What are you playing now?

[Gorth]

Playing Life® in "Iron Man" mode...

 

Really wanting to get one of the 3 characters I rolled and started going in PoE, but can't find the time at the moment

[Keyrock]

I personally liked the combat in The Witcher 2 much better than TW1.  I'm one of the few people that thought the combat in TW2 was straight up good.  It could have been more responsive, but I overall really liked the system.  I though the combat in TW1 was just plain garbage.  It was basically a rhythm music game, minus the music, and I'm not into rhythm music games.

 

Anyway, I made it to Polis Station (and chapter 5) in Metro 2033 Redux.  I still have a ways to go, but I'm over the hump now and can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel (pun very much intended).  I had a super tense moment in the last chapter while carrying the little kid.  I got to a point where I was out of medkits and was almost dead (screen quickly blinking red) and reached a checkpoint (stupid checkpoint autosave system), so I was stuck going through the rest of the chapter at basically 1 health.  On the plus side, it did force me into frantic run for my life gameplay, which was super duper tense.  I managed to get through it before I died too many times and got frustrated, so it worked out in the end, I guess.

[Xosmi]

Currently re-playing my way through baldurs gate : enhanced edition for the 3rd time, this time on a swashbuckler that i plan to export to bg2:ee and dual to mage at lvl 15.

[GhostofAnakin]

I personally liked the combat in The Witcher 2 much better than TW1.  I'm one of the few people that thought the combat in TW2 was straight up good.  It could have been more responsive, but I overall really liked the system.  I though the combat in TW1 was just plain garbage.  It was basically a rhythm music game, minus the music, and I'm not into rhythm music games..

 

Agreed.  The Witcher 2's combat was solid.  The Witcher 1's was just clunky.  Hit ... wait for flaming sword icon to show up ... hit.  Rinse, repeat.

[LadyCrimson]

Occasionally dropping an hour into Path of Exile, still. Enough to get rid of the gaming urge but isn't a committed venture. My Scion-mage is lvl68 and I've been rather dismayed at the imbalance of her ease of going through Merciless difficulty (with almost no defenses) compared to the melee Shadow I tried before.

I recall when Freezing Pulse was the totally OP'd magic spell - they fixed it so that's no longer the case, it's now a good spell but not the only spell you'll ever need/want. Which is a good thing. But the issue with Diablo-like games so often seems to be that mob density is so high and fast that, while melee is always viable (and sometimes kicks butt, too), it still just has a hard time being equal to any ranged attacks that can, say, chain and kill things off-screen you can't even see. Arc and Ice Nova need some balancing imo. Or the gem Spell Echo does.

I like powerful mages in these types of games, don't get me wrong, but yeah...

[Bartimaeus]

Yeah...that's why I only played sorceresses in Diablo 2. A hammerdin was my second, but it wasn't close: I hated having to constantly switch from teleport to aura to teleport to aura, lining up the hammers so they actually hit things because of the odd hammer arc...and the cost of a playable hammerdin versus a playable sorceress were incomparable: you could always play a sorceress at some level, because you always have teleport. Hammerdin? Have to have Enigma, at the very least, and if you don't have good gear in other respects, you'll never survive the beating that a hammerdin takes because of the dumb hammer arc.

 

Of course, having thousands of forum gold on d2jsp rather defeats the entire fun of playing D2 at all...which is probably why I don't play it anymore.

 

In regards to Path of Exile, one thing I hated was a lack of teleport in any class. I hate ALT+F4 being my only escape from unbeatable odds.

[Katphood]

yeah GTA V is awesome. Too bad online mode sux balls

Yeah, I've seen funny things happen in GTA Online but at the end of the day it is no fun at all. The heists could be worth checking out but there are lots of games that do that better(Payday, BF: Hardline). The single player portion of the game is fun as hell though. The world is so alive and interactive that it puts most role-playing games to shame.

[HoonDing]

TW2 combat did not feel witcher-y. It was a clunky mess.

 

Maybe if it had combat like Metal Gear Revengeance.

[Keyrock]

I've made it to the final chapter in Metro 2033 Redux.  I think I've suffocated as many times in the game as I have gotten killed by enemies.  I did develop a trick for stretching out the lifespan of my filters, though:  Take off the gasmask when I'm running low, go on without it for about 7 or 8 seconds, until I'm about to suffocate, then put it back on for a few seconds, then take it off again.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  It's a cheesy trick but I absolutely needed to use it in one part where the game autosaved seconds before my gasmask made the ratcheting noise warning me the filter is about to run out and I had to go through a scripted elevator ride down and several amoebas before reaching a locker with more filters.

[lobotomy42]

I finally started Pillars of Eternity this week, after a few months of slowly finishing up Shadowrun: Dragonfall.

 

It's quite good!

[GhostofAnakin]

Started playing Pillars of Eternity.  Time to see what all the fuss is about.

[Keyrock]

Finished Metro 2033 Redux.  I was taken aback by how easy, comparatively speaking, the final chapter was.  The lack of any sort of final boss battle (the trippy final sequence doesn't count) was a bit of a bummer.  Regardless, I thoroughly liked the game, crappy checkpoint autosave system aside.  I'll play Last Light in the future.  For now, I'm diving into Star Trek 25th Anniversary.

[cirdanx]

Dragon Age Origins, after a long time again!

 

It´s great and i forgot how much i love it. Which is good...the bad part is i planed to buy DA:I...that is so NOT going to happen after that lol,  I had enough dissapointments this month.

 

Also, Witcher 3 is coming up and i want to make a new playthru....**** DA:I

[Luj1]

 

yeah GTA V is awesome. Too bad online mode sux balls

Yeah, I've seen funny things happen in GTA Online but at the end of the day it is no fun at all. The heists could be worth checking out but there are lots of games that do that better(Payday, BF: Hardline). The single player portion of the game is fun as hell though. The world is so alive and interactive that it puts most role-playing games to shame.

 

 

 

yeah story mode was awesome, online is like , wait, wait , wait some more, play, wait, play, wait in lobby, wait

[Luj1]

Started playing Pillars of Eternity.  Time to see what all the fuss is about.

 

 

Nothing special for RPG veterans

[Nonek]

Finished Poe, beginning cogitations. I'm surprised that there is not a united review/feedback thread so that Obsidian can gather criticism and such.

[Keyrock]

Star Trek 25th Anniversary - It's worth it for the banter between Spock and Bones alone.

[ManifestedISO]

Never played a game where I have to stop, take a breath, look down at my right thumb, pull the stick, push it quickly straight, then cover my eyes and hope I accounted for wind and elevation. When it works, hitting the right shot is a ton of fun, glorious when you get 100% power down the middle. 

 

Survived Amateur Season, on to Pro-Am where the top spot is around twenty strokes ahead. Whatevs.

 

[Nordicus]

Valdis Story: Abyssal City

 

The game didn't see a patch for over a year, but then the devs finally finished creating 2 entirely new characters and a big chunk of additional content. The game is officially content complete now, I believe

 

I might eventually land into 3 digit hours with this game, already 70% there

 

 

Even just the Gilda character turns the game's mechanics on its heads. To mention a few things, she has a double-jump from very start of the game, and her block button? Doesn't block, does a stance-switching laucher attack instead. Dayum

[Malcador]

Still playing Diablo 3. Paragon level 140 now, woot

[GhostofAnakin]

So far in PoE I've run into 3 recruitable party members.  I haven't turned down any of their offers to join me.  Two of them are pretty useful, but the third I haven't found much use for in combat yet (though I'm still trying to figure out the various spells/buffs/etc.).

[marelooke]

Tried to finish the Cinders of Faith quest in PoE, turns out it might be a  tad too hard at lvl7, wish that had been clear before I had spent nearly 30minutes fighting the boss (I spent more time on it, that was *one* try). Ugh.

 

Of all things about the BGT they could have messed with why did they have to pick combat? It's a testament to the rest of the game that I keep going, despite the combat.

[LadyCrimson]

Onward and beyond... (post limit).