What PC games are you playing?

ic1male · 8 Jul 2018 at 11:11

Dying Light is flippin' hard. I started it yesterday and I'm not sure what to make of it. I was almost ready to get a Steam refund. The parkour is really weird. Sometimes the jumping works fine, other times it doesn't. I'm playing with an Xbox controller which you can't reconfigure. RB to jump and LS push to run? Really. That is stupid for this free running. And then trying to do that whilst you've got volatile zombies chasing you, well I was eaten many times. I'll stick with it for a bit longer and see if you get better equipment to make fighting easier.

neoboy · 8 Jul 2018 at 11:30

I died a lot in a first few hours and it didn't feel quite natural in the beginning either but it really starts to open up once you get certain skills and better equipment.

Never gets easy enough to become boring though and remains quite challenging throughout, clocked 85 hours on the original game and The Following and one of those games where you can really lose the track of real time which is a rarity for me.

No help on the controller though, only time I ever touch one is sport games and racing ones, in the absence of a wheel.

ic1male · 8 Jul 2018 at 12:50

It's also a case of having blue/purple weapon upgrades and whathaveyou but not using them in case you need them for some other weapon later on. That's always been my philosophy with FPS - save the best ammo until you really need it but then you end up finishing the game and never using it. So I'm still roaming about with just a basic table leg or something.

neoboy · 8 Jul 2018 at 15:00

The orange katana I found in the back of a Police van in vanilla got me through almost all of The Following so didn't mind upgrading that.

Do have a similar problem in non RPG games though, save weapons for so long the game bloody ends before I use them

Columbo · 8 Jul 2018 at 15:09

ic1male said:
Dying Light is flippin' hard. I started it yesterday and I'm not sure what to make of it. I was almost ready to get a Steam refund. The parkour is really weird. Sometimes the jumping works fine, other times it doesn't. I'm playing with an Xbox controller which you can't reconfigure. RB to jump and LS push to run? Really. That is stupid for this free running. And then trying to do that whilst you've got volatile zombies chasing you, well I was eaten many times. I'll stick with it for a bit longer and see if you get better equipment to make fighting easier.

Play with an M&K, it's like being freed from handcuffs when you realise the freedom and fluidity that a controller hides.

aoaaron · 8 Jul 2018 at 18:30

Last few games I've played...

Spec Ops: The line - 5/10
For me, this game has an excellent idea but a really poor execution. The personality on paper is great, the plot inventive for a first person shooter but sadly it fell flat for me.
The gameplay is poor and unvaried, the execution of the plot lacked any engrossing factor, lack of real exploration combined with subpar corridors makes it low-tier in regards to FPS, the plot twist mid-game and end-game fell flat for me.

I've heard great things but all in all, I had to force myself to finish it and I can't give a game more than 5/10 for that.

Brother: A tale of two sons - 8/10
Just a really really beautiful game with a really beautiful story. I have mixed feelings about this title because when I played it, I remember it being interesting and intriguing but not blowing me away. However looking back at the game, I have so many beautiful memories of such a short game which makes me feel like its a title which leaves a far more lasting impact on you than you realise.

I'd give it an 8.5 if I hadn't given DOS an 8.5 The truth is, for what Brother is, its amazing... its a fairy tale journey through a mystical land but its a very very linear title and sadly if you're going for a fully linear experience, then you need to hit perfect notes to get into the 10 category.

Divinity Original Sin - 8.5/10
Turn-based RPG which offers combat complexity beyond anything I've played before in a fantasy format. Finding a candle a light and planting some oil near it to cause a path of fire which enemies need to traverse through followed my a poison dart to cause explosions galore, then my caster using rain to create a smoke screen for enemies to come out of the smoke towards me and get completely electrocutes to hell and back. Negatives included a really poor inventory system and the final temple's puzzles being so overly complex and reliant on the really annoying teleporting pyramids took off a few points. Oh and the end-game dungeon required x ammount of blood stones without the game ever really telling you this.

I'm torn between giving it a 8.5 or a 9 but I'll go towards an 8.5 because I feel like there is some personality missing in this game and the inventory system just screams a little too much laziness. Also the overarching plot and the end of time was a bit dry.

Pighardia · 8 Jul 2018 at 18:50

Tbh, I'd say Original Sin pretty much has more personality than any other rpg I've ever played except OS2, which is a better game in every way btw! It doesn't take itself too seriously like most fantasy games do, and the voice acting is brilliant and the humour always nice.

If you gave OS 8.5 or 9, get ready for a 10 when you play OS2!

aoaaron · 8 Jul 2018 at 20:39

Pighardia said:
Tbh, I'd say Original Sin pretty much has more personality than any other rpg I've ever played except OS2, which is a better game in every way btw! It doesn't take itself too seriously like most fantasy games do, and the voice acting is brilliant and the humour always nice.

If you gave OS 8.5 or 9, get ready for a 10 when you play OS2!

TBH OS could have easily grabbed a 9.5 from me if the inventory was less frustrating. I found myself not crafting or blacksmithing simply because my inventory was so dis-organised and that was ultimately really sad for me.

The humour was excellent but I wanted MORE. I felt like the end of time story was not woven into the main story very well and felt very very disconnected.

TBH I'm being really harsh on it and if I hadn't taken a 1 month hiatus from the game, it'd probably be hitting a strong 9 as i'd be far less objective.

Digital X · 8 Jul 2018 at 21:44

Time Clickers. So addicted to these games.

Pighardia · 8 Jul 2018 at 22:15

I'm playing through Dying Light again with dlc. It is a good game, but My God, I forgot how bad the main character is!

ic1male · 9 Jul 2018 at 09:20

Pighardia said:
I'm playing through Dying Light again with dlc. It is a good game, but My God, I forgot how bad the main character is!

How do you mean bad? It's Chris Redfield from Resident Evil 5.

heartburnron · 11 Jul 2018 at 14:05

Dirt Rally. Picked this up for £7 from Fanatical last week. I've always been more of an arcade racer, my favourite racing game of modern times being Grid 2 and I always play with the camera behind the car. I decided to try and make the rallying experience with this game as real as possible so have been playing with the view from inside the cockpit. Really, really enjoying it - best I've finished is second and tend to come in third which I'm happy enough with. Still haven't quite mastered the sharp cornering which is where I'm loosing time I think. With the front wheel drive cars I find it had to get the oversteer right into the sharp corners - with rear wheel drive it's hard to keep the oversteer in check. It's so impressive how different the experience of switching from driving the mini to the mark 2 Escort was though. Great game.

Amatsubu · 11 Jul 2018 at 17:02

My favourite rally game along with WRC7, I'd pick that up as well as the stages are fantastic and the handling is pretty enjoyable (can be catered to more casual rally fans as well).

WantoN · 11 Jul 2018 at 19:58

Completed F.E.A.R, goddamn I love that game.

Currently playing:

Dying Light - first 45 minutes I really enjoyed, but now it feels a little... boring and repetitive. Systems aren’t explained at all, I seem to be some special agent who gets knackered if he swings a pipe four times or runs 50 meters, with absolutely no briefing of the environment he was dropped into whatsoever. I seem to be running round collecting the same things over and over, and doing favours for random bellends who seem far more capable of doing these things than me. Also, within five minutes of getting one of their mates killed, and with no background story given whatsoever, I’m suddenly part of the inner circle and entrusted with critical missions by the head honcho.

The game felt like there was a wealth of opportunity for discovery, experiences and intrigue; a few hours in and it’s all become a bit... ‘Ubified’. I’ll keep going see how I get in, as a lot of people seem to have enjoyed it.

Everspace - what a game! I love the rogue lite aspect, the random discovery of new phenomenon and my AI assistant telling me about the universe as my returning memories drip feed me both the back story and the purpose of my journey.

Gunplay and controls fee super fluid, and you really become aware of your increasing proficiency as you dog fight bigger and badder enemies, swooping out of danger before delivering a devastating salvo at a bandit drone carrier. Every death feels like progress because every time you restart you’re more powerful than ever.Awesome gaming experience.

Rusko187 · 13 Jul 2018 at 08:45

Was ploughing the hours into Destiny 2 but I think I'm burnt out on it, just installed Final Fantasy 7 as I wanted that retro vibe.

CaptainRAVE · 13 Jul 2018 at 16:07

Nothing at the moment. Enjoying the sunshine abroad.

WantoN · 13 Jul 2018 at 18:48

CaptainRAVE said:
Nothing at the moment. Enjoying the sunshine abroad.

Douchery at it’s finest

Mark A · 13 Jul 2018 at 22:50

Still playing Stalker with the Misery mod and I don't know how I'm going to play another game again after this its so good. The gun battles are really satisfying, the enemy is actually a danger and ammo is expensive, so you have to make your shots count. Theres no enemy markers pointing out all the enemies, no hiding behind cover while your health regens, no special abilities that slow down time or make you invincible etc. Everywhere you go danger is lurking and you can suddenly be set upon by a group of mercs, or a pack of snorks. The tension this creates along with the atmospheric backdrop of the zone is just amazing. I can't sing it's praises highly enough. I loved the vanilla games already, but this mod improves them even further and makes them a real challenge.

I hope there is a misery mod for the second Stalker game, but if not I might try the Call of Misery mod next. I tried going back to my Homefront the revolution game that I'm half way through and it just feels like a console kids game compared to this. I was bored after 5 mins and wanted to go back to the zone lol.

The only negative is that my performance is a little iffy and I have had a lot of crashes. I'm being forced to save scum a bit so that I don't lose loads of progression due to a CTD.

Pighardia · 13 Jul 2018 at 23:20

I started the campaign for Battlefield 1 or what we the WW1 one is called. It seems like they have tried to do something quite interesting, not sure how good it is though.

ic1male · 14 Jul 2018 at 12:00

I'm giving up on Dying Light for now. Will come back to it in a few months to see if it gels with me the second time round. Alien Isolation has got me hooked in the meantime. I'm running with some kind of AA mod and it looks amazeballs now. None of that horrid aliasing.