What are you playing now?

Currently playing Assassins Creed Syndicate. I'm surprised by how good it is. I expected it to be a minor entry in the series that I'd just get out of the way quickly but it's one of the best I've played so far. The recreation of London is spectacular and the graphics can be gorgeous at times.

EDIT: provided link instead:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/pjbliverpool/Syndicate.jpg

 

Picture doesnt work because photobucket is holding it hostage for 3rd party viewing.

 

Photobucket doesn't even want it viewed directly on photobucket

 

Path of Exile

PoE is my favorite game, I like to relax after a day of work.
Just as many relax euro truck simulator, so relax me creating new builds
I like to invent new connections, to do things faster and cheaper.
Most players value PoE for the same, for other MMO RPGs, i.e. climate and killing of creatures, I pay Poe for builds, poe orbs and frequent updates

 

Stellaris 2.0, Surviving Mars and my sights are set on Far Cry 5. This is a good six week for games.

 

Started playing Superhot Last night on Oculus. Got it plus Arizona Sunshine for £10.99 thanks to a bundle deal plus the credit that Oculus gave everyone for the downed service (which I never noticed). Total bargain! It's a superb game, arguably as good as Robo-Recall.

Arizona Sunshine tonight!

 

Almost finished with FFXV.

Coming up is Ni No Kuni 2 that I'm hugely looking forward to. I wish they'd release the first game on PC. Oh well.

Then in April is coming my most looked forward to game this year. Battletech. I really hope they did a good job. The shots look fantastic so far. There hasn't been a really good tactical Battletech game, IMO, since the FASA/Microsoft made MechCommander series over 15 years ago.

Regards,
SB

 

Buying a used PS3 alone for playing Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is totally worth it.

 

Unfortunately, not going to happen for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I don't console game anymore unless it is portable. Secondly, I won't touch a 30 FPS game anymore unless it is mobile (like 3DS/Switch games) and I can't remember if the PS3 version of Ni No Kuni was 30 or 60.

But the most important reason, my significant other would throw a shitstorm if I tried to put a console in the living room. And I'm not interested in having a console in my workspace (where my PC is that serves dual purpose for gaming and work).

If not for all of the above I might be tempted to pick up a PS4 for Yakuza games and Persona 5.

What I may do eventually is see if the PS3 emulator will run Ni No Kuni well. Unfortunately I don't have time to faff with emulators and adjusting settings to get a game to run well.

Regards,
SB

 

Digi - Check links, before posting!

 

My image is a screenshot of what I got at pjpliverpools' link (btw still gives just that '3rd party hosting disabled' thing today), my screenshot is hosted at https://i.imgur.com/8mxUSlJ.jpg

 

Ni Ni Kuni 2. Game looks great due to the cartoon style with well done cell shaded graphics. KB/M support is mostly good. But there are some oddities. For example, LMB will generally work to select and confirm dialogs and menu boxes and buttons. However, there are certain buttons (to confirm saving, for example) that must be confirmed with a hardcoded key ("E" or Enter key) in this case that I haven't been able to change. The "E" key is set with a custom configuration to select character 1 instead of its default function, yet still is hardcoded for certain buttons.

Also, mouse acceleration for camera control is REALLY slow. I had to jack up the mouse speed in order to get it respond as it would in other games. Thankfully, my mouse supports per application mouse speed settings, otherwise this would be incredibly annoying.

While the graphics are basically exactly the same as the console versions, it's superior to console in that Motion Blur and DOF can be disabled. As well, there's a suitable selection of graphical settings that you can adjust.

Great game so far, although it's a bit different from the first game. I think I like the gameplay from Ni No Kuni 1 better, but there are some additions here that are really nice and I may find this the better game by the end.

Regards,
SB

 

Total War: Rome2.
Last patch was 2015 & they've put out 3 new TW games since Rome2 but apparently its still been popular enough that CA have now put out a new Campaign pack & Culture pack along with 2 patches & a hotfix for existing content including a bunch of pretty nice GUI improvements plus fixes for longstanding bugs
Apparently another Campaign pack & other content in the works even

I tried a campaign as Galatians (Gauls in the middle of Turkey surrounded by Hellenistic Successor states), its a hard starting position.
Things seemed to be going OK but just when I was feeling secure a big Seleukid stack came out of nowhere, captured half my fledgling enclave and my main army got sandwiched between two Pergamene armies & smashed
I rebuilt but just as I was expanding again same thing: Seleukid stack destroyed one army & rolled back my expansion while my other army got smashed by Pergamene army
Pretty sure thats about what happened last time I tried them many years back...

Considering options for a new campaign, probably gonna fall back on an old favourite like Crimean Greeks or the magnificent Baktria.

Edit: in the end I re-evaluated the early game options for Galatia, figured out how to early expand without aggravating the Seleukids & how to get better units early -> restarted & doing better, almost got Asia-minor secured

 

Last game I fired up was the latest Wolfenstein game, which was over a month ago per steam.

 

Another run through of The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena. I love the voice acting and I'm in admiration of how well crafted the game is. Plus I :heart: Michelle Forbes.

I had previously tweaked the game so it could run at 60 fps at 4k. It's not a strain for my GTX 1070, it's just that the game seemed to have issues with Windows 10. So I had it tweaked, but I forgot how I did it and the game fought me all over again when I started it up again. I'm guessing a Windows Creator update mucked some settings up.

I thought I'd tried everything but retrying the compatibility troubleshooter seems to have fixed it. Though I just checked and the .exe doesn't show that any such have been applied. Lol, I'm afraid to touch the settings anymore, I'm pretty far through the game.

Ah, I see now that I set the game to use a custom resolution of 3840 x 2159 that I added in the nVidia Control panel. That rings a bell as being a suggested fix for the 24 fps bug.

 

Been playing some Sea of Thieves with my kids. Also joined the B3D group and played with Azbat and rancidlunchmeat

 

I played a moment in Sea of Thieves, an interesting game
but it seems that it has the best times already behind it
I currently play in other PoE, Pilars of Eternity, also quite an old school game, but I really like games of this type.

I'm also starting to play Shogun Total War, I really like games from the Total War series

 

Shogun1?
Its cool that they updated it to run on modern Windows/hardware & is cheap as on Steam
I really prefer the older Campaign map style of Shogun1/Medieval1 it's more elegant & produced a bunch of gameplay that the newer Rome & after style can't.

Shogun2 is very nice, but somehow I found it so much less engrossing, probably the TW game I've played least of.