What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I have sort of been unable to find anything to play. Once in a while I pop in a racing game for a few laps, but I have not found something to play on a regular basis. It is odd, but I am rather enjoying the free time to do other things. It has been a couple years since gaming was not my primary pastime. Leaving EVE Online frees up time . . . go figure.
 
Sodice said:
I have sort of been unable to find anything to play. Once in a while I pop in a racing game for a few laps, but I have not found something to play on a regular basis. It is odd, but I am rather enjoying the free time to do other things. It has been a couple years since gaming was not my primary pastime. Leaving EVE Online frees up time . . . go figure.
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Tried getting into EVE recently. Can't get to grips with it :p

I've mostly been playing the Destiny Beta and some Battlefield 4.
 
Gawian said:
Tried getting into EVE recently. Can't get to grips with it :p

I've mostly been playing the Destiny Beta and some Battlefield 4.
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I loved EVE for many years, but I eventually ran out of inspiration once most of the people I knew had left.

How is Destiny?
 
I got obsessed with BF 4 when it first came out. I got to division 1 in carbines and overall skill then had to quit, it's like a drug that makes you angry!

recently I've been playing Fez, a pleasant indie platformer, and luftstrauser, a mental game about planes.
 
Pretty hooked on Mario Kart 8 still. It's potentially my favorite in the series. That and playing through Bioshock 2 again just because i bought it in a Steam sale.
 
Gone back to The Last Of Us and Dragon's Dogma. I tried replaying The Last Of Us after my first completion but it felt a bit weird. With more time having passed I can enjoy a replay more.

Dragon's Dogma's a great game, albeit flawed. I hope they do make a sequel and sort out the voice-acting, lore, world and storyline. I know that sounds like everything, but the character creator's rather good and the gameplay is fantastic.
 
Lenny said:
What makes it a great game is not the gameplay, obviously, but the level designs (think the cityscapes from the most recent "I Am Legend" film), the atmosphere (even when you're safe, you can't help but be scared that something is going to burst around the corner), and the story.

The story in The Last of Us is brilliant, with a heavy focus on how the characters deal with the world - two main POVs. The first is a man who can remember the world before the infection, and the second is a fourteen year-old girl who only knows this world.

I totally agree with all the reviews that said TLoU is a genre- and generation-defining game. With the possible exception of the recent The Walking Dead games, I've never seen or heard of a game that deals with an infection-based apocalypse quite so well, with a story this deep. And although the gameplay doesn't bring anything new to the table, it doesn't detract from the rest of the game.
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I just finished this game the other day, and man was it incredible. Worthy of all the praise it received. It was tense and emotional and horrifying and everything I hoped it would be. Can't wait to download Left Behind and take a crack at that.

I just ordered the God of War saga, so I'm going to be playing some of those as well. Might check out Bioshock Infinite.
 
Not sure what's included in the GoW Saga. I've played the main games, from first to third, but none of the side-games (for PSP and suchlike). Generally, I enjoyed them quite a lot.

I'm replaying Dragon's Dogma. I wish they'd made just a few tiny tweaks (a single save file for an RPG is just monumentally stupid and unnecessary) but I really love the combat. I really hope Dragon Age: Inquisition lives up to the hype (and The Last Of Us is proof that a game can).

They're making a film of The Last Of Us, and there's talk of a possible sequel.
 
Since the Destiny beta, I've been craving Guild Wars - found my installation files on an old hard drive, and I've just fired it up. Incredibly, everything still works, and I can remember my password! :D

So great to hear the login screen music again.
 
I'm in the middle of another playthrough of the Mass Effect series (maybe halfway through ME2), which I'm annoyed that I started because I'm only partway through Fallout 3, and have Borderlands 1/2 and Assassin's Creed IV that I have yet to start.
 
I reactivated a couple EVE Online accounts but do not really 'play' much. Mostly just trading and managing market orders. Rarely undock from the station. :p Just too busy to really play, but love it too much to stay inactive for too long.
 
On my PS3 I'm playing Uncharted 2, Dead Space 3 and Resistance 2.

It's so cheap to get these from pre-owned game stores like CEX. Drake and Resistance cost me £3 and £2 respectively!

I'd heard a lot of good things about the Uncharted franchise and I must say that I can't see how it has had the plaudits it has. It's very linear with a restricting on-rails approach to the chapters and the combat system is a bit pow-pow-pow. I love the approach that the Assassin's Creed franchise has to take downs where planning and stealth reward you with successful mission outcomes (altho' AC3 was just awful in that regard), and I think the Uncharted franchise could learn a lot from that. However, these are old games now and with next gen out it's a bit redundant of me to say that. I just recall other early PS3 games that did better combat mechanics.

I play Clash of Clans and the new Star Wars version of that game model: Star Wars Commander on my iPad.

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Phyrebrat said:
I'd heard a lot of good things about the Uncharted franchise and I must say that I can't see how it has had the plaudits it has. It's very linear with a restricting on-rails approach to the chapters and the combat system is a bit pow-pow-pow. I love the approach that the Assassin's Creed franchise has to take downs where planning and stealth reward you with successful mission outcomes (altho' AC3 was just awful in that regard), and I think the Uncharted franchise could learn a lot from that. However, these are old games now and with next gen out it's a bit redundant of me to say that. I just recall other early PS3 games that did better combat mechanics.
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At the time of each release, the Uncharted games were pushing what the PS3 could do. The combat isn't great, and the games are entirely linear (which I personally quite enjoyed **), but graphically they had no equals***, and the stories and characters were highly praised - the first became, arguably, the PS3's first must-have game, and the franchise grew from there into what is now seen as a rival to things like Tomb Raider.



** Everything seems to be sandbox these days, so it's nice to sit down and just play without having to cross the map every freakin' time you want to progress in the story

*** Both in terms of looks, and, particularly the first, the use of actual actors for the cutscenes and character animation - mocap was a rarity before Uncharted. It might not have popularised its use, but it was definitely one of the first really big games to use it
 
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Conquest: Frontier Wars - if only for the stirring soundtrack!
 
Gawian said:
Tried getting into EVE recently. Can't get to grips with it :p
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You are far from alone in this.

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It is an absolutely brutal game to get into. Not only the learning curve, but also the way the game is set up can make it very, very slow to get started and feel like you are doing much.
 
I've played the first two Uncharted games, but didn't feel the need to try the third. They're enjoyable, but I prefer games that I can sink hundreds of hours into, as rule.

I've only played the second Assassin's Creed game. It disappointed me enormously because it had lots of the right ingredients (a non-typical historical setting, assassinations, free-roaming, various missions). The running around and climbing soon bored me (unlike, say, the swinging around in the PS2 Spiderman 2 game, which was so fantastic it was worth a game by itself), the missions were tedious, the 'modern day' setting pointless and boring. The combat didn't interest me much either.
 
I enjoyed the first two Uncharted games purely because I am a sucker for the Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider type of setting. And 'sucker' really is the right word - I do not know what it is about that sort of story, but I just love them. If I were to step back from the love of that setting, Uncharted 1/2 were decent games but the recent Tomb Raider reboot blew them out of the water. To the point that as long as they keep releasing the new Tomb Raiders via Steam, I will likely not continue playing the Uncharted series. That and the fact that I recently purchased every Tomb Raider ever made. So I have a lot of replaying to do. :D
 
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