What games have you been playing lately?

steve_r

I'd never played any of the Monkey Island games, so gave the remastered first one a go and really enjoyed it.

It holds up very well, puzzles are really good, story is entertaining, humour is subjective (I liked it but found it more amusing/entertaining than hilarious).

It doesn't outstay its welcome either, over and done with in a few hours and none of the padding that you might find in modern games.

I've started the second now. I've always enjoyed the point and click genre but sometimes the puzzles can be so frustrating - I'm thinking of something like Grim Fandango which I could never work out, and I've always heard to be a masterpiece.

Woshy

steve_r wrote: »

I'd never played any of the Monkey Island games, so gave the remastered first one a go and really enjoyed it.

It holds up very well, puzzles are really good, story is entertaining, humour is subjective (I liked it but found it more amusing/entertaining than hilarious).

It doesn't outstay its welcome either, over and done with in a few hours and none of the padding that you might find in modern games.

I've started the second now. I've always enjoyed the point and click genre but sometimes the puzzles can be so frustrating - I'm thinking of something like Grim Fandango which I could never work out, and I've always heard to be a masterpiece.

Have you tried the Broken Sword series? The are available on Steam and I played the first few recently. I found they held up well!

steve_r

Woshy wrote: »

Have you tried the Broken Sword series? The are available on Steam and I played the first few recently. I found they held up well!

I tried it very very briefly (on Android of all things) but I didn't stick with it.

Might give it another shot - good shout!

ShiverinEskimo

Just finished Halo Reach and started into Halo CE. Jarring transition to say the least going from all the polish of Reach to the original. But I'll say one thing - the sounds in Halo CE, particularly when it comes to the human weapons is far superior. Forgotten how punchy they used to be.

ShiverinEskimo

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Just finished Halo Reach and started into Halo CE. Jarring transition to say the least going from all the polish of Reach to the original. But I'll say one thing - the sounds in Halo CE, particularly when it comes to the human weapons is far superior. Forgotten how punchy they used to be.

I'm doing the same and have just finished Halo 2. Going to play something else before going on to Halo 3 as I'm all Halo'd out at this stage.

kearneybobs

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm doing the same and have just finished Halo 2. Going to play something else before going on to Halo 3 as I'm all Halo'd out at this stage.

Yeah. Halo CE/Halo 2 are games I can play for an hour and have to leave it fallow for a while. The variation on the level design, or lack thereof, makes it feel like a slog.

KilOit

steve_r wrote: »

I'd never played any of the Monkey Island games, so gave the remastered first one a go and really enjoyed it.

It holds up very well, puzzles are really good, story is entertaining, humour is subjective (I liked it but found it more amusing/entertaining than hilarious).

It doesn't outstay its welcome either, over and done with in a few hours and none of the padding that you might find in modern games.

I've started the second now. I've always enjoyed the point and click genre but sometimes the puzzles can be so frustrating - I'm thinking of something like Grim Fandango which I could never work out, and I've always heard to be a masterpiece.

They were my favorite games back in the day. Fond memories of beneath a steel sky and day of the tenticle. Don't think I'd have the patience for point and click these days

After finishing Halo 2, iv'e gone onto The Touryst. Nice relaxing game that looks very like Minecraft but obviously is nothing like it.

Manach

Completed the Division, fun to play but rather ironic as it is set in a virus hit NYC.

Starting an old school point and click, Broken Sword 5.

Dcully

MS flight sim 2020 thanks to game pass.
My first foray into flight sims and I ask myself why did I wait so long.
My new favourite chill out experience on a pc

I still suck but it's accessible to noobs and pros alike.

Dcully

Dcully wrote: »

MS flight sim 2020 thanks to game pass.
My first foray into flight sims and I ask myself why did I wait so long.
My new favourite chill out experience on a pc

I still suck but it's accessible to noobs and pros alike.

I've been watching some videos. Looks great.

dreamers75

Playing a few minutes of Zero Horizons, its all the game lets me play before crashing.

Retr0gamer

Puss!

This game is utter insanity. Very simple but a lot of fun and some great variety in stages. It's a bit mental until you get to the bosses and then it just goes crazy.

Well worth getting for a pick up and play game. Go in cold.

INMOST is great. Atmospheric story driven light platformer with puzzle elements. I get far more out of indie games than anything else these days.

Mr. CooL ICE

Playing Outer Wilds. Slowly going from 'I have no idea whats going on' to 'I now know slightly more than before'

iLikeWaffles

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Puss!

This game is utter insanity. Very simple but a lot of fun and some great variety in stages. It's a bit mental until you get to the bosses and then it just goes crazy.

Well worth getting for a pick up and play game. Go in cold.

If you like epileptic seizures I can see the appeal :pac:

Taylor365

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Playing Outer Wilds. Slowly going from 'I have no idea whats going on' to 'I now know slightly more than before'

Absolute Gem!

KilOit

Playing Remnant from the ashes only 2 hours in on hard but enjoying the difficulty of it. Was free on Epic so can't moan about it

dreamers75

KilOit wrote: »

Playing Remnant from the ashes only 2 hours in on hard but enjoying the difficulty of it. Was free on Epic so can't moan about it

Best of luck when you get out of the city

KilOit

dreamers75 wrote: »

Best of luck when you get out of the city

Yeah i dropped it to normal after reading some tips, i did beat the first boss after 10 attempts though but figured it wasn't meant to be that hard right off the bat

EoinHef

I bought remnant awhile ago on console,and picked it up on epic for PC the other day.

Its night and day using a M&KB instead of a controller

dreamers75

KilOit wrote: »

Yeah i dropped it to normal after reading some tips, i did beat the first boss after 10 attempts though but figured it wasn't meant to be that hard right off the bat

The spiky monster is an actual bastard on hard.

Its a very good game, I love how the RNG dungeons work.

No idea whats going on in the game plot wise, think we got to the last level then others stopped playing.

CastorTroy

Sunset Overdrive.
Seems to be some issue with launching it on steam which has a workaround of disabling antivirus for some reason

Sephiroth_dude

Will be starting wasteland 3 today, hope my rig can handle it .

Woshy

Manach wrote: »

Completed the Division, fun to play but rather ironic as it is set in a virus hit NYC.

Starting an old school point and click, Broken Sword 5.

After suggesting Broken Sword 1-4 above and seeing this I decided to give Broke Sword 5 a try. Turns out I had already bought it and it was in my Steam library!

I am really enjoying it. I found Broken Sword 4 very frustrating and badly done in a lot of ways (although I loved the first three) so I'm pleased with how playable 5 is.

iLikeWaffles

Starting playing the latest league of Path of Exile there the other day. All I can say is I am grateful that there is a new league starting on the 18th. There was a glimmer of a moment where I said ah this crafting mechanism is actual good but that quickly faded as I realised the complexity of learning how to set things up to get decent gear.

The new league on the 18th is called Heist, looks like it could play like the Betrayal League just hope it is not too difficult. You enlist Rogue Exiles to help or you can party play I believe. There is also some feature being tested for the run up to PoE 2 in 2021.

Kintarō Hattori

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. I haven't played it yet and I'm not really sure if it'd be my type of game but it looks interesting so hoping to get a few hours to play it tonight when the missus is at work.

Kintarō Hattori

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. I haven't played it yet and I'm not really sure if it'd be my type of game but it looks interesting so hoping to get a few hours to play it tonight when the missus is at work.

I read about it in this thread and give it a go. Excellent game that I didn't want to end.

eggy81

Have a hankering for a decent racing game with an element of car modding. Whats the best option on pc currently. Havent played a racing game since ps3 days, bar mario kart.

eggy81

OSI wrote: »

Probably Forza Horizons 4. NFS Heat is fairly recent as well, didn't get great reviews but I fairly enjoyed it.

Just read a couple of reviews and forza horizons 4 sound's right up my street. Not too much of a sim more of a leap in and play type racer. Sound.

Taylor365

Cant go wrong with Wreckfest. Good racer and all out great craic! :pac:

Glebee

Battlefield 4 single player campain. Never played it when it was released. About three missions and dont think I can be bothered playing it anymore.:(

wotzgoingon

Glebee wrote: »

Battlefield 4 single player campain. Never played it when it was released. About three missions and dont think I can be bothered playing it anymore.:(

Why, what do you not like about it? It's a fair few years since I played it so can't remember the missions or which were the first 3 but I did play it twice on normal and then a second time on hard so I must have thought it was alright at the time.

Davidious

all day long , diablo 2 - LoD , cant improve on perfection

Gbear

Davidious wrote: »

all day long , diablo 2 - LoD , cant improve on perfection

I've gone back to it a good bit since D3 came out and I quickly got bored with it.
In a lot of objective ways, D3 is better, but I just don't think it holds a candle to it's predecssor.

There's something more weighty about the roleplaying aspect of D2, that gets lost in the endless grind of D3.

D3 is too self-aware. It's too much a game. It doesn't tell a story. It's mechanically polished, but mechanics alone aren't enough. It needs to hang them off something. I'm not sure if I'll bother with Blizzard games in the future, because the company seems to have lost itself in the Activision merger, but if they made an effort to address that, and move away from the sort of mindless treadmill of esports wankery, I might reconsider.

Taylor365

Gbear wrote: »

I've gone back to it a good bit since D3 came out and I quickly got bored with it.
In a lot of objective ways, D3 is better, but I just don't think it holds a candle to it's predecssor.

There's something more weighty about the roleplaying aspect of D2, that gets lost in the endless grind of D3.

D3 is too self-aware. It's too much a game. It doesn't tell a story. It's mechanically polished, but mechanics alone aren't enough. It needs to hang them off something. I'm not sure if I'll bother with Blizzard games in the future, because the company seems to have lost itself in the Activision merger, but if they made an effort to address that, and move away from the sort of mindless treadmill of esports wankery, I might reconsider.

Itemization is horrible in D3 compared to D2. Even 19 years later, I've yet to find some items. And when you get a really rare drop, it puts a smile on your face - worthy of a family photo nearly! :pac:

froog

crusader kings 3. first time playing a game in this series. it's pretty amazing. once you realise it's not your typical 4X strategy game. it's so much more nuanced and deep. and very challenging, so much to keep an eye on.

Mr. CooL ICE

Glebee wrote: »

Battlefield 4 single player campain. Never played it when it was released. About three missions and dont think I can be bothered playing it anymore.:(

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Why, what do you not like about it? It's a fair few years since I played it so can't remember the missions or which were the first 3 but I did play it twice on normal and then a second time on hard so I must have thought it was alright at the time.

I remember finding the single player to be kinda annoying, but persevered anyway.

That was until a mission involving a dam. I fell off some scaffolding just as I was going through an autosave checkpoint which resulted in me being in an endless loop of falling to my death. I used the option to restart the mission which put me waaayyy, wayyy back and I just thought "naah" and jumped into online.

Glebee

Just started into Pillars of Eternity and am getting the feeling the whole time that this seems vagely familiar but im sure ive never played it before. Put it down to the 3D isometric fantasy adventure game genre having a similar feel. Get to the first village area and realise I have definitly played this before.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

I remember finding the single player to be kinda annoying, but persevered anyway.

That was until a mission involving a dam. I fell off some scaffolding just as I was going through an autosave checkpoint which resulted in me being in an endless loop of falling to my death. I used the option to restart the mission which put me waaayyy, wayyy back and I just thought "naah" and jumped into online.

https://youtu.be/8zi9rvy2Z7Y

The best clip summing up battlefield 4s campaign.

Glebee

Divinity: Original Sin 2- is it just me or is this game hard. Playing on normal difficulty and the first island area is kicking my ass...maybe im going about my tactics all wrong. looking forward to getting stuck into it all the same..

shootermacg

Picked up Conan Exiles for about a tenner. Wow so much to do
I love the Conan lore and the music is epic.

Sephiroth_dude

Wasteland 3

Dcully

Still playing flight sim 2020. never thought id like it but i cant put it down :P
Started using FSEconomy which makes all your flights more meaningful but will probably move onto OnAir which is subscription based but makes it feel like an MMO flight sim, skill trees etc, progression as you takes jobs to carry cargo and passengers etc.

madcabbage

Was playing a good shot of Fall Guys till the hacking became a problem. Been enjoying Flight Sim and just discovered Among Us just this week. Great banter with a group of friends.

madcabbage

madcabbage wrote: »

Was playing a good shot of Fall Guys till the hacking became a problem. Been enjoying Flight Sim and just discovered Among Us just this week. Great banter with a group of friends.

People are hacking it? I really just don't get this ****e. One drawback of PC gaming.

CastorTroy

Maybe try again. A thread on Fall Guys twitter has said there is now a Cheaters Island where all cheaters are banished to.
https://twitter.com/FallGuysGame/status/1305486780851007489

Read about that yesterday. It's been removed. I know nothing about the game apart from that Twitter thread.

h0neybadger

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Starting playing the latest league of Path of Exile there the other day. All I can say is I am grateful that there is a new league starting on the 18th. There was a glimmer of a moment where I said ah this crafting mechanism is actual good but that quickly faded as I realised the complexity of learning how to set things up to get decent gear.

The new league on the 18th is called Heist, looks like it could play like the Betrayal League just hope it is not too difficult. You enlist Rogue Exiles to help or you can party play I believe. There is also some feature being tested for the run up to PoE 2 in 2021.

Harvest league was fantastic, but yeah it did take a while and a steep learning curve to understand the mechanics.

But once done, it opened a whole new level of gear to the average player who usually couldn't reach absolute end game level.

iLikeWaffles

h0neybadger wrote: »

Harvest league was fantastic, but yeah it did take a while and a steep learning curve to understand the mechanics.

But once done, it opened a whole new level of gear to the average player who usually couldn't reach absolute end game level.

Besides the crafting mechanic didn't enjoy it at all. Just the way you have to set things up was annoying and stops a player in their tracks. Would be nice if it became a new crafting mechanic that was unlocked after the final act or something at least then it would be worth setting up.