What are you playing now? [2023]

Johnny Awesome said:
I upgraded to GP Ultimate so I could get FFXIV for free. I'm about 22 hours in as a level 36 Arcanist. I'm really enjoying it so far, but the game feels like a pretty big commitment like any MMO.

I'm also on the last battle in a BG3 (12th level Wizard) game I've been playing with two buddies on a PC LAN most Friday nights, so that's going to end next Friday.

When I get the chance I try to get a little Persona 3 and Diablo IV play in and I still need to squeeze Tales of Arise into my rotation somehow. GP is a firehose of content this year.
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I really wanted to like Tales of Arise but the realtime combat is not for me. It was only bearable when using the DLC to enable super duper easy mode. Once I realized I was avoiding fights if at all possible I had to stop, about half way through the story which was pretty interesting. I'll take my jRPGs turn based from now on. That said I completed Scarlet Nexus and the realtime combat was pretty fun though even that wore me down by the end.

Currently on Persona 3 Reload (late July which I think is around half way through). This is the best game I've played since Witcher 3. I can't recommend it enough.
 
I'm still making my way through Cyberpunk 2077 but took a little sojourn to the original Halo (anniversary edition) given I picked up the Master Chief collection yesterday. I only intended to start it up out of curiosity and nostalgia (I completed both Halo 1 and 2 when they originally released on PC on my old GeForce 4200Ti (beast!)). But it's just drawn me in an I'm now a good way through it after just a couple of days. The graphics are obviously very basic but still serviceable, while the gameplay is both simplistic and sublime. I'll probably just make way way through the whole collection while simultaneously playing more complex/in depth modern games.
 
because fallout is in the air and i have never played fallout and fallout 2 i decided to buy them on steam and play, i started with fallout and hoo boy its clunky in the UI department, but im having fun. there are some conventions in newer games that i have to unlearn like im used to being able to do an attack of opportunity if someone just walks past me inside my threat range but of course in fallout there is no attack of opportunity

im playing with no mods and im really missing a "highlight interactable objects" button and sneak is really weird in this game, you can literally sneak past someone right in their face and if you somehow roll better than their perception you are not discovered which is also very strange when you are doing it in daylight

the last weird thing is the graphics, its hard to make out things but it gets easier as you go on and learn what is what
 
Gran Turismo 2 and Smackdown 2.

My PC is up for sale as there's no current game that excites me, I prefer to play the older stuff.

And yes, it's being played on a proper CRT :cool:

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Ugh. I was liking FFXIV so much I decided to load up my favorite game of all time on PC - Lord of the Rings Online. It completely sucked me in again. My BG3 group, having just finished BG3, that plays on a LAN at my buddy's house is now playing that every Friday night with me. I'm starting to lose one of them as he's not really an MMO guy and I might have to strike out on my own while the other two play through BG3 again or something, but I can't believe how much I'm still into this game. My best character is only Level 75 out of 150 level cap, so I've got a ways to go.
 
Just finished Horizon Forbidden West liked it a lot. At the end of the game (Epilog) Sylens says the final bad guy was looking for 5 companies that maybe developed a super weapon to kill Nemesis, Are you given missions to find these 5 companies ?
Also played a bit of Alien Vs Predator Classic, Colonial Marine campaign and it's still awesome...
 
Finished my 3rd run through of Stellar Blade - excellent game, looking forward to more from Shift Up.

Just started Harold Halibut and 1000xRESIST on PC, and also had a stab at starting Stellaris - way too many things to control :D
 
I finally finished Cyberpunk and what a ride it was! Amazing game, and very memorable. I will likely pop back into night city once or twice more to complete a few gigs and the final racing mission, but my primary game now has switched to Control (first time playthrough). I'm really enjoying it. The gameplay mechanics (very jedi-esq) the atmosphere and story (both excellent), and even the graphics given it's such an old game now hold up very very well. Sure, it's a clear step down from CP or Forbidden West which my wife is playing, but maxed out it still looks good to great with plenty of genuinely impressive scenes and effects.
 
Just finished Max Payne 3 (PC),the game has very good soundtrack.
The game has good rag doll physics. The story is okayish.

It felt great to have played the game at high frame rates.
I played the first two entries on what very low powered PCs.
 
Davros said:
Just finished Bayonetta it was ok, basically Castlevania Lord of Shadow with a different skin.
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Really? I finished Castlevamia recently and just started Bayonetta and find them very different. Enemies, combat, weapons, combo system, finisher system. Besides being a hack and slash what did you find so similar?
 
Davros said:
similar in a general sense....
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I mean, the claim was that it was 'basically Lords of Shadow with a different skin'.

That's implying a whole lot more than just super general similarities. Rage 2 and Far Cry 2 are both open world first person shooters with vehicles, but are not at all 'the same game with a different skin'.

I realize you weren't interested in some detailed rundown of your impressions, but c'mon now. lol
 
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