So, what're you playing?

[Teleku]

Kurwas. Lots of kurwas.

Oh you.

[Sky]

kekeke

[rk47]

Got back to Divinity: OS
Messed a lot more with crafting.
Wonderful side activity.
I lost around 30-60 minutes trying to figure out what crafting recipes to gear up my party.

[Ironwood]

Isn't there a table FULL of that cutlery ?

I didn't find that crafting recipe.  What skill do you need for it ?

[rk47]

Isn't there a table FULL of that cutlery ?

I didn't find that crafting recipe.  What skill do you need for it ?

Don't know, I just gave Jahan another point in Crafting and +2 Crafting Gear pieces. He has scientist so it's Max 5.
C-5 gives you best quality anyway, so you would want him to be your Smithy too.

But the Dagger is made by using Knife on Forge.

[Lucas]

Just finished the interactive story "Serena"; you can buy it for free on Steam; yeah, it's just like "Dear Esther", but shorter (finished it in 57 minutes) and with just a single location to explore; good atmosphere and music (well, the three-four tracks it has). definitely a bit clichè here and there, but I liked how the story was told.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/272060/

[luckton]

I find myself not playing anything right now. Don't really feel like WoW is worth a subscription at the moment, but I want to play "something" MMO-related. Any suggestions from the F2P crowd that's worthwhile these days?

[Merusk]

Depends on what you like, I suppose.  KOTOR and STO remain pretty good. I waste tons of time in Marvel Heroes as well.

[Yegolev]

Marvel Heroes is not in the WoW lineage, though.  More like Diablo II with Magneto.  Doesn't cost anything to find out, though.

[carnifex27]

I find myself not playing anything right now. Don't really feel like WoW is worth a subscription at the moment, but I want to play "something" MMO-related. Any suggestions from the F2P crowd that's worthwhile these days?

Every time I try to play WoW again, I get about 30 minutes in and end up downloading Rift. Ymmv.

[Lucas]

I find myself not playing anything right now. Don't really feel like WoW is worth a subscription at the moment, but I want to play "something" MMO-related. Any suggestions from the F2P crowd that's worthwhile these days?

If you never tried it before (or just skimmed through it), TERA probably offers the best F2P offer:

https://store.enmasse.com/tera/elite-status

There are no hidden, additional limitations: if I remember well, chat fully works, no limits to crafting, inventory slots and similar stuff (I think you are limited to 2 char slots per server but I don't know if that's also true for subscribers). As you can see, limitations start to kick in if you get serious about the game (dailies, repeatable dungeons, auctions). But, with your first character, if you're going to experience it solo to level cap, it's the same as being a subscriber, basically.

From my previous experience (about a couple months ago), server population is still healthy, and among other things, that's also because of the lack of cockblocks for F2P players, in addition to the fact that an expansion has been released on December 16th.

[luckton]

Thank you all for the feedback. Decided to give Rift another go around; haven't played since the new expansion came out. So far, it's scratching the itch.

[Sky]

Rift would've been my suggestion. Or GW2.

[Ironwood]

I straight up hated Rift with a passion.  It just didn't work for me at all.

[Sky]

I straight up hated Rift with a passion.  It just didn't work for me at all.

Try updating your Adobe Reader.

[Yegolev]

Library joke?

[Phildo]

4chan joke.

Imgur link for sanity: http://imgur.com/a/iJD8f

[Yegolev]

OK, I remember that one.  I'm trying to cram a complete Security+ knowledge into my brain before ... uh ... Friday morning?

[Sky]

Ooh, I did that before! If I can totally ace it, you shouldn't have much trouble. They did change the exam after I took it, though (2010, iirc).

As far as games go...I think I no longer like FPS. I tried to play a bit of Metro 2033 with my spiffy newish gpu and it's boring as hell. Why do I have to keep slowing down to shoot all this stuff..oh right, shooter. Yawn. Ran out of bullets, things hitting me, I don't care, uninstall.

Then HoMaM 18 or whatever it is crashed on me.

[rk47]

FPS are pretty much either co-op or competitive MP for me.
That said I'm still clocking in hours on ME3 Co-Op daily just for the head-popping practice alone.
There's something satisfying about shooting things till they're dead over and over.

[Falconeer]

I loved Metro 2033 but it had a major flaw in my opinion which was the lack of visual feedback when you hit stuff. It was supposed to be realistic and in line with the minimalistic UI, but from a gaming standpoint made most of your bullets feel like they missed even when they hit. Since, as RK said, we play these games to hit stuff, nothing takes more away from a shooter than being denied the hit feedback. They fixed this in Metro Last Light. Personally, I still love FPS and I don't think that will ever change because the love comes from the first person camera: being able to move through incredibly well rendered places I'll never see in real life never gets old. Blowing up stuff is a welcomed bonus to that.

[Jeff Kelly]

I've picked up Rogue Legacy again and finished off Boss 2 and 3. I'm now again at the point where Rogue Legacy doesn't offer enough replay value for me to actually finish it or grind out the items/upgrades necessary to make it easier.

There's really not enough variance in the procedurally generated levels and I've now seen everything twenty times aready. I'll probably just lock a dungeon with the architect and only work on the remaining bosses.

[rk47]

15 minutes into the free weekend Civ: Beyond Earth and I already felt I was playing a cheap free-mod version of C5.
Yeah, let me spend twice the money on an incomplete Civ game with worse UI and half baked features in hope of future DLCs making it more complete.
That 2.5 GB size shd've clued me in.

[koro]

Got Ys: Oath in Felghana and Ys Origin last weekend during the Steam animu sale, and I've been playing through Oath while I've been home injured.

I played and beat Ys III on the SNES, so Oath in Felghana tripped a lot of the nostalgia buttons for me, but good lord are some of the bosses in this brutal. Super fun though.

[Shannow]

I realised at some point last night that while I was MUDing my daughter was playing Space Engineers, my son was playing Gmod and my wife Wizards 101.

Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

[schild]

Just to make it clear, you were playing a MUD?

I just want to be clear on this.

Because it's 2014.

[Trippy]

It was 2014.

[Shannow]

Yes I was mudding . Plenty of ppl do.  Now mind u I was on the 4th laptop in the house and it's about the only thing you can play on it.
However when I'm in need of a grindy mmo fix I'll choose the mud I play every time.  I've tried a bunch of graphical MUDs. (Aka wows of the world ) and frankly found them painful. Takes too damn long to walk anywhere. 

Plus I can mud at work :D

[Samwise]

I just remembered this "MUD client" (a fancy telnet wrapper) I used to use that had "fast travel" macros built in, i.e. it'd record the sequence of steps to get from point A to point B and issue them for you automatically so you could quickly get from your recall spot to your grinding zone or whatever.   Scriptability is definitely one of the perks of a terminal interface.

I think I'm finished with Arkham Origins and Tropico 4.  Thinking about Crypt of the Necrodancer as my next one.

[Trippy]

Yeah there were a bunch of those like TinyFugue.

[Rendakor]

I had a lot of elaborate macros in my MUD client. Some were text shortcuts, others were essentially hotkeys bound to the function keys.

[Sky]

the sequence of steps to get from point A to point B and issue them for you automatically so you could quickly get from your recall spot to your grinding zone

You make it sound so exotic and exciting.

[Yegolev]

Yeah, I fiddled with those for a few minutes but then some part of my brain stepped from the shadows and said "What are you doing?!"

[Shannow]

I don't use fast walk macros, I know the way to most zones. Still cuts out the 5 minutes or so of holding down the W key in a graphical game to do exactly the same thing.  The 'oooo look pictures' part gets really fucking boring really fucking quick. 

[murdoc]

Luftrausers - i dismissed this as a game that was just going for the retro look, which it does. But the music, the look, the controls are all perfectly matched and I am stuck in a 'one more run' and suddenly it's 2am.