What games are you playing currently?

[Owain Taggart]

I've been playing through Ttian Quest and it's fine, I guess? I almost gave up during the first act though as their design of Greece is just so dull and uninspired. Doesn't help that the gameplay loop is rather simplified, in clearing out monsters on your way to the next city, rinse and repeat. The lack of variety and low number of sidequests add to the feeling that you're not really doing anything meaningful. You might meet one or two people in any given city offering sidequests. Also, this game can be quite difficult especially early on. I had quite the struggle by the time the end of Act 1. I was feeling rather unprepared, used up most of my health potions on my several tries at beating the boss and managed and slipped by with only one left, that's how close I managed. At the time, I didn't realize how the portals worked, otherwise I would have teleported to the nearest city to stock back up on potions. But yeesh, talk about cutting it close.

Once finishing Act 1 and moving on to Egypt, I actually enjoyed the game a lot more and found the design more interesting. But overall, this game is old-school to a fault.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Metroid Prime Remastered for the Switch. The original is a perfect game and the Remastered version is exactly same but with improved graphics.

 

[USS Firefly]

I bought Star trek Bridge commander. Now I am looking for good mods to make the game better looking

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Metroid Prime Remastered for the Switch. The original is a perfect game and the Remastered version is exactly same but with improved graphics.

I bought the digital version last week and tried out the opening level and it looks amazing and I love the updated controls. I'll probably do a full play through after I finish Hogwart's Legacy.

I'm really hoping they also remaster Echoes and Corruption, since I didn't get around to playing them the first time around.

 

[FPAlpha]

Phantom Brigade

A turn based strategy game with Mechs and an interesting combat mechanic ( you can see the next 5 seconds of your enemy's movements and action so you can plan accordingly).

Still buggy, at times i couldn't play through a mission without the game crashing. Once it even completely crashed my PC. I hope they fix this soon but i'm getting really tired of games being released in Beta stages.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Marvel’s Midnight Suns has consumed my life

 

[Owain Taggart]

Gave up on Titan Quest, and right at the end too. This game has some major difficulty spikes. You come out near the end under-leveled for taking on the boss. Apparently you're expected to back through earlier parts of the game and grind it out which seems to be the antithesis to fun for me. I don't really have patience for tricks like this. A well-balanced game should theoretically level you up enough to be able to take on a final boss by the time you get to the end, and at least be manageable. It should also not punish the player for playing a particular class, as that goes against the idea of having different classes in the first place. Boss fights should offer up alternative ways to beat them for different classes. They shouldn't make you feel like you've picked the wrong class.

 

[BillJ]

I bought Star trek Bridge commander. Now I am looking for good mods to make the game better looking

There used to be a site that had all the mods, but that was a decade ago.

 

[BillJ]

Not the same site… but I found this…

https://www.nexusmods.com/startrekbridgecommmander

 

[Amaris]

HOW?! HOW DO ANY OF YOU PLAY MOST MODERN GAMES?!

I want to play The Crew 2, which I just got on sale for $9 on Steam, and I have to install the uPlay app before I can even get to the menu screen. So I go to play some of my older Origin games, and now you need to use the EA Play app instead (which froze twice while trying to install).

I tried to install half a dozen games, and all of them now require either uPlay, EA, Epic Games Launcher, which means registering accounts, setting up authenticator access, massive, massive, MASSIVE updates, and other shit when ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY MY GODDAMN GAME.

How do people who game often put up with this? I've spent 5 hours just trying to play a few games, and getting to play exactly none of them.

Give me the day when I could put the disk in, install, and just start playing.

 

[BigFoot]

^ That's why I do all my gaming on consoles.

 

[Amaris]

^ That's why I do all my gaming on consoles.

I've considered it, but I really like my mouse and keyboard.

 

[BigFoot]

I've considered it, but I really like my mouse and keyboard.

I get that. I used to be a hardcore PC gamer for a very long time.

 

[Amaris]

I get that. I used to be a hardcore PC gamer for a very long time.

[ hides solitaire window ]

Yes, as a fellow hardcore gamer, I agree.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Welcome to your launcher for your launcher, We know you just want to get to your game, but we promise to only add an extra step to your experience. If nothing else, we'll launch your frustration into orbit!

And this is partly why I end up using GOG more and more these days. Less nonsense. They stand firm against the garbage permeating our gaming.

 

[Amaris]

Welcome to your launcher for your launcher, We know you just want to get to your game, but we promise to only add an extra step to your experience. If nothing else, we'll launch your frustration into orbit!

And this is partly why I end up using GOG more and more these days. Less nonsense. They stand firm against the garbage permeating our gaming.

Yes, I LOVE GOG. I usually try to buy through them, but they're just not as prolific as Steam. Steam should have never allowed 3rd party launchers.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, they really should take a stance on them. What's happened though is that EA and Ubisoft have repeatedly gone on and off the platform, and the key point has been in being allowed their own launchers. When it comes down to it, Steam is a launcher and game library, and that's all that should be technically be needed, GOG being in this category as well. But then the publishers want those games registered via their own launchers, which I consider more to be walled-gardens, as they're not necessarily contributing anything to the experience. I can't see why purchases that they want going through their own launchers couldn't be done via the Steam wallet.

As for GOG being less prolific, well that might just be more in what you're looking for. For bigger more recent releases, I'd definitely go with Steam, but for older yet still relatively recent releases, I'd go with GOG. I find them to be just as prolific for different reasons.

I've come to realize another aspect that makes me prefer GOG. It uses less memory. I've often had issues sometimes launching games on Steam, due to Steam and the games fighting for memory. I have this issue far less with GOG.

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, they really should take a stance on them. What's happened though is that EA and Ubisoft have repeatedly gone on and off the platform, and the key point has been in being allowed their own launchers. When it comes down to it, Steam is a launcher and game library, and that's all that should be technically be needed, GOG being in this category as well. But then the publishers want those games registered via their own launchers, which I consider more to be walled-gardens, as they're not necessarily contributing anything to the experience. I can't see why purchases that they want going through their own launchers couldn't be done via the Steam wallet.

As for GOG being less prolific, well that might just be more in what you're looking for. For bigger more recent releases, I'd definitely go with Steam, but for older yet still relatively recent releases, I'd go with GOG. I find them to be just as prolific for different reasons.

I've come to realize another aspect that makes me prefer GOG. It uses less memory. I've often had issues sometimes launching games on Steam, due to Steam and the games fighting for memory. I have this issue far less with GOG.

I love older games, but sometimes I want a newer game, and GOG doesn't have it, so I go to Steam, and they have it, but right there in yellow on the side panel it says the game requires a 3rd party launcher, and that just annoys the hell out of me.

We already get rootkits in our games, "anonymous" data sent back to the companies so they can sell us ads, DLC that used to be part a whole game, micro-transactions in those $60 and $70 games, and then these 3rd party apps, I'm surprised gamers put up with it.

 

[BillJ]

^ That's why I do all my gaming on consoles.

Same here. I dabbled in PC gaming a long time ago, but I prefer to spend my gaming time gaming. Not installing and uninstalling drivers and other things or playing with the settings.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I love older games, but sometimes I want a newer game, and GOG doesn't have it, so I go to Steam, and they have it, but right there in yellow on the side panel it says the game requires a 3rd party launcher, and that just annoys the hell out of me.

Yeah, I understand the conundrum. I don't mind waiting a bit longer if it means a game will appear on GOG without the extra crap though.

And we put up with these things because the publishers dictate what we want, much in the same way they've been dictating the future being in NFTs , refusing to see how much of a bad thing it is and being blinded by greed.