The "What are you playing?" topic.

[CountArach]

When I first played Civ 5 it had just come out and, while I really liked it, it was definitely a bit simple. Since Civ 4 refuses to run on my PC due to some kind of compatibility issue, that was a bummer.

But, I've since gone back and acquired Gods and Kings and Brave New World, and I gotta say... might be the best one yet, now. I always thought it had the potential to be the best, with the awesome hex-based combat and all, but now its a really good game. My only gripe is that my beat up old PC barely runs it. Need a new one.

I must admit, I've never liked Civ 5 Vanilla but I bought and instlaled the two expansions and it is just incredible. As good as 4 was and better in a lot of ways.

[phonicsmonkey]

Dark Souls

Aaaaargggggh

[Fragony]

Dark Souls

Aaaaargggggh

Good! Just because it's different doesn't mean it isn't love, just a somewhat troubled relationship. Best game this generation. Period.

[phonicsmonkey]

Good! Just because it's different doesn't mean it isn't love, just a somewhat troubled relationship. Best game this generation. Period.

It hates me and I love it

[Fragony]

It hates me and I love it

It's awesome. People who say it's hard but fair are lying, the game cheats on you, death can be totally random. Fun thing is, you can also cheat on the game, almost all rediculously hard bosses can be cheated in some way. As you progress the whole world becomes one big Zelda dungeon, you wouldn't believe where you suddenly end up, really cool

[Monk]

War of the Vikings: Alpha release.

It's in the early concepts so the game is pretty basic right now, but holy crap it's so good. Balance is way off but this feels way better than War of the Roses.

If you have War of the Roses: Kingmaker, you get free access.

[komnenos]

I really liked the graphic. I think the graphic is better than War of The Roses. In this game you can play as Norsemen or as Saxons. These are two pictures of it:

[CountArach]

I've been playing a lot of Game Dev Tycoon and also Papers, Please. Both are part of the Greenlight sale on Steam.

Game Dev tycoon is quite similar to the iOs version but they have a lot more detail and I'm really enjoying it. Papers, Please, on the other hand is just absolutely incredible. I never thought that a game about stamping passports could be so intense and could drag me in to such a crazy extent.

[Fragony]

Papers Please sounds REALLY interesting, Read about it on Eurogamer, I am easily disturbed to the point of just quitting, but I know for sure that I will try it. I am not sure if I will enjoy playing it.

[AntiDamascus]

Still playing Eve Online. The game that I have played for the longest period of time. Great game

[komnenos]

But I think Watch dogs will be better than GTAV. The game play is much better than it. I'm waiting for that to release!

[Montmorency]

Achtung Panzer: Kharkov is pretty good, but it has some problems.

Mixing the best of this game and of the Combat Mission series, along with a few wholesale additions, would create a truly formidable game.

[rickinator9]

Ah Skyrim. The game that keeps on giving. Started a new game on the old PS3 (which Skyrim hates, sadly) and I keep discovering stuff I missed.

I am replaying it as well. I had it on Xbox 360 but I bought the complete package in the Steam Summer sale. I'm looking forward to playing some of the expansions after I got my character leveled up a bit.

[Hooahguy]

Not to mention mods if you have it on PC. Such as Falskarr, which is so good its considered like another DLC.

[komnenos]

I want to play lord of the rings-online through Steam and now I'm downloading it. But my OS is Win7. So can I play it by Win7 or not?

[Beskar]

I want to play lord of the rings-online through Steam and now I'm downloading it. But my OS is Win7. So can I play it by Win7 or not?

Why wouldn't you be able to play it?

[komnenos]

Because The systems that is needed or recommended are Vista an XP and it isn't mentioned Win7 for that. Have you play it by other OS except Vista and XP?

[johnhughthom]

I've played LoTRO on Win7 without any issues.

[Beskar]

Because The systems that is needed or recommended are Vista an XP and it isn't mentioned Win7 for that. Have you play it by other OS except Vista and XP?

I mean "You have a windows OS, it is a game that constantly updates. it works for XP, of course it would work"

[Jarmam]

Batman: Arkham Origins

Asylum revolutionized 3rd person action games in my humble opinion; City managed the near-impossible that was to improve upon the perfection that was the Asylum-gameplay but at a pretty hefty cost to the (baffling) narrative especially for a pseudo-open world game, I mean... wtf...? Origins has very pleasantly surprised with an actually interesting overarching story with really good writing at times. Impressively good, especially for an Arkham-series game. Unfortunately, the gameplay has seen very little improvement. Oh well. It didnt blow my mind, but I had solid fun with it afterall.
Also the new VAs were impressive, and thats high praise.

[AntiDamascus]

Yea I heard the gameplay was just more of the same

[Jarmam]

It is. There is very little change from City. A few new enemy types, but nothing even remotely as gamechanging as shields or knives, or thermal goggles and body armour. The martial artists are a neat little addition, but mostly they actually just draw out the fight and kill the flow, as you have to counter them - wait for it - 5 times in a row to actually "counter" their move. Meanwhile every single enemy either stands around doing nothing, or beelines for that SMG you haven't destroyed yet. Sigh.

Also they added some gloves you get later on which, when charged and activated, let you attack through shields, tasers, body armor, anything and everything. These gloves kill the combat system. I hate them.

The Riddler(Enigma) puzzles are mostly gear-checks involving "use gadget x on thingy y, you win". Yes, there was this in City as well, but there were som really clever puzzles hidden around. There are fewer of those tricky ones now, and more that are just "run here when you've gotten this upgrade and... just kinda... pick up the thing I guess". The best ones involve finding ways to fly to something that's seemingly out of reach. Unlike Yahtzee I love the grapnel accelerator-divebomb glide system and they make good use of it again.

Bossfights are really good. All of them. We've come a long way from Asylum's single real Big Bad-encounter in the yard. This they nailed.

You get rated after each encounter and based on some qualifications you get one of 5 grades, which provide an XP bonus based on how well the game thinks you did. This is fine in fights, its basically what it always was with a little spice, but in Predator it kind of annoys me. One of the strengths of City was the improvement of Predator when you got spotted or did something stupid. The AI would notice your tactic and actively counter it (grenades in vents, shooting down vantage points, ignoring distracting batarangs etc). So being spotted gave you a chance to disengage and take the fight from a new angle, but at a disadvantage. This lead to many situations where I'd have 1 health and no vantage points left and would have to somehow break up 4-5 dudes with a Jammer among them - and that was awesome. Now if I do the same, the game tells me Im worthless and gives me a big XP penalty. Nothing gamebreaking, just... kind of annoying. I mean... you lose the "unseen" stat required for max rank if you're seen in any situation *ever*. But I want to scare the bejezus out of that last straggler who shoots at random noises in terror. And I do this by landing in front of him and making him flinch before I shatter his ribcage (they added the Asylum-bonecracking sounds back in, they're pretty... unnerving. I like that. Not sure thats good.). This used to be a bonus move. Now its a penalty one. Long rant for small things, it just slightly maimed one of the series' strengths in the stealth gameplay and for no real reason.

[Fragony]

YAY finally got me a Wii-U. Super Mario Bros U, wow. Soooooooo pretty. Against knowing better I also bought Zombie-U, and it's really hard and it's SCARY. It also looks and sounds really good. Not something that impress someone with a good pc, but it has really nice effects.

Having a second screen is awesome, but it also sounds great. Absolutily not regretting getting this.

lololol Zombie-U is awesome. Really scary and thick with atmosphere, you know you are going to die in a desperate situation. Than you wake up as a different character and your former you is a zombie with the loot he/ she managed to find. It's pretty damn brilliant.

Edit, been playing all night, I don't understand the bad reviews, may e they just don't understand what this game is about because it has a first-person perspective, it's survival-horror game not an fps. So yes you have hardly any ammo, movement is a bit clumsy, and you die a lot. Really tense stuff. Also really goodlooking, I love the greenish filter, really makes London look diseased. I am pretty sure the makers took a few lessons from Demon/Dark Souls on how to build awesome worlds. Demon Souls has this blue filter that makes the place feel very sad, Dark Souls a yellow one that makes sure you know the place hates you, the green in Zombi-U screams 'infested'. Really good game.

[Montmorency]

Tried the Torchlight demo. This is a consensus hit?!

It's pretty much identical to the FATE games that I played 5-7 years ago in every meaningful way, and those were decidedly mediocre.

Weird stuff...

[SwordsMaster]

L.A. Noire again. Love the setting, and with the Directx11 update it looks MUCH better!

[Beskar]

Gran-ma plays GTA5
(contains naughty words and other GTA related content)

[Gregoshi]

Thanks to the GOG D&D bundle this summer, I'm playing Planescape: Torment and Neverwinter Nights 2. I'm enjoying the story in Planescape and the dated graphics and interface don't bother me. However, the game seems rather stingy with gold. I'm getting to a major event in the story and I'm pretty much as well equipped as I was shortly after I started the game - there's not much gold to upgrade equipment. I'm playing NWN2 co-op online with a friend and I'm enjoying that too except for the rather infuriating movement & camera control combination - definitely not good for my blood pressure.

Also getting ready to start the Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm campaign.

[Fragony]

Owwwwww Planescape Torment is an absolute classic, the story gets REALLY good. Send Neverwinter Nights on piano-lessons and play it.

[Fragony]

Super Mario Bros Wii-U is kicking my butt. People who found the more recent Mario-games too easy won't have anything to complain about. Hi SNES times, how I missed you

[Hooahguy]

Endless Space Disharmony:

I was more articulate in the dedicated thread for it, but I would say that while the game's empire management is superb, the battles are less amazing, though nice to look at. Fleet composition is important, but very trial-and-error. Sieges can also be very frustrating. Overall, it was a very fun 5 hours so far, and I would recommend trying it out if it goes on a big sale or something.