What are you playing?

[RCoon]

I'm looking forward to the Tomb Raider review, man! I enjoyed the last game. I played it in Nvidia surround and it was immersive, not as immersive as VR.. But climbing some of those mountains gave me a little acrophobia!.. lol I don't see me paying the $59 for it. So, I'll wait around for it to drop around $29. I don't usually go for third person games, but the last Tomb Raider did it very well. I'm a little bummed The Division is third person.. I watch a few youtube videos of it and it's nothing like the first time they showed it graphically wise. The graphics look pretty bad now. I hope they were just playing on lower settings and have a higher resolution setting. It reminds me of what they did to Watch dogs..

The Division is a bit weird. They've gone for the MMO shooting/damage model as oppose to the FPS/TPS damage model. Basically enemies in The Division take as many bullets as enemies in Gears of War. It's a bit odd, not sure I like that vibe in a post-apo environment about survivial and stuff...

Never got much of a chance to play the original Tomb Raider reboot to its entirety. It was pretty, but I remember getting super sidetracked at the same time. Blitzing through Bombshell and RotTR right now, with 12 hours pencilled in on Thursday for pure Tomb Raider review time. Gotta somehow fit two review writing sessions, benchmarks, plus two video summaries into the next three days. Not to mention I'm at a Magic: The Gathering tournament on Friday an hour after the reviews are supposed to go up, so it's going to be one hell of an intense week.

EDIT: Looks like a Firewatch review is confirmed for February 11th though. No idea what I'll be doing for next Thursday.

EDIT EDIT: Space Hulk: Deathwing is getting assets pushed to press and social media, which means a release is Soon(TM)

 

[Octopuss]

I seem to have hit an impasse with tomorrow's review title. For some reason my entire review is 100% completely opposite to what every single other news outlet has pushed out, and I don't understand, because the game genuinely feels catastrophically awful in every way.

So where's the review?

 

[RCoon]

So where's the review?

Well it went up on Thursday

http://www.nextpowerup.com/articles/dragons-dogma-dark-arisen-review/

 

[Octopuss]

Uh, I was searching for "Deserts of Kharak", because that's what the quotes here lead to

 

[RCoon]

Uh, I was searching for "Deserts of Kharak", because that's what the quotes here lead to

Unfortunately they said no to a review

EDIT: Hurray, looks like we'll be reviewing Defunct next week

 

[Moofachuka]

anyone playing dota 2 plz add me... (but I'm only 3k mmr...) steam name Tabarnewb

PS: I play mainly support and disabler. I'm looking to play with a carry. Thx!

 

[BumbleBee]

i'm witnessing The Witness

 

[Laughing_Beast]

I still play mostly Dungeons & Dragons Online - New update is one of bigger ones.

And then I try to learn Rocket League...I suck hard

 

[GreiverBlade]

If they have fixed performance I may go back to it...I hated playing at low settings and barely getting 30fps.

strange my 290 got good performance on it (and the 980 also ...) well i was only playing it in solo mod so that might be the trick for me

Grinding levels & equipments in Blade & Soul (NA release). currently reaching lvl30 atm

lvl 33 here but EU awakened plague dagger stage 10 and all hongmoon accessory maxed, grinding to find breakthrough respective items (or 34 i can't remember clearly ...) 4th reboot for me since i played on KR CN and JP server before

and NCsoft got me tempted for a 365 days sub ... couldn't sub on asian server for obvious reason, but now i can ...

dang ... damned Silver Dragon outfit ... why did you have to look so good ...

 

[EntropyZ]

Got my Lightning Returns: FFXIII since it's described as a good PC port. Only played FF XIII because I have never played anything past FFVI and FFVIII and Crisis Core (I skipped FFVIII because the gameplay was awful to me) so I gave it a chance since the game was rated pretty high and had decent graphics for the time (I was missing out since I don't own any of the new consoles), FF XIII was a decent game but nowhere close to how good I thought was FFVII (still, FFVII and FFXIII suffer from the over-emotional characters that I start to not care about within first 10 minutes of the game, I have never seen a good Square Enix game with good character development), maybe it's because I went through 4 modded playthroughs before finally giving it a rest.

The timer in Normal mode seems to complicate things slightly and take out the fun that I am used to. Now I have to rush to complete quests which is something I don't want to do. I like the added challenge but maybe there was another way to do this, oh well. Time to "save" the world again.

It's hard trying to put Skyrim, Dishonored and Tomb Raider reboot on hold because I haven't completed them "100%" yet.

Fallout 4 is being forgotten completely after beating it twice. I'll wait for the DLC, modding tools and favorite content creators to catch up, but I won't be holding my breath for long since I have a list of 18 more games I want to complete and other prior engagements.

 

[peche]

did a couple of shoots on CSGO yesterdays night ... i suck .. left the game like 1 month ago ... gotta startover...

 

[FordGT90Concept]

58 hours into Witcher 3 and still not out of act 1...

 

[peche]

like 60 H on wow, stil 66 ... but closer to 80!

 

[rtwjunkie]

58 hours into Witcher 3 and still not out of act 1...

If you're not trying to race through it, and are drinking it all in like I believe you are (based on what I know), 130(+) hours is not unreasonable.

 

[BumbleBee]

i'm about 14 hours into The Witness and really enjoying it. it's nothing like Talos Principle. highly recommend it!!!!!!

 

[rtwjunkie]

i'm about 14 hours into The Witness and really enjoying it. it's nothing like Talos Principle. highly recommend it!!!!!!

I noticed you compared the two. Same studio?

 

[BumbleBee]

I noticed you compared the two. Same studio?

The Witness is an open world puzzle game in first person and it's really open like the only thing gating your progress is the knowledge of understanding how that puzzle's mechanics work which you learn by exploring the island and doing other puzzles. the puzzle mechanics change a lot and some even interact with the world or change it. it's more like Myst than Talos Principle. I think about the damn puzzles even after I put the game down

Jonathan Blow of Indie Game The Movie and Braid fame made it.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

If you're not trying to race through it, and are drinking it all in like I believe you are (based on what I know), 130(+) hours is not unreasonable.

I'm playing on the second-most difficult difficulty so every time I die, I have to reload and because the game is on the inner edge of my 3TB HDD, loading takes a while. It adds to the time quite a bit, me thinks, and only going to get worse on the hardest difficulty.

I was really hoping to get the Saskia/Iorveth save imported but apparently I did not; it seems to be a Hennselt/Roche save.


Edit: Crap, I just remembered:
-Hennselt/Roche/Triss (the save I'm playing now)
-Hennselt/Roache/Anais
-Saskia/Iroveth/Saskia

This is most likely the save I least wanted. Did anyone import an Anais save? Anything changed?

Edit: Comments on wiki says she was written out. Well that sucks, big time. Temaria should be free with Anais saved.


Edit: HA! I just discovered my weight problem in the game: I was carrying like 100 weight worth of books and notes! A walking library, I am no longer. XD

 

[ne6togadno]

...
I was carrying like 100 weight worth of books and notes! A walking library, I am no longer. XD

so much wisdom thrown away

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Yeah, I'd have rather stashed it but it doesn't let me. I feel like Radavid burning all of the books. At least I sold them to that book merchant in Novigrad.

 

[Ahhzz]

Does "Reloading My Work PC and Trying to Remember My Chrome Extensions" count? *sigh*.....
Fine. Still playing "Magic Hero Rush" on my phone between problems... and while ignoring the jamming 576DW on the work bench.....

 

[FordGT90Concept]

So...encountered another bug in Witcher 3...and this one is pretty hilarious:

Note his legs. It's like his legs got stuck in a crouching pose. Looks hilarious when running.

 

[Toothless]

Back to my MMORPGs to help little newbs, like always.

 

[rtwjunkie]

So...encountered another bug in Witcher 3...and this one is pretty hilarious:

Note his legs. It's like his legs got stuck in a crouching pose. Looks hilarious when running.

Wow, never saw that one, LOL!

 

[neatfeatguy]

I'm getting around to playing through Black Mesa. Got about an hour into it (though I forgot that the intro to the game before the action starts is almost 20-25 minutes).