General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

When i started my first playthrough of xcom: enemy unknown, i bought a bunch of interceptors, now 16 hours later, i just realized that i did not need at least 70% of them. So all this time they were sucking up half of my income...
 
Finally finished Dark Souls 2 SOTFS:

Pros
-Works out of the box with 60FPS and mouse controls
-Mouse can be used in the menus
-Seeing summon signs, player messages, and bloodstains is actually possible this time around
-Visuals look pretty decent
-No framerate drops
-Mouse camera is really good
-Fast loading times

Cons
-Arbitrary stat to make rolling even a viable tactic like Dark Souls
-Enemies track like a bitch
-Some enemies have infinite stamina(think Drakekeeper Mace)
-Bosses are pretty easy
-Every time you start up the game you have to disable double clicking for the mouse again
-Console controller buttons in the menus
-Levels are inconsistent
-Gameplay gets repetitive
-Miss the Dark Souls 1 leveling(bonfire)
-Prefer Dark Souls 1 way of repairing weapons and weapon condition
-NPCs are pretty dull
-Guard break and jumping attack barely worked for me


Overall I didn't really care for it and I would not recommend it to anyone. If you want to play a Dark Souls game then play Dark Souls 1. Now I have the urge to go back through that game again.
 
I'm jumping between New Vegas, Underrail, and Fallout 2 like crazy. Currently hooked to Fallout 2, since I don't feel like playing the half-assed FPS boggled down by Bethesda's shitty Gamebryo engine, and I was pissed off with Underrail somewhat messed up Dan's dialogue about Gorsky (still waiting for someone to answer my question on Underrail's forum). I've been waiting for the new Fixt's update that supposedly would allow you to play Fixt through Steam, since I was also pissed off at my antivirus fucking up my own .exe to play Fixt through Steam.

I'm also playing some MOBA, but only when I'm up for it, and that was with my friends.
 
IndignantHedgehog said:
Which ones? I've been coaxed into playing League by my brother pretty fun.
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MOBA? Yeah, I'm playing League too. I only did so because I got burned out on Dota 2, after only getting 3rd place in a local Dota 2 championship held in uni, but it wasn't really getting the 3rd place but rather the complication surrounding the match (having to remake twice because of the complication really drained my personal energy that by the 3rd game I lost all the will to carry on, especially as my teammates yell at me not doing any good :/ )
 
MercenarySnake said:
Finally finished Dark Souls 2 SOTFS...
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And how are the DLC's? Most people rambling about the game have a positive opinion about them.
Also, art thou planning to go through Dark Souls 3, or your PC isn't beefy enough/don't wanna/waiting for GOTY ed. ?
 
Well, I started playing Knights of the Old Republic the other night, so far, it's really fun.
I also have Fallout 3 (for a review) and Wasteland 2 in the background, I may come back to Wasteland 2 after I'm done with Fallout 3.
 
Arnust said:
And how are the DLC's? Most people rambling about the game have a positive opinion about them.
Also, art thou planning to go through Dark Souls 3, or your PC isn't beefy enough/don't wanna/waiting for GOTY ed. ?
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The DLC was..meh it's more of the same with some reskined bosses and varied environments but nothing special.

As for my system specs not being able to handle Dark Souls 3 HAHAHAHAHA...
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I plan on getting it at a good price.
 
In my case, i figured out late that my Graphic Card is supposed to only support 1200x720 and lower T-T. To get steady FPS i have to get to the level of a filthy console peasant...
I had a great time with it, everybody finds his own flaws in the game though. (POISE n'bloody rats).
 
Playing nothing right now.

Tried to get back in Witcher 3, but it spat me right out after 30 minutes. I just can't handle how boring it is.
 
MercenarySnake said:
Finally finished Dark Souls 2 SOTFS:

Pros
-Works out of the box with 60FPS and mouse controls
-Mouse can be used in the menus
-Seeing summon signs, player messages, and bloodstains is actually possible this time around
-Visuals look pretty decent
-No framerate drops
-Mouse camera is really good
-Fast loading times

Cons
-Arbitrary stat to make rolling even a viable tactic like Dark Souls
-Enemies track like a bitch
-Some enemies have infinite stamina(think Drakekeeper Mace)
-Bosses are pretty easy
-Every time you start up the game you have to disable double clicking for the mouse again
-Console controller buttons in the menus
-Levels are inconsistent
-Gameplay gets repetitive
-Miss the Dark Souls 1 leveling(bonfire)
-Prefer Dark Souls 1 way of repairing weapons and weapon condition
-NPCs are pretty dull
-Guard break and jumping attack barely worked for me


Overall I didn't really care for it and I would not recommend it to anyone. If you want to play a Dark Souls game then play Dark Souls 1. Now I have the urge to go back through that game again.
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Happy to hear your opinions on Dark Souls 1 at least seem to have changed a bit to the positive.

While I agree with most of your cons for DS2, I did enjoy the hell out of that game and I think I've sunk more hours into it than the first one. Even though the first is by far my favorite. But what I enjoyed most about 2 was the change in tone and setting, and that the lore was connected but still its own thing (with the connections themselves a fun thing to discover). Now that I'm almost done with 3, which is amazing by the way, and everything is more or less directly connected to the first game, I appreciate those things in 2 even more.

My understanding of what Miyazaki has said about the future of the Souls series is that the next game will be a big change. I definitely hope that this means more of the same in terms of atmosphere, storytelling and level design, but with a whole new story and setting. Anything more relating to Dark Souls 1 will only feel like fan service and milking the series, something DS3 from time to time comes dangerously close to.
 
aenemic said:
Anything more relating to Dark Souls 1 will only feel like fan service and milking the series, something DS3 from time to time comes dangerously close to.
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And yet i wish we had more:
- Areas like the Untended Graves, loved that place and boss
- A Kiln Of The First Flame with something in it besides the final boss.
- Moar explanations!!, Gertrude and the Civil War in Lothric, why are there Primordial Serpent statues in Lothric and Grand Archives, what and were is the Deep exactly, which is supposed to not be the Abyss, the weird relationship between Farron Keep and the Profaned Capital with Oolacile, emphasized by the presence of Dusk.
- What is the Profane Flame
- More things in Anor Londo, i would have been pleased to watch most of the area yet again, Painted World, the inner barracks...
Dunno, looks like they could have included more things in the base game, hope that a reasonable DLC price and content delivery is worth it.
 
aenemic said:
Happy to hear your opinions on Dark Souls 1 at least seem to have changed a bit to the positive.
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Still hate things like Bed of Chaos, Capra Demon boss fight, any place with copious amounts of eye piercing lava but yeah it's pretty good other than that.

aenemic said:
While I agree with most of your cons for DS2, I did enjoy the hell out of that game and I think I've sunk more hours into it than the first one. Even though the first is by far my favorite. But what I enjoyed most about 2 was the change in tone and setting, and that the lore was connected but still its own thing (with the connections themselves a fun thing to discover). Now that I'm almost done with 3, which is amazing by the way, and everything is more or less directly connected to the first game, I appreciate those things in 2 even more.
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I thought 2 was godawful but I kept playing because it was a Dark Souls game with a really damn good mouse camera and other features right out of the box. Can't say anything about the PvP besides the one guy who invaded me with a ultra geatsword early on in the game while I was using a crappy dex weapon and after he brought me down to within an inch of my life he was blocking while I kept hammering away at him(think luke vs vader return of the jedi) until I won.

I liked the addition of giants and the king vendrick lore was interesting especially since he becomes hollow.

Now I have to try Dark Souls 3, I heard poise doesn't work in that game.
 
The Commissar said:
We don't talk enough about gaming. Tell us what you are playing the most of right now, plus any thoughts you might have on the game.

This weekend I'm going to try and finish up the UFO: Afterlight Campaign for the second time. Its a really solid game, the most refined and polished of the series, but I still feel the combat would be much better turn based.
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The Witcher III: Wild Hunt.

Sexy graphics. Sexy women. Main character has a sexy voice.
 
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