What are you playing?

Frick · Nov 22, 2018

New Crusader Kings 2 expansion, Holy Fury. First game, king Something of Powys, game over within a year. Cancer and no heirs.

Rahnak · Nov 22, 2018

Currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn.

Backlog: God of War, Divinity Original Sin 2, Shadow Warrior 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and a bucket load of the usual lesser Steam deals.

All I want for Christmas is time.

Frick · Nov 23, 2018

Second game in Holy Fury, this time as the king of Glywysing (they redid that part of Wales slightly, meaning more border gore; I intend to rectify that with the help of some bearded Saxons), and in a battlefield duel with the mayor of Newport he severed my chest from my body. Strangely it only left me severely injured.

FordGT90Concept · Nov 23, 2018

I oopsie whoopsied in Oxygen Not Included again. I had this genius idea to make my duplicants level up and then demote them so they don't overstress. Problem with that theory is that demotions don't reduce their stress level because it's based on a system of expectations. A CEO working an assembly line isn't going to be happy about his/her job, you know? By the time I realized how bad this was, I ended up having to load a really old save. That kind of bummed me out so I took a break to play Shadow Tactics. Did one mission and it took me 2.5 hours. Hardcore means hardcore.

List of games to play is getting painfully long (alphabetical):
-American Truck Simulator (still waiting on Tommy Tallerico to send me my 14 albums, should be any day now)
-Far Cry Primal
-Mafia III
-Outcast: Second Contact
-Oxygen Not Included
-Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
-Sniper Elite 4
-StarCraft II Complete
-Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Frick · Nov 23, 2018

FordGT90Concept said:
I oopsie whoopsied in Oxygen Not Included again. I had this genius idea to make my duplicants level up and then demote them so they don't overstress. Problem with that theory is that demotions don't reduce their stress level because it's based on a system of expectations. A CEO working an assembly line isn't going to be happy about his/her job, you know? By the time I realized how bad this was, I ended up having to load a really old save. That kind of bummed me out so I took a break to play Shadow Tactics. Did one mission and it took me 2.5 hours. Hardcore means hardcore.

List of games to play is getting painfully long (alphabetical):
-American Truck Simulator (still waiting on Tommy Tallerico to send me my 14 albums, should be any day now)
-Far Cry Primal
-Mafia III
-Outcast: Second Contact
-Oxygen Not Included
-Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
-Sniper Elite 4
-StarCraft II Complete
-Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

I'd still like you to dive into Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis. Then we can swap war stories, plus I'd be really interested in what you think of them (because you know your games quite well).

How hard are the achievements in Starcraft 2 btw? I just blasted through the campaigns, but looking at them they didn't look to be so hard, iirc.

FordGT90Concept · Nov 23, 2018

I'm not a fan of the "Grand Strategy" genre in general so they're not something I would choose to spend money on.

I don't know on StarCraft II. I borrowed Wings of Liberty when it came out, decided then that I would buy it but only when the complete trilogy is out. I probably would have bought it a while ago but I don't travel in the Blizzard ecosystem so I didn't know whether or not there was a sale on to make the purchase. The Destiny 2 giveaway made me install Battle.net so I was finally exposed to the ecosystem, saw the sale, and made the purchase.

hat · Nov 23, 2018

7 days to die. Alpha 17 (experimental) is out...

aliovalio · Nov 23, 2018

Hey guys! I finally bought red dead redemption 2 in very good price and it's working !!! I will be gaming all night !

FreedomEclipse · Nov 23, 2018

I played warframe for 3 days and I think I'm obsessed with it again :laugh:

Im at work but I just want to home grinding the alerts and voids. I've just been hitting those voids haaard

jormungand · Nov 23, 2018

Got it yesterday, main reason GoW, christ those 30 fps drive me nuts
My son loves the dbz game, only reason why i decided to keep it.
GoW game is pretty good but the sluggish gameplay kills the fun. I think that the pro
will give people a better experience. But $400 no way im spending that in a console.
At least not for myself....

AlejoZ · Nov 24, 2018

Some ReShade for NFSUG2

DeathtoGnomes · Nov 24, 2018

The cost of transportation a17e.

FordGT90Concept · Nov 24, 2018

Got through the Shadow Tactics campaign on hardcore. 35 hours and maybe only 1/3 of special objectives done (e.g. never touch water, never use a character, complete mission in x minutes, etc.). I'm leaving it on the "must play" list because I intend to do them but with so many other games to play right now, I think I'll have to circle back to it.

Edit: There are 18 hidden achievements I'm missing. :eek:

cucker tarlson · Nov 24, 2018

Taking a fort in Odyssey.They overpowered me in a fight so had to use all sorts of tricks. Lots of fun.

Vayra86 · Nov 24, 2018

AlejoZ said:
Some ReShade for NFSUG2

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Nice. Still one of the finer EA moments.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 24, 2018

Vayra86 said:
Nice. Still one of the finer EA moments.

Love that game but it kept crashing on WIN7 because I used hacks :roll:

jormungand · Nov 24, 2018

FordGT90Concept said:
Got through the Shadow Tactics campaign on hardcore. 35 hours and maybe only 1/3 of special objectives done (e.g. never touch water, never use a character, complete mission in x minutes, etc.). I'm leaving it on the "must play" list because I intend to do them but with so many other games to play right now, I think I'll have to circle back to it.

Edit: There are 18 hidden achievements I'm missing.

I have that one on my wishlist.
But wont buy it till i have time for it

rtwjunkie · Nov 24, 2018

There's a reason I keep a PC running W8 (besides the fact it just WORKS beautifully without update troubles). It allows you to play those old DRM-infused disk titles that have no digital version (and risk being lost to history ). Games such as Blacksite Area 51, 007: Bloodstone, and this one I found while cleaning out closets: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Two hours of wrestling with it and making .ini adjustments, I have a working, widescreen game. So yeah, this is what I am playing right now. It's been 15 years since I played it and have completely forgotten the entire plot and all locations.

Yeah, it hasn't aged well on looks, but it plays fine.

FordGT90Concept · Nov 24, 2018

jormungand said:
I have that one on my wishlist.
But wont buy it till i have time for it

Makes sense. The game, at least on hardcore, is like chess. Yeah, you can take out that guard but when you do, you realize two other guards are watching him so now you have to plot and scheme how to lure guards away or use "Shadow Mode" to make them all get killed syncrhonously. It's a beautiful thing when a plan comes together. Sometimes have to study the situation for a minute before plan of attack hatches.

There's RTS games that have missions in campaign that are similar but I can't name any that have 13 missions worth of it. Also, there's no leveling system. The things characters have are the only things they will ever have.

rtwjunkie said:
There's a reason I keep a PC running W8 (besides the fact it just WORKS beautifully without update troubles). It allows you to play those old DRM-infused disk titles that have no digital version (and risk being lost to history ). Games such as Blacksite Area 51, 007: Bloodstone, and this one I found while cleaning out closets: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Two hours of wrestling with it and making .ini adjustments, I have a working, widescreen game. So yeah, this is what I am playing right now. It's been 15 years since I played it and have completely forgotten the entire plot and all locations.

Yeah, it hasn't aged well on looks, but it plays fine.

That second picture looks vaguely familiar but the first does not. And yeah, that looks pretty terrible. I booted up Crysis a month ago and was disappointed at how it looked. Hindsight sucks in regards to gaming. :roll:

Tsukiyomi91 · Nov 25, 2018

nearly mistaken the word disk for "dick"... that happens when you wake up with one eye open xDDD
anyways; here's another snapshot of Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 Screenshot 2018.11.25 - 12.12.36.46.png

Gorstak · Nov 25, 2018

Tsuki, have you considered a career at moorhuhn?

Tsukiyomi91 · Nov 25, 2018

is that a clan in Destiny 2? If so, I may consider joining one.

INSTG8R · Nov 25, 2018

Can’t stop playing Farm Simulator 19 I was really enjoying Forza Horizons 4 but I’ve pretty much run out of things to in it.

Gorstak · Nov 25, 2018

Tsukiyomi91 said:
is that a clan in Destiny 2? If so, I may consider joining one.

@AlejoZ That looks awesome, I remember playing with a modified mazda miata, had the highest turn rate in game...went 300 km/h

That game really draws out the redneck in me when it comes to car tunning

FordGT90Concept · Nov 25, 2018

Outcast: Second Contact is a lot better than I expected it to be. It's open world with lots of dialog. The only thing I don't like about it so far is the combat feels clunky. It's obviously got some kind of auto aim going on that I should try to disable.

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What are you playing?

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

Rahnak

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

hat

Enthusiast

aliovalio

New Member

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

jormungand

AlejoZ

DeathtoGnomes

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

cucker tarlson

Vayra86

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

jormungand

rtwjunkie

PC Gaming Enthusiast

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

Tsukiyomi91

Gorstak

Tsukiyomi91

INSTG8R

Vanguard Beta Tester

Gorstak

FordGT90Concept

"I go fast!1!11!1!"

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