...and I swear it was in my Steam library and it's now missing. Wait a minute...think I have it on disc. Bah! I know where it is but I can't be arsed to pull it out to check which one it was. I only got like 20 minutes into it before I quit for some reason or other. Right now I have too many other games to play to even consider that one (including finishing Rise of the Tomb Raider).

 

[Liquid Cool]

I'm getting pretty handy at modding Skyrim, so I've bookmarked those links and I'll take a look the first chance I get. I consider Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3 GOTY, and Fallout: New Vegas to be mandatory installs on my pc. I'm always fiddling around with one of them.

They're pretty damn old, but you can mod them to make them a bit more presentable

When it comes to older video games, I don't mind dated graphics...I grew up on Pong....

The Christmas Steam sale had the complete Thief series so cheap, I bought all of them in a package. Looking in my library, I have Thief, Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Which one is the best candidate for modding/playing? I will mention... at the same time, I bought the Risen and Gothic series with the same intention! Again...dirt cheap.

The best game EVER ...you probably MISSED for 16 years

After watching this video...I'm tempted to play Gothic right now.

You know...I might need to stay away from this thread you guys are giving me too many ideas....

Best,

Liquid Cool

P.S. Crysis 3...I have that one...but I haven't played it yet. To be honest, I thought Crysis 2 was so bad...3 probably was too, but I've heard recently that it was much better than 2. After I get a system together, this will be on my install list.

EDIT: Ford I see you added a few titles to your post. I took notes. I've heard of all of them and even own Shadow of Mordor, but Fable is something I'm not familiar with...I'll look it up. I tried to remember older games that I've played that used a bow and came up just about dry...BUT...I seem to remember a bow in the original Prey? Not sure...my mind fails me past 8:00 P.M. Yes, I'm getting old...

 

[StrayKAT]

I don't mind dated graphics...I grew up on pong. Although...I'm getting pretty handy at modding Skyrim, so I've bookmarked those links and I'll take a look first chance I get. I consider Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3 GOTY, and Fallout: New Vegas to be mandatory installs on my pc. I'm always fiddling around with one of them.

Thief? Funny you mention that. The Christmas Steam sale had them so cheap, I bought all of them in a package. Looking in my library, I have Thief, Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Which one is the best candidate for modding/playing? I will mention... at the same time, I bought the Risen and Gothic series with the same intention! Again...dirt cheap.

The best game EVER ...you probably MISSED for 16 years

After watching this video...I'm tempted to play Gothic right now.

You know...I might need to stay away from this thread you guys are giving me too many ideas....

Best,

Liquid Cool

P.S. Crysis 3...I have that one...but I haven't played it yet. To be honest, I thought Crysis 2 was so bad...3 probably was too, but I've heard recently that it was much better than 2. After I get a system together, this will be on my install list.

I don't mind dated graphics...I grew up on pong. Although...I'm getting pretty handy at modding Skyrim, so I've bookmarked those links and I'll take a look first chance I get. I consider Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3 GOTY, and Fallout: New Vegas to be mandatory installs on my pc. I'm always fiddling around with one of them.

Thief? Funny you mention that. The Christmas Steam sale had them so cheap, I bought all of them in a package. Looking in my library, I have Thief, Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Which one is the best candidate for modding/playing? I will mention... at the same time, I bought the Risen and Gothic series with the same intention! Again...dirt cheap.

The best game EVER ...you probably MISSED for 16 years

After watching this video...I'm tempted to play Gothic right now.

You know...I might need to stay away from this thread you guys are giving me too many ideas....

Best,

Liquid Cool

P.S. Crysis 3...I have that one...but I haven't played it yet. To be honest, I thought Crysis 2 was so bad...3 probably was too, but I've heard recently that it was much better than 2. After I get a system together, this will be on my install list.

"Thief Gold", "Thief II", and "Thief Deadly Shadows". The new "Thief" isn't as good and doesn't need mods anyhow (still worth a play though).

They all should use at least the "unofficial patches" which will fix bugs and get their resolutions up to speed.

Thief Gold: TFix - https://www.moddb.com/mods/tfix

Thief 2: Tafferpatcher - https://www.moddb.com/games/thief-ii-the-metal-age/downloads/tafferpatcher-v-2018

Thief Deadly Shadows: Sneaky Upgrade - https://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-3-sneaky-upgrade

 

[FordGT90Concept]

P.S. Crysis 3...I have that one...but I haven't played it yet. To be honest, I thought Crysis 2 was so bad...3 probably was too, but I've heard recently that it was much better than 2. After I get a system together, this will be on my install list.

Other than the music, 2 was the worst. It was claustrophobic and the plot was chaotic (Jackie Chan [wtf.jpg] the whole time).

Ford I see you added a few titles to your post. I took notes. I've heard of all of them and even own Shadow of Mordor, but Fable is something I'm not familiar with...I'll look it up. I tried to remember older games that I played that used a bow and came up just about dry...BUT...I seem to remember a bow in the original Prey? Not sure...my mind fails me past 8:00 P.M. Yes, I'm getting old...

Fable: The Lost Chapters is 10/10 as long as the weird graphics don't make you vomit when you start playing it. Imagine if Elder Scrolls (stealing, some decision making, magic/melee/archery combat, with quests, targeted at adults) had a baby with Zelda (maps rather than open world, third person action), you'd have Fable.

I never played the Xbox remaster of it but I hear it's shitty. Fable III...was Games for Windows Live 100%. I don't know if there's a way to get around that. Even so, Fable is much better than Fable III.

 

[StrayKAT]

Problem with Fable is the sequels are only on Xbox. They're actually worth playing too, so it's a shame you can only play the first on PC.

edit: Same with the Halos. I don't get it.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Ford...I don't hear you say 10/10 often...you've definitely piqued my interest. Off to Youtube to watch Fable videos. Goodnight gentlemen.

Although, before I go...StrayKAT...if you've never played any of the Thief games, which would you tackle first?

Best,

Liquid Cool

 

[Canon]

Hmm Fable keeps cropping up on my radar these days, had a good time with the original on the old Xbox but haven't touched it since then. Been playing Skyrim to death lately and don't really want to stop. Picked up The Witcher 2 since everyone seems to love the series, I can see why, having played the first game quite a while back I enjoyed it as far as I remember, however the second just can't hold my attention like Skyrim, for me it's just not quite the same having to do certain things that I don't want to, the magic aspect especially, never been a fan and would much prefer the game if I could playthrough with as little as possible.