So, what're you playing?

[HaemishM]

The content is largely gated behind an INFURIATING unlock system which puts characters and items behind goals for the PvE maps (yes, you do get PvP gear by grinding PvE missions) and if you want to go to a specific map to unlock a specific character, you can play solo (good luck with that) or you can jump in to the matchmaking queue and vote on one of three maps to play.  So maybe the map you want isn't even an option to vote for, and if it IS, you'd better pray the rest of your team feels the same way or you're going to be spending the next 30-60 minutes (no, you didn't misread that) doing a map you've already done for no reward.

Yep, fuck a bunch of that. You could not have made it less palatable if you told me that it would leave a deuce on my desk every time I booted the game up.

[Strazos]

Played it with a buddy at his house 2 or 3 times - I would not call it fun.

[Xanthippe]

Minecraft, and back to WoW since pre-Legion patch dropped this week. It's all wobbly, we'll see how long I last this time.

[Mac]

I am dancing between these games like a butterfly:

Doom
Stellaris
Shadows of Mordor
The Witcher 3
Broforce (with friends)
Drago's Dogma.

[Torinak]

Messing around with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a post-apocalypse roguealike. It has zombies, skills, crafting, construction, a procedurally-generated infinitely large world complete with towns and cities, brutally unforgiving environments (cold, disease, morale, addictions, starvation, and a "tutorial room" experience which will usually kill you), vehicles you can drive (and build, and kit out with turrets and spikes if you want), and more. It's free and open source, supports tilesets if you don't like the retro-ASCII experience, and has some pretty sophisticated features for a roguealike (crafting recipe searching/filtering, bulk inventory management). It even has modding support (Lua-based), and comes with a handful of optional mods to tweak the experience (even one to remove everything except "wildlife" if you prefer a non-zombie-based apocalypse, or one to replace zombies with dinosaurs).

Outside of the game, there's a pretty decent wiki for the game with some guides, and a full recipe/item browser which is handy to check for stuff you haven't found yet.

They had a successful kickstarter in 2013 to pay a dev to work on it full-time for a year. Since then, they've met some of their unfunded stretch goals anyway (like monster infighting) with the help of the community.

It has builds for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

[rk47]

RTK13

[schild]

Weird, I don't see a radicalthon, but I want one.

[Rendakor]

Picked up 7th Dragon III: Code VFD for 3DS. The first two never came out in the US so I'm a little lost on the story but it's a pretty fun little dungeon crawler. It's on the easy side compared to most handheld RPGs and I'm playing on the harder difficulty (Stamdard, instead of Casual ). I think I'm over halfway in so at this point I might as well just finish it.

Also back on Hex pretty hard; hit Cosmic in Constructed and now working on Limited.

Pokemon Go too, mostly during downtime at work.

[schild]

I'm playing the I-HAVE-TWO-YEARS-LEFT-AT-THIS-JOB-STARTING-13-DAYS-AND-23-MINUTES-FROM-NOW-BUT-ABOUT-50%-OF-MY-JOB-IS-ABOUT-TO-EVAPORATE-ANYWAY-AYE-WE-HAD-A-GOOD-RUN-THOUGH game.

It's terrible.

[rk47]

pick an '-ist' and make a career out of it thru patreon.

[Rendakor]

Finished the main story of 7th Dragon 3; the difficulty ratchets up hard in Chapter 5 and stays there for the rest of the game. The ending was satisfying and the big reveal/plot twist actually surprised me. Haven't started post-game yet.

[Khaldun]

Finally got around to doing some of the Fallout 4 DLC. It's pretty good now when you take it as a whole.

[Margalis]

Finished the main story of 7th Dragon 3; the difficulty ratchets up hard in Chapter 5 and stays there for the rest of the game. The ending was satisfying and the big reveal/plot twist actually surprised me. Haven't started post-game yet.

How was it overall?

I am more of a mechanics guy than a story guy - I don't really give a shit about the story unless it's awesome or terrible.

[Rasix]

Still playing Pillars in chunks. It's OK. Battle difficulty is still all over the place, but nothing takes more than a couple tries, even without cheesing it. Ogres are hell.

Finally got my son's LoL account to 30. Still playing ARAMs for IP. All of the sudden everyone's a lot better and a lot more toxic. It might be a while before my internal ELO normalizes since I won a vast majority of my games leveling up.  No, Riot, I'm still bad; I was just playing against muppets and some kiddo's bad AI script.

[Druzil]

Finally gave 7 Days to Die a fair shot.   The first two times I tried to play (quite awhile ago) the crashing/bugs and initial difficulty were too much for me to get into it.  The game has really come a long way. The UI is significantly better and the game finally seems stable.  The skill system is a nice addition, albeit a little simple.   I managed to survive until day 11 when I tried to escape by building a sky bridge not realizing the game wasn't Minecraft and it eventually collapsed killing me and destroying my backpack in the process 

Made it about 75% though the main Dragon Quest Heroes story.  A nice relaxing button mashing good time to wind down from...

Fucking Clash Royale.  Why am I still playing this game?  Goddammit.

[Rendakor]

Finished the main story of 7th Dragon 3; the difficulty ratchets up hard in Chapter 5 and stays there for the rest of the game. The ending was satisfying and the big reveal/plot twist actually surprised me. Haven't started post-game yet.

How was it overall?

I am more of a mechanics guy than a story guy - I don't really give a shit about the story unless it's awesome or terrible.

I'd give it an 8.5 out of 10. There are 9 classes (well, 8 but one has two different weapon options so two specs) that all play pretty differently; you form a main party of 3 and (eventually) two secondary parties of 3. The secondary parties provide support buffs, but there are several points in the game that require you to split up and clear areas with each of your parties (like FFVI did for Kefka's tower) so you really end up using all the classes. Elemental attacks aren't incredibly important but status ailments are; the enemies love to use them and bosses aren't universally immune so investing points in them isn't a waste. There's a demo up that gives you a few bonus items in the real game just for playing it.

[Mac]

Just completed a game called INSIDE, a nice puzzle game/platformer with TONS of atmosphere.

Never very hard but full of cool set-pieces and the game just explains itself to you while playing.

[Rendakor]

Did anyone pick up I Am Setsuna? Lack of Vita release prevented me from instabuying it, and reviews seem a little mixed.

[Khaldun]

Did a couple of hours of Subnautica. I liked it but it needs a bit more to give me the hook. I dislike a bit feeling like there's nothing I can do when I have to go where bad fish are, or if there is something to do, I dunno what it is. Not asking for a big gun or a harpoon, more subterfuge/decoy/stealth.

[Sky]

That gets a bit better, and really I think it mostly adds to the survival horror feel of it. There's nothing you can do early on, and that makes daring dives more exciting.

I was feeling the same way, but on reflection I liked how it played quite a lot.

[Sir T]

I have a bit of money this week and I'm Trying to decide between Dragon Age: Inquisition and the witcher 3. I think the whole mission saving the world thing of DA could be fun, but I see eople saying great things about the witcher... but I didn't even get half way through the First Witcher before dropping it.

Opinions? Or buy one now and get the other later?

[hal1]

It is hard not to tell you to get w3. It is the best single player game that's ever been. Having said that I have played little of it. I dabble from time to time. The plot, the story, the graphics are just not to be missed.

[apocrypha]

Did a couple of hours of Subnautica. I liked it but it needs a bit more to give me the hook. I dislike a bit feeling like there's nothing I can do when I have to go where bad fish are, or if there is something to do, I dunno what it is. Not asking for a big gun or a harpoon, more subterfuge/decoy/stealth.

There is a decent enough upgrade path for your equipment and the things you can build in a base that requires you to go searching in deeper and scarier places. If you feel you've got to a bit of an impasse you could always expose yourself to spoilers and look up where to find different things and/or a map etc.

Trying to decide between Dragon Age: Inquisition and the witcher 3.

The Witcher 3 is really very good, especially if you're prepared to mod out some of the questionable design choices (inventory management can be greatly improved, level restrictions on gear you can craft, etc.).

[Teleku]

Does it matter if you've never played either of the first two?

[apocrypha]

Does it matter if you've never played either of the first two?

Nah.

[Ard]

No, the important parts are recapped and/or put in readable lore form.   As much as I liked the first two games, they really pale in comparison to 3.

[Teleku]

Ok, with all the praise you guys have been giving, guess I have to buy it here before to long.

I really wish the Prime Minister of Poland had given him a copy of it on his latest trip to Warsaw in June, just like Donald Tusk gave him a copy of The Witcher 2 as a state gift on a previous visit.   

[hal1]

If you like computer games an if the purchase is a thing you can do. Just do it. You hang on these forums so you have some idea of the whitchers story. And its stand alone. You don't need to play the earlier games. And it's the best game ever.

[jakonovski]

No Man's Sky not running on my pc (guess I gotta get that PS4 after all), I'm scratching the survival/exploration itch with Starbound. Game's pretty intriguing now that it's finished! I wish there was a building system that wasn't such a PITA though, can't stand platforming all over the place in order to build a castle.

[pants]

I have a bit of money this week and I'm Trying to decide between Dragon Age: Inquisition and the witcher 3. I think the whole mission saving the world thing of DA could be fun, but I see eople saying great things about the witcher... but I didn't even get half way through the First Witcher before dropping it.

Opinions? Or buy one now and get the other later?

I haven't played witcher 3, but I have done DA:I, and I wasn't super impressed.  It had a few nice notes, but it didn't grab me like the first 2 DAs did.  So based on all the good reviews, I'd do the witcher 3 if I were you.

[Signe]

I've played both (still playing Witcher 3) and I'd absolutely go for Witcher 3.  It's very awesome.

[Yegolev]

Oh, what to type....

LEGO Dimensions after a long break.  I have decided that I don't care for the pad-based puzzles.  I've been trained by decades of arcade, console, and PC games to focus on the screen; remembering to look at the pad for clues is for millenials.  On the other hand, the rest of it is fun enough.  Not really more fun than a regular TT LEGO game, though.  Also, I've already misplaced a few LEGO pieces so I get that authentic feel.

Fallout 4 is so annoyingly nearly-awesome that I can neither keep playing it nor can I stop playing it.

I can't find my Just Cause 3 disk, which is a source of friction in the household.

Then there is the RE7 version of P.T.  I did enjoy it at about 85% of the P.T. enjoyment level, but my guts and bones tell me that the actual game is going to be more Chris Redfield struggling against BOWs.

I played Lifeless Planet for a little bit and enjoyed it for what it was.  Then there was an update which put some red wording in the top left of the screen that caused me to write on the developer's page about it.  So, now that's too much like work.  Also I'm pretty sure the protagonist hit his head really hard and will wake up at the end, or die in a bed.

Then there is No Man's Sky.  My son is enjoying it, and I am too.  Great job Yegolev, not reading anything about it before playing it.  Why, thank you!

I've given up on Assassin's Creed Unity and moved on to Syndicate, which is a wonderful game except that it doesn't have any pirates or palm trees or picking up enemies' weapons or a hideout that is always in the same place.  It does have a rope gun, though, and it is incredibly pretty.

My wife is playing Assassin's Creed Rogue, which I think I'd really like despite the frivolous button remapping and Irish protagonist.

Finished Uncharted 4.  No regrets, except I missed a couple treasures.

[Sky]

Holy shit I found my 3D Vision shutter glasses.

That only took two years.

[Cyrrex]

You should have said something, I coulda shipped you mine.  Well I still could, and you'd could wear both pairs simultaneously!  That's like 27D.

[Sky]

I think I had issues making it work with my Mitsubishi DLP for some reason. Worked great with the Samsung I used to have. Going to give it another shot at some point, because it's friggin' awesome.