What are you playing?

[Tsukiyomi91]

Logging into Warframe every single day to get a new weapon; Sigma & Octantis, which only unlocks after reaching 700 cumulative days. =w= I can do this.

 

[EzioAs]

I have nothing but complements to say to Ubisoft for Wildlands. This is like Far Cry 4 mixed with Ghost Recon, but if Far Cry 4 was good. The main story is actually very coherent. The side quests are both pretty good and reward you with great rebel support,which is pretty well thought of as they provide a lot of really useful tactical options. The only reservation I have is that it gets a little arduous at times, since you have to collect various documents and files to pinpoint the people you're gonna go after in missions, and upggrading your skills and rebel support requires a doing lot of side quests, which in turn require a ot of travelling in the vast open world. The world is stunning visually and it will take a lot of hours before you'll get tired of travelling from location to location, in a helicoter,plane,on foot, in a boat or in a car of you choice. I'm currently 18 hrs into the game and my progress is at 16%. Looks like it gonna take me close to 100 hrs to complete it just like Watch_Dogs 2. So far so good tho, I'm not getting bored with it.

no I'm leaving it for the end.
btw I just remembered how much I enjoyed valley of yetis in FC4, it saved a mediocre game for me.

Well, I'm glad to hear some good things about Wildlands because I do have some interest in the game but I can't help but disagree how you consider Far Cry 4 to be mediocre. I thought it was the better game between it and FC3. Just my opinion though, taste is different for everyone. I haven't tried the Valley of the Yetis, so maybe I'll come back to that some day.

 

[jormungand]

no I'm leaving it for the end.
btw I just remembered how much I enjoyed valley of yetis in FC4, it saved a mediocre game for me.

Im telling you cuz i think is just for a limited time....

 

[cucker tarlson]

Im telling you cuz i think is just for a limited time....

Didn't know that, but appparently you're right, "Starting December 14 until early January".

Well, I'm glad to hear some good things about Wildlands because I do have some interest in the game but I can't help but disagree how you consider Far Cry 4 to be mediocre. I thought it was the better game between it and FC3. Just my opinion though, taste is different for everyone. I haven't tried the Valley of the Yetis, so maybe I'll come back to that some day.

Did not like the main story behind FC4, not in the slightest. In FC 3 the story was much better, getting kidnapped by a kidnap/slavery ring on a tropical island, fighting your way out of it against very distinctive bad characters like Vaas and Hoyt, losing your family and finding yourself as part of the rebellion in the process. FC4 tried some of that with Pagan Min and rebels but I did not feel it was well scripted at all. Most of the game was about creating havoc for no apparent reason other than player's entertainment. Not saying it was all bad, but definitely not up to FC 3 standard.

Wildlands doesn't have this typical Far Cry element of fighting against all odds by yourself, it's definitely not that. What is has done properly is (what it looks to me as) a well structured story of liberating a struglling community from illegal activities like a typical Far Cry game, although it is most definitely done in a Ghost Recon type of fashion.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

my custom pilot in Titanfall 2 MP server.

 

[Cvrk]

Gears of War 4
They say the single player campaign it's around 8 hours long. Unless you kill everything very very fast and you never die once,maybe. So far i got around 10 hours in it and i might me at the half of it.
It really takes you on a journey. Completely feel that it has Microsoft all over it, just like Quantum break, this is also a good way to tell a story.
The game doesn't crash, no stupid AI mobs that don't know what to do (Wolfenstein 2017) it runs very well. There is so much color, the graphics are silky smooth and vibrant.

The multiplayer even played with random people, Horde delivers big time! I jumped in it about 2 days ago and from the first moment i was good at it, unlike the people that had much bigger levels. It was very very fun,and as long as your team doesn't give up it can get exciting.
Versus not so much cuz there is really just one weapon that ruins the fun. The shotgun it OP

I think this is a game that does Coop very well. Sad that i did not get to experience it this way. I was the only one who put the money on it. The story campaign has coop written all over it. There are very few game that deliver story + action with coop from the very first moment up to 4 players. Only one i can think about is Left 4 Dead 1&2. (i got L4D2 on sale for 1,99$ on new years night)

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Played Aragami for a few hours. And i think this is all the time i can give this game. Don't think i will wanna get back to it any time soon.
It's a stealth game, that it has coop and it would be more fun to play like that. I did it in single player. You got some skills to upgrade, the graphics look very different and are easy on the eye, beautiful colors and everything is easy to distinguish (unlike garbage Black Desert Online). I feel it has a very good story, but i lost my patience with the stealth system etc.
Even tho it has violence (kinda).... i think cuz of the story, smart ways you can approach a level and the way it looks and feels (there is a calmness to it,you can take your time) i can recommend this game to children if they are above the age of 10.
Unlike the crazy repetitive grinding, over sexed mmorpg out there and other insane titles. with Aragami i feel i would let my kids play this.

*since it is anime/japan kinda...it is only normal i got a underskirt image (*neir automata )

 

[Kursah]

Playing through Doom 2016 finally, picked it up on sale and gotta say it is quite fun and entertaining, gibs FTW!

Then Polaris Sector + Lumens DLC has been my 4X go-to, after I got GalCiv 3 2.7 dominated (woot!). So far having quite a bit of fun, and while I do wish PS had better graphics, it's UI design, and overall presentation is quite solid. Some of the best (tactical real-time) combat in a modern 4X, overall the 1.6 patch has added/revised/fixed a lot of the complaints and wishes I had. I am not playing as the Lumens in this run, but plan to in the next one.

Then I've been getting into Ashes of the Singularity Escalation for my go-to RTS. It's just so damn fun and I find the AI challenging. Started over on all the campaigns with the recent adjustments and I look forward to dominating them and getting further on a couple campaigns than where I left off. Also starting on all the SP challenges as well, then if that wasn't enough, my youngest son is getting pretty good at this game so we line up some MP/coop action and have been really enjoying it. The game scales really well between his system and mine, and really for the settings being turned back to medium with high settings here and there from Ultra on my PC, it still looks amazing on both at 1080. I had some dialog with Brad W. of StarDock, whom said 2018 should be the year that Ashes sees transports, naval units/maps/warfare, an extra race or two, all sorts of added content and even more maps and improved modding support, and one that I'm stoked for...the planned meta map/campaign w/meta map!! Backing this game since Alpha, it's been a good ride...albeit not perfect. I wouldn't call this game a benchmark-only affair as many shrug it off to being (especially based on older experiences, pre 1.3 was meh compared to what we have today).

 

[cucker tarlson]

Gears of War 4
They say the single player campaign it's around 8 hours long. Unless you kill everything very very fast and you never die once,maybe. So far i got around 10 hours in it and i might me at the half of it.
It really takes you on a journey. Completely feel that it has Microsoft all over it, just like Quantum break, this is also a good way to tell a story.
The game doesn't crash, no stupid AI mobs that don't know what to do (Wolfenstein 2017) it runs very well. There is so much color, the graphics are silky smooth and vibrant.

The multiplayer even played with random people, Horde delivers big time! I jumped in it about 2 days ago and from the first moment i was good at it, unlike the people that had much bigger levels. It was very very fun,and as long as your team doesn't give up it can get exciting.
Versus not so much cuz there is really just one weapon that ruins the fun. The shotgun it OP

I think this is a game that does Coop very well. Sad that i did not get to experience it this way. I was the only one who put the money on it. The story campaign has coop written all over it. There are very few game that deliver story + action with coop from the very first moment up to 4 players. Only one i can think about is Left 4 Dead 1&2. (i got L4D2 on sale for 1,99$ on new years night)

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Played Aragami for a few hours. And i think this is all the time i can give this game. Don't think i will wanna get back to it any time soon.
It's a stealth game, that it has coop and it would be more fun to play like that. I did it in single player. You got some skills to upgrade, the graphics look very different and are easy on the eye, beautiful colors and everything is easy to distinguish (unlike garbage Black Desert Online). I feel it has a very good story, but i lost my patience with the stealth system etc.
Even tho it has violence (kinda).... i think cuz of the story, smart ways you can approach a level and the way it looks and feels (there is a calmness to it,you can take your time) i can recommend this game to children if they are above the age of 10.
Unlike the crazy repetitive grinding, over sexed mmorpg out there and other insane titles. with Aragami i feel i would let my kids play this.
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*since it is anime/japan kinda...it is only normal i got a underskirt image (*neir automata )

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I still haven't installed GoW4 that I got with my GPU last year, although I very much wanted to play it. This sucker says it's 100GB and keeps resetting the download progress.

 

[Cvrk]

@cucker tarlson Oh no. It's not 100 gb. it's 127gb and it can get bigger.
I have no idea why!!! But yeah it's huge.

@rtwjunkie gears of War 4 might be for you. it brings lots of story. Even tho i'm not sure your into shooting so many mobs. The game turns into one shooting mania, but it's done right.

I feel like Call of Duty is done stupid! The idea with all these games is get to the point where the game will trigger next scene. Staying in cover and trying to fight will never work! In CoD: WW2 there was many moments like this, even a ridiculous one where i moved from left to right and at that point the game triggered the scene...your gonna have a bot say "ok guys it's all clear" and the enemy bots will just go away.

GoW 4 is not like this. There is a small but skilled group of enemies that attack in every scene. It's more about the AI putting up a fight then the numbers. And you have to clear them all out to proceed.
But with every game in the category, the friendly bots are stupid. They will help you if you get down, but that is it. You need to do the 95% of the shooting and taking down the enemies. Which is fine, i guess this is what we pay for....but here the element of coop is huge Actually playing with a friend can be super fun cuz everyone can hold there own and the battle is much more easy.
Again GoW4 is a perfect example of a Coop story shooter done very well.

 

[Guitar]

It's too bad you can't get GoW4 on Steam.

Playing the usual but did play some AoE 2 HD this weekend...forgot how much fun that game is, also how much I suck at it lol. I don't really like using keyboard/learning shortcuts etc. for (most) games, so I only use the mouse and just play with that for the most part, which makes it much harder I'm sure. Either way it's a relaxing fun game that IMO still holds up (which is cool because most games from childhood usually don't).

 

[rtwjunkie]

@rtwjunkie gears of War 4 might be for you. it brings lots of story. Even tho i'm not sure your into shooting so many mobs. The game turns into one shooting mania, but it's done right.

You got that right, I like a story. How is the gameplay compared to first one? If the mobs are same way as f1rst, I'd probably like the shooter aspect.

I hear that MS makes it install on your C drive? Is that so? You get no say at all? That's too much space for my boot SSD if true.

 

[Cvrk]

I played Gears of War back in the days...cuz there's only one more title (the first one) that has PC version...and like i said it's been a long time. I feel maybe the mobs are smarter now, and also they kinda feel the same. But now you have new enemies, new mobs to shoot. Things is first GoW was very innovative. It had real real coop. Missions where you had to keep your friend in the light while he was attacked by locust mobs, missions where one was doing the driving and the other the shooting etc...it was something the world has not seen i terms of shooter coop.
Looking on the internet,it has many chapters and i think i am almost a quarter in the game,after about 8 hours or more in single player,but so far i have not seen innovation.

We are sick and tired of games being less than what they were. Not true for all titles,but most of them. So far ,and I should wait until i finish this but GoW 4 is less than the original title. Than again Call of Duty 2 was much more than what WW2 2017 is....by miles ahead.

Overall if you like the first, you will like this one too. And well i am more than anything a single player story type of guy. There is not much to play out there,that brings it in. So which ever title i get i play....even if i have to pay for it (crazy right).
@rtwjunkie you recommended AC Origins, thing is that is way to expensive for me at the moment...far to expensive, especially considering the very negative reviews it got.


@Guitar i played AoE 2 HD on new years eve , i was tired and i did not find the focus for it. Every time we do a Lan party we must do AoE 2 HD....this time i just did not have the power for it, and we ended up losing about 3 games until we went for Left 4 Dead Coop Campaign for 1,99$ on sale. It was more exciting and mindless ....so it kept me from going to bed.
I will most definitely come back to L4D 2 cuz it has so many mods.


If any you guys get GoW 4 let me know...we will do Horde together. The best part is at each round you get to see the one that got the most points, and after each 10 levels you get a boss....the one at lvl 10 no big deal but after that lvl 20+ it gets really hard and fun.

 

[EzioAs]

I hear that MS makes it install on your C drive? Is that so? You get no say at all? That's too much space for my boot SSD if true.

No, you can change where to install store apps/games but you need to change it in Settings>System>Storage>Change where new Content is saved. Annoying, I know, so if you guys think so too, try to give them feedback on the Feedback Hub cause I've seen Microsoft made a lot of changes based feedback they got there.

 

[Cvrk]

Almost.

When installing GoW 4 it asks you to have more than 120 GB of free space. Then you can browser and chose to install where ever you want.
I did not change the default location from Store settings.

The problem is they say it's no refund.

 

[EzioAs]

Almost.

When installing GoW 4 it asks you to have more than 120 GB of free space. Then you can browser and chose to install where ever you want.
I did not change the default location from Store settings.

The problem is they say it's no refund.

Oh, they did improve on that now? Good to hear. Last game I installed was ReCore and that was about a year ago I think.

 

[BiggieShady]

Playing Assassin's Creed: Origins ... it's such a cpu hog, playing it on ultra quallity toasting both cpu and gpu at 80 C

 

[rtwjunkie]

Playing Assassin's Creed: Origins ... it's such a cpu hog, playing it on ultra quallity toasting both cpu and gpu at 80 C

Yeah, it was always between 60 and 80% CPU use, but as long as the game ran ultra smooth at ultra (and it did) for me, I didn't care.

 

[BiggieShady]

Yeah, it was always between 60 and 80% CPU use, but as long as the game ran ultra smooth at ultra (and it did) for me, I didn't care.

My i5 goest to 100% routinely ... low but steady frame rate, as console people would say - cinematic experience

 

[StrayKAT]

Playing Assassin's Creed: Origins ... it's such a cpu hog, playing it on ultra quallity toasting both cpu and gpu at 80 C

I keep hearing that about the cpu. Are there like... huge cities or something (more than before, I mean?)

 

[Cvrk]

@BiggieShady tell me all about it.
Hows the story?
One of my main reviews talked about the game, and pointed two very important things that convinced me not to buy:
a) it has the most boring story and meaningless flow of all AC games, even way worst than the first one
b) the enemies AI are relentless, they never give up in following you..before you know it you will have an entire town of guards after you,either you get the mission perfect or you will lose considering that if you run it's impossible to escape ...they just keep coming.
....and also they have changed the combat system and unlike Dark Souls it has a delay,so it almost doe snot matter when you block or dodge ...it's buggy and there for you will get hit even if you perform a block at the right time

 

[rtwjunkie]

I keep hearing that about the cpu. Are there like... huge cities or something (more than before, I mean?)

Yes, there are. There are no loading screens. It is a very expansive seamless world, and so many people with their own conversations and routines in cities that Bethesda should be asking them how they do it.

@BiggieShady are you on a higher resolution? I'm at 1080p and getting 50-60 fps constant.

@Cvrk :

a) the story is very well put together, flows well, and allows you to do whatever side quests you want when you want, much like TW3.

b) reviews lied to you. That is not how the AI is. You can leave their area and lose them very easily, especially in a town or city, which is how it should be. Also, the guards or soldiers in one area treat me as if they don't know I just slaughtered their friends two towns away, which is as it should be.

Overall, this is better than Black Flag. I enjoyed it very much.

 

[StrayKAT]

Yes, there are. There are no loading screens. It is a very expansive seamless world, and so many people with their own conversations and routines in cities the Bethesda should be asking them how they do it.

@BiggieShady are you on a higher resolution? I'm at 1080p and getting 50-60 fps constant.

@Cvrk : a) the story is very well put together, flows well, and allows you to do whatever side quests you want when you want, much like TW3.

b) your friends lied to you. That is not how the AI is. You can leave their area and lose them very easily, especially in a town or city, which is how it should be. Also, the guards or soldiers in one area treat me as if they don't know I just slaughtered their friends two towns away, which is as it should be.

Overall, this is better than Black Flag. I enjoyed it very much.

I might actually play. I stopped AC after AC2. I don't really care about the series outside the Hashashin template.. but AC1 was still early and the gameplay wasn't great. So this sounds like an improved Mid East game.

 

[BiggieShady]

@BiggieShady tell me all about it.
Hows the story?

Very RPG like, one main quest line and side quests sprinkled on the map ... don't know about story quality, I'm not that deep into the story, spent most time exploring very detailed world and doing side stuff. Character progression is also RPGish with ability tree and points on level up. Movement wise, they got rid of High profile/Low profile mode and you have sneak on toggle like in syndicate but hood on separate toggle.

@BiggieShady are you on a higher resolution? I'm at 1080p and getting 50-60 fps constant.

Nope 1080p, using GTX 970 and i5 @4.2 doing 40-50 mostly, didn't got to Alexandria yet, it may sink sub 40fps there for me as I'm reading

 

[rtwjunkie]

Very RPG like, one main quest line and side quests sprinkled on the map ... don't know about story quality, I'm not that deep into the story, spent most time exploring very detailed world and doing side stuff. Character progression is also RPGish with ability tree and points on level up. Movement wise, they got rid of High profile/Low profile mode and you have sneak on toggle like in syndicate but hood on separate toggle.

Nope 1080p, using GTX 970 and i5 @4.2 doing 40-50 mostly, didn't got to Alexandria yet, it may sink sub 40fps there for me as I'm reading
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Ok, i5 and 970, I didn't pay attention. The game will use as many threads as you can give it, so it has been loading my i7 across the board, and I get 50-60 with a 980Ti, which is also loading good enough to keep the fan in fan profile mode running at 75%. It is a taxing game!

 

[BiggieShady]

It is a taxing game!

I guess burning my machine will be good enough reason to upgrade