Sunday chat: What have you been playing, and what do you think?

I finally played the Talos Principle. It started slowly and I was a bit sceptical at first, but it eventually showed why it got so many rave reviews. Very very clever. It has been compared to Portal, but it has a unique way of looking at things. Puzzles can be challenging but always fair.

I really wish I could discuss Talos Principle without spoiling it for people as the story is based on one of my favorite concepts. Definitely a favorite of mine.

EDIT:

The Masquerade Bloodlines which was recently released on GOG

Shmerl, how do you get GOG games to launch on Debian? Do they need 32 bit libraries?


Last edited by GustyGhost on 9 May 2016 at 1:37 am UTC

Tomb Raider and Darkest Dungeon.

Both were pretty awesome, but I got really hooked on Darkest Dungeon - first time in a while that's happened for me with a game.

-DOTA 2, is just fuking perfect game.
-CS:GO
-XCOM: Enemy Within

Finally finished up SOMA and Psychonauts - the Meat Circus will be in my nightmares. Downloading Tomb Raider, and playing some Borderlands 2.

Tomb Raider, Dota2, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor I'm liking both a whole lot already played Tomb Raider but still a good game to replay and liking Shadow of Mordor alot as well


Last edited by shadowvengence22 on 9 May 2016 at 3:33 am UTC

Divinity Original Sin Coop right now. So far it is much better than i was expecting! Very fun multiplayer :D
and going to start back up on Shadow Run Hong Kong again.

As usual War Thunder with my amd config and opensource drivers

When I finally put my kids to sleep, I hooked up with Lara ^_^

This week has been all Tomb Raider. Yes, the performance isn't that great and I've actually played it before, on PS3, but I really enjoy the game.

Someone commented about the camere locking at certain points, I can see that it bothers some players but I suppose it's done to get a specific cinematic feel, and I actually like that kind of thing, so... It did work better when playing on console though. It feels a bit constricting when mouse look suddenly doesn't work. Especially as there are other glitches regarding mouse look, I sometimes can't look in the direction I want without physically moving the mouse, like you hit a border.

Steamroll (This is a nice puzzle game, and looks great with the UE4 engine too)
Transistor (Its gotta be experienced at least once)
Tomb Raider (Really enjoying this!)

I haven't really had much time for games, but I did manage to play through Human Resource Machine and get most of the optional optimization goals as well. I'll have to take a break before doing the rest as I started dreaming of code and solutions, and waking up I feel like I've been working instead of sleeping. Happened to me with TIS-100 as well...

HRM is definitely easier than the Zachtronics stuff even if the tablet-optimized interface fights you a bit and the "story" turned out to be more like just a bit of context. It can literally be told in a sentence or two. These niggles notwithstanding, it's an excellent puzzler.

Victor Vran and Shadow Warrior think of playing Tomb Rider later on after it gets patched.

I had to get Tomb Raider refunded because it just segfaults on my PC. :(

On Linux I've been playing Don't Starve Together, Stardew Valley and Clannad (those last two using wine).

On PS4 I've been playing Final Fantasy X and Fallout 4.

I just finished SOMA which was an awesome experience. Such a deep(!) game.

I'm now playing Pillars of Eternity again, this time on Path of the Damned and Expert Mode (highest difficulty). It's fun!

I was going to get Tomb Raider, but decided to wait due to the bad performance you people are reporting.

I'm now looking at Duskers, this is probably the next game I'll get when it's fully released this month. Until then, more Pillars of Eternity!

League Of Legends mostly, also waiting for Tomb Raider patches, played for 6 hours at least, but don't really enjoy those 7 fps places :(


Last edited by sterky on 9 May 2016 at 8:39 am UTC

Towerfall Ascension plus the Dark World expansion
I absolutely love this game for the its light weight and the amount of fun my friends and I have playing it.

HammerWatch
Also fun but can be incredibly tedious if not downright frustrating with the amount of mobs and the size of the mobs that exist on certain floors in the campaigns.

I just finished my first play through of Divinity: Original Sin, 91 hours! have gotten my moneys worth out of that one :)

Having a look at the latest update to 7 days to die currently, the brightness seems bad on this build, but its still a whole lot of fun. I haven't been able to join multiplayer servers on Linux though, which is something I was looking forward to checking out. A problem with anti-cheat I think.

Recently I've been playing mostly on PS4 - Tomb Raider Definitive Edition (sorry Feral, bought few days before it was announced on Linux, still wait for performance patch to buy it for Linux) and Naughty Dog games that are PS4 exclusives: Uncharted 2 (from the Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection) and the Last of Us Remastered.
On my Linux PC I've been playing Knights and Merchants (48 hours on the record), but I'm stuck on mission 14. Will have to give it a 4th try :D.

- Alien Isolation: still struggling to survive through this horrible experience (but so addictive). Several months later I'm still not even halfway through.

- Saints Row 2: I'm having fun collecting and tuning cars, creating hellish mess on the highway shooting truck drivers in the head. Not playing through the story yet.

- Sword Coast Legends: just bought it this weekend. I had a hard time running it, as it needs some trick to run on non-English speaking systems. I'm not into all the fuss around the game not using strict D&D rules, and as a matter of fact I pretty much dig the way combats are handled. I only started playing through the first chapter and I love it.

[Edit] I've also been playing some Tomb Raider. While performance is acceptable for me, it's the playability with Steam Controller that annoys me. Indeed, controller input stops working as soon as the mouse is moving, so you can't fully use the Steam Controller's features. Using the track pad as a joystick is not an option for me.


Last edited by omer666 on 9 May 2016 at 10:43 am UTC

DOTA 2, a little tomb raider.