What Game Are You Currently Playing?

I really must get around to finishing Unicorn Overlord (I could say this about a ton of games :LOL: ). I was really enjoying it but drifted away for some reason. I really loved Vanillaware's 13 Sentinels, too.
 
I too drift away from games, sometime in multiplayer games I get discouraged by what other people build. For example I was playing the Conan game and had built my self a nice but small castle, I went for a wander about and came across a massive Roman stadium. I was so impressed that I just retired back to my stone shack.
 
I bought HZD Remastered. It was only £10, so why not. Need a new PC so i can play it, though. :LOL:

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Bugg said:
I really must get around to finishing Unicorn Overlord (I could say this about a ton of games :LOL: ). I was really enjoying it but drifted away for some reason. I really loved Vanillaware's 13 Sentinels, too.
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The later battles can sometimes feel a bit more 'sloggy'. That said, I do like the way they often add elements to make the battles more distinctive. Just won one on the third or fourth attempt (unusual, normally I can just do them right off the bat) which had a slightly different additional defeat condition.
 
I'm continuing with Mass Effect 3 - it's very good by any standards, but I think I preferred the others. There's less to do in this one beyond talking to people and having shootouts: the hacking mini-games are gone, and so is the vehicle from the first game (as, thankfully, is the planet scanning stuff from ME2). The story feels simpler and the characters less appealing than the last one. For some reason it seems to think that more blue laydeez and the return of the bloody irritating psychic Jack is what players want. Oh, and the ship's computer is now a sexy laydee too. FFS.

On the other hand, the graphics are really good and the action is fine. There's an enormous subplot about capturing a space station that really surprised me. It's good, but something is missing.
 
I've officially given up with Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl.
I've enjoyed returning to it after all these years and I got as far as inside the sarcophogus but couldn't get any further. The radiation levels were just too high and I didn't have enough protection.......which is kind of ironic when you think about it....I used to work in a nuclear power plant and entering areas with high radiation levels was my bread and butter.

Art imitating (half)life?;)
 
Mass Effect 3 continues to be an impressive but slightly hollow experience. The removal of all the mini-games and vehicles from the earlier games means that it boils down to story (ie cutscenes), bits of busywork where you look for stuff and cover-based shooting. It's not really enough. At one point, an officer played by Keith David gives you a flat to stay in, and you can walk around it, standing about while you listen to about 15 minutes of Keith David telling this character's life story. To be honest, the story and setting isn't quite interesting enough to justify all the mucking about. It's still a very polished product, but I don't think there's all that much meat to it.
 
Well, Mass Effect 3 continues to be really quite odd. I seem to have stumbled into some DLC, which involves Shepard being separated from the other characters, falling down a big hole and fighting alone through a Blade Runner-style neon-lit market, then doing some vaguely James Bond shenanigans at a casino. The oddest element is the inclusion of a new, klutzy comic relief character, and that all the existing characters are suddenly trading wisecracks with each other. Given that the game is generally pretty po-faced, it feels like a big change of tone. It's as though an entirely different writer had won a contest to write a chunk of the script.
 
After about 80+ hours of play, I have finally made it to another planet in Factorio. :cautious:

Decided to first go and take out the big nasty worms on Vulcanus

But I do have a self-maintaining base on Nauvis that should be fine against biter attacks as it's protected by a gun/laser turret and flamethrowers. And I've researched all the basic sciences.

Just hope the Nuclear power plant doesn't run out of fuel rods while I'm unable to get back into space.
 
I finished the DLC bit of Mass Effect 3. After the tongue-in-cheek antics, you throw a big party for all your minions. It's actually quite pleasant and the introduction of comedy (mainly successfully) is a nice change, but it's very different to the rest of the game. I suspect that this is intended as a sort of proper goodbye from the Mass Effect world, which people didn't feel that the main game gave them. Now, back to the rest of the story.
 
Venusian Broon said:
After about 80+ hours of play, I have finally made it to another planet in Factorio. :cautious:

Decided to first go and take out the big nasty worms on Vulcanus

But I do have a self-maintaining base on Nauvis that should be fine against biter attacks as it's protected by a gun/laser turret and flamethrowers. And I've researched all the basic sciences.

Just hope the Nuclear power plant doesn't run out of fuel rods while I'm unable to get back into space.
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Ive seen this game and avoided it until I have some time off to sink into it! It looks really addictive.

I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy with my daughters on Switch, it's a really well made game, definitely triple A.

Storyline seems good enough and the mechanics are really well done - I especially like the exploration and that exploring is rewarded with "Field Guides". I wish some of the puzzles were more complicated and some of the enemies more challenging, but par the course for games aimed at slightly younger audience.
 
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Toby Frost said:
I've heard that it's very good, but I've never really been interested in Harry Potter. Is it one for the fans only, or would someone who knows very little about the setting enjoy it?
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Its hard for me to say - having seen the HP movies a number of time.

As an example of an Open World Fantasy Game - it's very solid, the music and other scenes are definitely built to harness that nostalgia power, although I can see how it would play for non fans. If I hadn't watched H I would still enjoy Legacy - it's an objectively well made game, well designed mechanics, good sound, great visuals.

I would definitely recommend it for non HP fans if they are fans of open world RPG type games.
 
SilentRoamer said:
Ive seen this game and avoided it until I have some time off to sink into it! It looks really addictive.
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Addictive? Nah not too bad, only played ~70 hours in the past two weeks. :ROFLMAO:

I had already managed to 'beat' the base game before, so I already had a few strategies and enough knowledge to handle the first part of the game. (There's a reasonably steep learning curve....but when you get the bug of automating everything and growing the factory it's enough to get you hooked IMO.) I haven't quite figured out true min/maxing and proper efficiency so my later base building tends to get a bit spaghetti and there's a lot of clever bot and rail stuff that I just tend to skip....

...but the new DLC simplifies the first part - in the original it was really quite difficult to launch a single rocket, in the new set-up you need to launch hundreds upon hundreds. And when you go to the other planets, they all have very different ways of getting the resources you need, so the gameplay loop just gets bigger and bigger!

Really one of the best DLC's I've ever come across in gaming. It really transforms the original: locks some of the tech so that you have to fly to other worlds; and expanding it into a much, much bigger game.

Repayable? Unfortunately for us, yes. Add in all the challenges it has - if you are a trophy hunter - build a rail engine in 90 mins etc... Different start conditions like Deathworld and it has a really dedicated following with a lot of modding, that now have a huge pool of new toys to play about with.

Game of the year for me. (Although it's really just a DLC).
 
Venusian Broon said:
Game of the year for me. (Although it's really just a DLC).
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I mean, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree was just nominated for Game of the Year and it's a DLC. If it's good, it's good, and some DLCs offer more content than many base games.
 
I recently bought a football management game called We Are Football. I thought it looked a bit more relaxing than Championship Manager, which always had me shouting in despair at my useless players. Now I'm shouting in despair at my useless players in this new footie management game. Alex Ferguson has got nothing on me when it comes to giving my PC the 'hairdryer' treatment.

Ragequit!
Ragequit!
Ragequit!

The game may change but the anger remains the same.
 
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