So, what're you playing?

[Goreschach]

I'm guessing he's talking about some kind of rsi issue with his index finger.

[Yegolev]

More related to the recumbent bike.  I'm no stranger to "mouse wrist" or "Nintendo thumb"... which I will continue to refer to as Nintendo thumb because I am old and do you remember that fucking rectangle?

Edit for topic relevancy:
Started Uncharted 4.  All you need to know is that it is MOTS but more polished.  Every trope returns, but prettier!

Otherwise I just can't get enough Black Flag.  Although I'm already determining which game I'll pick up again once I do actually get tired of being a pirate.  Quite possibly back to Just Cause 3.

[Lucas]

Got invited in the "Elder Scrolls: Legends" card game beta. There is a NDA, but I think it might serve as a nice "bridge" between HEX and HS, finding its own niche and following (it's Elder Scrolls, after all).

[Lucas]

I finally bought and started playing Rogue Legacy,  or "further proof that you're getting so VERY old"  

But hey, it's very addicting, brings me back to my "Wonderboy" arcade days 

[Yegolev]

Pocket Mortys is the first phone game that I have played since Alchemy.

Also Civ V and Black Flag.

[schild]

Stranger of Sword City looks like it comes out on Steam in June, maybe I'll give that a shot.  Not much on the releases list for the next month or two that's grabbing my attention.

Just came out today.

[jakonovski]

All I've been managing to play for a month is Dark Souls 3. I'm trying to rectify that with Overwatch.

[Zetor]

Stranger of Sword City is pretty solid for a Wizardry / EO-style dungeon crawler... definitely better than the company's previous offerings for the vita (Demon Gaze, Operation Abyss). I like that there is actually some thought behind character/party development this time.

On the flipside, the weeaboo factor is over the top, the 'dialogue' and 'story' are better when completely ignored, and the postgame looks boring/grindy as fuck... but all that is par for the course! 

[koro]

Dipped back into Tales of Maj'Eyal today, with the new Embers of Rage "expansion", and ye gods is it fun.

Slightly on the easy side with a couple of the base classes you can choose, but really fun. The steampunk stuff is well-integrated and doesn't feel too kitschy, and the tinkering system is really neat and one of the best examples of an item customization system I've seen in an RPG.

[Druzil]

So I've had Invisible Inc sitting in my library for awhile now and finally got around to playing it (someone here mentioned it I think and I got inspired).   Went through the beginner campaign and I really like some of the game play.  Once I moved on to the next level up difficulty though it's just really hard, maybe a little too hard.  It seems like occasionally you just don't have the tools to get through a situation and then things just spiral out of control.   Maybe it gets easier if you know the 'right builds' or w/e but I don't know that I want to spend all the losses trying to figure all that out.

Still, it seems like a fun game so I may give it a few more runs.

[Sky]

I need to get the expansion for Invisible, Inc. My only complaint was that it's pretty short. One of my favorite tactical games.

[Zetor]

Word. InvInc is one of my faves too... it's also a great example of keeping a ~tacticool~ game challenging and fun without the need for 20 stats / complex abilities / hordes of enemies / RNG-based attacks!

One thing you can do to ease the learning curve a bit is to crank up the "rewinds" to 20 or so, then you can just rewind a few turns if you get into a situation that looks unwinnable. That, and starting with Dr. Xu so you can hack safes for free and have a Plan B (sometimes Plan A) when you encounter drones.  

[Yegolev]

Lamenting a lack of coop play in my small circle, we decided to get into Diablo 3 on PS4.  So I was doing that over the weekend.

[Druzil]

Pretty sure I unlocked Dr Xu, so I'll give him a try.  I really like International's remote hacking ability, but it's probably not necessary.

I had been using the one agent that gets you through the Lv. 1 security doors without a card but after a few runs with her it seems like it might just be easier to search everyone.

[apocrypha]

Bought The Witcher 3 in the Steam sale, installed it, installed the Nexus Mod Manager, added a few mods (yeah, before I even start playing, that's how I roll), spent a happy hour trying to make them work by resolving conflicts etc, finally fired up the game, tits within 30 seconds. I approve! Then got instantly distracted by

Subnautica, very addictive, lot of fun, scary as fuck. Scarier in fact than

Doom (Doom4? Doom 2016? NuDoom?), which I've only put about an hour into. I've got a blocked ear atm (old man stuff, wax, blah blah) and the lack of contrast between the enemies (red) and the scenery (red, oh so red) makes the audio positioning really important for finding where to shoot, so it's painful for me right now. I'll return to it when I can hear properly again because as well as the all of these new games I've also got the

Minecraft FTB-Unstable pack which is a 1.9.4 pack and finally has some key mods like EnderIO and Extra Utilities in it, although they're both in alpha/beta versions atm and the pack in general is a bit, well, unstable. I've added some shit to it myself, of course, including a placeholder jetpack mod (Just Jetpacks) and the new Optifine which has built-in dynamic lighting! Amazeballs! Anyway, this pack was what finally distracted me from

Kerbal Space Program, which I've got a point in my Interstellar playthrough that I consider finished, having unlocked the Alcubierre Drive and having functional mining operations and supporting orbital stations on the Mun, Minmus, Duna and Tylo. The Tylo one took a ridiculous amount of setting up    And 1.13 has just gone live last week so I'll be waiting a while for the mods to settle down before going back to start a new game.

I mean, ffs, I'm without work atm (freelancer between contracts) and I still don't have enough time to play all this shit. I might have to cut down on the luxuries like sleeping.

[Signe]

Sleeping is overrated.  I almost never sleep and, looking from the inside out, I'm just fine.

I still haven't bought anything yet.  I'm very limited financially so I don't go nuts like you lot usually do and so I have to make up my mind.  And I can't.  Gaaah!

[Flood]

Due to the Steam Summer Sale...

Dying Light
Subnautica
Witcher 3


Bought but not yet played:

Mad Max


Ongoing:

Warframe
Stellaris

[apocrypha]

Sleeping is overrated.  I almost never sleep and, looking from the inside out, I'm just fine.

I still haven't bought anything yet.  I'm very limited financially so I don't go nuts like you lot usually do and so I have to make up my mind.  And I can't.  Gaaah!

I seem to do a fair amount of my sleeping these days in the form of afternoon naps. Not sure this is a sensible development, but I'm OK with that.

I hear you about the cost of games. I'm pretty restricted financially too, which is partly why i spend so much time playing things like Minecraft/KSP (boy have I got my moneys worth out of them a hundred times over!). This year, however, I got a couple of Steam wallet cards as gifts in advance of my birthday so I went nuts

[Rendakor]

Picked up Grand Kingdom for Vita; only an hour or so in but it's interesting. You move around a board-game style board, then battle enemies in a sort of turn-based side-scroller. There's also a lot of online stuff going on that I haven't really delved into yet.

Path of Exile: Prophecy League is pretty fun; this season's gimmick is a series of randomized side quests. My league toon is 79; just cleared Merc lab so I'm 6/8 Ascendancy; haven't unlocked Uber lab yet. 3x Ancestral Warchief totem seems pretty easymode compared to some of my previous toons.

[Druzil]

I kinda want to try PoE Prophecy League but last time I tried to play PoE I got burned out super fast.   I think between leagues and racing I've just done the leveling grind way too many times.  I wish I could just start in merciless.

Playing Hyperlight Drifter & Street Fighter V (badly).  So far it seems like Hyperlight Drifter is going to be great but the controls are just a little awkward and they don't let you change them.  The game looks amazing though.

[Rendakor]

The Prophecies help break up the monotony, if that's the concern.

[Flood]

If y'all had to choose one to buy before the sale ends:

- DOOM
- X:COM 2
- Fallout 4


My guess is Fallout's going to get the most votes based on the volume of posts here on the boards - but I'm weirdly reticent about getting into another game that is such an extensive time sink (first world problems).  On the other hand I hate to pass up a good deal on such a highly touted AAA title. 

[Rasix]

Probably get the most mileage out of FO4 or Xcom. Doom 3 is probably the best game if you're into shooters.

There's a lot to do in Fallout, but the plot is really awful. Detracts from the overall experience.

[Flood]

Probably get the most mileage out of FO4 or Xcom. Doom 3 is probably the best game if you're into shooters.

There's a lot to do in Fallout, but the plot is really awful. Detracts from the overall experience.

Hmmm, good info thank you.  I was leaning to toward XCOM as I really enjoyed the previous version, but I read a lot of RNG / timer rage about the game.  I dunno about DOOM since most of my FPS energy is devoted to Warframe, but it does look neat.  Probably take my chances with raging out on XCOM. 

[Soulflame]

I'm giving Starbound another go.  Seems much better and more stable now.

[Strazos]

Hmmm, good info thank you.  I was leaning to toward XCOM as I really enjoyed the previous version, but I read a lot of RNG / timer rage about the game.  I dunno about DOOM since most of my FPS energy is devoted to Warframe, but it does look neat.  Probably take my chances with raging out on XCOM.  

Don't be put off by the raging - it's largely because nerds cannot comfortably overwatch creep to victory, and they're forced to take risks (especially in ironman). The game is fantastic, and the higher difficulty just makes it more fulfilling when you finally manage to finish that ironman run.

Edit: formatting...stupid cellphone posting

[Flood]

Don't be put off by the raging - it's largely because nerds cannot comfortably overwatch creep to victory, and they're forced to take risks (especially in ironman). The game is fantastic, and the higher difficulty just makes it more fulfilling when you finally manage to finish that ironman run.

Done and done.  Thanks Strazos.

[HaemishM]

Steam sale made me cough up for Out of the Park Baseball 17, so I'm running the Cubs through that. Also picked up the Long Dark and played it for almost 2 hours but apparently FPS Survival Games give me a bit of the motion sickness that I never get with just shooters. I can only play them for about an hour or so before it hits. Didn't matter, I was dead twice in that time so...

Also, fuckloads of LOL.

[apocrypha]

Witcher 3 is great.   

[Pennilenko]

Witcher 3 is great.   

I just got it too. It is amazing.

[Sky]

Witcher 3 is great.   

Yeah. It really is.

Trying to finish up a couple things before I load it on the new drive and it eats up another couple months.

For topic: Subnautica glub glub

[Mandella]

Anybody else playing Duskers? Survival horror where you are using drones to explore space hulks. The "twist" is you have to type out commands to the drones in real time, so typos kill.

It's one of those games where things can seem to be going great, you're settling into a routine, and then everything can go south in seconds and you are left powerless and fuelless in your own drifting soon to be space hulk, waiting on the next guy to come along...

[schild]

I'm watching someone play blindfolded Symphony of the Night and it's AMAZING.

[Yegolev]

Reaching inverted castle blindfolded = very meta.

[schild]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyhZdqrUIA

The Demon's Souls runthrough is excellent. Catching up on stuff I missed while people are playing Sonic. Which is just awful.