For me it’s Hitman(2016). I enjoy coming up with different sneaky ways to take people out. Civ 6 is also on the rotation at the moment. What are you all playing that I should look at.
Finished Fallout 4 a couple weeks ago after about 120 hours.
Now playing STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. Moved on to that because I wasn’t enjoying Metro:2033 and still wanted a similar setting.
I’m using the Complete 2009 mod and I’m about 3 hours in. It’s hard, but I think I’m just not playing it right yet.
My computer is dated, but it’s perfect for working through my years-long backlog…
There’s a new Hitman? Well, now I know where my weekend is going…
I’m addicted to DOTA 2, with some bits of Skyrim and Steep thrown in. Since we just got a metric shit-ton of snow today, I won’t need Steep to give me the skiing adrenaline rush.
Lately I’ve been playing the hell out of Grim Dawn. When I get bored with campaigning, I switch over and run a few rounds in the Crucible. I’m excited for the upcoming expansion, whenever that is showing up.
Out of curiosity, how does the new Hitman compare with Hitman: Blood Money, if you played that in the past?
Stardew Valley I normally hate the ‘farming’ games but it’s really cute and fun and I’m hooked. I finally got the guy I like to marry me too!
This is actually the first hitman I’ve played but I love it.
The best part is getting the Santa suit and then doing all your jobs as Santa.
Ping ponging between Stellaris and Pillars of Eternity. I need things I can just pause and come back to.
It’s very much like Blood Money. I was worried about it being like Absolution but they realized their mistake and it’s pretty much Blood Money 2. Unless you’re in quite a hurry to play it, you might consider wishlisting it though.
As for my games:
I got Total War Warhammer for 12USD in a bundle so I could WAAAGH with the Irish metaphors. Also been playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided when I saw it for 14USD. It’s worth it at that price.
I’ve also been practicing my helicopter crashing skills in Arma 3. Don’t know how easy it’ll be to find good people to play with.
Currently playing Darkest Dungeon. It’s a dungeon diver and resource management game with permadeath. Send some dudes into the dungeon, fight monsters, see if they make it out alive then decide if you need to send them to the sanitarium to cure their insanity or the abbey/tavern for stress removal or if it’s better to just call them a loss and kick their broken mind out of town and recruit a new hero off the caravan.
In many ways, it’s not a game I would have seen myself liking (I’m not a 2hard4u rogue-like person) but this one clicked. Besides the game play, the art and narration are great as well. I only started it because a friend bought it for me unexpectedly but I’m glad I did.
Stalker: SoC is one of my top favorites and I still play a run at least once a year. It’s hard but you learn to adapt and it gets a little easier when you start seeing decent scoped rifles drop (that won’t be for a little while yet). Pay attention to the missions – it’s easy to just plow through the story but you can skip parts that will negatively affect the ending if you don’t actually read the missions. Everyone has opinions about mods but I like Complete myself.
Metro: 2033 was a game I liked the first time through but the second time I noticed what a slow burn it was at the beginning. They try to follow the novel but that doesn’t lend itself to interesting game play until you’re well into the tunnels. As an aside, if you like that whole milieu, the audiobook version of Metro: 2003 narrated by Rupert Degas is great. The story itself drags in a couple places but Degas’ voice work keeps you hooked (assuming you like the Soviet Bleak thing).
The ongoing Fallout 4 parody in Sequential Art prompted my return to the Commonwealth Wasteland between Elite: Dangerous sessions. Also Mafia 2 even though I’ve completed the game & DLC; I like wrecking police cars with the bus.
I have been slightly addicted to The Witness. There’s no talking or reading either, so I can watch TV or listen to podcasts while I play.
Plus there’s nothing like the endorphin rush from figuring out the trick to one of the tricky puzzles.
I’m currently re-visiting Portal 2, playing through co-op with a friend.
I’m also doing a bit of Starcraft, trying to polish off some Legacy of the Void achievements. And I’m || this close to 100% achievements on Terraria, so I’m doing a bit of that, too.
Been quite obsessed with Sniper Elite 4 since it’s been out the last week or so. Great game.
Not really much different from its successors, gameplay-wise, but it plays super smooth, looks great, and the level maps are humongous. Not as large as massive single-world maps in games like Skyrim or the Just Cause games, but absolutely gigantic for having 8 different single player campaign maps. Large enough that 400m shot opportunities are fairly common. The missions can be daunting, as it’s you against 50-100+ enemies, spread out across the map, and the AI can be quite aggressive (though as in previous games, they give up their searches for you comically fast, then just casually continue their guard route, stepping right over the corpses of their compatriots like it’s nothing).
Played a ton of Yu-Gi-Oh: Legacy of the Duelist in December-January. Featuring a main campaign recreating major duels from the animated TV series, it’s really more like a puzzle game, as you are provided the characters’ deck and have to figure out how to defeat the AI opponents’ deck, which usually has major, super unfair advantages over your deck.
You can spend in-game currency to purchase booster packs and build your own custom deck, but using a custom deck against the computer usually results in a lopsided victory. In fact I put together a very unsophisticated Exodia deck and absolutely embarrassed every AI opponent in the game.
This one has been a lot of fun. I also added several mods that improved general quality of life and variety. Especially the mod that removed the level restrictions on heroes going on quests too easy/hard for them, it was a game limitation that was more frustrating and irritating than it was fun.
I’m playing Dishonored 2 right now, in the final mission or two I think. A great game and improvement over the first one, the level design and the play-how-you-want structure are perfectly done.
I’m sucking the last few bits of entertainment out of Xcom 2 before I go on to look for something else.
I’m addicted to Crusader Kings II.
Nothing right now. I’m upset with Paradox, so I won’t buy any of their DLC for my all-time fav: Europa Universalis IV. I also refuse to play their other games unless/until they decide to make EU IV playable in MP again.
Civ 6 was boring quickly. That makes two in a row for them. Not minded to play much of that.
Everything else I like is old, old, older than dust. Just bored with the whole concept, I guess.
Rimworld. I balked for a few months at the $30 price, but gave in. I’m 12 hours in and barely scratched the surface.
One of the greatest games of all time. I beat it with my wife and it was one of the most satisfying accomplishments I’ve had in gaming.
I’m currently playing Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.