Video games you're playing?

[4gottenLoreKali]

A whole lot of GTAV, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, The Last of Us Remastered, Doom, and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt.

 

[ThatSkyWing]

Currently playing Tempo for the Sega 32X, Pokemon Crystal, and Toejam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

 

[EricD]

Currently in orbit around Kerbin.

 

[Owls12]

At the moment I've played a lot of the Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare series, Peggle and Animal Crossing New Leaf.

 

[Xenocity]

At the moment I've played a lot of the Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare series, Peggle and Animal Crossing New Leaf.

Are you looking forward to the AC: New Leaf big September update?
Nintendo is adding new content, including Amiibo content.

 

[Misery]

At the moment I've played a lot of the Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare series, Peggle and Animal Crossing New Leaf.

The Garden Warfare games are fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And that's not something I say very often. It's mostly the gameplay that gets me with it, but at the same time I also love the characters. This is just about the only zombie-related game/thing I can think of where the zombies actually have PERSONALITY to them. I mean, seriously, it's really hard not to like them, or the plants.



As for what I'm currently playing.... No Man's Sky. It finally came out. Good grief, am I ever having a blast with it. I'm playing it on PS4, which is... unfortunate, me being mostly a PC gamer... but it's worth it, and I'll get the PC version later (I dont mind buying both).

There's ALOT of arguing and controversy over the game, for... all sorts of frankly derpy reasons, but... when I ignore that, and just play the darned thing, honestly, I got exactly what I was expecting out of it. And exactly what I wanted. I cant wait to see where they take it from here with future updates.

 

[WistfulAutumn]

.. me being mostly a PC gamer... but it's worth it, and I'll get the PC version later (I dont mind buying both)

Man what the heck? Are you PC master race or not?

 

[Misery]

Man what the hell? Are you PC master race or not?

I am merely one who has zero patience.

Blasted PC version of the game got delayed a few days; I didnt have a few days of patience, so I bought the console version. Irritating, but... better than waiting.

 

[Xenocity]

I just started playing Cosmo Rings ( Watch RPG by Square-Enix).
You play as the God of Time, who has to rescue the Goddess of Time who has been shattered by the stoppage of time (the God of Time caused it to help humans).
You have to rescue all the fragments of her.

I'm only on the prologue....
You get bonuses for actively playing, but the game will play for you when you aren't on the app.

 

[WistfulAutumn]

I am merely one who has zero patience.

Blasted PC version of the game got delayed a few days; I didnt have a few days of patience, so I bought the console version. Irritating, but... better than waiting.

Its so annoying when a PC game gets released later than the console version. Gives a sense of betrayal
But it does seem like NMS would /possibly/ be better with a controller than a mouse, at least for the flying sections. Have you seen anything crazy in it yet?

 

[Xenocity]

Its so annoying when a PC game gets released later than the console version. Gives a sense of betrayal

This is done to reward console owners (Nintendo owners also get multiplatform games much later if at all.)

Console owners buy exponentially more copies than their PC counterparts.
most mutliplatform games are lucky to see 500k sales on PCs.
This is why most publishers/developers of any real size put the bulk of their time and resources on consoles.
90% of NMS sales in the end, provided the very polarizing reviews didn't kill the sales.

All the NPD and other market research into PC gamers, shows that the clear majority of PC users and PC gamers wait for games to fall well below $20 before buying them.
PC users and gamers are extremely sensitive to price and hate paying above $30 for any game.
PC gamers are also very sensitive to how their games run and refuse to be loyal to gaming companies (same as Nintendo owners are).
If your PC games run bad and/or missing features, PC users and gamers will take to the media to attack your company and even to the point of hiring people to stalk the developers (yes it has happened).


On the flip side Playstation and Xbox gamers are extremely loyal to gaming companies and are extremely forgiving to gaming companies on everything.
You can literally screw them everywhich way to Sunday and they will preorder and buy your next game at the full $60 price tag.

It's literally that PC and Nintendo owners are notoriously fickle and moody, while Xbox and Playstation owners are supportive of gaming in every way.

This is why many major gaming companies are leaving PC for good, including WB (Mortal Kombat X is their final game) and Activision (most of their games skip PC and the rest are gimped).
WB and Activision are two of the biggest gaming companies in the world.
There are talks of Ubisoft ending PC support due to low sales of their PC games.
Capcom is considering ending PC support over how Street Fighter V went (it sold badly, even worse on PC), they blame PC for it.

I mean you can count on Playstation and Xbox Owners to preorder and buy the game at launch regardless of the information and price. PC and Nintendo owners on the other hand make their decision on the information and price.


It's rumored/leaked that the PS4 version of NMS is the best version by far.

Those who have the PC version of NMS state the game is quite choppy with its performance in its current state.
Apparently NMS won't run on older i7, i5, and i3 CPUs.
Your CPU needs to be an Intel i7, i5,i3 made within the last two years (Skylake and the other chipset) sames for the AMD CPUs

 

[Misery]

Its so annoying when a PC game gets released later than the console version. Gives a sense of betrayal
But it does seem like NMS would /possibly/ be better with a controller than a mouse, at least for the flying sections. Have you seen anything crazy in it yet?

I've seen tons of crazy things in it, and had alot of loopy experiences, such as a very desperate escape from some pirates (which involved me plowing straight down through a planet's atmosphere and landing JUST before I would have exploded; my ship was NOT ready to take on seven freaking pirates at once) and finding a planet where the Sentinels (robots that really, really dont like it when you DO things, and will respond with violence if you are smashing stuff up too much, which you have to do to get resources) were labeled as aggressive (meaning they didnt wait for me to do things and just started out with the violence right away) and thus I've just been getting CONSTANTLY attacked by them (I"m still on that planet, it has stuff I want) including being attacked by what I could swear are robotic laser cats. But the game only does moments like that so often; I think it needs an option for a higher difficulty, honestly. Though I understand why much of it is so calm, as it's really focused on exploration, and survival games as a whole tend to only throw "intense" moments at you every now and then. As for other stuff I've seen, the procedural engine, while sometimes being kinda same-y (which doesnt bother me, I'm used to procedural games and they all WILL do this from time to time) can sometimes be really, really weird; I ran into a creature last night that looked like a dog.... except that it's head had burst apart at some point to reveal a mass of tentacles with eyeballs at the end (???). The game will produce things like that sometimes. Same with the landscape, sometimes it gets super bizarre, sometimes you end up with places that look alot more "normal".

All in all, I'm absolutely loving the game, and can already tell that like Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft, this is likely to become one of my "go-to" games... the sort that I never ENTIRELY stop playing and will always come back to at some point; I have a few games like that and sort of rotate between them at random depending on my mood.

It's just a shame that the hype for the game went WAY too far; people are often expecting things from it that are, frankly, utterly impossible, stuff that cannot be done, and then getting super angry when it doesnt do those things. Or they're expecting something like Elite: Dangerous, which.... this very much isnt. This is not a space sim. It's a survival game.

But I never followed the hype, because I tend not to, so I never had those misconceptions and simply tried it for myself. The game isnt for everyone, but I really think it's very good.


And yeah, this is likely alot better with a mouse (I'll be trying the PC version today). Particularly when trying to aim at targets during dangerous moments on the ground; my playstyle has me using the wierd grenade things alot (they can also be used to dig through normal rock, which your mining laser cannot do), and those can be pretty tough to aim, but way moreso with the awkward controller aim. Very awkward. So I'm looking forward to playing it with a mouse.


EDIT: Weeeeeelllp. Not playing the PC version today. Godforsaken debit card. I hate using it, it's nothing but trouble. I may or may not have chopped it into 10000 pieces in great anger.

It had it coming. I really need to get a less bank-related method of payment. No more banks.

 

[Sylar]

I bought GTAV a few days ago and have been enjoying a little of that. I just completed the robbery store heist. I haven't played a GTA game since Chinatown Wars on the DS. Before that it was GTA 3 and Vice City on the PS2. So much has changed yet it's still the same.

The button layout is weird now and shooting your gun when driving is awful, I don't like not being able to jump manually either.

 

[Sylar]

I bought the season pass for Batman: A Telltale Series and played through all of episode 1 in 1 sitting. That might not sound like much but I'm not much of a gamer, I usually can't play a game for 20 minutes without getting bored and turning it off.

I've never played a Telltale game before but I loved it. As a game there isn't much to it, Until Dawn had way more gameplay despite still being an interactive tv show, but wow were the characters and story good. So far it's the best Batman movie I've never seen. Clearly what they lack in gameplay they make up for in writing.

 

[4gottenLoreKali]

Playing through Fallout: New Vegas again, only this time with a metric crapton of mods downloaded from NexusMods. Graphics, UI, sounds, weapons, characters, locations, quests, you name it. I'm really surprised that my copy is running more-or-less perfectly, Bethesda games are notorious for being pretty difficult to install mods for.

 

[Laughingowl1975]

the 2016 Doom, good graphics and good action.

 

[wyverary]

Minecraft. It is both incredibly addicting and a wonderful way to de-stress. Thank goodness for the wikis, though, otherwise I'd be utterly lost!

 

[Laurizzle]

Dance Dance Revolution.... a favorite around here!

 

[Cinnamon115]

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy. I'm really enjoying it!

 

[Mr Allen]

I rented Kinect Sports Rivals recently, pretty cool, especially Bowling and Tennis, been looking for a good console Tennis game since Virtua Tennis 2009 on Xbox 360, and before that Super Tennis on the SNES.