So, what're you playing?

[Draegan]

I'm in a rut. I've been playing Leauge of Legend on and off for almost a year and a half. I've always played it with my brother in law over beers, but he's a new dad right now so he's MIA right now. I still enjoy playing the game, but not as much as before and it has me looking for other games and I can't seem to find any that are entertaining.

I've tried to play a slew of 4X games and it turned out I enjoyed watching people play EUIV than actually learning how to get through that fucking cluttered UI. Beyond Earth didn't get me anywhere either.

Just so depressing. Maybe one of you people will post a game here that will catch my attention.

[Yegolev]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0V2RRL0ZI

[bhodi]

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.

If you like that, you need to play spintires. It's crazy fun, especially if you can find friends to play it with.

[Sky]

It's on my short list.

[Shannow]

If anyone is contemplating Space Engineers , don't. They forgot to include the fun. I'll let you know if it gets better.

[Pennilenko]

If anyone is contemplating Space Engineers , don't. They forgot to include the fun. I'll let you know if it gets better.

My friends and I like space engineers quite a bit. What did you not like about it?

[Ironwood]

Oh man, D&D Online is woefully unimpressive.

Time for some Dragon Age.

[Shannow]

If anyone is contemplating Space Engineers , don't. They forgot to include the fun. I'll let you know if it gets better.

My friends and I like space engineers quite a bit. What did you not like about it?

The interface for one and second how the fuck to even do anything (especially on survivor mode, not so interested in creative at this stage)

[Yegolev]

I got a Vita for Christmas and had some fun trying to download any game for it.  Fortunately I already own several Vita-compatible games and so have not spent any money yet on software.  I have been playing Persona 2 on it.

I'm supposed to be working on Pokemon Omega Ruby but it's like watching the fourth reboot of a classic movie at this point.  It also has to compete with Persona 2.

DA: Inquisition SP, and MP now that PSN is back.

Destiny as well, since PSN came back.  Lucky for me, Xur stayed an extra day and I was able to spend all my various monies to upgrade my primary gun to Expansion 1 level.

Played a game of Card Wars with my son.  It's a solid CCG, or at least way better than Pokemon CCG and less wharrrgarbbl than modern MtG.

Still up: Adventure Time Munchkin.

Played some of the new Smash Bros, and I'm really too old to play this game.

I started up Spec Ops: The Line before Xmas Week and got a decent way into it, considering my normal mode of gaming.  I need to make sure I get back to it before the uneasy feelings evaporate.

I did play some more Neo Scavenger two weeks ago.  I managed to do even more poorly than last time, dying twice before I even found a sleeping bag.  Basically it comes down to dying anytime I get into any sort of fight.

I probably played something else prior to the week of absence but since I made a lot of food and then ate a lot of food which wasn't very good for me, assembled some toys, etc.

[Rasix]

My parents got me a video game for Christmas for what I think is the first time ever.  Persona Q.  It's interesting.  I'm guessing this is what the Etrian Odyssey games are like? It's a bit annoying that your benched guys don't get leveled.  Still, it has a nice Persona flavor to it and it's less dickpunchy than SMT IV, so I think I'll keep going with it. 

I spent an hour on Christmas getting destroyed by my nephews at the new Smash.  My son was looking on trying to figure out the game and why dad was so bad at it.

At the moment, I just have no idea what to play PC wise.  I suppose I could always continue my second DA:I run through.

[Soulflame]

My eldest says that Persona Q is basically an EO game with Persona characters.

Definitely agree about Pokemon Alpha/Omega. I think this may be my last Pokemon game, unless they make some serious changes to the format. I've been hoping they would make some changes to the mechanics of the game for a few versions now.  Outside of gimmicky battle types.. Which they are unlikely to do, barring a huge dropoff in people buying the games. My eldest has beaten all 8 gyms and is working towards the Pokemon League, but it was a bit of a haul.  I'm just past the fifth gym, and am currently on a shiny hunt for an Electrike.  Mostly for the fun of it.  Plus:  Shiny Electrike.

PC is mostly Terraria, with a local server the whole family is playing on.  Some Marvel Heroes.  A bit of Infested Planet (thanks Mezoth!)

[Sky]

I got about halfway through South Park and stalled a bit. Combat got samey and the laughs were too far between the running around. Pretty good game, I got my money's worth for sure; just too much else in the library.

State of Decay was a ton of fun, but the developers decided to get in the way of that by making people constantly nag you into missions and auto-initiating missions. I was driving home and got sucked into a cut-scene with the military, I had intended to switch to my soldier character to go talk to them later. Then my simple trip to the gun shop turned into mission nagging so I just said screw it and quit.

Rocksmith, because it's awesome.

Civ V because one of my painting buddies was playing it late one night when I was trying to figure out what to play next.

[Rendakor]

Persona Q is in fact Persona using the EO engine. It's substantially easier than any of it's predecessors on either side, but still pretty challenging and has some good puzzles. I'm still working on it; just cleared the 3rd dungeon.

Also played a bit of Hex over the weekend, and still playing POE daily.

Stalled out a bit on DA:O because the only area I have left is Redcliffe and that's the bit I played on my first playthrough ages ago.

[Druzil]

Bit late to the party but making my first play through Dark Souls.  Struggled a bit for the first hour but then something clicked and now I'm really loving it (then I made it to that blight town swamp, fuck that place, especially that waterwheel).  Just downed Sen's Fortress which wasn't too bad but it made me realize I need some sort of ranged weapon that does more than 8 damage      Not sure what I'll do next, I have that big city place (Anor?) and the demon realm and that big door in the forest I haven't done yet.

[Sky]

I was actually playing HoMaM 3 last night. Despite the ancient graphics and slightly wonky interface (by modern standards) it holds up surprisingly well. I've always loved the music, though I think 2 had the very best with the operatic tracks.

[Ingmar]

I was actually playing HoMaM 3 last night. Despite the ancient graphics and slightly wonky interface (by modern standards) it holds up surprisingly well. I've always loved the music, though I think 2 had the very best with the operatic tracks.

If you want more content GOG has all the Heroes Chronicles games which were hard to find when they were acutally new, and they're all in the HOMM3 engine. The writing is baaaaaaaaaaad, but same old gameplay.

[Yegolev]

Bit late to the party but making my first play through Dark Souls.  Struggled a bit for the first hour but then something clicked and now I'm really loving it (then I made it to that blight town swamp, fuck that place, especially that waterwheel).  Just downed Sen's Fortress which wasn't too bad but it made me realize I need some sort of ranged weapon that does more than 8 damage      Not sure what I'll do next, I have that big city place (Anor?) and the demon realm and that big door in the forest I haven't done yet.

Let us know when you get to The Part With The Archers.

[Jeff Kelly]

80 days for iOS where I already spent more time on than most other games this year even though it's basically a choose your own adventure game.

A very, very good one though. This is in the spirit of Jules Verne's Around the work in 80 days and also steampunk done right. I enjoyed it a great deal

[Druzil]

Bit late to the party but making my first play through Dark Souls.  Struggled a bit for the first hour but then something clicked and now I'm really loving it (then I made it to that blight town swamp, fuck that place, especially that waterwheel).  Just downed Sen's Fortress which wasn't too bad but it made me realize I need some sort of ranged weapon that does more than 8 damage      Not sure what I'll do next, I have that big city place (Anor?) and the demon realm and that big door in the forest I haven't done yet.

Let us know when you get to The Part With The Archers.

That part was pretty annoying, I think the worst part was re-clearing after each time.  I just went with the charge up the ramp and roll to the guy on the right and take him out method.  For some reason the guy on the left though got me a number of times once I had him solo.  Just walked into the bosses room and got destroyed so this should be fun.

[apocrypha]

I'm kind of envious of all you people who seem to be able to play multiple games at once, or several different ones in a short space of time anyway. I'm a 1-game-at-a-time player. I get hooked on one thing and just play the everliving shit out of it until I suddenly don't any more.

So yeah, still deep into Minecraft and millions of mods.

[Yegolev]

Did you know that people with straight hair are envious of those with curly hair?

[Bunk]

Been playing a fair bit of Sunset Overdrive. It came on sale at half price this week on XBone. Wasn't really planning on getting it, but I'm not disappointed at $30. Its basically Saints Row 4 but even stupider. Doesn't take it self even remotely seriously - the only penalty to dying is you might have to restart at a checkpoint in a mission. Its surprisingly fun though for a pointless mayhem game.

[apocrypha]

Did you know that people with straight hair are envious of those with curly hair?

I said kind of. I've heard of curlers. 

[Sky]

Did you know that people women with straight hair are envious of those with curly hair?

FIFY

[Phildo]

I'm just jealous of people that have hair.

[Signe]

I would LOVE to have curly hair!  My hair's just messy. 

[apocrypha]

I'd like a thicker beard. It's not as scraggy as it was when I was in my twenties but it's still not enough like a badger stuck on my chin as I'd like. Also I'm going to have the most enormous steam library to play when I retire

[Tannhauser]

Finished DA3, which is at least as good as Skyrim.
Finished the SWTOR expac, which was great gaming value at $20.
Now level 97 in WoW WoD.  The McDonalds of MMO's
Probably going to buy Gnomes and Goblins, the xpac for Hearthstone today.  I still need to buy two wings of Naxx though, maybe I'll save my points for that.  I really like how fast HS content is coming, I like getting new cards and designing new decks.

[Shannow]

I take back my earlier statement about Space Engineers. There is fun there. It's a slow, somewhat frustrating , vertigo inducing sort of fun but it is there.

[Sky]

Picked up Driftmoon, been meaning to for a while now. I played through the demo when it came out...twice.

It's a bit janky, but it feels like a more humorous Ultima 7.

[Yegolev]

I started over in Dragon Age since I want to side with the Templars and that is kinda silly for a elven mage to do.

Persona 2 knocked me out at the first boss fight, so I took a break and started playing Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions on my Vita.  This one is a nice update from the one I remember from the PS1.

Little Destiny as well.  I need to get from Rank 1 to Rank 3 with Crota's Mom before I can do much else interesting.

The best thing about the Vita is the short list of PSP/PSN games that I have already bought in the past and completely forgotten about.

[Rendakor]

Let me know if FFT still lags like crazy during the summons and elemental 4 spells on the Vita. It made the PSP version unplayable (and I'm admittedly partial to the PSX's rather spoony translation).

[HaemishM]

Welp, finished Blackguards. Man that fucking game gets FRUSTRATING in the end as they just stack bullshit upon bullshit in the last chapter. Had the worst ending (my main character died... I think... and I didn't kill the big boss) but I managed to stop the Nameless Whisper anyway. Watching another ending on Youtube where they DID kill the big boss and the ending... was the same.

How very... German. 

Fun game to play right up until the last bits when you just want it fucking done. 37 hours and I'd say about 33 of it were REALLY REALLY GOOD. I'm not disappointed by the "Fuck you" ending so much as the frustration of the difficulty level ramp at the end. I'd still recommend it, though.

[Teleku]

I started over in Dragon Age since I want to side with the Templars and that is kinda silly for a elven mage to do.

Did you just admit to restarting a game due to role playing reasons?   

[penfold]

I have a huge backlog and avoided buying much more than a few sub £2 games in the Steam Sale.

My main game over the holidays has been Final Fantasy VII, having bought the steam version earlier this year. I'm now further than I did the first time round, as that was on the very buggy PC version (on my first PC and a Riva card iirc) and my saves corrupted roughly mid way through Disc 2.