What games are you playing?

Currently I am playing Vampyr, an action rpg by Dontnod entertainment. Set in 1918's London the gothic vibe is strong, but the combat is a little bit repetitive.
 
Sigh! I am still playing Elder Scrolls Online. I need a break me thinks. Got my eye on the new God of War.
 
Since my last contribution here I changed allegiance from Mashinky to the train-centric transport game Transport Fever. As with Mashinky, I've a series of YouTube TpF videos highlighting my feeble attempts at adding scenery along train/truck/bus routes. Unlike Mashinky I keep these rather low key, abandoning voiced narrative for occasional text commentary. Episode four, documenting an excursion to and from a Steel Mill Railway Station, is my favorite of the lot to date. As with Mashinky I do not monetize these videos so have no financial interest in getting you to watch them.

Excepting TpF I'm playing no games whatsoever at the moment. Really a shame in the case of Kingdom Come Deliverance, which I purchased day-one and like quite a lot. The too little I played it before becoming hooked on TpF was quite impressive, despite me being totally inept at combat. Gonna need to return that game soon...which I've been saying well over month....heh.
 
I was reminded of this thread earlier today when hubby remarked that "thirty years in we're still playing Zelda"

I must say, the graphics have come a long way. What hasn't changed is the certainty that the thing you currently need will be on the opposite side of the map. :rolleyes:
 
I'm not a huge gamer and mostly play Nintendo titles but I've been playing Fallout: New Vegas recently (I just completed Mario 64).

I'm level 30 right now and have played through a large part of the game so far, if not most of it. I've never played a Fallout game before (played the beginning of Fallout 4 at a friend's house) and unfortunately my feelings overall are pretty negative. I love a lot about the game, namely the premise and post-apocalyptic 60's/retro sci fi aesthetic, however the game fails for me in most other criteria. A lot of it is really boring which is unfortunate because I really went into the game wanting to like it. I heard it's a classic and I can see why the games have such a huge following, however it just doesn't do much for me.

I did buy a nice Nuka Cola Pin Up poster which I have framed and ready to hang in my dorm. I'd be interested in getting an art book for Fallout 4 one day because I LOVE the Robbie inspired Protectrons from New Vegas and their redesigns in Fallout 4 look great!
 
The Fallout games never really did it for me, either. I guess I just prefer fantasy dungeons to post-apocalyptic dungeons.

I've been dabbling in Beat Saber, but it's too much exercise for the moment, and I can't see my Fitbit while I'm playing it.
 
Tbf the TES games are not better in respect of repetitiveness than the Fallout games. It is just the epic look of the world that made me play Skyrim for so many hours.
The game itself is a bit shallow compared to the Dark Souls series (which I could play over and over again) or also The Witcher 3.
 
I had a bunch of money on my Steam account that a friend had gifted me earlier this year, and I've been in desperate need of some new games. Browsing around yesterday I came across these two: The Room Three, and Return of the Obra Dinn.



I've always had a fondness for puzzle games. Obra Dinn I'd heard about years ago and was intrigued, so that was an easy buy as soon as I saw that it was finally released. Only just started it, but I'm liking it so far.

Haven't started Room Three yet, though my fondness for the first two made purchasing the third installment an easy decision. Had some nitpick's about the earlier games in the series; the storyline was really intriguing, but it ultimately turned out to be hollow. . . A lot of clues to an underlying mystery that never reveals itself completely, like the developers never really 'knew' what the story was all about. That, and there was the odd puzzle that was made overly difficult just due to clunky controls. Again, these were minor nitpicks that only felt like major letdowns compared to how great the rest of those games were. They were also a steal; I don't think I paid more than ten dollars on Steam for the entire trilogy.
 
After about nine hours of play, I completed Return of the Obra Dinn; despite the ending being a bit of a letdown (and leaving me with more questions than answers) the game was still worth playing. It was challenging but never felt overly difficult; I always felt like I was making progress, albeit slowly. The few moments that gave me a bit of a struggle were very satisfying once I had that 'eureka' moment of figuring out the solution.

I wish I could say more about the game, but seeing as it's entirely centered around a mystery that the player must uncover, there isn't much I can say that wouldn't spoil it. Suffice it to say that the game would be a good purchase for those who like puzzle games or murder mysteries.
 
Where's the Breath of the Wild sequel? (It's in the works.) Meanwhile, you can't go wrong by giving people back a fondly remembered bit of their childhood. A 26-year-old 2D game goes 3D; Miss Click is moved to shed a tear. (The original version of the game is probably older than she is.)

 
Av Demeisen said:
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm has just been released simultaneously for Mac, Linux & PC, so I bid you all farewell for the foreseeable future. ;) Reading will have to suffer... :cool:
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Just picked it up myself and played with it for about 2 hours... not huge changes from the last version but that is what civ players like evolution not revolution as far as the software is concerned.
 
I remain hooked on the Transportation Empire building game, Transport Fever. Only, I'm lousy at that aspect of play. Not that it matters much. I'm part of a subset of players who concentrates on creating hopefully appealing landscapes through which our trains travel. (Other modes of transport come in to play, but TpF remains train dominated at heart.) I put out occasional videos highlight what I consider my better efforts. Early episodes now seem decidedly underwhelming to me. I'm more pleased with my most recent several uploads. Here's a sample: Transport Fever Scenic Excursion ep16. (I don't monetize so have no financial stake in getting folk to watch.)
 
Still enjoying my daily dose of Hearthstone. Quite amazing how much continued fun a completely free game can be. And another major upside: individual games only last for 5 - 15 minutes.
 
When I heard Larian was going to do Baldur's Gate III, I was so stoked I installed Baldur's Gate 1 Enhanced Edition which I had bought from steam during a summer sale some years ago. And....the very first house I entered I died because I couldn't defeat the assassin :P Was it ever this hard?!!

Also kinda playing around with my necromancer build in Season 17 of Diablo 3.
 
Got about half-way through Vader Immortal last night. It's more of a semi-interactive movie than a game, but it was cool to see all this Star Wars stuff in VR.
 
Still on a railroading kick, I took advantage for Steam Summer Sale and purchased Trainz 2019 and several cheap DLC. I'm not sold on any of the three main PC train simulators, Trainz included. Knew that going in. I suppose I'm content with my purchase. Most of the 'sessions' are enjoyable to drive. In the end that's what counts, whatever my many gripes amount to.

I still play Transport Fever, concentrating on adding scenic detail along various train routes. Here's one of my latest video documentations of a detailed route:
 
Decrepit&Senile said:
Still on a railroading kick, I took advantage for Steam Summer Sale and purchased Trainz 2019 and several cheap DLC. I'm not sold on any of the three main PC train simulators, Trainz included. Knew that going in. I suppose I'm content with my purchase. Most of the 'sessions' are enjoyable to drive. In the end that's what counts, whatever my many gripes amount to.

I still play Transport Fever, concentrating on adding scenic detail along various train routes. Here's one of my latest video documentations of a detailed route:
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Inthe 1980s ans1990s I was involved in steam RR preservation ( I still am with a 2 foot narrow gauge line her in Maine) and I did a lot of engineering driving experiences in the U.K. varying between one day "courses" as the one I did on the " Flying Scotsman" at Birmingham where the morning was learning how to drive a small steam switching engine and the afternoon driving the Flying Scotsman up and down about 1/3 mile of track .

The best were the ones that took a week as the 9F driving one I did at the Watercress line where the 3 of us did everything from cleaning out 5he smoke box and waking up the engine early the morning then driving it up and down the full length of the line and pulling a full rake of 1950 and 1960s coaches the two of us doing the 'course' traded off the job of fireman and driver and you got 5he feeling of really knowing what we were doing. It was wonderful fun and at the end of the week we felt we had really earned the blisters on our hand and knocks cleaning the engine... all the details of when to add sand starting up on a grade with weight of all those coachs of bring it to a stop at just the right spot in the stations, of tending the fire to have enough steam for 5he hills but not too much that 5he safety valve would blow off...

It is a very happy memory of those years.
 
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