So, what're you playing?

[Ragnoros]

Civ 5 has me. Please send help!

[bhodi]

So much Don't Starve!

This game is a kick in the balls. But I keep coming back for more. So GOOD. Every death is my own fuckup, and I know exactly what I did wrong. It's just frustrating as all hell to lose hours and hours of gameplay after one mistake.

[rk47]

[Rendakor]

What game are those from?

[rk47]

Surgical Surgeon 2013

[Yegolev]

I'm playing so much LEGO City Undercover.  So much!

[Morat20]

Surgical Surgeon 2013

The achievement list works well with your avatar.

[proudft]

I have convinced myself that playing WoW in another language is educational, so I've been doing that.  It's super easy for Spanish (US servers), and pretty easy for Chinese (Taiwan servers), and if you're cheap you can get a lot of mileage out of the free play time, since it takes you about a hundred times as long to do anything if you read and take notes to figure out what the hell the quest text says.  Dunno how it works for European servers/languages, but might be worth investigating if you are into French/German/whatever else they have.

Other than that, playing some Blood Bowl against strangers in the Forum Open League (and it has been brutal).  And I have a Russia CK2 game I should wrap up before the expansion comes out on May 28th but I dunno, haven't felt the urge for that in a while.

[Rendakor]

Lots of POE. Got bored of my EK witch and wanted to play an archer, so I rolled up an LA duelist after finding a cool build on the forums. He's level 29 now and a total slaughtering machine. LA + LMP + Wpn Ele Dmg obliterates packs, its crazy. He's also my luckiest toon, having found 3 uniques (including one that was an upgrade) and an Exalted in the span of an hour; these are the first 3 uniques I've ever had drop for me in ~120 total levels of play.

Still playing Lego City for 3DS; I wish there were more side missions because the story is very linear. Sure, you can wander around between missions but there isn't much to do.

[Morat20]

Finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Contemplating another playthrough, either as "Kill the World" or trying for pacifist, which I totally had except for the prologue and maybe keeping Malik alive. I didn't check to see if any of the guards died there.

Speaking of, the prologue and the pacifist achievement annoy me. Killing people there counts against the achievement (which I think is a listed one, not a secret). But it's also the ONE part of the game where you have no non-lethal weapons and no-takedowns.

You  have a combat rifle and that is your sole weapon. There are only three clusters of guards, but you're still in the tutorial and the only one past them is one sneak you have to be real quick about, and two that require you to blow up gas canisters. Gas canisters that are never, ever mentioned as containing non-lethal glass, aren't marked, are not in any tutorials.....

Not really the best design there.

Other than that, decent game. Enjoyed it.

[Malakili]

Playing a Hardcore Demon Hunter in Diablo 3.  Just bought L.A. Noire on steam sale yesterday and enjoyed the first hour or two quite a bit.  Not an amazing game, but I'll easily get my 5 bucks worth. 

Have an ongoing game of Civ 5 as Carthage that I return to from time to time.  Finally, some Project Zomboid and Prison Architect alpha mixed in for good measure.


I've really turned into an unfocused gamer.

[jakonovski]

Couldn't resist buying Mars: the War Logs, it had some good word of mouth. The game is a sci-fi rpg by the dev that made the Game of Thrones rpg and Of Orcs and Men. Playing it now.

[Shrike]

Been awhile, but things haven't changed all that much:

WoW, of course. Practically no one I know plays anymore, but I still can't give it up. Just enough fun to keep me hanging around--for now.

ME3 MP. Starting to slack off on the PC version, but a lot of guys at work suddenly "discovered" the game, and dragooned me into playing on the 360. A lot.

Returned to Diablo 3 and having a good time with my demon hunter, wizard, and (somewhat surprisingly to me) a monk.

Bought a 3DS XL in a fit of boredom and presently putting a lot of time in on Infinite Space, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Love turn based stuff.

[Morat20]

Finally finished ME3. Irritated as hell with the Synthesis ending, more than I thought I'd be. No one told me how retarded the artwork was gonna be. Really, you went with glowing green eyes and random skin circuit patterns?

There's decades of sci-fi hacks writing by the damn word who came up with better shit than that. Did you run out of art budget? Was it just "I dunno, showing those whole synthesis is hard. We'll make EDI hug someone and everyone else? GLOWING EYES".

Assholes. If i play it again, control or destroy. Period. Or possibly "Fuck the world, let the Yahg handle it".

[koro]

Girlfriend was all "You're bored, why not try FTL?"

I say "Eh, I've seen some of it, doesn't seem like my kind of deal."

"Try it anyway."

"Okay, FINE."

Eight hours later I had to make myself shut down FTL. 

[Morat20]

So, let's see...

Try to play Bioshock again? (The furthest I got was the first big drill guy, and then real life happened and I never went back to it. I've got the new Bioshock -- was a gift -- so I plan to play both eventually).

Or Lego Batman? Or another hack at Assasin's Creed? (I left off at the second assasination, I think, but that wasn't long ago -- and I have like another Assasins' Creed game to play too. I really need to be idle rich for a few years so I can catch up).

Leaning towards Bioshock.

[Ceryse]

Been playing StarDrive.. new 4x indie title. I'm such a sucker for the space 4x genre that its pathetic. Largely enjoying myself even though the game has some massive flaws/holes, but it does do some things surprisingly well.

[Morat20]

Last 4x game I played was Gal Civ 2. Which was okay, but....I dunno. Nothing in that genre has really caught me like Master of Orion 2 or Alpha Centauri.

[Ingmar]

Alpha Centauri isn't a 4X!

[calapine]

Explore - scout map, check.
Expand - new cities, check.
Exploits - use resources, check.
Exterminate - go to war, kill worms, check.

[Ingmar]

Hmm, I don't think of Civ and Civ-alikes (like AC) as 4xes, but maybe there's something to that.

[Ceryse]

Last 4x game I played was Gal Civ 2. Which was okay, but....I dunno. Nothing in that genre has really caught me like Master of Orion 2 or Alpha Centauri.

There are... shades of MoO 1 and 2 in StarDrive.

Dim, pale shades, but they are there. Its a bit lacking in the stat depth (where are my fucking pie charts and spreadsheets!?) and the economic/resource side of things is.. dumbed down (taxation just shaves off a percentage from science/food/production and has no other negatives), but has some redeeming aspects to it (automated freighters for importing/exporting food and production across your empire, decent AI governorship and such). Best part is being able to customize the actual components on your ships (but not their appearance) based on modules (power, weapons, shielding, armour, engines... usual assortment).

Probably the best space 4x I've played in awhile, which is somewhat sad. And the no star-lanes and the real time aspect is always annoying when its present in 4xes, but it makes the combat system work, I guess.

Mainly I was just hankering for a decent 4x game that wasn't MoO and its filling that need better than Endless Space, SoaSE, SotS or GalCiv did.

[Lantyssa]

I'm afraid we'll be waiting a long time.  I don't know why someone can't just remake MoO 1 and 2 with updated graphics.  They were near perfect.

[Rasix]

Playing Walking Dead and SWTOR. 

I know there's been a lot of love for Walking Dead, but so far I'm just kind of "meh" on it.   I think I'll keep playing, however, the characters are mostly well done.

[Morat20]

I'm afraid we'll be waiting a long time.  I don't know why someone can't just remake MoO 1 and 2 with updated graphics.  They were near perfect.

I think they tried that with MoO3. I never played it, mostly because I heard it wasn't very good.

[Ingmar]

The reason everyone says MOO3 was bad was because it wasn't like MOO1/2, so no.

[calapine]

The reason everyone says MOO3 was bad was because it wasn't like MOO1/2, so no.

It's correct that it wasn't like MOO1/2, but it also was extremely terrible all on it's own.

[Margalis]

MOO3 was designed by a MOO superfan with no experience in games of any kind. Like they found a guy who was super into MOO and just let him direct MOO3.

[Ginaz]

Couldn't resist buying Mars: the War Logs, it had some good word of mouth. The game is a sci-fi rpg by the dev that made the Game of Thrones rpg and Of Orcs and Men. Playing it now.

I saw this on Steam and it looked interesting.  Is it any good?

[rk47]

Mars : Prison Rape

[Goreschach]

Mars : Prison Rape

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=owYk4TOddYY#t=20s

[Tebonas]

Stardrive looks intriguing, loading it down right now. I sure hope I can buy those Space Bears.

My retro itch is scratched anyway. Done with both Warlords and Warlords 3.

Edit: Oh, the game is realtime with pause button. Thats what I call wasted 20 Euros.

[jakonovski]

Couldn't resist buying Mars: the War Logs, it had some good word of mouth. The game is a sci-fi rpg by the dev that made the Game of Thrones rpg and Of Orcs and Men. Playing it now.

I saw this on Steam and it looked interesting.  Is it any good?

I've only played it a bit over an hour, but it's definitely intriguing. It's bug free and the combat, while clunky, is clearly skill based. There's a Witcher 2-esque talent tree and you can craft stuff. The world and backstory is for me the best part, and so far the devs have had the sense to limit the game to what their small dev budget is able to support. 

Downsides are keys that cannot be reassigned (I play with a pad for that reason, works well because the game is getting released on consoles too), and horrible voice acting.

[Xilren's Twin]

Just to make the comparison between NWO and other D&D based games more jarring, i just finished replaying Icewind Dale 1 and am starting IWD2.  I remembered IWD1 fairly well overall, but thus far don't remember anything that's happened in 2, so it's almost like playing a new game!     Doesn't take long to get back into the ole min maxing of D&D that's for sure.  Most bizarre weapon I picked up in 1 was a +3 bastard sword that has a 10% chance of casting Fireball....at the target you are meleeing.  Hello friendly fire.  Bastard sword indeed....

[Lantyssa]

My 'friendly' mage always used me to target the fireballs anyways.  Pretty sure that character stocked up on fire resistance ASAP.

The reason everyone says MOO3 was bad was because it wasn't like MOO1/2, so no.

It's correct that it wasn't like MOO1/2, but it also was extremely terrible all on it's own.

It was terrible.  Probably the worst space-based 4X I played.