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

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

finished Starfield recently and really enjoyed it.
i keep seeing comments about how the game is broken, has terrible performance and terrible gameplay.
i didn't have any issue with it at all. no crashing or game breaking glitches, ran great with maxed settings + extra tweaks/mods to up the graphics slightly, gameplay was pretty much just an improvement on the Elder Scrolls & Fallout games so played great.

afterwards i reinstalled Skyrim SE/AE to stick with the game style but even with ~100 mods installed including every graphics improvement option(textures, models, shadows, lighting, weather, etc) i could find it still shows it's age and feels very dated.
still fun but i just have gotten used to much better visuals these days.

started Ghost of Tsushima this week and the first couple hours have been disappointing.
maybe 20mins of actual gameplay out of that 2hrs with just constant cutscenes interfering with the gameplay.

keep thinking i'll get the latest Elden Ring expansion and give that a try again.
i enjoyed it when it first came out but just moved on ~1/2 way through and never got back into it.

i hate buying games now because i've got so many backlogged and so many others that i feel like replaying sometimes. feels like i'm wasting money, but new awesome looking stuff is always around the corner.
currently installed:

 

[iTRiP]

One thing that I keep on doing and shows best results if mostly playing games, is to start some game and finish it, without opening other games in between, can't get backlogged then and then you can find yourself immersed in the play (how well you're playing and how well the game runs with current settings on currently utilized hardware) most.

Last favorite games:
Red Dead Redemption 2, (twice in a row last month, 80+%complete both times) it's hard but so much fun!
Guardians Of the Galaxy, my second playthrough, can't hardly believe it, such a great game.
Starwars BATTLEFRONT II, just the single player campaign.
EuroTruck 2, I started the game from the beginning again. ( for this game what I said above doesn't count
Tom clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos theory.

Here a screenshot of what I have currently, still scratching my head as what to start next:

https://imgur.com/dRESIRL

View: https://imgur.com/dRESIRL

Saw the updates on starfield & hogwarts legacy, Thinking of playing one of those again, but then again maybe best left for when I finally get a GPU upgrade. Then can't fault my last playthrough of either those games, can't recall that I had anything other than a good time last time.

Don't think a Gpu upgrade is coming my way anytime soon, unless I win one (hahah) now that would really let me try out some new titles, can't believe it but my hardware is still working great for the games I have now, so just keep on playing!

 

[valthuer]

Tom clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos theory.

19 years after i bought it, i still consider Chaos Theory one of the best games i've ever played.

That's probably the reason why i finished it at maximum difficulty

Along with Thief: Deadly Shadows, it tops my list of the finest stealth/atmospheric games.

Back in 2005, my ATi Radeon 9250, was definitely not good enough for Splinter Cell, so, believe it or not, i bought GeForce 6800 for the sole purpose of playing the game at max settings

 

[thunderclaw98]

when asked what my favourite game was, and what my experience playing it were, I have five answers.
Borderlands 2; a game i first overlooked but then found the spirit of playing with my father.
Homeworld; a game given to me by my father when i was young, and a game i've truly cherished and adored the entire series of my whole life.
NieR: Automata; quite possibly the greatest story i have ever experienced in any game ever.
Freelancer; one of the first games I ever played, and one that's always stuck with me since. years i have spent lost in space just roaming the cosmos.
And finally: X4: Foundations.
This is my most recent game that i have bought. Yet after owning it for a mere 15 days, I have played 170 hours. that's one third of the highest game time of any game I own on steam. Sure, I own a lot of games, and non-steam games i've almost certainly played for thousands of hours, but in two weeks! i'm hooked.

 

[iTRiP]

Currently played favorite games include:
Watchdogs: Legion. Like I said before probably, great gameplay, real enjoyable game, even thou I have some flaws like the radio just stopping play, had to reboot the game every couple of missions to fix that, too bad that isn't patched yet by the dev's, and floating people, other than that smooth gameplay... and how smooth traversing the water in the game is, wow gta could learn something there I suppose!

F1 2022 another season completed, I'm getting great times and awesome fps, real challenging and enjoyable gameplay.

Now I'm doing a play of GTA V pc story mode again, this time I'm skipping the ??? missions to get an alternate game curve of time played!

 

[punkncat]

@iTRiP I typically like to stick in with one game at a time also. The biggest motivator in that aspect is that I can recall what is going on with the game/point I am at, and even more crucially the control patterns. I have a huge issue swapping back and forth in certain games, particularly 1st/3rd person shooters unless the keys are mapped the same. I haven't actually finished the last several games I have purchased. In many cases it just gets more difficult than I prefer or know how to work past, or that the game becomes boring to me.

For instance, never finished The Witcher (newest one, 3?) , Cyberpunk (really don't like the fight mechanics), I am struggling to get through Baldur's Gate 3 (mostly because I have been reluctant to look up cheats and am stuck), Starfield (bored me half to death), Death Stranding (mostly because it sucks), even something as "easy" as Stray.

The last big AAA game that I finished was Division 2 and really to say finished is incorrect as it will start you over again with harder opponents to overcome. I have found that in the "3rd time" through that I am just running in circles doing the same things over and over again without being able to complete any of the areas and move on.

I have been considering for months on getting myself a new game to try but am left with indecision that gets worse the more I dig into them. I had considered the new Diablo game, but everything I read about it turns me off to it. The new Modern Warfare has terrible reviews...I tried the newest in the Sniper series as I have liked all of them up to this, and its gameplay and mechanics were just broken. I refunded it right away. I continue to hold out hope that I can find something enjoyable.

 

[Pikusto35]

I've been playing Ghost of Tsushima almost daily for the past two weeks. The last game to grip my attention like this was Hogwarts Legacy; and I'd say both games are similar in the sense that neither feels too heavy on the RPG aspects, which I'm starting to realize is something I really appreciate in video games.

I'm also hooked on Ghost of Tsushima. It has totally caught me and is giving me endless hours of fun, moreover, I have become fond of the Japanese genre thanks to it. I think it's a great game, and that I tried it by chance, without expecting anything from it.

I think I've become a fan of this kind of games thanks to it. I'm also going to try the latest Assassin's Creed, Valhalla I think it was, as I have been told that it is similar.

From now on I will give the games a try to guide me, since Tsushima has been a great discovery, without any doubt.

I hope Valhalla will also live up to my expectations now.