General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

I just picked up Planescape and the original Elder Scrolls on GOG, so I'm trying my hand at Arena.
So far it's a pretty good game that's aged pretty badly (then again, most DOS games have).

But I've made it out the first Dungeon after a few hours, so I can now really get into the game.
It's hard as hell, and I really hate it when I bring up my Character Sheet by accident in Combat, but I'm enjoying my time with it.

Planescape on the other hand is a game I'm saving for a raining day.
When all other games bore me and I have a lot of free time left or so.
 
MercenarySnake said:
To devote your undivided attention to it?
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Pretty much, I did the first bit just to test it out and I'm kind of in love with it.
It takes a truly special game to really wow me, and after Fallout, every other game just kind of bores me due to it not being as in-depth.

But so far, Planescape may beat Snake Eater as my all-time favourite game, we'll have to wait and see.
 
Millim said:
Snake Eater
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It's not a game, it's an endgame situation in a Snake game.
 
0wing said:
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It's not a game, it's an endgame situation in a Snake game.
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For a second, I thought you was going to ask me to marry you in a very Snake like way.

I'm both relived and disappointed at the same time
 
Just finished REmake. My opinion? The puzzles are child tier and the enemies are drunk AF the entire time. So drunk that you Can easily dodge them no matter how tight the space is. This applies to nearly every enemy. Dogs, zombies, crimson heads, hunters, and bees.The only thing you have to fear are the boss battles Tbh. The tank controls aren't nearly as awkward as every makes them out to be. Why I even find them charming. The game is fucking gorgeous. Especially for a game made in 2002. (I played it on GameCube) the pre rendered stuff is especially sexy. Speaking of sexy classic S.T.A.R.S uniform Jill is unbeatable and she gets worse with each redesign imo.
Lisa Trevor and her family's backstory is a wonderfully tragic addition to the game. Lisa is super spooky, ain't gonna lie. Chimera (aka the only straight edge enemy) got no introduction just showed up in a room and gave me a heart attack. Good creature design. The voice acting is awful as is the writing.

I honestly can't tell what it is Iove about that game so much. I do like that There is a constant sense of progression if you know what you're doing. And no matter how many times you go through that mansion it still feels like a maze.

Oh and I checked the whole game that giant fucking mansion has one dingy ass bathroom. One. There's another bathroom in a small cottage out in the forest but who has wants to trek through the forest to piss? Just piss in the forest at that point right? Yeah fuck it. The lab itself has NO bathrooms at All. None.

Incompetant world building 1/10

Seriously though s'good game.
 
Figured I would also post this here since a lot of people don't visit the Order.

So Sunless Sea killed my best zee captain. I shouldn't have tried to kill that giant shark thingy, but I wanted to hang it on my wall. Fucking roguelikes never cut you any slack. I was halfway tempted to hack the save file and take away permadeath, but then I feel the game would lose it's appeal. It would be like removing the save restriction from Darkest Dungeon. Not having manual saves is a bitch though. You never know if something you try will kill you. Or someone else. One response to one of the quests completely starved an entire island worth of rat and guinea pig people. Poor bastards ate each other alive. Upon my return feral rat people were scrounging for meat. One of my poor choices ended up causing one NPC to be burned alive since I took too long catching her maid who had turned into some sort of lizard person.

Luckily I wrote a will so I could pass down my map and boat. That is the trick of the game you see. Your captains often die but what you leave behind is what is important. It might have some of the best writing I have seen in some time now. Granted I am behind on my backlog, so I haven't played Witcher 3. The style of the game would go well with something more wasteland-like, perhaps roaming around the desert searching for fuel (or petrol if you like). You could go on caravans like in Fallout and play factions against one another. It wouldn't take much graphically. It is little more than a browser game with some gameplay thrown in for good measure.

The music is pretty mellow too. I wish there was a bit much to it but this is Failbetters first game. Speaking of which I think they have Kickstarter up for the next one.

The style is very text heavy. You alternate between reading a lot of text, picking your responses, and sailing. It doesn't really get your blood pumping as far as gameplay is concerned unless you count the rage fits when you die. What I mean by that is it is more fun to read the dialog and work problems out as opposed to blowing shit up.

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I'm considering starting a LP of this one. It sure does take awhile to upload a bunch of pics with 2 mbps internet though. With my Duke LP I ran into a lot of problems, but I had a lot of the pics at too high a resolution, and I used Photobucket like a dummy. I've wanted to go back and finish that one, but I ran into a creative blockage, uninstalled New Vegas, and deleted all of my mods. I thought I corrupted my files and borked my load order only to find out it was my computer causing the problems. DOH!

There is a browser game on which Sunless Sea is based that you can play for free. It's called Fallen London, which is the main city port in Sunless Sea. It's kinda like one of those choose-your-own-adventure games.

http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/

I think Sunless Sea is still on sale on Steam so check it out if the style suits you.
 
I played, beat, and even messed about afterwards with Dragon Ball: Xenoverse.

It's a complete fanservice game, but I'm okay with that. I don't know if I'd go as far to call it good, but it was certainly fun.
 
It was a little too dumbed down for my tastes. I liked Raging Blast better I think.
 
I admittedly have played less Dragon Ball games than I perhaps should. I've not played Raging Blast, but my frustrations with Xenoverse as a fighting game were alleviated, at least somewhat, when I looked at it as an RPG and not a fighting game. Because if I looked at it as a fighting game it's a lousy one. I still don't want to call it a good game, just one I had a bit of fun with.
 
Metroid Prime Federation Force, can't say I am really enjoying it though. It is not at all like the previous Metroid Prime games or the previous spin off Hunters (and definitely not like the 2D games).
There is an occasionally exciting or nice level but quite often the damn controls gets either in the way, or the fact that this game was originally intended for multiple players (something I notice in the shitload of enemies I face sometimes), really big limit in what extra weapons you can carry or that the main weapon is quite underpowered when not using power enhancing mods.

This is mostly a Metroid game in name only, there are some elements here and there but it is to much like a generic four player shooter with a Metroid skin on it as there is little to no exploration, nor any room for it with the damn medal limit if you want to go for all of them.

Sadly this is still one of the gaming highlights for me this year :(
I couldn't really get into the new Deus Ex (my computer is showing its age), and there hasn't been a decent sci fi shooter on the PC for ages. (please don't recommend me Doom 4, it is not really my taste)
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Metroid Prime Federation Force, can't say I am really enjoying it though. It is not at all like the previous Metroid Prime games or the previous spin off Hunters (and definitely not like the 2D games).
There is an occasionally exciting or nice level but quite often the damn controls gets either in the way, or the fact that this game was originally intended for multiple players (something I notice in the shitload of enemies I face sometimes), really big limit in what extra weapons you can carry or that the main weapon is quite underpowered when not using power enhancing mods.

This is mostly a Metroid game in name only, there are some elements here and there but it is to much like a generic four player shooter with a Metroid skin on it as there is little to no exploration, nor any room for it with the damn medal limit if you want to go for all of them.

Sadly this is still one of the gaming highlights for me this year :(
I couldn't really get into the new Deus Ex (my computer is showing its age), and there hasn't been a decent sci fi shooter on the PC for ages. (please don't recommend me Doom 4, it is not really my taste)
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Played Witcher 3 yet?

http://kotaku.com/the-studio-behind-sleeping-dogs-has-shut-down-1787906275

Sleeping Dogs dev went under. Damn I liked that game too. Apparently it didn't sell well.
 
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I kind of gave up on Elder Scrolls arena.
I really to hate to sound like a Bethesda fan, but I couldn't really play for more than half an hour at a time. Plus the combat is just too janky.

I'll prob keep my save and come back to it every now and then for a time waster.

Anyway, I just picked up the Oddworld collection (I've played the remake of the first and the second two games, but never touched Stranger's Wraith), so I may go through with them... or Planescape. I really want to play through Planescape but I don't know if I could just yet.

It's a debate between Planescape and Arcania. I'll get through both eventually
 
Millim said:
I kind of gave up on Elder Scrolls arena.
I really to hate to sound like a Bethesda fan, but I couldn't really play for more than half an hour at a time. Plus the combat is just too janky.

I'll prob keep my save and come back to it every now and then for a time waster.

Anyway, I just picked up the Oddworld collection (I've played the remake of the first and the second two games, but never touched Stranger's Wraith), so I may go through with them... or Planescape. I really want to play through Planescape but I don't know if I could just yet.

It's a debate between Planescape and Arcania. I'll get through both eventually
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I didn't care for the remake to Abe's Oddysee as much as the original. Exodus is better anyway, but the whole series is fairly good overall. I still remember reading about Lorne Lanning pitching the idea just for fun to a friend and that is how he got into game development - one long night with a lot of alcohol and probably drugs from the look of it. Too bad the series has tapered off. I still remember when they were pitching a RTS entry in the series...

I always wanted that book they put out that had concept art from all of the games and stuff. I see here that it is going for insane prices. Don't know how accurate that is. Probably why I held off on buying it some time back.

https://www.google.com/shopping/pro...d=0ahUKEwjuwvigluTPAhVG8IMKHVTSB30Q8wII9QIwAw
 
TorontRayne said:
I didn't care for the remake to Abe's Oddysee as much as the original. Exodus is better anyway, but the whole series is fairly good overall. I still remember reading about Lorne Lanning pitching the idea just for fun to a friend and that is how he got into game development - one long night with a lot of alcohol and probably drugs from the look of it. Too bad the series has tapered off. I still remember when they were pitching a RTS entry in the series...

I always wanted that book they put out that had concept art from all of the games and stuff. I see here that it is going for insane prices. Don't know how accurate that is. Probably why I held off on buying it some time back.

https://www.google.com/shopping/pro...d=0ahUKEwjuwvigluTPAhVG8IMKHVTSB30Q8wII9QIwAw
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Nice, I'm gonna have to refund it through due to framerate issues.
But will eventually pick them up on the PS3 (the only two that really run okay are the ones I have, Exodus and Munch).
 
I'm playing with myself now that my gaming PC is mucked up. :V
It's pretty fun but I can only play for 10 minutes at a time. Which kind of sucks.
Good thing I've gotten a ton of free DLC and the best part is that there's constantly new stuff!
Though the "leather-bitch" skin cost quite a lot but it was worth the money.
 
Mr Fish said:
I'm playing with myself now that my gaming PC is mucked up. :V
It's pretty fun but I can only play for 10 minutes at a time. Which kind of sucks.
Good thing I've gotten a ton of free DLC and the best part is that there's constantly new stuff!
Though the "leather-bitch" skin cost quite a lot but it was worth the money.
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You're my hero
 
Jagged Alliance 2 w/ 1.13 on expert difficulty, having a blast! Took me three in-game weeks to seize and defend Drassen, and now Deidranna went insane with her patrols hunting for me..

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Also, don't break your joystick @Mr Fish
 
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