So, what're you playing?

[naum]

Steam sale made me cough up for Out of the Park Baseball 17, so I'm running the Cubs through that.

Picked up OOTP 17 too.

I regretted purchasing 14, 15, 16 previously, though I believe I got 16 on sale too.

It's fun to play with but it just missing the magic that Football Manager has.

Still, I'd like to give a multiplayer league a try sometime.

[MisterNoisy]

A bit of Just Cause 3.  Like the earlier games, the base/city takeovers, collection stuff and just fucking around with the grapples has kept me from making too much headway through the story so far.

Also, it's a little crashy at times.

[HaemishM]

OOTP is missing the personality of Football Manger. There's no talking to the press, no dealing with player egos, nothing but pure baseball stat wonkery. I'd also like to see it have a real game engine that shows the play in 3D - doesn't have to be beautiful, just as good as FM2016's 3D view. But again, stat wonkery will prevent that from ever happening.

[Merusk]

So how many of you are playing Pokemon Go and how often are you driving around at 2am in the ghetto because of it? 

ed: NM there's a thread for it in mobile.

[Khaldun]

My kid and I are going to go for a walk tomorrow because of it.

[Yegolev]

Pokemon Go is now happening.  I mean, when it fucking works.  My office front door is a PokeStop but I wasn't able to get anything from it.

Otherwise, it's Diablo3PS4.  I have tried to get some time in with Fallout 4 but the local meatbags are not into me doing that.  So, working on the final throes of Black Flag (which I should have already finished) and doing some multiplayer AC Unity with my wife.  She is already getting antsy about what to do when she finishes Unity.

Also playing Uncharted 4.  This is our usual couple-time which for most other people involves watching a movie or TV show without the kids.

Related, the family is working through the Indiana Jones series.  We already finished the Pirates of the Carribean series.  After the IJ, I want to sit through Big Trouble in Little China with the boy.

[Cyrrex]

I don't have Uncharted 4 (yet), but I have been playing the shit out of the re-mastered versions of 1 - 3 on PS4.  What an excellent series of games.  IMO, the best interactive movie/game titles ever made by a vast amount and in general some of my favorite games of all time.  And they look incredible.  Developers could learn a lot from Naughty Dog about how to make pretty graphics.

[Yegolev]

I did replay the remastered first one.  I still don't understand how that submarine got there.

[Yegolev]

My wife is thinking about playing Dishonored after Unity.  I'm actually proud of her!

But, in case it goes wrong, are there any suggestions from the F13 Intelligentsia on what might be a good followup to AC Black Flag, Unity, and Syndicate?

[Rasix]

How about a break from the genre? Dishonored might be a bit close to what you've been playing. Might as well wash down a Batman marathon with a run through the Splinter Cell series.

Dishonored is really good though. I enjoyed it more than the single AC game I played.

Diablo 3 is always a good palette cleanser.

As for myself, still going with Pillars.  It's OK.  None of their changes improve the genre other than little QOL items you'd expect by now. I'd expect a better story, but y then I remember that the only decent story in the Infinity engine games was PS:T. But, it scratches a gaming itch. Keep feeling like it should be better than it is.

[Sky]

I want to take another shot at Dishonored. Something about the controls threw me, iirc.

Also need to get back to AC 3, love the setting and it's a pretty nice introduction to the series for me. A bit hard for me, because I think there's a certain level of tweaking it toward series vets familiar with the controls and mechanics. Got distracted by Subnautica and then life.

[Yegolev]

She isn't interested in deviating from the Unity/Syndicate formula.  Especially Syndicate, which is apparently really fucking good, but she is definitely not going to play Diablo 3.  Dishonored gets her interest due to the world and potential to kill the fuck out of everyone.  I was doing a goody-good play so I don't remember much about the combat.  In Unity & Syndicate, she spends all her time aggressively murdering everyone she meets, at a flat-out run.

I think I need her to maintain this outlet for her aggressions.

[Druzil]

Does she like Zombies?  If so, Dying Light has a similar open world formula and the parkour gameplay.   It also has co-op which is pretty fun.

[Gimfain]

Wrapped up witcher 3 dlc few days back. Solid dlc but the base game was better. There werebit too many times where you were to find the correct solution while the base game was better at providing alternatives that also felt satisfying.

Looking for something new to play, no idea what though.

[Kail]

She isn't interested in deviating from the Unity/Syndicate formula.

You could try AC: Rogue if she doesn't want to jump franchises, though that's supposed to be more "Black Flag" than "Syndicate".

Failing that, most of Ubisoft's open world stuff follows a fairly similar formula.  Far Cry or Watch_Dogs would probably scratch basically the same itch.

[Yegolev]

Does she like Zombies?

She fucking hates zombies and I didn't know that shit until we had been married for a few years!  While I like Dying Light, she does not.

Kail, Black Flag was a great game and she loves it a lot.  But that time has ended.  Apparently Edward wasn't very cute, either.

I think AC Rogue is on the table.  I hadn't thought about Watch_Dogs.  I was sick the day it was popular.

[Draegan]

I can't get excited about any games. MMO burnout. I don't really want to play mobas or fps games. Brother in law keeps asking me to play hots.

Need something for my new laptop as I'm sitting in this hotel room.

[Sky]

She fucking hates zombies and I didn't know that shit until we had been married for a few years! 

Yeah, what's up with that? My old lady digs murder mysteries, plague novels, all kind of messed-up stuff...but she can't stomach any violence on tv/movies (she almost puked during Deadpool) and abhors zombies.

I was pitching Zombicide Black Plague to her and she was interested but when she realized I was edging around that actual foes..."They're zombies, aren't they?" "Yeah...but..." "Nope."

 

[Mandella]

She fucking hates zombies and I didn't know that shit until we had been married for a few years! 

Yeah, what's up with that? My old lady digs murder mysteries, plague novels, all kind of messed-up stuff...but she can't stomach any violence on tv/movies (she almost puked during Deadpool) and abhors zombies.

I was pitching Zombicide Black Plague to her and she was interested but when she realized I was edging around that actual foes..."They're zombies, aren't they?" "Yeah...but..." "Nope."

 

This has *got* to be some sort of wife conspiracy. Mine can't even handle The Walking Dead.

[Signe]

What are you guys saying?  That you wouldn't have married/stuck with them if you had known of their zombie hate?  Puhleeze.  Look at me.  I ADORE zombies and my husband divorced me! 

I don't know what kind of point I'm trying to make.  I've confused myself.   

[Soulflame]

I can't get excited about any games. MMO burnout. I don't really want to play mobas or fps games. Brother in law keeps asking me to play hots.

Need something for my new laptop as I'm sitting in this hotel room.

I'm right there with you.  Minus the being in a hotel room part.  And no one asks me to play HotS, which is good, because I would stare at them as though they were insane.

But yeah.  The can't get excited about games part.  I dunno, maybe I just need to move outside of my comfort zone and try something new.

[apocrypha]

My wife likes zombies. Well, not 'like' as in 'mmMMmm zombies!' but she enjoys watching zombie fiction, even though she finds the gore a bit unpleasant. Also my first wife liked zombies, but she spent a lot of time discussing how they represented middle class fear of the proletariat.

Anyway, I bought several things in the Steam summer sale, really good games, AAA stuff. And I'm playing Minecraft again. 

[Sky]

Anyway, I bought several things in the Steam summer sale, really good games, AAA stuff. And I'm playing Minecraft again. 

I had a feeling after the light chatter in the MC thread.

I did download Curse and that mod you were talking about. Need to get my resource packs set up and at least turn off whatever is putting in the auto step up feature (or I'm gonna die in lava at some point).

Though I started KotOR 2 last night, finally.

[HaemishM]

I started The Witcher: Enhanced Edition last night.

Fuck me, this combat interface is fucking terribad.

[Signe]

I don't know if it's because I played The Witcher: 2 on a console, but I'm finding The Witcher: 3 feels much easier for me with a controller.  I haven't played the first one but I'm thinking about it.

[Sky]

I played the first Witcher on kb/m but 3 is great on a controller. I do miss quickly looking around and enjoying the view. It's too nausea-inducing and slow to swing the camera around with thumbsitcks.

[Soulflame]

I started The Witcher: Enhanced Edition last night.

Fuck me, this combat interface is fucking terribad.

You do get used to it over time.  But yeah, it's a more than a bit teeth grittingly annoying.

[apocrypha]

I did download Curse and that mod you were talking about. Need to get my resource packs set up and at least turn off whatever is putting in the auto step up feature (or I'm gonna die in lava at some point).

I think B is the default keybind to toggle that, it killed me a few times too until I got used to it 

[lamaros]

Back to playing XCOM 2 for a bit.

Tried Witcher 3 for the third time. Just hate the combat system so much. Doesn't feel like a RPG to me, just like a crap WoW.

[Sir T]

Back to playing GW2

Started going through the new system to constrict a legendary, because I mistakenly thought it might be fun. After chopping 2000 logs of Elder wood (and hot even close to being done with the thing), I have to disagree. This is just mind numbing grind. The HOT maps are kinda fun though.

[Strazos]

Any additional thoughts on Battlefleet Gothic: Armada? It's 33% off on Steam at the moment.

[Yegolev]

I'm not able to make a Visio diagram of what my wife likes and doesn't like.  Not completely.  She does watch Walking Dead, does not want to play Fallout because of how whenever she sees me play, someone's head explodes, etc.  Hakuna matata.

[HaemishM]

Humble Bundle has a bundle with Battleborn if you pay $15. Thoughts? Is it worth the $15 bucks?

[Kail]

Humble Bundle has a bundle with Battleborn if you pay $15. Thoughts? Is it worth the $15 bucks?

Worth it to me, thanks for mentioning it, but I'm really hesitant to call it a good game that everyone should play.  It's more like a first person version of Dota (or Smite) than Overwatch or Paladins, which sounds like a lot of fun, but the implementation really mucks everything up.  The gameplay feels pretty awful because you're plinking away at unresponsive enemies with massive health bars (which is normal for something like Dota but it makes your guns feel like pea shooters and just doesn't feel fun) and the screen is often just an indecipherable orgy of glowing particle bullshit, especially for the melee characters.  The content is largely gated behind an INFURIATING unlock system which puts characters and items behind goals for the PvE maps (yes, you do get PvP gear by grinding PvE missions) and if you want to go to a specific map to unlock a specific character, you can play solo (good luck with that) or you can jump in to the matchmaking queue and vote on one of three maps to play.  So maybe the map you want isn't even an option to vote for, and if it IS, you'd better pray the rest of your team feels the same way or you're going to be spending the next 30-60 minutes (no, you didn't misread that) doing a map you've already done for no reward.

As I mentioned, I'm grabbing it because I like the genre, but in no way am I laying out anywhere NEAR the full price for this thing.  $15 is just about reasonable to me, though I wouldn't be shocked to see it go F2P soon given how badly the player count has allegedly plummeted.

[Yegolev]

Battleborn kinda looks like if a rainbow unicorn purged after bingeing three pounds of Skittles, then the room started spinning.