What game are you wasting time on?

[Abu Antar]

A silly dream of mine has come true. I was browsing the Steam Workshop for different things to add to Football Manager 2020, because I got the urge to play it again. I found that someone had implemented the lowest divisions in Sweden. I quickly downloaded it and started a new career as my club. The club I have co-founded in real life. It's hilarious. There's no real staff or players, but the stadium name and stuff is correct. Cross off a childhood dream off the list.

The ascent from division 6 to Allsvenskan is about to begin! I'm also doing my best to get promoted with Boston United in the English Leagues. They start at the lowest division, and I am now sitting in first place in League One. Championship teams with decent squads have approached me, but I have resisted the temptation to move to a bigger club.

 

[Gregz]

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Beautiful game.

 

[Azalin]

Finished W40k Mechanicus Heretek+ a nice little 40k srpg.The graphics are nothing spectacular since it's made by a small studio but the art style is good and makes up for it, the sound design is interesting,the story is ok, nothing amazing but gets things going and fits the setting. The gameplay is solid and the main attraction of the game, it consists mainly of missions where you search a dungeon from room to room with some CYOA choices and eventually some turn based battles.There are quite a few missions available,over 40 in the main game counting the secrets ones and the Heretek expansion adds 5 more, not that many but you get the opportunity to fight against some hereteks to break the monotony of fighting various Necrons all the time in theother missions.Overall a good game worth your time. Recommended

Also finished The Strange Brigade campaign playing coop with a friend.A nice third person shooter inspired to some degree from the liked of L4D but set in the pulp era and adding various traps around every map that you can use to fight the zombies.Bot much replayability though and it's not that long of a game. Recommended for a sale

 

[Ivan]

Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Having a blast. By far the best JRPG I've played largely due to the most lovable cast of companions you could ask for.

 

[Straight elf]

I just finished Suzerain, got the best ending on my first playthrough

I can heartily recommend this game. It is likely the first political simulation that does not force you to play a librul (you can if you want to but other playstyles are all very feasible and many are in fact easier/less dangerous), people/ideologies are not caricatures. Also relationships between characters are not Bioware "friendometer" (you do what someone wants/agree with them - good, do the opposite -bad). I have experienced several instances in the game when a key minister or the wife of my character made a completely unreasonable request, which I denied and they came back later actually agreeing I was right they were not being reasonable, in some cases actually proposing a good compromise allowing them to achieve some of their goals without making me to cross my red lines. Finally a game that doesn't force the player to be a pushover and rewards you for remaining firm.

 

[cosmicray]

Dragon's Dogma - Tried playing it. Took dozen mmorpg-style quests "kill monsters", "gather flowers". Not sure if I'd like to continue. Doesn't grab me, but combat is supposedly good. I think I just want to play some story-driven jrpg at this point.

From what I remember of my time playing it, don't actively try to complete the MMO-style quests, the rewards aren't amazing and you'll mostly do them as you normally progress through the game or while exploring.

Thanks I'll keep that in mind.

But for now I'm playing Whispers Of A Machine.
Also DXMD had a season pass sale, so I grabbed it to play two story DLCs.

 

[Harry Easter]

Back to Trails in the Sky: SC. Does everything better than the predecessor so far. I am even fishing. Nice.

Before that, I put roughly 21 hours into Dungeon Siege II. Gameplaywise it's more fun than the first one, but I really think the story was kind of a waste of potential. Because the actual writing of in-game books and the worldbuilding is really descent. They could've down something good with it, but instead it just became an afterthought. Sad, because you can really see that they hired a descent writer. Oh well, the gameplay is still addictive.

 

[502]

Reinstalled Doom DOOM 2016 because Eternal's Ancient Gods expansion was a bit too much. Finished New Vegas again. Saw all Cyberpunk 2077 endings and I'm done with it for the time.

Would you recommend Prey 2017 or Dishonored?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Would you recommend Prey 2017 or Dishonored?

The latter.

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[Jvegi]

Killed Hades for the first time. I think I need a break before diving into the endgame. So I'm playing Pyre. To early to say much, but it certainly looks and sounds pretty.

I'm also about to play Prey (2006). I hope it goes well.

 

[pakoito]

Killed Hades for the first time. I think I need a break before diving into the endgame.

Your first Hades kill is the start of the midgame

 

[fork]

Finished replays of Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2. The first was even better than I remembered, while Silent Hill 2 is quite a bit worse, still okay, but honestly dropped quite significantly in my top list. Feels like Silent Hill for normies, if that makes any sense; less frightening atmosphere, less oppressive music, more focus on story, even more linear, worse combat. Kinda interested how Silent Hill 3 holds up. Probably also worse than the original.

Also finished a replay of Dead Space, which is still really good. The graphics held up especially well, the atmosphere is great and the gameplay solid.

Now I have to finish my second Dark Souls all bosses SL1 run (this time not using pyromancy). Just Kalameet, Manus and Gwyn left. Also started playing King's Field (Japan), which I'm actually enjoying quite a bit, despite the jank (the turn speed is especially atrocious). Many of the qualities of From's later games are already there, which is kinda impressive—it's been almost 27 years!

Also started the original Tomb Raider, which is so much better than the modern shit. Not sure whether I'll finish it or not, but it's quite satisfying to play again after all this time. The controls work very well for the kind of game it is.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

Also finished a replay of Dead Space, which is still really good. The graphics held up especially well, the atmosphere is great and the gameplay solid.

as it happens i am currently playing dead space; got it yonks ago but only got past the first few objectives because... i dont really know; back in the day maybe i just wasnt into it or something; maybe i just needed to git gud

anyway; seconding gabel; graphics are nice, atmos is good too, excellent use of sound although the overwrought fighting orchestral noise is a bit naff after the nth enemy attack

no cutscenes either, straight into the action with half life 2-style exposition through npcs walking around and yapping while you loot containers etc; good stuff and something hl2 should be rightfully praised for and a forgotten tool by current developers.

still tooling around with my first weapon; ive heard from various sources that the first weapon is the best and worth fully maxing out.

is this still true?

 

[pakoito]

Yep, pretty much. I haven't played in 10y and it's the only weapon I remember.

 

[fork]

Yeah, still true. The Plasma Cutter is a bit overpowered. You really don't need anything else. However, I recommend using one or two other weapons alongside it, and trying all of them, because most of them are fun.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

first weapon is the best

Some of them are better situationally, but the first is useful and strong all the way through and very worth levelling up. It's a powerful all-rounder

 

[Wunderbar]

Would you recommend Prey 2017 or Dishonored?

why not both

 

[Average Manatee]

first weapon is the best

Some of them are better situationally, but the first is useful and strong all the way through and very worth levelling up. It's a powerful all-rounder

The Pulse Rifle is also a good all rounder that can do basically everything quite efficiently if you max out its damage. And you'll have enough upgrades to max the damage of most/all of the weapons IIRC. The game kind of plays up conventional weapons like the Rifle as being ineffective against the enemies but in reality it still deals exactly the damage it says, which in the Rifle's case is very efficient compared to the ammo it has.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

The line-beam weapons are better for limb damage but yea tthe rifle is solid too

 

[Average Manatee]

The line-beam weapons are better for limb damage but yea tthe rifle is solid too

My point is that both weapons do exactly the damage they say they do. There is no 'better' weapon in this instance, the cutter doesn't actually cut limbs any better than the same amount of damage applied through bullets. It does require more bullets since the damage per shot is lower, and those can be harder to keep accurately on target, but you also get a lot more bullets per ammo drop. It's also like RE4 in that the game specifically drops ammo for the weapons you are using.

Also, just to be clear, the cutter doesn't get 3x damage if you line up all three points on the enemy limb or anything. That's actually the "wrong" way to do it, you get full damage as long as the beam hits the limb, so the easiest way is to aim horizontally at a leg and so on. Dead Space is designed for controllers and you can tell because this is how the cutters are "better" than the rifle, since with a controller its a lot harder to hit limbs with a pin-point gun, but obviously anyone playing with a mouse doesn't have this issue. The wider cutter can hit multiple limbs though and get extra damage.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I understand how it works.

But there are multiple occasions where the best method is to get the limbs off first.

And that's just simpler to do with a line.

Also it's pretty fucking dull to go into a game with such interesting weaponry, then go around with an assault rifle that could appear in almost any shooter.

 

[Average Manatee]

Well the rifle is generally a bit more ammo efficient in terms of the damage:bullet drop ratio, and IMO easier to stun lock multiple enemies easily. I really don't see how anyone with a mouse could fail to hit limbs.

That said you have enough upgrade points to get max damage for basically all the weapons. There's really no worry about not being able to use all the weapons. You'll probably have both the cutter and the riifle at full damage by the 3rd or 4th level

 

[samuraigaiden]

I vaguely remember some weapons feeling more useful against some enemies and ammo drops not being so directly tied to what I had equipped.

 

[Biscotti]

Ammo drops are definitely tied to what you currently have on you to some degree. That's another reason plasma cutter only is easy mode: 80% of the ammo you find is gonna be plasma cutter ammo so you're constantly swimming in ammo, and whatever ammo you find that isn't plasma cutter ammo can be sold so you're absolutely loaded on credits by the midgame.
On the other hand, having multiple weapons equipped means your ammo drops will be more spread out and you'll generally have less of everything. This can become an issue when 2 or 3 out of your 4 weapons are specialist weapons that only work well in certain encounters.

Whenever the subject is brought up I always highly encourage anyone interested in (re)playing the game to just straight up ditch the plasma cutter and try playing with some other weapons, it actually encourages resource management and varied weapon usage.
I did just that for my impossible playthrough, it's the only way to introduce some challenge.