What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!

[Hurlshort]

Dune: Awakening - I built a cozy starter home on a desert bluff. My swordmaster kneed some folks and is off to a good start. Although I've almost died a few times, which is more than I did in the beta. Got super close to getting eaten by a worm and then almost dehydrated to death. I think I'm probably just rushing more, since I've done this part already. 

Game is running well and my server isn't too crowded. Full release will be interesting.

[Katphood]

Unreal Gold.

...and this thing still runs like crap!

 

Direct 3D mode runs bad.

Software mode doesn't work at all.

3d fx mode works but only windowed mode. Can't go fullscreen! 

 

Thanks for removing this game from Steam, dear Epic Games...

[Humanoid]

Wasn't that because they made the game freeware?

[melkathi]

I finally played the dlc for Saints Row.

 

The Heist has a very fun intro mission. And then you get two more missions and the dlc is over and wtf where is the content? The dumb fly through rings event that already wasn't enjoyable in saints row 4?

Murder Circus is basically Moxxys dlc from the original Borderlands, just that you play NPCs instead of your own character.

The dlc with the larp content is really good though. 

[Katphood]

3 hours ago, Humanoid said:

Wasn't that because they made the game freeware?

Not sure. But they took both games out of the Steam store. 

Either way, I fixed it with a fanmade patch. 

[Mamoulian War]

They removed it from everywhere. Thankfully I bought all of the games on GOG, before they pulled this stunt. Unfortunatelly U3 was never released there, so I am missing that one in my collection   

[Katphood]

8 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

They removed it from everywhere. Thankfully I bought all of the games on GOG, before they pulled this stunt. Unfortunatelly U3 was never released there, so I am missing that one in my collection   

The PS3 version looked just fine. Why not buy a used copy? But yeah, this is the worst thing when it comes to gaming. I wish there was a legal way to play Need for Speed: Porsche. All the memories...

[bugarup]

Tried Fallout London mod. Londoners turned out to be excellent looters because the city was barren, or at least those very few places I could access were, because majority of everything seemed to be just for decor and whole city looked kinda like those photodrapes cities hang on historical buildings that are being renovated. Water gives you gazillion rads, I think this is game's equivalent of deathclaw conga line in Vegas, something to prevent you from going somewhere too early, but this + narrow walkways over said water everywhere + companion dog's propensity for pushing you from those walkways + looooong loading time = 

The last straw before scrubbing the mod from HD were invincible enemies who run at you and self-destruct very early on main quest, but that left me wanting to play Fallout 4. Turns out it's  fun if you ignore main quest and just be a garbage collector who, along with his trusty dog, travels the place endlessly searching for more glue. I mean, it's easy to imagine my guy checks the logs of freeze-refreeze-unfreeze before leaving, sighs "RIP Shaun" and gives wide berth to Sanctuary because of bad memories. Concord too, because of proximity. 

[marelooke]

On 6/8/2025 at 2:16 PM, Mamoulian War said:

They removed it from everywhere. Thankfully I bought all of the games on GOG, before they pulled this stunt. Unfortunatelly U3 was never released there, so I am missing that one in my collection   

Missing out on UT3 is not that big of a loss, I'd argue. Though I see they added achievements at some point, so maybe I'll play through the campaign again eventually.

I bought that game on DVD unless I'm very mistaken, though I think it was one of those "have disc, need Steam anyway"-releases that were so popular at the time. But there may be some new-old-stock out there still if you really, really want to complete the collection...

Edited June 9 by marelooke

[Mamoulian War]

19 hours ago, Katphood said:

The PS3 version looked just fine. Why not buy a used copy? But yeah, this is the worst thing when it comes to gaming. I wish there was a legal way to play Need for Speed: Porsche. All the memories...

I really hate to play any FPS with gamepad on console. I have tried to play Dishonored, finished the game, but then, I have rather repurchased the games again on GOG, so I would not need to play with gamepad only for all eternity... That being said, Playing any Unreal game with Gamepad feels like worst kind of heresy

[Katphood]

16 minutes ago, Mamoulian War said:

I really hate to play any FPS with gamepad on console. I have tried to play Dishonored, finished the game, but then, I have rather repurchased the games again on GOG, so I would not need to play with gamepad only for all eternity... That being said, Playing any Unreal game with Gamepad feels like worst kind of heresy

Oh, the good old mouse and keyboard argument. Guess you are right, more freedom. 

[Mamoulian War]

21 minutes ago, Katphood said:

Oh, the good old mouse and keyboard argument. Guess you are right, more freedom. 

Well, it’s also much less clumsy for me with M+K

[Katphood]

Oh, what can I say. You can't lay on a couch with a mouse and keyboard. 

[Sven_]

About to have my first rendezvous with lovely Ravel in PS: Torment since.... 15, 20 years? Any tipps on what I should get her? Chocolates? Flowers? My heart ripped out and put on a silver plate?



May continue with another run of Fallout 2 next. Records of this Pip-Boys orgy inspired me to think about it.
 

 

Edited June 9 by Sven_

[Katphood]

2 hours ago, Sven_ said:

About to have my first rendezvous with lovely Ravel in PS: Torment since.... 15, 20 years? Any tipps on what I should get her? Chocolates? Flowers? My heart ripped out and put on a silver plate?
 

G.E.C.K.

That's the perfect gift: turn the lower wards into your own paradise!

 

[Hurlshort]

It finally happened. I got eaten ny a sandworm. I was moving a bunch of stuff to a new base, and I was motorbiking across a big swath of desert. I had to swerve wide to avoid quicksand, and it put me on a bad path with a worm. He ate me whole.

I woke up naked and back at my new base. Now I'm running around trying to rebuild me life. 

10/10 - would become worm food again

Edited June 10 by Hurlshort

[melkathi]

Using a motorised vehicle on Arrakis...

They call that natural selection.

[Mamoulian War]

Wrong thread

[Malcador]

Finished GTA V, got 1.4 billion in cash.

Will knock off Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds from my back log, game sure crashes a lot.  Should really keep a Win 98 machine around...

[marelooke]

On 6/9/2025 at 7:22 PM, Katphood said:

Oh, what can I say. You can't lay on a couch with a mouse and keyboard. 

(no, I don't actually think using that long term is a good idea, but it's neat ) 

[BruceVC]

Im 130 hours in WoRT and its still going great 

I have reached the Midnight Fane 

I use the whole Crusader mini-RTS components to have breaks from the RPG progress, I like being in charge of the commander choices and my choices have results like additional army units 

I am really enjoying all my companion side-quests and potential Romance arcs with Camellia and Arueshalae. It took  a while before Sosiel accepted we were just going to be friends but it really  took a while around numerous dialogue options  

Its also the first RPG where I have made certain "evil " choices because my main objective is to defeat the demons and close the Worldwound so the end justifies the means, so for example I have undead units in my army, I aligned with Jerribeth at the Ivory Sanctum and Im prepared to work with most groups who are opposed to  Deskari. I also  didnt kill the Succubus who gave me the key in the Midnight Fane

The game really delivers on a myriad of narrative choices that makes me constantly think what is the overall best path I should follow 

And Im not  suffering from the demon killing fatigue that many people have raised as a legitimate  criticism of the design in parts of the game 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 11 by BruceVC

[Mamoulian War]

After some break, I am back to Star Ocean 6. And as always, I stumbled about something, that I hate in some of the RPGs. I am currently at a bossfight, which might or might not be a final bossfight. Up until now, all fights have been easy peasy fights, where you could fall asleep and still win (my bad, due to me picking wrong difficulty at start) including the last dungeon. And then you hit the wall. Final Boss kicks your ass so bad, that you are wondering what happened. And of course after 30 minutes of fight

[LadyCrimson]

Tainted Grail - after trying to "clean up side quests" for a bit, got impatient/bored (100-ish hrs) and just did the plot end thing.

---I found and got to have another convo with that chicken, in another Act. Game does stuff like this - find or go back and chat with npc's later, they may have something to say. Which is cool.
---I'm pretty sure there was a Hellraiser and Aliens reference/homage re: a couple mini-quests.
---I was level 75. I wiped the floor (bosses included) by level 50. I was not purposely grinding. The only way not to be 50+ by endgame is to not do a lot of sidequests or a lot of exploring. And there are TONS of sidequests, although many could easily be missed. This probably adds to replayability for many tho.
---Act3 is definitely the smallest. I still liked exploring it, but its main focus is to sorta barrel you to the Final Bit. That said, you could still spend a fair bit of time doing all the back and forth for factions. Or you could take the "bah humbug" way like I did and after exploring, ignore all that for another straightforward choice. Again, thanks, devs.
---Act3's multiple small faction areas were even worse in design than Act2's main town. I mean they make sense/are cool looking, but constantly going and returning to NPC's was a PITA chr. pathing/running wise.
---that first big patch added a "continue" option, so you could go back and try to grind the other 825,000 chr. levels if you wish. Why anyone would want to, I don't know.

Act1 -- grade A
Act2 - slower to get going but a solid grade B all told
Act3 - grade C+, mostly for size and feeling a bit rushed/less dense/fullfilling
A lot more RPG than Diablo, not as RPG as the best Baldur Gates (whichever one you think is that).

Edited June 12 by LadyCrimson

[Hurlshort]

I've hit level 35 in Dune. That seems like a lot, but I still feel like I suck a bit.

I soloed a research station today and died about 5 times. But now I have a shield generator and I think that might help. Or it might make me worm food. Who knows? Anyways, my base is gorgeous and I have a nice little terrarium with Muad'ib in it.

[melkathi]

If someone shoots your shield with a laser and the game doesn't fry your HD as a result, request a refund.