What are you playing right now?

[Wormerine]

Bought humble monthly for Civilization6 (which is pretty solid for vanilla Civ game) but got distracted big time by Snake Pass. Really charming game with creative twist on platformers. Camera can be a bother in tight spaces, but for the most part really tight controls, even with mouse&keyboard (pad recommended).

 

On a side, finally making my way through Divinity:OS2. Not really digging it. It is probably the best coop RPG out there, but as a singleplayer experience it doesn’t work for me. It feels like a coop centric game which you can play singleplayer. Not bad per say, by any means, but something I play for my RPG completion sake, rather than enjoyment. I am sure if I gather a trusted friend or two, I would have a great time. D:OS1 was the same - great with a friend, average alone.

[Majek]

Capturing monsters seems way more ethical than killing them in MHW.  Now, I don't have to slay the creature, I just beat it up really really bad with a giant hammer, then hold it hostage for a while, before releasing it back into the wild.  Conscience = Cleared.

i tried to do that at my low level with Anjanath .... wasted 5 traps and 20 tranq bombs :S

[UrbaNebula]

Finally reached 100% completion in Hollow Knight! What a game. I'm still not done though... I'm yet to beat the true final boss as well as finish the Arena and tackle the DLCs... but the game says I'm 100% complete so I'm running with it.

[Mamoulian War]

 

Capturing monsters seems way more ethical than killing them in MHW. Now, I don't have to slay the creature, I just beat it up really really bad with a giant hammer, then hold it hostage for a while, before releasing it back into the wild. Conscience = Cleared.

Incoming "Ultra realistic depiction of misuse of animals" articles all over the web in

 

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[IndiraLightfoot]

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[Labadal]

Capturing monsters seems way more ethical than killing them in MHW. Now, I don't have to slay the creature, I just beat it up really really bad with a giant hammer, then hold it hostage for a while, before releasing it back into the wild. Conscience = Cleared.

You Monster (Hunter)!

[Fenixp]

Wrapped up my Endless Space 2 game (in the end, I have peacefully betrayed everybody, forced them into peace and got a wonder victory. Oh, the wonder!)

 

Now I'm in the process of wrapping up my second playthrough of Prey. The level design and the mechanical interactions still leave me a bit speechless.

[redneckdevil]

Started up a wastelander modded FO3 and really enjoying the game. Level 10 ATM and just got back barely getting 3dog his satellite. Can't wait to start the dlcs after so many years, just figure that I'm gonna need to be higher level.

[majestic]

 

Bought Celeste for my Switch. Will probably be playing that soonish.

Do tell if it's as good as internetz sez.

 

The gameplay part yes, so far. It's both simple and captivating and the artstyle is rather nice. I just finished chapter 3, maybe it'll pick up but so far the much lauded story does nothing much for me.

 

The "boss" sections of the levels give a pretty good impression of an anxiety attack though.

[GhostofAnakin]

Maybe it's just the story missions, but the planets seem so bare of things to do in Destiny 2 compared to Destiny 1.  Each new planet that unlocks is just a lot of walking with the occasional fight.  Maybe I'm just not remembering Destiny 1 clearly, but I swear it seemed more ... full of random bands of enemies and tasks to do.

[LadyCrimson]

So if a Steam game says it supports DualShock controllers, does that mean I can just plug in the controller into a USB port on the PC and the game should see/utilize it, or do I still need 3rd party software or a Sony dongle or some other such?

[Gorgon]

You still need something called DS4windows, my experience has not been stellar. The cabled connection was a bit janky, the bluetooth worked fine, but now it's stopped working altogether. 

 

That said once it's up and running you can peruse steam menus with it, I assume things like the big picture and the VR equivalent. Supposedly Sony did a firmware update that makes the driver part of it plug and play, I read that somewhere, didn't work out of the box for me though and it won't unless yours is new, as in recently produced.  

[Labadal]

I've been using a DS3 with a regular USB cable for all my PC games, Stam, GOG, Humble non-DRM games. I also use it for emulated games.

 

I use Scarlet Crush input wrapper.

 

I prefer the DS3 over the DS4. It feels more comfortable to play with.

[Gorgon]

Managed to get the bluetooth to work again just fiddling around with the settings, Not my preference though, I need the bandwith for headphones and other stuff.

[Mamoulian War]

I purchased some cheap wired stuff for my PC. It is very close to DualShock, but has natively 2 built in drivers. For MMinput (classic joystick driver) and for Xinput (xbox driver). Some newer games detect only Xinput. I have tried DS3 and DS4 too, but without bluetooth dongle, you just kill the battery in no time :/ So I have chosen the cheaper alternative.

[Gorgon]

I just use the same tiny logitech dongle that came with a mouse I don't even have anymore. It does keyboard, ps4 controller and headphones at the same time. I mean sometimes the audio starts to sputter with all that going on, but  point being, don't bother with the PS4 dongle, anything using the default windows wireless driver works just fine and they are all dirt cheap.

[Tale]

It's always the Contingency.

 

There's this one little corner of space that has had the most hilarious trouble with unrest. It was once a pretty decent small-to-mid size empire. Now it's something like 6 or 7 different empires, most of which are only a single system. And the Contingency appeared smack dab in the middle of that. They're doing fabulous at cleaning up the borders, I tell you.

 

And as usual, they end up appearing right in the middle of my empire, then right at the border between me and someone who hates me, and then only attack me from that position. I don't know how this keeps happening. Their last hub was over where my ally met the Caretakers. And they focused on attacking the Caretakers, so all is right with the galaxy.

 

This is the strongest crisis I've ever faced, but I'm also fielding the strongest fleet I've ever had, due to a great willingness to go overcapacity. Now that I've destroyed all of the Contingency hubs attacking me and my allies, I've cleaned up the Caretakers and taken their space for myself, and I'm leaving the last one alive to clean up all those pesky empires that are trying to create a Federation against us. This game is turning me into a monster, I think.

 

My Determined Exterminator allies don't seem too bothered by the Contingency. With the threats to our own empires resolved, they decided we should attack the largest empire left on our side of the galaxy. I can't say the same idea didn't occur to me, after all I was checking if I could demand vasslization a mere month earlier. Nope, too big.

 

This should help.

[MountainTiger]

Deeper into Arcanum than I've ever gone (which isn't saying much). Really appreciate the reactivity around your character's appearance; looking like you just came from slaughtering wolves in the wilderness should matter!

[Agiel]

Deeper into Arcanum than I've ever gone (which isn't saying much). Really appreciate the reactivity around your character's appearance; looking like you just came from slaughtering wolves in the wilderness should matter!

 

I rather liked the amount of reactivity Arcanum had, but I can't quite recall appearance having much of an impact in a whole lot of instances.

[GhostofAnakin]

The main story seems a LOT shorter in Destiny 2 than it was in the first game.  Destiny 1 wasn't exactly an epic, either.  But Destiny 2 seems about as long as the first two planets in Destiny 1.

[the_dog_days]

Playing NWN 2 (main campaign) and just finished the tutorial. Took me about three hours.   That's the longest tutorial I've played since Phantom Pain.

[Labadal]

Playing NWN 2 (main campaign) and just finished the tutorial. Took me about three hours.   That's the longest tutorial I've played since Phantom Pain.

The longest tutorial I have ever played was in FFXIII. It's like 30 hours long.

[Chilloutman]

 

Deeper into Arcanum than I've ever gone (which isn't saying much). Really appreciate the reactivity around your character's appearance; looking like you just came from slaughtering wolves in the wilderness should matter!

 

I rather liked the amount of reactivity Arcanum had, but I can't quite recall appearance having much of an impact in a whole lot of instances.

 

I think reactions are more tied to beauty stat and I think on some types of armor (eg. barbarian chainmail iirc)

[Lexx]

Also race. It doesn't have much influence on the game, but it's a very nice detail that adds a lot to the atmosphere.

[the_dog_days]

 

Playing NWN 2 (main campaign) and just finished the tutorial. Took me about three hours.   That's the longest tutorial I've played since Phantom Pain.

The longest tutorial I have ever played was in FFXIII. It's like 30 hours long.

 

 

Well technically the Witcher 3 is the longest tutorial I've played, but I don't count it because the real tutorial was White Orchard which was a open world zone with everything in it you'll find in any other zone and allowed you to run around doing quests out of order. It was real gameplay that was used as a tutorial.