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I'm playing Dark Souls 3 right now. I love this game but holy feth some of these bosses are aggravating

tinkering around with skyrim, putting in a few mods, Mostly stuff like Witch hunter mod and expanding the smithing tree with more realistic progression.

Castle Crashers. Having fun storming the castle, fighting monsters and duelling my friends to get the kiss from the damsel. Best 2 € I've spend.

I upgraded my EvE account to Omega status and I am now in the process of setting up a planetary manufacturing 'empire' in the systems around Jita manufacturing construction blocks while occasionally shooting things. I should really have gone back on tone of my old characters (my most recent one had around 6 million SPs and was flying a Megathron) but I wanted a fresh start.

I am also still fighting my way through Doom and I have also started playing Starcrawlers (a tile based party RPG about space mercenaries)

Got the wife to pick up doom yesterday from Argos for 14 quid bargain. Put it on early last night being the perfect time as was her works Christmas do. Damn 4 hours had passed before I knew it.
Had struggled with the few games I had got this year but hell that game is so easy to get in to and unwind while killing the hordes.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
I upgraded my EvE account to Omega status and I am now in the process of setting up a planetary manufacturing 'empire' in the systems around Jita manufacturing construction blocks while occasionally shooting things. I should really have gone back on tone of my old characters (my most recent one had around 6 million SPs and was flying a Megathron) but I wanted a fresh start.

I am also still fighting my way through Doom and I have also started playing Starcrawlers (a tile based party RPG about space mercenaries)

Would you recommend Starcrawlers? It looked fun, but I'm always a bit leery of spending money on early access games.

Been playing 7 Days to Die for a while with my brother now, who has his own map running and had been going at it with a friend of his for some time now.

It's quite fun now, though still a pain in the arse to hunt down the proper manuals to build certain equipment types. Drowning in weapon parts, but we're still unable to do anything at all with them.

Just got my platinum trophy for Skyrim on PS4. I had to create a new character with just one purpose; to get all 15 daedric artifacts as I killed a NPC by mistake that (apparently) lead to one of them.

 gnome_idea_what wrote:

Would you recommend Starcrawlers? It looked fun, but I'm always a bit leery of spending money on early access games.

Yes, its not amazing by any means but you get what you pay for. Its only technically in EA, it looks to be a (nearly) finished game. The update patches certainly seem to be more about fiddling with stuff than adding genuinely new content and the game itself is perfectly functional.

I just fired up TF2 for the first time in months and I wish I didn't. It's just not a fun game anymore, or perhaps I don't find it fun anymore. Oh well I have only played it for 850 hours (that's over a month...)

Just finished Mass Effect 3 (For the third time) in preparation for Mass Effect: Andromeda, then it's likely I'll go back to playing around in a heavily modded Skyrim.

I'm playing Dark Souls 2/3. Such a great series

I have been playing a lot of Stellaris. it's enjoyable for the most part but is there any game out there that has managed to make diplomacy anything other than tedious?

@amazingturtles - Crusader Kings II. Same studio as Stellaris (Paradox Studios), but set between 871-1485. The 'diplomacy' is less diplomacy, more dynastic shenanigans. Murder, Infanticide, Lunacy, Incest, Betrayal, Disinheritance, Mental retardation brought on by crushing blows to the head, Maiming, Exploding Manure, Religious Zeal and Eunuchs all make for one fun-packed family adventure. 10/10 Would murder my pregnant neice by pushing her off a balcony again.

Seriously - you should check it out.

Ha! Yes, I should have thought of that. Crusader Kings 2 is one of my favorite games ever in fact.

Even though my character is usually the one being murdered, you're right: diplomacy is the very best part of the game.

I've never come across a game before or since that matches CK2 for sheer scope. The only thing I can imagine that would trump it would be a crossover between CK2 and Total War. I think the only reason they've held off from a partnership is because it *may* cause severe brain damage from awesomeness. Is awesomeness a word? It should be.

FFXV, pretty dang fun

Remastered Skyrim for the PS4. I'm a bashy Nord named Conan.

 Warpig1815 wrote:
Is awesomeness a word? It should be.

The correct term is awesomosity.

Back into Payday 2 again, they released the Christmas heist for this year and it's a fun little diversion.

Total War: Warhammer, having fun with my sneaky wood elves

Injustice: Gods Among Us.

They have just released a feature which allows you to break through the level cap and raise maxed out gold characters to elite level X from VII, and once you have done that, they can raise from level 50 to level 60.

Playing a neat little gem I discovered called "Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun". It's a brand new game (was released on the 6th) that uses Commandos-style game-play in Feudal Japan (specifically, the Edo Period). You're given a mission, and a team composed of five characters, each with different abilities. Stealth is heavily encouraged, though I've yet to find a mission fail that would fail if an alarm was sounded.

It's available on Steam. There's also a demo on Steam which includes the first two levels of the game, and four of the characters. The first level plays as-is, but the second level has a ten minute timer that kicks in early on in the mission. The timer doesn't exist in the retail version. If you purchase the game after playing the demo, then your progress from the demo will carry over.


One other item -

The developers stuck versions of themselves in the game, and there's an achievement for finding and killing all of them (16 iirc). So if you notice that a seemingly normal guard or civilian has a name, get them!

Rise of The Tomb Raider and still chipping away at Fallout 4.

I'm playing that wonderful game called "Get your Finals done before they're due". Filmmaking is tough.

And occasionally a little bit of Overwatch here and there. Have I ever said how I appreciate that the only unlocks are cosmetic in that game? Because I do. It means I don't feel horrible about not grinding out levels and stuff, and can just hop on for a game or two every so often when I just need to Particle Cannon someone to death.

Planetside 2. Any friendly NCs on Miller?

I picked up Gears of War 4 yesterday, been playing through the campaign. Pretty fun so far. I never played any of the other GOW games though so I can't compare it. I'll try the multiplayer stuff once I finish the campaign. I'll probably download the windows version too since I can play it on both, but I usually prefer consoles since my sofa is more comfy than a desk chair.

Papers, please.

Glory to Arstotzka.

The Elder Scrolls Online. ...And getting really confused.

I've ran the same dungeon loads of times. I join a high level group and they're insistent on doing it a completely different way than I've ever done it.

Instead of the stamina heavy damage dealers chasing the boss they wanted the low stamina Tank (me) to do it instead. So here's me, chasing a boss *and* trying to defend myself which also uses Stamina as well (either failing at chasing - leading to the low health guys dying - naturally they don't pick each other up- , or failing at defending myself, meaning I die and then they wipe). ...On a character with really low Stamina - because that's not that my build. Bonus points for needing to learn a whole new rotation to (meaning I was blocking with the wrong bar and dying because of that too).

When I asked why they didn't do it the normal way they said it wasn't their role. Lemme check all the unofficial guides, oh wait, that was your role.

That's 40 minutes of my life which I'm not getting back. I just wonder how many saps those guys pulled that on before. They must have been lucking out and finding tanks with the right build to accomodate the playstele or something.

Playing some more Dead by Daylight. For a game that's all about helping each other to stay alive I've never seen so many unhelpful players...

I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider. - It's probably been my game of the year (If you count Arkham Knight as being last years game).

In saying that, my computers been mostly out of commission for the past 5 months so... I've basically got Fallout 4, Overwatch and Tomb Raider. So um... Yeah.

Rise of the Tomb Raider it is!