What game are you wasting time on?

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

Enjoying CoM Archolos so much that I've put my 7th ELEX playthrough on hold for it.

After that it's time for Quest for Infamy again. Gotta achieve the perfect archery score, otherwise I'll never be a God Gamer.

Aside from that, I want to do more clan challenges in Northgard. That's been my go-to backup game for a very long time.

 

[Ryzer]

Finishing Dying Light ::
Very average overall, I feel like the combat system with handed weapons is bad. I cannot block, parry and counter attack . Sure there are lot of options to use with your movement but not with the combat system itself. The overall level design is very good and it's fun to roam in Haram/ The Slums. The main quest is indeed bad as well as the side quests, I counted some FedEx quests in the bunch... The itemization is trash, I have to scroll a lot and nothing is sorted through lists. The crafting mechanic is terrible because DLCs adds crafting recipes that craft completely broken weapons and I wonder why they added a fucking loading time each time I craft something... Also they should stop adding chests tied to the lock picking mini-game, I just HATE this fucking mini-game.
However the night,the ambiance and the sound design are superbly done in this game.

Dragon Age Origins:
God this game is so boring honestly. Everything seem like it was created for a single player MMO RPG. Combat is crap and boring, quests are serviceable I guess, consequences are minimal, the setting is generic, the story is LOTR basically and the fade. However the party chat is really good and funny, every characters have a lot of personality and can be fully controlled and deeply configured which is nice. Also the game is flooded with trash encounters, fuck this...
I don't think I will ever finish it, I'm only at the beginning and I'm already fed up.

 

[Average Manatee]

I'd recommend trying Plutonia. It's absolutely tough, but in a fairly good way with clever maps and the hitscanners are used well rather than all over the place.

TNT Evilution sucks though. The maps are bad (well the first bit is OK but 15-30 is definitely almost all awful) and it's like 80% hitscanners with no variation. Romero IIRC said something about how invisibility was considered a debuff in vanilla Doom/Doom2 and the intent was to change that with shotgunners and chaingunners everywhere.

For example just compare the enemies in these two levels:

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP23:_Tombstone_(The_Plutonia_Experiment)
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/MAP23:_Lunar_Mining_Project_(TNT:_Evilution)

Evilution maps are commonly low-tech maps with scare resources and an almost Doom 1 roster that barely utilizes the advanced enemies much, and most of the damage you take will be from turning a corner and getting hitscanned. OTOH Plutonia takes full advantage of revenants, archviles, mancubi and so on. Plutonia is really the precursor to modern Doom WADs.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Pretty much. TNT is just there while Plutonia is still influencing to this day.

 

[Curratum]

Been having a lot of fun with this one, it's a plotless Myst-lite and has workshop integration with a bunch of very fun rooms and puzzles released already.

 

[ferratilis]

Dragon Age Origins:
God this game is so boring honestly. Everything seem like it was created for a single player MMO RPG. Combat is crap and boring, quests are serviceable I guess, consequences are minimal, the setting is generic, the story is LOTR basically and the fade. However the party chat is really good and funny, every characters have a lot of personality and can be fully controlled and deeply configured which is nice. Also the game is flooded with trash encounters, fuck this...
I don't think I will ever finish it, I'm only at the beginning and I'm already fed up.

I recommend trying DA2 and Inquisition. They are so bad that Origins will seem like a masterpiece in comparison. You might develop a new appreciation for the game that way.

 

[Krivol]

However the party chat is really good and funny, every characters have a lot of personality

I wanted to brofist your post, but then saw this quote.

 

[laclongquan]

Fallout New Vegas, Tale of Two Wasteland mod, with 3 runs back to back.

Then because of that, I was curious and install Fallout 3 for the first time. 2 run back to back until I abandon it because my chars are 100 in all skills before even reach level cap. FFS!!!

Now back to FNV/TTW , but this time, set level 14 with 0xp, 4x slower level rate. i must say, there's plenty of great mods in F3 that havent been able to get converted for TTW. A damn shame!

 

[orcinator]

I played Wrought Flesh, the organ swapping boomie shooty.
It sucks, is like 2 hours long and costs 20 bux (didn't pay for it though but I feel bad for the guy who filled the request).

 

[Kabas]

Continue to very slowly go through Planescape: Torment: Enchanced edition
What passes in this game as a combat dungeons is a hot garbage so far. The modron maze was an absolute slog even though it was the only one that featured a somewhat challenging fight against a construct wizard, granted nothing that a combination of Ignus terror and confusion spell couldn't solve.
The main and the numerous side-plots still continue to be interesting even if most of it involves a lot of running back and forth which i hate.
Annah is a cute. The part where Ignus teaches you his spells by mutilating you was cool. Fall-from-grace is also cute but Annah is cuter...
Currently at the sensate society.

Operencia: The stolen sun. Despite not being impressed with the warrior in a tutorial prologue i still decided to make my main character a big burly woman warrior. It's a nice game so far, i like how fast the combat flows.
Just completed the first dungeon and currently in forest area.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Played a bit of SOC back in the day, but never committed. Call of Pripyat's got me by the balls, though. Great atmosphere, hard as hell. Love it.

 

[BruceVC]

I just finished Bioshock 1 after 50 hours and its a good game and recommended. It has appealing action game mechanics like combat strategy and a variety of weapons and ammunition that you utilize in battles and I enjoyed the lore and overall narrative of Rapture

I am now moving onto Bards Tale Trilogy, Im very excited about playing this CRPG...Im not playing it in Legacy mode because Im a noooooooob

 

[JDR13]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Played a bit of SOC back in the day, but never committed. Call of Pripyat's got me by the balls, though. Great atmosphere, hard as hell. Love it.

Are you playing completely vanilla?

 

[Abu Antar]

I beat Detroit: Become Human. It's the only Quantic Dream game that I have beaten. It took me circa 12 hours. There are some decent moments in the game, but unfortunately, there's also a lot of cringe writing.

I tried Mortal Shell, but the game didn't click with me. That has been true for every Souls game or Soulslike since DeS and DaS1. I guess that I had my fill.

I'm going through the story mode in Mortal Kombat X. I am utterly awful at fighting games. I put the difficulty on very easy, just to have a few chuckles at the story.

These are all PS+ games. My sub ends in roughly 20 days, so I'm checking out what I missed. For the first time in seven years, I am not renewing my subsription.

 

[BLOBERT]

I've been on a bit of a binge lately. The release of D2 Resurrected got me started. I then played and completed Mortal Shell, Jedi Fallen Order, all 3 Bioshock games, and Legend of Grimrock 2. I started playing the Witcher 1 last night with the intent to finally play it all the way through.

BRO NEVER CHANGE

A WIFE AND KIDS AND JOB WILL FUCK UP YOUR RPG GOODNESS FOREVER

 

[BLOBERT]

Divine Divinity! I enjoyed that game way more than I thought I would. Also started playing Darkstone after only ever playing the PS1 version back in the day. Surprising to see you get 2 characters to use in this version.

BRO I FOUND FIRST DIVINE DIVINITY WHEN I WAS RPG STARVED

THE DIABLO GAMEPLAY WAS OK BUT THE WORLD INTERACTIVITY WAS AWESOME

UNFORTUNATE THERE WAS EXPLOITS TO DESTROY THE DIFFICULTY

 

[BLOBERT]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Played a bit of SOC back in the day, but never committed. Call of Pripyat's got me by the balls, though. Great atmosphere, hard as hell. Love it.

Are you playing completely vanilla?

BROS COMING FROM A SORTA POPAMOLE PERSPECTIVE

I SORTA LIKED STALKER AT FIRST

I GOT ALL THE MODS THEN I HAD A TOTAL BONER FOR THE GAME FOR A LONG TIME

ALL THE GAMES I MEAN THE MODS MAKE THEM FUCKING GREAT INSTEAD OF FUCKING GOOD

 

[JDR13]

BLOBERT I can't hear you. Can you speak a little louder?

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO LOLLOLLOL I AM MAX VOLUME ALL THE TIME LOLLLOL

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. Played a bit of SOC back in the day, but never committed. Call of Pripyat's got me by the balls, though. Great atmosphere, hard as hell. Love it.

Are you playing completely vanilla?

No. Tried Misery, but I wasn't a fan. Currently just using Gunslinger mod. It CTDs occasionally, but it's worth it.

 

[YldrE]

Recently I played Iridion 3D and its sequel Iridion II.

Usual move from tech demo to sequel: the first one is overly simplistic but looks almost impossibly good for the GBA, the second one is less technically ambitious but much richer and more enjoyable.

The first one is saved by its technical prowess, it may be barebone but it's fast, smooth and doesn't pull dirty tricks on you. In essence it's a not-shit version of Star X.

My impression of the second game is that it was made by people who aren't really knowledgeable about shmup classics but had their mind in the right place: "what if we had an enemy that did [x], what if we had a weapon that did [y], what if we had [z] environmental hazard..." Perfect example of when to call a game "charming": someone with no experience tried to make the gameplay deep and varied with gimmicks that are sort of endearing in their naive nature.

Games mentioned above:

Spoiler

 

[Jvegi]

Still trudging through BG2 on hardcore SCS with damage scaling.

I'm in Mind Flayer's city and I can see how bringing non-optimal npcs like Mazzy or Valygar is a serious hindrance on higher difficulties. I think I'll be fine, but switching to insane doesn't seem to be an option now. Perhaps on a later run.

 

[Zlaja]

Many people, like me, are just terrible joke tellers

I decided to play Bioware 1 Remastered

Liar!

It also has the most interesting hacking mini-game I have ever seen...its really enjoyable

It's enjoyable the first few times you do it, but by the time you get halfway through the game it becomes unbearable. No wonder they scrapped it in Bioshock 2.

 

[BruceVC]

Continue to very slowly go through Planescape: Torment: Enchanced edition
What passes in this game as a combat dungeons is a hot garbage so far. The modron maze was an absolute slog even though it was the only one that featured a somewhat challenging fight against a construct wizard, granted nothing that a combination of Ignus terror and confusion spell couldn't solve.
The main and the numerous side-plots still continue to be interesting even if most of it involves a lot of running back and forth which i hate.
Annah is a cute. The part where Ignus teaches you his spells by mutilating you was cool. Fall-from-grace is also cute but Annah is cuter...
Currently at the sensate society.

Operencia: The stolen sun. Despite not being impressed with the warrior in a tutorial prologue i still decided to make my main character a big burly woman warrior. It's a nice game so far, i like how fast the combat flows.
Just completed the first dungeon and currently in forest area.

I enjoyed Planescape, it had some uniquely brilliant and revolutionary narrative themes and writing. I just prefer combat as the solution to problems in RPG and in Planescape I remember you could talk your way through many obstacle without combat....I am not use to that
But you cant like Annah more than Grace....not if you appreciate optional Romance. Grace was a good Succubi. She is definitely hotter and cuter than Annah
Oh and that was another minor issue I had with Planescape, they didnt let you explore the Romande options to the end ...I dont recall it being normal Romance but more flirting?

 

[Kabas]

But you cant like Annah more than Grace....not if you appreciate optional Romance. Grace was a good Succubi. She is definitely hotter and cuter than Annah

I dunno, Annah's reaction to receiving a direct compliment won me over. And the way she was hissing at you everytime you comlimented a girl in Grace's brothel was super cute.