General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

[william dempsey]

Yeah, I am starting to get rather burned out off these FPS hybrid games. The plotlines but also how dull they can become.

The original ' Call of Cthulhu dark corners.... is a decent game. It does try to be different and mixes action/adventure with horror plus a bit of shooting. In comparison to the stale glorified shooters like Outer Worlds, it is way better in my opinion. Plus it is dirt cheap on GOG at the mo.

I'm that pissed off with repetitive wanky RPG's such as Pathfinder I am playing Tex Murphy, under a killing moon.

 

[TorontoReign]

So Atom is my new favorite Fallout game even with the kinda crap writing mostly due to Fallout having kinda crap writing across the board anyway. I say crap but it is serviceable. Yes that is the word I decided on. It's a military sounding word too. Are those boots serviceable? Anyway I like how Atom deals with the various trippy aspects that might not be in other games but I am sure that turned some hardcore realists off. A lot of the encounters feel a bit cheap meaning you can get raped and left for dead no matter what you do more times than not but I kinda dig it. Crafting adds a huge element to this along with the Hunger mechanics. I can't express how good it feels to not worry about fucking traps every five steps like in Wasteland 2 and 3. Plus the combat is fun unlike UnderRail which made me want to die. I am trying not to beat it now (giggity) but it's close.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

No, Bioshock 1 and 2. The System Shock games are considerably better, even if you have to deal with some of the jank.

Hi Norzan,

I am now kind of confused. In your first response you wrote:

And on the first two Bioshock games, they have with time become worse and worse to me, specially when i play the games that it tried to emulate.

With "games it tried to emulate I am thinking of games that preceded the Bioshock games such as the System Shock games and Deus Ex.
Are you talking about different games that came before it?

Dutch on strategy games just save a lot.

I think I am going to do that.

I have been playing Starcom Nexus, a small game that takes its inspiration from the old Starflight and Star Control games, to get the bad taste of Bioshock out of my mind.
It is a fun game but there are long stretches of nothing to do, making it clear to me that I should not play this game for hours.
I have installed Into the Breach and FTL on my PC so perhaps when Starcom gets dull I should switch to those when I want to play games.

The original ' Call of Cthulhu dark corners.... is a decent game. It does try to be different and mixes action/adventure with horror plus a bit of shooting. In comparison to the stale glorified shooters like Outer Worlds, it is way better in my opinion. Plus it is dirt cheap on GOG at the mo.

I'm that pissed off with repetitive wanky RPG's such as Pathfinder I am playing Tex Murphy, under a killing moon.

I actually played CoC Dark corners of the Earth back in the day when it was first released but I never finished it. Someone did gift it to me a couple of years ago on Steam.
The game definitely had a better atmosphere than TOW from what I recall. As I wrote on the Codex, there is this sense of 'blandness' that seems to permeate through the game.
I never feel excitement when I discover something interesting or put bits of the story together.

Yesterday in Starcom I came across a pulsar that was bombarding a planet with radiation. It is a 2D game but that was a pretty interesting discovery. Now I wonder if I had nearly ran into another on when I was exploring a very distant corner of the map.

I have not played a regular RPG, a mouse driven isometric one in ages. Most of them have become either like Mass Effect or now these FPS hybrid things.

I also have not come across one with an interesting setting either.

Oh, before I forget, someone has also gifted me Kenshi at the start of this year.

 

[Norzan]

With "games it tried to emulate I am thinking of games that preceded the Bioshock games such as the System Shock games and Deus Ex.
Are you talking about different games that came before it?

Yeah, playing Deus Ex and the System Shock games made the Bioshock games worse to me when i noticed they are just watered down versions.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Yeah, playing Deus Ex and the System Shock games made the Bioshock games worse to me when i noticed they are just watered down versions.

Ah, than I had understood you well.
Yes, I notice a certain streamlining as I like to call it that can make playing these games repetitive very quickly.

This is also why I am kind of reluctant of playing Prey 2017 and Metro Exodus.

 

[Morgan_]

I don't like Metro but the original Prey didn't have much to it from what I remember. I would actually say Prey 2017 is the best of the games that came out of the System Shock "child" teams.

Prey had some really good writing and levels. Rolling around and sitting still as a coffee mug to avoid large numbers of enemies only to have to find another way past them once the objective was conpleted was one of the more fun things I did on ps4. Thats me though. I think NuPrey also had the best usage of discoverable audio recordings.

 

[Gizmojunk]

This is also why I am kind of reluctant of playing Prey 2017 and Metro Exodus.

I am in the last area of Prey [2006] —again. I took a small break from Prey to binge Thea 2, and Citizen Kabuto.

I lost interest in Prey 2, in the apartment.

 

[TorontoReign]

I lost interest in Prey 2 in the opening area.

 

[Walpknut]

In Xenoblade 3 they use all the swears except Fuck and instead use weird made up swears where "fuck" would normally be used. Then it gets revealed they are all test tube babies and there is no concept of reproduction either.

Kinda funny considering how horny Xenobalde 2 was. Altho this seems like another game possessed by the ghost of Shinzo Abe, young adults learning the importance of falling in love and reproducing lmao

 

[TorontoReign]

I beat Atom finally now I guess I get to import my guy and get Hex in the next one. I ended up with so much fucking rubles but I was under equipped at the last fight because the game suddenly ended. I just did lots of drugs to compensate for that, threw grenades, and automatic weapons for the win. I will be using the Neutron mod next playthrough and likely doing the raiding path just to keep having fun stuff to do. On to Trudograd. They kept talking about it and I wanna see it.

 

[william dempsey]

Yeah, playing Deus Ex and the System Shock games made the Bioshock games worse to me when i noticed they are just watered down versions.

Watered down ? Dumbed down ? Console friendly ? I think most PC gamers knew it was coming. Pillows of Modernity , a throwback to Icewind Dale or Ballbags Gate was way overhyped but like many others I bought it. Bioshock traded on the name of System Shock.

Some conversations in Deus Ex are revelations mentioning FEMA camps, The Majestic 12 and other forces of shadiness. But to top it all ' The Gray Death ' seems so relevant.

I think many people are experiencing the been there, done that, what's new syndrome.

Maybe it's the Havana syndrome. Havana load of games leads to boredom. Sorry I won't HAARP on.

Shirkers of all nations unite and do fuck all.

 

[TorontoReign]

OH BOY! Almost 70 percent off! Oh wait this old ass game is still 59.99 normally. PLEASE SEGA GO FUCK YOURSELF. They are the Nintendo of game prices.

 

[william dempsey]

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OH BOY! Almost 70 percent off! Oh wait this old ass game is still 59.99 normally. PLEASE SEGA GO FUCK YOURSELF. They are the Nintendo of game prices.

I thought the post above yours had caustic wit, puns and sarcasm but no rad pfffttt. You lot groom people, kissing their arses, liking and awarding rads. Then a week or 2 later, it's all fuck off and die Limey fucker

 

[TorontoReign]

I don't entirely hate anybody here. Even people that annoy me occasionally like yourself I will upvote if you say something I agree with. I also am getting more and more stingy with my upvotes since I have been fairly liberal with them in the past. I don't want you to die I want you to do better.


Trudograd is kinda worrying me I need @Alphons to advise me on potential pitfalls.

 

[william dempsey]

I don't entirely hate anybody here. Even people that annoy me occasionally like yourself I will upvote if you say something I agree with. I also am getting more and more stingy with my upvotes since I have been fairly liberal with them in the past. I don't want you to die I want you to do better.


Trudograd is kinda worrying me I need @Alphons to advise me on potential pitfalls.

In every walk of life there is a pecking order, Grasshopper. I thought I annoyed people constantly, consistently. ffs I am losing my touch.
I have no idea what up or downvoting effects. At first on here I thought I would definitely get a lil spam can to show off with lol. But that is the preserve of the elite. But in these times of mass hysteria it makes the likes of me want to be very un PC.

You Yank pussy cloths cannot play a game without guides, walkthroughs and or cheats ! This phenomena has grown. I think the cheats that briefly show a game on hard difficulty then proceed to inflict damage and take damage on what can only be piss easy mode whilst doing Youtube playthroughs are total cunts, who I laugh at. (joking of course, don't go into one and think I am a Yank hater.

 

[TorontoReign]

In every walk of life there is a pecking order, Grasshopper. I thought I annoyed people constantly, consistently. ffs I am losing my touch.
I have no idea what up or downvoting effects. At first on here I thought I would definitely get a lil spam can to show off with lol. But that is the preserve of the elite. But in these times of mass hysteria it makes the likes of me want to be very un PC.

You Yank pussy cloths cannot play a game without guides, walkthroughs and or cheats ! This phenomena has grown. I think the cheats that briefly show a game on hard difficulty then proceed to inflict damage and take damage on what can only be piss easy mode whilst doing Youtube playthroughs are total cunts, who I laugh at. (joking of course, don't go into one and think I am a Yank hater.

No I can play a game without a guide. But Atom was designed for grinding due to low amounts of quest which I did not feel like doing on my first playthrough due to backlog. I wanna make sure transferring over this character is not going to have some unforeseen pitfall. I already did it but it is early enough to restart if it would be better to play a new character.

 

[Walpknut]

Just bought Souls Hackers 2, haven't beaten Xenoblade 3 yeat and PokemonScarlet is coming out in November, followed by Pentiment and I haven't even reduced a fraction of my backlog....

 

[Jogre]

The Tribunal DLC really wrecks the flow of Morrowind huh?

Like Base game Morrowind is really expertly designed once you reach Balmora, as it slowly guides you through content that will always be roughly the right level for your character, and even gives you long side quest breaks where Caius tells you to go work on your identity at the Mage's or Fighter's Guild. You explore more and more of the island, reaching the Ashlander Tribes, and eventually find your way to Dagoth Ur.

Meanwhile if you've got Tribunal, then as soon as you go to sleep in a city, Dark Brotherhood assasins.

The entire progression gets completely thrown out the window, because there's now a sense of urgency: There's literally a price on your head, and when you arrive at Mournhold you're immediately sucked into intrigue about the future of Morrowind. The whole "Take it at your own pace" atmosphere the game built up just fucks right off. Hell, you quite literally will not stop being pursued by Assasins until you go to Mournhold.

What makes it all worse is that the Dark Brotherhood Assasins are Level Scaled, whereas the rest of Mournhold isn't (Presumably because they realised having a Dark Brotherhood assasin at his full power level as soon as you sleep would mean permalocking New Game players out of the game), which leads to this weird disconnect where you can basically kill an entire room of elite assasins with no effort whatsoever at Level 1, but Goblins are one-shotting you.

They could have designed this DLC so much better. They could have made it so the Assasins only show up at certain levels, when players will likely be ready to deal with most creatures in Mournhold, because having to go to a city, then immediately leave again because you're not at the correct level for the content is extremely unsatisfiying.

 

[Traplord209]

The Tribunal DLC really wrecks the flow of Morrowind huh?

Like Base game Morrowind is really expertly designed once you reach Balmora, as it slowly guides you through content that will always be roughly the right level for your character, and even gives you long side quest breaks where Caius tells you to go work on your identity at the Mage's or Fighter's Guild. You explore more and more of the island, reaching the Ashlander Tribes, and eventually find your way to Dagoth Ur.

Meanwhile if you've got Tribunal, then as soon as you go to sleep in a city, Dark Brotherhood assasins.

The entire progression gets completely thrown out the window, because there's now a sense of urgency: There's literally a price on your head, and when you arrive at Mournhold you're immediately sucked into intrigue about the future of Morrowind. The whole "Take it at your own pace" atmosphere the game built up just fucks right off. Hell, you quite literally will not stop being pursued by Assasins until you go to Mournhold.

What makes it all worse is that the Dark Brotherhood Assasins are Level Scaled, whereas the rest of Mournhold isn't (Presumably because they realised having a Dark Brotherhood assasin at his full power level as soon as you sleep would mean permalocking New Game players out of the game), which leads to this weird disconnect where you can basically kill an entire room of elite assasins with no effort whatsoever at Level 1, but Goblins are one-shotting you.

They could have designed this DLC so much better. They could have made it so the Assasins only show up at certain levels, when players will likely be ready to deal with most creatures in Mournhold, because having to go to a city, then immediately leave again because you're not at the correct level for the content is extremely unsatisfiying.

I totally agree. It's almost designed as if you're meant to complete literally everything in the base game, and THEN install it only after you're done. In fact I think that is how it was designed. To be honest, as much as I've always loved Morrowind, it has so many issues in general with game progression that it's really a pain to replay it nowadays.

 

[TorontoReign]

The Tribunal DLC really wrecks the flow of Morrowind huh?

Like Base game Morrowind is really expertly designed once you reach Balmora, as it slowly guides you through content that will always be roughly the right level for your character, and even gives you long side quest breaks where Caius tells you to go work on your identity at the Mage's or Fighter's Guild. You explore more and more of the island, reaching the Ashlander Tribes, and eventually find your way to Dagoth Ur.

Meanwhile if you've got Tribunal, then as soon as you go to sleep in a city, Dark Brotherhood assasins.

The entire progression gets completely thrown out the window, because there's now a sense of urgency: There's literally a price on your head, and when you arrive at Mournhold you're immediately sucked into intrigue about the future of Morrowind. The whole "Take it at your own pace" atmosphere the game built up just fucks right off. Hell, you quite literally will not stop being pursued by Assasins until you go to Mournhold.

What makes it all worse is that the Dark Brotherhood Assasins are Level Scaled, whereas the rest of Mournhold isn't (Presumably because they realised having a Dark Brotherhood assasin at his full power level as soon as you sleep would mean permalocking New Game players out of the game), which leads to this weird disconnect where you can basically kill an entire room of elite assasins with no effort whatsoever at Level 1, but Goblins are one-shotting you.

They could have designed this DLC so much better. They could have made it so the Assasins only show up at certain levels, when players will likely be ready to deal with most creatures in Mournhold, because having to go to a city, then immediately leave again because you're not at the correct level for the content is extremely unsatisfiying.

Real bad. The sewers are retarded.