What are you playing right now?

[Malcador]

Almost done Alan Wake. The stage fight was as fun as I was led to believe.

[Tale]

 

I finished Horizon Zero Dawn yesterday. I think the story was simply brilliant, but I apparently have no tolerance for these open world games anymore. I gave up on a bunch of the menial junk quests and collectibles about halfway through and rushed the story. And I still got tired of listening to the characters blather about their silly sundoms and lost loves.

 

Also I need an intervention. The only question is exactly what kind. This list goes to 166.

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Sorry, but I have bad news for you.

 

https://www.gog.com/game/legend_of_heroes_trails_in_the_sky_the_3rd_the

 

That coming out so recently is why those two games are so high on the list.

[Fenixp]

I think I am getting close to the end of my Prey run. This game has done a fantastic job of leading me along. You rarely encounter anyone other than corpses for the first 2/3 of the game, so when you start to meet people, it's quite a shock. There is also a lot of choice here.

The game's fantastic at keeping itself fresh. There's at least 2 fairly big shifts in dynamic while playing through it, along with the one that creeps up on you as you get more powerful

[Hurlshort]

Prey has some pretty messed up moral dilemmas.

[Katphood]

Dammit, you guys are tempting me to buy Prey.

 

Also, tried Titanfall 2 Multiplayer today and while I am impressed with the mechanics and the amazing gun sounds(second to none, really...not even DICE) I have no idea why you have bots involved in matches with players. Somehow it feels weird to kill 1 real player, 5 "minions" and then suddenly get shot by a real player. It's kind of disorienting.

[Hurlshort]

Dammit, you guys are tempting me to buy Prey.

 

 

You won't sleep well for a bit if you do.  

[marelooke]

I started on FO4 since I got it 50% off.

I think so far I have spend more time trying to get mods to work for nicer textures than actually playing.

The game told me I need to craft beds. So I was confronted with the whole settlement building system. Seems too much work. Will have to look for a mod that simply adds the settlements all build. No way I'll bother with trying to fit things in between ruins, rubble and everything else that is in the way.

 

I spent most of my time staring at loading screens. All the other stuff I could get over, but the loading times were the final straw...

[Malcador]

Well, glad the end boss of Alan Wake didn't have me shooting darkened cable anchors. Neat game, combat got tedious at points but there were some challenging bits and the style of the game was cool

[GhostofAnakin]

Started playing Prey.  Very early on.  Music will suddenly start playing loud even though there's nothing actually in the room.  Very odd.

[Labadal]

I'm almost done with Wild Arms XF and I have reached the second disc of Grandia. I have a strong urge to start playing either Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Symphonia or Tales of Zestiria. In other words, I want to play a Tales game.

[WDeranged]

Finally got around to completing Bioshock HD.  It's been cool to see why I loved this game back in 2008 but holy frick the last two hours are just hell.  Babysitting that little sister was a ridiculous grind and I somehow ended up with absolutely no heath kits for the Fontaine battle at the end 

 

As glorious as it once was, I can safely say that I'll never play this game again.

[Labadal]

Wild ARMS XF is done. I'm now resuming my Suikden V playthrough. I'm playing like 15 different games at once. I don't know how I manage to actually beat games at all, but I do.

[Keyrock]

I'm continuing to go ham on HITMAN.  Finding new ways to kill targets is endlessly entertaining.  

 

I think I'm also going to start my second playthrough of Bound By Flame.  I went full demon last time, so I'll go minimum demon this time.  I won't get to look anywhere near as cool, but oh well.

Edited May 21, 2017 by Keyrock

[Katphood]

Back to Witcher 3: Blood & Wine. 

 

Couldn't finish any game after Titanfall 2 so I decided to go back to the beautiful kingdom of Toussaint. 

 

Though there is one game I am quite enjoying on the PS Vita: Killzone: Mercenary. Very impressive title, not just for a handheld but in general. 

[GhostofAnakin]

Finally got the ability to repair turrets in Prey.  They're such a life saver.  I just set them up where they can cover an entire room, then they go to town anytime a mimic or phantom enters their line of sight.

 

Good thing, too, because my character's weapons suck. 

[Oner]

Fumbling my way through Stellaris. Luckily, I have not encountered any other empires who might want to exploit my troubling energy deficit. \o/

[Fenixp]

Couldn't finish any game after Titanfall

Well that's a box quote right there

Edited May 21, 2017 by Fenixp

[Katphood]

It gets even more interesting from there...

[Hurlshort]

Finally got the ability to repair turrets in Prey.  They're such a life saver.  I just set them up where they can cover an entire room, then they go to town anytime a mimic or phantom enters their line of sight.

 

Good thing, too, because my character's weapons suck. 

 

Yeah, I survived much of the game by carrying those things around.

[Mamoulian War]

I'm almost done with Wild Arms XF and I have reached the second disc of Grandia. I have a strong urge to start playing either Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Symphonia or Tales of Zestiria. In other words, I want to play a Tales game.

You know you want to Platinum Xillia 2 :-D

 

Anyway. Have you finished Tales of Berseria yet? If not, I think playing it before Tales of Zestiria makes more sense. Or it's your 2nd playthrough of ToZ?

[Keyrock]

I started my Bound By Flame second playthrough and decided to go twin dagger ranger style, rather than the big 2 handed axe I used last time.  I generally prefer the combat style of a slow, big weapon, where you have to be patient, parry, then go in for one or two big attacks when an opening presents itself to the quick, jump in almost whenever you want and stab away in a flurry of twin daggers.  I will admit that the single target DPS of twin daggers is pretty satisfying, though.  It's particularly great against ranged enemies, since I'm more mobile to begin with and can close the ground more quickly, then when I reach melee range archers just straight up melt to my daggers.

 

I may also try a heavily pyromancer-focused build in the future, though I have my doubts that you can go full mage in this game.  Even with the perks you get from going full demon and every magic focused item and upgrade you can wear at the same time, I still think my character won't have the mana pool and mana regen to exclusively hurl fireballs at enemies.  I'd wind up either having to fall back to a weapon when my mana runs out, or running around like a chicken with my head cut off, kiting enemies, while my mana regens.  It might be possible to do a pyromancer/crossbow build, though, where the fallback weapon is the crossbow rather than either the daggers or a two-hander.  I wonder if there's enough ammo in the game to make that work, though. 

[HoonDing]

In Technomancer the synergy between combat/magic was way better.

[Heijoushin]

Spending some time with the old PS4 lately, playing Yakuza Zero (2 years late to the party) while I wait for the Tekken 7 next month. The combat system is so-so (although the sheer violence of smashing peoples' heads into walls is fun), but the writing is pretty good. And I love how it reflects the sheer wealth and indulgences of the Bubble period of Japan.

[Mamoulian War]

Well from European point of view, you are not much late to the party, we got it released here at the beginning of 2017 :-D

[Tale]

I platinumed Nier: Automata. I still have some DLC challenges to do, so I didn't delete the save for a second time.

 

Not committing to anything since I have Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception arriving tomorrow.