So, what're you playing?

[Ironwood]

I fear we may end up bumping the actual Stardew thread at this rate.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Resting from minecraft for a couple weeks now, discovered Tropico - how did I miss this, 4.5 times even? I decided I liked the graphical look of Tropico 3 the best so been playing it. Mostly in God mode so it's more of a toy than a game I guess.

[Sky]

GTA V. Just got the bug to start playing it again. I'm almost to where I was the first time I ran through it after release. Decided to not import my saves and just ride it out. Such a phenomenal game. A little janky still, but the poster child for the sum being greater than the parts.

I noticed there's some cool stuff in the pipe for Project Zomboid, they've switched gears on their content releases to get more stuff out and playable. Maps off dead survivors having info about safehouses/caches, vehicles, new animation system. Looks good. Going to have to hit that soon.

[luckton]

OverCOOKED is a super fun couch coop game.

Go get it and play it if you have kids that play or bros over for the night.

Basically you cooperate in the kitchen to make various orders that come fast.  Different orders and kitchen layouts add to the difficulty in figuring out optimal cooking orders.

It's more fun than I make it sound.

Fixed that for you. You have no idea how much time I spent trying to find the game you were talking about when I was searching for "overlooked game 2016". 

[Nija]

How mechanically difficult is overcooked?  My 6 year old is obsessed with cooking, likes games controlled via mouse or touchscreen but is slow and can't use a controller very well.

I play overcooked with my wife, my 11 year old, and my 6 year old. Your 6 year old can probably handle it just fine.

[Gimfain]

Started playing Chrono Trigger, its probably the first time I play a classic jrpg.

[MrHat]

OverCOOKED is a super fun couch coop game.

Go get it and play it if you have kids that play or bros over for the night.

Basically you cooperate in the kitchen to make various orders that come fast.  Different orders and kitchen layouts add to the difficulty in figuring out optimal cooking orders.

It's more fun than I make it sound.

Sorry about that!

Overcooked is mechanically simple, you just have usually 1 button or so to worry about.  It's all about communication which is what makes it such a great couch coop game.

Edit: I suck at forums.

[Rasix]

 

[Ginaz]

I played the Ghost Recon Wildlands beta yesterday.  It's not bad but it feels like a less interesting mash up of Far Cry and The Division.  The missions are all the pretty much the same (go to location, kill all the bad guys, rinse and repeat) with a lot of travel time in between where absolutely nothing happens.  I'll probably get it when it goes on sale for like $20 a year from now but it certainly doesn't feel like it's worth the full price of $80 CDN they're asking for it.

[Soulflame]

Phone:  Fire Emblem Heroes.  Fun enough for a bit of play time each day.

3DS:  I have Dragon Quest 8 and Pokemon Moon games going.  I usually pick one of them up when we go out.  They're both reasonably good games, I prefer the PC though if I'm home.  I do hope to pick Xenoblade back up at some point, but I let the youngest borrow it.

PC:
Overwatch, some.  I think I'm coming to the point where I'll put it down, to pick it back up around Easter, when I expect the next event will be.
Diablo 3, some.  I've been dinking around with a wizard, but at this point I'm strongly considering using the wizard to gear up a DH.  Or just playing a bit less.
Witcher 3.  I'm enjoying this.  It's like a fantasy Mass Effect, except all of your choices lead to bad outcomes for someone.  Or multiple someones.  :(  I am strongly considering a mod to eliminate item degradation, because fuck item degradation.

iPad:  Nothing!  Free to play is the devil, and we hates it.

[jakonovski]

I got a weird bunch of games I'm playing right now.

Hitman
Enter the Gungeon
Company of Heroes 2 (single player only)
Darksiders
The Evil Within

[luckton]

I finally picked up Stardew Valley after all this time and trying to kick my WoW habit. Engage SNES Harvest Moon nostalgia! 

[Rasix]

I'm now playing two Stardew Valley farms. My son tends to play very sporadically and thus has a lot of farm envy.  He actually said the following, "why can't this just have in-app purchases?"   That required a long explanation/lecture. Anyhow, I'm a lot more efficient now that I know what I'm supposed to be doing from the start. I still didn't win the egg hunt.

My farm finally has full sprinkler coverage. I've debated going full engineer/OCD on this, but I'm inching closer.  

edit: In his defense, he's 7. And this game kind of assumes you have some previous game knowledge to advance. It does advance slowly unless you play the shit out of it, which I have been.

[Ironwood]

You're like a scary mirror image in this regard. I wanna go full on factorio on this game, but alas it won't do it.

[Sky]

I mostly dicked around fishing and exploring the mines. 

[Druzil]

Filling some time with God Eater 2 while I sit by the mailbox waiting for Horizon to arrive.

[Rasix]

I mostly dicked around fishing and exploring the mines.  

Order and efficiency are relaxing.  

[apocrypha]

Finally finished XCOM2. Pretty good, although I'm very glad for mods.

Not sure what to play now... Tides of Numenera is on the tablet, but that's going to be a slow burn. New Minecraft FTB kitchen sink pack (FTB Beyond) due out this weekend, so I'll fire that up after tweaking it. Leaves me hunting for something to play tonight. Overwatch? Rocket League? Something random from my backlog? Who knows.

[Rendakor]

Someone on the FTB forums said Beyond isn't dropping this week, so feel free to dive into something a bit more substantial. More info on it coming later today, in their March newsletter.

[Sky]

I might join you guys in a Beyond fest at some point. I'd like to finish up GTA V at some point, it just takes me sooo long to finish games. And I also started Torment...

[apocrypha]

Someone on the FTB forums said Beyond isn't dropping this week, so feel free to dive into something a bit more substantial. More info on it coming later today, in their March newsletter.

Ah, bugger. I guess they're waiting for Thermal Expansion 5.

[Khaldun]

Been doing AC Syndicate some. Bores me, partly because I hate the male character but also I just know how the gameplay is going to go. I think with this template of game all I want are the open-world things, I hate the story missions for the most part.

Went back to Stellaris for a game. It's better than at launch but it's still missing some important tweaks or elements to make it really addictive. Basically, I think if:
a) science ships had something to do for the whole game, a bit like archaeology in Civ V functioned, an endgame element
b) there was something more powerful you could eventually build to defend systems
c) there were bigger differences between factions/species--that seems to be coming in the Utopia update in April, though
d) a few more flavor elements of the CKII kind--those really fun bits of intrigue and so on

[apocrypha]

A friend bought me Factorio. I'll see you all in 6 months. 

[Father mike]

A friend bought me Factorio. I'll see you all in 6 months. 

More like 72 hours.  But they'll be a really fun 3 days.

[apocrypha]

Mods. 

[Ironwood]

Mods don't really help.  As I mentioned on some of the other games of this ilk, there's no endgame at all.

Once you've researched everything (and, let's be frank, making a research cube is the easiest thing in the world and is probably the first thing you do) all you're doing is putting your Robot Domination over the map.

I tried to get fun with the trains.   But it wasn't.

[Rendakor]

I got Shadowrun (and maybe an expansion: Dragonfall?) for my cellphone from Humble Bundle, so I'm playing that. Haven't played it before, and my only experience with the franchise is that awful FPS that came out on 360. It's pretty decent so far, although the saving options are limited which prevents me from playing it in small doses.

Also working on my recently-restarted Project Ozone 2 playthrough in Minecraft; I'm torn between sticking with that and making the jump to FTB-Infinity.

[carnifex27]

I got Shadowrun (and maybe an expansion: Dragonfall?) for my cellphone from Humble Bundle, so I'm playing that. Haven't played it before, and my only experience with the franchise is that awful FPS that came out on 360. It's pretty decent so far, although the saving options are limited which prevents me from playing it in small doses.

Dragonfall is a completely different story, so it won't spoil anything in the base game. One of the improvements between the two, at least on pc, is that you can quicksave anywhere outside of combat. Dragonfall also had what I and most others I've talked to considered the more interesting story. So i guess what I'm saying is that if you're only going to play one of them, I'd recommend Dragonfall.

[Rendakor]

I already started the first one, but since I have both I'll play Dragonfall next.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, the only connections between the original and Dragonfall is a vague reference by one of the characters you meet. You would miss nothing by skipping the original other than a really good game. Both are worth playing, IMO and they are fairly short for RPG's so you won't spend a lot of time on them. Steam says I clocked 12 hours in the first and 24 hours in Dragonfall.

[Rasix]

I played them in order. Dragonfall is a massive improvement but the first is still worth playing. Bugs and all. 

Still playing Stardew Valley. Now the entire family is playing, even my non-gamer wife. Watching them play is an exercise in managing my min/maxer OCD.

[Yegolev]

Picked up PvZ Garden Warfare 2 again.  Still fun.  Way behind compared to where I was in the original.

Doing the DLCs in Borderlands 2 as Krieg.  Saving Dragon Keep for last.

Probably going to get Horizon Zero Dawn.

[Soulflame]

If you have a PS4, and don't have Horizon Zero Dawn, you should correct that as soon as possible.

[Yegolev]

Of course I have a PS4.  How else can I play games?

[Sky]

Of course I have a PS4.  How else can I play games?

Like an adult, on the PC