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 12 hours ago 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 2 hours ago by Sven_