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**messhallcook**

It'll be a while till I can buy more army persons for when I come back to table top gaming so in the meantime I'm re-downloading some of my games workshop related stuff on steam right now.

Dawn of War (including Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, and Soulstorm)
Dawn of War II (including Chaos Rising and Retribution)
Kill Team
Space Marine
Regicide
Armageddon
Space Hulk: Ascension
Vermintide
Mordheim
Warhammer: Total War
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (maybe?)

**War Kitten**

I'm playing Dead by Daylight yet again, where I had my best game ever. The killer murdered all of my fellow survivors but he never found me during the entire match and I escaped.

**naxium**

I'm replaying Fallout 4 again. My wife got me the season pass for Christmas so I'm experiencing Far harbor, nuka town and all that other goodness for the first time. On a side note I think ADA has stolen my heart lol.

**Conrad Turner**

Hint: Do Far Harbour last.

I'm running Nuka-World first so I can get it out the way before joining the Minutemen and carrying on (starting) the main quest line.

Other than that, the rest of them are mainly extra things to create. Whilst that's not a bad thing, per se, I don't find them as fulfilling as FH.

Got some extra time on my hands this weekend, so will probably pop back in and look at re-modelling the interiors of my starlight Drive-in, maybe see what else there is to do from NW before I turn round and start taking them all out. Starting with the Pack.

**Co'tor Shas**

Just a heads up ME2 is free on Origin right now.
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

I don't know what it is with EA giving away game lately, but Im certainly not against it.

**A Town Called Malus**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Just a heads up ME2 is free on Origin right now.
https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

I don't know what it is with EA giving away game lately, but Im certainly not against it.

Sadly it doesn't have the DLC from what I can see. The Shadow Broker one in particular was very good. Not ME3 Citadel levels of greatness, in my opinion, but solid.

Still, is a great game.

**Jehan-reznor**

Played Let it Die a game by Suda51 on PS4 quite fun, weird horror Dark Souls clone IMHO

**amazingturtles**

I am playing some of Stardew Valley, and hoping to make it solely about making a farm. No romance for me please.

**BrookM**

But.. but.. romance is part of the adventure!

**amazingturtles**

BrookM wrote:
But.. but.. romance is part of the adventure!

No no no. Only business and farms for me. No wedding bells for this girl, unless they are part of a sweet business alliance.

**BrookM**

I married the goth and I regret nothing. On some days she even feeds the animals, waters the plants or better yet, fixes the fences for me.

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Split my time between Read Only Memories, ARMA 3 Apex and ahem.. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair, which is about as campy and over the top as it sounds. My brother is the walking tank, his friend is the support class who can call in airstrikes (he just doesn't understand the concept of collateral damage or friendly fire when using this) and vehicle support, while I am.. a flying psychic magical warrior girl, with a chainsaw..

It's a chainsaw that shoots lasers from the teeth when you gun it.

GLORIOUS.

**Eumerin**

BrookM wrote:
I married the goth and I regret nothing. On some days she even feeds the animals, waters the plants or better yet, fixes the fences for me.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Split my time between Read Only Memories, ARMA 3 Apex and ahem.. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair, which is about as campy and over the top as it sounds. My brother is the walking tank, his friend is the support class who can call in airstrikes (he just doesn't understand the concept of collateral damage or friendly fire when using this) and vehicle support, while I am.. a flying psychic magical warrior girl, with a chainsaw..

It's a chainsaw that shoots lasers from the teeth when you gun it.

GLORIOUS.

Nice. Sounds amusing. If I was working and had an income, I might take a look at it.

I jumped online to play Titanfall 2 last night in a closed group with assorted extended family members. While I played my way through the campaign without too much trouble, I suck at online play.

Chorus: "How badly do you suck at online play?"

I suck so badly at online play that when I managed to kill someone, I mocked them over the microphone with the fact that *I* was the one that killed them, and not one of the other players in our group!

I also had to figure out Respawn's completely unintuitive method to getting your friends onto a private network that is invitation only (to make it easy in the future to gather my extended family members into a group for play without having to worry about random strangers trying to join the network). You can't just set it to Private, Unlisted, and send out invites. They can't browse specifically for that network (because it's unlisted). No, you have to go online to the Titanfall website, get the network URL from that website, and then send the URL to everyone you want to have join so that they can join on the Titanfall website using their console login. And if it weren't for a quick buried mention in the FAQ, I would have been completely clueless about the network listing on the website.

**toasteroven**

Been messing around with Project Highrise. As a sim tower type game, it seems pretty good so far. Already making a sky high tenement tower.

**BrookM**

EDF just reached a high point for us when we found a fourth player for the group who also decided to play support.

What's better than lying dead on the ground cluthing a giant laser chainsaw? Why, lying dead on the ground while watching the other players mount up in massive mecha that can only punch things with their massive fists and beat the ever loving gak out of alien robots while loudly laughing at it all.

Spoiler:

**messhallcook**

Going through Diablo III season 9... My usual approach is start a character in normal and burn through story mode as a warm up then bust into Torment level bounty stuff...

This time around I started the same... only this time, when going through story mode I looked for and listened for as much of the dialogue stuff... I didn't realize how much i missed from Act V until this play through...

Also doing a lot better with Monk than I've done before... even despite having stacked on 'strength' gems rather than 'dexterity' gems haha...

After 3 days of work I'm on Chapter IV of Season 9... instead of usually jumping into Torment right away I checked what objectives even needed it... so far I've been able to hover between expert and master for chapters I - III... Chapter IV now requires some Torment level stuff.

Tonight I'll finish off Chapter IV if I can... Oh and I guess some Overwatch before then to get my 3 guaranteed loot boxes from Arcade.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Dragon Age Inquisition

**beatlesfan317**

naxium wrote:
I'm replaying Fallout 4 again. My wife got me the season pass for Christmas so I'm experiencing Far harbor, nuka town and all that other goodness for the first time. On a side note I think ADA has stolen my heart lol.

I just finished Fallout 4, which makes me really happy and sad. And my girlfriend kind of got me into New Super Mario Bros Wii now too - it's a nostalgia thing.

**Shadowskale**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Dragon Age Inquisition

Oh man there's weeks of your life you'll never get back.

Just finished playing the last guardian (my personal game of the year for 2016, although 2016 was an awful year for games but I digress)
So currently I'm in the middle of playing Fire emblem (GBA retro I know) and also trying to get my skills up in Street fighter 5.

**ZergSmasher**

I've started playing the Star Trek game for PS3, the one set in the JJ-verse timeline. I'm enjoying the game so far!

**BrookM**

Divinity Original Sin in coop with my brother, where we both are lone wolves and well, for the sake of making things interesting, whenever dialogue between our two characters pops up, we take opposite points of view, just so we can have an awkward rock-scissor-paper match in front of the person in question.

So far this led to us killing the two drunk guards at the beach and attacking the chillest source user ever, who was just catching some rays on the beach, which ended with the two of us dead sadly, but so worth it.

**GrimDork**

My daughter still plays pokemon emerald sparingly so I get to do the hard/annoying parts of that on occasion

Started up the SNES Zelda with daughter too, but wife took that over promptly.

Trying to decide if I have any kid-playable stuff in my steam library to big picture for the kiddo to play too.

**Co'tor Shas**

A lot More HOI IV. The new colony/puppet system, I especialy like how you can use your puppet's manpower but design the devisions yourself. It makes them much more useful. Especially for Japan with Manchuko, Mengkukuo, China, and Siam/Thailand. They have loads of manpower, but not much production, and tend to just spam crappy units when left alone, but this way I can have loads of troops without running out of manpower (which tends to happen with the types of divisions I use).

Also, the modding community for it is pretty damn good. And pretty fool-proof to, as there is not over-writing of files, the worst that can happen is you screw up a save.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Gonna break up Dragon Age with some episodes of Telltale's Batman game.

**Wyrmalla**

Fallout 4, man is the writing and quest design in that game subpar. Quests, and the dialogue, amount to "go do the thing", with hardly any side paths and exposition. It kind of hit me seeing someone play Oblivion (which was hardly the best in the series for it) just how poor Bethesda's recent titles have been in that regard. That and recollections of New Vegas, plus having played the Witcher series at the same time as the more recent Elder Scrolls (and thinking that Bethesda just weren't even trying in comparison).

**Anvildude**

In my opinion, it happened when they made the switch from written to spoken dialogue. Full Voice Acting is all well and good, but it's so much more expensive, and takes so much more time than a good written story or dialogue box. Morrowind has great story, and the only VA is the incidental stuff- the 'hello's and 'N'Wa's. You get a lot more story, a lot quicker.

**nels1031**

Back to Total War: Attila, specifically the Age of Charlemagne expansion.

Did some time as Charlemagne, but it gets too easy after you take over his brothers lands. Started up a Kingdom of Mercia playthrough and have just conquered England, going to invade Ireland and then sail over to the Kingdom of the Danes and do some reverse history and raid/sack their lands, then move south and take on Charlemagne or do something crazy, like move further south and knock the Muslim factions out of the Iberian Peninsula.

**War Kitten**

I'm playing Dead by Daylight, where I just managed to get my first character (Meg) up to level 50 and prestige for the first time. Now I'm working on leveling up Nea and Claudette so I can unlock their teachable perks

**Dark Apostle 666**

For me, the voiced dialog in Fallout 4 also made it harder for me to role-play a character - because they all sound the same! and it's always "Dull surprise!". Difficult to imagine myself as a brainiac scientist or a charming ladies man, let alone a slightly chemmed-out villain, when I just sound so... mundane.

Anyway, I'm playing a new character, and I've made up a little base which is nice and cosy, then ratcheted up the difficulty, to make things a bit more interesting.

**Compel**

I think it's kind of "horses for courses" sort of thing. - For example, I kind of agree with you for Fallout 4. As a free roaming game, the whole idea is your character can be essentially anyone or anything.

On the other hand, Jennifer Hale IS Commander Shepard. BUT, on that, you've got 3 defined routes. - Goody Two-Shoes, Neutral, Rebel-with-a-cause. As such, the voice actor can play those consistently. And when they cross over into the others, they don't change too much.

One of the ones that's interesting is Dragon Age 2. - If I remember right, supposedly your initial two or 3 dialogue choices determine your Hawke's inflection for the rest of the game. No idea how that really works though. Seems expensive for a feature few people would notice.

**Co'tor Shas**

It was a rather weird addition to the game. People have been asking for Beth to hire more voice actors and improve the quality since Oblivion, but I don't ever remember complaints about the player lacking voice acting, only speech options. It seems like they added it just so they could have something else to show off in ads/shows (because "Well written, immersive dialogue!" isn't a great thing to tack on the back of the box I guess

).

It's better written than FO3 though, so that's something I guess (although, let's be honest, a group of monkeys could write a better story than FO3).