General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Once I get done with Tyranny (might be awhile since I'm picking up Spider-Man today), I plan on doing this as well. I cannot wait to see what the fuss is all about this game, I don't think I've ever heard a bad thing about it.
You won't be disappointed dude, Planescape Torment has a setting like no other; its sort of a blend between science fiction and medieval fantasy, fascinating stuff. The writing is excellent, almost Atomkilla level stuff here; and the characters are almost all unique and well developed, as are the quests. I haven't finished the game yet (40 hours in) but I simply can't stop playing it. The soundtrack is also extremely good (from your boy Mark Morgan). This game isn't perfect; nothing is, but it's one of the best roleplaying games I've ever played. Unconditionally recommended.
 
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You won't be disappointed dude, Planescape Torment has a setting like no other; its sort of a blend between science fiction and medieval fantasy, fascinating stuff. The writing is excellent, almost Atomkilla level stuff here; and the characters are almost all unique and well developed, as are the quests. I haven't finished the game yet (40 hours in) but I simply can't stop playing it. The soundtrack is also extremely good (from your boy Mark Morgan). This game isn't perfect; nothing is, but it's one of the best roleplaying games I've ever played. Unconditionally recommended.


I'm honestly flattered someone actually bothered to read that horrible LP, and thanks for the kind words - but I could never hope to achieve the PS:T level of quality writing, let alone surpass them.

That aside, your post is correct. PS:T is unconditionally recommended.
 
I'm honestly flattered someone actually bothered to read that horrible LP, and thanks for the kind words - but I could never hope to achieve the PS:T level of quality writing, let alone surpass them.

That aside, your post is correct. PS:T is unconditionally recommended.
Yeah I just finished reading through it a couple minutes ago and I'm bored now hehe. No but seriously it was awesome had a blast. I wished I was there during its production ( I had no idea what fallout was at that time or any video game for that matter) but that would've been cool. I'm just glad you finished it at some point, it pains me so much to see passion projects oozing with creativity die down because of stupid real life bullshit.
 
I'm definitely looking forward to playing it.
Also, excuse my ignorance what's an LP? I thought this meant Let's Play or is that incorrect?
I'm now interested in whatever Atomkilla wrote/did lol.
 
I'm definitely looking forward to playing it.
Also, excuse my ignorance what's an LP? I thought this meant Let's Play or is that incorrect?
I'm now interested in whatever Atomkilla wrote/did lol.


Yes, Let's Play.
You have a link to it in my signature. Beware if you wanna read it, it's...not for the faint of heart, as some Orderite described it. Despite what Hank wrote there, it's still an LP/fan fiction, cannot match the depth and quality of PST in any way.
But I like to think of it as a fun read.
 
I'm definitely looking forward to playing it.
Also, excuse my ignorance what's an LP? I thought this meant Let's Play or is that incorrect?
I'm now interested in whatever Atomkilla wrote/did lol.
Yeah it means lets play, you basically take a freak ton of screenshots and write a story about the ascension of your character from farm boy to ruler of the wastelands. There's a link for atomkilla's lp under his profile (hard to miss) and I had a blast reading through it, for the main reason that I love dark humour because I hate life so yeah it was the perfect match.
 
Yeah it means lets play, you basically take a freak ton of screenshots and write a story about the ascension of your character from farm boy to ruler of the wastelands. There's a link for atomkilla's lp under his profile (hard to miss) and I had a blast reading through it, for the main reason that I love dark humour because I hate life so yeah it was the perfect match.

Well, that's one way to do it, and a pretty old school way at that.
Some people like to just write an LP as a "documentary", that is showcasing how the game works, it's quest design, various systems and so on with plenty of screenshots. Others like to showcase a story, detailing every quest and character interaction.
There's a subcategory of LP called "Iron Man run" where you only use one save file and try to do your best before dying.
In reality though, there's no rule for it, you just play the game and record your progress one way or the other.

Mine is a weird one though. It started out as an Iron Man run, but eventually metamorphosed into more of a fan fiction than an actual LP. I didn't plan on it, but it happened and I'm glad because it was great fun.
Most of the stuff written there are from a role-playing perspective, but lots of the stuff aren't really offered by the game.

I should mention that by far the most popular Let's Play format is video format. You record the gameplay and optionally add commentary. It's what modern streaming is basically...except it's going live, really.
I hate that.



In any case, if you people are interested in good LPs, you should check out the Order. There's a stickied thread there which lists all important tO threads. Check LP section and read stuff. Toront's Duke Nukem LP (sadly never finished) is awesome, and you should definitely read Dead Guy's stuff. He has LPed more games on this forum than all other users combined and they are a great fun to read. Then again, they have a lot of The Order inside jokes, so if you don't know much about the community it might not be that fun.
 
Well, that's one way to do it, and a pretty old school way at that.
Some people like to just write an LP as a "documentary", that is showcasing how the game works, it's quest design, various systems and so on with plenty of screenshots. Others like to showcase a story, detailing every quest and character interaction.
There's a subcategory of LP called "Iron Man run" where you only use one save file and try to do your best before dying.
In reality though, there's no rule for it, you just play the game and record your progress one way or the other.

Mine is a weird one though. It started out as an Iron Man run, but eventually metamorphosed into more of a fan fiction than an actual LP. I didn't plan on it, but it happened and I'm glad because it was great fun.
Most of the stuff written there are from a role-playing perspective, but lots of the stuff aren't really offered by the game.

I should mention that by far the most popular Let's Play format is video format. You record the gameplay and optionally add commentary. It's what modern streaming is basically...except it's going live, really.
I hate that.



In any case, if you people are interested in good LPs, you should check out the Order. There's a stickied thread there which lists all important tO threads. Check LP section and read stuff. Toront's Duke Nukem LP (sadly never finished) is awesome, and you should definitely read Dead Guy's stuff. He has LPed more games on this forum than all other users combined and they are a great fun to read. Then again, they have a lot of The Order inside jokes, so if you don't know much about the community it might not be that fun.
Yeah I checked through a bunch of LPs on the forum but I'm much more of a fan of LP that showcase a story like you said more than just a showcase of the game itself with tons of screenshots and not much else. Still i'm curious about those Iron man runs i'll probably check them out even if I am pretty late in the game (duke nukem looks pretty hilarious too).
 
Okay, LPs to me were what youtubers and streamers did. So it wasn't usually crafting their own stories and stuff, just them playing a game and people loving their personality and reactions and whatnot.
I'll check it out when I get a chance. I didn't realize LPs could actually be more interesting lol
 
Yeah I checked through a bunch of LPs on the forum but I'm much more of a fan of LP that showcase a story like you said more than just a showcase of the game itself with tons of screenshots and not much else. Still i'm curious about those Iron man runs i'll probably check them out even if I am pretty late in the game (duke nukem looks pretty hilarious too).


Duke Nukem LP is awesome, too bad @TorontRayne's PC died or something and he never completed it.
Oh, and @Jogre made a good LP parodying 2016 elections, I think. Can't find the link. I think it was Jogre.

Okay, LPs to me were what youtubers and streamers did. So it wasn't usually crafting their own stories and stuff, just them playing a game and people loving their personality and reactions and whatnot.
I'll check it out when I get a chance. I didn't realize LPs could actually be more interesting lol


Yeah, LPs of this kind are, like I've said, a bit old school. Reserved to dedicated gaming forums, mostly.
If you're registered on RPG Codex they also have a huge number of LPs. Quality varies though.
 
I'm on there. I haven't used forums since I was in middle school (over 10 years ago now) and back then it was music forums so all of this is news to me.
 
That's understandable. More so thanks to the fact that LPs of this sort are now a niche. Dying breed really.
With advent of social media, sharing and streaming, not many people bother print-screening every other minute and writing about it.

In any case, if you decide to read mine or any other LP here, I wish you a good time.
 
Ugh, once again tried to give Civ 6 a chance.
I think I've restarted that stupid game some 5 times just today, and 10-ish times yesterday. Piece of shit.

I dunno about most casual players, but I hate finding out that the continent I'm on is fucking empty, apart from the little encirclement of rival capitals right around my capital. I guess most players regard the rest of the continent as a playground, an open area to have fun and fight battles and whatnot retarded, but my OCD just can't stand it. The rivals won't settle the continent either, that's never happening, it STAYS empty forever. Instead they always settle *towards* me. Because script. Because more exciting gameplay or whatever stupid retarded crap.

Then, regardless of your military strength, regardless of resources, regardless of relationship to other civs, theyll joint-war you. Joint-war always, one-on-one war never. I've never see it, so I'm assuming it is not possible, like, technically speaking, for the AI to declare war on its own. It is always a joint-war with two AI attacking you. It is always automatic and always an early game routine. Often they don't even act upon it, most likely because they haven't produced any military units so far, yet they declare war on you - because - so much peace-time has passed, it's like I said not to do with anything particular. As soon as you accept peace with one of them (remember, it's always two, never one!) - that one will re-war you as soon as it can, which should be some 10 turns later - this time, with a new ally (because the previous one is still at war with you) - in other words, by accepting peace with 1 out of 2 wars, you end up with 3 wars. Peace with 1 out of 3 wars, you end up with 4 wars, and so on, untill you're at war with everybody.

I used to end up with war-with-everybody in all my games, typically still by early game. The most obvious way to avoid this was - of course - to never accept peace treaties. The downside of this is perpetual war. The upside is perpetual war with only half your rival civs, insteadof all of them.

How is this satisfying to anybody?

I wanna immerse myself a bit. If I war someone, I want it to mean something. War should be significant. You bomb someone, they bomb you, you get to some agreement, then stop bombing. How did the people at Firaxis settle with "Wait, AI should declare war totally randomly!" "How randomly?" "100% randomly! Every turn the player completes triggers a 50-50 chance that two rivals will declare war on them!" "Two?" "Yes TWO! TWO! NEVER ONE! ONLY EVER TWO!!!!!!!" "Hmmm... makes sense. Two is way twoer than one could ever be!" "Precisely! Look, according to my calculations, in a 15 civ game it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes of gameplay to be at war with everyone in the game!" "Haha, cool, war war war war!!!" "Yes! War all the time! Nothing but war! War war war!!!" "War war war!!!" "WAAAAAAR!!!" "Oh, by the way, how do we deal with war mongering penalties?" "WAAAAAAAA - what? Oh, that's simple - make the player stack up the penalties every time they get attacked!" "HAHAHAHAHAHA oh fuck me in the ass" "what, right now?"
"yes"
"b-but... I'm not gay"

"sure you're not, buddy."

so yeah
what a dumb game
 
Endless games are awesome, but a bit different than Civ. If he's looking for better Civilization just roll back to Civ 5.
Otherwise, yeah, Endless are great. Endless Legend is closest to modern Civ games.
 
Each consecutive Civ game has worse AI.
Then again, each consecutive Civ game is released bare-bones vanilla with a broken AI, only to have several DLCs crammed into it which "fixes" it furthermore. Admittedly, this all makes a game a lot more complex, and AI doing shit in a complex game is fairly common, but it's still hilarious how bad it is sometimes.

Even Endless games, which some people consider the best modern 4x (and not without reason) have AI problems. It's just the horrible reality of the genre. However, it's just sad that Civilization, the biggest name of the genre, is so bad at it.
 
I used to spend hours with Civ, be it 2, 3 or 4 (never played 1)
3 was and remains my favorite. The only real drawback is late-game AI invincibility

4 gave me a major sadness when I first tried it, in that it removed the sense of masses, that I had loved in 2 and 3. The idea of a large army went from 150 tanks to 5 tanks or 30 jetfighters to having as many as 3 jetfighters. I hated this at first, this "symbolic" approach to warfare, "I see your one tank. I counter with one artillery cannon and maybe one jetfighter!"

Civ 5 was fine, but all of these allow you to "role play" a nation, be diplomatic or war mongering, develop and grow, maybe play as a peaceful modern nation with a bloody and violent past, making yourself a story. If you were truly unlucky, another nation would launch a surprise invasion, and if you survived it, it would be a significant point in the history of your nation. In Civ 4 I was impressed by an actual naval invasion, taking me completely by surprise, and I remember it even many years later! When you're at constant war, and every single war comes from a surprise invasion, it just stops mattering, and it becomes an annoying nuisance instead, another reason to just shut the game down and go watch tv instead or something...

Again, Civ 3's my favorite, I'd also spend hours "modding" the map and editor. I've made korea-maps, israel v palestine maps, and - of course - north american fallout-themed maps, all of them with units carefully rewritten to make sense in their scenarios. None of them worked very well game-play wise though, and I quickly noticed that thing with modders where they end up never really playing any of their projects, beyond just testing that things don't crash :D

(This reminds me of my in-total 3 attempts at creating a modern world map for HOI2. What an ass-pain that shit was... )
 
Civ 5 was fine, but all of these allow you to "role play" a nation, be diplomatic or war mongering, develop and grow, maybe play as a peaceful modern nation with a bloody and violent past, making yourself a story. If you were truly unlucky, another nation would launch a surprise invasion, and if you survived it, it would be a significant point in the history of your nation. In Civ 4 I was impressed by an actual naval invasion, taking me completely by surprise, and I remember it even many years later! When you're at constant war, and every single war comes from a surprise invasion, it just stops mattering, and it becomes an annoying nuisance instead, another reason to just shut the game down and go watch tv instead or something...


Honestly, I had plenty of experiences like this in Civ 5.
But it's true, Civ 5 nations do tend to be highly warmongering, but not necessarily. I had long games with no or very little wars.
 
Honestly, I had plenty of experiences like this in Civ 5.
But it's true, Civ 5 nations do tend to be highly warmongering, but not necessarily. I had long games with no or very little wars.

I meant to juxtapose them (including Civ 5) to Civ 6. Indeed, I had long pacific plays in Civ 5. It is my major gripe with Civ 6, that this is quite simply no longer possible, since warfare seems to be a matter of time (I can only surmise it is tied to tech development, and beyond a certain tech, wars will begin, regardless of diplomatic relations)

The difference is, in for example Civ 5, another civ might be very aggressive, and it might do a little AI math-piece and figure it can try to take you on. This is fair, this is what you plan for. In Civ 6, you get attacked regardless. In my previous-most attempt I was attacked by Persia (jointly with Brazil... ) and frustrated, I razed two of their three cities. They had no defenses. No resistance. It was early game, so I could destroy them with archers and warrior units.

I *razed their cities* down to only their capital, which I besieged, and brought their defenses down to zero - and kept it there. I destroyed (obviously) all of their terrain improvements. I turned down peace proposal after peace proposal, untill finally I agreed to take all their money, plus money per turn.

Approximately 20 turns later, they declare war on me again. They are still only 1 city remaining, their terrain improvements are still aflame. They still have NO military units.

This kind of AI is only frustrating, and adds no enjoyment or entertainment or surprise or suspense or anything... :D
 
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