What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I started Alien: Isolation today. I'm playing it on Nightmare level (which comes with a warning when you select it!) The atmosphere and tension are superb. They used sound from Alien and the aesthetic is spot on. It was also written (partly) by Dan Abnett.

If you love the film Alien then this is a must play I think. Rodders will probably finish long before I do, but I'm looking forward to completing this game and all the DLCs.
 
I'm not after the challenge, so unlike Vince, i'll be playing on the easy setting. Don't judge me. :)

I have just gotten on to Sevastepol Station and it is very well done.
 
I remember seeing this one before the game came out, and I still bought it :LOL:

 
For those that don't want to play scary games and go in the total opposite direction, I'd recommend Dorfromantik, which is my current minesweeper equivalent. Very nice vibe, pretty simple gameplay, but reasonably difficult to excel at.
 
Rodders said:
I'm not after the challenge, so unlike Vince, i'll be playing on the easy setting. Don't judge me. :)

I have just gotten on to Sevastepol Station and it is very well done.
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Does it have a ‘play while hiding behind the sofa’ setting?:)
 
I’m currently reading a book on the battle of Dunbar 1650. It covers quite a lot of the known or perceived tactical failings of the Scottish deployment so I’ve fired up the Dunbar scenario (playing the Scots) I downloaded for Pike & Shot. I’ve been attempting to compensate for the failings by shifting the vast majority of my cavalry over to the right wing to counter Cromwell’s heavier horse formations, and I’m trying to concentrate my cannon fire for more effect. I’m holding a few pike formations in reserve, hoping to plug any gaps in the line. This is a totally defensive battle for me. Not a chance of me taking it to the enemy and getting mauled in a repeat of history.

A few turns in I’m so far holding my own on normal difficulty settings (around 8% losses so far on both sides). Historically, despite being at a 2:1 disadvantage, this was Cromwell’s greatest numerical victory. I’m not expecting to win but hoping to do better than Leslie (the Scottish commander at Dunbar).
 
Well that was disappointing. In shoring up my right wing to avoid the historical problems there, my left wing completely collapsed. Despite the number of infantry, this battle was all about the cavalry and Cromwell’s heavier units were too much for the lighter Scottish brigades. Unfortunately, this game doesn’t have a setting to suit me (tactical numbskull).
 
For the first time in nearly ten years (and the first time on a computer that can reliably run it) I've been playing Bioshock Infinite. What a weird game it is. The combination of beautiful surroundings, serious philosophical and political issues, crazed violence and the overall sense of melancholy is really odd. At points it's surprisingly creaky, but overall I think it's excellent. Elizabeth, with her magic powers and weirdly large eyes, must be one of the best sidekicks in computer game history. And of course you get to fight Robot George Washington. I hold that awesomeness to be self-evident.
 
I can't say much about this without breaking forum rules, but let's just say that in the last few years, Bioshock Infinite feels increasingly relevant and satirical. This morning I saw a cartoon of an enraged Uncle Sam that would have made an excellent Motorised Patriot.

I really like the way that it riffs off things of the time, giving them a science-fiction twist: the spiritualism and ghost-hunting of the turn of the century, the poor workers looking for jobs as if in the Depression, and so on. It's like what would happen if William Gibson and Nick Cave wrote a sequel to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
 
Toby Frost said:
I can't say much about this without breaking forum rules, but let's just say that in the last few years, Bioshock Infinite feels increasingly relevant and satirical. This morning I saw a cartoon of an enraged Uncle Sam that would have made an excellent Motorised Patriot.

I really like the way that it riffs off things of the time, giving them a science-fiction twist: the spiritualism and ghost-hunting of the turn of the century, the poor workers looking for jobs as if in the Depression, and so on. It's like what would happen if William Gibson and Nick Cave wrote a sequel to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
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There is a book about the founding and final collapse of the underwater city.

Rapture (Bioshock): Amazon.co.uk: John Shirley, Ken Levine: 9781848567047: Books

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Stellaris (Paradox Interactive) is still going strong with the latest Nemesis major expansion, but Wayward (Unlok) got a great update as well.
 
I'm playing Stellaris now (PS4, though).

Got both lucky and unlucky with a red wraith. My fleets were engaged against determined exterminator robots so I couldn't do much but watch as it destroyed my outposts. When I could send fleets up it moved away. But then I had a huge stroke of luck as it went against a weird beast (forget the real name) that had hatched from a planet-sized egg. Watched on sensors for what I thought would be a clash of the titans, but the voidbeast annihilated the wraith.

Rather glad the voidthingdoodah just stays in one system.
 
I love having those systems as chokepoints. Saves so much effort in defence forces :)
 
Me too, I've parked a massive starbase right next to a rival. Our fleets are about the same strength (22k) and the starbase is 27k, so if they ever show up they'll get wrecked :)
 
Is that 22k in ships, tonnage or some other factor? I ask only because I’m sceptical you have 27k starbases.
 
I'm finding it hard to finish games over the past year. I get almost three quarters through and move on.

So far the following are waiting to be finished:

Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Witcher 3
Wasteland 3

The last one I finished is Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire.

My go to game for wasting time is Diablo 3.
 
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