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No Man's Sky has seen massive improvements over time, I still need to get into it properly, but some of the early game stuff paired with horrendously clunky menu design keeps me from really getting into things every time I give it a try.

Necrobarista saw its much anticipated release earlier this week, not sure what to make of it, as it is a bit clunky overall.

Currently, my game of choice is TF2.

Fire fight on the halo collection with the lad. Spend thousands of hours on halo over the years and now looks like it’s starting all over again lol .

Well, I have easily dumped 2-4 hours a day into No Man's Sky in the last week. My biggest "oh wow" moment was when I first entered the anomaly and saw the online hub where all the other players were visible. That was really cool. The runner up was when I saw that NPCs walk around and show the appearance of interacting with their surroundings and talking to each other.

Spider-Man on the PS4.

It really is a most excellent game. The various settings are just right, and the web swinging is a thing of wonder!

My favourite tactic for rooftop fights? Kicking the enemy off the top of the building. Allows you to deal with anything except a Brute in just two moves.

Got the week off and decided to have another go at Alien Isolation. The atmosphere and overall concept brings me back but the game itself pushes me away.

The bits that annoys me are Amy slamming the hell out of locker doors like a professional idiot, and a motion tracker that is supposed to be your "best weapon" yet is mostly useless because it attracts the damn thing. The rubber banding of the alien becomes frustrating as you have to keep ducking after a few steps, especially as its a large station with other people to see and harrass but like Pikachu it choses you. The slow slog becomes head bangingly painful when you realise you need to go back into an area you've spent the last half hour slowly escaping from.

Somehow I think some coordination from a team and an open world("open station"?) structure would have worked better here, but considering it was a brave holiday from Quake-style shooters based on ALIENS, Alien Isolation isn't bad as a modern day take on 3D monster maze. Despite its faults, I still return to the game.

Going to finally finish banner saga 3 after beating 2 ages ago. Also a little bit of Stellaris thrown in.

Spun up Mechwarrior Online after my six year old had been watching videos of it. Massively fun game, but the learning curve is still high.

It IS fun. I still wish that more games like that would have PVE content, but it can be enjoyable to boot it up and jump in for a PUG or two.

My suggestion is either to not be too serious with it and just play for stompy robot action, or else find some friends and make a little squad.


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I've started playing a bit of Dauntless myself.

Gives me strong Firefall vibes.

Playing through Odin Sphere Leifthrasir.

Skipped on this during its initial release a few years ago. The original Odin Sphere was a beautiful, but dreadfully boring game that sat on my list of unfinished games I really wanted to finish, but never did, particularly once Muramasa came out and blew it out of the water in the gameplay department. Buying an HD remake seemed kind of pointless.

So.... it's not just a graphical facelift; its a full overhaul of its gameplay and its... fantastic. There's a dodge and block mechanic, air juggle combos and the works all with fast fluid animation and controls. It's so far removed from the slow and clunky combat of the original its basically a completely new and faaaaar better game.

Phantasy star online 2 made it to steam yesterday, so sinking in some hours into that one.

When I get off work tonight, I will be playing Horizon Zero Dawn on PC.
Wish I didn't have to work today.

Trying to play Fall Guys, but they seriously underestimated their popularity with this game. Servers are dead.

Bought it, haven't played a single game yet.

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Trying to play Fall Guys, but they seriously underestimated their popularity with this game. Servers are dead.

Bought it, haven't played a single game yet.

Free is a pretty hard price to pass up.

 LunarSol wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Trying to play Fall Guys, but they seriously underestimated their popularity with this game. Servers are dead.

Bought it, haven't played a single game yet.

Free is a pretty hard price to pass up.

Free? Cost me $20.

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Trying to play Fall Guys, but they seriously underestimated their popularity with this game. Servers are dead.

Bought it, haven't played a single game yet.

Free is a pretty hard price to pass up.

Free? Cost me $20.

It was one of the free games for this months playstation plus

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Trying to play Fall Guys, but they seriously underestimated their popularity with this game. Servers are dead.

Bought it, haven't played a single game yet.

Free is a pretty hard price to pass up.

Free? Cost me $20.

It was one of the free games for this months playstation plus

Ahhh, I see. Unfortunately, PC didn't have this.

I couldn't imagine paying money for fall guys. especially since it has microtransactions.

That said as a free PS+ game it's awesome and I was very sad that the servers were down yesterday. I feel like we might have another rocket league on our hands. Making something free the moment it launches on PS4 giving a game the player base it needs to be far more successful than it otherwise would have been.

balmong7 wrote:
I couldn't imagine paying money for fall guys. especially since it has microtransactions.

Why would you be upset over an additional option people have that doesn't matter in gameplay at all?

Me and my wife have just finished (?) playing the Witcher 3 GOTY and it was a blast!


Level 53, 167h 40min, all main and side quests finished, 4 failed. Some witcher gear elements still not found.

I played the game when it was first released (my only pre-order ever) and I loved it. Basically destroyed all other cRPGs I had ever had contact with.

Now we had a chance to play the expansions as well, and, boy, that's A LOT of content!!! I didn't check but I'd say 1/3 of the above time spent with the game was with expansions. IRRC they were only 10$ on release but they offer huge areas, long and interesting main storylines and a bucketload of side quests and cool locations.

To be honest main storylines from those expansions were more interesting to me than the one from the main game, fights more challenging, including really demanding boss fights that the main game was lacking.

 Dreadwinter wrote:

balmong7 wrote:
I couldn't imagine paying money for fall guys. especially since it has microtransactions.

Why would you be upset over an additional option people have that doesn't matter in gameplay at all?

I'm not a fan of paying money, just so that the game can continue to advertise to me to spend more money so that I can get cool cosmetics. At that point, they should just do costume pack DLC (Which they also have actually) rather than the in-game currencies.

>>>To be honest main storylines from those expansions were more interesting to me than the one from the main game, fights more challenging, including really demanding boss fights that the main game was lacking.

Congrats on finishing W3. I agree it may be the best crpg ever. Also agreed that the two expansions were amazing - easily better story and content than many full games I have played.

Still playing Persona 4 on PC - trying to just about 100% it and nearing the end (December) - amazing amount of game for the money really if you like this style of game...

Started playing Warhammer: Gladius and now I'm hooked. It's pretty much a W40k themed Civ 6 with an emphasis on exploring. Weirdly, I'm playing Necrons and enjoying it.

 Dreadwinter wrote:

balmong7 wrote:
I couldn't imagine paying money for fall guys. especially since it has microtransactions.

Why would you be upset over an additional option people have that doesn't matter in gameplay at all?

I think the first part of the statement matters more than the latter. Fall Guys didn't feel like something I would pay for, but if it manages to hold my attention it's probably worth pay for some individuality in the crowd.

balmong7 wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:

balmong7 wrote:
I couldn't imagine paying money for fall guys. especially since it has microtransactions.

Why would you be upset over an additional option people have that doesn't matter in gameplay at all?

I'm not a fan of paying money, just so that the game can continue to advertise to me to spend more money so that I can get cool cosmetics. At that point, they should just do costume pack DLC (Which they also have actually) rather than the in-game currencies.

Other than those packs, everything can be earned by just playing the game more. You are complaining about something completely optional that is advertised on one single area of the game and not pushed at all.

Makes no sense.

Been messing about with EU IV, despite being 3 DLC and 3 'immersion packs' out of date. It does create some weird gaps, where some old tools for doing things are just gone, and the new ones don't work quite right.

Anyway, being trying to do the vassal swarm as Russia, and its been working absurdly well, but I just fell into an Ottoman trap. They just came out of the Evangelical League war, had 50k troops (I had double that) and were 2800 gold in debt, war exhaustion, etc. First year of the war involved sieges on all fronts that went well, then suddenly 100K men screamed out of nowhere with three different 3-star generals. And any army they touched just disintegrated, and they re-sieged provinces and took them in less than a third of the time it took me to take them.

Annoying.

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But, now that Paradox is back from their July vacation, their CK3 coverage is rolling out, and it looks pretty good. (though they need to pace their videos better- they've got a bunch of 5 minute videos by a youtuber where he just rattles verbiage rapid-fire the whole topic and doesn't demonstrate anything on screen. Interesting bits, but too brief, and pretty useless).

They've also (a year later) put up tutorials on Imperator Rome, to go with its new update.

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Currently pondering the new Battle Brothers DLC, which released today, but not sure I'll stick with it for any length of time.

I've finally decided to start playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (the special edition, which I picked up on Steam's summer sale), and I see now why people were so blown away by it back when it came out. I'm honestly having a tough time staying off of it, it's very addictive as those RPG type games often are.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I've finally decided to start playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (the special edition, which I picked up on Steam's summer sale), and I see now why people were so blown away by it back when it came out. I'm honestly having a tough time staying off of it, it's very addictive as those RPG type games often are.

Have you dipped your toes in to modding it yet? Because if you think it is great now, it gets crazier.

 Dreadwinter wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I've finally decided to start playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (the special edition, which I picked up on Steam's summer sale), and I see now why people were so blown away by it back when it came out. I'm honestly having a tough time staying off of it, it's very addictive as those RPG type games often are.

Have you dipped your toes in to modding it yet? Because if you think it is great now, it gets crazier.

Nah, I'll keep it stock for now and get around to mods later. I'm still learning the ropes.

New battle brothers dlc dropped and it’s a blast.