What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread

[melkathi]

Skazz likes Civ6, so he is saddened that nobody else here seems to do

[Hurlshort]

I enjoyed Civ6. I would rate it higher than 5. They need to do a Colonization version.

[uuuhhii]

never liked civ5 much

but the block building in civ6 seems overcomplicated

so many adjacent bonus to keep track of

[Bartimaeus]

Serial Cleaner, courtesy of @ShadySands. A very pleasant ~5-hour game (right about the time I like for simple-but-novel indie game concepts) about being hired by murderers to clean up dead bodies left behind while cops are patrolling the crime scene. Get in, avoid the cops, clean up, get out. Simple, but I thought pretty enjoyable and well-made for what it is. Thanks, Shady.

Edited June 1, 2020 by Bartimaeus

[Mamoulian War]

Yesterday I had after a long time more chilly experience with Dark Souls 2, much less deaths   Seems like I have again became more relaxed and patient playing the game I have finished the Sinner's Rise and went to Huntsman's Copse. Where I have administered only 4 deaths, half of which were due to one item on a tower, where I failed to jump

The Lost Sinner was for me exercise in patience. First few tries clearly failed due to me being impatient, trying to shoot soul arrows as much as possible During the 8th try my patience became almost perfect, but I have missclicked a button during the final few bosses HP, when I wanted to switch to new spell But thankfully 9th one went perfect, with just few hits to my head

 

[Hawke64]

1 hour ago, Mamoulian War said:

Yesterday I had after a long time more chilly experience with Dark Souls 2, much less deaths   Seems like I have again became more relaxed and patient playing the game I have finished the Sinner's Rise and went to Huntsman's Copse. Where I have administered only 4 deaths, half of which were due to one item on a tower, where I failed to jump

The Lost Sinner was for me exercise in patience. First few tries clearly failed due to me being impatient, trying to shoot soul arrows as much as possible During the 8th try my patience became almost perfect, but I have missclicked a button during the final few bosses HP, when I wanted to switch to new spell But thankfully 9th one went perfect, with just few hits to my head

 

Very good.

By the way, there are several quest chains that require to defeat certain bosses with an NPC companion being summoned and alive by the end. Nothing major, but might be interesting.
Also you can challenge the NG+ version of the boss if you have a bonfire ascetic, which also drops Old Witch Soul (though, it would be more useful for dex and pyromancy builds).

[Skazz]

13 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Serial Cleaner, courtesy of @ShadySands. A very pleasant ~5-hour game (right about the time I like for simple-but-novel indie game concepts) about being hired by murderers to clean up dead bodies left behind while cops are patrolling the crime scene. Get in, avoid the cops, clean up, get out. Simple, but I thought pretty enjoyable and well-made for what it is. Thanks, Shady.

I had the opportunity to meet Serial Cleaner devs once (they're Polish). They're pretty great guys - I'm glad that you liked their game.

[Bartimaeus]

27 minutes ago, Hawke64 said:

Very good.

By the way, there are several quest chains that require to defeat certain bosses with an NPC companion being summoned and alive by the end. Nothing major, but might be interesting.
Also you can challenge the NG+ version of the boss if you have a bonfire ascetic, which also drops Old Witch Soul (though, it would be more useful for dex and pyromancy builds).

Are there any likable or memorable NPCs in Dark Souls 2 anyways? Can't remember anyone but the spammy Firekeeper (Ms. "Bearer, seek, seek, lest"...).

@Skazz That's cool. Yeah, I thought they did a good job, and I enjoyed the minimalistic-but-well-written story. It helps that they nailed the length of the game - if this game had been ~12 hours like that other indie game I recently played, Underhero, I probably would've been dying by the end of it - conciseness in dialogue, plot, and gameplay with minimal fluff and repetition/recycling will almost always be welcomed by me. Also, something cool they did was have a bunch of unlockable bonus missions you can find throughout the main story missions, each with a particular theme (e.g. one is Holy Grail-inspired, another One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest out of all things, etc.) - doesn't make any difference for the main story, but if you were concerned the game wasn't long enough, well, there you go! Overall, a simple but well-made and very effective game.

[Mamoulian War]

1 hour ago, Hawke64 said:

Very good.

By the way, there are several quest chains that require to defeat certain bosses with an NPC companion being summoned and alive by the end. Nothing major, but might be interesting.
Also you can challenge the NG+ version of the boss if you have a bonfire ascetic, which also drops Old Witch Soul (though, it would be more useful for dex and pyromancy builds).

Thank you  

I already know about NPCs  . I’ve playing my first playthrough mostly blind, so I am trying to avoid all possible spoilers, and from what I’ve heard, I’ve already missed some of theses quest chains. So I’ve decided to leave these quests for NG+ and we’ll see how it goes then. 
 

And the bonfire ascetic item... well, I suck bog times on original bosses, so I will definatelly not use that yet  I plan to finish the game few times, to get all the trophies, so I think, there might be some point where, that I will try that, but I’m definatelly not ready for that yet  

[Chilloutman]

since battlepass dropped I was grinding DoTA all days long, i must say its good fun to have incentive to play some heroes

[Keyrock]

49 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:

since battlepass dropped I was grinding DoTA all days long, i must say its good fun to have incentive to play some heroes

What heroes have you been playing? 

[Chilloutman]

13 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

What heroes have you been playing? 

well all of them! xD those in cave crawl challenges, finishing support wing now

Edited June 2, 2020 by Chilloutman

[Chilloutman]

25 minutes ago, Chilloutman said:

well all of them! xD those in cave crawl challenges, finishing support wing now

cant win with Leshrac, that hero is so lame if you are not owning mid from start...

[Keyrock]

My favotite hero is Krobelus (Death Prophet), but on the very rare occasion I play I'm way too trash to play mid, I'm usually a 5 and DP is a terrible 5.

[Hawke64]

12 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

Are there any likable or memorable NPCs in Dark Souls 2 anyways? Can't remember anyone but the spammy Firekeeper (Ms. "Bearer, seek, seek, lest"...).

@Skazz That's cool. Yeah, I thought they did a good job, and I enjoyed the minimalistic-but-well-written story. It helps that they nailed the length of the game - if this game had been ~12 hours like that other indie game I recently played, Underhero, I probably would've been dying by the end of it - conciseness in dialogue, plot, and gameplay with minimal fluff and repetition/recycling will almost always be welcomed by me. Also, something cool they did was have a bunch of unlockable bonus missions you can find throughout the main story missions, each with a particular theme (e.g. one is Holy Grail-inspired, another One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest out of all things, etc.) - doesn't make any difference for the main story, but if you were concerned the game wasn't long enough, well, there you go! Overall, a simple but well-made and very effective game.

Lucatiel of Mirrah, mostly. She appears often enough, her story is relatable, she is a decent tank (not an excellent one, but able to survive long enough).

There are also Ornifex the weaponsmith and the (potential) settlers of Majula, but they have shorter story lines. Except for the armor merchant, whose name I forgot, but he gives a unique armor set for free at some point.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Hawke64

[Bartimaeus]

2 hours ago, Hawke64 said:

Lucatiel of Mirrah, mostly. She appears often enough, her story is relatable, she is a decent tank (not an excellent one, but able to survive long enough).

There are also Ornifex the weaponsmith and the (potential) settlers of Majula, but they have shorter story lines. Except for the armor merchant, whose name I forgot, but he gives a unique armor set for free at some point.

Oh yeah, I remember Lucatiel now that you mention it. She was probably the most memorable for non-annoying reasons. Unfortunately, among its many other issues, DS2 seemed to be lacking a lot of the customary Souls NPC goofiness/charm.

[Malcador]

Never actually played the Arma 3 campaign so am doing that now.  Laughed to myself as I overheard my team leader talk to himself in the usual Arma cadence of "Team! Move. 100 M. Front" . 

[Tale]

Still Astroneer. It's slowed down a lot since the final two planets have ridiculous energy requirements. I'm basically about to start grinding out RTGs just to meet the last one. I can do it, it's just boring. Maybe I'll build my base connected to a tower so that the second I hit the requirements it'll activate without extra effort. Or maybe I'll build generators. They're easy to make.

I also enjoy walking down to the core, digging tunnels only as necessary. It takes a little longer, but it feels more adventurous than building a mining rover and pointing down.

[Hawke64]

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. The party found a random cave with trolls. The cave was larger (7 maps) than most of the main story dungeons. Though, I acquired a +2 fire kukri (the Cutting Star), so it is not too bad.

[Malcador]

I may give up on Arma 3's campaign, definitely do not have good eyesight for this game.

[Lexx]

If you have trouble seeing enemy soldiers, you can enable a visual help in the difficulty settings.

I used it all the time in A2, but in A3 I didn't need it anymore.

Edited June 4, 2020 by Lexx

[Malcador]

6 minutes ago, Lexx said:

If you have trouble seeing enemy soldiers, you can enable a visual help in the difficulty settings.

I used it all the time in A2, but in A3 I didn't need it anymore.

Huh, didn't even know that existed. Will give that a go.  Managing so far, really hate the second mission and the rookie trap of a motorized squad right on the route you need to take, hah.

[Mamoulian War]

And another bossfight in Dark Souls 2 successfully behind me. The fight was not complicated, but it brought few surprises to me, during the encounter. Which in the end meant me corpsrunning few times It might take a little bit longer to learn the fights that way, but I really enjoy the learning process of some encounters, even if it might feel sometime little bit frustrating. The successful attempt ended up pretty long, but I think, I played to cautious this attempt, after wiping the floor clean in last two attempts during the last wave of chariot wheel skeletons rolling everywhere

 

[johnnyy]

Civ6 is one of my fav games, I'm playing it right now

[Mamoulian War]

And because I had today a day off-work, my progress through Dark Souls 2 was pretty solid As a start I decided to venture into Undead Purgatory, where I encountered Executioner's Chariot boss. I like design of this encounter. When I got to the last phase of the encounter, it was very easy, but my issue were again my hands I died few times to the respawning skeletons, but in the end, five tries were enough to defeat this boss. So far despite the easy difficulty, I liked this bossfight the most.