What are you playing?

GasBandit · Jan 16, 2017

bhamv3 said:
I used to play MoO2 religiously until I realized that the Hyper-X Capacitor / Phasing Cloak / Time Warp Facilitator combo was basically an "I win" button, and it stopped being as much fun. Still fun, of course, but not quite as much.[DOUBLEPOST=1484616656,1484616502][/DOUBLEPOST]

That panel you've got on the lower right that shows all needs together, is that a mod?

City Vitals Watch:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410151616

Other mods I like:

Chirpfilter (kills uninformative chirps):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407871375

Automatic Emptying (automatically sets "full" landfills and cemetaries to start emptying when they hit 100% capacity, then flips them back to collecting when they hit 0):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407873631

Clouds and Fog toggler (get rid of they annoying high level haze):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=523824395

When I get home today, I plan to install this one:
Achievement Enabler (turns achievements back on when using mods):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=407055819

figmentPez · Jan 16, 2017

bhamv3 said:
I used to play MoO2 religiously until I realized that the Hyper-X Capacitor / Phasing Cloak / Time Warp Facilitator combo was basically an "I win" button, and it stopped being as much fun. Still fun, of course, but not quite as much.

My favorite cheese tactic was to use a ship filled to the brim with assault shuttles (and nothing else) to take over races that only have orbital defenses. I usually play a telepathic race, so I steal ships and use them in combat, too.

Gus · Jan 16, 2017

I've been playing Super Exploding Zoo on the PS4.

fade · Jan 17, 2017

I tried playing Skyrim again after all the Skyrim posts showed up on the Front Page at Imgur. Nope. I get to Helgen, and start thinking of how much crap there is to do, and then shut it off.

PatrThom · Jan 17, 2017

fade said:
I tried playing Skyrim again after all the Skyrim posts showed up on the Front Page at Imgur. Nope. I get to Helgen, and start thinking of how much crap there is to do, and then shut it off.

The REAL Dovahkiin would not have been so easily dissuaded.

--Patrick

MindDetective · Jan 17, 2017

fade said:
I tried playing Skyrim again after all the Skyrim posts showed up on the Front Page at Imgur. Nope. I get to Helgen, and start thinking of how much crap there is to do, and then shut it off.

Since Skyrim I explicitly do not try to do everything in those open world games.

GasBandit · Jan 17, 2017

fade said:
I tried playing Skyrim again after all the Skyrim posts showed up on the Front Page at Imgur. Nope. I get to Helgen, and start thinking of how much crap there is to do, and then shut it off.

Maybe try one of the alternative start mods, like Live Another Life?

Dei · Jan 17, 2017

I honestly don't really like Skyrim much either. Side quests are one thing. Wander around forever and *maybe* play the actual plot type of games just frustrate me.

Dave · Jan 17, 2017

And that's one of the reasons I fucking LOVE Skyrim! I've been playing it since 2011 and I'm STILL finding out new things.

GasBandit · Jan 17, 2017

After I beat it once, I wasn't interested in 100%ing the vanilla game... after that, "playing skyrim" was seeing how much I could mod it before it croaked.

fade · Jan 17, 2017

Dave said:
And that's one of the reasons I fucking LOVE Skyrim! I've been playing it since 2011 and I'm STILL finding out new things.

I mean, wander around and find another random hole with the same generic enemies and some scrambled version of the same gray-brown map? Once you get there, the occupants are immediately aggressive, so there's no story, just left-click, left-click, left-click.

Ravenpoe · Jan 17, 2017

I love Skyrim because I love making characters, and then the type of character I make informs what he will do in the game. Some characters are the hero of the story, some merely want to be a member of the thieves guild, or the world's best assassin, or to steal every cheese roll in the world.

BananaHands · Jan 17, 2017

Final Fantasy XV.

It's okay - I've been treating it as a vacation game when Overwatch stresses me out. Some high-pitched 3rd grader gets on my nerves? Just have to quit overwatch and play Final Fantasy, do some camping and fishing while unwinding.

Frank · Jan 17, 2017

Downloading Bravely Default on the new 3DS.

Man, I thought PSN was slow. It's been going for about an hour and it's only 1/3rd of the way through.

My internet connection is 150 mb/s.

Dei · Jan 17, 2017

Frank said:
Downloading Bravely Default on the new 3DS.

Man, I thought PSN was slow. It's been going for about an hour and it's only 1/3rd of the way through.
My internet connection is 150 mb/s.

If you don't get annoyed with that game long before the end, I will applaud you.

Frank · Jan 17, 2017

I like old schoolish JRPGs. Hopefully it's worth my time.

CynicismKills · Jan 17, 2017

Frank said:
I like old schoolish JRPGs. Hopefully it's worth my time.

The combat and job systems are really fun.

The story will probably have you Picard-facepalming.

ThatNickGuy · Jan 17, 2017

Ravenpoe said:
I love Skyrim because I love making characters, and then the type of character I make informs what he will do in the game. Some characters are the hero of the story, some merely want to be a member of the thieves guild, or the world's best assassin, or to steal every cheese roll in the world.

bhamv3 · Jan 17, 2017

Ravenpoe said:
I love Skyrim because I love making characters, and then the type of character I make informs what he will do in the game. Some characters are the hero of the story, some merely want to be a member of the thieves guild, or the world's best assassin, or to steal every cheese roll in the world.

Francis? Is that you?

Frank · Jan 19, 2017

I'm really liking Bravely Default, but holy shit, I was DISGUSTED when it let me know I could buy fun cheat mode with real life money (NOT THE FAKE KIND IN THIS GAME).

GROSS.

GRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSS.

CynicismKills · Jan 19, 2017

Yeah the sequel does that too, but I never use those points anyway so I kind of ended up forgetting about it.

Dei · Jan 19, 2017

Frank said:
I'm really liking Bravely Default, but holy shit, I was DISGUSTED when it let me know I could buy fun cheat mode with real life money (NOT THE FAKE KIND IN THIS GAME).

GROSS.

GRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSS.

I can tell you aren't very far yet. >.>

Frank · Jan 20, 2017

Dei said:
I can tell you aren't very far yet. >.>

I got further than that, that was just my initial reaction to the game.

Dei · Jan 20, 2017

Frank said:
I got further than that, that was just my initial reaction to the game.

No no, it was the part where you said you were really enjoying it. >.>

I know I'm being a total Buzzkill about that game, you'll know when you get to the part we all bitched about. Maybe it won't bother you.

bhamv3 · Jan 20, 2017

Frank said:
I'm really liking Bravely Default, but holy shit, I was DISGUSTED when it let me know I could buy fun cheat mode with real life money (NOT THE FAKE KIND IN THIS GAME).

GROSS.

GRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSS.

There's a DLC for Football Manager 2016 called the In-game Editor, which basically allows you to change the stats for players and teams on the fly. So, for example, if I wanted to I could set Lionel Messi to be a player for my team, on a 10-year contract of 1 dollar a week. I could also change the stats of any of my players to be just as good as Messi, or even better than him. I could have a team of 22 ubermensches if I wanted.

I mainly use it to make small cosmetic changes to my team's uniform every off season, to simulate the real-world practice of teams updating their kits every year so that fans will need to buy new replicas.

PatrThom · Jan 20, 2017

bhamv3 said:
There's a DLC for Football Manager 2016 called the In-game Editor, which basically allows you to change the stats for players and teams on the fly. So, for example, if I wanted to I could set Lionel Messi to be a player for my team, on a 10-year contract of 1 dollar a week. I could also change the stats of any of my players to be just as good as Messi, or even better than him. I could have a team of 22 ubermensches if I wanted.

I mainly use it to make small cosmetic changes to my team's uniform every off season, to simulate the real-world practice of teams updating their kits every year so that fans will need to buy new replicas.

The only time I ever used a sports game editor was in a friend's NHL game. I created a forward named Altamiru Nahouriman mainly because I wanted to see how long of a name I could enter, but he became a character with his own backstory, that of being the first Indian drafted to play professional hockey in the NHL.

--Patrick

Gruebeard · Jan 21, 2017

I still have never bothered, because I haven't bought a football game in more than a decade, but if I do I'm gonna play as the Cleveland Browns and trade for every player with the same last name. I think I could field a team.

Frank · Jan 23, 2017

I tried playing Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition. Since that Dragonspear expansion, they did something to the game that makes it uglier than it originally was. It's hideous now. It's hard to look at. Weird outlines and filters on all the sprites. It's awful. I can't play this.

Yoshimickster · Jan 23, 2017

PONY ISLAND IS THE SHIT!

GasBandit · Jan 23, 2017

I'm back in Space Engineers, but playing with all settings on "Realistic," so everything takes 9 years to do.

I've been streaming it. Amazingly enough people are watching it.

Even though it's probably the most tedious shit in the universe.

"Oh dear, I need more platinum. Welp, time to fly to the platinum asteroid, 20km away, at 100m/s, so here's 3 straight minutes of drifting through a starry void!"

PatrThom · Jan 23, 2017

GasBandit said:
"Oh dear, I need more platinum. Welp, time to fly to the platinum asteroid, 20km away, at 100m/s, so here's 3 straight minutes of drifting through a starry void!"

At least you're not driving a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Jan 23, 2017

PatrThom said:
At least you're not driving a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas.

--Patrick

True, at least I can just turn off the engines, coast, and watch a youtube video in another tab, periodically checking to see when I need to start slowing down. Can't exactly do that while driving.

Ravenpoe · Jan 23, 2017

GasBandit said:
True, at least I can just turn off the engines, coast, and watch a youtube video in another tab, periodically checking to see when I need to start slowing down. Can't exactly do that while driving.

You just described most of what I do in Elite.

Also, there's a mod that lets you have a youtube monitor in your ship to watch while in VR.

Squidleybits · Jan 23, 2017

Dave said:
And that's one of the reasons I fucking LOVE Skyrim! I've been playing it since 2011 and I'm STILL finding out new things.

Hurricane Arthur fried my PS3 and I lost all my progress

Jay · Jan 23, 2017

Ravenpoe said:
You just described most of what I do in Elite.

Also, there's a mod that lets you have a youtube monitor in your ship to watch while in VR.

Can this game be single player now? Because it needs to be single player.