So, what're you playing?

[Signe]

Saint's Row Third on the xBox this time.  It's fun, but I think I'll still get the next one for the PC.  Hopefully I'll have a desktop PC by then.  Also, Minecraft sometimes although I've been too busy to do much except sort out how to make stuff.  I had to send my Borderlands 2 to my far away cousin to cheer her up.  I miss it.

[lamaros]

New Vegas succeeded I think.
Combat's simple.
Storyline, deep if you dig.

The problem with NV for me is that it had a little too much of Fallout 2s shark jumping humor, and not an ability to make everything cohere into a dynamic sense of place. DA did that better - it's just that the place was boring and simplistic.

Obviously I don't know anything about how the design process works, but it makes sense that they don't get to spend too much time on world design and jump straight to narrative, quests and characters, and then build the world up from there. It can give a sense that the players narrative dominates the game world, rather than takes place within it.

Admittedly such world design would be a lot of work (though really, it would pay off in the long term if you were going to make a series of games). This is where licenced titles really help, as deeper fictional worlds already have that background and guiding coherency there to place themselves in.

[Khaldun]

My daughter and I have been hitting Hexxit Minecraft pretty hard together but it does have a tendency to crash sometimes.

There are definitely things in it that need more than two people for fighting, which is kind of fun. We spawned a big stone ogre thing at the top of our first dungeon and then tried to think of cheesy ways to kill it and I was pleasantly surprised at how its simple AI managed to screw with us. (We tried to build a cobblestone passage up to its legs so it wouldn't be able to shoot at us while we hacked at it from under cover but the jumping thing it does broke the passage.)

[Cyrrex]

I am a good way through Walking Dead episode three.  Don't look below if you haven't finished this episode.

[Sky]

Walking Dead, episode 1. It's awesome.

[Lucas]

Walking Dead, episode 1. It's awesome.

Walking Dead, episode 3, roughly 1/3 of it....WHAT.THE.FUCK. 

[Mrbloodworth]

Just wait. 

[rk47]

Finished Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Fun mindless killings.

[Rasix]

Started Dishonored.  This is pretty neat, but I know it's going to be impossible for me not to kill a lot of people.  While I love stealth and using non-lethal means, I'm generally pretty shitty at it. That gets you a bad ending, right?

[Rendakor]

Still playing SMT:IV. It's hit what I call the Disgaea Moment: the point in the game where you're able to efficiently grind infinitely, and thus end up incredibly overpowered. With all of the DLC maps and the fusion bonuses from having all Apps unlocked I'm just leveling up and fusing new demons nonstop. I'm nearing the end of the content covered in the mini-strategy guide that came with the CE, but I'm not sure if that's the end of the game or just the midpoint; I haven't read ahead.

[Mithas]

Loving The Walking Dead. On episode 5.

[Fabricated]

Started Dishonored.  This is pretty neat, but I know it's going to be impossible for me not to kill a lot of people.  While I love stealth and using non-lethal means, I'm generally pretty shitty at it. That gets you a bad ending, right?

You can kill up to 30% of the people in a mission and still get low chaos.

Get combat sleep bolts and get a fuckton of them and related crossbow upgrades and you can avoid killing in oh-shit moments if need be.

[Quinton]

Yeah, my first Dishonored playthrough was a "best effort" stealth approach.  I liked that I could occasionally fuck up, get into a horrible mess, but recover (after stashing some corpses in a dumpster or whatnot), and keep on going.  By the time I was halfway through I was getting significantly better at not accidentally slipping up and having to kill a bunch of people.

[Fabricated]

Also do not hack tesla walls or tesla coils if you want low chaos. Enemies seem to refuse to notice unfriendly security apparatus and will file into a hacked death wall until it literally runs out of oil and shuts down.

[rk47]

Just telepport a lot. Creative use of that power makes stealth a non factor

[Engels]

Payday 2 beta. Think of it as a cleverer Left For Dead, but killing cops who shoot back instead of zombies, and you have to steal stuff before you can run away. Idiotically addicting if you have mates to play with. On your own, probably not so much.

[MrHat]

I did real well until I got the "turns to ashe after stealth kill" skill.

Then I just murdered everyone.

[Ironwood]

Fuck.  Skyrim has me.  AGAIN.

THANKS OBAMA.

[Reg]

Me too. I bought all the DLC while it was on sale, added some bug-fixing mods, and have been playing steadily for the last week or so. It's only my second play through and I seem to be going for exactly the same character as I had on my first.  I can't help it.  I just like sneaking around barefoot in Heavy Armour THAT MUCH!

[KallDrexx]

I am a good way through Walking Dead episode three.  Don't look below if you haven't finished this episode.

[Malakili]

Been playing Counter Strike: GO with some old buddies.  

There is something terrible about the fact that in 2013 the Starcraft and Counter Strike franchises are both basically the top of their respective genres.

[rk47]

Enjoying Deadlight at the moment. Prince of Persia classic combined with Zombies.

[Fabricated]

Finished Shadowrun Returns,
Finished main campaign on Borderlands 2 in TVHM, need to finish up all the quests I bypassed minus the stupid arena ones,
playing custom NWN1 modules again because I am dumb,
Playing Battlefield 3 with my coworkers.

[Cyrrex]

Walking Dead episode 4.  Not quite done with it, but must be close.


This game.  So good.

[Ironwood]

Me too. I bought all the DLC while it was on sale, added some bug-fixing mods, and have been playing steadily for the last week or so. It's only my second play through and I seem to be going for exactly the same character as I had on my first.  I can't help it.  I just like sneaking around barefoot in Heavy Armour THAT MUCH!

I'm running modless, but for my next playthrough, I'd be interested in some.  Do you have a list that doesn't rely on me trawling the Skyrim thread ?

[Falconeer]

I am playing MechWarrior Online too much, but I recently got EuroTruck 2 and Train Simulator 2013 for 8 money at the Steam sale and I must say they are both absolutely impressive (if that is your cup of tea). I am realy annoyed at the cost of the Train Simulator DLCs. They go from 13 for a train to 22/29 for one new track. Damn. Steam is also funny when it tells me that the combined cost of all DLCs would be 1907 euros. Hahahaha.

[apocrypha]

My Borderlands 2 cycles are getting shorter. I barely last a week now after getting a new DLC before getting fed up with the stupid scaling issues.

I'm still in post-Steam sale recovery mode though, which means flitting between various games. DCS: Black Shark, Sins of a Solar Empire and Carrier Command: Gaea Mission are doing those rounds atm.

And Arma 3 is still a regular for my small group of friends and me. We just like to mess around, it's great fun for that. The new vehicles are a lot of fun and the not-a-Blackhawk-honest 2-man helicopter is awesome.

[Reg]

I'm running modless, but for my next playthrough, I'd be interested in some.  Do you have a list that doesn't rely on me trawling the Skyrim thread ?

I haven't gotten carried away really. I'm using the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, Unofficial Dragonborn Patch, Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, and the Unofficial Hearthfire Patch. That covers the base game and official DLCs.

For the optional mods I'm just using SKYUI and Inconsequential NPCs.

You should be able to find all of these in the "Most Popular Mods" list on Steam or Skyrim Nexus.  I was running the High-res patch but my PC doesn't seem to have the power to handle it.  It made load times annoyingly slow.

[Yegolev]

I'm at 99.6% in LEGO City and I might need to read a spoiler.  Can't figure out how to get on top of the rollercoaster.  Might go scan the neighborhood again, I don't know.  Also there's a disguise in the airport that I just can't find.

I was away from my gaming PC and downloaded ToME, which has changed A LOT since I last saw it.  It might be OK.

Completed the 400 Days DLC for Walking Dead.

Reached A lv30 in GT5.  Wondering if I buy a wheel for GT5, will it be supported for GT6, because those license tests are hard.

[Druzil]

About 75% of the way through Dust an Elysian Tail, very enjoyable side scroller with heavy Metroidvania game mechanics.  Story and characters are fun, game is way too heavy on the cut-scenes for the first hour but gets better after that.  Overall a bit too easy even on the harder difficulty setting.

Incredible Crashes Adventures of Van Helsing, got to the the second map area and everything in my stash was deleted...  Overall a bit too buggy but I'll come back to it.  Back to PoE in the meantime.

Also Reus is pretty interesting.  A few minor irritations with having to memorize what all the elements do in each biome type as it's not in the UI.   Just made it to tier 2, wondering if I need to do longer games to get the top tier stuff or if things just ramp up faster. 

[Rasix]

Dishonored has completely taken over my gaming.  This is really well done and quite fun.  I'm even getting better at the stealth (aka I just blink around like an idiot).

Good thing I was at a logical stopping point with Borderlands 2.  Not sure I'm going to bother cleaning up all of the sidequests and DLC (other than Tiny Tina) or even do TVHM.  

LoL ARAMs are getting a bit stale.  Not sure if I should pick up a MMO for gaming filler or just keep doing the occasional LoL session.  Let my SWTOR sub lapse again because I just wasn't playing it, although I really should finish off my JK, because I do like the story.

[Cyrrex]

Finished Walking Dead Episode 5.  God damn.


Anyway, powerful stuff.  Unforgettable. 

[Rendakor]

Played the hell of out SMT IV yesterday and thought I was at the end. I had to make a major story choice, then the party split up and I fought a badass boss...only to be thrown a hell of a curve ball. Man, this game keeps on getting better; even 10-20 levels above the enemy the game remains challenging. I'm hoping to finish it up tonight after work then start on the postgame (and NG+ if that's a thing), because I have two games coming out next week and don't want to split time between them and this.

[Falconeer]

SMT IV is the only reason I could ever buy a 3DS, and in fact I thought about it. Damn.

[naum]

Played the hell of out SMT IV yesterday and thought I was at the end. I had to make a major story choice, then the party split up and I fought a badass boss...only to be thrown a hell of a curve ball. Man, this game keeps on getting better; even 10-20 levels above the enemy the game remains challenging. I'm hoping to finish it up tonight after work then start on the postgame (and NG+ if that's a thing), because I have two games coming out next week and don't want to split time between them and this.

Picked this title up last week but have not had much time to play since. But what I've seen thus far, I can confirm that this is an awesome game. And one that really taps into the "3D"S experience.