General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

AskWazzup said:
Just started up Shadowrun Dragonfall, i ran through the first mission and am on the fence on whether i should continue this. What bugs me is the writing, it seems almost bethesdian and childish in its tone, especially in dialogues. I know that playing this after pillars of eternity puts it against a pretty steep standard, but hearing people praise this game i suspected that the dialogue would be at least pretty decent. The combat was somewhat interesting, so i'm wondering now if the game has any redeeming qualities going forward? Or is the start of the game pretty much what one gets the whole game?
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It pretty much stays the same the whole way through. It is much more linear than Pillars. It is totally hub based.
 
Today i played on a TFT2 server with killers. I tried to go with a spy and found that if you're going against a competent team, a spy is pretty much useless and you will get raped constantly. It's just not possible to have any kind of useful impact with a spy when the other team is a big blob of unending stream of fire, bullets, rockets and movement.
 
The factions weren't the problem, the problem was all the crap they implemented badly. Grenade spamming NPCs, NPCs pushing you into fires, out of cover or out of trading windows, NPCs nagging you to talk to them whenever you were anywhere near them or even in dialog with them, those stupid broken poltergeists in the Red Forest area that could one shot you if they threw anything bigger than a cigarette lighter at you, etc. Infuriating game. CoP was superior in every way.
 
My attention span is really short these days and RPG's I like tend to stress me out, so it is hard to play one game for too long. I've been jumping around between UnderRail, Don't Starve (looking forward to Shipwrecked), Diablo with mods, and Darkest Dungeon. I need something a little more casual to unwind with I guess. Problem is I hate most AAA garbage that is being shipped out. I have Arkham Knight but the batmobile stuff turned me off and the game just got too repetitive after so many sequels. Plus they STILL didn't let you play as Robin or Nightwing in the Story mode aside from certain points. Lame.

I did play Planescape a little more recently, but I am still stuck around Sigil in those boring ass catacombs. I pick up Tactics from time to time too. I still intend on beating it one day. I made it to the Mutants with the Redux mod. I was going to buy Street Figther V to play with my friends but the barebones nature of the current release has forced me to wait a few months. Guess I will download the DLC for Smash and Mortal Kombat X in the meantime. Fighting games is pretty much all my gaming buddies play when they come over.
 
You could try FTL:Faster than light, it's basically a Star Trek roguelike simulator. You can go see the TotalBiscuit video.
 
Bought and started playing Grim Fandango again in hopes that my previous attempt many years ago failed because i was too stupid. Since i am way less stupid now, i was able to figure out that it wasn't as much as me being stupid, as the game having "video game" style puzzles that often cannot be deducted by logic. Or it might be that i'm just too stupid even today. The good news is, that the game has a great characters, dialogue, story and theme, which will help me pull through the miserable parts of clicking every pixel on the screen.
 
AskWazzup said:
Bought and started playing Grim Fandango again in hopes that my previous attempt many years ago failed because i was too stupid. Since i am way less stupid now, i was able to figure out that it wasn't as much as me being stupid, as the game having "video game" style puzzles that often cannot be deducted by logic. Or it might be that i'm just too stupid even today. The good news is, that the game has a great characters, dialogue, story and theme, which will help me pull through the miserable parts of clicking every pixel on the screen.
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It's not really stupidity. Point-and-click adventures are outright designed - old or new - to have absurd, vague, and complicated solutions to simple puzzles and standard problems. I've never liked that, but I guess they're part of the charm. Besides, take them out and everyone gets mad at the game for being "simplified modern garbage marketed for idiots" .

Heads up with Grim Fandango, because LucasArts adventure games tend to get doubly absurd with their puzzles as the game goes on.
 
A friend of my forced me to start with the mmo Tera online.. And i kinda hate MMO's now a days.
Still playing CS-GO but for some reason i'm getting worse by the day. From a top scorer to the bottom 2 spots. No idea why :|
Started Dishonored and it is looking good so far but i tend to have the "I must" play other games now mindset so i've only cleared the first mission on hardest with 0 kills. I do regret finding out you get an achievement for clearing the game without kills as it may get a lot more boring now but w/e.
 
ZigzagPX4 said:
It's not really stupidity. Point-and-click adventures are outright designed - old or new - to have absurd, vague, and complicated solutions to simple puzzles and standard problems.
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In the days before everyone used the Internet for everything, adventure game designers would deliberately make in-game puzzles obtuse in order to force people to buy the hint book or call the hotline.
 
I'm playing Fallout New Vegas, trying out my 2nd Independent run. It's going well. I'm on the last legs of it sadly, currently going through Lonesome Road, listening to Ulysses' sultry voice. Once Lonesome Road is over, I'll be going to the Dam to decide the destiny of Vegas. It'll be my 6th completed run of the game. (I've had several unfinished runs as well however) After this one I plan to do my very first full Legion run. Should be interesting, seeing as I've never worked for them before, and it'll give me an excuse to nuke the NCR in LR.
 
There's SUPERHOT, an indie FPS with sleek visual style and mechanics where time stops when you don't move, and time goes forward only when you move or turn. Pretty interesting. "It's the most innovative shooter I've played in years." *cough* *cough* It's relatively short, though. Two hours of levels and the rest is just endless modes in different levels, though given the arcade-y feel they were going with, I guess it works. If you're hurting for cash, I say wait for a sale - I thought it was fine but most considered it too short for the price.



Also, I recently went back to Civilisation V and promptly discovered that the USA as led by Washington were still dicks, as usual. Declared war on me while my military was still recovering from a failed invasion of a city-state, burning improvements in my southern regions. Pulled off a couple of technological discoveries and fixed my economy, then rebuilt my army swiftly, and then pushed back and razed Boston. They learned their place. :nod:
 
ZigzagPX4 said:
Also, I recently went back to Civilisation V and promptly discovered that the USA as led by Washington were still dicks, as usual. Declared war on me while my military was still recovering from a failed invasion of a city-state, burning improvements in my southern regions. Pulled off a couple of technological discoveries and fixed my economy, then rebuilt my army swiftly, and then pushed back and razed Boston. They learned their place. :nod:
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Some other leaders make Washington look friendly. Ever heard of Shaka Zulu? :-D
 
Sergeant Politeness said:
Some other leaders make Washington look friendly. Ever heard of Shaka Zulu? :-D
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Don't forget Atilla the Hun and Julius Caesar! In my games though, honestly, Poland and America are almost always the biggest threats. They spread so damn quickly for some reason and they manage to build massive armies, but unlike other nations they don't go into debt over it.

One of my games was a nightmare. I was playing with a friend. I was Germany and he was the Celts I believe. Poland and America were both essentially superpowers, but so were we. Me and him had successfully wiped out everyone else on the map but those 2. Long story short, through a battle of attrition and a lot of planning, we managed to destroy America's cities one by one until finally, about 400 turns in or so, we managed to take the capital. We celebrated, until the fog of war around the city disappeared.. Poland had every. Single. Tile. Outside Washington's borders completely surrounded. Artillery, soldiers, tanks, everything. It had to be at least 30 units, and after our war with America we were basically out of resources. The next turn, Poland declared war, and we unfortunately had to call it quits.
 
Finished Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut yesterday. Not a bad game but definitely not as memorable as its grand daddy.
The Director's Cut sadly suffers from several issues, the result of being a somewhat inferior port from the Wii U.
It also rather misses most of the X Files atmosphere that made the original so much fun. It looks better but I rather have bigger hub areas to explore than places that look big but are actually rather restricted.
This is probably the last time I am going to play it as it does not have that much replayability.

On to Deus Ex The Fall next.
 
Just build my budget "gaming" pc (amd 860k cpu with an amd r7 360 gpu) after i spent about ten months on a 13 inch chromebook with linux. It feels great to have a big 24 inch screen and enough power so that i could actually play all the games in my library (not to mention on high settings). The open source amd drivers on linux seem to be actually playable: CS:GO, POE, Wasteland2, Xcom EU and a few other games run pretty smoothly on high settings, however the only outlier (in my library), and a strange one at that, is TF2... So steam put all this effort in steamos (i'm on manjaro linux, but the same holds on all branches of linux) to have a backup plan against microsofts recent consolitis endevours and they can't even make sure that their own games run on amd graphic cards.... The game stutters terribly and then crashes, all my other games run fine. Though i guess i still appreciate their effort in pushing the open source idea on drivers and api's.
 
Someone gifted Dawnguard to me on my Birthday as a joke. But then I decided that I should try some of those bigger Skyrim Mods that required Dwanstar and Dragonborn and installed those.

I also installed the "Civil War reloaded" mod so that aspect is much better. Been enjoying it while ignoring most of the story, Skyrim is just a good mod pltaform after all but it feels so janky still, jankier than FO4 for some reason, lots of screen tearing despite me having options to minimize those on also lots of random crashes.

Other than that I have been breeding Pokeymanz when I go to the toilet in preparation for a tourney (I want to get a few shinies) and the new games. So that's kind of it.
 
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