What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I have been playing Stray. It seems like a fairly short game, but I have really been taking my time with it. It is a beautifully designed world and there is a ton of story telling and world building that can only be found my taking your time and talking to all the NPCs and exploring. Plus it is just fun to run around as a house cat.
 
I'm playing Degrees of Separation. It's a puzzle-sidescroller that I skipped some tokens because it looked metroidvania, but it looks like each level is supposed to be completed by just the abilities you gain in that level. I just finished another short puzzle-sidescroller called Unravel and it's a cute concept with some dark places. I recommend both next time they go on sale.
 
phew. Well, I've found that I'm terrible at actually finishing games. Still to actually fully complete Skyrim, albeit with 1300 hours playing (Still don't know how the assassin quest lines finish, guess I just like wandering about the landscape)

However yesterday I finally managed to launch the rocket in factario, Sure that base was an utter spaghetti mess and I didn't automate everything but I 'won' the game.

Now time to do it again but build bigger, better and get more of the achievements. Only hand manufacture less than 111 components for a start
 
Venusian Broon said:
phew. Well, I've found that I'm terrible at actually finishing games. Still to actually fully complete Skyrim, albeit with 1300 hours playing (Still don't know how the assassin quest lines finish, guess I just like wandering about the landscape)
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I’m a bit like this too. I’ve played a lot Fallout New Vegas and I think I’m pretty near the end but I’m reluctant to play it any more. Experience has taught me that the endings are usually ridiculously hard and I just get frustrated (which is what usually happens). I think, if I continue, it will leave me with a jaundiced view of a game I’ve enjoyed immensely.

One thing I couldn’t work out was how to get a job from the NCR at the checkpoint with the locked gate (which I needed a key to open and I’m guessing I’ll get the key if I get the job). I feel a bit like Yosser in Boys From The Black Stuff: gies a job. I can do that.
 
Me too. But I think games like Fallout and Skyrim are meant to be experienced rather than "finished" or "beaten". I'm happy to leave some lines unfinished.

I recently played the Nuka World add-on for Fallout 4, where you have to choose which gang of raiders to lead. I thought "Forget that, they're all scummy" and killed the lot of them. It was like a Nick Cave murder ballad towards the end: bits of raider everywhere, with a crazy robot singing about cola in the middle of it all. Satisfactory.
 
Trek to Yomi. A just-released samurai indie game. I found the combat to be a little stilted at first, but the characters die very easily so it has a more realistic feel. The story is pretty straightfoward and cliché--but hey, we all love some historically unaccurate bushido. It's in black-and-white, probably as a tribute to Kurosawa. After Ghost of Tsushima, this feels a little more of the same, but I'll finish it since it's so short.
 
Still playing Stellaris, and looking forward to the next big console update on Thursday.

My current playthrough will likely be abandoned then but things went so fortuitously it's almost too easy (playing on Admiral, still not quite up to the top difficulty). I found a relic world and got massive population there easily because some horrid aliens were forcing another species to flee, and that planet was the only one with a suitable atmosphere for the refugees so I could barely keep up with the job/housing demand but the upside was an enormous and rapid boost to my science. Now around 2,500 with the next closest empire around 700 or so (excepting a brand new tomb world empire, who are friendly, on 2,300).

So, cruising to victory at this stage really but good to refamiliarise myself with things before the big update. Also got very lucky with the starting position, just one normal neighbour, and two fallen empires (neither in blocking positions) so I got about twice as many stars as any other empire just by dint of that.
 
Venusian Broon said:
However yesterday I finally managed to launch the rocket in factario, Sure that base was an utter spaghetti mess and I didn't automate everything but I 'won' the game.

Now time to do it again but build bigger, better and get more of the achievements. Only hand manufacture less than 111 components for a start
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One thing I really love about Factorio is that you can play it your own way.
A lot of games shoe-horn you into a pathway to play through the game and you basically have to keep moving up the ladder in a set way to advance.
Factorio you can automate as much or as little as you want. Heck if you want you can run everything on coal with steam powered grabbers and everything.

I really like it and its a fresh style of gaming that you don't often get in many games
 
Overread said:
One thing I really love about Factorio is that you can play it your own way.
A lot of games shoe-horn you into a pathway to play through the game and you basically have to keep moving up the ladder in a set way to advance.
Factorio you can automate as much or as little as you want. Heck if you want you can run everything on coal with steam powered grabbers and everything.

I really like it and its a fresh style of gaming that you don't often get in many games
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Absolutely agree. I am really keen on trying to make everything symmetrical, neat and fully automated this time, while picking up more of the achievements. Oh and making a bigger base. To then feed the megabase.
 
Last night I finished Assassin's Creed 2. The ending is slightly weak, but perhaps that's inevitable, as it involves all the weakest aspects of the story: the conspiracy nonsense, the Desmond subplot, aliens (at least, I think so), and an actual punch-up with the Pope. Overall, it's a really good game. The overarching story is gibberish, and at times the engine of the game seems to have trouble keeping up with the story (Assassin's Creed 2 is a much better climbing-and-jumping game than a stealth-and-assassination game). However, the core gameplay is excellent and really enjoyable. It's held up really well, even though the world has moved on from Dan Brown and parkour.
 
Assassin's Creed 2 is the only entry in the series I've played. Didn't finish it. Liked the setting, but the pointless wayback machine gimmick was just tedious, disliked the gameplay, and was not really motivated to keep playing it (this was some time ago so I've forgotten specific gripes).

Edited extra bit: it may be worth mentioning I'm more of an RPG and (sometimes) strategy gamer so having to actually react in real time might have been my biggest annoyance :p
 
Having a lot of fun with the Stellaris Aquatics DLC (plus major free updates). Also helped by an interesting start. The Holy Draconic Empire lost its first war to the Breanne Imperium, then fought the next to a standstill. And now, when our foe attempted to conquer us, we turned the table and claimed three of their worlds. Huzzah!
 
I’m back playing Shadow Empire. I think this is possibly the best PC game I’ve ever owned. I like it so much I bought another copy (this time on GOG without any DRM…admittedly on discount but, still, what better compliment can you pay a game than buying it for a second time?).
 
I'm on Bioshock 2 again. If you wanted a vast shootout set in the party scenes of The Shining, except with magic, this is the game for you. It's visually ingenuous, but also bleak and oppressive. There's a lot of back-and froing to complete the levels, which can be a chore. The whole bloodthirsty thing is shot through with weird black humour and fantastic design. It's like eating a huge amount of cake: rich, but you can get sick of it. Anyhow, overall, it's excellent.

(Just as a sample of how nuts it is: while I was rampaging through the decaying underwater city where it's set, a crazed magic lady teleported in front of me - "me" being a semi-robot in a diving suit - shouted something about not letting my kind in here and threw a fireball at me, so I stabbed her with a massive spinning drill. As she died, she muttered "Tell mother she can keep the art collection".)
 
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Toby Frost said:
Bioshock 2 again. If you wanted a vast shootout set in the party scenes of The Shining, except with magic, this is the game for you. It's visually ingenuous, but also bleak and oppressive. There's a lot of back-and froing, which can be tedious. The whole bloodthirsty thing is shot through with weird black humour and fantastic design. It's like eating a huge amount of cake: rich, but you can get sick of it. Anyhow, overall, it's excellent.
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I really like the worldbuilding of the entire series, and it inspired one of my upcoming short-stories. The fact that you play as a Mr. B in the second installment is genius. I remember the hotel part in this one being pretty scary.
 
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