What are you playing at the moment?

[souljacker]

It is simultaneously really really dull and also absolutely hilarious. I hate it but also really like it. The motorbike is quite good. Bit like the Mad Max game but not actually good.

I'm strangely desperate to play it now.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'm playing Ancient Enemy, a card battler with a load of tactical depth. It's like a cross between Slay the Spire and Solitaire. I bet Crispy would like it.

 

[8ball]

It is simultaneously really really dull and also absolutely hilarious. I hate it but also really like it. The motorbike is quite good. Bit like the Mad Max game but not actually good.

I did enjoy the Mad Max game.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I did enjoy the Mad Max game.

It was decent, lovely game to play but would have benefited from car cashes being part of the plot more and no weird romance plot tacked on.

Very visually satisfying though. Great photo editor and storms

 

[fucthest8]

Horizon Forbidden West. Since June.
It absolutely fulfills the "more of the same please but with different bits that are better" requirements. I am deeply engaged, it's so satisfying. Also, best facial animations I've seen yet, conversations are the more entertaining for it. Brilliant.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I'm playing Ancient Enemy, a card battler with a load of tactical depth. It's like a cross between Slay the Spire and Solitaire. I bet Crispy would like it.

...and No Mans Sky. They keep adding ace stuff.

 

[Chz]

Horizon Forbidden West. Since June.
It absolutely fulfills the "more of the same please but with different bits that are better" requirements. I am deeply engaged, it's so satisfying. Also, best facial animations I've seen yet, conversations are the more entertaining for it. Brilliant.

I think that means I can skip it. I found version 1 technically excellent, but mind-shatteringly dull and the protagonist unbelievably annoying.

 

[Orang Utan]

Stray. Kinda boring but nice seeing cats being cats.

 

[BristolEcho]

It's taken a while, but I sort of got into Red Dead 2 this weekend. I do find it slow at times and I definitely need to spend some time building up money for resources. I've gone a bit more hardcore recently robbing people when I can and I'm going to target the oil wagons. Also need to hunt some ducks so that I can make fire arrows and fire bombs as they are fun.

I probably prefer a more linear game these days as I don't have time do dull tasks like fishing for food in a game, but I can appreciate the game.

The controls are a bit annoying too, the amount of times I've nearly shot someone by accident.......

 

[Chz]

The controls are a bit annoying too, the amount of times I've nearly shot someone by accident.......

That was honestly the final straw for me. I could deal with it being a bit slow, and a bit over-complicated, but fighting the controls the whole way was what made me pack it away.

 

[BristolEcho]

That was honestly the final straw for me. I could deal with it being a bit slow, and a bit over-complicated, but fighting the controls the whole way was what made me pack it away.

Glad it's not just me. I hate the items menu too. Also no keyboard shortcut for quick save. So much right, but a lot that could improve the experience.

 

[tommers]

Thought I'd play the new immortal empires thing in TW Warhammer 3. Unfortunately my copy of that is on game pass, and my copies of 1&2 are on steam... So no dice. Need to pay 50 quid to buy it on steam. bit annoying

 

[ohmyliver]

Playing Titanfall 2. It's very good.

 

[ohmyliver]

Finished it now, and it was so good I watched all of the credits sequence.

 

[magneze]

It's a great game - my only wish were that it was longer!

 

[8ball]

Dying Light (the original, not the sequel).

On hard mode, which makes it more of a horror game.

 

[8ball]

Finished it now, and it was so good I watched all of the credits sequence.

Mostly a multiplayer thing, but the single-player campaign was really good, I thought.

 

[Chz]

Dying Light (the original, not the sequel).

On hard mode, which makes it more of a horror game.

There's a bit in the middle where it's truly a fun game, but both the beginning and the end suck balls.

 

[8ball]

There's a bit in the middle where it's truly a fun game, but both the beginning and the end suck balls.

I enjoyed the beginning. Wouldn’t be surprised if I need to drop it normal difficulty for some bits later on.

 

[Chz]

I found it just takes too long to unlock the things that make the game really fun. You're 3/4s of the way through the story before you have the grapple unlocked.

 

[tommers]

I liked Dying Light but yeah, that's true. God knows why they leave it so long.

 

[8ball]

I liked Dying Light but yeah, that's true. God knows why they leave it so long.

Maybe because if they put it in really early people would ignore learning a lot of the parkour elements which are actually pretty vital.

 

[Chz]

Maybe because if they put it in really early people would ignore learning a lot of the parkour elements which are actually pretty vital.

No, at the beginning you're even shit at the parkour bits until you unlock a few things. That's what's bullshit about it. DL2 is a bit better in this respect, but it still gates a lot of things behind stamina upgrades. I get that they want to gate some things, but the "Oops, you only have enough stamina to climb 90% of the way up and fall off" is a shit way to do it.

 

[tommers]

Maybe because if they put it in really early people would ignore learning a lot of the parkour elements which are actually pretty vital.

I can't remember enough about it tbh.

 

[8ball]

No, at the beginning you're even shit at the parkour bits until you unlock a few things. That's what's bullshit about it. DL2 is a bit better in this respect, but it still gates a lot of things behind stamina upgrades. I get that they want to gate some things, but the "Oops, you only have enough stamina to climb 90% of the way up and fall off" is a shit way to do it.

Yeah, but that’s to break you in gently to the parkour business, which is a pretty unusual feature. It’s like an ongoing tutorial.

I got it cheap in that “just before the sequel comes out” type sales they have and am really enjoying it.

I got quite some way through and was feeling a little bit super-soldiery so restarted on hard, which is much more “floor is lava” and a lot less “power fantasy”.

I haven’t had literal problems with stamina when climbing - dunno if that’s something that was patched - I gather there were a lot of updates cf the original release.

 

[Chz]

No, it's DL2 with the stamina nonsense. It's the one way it's worse than its predecessor. That and the actual zombies aren't really scary any more - the first DL was a lot more intense at night.

 

[ohmyliver]

Mostly a multiplayer thing, but the single-player campaign was really good, I thought.

yeah I meant the single player campaign, It was fun, had some neat levels (like the one where you flip between different times in the same geographic location), and I wished it was slightly longer.

I found the parkour bits sometimes frustrating, so haven't tried the mulitplayer, as I presume that being good at that is the key to being able to play

 

[8ball]

yeah I meant the single player campaign, It was fun, had some neat levels (like the one where you flip between different times in the same geographic location), and I wished it was slightly longer.

I found the parkour bits sometimes frustrating, so haven't tried the mulitplayer, as I presume that being good at that is the key to being able to play

Oh yeah, I expect that must be a really harsh learning curve - I’ve seen footage of people playing and it’s mental.

 

[rekil]

If I ever have time to play anything I play Dayz. It has been vastly improved since it came out and gets bug fixes etc every few months. It can be infuriating but can also be very funny. Two streamers were running around in end game gear crooked copping one of the maps the other day.

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[Artaxerxes]

Wildermyth

Quite cute little procedural/AI driven DnD simulator.