What other games are we all playing?

[Chris Simon]

Good for you. Now go play something else puritanical like Animal Crossing. Because it's highly likely 0% of the CP 2077 fan base (including Keanu Reeves) will remotely miss you.
Thank heavens I still live in a non globalized, non authoritarian regime, and unabashedly capitalist country. Which gives me the freedom to agree to agree to disagree with you as a consumer in the free market.

Spoiler

What's with the virtue signaling and puritanical censorship approach btw? It's this sort of attitude that's killing the creative freedom in the gaming industry today. Similar to KCD, CP 2077 has become the ultimate push back against all the toxic political agendas that have crept into the gaming industry. From the ridiculous He/She/It gender & androgynous bending PC, to social justice warrior PC, to fanatic environmental agenda pushing PC, to forcing AAA devs the likes of Rockstar and particularly EA Dice to fundamentally transform their game titles with fantasist lore. Just so The latter which took it to a whole other level in radically destroying an entire franchise by RE-INVENTING REAL LIFE HISTORY said franchise was based on....

Just so real life social justice inclusion can become a reality for those "victims" in society who the progressive left cabal believes are under socially under represented, ostracized, and oppressed by society? Well personally, I'm sick to death of said pontificating and virtue signaling the likes of that. Which continues to bash and restrict MY personal civil freedom of choice. I want the freedom to play a gender protagonist character of my choosing without censorship. e.g. a male character that would've been the historically correct protagonist choice for Battlefield V which was based on historic realism of WW II.

I want the freedom of choice to engage/not engage my character in adult sex scenarios (the likes of the Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, or whatever optional adult themed scenarios CDPR is now proposing in CP 2077). Without censorship from progressive left politicians intent on pushing anti civil rights, pro authoritarian agendas outside their political sphere.

And it's not just the gaming industry that's been affected by this political agenda creep. It's also the publishing and movie/entertainment industries as well. See the likes of feminist agenda #GoWokeGoBroke Batwoman and female Thor from the alternate Marvel/DC universe timeline. Which were both blatant attempts to push a toxic gender empowerment agenda on their franchise player base. Regardless of whether their male or female fans wanted these covert radical agendas imposed on them or not

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNqNHcdQds


It's clear the movie industry is chronically suffering from a deficit of authentic and creative writers. So it has increasingly turned to the likes of the gaming industry and publishing world for inspiration. Particularly where DC/Marvel universe is concerned. And it's also clear that AAA devs the likes of the Exceptional @ssHats also suffer from a deficit of innovative dev writers (e.g. their failure to satisfactorily adapt the Star Wars franchise into a playable game title the fan base can actually enjoy). So AAA devs are also guilty of leeching off Hollywood/publishing industries.

So the gaming industry has unwittingly become a two way conduit for channeling political left wing content to the movie/Hollywood/publishing industries and vice versa. And that's before you add the cancer of loot boxes and other toxic online micro transactions....

Like Obsidian and White Horse Studios, CDPR is still thankfully one of a shrinking minority of devs who won't cave in to pressure from social media bullies with clear progressive left agendas. Because they still believe in taking creative license to provide their game community and fan base with the most realistic game experience possible. Free from any covert socially progressive left wing agendas.

TL DR
Thank heavens I still live in the vanishing segment of western society where politicians can't prohibit me by law what to buy as a consumer. Control how I think. Or restrict/limit what I should socially be consciously aware of. Particularly where PC agendas are concerned when buying something as simple as a new game title. And I especially give thanks for living in a country with ready access to the free capitalist market. Which continues to empower industry devs around the world to produce games that provide their fan base consumers with PLAYER CHOICE.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAqq5yqR-T4

 

[Vasious]

Good for you. Now go play something else puritanical like Animal Crossing. Because it's highly likely 0% of the CP 2077 fan base (including Keanu Reeves) will remotely miss you.
Thank heavens I still live in a non globalized, non authoritarian regime, and unabashedly capitalist country. Which gives me the freedom to agree to agree to disagree with you as a consumer in the free market.

Spoiler

What's with the virtue signaling and puritanical censorship approach btw? It's this sort of attitude that's killing the creative freedom in the gaming industry today. Similar to KCD, CP 2077 has become the ultimate push back against all the toxic political agendas that have crept into the gaming industry. From the ridiculous He/She/It gender & androgynous bending PC, to social justice warrior PC, to fanatic environmental agenda pushing PC, to forcing AAA devs the likes of Rockstar and particularly EA Dice to fundamentally transform their game titles with fantasist lore. Just so The latter which took it to a whole other level in radically destroying an entire franchise by RE-INVENTING REAL LIFE HISTORY said franchise was based on....

Just so real life social justice inclusion can become a reality for those "victims" in society who the progressive left cabal believes are under socially under represented, ostracized, and oppressed by society? Well personally, I'm sick to death of said pontificating and virtue signaling the likes of that. Which continues to bash and restrict MY personal civil freedom of choice. I want the freedom to play a gender protagonist character of my choosing without censorship. e.g. a male character that would've been the historically correct protagonist choice for Battlefield V which was based on historic realism of WW II.

I want the freedom of choice to engage/not engage my character in adult sex scenarios (the likes of the Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, or whatever optional adult themed scenarios CDPR is now proposing in CP 2077). Without censorship from progressive left politicians intent on pushing anti civil rights, pro authoritarian agendas outside their political sphere.

And it's not just the gaming industry that's been affected by this political agenda creep. It's also the publishing and movie/entertainment industries as well. See the likes of feminist agenda #GoWokeGoBroke Batwoman and female Thor from the alternate Marvel/DC universe timeline. Which were both blatant attempts to push a toxic gender empowerment agenda on their franchise player base. Regardless of whether their male or female fans wanted these covert radical agendas imposed on them or not

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNqNHcdQds


It's clear the movie industry is chronically suffering from a deficit of authentic and creative writers. So it has increasingly turned to the likes of the gaming industry and publishing world for inspiration. Particularly where DC/Marvel universe is concerned. And it's also clear that AAA devs the likes of the Exceptional @ssHats also suffer from a deficit of innovative dev writers (e.g. their failure to satisfactorily adapt the Star Wars franchise into a playable game title the fan base can actually enjoy). So AAA devs are also guilty of leeching off Hollywood/publishing industries.

So the gaming industry has unwittingly become a two way conduit for channeling political left wing content to the movie/Hollywood/publishing industries and vice versa. And that's before you add the cancer of loot boxes and other toxic online micro transactions....

Like Obsidian and White Horse Studios, CDPR is still thankfully one of a shrinking minority of devs who won't cave in to pressure from social media bullies with clear progressive left agendas. Because they still believe in taking creative license to provide their game community and fan base with the most realistic game experience possible. Free from any covert socially progressive left wing agendas.

TL DR
Thank heavens I still live in the vanishing segment of western society where politicians can't prohibit me by law what to buy as a consumer. Control how I think. Or restrict/limit what I should socially be consciously aware of. Particularly where PC agendas are concerned when buying something as simple as a new game title. And I especially give thanks for living in a country with ready access to the free capitalist market. Which continues to empower industry devs around the world to produce games that provide their fan base consumers with PLAYER CHOICE.

Odd response to someone else exercising that same PLAYER CHOICE.

 

[Banger_uk]

Atm DCS world --- flying the a10a

 

[Kaocraft]

Odd response to someone else exercising that same PLAYER CHOICE.

This isn't directed entirely specifically at you, but: akshuwally, nobody is exercising PLAYER CHOICE, because the game isn't out yet, even in demo form, therefore you can't choose TO play it or NOT to play it. Don't understand why a "what are you playing?" thread is being hijacked to argue about an upcoming game right now.

BTW: cyberpunk thread is that way: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/cyberpunk-2077-official-gameplay.444018/page-30

Or if people just really really really want to argue about Cyberpunk in a non-cyberpunk thread, there's this one: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/new-games-in-2020-you-are-looking-forward-to.534212/

I'm not a mod, but by Golly if people keep posting about Cyberpunk I'll "throw up the bat signal" and get this whole thread locked down by talking about how Star Citizen is better than Elite. I'll do it. Don't you people test me.

 

[EUS]

X4

 

[Fishy]

Having some unexpectedly good fun with Immortal Redneck. No you haven't misread, that's the title of a game. Had this from some bundle a while ago, but only installed/tried it out at the weekend. It's a light-hearted FPS with a crazy premise: redneck tourist on holidays in Egypt gets captured and mummified by gods/monsters, becomes immortal, and proceeds to run rampage into pyramids. The game however works out by clearing up the randomised rooms of the pyramid, one at a time, as each one is an arena that you need to clear in order to reopen the doors. 3 pyramids, 6 floors each, each one with a mimiboss on floor 3 and a boss on floor 7.

In similar fashion to Everspace, once you die, you get to use all your gold to unlock permanent buffs which include basic stuff (HP, attack, defense, speed...), but also 9 "favour of the gods" which work as classes. For each run, you pick either the vanilla mummified redneck or one of the gods, and each one comes with its own active ability, passive buff, stat adjustment and starting weapons. There are a lot of weapons and they can drop randomly in addition to being started with, from the pistol/shotgun/dynamite of the starting class to the tesla coil, electric flamethrower, kunai, van helsing pistol, energy gloves, rocket launcher, flare gun, guided fire phoenix launcher, bow and arrow, potato launcher... And to push you to cycle through the classes, the game buffs the ones you haven't used in a while with attack/defense/hp bonuses too tempting to resist.

But what makes the game is the scrolls... There are tons of scrolls and you constantly find some. You don't know what a scroll is until you pick it up. Most are good, some are bad, and these contribute to making each run a different story. Scrolls can make you stronger, faster, grant you extra air jumps, immunity to lava/poison, grant you an extra weapon slot, but also turn gravity to that or Mars or randomly turn enemies into chickens. They can also lower your accuracy, change all your weapons randomly, prevent you from switching weapons while the current one still has ammo (that stays on to the next weapon, etc), reduce you to a single weapon, or make you take lava damage each time your feet aren't on the ground ("Air is Lava" is the name of that *£&% scroll)... So you end up in a push-your-luck exercise, constantly teased by the new scroll, knowing that the wrong one could seriously impair your promising run.

At the end of the day it's a pretty simple formula, but the shooting is fun, runs are quickish, and the classes/weapons/scrolls give a personal twist to each run. And the silly premise, character lines and colourful graphics ensure it always feels fun and lighthearted. I like it a lot.

 

[Old Duck]

Galactic Civilizations III is on sale. Is this any good?

 

[Dutchman141]

I recently bought Snowrunner, a very Zen game with no rush but an incredible amount of challenge.
It's so satisfying when you deliver your cargo or rescue another truck after plowing thrue mud an snow for an hour.
Or getting stuck and pulling another truck out of your garage to get your initial truck out of trouble.
When you're into trucks and a challenge then Snowrunner is highly recommended imho.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Galactic Civilizations III is on sale. Is this any good?

Not sure which one I played - maybe Galciv 2. It didnt convince me at all.

 

[Old Duck]

Not sure which one I played - maybe Galciv 2. It didnt convince me at all.

Do you like Stellaris?

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Do you like Stellaris?

Yes. And no. I've started like two dozen playthroughs but never finished one. I think it's micro-management. Once the planets dont fit on one page it starts getting tiring. Probably best played on small maps and a worthy successor to MoO. And that is kinda the first game that convinced me. The rest always fell short. Switching to 3D rts combat was a killer to Master of Orion successors imo.

 

[Trotsky2112]

Just got into the Middle Earth: Shadow of Whatever games. Basically assassin's creed but with uruk-hai.Still, I like the concept of duality with the wraith.

 

[Juniper]

As well as a few epic Civ6 games, and continuing my journey of being baffled in X4 (but enjoying it immensely), I recently came across a new indie game called Cloudpunk, which is a voxel-based (hear me out!) cyberpunk RPG game where you are a delivery driver for a not-quite-legal delivery firm. It's really atmospheric & very well done. The graphics and (especially) audio are superb, and it's just a fun game to play. Worth checking out if you like the Bladerunner-esque setting, and can't wait to get your genital* fix with CP2077.

There's a new expansion for House Flipper which is always welcome, and keeping with the build-it-fix-it genre I've sunk about 20 hours into Train Station Renovation in the last fortnight. Completed it... just waiting for more now, and playing with the toy train layout stuff in the meantime.

* There aren't many genitals in Cloudpunk, so that might be a lie.

 

[Dutchman141]

I recently bought Snowrunner, a very Zen game with no rush but an incredible amount of challenge.
It's so satisfying when you deliver your cargo or rescue another truck after plowing thrue mud an snow for an hour.
Or getting stuck and pulling another truck out of your garage to get your initial truck out of trouble.
When you're into trucks and a challenge then Snowrunner is highly recommended imho.

I'm quoting my own message just to elaborate on this recent purchase.
It seems that this game has not been tested properly before release due to the covid19 situation, as stated by the developer.
The game is in a horrible state right now with a multitude of serious gamebreaking bugs, even going as far as deleting or corrupting your savegame and therefore causing you to lose all progress and having to start all over.

So my advice is, if you were looking into Snowrunner then wait buying it untill they've fixed it.
This problem occurs on all platforms, PC, Xbox and Ps4.
Their forums are a good source of info btw.

 

[lysan]

Playing the Bejeebers out of Red Dead Redemption 2 what a great story

 

[Noddie]

Doom: Eternal

Holy crud, that is one cool game. Also runs really, really well on fairly basic hardware. I'm loving the fact that it isn't "more of the same" as Doom, 2016 but also haven't morphed into something completely different like Doom 3 did. They've added just enough new to make it interesting, without abandoning what made the game fun in the first place.

The story runs like this; in the beginning there wa... RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Juniper]

Doom: Eternal

Holy crud, that is one cool game. Also runs really, really well on fairly basic hardware. I'm loving the fact that it isn't "more of the same" as Doom, 2016 but also haven't morphed into something completely different like Doom 3 did. They've added just enough new to make it interesting, without abandoning what made the game fun in the first place.

The story runs like this; in the beginning there wa... RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!

I like chill-out games generally, but there's a lot to be said for the mindless simplicity of Doom. Sometimes, it's just what you need.

 

[askavir]

IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad, with all the DLCs. This game is just absolutely brilliant, the best military flight sim ever released.

And completely unrelated, Renowned Explorers - International Society. A true gem, casual friendly yet quite deep in it's rather unusal mechanics.

 

[AJW]

DCS fun. Trying, but failing, to get my Hornet carrier landings looking like something other than abject panic.

This is just raw in-cockpit footage of typical noob attempts: an abysmal first circuit which was more or less wrong in every respect, and failed to even touch the deck, followed by something marginally better that actually caught a wire. Not my worst effort either. My previous sortie involved four bolters (hitting the deck but missing a wire) followed by a panicked last attempt as my fuel indication headed rapidly towards zero. If I'd missed that one, I'd have been swimming. If you want to know how to do it properly, there are tutorials available on YouTube. I don't think I'll be uploading one any time soon.

This is the stock Stennis carrier: the Supercarrier DLC is due into early access in the next few days, which will include a better carrier model, deck-dudes as eye candy and to guide you onto the catapult, and other features. It will also have an LSO-bot to scream into my ear, tell me I'm doing it all wrong, and then give me an assessment of my efforts: probably saying that transfers to submarines are available, and if I don't take one, he will.

 

[Vasious]

I'm quoting my own message just to elaborate on this recent purchase.
It seems that this game has not been tested properly before release due to the covid19 situation, as stated by the developer.
The game is in a horrible state right now with a multitude of serious gamebreaking bugs, even going as far as deleting or corrupting your savegame and therefore causing you to lose all progress and having to start all over.

So my advice is, if you were looking into Snowrunner then wait buying it untill they've fixed it.
This problem occurs on all platforms, PC, Xbox and Ps4.
Their forums are a good source of info btw.

Indeed, very fun when it works, but can even of you don't lose you save, basic things like loading cargo from one truck to another doesn't work it kills ones motivation

Still having fun with the occasional MP