What game are you wasting time on?

[Unkillable Cat]

While your suggestions are appreciated, there is simply too much Wrong with getting the PC version of Dead Space to run properly, and I don't see how the various (and numerous) patches and work-arounds can help me.

I'm just going to write it off and walk away, it's better for everyone involved, but our Patch-thread has some stuff for Dead Space, so there's that.

 

[FreshCorpse]

"A Woman's Lot" DLC for Kingdom Come Deliverance. Stuck in this fucking silver mine which is a 10km long sensory deprivation walking sim except occasionally a miner will see you and then it's as good as game over. On my 6th attempt now but it's so long and dull that I end up making silly mistakes. On top of that I spent the past two hours performing mindnumbing shitwork for everyone and their dog who lives in Skalitz. Really looking forward to the part where the town is raized by Cumans. Please tell me it gets a bit better after that happens.

 

[pakoito]

I'm playing through The Outer Wilds, which is a timeloop game with pretty pretty real-time space travel. Each loop is 22 minutes and there's no permanence between them other than a log so you remember all the clues you've gathered. It's really well designed.

Finished it. I needed a couple of hints for some obtuse stuff at the end because I didn't want to "grind" loops to figure it out. Still managed to complete it all. The game's just gorgeous, and the non-euclidean stuff is better implemented in a story than in Antichamber.

 

[Walden]

Stephen's Sausage Roll.

One of the best games I've ever played for sure. Not a game for everyone, the game itself doesn't want to be accessible, and makes this clear right about the end of the first stage, in the Great Tower level. Such a clever design and amazingly mechanics are rare to be found. Instant classic.

Beautiful Desolation

Another instant classic for me, strong Torment and Fallout vibes, but the game stands on its own legs in an unexpected way. Interesting npcs, the south african slang fits so well, non linear gameplay and exploration, multiple endings for various quests with evident consequences during the play, truly beautiful handcrafted backgrounds, everything is inspired.

English Country Tune

Another game from Lavelle, less refined than Stephen's Sausage Roll, but some genuine good puzzles, horrible camera in some levels, high level of autism nonetheless.

Age of Decadence

Loved it from the beginning, the combat is ok, intuitive, has some depth, the game is beautiful, from the arts to the well done mixture of ancient history and Lovecraft's references.
I just wanted more contenent, Gannezzar feels rushed, which is a pity because it had so much potential. The writing is good, never felt like being thrown into self-refential wall of texts or savage infodumping. I'd have liked to have more approches depending on a single attribute or skill, the game plays too much as a cyoa, which is not bad, but I prefer to have multiple approches for rpg's sake. But from now on I'll devolve all my money to Iron Tower for sure, soon I'll go through Dungeon Rats as well.

 

[jackofshadows]

Age of Decadence

Loved it from the beginning, the combat is ok, intuitive, has some depth, the game is beautiful

Interesting. I fucking love AoD and it has some great art indeed as well as visual design decisions overall but still it's ugly as fuck.

 

[eilef]

Destiny 2. Game is literally getting canceled revoked in September, but i play it to pass the time and because I want to get the most of the deluxe edition i got. Why am i wasting time? Because with the changes they making, game is getting even more terrible than now, and grinding circle becomes everlasting, and most important aspect of the game. Oh, and all the cool stuff is leaving. Its like Bungie tries their best to waste all the potential there is in D2.

 

[Walden]

Age of Decadence

Loved it from the beginning, the combat is ok, intuitive, has some depth, the game is beautiful

Interesting. I fucking love AoD and it has some great art indeed as well as visual design decisions overall but still it's ugly as fuck.

I find the engine to be ugly as shit, but the level of detail and cohesiveness allowed by the budget and the design of the game for me is great.

It gives you some very low technically detailed structure, but the lack of.. almost everything, visually speaking, is well balanced by the texts, the register ( I almost felt like an archeologist, and not just because irl I'm poor as fuck, but that helps ), which wants you to rather figure out by yourself what marvels could have been were your clunky character stands now, with the little help of some well targeted arts.
The music is quite good as well, despite just few tracks looped for the whole game ( that's a shame ).
To me the devs just wanted to give you a strong and clever canovaccio to follow, outline and fulfill with your immagination, and the design of the game helps in a matter than you couldn't reach even with 300 graphic designers.

Spoiler

Npc models are though.

 

[Azalin]

Finished Catherine Classic, a unique block moving puzzle game about a guy with some commitment issues with some dating sim thrown in.It's good although weird since Nippon gonna Nippon.Recommended

 

[jackofshadows]

I find the engine to be ugly as shit, but the level of detail and cohesiveness allowed by the budget and the design of the game for me is great.

It gives you some very low technically detailed structure, but the lack of.. almost everything, visually speaking, is well balanced by the texts, the register ( I almost felt like an archeologist, and not just because irl I'm poor as fuck, but that helps ), which wants you to rather figure out by yourself what marvels could have been were your clunky character stands now, with the little help of some well targeted arts.
The music is quite good as well, despite just few tracks looped for the whole game ( that's a shame ).
To me the devs just wanted to give you a strong and clever canovaccio to follow, outline and fulfill with your immagination, and the design of the game helps in a matter than you couldn't reach even with 300 graphic designers.

Yes, it's quite remarkable how much devs have achieved with this piece of shit engine even visual wise. Descriptions here and there are also helps a lot in order to immerse. And yet, there's no way aroung it: the game looks like ass.

With Dungeon Rats they've managed to raise a bar a bit, however, visuals is not exactly a game's strong suit as well, obviously. But their new game - CSG looks so much better already thanks to UE4, plus they've fixed camera which was annoying to many players (for some reason). You can try the combat demo, unless you're absolutely don't wanna spoil anything.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Finished Control. Eh. The name says it all. Low-energy. Doesn't pop. Needs more... zazz.

Very Sam Lake game, yet felt phoned in. Even Quantum Break had a better payoff at the end. The combat was okay ish, the bosses were fine, but the end was just a gauntlet of normal enemies. It did the Half Life 2 thing of supercharging the player for the endgame so it was effortless anyway.

Raytracing was cool but wasted on the boring brutalist architecture. "Hey doods, let's make the levels ugly as sin but with really nice lighting." Okay.

Only thing I liked was the idea of a shared universe between the games (Remedyverse? Sam Lakeverse?) Oh and the Finnish janitor listening to heavy metal:

 

[luj1]

I'm playing Wizardry 6 and having a blast atm. I'm actully using this automap. Amazing game. It's surprisingly accessible.

 

[cosmicray]

Football Manager 2020 - I finally bought it. Gonna ruin my life now. Too bad my team have a dismal form lately.
Nier: Automata - almost have all weapons upgraded. Stupid Emil isn't spawning where I want it. Not sure if I'll have the stamina to beat DLC challenges.

 

[Kabas]

I succumbed and decided to try the Total War Warhammer 2. It's been awhile since i touched anything remotely AAA and it's my first time playing a total war game.
Decided to start as High elves(Tyrion) in vortex campaign to get used to controls and stuff.
I am having a lot of fun though i will likely abandon this campaign because spamming lothern sea guards seems to be a bit too much of an easy mode and there is a bunch of minor things i did WRONG.
My only complaint is that you can't trade cities with your Allies

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Yeah, they removed that feature. I dunno why they took away the option to trade cities, but its been gone ever since Shogun 2, iirc.
Elves are a pretty easy faction to play. If you want more of a challenge try skaven.
Dark Elves are technically a little harder too as you can't spam long range attacks like you can with Elves, but once you get the hang of them they can get pretty OP.

 

[DeepOcean]

Destiny 2. Game is literally getting canceled revoked in September, but i play it to pass the time and because I want to get the most of the deluxe edition i got. Why am i wasting time? Because with the changes they making, game is getting even more terrible than now, and grinding circle becomes everlasting, and most important aspect of the game. Oh, and all the cool stuff is leaving. Its like Bungie tries their best to waste all the potential there is in D2.

Really strange their excuse of why they are pratically removing 1/3 of the game to only add the Cosmodrome and even that, assuming they will add something to the Cosmodrome and it isnt just a lazy straight copy of Destiny 1, I think they have serious technical problems with the base source code of the game and they came up with this BS because it would take alot of time to fix the base code.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Felt like playing STALKER Call of Pripyat, what are the good mods? MISERY looks a little too hard core for me.

 

[Sranchammer]

Football Manager 2020 - I finally bought it. Gonna ruin my life now. Too bad my team have a dismal form lately.

Do they have no fan noise for realism?

 

[Ivan]

Felt like playing STALKER Call of Pripyat, what are the good mods? MISERY looks a little too hard core for me.

Gunslinger (especially if you don't want a giant mod that merges maps w/the previous two games.

Still though, I'd say STALKER Misery 1.2 is the quintessential STALKER experience.

 

[norklas]

Been digging into Horizon's Gate a bit.

 

[octavius]

Chugging along in Gothic, playing it blind.

I have explored most of the outside world, and I found that it was quite difficult to get one's bearing without a map or even a compass. The most dangeroes critters I'm now able to kill are lone wolves, so the progress is slow. Can't even scratch some enemies like Skeletons.

The New Camp is too full of thugs, and the Swamp camp is too full of god damned hippies, so I'll join the Old Camp, leaving the others for possible replays.

But what's the difference between joining The Shadows and joining the Old Camp? If there is a difference, can one be a Shadow and walk safely around in New Camp?

 

[Lord of Riva]

Playing Elex and Witcher 1 again. Elex for me and Witcher with my wife so she can for once enjoy games that aren't completely casual. I would play more prestigious games with her but the long texts paired with your different reading speeds drive me up the wall.

Chugging along in Gothic, playing it blind.

I have explored most of the outside world, and I found that it was quite difficult to get one's bearing without a map or even a compass. The most dangeroes critters I'm now able to kill are lone wolves, so the progress is slow. Can't even scratch some enemies like Skeletons.

The New Camp is too full of thugs, and the Swamp camp is too full of god damned hippies, so I'll join the Old Camp, leaving the others for possible replays.

But what's the difference between joining The Shadows and joining the Old Camp? If there is a difference, can one be a Shadow and walk safely around in New Camp?

All camps have at least two factions you will progress from the first to the second: novices and templars for swamp, bandits and mercenaries for the new camp and shadows and then gardists for the old camp. There are also the mages and one more "hidden" class.

And yes you are not limited in where you can go, in fact you will be handling some "diplomacy" between the factions as the story continues. Just keep playing and enjoy your choice...

EDIT: clarification

 

[Latro]

Went back to play Sangokushi Taisen Ten on the DS. No game like it, it's a 10 minutes real time tactics game. It uses cards for army composition. Moonrunes only, although I can hook you up with translations if anyone's interested.

please

 

[Yldr]

I just finished Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition and was thoroughly underwhelmed. The game is so stale compared to its smug trailers, the Duke Nukem DLC was the only reason I bothered pushing through to the end, there are some genuinely good moments though the post-credits scene is a missed opportunity to close on a Duke one-liner.

The irony is that once you have made peace with the fact that it's not a mechanics-oriented shooter, you have most of the midgame where it's fairly adequate as a story shooter, i.e. follow friendly NPCs through over-the-top setpieces. Like Bad Company 2, due to the marketing you would be forgiven for thinking it's a humor game, but in reality it's pretty "serious" and grounded.

Still, enemies can eat way too much lead, the story is nothing special, the gunplay is basically Dark Messiah with guns (enemies take forever to die so kick enemies into 1-hit-kill environmental hazards over and over), and in general I felt like I was playing a poor man's Inversion.

If you need your Duke Nukem fix / 10.

 

[baud]

I got the Halo collection during the Steam Sale for some FPS action. I played some of the Halo Reach campaign, it's fun even if the movement feels sluggish on foot and the idea of controlling vehicles with the mouse is unusual. And there's a brainlet who decided that getting hit while crouched means standing up, just to eat even more plasma in the face .

Edit: I also like the visuals, the wilderness areas juxtaposed with high-tech covenant tech and the more pedestrian human tech. And that space mission is fun too.

 

[Achiman]

Just finished Stygian last night. It's a hard game to judge, on one hand the combat, clunky turn based combat and glacial turn speed with trash mobs shat me to tears. On the other the atmosphere, interesting characters, lore from old HP and attempt to do something different deserve praise.
Pity they ran out of steam / money game could have been much better with a bit more polish.

Got Troubleshooter to play next, which looks like it might be good.