I’ve been playing Witcher 3. I just finished The Battle at Kaer Morhen
It’s gorgeous, it’s wonderfully acted, the quests are great–and I’m so fucking ready for it to be done. I don’t want to abandon it, but good god, I’ve been playing it since New Year’s, I think.
At the moment I’m alternating between Fallout III and Stellaris. And reeeally anxious for the Banks update & Utopia expansion for the latter.
I’m playing Dragonquest Heroes on the PS4, which is a decent enough game of mass monster slaughtering, and trying to get further in Pillars of Eternity without succeeding very much on the PC.
I agree with you 100% on this. It’s like a chocolate cake - really, really good but you really don’t want to eat a full cake. I’m a bit past where you are and I know there’s not that much left. Every once in a while I think about finishing it but I always end up playing something else instead.
I know, the new features are blowing my mind! I love the new ascension perks and the government mechanics!
Purging and eating the Xenos as my hive mind goes will be fun 
how’s Dragon Quest Heroes? It’s coming out on Pc and I’ve been wanting to try a JRPG as a pallet cleanser of sorts between finally finishing the Pillars expansion and Torment: Tides of Numenera.
I me too. Loved every minute but jeebus it’s so huge. I was done with it too for a long while. Finally went back recently to play the expansions, and I felt the same way by the end of those too 
It’s not a JRPG in the standard sense. It’s very good at what it does, which is basically Dynasty Warriors with DragonQuest’s mobs and characters. I’ve been enjoying it.
It’s already out on steam, though, although the overlay doesn’t work.
Part of the problem is that my hard drive is too small for this and XCom2 (the next game I want to play) and almost anything else. I want to finish this before I move on.
Feh. Maybe I’ll see if I can delete all the clutter on the drive to clear up enough room for XCom2, play that for a bit, and come back to Witcher with fresh eyes.
I spend most of my leisure time doing an online written role-playing game. I have 10 different characters, but my primary one is a female vulpine who runs a restaurant. As far as traditional computer games go, I play them on my phone because my computer’s kinda weaksauce. 2048 (on an 8x8 board, so I’ve been playing the same board for weeks), chess, sudoku, a word search, and WordBrain. My best friend introduced me to Unblock Me a couple days ago, but I’m pretty awful at it-- I’m stuck on level 2, beginner mode.
After a spell of The Witcher 3, I’m currently playing Master of Magic, and I’m going to switch to Tropico 3.
I tend to get bored with games quicker and quicker as I age, and/or being more and more unwilling to spend a lot of time on a game, so I switch often (I barely went past the Baron in The Witcher 3 before giving up, despite finding it a great game).
I told myself I wasn’t going to start The Witcher 3 until I finished the first two games, but I finally finished the second one a week ago so I’ve been playing the third quite a bit since then. I’m enjoying it quite a bit, but I’m a bit frustrated by the interface. They give you so many options and abilities, and that’s great, but they make it way too tedious to use them all effectively. I found a mod that would apply weapon oils automatically, which helped a lot, but it still feels like for the large majority of fights in the time it would take me to properly equip the right set of potions and bombs to intelligently handle the encounter, I could have already just bopped everyone to death with my sword.
About 95% of the way through Just Cause 3.
Speaking of time-sinks, after some recent discussion in the Tides of Numenora thread I decided to revisit Baldur’s Gate and BG2 via the enhanced editions. Since they include the DLCs Siege of Dragonspear ( which I’ve never played before ) and Throne of Bhaal, I’m kinda wondering if I’ll have the endurance to finish before I die of old age :).
I scouted through my hard drive and found enough hidden games to erase, that I was able to install XCom 2.
It’s so good.
I’ve heard very good things about it. I liked V2 enough to buy Sniper Elite 3 at launch and liked that enough to pre-order (gasp!) SE4. I haven’t played it yet because I started Darkest Dungeon the day before SE4 launched but it’s ready to go. SE3 went in the right direction, basically being a better executed version of V2 and it sounds as though SE4 did the same with SE3. I did play a little of the co-op wave defense mode with a couple friends and it does look pretty.
Utopiawill be available on the 6th of April. No idea about Banks though - hopefully sooner rather thank later.
I think they are supposed to release simultaneously. April seems far away, but at least there’s some breathing room between the madness of the next month.
I’ve been watching some videos for Oxygen Not Included (another colony management game, this one by the Don’t Starve folks) and have to keep reminding myself that I’m terrible at them and never enjoy them as much as I think I will. I also saw some video for Rimworld (just last night actually) and that game looks terrifyingly and compellingly complicated. Lucky for me, both games are in early access and I’m good at not spending money on early access games. Even when they look good.
Lately I’ve been playing a ton of Binding of Isaac. I will never ever get anywhere close to completion (I’m not good enough at the eye-hand thing), but I’m trying to at least get all major stuff done on normal mode for the purpose of rounding out unlocks.
Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm still see semi-regular play, though not in the last couple of weeks.
Is the Utopia release also when the huge general Stellaris update will happen? I haven’t touched that game in a while.
Couple other titles seeing fairly common play from me are Rainbow Six Siege and Battlefield 1. Out of the two, I like RSS more: it’s more tactical since you only get one life and, when you die, it’s almost entirely because someone else played better and not because of weapon unlocks and stuff. Battlefield 1 feels like pretty much every other similar game with a thin coat of 1915 paint slapped on it. I bought it because people praised its setting but then you play and it’s forty people with assault rifles, I’m sorry, “experimental automatic self-loading rifles” and grende lau-- again, I’m sorry, “grenade crossbows” swarming all over one another like two competing nests of ants on a gumdrop. Nevertheless, I have friends who play so I’m trying to find bright sides to it and it’s not actively a bad game, just not anything unique or different from the rest of the games in its class. From what I understand, the single player campaign is much more ‘realism’ focused (within obvious game play boundaries) and it’s the multplayer where the devs said “eh, kids be wanting their assault rifles and red dot sights so make sure they’re in there.”
I foolishly insist on playing medic most of the time which means my value is directly tied into the intelligence of the people I’m supposed to be healing/reviving.