So, what're you playing?

[apocrypha]

Heh, I picked up Euro Truck 2 in the sale too. If I can tear myself away from Minecraft any time soon it'll be next on my list.

I had no idea that there were so many fantastic & complex mods for Minecraft. I've been playing on the f13 server solidly for at least 3 weeks now, and probably been driving everyone mad with my constant questions and screenshots, and still have a vast list of things I want to do & try and play with.

I love games that have good modding communities, it's incredible what kind of crazy stuff people make.

[jakonovski]

I finally got the Dragon Keep DLC for Borderlands 2. Now to finish off Mordor so I can reinstall...

[Fabricated]

Finished off Mordor for the most part. All the artifacts, all the wall marking things, etc. Not really all that interested in the DLC.

Playing Dungeon of the Endless a bit. I dunno how long I'll be interested in it but it's pretty cool looking.

[calapine]

Still playing Wargame: Red Dragon mostly. Probably a bit too much even...




Seems to be a bad year for games, somehow. Last thing that captured me was Divinity OS. Civ BE has potential, but I put it in hibernation until some big mega-patches / content DLC.

[CaptainNapkin]

Spent the entire week off playing Skyrim again, this time modded to high hell. This was after upgrading my PC, when in the past I have always bought the newest shiniest game I could to flex the new PC muscles. Just nothing that I haven't already played interested me enough this time. Although I'm still amazed at the content in Skyrim that I still haven't seen even after all time I've sunk into this game.

[Malakili]

I've given Heroes of the Storm (aka Blizzard's DOTA clone) another chance and I'm beginning to like it a bit more.  The main mental hurdle is to realize it isn't LoL or DOTA and it doesn't want to be.  In fact, the whole laning and defending your throne thing is frankly not even necessary.  Instead the game is about trying to do a map objective that will do the "traditional" work of winning in a MOBA for you, while trying to stop your opponents from doing the same thing.   

The irony is that while Blizzard apparently wants to be making a more casual MOBA by taking out things like last hitting and even gold/buying items in general, they've made a game so absolutely reliant on teamwork to complete the map objectives that I suspect the game is not going to actually be particularly casual friendly at all.

[Yegolev]

Rogue Galaxy, Skyrim, some DA:Inq, and a little Link Between Worlds while my wife is playing Inquisition and I have to stay on the sofa.

Played some Lichdom and it's kinda cool, in a mind-boggling way.

[Nebu]

I've given Heroes of the Storm (aka Blizzard's DOTA clone) another chance and I'm beginning to like it a bit more.  The main mental hurdle is to realize it isn't LoL or DOTA and it doesn't want to be.  In fact, the whole laning and defending your throne thing is frankly not even necessary.  Instead the game is about trying to do a map objective that will do the "traditional" work of winning in a MOBA for you, while trying to stop your opponents from doing the same thing.   

The irony is that while Blizzard apparently wants to be making a more casual MOBA by taking out things like last hitting and even gold/buying items in general, they've made a game so absolutely reliant on teamwork to complete the map objectives that I suspect the game is not going to actually be particularly casual friendly at all.

What I'm enjoying about the game is that it forces more group fights.  Objectives are the key to winning thus creating more direct conflict over objectives.  This was my biggest issue with LoL and the primary reason that I only play ARAM if I play it at all any more.  I do have my concerns about balance though.  So far there are some dominant builds that seem a bit out of whack on several toons.

[Malakili]

What I'm enjoying about the game is that it forces more group fights.  Objectives are the key to winning thus creating more direct conflict over objectives. 

This is true except for the fact that a lot of players have no awareness of what is happening on the map, which means if one of your guys just sits bot farming or pushing towers when an objective is top and the other team shows up with all 5, you're hosed.  Basically the single determining factor in most of the games I play is whether or not my team actually stops what they are doing to show up and fight over objectives.  When you get a good team the game is pretty fun, but because it is SO team oriented you get a non-insignificant number of games where you can't do anything.

At least in DOTA and LoL when playing solo I can farm well and try to win in the late game if I've got an idiot on my team.

That being said, at least the really one sided games tend to last no more than 15 minutes.

[PalmTrees]

Finished Murdered:Soul suspect. It was ok. Had the mystery mostly figured out before the plot got around to it.

Started up Sleeping Dogs, the beginning part walking around and fighting was fine, then came the vehicles and the raging. Throttle controls and motorcycles that turn like oil tankers can fuck right off. I'm stubborn enough to try a few more times, but the prognosis is grim.

Bought Divinity:OS, was 33% off. Will be trying that next.

Cancelled my FF14 sub, just hit that stage where you stop giving a damn about upgrading your pants with +2 whatever.

[Phildo]

Found an old flight stick while visiting my parents' house for Thanksgiving, so I'm messing around with Tie Fighter and some old Wing Commander games.  I used to make custom battles in TIE Fighter and it's bringing back a ton of memories.

[Kageru]

Endless Legend is pretty slick. Some interesting use of terrain and global effects, I like the one city per region to reduce city-spam and it has a sense of style (albeit a bit weird). The factions are the big win though, the way in which their mechanics encourage you to play a bit differently and optimize your tactics for that faction recreates the excitement that FFH had over standard Civ. Definitely triggered the "one more turn" urge.

[koro]

Now you're making me regret not nabbing it during the sale. I'll keep an eye out for it over Christmas.

[Sky]

recreates the excitement that FFH had over standard Civ

[Yegolev]

I spent $47 on fifteen Steam games.  I ended up playing Avadon: The Black Fortress.

Last night I played some Destiny and spent some time trying to figure out how to get Crucible marks without visiting the Crucible in the latest version of the game.  I have SO MUCH relic iron.

[HaemishM]

God help me, I've started playing League of Legends again. And I am mostly HORRIBAD. The team builder though? That is the TITS. How is that shit not in ranked?

Also still playing Blackguards and loving it.

[Lucas]

I finally started a serious playthrough of Borderlands 1: regarding the exploration of the various quest areas (for example, Skag Gully at the beginning) : should I explore every inch of it (beside the boss area), or it's better to go straight to the quest, get back, and eventually go there again later?

[Lantyssa]

It's better to do whichever you find fun.  There's no real 'reason' to do it early or later.

[KallDrexx]

Decided to go back to BL2 and play the DLC I never played (starting with Tiny Tinas).

I forgot I had finished the game so I had to start a new game.  Decided to try true vault hunter difficulty.

Fully sucked back into BL2.

[rattran]

I seem to have broken Shadow of Mordor, Succeeded and Failed a quest all at once. Now it takes forever to load, and leaves me with the quest target dead and replaced, but still needing to be killed. Sucks, it was fun until that.

[jakonovski]

Fired up Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Good lord this thing is pretty. Gameplay is charmingly archaic, although the instant kill quicktime events are terrible. Loving the story too, even though I know the big plot twist.

[Yegolev]

That's interesting.  I almost resumed Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin but went with SMTIV instead.

[murdoc]

I felt like playing a faster FPS so I grabbed Wolfenstein: The New Order and ran through it on the weekend. It was surprisingly fun for the most part and I got to kill 1000s of Nazis which is good effort for a weekend.

[Samwise]

I beat Risk of Rain on Monsoon difficulty last night, because unlocks told me to.     

I thought I wasn't going to 100% this game, but it's so easy to fire it up for a quick run to try to knock a new achievement out, and so satisfying to get it.

[Fabricated]

Dungeon of the Endless kinda pissed me off a bit. Had a very, very good run going, then I found out that certain characters have connected stories and one character got mad at and killed another on the elevator like 9 floors in, fucking me.

[Lucas]

Enjoying Borderlands 1 a lot; still, given my huge backlog of games I'm now finally starting to trim, I think I'll limit myself to a single playthrough with the character I'm enjoying the most, Mordecai. Yep, I know it's like playing Diablo with a single character and on normal difficulty, but hey, better than nothing (anyway, I'll probably keep it as a "side game" I'll go back to from time to time, 'til I get around purchasing Borderlands 2)  :)

[jakonovski]

I played a couple hours of the CoD:AW free weekend multiplayer. What an awful game that is. Giant merry go round maps where you just whirl around without a thought in your head. It's even worse with the new faster gameplay, feels like an idiot version of Quake.

[Sky]

State of Decay is a really great game with some odd design choices. The amount of events they throw at you is waaaay to much. I'm just sneaking into town to try and secure the gun shop and at least ten new events pop up, which I ignore. Then as a horde closes in on the base, I jump into a car to go run them down and one of the events sucks me in as I apparently drove to close to it.

What could be a great immersive sandbox keeps pulling me out of the story I'm playing by pushing story on me. An event or two a day would be ok, but this is nuts and imo hurting the enjoyment of the game.

Losing the first character on a routine supply run was one of the most intense and memorable "story" events I've had in gaming. Too bad crappy game writers are busy trying to write Citizen Kane, all you need to do is present the elements for players to create their own. Sure, most players don't do well with undirected narrative. Guess what, they don't give a shit about your writing, either.

[Scold]

Having a blast with the new Operation Vanguard content in CS:GO. A major struggle ensuing to regain my DMG ranking.

[Falconeer]

Dragon Age 3 is really not convincing me so far. Struggling to advance the story and get somehow attached to... anything. Too many new things that are not bad per se but I wasn't looking for in a Dragon Age game  

[jakonovski]

Had enough of CoD, switched to Castlevania:LoS pc version. The more I play the more I like it. Simple, effective controls and a move set that you can build yourself. The story is bonkers, but in a good way. Graphics are way more impressive than most of the stuff coming out today.

The way this and other games got panned back when they were released, makes me think consoles ruined them. Bad framerate and resolution meant that they never played like they were supposed to. Until now.



 

[satael]

Dragon Age 3 is really not convincing me so far. Struggling to advance the story and get somehow attached to... anything. Too many new things that are not bad per se but I wasn't looking for in a Dragon Age game  

I had the same problem with the game. The best analogy I could come up with was the second Hobbit film: alot of stuff that isn't really bad but... (to clarify I thought the movie was mediocre at best with lots of filler and a disappointing end).

I've been playing the Viking Conquest dlc for Mount&Blade: Warband and it really does suffer from various bugs which they are trying to fix (the latest small patch broke the enemy ai and now they just stand there waiting for the players' troops to get to range). Most of the crashing has been fixed with the beta version (and using single threading) but there are still lots of bugs that break the main story in storymode making it impossible to advance. Despite all that I've put a respectable number of hours into the dlc already (but can't recommend buying it before some serious patching on the developer's part)

[Yegolev]

Dragon Age MP is a fine way to waste time since I missed out on the free Garden Warfare on PS4 and I'd really rather not spend $40 on a second copy along with starting over.

Still poking at Destiny since the expansion gave me more to do.  Going to try to grab the first chest in the new raid tonight.

Spent two days in WDW and played more SMT IV.  Tagged people from some new regions, too.

[Kail]

Still on a Heroes of the Storm kick, but it inspired me to play some of the other Blizzard games I haven't got around to touching yet.

Resubbed to WoW, apparently they gave me the Kung-Fu Panda expansion for free because I'm so awesome.  The game's not really grabbing me, this time, though.  I wish there wasn't a monthly sub, or that I could buy a lifetime pass or something, it's a fun game to spend a few minutes in but it bugs me feeling like I'm "wasting" money by only playing a few minutes a week.

Finally got around to trying Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.  Whatever scrub level of skill I had with the original game is completely gone, I don't think I can touch multiplayer at this point.  Single player is surprisingly fun, though.  There are a bunch of interesting missions, and it's a pretty fun time.  I was hoping they'd go a bit farther with the "hero unit" idea like Warcraft 3 did, but it doesn't look like that's the case so far.  I'm finding the story kind of interesting at a high level but the actual ground level implementation is fucking dreadful as far as I've gotten.

[Sky]

Long Dark has a new mode that turns off wolf aggression. Since that feature seemed more annoying than fun, I like the change. I do miss the added tension from a wolf stalking you, but overall I like it better.

Backed up to hook up my first manual connect trailer in Euro Truck 2! Still struggle with backing in a trailer, but I've always had a tough time with that irl. It's funny how much that game makes me want a wheel/pedals/etc and Oculus Rift. The 1st person is nicely immersive but a bit finicky with a gamepad.