General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

They can be much cheaper (at least ovr here where a PC controller can cost as much as a new game) and some even come in both X-input and direct input modes not to mention they can even have alternate modes for usage of Analogue and crosspad which console controllers usually don't have.
 
Walpknut said:
They can be much cheaper (at least ovr here where a PC controller can cost as much as a new game) and some even come in both X-input and direct input modes not to mention they can even have alternate modes for usage of Analogue and crosspad which console controllers usually don't have.
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Wow I wonder why people that play games with gamepads on PC don't just use one of those considering how expensive Xbox 360 controllers are over here.
So is the camera I put for games sort of like using a mouse?
 
100 hours into Dark Souls 3. The single thing i hate: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH POISE!!!!
It's ridiculous, a Lvl 1 mob, a rat or an arrow can make you flinch, even at full possible poise (Havel set, yhorm greatshield and Wolf Ring). It makes mid to heavy armor pretty much pointless. Only hyper armor frames are there now.
Also, enemy staggering. In Ds1, a Zweihänder attack knocked over or staggered most enemies, and it wasn't even the heaviest weapon.
Now, my fave is the Fume UGS, the heaviest sword in the souls games, with 25,5 burden, a requirement of 50 Str. It got nerfed (damage) and IT WON'T STUN ANYTHING. It's cringeworthy when any dude with an Estoc can come and mash R1/Click to your death effortlessly.
 
Been playing Tale of Wuxia... Super bad Chinese to English text translation (and some dialogues are not translated so they are still in chinese), I also hate the stupid mini-games (Cooking, Mining, Harvesting, Blacksmithing, etc) although the fishing mini-game is kinda of ok. I also don't like the stupid mini-game for unlocking the higher tier chests (although the ones where we have 50 moves to unlock them are fine, but when we only have 20 moves it just annoys me).

Despite all of this I still manage to enjoy the game for some reason, exploring the towns and talking to people is nice (although the text is very bad translated like I said), the different fighting styles are cool and I like the variety (I am focusing on Sword styles, but the game also has Fist styles, Finger styles, Broadsword styles, Staff styles, etc) the game does not hold our hand, I lost almost every fight until I had to restart because I had made a mistake somehow and my character's first and second names were stuck together and that was driving me crazy... I even once lost against a chicken and a rooster (in the first 15 minutes of playing) and got a game over :lmao:.

I also like how you have time while you are in a town, you usually have something you need to do in that town at a specific time and you can explore and wander around the town before that specific time (it's when we can do quests, find and loot chests, go to stores to buy and sell stuff and play mini-games to increase our skills and gather items) if you didn't do all you wanted before the time runs out, then too bad >_>.

All food, tea and wine can be consumed to permanently increase a tiny bit our HP and Energy which is interesting but can also make some quests impossible to complete if we buy all the stuff from a vendor and eat/drink it immediately to increase our stats and then we later find a quest where we need to give some particular wine or food or tea to someone and the vendor is all out of stock because you consumed it all before :lmao:.

If this game had a good translation and got rid of the stupid mini-games it would be a great game in my opinion.
 
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Age of Decadence. Romans, fallen empires, chosen one business again... Not my cup of tea. Still going because of fallout-style combat. But it became tedious anyway.
 
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Arnust said:
100 hours into Dark Souls 3. The single thing i hate: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH POISE!!!!
It's ridiculous, a Lvl 1 mob, a rat or an arrow can make you flinch, even at full possible poise (Havel set, yhorm greatshield and Wolf Ring). It makes mid to heavy armor pretty much pointless. Only hyper armor frames are there now.
Also, enemy staggering. In Ds1, a Zweihänder attack knocked over or staggered most enemies, and it wasn't even the heaviest weapon.
Now, my fave is the Fume UGS, the heaviest sword in the souls games, with 25,5 burden, a requirement of 50 Str. It got nerfed (damage) and IT WON'T STUN ANYTHING. It's cringeworthy when any dude with an Estoc can come and mash R1/Click to your death effortlessly.
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I've seen many mentions of poise actually being disabled for now. Might be because they're still balancing it. Either way, it's a very odd decision and it's indeed aggravating. I wouldn't agree that it makes medium or heavy armor pointless though. With the encumbrance limit of 70% for decent rolls, getting that extra amount of protection is totally worth it.

I'm also a bit confused about staggering enemies. The heaviest weapon I'm using is the Astora Greatsword, and it tends to stagger many enemies. But unleashing a volley of attacks with any lighter weapons seems to do nothing. I guess it's just a change in the combat. Combat is much faster this time and you need to be much more aggressive while counting on taking some hits. I haven't played Bloodborne but I'm under the impression that DS3 combat has taken notes.
 
Lately I have been kicking back with some old school Red Alert before EA got their slimy paws all over the franchise.

Also for good measure I have been greatly enjoying Dawn of the Tiberian Age. Its like C&C 95 and red alert rolled into one with better game play.
 
aenemic said:
I've seen many mentions of poise actually being disabled for now. Might be because they're still balancing it. Either way, it's a very odd decision and it's indeed aggravating. I wouldn't agree that it makes medium or heavy armor pointless though. With the encumbrance limit of 70% for decent rolls, getting that extra amount of protection is totally worth it.

I'm also a bit confused about staggering enemies. The heaviest weapon I'm using is the Astora Greatsword, and it tends to stagger many enemies. But unleashing a volley of attacks with any lighter weapons seems to do nothing. I guess it's just a change in the combat. Combat is much faster this time and you need to be much more aggressive while counting on taking some hits. I haven't played Bloodborne but I'm under the impression that DS3 combat has taken notes.
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I always thought armor was useless, if you have too much weight you roll like a fatass which makes you susceptible to attacks and especially in PVP with backstabs. We should have a Dark Souls PC group or something.
 
Now I remember why I stopped playing Dark Souls so long ago, it runs like ass on my machine for no reason.
 
Hard to say when I can't get over 15 fps. I am gonna try some tweaking of the Ini file people reccomended.
 
Stellaris. It's so hot right now. Stellaris.

I recommend it if you like Paradox and space strategy games. It's definitely unique among other space strategy games.
 
Walpknut said:
A very good one, I exceed the reccomended specs so I shouldn't be haaving this kind of performance.
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Probaly a lack of good old optimization, I had a little framerate dropping here and there but in one of the maps the framerate would just tank and I would sometimes be put in offline mode for "low framerate". How the hell am I even suppose to see the messages other people leave too? The second game is fine in that regard but the first has issues with showing no player messages even with 10-15 nodes.
 
Bought Firewatch today due to the sale and i actually love this game! I love the conversations and the gameplay is good enough and so far i only have a few minor complains that doesn't really matter.

Was expecting to regret buying it but 2+ hours in and i'm having a lot of fun.
 
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