What Game Are You Currently Playing?

[Venusian Broon]

Fallout 4 is a really impressive game. It doesn't make perfect sense, but that doesn't really matter. I loved the sheer detail of its world, the way that you could open a door and not just find some stuff to take, but a skeleton, and a sort of visual story about why everything was where it was. I bought the art book for Fallout 4, partly to help in making models, and it shows that the sheer amount of work involved in creating the game must have been huge.

I know, there is so many little bits of 'personality' in the world that, if you were rushing through it, you would easily miss, like teddy bears on toilets with papers 'in their hands' etc.

One of my favourites is a factory where there is a big 'danger: no smoking' sign, but there are two skeletons, one male, one female just below it, with a gold flip lighter between them. Or the two feuding brothers in the marina, the notes they left and their diary entries (I don't know which one is the skeleton that you find, I guess you might find the other one dead in his boat on the map either south or north depending on which brother won? )

 

[Toby Frost]

Have you found the abandoned boat with the Jaws reference?

 

[Venusian Broon]

Have you found the abandoned boat with the Jaws reference?

I have never really explored the water! But this run I've got Aquagirl, so the whole of the coast is about to reveal its secrets.

 

[.matthew.]

I decided to jump into my Steam library last night and found a game called Interplanetary. It's one of those tiny indie titles and it's about lobbing projectiles at other planets in a system and using gravity to make your shots.

It gets quite intense as your cities are wiped off the surface and in the first game I won, human civilisation went from 14.5 billion people to a tiny 140 million probably rather relieved citizens cowering under the final bombardment from the now doomed enemy world.

 

[Foxbat]

I decided to jump into my Steam library last night and found a game called Interplanetary. It's one of those tiny indie titles and it's about lobbing projectiles at other planets in a system and using gravity to make your shots.

Many years ago, working a nightshift, a work colleague and I were pottering about on one of the work computers when we discovered what I think was called MS Basic tucked away in Windows (this was the early nineties). Within that environment, we found a game called Gorillas. It was a two player game with each person’s King Kong style primate perched atop a skyscraper in a cityscape. You had to type in the trajectory and power for your weapon (a thrown bannana) and the object was to kill your opponent. It was great fun and a good way to spend any downtime.

This Interplanetary sounds like a similar style of game.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Started a new Divinity Original Sin 2 playthrough. Some things same as usual (Sebille as a rogue with polymorph skills) some things different (main character's a player-made one, focusing on warfare and necromancy).

Although the initial load time, on the PS4, is fairly long, I do like a lot about the game. Not least how technically well put together it is. Pathfinder Kingmaker has some great aspects but the constant gnawing dread of a sudden crash (doesn't happen all the time but often enough to always be possible) does dilute the enjoyment.

 

[Foxbat]

Bought Dead State some time ago but never really gave it a chance so I’ve re-installed and so far played about an hour. I think it might be worth persevering with. The zombie killing seems a bit easy and (so far) any wounds received by my character don’t seem to cause an infection. It might have been better if you get infected and then have to race against the clock to secure medical help before turning into a flesh eater. It’s early days yet so maybe too early to criticise.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Fallout 4 is a really impressive game. It doesn't make perfect sense, but that doesn't really matter. I loved the sheer detail of its world, the way that you could open a door and not just find some stuff to take, but a skeleton, and a sort of visual story about why everything was where it was.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...I was going through Parsons state insane asylum, opened a door and really thought about your comment ...

 

[alexvss]

I'm currently playing through the entirety of the Metro 2033 games. They are cheap at playstationstore right now. They're great and very immersive too. Very good for those who love FPS and long for those good old survival horror games. I was just watching this video about it:

 

[Bugg]

I succumbed and got Cyberpunk 2077. Much to my astonishment it's running very smoothly on 'ultra' settings on my 6 year old pc (i5 4690k, 8gb RAM as they were when I bought it, GPU upgraded to a GTX 1060 6gb about 3 years ago).

 

[Venusian Broon]

Anyone taken the plunge and got Cyberpunk 2077 for the PC? Dissappointing and full of Bethesda glitches or great fun?

I am definitely looking for a big open world to replace FO4 when I get to the end of it.

 

[AlexH]

Anyone taken the plunge and got Cyberpunk 2077 for the PC? Dissappointing and full of Bethesda glitches or great fun?

I am definitely looking for a big open world to replace FO4 when I get to the end of it.

My brother's enjoying it.

 

[Overread]

Anyone taken the plunge and got Cyberpunk 2077 for the PC? Dissappointing and full of Bethesda glitches or great fun?

I am definitely looking for a big open world to replace FO4 when I get to the end of it.

Just a note but Cyberpunk isn't Bethesda, its CDProjekt - the team that made the Witcher 1 through to 3 games.
From what I gather the only major issues for it are on the previous generation consoles where it seems to be having some serious issues. Otherwise there's a slew of "new game launch bugs"that the developers appear fast to fix. Which is nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[Foxbat]

Gave up on Dead State because I found it incredibly frustrating. The zombies are essentially static until you encounter them at close range. Then, despite being shambling, mindless flesh eaters, it’s been my experience that they always get the initiative (combat turn allocation based on this) and manage to attack first. Got sick of party members receiving serious wounds at the very start of combat due to losing the initiative to the mindless and then running away. Now uninstalled once more.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Just a note but Cyberpunk isn't Bethesda, its CDProjekt - the team that made the Witcher 1 through to 3 games.

I know

Bethesda glitches are just industry standard for a certain level of messing up.

 

[Bugg]

I succumbed and got Cyberpunk 2077. Much to my astonishment it's running very smoothly on 'ultra' settings on my 6 year old pc (i5 4690k, 8gb RAM as they were when I bought it, GPU upgraded to a GTX 1060 6gb about 3 years ago).

Anyone taken the plunge and got Cyberpunk 2077 for the PC? Dissappointing and full of Bethesda glitches or great fun?

I am definitely looking for a big open world to replace FO4 when I get to the end of it.

^^ Points at post immediately above this one

Anyway, yeah, it's running brilliantly for me. I've only noticed a couple of minor visual glitches so far, touch wood (a pair of chopsticks floating in the air, for instance). I'm running it on Ultra settings at 1080p with just a couple of things turned down. Pretty much the same as I did for Witcher 3. I'm just over 10 hours in and so far I think it's fantastic.

Here's some screenshots from my pc:

 

[Venusian Broon]

^^ Points at post immediately above this one

?? Don't understand, I can see a video for Metro Exodus, then...??

Anyway good that it seems to be running well on PC's. I've got a nice future proof one.

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm still playing Dragon Age 2, which is a sort of weird friendship simulator set in a fantasy city, and appears to have no real plot (or maybe three plots squashed together). I also had a go on Strange Brigade, a shooter set in an Indiana Jones-type 1920's Egypt, which has a narrator who sounds like Alexander Armstrong and is extremely silly. When you pause it, the narrator says "Off for a cup of tea, are we?". Recommended.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Ha, friendship-simulator is pretty accurate. Got to say I liked Lady Hawke's (as I called her) voice. The DA2 story did suffer from time constraints, alas. Given the very short timescale, I think the writers did a pretty good job.

 

[Bugg]

?? Don't understand, I can see a video for Metro Exodus, then...??

Weird, my post is right between that one and your question