Discussion What's your favourite video game you've been playing?

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

If I can't buy a disc - install and play without any internet involvement whatsoever I have no interest and will not buy it.

you've been missing out on many years of good gaming then.

i have probably 90 games through various distributors(Steam, GOG, Epic, etc) and i play zero of them online.
have probably only connected for any type of multiplayer 5-6 times with any of them over 10 years or so.

i've tried some of the MMOs like Aion, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, Final Fantasy 14, The Old Republic, and a few others and have never gotten more than a couple hours into any of them.
i do not enjoy online gaming with idiots running around ruining my game experience and immersion into the stories.

but this does not stop me from playing a lot of the newer titles in offline modes and still having a great time with them.

 

[iTRiP]

Just got up to speed in Need for speed payback again, might try the multiplayer bit after the story completes this time around.

Also continuing play in AC: Odyssey, some great fighting against the bounty hunters and other bosses, besides the exploring and questing. ( this is my third playthrough )

Going back to RDR 2 next week, and stretch out the author story some more, (riding my horse through the old town roads)

 

[iTRiP]

Favorite game this end of year time, Thief: Deadly shadows.

It's quite the gem.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

recently played through Halo Infinite, that was fun.
the open-world-ish map and the RPG-ish upgrades and things through the game added a bit that i also enjoyed.
loved some of the new weapons and it was nice having a wider variety than most of the previous games.
i always loved Halo 1 & 2 and recently getting to play through the entire franchise has been pretty awesome.
i dug into the Master Chief Collection for nostalgia's sake and ended up really enjoying Reach, 3, & 4 too.

just started God of War this week.
had totally forgotten that this remake was even being developed and then saw it on Steam again all of a sudden.
had previously only played a few minutes of a few of the games through friend's PS consoles so this is cool getting the original with such a reworking.
visuals definitely look GREAT and it has pretty average 3rd person action gameplay.
of course being a PS port it has some issues with freely binding controls to keyboard & mouse but it's usually pretty easy to get used to the dedicated commands with these type of games. if it really starts to get annoying i can always switch to my One S gamepad.

also currently re-playing The Surge 2.
never got through the entire game previously because it was having serious stuttering issues.
whether it's later updates or just the upgraded system since then, it's been running good.
loved the original game.

 

[-Fran-]

A few days ago I got Monster Hunter Rise; it is quite fun and since it's my first real MH entry to the series, I'm enjoying it without previous "baggage" on mechanics and comparions.

Regards.

 

[Colif]

I think I play an old game

2009, thats old enough

 

[Frag Maniac]

I just started playing Annihilation Line, the recently released campaign DLC for Terminator Resistance. It's about 5 hours in length, so it feels like a mini campaign on it's own. It's also more challenging than the base game, with limited resources and tougher enemies.

My only real nitpick is it tends to hitch and freeze at times, especially after restarting, and the textures can take a while to draw in once the checkpoint is loaded.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I think I play an old game

Spoiler: Sacred image

2009, thats old enough

the Sacred franchise is still awesome.
Fallen Angel was one of my favorite games for quite a few years.

 

[Colif]

There is so much I don't remember... like what quest am I on?? I have 4 escortees and if there is one thing I remember about Sacred 2, those guys are suicidal.

think I should start a new character just to remember game, instead of getting my lvl 141 killed

I have to remember all the keys again.

might try the robot, seem to remember it was odd. I only ever played melee as it was easier on my pc at time.
edit: reads wiki, remembers robot is hardest character to play.

so much to relearn, not sure I want to lol.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

have got more into God of War over the last month or so.
started out with pretty average gameplay but over time as Kratos' abilities open up it got much more fun.
maybe 1/2 - 2/3 of the way through now and i'm enjoying it much more.

got through The Surge 2.
can't believe it took me so long to actually play through this after loving the original so much.
the huge options for armor & weapons and the way they change your gameplay
plus the multitude of ways to go about the story and explore the map make this franchise tons of fun.

saw an update released for Shadow of Chernobyl's Complete 2009 mod stating it had been updated and improved for 2021.
this lead to re-installing and checking out the update, but sadly is designed for French language only so some English elements weren't working correctly.
ended up playing through again, probably the 5-6th complete playthrough at least not counting Lost Alpha and a couple other complete remake mods i've tried.
i still can't believe how great this game is even after all these years.
with a couple texture & model mods it can still hold up to any newer game gameplay and story-wise.
cannot wait for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2!

recently purchased Elex II and played a few minutes. another awesome Piranha Bytes game, loved the first.
also purchased Elden Ring but besides starting it up and configuring system settings i haven't delved in yet, hoping to finish God of War before getting too into it.
really enjoyed the Dark Souls series. very disappointed that Demon Souls remake hasn't made it to PC.

 

[Hemispheres]

Just recently (last few months) got into ARMA III. Not quite ready for online play but I am working on all the campaign missions.

 

[thriftyarek888]

Je Anned Arc on psp! Amazing gem!

 

[Frag Maniac]

Just started Chernobylite last night. It's a very unique Survival Horror game with deep RPG elements.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I finished Chernobylite, and was a bit surprised by the ending , which had more decision making than fighting. I suppose if you go into it without good crew rep though, there's going to be less opportunities that help you, and more fighting. Overall the game is interesting and unique for the Survival Horror genre, but the first play through seemed a bit annoying due to micromanagement of crew rep.

I'm now finishing up my Halo The Master Chief Collection run on Legendary, having beaten 4 of the 6 games so far on that mode. I'm currently on the 4th mission of Halo 4, Infinity. The mission I just finished, Forerunner, used to cause me lots of stress. Now that I've discovered more effective tactics on how to play it though, it's feeling fun, and I can better appreciate the enemies it contains.

 

[mrm198]

i've tried some of the MMOs like Aion, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, Final Fantasy 14, The Old Republic, and a few others and have never gotten more than a couple hours into any of them.
i do not enjoy online gaming with idiots running around ruining my game experience and immersion into the stories.

@JohnBonhamsGhost I agree with you. I've played ES online for a few hours solo and thought the same. I wanted to find like minded people to try again together which would be more fun (but wouldn't stop idiots running round!). Let me know if you're interested sometime

 

[Frag Maniac]

Just finished another playthrough of Days Gone after reinstalling it, this time to play on Survival II again, but with no skill, stamina, health, or focus upgrades. In fact I only used silencers, but just for the first part of the game. I'm also dabbling into the challenges, but they seem a bit too arcade for my tastes.

I also reinstalled RE7 after playing Days Gone again, to play the 2 campaign DLCs, Not a Hero, and End of Zoe.

I'm about to install and play A Plague Tale Innocence as well after having just bought it.

 

[Tac 25]

have started playing the new fighting game DNF Duel, released this year.
beautiful visuals in this game, sort of reminds me of Granblue Fantasy on the way characters introduce themselves.

combos are easy to do, but I cannot do any supers yet.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I installed and started playing Race Driver Grid again recently. Surprisingly I got comments on the captures I uploaded to YouTube with people saying it brings back memories and how good the game still looks even 14 years after it's release.

I will also be getting and playing Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered soon, which I'm hoping will play on keyboard aa well as some are saying.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

got through Elex II, that was a lot of fun. i guess if you enjoy Piranha Bytes games anyway.

played through the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series again in anticipation for 2, hopefully we will be seeing it towards the end of this year with no further delays.
definitely still one of my favorite series.

also played through the entire Fallout 4 campaign again, probably for the 4-5th time.
i though i had played the Nuka World expansion before but it seemed totally new, maybe i had just totally forgotten the story line.
i've also always loved this series. it's been killing me waiting for the Fallout 4: New Vegas & Fallout 4: Capital Wasteland full game overhauls.
3 & New Vegas were so much fun but these days running them now even with the best available mods the graphics just seem too underwhelming for me.

just finally started Elden Ring and surprisingly it's design is very disappointing;
no FOV adjustment, no ultra-wide support, no vignette/chromatic aberration disabling, and a lot of other things.
luckily by now the PC community has come up with mods to "correct" most of these things.
after having a lot of mods in place it looks and feels much better, just like the other From Software Dark Souls games.
looking forward to getting into the story.

also just started Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. very fun action packed game.
very glad the developers took their time to make a proper PC port.

hoping will play on keyboard aa well as some are saying

controls are awesome on keyboard/mouse with multiple web slinging and attack features all assigned to my many extra mouse buttons.

gameplay and graphics are top notch with RT effects and good optimization.

 

[boju]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/project-cars-1-and-2-will-soon-be-delisted-from-steam

 

[Ztyol]

The favorite of my whole life as a gamer, CS:GO, but I don't play anymore because it absorbed me completely, I became something Pro.... The one I've played for the most years is FIFA. I had a strong time with Left 4 Dead, and currently for the last year, Destiny 2

 

[PsychoPsyops]

In recent days, Persona 5 Royal is fantastic, if you're into turn-based rpgs.

 

[Tac 25]

got another fighting game on my pc. UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH. I play a lot of fighting games, and in my opinion.. the controls of this game are fun and easy to learn. Default difficulty is fair enough. Got through arcade mode without any continues. Although the final boss Merkava got me to low hp.

Spoiler

 

[iTRiP]

I been doing: Carmageddon: Max damage, all day and night long with all the gametime I had available nearly got it complete, I had an issue where it would not run at 1st because of incompatibilities with my GPU, but after I got that sorted it was a real nice game to spend some time in, Once I figured that I had done nearly the entire game on hard, I was struggling my ass off trying to complete events, then I set it too easy to make the last part more playable.

Doing some another rerun of RDR2, see if I can better my completion % even more than the last time (88% or something) still a fav game but just playing it now and then.

Completed 1st season of My team in F1 2022, on 47, real fun racing but had to adapt going back to playing F1 @ 1080p because having played F1 2020 @ 4K, this iteration of the game doesn't seem to do as well as the previous game on my hardware, still 1080p with over a 100fps is ok to play, really like how this game plays.

Doing another 100% playthrough of Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, that's what I'm busy with now, gave up on my 1st attempt restarted and having a blast now, seems to become harder redoing old favorites over and over again, but the awesomeness of the score aways seems to invite one back into the action.

Deleted my NFS heat progress and started that from scratch, now I have built another badass car again, and making 1000000rep on hard per night on the regular.

 

[Supa55]

you've been missing out on many years of good gaming then.

i have probably 90 games through various distributors( Steam, GOG, Epic, etc) and i play zero of them online.
have probably only connected for any type of multiplayer 5-6 times with any of them over 10 years or so.

i've tried some of the MMOs like Aion, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW 60 days, Final Fantasy 14, The Old Republic, and a few others and have never gotten more than a couple hours into any of them.
i do not enjoy online gaming with idiots running around ruining my game experience and immersion into the stories.

but this does not stop me from playing a lot of the newer titles in offline modes and still having a great time with them.

I'm exactly like you. I have hundreds of games on Steam and other platforms and I don't have any currently installed. I've also played every MMO out there, from WOW to Aion Classic. I have to say that I played AION for too many years to get tired of it.

Now I'm trying a new one, Conquerors Blade, which has me quite entertained. It's a free game because after having bought hundreds of games, I've decided not to buy a game again until I see that I'm really interested in it.