What are you playing right now

[the_dog_days]

Why does Hearts and Stone (sp) show up right away in my quest log when I arrive in Velen, but there's no mention of the other expansion Blood and Wine (sp)?

 

Hearts of Stone is an independent story that doesn't connect with the overarching story of W3. Blood and Wine does, and, more importantly, is supposed to be a big send off for Geralt. Narratively, Hearts of Stone fits best before the start of the game while Blood and Wine belongs at the end. B&W becomes available (though I wouldn't do it that early) after finishing the A Poet In Need quest.

[Labadal]

You can stealth certain sections, but far from all of it if I remember correctly. I killed everyone and everything.

[Orogun01]

I tried We are Dwarves.... it might be  a good game for the needle in **** hole crowd (that's what I call game masochist who think that every grating design flaw is a virtue) but I generally don't like playing games where the developer decided that there is only one specific way to progress and unless you do those arbitrary thing you not advancing. So **** them and their particular way to play their low key game.

[Drowsy Emperor]

Jade Empire is a fire and forget type of game.

 

I may have even played through it twice but I don't remember anything at all about it.

[Lexx]

Started playing some Mount & Blade Warbands for a few hours and then switched to Fire and Sword. I can really see the awesome in this game, but it also has so many tiny flaws that annoy the hell out of me...

[Drowsy Emperor]

Downloaded a demo of Monster Hunter 4 on the 3DS to see what all the fuss is about. Seems like all the worst parts of an MMO and Dark Souls rolled together, the grind, the needless complexity and obsession with vapid mechanical systems - without any story or atmosphere.

 

My first and only reaction to these type of otaku games is "kill it with fire"

 

 

Meanwhile: playing Ocarina of Time at a leisurely pace. Its quite enjoyable

[GhostofAnakin]

More Witcher 3.  Geralt is leveling up too fast.  I'm almost at level 11, and I'm still on the main quest in Velen where the suggested level for it is level 6.

[marelooke]

Went back to Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen for a bit and finally killed Death in Bitter Black Isle. So now I can start ignoring the bugger until NG+ on Hard mode.

 

I also found that the room before the final boss of BBI is pretty good for getting all your gear Dragonforged as lots of Dragons spawn there and the ones in BBI have a rather higher chance of Dragonforging than the ones in the main game.

 

Next up: beating Daemon to a pulp. Then maybe go back tot he main story for a bit.

 

As for my Ghost Dishonored playthrough: successfully took care of the first target "ghostily". Holding off on continuing for a bit until I have the time to run through the next mission in one go.

[sorophx]

I love this game

[Agiel]

I remember rolling on the ground in laughter when I used my Jedi Mind Tricks on him for that quest.

[GhostofAnakin]

Jade Empire is a fire and forget type of game.

 

I may have even played through it twice but I don't remember anything at all about it.

 

I liked it.  Maybe it had more to do with them at least attempting a different setting.

[Fenixp]

As for my Ghost Dishonored playthrough: successfully took care of the first target "ghostily". Holding off on continuing for a bit until I have the time to run through the next mission in one go.

Clean hands or kill? The first target is ... Rather difficult to do on both.

[Rosbjerg]

Nah, you just knock the wine over and wait for them to go intro the basement. Then you do the ol' dart n choke.

[Fenixp]

 

To complete the objective, you have to do more tho - you need to take the High Overseer into the interrogation chair and brand him there, which makes quite a lot of noise. I think I had to clear the entire level (level of building, not game level) of guards for nobody to raise any alarms, which felt rather tricky to do, especially with their perception on highest difficulty. Then again, I suck at stealth games so it might have only been tricky for me.

 

[Rosbjerg]

Huh really?

I branded him while he was unconcious.. Never had an issue and got both achievements. The tricky part was getting Martin out, but that was mostly timing

[sorophx]

seriously, if KOTOR II had a better combat system, it would be my second favorite Obsidian game. the writing is just that good, I'm amazed how fun it is just to follow dialogue in this game. it's basically PS: T in space if you ask me

[Harry Easter]

@sorophx

The combat mechanics haven't aged gracefully, that's true.


I still try to beat Samurai Sam in "Metal Gear: Revengeance". It's such a wonderfully goofy game.  

[Katphood]

Having a whole lot of fun with Destiny. Guilty pleasure I guess. 

 

I just wish I could do a few of the raids with someone. Any volunteers?! 

[Drowsy Emperor]

Still on my indie binge

 

Cave Story + 

 

For a one man show its pretty damn good. 

[Fenixp]

Indie binge, eh?

 

How much of Sunless Sea have you played?

[Drowsy Emperor]

None, what is that

 

I'm looking at screenshots but they're not telling me anything

Edited September 29, 2016 by Drowsy Emperor

[Fenixp]

Oh just... One of the best written games I've ever had the pleasure of playing. Think Lovecraft meets Pratchett in a game which allows you to explore massive underground ocean in the Victorian period. Your home port is London, naturally. It's underground because bats stole it. (the lore is one of the highlights, by the way - it starts off seeming like a mangled mess, but in fact it's shockingly coherent.) I might be a bit of a fanboy.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJN-u8qYWC8

 

 

Edit: As to what it is, it's an open-world-ish exploration game with survival elements. Default mode is Iron Man with the world and a bunch of stories reshuffling around on each death, but there's also a free saving mode. It leans heavily towards presenting a great story and interesting world with amazing atmosphere. And it's magnificent because there's nothing else quite like it.

Edited September 29, 2016 by Fenixp

[marelooke]

 

As for my Ghost Dishonored playthrough: successfully took care of the first target "ghostily". Holding off on continuing for a bit until I have the time to run through the next mission in one go.

Clean hands or kill? The first target is ... Rather difficult to do on both.

 

 

Both. I have this tendency to choke out as much guards as possible anyway. Think I only left 1 guard standing in the building, so dragging the guy to the chair was easy as there was nobody left to detect me... I considered killing him anyway, just for the achievements since I left all of them alive in my last playthrough, maybe if I ever do a "high chaos murder everything" playthrough.

 

I also did all secondary objectives as Ghost (Granny Rags was interesting, had to use Time Stop, or w/e it is called). Now attempting Ghost + not killing any targets + low magic *that* would be *hard* (or just infuriating ;-))...

[Raithe]

I was actually thinking about re-installing Dishonoured and playing it once again.. 

[Tale]

I feel like I'm the only person who didn't really like Dishonored. Only got around to playing it a couple months ago as a free PS+ games. And I stopped right around the start of the third act.

 

Maybe it's because I refused to kill anyone out of fear of the things I heard about the chaos system. But I saw absolutely nothing special in it. Felt like all the other stealth games I've ever played. Walking up behind people, shooting them with tranqs from a distance, save scumming to avoid being detected.

 

I was left maintaining the opinion like that entire genre peaked back with Metal Gear Solid 1. Where you didn't have a billion tools and every room felt like a puzzle that required rhythm and movement.

 

Edit: Mark of the Assassin was great, too.