The EVE mods do some interesting things with energy weapons. Nothing game breaking, though. Mostly, you get some new skins and the various types of energy weapons are given their own distinct visual effects and sounds. Makes battles with energy weapons rather beautiful to see, IMO.
Martigen’s Mutant Mod is definitely worth your time. New enemies and more of them. An excellent amount of control over how many and how often your enemy encounters occur. Really a well done mod. One of my favorite new enemies is a type of super mutant based on the Failed FEV Subjects that were just for ambiance in the vanilla game Vault 87.
World of Pain, which has a New Vegas version as well, offers some new items, some new quests, and some new areas. All of it is lore friendly and fits well with the existing story lines.
Now a down vote: The Alton IL mod for 3 adds a huge quest and a whole new map. It is fully voice acted. It got a lot of positive feedback. It is also a buggy, amateurish mess. The big map and the voice acting are actually points against it, as both are poorly done.
Destiny – which is awesomely addictive. Halo combined with building an RPG character, yes please.
Zelda Wind Waker – great game, just need to spend more time on it, too much Destiny!
I’m playing Wasteland 2, which I must finish so I can get back to Divinity: Original Sin, and I need to get through that before I can get back to crafting for levels in Skyrim for maybe a week before Pillars of Eternity or Tides of Numera come out.
Think I just have different tastes from most gamers. I’m also more jaded after 25 years or so of hardcore PC gaming, so there’s that.
- The Elder scrolls I : Arena (quite boring, but I’ll finish the thing and then embark on Daggerfall, that I played when it was released but never finished because bugs, then Morrowind that I never finished either because I was always trying new characters, then Oblivion that I never finished despite several tries because I was fed up with the Oblivion gates parts, then Skyrim that I never finished because I was always trying new characters. At this point, I guess The Elder Scrolls VI : Something will have been released )
-X-Com (Like it, but at some point I become bored with the fights)
-Wasteland 2 (OK game, but I’m neither convinced by the combat system nor by the dialogues. I much prefer the Fallout games.)
-Tropico 3 (A classic for me)
-Crusader Knights 2 (the greatest time-eater ever)
By the way, in response to the OP, I’m not sure why people had an issue with Fallout New Vegas. I don’t see much difference with Fallout 3 gameplay wise, and if anything I prefer the athmosphere of New Vegas.
I had no problem with the turn-based combat in wasteland. I had a problem with fights always devolving into close combat and the extremely short ranges of firearms, on the other hand.
Most gaming is taking place on the Xbox One, which is the system most friends have settled on.
Currently in heavy rotation on the Xbone:
Destiny - Very addictive.
Minecraft - Now that they’ve fixed the disappearing items bug. One of the only 3D games I can get my wife to play with me.
The PC gets fired up much less frequently lately, but when it does:
Space Engineers
Space Run
Kerbal Space Program
Also, I’m still paying for Eve Online for some dumb reason, but none of my former corpmates still play, so all I ever do is pop in and repopulate my main guy’s skill queue and then log out again. It’s basically a pretty version of ‘progress quest’ at this point. I’m almost afraid to leave the station in case the system has changed hands without me noticing.
One thing I want to check out is the whole Star Citizen/RSI thing, but I haven’t had the time to figure out the rather confusing purchase options.
Hmm. I sense a trend.
I’m playing Borderlands 2 for the Xbox 360. I all but finished the game (I think) with the sniper guy, but then I started over again with the siren after I got frustrated by being knocked into lava too many times in a row.
I usually only get to one game per-season. This fall I’m playing Batman: Origins. I really liked the two previous installments, and this is basically more of the same, though they didn’t really change much from Arkham City. The Detective mode thing would’ve been cool if you actually went around the city looking for clues, but instead they handhold you, telling you exactly where each clue is, making the whole thing basically an extended cutscene.
But as I said, I liked the previous game, so the lack of innovation doesn’t really bother me.
Star Citizen priocing IS confusing, IMHO, and I would hold out, that game is still 1+ year away and there’s barley any “game” in there right now.
If you are interested in Space Sims, I’d recommend you jump in on Elite: Dangerous instead. It’s straight forward pricing for the latest Beta, and there’s plenty of actual game to engage in. Graphics are gorgeous and the sound design… well it’s the first thing everyone who ever plays it mentions first. Phenomenal.
I really liked Origins. Actually completed it 100%. If you’ve got an Nvidia card, make sure you turn all the physx effects on. The dynamic way the cape moves, the turbulence simulation of the snow, and the snow deformation as well as the smoke effects really improve the atmosphere!
I’ve been playing Victoria 2 recently. I don’t have much time to play anymore so I don’t want to waste the few precious minutes on learning a new game. I’ll probably pick up Civ again soon.
Skyrim. Lots and lots of Skyrim. Sure, the subquests consist of little more than fetch-and-carry, but the whole thing is exceedingly well done.
Not sure if anyone answered the quesiotn in the OP:
YES. Absolutely, Divinity: Original Sin and Wasteland 2 are completely amazing games. Definitely would recommend. Both are in a short list for my personal games of the year.
Common gripes are smaller map, more linear progression and roaming exploration is implicitly discouraged by putting a nest of giant death flies every 20’ feet once you wander off the roads.
I will agree that the rate of encountering hostile wildlife is a bit much. And they make far too much use out of invisible walls which is incredibly frustrating (“Oh, you managed to find a path up this mountain after working at it for ten minutes? How about… nope.”). But I’ve found the Mojave/Strip story more interesting than the Capital Wasteland’s.
Let’s see…
I’m actively rotating between Wasteland 2, FIFA 15 and to a lesser extent, Battlefield 4, when I don’t feel like slogging through Wasteland or playing soccer.
I still have XCOM, Titanfall and Rome 2: Total War installed, but haven’t fired them up in months.
My big issue with Fallout: New Vegas was sort of an existential one; in the earlier games you were the Chosen One, or the Vault Dweller or something special. In F:NV, you’re just some random courier, and your mission isn’t particularly noble either. It didn’t do much to get me excited. Otherwise, the game was very good.
(in a F:NV related note, I got a huge laugh about a year or two ago when NBC News had live coverage in Nipton, CA about the Powerball lottery sales. I didn’t realize that Nipton has consistently huge lottery sales; I thought some NBC nerd sent the news crews there because of the lottery in-game.)
I have Original Sin and like it a lot. However, it’s on hiatus while I get playing with the new Kerbal Space Program patch out of my system.
ETA: Also, I’ve had much fun with 7 Days to Die, a cooperative first-person, zombie-survival crafting game, still in development.
First time I hit an invisible wall in F:NV I saved, quit, went to find a mod that removes them, installed it and then resumed the game with the walls gone. 
I can enjoy it both ways. In FO3 (and the previous games but the Bethesda titles of course get the most direct comparison) I sort of felt like I had to play it straight or else I was playing it “wrong”. New Vegas gives more of an opportunity to decide your own story and hooking up with one faction feels just as legitimate as working against them.
Brilliant. I wouldn’t have guessed such a thing existed.
Just be aware that installing it voids your warranty if you should happen to plummet through the map geometry or get stuck on a rock. 