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[Sime]

Dwarf Fortress.   My champion dwarf just decapitated one of the heads of a two headed titan.  The titan then remarked "I have improved my observation.   That was satisfying".

[Telgin]

I forgot about Terminator: Resistance until last week, so I picked it up yesterday and gave it a go.

So far, I'm pretty happy with it.  It's not revolutionary in any way and I've got a few small gripes, but overall I've enjoyed it.  It nails the atmosphere pretty much perfectly so far and looks pretty good for a $40 game.  I appreciate that they include some behind the scenes stuff that didn't make it into Terminator 2, like the HK silverfish.

Combat difficulty feels a little inconsistent at times.  My first death came from a floating scout drone that I couldn't just blow away with my M16, but I've had surprising success just shooting the larger spider robots with minimal effort of ducking into cover that they can't figure out how to walk around.  Maybe it's a statement about the quality of the AI in most drones and HKs, which isn't hard to believe.  Many of the spiders are situated near conspicuously placed explosive plasma cannisters though, which feel a little out of place.

I think my biggest issue so far is that the crafting interface doesn't seem to have any way of telling you how many of each resource you have and instead just tells you if you don't have enough.  Grabbing dozens and dozens of little things in every building is getting a bit rote too.

Sneaking past invincible T-800s was fun though.

[MrRoboto75]

I tried Metal gear Rising Revengance today.  Seems to have the same issue I have with bloodborne.  Since I didn't utterly master parrying within about an hour and a half of gameplay (seriously, steam says I have about 76 minutes clocked), I cannot even get past the first boss, much less be allowed to damage it at all.  Ah well.

[Horizon]

I'm playing a bunch of rare physicals for Switch including:

• VAMPYR
• Dragon's Dogma; Dark Arisen
• Darkest Dungeon; Ancestral Edition
• Hellpoint

[Sirus]

Been playing Subnautica a lot lately. It's fun and looks remarkably pretty even on my aging machine, but goddamn does some of it give me the heebie-jeebies. The open ocean, darkness, confined spaces, monsters that start at half again your size and only grow larger (and with no real way to combat most of said monsters), not to mention

Spoiler: Minor spoilers if you haven't played it yourself (click to show/hide)

infection by unknown pathogens, and visible signs of infection both on yourself and sea life.

This game will either start or aggravate a lot of phobias.

[DeKaFu]

I have a preexisting and highly specific phobia of being in a body of water with oversized fish and unknown life forms.

I haven't played Subnautica yet but it's one of the most highly anticipated horror games on my list.

[Nighthawk]

I have a preexisting and highly specific phobia of being in a body of water with oversized fish and unknown life forms.

I haven't played Subnautica yet but it's one of the most highly anticipated horror games on my list.

My feelings exactly. It looks really cool, but simulating the experience of being immersed in a substance which could not only asphyxiate me, but is also teeming with dangerous creatures that are far more adapted to the environment than I am... yeah, that sounds like those nightmares I used to have about the shark in Banjo Kazooie when I was a kid.

[Great Order]

Been doing Receiver 2 (Which you'll have seen in the "How did you last die?" thread). Game's good, the guns are simulated down to details like the rate at which you insert bullets slowing down as more are inserted into a magazine, you blink when you fire etc.

The issue is that sometimes you get into an impossible situation. You can't find ammo and there's five drones forwards and backwards, or a turret that barely moves and is staring down the only viable hallway, or a drone just seems to apparate out of thin air as best as you can tell. The audio could have done with some work too, you only seem able to hear things if there's an unobstructed line of sight between you and it, so you might not realise there's a drone right by the door you're going through until you've actually gone through it.

EDIT: Oh yes, the movement's wonky as well. Most of the time you don't notice it, but there's been a few situations where I've died because I jumped up onto a ledge, and even though I let go of W my guy decided to keep moving forward. Other times you get the opposite issue, you hold W after landing on a ledge and your character decides that even though they're firmly on it, they'll fall backwards.

[delphonso]

Hacknet.

I've never felt more joy just reading chatlogs on other people's computers.

[Urist McSpike]

Currently trying to find something new.  Bought Mindustry, and refunded it.  Picked up Starship EVO, which looks like it has potential although seems to be just for building at the moment; also got Project Zomboid, which is... eh.  I want something detailed like CDDA, and it's not quite there.  Also picked up Elex, which I'm not quite sure of yet.  Past the time of returns on those, though.

I would love to find something like Subnautica though, that has that mix of exploration & building.

I have a preexisting and highly specific phobia of being in a body of water with oversized fish and unknown life forms.

I haven't played Subnautica yet but it's one of the most highly anticipated horror games on my list.

My feelings exactly. It looks really cool, but simulating the experience of being immersed in a substance which could not only asphyxiate me, but is also teeming with dangerous creatures that are far more adapted to the environment than I am... yeah, that sounds like those nightmares I used to have about the shark in Banjo Kazooie when I was a kid.

If you like that style of game, I would highly recommend Subnautica.  It is currently on the Steam Summer sale for $15.  I bought it way back, so had several restarts over the years as they updated it, and have 220 hours in it.

It does a fantastic job of giving you that vibe of being stranded & alone, while nudging you into new areas to follow the story, get new schematics, and get resources to build the new stuff.  Heck, with the Steam refund policy, buy it, set a timer & play it for <2 hours, then refund it if you don't like it.

And yes, it does have a bit of a pucker factor.  Although the area you start in is pretty tame (and pretty), other areas are less so.  Staying close to the rocks, listening for hostile sea life, while staying still?  Yeah.

Unfortunately, I can't quite recommend Subnautica: Below Zero as much.  It's decent, but didn't feel quite as immersive to me - probably because I felt more hemmed in by the map, instead of the (perceived) wide open map of the original.

[JimboM12]

elite has me on a space kick right now, so im playing that and oddly enough, x rebirth (modded of course).

im intent on repairing devries space's economy right now, starting at the top to supply their shipyard and then work my way down.

[scriver]

Playing Wildermyth, and two of my adventurers -- Cally Mac and Malmuire River -- had a son together, and the random name generator named him "Maddish [something]". So, obviously, I made his name Maddish Mac Muire.

Spoiler: The whole family out fighting psychic hivemind bugs together (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Oh and yeah Cally Mac is kinda turning into a crow. They like her. (click to show/hide)

[Rince Wind]

My favourite warrior is about half plant. I won't transform her 2nd arm, but she has been in every campaign so far and I spent all my legacy points to recruit her again in the current one. I now have 3 warriors in my 5 man band, but who cares, she is the best!

[Kagus]

I have returned to Shadow of War after about a half-year hiatus, in order to finally wrap up an old vanity project I started way back in the way back. Considering the immense time and energy expenditure involved and the complete lack of tangible reward for actually completing it, I am beginning to really doubt my sanity.


The project: To fill an upgraded fort entirely with uruks named Dûsh. There are 7 slots, not counting bodyguards which I may or may not deal with, and I currently have 4 Dûshes pulled together.

[nenjin]

And I thought my goal of a region full of top tier Necromancer Assassins was a questionable excess of vanity....