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Just got into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shadow of chernobyl,somehow missed it when it was out.

Fallout New Vegas. Spent 2 weeks to install all good mods and test the game for bugs. Today, i start the game.

Decided to play TF2. Unfortunately, it seems I accidentally pressed the voice chat button without noticing. This wouldn't have been bad, if it weren't for the loud fans running in an adjacent room. Hopefully, the noise wasn't too strong on their end.
To avoid this in the future, is there a way to disable the voice chat button, or my mic from picking up sounds? I tried looking it up earlier, but after this I'd like to be absolutely certain.

Played DoW 1: soulstorm vs hybrid (my guard vs his sisters) the other day and owned him in all 3 games ;P. Of course once we fought a.i. on the same team we played on a bad map for me and we lacked some coordination and it didn't end well.

Still on Fallout 4.

Forced to start Far Harbour before I was ready because of Knight Rhys (for his continual cheek, did a quick save then smashed his face in with a Baseball bat. It was highly cathartic).

Also wandered up Automatron stuff during a job for the Railroad, triggering that.

Seems everyone wants me to help them, because they can't be bothered to take care of it themselves.

Just returned to finish Resident evil 7.

Was playing destiny until The Curse of Osiris and the Dawning event turned out to be nothing but hot air and microtransactions. Ended up skipping back to Warframe during the holiday period. That was followed up by tagging back into the Division just last week following 1.8 dropping and some good reviews coming out about it's improved state. then the weekend hit and my mates playing the Not a hero and End of Zoe DLC's made me realise that I should really finish RE7.

I'm still playing Destiny 2 off and on, but I think I've done about all I want to till the next expansion.

I downloaded the Fortnite battle royale on Xbone last night, haven't played it yet but I'll give it a try. Hoping it's more fun than the snoozefest that was PUBG.

I started playing Divinity Original Sin and realized I found it utterly sleep enducing, barring strange Level designes and class make ups it was the two wet paper towls of main characthers whom made me drop the game.

My brother had a day off, so we played Plague Inc. in coop, as well as the F2P We Were Here puzzle game and he gifted me Human: Fall Flat, which is a physics puzzles of sorts that can be as cooperative or not as you like. My sides are still aching from laughing.

Playing XCom 2 War of the Chosen.

Dead Space 2.
Quite enjoyable so far. Good gfx and sound for a 2011 release, engine is solid if a little clunky in places. Very cool setting and atmosphere though.

Tried DS1 but man how can you feth up a control port that badly? Mouse even at max sensitivity feels like its dipped in syrup, you cannot use the arrow keys to move or rebind several keys and it just clunks along.
Still looks good/good sound etc but totally unplayable on the PC as it stands

There's so many video games with the initials "DS". Dark Souls, Demons' Souls, Dead Space, Dark Stalkers... And I feel like I'm missing one or two more common ones.

 Ratius wrote:
Dead Space 2.
Quite enjoyable so far. Good gfx and sound for a 2011 release, engine is solid if a little clunky in places. Very cool setting and atmosphere though.

Tried DS1 but man how can you feth up a control port that badly? Mouse even at max sensitivity feels like its dipped in syrup, you cannot use the arrow keys to move or rebind several keys and it just clunks along.
Still looks good/good sound etc but totally unplayable on the PC as it stands

I think my sibling used a mod to make the controls usable, I’ll ask them what it was sometime soon.

Just started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on my Switch. Never played any of the other games. Slightly annoyed by the usual JRPG trope of the hero being a teenager, but I think I can get past that.

Started playing the Fortnite Battle Royale last night, a lot more fun than PUBG was… Looks great on my 4K TV on Xbox, where PUBG looked like I was playing on a Nintendo 64

Then my girlfriend saw it and asked if she could play, then never gave the controller back :( She’s not a gamer at all, I think it was the first video game she played since Playstation 1 was new. Was kinda like agony teaching her how to use 2 thumb sticks at the same time. But she figured it out and even got a couple of kills.

Finally got around to playing Nier: Automata. Not sure what took me so long since Platinum rarely lets me down. Just finished my second playthrough and starting the final one. I think I'd probably like the game better if it carried the level design of the tutorial through the whole game rather than go open world, but its overall very good and very in my wheelhouse.

Warhammer total war 2 THAT IS WHAT ITS CALLED!!"

Also Fallout 4, reinstalled it after a loooong time, it had no DLC when i stopped playing it last, finished the mechanist DLC I think and want to start the Far Harbour one but havent a clue where to go to start it.

Picked up Killing Floor, and loving every minute. The level design especially, is kind of cool. I think the Offices are my favorite so far.

Now to get used to the physics engine. I played UT2004 with settings that made movement very floaty. This is a bit of a change of pace.

 Necros wrote:
Then my girlfriend saw it and asked if she could play, then never gave the controller back :( She’s not a gamer at all, I think it was the first video game she played since Playstation 1 was new. Was kinda like agony teaching her how to use 2 thumb sticks at the same time. But she figured it out and even got a couple of kills.

This happened to me. Took years to get my PS3 back. Even now, any Tomb Raider, Uncharted or The Last of Us games are apparently hers to finish first.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Playing XCom 2 War of the Chosen.

I was actually sorta disappointed with the expansion. I think the 'long war' mod for xcom 2 really raised the bar too high and that might've been why. I honestly played that more than WotC.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Still on Fallout 4.

Forced to start Far Harbour before I was ready because of Knight Rhys (for his continual cheek, did a quick save then smashed his face in with a Baseball bat. It was highly cathartic).

Also wandered up Automatron stuff during a job for the Railroad, triggering that.

Seems everyone wants me to help them, because they can't be bothered to take care of it themselves.

Yeah rpg's basically have the player's character as a freaking errand boy. One more reason i can't stand rpg's. That said in skyrim if you got bored you could just save game and then kill everybody (or at least all armed dudes) in the city. Good way to blow off some steam when bored. I think in skyrim i only left one guard alive in markarth during my first playthrough. Realistically i bet he'd be more shocked i gave up when they only had one guard left and that i didn't just run him through as well. Good news no more corrupt guards. Bad news? Well anybody willing to do crime in the city won't have a hard time and there's only one guard left. Extra good and bad news? One guard does all the guarding but at least he'll get an insanely good promotion now.


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 -Loki- wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Then my girlfriend saw it and asked if she could play, then never gave the controller back :( She’s not a gamer at all, I think it was the first video game she played since Playstation 1 was new. Was kinda like agony teaching her how to use 2 thumb sticks at the same time. But she figured it out and even got a couple of kills.

This happened to me. Took years to get my PS3 back. Even now, any Tomb Raider, Uncharted or The Last of Us games are apparently hers to finish first.

What shop do i go to to get a girlfriend? What platforms do they come on (platform shoes, high heels?)? Is it compatible with a joystick ;P?

 -Loki- wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Then my girlfriend saw it and asked if she could play, then never gave the controller back :( She’s not a gamer at all, I think it was the first video game she played since Playstation 1 was new. Was kinda like agony teaching her how to use 2 thumb sticks at the same time. But she figured it out and even got a couple of kills.

This happened to me. Took years to get my PS3 back. Even now, any Tomb Raider, Uncharted or The Last of Us games are apparently hers to finish first.

I thought it was a fluke, but it happened to again last night. "I want to play that game where I shoot people" .. if this keeps up I'm gonna have to buy myself an Xbox One X and give her my old one and tell her it's better.

It's kinda funny watching her play. She walks straight ahead, stops, turns left, walks straight ahead, stops, turns again. She hasn't been able to grasp the look with your right thumb and move with your left thumb, and jump or shoot or switch weapons all at the same time. I wanna say LOLNOOB!, but then I'd be sleeping on the sofa

I got my girlfriend into gaming beyond Minecraft and Left 4 Dead (which she played with other friends but wasn't very good at) with the Tomb Raider reboot. She initially watched me play and liked how it was like playing a film. Then she'd play when I left her with my laptop and went to play pen and paper RPGs. Took her quite a while to get the hang of the controls, especially shooting with the bow. So she committed genocide of the little fuzzy animals in the area where you first get it in order to practice

Since then we've co-op completed Halo 1 and 2, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory co-op, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. We're partway through Brute Force, Return of the King, Borderlands and Project Eden. We've also had multiple Minecraft worlds together, which she was actually teaching me about On her own she's now beaten Assassins Creed 1, Tomb Raider Anniversary and the reboot and sequel.

Really really digging Dead Space 2

Rome 2 and Sniper Elite 4.

Rome 2 just for the Empire Divided Campaign and Sniper Elite 4 is like a Hitman game with a WW2 setting. The previous games in the series got pretty repetitive towards the end, hopefully thats not the case in this one.

In between sessions of Assassins Creed Origins I've been playing Dead Cells.

I'm not bad at side scrolling beat em ups but holy gak this game is kicking my ass.

Since the Brutality update, I've not managed to get past the Fog Fjord, myself.

It's fun to play, though.

Third night in a row! Maybe I should get her an Xbone S for valentines day. Last night was kinda funny. she was playing Fortnite again, she likes to hide places and most of the people get killed off. Got real lucky and she was hiding in a bush for the whole game, the circle kept closing around her and she was always in the middle of it. Got real small and was down to 3 players, some sniper guy had to come out right next to the bush and started shooting at the other player, she freaked out like "What do I do??" so I had to take over and I just snuck out and blasted the guy with her shotgun and got first place

She still has a hard time steering, moves real jerky and presses too hard on the stick and ends up turning too far or looking too high or low, but she's getting there. Would be cool if we could both play on separate systems and team up in some games. I keep telling her she should practice on some single player games, but she just wants to kill people.

Overall I'm liking Fortnite's battle royale a lot better than PUBG. I fired up PUBG last night just to see if had any updates or got optimized any better on xbox and it's still the same steaming pile of poo it started ask. Fortnite is the same kinda game but is just a lot more fun IMO.

I've been on a Medieval 2 Total War kick, interspersed with a bit of the new LOTR game - Shadows of mordor or whatever it's called, the sequel. My inner Tolkien purist screams bloody murder, but it's a fun enough game that I can ignore it.

Medieval is great fun - AI is very stupid, but it's fun to go crusading - looking forward to colonising the Americas

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
I've been on a Medieval 2 Total War kick, interspersed with a bit of the new LOTR game - Shadows of mordor or whatever it's called, the sequel. My inner Tolkien purist screams bloody murder, but it's a fun enough game that I can ignore it.

Medieval is great fun - AI is very stupid, but it's fun to go crusading - looking forward to colonising the Americas

Please tell me you're running some of those sweet mods.


Like Third Age Total War, Stainless Steel, or Europa Barbarorum2?

My heart has been stolen Call of Duty: WWII )))