So, what're you playing?

[Bunk]

MGSV was awesome once you decided to just stop worrying about advancing the "story" and enjoy the sandbox. Had a lot of fun training up rescued soldiers and doing missions as them instead.

I've got Civ VI, Fallout 4 Nukaworld, and a few other things sitting there waiting for me (haven't finished Witcher 3 yet either) ... and I spent the last week playing PVE in Hex. Stupid random events dropping limited cards for grinding...

[Shannow]

Still playing a round of CSGO comp a night. Got over the learning curve with Stellaris and am now addicted.

Just like 20+ years ago have given up on Pools of Darkness at the final fight. Shit is ridicolous.

[apocrypha]

Put both Don't Starve and Sunless Sea on the back burner for now, although I fully intend to revisit both of them in the future.

Started Wasteland 2 because I got an email asking me to back Wasteland 3 and I remembered I'd never got round to playing 2.

[Rasix]

MGSV was awesome once you decided to just stop worrying about advancing the "story" and enjoy the sandbox. Had a lot of fun training up rescued soldiers and doing missions as them instead.

Yah, I have more fun doing side ops and just capturing outposts and stuff along the way to my destination. I do a main mission when I want something a bit different.

Started Wasteland 2 because I got an email asking me to back Wasteland 3 and I remembered I'd never got round to playing 2.

Let me know how the "director's cut" or whatever they're calling the patched up version is. Wasteland 2 feels like a game I should have loved but just found to be tedious and poorly designed/balanced. Hopefully the latter of my complaints has been remedied. They could make the game 100% more fun to play by just removing/combining some of the secondary skills.

[apocrypha]

Let me know how the "director's cut" or whatever they're calling the patched up version is. Wasteland 2 feels like a game I should have loved but just found to be tedious and poorly designed/balanced. Hopefully the latter of my complaints has been remedied. They could make the game 100% more fun to play by just removing/combining some of the secondary skills.

Well I haven't played the non-director's cut so I can't compare it, but the skill & stat system already strikes me as far too complicated, so I've just googled for good party builds and am following some Reddit post. Means I can ignore all the number crunching and just shoot things. I'm only an hour or so in, but it feels very, very much like a game from 2001.

Also fired up Skyrim: Special Edition just now for a look. Went to log into Bethesda.net to see what the mods were like and it turns out that the 'windowed borderless' mode has the mouse locked to it, so you can't just mouse over to the 2nd monitor to create an account, etc, which is kind of the entire point of windowed borderless mode, and you can't paste a password into the login box anyway, so you can't create a secure password with Lastpass etc. Good old Bethesda.  

Edit: set an old-fashioned password, installed a bunch of mods, fired it up. Argh the UI. So, so bad. Why remaster Skyrim and NOT fix the UI? How can Bethesda games all be so good and yet so bad at the same time?   

[Bunk]

There is a reason why SkyUI was one of the most downloaded mods in history.

[apocrypha]

Indeed. A ported version of SkyUI 2.2 was briefly up, not by the original devs but by someone else, but now it's 'under review' by a NexusMods moderator.

Also it appears that the SE features significantly downgraded audio and upscaled textures along with all of the original Skyrim bugs and problems, some of which are bugs that have existed since the days of Morrowind.

So Bethesda have basically just upgraded the engine to use SSAO, AA, DoF and a 64 bit exe, without any extra work to fix bugs or improve textures. Oh and they made the audio much worse. And console players have to pay $50 for this. And a few days ago they announced that they were only going to send out review copies of games 24 hours before release from now on. Go Bethesda! 

[Rasix]

Great.  All I needed was another open world monstrosity to play. 

Hey, saves me money at least.

[Sky]

I keep wanting to return to Skyrim, never finished it. But I'm much more tempted to load up Witcher 3 instead.

[Rasix]

Better game.  Less pull to be a stealth archer every time.

Almost happy Skyrim SE is getting flak for these technical faux pas.  I don't need to play it. But.. I haven't in so long. 

[apocrypha]

I don't need to play it. But.. I haven't in so long. 

Same. I'll check back on it in a few weeks and see if it's been fixed by modders yet then throw another 200 hours at it. 

[MisterNoisy]

God help me, I'm still playing a fair bit of GTAV/GTAO.  On top of that, I'm a fan of BossConstructor now.

[Sky]

I started to get back into GTAV a little bit ago, it's such an amazingly good game.

[koro]

I don't need to play it. But.. I haven't in so long. 

Same. I'll check back on it in a few weeks and see if it's been fixed by modders yet then throw another 200 hours at it. 

Check back in a few months instead. The people working on the Script Extender (which many of any Bethsoft's "game-fixing" mods rely on) have said that it's going to take a long-ass time to get it back up and running with even minimal functionality due to the backend changes from the old executable to the 64-bit one.

Hell, Fallout 4's script extender isn't even up to full speed yet for many of the same reasons.

[apocrypha]

Yeah, saw that yesterday. Least they are working on it though.

[Setanta]

I'd never really thought about it but my daughter's boyfriend put me on to Warframe.

Consider me hooked (and possibly addicted). This is fun!

[Flood]

I'd never really thought about it but my daughter's boyfriend put me on to Warframe.

Consider me hooked (and possibly addicted). This is fun!

I still play Warframe fairly frequently, along with another forum member.  The clan we're a part of has mostly stopped playing, but we have access to a clan hall with all the amenities, and full clan admin powers (well almost full).  We're both fairly ranked up on MR, gear, mods what have you.  If you'd like to connect with us or need a hand with anything just ping me in game.

WF name: Mandelbrot



 

[apocrypha]

Started Wasteland 2 because I got an email asking me to back Wasteland 3 and I remembered I'd never got round to playing 2.

Let me know how the "director's cut" or whatever they're calling the patched up version is. Wasteland 2 feels like a game I should have loved but just found to be tedious and poorly designed/balanced. Hopefully the latter of my complaints has been remedied. They could make the game 100% more fun to play by just removing/combining some of the secondary skills.

Well about 6 hours in I lost all interest in it. Partly because the writing is bad but also because the combat is bad. Shooting takes too many APs, moving takes too few and effective range of weapons is too restricting. Combined it means that combat consists of constantly running around trying to keep as many characters in useable range as possible. It makes things like ambushes that are effective on more than one NPC are impossible.

Uninstalled, moved on down the list to... Euro Truck Simulator 2. Which is surprisingly relaxing and fun although I seriously cannot reverse park an artic. Also really needs a steering wheel which I don't have, it's not great with a controller and even worse with mouse/kb.

[Sky]

I would like to play eurotruck with a wheel setup and VR rig. My main thing is that I like playing with the controller for steering, but need the keyboard for commands...and using the sticks to look to the sides sucks. Being able to quickly look to the side with the VR rig, use the truck's gauges rather than the UI...would be pretty sweet.

[apocrypha]

Shit, yeah that'd be great. Oh, I've just thought, I've got a TrackIR I could hook up. I'll give that a go. Still leaves me needing the keyboard to change gears though, unless I choose automatic (ugh, ptooi!).

Edit: Yes, the TrackIR is a game changer. 

[Sky]

You're welcome :)

Does it work in minecraft? (playing Project Ozone 2!)

[apocrypha]

Not sure, I've not tried it. A very quick googling comes up empty but I'll have a proper try tomorrow.

[Setanta]

I'd never really thought about it but my daughter's boyfriend put me on to Warframe.

Consider me hooked (and possibly addicted). This is fun!

I still play Warframe fairly frequently, along with another forum member.  The clan we're a part of has mostly stopped playing, but we have access to a clan hall with all the amenities, and full clan admin powers (well almost full).  We're both fairly ranked up on MR, gear, mods what have you.  If you'd like to connect with us or need a hand with anything just ping me in game.

WF name: Mandelbrot



 

Cheers,
I'm on Aussie prime time but will keep an eye out. One of the quests has me stumped, I hate spy missions and interception and the flying mode goes from meh - to yeah-nah. The rest of it is fun. I ended up playing trade chat for a bit but I'm only rank 7 so limited in trades. Theres so much to learn and fun to be had :) I'm on as Talendro

[Rendakor]

I finally picked up a bigger Vita memory card and grabbed Dragon Quest Minecraft (since it's download only for Vita ). Still in the tutorial and I would vastly prefer it on PC but it's pretty good.

[schild]

I got it on PS4. Progression is slow but I really like it.

[Velorath]

Still been plugging away at Wizardry as a fun diversion (interesting that at the same time Kail has been playing the Ultima games). While I actually beat the final boss in Wizardry 1 a few days ago, I'd been continuing to farm xp and items before moving my characters over to Wizardry 2. Consequently, I was overpowered enough to blow through 2 pretty quickly.

Not sure if I'll continue on with the series at all or not. I've reached the limits of the ones I'm nostalgic for. I was a Mac gamer at the time, they only put out the first two games there, and the UI was vastly different from the other versions. Switching systems wouldn't be too much of an issue as even with imported characters, 3 reset them all to level 1 anyway

[Signe]

I'm beta testing something named "Revelation Online" brought to you by the same people who gave us "Skyforge" (which I didn't like).  Well, I'll be playing it when it finishes downloading.  It's in it's first closed beta which means it's probably a bit of a mess at the moment but I don't mind.  Yes, I'm still one of those strange people who likes these sorts of MMOs... Rift, Tera, etc.... although they don't don't last quite as long as some of the more traditional MMOs.  I'm pretty fickle with games so no surprise there.  Since I just got the email today and it's not done downloading, I don't know if they do NDAs.  Not that I ever really review anything for you lot.   

I'm also playing "Grandia II Anniversary Edition" which is/was on sale from Steam.  It's so adorkable!

[Rasix]

Just finished mission 31 in MGSV. The Kojima was strong with one. 67 hours in.  I think I'll be finishing it.

Lots of new shit coming out that I really want to play.  But, I think I'm going to be good and wait for reviews and possibly Christmas sale discounts.  Stuff will still be there when it's cheaper.

[Yegolev]

Dungeon Keeper is free on Origin.  I will download this and never play it.

[Father mike]

There is an open source engine update, KeeperFX, but it requires an original installation.

http://keeper.lubiki.pl/html/dk_keeperfx_dwnld.php

It makes the engine behave for modern OSes, provides widescreen support, etc.  I got about a week's worth of entertainment out of it a while back.

[Paelos]

Dungeon Keeper is free on Origin.  I will download this and never play it.

The honesty is refreshing.

[Fabricated]

I picked up Owlboy. It's really good! It's not $25 good, but it's about as much of a complete package as you can get from an indie game. The gameplay is good, the design is good, the graphics are good, the music is good, and the story is interesting enough.

It is however, insanely short. Reviews will say 8 hours, I'll say like half of that. And this is with me basically having what I'd consider a 90% complete save.

[satael]

More of EU4 where I managed to unite Japan as a daimyo (for the Chrysanthemum Throne achievement) and just joined a new game of Dominions 4.

[Kail]

Finally compleated Ultima 3, and I look forward to never playing it again.  Exodus' castle was a complete clusterfuck for me.  I was grinding for ages before I went in to max my stats, though I wasn't sure if I'd need it since I'm one hitting just about everything else in the game before the final castle.  Walked in the door, immediately get jumped by a bunch of Wyverns and Balrogs that can't be harmed by normal weapons and require the exotic weapons to damage and the exotic armor to defend against.  No big deal, I already got those.  I thought.  Turns out some thief had lifted one of my exotics on my way over (I'd say it was the luckiest day in that thief's life, to pick someone's pocket and end up with a weapon of legendary power, but then I realized he probably died immediately afterwards) so now my party consists of a Paladin, a Ranger, a Mage, and basically a tourist.  Also, there are random explosions all over the place that deal serious damage so we're basically sprinting through the place getting pounded on constantly but eventually limp in to the final room which LOOKS empty but we are immediately attacked by the fucking FLOOR which is such a bullshit fight (or rather, series of fights) I went to check online to make sure it wasn't bugged.  That's where my paladin died, in the last room of the game (and the rest of my party isn't looking too amazing, either).

Death in this game is it's own flavor of BS.  In almost every other game on the planet, if you die you can reload an earlier save, but here, you get locked at a "you suck" screen and the game auto-saves your characters WITH the death status.  So if your party dies, you have to: force quit the game, restart, go to the main menu, disband your party, bring in a back-bencher (or roll a new character), re-form your party with the new character and at least one of your main party, start a new game, go to Castle British and have the dead party members resurrected (and I hope your corpses have the cash to resurrect themselves or else you're going to be grinding for that with a crippled party).  THEN you have to save and exit the game again, disband again, and reform the party again with only your main party members, start a new game again, and go resurrect the people who weren't in the party before, and finally you can get started walking back to wherever you died.

Ultimas 1 and 2 were kind of fun, like the games I used to make with my high school group back in the day, where the mechanics don't fit together at all and the setting is just whatever we thought would be cool.  Ultima 3 feels less charming and it's harder to overlook the messy bits.  Ultima 4 is supposed to be where the series starts having an actual story, though, so maybe things will pick up.

[Sky]

"So sorry-a"