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Started a new game of Stardew Valley. Figure I'll play it for a week or so to give time for the first big patch for Torment to come out, and then switch to that.

I played some left 4 dead 2 because i realized that i had never finished the cold stream campaign! apparently i've somehow become a completionist, because i had to finish it.

It's a good thing i did it single player because i always forget how utterly awful i am at this game. Sorry for stabbing you and then falling off of a bridge, coach.

More playing xcom 2's long war 2 mod. More me getting my *** kicked. I lost 2 campaigns today both when i tried supply raid. In the first case i got discovered at a bad time and revealed. In the other there was only maybe 4-5 guys left of probably 40+ or more and i had no technicals to lower their numbers easily.

I picked up Resident Evil 7 yesterday and it does not disappoint. Normally not a big fan of horror, but this game does it quite well, giving off an awesome Evil Dead vibe that the creators thankfully acknowledged with an appropriate "GROOVY" quote at the right moment.

This should keep me occupied until next Tuesday when Wildlands is released.

River City Ransom: Underground. I'm having fun. Like the game that inspired it, I'm having a little trouble figuring out exactly what to do and where to go, but its kind of a blast plowing through hordes of thugs and liberating them of their lunch money.

Looks like I was wrong about Resident Evil 7, beat it yesterday. Bit miffed that I've gunned through it in two days, but still overall a good game and while a bit on the short side, it doesn't drag on too long like Alien Isolation did.

 BrookM wrote:
Looks like I was wrong about Resident Evil 7, beat it yesterday. Bit miffed that I've gunned through it in two days, but still overall a good game and while a bit on the short side, it doesn't drag on too long like Alien Isolation did.

Try some of the DLC. Most of it isn't long, but it adds some cool "filler" moments that tie up some of the other character's loose ends.

Yeah, I am definitely picking up the season pass after tomorrow, as I'm itching to pop more of those tapes in and see what else there is to this all.

Picked up Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4 exclusive) a few days ago.

So far (3 HRS in) it is fantastic! Gameplay is fun, story is great so far, and its quite interesting. The graphics are pretty great as well, and that coming from someone with a pretty high end PC.

mfranks985 wrote:
Picked up Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4 exclusive) a few days ago.

So far (3 HRS in) it is fantastic! Gameplay is fun, story is great so far, and its quite interesting. The graphics are pretty great as well, and that coming from someone with a pretty high end PC.

I've heard nothing but good things about this game. It's joining my queue of games to play. (After Bioshock Collection, then Shadows of Mordor)

Zelda: BotW on Switch.

mfranks985 wrote:
Picked up Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4 exclusive) a few days ago.

So far (3 HRS in) it is fantastic! Gameplay is fun, story is great so far, and its quite interesting. The graphics are pretty great as well, and that coming from someone with a pretty high end PC.

Agreed! Amazing game so far.

Finally getting back into Kerbal Space Program. So fun designing weird contraptions and seeing if they fly or not!

Currently I am playing the beta release version of Battle Brothers.
The new end game events do add some needed end gams content but they could certainly do with some tweaking.

Pre-loading Wildlands right now, 24 hrs to go until it unlocks for this region, can't wait!

I got the demo for the division this weekend to check it out, ended up buying the whole thing. Enjoying it so far but I'm only like level 8.

Got Blood Bowl II on Steam yesterday as a way to practice for RL Blood Bowl games. I've found that even when things go horribly wrong on the tabletop, it's much, much less aggravating than when electronic RNG decides to give you skulls on your block dice every time.

Except for that one game where I scored 9 casualties on a human team and basically retired them, seeing as they suffered 2 deaths and several negative stat modifiers.

Ghost Recon Wildlands. Been playing since Saturday and since Monday with my bezt bud. It's a game made for co-op and as far as we know we've been having a blast. Just some minor bugs, nothing serious and easily fixable.

Is there character customization in Wildlands? I think there is because I've seen a bunch of YouTubers playing with different character models. And how conducive is it to solo play?

Character customisation is quite extensive. You can pick a gender, skintone, eye colour, hair colour and style, tattoos, clothing etc. And ingame, aside from gender and chosen face, you can change anything you want in terms of clothing, face paint and whatnot as much as you like on the fly.

Been playing it myself a bit now, only played through the first region to unlock the rest of the map, waiting on my brother's account to unlock again, which Ubisoft had taken away from him after they decided it was pirated or hacked, due to the amount of times he had to reinitialise the files yesterday, which was at their suggestion no less.. Day One release problems indeed.

So far I've just been collecting medals, certain weapon upgrades and hitting convoys and whatnot, levelling up my Ghost so that I won't be as useless as I was during the open beta. While my brother has a thing for sniping and drone recon, I've decided to go with up close and personal, going for maxed out stamina, silent running, improved hip-firing and whatever else I need in case I'm in an enemy camp and it all goes ploin shaped. Having found the SPAS 12 certainly helps.

ICEY. Oh my god. I did not expect this game to be what it is. Stanley Parabel the chinese fighting/beat 'em up game with lovecraft elements. Beware, if you som to beat this game then you're playing it wrong and will disslike it.

DESYNC. It's like oldschool DOOM on constant HURT ME PLENTY/ULTRA VIOLENCE. And cyber drugs. Pretty cool, actually

Also played some more Grim Dawn and Morrowind, but stuff's getting way too repetitive soon :(

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Started a new game of Stardew Valley. Figure I'll play it for a week or so to give time for the first big patch for Torment to come out, and then switch to that.

I just downloaded that to start playing. Been looking forward to that one for a long time now. Glad it's finally out.

Currently installing all the DLC for Dragon Age Inquisition. This is not what I needed a week before the Andromeda trial starts, but when it's £8 in the Xbox store for over £30 of DLC, I can't exactly say no! Even if I don't get through it all now, I plan a more complete run over the summer anyway, so I may just take my completed save out of retirement for Trespasser, and leave the others for later.

 War Kitten wrote:
Is there character customization in Wildlands? I think there is because I've seen a bunch of YouTubers playing with different character models. And how conducive is it to solo play?

There's quite some customisation in the game. But not extremely extensive. Most variance is found in clothes.

The game is perfectly made for co-op and is great fun played that way. In Solo play it's okay, but the AI teammates are quite... dumb as they usually do nothing by themselves unless you actually tell them to shoot.

So the best experience you'll get is with 1 or more friends, or join an open lobby.

Wildlands is best played with friends, not randoms. That said, still waiting on my brother to get his game going (at least they gave him his account back), but from the look of things, we'll be waiting for Ubisoft to release a patch or something. :(

I'm currently alternating between Medieval 2 Total War, my newest playthrough of Final Fantasy VII and Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Though my current thought process whilst playing Wildlands is "Clear and Present Danger" simulator

EDIT: Okay, why doesn't the woolly hat in Ghost Recon come in white? You're ruining my snow camo outfit here!

I've been playing the Bretonnians in Total War. It started off well, but it's kinda gone horrendously wrong now that chaos has shown up. The Empire were horrendously incompetent and have just flattened, without even confederating.

And now, I've got pretty much no income and a chaos incursion incoming. The good news is, I think I can just simply fight my way through to the chaos wastes and win the game, as the whole Chivalry thing reached 1000 super easily.

Wildlands finally managed to get itself fixed for my brother, so we played it along with a friend in coop for a little over two hours, going through the first section of the game and hitting convoys along the way, all in all good fun, certainly the way this game is meant to be played.

I finally started playing through Tyranny and it's pretty awesome. I'm cuirous though, I might want to restart and go full rebellion. It's a very cool spinn on the standard rpg formula.