So, what're you playing?

[Sky]

Still minecraft (Project Ozone).

But I've been playing Avengers Alliance 2 (android) and it's a solid dookie game. I mean playable in short bursts and so far not paywall-y.

[HaemishM]

I am back on a League of Legends kick. So much LOL. So many goddamn terrible - I want to say human beings but that doesn't seem to fit - in Bronze. SO MANY. URGE TO KILL... RISING.

I would really feel so much better about the human race if I could just imagine that all of those "people" I am playing with/against are actually just demonic spirits with a keyboard.

[Rasix]

Just finished Witcher 3.  I'm not sure there's been a better executed narrative in any game I've played.  The writing, voice acting, and the consistency across all parts of the game are fantastic.  Easily the best in the series, if perhaps a bit too easy on the combat side (improved controls probably assisted here).  Also, there's a fair bit of open world bloat, although that's mainly in the purely optional exploration aspects.  Most of the named side quests have something interesting to them and are often worth doing.   Really enjoyable game.  

Now I've got to choose between SRR: Hong Kong or Life is Strange for my next single player game.

I am back on a League of Legends kick. So much LOL. So many goddamn terrible - I want to say human beings but that doesn't seem to fit - in Bronze. SO MANY. URGE TO KILL... RISING.

I would really feel so much better about the human race if I could just imagine that all of those "people" I am playing with/against are actually just demonic spirits with a keyboard.

Still leveling my son's account. I'm so horribly wretched at this, whereas I used to just be "bad".  I spent a decent amount of time getting destroyed in the Ascension game mode this weekend.  

I'm almost considering going on my main account and just doing promos, so I can get into whatever bronze hell I belong in.  Sad part is that I'll probably do just fine, but I can't carry hard enough to pull myself out of it. I'm just too bad, and the farther down you go the games are plagued with the afkers, leavers, trolls, and feeders. I don't have the mechanical skill (or time/commitment to improve) to rise above that layer of societal chaos.  

I can't seem to get into any mobile games lately.  

[Khaldun]

The thing about Witcher 3 that I really don't think can be beat is:

a) the side quests are not just levelling mechanisms and they're not just text dumps--they're involving stories
b) the main quests are just fantastic. The Baron's stuff in particular is stunning narrative and performative work that's also deeply playable in the best sense.

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Been trying Endless Legends this week again with the expansions. I feel like the game could be better than it is. I don't really like the new factions. But it's still a decent 4x.

[Jeff Kelly]

Apparently Steam needs an additional 20+ GB on top of the download of 17 just to unlock Dark Souls 3.  The 37 GB I had left didn't suffice and so steam crashed Windows once the disc space was used up.

After unlocking I have 20 GB of unused disc space left. 20+ GB used up as temp space for installation and decryption seems a tad excessive to me but whatever. It worked in the end after delete no some stuff.

[lamaros]

So Witcher 3 is worth it? I remember when it came out the feeling I got from posts here was it was borrowing too much from the MMO space for me. Maybe I need to rethink this.

[Rasix]

Well, those are mostly just exploration aspects via uncovering the map and doing the "?" indicated points of interest.  I stopped obsessing over that in the second area and beat the game at a comfortable level. Unlike DA:I the side quests aren't garbage and most of them have some humor or unique flavor that adds to the experience.

It might be the best Western style RPG released in the past 10 years.

edit: There's just a LOT there.  It can be overwhelming and take you away from a rather well paced and engaging narrative. I didn't do most of the treasure hunts, gwent and didn't finish the last fist fights/races. There was a lot more I could have done in Skellige and Novigrad as well.  A lot of contracts I didn't finish and that's probably bad on my part, as they're mostly excellent.  Clocked in at 62 hours.

[Sky]

Absolutely.

I need to get back to it, I was getting obsessive about the exploration aspect, there's SO much and it's generally rewarding to explore. But the story moves along nciely if you just stick to that.

[lamaros]

Hmm, for AU$35 I might give it a go, cheers.

[Druzil]

+1 for Witcher 3.  I avoided most of the '?' content and did minimal Witcher contracts or gwent, but I still spent over 60 hours doing the main & side quests.  The story content really was some of the best I have played in this kind of game in awhile.   Besides the Baron which everyone mentions, the Kiera Metz quest line is great and then near the end of the game there is a really great scene back at Kaer Morhen.  The skill system, crafting and inventory all have some problems but you can basically ignore all of that stuff and still have a good time with the game.

I need a few days break from Stardew Valley.  My farm is so automated at this point I spend 90% of my day chasing down people for gifting.  I'm close to over 5 hearts with everyone now and at 8-10 with more than a few.   I am a bit curious to see what awaits in year 3 but there's going to be so little for me to do I'm just going to have to power through it I guess.  I've started trying to complete all the collections as well so I think I'm well along the way to doing everything I know about.

I ordered my new arcade stick over a month ago and it still hasn't shipped.  Really hoping it ships by the end of this month.  Then I can get back to some more SFV and probably some Pac Man as well 

[Khaldun]

Stardew Valley for me was one of the oddest hard-stop gaming experiences I've had. I was really into it for a concentrated week or so of playing and then just very very suddenly I said inside, "Done". Even though I had things left to do and in fact hadn't really done much to get closer to the villagers. Just didn't want to do it any more. Still admire it as a single-person created game, though.

[Sky]

Same. Definitely got my money's worth, but started back on minecraft and we all know how that goes for the next 3 months.

Also think I found the first push to rmt in Avengers Alliance 2, when your heroes hit 10th level you have to grind research missions to unlock the ability to hit level 10 and can't progress the story (or really do hard mode much) until you do. Seems set up to get you to pay through it, I'll just treat it as dailies and play solitaire instead :p

[lamaros]

So, I've tried Witcher 3. I just can't get in to it. I don't know what it is, but FPS RPGs aren't doing it for me. I want party based isometric...

[Sky]

It's a 3rd person mostly melee rpg?

[lamaros]

It's a 3rd person mostly melee rpg?

Yeah I mispoke. I meant 3rd person. Also the combat is balls.

Maybe I will try and run through it in storyline mode.

[Bunk]

Combat is a huge step up from the first two games at least. It improves as you get in a bit, get access to some useful signs and skills. Use the Shield (Quen?) for general easy mode if need be.

I've been infatuated with the FO4 survival beta for the last couple weeks, and I'm the guy that never plays games on hard mode. Probably 20 hours in and just barely hit 15. I just cleared Corvega tonight. I'm pretty sure I've now located every spare sleeping bag north of Fenway.

[Yegolev]

Demon's Souls.  I am picking up where I left off, 1-3.  I chuckled when I turned a corner and found a pile of souls from my last death.

[Kail]

Playing Battleborn, which is doing it's free beta weekend thing until the 18th.  Seems fun so far.  The game is very much a FPS version of Dota or LoL, moreso than Overwatch or Paladins.  There's a lot more emphasis on managing minion waves and leveling up and merc camps and stuff.  There's a bunch of different modes, one of which is basically a copy of Dota where you're pushing lanes to kill enemy "sentinels" (meaning, towers), and one which is basically a copy of Smite's arena mode where you're trying to escort your minion waves into a goal to score, and allegedly one which is like king of the hill which I haven't seen yet (not sure if it's unlocked in the beta). 

There's also a PvE campaign, which I haven't seen in Overwatch or Paladins yet.  The game is by Gearbox so the writing is in a kind of similar style to Borderlands if you're in to that.  It's divided in to missions and can be played solo or co-op, and your unlocks and things carry over between modes. 

Pre-order is like $100 cdn so not sure I'll be picking this up at full price, though.

[jakonovski]

Enter the Gungeon really scratches an itch I didn't know I had.

[Paelos]

Hearthstone when I'm watching the Braves lose. Which is every day.

[Rasix]

A good routine is important. 

Playing SRR: Hong Kong.  I'm having problems with the walls-o-text and the matrix design.  I don't see why they had to change the matrix, it was fine in Dragonfall. Playing an ethical shadowrunner has interesting consequences, but I'm not sure I'll finish.  This series might be played out for me.

[Yegolev]

I installed a new HDD in my PS4 last night, and suddenly I'm not going camping, so maybe I will install that Battleborn beta and see if it is less eyestabby than when I experienced the alpha.  I suppose at some point in any console game development, the devs will run the game on a television and realize it's time to work on the UI.

Otherwise still dabbling on Demon's Souls.  Or, until I get a wee bit bored like last night, during which I played a little Dragon's Crown.

[Samprimary]

I'm chewing through Star Wars Uprising on my tablet.

it's another one of those games that has a decent progress cap per day yet is perfectly playable without spending a dime on it; nearly all of the premium Chromium options are there for impatient whales who will sink hundreds into relatively minor bonuses.

But if you want to do the non-whale-but-still-keep-the-lights-on-for-the-game-studio option, you can get a long term smuggling contract for all of $2.99 that gives you 40 chromium each day you log in, for a month. buying that much in bulk for a one day purchase (for the whales) would be about 50 bucks.

[Trippy]

That trickle currency thing seems to be a popular trend. Chromatic Souls has that too.

[Hutch]

Treasure Madness (a FB game that I play) has a similar option.

[Sky]

Subscription games are back! 

[apocrypha]

I've put another 100 hours into Fallout 4 over the last few weeks, finally got around to completing the main story quests, siding with the Institute. It really highlighted how terrible all the factions are though. Every single side that you can choose is a bunch of colossal shitheads. I took great pleasure in wiping out the Railroad and the BoS and as soon as I'd finished the questline I dropped all ties with the Institute and wandered off to do my own thing. I never joined the Minutemen, which was a vastly better way to play than having constant "General, another settlement needs your help" bullshit going on.

[Sir T]

Still murdering shit in Warframe and loving it. Nothing like playing Valkyr with a greatsward with the Berzerker mod, and then yelling Warcry and when the Blade crits you turn into a Blender.

I got a 3 month notification that I'm still subbed to EVE for some reason, so I logged in to see what my skill que was doing. Had 5 days left to go on a really long skill and had a looooong list of "skill comletions So I slapped on another one and then realised I could not be assed to even undock as nothing in that game felt interesting for me to do. Plus all my channels were gone so no-one to talk to.

I'm actually thinking of loading up Dragon Age again as I never completed it. I rage quit on that freaking Wizards tower that turned into a big dream mission. If I start another try I'll try and get that over with first.

[Ruvaldt]

If you are talking about The Fade, people actually created mods that allow you to skip it because it was so reviled.  I would use one of those instead of pushing through it early.

[penfold]

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is shaping up really good. I wasn't sure how they would pull off a 40k space combat game, and the flat plane naval combat model suits 40k very well.

[Sir T]

If you are talking about The Fade, people actually created mods that allow you to skip it because it was so reviled.  I would use one of those instead of pushing through it early.

Thanks, couldn't remember what it was called.

[Flood]

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is shaping up really good. I wasn't sure how they would pull off a 40k space combat game, and the flat plane naval combat model suits 40k very well.

Good to hear - it's been on my Steam Wish list but I was waiting until I built my new rig so it could handle it.  I probably should pick it up and get the early adopter perks.

[Xanthippe]

I just bought Black Desert, but have to buy a new graphics card to play it.

[Yegolev]

womp womp

Ratchet & Clank (2016), which I was all prepared to hate but actually love.

Probably some other shit too, I don't know.  Just Cause 3.  That seems like something I'd have played last weekend when my wife wasn't playing AC Syndicate.

[Signe]

I just bought Black Desert, but have to buy a new graphics card to play it.

I feel your pain.  The first time I loaded it up, it blew up my gfx card.     I had to get a new one just to play almost anything.  Then I had to get a new power supply to run the new gfx card!  Now my old computer runs anything it likes at high quality and is very very quiet.  Quiet and expensive.  :)