What game are you playing now?

[Reciever]

Diablo 2 Resurrected, couldnt say no for 13 USD

[cylix]

Playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077, with the introduction of RT Overdrive 😄. Maybe this time ill finish it

[hfm]

On 4/9/2023 at 3:03 PM, cucubits said:

 

How is it? I never played the first, never heard of the series actually. Is it a sort of space dogfighting arcade-like or has sim elements (compared to Star Citizen for example)? 

 

I'm thinking of playing through The Last of Us, now that it's finally out on PC. I did play it with PS Now a while ago but it was pretty low res and laggy... and I never got to finish it.

 

It's more arcade style combat than sim. Plays best with keyboard + mouse. Think something along the lines of Freelancer meets... Diablo. I'm really digging it, the first single player space action game that's been top shelf in quite some time. Still haven't sunk much time into it though.

[hfm]

dupe post, there was some issue with it responding to submitting it.

[cucubits]

4 hours ago, hfm said:

 

It's more arcade style combat than sim. Plays best with keyboard + mouse. Think something along the lines of Freelancer meets... Diablo. I'm really digging it, the first single player space action game that's been top shelf in quite some time. Still haven't sunk much time into it though.

 

Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

[ryan]

Anyone going to check out the new jedi game? Fallen order was pretty good who knows if the new ones any good but I'm banking on it being a aaa release.

 

Quick question why do all new aaa games look like they are from 2009. Like literally 0 revolutionary games and every single one looks cartoony

[cucubits]

On 4/22/2023 at 1:26 PM, ryan said:

Quick question why do all new aaa games look like they are from 2009. Like literally 0 revolutionary games and every single one looks cartoony

 

Sounds about right. Good AAA games which really bring innovation and a breath of fresh seem to be extremely rare nowadays. I was trying to think of some quick examples of recent games I liked a lot but apart from Dying Light 2, there aren't many others. And Dying Light 2 was also quite dumbed down compared to Dying Light 1... I guess players in these times are scared more easily and can't take games with higher difficulty... 

 

Oh and the cartoony looks, yeah, I despise that trend. I couldn't play Borderlands for example even if I were to be paid to do so...

[Reciever]

I wouldnt say they all look like they are from 2009' but on that note i have been playing Diablo 2 Resurrected somewhat often with some of my coworkers

[serpro69]

Started playing Gloomhaven with a couple colleagues from work. We tried the tabletop version first, but the game is so big, and our boardgame gatherings so infrequent, that at current pace we'd probably finish it somewhere in 2030, if not later :D

So decided to give the digital version a go, which pretty much has the same feeling to it, with the upside being that you don't need to remember all the rules etc. lol

[ryan]

looking good

 

 

 

[cucubits]

As much as I hate to admit this, I installed back Star Citizen. 

 

I really despise how CIG rolls and how they intentionally keep dragging the game in alpha by breaking things with their patches. I'm 100% sure they do this on purpose because they simply cannot deliver everything they promised and they know that if they "release" the game as it is, people will stop buying imaginary ships with real money.

 

Keep hope alive, throw in some random made up roadmaps and glorious future plans and people will happily throw their money at them, even for ships which only exist on paper and not in the game yet. It really is a recipe for success and makes CIG a lot of money. Fans get really mad at me when I keep bringing this up 🙂

 

Anyway, even with all that, when there aren't any other good games out there to keep me interested, I find myself jumping back. I honestly can't explain it. I think I'm more in love with what the game could be and not where it is now. Flying the ships is satisfying, there are some sort of missions which may or may not work, you can keep flying, loot places, mine, fight NPCs. I'd say the main drive is making ingame currency to buy other ships. For this it sort of helps that they do database wipes with their patches - another tactic to keep people interested. Before 3.18, I had made up a boatload of money, had almost any ship I wanted and then sort of lost interest... no real goal from that point. Now with a clean slate, I'm again drawn in to make it from the ground up.   

[ryan]

A game like star citizen interests me. But I just don't have the interest to play it without the funds to afford it

[cucubits]

7 minutes ago, ryan said:

A game like star citizen interests me. But I just don't have the interest to play it without the funds to afford it

 

No need to pay a lot, in fact I always advice against it. Buy the cheapest starter package which is usually $45-ish. It's easy to grind up some ingame currency to buy fancier ships. 

 

It's in stages, the first 2 mil are the hardest and then you can afford a Prospector which you can use to mine which yields about 300-400k per hour.

 

[ryan]

ok maybe ill check it out then, doesn't seem half bad. I have like 300 AAA games and well a huge backlog. it seems as though games from 2007 look basically the same or slightly worse than games from 2023 thats 16 years of non advancement, is the world de evolving or is this life I live run by morons

[cylix]

Another game destroyed by doing no optimization for PC...what a joke.

 

[ryan]

your right, the new jedi game does have performance issues. not good. only thing saving it is if you don't mind 40fps its a great game according to the reviews

[cucubits]

Well, not really working out with Star Citizen. Looks like 3.18.2 is a complete mess, server lag and a whole bunch of new bugs... I'll probably try a few more times but the expectations have been lowered, by a lot.

 

I should jump back to Days Gone. I've got pretty far in the story and as I always do, I just distracted myself and stopped playing. Can't explain why, I really did enjoy it.

 

Otherwise, not much else out there to pique my interest... going to look forward to System Shock Remake at the end of May and probably Diablo in June, but not sure about that one yet.

[Etern4l]

Star Citizen is basically a scam, no?

[cucubits]

4 minutes ago, Etern4l said:

Star Citizen is basically a scam, no?

 

If you ask me, I 100% believe it is. They made a half playable alpha and kept it like that for 10 years now, they sell promises and keep hopes up with made up roadmaps and glorious future plans to keep people buying imaginary ships with real money. On the other hand, they can't seem to be competent enough to fix the simplest of bugs... 

 

There is still something to it... it drew me in, nice graphics, flying spaceships, landing on (empty) planets.

[Reciever]

Pleasantly surprised the IT guy at work plays some of the same games I do. 

 

The other night we played some gtfo

[ryan]

been playing grid autosport lately, seems to run well on integrated graphics I can do 4k medium and get around 40 fps

[Tenoroon]

Heard a friend talk about a game called Neon White. I looked into it and ended up purchasing it. 

Super fun game, I don't like the story at all though, it's quite gaudy. The best way to describe the gameplay is that it has a similar feel to a Surf map on Counter Strike. You're essentially running/floating around and must have precise movement and quick thinking in order to have a competitive compeletion time for the levels.

The music is also pretty good too. All of it has been created by Machine Girl and fits with the gameplay extremely well. If you look at the OST's comments on Youtube, you'll see a lot of, "I'm glad the new Machine Girl album came with game too!"

[ryan]

31 minutes ago, Tenoroon said:

Neon White

i'll check it out thanks brother

[hfm]

Started playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous... not bad so far.

[cylix]

This weekend we can play again Diablo IV Open Beta, i will try a Necromancer and see how it fairs. You can get as reward a Mount i think if you level to 20 and kill in a party the World Boss Ashava.