What are you playing now?

[jlippo]

Currently started replaying possibly the greatest game ever created. Star Control 2.

If it's not the best game ever made, IMO, it's certainly in the Top 3 best games ever made, IMO. Also, it has by far the best dialog ever written for a game. Modern dialog writers should be required to play this game, IMO.

The game is free and can be found by looking up The Ur-Quan Masters. The game is almost 30 years old now and it's still incredibly fun. I can't even think of a AAA game that I've played in the past 10-20 years that's even remotely as good as this game is.

You can see its influence on games like Mass Effect (which is but a pale shadow of SC2 WRT story, dialog and setting, IMO).

Regards,
SB

Certainly one of the greatest games.

It really shows how seemingly simple parts or minigames can make complex well working whole.

In a way I do miss game design which by it's limitations and making whole from pieces make fast fluid experiences.

Old Final Fantasies, SSIs gold box series, Front Mission etc.
All had very distinct combat screens, exploration etc.
It allowed designers to make each part as good as they could without limitations of each restrict other parts.

 

[Rootax]

On PC, I started Atom RPG. I missed a story heavy game, so I bought it + the sequel during the Steam sales. Played a few hours already, pretty happy for now.

I finished it, reaaalllly good.

I started the sequel, you can import your save from the first one, which I love. Only "problem" with the sequel is that they pushed the unity engine too far. The game is more detailled, but sometimes the gpu is doing nothing and you have juste 1 thread working full time on the cpu. Not the first time I see this on this engine. Same behaviour dx11 or dx12. And even Vulkan with dxvk.

 

[Davros]

It's been a while since i posted here so what have i been playing
WatchDogs Legion - fun game but gets repetative, got aout 75% through it but then i got a copy of God of War (which i thought was outstanding) so bye bye WatchDogs.
God of War - See above
Elden Ring - not really a fan of souls like games but I enjoyed this to a point, after a while I found myself not sure where to go or what to do next so sort of lost interest.
Shadow Warrior 3 - very Doom like or more accurately Doom is very Shadow Warrior like quite fun, didnt enjoy it as much as Shadow Warrior 2.
Immortals Fenyx Rising - Ok I suppose, fun story, fun combat, puzzles tedious. Obviously inspired by Zelda and being an Ubisoft game the amount of filler is insane.

Ubi you are taking the piss...


Metal Gear Rising Revengeance - Crap....
Necromunda Hired Gun - Doom Eternal made by people who have a lot less talent.
Ghostwire Tokyo - Really enjoyed this good story lots of fun there is a fair bit of repitition and it has the worst chromatic aberation since syndicate
Bright Memory Infinite - Shadow Warrior without the fun
Titanfall 2 - enoyed this but hate platforming in a shooter - designers do you ever think to yourself what happens if the player cant make a jump - answer no you dont there was one jump i just couldnt make thankfully I found a trainer that gave me unlimited double jumps and I could finish the game

 

[orangpelupa]

has the worst chromatic aberation since

It can be disabled. Using the usual engine.ini variable

Google unreal engine engine.ini disable chromatic aberration

 

[Davros]

Thanks that worked also disabled film grain as well

 

[Putas]

It can be disabled. Using the usual engine.ini variable

Google unreal engine engine.ini disable chromatic aberration

That won't stop my hate towards the devs. What is even the point of those "effects"?

 

[orangpelupa]

That won't stop my hate towards the devs. What is even the point of those "effects"?

Unfortunately, a lot of devs likes chromatic aberration. Even when the implementation was looking horrendously bad

 

[Davros]

Funny thing, Ghostwire Tokyo supports ray tracing and yet the mirrors are not reflective they look like polished steel

 

[iroboto]

Certainly one of the greatest games.

It really shows how seemingly simple parts or minigames can make complex well working whole.

In a way I do miss game design which by it's limitations and making whole from pieces make fast fluid experiences.

Old Final Fantasies, SSIs gold box series, Front Mission etc.
All had very distinct combat screens, exploration etc.
It allowed designers to make each part as good as they could without limitations of each restrict other parts.

It was definitely a time when game design was truly a blank canvass. Now games are so formulaic in their design. Design today is smarter more thought out; but has fallen trap to very little variability. There is significantly more design innovations happening in other industries like board games. It’s a real shame video games aren’t able to return to form here. Costs too much and returns too little.

 

[digitalwanderer]

I realized I never played through the last Tomb Raider game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" so I played that. It was pretty meh, I hated the character design on Lara and I couldn't figure out how we could be hanging upside down on a rock surface and somehow jump to the next one. I kind of figure if you jump in that situation the whole gravity thing would kick in and you'd plunge to your death. It didn't wow me, but I finished it.

Started Assassin's Creed Valhalla a few days ago since I never played that either, and gods is it boring as hell at times! I'm so tired of wandering the landscape for 20 minutes to get to a new fast travel point! Also not enough time out of the animus, but that's a running complaint with the new trilogy.

 

[Rootax]

After finishing Atom RPG and the sequel (it's awesome btw), I started another RPG, Encased. Pretty good so far, same formula as most rpg, which I like.

I bought Sniper Elite 5 on discount too since I really like the serie. I'll start it later.

 

[Davros]

I have Sniper Elite 2 + 4 I enjoyed 2 more than 4
Just went to see what price Sniper Elite 5 was and discovered there is a Sniper Elite VR have you played it?

 

[Rootax]

Nope, I don't have a VR headset.

 

[davis.anthony]

Doom Eternal....not digging it.... Feel like I'm spending more time swinging and climbing walls than actually shooting demons in the face