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

[Rafael Mestdag]

Dead Space was great. never had any problem with keyboard controls or mouse dps issues, still plays fluid and nice with them today. liked it better than with the gamepad, like most games. it'd be nice to see a re-release with all 3 tied into one install with some transitional gameplay thrown in between them.

You seriously didn't notice the difference in mouse control between DS1 and DS2?

I've recently picked up both games and DS3 but for some reason still haven't felt compelled enough to play any of them. I saw a review of one of them a couple of months ago and decided to give them a try. I'll at least try DS1 and see what it's like.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Ok, I'm installing DS2 right now and I'll give it a try later on. I'll let you guys know my first impressions.

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Right, I love Dead Space 2!! It's like a spacial version of Evil Within but with better playability, or if anything, an easier learning curve. It manages to be as horrific as Evil Within but with a different approach. I guess in the end they're like different versions of the same horror theme kind of game. Both give you the impression of being in a horror movie, they're both great!!

I'm now installing DS1 so I can better understand the story behind it all.

 

[dudio]

Quake

Have always loved Quake. Played the new one thru beta, but other than still a decent feeling, fast paced shooter, it was a little gimmicky, and the lack of CTF makes it boring pretty quick.

Play a ton of Battlefield 1 and Rocket League online,
and been playing South Park's Fractured But Whole and Legend of Zelda:Breath of the Wild emu offline.

 

[xravenxdota]

I personally enjoyed mass effect 1-3.I enjoyed the story.I personally think num 2's controls are horrible lol.I could never finish num 3 and someone stole my freaking disk T.T Other than that i like old school rpg's like the wizardry series and FF.Some action rpg like diablo 2/Torchlight or titan quest mostly modded and then my fav.Racing games

 

[xattica]

The Piramid on a Tandy TRS-80. Galaga. Original Warcraft and Starcraft. FF11 and BF Vietnam.

 

[Maarsch]

Currently enjoying "They are Billions"

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

started Nier: Automata this week and it is one of the coolest games i've seen in a long time. the first couple runs into the intro really reminded me of my early years of gaming on arcades, computer, atari, etc when half of the challenge & fun was just figuring out the controls. the way the camera positioning and gameplay fluidly changes is amazing.

while stuck on a laptop recently with rather limited gaming options i played through Shadowrun: Dragonfall, most of Ori & The Blind Forest, and loaded up an old Wasteland 2 save from just before entering L.A. and played a good 4-5 hours again. and i can say i love all 3 games and could still possibly be very content with low budget gaming.............................if i had never seen hi-res, hi-refresh rate, maxxed settings.

finally got my Z370 setup together:

5GHz and still stays cool; idles ~30°, gaming ~65°. it looks a bit nicer now than in the image with aura sync controlling the LEDs and a tad bit more cable management.

 

[harrystam]

Drunkn Bar Fight with the VIVE is a extremely satisfying and entertaining game. wobbling around, drinking booze and kung fu punching a bar full of people who want you dead. It gets particularly fun when you start picking up bar stools and cracking them over peoples skulls.

 

[dullridge]

witcher 3
bastion
life is strange

 

[imrazor]

life is strange

I was hesitant to buy this, but I found I quite enjoyed it. Especially some of the more atmospheric moments in the earlier chapters. Ending felt kind of forced, though. Maybe that was the point...

Any thoughts on the prequel?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I liked it too. Haven't played the new one.

Playing Shadow Warrior. I think it was free on Steam recently. It's really fun. Like Kill Bill the video game with added demons.

 

[selenaanderson3387]

Battlefield 3 my all time favourite, I liked its shooting mechanisms and especially using vehicles and taking down aircrafts and UAV.

 

[dudio]

life is strange

I was hesitant to buy this, but I found I quite enjoyed it. Especially some of the more atmospheric moments in the earlier chapters. Ending felt kind of forced, though. Maybe that was the point...

Any thoughts on the prequel?

I bought into this game early and put a number of hours into it, but have stopped playing with plans to start from scratch when the game is finally released. I've enjoyed it very much so far.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Oh yeah, I also just recently finished Amnesia: The Dark Decent. That is how you do a survival horror game! It's a few years old at this point but I can't think of a game in that genre that I enjoyed more. I realize it's not really comparable to The Evil Within but in my opinion Amnesia was much more enjoyable. Now I need to go back and finish Alien: Isolation.

 

[Gman450]

I watched a playthrough for Amnesia The Dark Descent because I'm too scared to play it. I actually played it a bit back in 2010 or something but I got really disturbed and didn't try it since, lol. When you watch someone else play, it makes it less scary. I still jumped a bit at times but it was more relaxing and I could pay attention to the story.
I also want to dig into Soma especially since they released a safe mode version where the monsters supposedly won't attack you unless you provoke them too much. I hear the story is really good in that one.

 

[chimera201]

Amnesia The Dark Descent was the only game that scared me till now. Dead Space and Alien Isolation while being good games didn't scare me at all. The immersion in amnesia was spot on. Even your eyes adjust to the darkness after a while in the game but not bright enough to see everything. You basically had to choose the torches you want to light since you had little resources.

Currently playing Shadow of Mordor. The gameplay is good but rest of it is boring. Like it's the complete opposite of Witcher 3.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Currently playing Shadow of Mordor. The gameplay is good but rest of it is boring. Like it's the complete opposite of Witcher 3.

I liked it up until I saw how the army building aspect works, which is a real grind. I also didn't like the ending, which has more grind. The main problem I have with the army building is there's no immediate result when pairing one of your troops with another in pit fights, making it vague and time consuming.

It also kinda sucks on performance, and in some regards the graphics suck too.

I'm actually having a go through Dead Space 3 again lately, and am really enjoying it.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

The Amnesia collection is free at Humble Bundle. Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/amnesia-collection

 

[J_E_D_70]

Lone Echo on Rift is amazing so far.

 

[Gman450]

I took a break from online gaming and gaming in general for about a month. I don't think I was burnt out but it had to do more with personal reasons and I had been busy for while. I've played more of Hellblade and I think I'm nearing the end. It's been great so far. Oh and I had to change my monitor since my old 720p Dell gave up on me about a month ago. I got a 1080p LG IPS monitor. I'm really digging it, but my games are kind of suffering since the 750Ti isn't good enough for the resolution. The color reproduction is fantastic though.

I played some System Shock 2 which I had been trying to get into for some time now. It's scary for me. I don't know what's up but I always found old low poly graphics to be more scary than any other modern model for a monster in a video game. I'm liking SS2 but there's a bit of learning curve. I assume it'll be like Deus Ex. I had a bad time with the tutorial but as I gave it more time, it grew on me.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Been playing Mad Max again since the latest update fixed a crash I was having. Great game, it has some quirks, but it's mostly very well done. I like it far more than the movie Fury Road. It has so much more to offer, and includes a lot of dark underground areas with almost a horror game feel.

As far as movies go I've seen talk and interviews with Keanu Reeves of a possible Matrix 4. It reminded me of the Matrix games I played, which I feel didn't do justice to the trilogy. I'd love to see a Matrix 4, and someone possibly remake the Matrix games with modern tech.

If the Matrix 4 movie happens, as many think it will, it's not inconceivable, especially with Warner Bros at the helm, that another game or even game trilogy may happen. I know many think of Warner Bros as amateur game devs, and in some ways they ARE a bit green, but I was actually more impressed with their gameplay in Arkham Origins than with other Batman games. With input from the Wachowskis, just like they got from Rocksteady on Origins, they could pull off something really good.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/17/14935418/the-matrix-reboot-video-games-enter-path-neo-online

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I really liked Mad Max too. If you haven't played it RAGE is a similar game. RAGE is a good game that could have been epic with more development.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/RAGE/

 

[Frag Maniac]

I really liked Mad Max too. If you haven't played it RAGE is a similar game. RAGE is a good game that could have been epic with more development.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9200/RAGE/

Yeah I played Rage, but was not nearly as impressed as with Mad Max. Id could have really exploited the underground areas more in Rage, but instead they turned it into extra stuff you have to shell out more money for. Sure it was cheap, but given how small the map was to begin with, should have been included. It should also have included not just sewers, but caves, which when you think about it, would be more prevalent than sewers in such an environment. There was also a lot of doors in camps that didn't open.

I also didn't like the map or vehicle stuff as much. Vehicles in Mad Mad are a bit hard to control, especially in Death Runs, but you really just need to find ways to deal with it. The graphics in Rage are also horrible, not anywhere NEAR as good as the trailers made it look. It's really funny it took them 6 years to make, because it looks in many ways like a cheap "value" game. Carmack admitted in his lengthy keynote speech after it released that the excessive time of production was largely due to his not communicating effectively with his team.

Lastly, I know part of what took a while to make Rage was the introduction of Megatextures, along with an engine that could handle them, but IMO Megtextures will always go down in gaming history as Carmack's biggest blunder. Megatextures do nothing to benefit games or gamers. They require static skies with no weather, many of the textures are blurry, the game world is usually smaller, and they are also why many doors are not accessible. They are basically just a huge texture file that has to come with these limitations to load quickly enough.

Clearly when tasked by their new owners Bethesda to come up with a way to speed up production time, Carmack didn't care what Megatextures did to the quality of the games. I have respect for what he did initially for gaming, but he left a bit of a smear on it before stepping down as lead dev at Id.

 

[harrystam]

That game drives me insane. If you bump another vehicle you get penalized.
Whatever floats your boat, though.