Playing other games

[fiksal]

a new kind of exclusivity I guess

hopefully the lost revenue is covered by what Sony gave to those developers, otherwise it's not good news for them at all

[KarlSten]

Finished Fallout 4 yesterday and although it is a bad RPG I spent more then 7 days in it according to the savegame. Fallout 4 is actually just a Fallout theme park in computer game form and theme parks are fun. For a while...
At the end I just rushed through the annoying main quests for the Institute.

Now I'm playing the last part of the Totally-not-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy called Metro Exodus.

[felter]

Got another good one for you all. Fabledom just got its 1.0 release just yesterday. It's a city builder based on a world of fairytales, so little red riding hood and the beanstalk. It's a fun little game that is currently on sale for £11.43, so once again you don't need a bank loan to buy it and also no signage of any AAA rip off people behind it, nope just a company of 2. There seems to be a gluttony of small indie titles being released right now, and I'm not complaining long may it last, especially as the only good thing to come out of the triple a crowd recently was Bobby Kotick getting the boot, certainly no original fun games though.

[chew-ie]

Did some missions in Necromunda: Hired Gun after all these years. Still a very beautiful game

[Terre]

For anybody playing Fallout 4, the new AMD graphic drivers (24.5.1) have been causing my game to CTD, with the following error.

"Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: Fallout4.exe (7532) consumed 7705214976 bytes.

Since rolling back to 24.4.1 the game runs fine. I have to cap the frames to 60 as this is the in game animation speed, else the dialogue gets out of sync, my system wants to run the game at over 1200 fps.

Edit: This time in English

[euclid]

Thanks for the warning. Was about to update 24.4.1 to 24.5.1 but now .... Btw. I've capped all games to 60 fps since (my) eyes cannot resolve more than that although I'm aware that some people claim that higher framerates lead to sharper and smoother rendering. I cannot see the difference when trying higher settings (tested that in Cyberpunk).

Cheers Euclid

PS: Sorry for going slightly OT here

[Terre]

Thanks for the warning. Was about to update 24.4.1 to 24.5.1 but now .... Btw. I've capped all games to 60 fps since (my) eyes cannot resolve more than that although I'm aware that some people claim that higher framerates lead to sharper and smoother rendering. I cannot see the difference when trying higher settings (tested that in Cyberpunk).

Cheers Euclid

PS: Sorry for going slightly OT here

Sods law, I set my system up to record any crash logs, re-installed the drivers, and ... nothing happened.

The only thing I've changed in the meantime is, the refresh rate of my monitor to 60htz, for these console ports, testing continues.

[KarlSten]

Finished Metro Exodus and it's two DLCs days ago and have to apologise for calling it a Stalker-clone. It's also better in making a believable world with believable human characters unlike the Bethesda Fallout games,

Anyway, now I play ENDLESS: Legend because it is currently free on Steam. first I was hesitant to get because of the many DLCs and a review claiming that the game developer would be "asking for permissions to record (...) keystrokes across all applications" which isn't true. At least there is nothing written in the EULA.

[Alerion_V.X3]

Just testing two new acquisitions again:


Firstly Bellwright: Described by many as a mixture of Medieval Dynasty/Rimworld (colony building) and Mount & Blade (combat system). I'm not so convinced yet, as the progress is quite slow and grindy and I still have some technical problems, probably with the shaders/lighting. I'll have to look into it more.

I haven't played that much yet due to illness, but it looks very promising for an early access title with quite a lot of content.


And then there's V Rising: Vampire ‘survival’/action RPG where you play the bad boy/girl. Only tested briefly. Runs technically at least very well and without problems. But it's already the release version. So no wonder...

[birdtable]

Bellwright needs more time in the cooker, I found it to be very very grindy and frustrating .. There is the possibility of a good game but as with a lot of games these days the Dev's have not tested a play through so there are glaring shortfalls.,..... But of course your experience may differ, I uninstalled moving up to Tier 3..life is to short.

[birdtable]

I may have been a little premature in my assessment and removal of Bellwright, the latest patch appears to alleviate some of my issues. Will have to re-install (idiot) to check out.

A little later .... It appears I was not premature, the latest update has made the game worse, Will re-install in 6 months.

[Alerion_V.X3]

Yes, the phase is still too early. At the moment I'm most annoyed by the technical problems. Flickering shadows and other headache-inducing graphics glitches. Poor performance despite the rather mediocre graphics, although my AMD RX6660XT permanently has ~ 95-100 ° on the hotspot, no matter what settings I make in the graphics menu.

Apparently it's not optimised at all and if it is then it's very poor. Just very early access But you almost expect that these days, although there are exceptions.

In any case, I'm looking forward to the further development. I would only recommend it for gamers who are capable of suffering, with a correspondingly better graphics card (RTX 3070 TI upwards)

[Golden_Gonads]

After 20+ years and a couple of previous attempts, I have just completed Dungeon Siege. Ye gads what a slog the second half of that game was. Then finally beat the end boss and... Crash to title screen. Bah! Bah I say!

[KarlSten]

Started playing Battlefleet Gothic: Armada recently but somehow that game isn't really fun for me. So I play Greedfall now.

[burger1]

Dragon Age Veilguard releasing in fall 2024.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fir ... 00941.html

[Alan Phipps]

I think the intent in the thread title is for people playing and then commenting on current games to inform other players looking for options, rather than for advertising future games.

[Alerion_V.X3]

I'm currently playing the release version of The Planet Crafter. It's a great survival game where the aim is to gradually terraform a planet. The planet really changes bit by bit as you progress through the game, so you always have a good feeling of progress.

It can be a bit stressful at the beginning, as the limited oxygen supply means you have a somewhat limited range at the start and food is a bit scarce. Fortunately, you can "grow" food in the form of vegetables later on. Reminds me a little of Subnautica in that respect. Only without the monsters that want to get at your tight skin

I had already played the EA version for a few hours back then. It turned out really well and I'm glad, that I was able to support the developers a little. It's not too expensive either and a Demo exists. Have Fun!!

[KarlSten]

I'm currently playing the release version of The Planet Crafter. It's a great survival game where the aim is to gradually terraform a planet. The planet really changes bit by bit as you progress through the game, so you always have a good feeling of progress.

It can be a bit stressful at the beginning, as the limited oxygen supply means you have a somewhat limited range at the start and food is a bit scarce. Fortunately, you can "grow" food in the form of vegetables later on. Reminds me a little of Subnautica in that respect. Only without the monsters that want to get at your tight skin

I had already played the EA version for a few hours back then. It turned out really well and I'm glad, that I was able to support the developers a little. It's not too expensive either and a Demo exists. Have Fun!!

I tried the demo of Planet Crafter a while ago but the resources just lying around and being restocked with meteor showers was too immersion breaking for me. It made it too obvious that this is "just a game" and that the resources are only there for the player to use. That doesn't mean that I was oblivious to the other things that were completely unrealistic but that bothered me.
But the game is fun. Maybe I'll get when I'm in the mood for a survival game again.

Currently I play Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced.

[birdtable]

Just played a few hours, well less than an hour of PAX DEI. The lack of control/visual adjustments proved too much for my aging delicate stomach. Nausea set in quite quickly, plus the after effects still exist an hour later. The rest of the time was spent looking up how to make adjustments all to no avail...The last time I felt nausea in a game was XRebirth VR and that was easily adjusted by looking further ahead during flight. What I did experience in PAX DEI was an already overcrowded world and in the few possible building areas many wolves found me to be an attractive supper.

[matthewfarmery]

Been playing Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess] which is a Sudden Strike / Desert Strike inspired game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228 ... e_Goddess/

You can play with either mouse and keyboard or controller. And as you progress, you can unlock upgrades to make your chopter more powerful. Not sure how many levels it has, but its a neat little game for the price. There seems to be a few copter games in the works too.

And for those that like a more relaxing game, well, semi Idle.

Being playing Magic Research 2. While it looks like an idle game, and in part it is, but to make progress, you need to be active. like defeating bosses and pushing zones. The story is, you play a wizard that has just recently left a magic school, and you are in search of the Philosopher's Stone that legend says can cure any illness.

The dev is active and making adjustments to the game. and I like the hybrid take on this. not a true idle game, but parts of it can be played like an idle game, like farming for mats, and waiting for research to complete, as that is fundimental to the game. As you will unlock new spells and gear.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2864 ... esearch_2/

Anyway, those are my recommendations for now.