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From my position in the screenshot I posted, I eventually had to war with the guy to my left because on the arm I jumped to there was sod all, and a Fallen Empire was blocking me from going further along it.

This was before the corvette rebalance, so my fleet of corvettes/destroyers got creamed by massed corvettes.

DOOM! Played through the demo yesterday and liked it enough to get the full game.

Played the first two missions and enjoying it verrrrry much, a massive improvement over the third game, nothing like going back to the roots every once in a while!

Went a tad nuts on mod hunting for Civ 5. Now I think I've doubled the amount of playable civs. Also found civs I have absolutely no intention of conquering due to being so darn friendly or having a leader I like, but the result is kind of interesting. Instead of trying to win against them, the goal shifts into trying to help that nation win.

Also playing Unreal tournament. It's a decent replacement for Halo so far. Offline matches, horde and control point modes, and a lot of maps and characters to choose from. Might look into the modding community later on to see what's there (heard there was a Halo mod in case of nostalgia).

I recently got into Infinity Wars. Yet another electronic card game for me to work on alongside Hearthstone and Chronicle.

More total war warhammer as the Empire faction. I find it absolutely amazing how potent a level 3-4 castle is with walls and upgraded to the highest level. I mean i can only imagine what a level 5 city with full walls is like. Basically i got attacked with multiple enemy's armies sieging these areas and was able to hold out a while before they decided to attack. I end up fighting them and they just can't make it through the walls. Even elite enemy armies get destroyed though admittedly the enemy A.I. seems to not understand how to siege properly. Most of the time they use ladders and sometimes just abandon their equipment which is pretty stupid.

Anyway i suppose i should've figured out long ago that you wall up and build as many defenses as possible around enemy borders but between confederating allies and getting new enemies here and there the enemy borders shift. Also there are now no minor bretonnian or empire factions left (either confederated by me mostly or mostly destroyed in the case of bretonnia).

It's pretty much just the greenskins and the various chaos factions. The undead were mostly all destroyed a long time ago but i finished em off because corruption annoys me. Also mostly destroyed all the enemy dwarf factions.

Just finished the story in Mirror's Edge - Cataclysm. Fun game.

Still a lot to do, though, what with side missions, collectibles, and races that I haven't completed yet.

 BrookM wrote:
DOOM! Played through the demo yesterday and liked it enough to get the full game.

Played the first two missions and enjoying it verrrrry much, a massive improvement over the third game, nothing like going back to the roots every once in a while!

Indeed DOOM is by far the game that has given me most enjoyment this year. In other News, sunk a lot of time into Blood & Wine and I honestly cant be botherd finishing it. I think I may just be feed up with Geralt ATM, so will maybe come back to it

Playing hyperdimension neptunia rebirth v1. Pretty simple jrpg that's pretty light hearted and amusing. Lots of video game references and self referential / 4th wall jokes. Bit much of Japanese trademark fanservice but that comes with the territory. For $4something on the steam sale, I'm not complaining. The real question is whether I buy the other two while they're similarly cheap.

Nep Nep.

Playing Medieval 2: Total War in french. So I have no idea what I'm doing half the time. From what I gather (playing as the French), the pope told me not to attack Britain, I got forced to pay money to Britain for no damn reason, and then they were surprised when I:

-Slaughtered a couple thousand of their men
-Ransomed captives for more than triple the sum they extorted from me
-Stole Caen from them.

Pope seems cool with it though.

 GrimDork wrote:
Playing hyperdimension neptunia rebirth v1. Pretty simple jrpg that's pretty light hearted and amusing. Lots of video game references and self referential / 4th wall jokes. Bit much of Japanese trademark fanservice but that comes with the territory. For $4something on the steam sale, I'm not complaining. The real question is whether I buy the other two while they're similarly cheap.

Nep Nep.

I picked that up a while back. The concept is pretty amusing. And the game itself is fun.

Unfortunately, I didn't get very far into it due to being distracted by other stuff. But I was just thinking the other day that I ought to start it over.

Finally finished the main story in Witcher 3 (for the second time) and actually manged to get the ending I wanted. Now playing through Hearts of Stone and thoroughly enjoying it, can't wait to get to Blood and Wine...

Since there's no rush, decided to play a bit more of the first Witcher game. Was supposed to get on the good side of a character, and now I've spent 2 hours trying to find a magic tower in a swamp.

Also started going on a modding hunting spree for Civ 5. The Doge empire will spread across the world.

I've been suckered into Warframe for the past few weeks.

Strangely enough, starting to get back in to Cook! Serve! Delicious!, heh. Just in time to see that it got updated with a trailer for the sequel. Awesome!

I've been playing the crap out of XCOM 2 lately, with a few interludes where I go play Dragon Age: Inquisition

Total War Atilla thanks to the Steam Sale. And it is kicking my butt. I have much to learn about ancient combat.

The first STALKER game. The story ending was pretty chaotic.

Been sinking a lot of time into Warthunder and Armored Warfare respectively, also been playing a lot of Grand Ages Rome. Because in between tanks, jets and howitzers one needs to build cities and cutivate culture as Romans

Went a bit nuts on Skyrim mod shopping. Then again, now I know I have at least one castle per hold in Skyrim.

Not exactly what I'm playing right now, but for fans of the classic 3D SF RPG System Shock, there is this.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock?ref=email

Unfortunately I have had to withdraw my pledge due to financial reasons, but I am definitely on the lookout for it hitting retail, even though that's likely to be sometime in 2018.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Not exactly what I'm playing right now, but for fans of the classic 3D SF RPG System Shock, there is this.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock?ref=email

Unfortunately I have had to withdraw my pledge due to financial reasons, but I am definitely on the lookout for it hitting retail, even though that's likely to be sometime in 2018.

If you're curious, I think GOG has a free demo.
Really hoping they update the controls though. While the original ones are okay, they could be a bit wonky at times.

 SkavenLord wrote:
Went a bit nuts on Skyrim mod shopping. Then again, now I know I have at least one castle per hold in Skyrim.

I reckon I've spent more time fething about with mods, and they issues they can cause, than I have on most games in total

320 Skyrim hours on steam, 1000+ on Xbox...

Reinstalled Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance for some good large-scale warfare. It's kind of relaxing.

Finished up clear sky's story. It definitely has a lot of improvements from SoC, but also quite a few changes I don't like. The upgrade system is an awesome addition, but a little weird (why can't I have anomaly protection with night-vision). The faction system is cool, I'll have to go back and look at that some more. You can repair stuff now, which is great, but things also degrade way too quickly. Also, I find it annoying that attachments (such as grenade launchers) require upgrades. I should be able to attack an under-barrel launcher to an accurate assault rifle. The change from wibbly air to having a detector is a good addition for anomalies, but the detector should really start beeping sooner. Some enemies (zombies, bloodsuckers) are far too bullet-spongy. A single head-shot from an assault rifle should really take out the zombies, two at most. I shouldn't have to pour 10 rounds into them. They are basically just slow humans, but much, much, harder to kill, and I think they might be a bit less accurate. Bloodsuckers would be fine, but they also hit like a runaway van, and can turn invisible, so it seems a bit much. In fact, most enemies seem to have a lot more health. I liked it in SoC where everything died quickly, including you. I like that you can buy and attach suppressors now, but it's annoying that most of the 9x18/9x19 pistols can use them. In fact, most pistols can't use them. Sniper rifles are still annoying hard to find, but that's more of a personal thing for my play-style, so it's OK.

 SkavenLord wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Not exactly what I'm playing right now, but for fans of the classic 3D SF RPG System Shock, there is this.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock?ref=email

Unfortunately I have had to withdraw my pledge due to financial reasons, but I am definitely on the lookout for it hitting retail, even though that's likely to be sometime in 2018.

If you're curious, I think GOG has a free demo.
Really hoping they update the controls though. While the original ones are okay, they could be a bit wonky at times.

Oh yes, that's a must. As I recall, it's going to be all modern UI and controls - mouse look for a start!

I have been trying to download the demo today whilst I was at work. Hope it's complete by now as otherwise it'll have failed again and I will not be able to try it tonight. Even without the demo, however, I'm still going to back it again. Will have to see about pledging a small amount if I can get the ability to increase once I have the money - about 2 weeks after the campaign ends. Most campaigns will allow that, so I'm confident this one will too.

Finally got around to playing Fallout 4. Fun, and an okay ending, but New Vegas is still probably my favorite out of all of them. Replaying now as an evil melee character.

Also going to be replaying Diablo 3 RoS for the fun of it. Just an overall fun grinder.

Playing Medieval 2 as England:

>In control of British Isles and the north coastline of France
>Allies with France
>Holy Roman Empire declares war on us
>My King dies of illness
>First heir gets assassinated
>Second heir is on campaign in HRE territory, swifty killed
>Third Heir en route to Jerusalem, being chased by Spaniards and the HRE.
>New King lands in the Middle East, makes himself comfy
>Monarchy never returns to Britannia, due to feth hueg blockading armies

eleventy million / 10 would exile my own monarchy to Jerusalem again.

The Telltale bundle was on sale for PS4, so I picked it up and am starting with Walking Dead. Nice to have some lite games to play from time to time.

Still having fun with Hyperdimension Neptunia Re:Birth 1, and picked up the other two in the series from steam during the sale. It's goofy and the references are fairly amusing when I catch them.

Still thinking of something different for the next game. Maybe a misfits/weird classes run of BG-BG2-BG2:ToB or something. Weirder classes like dragon disciple, dark moon monk, beastmaster ranger (need a handicap), and so on. Having weird tools to use may make the game more interesting, or possibly less fun, hard to tell till I dig in. Probably better (for me at least) than trying something like a solo clear or a single class challenge etc. Oooh I see they also have a Shaman class... has that always been there since EE? Hmm, druid that casts like a sorcerer you say...

Been bouncing between MLB the Show 16 (pretty decent improvements over 15), FO4, Diablo 3, and the new installment of Homefront.