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

[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.

 

[iTRiP]

I also struggled with the different control schemes of various games if you can believe it, but that for me was more than a decade ago, I found what really helped me overcome that issue is to simply get enough sleep before getting back into any game, these days I don't have that issue anymore, luckily. And I know if you find yourself board playing various games and they seem uninteresting, you just need to go and do something else besides being at the pc, say like watch a few days only movies or do some other activities if possible.

Besides that, I just got a new keyboard... my previous one a, Microsoft keyboard finally had enough of me playing so much over these last years, that some of the most used keys started getting stuck whilst gaming, this rang some bells that it was high time to look for a suitable replacement, browsed the local online store for a full day to find something that seemed suitably adaptable to my preferences.

1st game I opened was obviously good ol' Cyberpunk 2077, current favorite game... hitting mission 64 next right after the DLC content ending at time of typing this. (what was exceptionally well timed is that my new keyboard arrived right between finishing and starting of games I was busy with at that point)

The keyboard I settled for is an: Genius GX Scorpion K220 wired usb RGB Keyboard, so far it seems like I'm slowly getting used to it now... on with the gaming!

 

[SyCoREAPER]

Samurai Jack

Fun throwback with minimal quarks

 

[Hotrod2go]

I just completed about 8 hrs of Chernobylite & was patient with it to see if it could gel with me. But in the end I have to stop playing this because there is

Spoiler: SPOILER ALERT

1. Too much conversation between the character & his lost love, its like watching a movie, the player has no input to dialogue options & these are not exactly short moments...
2. Too much hand holding for companions back at your base - have to provide food for them etc.., & you can't level up skills without them & their co-operation. If they get pissed off, they wont' talk to you.
3. It's only partly open world, in game physical barriers are set up to prevent player from exploring more. Reminds me a little of Half Life 2 back in it's day.

 

[emitfudd]

Somebody please recommend a good game for me. I am currently playing Horizon Forbidden West. It sucks. Games I loved. Skyrim, Fallout 4, 7 Days to Die, Conan Exiles, Valheim. Obviously all games heavy into base building, open world, RPG, crafting, etc. I have come across a few games recently like Enshrouded and Survival Fountain of Youth and they were ok but not great. I will die an old man before Elder Scrolls 6 ever comes out. I have gone through dozens of queues on Steam and don't find anything that interests me. Anybody got a hidden gem?

 

[boju]

Somebody please recommend a good game for me. I am currently playing Horizon Forbidden West. It sucks. Games I loved. Skyrim, Fallout 4, 7 Days to Die, Conan Exiles, Valheim. Obviously all games heavy into base building, open world, RPG, crafting, etc. I have come across a few games recently like Enshrouded and Survival Fountain of Youth and they were ok but not great. I will die an old man before Elder Scrolls 6 ever comes out. I have gone through dozens of queues on Steam and don't find anything that interests me. Anybody got a hidden gem?

Maybe Jurassic World Evolution 2

 

[jimox1999]

Definitely NOT Starfield - been playing pc games since the first Elite a long time ago.
Played dozens of FPS and XXX games and loved Bethesdas Fallout series and was so looking forward to Starfield but it was a huge disappointment.
Storyline was OK, exploration in space was let down by the fact that you can't actually fly your ship manually.Exploration on planets was a grind with no vehicle.
But the biggest disappointment was finding out that the exact same places of interest buildings are repeated on every single planet - even the enemies inside, the puzzle locations, the loot locations etc.
I know they have had updates since I stopped in February but from what I've seen and read I cannot see myself returning to it until they make the exploration and conflict in places a bit more random.
CURRENTLY PLAYING Homeworld Remastered, and will be playing Cyberpunk 2077 next.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

please recommend a good game for me. I loved. Skyrim, Fallout 4,..games heavy into base building, open world, RPG, crafting, etc

with a good set of mods Starfield is still awesome to play, compared to the later Fallout & Elder Scrolls games.

Fallout: London has recently become available. if you already have Fallout 4, just follow the modder's instructions for a fresh install + the mod.

Bethesda's KoTOR games were great.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games were great, with a new one aiming at later this year.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance.