What are you playing now

[Ganrich]

I would also like to point out that buying a ps3 instead of upgrading the pc is still an upgrade, of sorts, to a single core Athlon PC. You are buying hardware to play newer titles. You may save money on the hardware going the console route, but it still involves that hardware purchase.

 

Play games on what makes you happy, though. I am not judging by any stretch.

 

I enjoy adding to my PC, myself. I have only bought consoles for Tekken (I play fighting games weekly with friends), and the occasional exclusive. I hope Tekken 7 comes to the PC this time around. Harada said he would look into it as a fan of Steam. Maybe 1 exclusive every 2 years or so, other than Tekken.

 

Currently, I am juggling Borderlands 2, Remember me, Deus Ex HR, The Banner Saga, and something else I am forgetting. I just play whatever I am in the mood for when I get home.

[Mamoulian War]

Yes you are right in a way, but for me it was not planned an upgrade, I just wanted to play Final Fantasy XIII and Demon's Soul. With the "quality" of games in last 5 years, I was playing only League of Legends for few hours and it started to bore me as well, then I found some interesting PS3 japanese games and started to enjoy gaming again.

 

Now I am playing Gran Turismo 6, Atelier Ayesha and Star Ocean 4. I am starting to get more and more disappointed with the GT6 and it's AI. In 5 lap race first three laps, the opponents drive on Vettel level, and then in last two laps they drop to my sister level, and in two laps I am able to get over more than 15 seconds time difference between me and leader with ease...

[AGX-17]

I'd be surprised if anyone on the team wasn't working very hard.

I think you've never worked in an office environment before.

 

 

Anyway, got Muramasa and Dynasty Warriors (wow, **** off, touchscreen features,) on Vita just to actually have games other than P4G on it.

[Ganrich]

Yes you are right in a way, but for me it was not planned an upgrade, I just wanted to play Final Fantasy XIII and Demon's Soul. With the "quality" of games in last 5 years, I was playing only League of Legends for few hours and it started to bore me as well, then I found some interesting PS3 japanese games and started to enjoy gaming again.

 

Now I am playing Gran Turismo 6, Atelier Ayesha and Star Ocean 4. I am starting to get more and more disappointed with the GT6 and it's AI. In 5 lap race first three laps, the opponents drive on Vettel level, and then in last two laps they drop to my sister level, and in two laps I am able to get over more than 15 seconds time difference between me and leader with ease...

Very cool. I have been truly excited about seeing many Japanese games start to trickle onto PC. I am really enjoying Remember Me. It is linear and the combat a bit repetitive, but the world is pretty amazing. My best analogy for it is Jade Empire meets Deus Ex yet linear and no dialogue stuff. Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 can't come out fast enough.

 

I have had a similar gaming resurgence with Indies and Kickstarter. It's probably more fair to say Kickstarter has made me more aware and open to indies as a whole. I go indie nuts on the Steam/gog/origin/whatever sales as of late.

 

One of my hopes is Sega buying Atlus might bring some of Atlus' stuff onto PC, but I am keeping those hopes in check.

 

The last game I couldn't remember that I was playing was NWN2 OC and MOTB replay as a Bard Archer. I definitely took a bit of a break and completely forgot I was doing that replay. I wanted to get BG, BG2, PST, IWD, IWD 2, and NWN 2 all replays before Pillars of Eternity hit. I only lack NWN 2 and MOTB. I don't care about NWN1 as I only really liked it for persistent worlds as I thought the single player OC and Xpacs were " meh". I feel ashamed I forgot an Obsidian title on their boards. That is what no sleep will get you, I suppose.

[Labadal]

Did a couple of quests in Baldur's Gate II. I will have Korgan and Aeire in my party until he makes her leave.

[Piccolo]

Slowly working my way through The Banner Saga at the moment. Only 3 hours in, but i'm already very impressed by the game.

[alanschu]

 

I'd be surprised if anyone on the team wasn't working very hard.

I think you've never worked in an office environment before.

 

That is correct. Neither have I worked for a video game developer either. I'm sure they're just sitting around going "ehhhhh, we could put this in but I'd rather kick up my feet and do nothing!"

[Katphood]

Playing some Dead Rising: Off The Record when I'm not playing Drakensang. Forgot how fun the Sandbox mode is.

[AGX-17]

 

 

I'd be surprised if anyone on the team wasn't working very hard.

I think you've never worked in an office environment before.

 

That is correct. Neither have I worked for a video game developer either. I'm sure they're just sitting around going "ehhhhh, we could put this in but I'd rather kick up my feet and do nothing!"

 

I haven't worked for every game developer that exists, but most fall pretty solidly under the category of "office environment." It's not really unique to office environs to have employees who don't pull their weight and try to take credit for the labor of others. I'm sure every work environment of sufficient size suffers from the same problem. It's not any different from group work in school, honestly. There are always people who do minimum/no work and try to take credit for other peoples' labor. That's just a shining facet of the gemstone that is human nature.

 

There are actual academic studies that found that the amount of time spent slacking/looking at porn/playing angry birds in office space is quite significant. The cube farm is not conducive to human ingenuity.

 

Also, I'm playing video games all the time, so this is totally 100% on-topic.

Edited February 16, 2014 by AGX-17

[ManifestedISO]

Siri, manage my ignoramus prefs, please ... ah, that's much better, thanks.

[Oner]

Dead State and System Shock 2, among other things.
Any tips for SS2 regarding skill progression? I went PSI, but not sure if I should add some hacking/modifying/repair skills.

[Gorgon]

Does anybody know anything about this game

 

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/271290/

[Guest Slinky]

Dead State and System Shock 2, among other things.

Any tips for SS2 regarding skill progression? I went PSI, but not sure if I should add some hacking/modifying/repair skills.

 

I never played as PSI so I have no idea how many other skills you can take, but hacking is very useful and should be kept as high as you can if possible. Modifying is not that important, especially for PSI as I don't think they use weapons much or at all? Probably best to just use those items that let you modify weapons without the skill. Repair is completely useless, just keep eye on the condition of your weapons and swich them for better ones when found. There are also items you can use to repair. I actually always set the weapon degradation much slower or disable it completely, it's a bit silly mechanic as it is.

 

Can't really give any more advice for PSI, I always go navy.

[Oner]

 

Dead State and System Shock 2, among other things.

Any tips for SS2 regarding skill progression? I went PSI, but not sure if I should add some hacking/modifying/repair skills.

 

I never played as PSI so I have no idea how many other skills you can take, but hacking is very useful and should be kept as high as you can if possible. Modifying is not that important, especially for PSI as I don't think they use weapons much or at all? Probably best to just use those items that let you modify weapons without the skill. Repair is completely useless, just keep eye on the condition of your weapons and swich them for better ones when found. There are also items you can use to repair. I actually always set the weapon degradation much slower or disable it completely, it's a bit silly mechanic as it is.

 

Can't really give any more advice for PSI, I always go navy.

 

Thanks, that was what I wanted to know.

[Zoraptor]

Be warned, psi is very difficult for a first play through, if you go pure psi. It then gets very easy once some of the higher tier powers are available. If you go hybrid with a few weapon skills it's a lot easier. Saving resources is the name of the game for a first play through as well, as you will run out of bullets or psi hypos on the second level most likely, and if you're not careful. Smack as much as you can with the wrench. Personally, I'd consider taking 1 skill in modify and maintenance at some point, if you plan on using ranged weapons but they're discretionary. Repair is close to useless.

[LadyCrimson]

I'm not sure whether to put this in funny things thread or in here...so I think I'll put it here. 

 

Was looking at more vids. of Rust and DayZ. DayZ is nicer looking, but Rust looks a bit more interesting. But I might enjoy watching the videos more than playing, perhaps (some YouTubers have some funny Let's Plays). Anyway that led me to this vid. making fun of the pk-mentality on some of the busy servers. It actually has me close to buying it. I want a rock!

 

(a bit of language here and there, in the vid, just to say)

 

[Monte Carlo]

I'm trying to get into FarCry3 but dammit I hate playing a PC game with an XBox controller. And I suck at WASD too. I think it's a title I should have picked up on console but it looks like fun so will persevere.

 

Apart from that lots of Company of Heroes 2 and a shed-load of Baldur's gate. My Barbarian has defeated Sarevok, achieved level 11 and is now tooling around Athkatla looking for phat lewt.

[Humanoid]

Gave Football Manager 2014 another shot. This game is one that illustrates the value of restraint in that it's the complete opposite of the concept. Indeed I'd say the direction the series has appeared to take is the very definition of feature bloat. Adding various features with zero-to-minimal depth in an exercise of "it's realistic" checkboxes that they can add to their feature lists.

 

There's sort of a faux-acknowledgement that this may be a problem to some people, but the solution is the very inelegant "classic" mode, where a fixed number of features are disabled as a package, no customisation. One would think that the clean solution would be a straightforward options panel where individual features could be toggled on or off as desired.

[Darkpriest]

Dead State and System Shock 2, among other things.

Any tips for SS2 regarding skill progression? I went PSI, but not sure if I should add some hacking/modifying/repair skills.

 

IIRC you took the hardest guy to start with. Hacking is usually useful, but you need to keep in mind that higher level PSI skills cost A TON of skill points...

[Keyrock]

I've mostly been playing The Secret World all weekend.  And by playing I mean putting up with the awful controls and enjoying the writing.  Also snuck some Broken Sword 5 in.

[HoonDing]

Started AssCreed 3. Thought I was going to play with Indian dude, but instead I'm in some never-ending tutorial with an old British guy. Not cool.

[Noviere]

I've been playing the Blackwell games. I played the first one, and part of the second a few months ago, but got sidetracked by something else. I played through the third yesterday, and am now on the fourth... It's weird that the sprites and portraits for this one are worse than the previous game. Still, it's a great series and I am looking forward to the finale "soon."

[Keyrock]

I'm through 13 of the 18 story missions in the Zombie New England area of The Secret World.  Hopefully it won't take me too long to get through the rest of them, since I'd kind of like to see a new, and hopefully completely different, area.

[melkathi]

Suggestions:

 

For Keyrock:

7 Grand Steps

 

a board game where you guide your family through the copper age. the head of the family gets into random situations, which are affected by their character. Eventually your family joins the ruling caste of the city and you make policy decisions. It is very refreshing. (and by the same people who made Dangerous Highschool Girls in Trouble)

 

Army of Tentacles:

vote for it: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184635793

Very interesting geeky humour and combat with words, reminiscant of the good ol' swordmaster fights. And all that by forumites

[Keyrock]

I'm not buying anything any time soon.  My backlog is ridiculous and several Kickstarter games will be dropping in my lap soon.  I'll keep that suggestion in mind for a future date, with "future" being defined as no earlier than 4 or 5 months from now.  Not to mention that I'm in Hardcore Save For Rig Upgrade Mode (aka Operation Haswell-E), as I plan to build a whole new rig in the second half of this year.  I'm actually ahead of schedule on the putting aside money front, but that's only caused me to get "greedy" and start thinking about a more high-end rig than I originally was envisioning.  Also, **** happens, so having more put away than I need is never a bad idea.

Edited February 17, 2014 by Keyrock