What are you playing right now?

[melkathi]

Mechanicus is getting a bit too easy now. Third boss my melee guy activated first, ran through the whole map, buffed his damage and killed the boss with his two attacks. Neither the Necrons, nor my other tech-priests even had time to act before the mission was over.

[Lexx]

So my fancy horse just died, because of these stupid challenges. "Shoot 5 birds from a moving train" .. sounds easy, except for the fact that the people don't like you shooting from the roof of the train and soon you are getting swarmed by hordes of people trying to shoot you dead. Tried to outrun them, because my bounty climbed to $50 just from existing, and every kill will crank it up even harder. Anyway.. failed, died, my horse died and my last good savegame was from yesterday.

 

Bought one of em elite arabian whatever horses. It has really good stats, but.... it's small. Hell, I want a big horse, not a pony. Also it takes lots of time to get the bonding level back up again. So annoying.

 

Wanted to kill all the people but then didn't do it after all, because the bounty system feels so unreliable. Even if I change my clothes and everything, it takes just a couple minutes till they know it's me and the bounty goes sky high...

[HoonDing]

what the hell is black friday

[evilcat]

what the hell is black friday

US tradition which gives rest of the world general sale on digital coppies of games.

Not that i am complaining.

[Hurlshort]

I didn't even know the horse could die permanently. I used that revive shot on mine one time.

 

Also, go get a treasure map. Life is much easier with a couple grand in the bank. I never worry much about paying bounties anymore.

[Lexx]

I have about 20k right now, as I've already finished the game. The money is going down pretty quick, though, as I have to pay bounties and stuff all the time when I did some experiments. That new horse was 900 or so as well. Not my first one. Pains me a lot when I have to "start a new one". Couldn't revive the last one, because I died when it was down... and after respawn, I had one of my other horses from the stables. If I hadn't died, I could have saved it.

[Hurlshort]

Geez, I better stop naming my horses after my children.

[SonicMage117]

I got two games from Black Friday

 

Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) for $9.99

 

 

And then

 

God Of War (PS4) for $17

 

 

 

This was the first Black Friday sale that I actually went out and had partaken in. Ever. And it's pretty much just because I'm collecting the PS4 exclusives at this point.

 

Excuse my bad broken English.

[Tale]

More Shantae! Beat Pirate's Curse, a fun little game, part Metroidvania. Beat Half-Genie Hero, which felt like a smaller game, with the mazes being more straightforward, but still with lots of secrets encouraging (and requiring at times) you to replay them. I've even beat Pirate Queen's Quest, which is basically a rerun of the HGH maps, with some minor changes, to accomodate playing as Risky instead.

 

On to Friends to the End. Which is supposedly all new maps to accomodate playing Shantae's friends.

 

Edit: And it's the same levels again, just with a new story. That's getting disappointing.

[Keyrock]

what the hell is black friday

A weird pagan ritual in the US where people inexplicably camp out outside large stores the night after Thanksgiving so that they can get into fights and potentially arrested over discounted items.

[BruceVC]

I have about 20k right now, as I've already finished the game. The money is going down pretty quick, though, as I have to pay bounties and stuff all the time when I did some experiments. That new horse was 900 or so as well. Not my first one. Pains me a lot when I have to "start a new one". Couldn't revive the last one, because I died when it was down... and after respawn, I had one of my other horses from the stables. If I hadn't died, I could have saved it.

I am seriously considering buying a console like you did just so I can play games like RDR 1&2 

 

How did you find the game, worth buying a console ?

[Lexx]

Hard to say. Thing is, I have the spare money to do such things easily, so even if the game would have been crap, it wouldn't have hurt me all *that* much. At least not financially.

As of now, I really like the game, even though it has plenty flaws. Bit of a shame there is no new game plus or something, because i'd instantly restart the game.. if I could keep my Mauser.

[Katphood]

For me it was hard enough to buy the game at launch. If you're poor like I am, wait until it's cheap. But yeah, goes without saying that RDR 2 is not the only game you can play on the PS4. Xbox doesn't have that many exclusives though. There is no reason to buy an Xbox One if you happen to have a capable PC.

[SonicMage117]

If you don't have a PS4, it's probably a game worth buying a PS4 for but you have to like the general western theme. RD2D is basically Hell On Wheels, Diablo, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Pale Rider, Young Guns 2, Dirty Harry, 3:10 To Yuma The Quick and The Dead all in one. Basically all my favoritie westerns lol

 

 

 

But consoles strongsuit are also the exclusives, I will always tell people that if they haven't got a PS4, they are missing out on some of the best games in the industry because it's true. There is something for everyone and they're made to the highest quality in storytelling and gameplay. Games that will never be on pc, and that's bad for gamers who only game on pc - even though they don't realize it or want to admit it most of the time.

Edited November 25, 2018 by SonicMage117

[LadyCrimson]

RD1 was one of the few that I was interested in once, but not enough to buy a console at the time. Now that I have a PS4/pro, I'm somewhat interested in RD2 but ... not enough to pay $70 for it ($80 not on sale - the one with extra storymode content, the one with extra online stuff is even more, base is $60).

 

RD1, far as I can tell, is still available on PS4 but only as part of the PSNow thing - eg, it's not the "full game" install category, so I think streaming with the extra monthly/annual fee. A lot of the PS2/PS3 games are that way.

 

 

Edit: Also, I'm still alternating between console-Diablo3 and PC Grim Dawn. After getting used to the horrible wheel GUI (I still hate it tho) the rest of D3 on console has been ... interesting. It feels very casual and Normal has become SUPER DUPER easy, to the point of comical. Legendaries dropping left and right, clvl-20ish items having +100 and more to stats on them, beating Act bosses in literally 15 seconds. But I need to try harder difficulties before I judge that. I recall PC-D3 ticking me off with difficulty spikes in a bad way, and I'm curious how much they tone it down. 2nd Edit: Also, I still don't like the overall design of D3 past Act2. It feels/felt boring.

 

3rd Edit: I haven't played D3 since maybe 6 months after original release. Even the PC has changed drastically I hear - I think console and PC are largely the same now, except for controller differences.

Edited November 26, 2018 by LadyCrimson

[Malcador]

Still pushing on in DoK, I am still a terrible commander but seem to hit a run of easy missions now.  Sadly got my cruiser blown up and can't replace it as of yet - suppose that serves me right for using attack move.  Game is pretty fun, I am liking the story so far and really like the style of the cutscenes.

[Tale]

Observer

 

Do you like random screams? Do you like long hallways that either stretch as you go down them or slow you as you get near the end? Do you think making things twitchy is scary? Random flying objects or slamming doors? Lots of nonsense? Do you like intentional design that makes you wonder if your graphics card is dying? Do you think characters don't pause enough between random words in their dialogue? Do you think dialogue is overall too coherent?

 

Do you like having every overplayed horror and sci-fi trope shot straight into your face like a TVtropes.com submachine gun before you even hit the two hour mark?

 

You'll love this one.

[SonicMage117]

For those who have played through Red Dead Redemption 2, did you do all the side missions and sub-plots or just some and the main quest? I'm 67% into the story and roughly the 175 hours mark.

[Fenixp]

Well I suppose I'm giving Observer a miss. Looked nice on the screenshots!

 

Anyway, still going through Hitman. I've got something over 11 hours clocked in and I've got as far as the third map out of 6, isn't that impressive? I mean, the game can be finished really damned quickly if you want to considering its open-ended nature, but to actually get the story of the individual locations and actual stories of your targets, you really have to play through it multiple times - not to mention all the different ways of assassinating your targets. The game's really quite special and, as far as I'm concerned, it's the best take on the Hitman formula thus far (didn't play Hitman 2-2, so that may be even better)

[Katphood]

Never finished a Hitman game but what Fenix is describing sounds awesome. How are the Hitman games connected to one another?! Will playing the older Hitman games give me a better experience?

 

I only briefly played the first Hitman game back in the days and found it to be a bit hard for me.

[Lexx]

For those who have played through Red Dead Redemption 2, did you do all the side missions and sub-plots or just some and the main quest? I'm 67% into the story and roughly the 175 hours mark.

Did all of them except 3, which are still available after the prolog. Also I won't bother with any of the "search x objects in the game world" stuff. No idea how long I've played so far.

[Hurlshort]

I'm only 49% into the RDR2 story with a ton of hours, but sometimes I turn it on and just end up wandering across new areas checking out buildings I see on the map, or clouds of smoke, or just following animal tracks. Heck, just studying all the different animals with my binoculars takes a good amount of my time.

 

I'm pretty sure I can play this game forever. 

[Fenixp]

Never finished a Hitman game but what Fenix is describing sounds awesome. How are the Hitman games connected to one another?! Will playing the older Hitman games give me a better experience?

Couldn't stand previous Hitman games - I felt like the levels weren't expansive enough and the guards were too trigger-happy. In other words no, you don't really need to have played them.

 

Right now, guards catching you where you don't belong escort you out of an area. In fact, even if you fire your weapon, they'll often prefer to point their gun at you and ask you to drop your weapon and put your hands behind your head (which happends to be a thing you can do, incidentally, albeit 47 will immediately incapacitate the guard pointing the gun at him). Of course, that doesn't apply to 'top secret evil villain lair' areas, they'll shoot quite fast in those.

 

To be fair, this makes me feel like the game's a bit too easy if anything, on standard difficulty anyway - but I feel reactions like that are a lot more natural so it works for me. Besides, the ratings at the end of the levels (if you care about that kind of thing. Usually, I don't, but in Hitman and Dishonored I do for some reason) are pretty strict about stuff like getting spotted, leaving bodies behind, killing non-targets, not destroying camera evidence etc.

 

Additionally, it seems to me like majority of the (pretty damn large) levels are 'civilian' in nature, with mere parts of the maps with restricted access that you get to infiltrate - so you get to walk about the level, incognito, listen to conversations, inspect possible ways in, plan and only then go in. Usually, while I do that, I make a "TODO" list in my head of "I gotta try that on next playthrough of this level!" - and the game makes it exceptionally easy to replan and replay them as well.

[Keyrock]

 (if you care about that kind of thing. Usually, I don't, but in Hitman and Dishonored I do for some reason) are pretty strict about stuff like getting spotted, leaving bodies behind, killing non-targets, not destroying camera evidence etc.

 

 

I'm in the same boat.  I usually don't much care about getting the highest score or achievements or whatever, I just want to get through the game, but in Hitman I'm all about getting silent assassin rating, or, better yet, silent assassin, suit only.  When I pull off a silent assassin, suit only run, I am so freakin' proud of myself.

[Orogun01]

I'm playing Yakuza 0, luckily and coincidentally I had seen The Princes of Yen documentary about how the Japanese Central Bank came to be what it is today recently. Having the background information on how the Central Bank crashed the Japanese economy in order to institute reform (become independent from the Government) and open the Yen to foreign markets, really brings another layer to the game.