What are you playing now? (console edition) [2011 - 2017]

[London Geezer]

Well I've had the best couple of weeks in my gaming life, probably.

I started GTAV, which is just perfection. Not just because I'm still stunned at how much detail went into a city this size. It's freaking humongous and yet there are little details everywhere. But mostly because of the writing. I can't think of any other game that got me cracking up with laughter the way some of the dialogue and one-liners in GTA did. I almost got to the end......

Then Bloodborne came out and I took a huge risk paying the ridiculous digital price for a game I was pretty sure I was going to hate. The reviews were just so good, and the look of the game was very interesting. So out of the blue, while playing GTA, I thought "fuck it". I went to the PS Store and bought Bloodborne. Waited for it to download while driving around in Los Santos, and some time after I started playing what I can only refer to as pure genius.

40-50 hours into BB I just had to take a little break so today I completed GTA.

Genius after genius. Gaming nirvana.

I need to get a life pronto.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Bought FIFA 15 to play online. First game was a quick offline match, moderate difficulty, in a game I've spent a lot of time on, yet it proved surprisingly hard to play at first - I was having a lot of trouble tracking what was going on. And then I realised, the ball was invisible.

Can't believe EA made a football game and forgot to put the actual football in it!

 

[Davros]

Why e.a made a racing game that doesnt support steering wheels

 

[Deleted member 11852]

so today I completed GTA.

Good grief, man! Did you walk everywhere?

 

[DrJay24]

Playing mostly Bloodborne,which is pure crack.

Started Sunset Overdrive too.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Replaying The Last of Us Remastered. Though to be fair, I replay this every 4-5 months.

 

[BadTB25]

Diablo 3 is my new main.

Got tired of MKX after finishing all of the character Tower endings, but will go back to play it for more unlocks and because I will be playing against some family in a vacation soon----gotta own them noobs. I'm looking forward to the character DLC, especially Jason and Predator. I was playing mostly on pad, but tried it with a fight stick using a Titan one controller converter and it didn't click.

I'm going to pick Ori soon, but want to get through more of Diablo III before I do that.

 

[Cyan]

Diablo 3 is my new main.

Got tired of MKX after finishing all of the character Tower endings, but will go back to play it for more unlocks and because I will be playing against some family in a vacation soon----gotta own them noobs. I'm looking forward to the character DLC, especially Jason and Predator. I was playing mostly on pad, but tried it with a fight stick using a Titan one controller converter and it didn't click.

I'm going to pick Ori soon, but want to get through more of Diablo III before I do that.

I've seen you! Thought of joining and "helping" several times, but seeing you are a level 34-35 Wizard, I guess you are still completing the story mode, so I decided it would be better to let you enjoy the story as much as you could, which I'd do anyway of course.

Apart from Diablo 3, I am currently playing Defense Grid 2, love it!! Sooo good.

 

[BadTB25]

I've seen you! Thought of joining and "helping" several times, but seeing you are a level 34-35 Wizard, I guess you are still completing the story mode, so I decided it would be better to let you enjoy the story as much as you could, which I'd do anyway of course.

Apart from Diablo 3, I am currently playing Defense Grid 2, love it!! Sooo good.

So what is there to do after the story? Is it just grinding for more/better items and spells? The game is so time consuming, that I don't know if I will play as the other classes, unless the stories are different once I finish the story.

It's great, but I have such a huge backlog of games too. I'm eyeing Ori as my next purchase and still need to buy KI Season 2 (hoping for a sale) while still keeping MKX skills up (gotta own some relatives next month) on vacation.

 

[Cyan]

So what is there to do after the story? Is it just grinding for more/better items and spells? The game is so time consuming, that I don't know if I will play as the other classes, unless the stories are different once I finish the story.

It's great, but I have such a huge backlog of games too. I'm eyeing Ori as my next purchase and still need to buy KI Season 2 (hoping for a sale) while still keeping MKX skills up (gotta own some relatives next month) on vacation.

More story if you want, and Adventure mode. Diablo 3 can get you easily hooked, once you start improving your equipment and find new items, looking for the perfect seed..., focusing on your character's skills and stats (for your wizard, intelligence is the only skill that increases damage, so always look for that stat in items, other stats save health, are useless for the wizard).

I have KI season 2, too, but as you say, too many great games to play on the Xbox One right now.

 

[Globalisateur]

I finally tried (like seriously playing it) the Multiplayer of Killzone SF. Positively surprised, it's surprisingly good.

Much much better than the single player game (obviously)...

 

[Billy Idol]

I finally tried (like seriously playing it) the Multiplayer of Killzone SF. Positively surprised, it's surprisingly good.

Much much better than the single player game (obviously)...

That is interesting...I was thinking about doing the same lately, as I am looking forward for a FPS online game...

 

[Sigfried1977]

Out of the blue, my gf gave me GTA V (PS4) last Thrusday. And there went the last 3 days. Nothing except sitting on the couch while eating crap food for 3 days in a row. It was glorious.

 

[Globalisateur]

Out of the blue, my gf gave me GTA V (PS4) last Thrusday. And there went the last 3 days. Nothing except sitting on the couch while eating crap food for 3 days in a row. It was glorious.

You could at least play the damn game instead of doing nothing, on your couch, eating unhealthy food. What a missed opportunity!

 

[rabidrabbit]

Too much backlog that I'm trying to complete.
Mostly been playing GTAV and Dragon Age: Inquisition on PS4.
Also played some Far Cry 4
Started Bloodborne but haven't really played it past the first boss. I'd like to play it more but it's just so demanding on my time. It's hard to play it just for an hour or so.

 

[Sigfried1977]

More GTA V. What a wonderful game. Amazing how much better than everyone else R* is at creating these kinds of games. Sure, the gargantuan budget must have helped a lot with all the little details, but what really does it for me is probably the surprising lack of AAA sycophancy. It's just nowhere near as pathetic as all the other big fish in the pond in that regard. Instead it actually still knows how to push the odd button here and there.
I also think it's genuinely funny, and not just in the fashionable Joss Whedon way of having characters gently quip with one another.

 

[Arwin]

Maybe I haven't played enough of it, but most of the humor I've encountered so far is almost beyond shallow. It's just all a little too obvious. But I'll play more. I do admire how well the game is designed overall.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

More GTA V. What a wonderful game. Amazing how much better than everyone else R* is at creating these kinds of games.

They've been iterating their 3D formula for almost fifteen years - GTA III launched in 2001, then Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stores, Vice City Stories, GTA IV and two expansions and finally V.

 

[Sigfried1977]

So did Ubisoft and just about everyone else who makes these kinds of games (there are probably just as many AC games out there as there are GTA games. Plus Watch Dogs and Far Cry and what have you). And all they manage is getting progressively more boring, exhausting and artificial because the only thing they aspire to is size. Size to be filled with ever more pointless collectibles.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

So did Ubisoft and just about everyone else who makes these kinds of games (there are probably just as many AC games out there as there are GTA games. Plus Watch Dogs and Far Cry and what have you).

This is patently nonsense. No single team in Ubisoft has been solely focussed on an engine and game series tied to a single genre, that they themselves defined, for fifteen years. It's this sole focus that makes Rockstar North the benchmark for the genre.