What game are you playing now?

[jaybee83]

currently enjoying Control, but damn its a HEAVY game to run! fully maxxed out (no upscaling) at 4K with HDR and DLAA and having the native HDR mod installed im averaging 40-60 fps...thats with my 4090 at 3045-3120 mhz on the core and 24+ Gbps (+1525 Mhz) on the vRAM 😂

 

BUT it looks goooorgeous....and the game itself is actually quite fun, very atmospheric 🙂

[cucubits]

Once again I've started too many games and can't seem to stick to one...

 

- Played through about 70% of Dead Island 2. I love zombie games and had a blast with this one. No idea why I just stopped playing it.

 

- Started Diablo 4, instant regret after a few hours, unfortunately too late to refund.

 

- Started Uncharted, fun but didn't stick with it for now. Still during the prologue.

 

- Starfield, this was the most recent one. After about 30 hours of mainly side stories I sort of didn't feel like firing it up again. I'd like to stick to this one.

 

On top of all these, now I keep thinking about trying Assassins Creed: Mirage. Not sure yet. May or may not do it.

[cylix]

This looks interesting.  Maybe I will try it on the  Pico 4

 

 

[cucubits]

Oh yeah, VR... I've been thinking about digging out the Index kit. It's about time for another Alyx run as well.

 

 

[ryan]

have you checked out skyrim vr or fallout 4 vr? thoughts?

 

closest thing to a virtual world that iv'e experienced and breathed new life into a dead horse was GTAV VR mod

[jaybee83]

11 hours ago, cucubits said:

Oh yeah, VR... I've been thinking about digging out the Index kit. It's about time for another Alyx run as well.

 

 

 

10 hours ago, ryan said:

have you checked out skyrim vr or fallout 4 vr? thoughts?

 

closest thing to a virtual world that iv'e experienced and breathed new life into a dead horse was GTAV VR mod

 

15 hours ago, cylix said:

This looks interesting.  Maybe I will try it on the  Pico 4

 

 

 

i have yet to try VR at all. but tbh not really interested, super happy with my current setup, definitely immersive especially with the bigass screen and wearing headphones (a must when u have a baby around hahaha).

 

but i guess VR is something like high refresh rate monitors: unless you actually EXPERIENCE it, you dont really know what youre missing out on.

[cucubits]

10 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

but i guess VR is something like high refresh rate monitors: unless you actually EXPERIENCE it, you dont really know what youre missing out on.

 

Indeed, it's really hard to describe, you need to experience it. I played Alyx first on an old HTC Vive set, with pretty low resolution and it still felt like nothing else out there. After a full game in VR, all other "2D" games felt like going back in the past. It was quite difficult to readjust and start enjoying again games on a monitor.

[jaybee83]

1 hour ago, cucubits said:

 

Indeed, it's really hard to describe, you need to experience it. I played Alyx first on an old HTC Vive set, with pretty low resolution and it still felt like nothing else out there. After a full game in VR, all other "2D" games felt like going back in the past. It was quite difficult to readjust and start enjoying again games on a monitor.

one more reason for me not to try it anytime soon, wanna stick to my current setup hahaha

[ryan]

yeah don't do VR it will ruin your 2d gaming enjoyment. its great but after you beat a few games theirs not much left to play. but before anything happens make sure you check out half life alyx

 

start here

 

[hfm]

Played BG3 somewhat early into Act 1. Set it aside for Starfield, played that for a bit.. just set that aside for AC:Mirage. I'll be finishing AC:M and then maybe jump back to BG3. I'll finish that and do another CP2077 run with all the new patches. By the time I get those done we'll have a bunch of Starfield patches out probably and then I'll finish that.

[cylix]

Season 2 in Diablo 4. Its a blast, they did a lot of work on it. New content is good and fun. Playing a Barbarian. HULK SMASH 😄

[jaybee83]

2 hours ago, cylix said:

Season 2 in Diablo 4. Its a blast, they did a lot of work on it. New content is good and fun. Playing a Barbarian. HULK SMASH 😄

 

haha nice one! i heard they pulled back on all the grinding and microtransaction shenanigans and actually decided to put some gameplay fun back into it, hm?

[cylix]

20 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

 

haha nice one! i heard they pulled back on all the grinding and microtransaction shenanigans and actually decided to put some gameplay fun back into it, hm?

Yeah, they did a lot of improvement  with level scaling and powers and so on, its easier to go up. You can reach lvl 50 and tier 3 nightmare pretty quick. Also the vampire powers in Season 2 are really well made and the Blood Harvest Event is really good gameplay wise, better then Helltides imo. Also a lot of tweaks here and there, the mount is good now, top up the speed and it doesnt get weird glitches anymore. All in all a good patch , but  i think around season 5 it will get really good, there is still a lot of junk and farming for the right equipment is still a chore, also they need to make some LFG option, for an online game you are really alone most of the time...

[Mr. Fox]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Campaign (Early Access). Absolutely awesome. 

Thanks @ryan

[cucubits]

I'm back playing a game I really thought I'd never touch. I always liked the idea what Tarkov was but never particularly enjoyed getting constantly killed by high level players, groups or more importantly the huge amount of cheaters that game has.

 

Until now. By pure randomness I learned about a huge mod which basically turns the game into a proper single player experience. It's called SPT (single player tarkov), it's free and it's awesome. It has everything the regular game has, you have progression, the usual raids, PMCs (bots), quests, everything. Don't get me wrong, it's still not easy, I'm still getting killed a lot, but it feels way more fun to me this way.

 

Anyway, if you guys want to check it out: https://www.sp-tarkov.com/

You do need to have a legit copy of the game (the mod makes sort of an offline copy when installing).

[ryan]

crew motorfest 5 hours in really good looking and fun

[KING19]

I been kinda hooked with Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 since i finally have some free time to play it fully. Still havent bought the DLC yet as money is pretty tight with the holidays coming up but it have gotten great reviews!.

[ryan]

Been gaming on geforce now with a bit rate hack. Currently just playing motorfest off my tv using the app. Impressive

[ryan]

so i decided to take a trip down memory lane and booted up half life 2, man the game grabbed me fast and just jumped my bones, felt good playing with something older. hands were soaked, sweating like mad as the intensity of the game just sucked me in. great game really hope i get to see what the new installment will be like(alyx I guess)

[jaybee83]

16 hours ago, ryan said:

so i decided to take a trip down memory lane and booted up half life 2, man the game grabbed me fast and just jumped my bones, felt good playing with something older. hands were soaked, sweating like mad as the intensity of the game just sucked me in. great game really hope i get to see what the new installment will be like(alyx I guess)

 

u should totally check out black mesa, its a total conversion of half life 1 with more modern graphics and gameplay 🙂 

[Eban]

3 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

 

u should totally check out black mesa, its a total conversion of half life 1 with more modern graphics and gameplay 🙂 

 

He said Half Life 2.......But I agree Black Mesa was a great rerun. I hope they do the same for HL2 and Blueshift.

[jaybee83]

7 hours ago, Eban said:

 

He said Half Life 2.......But I agree Black Mesa was a great rerun. I hope they do the same for HL2 and Blueshift.

oh i know, i didnt overlook the 2 😄 

 

aw man that would be epic indeed, total conversion of HL2 incl both episodes in UE5 😄 

[serpro69]

Tried Diablo 4 over the "free weekend". Must say I'm quite disappointed and can really see why the game has so many negative reviews. It's still kind of fun if you like the genre, but I'm just not getting the proper Diablo feeling out of it. But for the price they're asking for it, even during discounts... not worth it IMO.

 

Also tried out Grim Dawn (quite similar game to Diablo), which immediately felt way more thought out and interesting, despite being like 6 years old now, or smth.

[jaybee83]

2 minutes ago, serpro69 said:

Tried Diablo 4 over the "free weekend". Must say I'm quite disappointed and can really see why the game has so many negative reviews. It's still kind of fun if you like the genre, but I'm just not getting the proper Diablo feeling out of it. But for the price they're asking for it, even during discounts... not worth it IMO.

 

Also tried out Grim Dawn (quite similar game to Diablo), which immediately felt way more thought out and interesting, despite being like 6 years old now, or smth.

 

that doesnt surprise me, Grim Dawn was made by the same team that originally designed Titan Quest 😁 I actually have it, but havent started playing it yet, because i want to finish TQ first (which ive been playing for like 15 years now lulz).

[serpro69]

Haven't played TQ, but also heard good things about it. It looks like TQ 2 is coming soon also? So hopefully not all is lost for ARPG genre :)