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What are you playing?

BFV is really all I play at the moment. Back log is building up...

If you are like me then your backlog will continue to grow anyway. The Steam Summer Sale is coming on the 23rd of next month and the GOG sale will come shortly before that. Maybe when I am retired I will clear out my backlog......or will buy even more games and continue to have a backlog as long as I live?
 
What is your top 20, rtwjunkie?
This is the best I can do at the moment off the top of my head while at work. They are not in any particular order, and indeed, some are so close that deciding one up over another would be difficult.

What Remains of Edith Finch
The Stanley Parable
Portal 2
STALKER CoP
Metro Exodus
Dishonored
Dishonored 2
Rome: Total War
Bioshock
Company of Heroes
Half Life 2
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Life is Strange
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Assassins Creed: Odyssey
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
F.E.A.R.
Fallout New Vegas
Call of Duty 2
Grim Fandango
The Solus Project
 
I really liked the first one but have stayed away from the second.
I got it as pack, Dishonored 1, 2 and Death Of The Outsider. It is not a bad game, if you find it cheap, give it a try.
PS: Freeroam during The Divsion 2, thought i heard something over the fence, i was not wrong.
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Playing A Plague Tale: Innocence. This is a damned fine, suspenseful game, that is story and setting rich! RPS even has two reviews on it that don’t say it sucks, which is not all that common for them. I’ve wanted this for about 5 months now, and I really am not disappointed!
 
Adding to the list.

Ori and the blind forest ( beautiful game if someone hasnt played it yet )
Factorio ( this is basically endless )
 
I got it as pack, Dishonored 1, 2 and Death Of The Outsider. It is not a bad game, if you find it cheap, give it a try.
The complete story arc of the Dishonored games (including Brigmore Witches and Knife of Dunwall) is one of the best ever. If you haven't played the complete series, you're missing out. Death of the Outsider is one of the best end caps for a story ever. I don't want to say much more than that.


I'm about to start the Curse of the Pharaoh in Origins. Getting close to the end of this game but I'll have to come back in a week to finish the Trial of Gods since they're timed (which is stupid).
 
Playing A Plague Tale: Innocence. This is a damned fine, suspenseful game, that is story and setting rich! RPS even has two reviews on it that don’t say it sucks, which is not all that common for them. I’ve wanted this for about 5 months now, and I really am not disappointed!

I also want to play it, the reviews are pretty good.

If it were not for my huge backlog, it would be a guaranteed purchase today.
 
Playing A Plague Tale: Innocence. This is a damned fine, suspenseful game, that is story and setting rich! RPS even has two reviews on it that don’t say it sucks, which is not all that common for them. I’ve wanted this for about 5 months now, and I really am not disappointed!

Damn that RPS review really tickled me in a good way. Listed for a sale pickup :)

The complete story arc of the Dishonored games (including Brigmore Witches and Knife of Dunwall) is one of the best ever. If you haven't played the complete series, you're missing out. Death of the Outsider is one of the best end caps for a story ever. I don't want to say much more than that.

Oh yeah, Dishonored, another one of those gems I never got to yet... :P
 
Oh yeah, Dishonored, another one of those gems I never got to yet
Add it to the list! ;)

I got to chapter 4 in A Plague Tale. So much effort went into this by the devs. The only downside is with having to occasionally use slingshot to fight. Those events are very rare, as your character is an automatic one-hit killed. You spend most of time stealthing or running like mad. Sling is very useful for diversions and knocking useful items down. The rats is a very interesting mechanic, the way they roll and twist and squirm over each other like a river, and the locations have to be seen to be appreciated!
 
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Redoing all the danger signs in Forza Horizon 4 (and collecting my gift money as I hardly ever play it any more), only to find that my Ambleside jump of 1074 ft wasn't quite as good as thought it was.
There's something weird going on here if a Lotus Elise can jump 17,000 ft. Still, I'm in the top 4% of 6 million players, so that's ok then.


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Add it to the list!

Trying to checkout Dishonored 2 on Steam and keep getting nginx errors for bad gateway. They must have had to trim some employees or equipment because of all those Epic exclusives causing some bottom line hits......:roll:

Edit: My lord, why is it still $40 after 2+ years? I paid less than that for Odyssey which was 3 months old.
 
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GTAV with a couple of mods
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@SN2716057 Not that it's real important, but Dying Light goes up there too on my list. Don't know how I left that off.
 
@SN2716057 Not that it's real important, but Dying Light goes up there too on my list. Don't know how I left that off.

Dying Light was surprisingly good. I really don't care for the whole zombie thing but I made an exception for Dying Light.
 
Started Chapter 7 of A Plague Tale. The narrative is compelling and has me on the edge of my seat at times. The voice acting and the tight script and well made level design are really keeping me hooked.

When you stealth, you are constantly looking for things in the environment to use. When you must get through fields of rats, where light sources repel them onky in a small circle, you have to again look at the environment to see how to extend that light
And when you are running for your life, you are there with the main character, the rush, the dread, the urgency. Well-played!
 
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@SN2716057 Not that it's real important, but Dying Light goes up there too on my list. Don't know how I left that off.
Oh no, it now is ;)

Dying light was a lot of fun, had more fun with that than with Mirror's Edge and Dead Island combined.
 
Oh no, it now is ;)

Dying light was a lot of fun, had more fun with that than with Mirror's Edge and Dead Island combined.
I did enjoy that, especially after Island. Island was nice, and I enjoyed the story premise/process, but the requirement for needing a workbench for everything was annoying at crap.


We need a thread for "What game are you looking to play?"

I'm looking for an alternative to Grim Dawn/PoE/Diablo2/VictorVran in the same ARPG genre, only less "Grim" or dark. Something like Torchlight 2, with multiplayer LAN capability. Maybe "Light and Pretty Dawn" ? :)
 
We need a thread for "What game are you looking to play?"
Oh yeah, that we do! It would be huge, with so many games that people never get to start.
 
On disc 2 of Final Fantasy 9 now and I have to say it seems level isn't that important in this one compared to 7. I do recall being in 30+ by end of disc 1 in 7 while I finished disc 1 of FF9 at level 12 or something. Currently playing it on Nintendo Switch and verdict so far its not the greatest port as its using the mobile and PC version mixed together, the load time into battle should be near instant in my opinion as it is digital and not loading off a disc.
 
We also need a thread for what games haven't you finished yet?
 
@Splinterdog Also known as the thread of shame. :laugh: I'll post mine when I get home.

Started Shadow Warrior 2 yesterday and I gotta say I'm tempted to try beating the game using only the sword.
 
Going to check out Planetside 2 with my youngest son, we both like Sci-Fi, he's more into FPS than I am these days, but with the DX11 update want to see what its about. I tried it years ago, but FPS titles just haven't been my go-to for a long time. Though we start talking Sci-Fi and FPS, and he goes to Titanfall 2, which is a great title I've been meaning to play through again.

But at the end of the day, when I have gaming time for myself I'm still playing Void Destroyer 2. Did some more missions, had an epic battle between an unknown and relatively unstoppable force known as the Outsiders and a combined initiative between all other known factions that were all to meet to bid/purchase some outsider technology. It was going to end badly no matter what as many factions either don't get along, or are just flat out against each other due to laws, beliefs, background, etc.

I barely escaped in my massive Ronin destroyer with 10 hopped up Cobra fighters (they sadly, did not make it...). My Ronin is not a fast ship, even with the added afterburner boost the Outsider fleet was hot on my heels. I have a lot of shield and armor, but their beams are chewing through said shields and armor far faster than I'd anticipated. Essentially I had a window while they were attacking the other factions to get away...I chose to stay and fight before deciding to get the hell outta there when the Outsiders turned to focus on me.

Next thing I know I have a dozen high powered beams trying to tear away the very life of my destroyer. Knowing my Ronin not only creates and deploys fighters but also has some very powerful (and upgraded before this battle) canons, I set the flight assist mode to off, accelerated as much as I could before taking on too much damage...turned around and started firing back while moving 500+ m/s in the direction I was originally going (semi-newtonian physics are present in this game... YES! :) ). Much to my surprise the weapon upgrade seemed to make the difference...prior battles I knew to run more because I wasn't able to inflict enough damage.

The million credit upgrade to my weapons really helped me take on the smaller flagships that were still faster than me, the larger ships were falling behind and were now out of weapons range. Between my deployed fighters and big guns, I was able to destroy enough Outsiders to achieve the 10K distance between the nearest enemy to enter Overworld mode and get the hell outta there (think of this as the low wake in Elite Dangerous...but it becomes a strategy/RTS layer instead.).

I was able to get back to one of my owned bases, repair and rebuild my fleet. Luckily all of my protected trade, mining and shuttle fleets were all still chipping away at their tasks, keeping my balance somewhere near 300 million credits at this point. I spent 100 of that building my fleet further as I noticed after this mission, there is much more of an Outsider presence in the game's system/universe, and while my protection fleets were doing their job I feel its only a matter of time before they're overwhelmed.

I haven't gone to do the next mission, but the description is taking a medium fleet (destroyer, gunships and some fighters) to take on a specific Outsider presence, I have heard things get pretty crazy. So I'm taking my time before approaching it. Enjoying the sandbox elements of the game. I also parked the Ronin and set my fleet lead ship to my spec'd up Eagle gunship, which is still probably my favorite ship in the game due to the amount of damage it can dish out in combat for its size and class. So fun to take into battle. The Ronin has power, but it is a slow, lumbering beast that requires more time to plan an attack to line it up and land it...granted in this game that really isn't THAT long or big of a deal.

The fact I was able to accomplish most of this in a half hour gaming session is one of the reasons I keep coming back for more! :toast:
 
Got all achievements and challenges (except the one that requires spending money to get all the things I don't want) in Assassin's Creed: Origins on Nightmare difficulty (never changed):
Trials of the Gods Completed|4
Player Level|55
Photos Taken|7
Playtime|104h
Abilities Unlocked (%)|100
Legendary Weapons Collected|28
Crafting Upgrades Unlocked (%)|100
Viewpoints Synched (%)|100
Daily Quests Completed|16
Hippodrome Tournaments Won|9
Assassin's Avenged|35
Arena Champions Defeated|15
Assassinations|1325
Kills|6447
Distance Travelled (m)|1,068,628
Game Progression (%)|100
XP Earned|830,597
I can't make up my mind on the game. It's no doubt a good value but I wouldn't call it a good game. Melee combat is still pretty atrocious (a pattern started with Unity) but they did finally make ranged combat decent which is a first for the series. The narrative was quite cliched and forgettable. All that said, I had more fun doing the everything than I did in Just Cause 2.

I could do the last two Trials of the Gods (Anubis on Normal and Bestet on Hard) but because they are on a weekly timer, can't do that for four or five days.


Going to do some testing in Consortium: The Tower now...


Whispers from the Rift (text choose your own adventure prequel to Consortium) is dropping beta channel on May 21 so I'm not going to commit to getting into much until after that. That unfortunately means Yakuza Kiwami 2 (and everything else) is getting shelved for the time being. :C


Edit: Did all of Consortium: The Tower I'm going to do now. Ended up playing some Monster Prom and...well, not a bad game but it's not for me.

Probably going to play Kathy Rain when I get up because it strikes me as short enough I can finish before Whispers launches.
 
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The narrative was quite cliched and forgettable.

This sums up many of the hero games. One of the things I liked about the witcher series: 'I'm just looking for my girl yo, F the world'.
 
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