So, what're you playing?

[Rasix]

I don't remember the DA2 bugs.     My copy was on Steam, so no Origin issues could be encountered.  ME3, I actually first had on my 360, but later went to PC when the 360 decided to finally RROD.  Again, no real issues other than the ones inherent in the game.

I may have dodged the DA2 one due to Isabela never being in my party to begin with.

[Ingmar]

Isabela ditched me on my first playthrough, so I never had her at Friend/Rival to get the bug. Other than that I don't recall any real showstoppers in ME3 or DA2. Unless you count the ME3 ending as a bug.

[rk47]

Hi-res patch for Fallout 2 works like a charm. Made a Fast Shot Character with Big Guns in mind.
Got through the boring sections in Fallout 2 starts and finally reached New Reno at level 6.
What struck me about New Reno is how 'easy' it was to being a made man.
Salvatore's quest chain in particular involved just one skill check to open a locked door.
The rest are just talk, talk, and talk. Pay up. And... done.
You're a made man. Go talk to the Gun store owner for Special Stock.
Acquired Bozar for more than 10k caps worth of trade (easy, considering there wasn't really anything worthwhile to buy. And digging all the graves in Golgotha nets you 2 SMGs, Metal Armor and other goodies worth more than 4000 caps) , 200x FMJ Ammo. Walked back to the Den. Pop mentats and put on sunglasses, successfully inviting Vic into the party with Sulik already in tow - then walked outside.

Unload two bursts of 10mm SMG on one of the Metzger's goon's face. Killing him. Ran out of the zone. Came back, raised Bozar. Unload freely. More bursts of shots to kill all the slavers. Loot them all
The end.
Probably will whack Lara's gang at the church as well. EXP is EXP.

[Samwise]

I've had a few people tell me Risk of Rain is really good so I'm trying to play that and I just don't get it.  If I buy all the things, the bad guys get ridiculously strong and I can't kill them.  If I don't buy all the things I can't kill even the weak bad guys because they're both faster than me and stronger than me.  What's the trick?

[Bann]

Risk of Rain is pretty hard to win. Like most roguelikes, you'll eventually stumble onto a set of powerups where you feel like you can just annihilate everything, no matter how tough it gets. The game for me really was just unlocking the right class (for me - mine laying robot thing) and finding out which powerups worked well together. I only ever unlocked a couple of the artifacts, but the one that makes it so that only 1 enemy type can spawn per level was pretty broken - I used that to farm certain unlocks.

[rk47]

Doesn't age at all. 

[Ironwood]

Anyone you didn't kill ?

[rk47]

Those crack addicts and merchants.
Dirty slavers and gangers deserve it.

[Yegolev]

Hmmmm... might have to look at the hires patches now.  Which I don't have time for, so thanks in a sarcastic voice.

[rk47]

Trouble.

[Samwise]

I've had a few people tell me Risk of Rain is really good so I'm trying to play that and I just don't get it.  If I buy all the things, the bad guys get ridiculously strong and I can't kill them.  If I don't buy all the things I can't kill even the weak bad guys because they're both faster than me and stronger than me.  What's the trick?

I rescind my earlier harsh words about this game.  My rule of "play at least till I've got all the trading cards" paid off and I was able to unlock some characters that don't suck.     It's got the roguelike hooks in me now and is causing me to not go to bed when I should.

I really like Acrid, the slimy alien dude who DOTs everything.  I also got the "spite" artifact that makes everything explode into bombs when it dies.  Fun times.

[Fabricated]

The Commando is actually a fairly tough character to start the player with because he's fairly fragile and his moveset while solid is not amazing.

The huntress is pure easy mode if you want that.

If you want to easily unlock characters and do challenges go get the "command" artifact that lets you pick which items you get from drops.

[Rendakor]

Bought Atelier Meruru Plus on my Vita because I never finished it on the PS3. All of these games should just be on handhelds forever; this is a great game to play for a quick fix because the 'dungeons' are all very short.

Still playing Hex, raredrafting and waiting for Set 2.

[Yegolev]

Skyrim, Destiny, and Rogue Galaxy.

[Ironwood]

Finished Grimrock 2, 'finished' Gnomoria, 'finished' Marvel Super Heroes.

Feeling a bit bereft, since pugging in MWO is like getting your pubes pulled one at a time by hot pliers.

[rattran]

Due to shitty interweb, I've been playing Van Helsing. It was so much of a slog to get through the first game, I may not bother playing the second.

[schild]

Due to shitty interweb, I've been playing Van Helsing. It was so much of a slog to get through the first game, I may not bother playing the second.

The first one was hampered by the tower defense nonsense, but in the second one you don't have to play that shit yourself, you can send minions to do it. I enjoyed both, but the TD shit was so fucking cumbersome.

[Kail]

Played through Deus Ex: The Fall.  I'm one of those weirdos who didn't hate DX Invisible War that much.  I mean, I had some fun with it, even though it was undoubtedly the worst in the series.  Until The Fall.  I don't really feel super comfortable bashing this game because it's a mobile port and it's probably one of the better mobile games out there, but on PC, it's soooo janky.  In the five hours it took me to beat the game, I had four crashes, had to exit twice because the sound cut out, and glitched outside the level walls once.  Also, the story is a direct sequel to the novel, Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, so I hope you read that (because the in-game story is maybe a chapter long).  And it ends on a "this was just part one of our epic series" cliffhanger which will probably never be resolved.  The gameplay is a mess, too.  There's no jump button, no way to remap controls, no shops or vendors (you just buy things anywhere and they poof into existence in your inventory), dead or unconscious bodies despawn after about five seconds, aiming and moving feels janky and everything is just generally ughhh.

Grabbed Shovel Knight, and having a blast with that.  I've been kinda done with retro 2D platformers for a while, but Shovel Knight seems like it would be fun even without leaning on the nostalgia button.  It's really catchy so far.

[koro]

Got a joystick in today and loaded up X-Wing and TIE Fighter from GOG. Never played X-Wing before, but TIE Fighter was my jam back in the day.

X-Wing is showing its age a bit more, but TIE Fighter is still aces.

I just can't figure out how to configure my joystick in the original DOS versions.

[Yegolev]

Picked up Assassin's Creed Unity because someone thinks the multiplayer will be super awesome.  This game definitely suffers from Top Shelf Corporate Publisher Franchise Syndrome.  I'm trying very hard to not hate it for non-game reasons, but I keep thinking that Shadow of Mordor did this better.

[rk47]

....uhhh that game really got slammed in reviews.
Not sure why you plunge day 1 price point on that.
I don't really want to buy another U-play infected shit.

[Yegolev]

Covered in the first sentence.  Sometimes you do dumb things with your friends and still have a good time.  If that will happen is TBD but I'll give it a fair shot.  It looks like ass, but so far nothing horrible has happened.  Except that I'm not instead playing better games.

[Shannow]

Baldurs Gate 2 LAN coop with my 14 year old.

There is hope for the next generation..

[Phildo]

I was cleaning up a laptop for my boss a few months ago and he had Baldur's Gate and a few other same-era RPGs on the machine.  There's hope for the previous generation, too.

[apocrypha]

Did half an hour of Borderlands Pre-Sequel with a friend who was stuck on the 1st boss. It's really not working for me.

[lamaros]

What's the best Battlefield game everyone is playing these days? Friends tried to get me playing CS again, but I just prefer Battlefield style.

[Soulflame]

The first boss is a seemingly unsurmountable challenge until he suddenly isn't.  I'm not sure why.

[Rendakor]

Who was the first boss? I think I beat it but I'm not sure because I don't remember having problems with anyone.

[apocrypha]

Deadlift. He was much easier with 2 people but I did find it a frustrating fight when I beat him solo the first time.

[rk47]

This INT3 run is pretty funny in Fallout 2. Took drugs just to invite party members while experiencing the discrimination against retards in the wastelands.

[Yegolev]

I've played some Mario Galaxy 2 with my son recently.  It's super awesome.  Last night he got tired of it and put in Cat Mario.  Cat Mario has some control issues, which is really the last thing you ever want to fuck up in a Mario game.  I don't like Cat Mario.

I windmilled my arms until I got to the part of Unity where I can do multiplayer.  I can't see it being worth it, but this is what we are doing.  Mostly out of spite, I assume.

Otherwise, Skyrim and Rogue Galaxy.

[HaemishM]

What's the best Battlefield game everyone is playing these days? Friends tried to get me playing CS again, but I just prefer Battlefield style.

Battlefield 4 is a distinct improvement over 3. The map design on most of the maps, even the grenade hallways maps, is much improved. If you get the Naval Strike expansion, Carrier Assault is great if you liked the old Titan Assault mode from BF 2142. The last expansion released Dragon's Teeth, is probably my least favorite of the 4 released, and the last, Final Stand, is set to be released soon I think. If you use Origin (which you'll have to for this game or 3 anyway), you can get free gametime with 4 to let you know if you really want to spend money on it. I've spent 220 hours on the goddamn game. My time on 3 was much lower.

[HaemishM]

Tried a little bit of the Space Hulk game and holy fuck is it hard. So many jams and suddenly my entire team gets munched before I can blink. Of course, that's kind of par for the course with the board game too so it must be accurate. Interface is a little clunky.

Then I bought Blackguards on the Humble Jumbo Bundle and I am hooked. That game is awesome. I'm 3 hours into it and wondering if the DLC is worth getting or not while's it 50% off. Anyone had any experience with Untold Legends?

[Falconeer]

Then I bought Blackguards on the Humble Jumbo Bundle and I am hooked. That game is awesome.

Yes, yes, yes! I was disappointed after trying the demo about a year ago because the voice dubbing seemed too light hearted for my tastes, but for some reason this time I remembered this is Die Schwarze Auge so something clicked and now I must say the mood is very faithful to the original PnP manuals. And overall, the game is great. Loving the ruleset, and loving that I don't have to run around with my character and I can just focus on the battles.


EDIT: I can't really say I am playing it, as I don't have enough time and chances are I won't finish it. But I picked up the Bard's Tale "new" game from 2004 and it's so terribly cheesy I am almost enjoying it. I mean, Beer beer beer tiddly beer beer beer    And this is the first thing you see when you enter the game.

[lamaros]

So I'm playing CS:GO. Peer pressure kicked things off, but I'm actually enjoying it...