What video games are you playing?

[DeepCandle Games]

Been playing Space Hulk Deathwing beta and TW: warhammer alot along with FFOW (Frontline: Fuel of War)

Good times all around

[Jubal]

Been playing some My Mom's A Witch again - they have daily challenges now on the steam version which are good fun, and I've been teaching myself to use the archer character better

[Pentagathus]

Been playing a bit of AoW 3 again. Good stuff but I really don't have time right now.

[Gmd]

Been playing alot of Battlefield 1 recently. Decent shooter, like how they portray the 1st world war as the storm of pointless death it was

[Clockwork]

Whut?


Gmd man, I got a huge amount of respect for you. You rarely (comparitively) post but when you do, you post good and relatable armadillo but.... Power armour and LMG mowing down hundreds of dudes in WWI? I gotta disagree there, it portrays WWI horribly imo. Not saying it's a bad game, it's great and it's hella fun but does it really portray WW1 well? For me, despite it being an absolutely terrible game, Verdun takes the cake when it comes to WW1 portrayal. Staying in a goddamn ditch until someones takes your melon off with a goddamn high-powered-single-shot rifle which leaves you feeling depressed and useless. Same as always tbh. portugal life amirite?

[comrade_general]

Blops 2 zombies splitscreen is a lotta fun.

[Phoenixguard09]

Ladyhawk has been playing quite a bit of Dragon Age 2 recently, as she finished Inquisition and had finished Origins previously. It actually looks like a far better game than most reviews make it out to be.

Myself, I've been playing a bit of Europa Barbarorum 2 in my infrequent spare time. With that said, I don't get to play much.

[Jubal]

I'm still top of the monthly leaderboard on My Mom's A Witch. Not much else to report here

[Gmd]

I gotta disagree there, it portrays WWI horribly imo.

Said i like the portrayal, not that it was accurate at all The campaign missions are especially fun and all have decent stories.

[Koobazaur]

I'm some 4-5 hours into SOMA, gifted to me by some awesome friends at another gaming forum. So far really enjoying it, with intriguing story and atmospheric setting.

That being said, I think it suffers from a few big design flaws:

* There's a good chunk of moments (particularly in beginning) when you're in a new area and need to do something, without any clear indication of what it actually is. So you end up arbitrarily running around, flipping random switches, looking at items, until SOMETHING™ happens. Recent example - I was trying to activate a program on a computer but it wasn't working; the screen said I needed an extra "module" but no idea where it is, or what it even looks like. Turned out I had to run around the crew areas which I've already explore before to trigger an audio transmission that moved the plot forward. Ugh.
* On that, I am not a fan of the controls physics-puzzles. Some are logical, some just feel like arbitrarily twisting knobs and flipping switches until, again, SOMETHING happens. Occasionally they give no hint at all either, so it's just a matter of tediously running through all the possible permutations until you see an effect.
* As pretty as the game is, the environments can get just similar and repetitive enough to occasionally get lost. Particularly bad was the 3-level underwater station where you try to find a submarine. Many twisty corridors with tons of dead-ends, slowed down movement, blurred vision, no map, AND monsters lurking around. At the end there's also an unavoidable "monster chases you and you must RUN" section that took me like 10 tries cause I kept getting lost. I actually had to pre-plan my route and write down each turn to get through it. (Yes I know there's numbers on the walls but they weren't much help).
* This is more of a personal issue: I hate, hate, hate all the monster sections. Sneaky around unkillable foes is made worse by the obnoxious "don't look at the monster" mentality Frictional Games seems to adore. When you do, your whole screen messes up and glitches out. It's really damn hard to sneak by monsters you can't look at, especially with the aforementioned confusing layouts.

It kinda boggles me Frictional is still doing the same "mistakes" after all their games. But I guess their sales are going strong, so there is an audience for it. Might be just my taste (or impatience). For me, I feel the game would've been so much more enjoyable as a monster-less walking sim with some map or objective list at least.

Nonetheless I am enjoying it and the story is good, so glad I'm plowing through it. Just got to Omicron, and the plot thickens! Still finding the monster sections tedious but I think I've gotten better at em, managed to lure a monster away with some noises and ran past him. 

[Cuddly Khan]

Been playing Squad. It's rather nifty.

[sneax]

Lately, hm.



2048.

[Jubal]

2048 is very addictive!

[Lizard]

I've been really busy, so mostly I'm playing things I can drop in and out of without too much effort:


-Slay the Spire is a beautiful roguelike deck-builder that everyone should check out, on Steam's Early Access
-Stardew Valley continues to hold my soul. I downloaded a mod that lets me date Pam, the beer-drinking, bus-driving battleaxe who holds my heart <3
-Phaorah is a SUPER old city-builder, which I got from GOG recently, along with a mod to improve graphics performance on modern machines. I shall rule the Nile, and live forever.

[Jubal]

OML PHARAOH PHARAOH IS AMAZING

I love it to bits. I never got to the later end missions on the campaigns because I was terrible at it, but it's a beautiful game and I love it dearly