What Game Are You Currently Playing?

thaddeus6th said:

Bugg, me, wrong? Unpossible!

Glad to be so. Still unlikely I'll pick it up (money, time, woe, me miserum etc) but if it's good, 'tis good.

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I suspect your PS4 would have a coronary as well

I played a couple of the earlier games and enjoyed them but didn't love them. This one, though. The combat, the characters, the graphics, the sound design - all fabulous. And Bear McCreary's music! Wow. It's epic.


The only problem I'm having with it - apart from not being particularly good at it! - is that it's obviously designed to be played on a bigger screen than my 32" one, so the text is very small, which is a pain when trying to read Atreus's journal or the bestiary, upgrading skills/armour/weapons etc.

Bugg, it does annoy me that a couple of games (The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition stand out) do make my old, fat PS4 scream like a jet engine at times.

thaddeus6th said:

Bugg, it does annoy me that a couple of games (The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition stand out) do make my old, fat PS4 scream like a jet engine at times.

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You should hear my PC playing Skyrim VR . Never knew the fans in there could get so loud until I started playing VR games.

Back on my previous post, I discovered last night that I actually bought Monstrum in the Steam Christmas Sale, but hadn't realized because it doesn't show up in the list of VR games in Steam. I'll have to give it a try.

Hearts Of Iron 4 - but the more I play it, the more I become irritated by some of the game mechanisms.

thaddeus6th said:

Bugg, it does annoy me that a couple of games (The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition stand out) do make my old, fat PS4 scream like a jet engine at times.

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God of War makes mine rev up a bit at times but it's not so noisy that it overwhelms the game's sound. I remember trying to play The Last of Us on my PS3 and the fans got so loud I couldn't hear what was being said without turning my amp up to ridiculous levels. That's the main reason I didn't play the game properly until I got the PS4 version.

Finished God of War today. Fan-bloody-tastic. It's the best game on PS4. There, I've said it

Disclaimer: not counting The Last of Us (cos it's a PS3 game, even if I played it on PS4) or Witcher 3 (cos I played it on PC)

Ha, I like your disclaimers.

I've seen a fair amount of gameplay. Quite a lot looks good but I'm not a fan of the new camera, which doesn't give enough field of vision (the old, zoomed-out one, was better, I think). Also, The Last of Us 2 will be out at some point, so you may need to reconsider then

thaddeus6th said:

Ha, I like your disclaimers.

I've seen a fair amount of gameplay. Quite a lot looks good but I'm not a fan of the new camera, which doesn't give enough field of vision (the old, zoomed-out one, was better, I think). Also, The Last of Us 2 will be out at some point, so you may need to reconsider then

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You're just making excuses now The camera can be adjusted in the options, not to the extent of the old games - which wouldn't work here - but enough to suit most.

Re The Last of Us 2, you may be right. But. One thing about God of War, bearing in mind it has a similar parent/child dynamic at its heart, is that the gameplay is paramount and it rarely takes control out of your hands, yet the story is still fantastic (the revelations at the end had my jaw on the floor, just like those other games in my disclaimer did). As much as TLoU is one of my favourite games its best moments are cut scenes where you have no control. Plus its combat isn't a patch on GoW. Naughty Dog will have to up their game, literally.

Aaah, I've just found The Witness and am bashing my head at some of the problems....this might have been a mistake.

Was playing Drop Dead on my new Oculus Go VR headset last night. I've played it before on the Rift, but was surprised by how well it worked on the sofa with a headset that only tracks rotation and not position. I guess it was originally a phone game, so designed for that kind of usage.

Looked at the instructions for installing the VR mod for Alien Isolation, but was too scared to try it .

BTW, the headset is great for US$199. The hardware even beats the Rift and Vive in some respects (e.g. better lenses and higher resolution).

Edward M. Grant said:

Looked at the instructions for installing the VR mod for Alien Isolation, but was too scared to try it .

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It was scary enough without VR


Since finishing God of War I've been re-learning how to play Galactic Civilizations III with the Crusade and Intrigue expansions.

I just finished Half Life 2.

What an awesome experience that was. I may go back and replay it on hard setting. HL2 Episode 1 first though.

I’m on a roll. Just finished Half Life 2: Episode One. Not being much of a gamer, I don’t usually complete my games (I’m not good enough, you see).

On to Episode Two. What next? Suggestions are welcome.

I would say Episode Three, but

Returned to Pillars of Eternity. A fair way through. My flame-headed former shopkeeper Selena has just attended Duc Aevar's hearing. He seemed like a sensible chap.

My first playthrough (on the default Easy) was as Pengel, the world's nicest Chanter. Selena's focused on being Rational (Normal difficulty). Next time, thinking of jacking up the difficult and playing as an absolute *******.

On such things: I really like Divinity Original Sin but I wish it were sometimes clearer where to go/what to do. I've not touched my current playthrough for a while because the fights I can enter seem a cut above me and I'm not sure where else to go. I appreciate the absence of handholding (likewise with PoE and Kingdom Come Deliverance) but a little guidance just so I know would be good. Of course, it's possible I'm in the right place and just not good enough at the combat.

Also, instant death traps/enemies suck. If they were Latin, they'd be Suckulus Maximus Sodofficus.

The Divnity games/series have often suffered from that situation whereby the developers kinda drop you into a situation with no lead as to what you're supposed to do besides just randomly talking to everyone (and often as not it seems that random characters you talk to wind up being key plot drivers). Worst was in the game where you can turn into a dragon where at the start you're specifically told to "stay in the village and wait." Which if you do you'll wait forever - instead the game sort of relies on you getting bored and wandering off on your own to explore before triggering one of the games most key plot points (I guess its sort of trying to make you into that bad-macho character that ignores their superior but there's no story lead into that at all).

Divinity 2 is a VAST improvement on that*; however it still has a gameplay style that is similar to the old Baldur's Gate game. Whereby sometimes you have to do a bit of quest, fight a battle. Then retreat and go do a bit of another quest, fight another battle etc.... Ergo do a few areas little at a time and get a level up before finishing off one area.
Also sometimes the battles require you to out-think your opponent a bit using the terrain. A well placed shot at a barrel might spill oil that you can then set aflame to set fire to a whole group of the enemy to give you the upper hand.


*I've never liked their games and until D2 the only one I bought new was Dragon Commander (which was a huge let down). Others I picked up mostly through bundles with other games that I wanted. So whilst I've never liked their stlye I've ended up following their games for a while; but Divinity 2 is where I think they finally hooked me with a plot and structure that works.

Yeah, I've read that Original Sin 2 (daft name) is very good.

I quite like that old style RPGs, this and Pillars of Eternity, are coming out on consoles now. Good to have some variety.

Was HALO only released on the Consul as i cant find it on Steam?

Halo 1 and 2 are the only ones that were given a PC release. Not sure if they have appeared in download version.

Halo 1 and 2 are also stuck in some kind of licence limbo because they are no longer sold on PC anywhere. It's one of the few cases where a game went from PC to console and stayed on console.
Although in more recent years the strategy Halo games have come to PC (I forget what they are called).