What are you playing?

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

I started playing Call to Arms a week or two ago. Here's a video of a 2v2 me and another guy vs 2 AI on Hard
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http://www.twitch.tv/aviatingpenguin/v/10321252
apparently if I put in a link to the video it tries to link to my channel not the video so.. in the code is my link :)
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

ThatNickGuy said:
Fallout New Vegas

So yeah, this is pretty good. I've stayed up late a couple of nights and spent one day (where I was feeling depressed and didn't feel like doing anything) playing it.

I'm trying to play the game as non-violently as possible. Not a no-kill run, but close to it. Taking the peaceful options when possible and all that jazz. I love that such an inherently violent game even gives you the option at all.

EDIT: I should add that I'm now playing around a little with mods. Been looking up some of the best ones, such as Project Nevada. Any mods you guys would recommend?
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Project Nevada is quite good, I'm a fan of PN.

You may want to look into an interface mod, to increase the amount of information available to you. I personally use Primary Needs HUD, but it's just one option out of many, so you might want to browse around and see what catches your fancy.

There are to major mods that increase your weapon attachment options, Weapon Mods Expanded (WMX) and Weapon Mod Expansion (WME). WMXis the more popular one, and the one I use. It also has a compatibility file to make it work with Project Nevada.

Finally, I like to use a save manager called CASM, because New Vegas has an annoying bug involving an infinite loading screen for savegames. CASM automatically creates saves every few minutes (I have mine set to 1 minute intervals, with 4 rotating save slots in total) so that if I do end up with an infinite loading screen, I have 4 previous saves I can load, losing a maximum of 4 minutes of gameplay at most.

Oh, and if you have Fallout 3 with all the DLC, then you can combine the two games with Tale of Two Wastelands.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Don't Starve Together.

Multiplayer lends itself to Don't Starve suprisingly well. I wouldn't mind getting a server going with halforums people if anybody's into it.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
I've played a bit. It's quite fun.
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Tonight I just randomly joined 3 or so other people who had just started. We did pretty well, had farms and crockpots and iceboxes up and going before autumn even, along with bee boxes and other stuff I didn't even know about.

I mostly contributed low order raw materials... sticks, grass, wood, rabbits, stone, flint, etc, etc which made the people who knew what they were doing free to build up the base.

Then I got chased by spiders, ate the wrong color mushroom, got attacked by my own hallucinations and died.

TENATTATEN
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

FFXIV account lapses in about a week and a half, so I haven't been playing much the last couple days. Hard to get motivated to play since I can't afford the sub without a job. Might goof around in one of the free MMOs for awhile again.

Fairly close to the end of Xenoblade, working on some sidequest stuff before I finish, though.

Starting to get the WoW itch again, though, thanks to all the xpac news. No cash means no sub, but that's good because it's going to be the Siege of Org patch all over again with Hellfire Citadel since Legion's not due to 2016.
 
fade

fade

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I finished Blood Dragon. It was very short, but totally worth it. Anyone who was around in the 80s should play it. It also reminded me of how much I enjoyed FC3 for not simply being a run-and-gun FPS. You could play it that way, but it was more fun to go at it intelligently. Now I need FC4.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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fade said:
why? I haven't had any issue with it.
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Well, aside from the objections on principle that Patr references (I shouldn't HAVE to install Uplay for a game I buy on steam, that's just idiotic), I've also had technical issues with it crashing, downloading updates slowly, being clunky and generally just gumming up the works. It's a shitty implementation of a shitty idea that is a fifth wheel at best and a direct disservice to customers.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Finished my latest playthrough of Arkham City. Man, I'd forgotten how frustrating some of the later fights can be. "Here, have a guy with a knife, a guy with a car door, a guy with a shock prod, a guy with armor, and a guy with a gun. Have fun!" Constantly getting owned in combat is not conducive to feeling like the goddam Batman.

Still a great game though. I contend that the Arkham games have the best Batman voice cast ever.

Now I'm pondering what to play next. I have a bunch of games on my backlog... Bioshock Infinite, DX: Human Revolution, Witcher 1 and 2, Tomb Raider, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Sniper Elite V2, Prison Architect, Prototype 2... I've also been meaning to replay Dragon Age: Origins, Doom 3, the Dead Space games, Torchlight 2, maybe finish Borderlands...

Eh, I'll probably just fire up Skyrim again.
 
fade

fade

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I own Deus Ex, but only played through to the first stealth mission. Then I got detected several times, and wrote the game off as frustrating if the whole thing was going to be that way. This may seem odd seeing as how I just praised FC3, for which stealth played a huge role, but that had the advantage of allowing you to tag enemies, allowing you to unrealistically see through solid stuff. Maybe I should give it another go.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

As suggested by my beloved forumites, I fired up DX: Human Revolution tonight.

Very nice, very nice. This has all the feel and the polish of a proper Deus Ex game, done right if you will. Finished the first mission, pretty sure it was all stealthy and non-lethal, which I decided to attempt just for giggles despite having only lethal weaponry. Challenging, but without being frustratingly so.

Apparently I forgot to save some hostages though. Oh well.
 
fade

fade

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I just played that too, for the same reason. I did rescue the hostages, and got the "ghost" xp award for stealth. Not sure how much I liked it. There's a lot of waiting, and with a quick save, it's not like there's any real penalty for making a death run through a room just to scope it out.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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fade said:
I just played that too, for the same reason. I did rescue the hostages, and got the "ghost" xp award for stealth. Not sure how much I liked it. There's a lot of waiting, and with a quick save, it's not like there's any real penalty for making a death run through a room just to scope it out.
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Savescumming ruins experiences in just about any game... the trick is to self-impose a no-saving rule and stick to it.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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fade said:
Well, I don't do it for that reason. I'm just saying, it's pretty easy to do with this game.
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I savescummed my way through the first bioshock and I really regretted it. I enjoyed 2 and infinite much more by not abusing quicksave/quickload.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

My first play through (or two) are always "Live," meaning I react the way I should when I don't know what's going to happen, and I try to keep it that way. The subsequent plays are more the "what if?" run-throughs.

--Patrick
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

GasBandit said:
I savescummed my way through the first bioshock and I really regretted it. I enjoyed 2 and infinite much more by not abusing quicksave/quickload.
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Well, though, with Bioshock, you basically savescummed your way through in a different way, seeing as you could just suicide bomb the Big Daddies.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Bowielee said:
Well, though, with Bioshock, you basically savescummed your way through in a different way, seeing as you could just suicide bomb the Big Daddies.
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Yeah, I felt really stupid when, toward the end, I figured out how pointless vitachambers made the whole endeavor.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I'm glad I turned those off in my first playthrough, else I don't know if I'd have gotten into the game as much.

I still need to beat it on the highest difficulty.
 
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