What PC games are you playing?

I thought I was done with hard games but am playing through Dark Souls remastered having completed the standard game once many years prior, giving up on Ormstein and Smough in NG+ as they utterly destroyed me. I barely beat them in the first place, was a real block for me for a long time.

Since then completed DS2 and 3, but always thought 1 was the best, it's one of the best Metroidvania game environments ever designed in how it all links together, holds up as better than most games in the past 10 years.

Also glad to say my new Halberd build destroyed O+S on only my 2nd attempt with just Solaire helping, yet to summon any human help this run. It's still an amazing game with a punisihment and reward system that feels mostly totally fair with anazing adrenaline boost when you beat a hard boss, though getting stuck on one can cause despair.

O+S one of the bigger roadblocks in any game, to this day a good portion of forum post on its Steam page are asking for help with that fight.
 
I mentioned playing Borderlands 1, I've just finished it - playing with Brick. It's the one and only time in 11 years of playing this game that I have taken him for a spin. It was surprisingly great fun, he is really powerful compared to the other characters. Next up, I really ought to finish Borderlands 2 with Krieg.
 
Death Stranding - I didn't think i'd enjoy it quite as much as i have its just a relaxing game to play pretty much do as you please. Combat is a little lacking wish they would have done more with that but feels like an afterthought but i'm glad at the same time since you can get overwhelmed by enemy AI pretty fast if you aren't prepared for it or try to avoid them.
 
Currently playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, this could be considered a piece of art, the audio experience is on another level! and the story aint bad either. the only downside imo is the combat is not to far apart from the assassin's creed games, rather basic/repetitive. oh and the walk/run speed its frustratingly slow.

Draven said:
loved this game from beginning to end,great story great characters didn't want it to end,great game very refreshing
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It very Thief 1/2 like, which is a good thing!
 
Currently playing control, Had it and DLC's sitting in library for while but getting round to it before next AC game and wow its been a blast. Unusual and unsettling, but in a good way. Combat is fun and the story is pretty fun and its interesting to read stuff you pick up.
 
Trying out the remastered version of Crysis and although I haven't played it for long, it does look like I will enjoy it.

I'm surprised how good it looks even on low or medium graphics. I also prefer the combat over the original, enemies seemed quite spongey as I recall.

I suppose the only thing that I wasn't prepared for was the arcade-like nature of the movement compared to the original, though I wouldn't say I dislike that aspect, I guess it just seems different.

On full whack, I'm seeing frames in the low 20s though when running medium or low, unsurprisingly the performance shoots up to a much more respectable level.
 
Bought Hades on the Steam Halloween sale and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I wasn't sure I'd like it from the screenshots and even the videos but once I started playing I was hooked.

Also reinstalled Star Citizen after over a year since the last time I tried it so giving that a go tonight, hopefully it's more stable than the last time I tried it.

And finally got around to installing Alien: Isolation that has been sat in my steam libary for over a year untouched. I'll try to fit this in inbetween playing Hade's :cool:
 
Picked up Hylics 2, Stellaris and Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Already regret Stellaris. Clearly a good game but being the sort of person I am I also HAD to buy all £70 in DLC
 
Refunded Stellaris in the end. Was a numpty and bought all the DLC as well right off the bat. Like £70 in content
Played for an hour and hated it. Coming from Endless Space 2 the whole flowing time with pause as opposed to turns felt awful and a lot of the systems are poorly implemented and poorly explained.

Used the money to buy Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn instead
 
After not being able to get into anything for a while, I managed to find two old-school style RPGs that really sucked me in, in Disco Elysium and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

I finished DE the other day, and it was undiluted brilliance. Marrying some older game engine style elements to a fresh, bizarre, hard-boiled noirish detective story and tying the RPG parts to conversation and interaction rather than combat.

Shadowrun HK is basically a new story for the Shadowrun univserse, with some streamlining from Dragonfall. I like the fantasy cyberpunk setting, and it's enjoyable to play, although so far (about 2/3 through, I think) it's missing any sense of large-scale choices or battles. It's still engrossed me enough to be eager to see if through to the end, though.
 
Picked up Tainted Grail in the Halloween Sale. It's a cross between an RPG and Slay the Spire-style deckbuilder. Still in EA and slightly barebones, but they're aiming for 1.0 with Campaign Mode in January/February so the last set of classes should unlock soon. In the meantime you have six different classes to muck around with, there's events to unlock cosmetics, and it's a reasonable amount of fun even if the Corruptions do get a bit too hard too fast.
 
After whipping all the bosses with my new build up to a point, Dark Souls proving to me again why it has such a reputation for being difficult.

A trash mob is the current block for me, ******* giant skeleton dogs after catacombs, a mob that's way harder than the prior boss Pinwheel. Also by far the scariest mob in a hideously dark and forboding part of the game. One of the things that makes Dark Souls so good is the survival horror aspect, this area has plenty of that.

Had to escape to Firelink Shrine to grind an upgrade a shield poke weapon which dealt with them last time I completed it. Hopefully this time as well.
 
I thought I'd had my fill of Vermintide 2 during it's free week ... but there's a bit of me still kinda itching to play it, so I'm mildly regretting not picking it up while it was on sale ... though I think you'd probably need all the DLC maps for it not to feel super repetitive so that'd all have added up, even while on sale ... have to wait a week, if I'm still thinking about it I've erred, if not then it was wise to pass, haha.
 
I have spent and continue to spend far too much time on Fallout 76 though in my defence there has been little else to play.
I did install Serious Sam 4, my first ever PC game was Serious Sam: The First encounter and to be honest 4 does not come close, a bit disappointing.
I await Assassins Creed to be released and perhaps the latest CoD but the jury is out on that one at the moment.
 
Pathfinder kingmaker. I'm level 3 at the moment and by god it is difficult, most of my damage is coming up as misses and various encounters either end in a complete wipe for my side or their side. Actually preferring the real time aspect instead of turn based despite just having completed divinity original sin 2 and poe 2. I'm going to slog through it and push myself through this game in hopes of it getting better like poe 2.

Edit: The resting and healing system is annoying the hell out of me and really detracts from the game. Resting every other 30 minutes because my party is fatigued and I don't always get fully healed from camping. Very frustrating and just feels like a time sink.
I prefer the resting system in poe 2. Short, sweet, simple and you can find camping supplies in dungeons rather than having to buy them from a safe place. Normally I don't have an issue with this but when you have a 6 person party and you have to buy 6 rations for one rest period and the rations take up over 90% of your carry limit it falls on borderline ridiculous.
 
Nabeshogun said:
I've heard some folks give it some praise ... but reading this just makes it sound like a ballache and really not my kind of thing, I'm enough of a grump when you don't just heal up between fights anyway but that seems way over the top.
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Its worth a try imo, I've played every major CRPG released in the last 40 years and imo Pathfinder Kingmaker is the best one I've ever played, its one of the few where you can actually play evil and not have to be the good guys. Time will tell if Baldurs Gate 3 can top it but at the moment I've got Pathfinder top of my pile (just ahead of Divinity Original Sin 2)

My thoughts are much in line with Cohhcarnages funnily enough

 
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