What game are you wasting time on?

[Denim Destroyer]

Ultima 4 really is a lot easier once you look at the map instead of just wondering around like an idiot. It's cool that most of the world map is immediately available for the player. I thought I was advancing fast because I found a couple of runes and meditated on the shrines, but now a NPC told me about the stones so I guess there's way more to this game than I assumed. I have a four character party already and I still haven't visited all the towns, at least I'm doing well on that front. I wish the moongates didn't take so hecking long to show up.

One aspect of the Ultima games I find myself continuously praising is the open ended nature of world exploration. From the get go you have access to most of the game-world with the only exceptions being logical and well choreographed.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

I messed around a little bit with Cyberpunk 2077. I suppose it's not the worst thing ever made. I'll give it a chance...

 

[Cael]

Ultima 4 really is a lot easier once you look at the map instead of just wondering around like an idiot. It's cool that most of the world map is immediately available for the player. I thought I was advancing fast because I found a couple of runes and meditated on the shrines, but now a NPC told me about the stones so I guess there's way more to this game than I assumed. I have a four character party already and I still haven't visited all the towns, at least I'm doing well on that front. I wish the moongates didn't take so hecking long to show up.

The moongates are tied to the moons' phases, but the timing of the phase shift is dependent on your machine's speed. On modern computers, it should be pretty fast...

 

[spockthewok]

Unironically, Fable: TLC.

Is it a good RPG?
No.

Does it have any sort of difficulty or challenge?
No.

Is it a comfy game with a great soundtrack and lots of charm?
Definitely.

 

[Hag]

Got gifted Besiege.

Was surprised you get all building parts from the beginning with no limitation. But the difficulty ramps up quickly and having all tools at hand is a necessity. Also doesn't limit creativity in any way which is good.
Challenges vary a lot and you have to adapt and sometimes think out of the box. Sometimes brute force works well too. The games does a good job at introducing new concepts with minimum fuss.

It is also very comfy and charming, nice music and visual, and very snappy. I'm now in the middle of the third island and I'm still having fun.

 

[Curratum]

I seem to have become something of a Rebellion fanboy, in addition to a third-person casualish shooter fanboy, both of which I find to be very out-of-character things for me.

 

[Glop_dweller]

MK2, Prey [2006], Vanetica, Thea:The Awakening.

*In that order.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

I dropped Cyberpunk like a bad habit. Not that I hated it or anything but I got back into playin Conan Exiles and I'm hooked. It's got that same sense of aimless adventure that Zelda: BOTW and Elden Ring have. I absolutely adore that kind of open world RPG. No fuckin arrows telling me where I need to go. MORE games like these plz!

 

[Machocruz]

I dropped Cyberpunk like a bad habit. Not that I hated it or anything but I got back into playin Conan Exiles and I'm hooked. It's got that same sense of aimless adventure that Zelda: BOTW and Elden Ring have. I absolutely adore that kind of open world RPG. No fuckin arrows telling me where I need to go. MORE games like these plz!

Hell yeah, just started it this weekend. The Xbox version on Game Pass cloud though, so no bare ass for me. At first I thought it was too aimless and not sure if I would continue past getting a small home, armor bench and leather armor, until I sacked up and started venturing further north instead of staying south of the river like a little bitch. Started finding all sorts of cool shit including a yuge iron deposit directly north of my starter camp. Think I'll set up a major camp there and get all my iron gear knocked out. Lots of antelope, hyenas, and stone to mine. Fuck I wasted so much time running east to find iron. So far I think they nailed the atmosphere of the Conan desert adventures.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

I dropped Cyberpunk like a bad habit. Not that I hated it or anything but I got back into playin Conan Exiles and I'm hooked. It's got that same sense of aimless adventure that Zelda: BOTW and Elden Ring have. I absolutely adore that kind of open world RPG. No fuckin arrows telling me where I need to go. MORE games like these plz!

Hell yeah, just started it this weekend. The Xbox version on Game Pass cloud though, so no bare ass for me. At first I thought it was too aimless and not sure if I would continue past getting a small home, armor bench and leather armor, until I sacked up and started venturing further north instead of staying south of the river like a little bitch. Started finding all sorts of cool shit including a yuge iron deposit directly north of my starter camp. Think I'll set up a major camp there and get all my iron gear knocked out. Lots of antelope, hyenas, and stone to mine. Fuck I wasted so much time running east to find iron. So far I think they nailed the atmosphere of the Conan desert adventures.

Tbf you're probably having an immensely smoother experience with it than I am. Unpatched the game is a complete mess. Just today it froze on me 4 times and crashed about 3 times. It just crashed on me now as a matter of fact while I was in the middle of a huge battle inside a temple. I've also had my corpse disappear a few times so it was impossible for me to recover my items. But whatever, the sacrifice must be made. I refuse to give up my tiddies and arse.

Fuckin game did it to me again. I got overwhelmed and died, and when I rerurned to my body it just fell through the earth or some shit so I lost all my stuff. If this was any other game I'd lose my shit but you can build your stuff back pretty quick so whatever. Helps that I have a giant stockpile of resources at one of my safe houses.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Attempting to play Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition because I want to stretch and showcase my RTX card. I heard it was open world, but WOW; going by the first 30 minutes or so, it feels like one long cut scene or barely interactive movie that makes even weeboo games feel reserved. I've never played a game like this that was so bad with that. Does it get any better or should I just quit? I was playing on Extreme settings but this is the first game I ever played where I actually lowered my settings to Ultra because the game is so drab and washed-out looking (despite running at 60+ FPS for me on my GTX 3070) because it helped cut down on the ugliness. Though it's the first Metro game I tried, Stalker it ain't, kids

 

[Sodafish]

Does it get any better

No

 

[Machocruz]

Tbf you're probably having an immensely smoother experience with it than I am. Unpatched the game is a complete mess. Just today it froze on me 4 times and crashed about 3 times. It just crashed on me now as a matter of fact while I was in the middle of a huge battle inside a temple. I've also had my corpse disappear a few times so it was impossible for me to recover my items. But whatever, the sacrifice must be made. I refuse to give up my tiddies and arse.

Fuckin game did it to me again. I got overwhelmed and died, and when I rerurned to my body it just fell through the earth or some shit so I lost all my stuff. If this was any other game I'd lose my shit but you can build your stuff back pretty quick so whatever. Helps that I have a giant stockpile of resources at one of my safe houses.

No technical problems at all. Just the usual hiccups of forgetting to place a bedroll and getting gangbanged by hyenas

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

No technical problems at all. Just the usual hiccups of forgetting to place a houses.
No technical problems at all. Just the usual hiccups of forgetting to place a bedroll and getting gangbanged by hyenas

Have you made the medium armor yet? It looks dope.

 

[Wunderbar]

Attempting to play Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition because I want to stretch and showcase my RTX card. I heard it was open world, but WOW; going by the first 30 minutes or so, it feels like one long cut scene or barely interactive movie that makes even weeboo games feel reserved. I've never played a game like this that was so bad with that. Does it get any better or should I just quit?

Exodus is split into chapters and each chapter has a vastly different pacing.

The prologue is an on-rails CoD-like sequence, the first chapter on Volga is a semi-open world STALKER-lite, the second chapter on Caspian sea is Far Cry-lite where you clear bandit outposts, the third chapter is Dishonored-like where you must use stealth to traverse a non-linear terrain, and then the game ends with another on-rails sequence.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Attempting to play Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition because I want to stretch and showcase my RTX card. I heard it was open world, but WOW; going by the first 30 minutes or so, it feels like one long cut scene or barely interactive movie that makes even weeboo games feel reserved. I've never played a game like this that was so bad with that. Does it get any better or should I just quit?

Exodus is split into chapters with vastly different pacing. The prologue is an on-rails CoD-like sequence, the first chapter on Volga is a semi-open world STALKER-lite, the second chapter on Caspian sea is Far Cry-lite where you clear bandit outposts, the third chapter is Dishonored-like where you must use stealth to traverse a non-linear terrain, and then the game ends with another on-rails sequence.

Well, thanks for that sum-up. It seems like I should continue then since the other games you mentioned (but not CoD) are the types I actually like. In fact, I just finished Far Cry 6 and as bad as it is compared to FC 1-4, I enjoyed it, though it can only be played with the mod that nixes regenerating health. It also did ray-tracing right, imo, and it's my first game that really showed off what it's all about. It's a shame that Metro Exodus seems much less impressive in that area, but since I'm still in the prologue maybe that gets better too. I really should be playing OGSR instead but I'm waiting for a new large screen TV to go on sale that has g-sync and will allow tear-free smooth(er) gameplay at 120 FPS. For some reason, that old xEngine, even x64, runs terribly for me at anything less than 120 Hz. Must be the early implementation of DirectX 11/12.

 

[Derringer]

In fact, I just finished Far Cry 6 and as bad as it is compared to FC 1-4, I enjoyed it, though it can only be played with a mod

That's every Far Cry game that's ever been released, even 1.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

In fact, I just finished Far Cry 6 and as bad as it is compared to FC 1-4, I enjoyed it, though it can only be played with a mod

That's every Far Cry game that's ever been released, even 1.

You talking about the regenerating health thing? Funny, I don't remember that in earlier entries in the series but I don't doubt you. One problem with FC6 is how its entire loot/weapon upgrade mechanic is based on acquiring "Supremo" weapons which are ridiculously overpowered so I thought I'd try to play with as few of them as possible. Bad idea since some of the higher-level combat content sometimes seems balanced around them and you might find it a struggle to do without. The game has way too many tower defense sequences too compared to previous entries. I hate tower defense. However, it was enjoyable seeing Gus from the Better Call Saul-verse as the main baddie where they don't even dare change his real-life appearance. The ending was unexpectedly grim for a FC game with more than just the main villain being vanquished or killed. I don't regret my time with it and I've even been playing some of the post main game content though I finally had my fill yesterday, I think. and want/need something else now. But what? That iz zee question.

 

[Puukko]

Been playing Chorus on game pass, psychic dogfighting in space. I've been positively surprised by it, the combat is fast and solid and very tight to control. You get stuff like short distance teleportation and a drifting maneuver that takes a bit to learn. Story has some interesting hooks and while the MC looks like she could fit in a cinematic Soyny experience, there's actual character development there. You're essentially playing as a psychic former cultist who oopsie'd a few billion people and struggles with some inner demons while now fighting said cult. Not really a fan of her physical design though.

The game seems well polished and looks good while being well optimized. Fast, snappy vehicular action at a high framerate is a killer combo.

 

[BruceVC]

I have just finished my second play through of Oblivion with mods. I spent about 240 hours on the game and it scores a 80/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system "

Mods like Maskars Overhaul and Ultimate Levelling really address all the shortfalls like level scaling and Ultimate Levelling makes advancement based on XP so its makes exploring and questing both rewarding and worthwhile

Now Im faced with that exciting question that only us gamers get to answer " what to play next " and I have many options from my long list of unplayed GOG and Steam games

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I have just finished my second play through of Oblivion with mods. I spent about 240 hours on the game and it scores a 80/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system "

Mods like Maskars Overhaul and Ultimate Levelling really address all the shortfalls like level scaling and Ultimate Levelling makes advancement based on XP so its makes exploring and questing both rewarding and worthwhile

Now Im faced with that exciting question that only us gamers get to answer " what to play next " and I have many options from my long list of unplayed GOG and Steam games

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sureais-new-project-enderal-the-shards-of-order.73191/

 

[BruceVC]

I have just finished my second play through of Oblivion with mods. I spent about 240 hours on the game and it scores a 80/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system "

Mods like Maskars Overhaul and Ultimate Levelling really address all the shortfalls like level scaling and Ultimate Levelling makes advancement based on XP so its makes exploring and questing both rewarding and worthwhile

Now Im faced with that exciting question that only us gamers get to answer " what to play next " and I have many options from my long list of unplayed GOG and Steam games

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sureais-new-project-enderal-the-shards-of-order.73191/

Excellent suggestion, I have Enderal on Steam and I have only heard glowing reviews about it

But I still havent played Skyrim yet so I need to play Skyrim AE first? But I have a gaming rule where I generally never play the same type of game twice in a row. So for me Oblivion is a single character RPG which means I cant play another game like it straight away. I do this so I never get bored with one type of gaming design

Which means I need to choose a game that is any of the following

• party based RPG like BG
• CRPG like Ultima or Wizardry
• Action FPS like Far Cry, Assassins Creed or similar games
• Survival games like The Forest
• Adventure games like Kings Quest
• Action\Adventure games like RDR2

Such choices

 

[rusty_shackleford]

But I still havent played Skyrim yet so I need to play Skyrim AE first?

No. It's completely unrelated to Skyrim in any way beyond sharing an engine.

But I have a gaming rule where I generally never play the same type of game twice in a row.

Enderal is much more "Gothic-like" in design despite using the skyrim engine.

Make sure you play the Enderal special edition version, doesn't offer any new content but the performance is significantly better.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I have just finished my second play through of Oblivion with mods. I spent about 240 hours on the game and it scores a 80/100 on the globally respected " BruceVC game rating system "

Mods like Maskars Overhaul and Ultimate Levelling really address all the shortfalls like level scaling and Ultimate Levelling makes advancement based on XP so its makes exploring and questing both rewarding and worthwhile

Now Im faced with that exciting question that only us gamers get to answer " what to play next " and I have many options from my long list of unplayed GOG and Steam games

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/sureais-new-project-enderal-the-shards-of-order.73191/

Excellent suggestion, I have Enderal on Steam and I have only heard glowing reviews about it

But I still havent played Skyrim yet so I need to play Skyrim AE first? But I have a gaming rule where I generally never play the same type of game twice in a row. So for me Oblivion is a single character RPG which means I cant play another game like it straight away. I do this so I never get bored with one type of gaming design

Which means I need to choose a game that is any of the following

• party based RPG like BG
• CRPG like Ultima or Wizardry
• Action FPS like Far Cry, Assassins Creed or similar games
• Survival games like The Forest
• Adventure games like Kings Quest
• Action\Adventure games like RDR2

Such choices

If you go with Far Cry or AssCreed, I'd start with FC 3 or AssCreed 2/Brotherhood. Far Cry 3 set the template for the later entries and had the most memorable single C&C among any game I played (of course it was the only C&C moment in the game but it's one of the very rare instances, I think, where you actually enjoy totally losing a game *satisfied grin*). AssCreed Origins had some big "Wow!" moments if you can crank up the graphics if your card supports it, ie hippopotamuses or nile crocodiles rearing up out of nowhere and attacking your boat.

 

[Derringer]

In fact, I just finished Far Cry 6 and as bad as it is compared to FC 1-4, I enjoyed it, though it can only be played with a mod

That's every Far Cry game that's ever been released, even 1.

You talking about the regenerating health thing? Funny, I don't remember that in earlier entries in the series but I don't doubt you. One problem with FC6 is how its entire loot/weapon upgrade mechanic is based on acquiring "Supremo" weapons which are ridiculously overpowered so I thought I'd try to play with as few of them as possible. Bad idea since some of the higher-level combat content sometimes seems balanced around them and you might find it a struggle to do without. The game has way too many tower defense sequences too compared to previous entries. I hate tower defense. However, it was enjoyable seeing Gus from the Better Call Saul-verse as the main baddie where they don't even dare change his real-life appearance. The ending was unexpectedly grim for a FC game with more than just the main villain being vanquished or killed. I don't regret my time with it and I've even been playing some of the post main game content though I finally had my fill yesterday, I think. and want/need something else now. But what? That iz zee question.

No I mean that none of them are fun without mods, both 1 and 2 have mods that make them less unbearable to play, 2 had a small mod scene dedicated to making it playable instead of just being a bad tech demo.