What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

Legomancer wrote: I'm very disappointed by the Fallout 76 news. I'm a huge Fallout fanboy, but I am not interested in online play at all. Zero. Nada. In fact, I find it mind-boggling that anyone would look at the Internet climate, especially around video games, in the last three years and think, "what people really want is to interact with a bunch of random internet video game gentlemen!" I guess I can at least relax now that I am freed from having to pay attention to all things Fallout.

But hey, I still have No Man's Sky, right?

It's adding multiplayer.

Thankfully, that's supposedly opt-in, but still...there's so much I'd rather see in NMS than the chance to have WaffenWeed69 wreck my base.

But have you considered WaffenWeed69's very important feelings? If there aren't any n00bs to embarrass, what will he do?

How do you live with yourself?

I...kinda got bored with State of Decay 2. the vehicles... man, they annoy me. they run out of fuel (what's that...10GPM?) get stuck on any random piece of stuff sticking out...and so far I haven't figured out how to get an AI teammate to drive one home. I get it, its supposed to be played Co-op, but all my co-op frends are out on the east coast in VA, and I play in bits and spurts, so I rarely connect with them. So walking halfway across the map, by which time my character is 'tired' then repairing,fueling to drive it back is annoying. or driving a vehicle out there to pick up the new one. but Dumping the old car bothers my hoarder sensibilities.

So...back to Everspace. stupid, simple fun. Last run I got to sector 6? cool weapons, cool abilities. I had a module that would 'hack' an enemy ship and turn it into an ally. guns that shot homing lasers. the ability to slow down time for all my opponents. then I got swarmed at the end and all I want to do is dive back in. there's nothing else to the game. shoot bad guys, loot stuff, minor exploration of space-base and giant asteroid. die, upgrade, do it again.

I had damaged systems..Primary weapons firing at 50% rate, no nanobots to repair. Outlaw fighters and bombers were moving in, So I figured the end was soon. But I managed to fight through that area, using my hacked 'ally' for help, scavenged through an old colonial outpost and found just enough nanobots to repair my guns. 25% health, but I was able to upgrade my shields enough to get through another area, and find more nanobots to repair my hull.

yeah, i tried Everspace a bunch and it got pretty repetitive. Plus, in terms of user experience, anytime I would warp out of sector (when I'm about to die), I'd feel super guilty for not 'completing' the previous sector. So that empty feeling sort of snowballs. I found I'd accidentally aggro friendly ships against me pretty often too.

I think I prefer the combat in Everspace to Elite Dangerous but I prefer the latter on pretty much every other metric. Especially the whole docking procedure which never got old for me.

I used to hate flight sims that would end the mission before I could land my plane. It's fun doing things start to finish.

yeah, docking in Elite is pretty freaking satisfying. getting the approach just right and adjust your speed to match up.

they must have tweaked the friendly fire settings, because I've definitely shot a couple G&B fighters on accident and not had any issues. I've also attacked them on purpose (or stolen stuff from their freighters) and been attacked.

So I've put 29 hours in Cultist Simulator and I just finished a play... I've probably explored most of the game but I just want to go back in and beat it again. It's weird.

hotseatgames wrote: PUBG continues to impress with their weekend events. War mode needs to be a permanent thing; this last weekend's event had everyone dropping into a small area, 3 10 person teams, and everyone was wearing Ghillie suits and had sniper rifles. It was also raining. Hell yes.

They ran this again this weekend and I got to play it this time. I liked it a lot. I really like the war modes that start you with rare weapons because it gives you a chance to practice with them. Here's some highlights from my time with it:

My wife and kids got me an Xbox One for father's day, so I am looking for games to check out. Of course, I imported my pinball games -- but sad to see all my highscores were gone.

Got the kids some lego games -- marvel and dimensions, as well as some racing games.

GTA V is enhanced on Xbox One and a great game

Inside is amazing, I’m playing it now

Prominence Poker is a fun free game, playing it now

Same with Magic Duels

Same with Battle Ages

Diablo 3 is still a great couch co-op and my favorite arpg on xbone.

Recent indie games played/enjoyed from the Xbox store - all games your kids may dig

Grow Up
Speed Runners
Battle block Theatre
Terraria (side scrolling Minecraft)

EA access is an amazing thing on XBOX1, and if you can find a cheap price on gamepass, I've had a ton of fun with that.