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

[Mattp2017]

Kingdom Come Deliverance and The Forest

 

[Deleted member 217926]

@anort3 I've been following this mod since it was Project Brazil. I have high hopes for the gameplay, but its based on New Vegas, an eight year old game that was already using an old engine.

I played New Vegas again in early 2017. I still enjoyed it. As long as the story is good I'll give it a shot.

Finished XCom 2. Amazing game just like Enemy Unknown. Now I've started a new game+ in The Witcher 3. My first replay of that game.

 

[imrazor]

XCom 2 has been kicking my butt. Am I supposed to take the Advent Black Site mission as soon as it becomes available? It's pretty brutal, even on 'Normal' difficulty. My four corporals against 18 heavily armed aliens....

 

[Maarsch]

XCom 2 has been kicking my butt. Am I supposed to take the Advent Black Site mission as soon as it becomes available? It's pretty brutal, even on 'Normal' difficulty. My four corporals against 18 heavily armed aliens....

Nononono, you'll get your ass handed to you.

The way I played it was to have at least the 5 squad size, and a bunch of guys better equipped and higher on the promotion ladder.
And then play the entire game 2-3 avatar project discoveries away from disaster.

And it is important to learn how to avoid pulling multiple pods.

 

[imrazor]

Nononono, you'll get your ass handed to you.

Yep, it was handed to me on a silver platter. Smelled pretty funky too.

Seriously, the way the black site missions are presented in the narrative, they need to be taken care of right effin' now or you'll be put a critical disadvantage against the aliens. Guess it isn't so.

 

[Gman450]

Anyone watched the E3 press conferences? The rumors about Fallout 76 being online only was true. It looks good though. Besides all that, Bethesda had a huge lineup for this year's E3.

I'm quite interested in Elder Scrolls: Blades. I've signed up for the beta. Elder Scrolls VI tease was also quite a relief. I had my hopes down after seeing them show online and mobile. I thought they relegated the series down but that announcement gave me hope.

Microsoft's conference was also neat. Cyberpunk 2077's trailer was kickass! What a world!

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[Frag Maniac]

I'm sure many of you heard by now that Todd Howard announced at the Bethesda conference that Fallout 76 will be playable solo too. Many are assuming it's not via an offline mode though, so probably no console commands or mod support.

I can't help but think Bethesda's taking this route for two reasons.

1. They're attempting to bring in the PUBG type players with a battle royale style. They're even including several nuclear missile silos that players can battle for control of.

2. They no doubt feel a mostly online game will solve a lot of the AI bug problems that plagued Fallout 4.

They have already indicated every character will be controlled by humans, and that they have an extensive dedicated server network in place, which seems to indicate you need to be online while playing solo.

They admitted this change is a big risk, I'm not sure they know how big though. The problem is the beta access will only be available to those whom preorder, and it is unlikely they will get a lot of people whom prefer to play solo preordering and requesting an offline mode.

 

[imrazor]

Todd Howard had an interview after the Bethesda E3 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3X04jwJ0U

He goes over a lot of this info. He mentions that mod support will probably come to Fallout 76, but it won't be at release. He also confirmed that it is online only, and even if you only play solo you will still run into other players. He acknowledges that griefing might be a problem, and says they're still tuning that.

I'm not sure that Bethesda is cashing in on the Battle Royale craze. This looks like its been in development for a long time, before PUBG and Fortnite came to prominence.

Personally, I have zero interest in battle royale or MMO style play. This one'll be a pass for me, though my brother has expressed an interest in playing it with me. If he pushes me hard enough, I might get it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Todd Howard had an interview after the Bethesda E3 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-3X04jwJ0U

He goes over a lot of this info. He mentions that mod support will probably come to Fallout 76, but it won't be at release. He also confirmed that it is online only, and even if you only play solo you will still run into other players. He acknowledges that griefing might be a problem, and says they're still tuning that.

I'm not sure that Bethesda is cashing in on the Battle Royale craze. This looks like its been in development for a long time, before PUBG and Fortnite came to prominence.

Personally, I have zero interest in battle royale or MMO style play. This one'll be a pass for me, though my brother has expressed an interest in playing it with me. If he pushes me hard enough, I might get it.

Just because it may have been in development a while doesn't necessarily mean that it was originally planned as a battle royale type game. A LOT can be changed in the alpha stage. Think about it, no one is going to green light a change THIS big with a project of this scope unless they are keeping an eye on the recent success of battle royale type games.

Online only killed it for me, but private servers or not, that it's designed with zero NPCs with dialog, whom are usually the ones giving quests to make it feel more like a human experience, definitely makes it a no go for me.

These rat race mp only games are a crap fest of annoying hooligans. They like to use politically correct terms like "griefing" to illustrate the opinions of those whom can't stand them, I'll call it legit complaints instead.

I used to think Todd Howard had some kind of inside track on how to please his fanbase, now I know he's nothing but a naive gambler. Get ready for a shit ton of bad reviews and dropout fans Todd, because most are talking about the switch to online, and half or more of those commenting are not liking it.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

recently have started Kingdom Come: Deliverance, FF XV, Spellforce 3, Far Cry 5, & my 4th or 5th Fallout 4 run. also purchased Dark Souls Remastered but havent installed yet.

am currently putting most of my time into Far Cry 5. it is a beautiful setting with great gameplay. i was curious how it would work in a modern American atmosphere.

 

[gsf.gamestationforum]

GTA V including GTA Online. The GTA games are great open world games with plenty to see and do and the graphics are reasonably good as well.

 

[Frag Maniac]

recently have started Kingdom Come: Deliverance, FF XV, Spellforce 3, Far Cry 5, & my 4th or 5th Fallout 4 run. also purchased Dark Souls Remastered but havent installed yet.

am currently putting most of my time into Far Cry 5. it is a beautiful setting with great gameplay. i was curious how it would work in a modern American atmosphere.

Curious as to whether you plan to play Fallout 76, and what you think of the switch to online? I'm also a bit surprised you are so impressed by Far Cry 5. Have you gotten very far into it? Once you get into Faith's region and progress far enough in any region, the Bliss stuff gets to be a bit much. I started out loving the game, but after playing through it just once I was pretty disappointed. However I did like the Clutch Nixon events and wish there were more of them. The Prepper Stashes were pretty good too. The companion AI is quite annoying though. I started a no companion, no perk, no HUD run, on Hard, and am about halfway through hit, but I mostly play AC Origins or GRW lately. Far Cry 5 never keeps me entertained for long.

 

[Mattp2017]

recently have started Kingdom Come: Deliverance, FF XV, Spellforce 3, Far Cry 5, & my 4th or 5th Fallout 4 run. also purchased Dark Souls Remastered but havent installed yet.

am currently putting most of my time into Far Cry 5. it is a beautiful setting with great gameplay. i was curious how it would work in a modern American atmosphere.

Curious as to whether you plan to play Fallout 76, and what you think of the switch to online? I'm also a bit surprised you are so impressed by Far Cry 5. Have you gotten very far into it? Once you get into Faith's region and progress far enough in any region, the Bliss stuff gets to be a bit much. I started out loving the game, but after playing through it just once I was pretty disappointed. However I did like the Clutch Nixon events and wish there were more of them. The Prepper Stashes were pretty good too. The companion AI is quite annoying though. I started a no companion, no perk, no HUD run, on Hard, and am about halfway through hit, but I mostly play AC Origins or GRW lately. Far Cry 5 never keeps me entertained for long.

I'm personally super pissed about the always online Fallout 76, but not surprised. My main issue is NO MORE MODS!!!!

Also, I loved FC3, FC4 was ok, and hated FC5.

 

[bsachems]

I played Fallout 4 for a free weekend once and it was OK. If a deal on Steam comes around again I my buy it. It will depend on the price. As for Fallout 76 I only heard of it today and if it is an online game like the new Elder Scrolls I won't be playing.
Call me a snob but I like single player games. My favorite games are Silent Hunter IV Wolves of the Pacific and Skyrim Special Edition. I lode them both up with MODS and play forever.

 

[Frag Maniac]

As for Fallout 76 I only heard of it today and if it is an online game like the new Elder Scrolls I won't be playing.
Call me a snob but I like single player games.

They've said you can play it solo, but not offline. They say that means there will be mp players you'll see here and there, but you can choose to not interact with them. Just seems idiotic to me, they admitted they aren't totally sure how to handle "griefing" yet, which is just a politically correct term for the mp clowns that take their horsing around too far and spoil the game for solo players. I am SO not on board with this.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

Curious as to whether you plan to play Fallout 76, and what you think of the switch to online? I'm also a bit surprised you are so impressed by Far Cry 5...

i haven't really enjoyed any multiplayer-only aspects of any games through my network trials over the last maybe 15 years. so probably wont waste any effort over Fallout 76. Wasteland\Fallout is for sure one of my top 10 franchises though.

Far Cry 5; it really isnt the ubi-options or even the story-lines that has kept me involved so far. The setting with it's graphics and the smaller NPC stories/missions have been it for me through these maybe 20 hours. Just walking through the Rockies, and\or planning a raid in these settings, excites me more than most games have for some time.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Bought NFS Payback... Dissapointed.

I think the choice for only "Online" for fallout 76 would be good , since pirating wouldnt be soo easy, and also the only issue would be keeping servers online if the playerbase isnt big.
But the issue will be if the game is good and they shutdown the server after few years, what will be if the people wanna re-play the game for good time?
There might be 3rd party servers if they choose to go that way like Cod:4 which has still up servers.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Bought NFS Payback... Dissapointed.

I think the choice for only "Online" for fallout 76 would be good , since pirating wouldnt be soo easy, and also the only issue would be keeping servers online if the playerbase isnt big.
But the issue will be if the game is good and they shutdown the server after few years, what will be if the people wanna re-play the game for good time?
There might be 3rd party servers if they choose to go that way like Cod:4 which has still up servers.

I didn't like NFS Payback at all either, especially the forced Drift events when their drift mechanic is so broken.

There's more issues than just having to be online in Fallout 76. Like I said they indicated you'll have to share those servers with people playing mp, so you'll see them and any horsing around they do while playing solo. Plus there will be no NPCs, so the quest giving won't have a human feel to it. This totally changes the feel of the game. It's pretty much a dime a dozen battle royale game now with the emphasis being more on chaos than story.

 

[Gman450]

I finally finished Hellblade yesterday. It was in my backlog for too long and I only had like an hour or less left to play. It wasn't hard to get back into. I thought the game was fantastic.

I had also played and finished Doom 3 BFG Edition last month. I never got past a certain point while playing it many years back. The game was great, atmosphere wise and the gameplay was not shoddy at all. I had the sense of fast paced action (Not as much as the original or the 2016 reboot) while playing through it. I read through all the emails and listened to all the audio logs. Past a certain point they kind of become repetitive although they do add to the lore.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Tried out The Crew 2 open beta ofc , mehh, more like arcade game with no sens of what are you doing in race, the style of driving isnt perfect, physics for driving are more like 2006 NFS Pro Street game, I think it should be more realistic to what is in its current state, the intro was great but confusing a bit, it just puts you in Driving trought 3 types, Car, Planes and Boats? Since when the boat racing was popular?
For now seems "Meh".

When will EA release "normal" NFS ;_;

Bought NFS Payback... Dissapointed.

I think the choice for only "Online" for fallout 76 would be good , since pirating wouldnt be soo easy, and also the only issue would be keeping servers online if the playerbase isnt big.
But the issue will be if the game is good and they shutdown the server after few years, what will be if the people wanna re-play the game for good time?
There might be 3rd party servers if they choose to go that way like Cod:4 which has still up servers.

I didn't like NFS Payback at all either, especially the forced Drift events when their drift mechanic is so broken.

There's more issues than just having to be online in Fallout 76. Like I said they indicated you'll have to share those servers with people playing mp, so you'll see them and any horsing around they do while playing solo. Plus there will be no NPCs, so the quest giving won't have a human feel to it. This totally changes the feel of the game. It's pretty much a dime a dozen battle royale game now with the emphasis being more on chaos than story.

I totally agree for NFS, they went really, really wrong way, also I think EA isnt putting much effort in NFS series either, since BF 5 , BF4 and etc.
They are ruining the game series.

Currently downloading For Honor since it was given free starter pack on Uplay, I hope the servers will be all right.

 

[imrazor]

I've been hankering for an all new single-player Elder Scrolls experience, so I fired up ... Oblivion. I tried it several years ago and had several peeves regarding presentation and gameplay. So I'm going to play for a while on vanilla to see if it matches my remembered experience, then load it up with mods to correct the (perceived) deficits. I think I'll even try the Morroblivion mod, which recreates Morrowind in the Oblivion engine.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I loved Oblivion. I may have spent more hours there than any of TES games and that's saying something. The big DLCs ( Knights of the Nine and The Shivering Isles ) really add to the game. The various strongholds are cool too. Horse armor is useless. :lol:

I haven't played it in years though. In fact I've played Morrowind since I last played Oblivion. I need to find some mods and play it again. I've got both Morrowind and Oblivion GOTY Editions on Steam but I've also got both on disk. Oblivion was a Games for Windows Live game back when that was a thing.

Still playing The Witcher 3 again ( new game + ). I'm about 60 hours in. I'm going to make a point of finishing Hellblade when I finish TW3. It really is a cool game.

 

[RememberThe5th]

I loved Oblivion. I may have spent more hours there than any of TES games and that's saying something. The big DLCs ( Knights of the Nine and The Shivering Isles ) really add to the game. The various strongholds are cool too. Horse armor is useless. :lol:

I haven't played it in years though. In fact I've played Morrowind since I last played Oblivion. I need to find some mods and play it again. I've got both Morrowind and Oblivion GOTY Editions on Steam but I've also got both on disk. Oblivion was a Games for Windows Live game back when that was a thing.

Still playing The Witcher 3 again ( new game + ). I'm about 60 hours in. I'm going to make a point of finishing Hellblade when I finish TW3. It really is a cool game.

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH, I still have original Oblivion case, CD and MAP (which is at my sisters house) <3
But I havent got time to play it yet :O ver 1.0

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[Gman450]

I had been playing Vampyr since the start of the month and I finished it a couple of days back. I think it was a good game. It's got a lot of flaws but I was willing to overlook them because I had a lot of fun with it. I think the characters in the game were written well and well voice acted, although I did find the player character's voice acting to be weird at first.
A lot of people criticized the combat in this game, while I found it to be not that bad. You can easily exploit it to your advantage though. My main gripe with the game was navigation. It was difficult for me to navigate the streets as I never properly learned the paths. It just seems the hubs look samey.
Regarding the story, I think it was quite nice. I was looking forward to playing another vampire game and I was pretty satisfied with this one. You make major decisions/choices in this game that sometimes does the opposite of what you intended. You can't rollback your choices as far as I know because there are no manual saves or checkpoints you can just reload to. In any case I decided to roll with it and it really made the choices seem to have a larger weight to them.

The explicit choices given to you however, doesn't affect the endings you receive. Rather, the implicit choice of feeding on citizens, do affect the endings. Throughout the game you're told to feed on citizens to grow stronger as enemies become more difficult to take out later on in the game but I did not have much troubles in that area. I did a pacifist run and didn't feed on anyone but I still found the game to be not that hard, despite every single enemy I encountered being at a higher level than me.

 

[micheal.heitzman]

Right now my favourites are Evil Within II and Ghost Recon: Wildlands......