So, what're you playing?

[brellium]

Been playing a lot of Minecraft lately with co-workers and their kids. In the midst of laying the foundation for a 1300 block long railroad, because somehow that ended up being how far the closest village was to my castle...

Endless Legends, been playing Secret War with a friend on the weekend. Occasionally staring at the icon for Dragon Age Inquisition, wondering when I'm going to go back and finish it.

You know it's easier to build neither portals at both ends and a railway through the neither, than a railway to the village. (it would be about 130 blocks).

[Yegolev]

I've never had much luck doing that.

[Bunk]

Been playing a lot of Minecraft lately with co-workers and their kids. In the midst of laying the foundation for a 1300 block long railroad, because somehow that ended up being how far the closest village was to my castle...

Endless Legends, been playing Secret War with a friend on the weekend. Occasionally staring at the icon for Dragon Age Inquisition, wondering when I'm going to go back and finish it.

You know it's easier to build neither portals at both ends and a railway through the neither, than a railway to the village. (it would be about 130 blocks).

True... unless your goal is to kidnap villagers via rail and transplant them to the hamlet in front of your castle to be serfs. Can't transport critters through nether portal via rail unfortunately. I guess you could herd them through a portal, then on to a train, then back out, but hey - big projects are fun so I might as well finish it.

I've got a network of nether rails going elsewhere currently. We got guilty of over-exploring early, so the world is pretty damn big. The main explored area, not including narrow offshoots, is 4500 x 4000 blocks currently.

[apocrypha]

Nether portals can be really random in their overworld placement too, especially on multiplayer servers. Pretty much every time I make one on a server it ends up connecting to someone else's, often miles away from where it should be.

[Sky]

I became an expert on our current server at fixing nether portals for pretty much everyone after Rendakor built the first one.

[HaemishM]

Thanks to Gog (and Shadowrun: Dragonfall not working on my work PC), I'm playing Sir, You Are Being Hunted during my lunch hour and Hex at night. Sir is pretty cool. Very atmospheric.

[Khaldun]

Sir is very enjoyable, yeah.

[apocrypha]

I became an expert on our current server at fixing nether portals for pretty much everyone after Rendakor built the first one.

How do I acquire this arcane knowledge? 

[Sky]

Grab a diamond pick and lighter. Figure out who's overland portal you're crossed over with. Go into the nether and break the portal there (remove a block). Head back to the overworld (easier now that we have lots of portals). Break the other guy's portal. I forget if you need to break yours as well at this point.

If you broke yours, put the block back and light it. Head through and you should have a new nether portal in the proper location. Use it to return to the overworld, head to the guy's base where you needed to break the portal. Put the block back and light it. Head through and his old nether portal should be 'fixed'.

It's been a while but I think that's correct....if it works, paste it into the nether thread :)

[apocrypha]

Cool, thanks. I'll give it a go, been having all sorts of trouble with the bloody things!

[Shannow]

Back on Mordor, doing all the side bits before I finish the main story. Forgot how slaughtering Uruks can be so cathartic.

[koro]

I've been sucked into Dragonball Xenoverse with my lady friend because we are literally 13.

[Tannhauser]

Literally?

[Xanthippe]

Grab a diamond pick and lighter. Figure out who's overland portal you're crossed over with. Go into the nether and break the portal there (remove a block). Head back to the overworld (easier now that we have lots of portals). Break the other guy's portal. I forget if you need to break yours as well at this point.

If you broke yours, put the block back and light it. Head through and you should have a new nether portal in the proper location. Use it to return to the overworld, head to the guy's base where you needed to break the portal. Put the block back and light it. Head through and his old nether portal should be 'fixed'.

It's been a while but I think that's correct....if it works, paste it into the nether thread :)

I would fix mine by adding/subtracting the coordinates in the nether (divided by 8? is it, the nether realm multiplier) and then going to that location and creating a clear spot. I think your way is easier though.

[MrHat]

Ok, after a ton of hours I'm finally boredish of D3 again.

So I installed Darkest Dungeon.

This is fun.

[koro]

Literally?

Literally figuratively.

[Hutch]

I have a rule. Don't buy Early Access games.

I used to follow this rule.

Then I watched a few too many Darkest Dungeon videos.

[DeathInABottle]

I did the same earlier today.  And now it's past midnight on a Sunday.

[Fabricated]

Darkest Dungeon is fantastic but I'm not officially recommending it until it's out of Early Access.

[Teleku]

So you feel its not actually good yet?

[Ruvaldt]

I'd say it's great right now.  It'll surely be even better later though so there is some merit to waiting.

[Mattemeo]

Just started Sunless Sea... goddamn, this game hates me almost as much as FTL (which I deem 'unwinnable' if not simply 'unplayable').

First captain lasted 5 hours of gameplay. Sunk by a shitty yellow crab that wouldn't leave me the fuck alone. Ok, so I was expecting to do badly, no problem. Did a fair bit, found a bunch of things, think I'm getting the hang of it.
Second captain, 2 hours. Stranded about 20 pixels from the dock at Fallen London with nothing but promises in port and favours from the Gods of the Sea... who all fucked me royally. Abandoned ship at the furthest South-Eastern point as the final resort and inevitably slipped beneath the waves.
Third time's the charm!

[murdoc]

I am really looking forward to getting my hands on Ori and the Blind Forest tomorrow. I'm back playing WAY too much Guildwars 2 and need a bit of a break from it and this looks right up my alley. Gorgeous looking 'Metroidvania' type of platformer.

[Kail]

Finally finished my New Game+ run of Shovel Knight.  That game is pretty amazing.  Got a bit frustrating towards the end, though.  See if you can tell where the goddamn boss rush is!


Also got back in to La-Mulana... this game is so damn impenetrable.  My last playthrough stalled out when I kept getting stuck in unrecoverable areas and having to quit back out to the main menu.  Ended up watching the first five minutes of someone speedrunning it who grabbed a hidden item in the first area and said something like "yeah, this is one of the most important items in the game  and if you don't get it you're screwed" at which point I started swearing at the computer screen.  But it at least got me to pick up the game again, and I've made a bit of progress.  I'm not sure if this would be a good game to do a radicalthon for, it's pretty much 75% maddeningly obscure riddles and exploration and 25% bullshit hard platforming with instant death traps, at least as far as I've gotten (which isn't very far, as far as I can tell).

[Fabricated]

So you feel its not actually good yet?

Basically I can't recommend an Early Access game on principle.

Also, while I think Darkest Dungeon is really good there is no endgame in it right now and it is feature/content incomplete. What usually happens with good early access stuff is that you'll burn out on it before it's even effectively finished. I don't think it's under any threat of not being finished, so if you wait for the full release and go in fresh with that I think you'll have a much better time.

[Sky]

Decided to queue up a few games sitting in the ol' steam backlog.

First up are Mark of the Ninja and How to Survive. Both games are pretty awesome! I'm not a big platformer fan (putting it mildly), but Ninja's stealth mechanics make up for most of that. I could see How to Survive getting repetitive but it's kind of a hotline miami kind of mindless fun, with some skillup and crafting to keep things moving.

Highly recommend both games, especially as I got both for less than a fast food combo meal.

Also a bit of Omerta, mostly for the soundtrack because the old lady loves it (as do I, but I get bonus points for playing games with good music while she's here). Game seems ok, and I do like the tbs shooter kinda thing.

[Senses]

Been playing Darkest Dungeon off Steam.  Its definitely worth the investment at 20 bucks and if you ever enjoyed Rogue-like's its an updated twist on that experience.  Its also very challenging and you won't find yourself succeeding till you really have a  grasp of all the characters and rpg elements.  This was an  excellent think to fall into after my interest in Dragon Age 3 had waned.

[rk47]

I gave Space Rangers HD another whirl after finishing it close to 3 years ago.



This game has a lot of features that are rough, but somehow came together.
Off the top of my head:
1. Arcade shooting.
2. Turn based combat.
3. CYOA Quests
4. RTS segments
5. Classic space trade, cargo runs, hit contracts.
6. Space Conquest wars that need to be won.
7. Faction conflicts between Coalition, Pirate and Aliens.
8. Tons of ship customization that left me very pleased at finding that 'great courier ship' design for early game fund raising runs, while late game I can afford to splash on the biggest, toughest hull with the deadliest guns I can afford.
9. Charming russian writing to top it off.

[murdoc]

Ori and the Blind Forest - so damn good.

[Fabricated]

Hotline Miami 2 - Really bad level design compared to the original with an over-emphasis on gunplay vs. guys who can see/shoot you from miles off screen. Still relatively fun, and the soundtrack is even better than the first.

Monster Hunter 4 - Feeling the grind.

Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - Hour or two in; it's literally what it says on the tin. You play as Layton/Luke and investigate stuff and solve riddles, then you switch to Phoenix and investigate stuff and defend people in court. Story is bizarre fan-fiction crossover nonsense but I couldn't see it any other way. Level 5 graphical polish is present so it's nice to look at.

[Comstar]

City: Skylines. it's everything Simcity 2013 wanted to be, and failed completely at.

Welcome. Welcome to City 17. (BAAAWAAA sound)

[Jeff Kelly]

Finished up Metroid Prime 2. Fortunately the Chykka fight is the only real bullshit boss fight. I'm currently half way into Metroid Prime 3 Corruption which so far feels like they went completely off the rails. Not as badly as "Other M" but the ship mechanic fells tacked on. Levels/Zones are no longer connected. The game is much more 'railroady' with NPCs giving you objectives to complete.

I also never thought I'd say that but as far as Metroid Prime 3 is concerned they should not have added voice over. Prime and Prime 2 are all about isolation and the 'dissociative' feeling you get from being alone and forlorn on an alien planet. The varia suit and small graphical effects (like Samus' reflection in the helmet visor) add to that in so far as the suit being yet another emotional and physical barrier between you and the outside world.

They way 3 works makes it so you never really feel isolated and alone and the travel between planets - while constantly backtracking - makes the whole game feel disjointed.

Downloaded Ori and Metroid Zero Mission. Actually installed WEindows 8 and Steam on my Macbook Pro just to play Ori since I don't have an Xbone. Also looking forward to Axiom Verge which will come out at the end of March. This quarter has been great for fans of Metroid and 'Metroidvanias'

[Paelos]

I can't decide if I want to try Van Helsing or Don't Starve next.

[Hawkbit]

Playing:

DA:I, restarted as a mage.
Monster Hunter 4, balls this is hard.
D3, a rift or two a night.

Waiting for Pillars of Eternity, I'll likely snag it on release because I've been itching for a similar game lately.
Trying to stave off a Dying Light purchase until summer sale.

[Mandella]

City: Skylines. it's everything Simcity 2013 wanted to be, and failed completely at.

Welcome. Welcome to City 17. (BAAAWAAA sound)

That is awesome. I hope you get a commission, because you have likely just sold a copy...