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

[Frag Maniac]

The talk of playing into your 70s reminds me of this, one of my fave YouTube videos. 😀

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3nrP4U6Nw"][/video]

 

[t99]

Looking forward to:

For Honor

http://forhonor.ubisoft.com/game/en-US/home/

Seven

http://seven-game.com/en/

Crowfall

http://crowfall.com/

You really need to just watch the trailer to For Honor, it looks amazing. 3rd person Action RPG-ish / Hack N Slash w/ sick new combat system. I only hope it doesn't turn into too much running aimlessly killing pointless enemies like in Shadows of Mordor (that game was such an epic fail).

Seven is an isometric stealth Action RPG. Imagine playing your favorite isometric ARPG, but now you have levels which you can move up and down between in a parkour style movement system. You have the overhead angle view, the 1-0 skillbar, but now you can drop down and sneak behind an enemy to murder them. Perhaps you need to escape, now you can climb up and jump over obstacles.

Crowfall will be hit or miss. Either it is going to be the next big thing or it will have no player base. Think of a more detailed better version of WoW, but a pay once and own it system.

Of these 3 games For Honor is the one i'm looking the most forward too, but If I had to bet on which one has the best success it would be Seven for sure.

Almost forgot about Divinity Original Sin 2, that is going to be just plain sick. As long as they don't make it too easy like the last one. I stopped the last one 30 or so hours in because it was just insanely simple and combat was by far way too ez. It also had way way to much pointless text. I have a feeling they learned from past issues and this will be a possible GOTY

 

[Frag Maniac]

You really need to just watch the trailer to For Honor, it looks amazing.

It's not so much the combat, graphics, or gameplay in general I'm skeptical about. The story is just weird, a God-like being just decides to pit various medieval warriors of different times together. I'm one that typically cares more about gameplay than story too.

Worse yet, the trailer makes it look like not much is explained regarding why this event came about, and why this scenario exists. It would take some pretty creative story telling and character tie-ins to make it immersive, but I get the feeling you only get that vague intro to excuse it all.

If the only explanation or details of the premise are what's shown in the trailer, that would leave it feeling very contrived and shallow. You look at Wikipedia's page on it, and there's nothing about a plot or story. The devs have also been pretty vague about it.

Then again, I almost passed on Doom 2016 for looking too shallow and arcade in the trailers, and it's one of the best games out this year. Maybe For Honor will be like a medieval version of Doom. Some games can still be fun, even with little to no story.

 

[t99]

You really need to just watch the trailer to For Honor, it looks amazing.

It's not so much the combat, graphics, or gameplay in general I'm skeptical about. The story is just weird, a God-like being just decides to pit various medieval warriors of different times together. I'm one that typically cares more about gameplay than story too.

Worse yet, the trailer makes it look like not much is explained regarding why this event came about, and why this scenario exists. It would take some pretty creative story telling and character tie-ins to make it immersive, but I get the feeling you only get that vague intro to excuse it all.

If the only explanation or details of the premise are what's shown in the trailer, that would leave it feeling very contrived and shallow. You look at Wikipedia's page on it, and there's nothing about a plot or story. The devs have also been pretty vague about it.

Then again, I almost passed on Doom 2016 for looking too shallow and arcade in the trailers, and it's one of the best games out this year. Maybe For Honor will be like a medieval version of Doom. Some games can still be fun, even with little to no story.

you are exactly right. I also worry seeing this from ubisoft, they have a history of ruining great games. first negative I imagine was playing mordor and how you just run around doing nothing except the same damn thing over n over. We will see I guess. worth keeping on wishlist and following though.

 

[Gman450]

Well, I've finally beaten Blood and Wine. It was amazing, no doubt. I suppose I could say I liked it more than Hearts of Stone. HoS was smaller, lasted me around 10 hours compared to 21 hours with BaW and it didn't introduce a whole new location.
Toussaint is definitely gorgeous. I liked it's color scheme. Gave a completely different vibe. Story wise, I'd say it was nice. It's got multiple endings and I think I've got the best possible, from my viewpoint.

Regarding gameplay, there isn't much change. A new skill set can be unlocked although I only unlocked just one among 4 I could choose. I recommend playing it above Story and Sword, if you want some challenge. I could ease past most battles using no oil or other enhancements at 'story and sword' difficulty. The only time I found it difficult fighting was at the very last battle.

Overall, it's a great DLC. Puts other games to shame with the level of content this one brings in. I'm kinda sad to say goodbye to the Witcher series, as this is the last they'll ever tell, at least of Geralt's story. They ended it on a high note and I'm content with it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

^Yeah B&W was great.

Been trying to slog through Mirror's Edge Catalyst, but am having lots of problems with screen freezes. I tried lowering settings, even though frame rates were playable, still freezes.

I also tried looking at memory usage, since it starts out fine, and after 1/2 hr to an hr starts freezing and gets progressively worse. Even just having a checkpoint reload after falling can result in the loading screen freezing for quite a long time, then finally loading the save point.

The weird thing though, despite showing symptoms of a memory leak, the RAM usage never exceeds 4GB. I have just 3GB VRAM on my 7970, but I've read graphics guides on the game, and it only uses extremely high VRAM amounts on Hyper, and I've even tried Medium.

I struggle just to get in a decent session playing this game, especially when trying some of the harder Diversion and Delivery missions where I often have to retry them.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I played the first Mirror's Edge for a couple of hours and dropped it. Just not my kind of game.

I really need to go back and start a new game + in The Witcher 3. It's been so long since I played and I still haven't done Blood And Wine.

 

[YummyBot]

I am excited for Spellforce 3, Nioh, Blues and Bullets (I need ALL the episodes) and Final Fantasy 15 (port is to PC, please).
I hope there will be some games lika Amalur in future, cause it is my jam lately.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Survived 2 days with no internet due to my old Qwest Actiontech modem finally conking out. Since I've been a customer over 22 yrs with Qwest/CentruryLink, they offered to send me a refurbed modem free of charge (Actiontech C1000A-current models are C1100).

So during that time I had to just do some offline gaming, and managed to finish up my no upgrade Nightmare run of The Evil Within. I came in at just under 14 hrs with 31 deaths. I was thinking it was going to be closer to 100 deaths, but not too bad considering no upgrades.

It's kinda hard to prove no upgrades at game end, so I sufficed by going back to my Chapter 14 save and sitting in the upgrade chair and taking screenshots, which show over 363,000 unused gel. I finished with close to 400,000 gel though. This run was also with no incendiary bolts.

Next I will attempt a no upgrade run on Akumu, and this gives me the confidence I can do it.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

I'm 20. I'm amazed you guys have this hobby and at such a great age. You guys are as old as my father( He's in his late 50s) but he never developed a passion for video games. I do wonder what made you guys develop a knack for it. I rarely see people at your age play or discuss video games.

37, am heavier into some genres of AAA games than most "youngsters" i talk to. most of them just play very simple, very monotonous action console games, mobile APPs, or whatever is supposed to be popular at the moment. the only die-hard gamers i personally know, and there are quite a few, are from my generation and have been playing for 30+ years.

 

[Maarsch]

37, am heavier into some genres of AAA games than most "youngsters"

It's so cute when they're surprised you play at that age still and they throw up a nice and easy game for you to chime in on the conversation and you're like
"Yeah, I actually played the original civilization so I'm aware of the Ghandi bug and how it came about. Played 2 and 4 too, and will pick up 6 soon. Actually I used to do some high end raiding in Vanilla and TBC WoW, so we actually killed this Illidan dude . . . 9-10 years ago? I have touched Khaldor's hairless dome and it is as soft as your baby-brother's butt. I have recommended a vocal coach to Tasteless. I have been to 5 GSL finals in Korea, son. In two weeks the FIRST foreigner to win a Korean Starcraft tournament since 2001 will face off against the MOST successful female gamer in a bo7 showmatch SC2 and I will be casting that shit, B*#$@!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, yes, the new CoD is quite nice."

 

[Frag Maniac]

It's so cute when they're surprised you play at that age still...

LOL, try upper 50s. Most people don't even reach their physical peak until well into their 30s.

There's also a lot to be said for experience, patience, and tactics. Most people I see giving up on games, often claiming their control design is "broken", only give a couple tries at the harder parts, and don't have a clue how to play them.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Steam sale went live today.

Origin is also having a pretty good sale. Unusual for them.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

I started playing Mass Effect 2 for the second time, this time around I am enjoying it a lot more. I've just finished a 2 hour gameplay session and considering I normally don't play any games for more than an hour at a time(usually around 20 min. at a time), this game is really awesome!

Besides I usually don't like role playing games but this one is very good on both fronts, action and dialogue.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Started playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided last night. I'll give them kudos for it looking damn good even on just the High preset, and there are certainly many paths you can take. Stealth and controls seem fine too, and it seems optimized well enough.

That said, not sure what causes it, maybe reloading saves often since that's when it occurred, but I had a bad problem halfway through the first mission where light and shadow textures were bugging out flickering badly.

In Googling for it I found some forum chat on Steam where many were experiencing the same. It was said reloading the game, or going in and out of Windowed mode fixes it. So I quit and reloaded the game, and avoided reloading saves, and it was fine.

I can't really call it fine if I have to be hesitant to reload saves though.

 

[chimera201]

Started playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided last night. I'll give them kudos for it looking damn good even on just the High preset, and there are certainly many paths you can take. Stealth and controls seem fine too, and it seems optimized well enough.

That said, not sure what causes it, maybe reloading saves often since that's when it occurred, but I had a bad problem halfway through the first mission where light and shadow textures were bugging out flickering badly.

In Googling for it I found some forum chat on Steam where many were experiencing the same. It was said reloading the game, or going in and out of Windowed mode fixes it. So I quit and reloaded the game, and avoided reloading saves, and it was fine.

I can't really call it fine if I have to be hesitant to reload saves though.

Are you playing in DX12? DX12 is kind of buggy. DX11 is stable and probably has better minimum framerates.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Yep avoid DX 12. It hurts every system tested both Nvidia and AMD. I didn't have any issues at all like that. It's a beautiful game.

I haven't played anything new recently. I'm back to State of Decay: Breakdown. Again. Finally got the last 2 achievements which was my goal for this playthrough and I kept playing.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

It's so cute when they're surprised you play at that age still...

LOL, try upper 50s. Most people don't even reach their physical peak until well into their 30s.

There's also a lot to be said for experience, patience, and tactics. Most people I see giving up on games, often claiming their control design is "broken", only give a couple tries at the harder parts, and don't have a clue how to play them.

I'm 37 and have been playing PC games since 1993 when I got my first one. Back then I remember I used to like all kinds of games since there wasn't that many choices then, recently(last 7, 8 years) I've been mostly on racing simulators and some mainstream FPS like BF3 and the Crysis series as well as the Far Cry series.

About 2 weeks ago following someone from this very thread's advice I decided to try Mass effect 2 and now I simply LOVE it! It had been ages since I last played and liked role playing games and this one seems to have the perfect blend of action and dialogue, not to mention its graphics which are awesome and very well optimized.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

By the way, can you guys recommend me more games like Mass Effect 2 which are as well optimized like it and with graphics like that?
They can't be too demanding on the PC since I'm having to use my onboard graphics which is a lowly ATI HD3000 :-(

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Have you played Mass Effect? It's a little dated but it still looks very good for its age. Then Mass Effect 3 after you finish 2 of course. 😛

Ah saw your edit. ME3 might be too much for integrated. Mass Effect will run fine though and that's where the story starts.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Have you played Mass Effect? It's a little dated but it still looks very good for its age. Then Mass Effect 3 after you finish 2 of course. 😛

Ah saw your edit. ME3 might be too much for integrated. Mass Effect will run fine though and that's where the story starts.

Hey there! Thanks for the tip, I've just watched a youtube video of ME1 and you're right, it looks practically the same as ME2 and now I have the chance to play the game from the beginning of the story!

By the way, I'm going to try Deus Ex: Human Revolution as well as a way of trying something off the mainstream games and in the same line as Mass Effect. Are there many differecences between the two series?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I also recommend you get all of the DLC for the games. If you already know you are enjoying the games the DLC will only make them better. Mass Effect has 2 DLC packs and the one that adds to the story is free.

More info here. Bring Down the Sky is the one that adds to the story. Pinnacle Station is just a combat sim inside the game. It doesn't add to the story.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Downloadable_Content

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Deus Ex: The Human Revolution is one of my favorite games. Get the Director's Cut if you can. Mankind Divided is also amazing but I doubt you will be able to play it with that system.

I liked The Human Revolution so much it's my Steam homepage background. 😛

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197984367198

The Mass Effect Trilogy, The Elder Scroll games ( Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim ), the Fallout games, the Half Life series.....it's hard to pick favorites but those stand at the top of my favorite game series.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Thanks very much for the tips, I'll pick up both the Mass Effect series along with its DLC's and the 2 latest Deus Ex games. Human Revolution so far seems very interesting and I like the playability. The last one I'll wait until I get a good graphics card to play, it also seems great.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Are you playing in DX12? DX12 is kind of buggy.

No, I'm still on W7, so Dx11.

Yep avoid DX 12. It hurts every system tested both Nvidia and AMD. I didn't have any issues at all like that. It's a beautiful game.

So far I haven't had that problem since going through the tutorial intro mission. That said, I am now using a profile in my AMD GPU panel to launch it with Shader Cache set to On, as some on a Steam thread said it fixes stutters and loads textures faster. I'm also able to use the GPU panel to cap at 60 FPS instead of RTSS too.