What are you playing right now?
I don't know how many of you play computer or video games, but I had the thought of making this thread, inspired by the "What are you listening to now?" one. I count myself a member of the PC gaming master race, so I sincerely hope none of you are console peasants. I don't play anywhere near as much as I used to, but I do still keep up the hobby. Some of my favorite games/game series include:
Total War series
Stronghold series
Age of Empires series
Praetorians
Rise of Nations
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy; Battlefront I and II; Republic Commando
Guild Wars (the originals)
Crysis
Call of Duty 1, 2, 4, and WaW
Battlefield 1942, BC2
The Elder Scrolls IV and V
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Grand Theft Auto IV and V
Bioshock Infinite
The Witcher 2 and 3
Batman Arkham Asylum and City
Ass Creed 1, 2, and IV
FIFA series
I also like good old fashioned chess, but I'm pretty terrible at it, owing in part to the poor development and subsequent atrophy of my left brain.
What about you?
Total War series
Stronghold series
Age of Empires series
Praetorians
Rise of Nations
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy; Battlefront I and II; Republic Commando
Guild Wars (the originals)
Crysis
Call of Duty 1, 2, 4, and WaW
Battlefield 1942, BC2
The Elder Scrolls IV and V
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Grand Theft Auto IV and V
Bioshock Infinite
The Witcher 2 and 3
Batman Arkham Asylum and City
Ass Creed 1, 2, and IV
FIFA series
I also like good old fashioned chess, but I'm pretty terrible at it, owing in part to the poor development and subsequent atrophy of my left brain.
What about you?
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Battlefield 1 (really fun)
LotRO (technically been playing it off and on since it came out)
ESO
LoL (ditto)
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I looked up the transcript, here is that bit:
Sheldon: When Albert Einstein came up with special relativity, he was working at the patent office.
Leonard: So, you’re going to go work at the patent office?
Sheldon: Don’t be absurd. That’s in Washington. You know I could never live in a city whose streets are laid out in a wheel-and-spoke pattern. No. I’m going to find a similarly menial job where my basal ganglia are occupied with a routine task, freeing my prefrontal cortex to work quietly in the background on my problem.
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I find that it is easier to concentrate while doing some simple routine-tasks, but I do not claim anything scientific here -- it may very well be rubbish.
Attention is limited and if the task becomes 'too complex' my intentions may backfire. The task has to be psychologically bearable to keep doing it for a few hours without feeling the urge to quit. So there is an optimum where the task is simple enough to maximise concentration but not too dull to feel as if I am a machine.
Jedi Knight series
Star Wars Battlefront I, II, and the mediocre DICE remake
Republic Commando
Age of Empires and Age of Mythology
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Portal I and II
TES V: Skyrim
Deus Ex
Witcher 3
War Thunder
Insurgency
Chivalry
PC Master Race
When the server is populated it is actually quite an addictive game, but the community seems to have died off, maybe when it is updated next year people will return.
Tested free trial of StarCraft II but looks like you have to pay for each of the race campaigns. Looks like fun (or at least distraction from existential woe).
More interested in learning how to build 3-D objects/designs for the future promise of 3D printing.
Design suites and software are prohibitively expensive, but need to do some more searching.
SSX 3.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3.
God Hand.
PC:
Ultra Street Fighter 4 (practicing tatsu loops with Sakura).
Triple draw is so frustrating, manic depression - the card game version. Half the time I want to smash a brick into my face and end it all. But the other half I'm on a heater taking pot after pot.
It mostly balances out.
nanners
If so does it live up to the hype mill?
That's been the game I've played most recently. I have a thing for trying out survival games -- some of them aren't that great, but the genre isn't exactly established yet either so I like to see how different people do them. At a minimum I always figure they'd make great engines for other folks to make a story with.
One survival game that has created something really cool:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/
Just prior to that game:
http://stoicstudio.com/
There's only 2 in the series, and they plan on making a third. It's a story-driven turn-based strategy game, with a kind of Oregon Trail element thrown in. The reason I thought it was cool is that the whole game is animated in the old-style of animation, where they drew the characters and colored them. I've also found the story compelling.
And just prior to that, though very different in tone from the previous ones: http://stardewvalley.net/
Playing that game just made me feel happy every time I'd play it.
Everything I've read on that game is that the hype did not live up to reality. And not in some sense where they didn't quite reach their goals but still made something worthwhile, but starkly so.
lol no man's sky sucks big time. Go with star citizen.
I don't play ranked. I just play normals with Tryn all the time. I must have 200k points on him, LOL.
Currently playing:
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Also have downloaded and have yet to play:
Battlefield 1
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
The Order 1886
White Night
Also have, but haven't played in a while:
Life Is Strange
Rainbow Six: Siege
Final Fantasy X2
Layers Of Fear
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Alien Isolation
Drive Club
Plan on getting:
Final Fantasy XV
Resident Evil VII
Outlast II
It all looks pretty cool.
Video games help with altruistic burnout. Playing old-school video games is inexpensive, recuperative and sublimative.
But generally the video game industry is one of excess, not only in money but also in (im)morality. Skimpy boob armor is not armor.
Other fave games:
Baldur's Gate
Master of Orion 2
Battle for Wesnoth
Total Annihilation
Also, not having a desktop computer, nor gaming platforms (like a Playstation) helps. I have got a Macbook Pro laptop, which is not suitable for gaming, nor do I wish to do anything fancy with it to make it suitable -- this one is for work and I am terrified I cock something up and lose my valuable productive stuff.
Have you ever thought, when seeing one of those starving child infomercials, "Hey, why doesn't the film crew give that kid a Hot Pocket or something?"
And I played the [i]For Honour[/I] Beta today. Pretty good.
Diablo 2
Has been my recent game. I finished 1 play through, but since it's a colony simulator, and the game is modder friendly there's more to play. The attraction comes, for me, from the stories which are emergent from an underlying basic simulation.
I dialed it down to an easy level so I could see what endgame looked like, but it's more likely for you to die than to live -- it took a few times, even on the easy setting, to get a colony to survive to endgame. But while it was fun to get to endgame, most of the fun comes about in seeing how disparate personalities thrown onto a "backwoods" rim world in a starship crash try to survive, form relationships (positive and negative), and usually fail because of their frailties, or overcome odds stacked against them in the case that you actually escape.
If you had to pick a genre, then the above would qualify as an adventure game. You find items with which you complete puzzles, and the puzzles are more whimsical and fun than annoyingly abstract or frustratingly stupid. You explore a fantastical world, and are set to help a druid repair his home which is partly alive and partly mechanical -- built out of "druidic technomagic". A story emerges out of this exploration.
It really captures a dreamworld very well, being both serious and silly, magical and concrete. I think the above is particularly interesting as a game because I think it would appeal to people who are not normally "gamer" people -- the real attraction is the story and setting and art more than the adventure game aspects. Not that gamers wouldn't enjoy the game if they happen to like adventure games in the first place, but I would recommend it to anyone who just likes a good story -- and there's even reflections about philosophy in the game too, so the crowd here may enjoy it.
Might try for 100% completion of shadow of mordor. I already got like 80% on the one play through.
The only one of those I had was Shadow of Mordor. It was good for a while, until I completed the main stuff. I never care about 100% completion or trophies.
Currently playing Beyond: Two Souls. But I'd much rather be playing Resident Evil VII, Final Fantasy XV, or The Last Guardian, which I don't own.
Mass Effect: Andromeda looks great.
BioShock: The Collection and Yesterday Origins are tempting, given their current price in the PlayStation Store.
But then, maybe I shouldn't be spending money on more games.
Ah... wat do? Too many choices.
I only got those games cause there was a super awesome flash sale on the ps store. The first three remastered uncharted games for like $20, and injustice for like $6.
I don't wanna spend anything on games either, which is why I was talking about just going for completion.
I'm sure that I'll get plenty when I have the money but not the time.
I currently have both, but in the back of my mind is the worry that I'm acting more like the grasshopper in Aesop's fable.
Honestly, I save more money spending money on games than going out to see people. :D It's part of the reason I play games (aside from the fact that I enjoy them, of course) -- because I'm in "wait and save" mode.
;)
It's full of adventure and virtuosity, inspires imagination without the need for high-end graphics, physics engines or the like.
You're right, I made a mistake, but it also got me thinking about a comparison of music and games.
Gonna play the bright lord DLC next.
Get on a roof. Playtime is over.
Quoting Hanover
:-} :-d
I'd probably be prime minister by now!
And if you don't, then you'll be some weird fucking outcast that doesn't know what any male under forty is talking about half of the time.
See when I'm old, I'll be like the wise, worldly, lyrical type. I will be as their father, they comes to me for advices... and it won't be that hard for me to give them the wrong advices...
Well I dislike movies and TV completely. I almost never watch. Movies are only fun if you watch them with someone you're close to - then it's like living through an experience together, it's interesting. But I'd much rather play video-games by myself than watch movies or TV by myself. I haven't played video games though for probably many many years now though lol. I used to be an addict though as a teenager, played the whole day sometimes lol...
But playing video-games feels to me like not engaging with reality, so that's why I gave it up. In my spare time nowadays, I read, I play poker/chess/go, and otherwise do some sport (martial art stuff mostly) or simply relax.
Rick and Morty is the only good thing on TV, and it might still be good this coming season... might...
Not looking forward to any movies either, even though Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel is coming out... that skinny actress they got though... that doesn't even know how to bend her fucking knees... you don't look very intimidating when you're off balance. Wonder Woman is the greatest martial artist in the DC universe (and... and... and... they didn't even give her the kryptonite spear to kill doomsday with... even though she is the only one of them actually trained to use one, and that almost certainly wouldn't be hurt.)
Just good ol'Arny
See, cheat and be a selfish sociopath, and you'll succeed in all areas of your life, and experience exactly zero drawbacks. The American dream!
Golf and women's volleyball are the only good spectator sports.
Prey looks really good:
I just beat this game. It has it's own unique flavor, but it has been compared to the old Zelda games -- and not unfairly, either. You journey through a fantastical land besot by some kind of danger. The specifics are never elucidated -- there aren't ever any words used, it's all told by pictures -- but the story is familiar enough that you get a feeling for what's going on.
Tons of fun. I'd recommend it to anyone.
http://www.heart-machine.com/
Sounds interesting. The last game which reminded me of the old Zelda games was Titan Souls, which was unbelievably difficult, frustrating and repetitive, but so worth it for the sense of relief and accomplishment when you complete the game. The whole game consists of those classic boss fights. (And no words are used in that game, either).
Speaking of Zelda, the new Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild, looks [i]so[/I] good, and it has received exceptional reviews, with scores of 10/10. But I only have a PS4, and won't be getting a Nintendo console just for one game. :(
(Just kidding, please take all the time you need and don't rush it.)
Sounds like the sort of game I'd like.
Boss fights were a big part of Hyper Light Drifter, but so was the exploration and dungeon crawling.
Quoting Chief Owl Sapientia
Yeah, while I agree that it looks like a very cool and fun game, I certainly won't be buying a console for it.
It'd be nice if they'd consider a windows release.
It's a little old now, but with mods it's just as good visually as any other game now available, and it still has all the best of Ultima bits tucked into it. I tried Witcher 3 which was meant to be the newest and best last year, but didn't get past the first village, it was just a glorified arcade game in comparison. I don't think I will ever play another computer game again, Skyrim seems to have totally satiated me with the whole thing.
Space Station 13 (Survival, Sci-Fi-Horror, round-based-role-play, atmospheric/medical simulation, PvP/PvE, online-multiplayer)
Dwarf Fortress (Survival, fantasy, world-simulation)
DayZ (Survival simulator, Horror, PvP/PvE, online-multiplayer, unfinished game in Alpha early access phase of development)
And if I'm bored enough, Rocket League (Soccer with invincible rocket powered cars and a giant soccer-ball)
Sniper 3
I think the most important skill I bought was the ability to zoom multiple times in the boot store. I used it more than any other skill, and bought it early on. Not sure if that'll help you, just saying that it accommodated my playing style the most and made a lot of parts easier.
But, yeah, I agree the game is challenging.
I finally picked this one up the other day. I'm so glad I did. I really like the 1-hit mechanic since it feels like killing the monster is just out of reach, and they still manage to make the fights feel epic. (haven't beaten it yet, but it's tons of fun).
Got Witcher 3 the other day, good walmart sale on it. Kind of a slow start... feels like its going to be story heavy.
I like far cry primal a lot, even though it's basically the same thing as far cry 4, but in the stone age. I was born in the wrong age. I wish that I lived ten thousand years ago or something.
I chickened out and cheated! :lol:
Instead of continuing to try to complete the game, I gave up and just watched a YouTube video of someone else completing the game.
But I did recently play through and finish Outlast 2. Love the series and can't wait for the next installment.
Oh, I almost forgot, I also played the remake of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I really enjoyed that game.