What Game Are You Currently Playing?

[oganalp]

Finished playing Starcraft 2 campaign (all four chapters) for the nth time last week. This week was mostly about Euro Truck Simulator 2 with ProMods. I am working on setting up a new company, and driving the truck helps me a lot to think about details as I roam the countryside.

 

[Bugg]

Me and a mate have started playing Monster Hunter World co-op. I held off buying it after playing the demo last year and not thinking much of it. But the full game - holy moly, it is so much fun!

 

[Toby Frost]

I've got Dishonoured 2 second hand. It makes the fan in the PS4 sound as if it's about to take off, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. It seems to be set in Gormenghast-On-Sea.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Ha, I know (and hate) that sound.

 

[Bugg]

I've got Dishonoured 2 second hand. It makes the fan in the PS4 sound as if it's about to take off, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

I'm still wondering how my pc will handle this. I tried the demo before I bought it, and it ran beautifully, but I've since heard that it's a couple of the later levels that really tax the hardware.

Still, I've got to finish the first game's DLCs before I play it properly.

 

[Toby Frost]

The loading in some of the levels takes a long time, which is irritating if you're trying to play it stealthily and reload if you get spotted. It's very enjoyable, but I'm disappointed that none of the guards have invited each other to have whisky and cigars yet.

 

[Bugg]

I'm disappointed that none of the guards have invited each other to have whisky and cigars yet.

Inspired by (obsessed with) the Cyberpunk demo I decided to start Deus Ex: Human Revolution last night. Played the first mission and failed to save all the hostages (mainly because I forgot to look for them! ) except the nice lady at the end who then cried because her husband, one of the other hostages, had been killed as a result of my ineptitude. That made me feel bad, so it looks like I'll have to start it again. Or maybe I should just live with the consequences. Hmm.

I seem to be flitting between games at the moment and not settling on anything, when I play on my own at least. I picked up Battle Chasers: Nightwar on sale and have been enjoying that, too, and that's given me a craving for JRPGs, which reminded me that I never got far with Fire Emblem: Awakening so now I'm thinking about starting that again.

I really need to get a life

 

[HoopyFrood]

Me and a mate have started playing Monster Hunter World co-op. I held off buying it after playing the demo last year and not thinking much of it. But the full game - holy moly, it is so much fun!

I'd never played the Monster Hunter stuff before but my MMO trio picked it up and I was peer pressured but man did I end up enjoying it! It really felt like such an achievement when you finally managed to take something down.

I've got Dishonoured 2 second hand. It makes the fan in the PS4 sound as if it's about to take off, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far. It seems to be set in Gormenghast-On-Sea.

Ended up getting this back when you all gave me the suggestions for a new game and enjoyed it (though yet to finish it to the end). I think I'd need to restart it, now I know what it's about. I wasn't very successful at staying stealthy before - the first time I tried far reach, I ended up bottling myself in the face and alerting all the guards.

Currently I've gone into proper relaxed mode and am playing Stardew Valley. It just keeps you playing in such simple devious ways, as you start adding more to your farm and having more chores to do, new little quests to complete, and then before you know it the change of season is approaching and you have whole new things to take care of before you can take a break...

 

[Toby Frost]

"Do you think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?"
"Yes, I believe so - hey, did you hear that? It sounded like a bottle breaking and the deposed former queen saying 'Ow, my face'."
...
"Guess it was just rats."

 

[HoopyFrood]

"Do you think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?"
"Yes, I believe so - hey, did you hear that? It sounded like a bottle breaking and the deposed former queen saying 'Ow, my face'."
...
"Guess it was just rats."

it's like you were there!

 

[Toby Frost]

Random thought: parts of Dishonoured reminded me strongly of Gormenghast. I wonder if the giant stuffed owls in the museum level of Dishonoured 2 are a homage to it?

 

[Edward M. Grant]

This week was mostly about Euro Truck Simulator 2 with ProMods. I am working on setting up a new company, and driving the truck helps me a lot to think about details as I roam the countryside.

I haven't played that in a while. I had it set up with my VR headset, racing seat and steering wheel, and driving around listening to the online radio stations was a good way to relax some days.

Lately I've been playing Beat Saber and trying not to die. Anything above easy mode scares my Fitbit after a while.

 

[Bugg]

I'm going to wax lyrical for a moment (again!). Forgive me!

So, yeah, Fire Emblem: Awakening took over all of my free time at the weekend. I can't believe I've had it sitting on the shelf since 2015 and barely looked at it. I bought both it and a 3DS in 2015 when I was going on jury service, as everyone said I'd be sitting around waiting a lot, but then I ended up chatting to people instead. So the game and the 3DS got put in the cupboard rarely to be seen again.

Now I've sat down and really played it and blimey - it's amazingly, wonderfully brilliant and addictive as hell. It's gorgeous, the 3D is marvellous and, most importantly, the gameplay is both outstanding and challenging. It's got an engrossing story, fantastic characters, and beautifully localised dialogue which is, at times, very funny. Plus I'm a bit gobsmacked by how good it sounds on headphones.

I've played three Fire Emblem games in their entirety in the past (two on the GBA, one on the 2DS) and loved them, too, but they seem to be taking things to another level with this one through the character interactions and story presentation, wrapped around the hard as nails turn-based strategy that hooked me in the other games.

I also dabbled with the two games that came out on Game Cube and Wii but sitting in front of the tv playing Fire Emblem never felt right to me. It will always be a handheld series for me.

I'll stop now. Any other FE fans here?

 

[thaddeus6th]

I've occasionally heard positive things about FE but as I'm strictly a console gamer that's the extent of my contact.

Some good RPGs coming out right now. Divinity Original Sin 2, Dragon Quest XI, Shadow of the Tomb Raider (ok, not an RPG but still), and, later this year, Pillars of Eternity 2.

I think it's good that the B-tier games, between huge budget blockbusters and indie hits, seem to be coming back.

 

[Bugg]

I've occasionally heard positive things about FE but as I'm strictly a console gamer that's the extent of my contact.

It's only ever been a console series, back as far as the SNES.

 

[thaddeus6th]

I wouldn't count 2DS etc as consoles.

 

[Bugg]

Haha, well that's just a definition difference

 

[Bugg]

 

[thaddeus6th]

Bugg, I don't judge GAME for that. If they want to be heretics who use the word 'console' completely incorrectly, that's up to them. I support their freedom to be 100% wrong

I do get the appeal of handhelds, my personal problem with them is akin to my PC problem. I know I'd get distracted a lot. The console is much better for me in that regard. It lives in my room. It can't be carried in my pocket. And it isn't suggesting I play X-Wing versus TIE Fighter (the last PC game I played) when I should be working.

He writes, on a forum, when he should be checking Sir Edric and the Plague for quotes.

 

[Bugg]

I'm sure they support your freedom. As do Amazon, Argos, Nintendo . . .

Mind you, when Wikipedia calls them consoles, too, I start to doubt everything