I just recently finished The Last of Us. Very good game. Just completed the DLC for it (Left Behind) today.
REALLY enjoying Uncharted 4, however. I’ll be buying the first three games next check.
Other games I’ve been making my way through right now: Little Nightmares, Kingdom Hearts 1, and I will be starting Until Dawn tonight. I also played the Prey free demo and it was enjoyable and interesting enough to make me consider buying it next month, as well.
Hal Briston is also sending me four or five games in the mail, allowing me to borrow them and play them, because he’s such a nice guy…so in a few days I’ll be having Horizon Zero Dawn, Infamous Second Son, Mafia III, Just Cause 3, and The Witcher 3 around to try/play next.
What games are you currently playing or replaying?
Stellaris and Dota 2. I’m thinking about taking another round at Warcraft 3, or another attempt to beat Starcraft 2. To this day, I can’t beat the last mission for the hoomans.
Recently took up Kerbal Space Program again. Played it in Early Access but hadn’t touched it for about a year or so until a couple of weeks ago I remembered it and checked to see if it had been officially released. It had.
Also recently reinstalled and attempted to finish GTA V. I was at the last or next-to-last heist when I stopped before. I could probably finish it in an hour or so if I really made myself do it, but I always end up just tearing ass around town, blowing stuff up, and running from the cops for hours and hours. Somehow that never gets old.
Been fooling around with Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator. It’s like Total War, but for people who think that game has too much story and way too much interaction. Actually, a more apt comparison would be Gratuitous Space Battles; you set up the scenario and basically just let it run. It’s extremely Early Access, but it’s been updated with new units and other things fairly frequently. More fun that it probably should be.
Also recently picked up LEGO Worlds. Just good, clean fun.
Still working through Sniper Elite 4. The levels are so huge and for some reason I’m a bit of a completionist about this game series only, so progress has been really, really, slow. But it’s still fun so I’m enjoying taking my time with it.
Alternating between Tales of Berseria (ok game with awesome characters) and Grim Dawn (best ARPG ever). On 16th StarCrawlers should come out of Early Access so that’s probably next.
Got a few irons on the fire. On top of the daily mainstays (MTG Duels and BloodBowl) I’m currently on a turn-by-turn tactical kick with Halcyon 6 Starbase (XCOM meets Master of Orion), **Battle Brothers **(ever read The Black Company ? This is it in game form) and Shadowrun Dragonfall/Hong Kong. And when I’ve got a long stretch of free time, I’m trekking down memory lane with Planescape:Torment EE.
I finished up Persona 5 last weekend, and I think it broke me for other (lesser) games. I’m trying to get into Trails in the Sky: the 3rd, and I love love love that series, but it’s not happening for me yet. I might need to find something completely off the wall as a palate cleanser.
Also playing some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for shorter bursts of gameplay. The formula is still fun!
I like playing radically different kinds of games when I play more than one in the same time period, it helps avoid muscle memory errors. I recall the time where I went straight from Dishonored to Far Cry III and kept randomly throwing grenades because Far Cry III used the grenade button for what was the power menu button in Dishonored. I explosively failed a *lot *of attempts at stealth kills in that playthrough…
In the first Dark Souls there was an elevator to let you go down a huge pit under the starting zone, with a lever right next to the pit to call the elevator up. Turns out Dark Souls and… I think it was **Darksiders **I was playing at the same time ?.. have quite similar controls, except for the dodge button and the “use environment” button which are swapped.
In Dark Souls, if you press dodge without a direction, you do a quick hop backwards. Let’s just say that fucking elevator was the central feature of a great many corpse runs…
Prey, and very much looking forward to having the weekend to geek out on it. I bought it on a whim during the week and didn’t have enough time to do more than just take a quick look.
Also happy dance, I just pulled down Witcher 3 from the Steam cloud. I’d been playing it last fall, and my computer crashed and died a fiery death around Christmas. Bought a new computer, but had lost the bulk of everything I had on my old machine that I hadn’t backed up. That included (I thought) Witcher game files. But as it turns out, it defaults to saving to the Steam cloud! I have my old Witcher game back!
(seriously, that was the #1 thing that I was really bummed to have lost. I don’t know why I assumed it wasn’t saved to the Steam cloud, I just did. This is a happy weekend indeed!)
I just finished 99 Spirits/Tsukomogami, which has the distinction of being the only game I recall that has required me to battle a spoon. I want to play Night in the Woods, Yooka-Laylee, Inside, Little Nightmares…but I also want my PC to run for more than five minutes at a time.
I’m might dip a toe back into Subnautica. It somehow manages to not make my machine try to puke out its graphics card, despite being a very pretty game. The full release date isn’t that far away, though, and I’m not sure if I want to play the updates now or wait until it’s complete.
I still need to start Sniper Elite 4. I bought it at launch (at least I got it for 50% off) fully intending to play it immediately and, well, have not followed through on that.
Instead, my recent obsession is Ice Lakes, an ice fishing simulator that was in the $1 tier of a recent Humble Bundle. I have no particular interest in real life fishing, much less sitting on the ice to do it, but I find the game itself to be relaxing with a comforting amount of Skinner Box treats for pushing the button. There’s no music during the game itself, just the light sounds of wind and chirping birds and the occasional animal sound along with the splash of water and the whole thing can feel very zen. Unless I’m trying to get my rainbow trout achievement… stupid barely-existing trout.
When I’m not meditating among nature in my living room, I’m usually playing Battlefield 1. I have a regular group of friends that I play with and we’ve progressed from being a barrel of bumbling monkeys to actually being pretty competent and regularly feeling as though we were decisive to our team winning.
I abandoned The Witness for a long spell, and have gotten back into it. Bad idea, as the puzzles are harder and I’ve forgotten most of the rules.
Also played Inside all day today, another bad idea as I had proper work I should’ve been doing. Not sure how far along I am, every time I think it’s near the end it just keeps going.
Inside is pretty short, but yeah there are a few scenes in which you think this might be the end.
If you experienced the “Twist”, you’re close.
Great game.
I’m playing Stellaris, delving into the new Utopia Expansion features mostly, and dabbling a bit more with Kerbal career mode which I had mostly ignored in the past. Really fun.