I got Mordheim City of the Damned for 75% off and the Shadowrun DLC for a pittance.

Loving the hell out of both of them.  But Shadowrun keeps crashing when I try to record it, which is really weird.

I finally got my grubby mits on Persona 5, so I've been hanging out with anime high schoolers every night for the past week.

Well my self I have been playing valkyria chronicles 3 thanks to A fan patch and its like A dream come true.
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Quote from: sincerely;977205I finally got my grubby mits on Persona 5, so I've been hanging out with anime high schoolers every night for the past week.

Yeah when I get around to playing that my life will cease to exist.

Playing some old games that I skipped back in the day:

Silent Hill 2 - Great graphics for the time that overall hold up pretty well. However, it's at its heart just a walking simulator. I liked the creepy visuals and psycho-drama, but as a game, I found it to be extremely boring with little meaningful challenge. When Sean Malstrom raged about "hardcore games" being much easier than "casual games," this is the sort of game he was talking about.

Project Gotham Racing 2 - Very fun arcade racer. It is too bad they aren't making these any more. One of the reasons I am playing this is to unlock a bunch of cars, as the only games my wife will play with me are racing games, and the PS4 has few to none that have her favorite cars (Cooper Mini, VW Bug, etc...) and split-screen play.

Thief: Deadly Shadows - With how badly Thi4f has been panned, I decided to see if I'd enjoy the 3rd game in the series. It's not by Looking Glass, but so far, I feel it does justice to the original games and have been enjoying it a lot. One of the things I liked about stealth games is they aren't over in 6 hours due to you not being able to charge through the scenery at breakneck pace, machine-gunning everyone you see.

I picked up X-Com: Enemy Within during one of the many summer sales that happened. I do OK until I get one of the special Council missions and then one of my two good squads gets riggity wrecked. But I like the game quite a lot.

Quote from: Michael Gray;978100I picked up X-Com: Enemy Within during one of the many summer sales that happened. I do OK until I get one of the special Council missions and then one of my two good squads gets riggity wrecked. But I like the game quite a lot.

Always remember: X-COM (the game) hates you and wants you to fail.

Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;978155Always remember: X-COM (the game) hates you and wants you to fail.

Yup. I feel like managing panic and only having one response squad makes it pretty rough compared to the original. I also can't just send rookies out holding primed grenades to take one for the team. That plus mando Council missions that are generally a deathtrap make it seem that much harder. Or maybe I just played the original so much it became somewhat rote.

Quote from: Michael Gray;978168Yup. I feel like managing panic and only having one response squad makes it pretty rough compared to the original. I also can't just send rookies out holding primed grenades to take one for the team. That plus mando Council missions that are generally a deathtrap make it seem that much harder. Or maybe I just played the original so much it became somewhat rote.

I'd say it's the latter the old games are hard as balls coming from A guy who's still playing the originals.

XCOM2 The Chosen War DLC has been pretty cool so far.

Trion Rift quit working on our machines after a Windows 10 update. So I'm playing (from GOG) the original Far Cry and Torchlight. Once my wife gets caught up at the lab, we'll be playing 2-player Torchlight 2.

Torchlight is a nice little enjoyable time killer. Simple but entertaining when you want to "kill monsters" for a while.

I picked up a roleplaying game for our Xbox called Pillars of Eternity but I'm not able to ever get a chance to play it. We have one TV in our household and my wife and kids monopolize it so I either have to wait until they go to bed or play when they are out and I'm home. I feel like a fool ever buying Xbox games.

I have been able to play Mario and Rabbids which is a XCom like game for the Nintendo Switch. It's a lot of fun and the whole family can watch/play together. I kind of want every game on the Switch so I'm able to play.

The Walking Dead, season two. Great narrative game, good character stuff, but it's bleak as hell.

Red Faction: Armageddon. Also bleak as hell, and without much in the way of character stuff, but you get to blow shit up, which takes the edge off a bit.

Looking forward to the next chapter of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, which hits the sweet spot for me in regards to character stuff and bleakness.

I've finished Wizardry 6, in the process of playing Wizardry 7, and have Wizardry 8 on tap.  I played 7 long ago, multiple times, and got hopelessly stuck each time, even with a clue book.  I don't have the patience anymore for that kind of mapping and exhaustive exploration of every widget you find with every oddball place there is to try to use it.  Plus, keeping enough save games archived to not have to start over.  So this tour is with the kind of mostly complete internet hints that weren't available when I tried it the first time.  I'm half playing the game, half tourist seeing under the hood the things that drove me crazy long ago.

Quote from: Michael Gray;978168Yup. I feel like managing panic and only having one response squad makes it pretty rough compared to the original. I also can't just send rookies out holding primed grenades to take one for the team. That plus mando Council missions that are generally a deathtrap make it seem that much harder. Or maybe I just played the original so much it became somewhat rote.

I dunno, I'm sensing a touch of sequel-itis here. I haven't tried the expansion (yet), the XCOM2 was a chore to play through once...so many high hit point bad guys, cover just about useless as they can just take the hits as they walk up and crush your face. The primary strategy is just load up on grenades (and EMP 'nades) and just scorch your way through the hordes. The original explained the alien tactics a bit but...I don't get what they're doing in the sequel even after beating it.

Quote from: Doom;992149I dunno, I'm sensing a touch of sequel-itis here. I haven't tried the expansion (yet), the XCOM2 was a chore to play through once...so many high hit point bad guys, cover just about useless as they can just take the hits as they walk up and crush your face. The primary strategy is just load up on grenades (and EMP 'nades) and just scorch your way through the hordes. The original explained the alien tactics a bit but...I don't get what they're doing in the sequel even after beating it.

The War of the Chosen is still the same base game as XCOM2. The campaign flows basically the same (I have not completed the whole thing yet but so far the flow is the same). What really added is some new hero classes for both your side and the alien side. The Chosen are the aliens heros and they can be a pain in the ass. They show up randomly to screw with you on missions.  There is a new general enemy that can be on some missions. The Lost are basically zombies but on missions they mess with the aliens and the XCOM soldiers. The retaliation missions are cooler now as the resistance folks have their own soldiers so it feels like are really helping a resistance base now.