General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

aenemic said:
As I absolutely love the Witcher games I've been thinking of reading the books as well. How are they? Would you recommend them?
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I've just started reading the Witcher books myself - I'm about 100 or so pages in on The Last Wish, the first book in the series (in case you didn't know, the first and second books are short story collections; the third one, in story line order, Blood of Elves, is the first full novel). So far I'm really liking it.

Speaking about the games, I just picked the first one up on Steam for $1.49 earlier today. I'll start it after I wrap up my first full W3 playthorugh - currently at Battle Preparations on that, so I'll finish it soon. Still have to play the DLCs though.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
This why I don't like Unity. If a game looks good on Unity, it's probably melting the computer.

Game looks interesting though.
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That's going to be a shame for that new System Shock remake then since they're using it unless something changes. The demo for it runs on Unity too.

R.Graves said:
I've never understood the the re2 is the best stance. It doesn't do much to stand out from the first 4 main games. (1,2,3 and code veronica.)
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I say the second and third game were the best of the series, first was pretty cheesy and the fourth game became popamole like the later games would become. Just a kill everything in your way game with a hilariously bad plot and silly characters like the little guy in the blue.
 
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Walpknut said:
Resident Evil plots were always silly and poorly written.
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True, true.

But let's look at the bad guys plan in RE4.

>Infect the presidents daughter with los plagas.
>She is already infected by the time Leon arrives.
>Leon tries to take her back.
>Everyone tries to stop him.

The fuck? Why are they actively sabatoging their own plan?
 
The Villagers are barely even sentient and by the time Leon finds Ashley he has already gotten in contact with Luis who tells him the plan of los Iluminados, I also think they are mostly trying to burn up Leon's time as he is also infected so they can asure two loyal infectees go back to the States.

Also is LAS plagas, as plagas is a female word. Los is for masculine words.
 
MercenarySnake said:
I say the second and third game were the best of the series, first was pretty cheesy and the fourth game became popamole like the later games would become. Just a kill everything in your way game with a hilariously bad plot and silly characters like the little guy in the blue.
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ain't nothing wrong with a good tense popamole game.

My favorites in order are:

  1. Resident evil 3
  2. REmake
  3. Resident evil 2
  4. Resident evil zero
  5. Resident evil 4
I never f
Walpknut said:
The Villagers are barely even sentient and by the time Leon finds Ashley he has already gotten in contact with Luis who tells him the plan of los Iluminados, I also think they are mostly trying to burn up Leon's time as he is also infected so they can asure two loyal infectees go back to the States.

Also is LAS plagas, as plagas is a female word. Los is for masculine words.
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Thanks that's bothered me for years.
 
Walpknut said:
Playing Witcher 3, and it's soooo gooood.
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Did you play the first 2? I'm thinking of doing a complete playthrough of all them once I finish this backlog of games I got going.

Walpknut said:
Resident Evil plots were always silly and poorly written.
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Yes they are terribly written. For me, that amounts to a huge waste of what could have been a great horror franchise. Instead, it embraced the B-movie writing and never looked back.
 
I was half warned against earlyer Witcher games, not "warned" but like, heads-up, they're nowhere near as good as 3
But everyone has divided opinions on such stuff, older/original is usually better - but can also be a bit "unpolished" or even "noobish" in some cases

With games, there's also the issue of going back in graphics-time. Often that's not a problem, for example, to me Morrowind still looks amazing. However, older GTA games, like GTA3 or Vice City have not aged very well, and their compressed little cities will feel very underwhelming to someone who got right into GTA4 or 5
 
zegh8578 said:
I was half warned against earlyer Witcher games, not "warned" but like, heads-up, they're nowhere near as good as 3
But everyone has divided opinions on such stuff, older/original is usually better - but can also be a bit "unpolished" or even "noobish" in some cases

With games, there's also the issue of going back in graphics-time. Often that's not a problem, for example, to me Morrowind still looks amazing. However, older GTA games, like GTA3 or Vice City have not aged very well, and their compressed little cities will feel very underwhelming to someone who got right into GTA4 or 5
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Witcher 1 and 2 are fine for me although first game can be a chore because it has a lot of running back and forth and quirks of an old game. Witcher 3 is by far the best in the series.

Witcher 1 is on a modified Aurora engine (same engine as KOTOR) so it's an old game and plays like one. Witcher 2 plays more like Witcher 3.

Witcher 1 is like $1.50 and Witcher 2 is $3 on sale so they're pretty affordable which is nice. But I'd definitely look at a let's play of Witcher 1 to make sure you can tolerate it's older quirks.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
Witcher 1 and 2 are fine for me although first game can be a chore because it has a lot of running back and forth and quirks of an old game. Witcher 3 is by far the best in the series.

Witcher 1 is on a modified Aurora engine (same engine as KOTOR) so it's an old game and plays like one. Witcher 2 plays more like Witcher 3.

Witcher 1 is like $1.50 and Witcher 2 is $3 on sale so they're pretty affordable which is nice. But I'd definitely look at a let's play of Witcher 1 to make sure you can tolerate it's older quirks.
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I've played a very small amount of Witcher 2, and from what I remember it is pretty similar to 3.

As far as Witcher 1 goes, I've played KOTOR 2, so I'm at least a bit familiar with how it should work. Hell, for a buck and half I really didn't have anything to lose by getting it.
 
zegh8578 said:
I was half warned against earlyer Witcher games, not "warned" but like, heads-up, they're nowhere near as good as 3
But everyone has divided opinions on such stuff, older/original is usually better - but can also be a bit "unpolished" or even "noobish" in some cases

With games, there's also the issue of going back in graphics-time. Often that's not a problem, for example, to me Morrowind still looks amazing. However, older GTA games, like GTA3 or Vice City have not aged very well, and their compressed little cities will feel very underwhelming to someone who got right into GTA4 or 5
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I absolutely loved the first game when it was released, and felt it held up decently when I played it again a few years ago. It's been a while now, so I don't really remember how it looked and played. But I remember a lot of the characters, quests and locations, and it fills me with joyful memories and makes me want to play it again. It's a part of Geralt's story, after all. And where it all began. If you're into The Witcher and Geralt, you should absolutely check it out.
 
The problem with the first witcher game is that the combat is so god awfull.. I did finish it tho!
Irwin John Finster said:
Witcher 1 and 2 are fine for me although first game can be a chore because it has a lot of running back and forth and quirks of an old game. Witcher 3 is by far the best in the series.

Witcher 1 is on a modified Aurora engine (same engine as KOTOR) so it's an old game and plays like one. Witcher 2 plays more like Witcher 3.

Witcher 1 is like $1.50 and Witcher 2 is $3 on sale so they're pretty affordable which is nice. But I'd definitely look at a let's play of Witcher 1 to make sure you can tolerate it's older quirks.
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Was going to play all 3 games in order, W1 had some shitty combat and a LOT running back and forth across the maps but it was decent enough. The second game ended up on my wait list due to me getting killed by the golem in the intro sequence twice without it even being close to me. I know you don't get anything for killing it but i MUST! :P

Will probably give it a go within a week again.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
Witcher 1 and 2 are fine for me although first game can be a chore because it has a lot of running back and forth and quirks of an old game. Witcher 3 is by far the best in the series.

Witcher 1 is on a modified Aurora engine (same engine as KOTOR) so it's an old game and plays like one. Witcher 2 plays more like Witcher 3.

Witcher 1 is like $1.50 and Witcher 2 is $3 on sale so they're pretty affordable which is nice. But I'd definitely look at a let's play of Witcher 1 to make sure you can tolerate it's older quirks.
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I feel sorry for CDPR when it came to Witcher 1 since they had to stretch out the relatively old Aurora engine for aforesaid game and as a result, its game-play suffered a lot (I really hated the combat). At least the in-game world felt like a living place (the NPCs run for cover when it rains), it had some decent quests (balanced out by too many fetch quests), and was interesting in terms of writing when it came to the world's lore.

I feel odd saying this but I think Witcher 2 was the weakest of the trilogy in terms of game-play and story. Most of the problems I had with Witcher 2 only became more prevalent once I went through Witcher 3 and replayed the trilogy again. I found that 1 holds up despite its age, 2 not as much and 3 was an improvement over the previous two games. I would second @aenemic and suggest checking out the first game. Witcher 3 does reference several events from 1 so playing 1 and recognizing those references is always nice.

Walpknut said:
Resident Evil plots were always silly and poorly written.
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This pretty much sums up all of the plot in the Resident Evil games.
 
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