General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

R.Graves said:
Morrowind is such a shitty game. Ill never fully understand why I enjoy it.
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Nice to know. Some people say it's the best in the series. Granted Bethesda is a horrible game development company in my opinion I never realized how bad it was until I played the original Fallout games. Any RPGs you'd recommend?
 
TLOCanaan said:
Nice to know. Some people say it's the best in the series. Granted Bethesda is a horrible game development company in my opinion I never realized how bad it was until I played the original Fallout games. Any RPGs you'd recommend?
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Er... I can't personally reccomend any. But! I hear the names:
  • Underrail
  • Age of decadence
  • Knights of the old republic 2
  • Divinity original sin
  • Planetscape: torment
A Lot around here. Reception seems positive.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
Yes Divinity is good enough that I enjoy it even after playing what feels like hundreds of fantasy RPGs recently. Age of Decadence is unique enough that it also makes me very interested in the world.

My issue is simply that I feel there is a lack of other settings like space or post-apocalyptic for RPGs recently, and this is a niche that should be filled. Underrail did a great job of that, but that's not a big studio title. I'm still excited for Torment: Tides of Numenara and will probably replay Planescape Torment again just for that.

Maybe it's just because Fallout 4 was such a disaster that I feel a need for an actual post-apocalyptic RPG and not a post-apocalyptic FPS crafting game, so I'm hoping some other studio like Obsidian or InXile will make one soon.

Also in case anyone is still wondering: Underrail and Age of Decadence are both very, very good. It's just a shame we have to rely exclusively on small studios or kickstarter for these types of games.
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One can't help but notice that these indie "modern classics" like Underrail and AoD have something in common - they're single character RPGs. But, the upcoming divinity os 2 is very different, so far i'm not find same experience in other CRPG title. for example, both your PC and companion have different agenda that may or may not crossed with your own. imagine like your companion betray yourself and try to assasinating you/other companion (should you not take a certain origin), the result is some of the quest outcome will be much drastically different. no wonder why MCA seems to have interest with this game
 
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R.Graves said:
Yeah but every time a character can die but doesn't they sorta just become background character for a little while and then die anyway shortly after.
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Not Kenny.

Kenny is the shit.

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aenemic said:
Oh yeah, I agree as well.

I'm so damn pumped for the System Shock 1 remake. I want to play the original, but I honestly think it looks too damn old and clunky. SS2 is one of my all-time favorites though. Might actually replay it next, once I'm done with my current playthrough of Satellite Reign. A game I can wholeheartedly recommend for anyone who's into strategy and cyberpunk. It's so god damn beautiful. And fun.
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I'm not liking the stuff they're doing to the remake, Codex has people realizing it too. They were talking about rewriting things, then they have all that backer stuff that's going to be in the game, it's running on Unity™ which the demo ran even worse on my 980ti after they updated it somehow, that damn orchestra music, and some other things. I'm not discouraging you from looking into getting that game but it's not looking too good in my eyes.
 
Got a beta invite to Elder scrolls legens. It is pretty much a heartstone set in the ES world. Got a few nice changes that i like but i haven't played more than the single player part so far. Looks fun enough tho!
 
MercenarySnake said:
I'm not liking the stuff they're doing to the remake, Codex has people realizing it too. They were talking about rewriting things, then they have all that backer stuff that's going to be in the game, it's running on Unity™ which the demo ran even worse on my 980ti after they updated it somehow, that damn orchestra music, and some other things. I'm not discouraging you from looking into getting that game but it's not looking too good in my eyes.
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I haven't followed the development, and only watcher a little of the demo. What I saw I liked. But what you say sounds a bit worrying. I don't get too hyped about games these days anyways, but I guess I'll tone it down for this one in the meantime. I'm mainly excited about the type of gameplay it'll offer, and Shodan of course. But I'm sick of backer bullshit breaking my immersion in otherwise great games. And one of the key elements of SS2 is the amazing music. Generic orchestral music would totally ruin the atmosphere. As for Unity, it is a great engine if handled properly. And remember that the demo is actually pre-alpha. Yes, that term is widely misused today, but the fact still remains that there is a lot of development and tweaking left, and I wouldn't let the performance of the demo speak for the finished product.
 
Just died playing Torchlight 2 hardcore on veteran. Was 15 level and fighting some mob, but kind of drifted off thinking about something and the next moment i hear a voice saying - "you have died". I always get too cocky on hardcore in any game i play and then get my ass kicked.
 
aenemic said:
I haven't followed the development, and only watcher a little of the demo. What I saw I liked. But what you say sounds a bit worrying. I don't get too hyped about games these days anyways, but I guess I'll tone it down for this one in the meantime. I'm mainly excited about the type of gameplay it'll offer, and Shodan of course. But I'm sick of backer bullshit breaking my immersion in otherwise great games. And one of the key elements of SS2 is the amazing music. Generic orchestral music would totally ruin the atmosphere. As for Unity, it is a great engine if handled properly. And remember that the demo is actually pre-alpha. Yes, that term is widely misused today, but the fact still remains that there is a lot of development and tweaking left, and I wouldn't let the performance of the demo speak for the finished product.
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Yeah I see what you mean but hell it could turn into vapourware like That Which Sleeps https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdinosaurgames/that-which-sleeps for example, have a whole new style or really everything in general by just making a demo that might appeal to people just to get their money, or might turn out just what the old school fans wanted. It's hard to tell but I would be very cautious about kickstarters in general.
 
After a lot of nagging from a friend of my i bought The cat lady. The game was actually quite interessting but the start was dull and some things really feelt pushed. But overallt the game was good! Might buy the "remake" if i can find it cheap some day soon.

Curious why it is called a remake when it is pretty much a story from before this game with other characters.
 
Replaying Dragon Age: Inquisition. It's pretty much what I remembered. Large dreary maps with not much to do, shitty action-heavy combat that plays better with a controller than keyboard & mouse, but at least a fairly decent story and some well written characters. A lot of the writing is kinda crap, but some of it is good (and Sera is just great). I'm just kinda fed up with the whole BioWare schtick with a hub are where you have to milk information and "likes/dislikes" from your companions. After playing (and loving) The Witcher 3, BioWare's way of handling characters and storytelling feels so damn stale and systematic.

I do really look forward to Mass Effect: Andromeda, because I love the setting and I invested so much in the previous games (fuck you, they're awesome). So I'm really hyped about returning to that universe. But I'm also afraid that it will feel like just another BioWare game where everything is so predictable and it feels like I've done it a million times before. If the former outweighs the latter, we shall see.
 
aenemic said:
I do really look forward to Mass Effect: Andromeda, because I love the setting and I invested so much in the previous games (fuck you, they're awesome). So I'm really hyped about returning to that universe. But I'm also afraid that it will feel like just another BioWare game where everything is so predictable and it feels like I've done it a million times before. If the former outweighs the latter, we shall see.
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It can't be any worse than what Bethesda would do if they owned Mass Effect franchise. Andromeda would be a crafting game. So after seeing what they did to Fallout 4 I am optimistic that Andromeda will feel like a comparatively decent game.

Unfortunately I don't think they will ever again capture the magic of Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age: Origins with there consistent "streamlining" for casuals.
 
Deus Ex with Revision. It's a mixed bag, honestly. Some levels are beautiful, some aren't changed alot at all. And the music remixes are just plain bad. At least can be turned off. HDTP doesn't change all of character models, which produces a dissonance.
2027, an epic DE total conversion. Best Moscow in a video games so far.
 
Just played a free, open source arena shooter called Xonotic. God damn, i forgot just how fast arena shooters are and how fun it is to blitz around not having the time to even think about anything. I did however get my ass kicked a bit, since the players in that particular server seemed to be veterans, but i did get few nice kills.
 
aenemic said:
After playing (and loving) The Witcher 3, BioWare's way of handling characters and storytelling feels so damn stale and systematic.
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Yeah, I know what you mean, and this is is one of the biggest problem with their games in my opinion, even though I enjoyed the ones I played. But for me the first Dragon Age felt so much like Kotor, just simply without Star Wars, because the NPCs, the conversations and your companions, everything was so formulaic and the same tone.
I know this most probably won't really happen with Bioware these days, but I would really like them to do something completely different. Not just from the NPCs, but also from the gameplay. Something like Baldurs Gate, a top down perspective, with nicely drawn images for the characters and backgrounds. Or something like Jade Empire maybe, no clue, a lot of people say the game was pretty decent.
 
0wing said:
Deus Ex with Revision. It's a mixed bag, honestly. Some levels are beautiful, some aren't changed alot at all. And the music remixes are just plain bad. At least can be turned off. HDTP doesn't change all of character models, which produces a dissonance.
2027, an epic DE total conversion. Best Moscow in a video games so far.
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You should try out the GMDX mod if you haven't already, makes Deus Ex even more fun.
 
Playing Dragon Quest IX on the 3DS. Still, my favourite modern JRPG of all time, loving it to bits now that i can focus on builds and not spread thinly.
Like with most Nintendo titles, the translation is A+ and they try to keep the jokes, normally word plays (Cisco and Sanfran lol)
The story is very unique, fun and touching in the right moments and it still surprises me, teh gameplay is bearable although being a JRPG...

The bad little thing is that after launch, free downloadable quests and items were uploaded to the servers, and now, being all down, they are unaccesible unless i purchase a hardware to alter legit cartridges' savefiles to unlock them, will do that soon. The Online multiplayer is gone too, of course.
Epic one

Jolly one
 
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