Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
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I'm playing through Jade Empire now (It's a freebie from Origin if you have an account there). So far, I'm enjoying the story. The game play on a PC keyboard isn't bad. The game seems to involve a lot of culture from China, if I understand the story right.
It's a good play so far, with a good story (that's all I really care about, ha ha).
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@coliver said:
@travisdh1 said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I playing a game in my head right now "Why the F is my coffee cup empty... how to auto refill...."
You need the ****ingcoffee.sh mentioned over at jitbit
@DustinB3403 said:
@coliver said:
I downloaded Vermintide and Elite Dangerous last night. I setup my gaming PC in my living room again but still stuck with a Steam Controller, which is actually pretty great.
Nice.
I did end up grabbing Elite Dangerous: Horizons this week. My advice is to enjoy ED and skip Horizons for the time being. Lots of little details need fleshed out yet with Horizons. The best ways to make money are still fighting in a High-Intensity Resource Extraction site and rare commodity trading. Fighting in resource extraction sites is actually safer for me than rares trading (not hauling illegal goods around all the time.)
My brother has started to play it a bit so hoping we can do some flying together. I've been reading that a flight stick is basically required have you had the same experience?
I already had a nice flight stick, so haven't tried the mouse/keyboard thing. It should work if you've got some sort of game controller tho (XBox or Playstation type thing.) I can do everything I need but open menus via the flight-stick. I'm a solo-mode weenie, and not afraid to say it.
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@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@travisdh1 said:
@DustinB3403 said:
I playing a game in my head right now "Why the F is my coffee cup empty... how to auto refill...."
You need the ****ingcoffee.sh mentioned over at jitbit
@DustinB3403 said:
@coliver said:
I downloaded Vermintide and Elite Dangerous last night. I setup my gaming PC in my living room again but still stuck with a Steam Controller, which is actually pretty great.
Nice.
I did end up grabbing Elite Dangerous: Horizons this week. My advice is to enjoy ED and skip Horizons for the time being. Lots of little details need fleshed out yet with Horizons. The best ways to make money are still fighting in a High-Intensity Resource Extraction site and rare commodity trading. Fighting in resource extraction sites is actually safer for me than rares trading (not hauling illegal goods around all the time.)
My brother has started to play it a bit so hoping we can do some flying together. I've been reading that a flight stick is basically required have you had the same experience?
I already had a nice flight stick, so haven't tried the mouse/keyboard thing. It should work if you've got some sort of game controller tho (XBox or Playstation type thing.) I can do everything I need but open menus via the flight-stick. I'm a solo-mode weenie, and not afraid to say it.
Good to hear, I'm going to try it tonight for a bit hopefully. We'll see how it goes.
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@dafyre said:
I'm playing through Jade Empire now (It's a freebie from Origin if you have an account there). So far, I'm enjoying the story. The game play on a PC keyboard isn't bad. The game seems to involve a lot of culture from China, if I understand the story right.
It's a good play so far, with a good story (that's all I really care about, ha ha).
I completely forgot that I snagged that too...
Now the conundrum: keep on with GalCiv III or switch to Jade Empire. Hmmmm
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Just played The Blue Toad Murder Mystery Files: Episode Two - The Mystery of Riddle Manor
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Clash of Clans eats up my time.
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Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.
I also played a few minutes of Vermintide just to try it out... Left 4 Dead with Skaven is the only way to describe it... turned out to also be a fun game.
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Getting in a little Fallout 3. I'm only up to level 6.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Getting in a little Fallout 3. I'm only up to level 6.
Loved the first game!
I've just bought on steam
Age of empires III Collection
C&C Red Alert 3 + Pack
C&C 3 + Pack
Earth 2150 -
I'm over 800 games on Steam. Can't really list them all anymore
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@coliver said:
Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.
I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.
I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)
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@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.
I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.
I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)
I'll add you in game. I'm playing the training missions to get a hang of the controller, it is going to take a long time before I actually pilot proficiently with it unfortunately.
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@coliver said:
@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.
I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.
I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)
I'll add you in game. I'm playing the training missions to get a hang of the controller, it is going to take a long time before I actually pilot proficiently with it unfortunately.
Oh, I forgot the biggest starting detail of all! Those training missions give you fixed weapons. You rarely hit anything with those initially. Get in game and do a cargo run so you can pickup a gimbaled weapon or two! You'll actually hit things when you shoot at them (unless you're a LOT more patient with getting used to the controls than I was.)
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@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
@travisdh1 said:
@coliver said:
Played a few training missions in Elite Dangerous last night... wow is that hard to play with a controller. It was either that or the ship I was using was very slow, training mission so understandable. It feels awesome and the game looks amazing even on my slightly outdated gaming PC. I can see where playing this with a Rift or other VR would be phenomenal.
I'm really not a fan of the training missions, and most of the missions you find on the in-game mission board aren't worth doing. The Sidewinder you start out in is the most maneuverable ship in the game, and worst in every other aspect.
I'm travisdh1 in-game if you want to friend me, I'll try to give you a hand starting out. Only worked my way up to a Viper so far, which is just plain mean. It's only got 2 guns, but they're both Large hardpoints. Damage has a bit of a different model than many other games I've played. If you're attacking a larger vessel with small/medium weapons, the weapons don't do as much damage. So the Viper is the small ship with big guns that take down the bigger ships quickly, which means making much better bounties while hunting criminals (my favored way to make money.)
I'll add you in game. I'm playing the training missions to get a hang of the controller, it is going to take a long time before I actually pilot proficiently with it unfortunately.
Oh, I forgot the biggest starting detail of all! Those training missions give you fixed weapons. You rarely hit anything with those initially. Get in game and do a cargo run so you can pickup a gimbaled weapon or two! You'll actually hit things when you shoot at them (unless you're a LOT more patient with getting used to the controls than I was.)
Good to know, I was wondering why I had to be withing a few hundred meters to hit anything.
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Playing Face Noir with @Dominica
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Just beat Hexcells Infinite
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Playing Perils of Man, now. So far, it looks pretty interesting.
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I just wrapped up Jade Empire last night. That was a fun game! Potentially better played with a controller of some sort, but it wasn't bad on the keyboard either.
The story was excellent. I beat it in ~40 hours playing time, I think it was.
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Played several hours of Borderlands 2 with some friends last night. Going through some of the DLC that I never got a chance to play when I did my initial play through. As usual I am playing the healer/support specced Siren which is my preference.
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I played Duck Game on Friday. It's a hilarious competitive platformer in the style of Towerfall, but with ducks. Plus you can play online instead of just local multiplayer. I highly recommend it (and it made TotalBiscuit's #2 game of the year).
