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just got Metro Last light, so good. I was expecting less but its pretty great but i also loved thef irst one

I am currently playing Space Engineers. It's awesome. It's only in beta right now on Steam but once it's published we will have a physics based spaceship building combat game!

Still playing xcom. Now that I've finished it a couple of times and am quite familiar with it I'm playing on Ironman.

Hopefully this next run I do will be more successful. Last time on one mission I got rushed by 3 Chryssalids and right behind them were 6 floaters. feth all cover. My best guys got wiped out

But it's good pain.

Is there an ETA on BG2:EE?

I'm pretty sure BG:EE is pretty damn faithful to the original game, minus using the BG2 graphics engine. Its different, but probably better, and that zoom out thing that lets you put more on the screen is a godsend in these days of monitors with a resolution over 800x640 or whatever it used to be

Dispel magic is you friend!

Actually still playing skyrim. I've got a 40something kitty with something of an ADD problem. Mostly magic and sneaking but there are perks all over the place. Some days I'm tempted to legendary skills to get new perks, other days I remember that I hate grinding. Going the route of magic, and not dumping much into health, has really kept the difficulty of the game more intact that I experience in other playthroughs. I mean, I can stun lock things straight to death, but then the magic always runs dry eventually (working on enchanting to correct that ), and some monsters/NPCs can just about one-shot me, so self-inflicted difficulty I guess. More re-playability than I thought I was going to get out of this pick up.

 GrimDork wrote:

Actually still playing skyrim. I've got a 40something kitty with something of an ADD problem. Mostly magic and sneaking but there are perks all over the place. Some days I'm tempted to legendary skills to get new perks, other days I remember that I hate grinding. Going the route of magic, and not dumping much into health, has really kept the difficulty of the game more intact that I experience in other playthroughs. I mean, I can stun lock things straight to death, but then the magic always runs dry eventually (working on enchanting to correct that ), and some monsters/NPCs can just about one-shot me, so self-inflicted difficulty I guess. More re-playability than I thought I was going to get out of this pick up.

That's what I love about Skyrim. It is a totally different experience with different 'class' characters. I made a pure mage a while ago and man is that hard! No armor and little health makes for a more hair raising experience. And frustrating when getting one-shotted all the time lol.

I think the mage armor perk from alteration cancels the no-armor weakness as long as you keep one of those up, but I never focused on alteration either sooo...

Started playing Gears Of War Judgement today, and well.....how far the migthy has fallen. Because this game is sadly just plain medicore and lacks any sense of feel or depth to it. Not to say that the previous games where monuments of story telling, but at least you had a set of characthers you knew and understood. But here, well except for Baird & Cole there is no one I really could care about. And this added to the fact that combat is way to easy, and the new point based reward system reeks of ass also dont help.

Hitman absolution, good training game muwahahaha!

Space Engineers

Will be so dope when they add multi and weapons. I cant wait.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Hitman absolution, good training game muwahahaha!

Sorry, I just don't get that joke. Absolution is absolutely the WORST in the series.

If you are disguised as a cop, all other cops are automatically suspicious of you as they don't recognise you. If that was the end of it, I'd say "Fair enough", but if you hide behind something or roll about on the floor, they stop being suspicious. REALLY?

"Hmm, there's a guy over there that I don't recognise in our precinct's uniform. Think I'll take a mosey on over there and introducve myself to the rookie/find out what's going on. Oh, he's just rolled behind that camper van, obviously doesn't want to talk to me, I'll go back to talking with Hank over there."

Absolution jumped the shark big time by making the best murder simulation going (Blood Money) and turning it into a race between invisible checkpoints hoping you don't get found out and sent back to the start of the level.

Still playing Skyrim. I keep finding new stuff to do. Argonian sniper FTW!

I started Arkham City, played for about an hour or so, and I'm probably not going to pick it back up. The controls are just clunky as hell :-\

Also dove back into FF14 last night, did a few dungeons with a new player to our Free Company (guild), and worked on some alt classes.

Recently picked up Minecraft...uh, yeah, that game is super entertaining. Definitely lived up to the hype.

Back to Wargame: AirLand Battle. And getting annoyed at nearly everything I hear about Red Dragon.

I found Bad Company 2 in a box so i decided to have a go at the Story Mode, i played through it when it first came out and remember it being alright. Or at least not actively unpleasant like BF3 story mode.

I've gotta say that aside from the ugly, boring and UNSKIPPABLE cutscenes it's actually a little better than i remembered. The environments are often startlingly ugly but where the art direction and beautiful lighting come together it's still a fine looking game.

The enemy AI is pretty good and they use their grenades and underslung launchers to convincingly flush you out. It's also always nice to see a game with some subtly delineated enemy 'classes' to make fights feel a little more tactical.

The gunplay is satisfying and the sound is also brilliant. I'd also forgotten how much terrain you can, and often do, actually destroy.

 MWHistorian wrote:
Still playing Skyrim. I keep finding new stuff to do. Argonian sniper FTW!

really? I got bored of skyrim very quickly, within about twenty hours. I just didn't have the patience to spend my time actively searching for quests, rather than actually...doing them.

Went back into Guildwars 2 after being gone for about 6 months.
They took out quite a bit of flaws and it looks more populated than it used to be.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
Went back into Guildwars 2 after being gone for about 6 months.
They took out quite a bit of flaws and it looks more populated than it used to be.

Guild Wars 2 has gone forwards and backwards. Forwards in that they've added quite a lot, including a new teir of items (although that was entirely unneccesary at this point of the games life), a massively redone boss, dungeon improvements, a new (pretty unpopulated) location, and a lot more.

They've gone backwards in that they're entirely ignoring their initial design manifesto of leaving grind at the door, and are adding intentional grind whenever they can. They initially reduced karma grind with daily and monthly rewards, then recently took that away to add karma grind back in. Ascended weapons are the absolute definition of grind.

I recently got back into the game, but the recent changes have pushed me back out. While I was committed to getting a legendary, and about 35% done as well, the massive amount of added grind the karma change added just put me off entirely. Now I don't even want to play the game at all.

@xruslanx Actively searching for quests? You mean like you ran out and couldn't find more? How is that possible? I get a little bored with the radial quests, but you can talk to any barkeep, hold steward, and a fairly large portion of the population to get quests all the time. Not to mention the letters you get sent when you shout in town, or hit certain levels.

If you mean all of the walking it takes to find a quest location... I can see that. Getting a horse can help, or just learning which side of a mountain has the "up" on it, going up the path is 10x easier that beating your head trying to "climb" it... though that isn't always impossible

I think the replayability of Skyrim goes up too when you make a game within a game of it. My bosmer archer won't talk to people, he has zero trades, its kind of fun living off the land and or breaking into houses at night to steal supplies and leaving behind guilt money/treasure

Grinding? Grinding is replayability At least it is if you aren't willing to keep updated content at the pace that your players can devour it (which is probably impossible, which is my mmos and things like them need grinding to an extent). Grinding turns me off too though, I can barely stomach crafting in any game anymore beyond find a weapon upgrade, right click it, done.

 Perkustin wrote:
I found Bad Company 2 in a box so i decided to have a go at the Story Mode, i played through it when it first came out and remember it being alright. Or at least not actively unpleasant like BF3 story mode.

I've gotta say that aside from the ugly, boring and UNSKIPPABLE cutscenes it's actually a little better than i remembered. The environments are often startlingly ugly but where the art direction and beautiful lighting come together it's still a fine looking game.

The enemy AI is pretty good and they use their grenades and underslung launchers to convincingly flush you out. It's also always nice to see a game with some subtly delineated enemy 'classes' to make fights feel a little more tactical.

The gunplay is satisfying and the sound is also brilliant. I'd also forgotten how much terrain you can, and often do, actually destroy.

Agreed - it's rough around the edges, but I loved that game...especially the dialog between the members of Bad Company (I thought BC1 was funnier, however). Heck, going back, I even liked the online more than BF3's...I just hated how long it took to level up, and how few unlocks the game actually had.

I thought the multiplayer in 3 was slightly better but it was one of those 'add two cool new features, take one away' kinda things.

BFBC2 maybe encouraged teamwork a teency bit better imo but it's infantry and especially vehicle combat imo doesn't quite match up. The worst thing about BF3 compared to BFBC2 was that i actually enjoyed conquest in bad company, not as much as rush, but i didn't hate it like in 3.

EDIT: I really missed the plentiful Quad bikes from bad company, 3 only had jeeps (initially) which was just a one way ticket to death.

BF3 would have been far superior if people actually played Karkand and other great maps... instead of fething metro.

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Hitman absolution, good training game muwahahaha!

Sorry, I just don't get that joke. Absolution is absolutely the WORST in the series.

If you are disguised as a cop, all other cops are automatically suspicious of you as they don't recognise you. If that was the end of it, I'd say "Fair enough", but if you hide behind something or roll about on the floor, they stop being suspicious. REALLY?

"Hmm, there's a guy over there that I don't recognise in our precinct's uniform. Think I'll take a mosey on over there and introducve myself to the rookie/find out what's going on. Oh, he's just rolled behind that camper van, obviously doesn't want to talk to me, I'll go back to talking with Hank over there."

Absolution jumped the shark big time by making the best murder simulation going (Blood Money) and turning it into a race between invisible checkpoints hoping you don't get found out and sent back to the start of the level.

For being a serial killer,

It's the first of series i played , haven't played the other ones yet, i just liked the way that like deus Machina you can finish the level in many different ways or just gung ho it.

I've been playing the gak out of GTA 5. This is the first GTA since Vice City where I've loved everything about it - the gameplay works properly, the world feels more alive than ever due to random criminal activity around you, the missions are fun - especially the heists, the checkpoint system helps along any hard missions, the characters are great and it's got some silly fun violence.

Call of Duty: Ghosts.

GTA V. I love everything about it, except for what happens with the Lost. I just can't forgive Trevor for what he did to them.

Yeah that opening scene with Trevor... sure was an opening scene. I didn't like the Lost all that much, but that was a bit uncalled for, especially for a character that a lot of people did like. The Lost aren't gone though - I run over plenty of them driving around the desert.

What's odd is the more I play the more I like Trevor aside from being, you know, a meth dealer, which is pretty irredeemable. His crush on the mob bosses wife was hilariously touching.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
For being a serial killer,

It's the first of series i played , haven't played the other ones yet, i just liked the way that like deus Machina you can finish the level in many different ways or just gung ho it.

Then Blood Money is the one you ought to try. That was the pinacle of the series. Need to plant an expolding briefcase in an area? Leave it to be found as a security guard, disguise yourself as one, collect it, and take it where it has to go. Or disguise yourself as a diamond seller and take it there yourself. Or just throw it over the wall. Whatever works for you.

Been playing BF4 (PC) and Path of Exile - I keep rerolling to try new builds though ugh!

 Conrad Turner wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
For being a serial killer,

It's the first of series i played , haven't played the other ones yet, i just liked the way that like deus Machina you can finish the level in many different ways or just gung ho it.

Then Blood Money is the one you ought to try. That was the pinacle of the series. Need to plant an expolding briefcase in an area? Leave it to be found as a security guard, disguise yourself as one, collect it, and take it where it has to go. Or disguise yourself as a diamond seller and take it there yourself. Or just throw it over the wall. Whatever works for you.

Thanks i will check it out!