What are you Playing Now? - Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll

[MrBrown]

3 hours ago, Lexx said:

Still. This game feels so huge and I can't shake off the feeling that my characters and stats aren't great and that I should rather restart... but I just don't have the time to restart. Sinking another 30 or what hours into the game just to get back to where I am right now is not something I'd be looking forward to.

You can re-spec pretty extensively.

[Malcador]

On 1/27/2025 at 10:57 AM, Wormerine said:

My google-fu tells me that it was a DLC on consoles, so it is possible you played a version without it. Apparently it was always part of PC KOTOR (looking at screenshot it looks familiar, but my memory if the game is fuzzy by now).

Will dig up the DVD to check.

Almost finished, forgot how short some planets are.  Running with Juhani, usually I kill her, even on LS. Her remarks when I kill some guy's kid then shake him down for reward money are fun.

[MrBrown]

Caught a bit of a nostalgia bug, and played a bit of Civ4. Was quickly reminded of how much better 5 and 6 were.

Though I could listen to Baba Yetu 24/7.

[Humanoid]

It was between Civ4 and XCOM Long War for me when I was looking for a filler game to revisit until Avowed releases. Went with XCOM for now, but only so far as to pick up my old perpetual endgame save. I'll probably have time to fit in a game or two of Civ4 after I've had my fill though, and for me it's still the undisputed king.

Not a whole lot to comment on in terms of the XCOM campaign, just stomping on the aliens with a fully kitted out squad. It's frustrating though that the aliens just spam battleships at this point - I can shoot them down reliably enough but I just can't be bothered doing the loooong missions that result.

[LadyCrimson]

No Man's Sky - just checking out performance. FPS number seems higher/I could turn more things up to High/Ultra again, even on native/no DLSS, but there seems to be more general micro stutter. Not constant, but little jerks here and there. Didn't try to "fix" it/find out if I could. It's not terrible but not as smooth as before. There seems to be more clarity/crispness to the graphics of two planets I looked at. Swimming underwater looks nicer too.

Problem with this games is after many many months away, you're not sure you want to play an old save where you have no clue what you were up to. But the main quest/post-quests are pfft/don't care to repeat, so you don't want to start a new chr again (30+ hrs) if you have to have those finished to activate the Worlds 2 new systems/planets (post-game quest to be able to get the new hyperdrive that lets you get to purple systems). I only finished the MQ with a single chr/save, none of my other chrs ever bothered.

I think the save editor might be able to mark them as finished/give the inventory item needed ... maybe I'll do that when they update it, see if I can get the new quest to trigger that way.

Edited Thursday at 12:43 AM by LadyCrimson

[melkathi]

I am at 146/151 types of fish caught in Dredge. It feels wrong to give up on catching those last few.

[Sven_]

Bits of Cultic. Played it last year already. But this is my favourite boomer shooter thingy. It isn't actually quite such a game.

There's genuine Survival Horror bits in there. One moment you're headshotting and TNT'ing cultists. The next you drop into a hellhole of bodies. The music stops, you have to take out your lighter to see further than a feet, and then, suddenly....

Highly recommend the demo.

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 10:24 AM by Sven_

[Malcador]

20 hours ago, MrBrown said:

Caught a bit of a nostalgia bug, and played a bit of Civ4. Was quickly reminded of how much better 5 and 6 were.

Though I could listen to Baba Yetu 24/7.

Them's fighting words.

Finished Kotor, killed Carth in an extremely half assed sequence, his dying words had a great bored delivery.

I guess I can go on to Kotor 2, but eh.

[melkathi]

Completed Dredge, both endings.

 

So I installed that Moria dwarf simulator.

Lasted up to the moment I had to construct the first wooden platform. Absolutely hated building even that, so uninstalled.

[Hurlshort]

40 minutes ago, melkathi said:

Completed Dredge, both endings.

 

So I installed that Moria dwarf simulator.

Lasted up to the moment I had to construct the first wooden platform. Absolutely hated building even that, so uninstalled.

It was fun to restore a brewery and get a decent bar going in the game, but my only customers were goblins, so I got bored of it pretty quickly.

[melkathi]

Started a new run of Exogate, now that it has officially released.

They toned down the squib invasions, which was the main change I had been hoping for.

Third invasion put almost all my soldiers in the infirmary, but I healed up and had time to do missions before they returned. Before, in early access, I'd heal up just in time for the next invasion.

 

Of course one of the major factions has declared war; they want to steal one of my mining operations. I have pushed them back one planet into their territory. So the priority now is to get more resources and kit out all medics with body armour - they love targeting my medics 

[Wormerine]

Pre-Avowed playthrough of Deadfire completed. Used some light mods, mandatory Community Patch, plus XP rebalance, which worked pretty well. I think this is a playthrough I enjoyed the most. Small narrative additions and DLCs, I think make Deadfire much stronger narratively, and enough time has passed for me to be able to assess it with a fresher pair of eyes.

 

Edited 23 hours ago by Wormerine

[Lexx]

Damn, I forgot how nice Deadfire looked. I'm currently playing BG3 and I have to say... Deadfire with that engine would be absolute fire. Being able to interact with everything, jumping all over the map, the whole mechanics, etc... very nice.

Also in hindsight I'm pretty sure the real time with pause has hurt the gaming experience. Was never much a fan of it anyways, but playing BG3 now again just proves it to me.

[melkathi]

Last wave that came in through the gate never even breached the shields of my guard posts.

That was a nice experience. I am very worried about the next attack though - I don't feel prepared for higher tier enemies.

Back at peace with all major factions. Thf non aggression pact with the more aggressive one just ran out though, so I have my military team on standby. Really would love to level up the medics though.

 

Exogate feels tiny as this type of games go, at the same time I keep doing stuff. Mostly I feel the 50 gater limit - if I could field one more team...