So, what're you playing?

[Lucas]

At long last, I finally managed to get through that awful slog that was Chapter II of The Witcher 1 (swamp, mage tower, messy investigation; best part was banging Shani, yep), and now I'm enjoying the rest of the game quite a lot. Took me 7-8 years, but hey 

[Threash]

I've been engrossed in Dominions 4 for like a week. I still have no idea what the fuck i am doing.

[Flood]

Mainly Dead State but with a dash of Wolfenstein: NWO and still some Endless Legend.  I have Lords of the Fallen, Ziggurat and The Long Dark waiting in the wings.

[pxib]

I'm still playing a lot of Invisible Inc. early access. Turn-based stealth cybernetically enhanced corporate spy rogue-like.

I have a feeling that by the time the game actually comes out I should finally be tired of it.

[Bzalthek]

Christmas is usually "lets put semi interesting looking games on the wishlist to appease the family"  SO I find myself playing Bravely Default - Groundhog's Day and Etrian Odyssey IV - Ferengi Space.

Also picked up Fantasy Life.

I'm so confused right now.

[HaemishM]

I decided to give Far Cry 3 a try as my next "I'll try to finish this" game, in between games of Hex, Football Manager 2015, League of Legends and Rocksmith.

I like it. The faces on the NPC's are really impressive to go along with the acting (which is good despite the really cheesy script). But seriously, what the fuck is with this checkpoint save system? I realize the game was developed for consoles but fuck, even consoles have hard drives now and don't need checkpoints. Fuck a checkpoint system in the earhole.

[Sky]

Fuck a checkpoint system in the earhole.

Rage Against the Machine's new album seems a lot more 1st world problems.

[Sky]

Also, thought I'd give Bioshock Infinite another whirl, despite finding it janky, hokey and just terribad...and it's got a checkpoint system. As a bonus, not obvious where it saves, so it pops up with a time, maybe 12 minutes ago. No idea where that was, how much I'll have to replay or how long until it saves again.

In the earhole, with a pocket full of shells.

The most fun I had was after the barbershop quartet blimp thing left (clipping through a building on the way), the creepy couple just keeps dancing. Apparently forever, I just left the game running with the protagonist staring at them.

[Falconeer]

I bought too many games with the Steam Christmas sales and that was on top of a long list of previously purchased games (last ten years?) that I really want to play but can't find the time for. It's all Smite's fault.

Anyway, I completed Ether One and Everlasting Summer over the holidays and that felt good. Now I am tackling more things at once hoping to find the consistency to finish at least some of them.

- Metro Last Light. I adore this game and adored the previous chapter. I set it aside cause it doesn't run satisfyingly on my laptop so it requires me to sit at the desktop which is what I do only when I get serious and play PvP. Still, great game so I will probably finish it this time.

- Shadowrun Returns. Liking it but somehow it feels extra-lite and that's why I am pushing through to get to Dragonfall.

- Dragon Age Inquisition. Set it aside while waiting for a gamepad I ordered 3 weeks ago and got lost in the Italian mail (of course). It's not that I'm not liking it, but I must say that for a game I was looking forward to for the heavy storytelling, it hasn't hooked me one tenth of what I was expecting. Combat not being what I was looking forward to in a game of this kind might be another reason for my lack of enthusiasm.

- Don't take it personal babe it just ain't your story. Absolutely love this VN. A year ago my save got wiped and I was too annoyed to start over. Now that I've forgotten enough of it I am probably going to rush through it.

- The Old City: Leviathan. The atmosphere is so eerie and suffocating that I can only stomach a little of this at a time. Not to mention that you find notes scatteresd around that take about 10 to 15 minutes each to read. No kidding. Liking this walking simulator a lot, but it definitely requires me to be in a certain mood.

[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.

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

Shame is for the weak.

[Sky]

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?   

Shame is for the weak.

Why would you be ashamed about restarting a roleplaying games for roleplaying reasons?

[Lucas]

I do that all the time.

[Threash]

Sometimes i restart cause i picked the wrong hair.

[Rasix]

"I look really derpy in these cutscenes" is a common restart reason for me.

I've mostly just been playing Persona Q since I still can't figure out something else to play right now, and now it overwhelms me with doubling the amount of playable characters. There's a lot in the Steam queue, but I can't muster up enough motivation to start anything anew.  I suppose I should just finish off some of the games I have part way done.  Or I could just play though my second run of DA:I, but it's rare that I can back-to-back complete any game nowadays without losing interest.

So, my nights seem to be a hodgepodge of watching TV, reading, and playing some 3DS.  Yay.

[Ingmar]

M&B Warband has its hooks in me again. Hadn't noticed it has Workshop support now.

[Samwise]

Finished the main storyline of Arkham Origins; I remember hearing that it was kinda meh but I thought it was about on par with the previous games, and I liked those, so I liked Origins.  Will probably derp around finishing side missions for a bit before moving on to the next thing.

[Sky]

I do have sympathy for schild's Endless Legend complaints. There's a few games I feel like playing but I don't really want to spend the time climbing the learning curve.

Really I'm just ready for GTA V.

[Rendakor]

I've mostly just been playing Persona Q since I still can't figure out something else to play right now, and now it overwhelms me with doubling the amount of playable characters. There's a lot in the Steam queue, but I can't muster up enough motivation to start anything anew.  I suppose I should just finish off some of the games I have part way done.  Or I could just play though my second run of DA:I, but it's rare that I can back-to-back complete any game nowadays without losing interest.

So, my nights seem to be a hodgepodge of watching TV, reading, and playing some 3DS.  Yay.

The third dungeon broke me and I think I'm done with the game now. The puzzles were just really annoying*, and the repetitive walking back and forth needed for them has made me overlevel and trivialize the combat. The story is funny, but the lack of social links and meaningful dialog choices keep it from being compelling (I don't really care for the Zen/Rei dynamic either). I also kind of soured on where the character customization falls between P3&4 and EO; if MCsan had swappable personas in battle, or if we had EO style skill trees I would probably be ok. Having to keep a 5-7 playable personas on hand at all times limits your options as far as backups and fusion stock, and the lack of in-battle swapping pushes you harder to make universalists instead of several specialists.

*Specifically, the puzzle for Dungeon 3, 4F. I had to look up the solution on GameFAQs, and even after doing so it didn't actually make much sense because of contradictory information and a lack of explanation.

So, now I'm playing Pokemon Omega Ruby and just stomping through the game with some low level dudes I transferred over through the Pokemon Bank (the new online storage thing), which is an amazing feature in theory that is an absolute clunky mess in practice. To transfer Pokemon from Black/White 1/2 up to X/Y/OR/AS:
1. Insert B/W 1/2, move Pokemon to be transferred into PC Box 1.
2. Launch Transfer app from the 3DS homescreen (not from within B/W 1/2, but still with the game inserted).
3. The app transfers the entire contents of PC Box 1 to the Transfer Box in the Pokemon Bank app, which is separate.
4. Insert X/Y/OR/AS, launch the Bank app from the 3DS homescreen.
5. Move Pokemon from the Transfer Box to an actual box in the Pokemon Bank, or to a PC Box in X/Y/OR/AS.
6. Repeat for each set of 30 Pokemon you wish to transfer.

The only redeeming factor is that you can select Pokemon in groups in the PC Box/Bank interface now so you can drag and drop a whole box at a time (instead of needing to move each Pokemon individually).

[Falconeer]

Since I wasn't split between enough games, I got into the Japanese servers of Phantasy Star Online 2 (with an English patch). Damn, hard to say what I love about Phantasy Star, but I always did and I still do. Hell, my phone ringtone is the tne from Phantasy Star 2.

[Yegolev]

I'm somehow playing DA:I MP all the time now.

[Signe]

When I played Phantasy Star, I had an amazing amount of fun.  I don't know why I loved it so much either.

[Malakili]

Phantasy Star 4 was my favorite.  Never got into the online ones.

[Kail]

Phantasy Star 4 was my favorite.  Never got into the online ones.

I kinda wish they'd go back to that.  I liked the first PS:O (until I got sick of the hacking BS that was lurking around the higher levels) but it wasn't really much of a continuation of the original series, it felt more like a spinoff.

[Paelos]

Sometimes i restart cause i picked the wrong hair.

...

Dude.

[Falconeer]

Phantasy Star 4 was my favorite.  Never got into the online ones.

I kinda wish they'd go back to that.  I liked the first PS:O (until I got sick of the hacking BS that was lurking around the higher levels) but it wasn't really much of a continuation of the original series, it felt more like a spinoff.

Not sure about the plot here cause the translation is messy and I just started. But in general the PS feel is there (which doesn't necessarily contradict your spin off theory). This seems to have more story and cutscenes then tha first Phantasy Star Online though, so while the bottom line is that it's a dungeon crawler with infinite repetition of areas as in Diablo or Vindictus, there is at least a lot of lore being handed out to the players.

[Malakili]

so while the bottom line is that it's a dungeon crawler with infinite repetition of areas as in Diablo

This was always the main issue for me with Phantasy Star Online when I played it.  I always thought "Why am I not just playing Diablo 2 right now", and then I'd go play Diablo 2.

[Margalis]

The original PS games had a pretty distinct feel, I imagine in part because the director was a woman. I think that shows up in the importance of some of the female characters and how they don't fit into typical RPG roles.

[Lucas]

Really enjoyed Chapter III of The Witcher 1; liked the "festive hall" scenes but also some of the secondary missions; on the other hand, what the hell were they thinking when they decided to force Chapter IV down your throat?? I'm only (I assume) midway through it, but it's too sparse and also disjointed from the main storyline (no matter how they justified that in-game).

[rk47]

It's probably the 'what's your (geralt) mindset?' setup.
In a way, it makes you stop and opine on the whole 'What's the kind of life Geralt wants?'
Sure the whole questing does feel disjointed but the concluding cutscene after you gave your answer is pretty nice to see.

[Sky]

'What's the kind of life Geralt wants?'

"More tits"

[rk47]

And cheap games with no drm.

[Sky]

But mostly the tits.

[rk47]

Kurwas. Lots of kurwas.

[Signe]

What's your favourite Geralt 'do'?

[Chimpy]

I played Goat MMO Simulator for about an hour last night. It was actually pretty fun. Yes I am a terrible person.