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Prey. About half way done Psychotomrics. This game is super fun. Really starting to amp up the difficulty now. Definitely not touching psi powers since it seems like shmuck bait.

 Gamgee wrote:
Prey. About half way done Psychotomrics. This game is super fun. Really starting to amp up the difficulty now. Definitely not touching psi powers since it seems like shmuck bait.

The ending is fantastic. Saw the whole playthrough minus a few parts). I think you'll really love it. Game of the year winner for sure.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Prey. About half way done Psychotomrics. This game is super fun. Really starting to amp up the difficulty now. Definitely not touching psi powers since it seems like shmuck bait.

The ending is fantastic. Saw the whole playthrough minus a few parts). I think you'll really love it. Game of the year winner for sure.

I've played like 5 game of the year winners this year. Only one will survive... I mean win. This year is s imply fantastic for games. So far my prime contenders are Persona, Nier, and Prey. As fun as HZD is it didn't hook me anywhere near as much as these three. I still think it's a fantastic game, but these were all just that much more interesting. One game I don't think should win game of the year is the new Zelda. No way man, most overrated rpg in the last decade. Is it good? Yeah, but it really doesn't have much interesting content to do but wander around watching your weapons break. Terrible acting and story don't help either. It just didn't have the variety of content on offer like Yakuza 0 it just felt like this big empty nothing with annoying weapons breaking every 2 micro seconds.

Even my friend who played it thinks its good but nowhere near the hype. As for Yakuza 0 it has fantastic gameplay, characters, and some of the best facial animations around. Still I think its story and limited budget really hurt it as a GOTY contender. A great game, but if I was to recommend only one to someone it wouldn't be up there from this year.

And many many more cool games coming out too.

Well there is more than one category. If you did horror it'd compete with RE 7 and probably win though RE 7 was a great reboot. If it went sci-fi it'd compete with mass effect: andromeda and win without even trying. Far as story i think it's one of the better stories i've seen in a good game since deus ex human revolution. It could also probably do best fps.

See my thing is this. I don't expect it to beat all games in every category it takes place but merely to win at least one in a category if not many more.

I enjoyed Wolfenstien the New Order a lot. I don't know if I like Prey more than it. That is still an fps I always think about even years later. There might be best of a genre awards, but there is only one game of the year. That's how I see it anyways.

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
They just released some lovely new free portraits for Stellaris! and i mean it when i say lovely, the larva portrait is utterly pretty as heck.

I feel kind of dumb asking this, but what is Stellaris? I've heard it's name before, and I've seen a bit of gameplay but what's the actual goal of the game? What do you spend most of your time doing?

I'm bad at this sort of thing, but it's basically at its core a well made space 4x. you explore systems, colonize planets, build fleets and so on. You can win by conquering the galaxy, uniting it politically, and similar. the basic game itself isn't revolutionary, just a well made example of the genre.

the charm for me lies in the ways you can customize your empire; you can make yourself a clan of honorable warrior penguins, and end up in a galaxy filled with plants that want to exterminate all xenos, and more. there's a lot of nods to classic science fiction, and to warhammer 40k as well.

i hope that helps a bit

Kentucky Route Zero.. what is this, I don't even..?

I was peer pressured into playing Heroes of the Storm again today for this stupid Nexus Challenge thing.

Suffered through it all to get my precious 10 overwatch loot boxes.

Naturally I didn't get a single thing of note out of the aforementioned boxes.

Endless Space 2 as the Vodyani. Think of a bunch of religious war-mongerers that suck the life out of their enemies to increase their population and make more ark ships and you basically have their faction in a nut shell. Ark ships are giant ships they live on rather than colonizing planets.

Endless Space 2 is a 4X game by the great creators of the Endless series.

The Uncharted collection on PS4. Finished the original game, "Drake's Fortune", and onto the second, "Among Thieves".

It's a series I like a lot, although the swing bars sections in this one have me cursing. At least they're not that common. the camera angles can sometimes make things harder, I've lost count of the number of times I think I've pulled off the jump, only to miss my target as I suddenly seem to have jumped at 45° to where I thought I was going, and I am so sick of that 'falling to your death' animation now - for both of the above reasons.

Still, I like the fact that, for this one, they start the story somewhere near the middle, Nathan having been shot and slumped in a seat on a train, finding out very quickly that 'down' isn't where it should be, and having to climb out, then once you have done so the story flips back to where it all began. Then, just at the point where you have almost forgotten the start of the game, you reach the train station and think "Oh! I know where this is going!".

Still want to finish this one, although for some reason, I'm half remembering it. Must have played it on PS3 some time in the past, but don't remember finishing it - and I'm sure I never played the third one.

Baldur's Gate on iPad. Fun times.

Nidhogg. Somewhat gakky control mapping aside, quite addicting.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind.

Right, I'm officially never leaving that zone till I absolutely have to. Since Beta I've wanted some proper Dark Elf stuff, and yup, nope, never ever leaving it now.

Dang it, I thought you were talking TESIII:Morrowind. I was wondering what zone you were talking about.

Heh, aye, ah, I mean Tamriel Rebuilt map 3.

Baldur's Gate on iPad. Fun times.

Oooo nice, must look that up.

Plague Inc. Fungus for everyone! Yes, even you, Greenland.

Playing Kotor and praying that they eventually make a third game in the series! It's an absolute classic and deserves to be reborn.

I just downloaded ESO Morrowind so I'm gonna be playing through the new stuff for a while now. Made myself a new Warden character, loving my bear pet so far.

 Aetare wrote:
Playing Kotor and praying that they eventually make a third game in the series! It's an absolute classic and deserves to be reborn.

They did it for System Shock - although that was certainly more of a remake than a re-vamp for modern graphics and processor speeds. Not that the modern one is a bad game, I intend on getting it myself having played the demo level. I think that if they can respect the original enough, a remake of KOTOR would be wonderful.

A modern KOTOR with modern graphics, maybe some more modern decisions [Help a gang of drug users and you may get something to save an injured party member - or you may not - or take them out of the equation [lead them into a police sting, or do you take them all on yourselves and just search the bodies?] and some more 'shades of grey' decisions would be wonderful. [No! not whips and leather straps, get your minds out of the gutter. just more decisions in between "+ maximum Light side points", "Gain neither type of points", and "+ maximum dark side points". That's all.]

Picked up Dishonored 2 for my PS4 yesterday, got a few hours in last night. The first game was one of my favorites for the 360, that or FO New Vegas.

It's a good start so far, I'm only playing it on medium difficulty and the mooks are pretty smart. The game is beautiful, of course, they did a great job of building a steampunk dystopia.

 feeder wrote:
Picked up Dishonored 2 for my PS4 yesterday, got a few hours in last night. The first game was one of my favorites for the 360, that or FO New Vegas.

It's a good start so far, I'm only playing it on medium difficulty and the mooks are pretty smart. The game is beautiful, of course, they did a great job of building a steampunk dystopia.

Whats crazy is that they did all of that world building for the game, and also designed it in a way that you can skip so much of it, depending on how you choose to play.

Its got a new Expansion coming too. You'll play as Doud's sidekick, with all sorts of new abilities and such.

 nels1031 wrote:

 feeder wrote:
Picked up Dishonored 2 for my PS4 yesterday, got a few hours in last night. The first game was one of my favorites for the 360, that or FO New Vegas.

It's a good start so far, I'm only playing it on medium difficulty and the mooks are pretty smart. The game is beautiful, of course, they did a great job of building a steampunk dystopia.

Whats crazy is that they did all of that world building for the game, and also designed it in a way that you can skip so much of it, depending on how you choose to play.

Its got a new Expansion coming too. You'll play as Doud's sidekick, with all sorts of new abilities and such.

That sounds fun. I'll probably pick up the PS4 reissue of Dishonored 1 with all the DLC for that included. That should keep me occupied til Far Cry 5 or Last of Us 2 comes up.

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 Aetare wrote:
Playing Kotor and praying that they eventually make a third game in the series! It's an absolute classic and deserves to be reborn.

They did it for System Shock - although that was certainly more of a remake than a re-vamp for modern graphics and processor speeds. Not that the modern one is a bad game, I intend on getting it myself having played the demo level. I think that if they can respect the original enough, a remake of KOTOR would be wonderful.

A modern KOTOR with modern graphics, maybe some more modern decisions [Help a gang of drug users and you may get something to save an injured party member - or you may not - or take them out of the equation [lead them into a police sting, or do you take them all on yourselves and just search the bodies?] and some more 'shades of grey' decisions would be wonderful. [No! not whips and leather straps, get your minds out of the gutter. just more decisions in between "+ maximum Light side points", "Gain neither type of points", and "+ maximum dark side points". That's all.]

Love this; needs an update and I hope one is in the works.

I am trying for the zillionth time to play through pillars of eternity and not just create new characters constantly

Depth. I'm having way too much fun using sea mines on unsuspecting sharks

Uncharted 4.

Just love each new game in the series. The upgrades to what moves Nate can do - now he can slide down a gravel path, dig his heels in at the right moment and he can jump to a ledge.

It's only once you get used to the mechanic that you realise it was missing from the previous games and then you wonder why it wasn't there.

And coupled with that, he can now grapple something like a window. Hook the grapple into the wood of a barred window, pull hard, and it comes out of the frame.

P.S.

Only real thing that disappoints is the lack of sounds on the Naughty Dog logo that accompanied the first three games in the Uncharted series. I really miss that little bit of guitar. Hope they re-instated it for 5.

Edit: And the [Expletive deleted] sliding sections.

I've started messing around with Total War: Warhammer again, and being amused by the fact that in every game so far where I'm not the Empire, the entire Empire gets burned to the ground in short order by everyone else.

Trying to Clean Hands your way through Dishonoured 2 is frustrating as feth, as you can't be certain your unconscious enemies won't be devoured by wandering rats.

Has found a good way to deal with this?