# What are you playing (now that it's a new year)? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448 "2015-01-21T03:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/61 "2015-02-09T18:54:55Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > She seems excited for Caverns. Because it’s a heavier game I’m going to have to have the rules down perfectly in order to not scare her away. Do you mean Caverna? Because that’s a pretty hardcore Eurogame. Not something for a casual gamer. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/62 "2015-02-09T19:32:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Do you mean Caverna? Because that’s a pretty hardcore Eurogame. Not something for a casual gamer. That’s the one (damn phone). She really wanted to play Agricola and I’ve read numerous places that Caverna streamlines a lot of the issues. It gets here Wednesday so, once I finish learning all the rules and watching playthroughs, we’ll probably be ready to play by next weekend. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/63 "2015-02-09T21:08:12Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > and now I got the Grim Fandango remake (never played the original), and this is much more like what I want from a point and click style adventure game. I’m about a quarter of the way through now and, yeah, I can see why this is regarded as a classic. This is exactly in my wheelhouse for what I want from this type of game. I don’t know how I missed it the first time around, but I’m kind of glad I did so I can play through it now. ---
**Author:** ![Anon01245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anon01245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon01245)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/64 "2015-02-09T21:13:28Z")
Ive almost beat Far Cry 4 so that is really good. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/65 "2015-02-10T23:38:27Z")
XBox One: Dragon Age: Inquisition - I am about 110 hours in and have a lot more to go. Destiny - This has tapered off due to DA:I Disney Infinity 2.0 - with the kiddos Diablo 3 - Finished the main game and the expansion, haven’t played in a while but liked it and will probably return Sunset Overdrive - Made it a little ways in and need to spend more time here XBox 360: Skyrim - I have a ways to go in this one too I have a ton of games I haven’t even opened for the 360 not to mention all the free downloads. Stupid family keeping me from gaming! ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/66 "2015-02-11T00:42:22Z")
Actually, I’m trying to catch up on my newspaper reading (I’m currently about 6 weeks behind - on the paper from 29 December), but when I’m in the mood to play games I play an N.F.L. simulation (one that was used by ESPN to come up with the winners when it did its “Tournament of Champions” [or whatever it was called] back in the late '80s) called NFL Challenge® by XOR®. I found it online in late 2013 and spent MONTHS updating the “Greatest Players of All Time” rosters. I’ve also since added “Greatest Players of All Time” rosters for the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars (when the time comes I’ll add “GPoAT” rosters for both the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans as well). So now I’m running my second “Greatest Players of All Time” season. To my chagrin DENVER ended up as champions after my first “GPoAT” season but I played that season in “Normal” mode. Now that I’ve more thoroughly reacquainted myself with the simulation I’m playing _this_ season in “Advanced” mode and I CERTAINLY hope that Denver’s entry doesn’t win the “championship” again! ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/67 "2015-02-11T03:33:51Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Actually, I’m trying to catch up on my newspaper reading (I’m currently about 6 weeks behind - on the paper from 29 December), but when I’m in the mood to play games I play an N.F.L. simulation (one that was used by ESPN to come up with the winners when it did its “Tournament of Champions” [or whatever it was called] back in the late '80s) called NFL Challenge® by XOR®. I found it online in late 2013 and spent MONTHS updating the “Greatest Players of All Time” rosters. I’ve also since added “Greatest Players of All Time” rosters for the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars (when the time comes I’ll add “GPoAT” rosters for both the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans as well). So now I’m running my second “Greatest Players of All Time” season. To my chagrin DENVER ended up as champions after my first “GPoAT” season but I played that season in “Normal” mode. Now that I’ve more thoroughly reacquainted myself with the simulation I’m playing _this_ season in “Advanced” mode and I CERTAINLY hope that Denver’s entry doesn’t win the “championship” again! My initial reaction to this was, “Oh, man. What a nut, playing some weird old football game.” Then I googled it, and realized I played this game for HOURS when I was a kid. Good ol’ NFL.exe. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/68 "2015-02-11T13:18:21Z")
I’ve picked up the pre-release [Naval Action](http://www.navalaction.com/#ageofsail), an fighting sail combat sim. At the moment, it’s just a pvp arena with 11 ships ranging from a small schooner to the 4-deck behemoth _Santissima Trinidad_. The plan is an open world game set in the Caribbean. I have no clue if it will ever be finished properly, but even as it stands it satisfies my inner Hornblower as nothing else ever has - and has shown me that I suck at sailing compared to many of the more experienced players. Manually setting the yards on square-rigged ships is almost mandatory when maneuvering, or you find yourself getting stuck in irons, or overshooting targets, or unable to shake off a smaller ship camping out in the shadow of your stern. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/69 "2015-02-11T13:43:54Z")
When I get the chance to actually play I have only been playing Dragon Age. I’m a bit of a completest. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/70 "2015-02-11T17:21:45Z")
PS4 Just finished Wolfenstein - The New Order. It was OK There’s two story lines, and I’m not interested in it enough to play the second story line. I felt like they brought “the boss level” to a whole new level of difficulty. I played where I was challenged through the game; but when I’d hit the end-of-chapter boss level, I thought they were insanely hard! Before that I played through Far Cry 4. I like it almost as much as Far Cry 3. I would definitely recommend it. I just order Assassin’s Creed Unity about 10 minutes ago. It was on Amazon for $38. I’ve been a fan of the series. Now if they would only come out with a new Uncharted for the PS4! The release date is still TBA last I checked. ---
**Author:** ![JayRx1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@JayRx1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayRx1981)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/72 "2015-02-25T05:18:39Z")
I’d like to play DA: Inquisition, but the last 3 saves (one 40 hours in, one 20 hours in, and the last one 5 hours in) on my PC ended up corrupted with EA’s Cloud save backup either not working or restored some 10-20 hours earlier, so DA:I is on hiatus. Instead, I’ve been playing a bunch of Civ V, Final Fantasy XIV, and replaying Infamous: Second Son, of late. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/73 "2015-02-25T05:51:20Z")
I’ve impulse-bought _Valkyria Chronicles_ based on a couple hours of Let’s Play. It’s pretty dang fun - yes, the plot is \*very \*anime and as such super cliché and predictable, but the gameplay is quite unlike any other strategy game I know. I’m told it’s close to the _Fire Emblem_ series, but I’ve never played those, so. I also played the indie rogue-like\* Darkest Dungeon \*for a while. It’s good-ish, and the aesthetics are top notch, but as of right now it gets repetitive pretty fast (especially when the higher level enemies and dungeons are basically palette swaps with bigger numbers). As it stands, it’s not worth 20 bucks IMO. It’s still in early access though so things might get better and more innovative along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/74 "2015-02-25T14:25:22Z")
Have gotten big into Heroes of the Storm. It’s got a lot more depth than I initially gave it credit for. I still don’t like having to unlock individual characters, and the prices they’re charging for certain skins and mounts is so ludicrous as to border on insulting,\* but I’m heartily enjoying it nevertheless. I would not recommend paying 30 bucks for the founders pack if you don’t have a beta invite, though. Don’t personally consider it worth the price of admission yet. \*Though you can’t really blame Blizzard, seeing as how they regularly charge the same prices for new mounts on WoW and make a mint every time. Also, the Homeworld remaster drops to today! So stoked! ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/75 "2015-02-25T14:30:33Z")
Have recently started “Lords of the Fallen” a _Dark Souls_ clone without any of the cool design or fun. It’s… not a good game, and I think I’m going to go back to getting through DA:I a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/76 "2015-02-27T06:30:07Z")
A sale at [GOG.com](http://GOG.com) reminded me that I had not yet invested in Icewind Dale Enhanced. I’m hoping if I buy all these games, the guys doing it will get around to doing the same for Planescape: Torment. In the meantime, I do like being about to play Icewind Dale without a lot of fussing with fan mods just to make it behave itself on a modern machine. I have also downloaded the non-enhanced version from GOG for the sake of comparison. It’s more obnoxious to use, gives me grief over my dual monitors, and is uglier. It gives more resolution options, but those are ugly in the main screen and squintingly small in the game itself. Not to mention that the original was missing a lot more features that came in later than I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/77 "2015-02-27T08:13:20Z")
Speaking of [GOG.com](http://GOG.com), suddenly I see that Deponia is selling for $0.49. I thought it was actually a pretty good little point-and-click adventure game. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/78 "2015-03-01T18:02:46Z")
In honor of X-COM day (3-1-2015: the date aliens invaded Earth), I started a run of X-COM: Enemy Within in Classic mode. (Not Ironman, though; I’m not that masochistic!) I’ve just gotten my first terror mission. Almost all my experienced soldiers are in the infirmary. All I can assign are two LT Heavies, a Squaddie Assault, and a Rookie. I’m scared! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/79 "2015-03-02T04:40:25Z")
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 which is being done on a per chapter basis so it’s actually _Resident Evil: Revelations 2: Chapter One_. It was fun, the controls were good and game play was fun. There’s some technical glitches on some people’s systems. I was getting hitching and stutters until I changed the settings from Variable fps to locked 60 fps. The game has “mixed” reviews on Steam mainly because it doesn’t have local co-op and I guess the store page didn’t mention that or some such so a bunch of people are worked up. I couldn’t care less about local co-op so whatever. Main criticism for the story would be that it’s short, even allowing for it just being Chapter One. You can blow through it in about two or three hours and a good part of that is cut scenes or uneventful wandering. Hopefully Chapter Two will jump right into the story without a bunch of extra exposition. The story and general game play itself is pretty standard Resident Evil stuff. But beyond the story, you have “Raid Mode” where you take different characters through challenge maps which gives a lot of replay opportunities if you just like killing zomb… _infected_… with magnums, assault rifles, machine pistols, etc. The raid mode alone makes Chapter One worth the six bucks if you like that sort of game play. ---
**Author:** ![Anon01245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Anon01245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anon01245)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/80 "2015-03-02T21:11:45Z")
I would like to play the Homeworld Remastered games next time when I get them. That is what I plan on playing next. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448/81 "2015-03-02T22:39:29Z")
At the moment I’m playing Divinity: Original Sin, with two glass-cannons as my characters. I’m really enjoying it, but I have put it on pause for a bit until I have more time to sink into it. Other than that I’m trying to get a pen and paper group going over skype. So far we’ve tried out Everyone is John and arguing about what to play. We’re thinking about playing Paranoia next. I’ve also gotten a few fellows in my area interested in a simple homebrew narrative roleplaying game I’m working on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-playing-now-that-its-a-new-year/710448.md?page=5)