So, what're you playing?

[Merusk]

That looks like the same UI the original had on the SNES.  No wonder you couldn't get the hang of it at first.

[Trippy]

I remember driving to the Koei office here in the Bay Area to buy a copy of the original for the PC cause there was no store that sold it. I'm tempted to buy it for nostalgia's sake.

[Signe]

I'm playing Wildstar f2p beta test server.  Don't mock me.  It's more funner than it used to be. 

[Merusk]

I tried it and disagree. I found the game so uninspired I can't even be bothered to uninstall it because I keep forgetting I installed it in the first place. Only as I'm shutting down/ starting up and I see the icon do I say, "Oh right.. need to uninstall that." Typically forgetting within another 15 seconds.

[Rasix]

I'm in such gaming limbo at the moment that I'll fire it up when it goes official.

I just did the opening to the second Hengsha hub go round in Deus Ex: HR.  Keeping Faridah alive is such a pain.  Best result seemed to be with just running around like a mad man stun gunning everyone. Finally get to use the Hypostims in my inventory.

[Paelos]

D3, cupcakes. Cube2loots

[Ironwood]

Oddly, I'd forgotten what fun FTL was.

[apocrypha]

MGSV. Not sure if game patches or Windows patches fixed it but it works for me now.

It's sooooo long since I played anything other than extreme sandbox games that this feels, despite the semi open-world nature of it, really restrictive to me. Enjoying it though.

[PalmTrees]

Finished Pillars of Eternity. It was fine. Playing some Skyforge for some achiever cravings. Got FTL on standby, plan to work it in.

[Lucas]

Yesterday, I bought and started playing "Unepic" on GOG: I'm already quite addicted to it, being relatively new to the genre. Love the art style and the lightning of the levels. It's unforgiving like it's supposed to but, at least for now, the "one more room" factor still drags me in.

[satael]

Once again I'm back to playing Crusader Kings II; nothing quite like playing a norse jarl who manages to unite most of Denmark, Norway and Sweden under one kingdom and be a great viking despite being a raving lunatic that occasionally puts his horse into the chancellor's position and makes somewhat questionable declarations like  the "hole in the wall" act. 
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[Teleku]

Oh god, thats awesome.  I've never actually had one of my rulers go insane (or I killed off the ones who could possibly take the throne before hand).

[Kail]

Been on a bit of a retro kick lately.  Mega Man Legacy Collection came out on Steam, marking the first legit Mega Man game to grace the PC since... that... DOS... abomination... and it's pretty good so far.  It's basically an emulator running the original Mega Man ROMs, and takes some pains to recreate the original experience including things like simulated slowdown and sprite flickering and so on.  Naturally, the Steam forums are full of people shocked that Mega Man 1 was a glitchy, stuttering wreck, because they don't REMEMBER it doing that on the NES which they totally did own for real.  I'm going through the games sequentially, on MM3 at the moment.  My run through MM1 was the first time I've ever legitimately killed Yellow Devil (as in, not using the pause glitch).

The release of Elder Scrolls on GOG had me playing those, too.  Really enjoying them.  As much as I like Skyrim, there's just something about Daggerfall that I miss whenever I play the other games.  Was thinking of doing a complete run of the Elder Scrolls series but I'm not sure.

Grabbed the mobile Fallout Shelter game, which got me thinking that I never played through the original Fallout so I decided to rectify that.  I've tried a few times but it's always a really daunting game to jump in to, I find.  Like, the first thing it does is toss you in to a character editor, with no idea of how useful / viable certain builds are.  Made tons of newbie mistakes so far.  Wasted a ton of time in Shady Sands trying to beat that first radscorpion cave until I found the "rest" button.  Made it to Junktown, decided to try to sell some of my radscorpion tails, so I talked to the store owner and dragged the tails on to the trade window.  He says they're worth like $150 or something, so I click "Complete Trade" and leave.  Later I realize that I didn't actually get the $150, I had to drag like $150 worth of junk from his side on to the trade window and THEN click OK.  So basically I just handed him my stuff for nothing.  LIFE IN THE WASTES IS HARSH.

[Shrike]

Life in the wastes IS harsh.

I remember in Fallout 2, the Chosen One was all looking forward to going on a shopping spree in Vault City. Had loot, will barter. Until I misclicked an item on a table and suddenly, "Thief, thief!". Things devolved quickly from there. Even my companion started shooting at me. Bastard. He got his, though.

Of course, that's part of the fun. The Chosen One made an return engagement to Vault City, but this time it involved Mk2 powered armor and a Vindicator minigun. Any shopping was after the fact. Life in the wastes is harsh, after all.

[Shannow]

Minecraft and Pools of Darkness.

Having to explain to my daughter that she doesn't need a mod to play 'Vanilla Minecraft' :D

[Druzil]

Finally finished up Skellige in Witcher 3.  I *think* I'm getting close to the end.  Been a long game but worth it.  I am starting to get tired of it though so I'm hoping I can finish it this week and finally move on to a bunch of other things.  I'd like to play some MGSV but I can't handle 2 open world games at the same time 

PAC-MAN 256 on iOS is a fun distraction.  Kinda of a fresh take on pac-man while keeping the classic feel.  No bad micro transactions or anything. 

Thinking about getting back into LoL for a few weeks so I can"catch up" on the new Champs & meta to watch Worlds.  May just watch some games instead...

[murdoc]

Mad Max - I haven't really played the Batman games and loved Shadow of Mordor, so not burnt out on this type of game. Really enjoying it for what it is and I've stayed up pretty late just doing 'one more mission'.

[Rasix]

I'm kind of having the opposite feeling, although it may be too early to judge. I figure I'm just basically out of the tutorial section.  There's still a lot that I haven't been exposed to. 

I'm really sick of this type of combat, and it's not nearly as viscerally satisfying as Shadow of Mordor's combat.  The visual aspects of it are really hard for me as well.  Lots of red and green on brown.  FML.

Anyhow, it was $15, and I'm not completely fed up yet.  I'm also rather bored, which may extend my stay further. 

[KallDrexx]

Finally picked up and played Walking Dead season 2. 

I loved every minute of Season 1.

Season 2 was .... extremely underwhelming

[stray]

I still liked it.


I'm getting the feeling I'm the only one who liked the short haired chick too. Everyone's gotta have a fucking "bro" in their games these days. Are they that lonely? Fuck Kenny. Nice guy, but I resented it on that alone.

[KallDrexx]

I liked her, she wasn't my problem.  Hell I shot Kenny at the end.

I just thought the story and writing as a whole were just very underwhelming, and I really didn't feel any of the emotional attachment to anyone unlike season 1. 

[stray]

I get you. First one was definitely more emotional. I cried like a little girl.... no shame. 

But the second was still interesting to me, just for the general zombie survivor tale stuff.

[MisterNoisy]

Mad Max, Forza Motorsport 6 and a smattering of other things.  Mostly playing 'wait for new PC parts'.

[Tannhauser]

Picked DA:I back up today.  Debating buying DLC though.

[Rendakor]

I noticed some of you mentioned Rimworld a month or so ago; a friend just mentioned it to me and it looks pretty cool. Is it worth $30 yet?

[Ironwood]

Nope.

[Quinton]

Started my NewGamePlus of Undertale.  So good.

[Sky]

Hell I shot Kenny at the end.

You bastard!

[Bunk]

MGS - so much that I'm dreaming about missions. Not good.

[Sky]

Surprisingly, I'm still playing minecraft.

[Yegolev]

I'm not surprised.

On my end, my previously-jobless friend has decided to buy the Borderlands Pre-Sequel and play with me, so the jackassery has commenced in force.

Also leveling girls in Diablo 3.

Although I'm super-interested in getting back into Destiny now that v2 is out.

[WayAbvPar]

I played quite a bit of Hex over the past week. The new set is pretty interesting, and has far more deck archetypes than the previous set, at least for limited. Also plugging away at WoT, and mixing in some Wizardry 6 for a change up. I am actually enjoying making my own graph paper maps. I am not a well man.

[Yegolev]

Someone get that man some Etrian Odyssey.

[Shannow]

Oddly, I'd forgotten what fun FTL was.

Bleh. This game is driving me mental.  Margin for error seems so small. Even on easy.

[Khaldun]

And...I think I just kicked my addiction to XCom Long War with the base defense mission. Even with serious abuse of the save system, it seems kind of ridiculously impossible. It sort of broke me out of "this is fun and challenging" into "I think I need to go to the dentist now, I'd rather do that."