What are you playing?

[udidwht]

Modules?

All but a few.

 

[Calmmo]

Dying light 2, its been pretty entertaining so far, certainly better than i remember the original from.. 2014? Story/character wise nothing much but certainly better than the original.

 

[Ruru]

Did you like the originals?

Yeah, I remember playing those as a kid, mostly on PS1

 

[Kanan]

Yeah, I remember playing those as a kid, mostly on PS1

I played the original C&C in school on crappy old giveaway machines, later a bit C&C 3 / RA I / II and GENERALS ... all nice games, kinda sad what happened to C&C, it's gone?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yeah, I remember playing those as a kid, mostly on PS1

Then you will be delighted with the remasters. A lot of love and attention to detail was put into them and they are a wonderful recreation of the originals. This is one of those rare events when I give praise to something from EA.

 

[Ruru]

Then you will be delighted with the remasters. A lot of love and attention to detail was put into them and they are a wonderful recreation of the originals. This is one of those rare events when I give praise to something from EA.

Making a GOOD remaster is indeed a rare thing. One which I like a lot is Duck Tales Remastered.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Making a GOOD remaster is indeed a rare thing. One which I like a lot is Duck Tales Remastered.

Same! The Bioshock 1 & 2 remakes are very good as well.

 

[INSTG8R]

Then you will be delighted with the remasters. A lot of love and attention to detail was put into them and they are a wonderful recreation of the originals. This is one of those rare events when I give praise to something from EA.

Hmmm I should see if they are on EA play via Gamepass I do have most of the originals on Origin already

 

[jormungand]

Tried today God of War on pc and damn guys the game its a really masterpiece. I don't play the original one on Playstation but I play one of the first God of War in Playstation 2 and Kratos give a really nice memories when I was kid. The environment and textures are really well made

ohhhh ..you will get the real vibe....you will see and feel the fire. How satisfying!!!!!!!

 

[SN2716057]

Pillars of Eternity, still a fun game.

 

[Vayra86]

Finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider second playthrough, now I've played the entire reboot serie 2 times.
Really like these games, hope there will be more at some point.
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I also completed whatever Outriders had to offer for now.
Story and also the hardest difficulty end game content CT 15 solo Eye of the Storm with a firepower blighted rounds +freeze/borealis build Technomancer. 'yes its broken OP but thats not on me'
Its really not that bad considering I spent only ~10$/euro on it and it still offered me ~80 hours of playtime with 1 char and the story itself was fairly long.
Might give it a look again once the DLC is out.

Outriders lol... I couldn't complete the Expeditions. The grind. The non existant skill cap. The sponges... Man... Shallow doesn't even begin to describe it.
Halfway through the game I found my combo of skills and weapon mods that basically meant I couldn't die. And I didn't ever since. Its a strange concept. A coverbased shooter that keeps throwing stuff at you that makes you not want to sit in cover, and yet, keeps presenting maps that are riddled with cover objects (and ONLY that - a small arena with a bunch of crates, half height walls and sandbags is basically the game). The game wants you to play it yolo style, mashing buttons 1-3 and holding fire all the time while aiming. Otherwise its a massive drag.

What really struck me was the major gap between voice acting and the actual story/dialogue. I mean, those voice actors really did everything they could to make it 'something'... but the story is... well... not sure really what it is, I still ended up skipping what was otherwise well voiced stuff.

 

[Sithaer]

Outriders lol... I couldn't complete the Expeditions. The grind. The non existant skill cap. The sponges... Man... Shallow doesn't even begin to describe it.
Halfway through the game I found my combo of skills and weapon mods that basically meant I couldn't die. And I didn't ever since. Its a strange concept. A coverbased shooter that keeps throwing stuff at you that makes you not want to sit in cover, and yet, keeps presenting maps that are riddled with cover objects (and ONLY that - a small arena with a bunch of crates, half height walls and sandbags is basically the game). The game wants you to play it yolo style, mashing buttons 1-3 and holding fire all the time while aiming. Otherwise its a massive drag.

What really struck me was the major gap between voice acting and the actual story/dialogue. I mean, those voice actors really did everything they could to make it 'something'... but the story is... well... not sure really what it is, I still ended up skipping what was otherwise well voiced stuff.

Not sure when you played it last time but I picked it up after the New Horizons update in 2021 november.

I had no problems with the story in overall, for a game like this its alright 'dare to say not worse than BL 3's either'.
I don't play these games for the story tho, if its somewhat mediocre I'm okay with it and more interested in the end game and the actual gameplay.

Tbh I even found Jakub and the Outrider's chatter + some dark humor in the game funny at times but maybe thats jus me.

Like I mentioned I did play a known overpowered class+build cause I wanted to make sure I can solo the game and progress with the end game content, I didn't just jump into the game blind.
Took me less than 80 hours to finish the entire story playthrough+side missions and reached the hardest end game content/Expeditions currently so its not that much of a grind imo. 'Usually I put 50-80 hours into each Diablo 3 season until my char is ready to push GRs so ye its kinda normal for me'

Cover system is yea a bit odd since the game likes to throw hordes of enemies at you, basically my strategy was to kill everything before they can kill me and just move around all the time.
Basically a pure DPS build with 1 defensive mod only + freezing most enemies with a skill and freezing bullets mod. 'lots of dmg multiplier on frozen enemies + blighted rounds is a busted skill'

 

[Vayra86]

Not sure when you played it last time but I picked it up after the New Horizons update in 2021 november.

I had no problems with the story in overall, for a game like this its alright 'dare to say not worse than BL 3's either'.
I don't play these games for the story tho, if its somewhat mediocre I'm okay with it and more interested in the end game and the actual gameplay.

Tbh I even found Jakub and the Outrider's chatter + some dark humor in the game funny at times but maybe thats jus me.

Like I mentioned I did play a known overpowered class+build cause I wanted to make sure I can solo the game and progress with the end game content, I didn't just jump into the game blind.
Took me less than 80 hours to finish the entire story playthrough+side missions and reached the hardest end game content/Expeditions currently so its not that much of a grind imo. 'Usually I put 50-80 hours into each Diablo 3 season until my char is ready to push GRs so ye its kinda normal for me'

Cover system is yea a bit odd since the game likes to throw hordes of enemies at you, basically my strategy was to kill everything before they can kill me and just move around all the time.
Basically a pure DPS build with 1 defensive mod only + freezing most enemies with a skill and freezing bullets mod. 'lots of dmg multiplier on frozen enemies + blighted rounds is a busted skill'

That's just it, you think you took an OP class/build but I just stumbled on it with a Trickster, and only by just adding a few weapon mods to the basic first three skills you learn. You quickly get to create a loop/rotation where only a chance, unlucky hit from something massive could kill you. The stuff you should always dodge, basically.

And yeah, those mods that promote agility and movement, or being close to enemies, combined with the skills that do similar, combined with enemies that keep tossing grenades to get you out of cover AND still hit you while you sit behind it...

Why the hell is this even cover based to begin with? its just weird!
And yes, the voice overs are good! That's another strange thing when the rest is executed so poorly. I think that describes it best... its just so weird all over the place.

 

[Sithaer]

That's just it, you think you took an OP class/build but I just stumbled on it with a Trickster, and only by just adding a few weapon mods to the basic first three skills you learn. You quickly get to create a loop/rotation where only a chance, unlucky hit from something massive could kill you. The stuff you should always dodge, basically.

And yeah, those mods that promote agility and movement, or being close to enemies, combined with the skills that do similar, combined with enemies that keep tossing grenades to get you out of cover AND still hit you while you sit behind it...

Why the hell is this even cover based to begin with? its just weird!
And yes, the voice overs are good! That's another strange thing when the rest is executed so poorly. I think that describes it best... its just so weird all over the place.

Yep there are bunch of mods that only work in close/melee range, I assume for the Devastator class but still even as ranged you aint gonna stay in cover anyway.
I did copy a build but I modified it a little since I liked certain mods better that still worked just fine and yea it was either kill or be killed.
If I went full glass cannon I was down in a few hits at CT 15 Expeditions/Eye of the Storm Reaper mobs 'most annoying enemies in the entire game' so I had to take at least 1 defensive in case I mess up or get zerged too much.

Trickster also has some crazy strong builds from what I've seen, I was actually debating between Trickster or Technomancer.
Game definitely had/has potential to be a fun looter&shooter but I'm not sure if they can ever iron out the end game and whatnot but imo for 10 bucks it was worth it.

Speaking of grind, I will have my grind cut out for me thats for sure since I finally started playing this last night:


Its the 3 days head start for the ppl who bought a founder pack 'cheapest being 15$' , last night it literally caused Steam to have issues with the last piece of download/unpack of the game.
Bunch of ppl were stuck with that including me, after like 1 hour I finally managed to get in the game only to bump into a 15k queue on the server I picked/wanted to play on. 'every server was full/busy anyway'

And ofcourse by the time I managed to log in my char's name was taken, mind you its not even a common name and I've been using it since 2010-11 so ye I wasn't happy about that. 'I have alternative names to pick from but still..'

According to Steam it had 500k+ players online so even if I count with the cheapest founder pack thats 7.5 million $ and the most expensive pack was 100$ and many bought that apparently.
Now I wonder whats gonna happen on friday when it opens to everyone, yep I'm not playing the game this weekend thats for sure..

I do plan on playing this game long-ish term unless something bad happens to it so yeah there goes my already lackluster real life and my backlog of games. 'I will still try to play at least 1 secondary game every now and then if possible'

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Finally finished Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. And with this my Witcher trilogy playthrough is finally finished. I feel kinda sad ngl. I have a personal policy that I never revisit finished games. The surprise and adventure just isn't there anymore. Well, time to reminisce about them in the future I guess. Adieu my friend Geralt.

I've done everything possible imo. Except anything related to Gwent. Fuck off with that rng shit. And no, professor vairmont. I will not engage a higher vampire to sate yout personal curiosity. Fuck you and your academic wise-ass to oxenfurt.

And such a good fanservice right at the end. I just *cough* ahem Geralt just loves Triss it's the best ending he could ever hope for.

 

[Ibizadr]

ohhhh ..you will get the real vibe....you will see and feel the fire. How satisfying!!!!!!!

Man this game is amazing, if you know how many times I played that game on ps2. This game its amazing and played it with such amazing graphics it's a piece of art. I don't remember when I play a game and feel this (g)old memories.

 

[Frick]

Portal 2. It was so long ago I've actually forgotten most of the puzzles.

 

[Vayra86]

Yep there are bunch of mods that only work in close/melee range, I assume for the Devastator class but still even as ranged you aint gonna stay in cover anyway.
I did copy a build but I modified it a little since I liked certain mods better that still worked just fine and yea it was either kill or be killed.
If I went full glass cannon I was down in a few hits at CT 15 Expeditions/Eye of the Storm Reaper mobs 'most annoying enemies in the entire game' so I had to take at least 1 defensive in case I mess up or get zerged too much.

Trickster also has some crazy strong builds from what I've seen, I was actually debating between Trickster or Technomancer.
Game definitely had/has potential to be a fun looter&shooter but I'm not sure if they can ever iron out the end game and whatnot but imo for 10 bucks it was worth it.

Yeah man, I mean the Trickster is melee range most of the time. All I did was teleport to an enemy, throw a bubble and then proceed to shoot stuff, and that was somewhere around 3-4 hours into the game already... The spare ability slot was used to test other stuff but none of it really holds a candle to just shooting everyone while they are slowed. But even so... you can add even more crowd control on top. Add some cooldown reduction and you can even be the bullet sponge, you just keep killing stuff to refill the shield bar and teleport again when you get low.

And that's not even counting all those mods you can throw on Its an absolute joke. I did have fun, gotta say. The progression through new weapons and stuff is nice, getting ever more ridiculous as you go.

Also... tactical assault rifles are SO broken, did you notice that? Way out of league from everything else. Submachine guns in tactical variants are easily the best, too, I found.

I ended up with this nice couple.. one for single target and one AoE... and then the Trickster can also get 5% weapon leech from passives

 

[Sithaer]

Yeah man, I mean the Trickster is melee range most of the time. All I did was teleport to an enemy, throw a bubble and then proceed to shoot stuff, and that was somewhere around 3-4 hours into the game already... The spare ability slot was used to test other stuff but none of it really holds a candle to just shooting everyone while they are slowed. But even so... you can add even more crowd control on top. Add some cooldown reduction and you can even be the bullet sponge, you just keep killing stuff to refill the shield bar and teleport again when you get low.

And that's not even counting all those mods you can throw on Its an absolute joke. I did have fun, gotta say. The progression through new weapons and stuff is nice, getting ever more ridiculous as you go.

Also... tactical assault rifles are SO broken, did you notice that? Way out of league from everything else. Submachine guns in tactical variants are easily the best, too, I found.

I ended up with this nice couple.. one for single target and one AoE... and then the Trickster can also get 5% weapon leech from passives

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I will just put my reply in spoiler to not bore/bother rest of the ppl here:
Can't play Lost Ark anyway, again 20k queue on my server and I don't have the time atm to wait 4+ hours.

Spoiler: Outriders stuff

Yeah anything that falls under the AR category is pretty good, my class is mainly AR and Sniper based and thats what I also use+ have bonuses for mainly.
Currently this 2 I ended up with but good rolled Purples/epcis are also fine until you get a usable Legendary.

I prefer the ones with at least 60 or more mag size since I have a mod that refills my mag by 40% when I kill an enemy under Toxic effect and thats what Blighted rounds skills constantly apply so if I can kill fast enough I almost never reload.
With my extra mag size passives I have 90 in the double gun and I think 140 in my machine gun which is pretty comfortable.
Sometimes I can do half a expedition w/o ever reloading tho it does happen more often vs tougher bosses but they still go down just take a bit longer.

That Claymore mods is also surprisingly strong and its a constant dmg just have to shot at enemies to trigger it 'great to nuke enemies out of cover cause it auto targets', the double gun is also not bad just harder to manage the ammo with it but it can destroy bigger mob packs really well.

And this is basically my only defensive mod currently, its kinda risky but its doable as long as I don't foq up too much.

Also thats the set I'm running, 90% exta dmg on frozen enemies is no joke since I'm freezing everything all the time except some higher rank enemies/elites that can resist it sometimes but I also have dmg multiplier on Toxic which is pretty much constant anyway.

Technomacer has life steal by default, you heal yourself with dealing damage and currently I have 20% weapon leech 24% skill leech.
Basically the gameplay looks like this on CT 15 Expeditions, I pop my Blighted Rounds and run around killing everything in a matter of seconds while my Health is doing the up and down game cause I take a fair bit of dmg but also heal back fast.
O yea and throw my auto turret whenever possible since it gives me +40% Weapon dmg buff for 10 seconds after activation and also use Cold Snap whenever I need to freeze everything around me.

As long as I can fire at enemies I rarely go down, most of the time its me being too agressive or getting mobbed in a corner. 'Yep Phantom Dash mod fixes that but then I have to drop a dmg mod'

 

[Frick]

Portal 2. It was so long ago I've actually forgotten most of the puzzles.

Ok yeah done I really have to play Half-Life 2 again. Good gods these games are great. I might even take notes.

 

[Ivan Bliminse]

Just installed Star Wars: Battlefront 2

 

[Ruru]

I'm pretty much done with FFX HD (PS3), killed every dark aeon and now I have Penance left, Tidus/Wakka/Rikku/Auron have their stats maxed (even luck) and I have the equipment which were used in an youtube-video about killing the boss. I'm not doing it dirty (using Zanmato). After that there's not many achievements left to get and not a single hard one left.

Edit: Done. The video was a great how-to tutorial, now I have only 4 or 5 trophies left (one of those is the platinum one).

 

[Cvrk]

 

[Sithaer]

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If only my server had that, its like always 15-20k unless I wake up early but once I log out then yea aint getting back that day w/o waiting 3-4 hours.
Since the founder pack headstart on feb 8 I managed to play a grand ~15 hours and the rest was queue waiting game.

 

[robot zombie]

I got in the mood to play some pokemon. I went for Platinum, as I've never played it before. I played everything up to BW2 except for that gen. I missed Diamond and Pearl.

Something about the music and feel of these games just does it for me. As RPGs I feel like they actually have a lot of things going for them. The AI and general battles you wind up in just make sure little of it comes into play. There's quite a lot of meta to stretch into, but sadly it's only just to do it as you don't need to meta to become massively OP.

This one seems less grind-oriented than others... the leveling is pretty fast. I'm up and running with a lvl19 Kadabra, lvl21 Luxio, and lvl18 Monferno. My typing is lacking, but it's giving me a good mix of physical and special offenses that I can use to get on top without needing the super-effective boosts. The STAB capabilities of creatures in newer gens makes that less relevant in the main games. Heck, Normal and Dark types with good attacks just stomp on all sorts of things with nothing but a good STAB move and maybe some buff or ability - they carry super-well. I just passed the "Viridian Forest" part of the early progression. They call it "Eterna Forest" but lets be real, it's still a similar progression. Another trainer joins you to get through, so it's team battles. The VERY first wild encounter was a pair of Beautiflies. Those bitches have 1% rarity, I couldn't believe it. I basically let my partner whittle them down while I spammed poke balls. Nabbed the remaining one on the last possible toss before it got dropped by my companion.

I'll never use that friggin thing, but stuff like that can make this game exciting. You know I have to catch some shinies.

So.. these games are kinda dumb and easy for me. I've been through my nerd-out phase with them and was honestly impressed by the systems they built. When you combine this with the mechanics of the pokemon... all of these items, moves, and stat dynamics... it can really get interesting. The games don't make good use of them outside of competitive play, though. People go nuts with the catching, breeding and hidden stats for that and it's this whole world of possibilities. It's fun to poke at in the single-player. But for me, the real draw is the overall charm. All of these top down pokemon games have a vibe to them that I can stay in for a while and just think about pokemon, because I played pokemon blue when I was ~7.

The thing is, I grew up and got a lot better at RPGs. But these RPG's haven't fully grown up with me. I know they're casual, but I'm talking about maybe having the ability to make trainers have better teams and strategize more adaptively... like really trying to restrict you from winning with simple strategies and requiring you to get into using more of the mechanics available to keep up. I love the whole feel these games have... just the idea of them is fantastic, too. I just wish they'd give you more to bite into sometimes. It's all there, but the overall difficulty is too gimped for cool, challenging, or interesting situations to happen all that often in battles.

Can the new pokemon games be harder? Or do they have the potential to be? How deep can you go into the mechanics before you're just rope-a-doping on everything on the newer gens? All I want in life is a full Pokemon RPG that rises to the challenges of the stuff it actually gives you to play with.