General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Unskippable cutscenes before boss battles... I really, really, really despise them. And on top of that, my buffs are running out while i have to sit their and watch that bs shit show every two minutes after i die (that's how long it takes me to die). This seems to be a theme with DnD games and POE. I had to deal with this in BG, BG2, POE, NWN etc.. and now, yet again i'm faced with a really hard boss battle in IceWind Dale and most of my time i spend watching the cutscene... again and again and again....
 
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Well i finally finished IWD (haven't touched the expansions though), so with this game, POE, W2, DOS (which is still haven't finished and will once i have a better gpu), Witcher 2 combined, i have put in about 257 hours of play time. This is for a total of around 60 euro~. I'd say that's pretty good value. Coupled with the 60 hours in Borderlands 2 and a few other finished games, i'm on a pretty good roll for being absent from gaming for quite a few years before this. Hm... That's quite a few hours, maybe i should cool off a bit :lol:.
 
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Einhanderc7 said:
I don't know if anyone is familiar with what I'm currently playing but I have been replaying the old Earth RTS series (Earth 2150, Moon Project).

Darn fine RTS games that require the player to actually use their brains. Unlike their last game Earth 2160 which is complete garbage. Its a shame when well made games get devolved into a overly simplified version of themselves.

If you like RTS I would suggest checking them out, bear in mind they are considered "dated" now.
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Earth 2150 is an amazing game but WTF happened with Earth 2160. That game is garbage. What do you think of the first game in the series?
 
FreedomStalker said:
I'd take zombies instead of those damn wolves, any day. The wolves in The Long Dark are the stuff of nightmares.
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And they are very well positioned, that is usually what gets you.
The worst is that they break your precious fur coats T-T
The thing that has scared me the most was Jeff, the bear behind Coastal town. Even knowing he lived there, i stumbled upon him just after a corner and i almost spit my heart out.
 
Yesterday I start playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 complete edition again with the HD+ and the Horn of the Abyss mods.
I am so glad that game runs on this machine. :nod:
 
Bought and started playing Vampire: The Masquerade Last night.
Enjoying it so far, I really like the Hub area and stuff... also the fact I can spend time in a Gothic Nightclub dancing to some industrial metal pleases the 15 year old in me.
 
Millim said:
Bought and started playing Vampire: The Masquerade Last night.
Enjoying it so far, I really like the Hub area and stuff... also the fact I can spend time in a Gothic Nightclub dancing to some industrial metal pleases the 15 year old in me.
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The atmosphere in Santa Monica is simply perfect.
 
Trying New Vegas for the NCR ending for god knows how manyeth time. If this attempt doesn't carry through, then that's it for this game. This time going with melee/explosives guy since energy weapons build corrupts my saves too often, and always when I arrive at Vegas.
 
Playing the Enderal mod for Skyrim.
It looks very interesting, i'll start a thread about it.
 
Just picked up Deus Ex, its..not bad...so far. More like the original than Human Revolution was, which was an enjoyable letdown for me.

Granted I only just completed the first tutorial mission and was messing around in the hub zone. But so far its pretty decent. I really like that you can strip every element of the hud off of the screen.. it would be absolutely unplayable if you couldnt

So that, and I am actually playing through FNV again. First time on PC though.
 
Just played through Valley. I liked it. First person platformer, mostly story driven, I enjoyed my time with it. To me, it felt like playing a Miyazaki film.
 
Age of decadence.
First character was straight up combat (2hand sword) because it was the easiest build i could think of for a game that plays so differently. Managed to get myself snared up in the thieves guild and halfassed my way until the BIG quest in madooran. Couldnt do that last quest so i sold them out to Gaelius and became his shill.

2Nd character is a merchant/lore master and boy does the game progress quickly when youre not doing any combat. Managed to get to Ganeezar the first day of playing that character.
 
Mr Fish said:
Age of decadence.
First character was straight up combat (2hand sword) because it was the easiest build i could think of for a game that plays so differently. Managed to get myself snared up in the thieves guild and halfassed my way until the BIG quest in madooran. Couldnt do that last quest so i sold them out to Gaelius and became his shill.

2Nd character is a merchant/lore master and boy does the game progress quickly when youre not doing any combat. Managed to get to Ganeezar the first day of playing that character.
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Yea so far I have found non-combat character to be great. Feng is hilarious, and you can do many things later on in the game that would be very difficult or impossible with a pure combat build.
 
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Played trough The cat lady and Downfall recently. I did not get into the cat lady right off the bat but it was a great game. Downfall on the other hand was amazing from the start! Not counting the prologue!





AskWazzup said:
So i gave Metro 2033 a try, it runs pretty well on linux, the environments are great, the graphics the sounds are good. I played on the ranger hardcore difficulty, because i remember liking a mod for stalker that was similar to that, but i have to say i am very disappointed with the combat - it's very clunky, especially against the monsters who move in these jerking motions and patterns and do incredibly stupid things like running up to you and standing on their back feet sniffing the air. One instance, where we had to defend against a swarm of them before waiting for help, i just ran into some room and left my a.i friend to deal with them by himself. While i was standing in the room he was taking incredibly huge amounts of damage like it was nothing and i did not have to raise my finger. Or the scene where a bunch of monsters are trying to catch up to our cart, but the animation made it look like they are not even trying, just jogging at a slow pace. The whole thing reminds me of old movie action scenes:
The super linear levels with a bunch of loading screens does not help either, it just made me miss playing the Stalker series.
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P.S. The English translation and voice over is pretty terrible and does not make the original one in Russian justice.
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Were you playing Metro 2033 Redux? I'm 100% sure the AI is dumber in that version... Had a few nazis run shooting straight into a wall were i've been sitting.. 1-2 minutes earlier! Or moving with backwards towards me just asking for a knife in the back..

Also if you ever play any of the Metro games again you should go with Russian language instead of the piss poor english one. It made the game so much better BUT it is hard to start with ass you miss out quite a lot unless you have played trough it once before.
 
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crusader kings 2, finally i brave myself out of playing in safe noobie island (aka Ireland) or humble little small counties somewhere in francia. Behold my first LP of Andalusian Caliphate :D :D

So far its intimidating, full of intrigue that i never seen when playing as christian kingdom. Also This is the only playthrough that reading history books is just a mandatory. As for now, i've been taking former asturian territory and subjugate them as my vassal. Its simple, to be my Gate and wall in the next hundred year should the viking start roaming the high seas. I'm also plan to go full retinue instead of levies, those naughty levies shalt not present a threat to my overwhelming expansion.

Unlike Abdurrahman al ghafiqi, i will allying with aquitaine when the viking invasion take it hits. Of course, every help does come with its price :D
 
The difficulty of CK2 is somewhat exaggerated to my opinion. It's just that the UI isn't particularly good, and don't make a great job at telling some mechanics. Watching a tutorial series, or a let's play, is enough to get the hang of it. Reading History isn't necessary. The mechanics don't simulate History, and with the knowledge of the mechanics it's enough to understand what's going on. To be honest, my knowledge on the legal and political system of the HRE, and the Hapsburg didn't help me at all for CK2 or EU4, nor did my knowledge of the Austrian Empire helped my for Vic2, since it isn't simulated.

My favorite game was with House Orsini, count of Orvideo, vassal of the Papacy in 1066 start. I stayed as a Papal vassal during all the game, except when I became King of Jerusalem, which I gave to the Pope, before asking to return to him as a vassal again. I managed to get couple of dozens of my kinsmen as Pope, which is pretty good for a duke. Conquered Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Sicily, Venizia, and Croatia for the Pope, and other members of my dynasty. And surprisingly, even as a count I was able to marry into Royal family, I suppose being a vassal, and council member of mister Pope, helped a lot. With that I was able to spread my dynasty all over Europe.

If you're interested in good mods, I'd recommend :
- CK2 Plus. It make the gameplay more interesting and challenging.
- Geheimnisnacht, a Warhammer Fantasy Battle, with a magic system. How cool is that? It's super cool. And you even have the Skaven's Under Empire! That's super awesome. And there is Chaos, Vampire, Tombs King, Bretonnian and all sort of great races to play.
-After the End, set in a post-apocalyptic America, where civilization emerged again in a new feudal age, with a bunch of really interesting religion to play as.
 
Replaying Metroid Prime and Mario Sunshine on Gamecube for the second time ever and I purchased the Twin Snakes on Ebay for 30 dollars. I really lucked out on that deal because it's usually really expensive. I'm pretty exited to play Twin Snakes, MGS1 is still my favorite in the series. I was always bummed that the remake was so expensive and how it's also a massive pain in the ass to run on Dolphin. They really should've rereleased it in the MGS collection.
 
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