I am currently playing Pokemon Black. Pokemon Go was my gateway. Surprisingly, my knowledge of various editions from D&D is useful.

As my gaming laptop is pressed into service as a homework platform (oh, the indignity!) nightly, I've started playing Skyrim SE on my Xbox1.

Very pretty game, but tough to maintain my Cyber-Knight code of chivalry/Lawful Good alignment with these quest choices!

Played and enjoyed Jotun but wasn't into the boss grind. Too many games imitating Dark Souls I think (which I love but not every game needs to be designed that way). Also played through Ronin which I liked but also burnt out on before the end.

Started playing Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime which is a great couch co-op game to play with the gf.

Quote from: Voros;944025Played and enjoyed Jotun but wasn't into the boss grind.

I am sorely tempted to get this every time it goes on sale. What did you like about it? How's gameplay? What do you mean by "boss grind"?

What I liked about it: the art design, music, variety of levels, exploration

Gameplay: solid not exceptional, but sometimes your character is so small on the screen you lose track of where you are

Boss grind: in the main you are fighting bosses instead of loads of trash mobs. You're supposed to learn their patterns to defeat them, probably dying a few times to do so. Now I generally suck at video games so YMMV but the last two bosses are RNGs which makes pattern prediction really difficult. Once I've died innumerable times to a boss I start to l start to lose interest due to the repetition. I don't doubt your probably better at video games compared to me so that probably won't be an issue for you.

Quote from: Voros;944125I don't doubt your probably better at video games compared to me so that probably won't be an issue for you.

Actually, I suck.

Quote from: The Butcher;939656Oh yeah, I gotta reinstall D3 and get the expansion for this one. Necromancer FTW!

Just did.

Bear in mind that I only did play through vanilla D3 once, with the Barbarian. It was a fun game as long as I didn't think too hard about the plot or the world-building; it hit the right gameplay and aesthetic notes for me. Big beefy berserker cleaves and crushes his way through crowds of demons and undead, what's not to love?

Other than, y'know, the plot that makes zero sense, the voice acting that vacillates between stilted and gloriously hammy, the Acts changing location for no particular reason, the NPCs being impossible to care about either way (except for the followers, I admit), the class line-up (screw the Demon Hunter and the Witch Doctor), and last but not least, one of the worst instances of woman-in-refrigerator I have ever seem.

Sometimes I hate being a nerd and caring about this shit, but such is life and we all have our burdens to bear.

While those things still grind my gears (and even more so after a recent playthrough of the light-hearted, no-frills, very effective Diablo clone, Torchlight 2) I was actually pleasantly surprised to see that Act V (so far) despite working with the nonsensical canon of the franchise, makes at least a token effort to feel like a world.

How so? Events. Which is a code word for timed side quests you'll actually give a shit about. See, on my first (only) playthrough, I really enjoyed Act III because there was this snowed-in fortress in the middle if nowhere getting overrun by armies of demons and you holed up with a band of survivors — wounded soldiers, infirm elders, women, children — and for the first time in the game you had the very real sensation that the world is coming to an end. I was so inspired by the apocalyptic urgency of it all that I started a WFRP campaign using the very premise shortly after.

Act V uses Events to convey this. Houses getting looted, plotters killing the city's rulers under the cover of chaos, a ghost asking you to kill the undead desecrating her family crypt, and the excellent follower side quests (the Scoundrel wants to spring his brother out of jail and the Templar wants to investigate the corruption within his order). They lend real depth to the world. I don't mind a little railroading in videogames, but core D3 would be a lot easier to care about if the other Acts had had the same loving worldbuilding invested into them.

Also, I wanna run WFRP again. Maybe Shadow of the Demon Lord.

Been playing Dominions 4 these last few years. Loads of fun, to my knowledge it's the best multiplayer strategy game in existence, and it's well suited to my lifestyle, since most games work out having about a turn per day. I'm even doing AARs.

For the singleplayer experience I prefer the fairly mainstream Paradox Interactive games. I've had years of good fun with Crusader Kings 2, and I've got high hopes for Stellaris with a few more updates. Also considered getting the new Hearts of Iron recently, but have yet to actually do so.

Other than that I've been having some fun with the new DOOM game, which has done a good job of bringing back the feel of the old shooters I used to play in high school LAN parties, but with modern graphics and stuff.

I've been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera over the weekend.

Short version: it sucks bad.

I think I got at least halfway done with it and I just don't care to finish it.  I'm uninstalling it as soon as I get off work. It's Planescape: Torment - The Bad Parts version, and I regret that I paid full price for it.

Still playing DoA5: LR;).
Short version: the fighting system is excellent. And who doesn't love countering:D?

I played Dues Ex: The Fall a few times, seeing as its fucking incomplete.  I was going to play Mankind Divided, but the damn thing won't run on my gaming machine for some reason.. I'm wondering if my video card is dying or something... seeing I couldn't run the director's edition of Human Revolution either.

So... back to Warframe and Army of Two:Devil's Cartel I guess?

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and The Last Guardian.

Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;949590I've been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera over the weekend.

Short version: it sucks bad.

That's a bummer.  I've got it sitting on my Steam wishlist, waiting for a sale.  (...and for my endless backlog of games to be cleared...)  What's the nutshell version of what's wrong with it, for someone who's never played Planescape: Torment?

Quote from: nDervish;949727That's a bummer.  I've got it sitting on my Steam wishlist, waiting for a sale.  (...and for my endless backlog of games to be cleared...)  What's the nutshell version of what's wrong with it, for someone who's never played Planescape: Torment?

This is all my own opinion, of course, but:

1. The combat is actively terrible.  There's not much of it, but when it does show up it's anti-fun.
2. The side quests aren't interesting, and almost seem like an afterthought.  Add to that the fact the game doesn't give you enough feedback to make your choices well, so I found myself quicksaving before more than one conversation and just clicking the
different options, and reloading till I got the result I wanted.  This is not my favorite way to play a game.
3. The companion characters are neither memorable or interesting.

I'm sure there are others I could come up with, but these are really the root of my problem.  In many ways it's just a bad knockoff of a game I loved years ago.

Plus, I don't like the Numenera setting, but if the game was better I could have ignored that.

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