So, what're you playing?

[Tannhauser]

Hearthstone's pulled me back in with the new adventure dropping Tuesday.  Bought BG2: EE off of steam for $5 the other day, but want to play thru BG 1 first.  Mainly playing SWTOR; the new xpac is a single player KOTOR style game and it's good!  The 'camera' moves a lot more freely than previously and that gives a more dynamic feel to what's going on. On Ultra settings, the game still looks great to me.

[Jeff Kelly]

Dark Souls: Laurel and Hardy Ornstein and Smough.

[jakonovski]

So I've been playing PoE for about 15 hours now. It's a good crpg all right, but feels kinda low rent. I think it's all that kickstarter pandering around every corner.

Overall I think I prefer the Shadowrun games, even if I've only just started on the second campaign there.

[Yegolev]

Dark Souls: Laurel and Hardy Ornstein and Smough.

I suppose you have already realized you should kill the harder one first in the first playthrough.
I am editing to maybe clarify.  I forget which variant is more difficult to kill, but since I killed the skinny one first I think that must be the easy way.  So kill the fat one first this time because that skinny bastard is New Bastard+ in New Game+.

Despite the last freeze, I tried Borderlands Pre_Sequel again and it worked flawlessly, so I did that yesterday.

[apocrypha]

Fallout 4.

See you all in a month.

[Jeff Kelly]

Thanks Yegolev for the heads up. I already knew but I appreciate it nonetheless.

The Abbott and Costello fight was easier than I thought. Killed Smough (the fat one) first and even though Ornstein (the tall one) is considered to be the harder of the two to fight second I had fewer problems dealing with Ren and Stimpy than I had dealing with Queelag. Did it without summons as well.

Best tip I got was to always keep lock on Ornstein even when you kill the other one first because Ornstein is faster and therefore more dangerous than fatty Smough. Hardest part was surviving until phase two.

Took me fewer than ten tries and it was a good way to spend the time while waiting for Fallout 4 to unlock.

[Yegolev]

I did not remember if I pre-ordered Fallout 4, but I'm pretty sure I did not and so I suppose I'll just grab it from Target next time I need to buy something.  That's actually most for my wife since I'm still under lv20 in Disgaea 5 and haven't completed P1 in Borderlands Pre-Sequel with even one character.  Partly because I neglected to take my Vita to the five-hour swim meet that was 45 minutes from my house; read more of World War Z instead.

I didn't even get freed up until 11:30 last night, and then I wasted those 30 minutes of consciousness by managing the inventory of my witch doctor from the last time I quit Diablo 3 in a hurry.  Gaming is hard!

[Merusk]

Target is having a Buy 2 get 1 free sale, so since you're stopping at Target, spend more monies. 

[Yegolev]

OK, sounds good.  What to buy?

[Paelos]

I loaded up Borderlands 2. It's fun but I'm bad at it.

[Yegolev]

The moon one or the real one?

[Paelos]

The real one. I play about 5 hours usually then give up in frustration.

[Khaldun]

Fallout 4. It only started to grab me hard oddly enough when I started trying to build up Sanctuary. That's a powerful hook for me.

[Jeff Kelly]

Still Dark Souls. I'm now playing the DLC.

The game is now more and more breaking its own rules to keep the difficulty up and I hate when a game does that. Enemies in the DLC can change direction mid-swing to hit where you land when you dodge and somehow enemies are no longer bound by the rules core to the game. I'm always a bit disappointed when a game decides at some point that core game mechanics and rules no longer apply to the game, only to the player.

The Artorias and Sanctuary Guardian fights are ridiculous in the context established by the game. A knight with a huge great sword and heavy armor jumping around the arena like a tennis ball is certainly challenging but sticks out like a sore thumb in a game that usually plays by its own rules and likes to punish you gleefully when you forget them.

[Yegolev]

Fallout 4, most recently.  Before that, it was bits of the usual set; this time, Path of Exile and Borderlands 2 Moon Edition.

[Samwise]

Stay away from Factorio.  Lost my whole weekend to building stuff.

Sam, this means YOU.  STAY AWAY.

Oh, I knew from the first five seconds of the trailer for that game that I shouldn't buy it unless I'm willing to lose at least a month of my life.

[HaemishM]

Since Hex has been on the downturn with Set 3 being completely played out, I'm switching around between a playthrough of Shadowrun: Dragonfall, messing about with Total War Arena and a little bit of Europa Universalis IV. The latter is just incredibly dense and unfortunately doesn't have the personality that Crusader Kings 2 does, so it's a bit harder to get into. I've run into a few bugs in Dragonfall that have made me stop playing that night or resume from an earlier save because I got myself in a position I can't progress with. I never ran into that in the first game, but it seems that game was a bit more focused and smaller.

[Yegolev]

Due to a surprise paint today, I had to move things around last night and ended up blocking the TV, so I played Path of Exile.

[Quinton]

Fallout 4 -- hit 48 hours of game time last night -- been a long time since something has been such a timesink for me.

[Rendakor]

Fallout 4. I'm getting used to the UI so it's growing on me.

Also picked up Story of Seasons for 3DS. It's the spiritual successor to Harvest Moon, and other than the fact that you can't ship every day I like it a lot more than ANB.

[Falconeer]

Fallout 4. Sometimes I come back from work and I get overwhelmed for a moment by the idea of loneliness that the wasteland conveys on me and think that, after all, I don't really want to play. Then I fire it up JUST for a minute... and 8 hours later I realize the day is gone.

[PalmTrees]

Fallout 4 for me as well. Settler management is crying out for mod love but otherwise having a blast.

[Sir T]

Bouncing between Elite Dangerous, Minecraft, and Starcraft <II :Protoss edition ata mo.

[Tannhauser]

Fallout 4 @ 63 hours played.  The most polished Bethesda game I've played.  This or GTA V is GOTY but I can't make up my mind.  Now to dive back in.

[Jeff Kelly]

Finished Dark Souls. Immensely enjoyed my time with it (I spent nearly 100 hours on playing it). The first half of the game is really great and well put together. After the Ornstein and Smough boss battle in Anor Londo though (probably the best one in the game) there's a huge dip in the quality of the levels and the bosses. The second half of the game feels unfinished and rushed compared to the intricate interconnected clockwork of levels and shortcuts that is the first half.

If the game had ended at the Ornstein and Smough battle I'd consider it a master piece, the second half is somewhat of a letdown though.

Demon Ruins + Lost Izalith especially feel like they had been haphazardly put together. It's basically a boss gauntlet with 4 boss fights back to back (Ceaseless Discharge, Demon Firesage, Centipede Demon and Bed of Chaos) that are all rather dull and not particularly challenging or interesting and both zones heavily feature recycled enemies from earlier parts of the game. It also kind of invalidates previous boss battles when you encounter those bosses as regular enemies.

The DLC is nice and the boss battles are OK. The DLC ignores core game mechanics in order to make the levels and bosses more challenging and I don't particularly like it when games do that. It feels like an afterthought though. More like cut content that was sold as additional content and not like something that was designed to be additional content. If that makes any sense.

It made me reconsider if I should play Demon's Souls next. Maybe I'll do that.

[Yegolev]

About 2 hours of Fallout, during which time I entered three places which led to a swift and merciless death.  Maybe I'll do some more story, or maybe I'll trot out the power suit and see how that works now that I have painted hotrod flames on it.

I had Codsworth as a companion for <5 minutes.  I later found a data log entry where a defective Mr. Handy was described as "talks too much".  Awesome.

[apocrypha]

I'm trying to play Fallout 4 but I've been blinded by the immense agony of a dental abscess for the last 3 days so I'm currently playing "try not to pass out or cry too much while the antibiotics start to work".

[lamaros]

Divinity Original Sin: EE. I have Fallout 4 but haven't been able to get past Divinity yet to get in to it.

Also CS: GO, as ever. Playing with the same group of friends makes it a load of fun.

[Xanthippe]

I just started Fallout 4 on the ps4. I almost never play FPS games, and really wish there was a practice mode because I was running out of bullets, but ended up finding the Very Easy mode instead. Just following the quests for now, doing the tutorial like things in Sanctuary for the folks from Concord.

[Ruvaldt]

Are you using VATS?  You don't have to worry about aiming much, like with a traditional FPS, if you use VATS.

[Margalis]

Finished Dark Souls. Immensely enjoyed my time with it (I spent nearly 100 hours on playing it). The first half of the game is really great and well put together. After the Ornstein and Smough boss battle in Anor Londo though (probably the best one in the game) there's a huge dip in the quality of the levels and the bosses. The second half of the game feels unfinished and rushed compared to the intricate interconnected clockwork of levels and shortcuts that is the first half.

Agree completely. The later zones are often just annoying - too dark to see, that fucking invisible ice maze thing...the lava zone just hurts my eyes. The layouts become much worse in terms of look and ability to navigate, memorability, etc. Probably would have been a better game had they just cut out 2/3rds of the second half.

I had a hell of a time with Ornstein and Smough because I didn't use any summons and my weapon was a lightning weapon, which did very little damage. Eventually I realized this and changed to a different weapon, but not after trying and failing maybe 20+ times.

[Zetor]

Just got Invisible Inc. last week (with DLC), and did a full playthrough on Experienced diff. People were saying that the campaign is too short, but the DLC seems to fix that by adding a pretty brutal two-phase mission halfway through as well as another 48 ingame hours (so 4-6 extra missions).

Really good game... and also mentally exhausting. Will need to recharge my batteries before I replay it on Expert!

[Kail]

Just got my new computer last week, and after a month of suffering through bullshit mobile games I'm now spoilt for choice.

Ran through Metal Gear Rising: Revengenance and had a ton of fun.  The story alternates between being stupid awesome and being stupid stupid, but the gameplay was pretty much 95% fun.  Some bullshit bits with ranking (don't tell me to sneak past a section and then give me a C rank for not getting a high enough combo, assholes) but the core gameplay was super fun.  One of the few beat-em-ups which I've actually felt like sinking some time in to learn better.

Started up Assassin's Creed 4: The Pirate One, and am feeling a bit let down by it.  The gameplay seems fun, but the game seems really reluctant to relinquish control.  Maybe it's just me but I've played for... (checks Steam) seven hours?!  Christ, I finished the entire original AC in less than 20... anyway, it feels like it would be a decent open world game but given that it's still explaining new mechanics and stuff this far in I'm not sure that leaving the breadcrumb trail at this point is a good idea, or if I'm one mission away from unlocking some critical mechanic.  Edward is kind of a problem, too, in that he seems like an irredeemable dick from a story point of view, and from a gameplay point of view he hasn't even joined (or heard of) the Assassins yet so I'm hesitant to do the assassination missions even though for some reason they show up on my map.  Hoping it turns around later, because the game is beautiful, but so far I just wish Assassin's Creed would get it's dick out of my cool looking pirate game.

Spent the weekend playing Overwatch, which I thought was pretty fun.  Log in this afternoon and the play button says "you have not been invited to play Overwatch."  *sad violin music*  Ah, well, time to give Paladins a shake.

Been messing around with some indie platformers a bit, mostly Kero Blaster and Manos: The Hands of Fate, but not really very deep in to either.

[Yegolev]

Finished Tales From The Borderlands.  More Fallout 4.

[Ironwood]

New Vegas. A new world record for 'restarting a fallout game'