What are you playing now.

[GhostofAnakin]

Possibly.

 

I've done a couple of the main missions and some of the replay missions in Chapter 2.  One thing that's kind of making it boring now is every single enemy seems to be heavy infantry.  So it makes for boring strategy since you can no longer snipe enemies from afar and use those kind of stealth infiltration.  Everything either has to be noisy (missile/rocket launchers/grenades) or sneaking right up to each and every one of them and using hand-to-hand to take them down.

 

I know there was a note about the enemy "getting used to my tactics", but come on.  That's not getting used to it.  That's basically just making sure my tactics never, ever work.  It's like a D&D game where the enemy adapts to your sword-wielding fighter which you've put every single point into his sword fighting ability by becoming immune to any sort of melee damage.

[teknoman2]

i preloaded the beta of battlefront and it was supposed to be available for play since 20 minutes ago, however it says the game is still locked when i try to run it. meanwhile i see people say that they are already in and playing

[Tale]

Chapter 2 doesn't seem anywhere as fleshed out or in depth as Chapter 1.  

 

They beat the bad guy in Chapter 1. Like I said, chapter 2 seems like an epilogue. Peacewalker did something very similar with chasing Zadornov. Of course, Peacewalker also had a final-final boss battle with the secret antagonist. That was cut from Phantom Pain, the mission where you fight Liquid in Sahelanthropus.

 

Gave MGO a second day of play. I'm officially done. Nothing too interesting to do, nothing interesting to look forward to. Only reason to keep playing is if I don't value my time.

[Enoch]

Picked up the Dragon Age: Inquisition GOTY edition.  My frugal side says that I should've waited a few months to see if we get a holiday-sale price-drop, but I can afford to ignore my frugal side every once in a while.  I'm interested enough in the setting to want to give it a shot while DA2 is fresh in my mind.  I'll probably stagger this with Grim Fandango-- I tend to need "breaks" from puzzle-driven adventure games.

 

Haven't yet gotten much further than character creation.  (The wife needed the good PC for some work stuff last night.)  I made a Dwarf-lady archer-rogue named Doris, because I've heard that the main themes are very elfy, and I like to be a contrarian when I play this kind of game.  (I'd consider trying out a city elf background, but such is apparently unavailable, and the Dalish are a clownshow.)  The game looks pretty, with the prominent exception of lip synching and player hair options that look like they're straight out of 2009. 

 

DA Keep was pretty neat.  I think it worked correctly-- DAI told me that a custom world state has been imported, but I haven't confirmed that in-game yet.

Edited October 8, 2015 by Enoch

[Malcador]

Still struggling to get my city in Cities Skylines working. I think I may have to scrap all my transit lines and re do them, bah.

[teknoman2]

ok, while graphically spectacular, battlefront is not all that great.

the vehicle controls are made exclusivelly for pad and that makes them unusable with m&k. even turrets are unaimable because they have acceleration to compensate for the pad's inaccuracy and that throws off any aiming attempt with the mouse

also (i read it but havent tried it) 3rd person view comes with aimbot

[Mamoulian War]

Hooray, I have today finished my first Paradox Game. Austria has become the new ruler of the world

 

It was real fun, almost for the whole 68 hours, which I have spent playing it!

 

I found few glitches and issues especially with AI through the game, but they were so minor, that they did not hinder my enjoyment of the game in the slightest.

 

More about the finish of my game is available here: https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page7  

 

Now, I will have to take some break from strategy games, and probably finish Van Helsing or start some of my JRPGs, which I still haven't started on my PS3. We'll see.

[Hurlshort]

Still struggling to get my city in Cities Skylines working. I think I may have to scrap all my transit lines and re do them, bah.

 

You must be designing the Bay Area.  ba-dum *tsk*

[GhostofAnakin]

Am I missing out on a lot of story references in MGSV because I've never played previous MGS games?

[Lexx]

Am I missing out on a lot of story references in MGSV because I've never played previous MGS games?

Not really. Most of it gets explained in tapes anyway.

[GhostofAnakin]

Some of the tapes are interesting, but some are rather boring.

 

I also can't find the blueprint for Quiet's strongest sniper rifle.  It was probably one of the items I should have picked up during a main story mission, but didn't and now can't find it.

[ShadySands]

NBA2K16 and Beyond Earth with the new expansion

 

I pretty much only play the MyCareer mode in the NBA2K series and this year it's pretty mixed. I mostly hate the whole Spike Lee story but like all the other aspects even though I wish some of them were more fleshed out but I guess the blew the budget on the (thankfully short) He Got Game 2 part. I'm in my second season and averaging 40 points, 15.5 assists, 10 rebounds, and 5.5 steals a game and just got MVP in both the Rising Stars and All Star games. Oh, I won the 3 point contest too but I didn't like that I had to chose between that and the dunk contest as I couldn't find a way to do both

 

I haven't gotten far enough into Beyond Earth to notice any major changes yet

 

EDIT- ended up staying up and playing Beyond Earth some and I like it a lot more so far but waaay too many aliens right now. Might need to lower the difficulty so I can leave base and explore without a small army

Edited October 9, 2015 by ShadySands

[Keyrock]

I've been housesitting my parent's house while they're away in Poland, taking care of the cats and such, so I don't have my desktop rig, only my lappy.  As such, I can't play some games, at least not at anywhere near max eye candy, plus I didn't bring my 360 controller with me.  Also, the qualifiers for the DOTA2 majors in Frankfurt have been on, so I've been watching a lot of that.  So, mostly I haven't been playing anything, but I did fire up a game of Might & Magic VI for nostalgia's sake.  Right off the bat I got struck by how awful the controls, particularly in combat, are.  I guess that back in 1998 an RPG with full 360 movement and real-time combat was a novelty, so I looked past how awfully clunky the combat controls when I was young, kind of how we were all so enamoured by 3D polygon graphics around that time that we blew our loads over how "awesome" those games looked back then because they were the new thing and speshul, but now, in hindsight,  those games look like complete garbage, while sprite based games still look great.  Anyway, despite the utter <doodoo> controls, I'm having fun with the game <ding-a-ling>ing around and exploiting the crap AI.  I doubt I'll do a full playthrough, I won't be able to put up with the <feces> controls for that long, but it's a decent little distraction for a bit.

Edited October 9, 2015 by Keyrock

[Enoch]

Man, flying around and dropping meteor swarms on folks in M&M 6 really was satisfying.  But also pretty hilariously broken, especially how you can still move up and down in real time while in the Turn-based combat mode. 

 

 

I've played through the DAI Intro section, and, so far, I think I really hate the camera controls.  The standard camera is giving me more trouble than DA2's ever did (this may be a level design issue), and the "Tactical" camera is too clunky for routine use (although it seems to have some utility for isolated circumstances). 

[mkreku]

Ok, so I finished Dying Light. Long time since I felt a slight sadness when a game ends. I wanted more!

 

I'm so glad I bought the season pass so I'll get the buggy expansion.

 

Great game.

[mkreku]

Hello fellow Obsidians and Black Isle Diehards

 

 

  I am attempting to replay Lionheart Legacy of the Crusader.

 

  Need patch 1.1 English, but unable to find a working link on google.  Tried Fileplanet, softpedia, gamepressure, gamershell, angelfire.  No luck.

 

  I'm not looking for the widescreen support patch, just the normal bug fixing patch.

 

 

 

 

Hope you guys are doing well, both the forum members and the Obsidian company affiliates as well.

 

http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/2475/7/46121/download

 

It worked for me. I wonder if I can upload it here? Nope, the file is 1.69 MB and max allowed is 1 MB. Unlucky. 1MB, btw?! That's uh.. probably from when I joined this forum.. eleven years ago.

[the_dog_days]

Started MGSV last night, and I think the prologue had to be the single longest tutorial I've ever played. My mission stats said it took me an hour, but it felt at least two hours long. Man, all those cut scenes and zero context. @_@

[Oerwinde]

Finished my first game of EU4. 550+ hours logged, and it was the first game I actually got to 1821

[Lexx]

Started MGSV last night, and I think the prologue had to be the single longest tutorial I've ever played. My mission stats said it took me an hour, but it felt at least two hours long. Man, all those cut scenes and zero context. @_@

The forced slow-mo crawling is the worst, imo.

[the_dog_days]

 

Started MGSV last night, and I think the prologue had to be the single longest tutorial I've ever played. My mission stats said it took me an hour, but it felt at least two hours long. Man, all those cut scenes and zero context. @_@

The forced slow-mo crawling is the worst, imo.

I don't know, the repeating fainting fits had me grinding my teeth.

[Keyrock]

I swung by my own place after work to pick some things up before heading back to my parents' to housesit, so I had a bit of time to play on my desktop rig and played Jotun again.  I've come to the conclusion that I'll likely never finish that game.  I got to what I assume is the final battle and I simply cannot beat it.  I've tried a whole bunch of times and only once did I come even remotely close.  I hate to leave it unfinished because I was LPing it and I hate to leave the series unfinished, especially when I'm this close, but I'll probably just put an annotation in the final video explaining why there will likely never be another video to finishe the LP.  I got to the point where I was playing while recording in total silence because I was so pissed off that the stream of obscenities that was going to come out of my mouth would be embarrassing, and at that point I just stopped, canceled the video and walked away.  I don't play games to get pissed off.  The moment a game starts to drive me to a rage I need to be done with it immediately, for my own sanity.  I wish the game had an easy difficulty or something, just so that I could finish it, but it doesn't.  I don't care about pride or whatever, I would totally chicken out and crank the difficulty down.  I did that with Pillars for the final battle.  It was such a crazy difficulty spike in comparison to everything before it, so after getting whooped repeatedly, I just cranked it down from Hard to Easy or Casual or whatever the lowest difficulty was called just to beat the game and be done with it.

 

It's kind of too bad, because I really enjoyed Jotun up to that point, and that battle is not necessarily unfair, I know what needs to be done, I just can't do it, I don't have the skill.  It's plain as that, I suck too much at the game to beat that battle and I don't care to drive myself into a rage smashing my head against a wall trying to power through it.  I'm too old for that ****.

[melkathi]

Sounds like how I won't beat Giana Sisters (to a lesser extend) and deffinitely will never touch Duck Tales again.

[HoonDing]

Shooting numerous huge larvae from a giant mutated whale (?) in RER is the first time ever that a vidya gaem got me retching.

Edited October 10, 2015 by HoonDing

[GhostofAnakin]

I should just finish off the remaining main story missions in MGSV.  I'm starting to lose steam after a pretty damn good Chapter 1 is being followed up by a bare and a bit lackluster Chapter 2.

[ManifestedISO]

25 hours playing in a day and a half. I can't quit ... the writing, gameplay, comedy, action ... it's better than if Indiana Jones had a baby with Die Hard.