What game are you playing?

[Electric_Head]

FYI Humble Bundle have a 2k games bundle at the moment.

https://www.humblebundle.com/

BioShock
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness II

Pay $20 or more to unlock:
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
BioShock Infinite

Pay more than $7.21 to unlock:
BioShock 2
Mafia II
Spec Ops: The Line

More games coming soon.

[NickUndercover]

So I started Valiant Hearts: The Great War.


What a wonderful little game. The characters are so likeable and the game is punctuated with real life photographs and informations on what the Great War really looked like (they associated with documentary producers and historians). They managed to get the real feeling of what it's like to get dragged to the frontlines, the gameplay is quite simple and they got the adventure/reflexion crossover pinned down.

I'm not usually a ubisoft fanboy, but you gotta admit they really know how to use the UbiArt framework.

[sigbowls]

waiting for 2015

[wysockisauce]

Kerbal Space Program

Scratching that simulator itch left behind by the newest sim city.

Kinda overwhelmed by parts at the moment. Gotta start branching into non-contract missions.

[cyclopian]

Kerbal Space Program

Scratching that simulator itch left behind by the newest sim city.

Kinda overwhelmed by parts at the moment. Gotta start branching into non-contract missions.

Kerbal has to be in my top 3 games of the last decade.

The feeling of accomplishment when you just first are able to orbit, let lone reach another planet. And then landing on said planet. I love games that stimulate the imagination.

The learning curve is steep but you'll soon be building space stations and setting up bases on distant planets hah

[rickyarbino]

Just got gta 5 (ps3)

I bought GTA 5 on the day of release which was a Tuesday morning, i finished the whole game by the Friday morning. Good game, i still prefer GTA 3 and San Andreas though. The online mode is still pretty shit.

I really need to get the Last of Us and Beyond:Two Souls.

What's wrong with online? I'm kinda new to this online gaming thing. My PS2 broke a year or so before that started happening.

[deadly_habit]

Kerbal Space Program

Scratching that simulator itch left behind by the newest sim city.

Kinda overwhelmed by parts at the moment. Gotta start branching into non-contract missions.

Might wanna pick up Space Engineers and Take On Mars as well

[Sexual_Chocolate]

space engineers is sick. like the minecraft of space.... but not blocky.\


been playing a lot of bf4 & sleeping dogs

[Lucifa]

picked up a ps4 couple months ago - such buyers regret. But I will body anyone on FIFA. PSN: Lucifa-XYX.

[__________]

What's wrong with online?

GTA Online is alright, it just doesn't really play like you'd expect it to. You get penalised for killing other players or cops, and have to pay insurance money if you blow up another player's car. Stuff like that. It's just a bit weird...if you're not meant to go around destroying shit in an online GTA game then what the fuck are you meant to do?!
It is good fun for a few hours if you have a couple of friends to play with. Not mind-blowing in any way though.


I've been playing a fair bit of Men of War: Assault Squad 2 recently. It's a highly unforgiving, clunky European WW2 strategy game. A bit like Company of Heroes / Sudden Strike / Commandos on an epic scale.
The attention to detail is insane - every unit has it's own inventory and you can directly control shit...not just "select unit, click here, watch it move"...you can WASD a tank straight through a building, watch it fall down around you, then completely annihilate a whole squad of infantry with one well-placed HE round. Very satisfying.
Any RTS fans who love WW2 should definitely check it out. I used to play loads of CoH but Ass Squad 2 is the game for me now, I wish I'd found it sooner...the scale and detail is the best I've seen in an RTS.

[rickyarbino]

I feel like this deserves its own thread lol, but here:

I ACCIDENTALLY CATFISHED SOMEONE IN GRAND THEFT AUTO LAST NIGHT



I’ve been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto V online lately. My handle is TheSilverWoman, which is a reference to my co-worker Alex Goldman’s last name. In real life, I’m a boringly normal straight dude. But in GTA, I’m a forty-year old woman. Dark bangs, dark eyes. I don’t wear makeup and I’m not particularly fit. I own one set of clothes plus a monkey mask I wear when I rob convenience stores.

People react to women, even fake women, in online video games. Computer-controlled characters will try to flirt with me. Characters controlled by actual people tend to be kind of hateful. “That bitch just stole my Elegy FX.” “Oh shit, even the fuckin’ Silver Woman has more kills than you, man.”

Last night something unusual happened. I’d been playing in survival mode with a group of players. That’s a cooperative mode where you team up to fight waves of computer controlled enemies. After the mission, the game dumped us back into Freemode, which allows you to roam around the city aimlessly, causing whatever mayhem you want.

I put in a friend request to the best player from the previous mission, a guy named ProX, so that we could play more missions together later. He sent me a message back: “what’s your name.”

“PJ.” I answered, remembering for the first time in awhile that I have a gender neutral name. “What’s yours?”

“kevin.”

At that point, I saw a player who had been annoying me by playing selfishly in cooperative mode. So, I murdered him. He died, but when he respawned, he was very angry. He pursued me. I shot at him and missed, and worse, my missed shot attracted the police. I started sprinting down the highway, waiting to die.

And then, out of nowhere, a horn honked. I turned. It was ProX, sitting calmly in a black sports car on the side of the highway. He honked again. I was supposed to get in. I got in. We sped off, away from the police and my would-be murderer.

ProX drove me to an airfield and showed me a military helicopter I’d never seen before. The police were still chasing us. We left his car and flew off towards the sunset and the Pacific Ocean, out of the law’s reach.

This is the point where I realized that maybe, perhaps, I was on a date. Players in GTA rarely cooperate, with the exception of those situations where the game makes it literally impossible not to. ProX had saved me from death or arrest. And now he was peacocking, flying the helicopter low over the Pacific Ocean, and then threading it through the mountains around GTA’s version of Los Angeles.

In the city, he flew me down a crowded street where I gleefully fired missiles at other players and cops. He was a good pilot and I was a decent shot. We Bonnie and Clyded together for quite awhile. Surprisingly, I felt taken care of. My mind sincerely wandered toward the idea that a lot of relationships are founded on projection and misunderstanding.

Eventually, the cops caught up to us, like they always do. They shot ProX first. I tried to kill myself rather than let them take me alive, but GTA’s suicide option is buried in a clunky menu, and a SWAT guy shotgunned me in the torso before I had the chance.

When I respawned outside of the hospital, ProX picked me up again, but it had gotten late and I realized I should go to bed. It felt strange to just sign off without thanking him. So I navigated over to the chat menu while he drove around. “Thanks for all the mayhem. I’m going to sleep.” I sent it, and closed the chat window.

In the meantime, he had somehow driven me into his apartment. When the chat window closed, I found myself standing in his eight car garage, a sea of very nice cars. He was standing between two of them looking very lonely. I felt real and palpable feelings of anxiety and guilt. A message came back in chat. “ok.” It seemed very sad. I powered down the PS3, feeling like a tease.

It’s funny. Thinking back on it today, I’m not sure what else could have really happened in that apartment. People love GTA because it’s a game that theoretically lets you do anything. But when it comes to human connection, the game’s strict. You can’t sleep with another player, or kiss them, or cook something for them. There are the people you murder and the people you choose not to.

Funny gaming articles thread?

[sigbowls]

Sims grand theft auto would be cool

[_TraX_]

Back into Skyrim, that game grabs you by the balls

Level 45 nord with full dragon, what it do

[wysockisauce]

Divinity Original Sin on the dl.

Reviewers have been praising it.

[GV1]

Battlefield 4

[Jens]

Earthbound

[Sexual_Chocolate]

^ anygood?

[Electric_Head]

After 6 months of waiting I have finally received an invite to the closed Beta of Survarium.
Looking forward to giving this a go over the wknd, much hype.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

dl'd sf4. been playing 1943 though, so many good memories

[Forum]

I couldn't get into sf4, all the undodgable ultra moves are ridiculous