What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I love the whole Bioshock trilogy, but I found it far more sinister than scary. Then again I'm not afraid of clowns, so...

But yea, I've been back to Rimworld. This time with a medieval mod pack and a new psycaster mod that is pretty much RPG magic. So basically a fantasy-world colony-sim.
 
Pleased with how the mid-game's going with Stellaris, I was concerned it'd be a cruised to victory too early. Just finished ending the nastier of the Fallen Empires and all seemed well, but one of my surprisingly strong neighbours ended up with a determined exterminator robot rebellion.

Concerning. And then the same thing happened with another neighbouring empire... Good stuff.
 
I played a couple of not-especially-amazing games that were in a Steam sale. Of Orcs and Men is an action RPG about an orc and a goblin fighting an evil king. It could have been fun but the combat was hard and dull and the writing was bad. A vaguely depressing experience. Dead Island is about a tropical resort that gets overrun by zombies. It's okay, but nothing much to write home about, and there's something oddly clunky about the controls. The best thing was that my character, an Australian female cop, said some quite amusing things.

I finished Bioshock 2, which was very good, if not especially difficult, and played the add-on, Minerva's Den. This was set inside a huge primitive computer, and told a very good story. One of the best bits of a great series.
 
I'm hooked on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on Switch, and been re-playing Final Fantasy 7 on an old Windows 98 Pentium 3 PC of mine also, I think they will keep me occupied for a few weeks until Trails from Zero releases on Steam
 
I've developed nuclear weapons in Shadow Empire so I decided to nuke some maruaders who were getting too close to my border. Worked a treat. Blew them to oblivion. But then I had to pull my troops back because I had just created a newly irradiated wasteland. Time to develop some radiation filters and upgrade my hospitals before I go on any form of nuking spree.
 
Foxbat said:
I've developed nuclear weapons in Shadow Empire so I decided to nuke some maruaders who were getting too close to my border. Worked a treat. Blew them to oblivion. But then I had to pull my troops back because I had just created a newly irradiated wasteland. Time to develop some radiation filters and upgrade my hospitals before I go on any form of nuking spree.
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It's always those little details.....
 
Prematurely ended my Holy Draconic Empire run because I annihilated the Crisis easily and it was still about 2405.

Started a new playthrough, had three idiots as neighbours, one of whom were Crisis Aspirants (they want to destroy everything else). Came close to surviving but they got through my defences and my fleet was nowhere near strong enough, so quit that.

Current game has me with a friendly neighbour. We're in a federation. Lovely. Except we're both bordered by fanatical purifiers and both have launched wars against us... so we'll see how that goes.
 
I was never able to drum up any enthusiasm for Stellaris. Been on my hard drive for many months and hardly been looked at. Reading the reports from @thaddeus6th it sounds like my kind of game but there’s just that intangible barrier between me and the game that I just can’t seem to break through.
 
Foxbat, I get that. I had a similar thing with Red Dead Redemption. Everything seemed there that should be, and it was well-made but I could never sink my teeth into it.
 
@Foxbat You could always give multiplayer a go, and get someone to carry you while you're learning lol. But seriously, I get what you mean. I've played a lot of it, but after I got some of the DLCs, I was immediately lost again.

A big problem for me with all these kinds of games that are really in-depth and sprawling is that I rarely finish them. I reach a point where it's just mopping up or more effort than it's worth, and the games start to drag on.
 
Yeah, if I reach a stage where I've effectively won but there are many years to go to the end date I do just stop. With the Holy Draconic Empire I was the only member of the Galactic Council, for which I'd given myself a permanent seat, and the Galactic Custodian, for which I'd ended term limits, and everyone in the galaxy really liked me so the game was done.

But, I did get over two (of three, on standard settings) centuries of entertainment.

Right now the Leafy Alliance are close to wiping out one set of Fanatical Purifiers (I'm pretty annoyed my army of 440 lost to a defensive army of 350 or so, so I'm having to rebuild and invade but once that's done the enemy is finished). Still got another set to go. Interesting galactic setup, I'm part of a big alliance (maybe a third to half the galaxy by stars), there's a smaller federation nearby, and two independent powers, so we'll see how that progresses.
 
I think I'm reaching that similar saturation point in Shadow Empire. You know a game has peaked when you don't get the same thrill nuking an enemy city.
 
Foxbat said:
I think I'm reaching that similar saturation point in Shadow Empire. You know a game has peaked when you don't get the same thrill nuking an enemy city.
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Sounds like Rimworld when you realise the thrill from organ harvesting prisoners is gone :)
 
Toby Frost said:
A friend gave me Marvel's Spiderman a couple of years ago, and I've just got around to playing it. It's a sandbox-type thing, where Spiderman goes around New York having adventures. It's not something I'd naturally go for, but it's so slick and well-made.
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Web-swinging in these games is therapeutic.
 
I've been playing the old role-playing game Oblivion. I remember it as something of a let-down after the weirdness of Morrowind: smaller and much less imaginative. That's still true, but it's much easier to play and more refined. It has quite a bit of charm. I've gone for the stealthy option, which is a good bet since the combat is one of the dullest things about it (press attack button until enemy is dead, occasionally having a potion). I love the sheer detail of Bethesda's games: if you want to go around stealing cheese, you can. It's old, but definitely worth a look.
 
Toby Frost said:
I've been playing the old role-playing game Oblivion. I remember it as something of a let-down after the weirdness of Morrowind: smaller and much less imaginative. That's still true, but it's much easier to play and more refined. It has quite a bit of charm. I've gone for the stealthy option, which is a good bet since the combat is one of the dullest things about it (press attack button until enemy is dead, occasionally having a potion). I love the sheer detail of Bethesda's games: if you want to go around stealing cheese, you can. It's old, but definitely worth a look.
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That's the one with the best NPC dialogue in history.
 
Ahh, Oblivion. Sweet memories, now almost a couple of decades ago, '100%'ing the basic game. (I never got the DLC for it.)

Visited every place and completed every dungeon/fort, maxed out every stat and ability to at least 100 (you can go higher for some), did all 60 Oblivion towers (Okay that got dull quite quickly, especially near the end when I was damn near invincible, but I just raced up to the stone without killing anything to knocked them out by the end), completed all the various major questlines, and all the other minor quests. Left my beautiful character atop the Anvil lighthouse watching a blazing red and orange sunset over the sea.

Currently Many a True Nerd is doing an Oblivion playthrough that is fulfilling my nostalgia needs - even though this youtuber has played loads of Bethesda games, has never done Oblivion so watching him find out all its quirks, flaws and nice bits is great.
 
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