What are you playing right now?

I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online, I think it's excellent for an MMO, but I can understand the hate because it's not really Skyrim, or the single player ES games. There are a lot of things I like, and things I dislike.

With ESO instead of level grinding, then it does an excellent job with immersing you in the world and the lore. It is an excellent single player MMO and the lore is definitely amazing.

The price for the subscription is an issue, with the subscription then you unlock all DLCs and a 10% boost on exp, it's $15 a month and I'm not sure it's worth it. I would recommend the base game.

My main problems are gameplay oriented, for one you can only have 5 skills on your hot bar which wouldn't be as much as an issue if there weren't so many skills. People say they do that so that way you can plan out what you need ahead of time and it's not like Wow where you have hotness covering the whole screen, but they could have 1 or 2 more skills on the hot bar to make combat slightly more immersive.

The dungeon queue is weird, it takes a long time and the queue dungeons are set for the highest level and it scales your attributes up, but it doesn't scale very well, which makes doing dungeons via the queue extremely difficult for lower level players with shitty gear.

The bounty system seems like it's not completely optimized for an MMO. They've still been doing some work and fleshing it out.

Overall, it's a good game and I don't understand the hate exactly, but it's a different game than Skyrim and Oblivion. They did an excellent job with the lore and quests and it's an excellent single player MMO and high quality, but it still has some issues. What I can say is that the quests are excellent for an MMO and although there's the occasional element of "running back and forth talking to people, or killing a certain amount of monsters" I do feel that it does do a good job of limiting that.
 
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I just beat Snake Eater and it turns out I killed 3 people. The only people I know that died Eva killed, so I guess they blame me for that. So that kinda sucks but oh well. I did much better than I ever remembered doing except for against the Fury. I shouldn't have put playing this off for as long as I did.

Now if only I didn't need to get a ps3 to play MGS4.
 
Done Mission 43 on Phantom Pain. Aside from feeling bad in losing staff, I also can't wait for the cutscene that involves Huey and the staff of Motherbase.
 
Divinity Original Sin: Enhanced Edition. It's not too badly done.
 
Burned Man said:
I just beat Snake Eater and it turns out I killed 3 people. The only people I know that died Eva killed, so I guess they blame me for that. So that kinda sucks but oh well. I did much better than I ever remembered doing except for against the Fury. I shouldn't have put playing this off for as long as I did.

Now if only I didn't need to get a ps3 to play MGS4.
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The Fury has always given me trouble for some reason. Especially on harder difficulties where if he catches you with one blast from his flamethrower, it's incredibly difficult to recover from it.
 
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DOW: Dark Crusade. Just finished mopping up the Kronus Liberators as the SPESS MARINES. Did it with massed Space Marine squads armed with "Guardsman killers" - missile launchers to deal with the armor complement and flamers to demoralize the Guardsmen themselves.

This was also the mission that got me the (one-handed!) Daemonhammer, so I'm in my happy place.
 
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth. I'm trying to get The Lost's Hush achievement with no luck (can't get enough damage or enough survivability, like a book of shadows)
 
i currently give a odd and old wii puzzle game call mercury meltdown a go. its pretty decent game, i not far but so far the puzzles are challenging enough to be satisfying when finish. also the difficultly curve has been nice and smooth of getting a little harder with each puzzle.
 
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Stellaris will only have its AI fixed in June-July, so now I play the "New World Order" mod for Victoria 2, which bring the hilariously broken economic system from Pop Demand Mod into the modern age. Diplomacy is also hilarious - EU doesn't even exist, the first thing Germany likes to do is attack Belgium and Poland for rightful clay, Spain attacks Gibraltar every single time, etc.

Immigration system was written by someone from /pol/ - if your country has enough social policies, you will attract thousands of Arabs every other week, who don't assimilate, raise militancy, rape women and boost the popularity of right-wing extremists. The only way to stop it is closing the borders and removing kebab, but then say goodbye to your population growth and relations with the rest of the world.
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IIRC you can actually build factories that produce credit in that one, because he made credit an industrial good.

So your entire financial sector needs factory workers to function.
 
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Played the Mechanist dlc from Fallout 4. Decent DLC. I did like customizing Codsworth so he could have a much better body. Trying Far Harbor right now and all I wonder is if I could beat Allen's xenophobic ass. Hope there is an Innsmouth reference.
 
Well let's see here.

I'm playing a bunch of Garry's Mod right now.

I've also saw that Postal 2 was $0.99, so I got that on a whim. It's a.... strange game. I'm currently on Tuesday.

I've also got started on King's Field 2. (Or just King's Field in America, as apparently the very first King's Field was never officially released in Japan). The combat generally feels faster paced than it did in Ancient City, at least until the framerate starts to go down a bit at times. I also find it really interesting that if you die at any point in the game, it sends you all the way back to the beginning rather then placing you back at the main menu. Functionally, it doesn't change anything, as I can just reload from my last save, but there's something really surreal about dying when really deep into the game and then being sent back to the start at lv. 1 like nothing happened. I feel it's a very nice touch.

Also, I found out about Darkest Dungeon yesterday, and now I really want to try it out.
 
I just bought The Witcher 3 and the Heart of Stone dlc, they're on sale on steam. Together it was only like 30$. So excited to get it installed and start.

scorptatious said:
Well let's see here.
Also, I found out about Darkest Dungeon yesterday, and now I really want to try it out.
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Darkest Dungeon is REALLY fun imo, I never beat it though because it's so hard. You'll enjoy it if you're into dungeons, strategy, lovecraft, and crying for mercy.
 
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Currently on a Sims binge while waiting for FE Fates Conquest to get here. For the first time in forever, I turned on free will. Now they won't stop doing those stupid gestures they learn on vacation. *sigh* Original sim also finally kicked the bucket.

Been playing Baldur's Gate on and off still; used the editor to make a half-drow for a new game. (I know they're treated the same as a half-elf, but I added a tiny fraction of their magic resistance and applied a -4 reputation hit to start with.)
 
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I just bought The Witcher 3 and the Heart of Stone dlc, they're on sale on steam. Together it was only like 30$. So excited to get it installed and start.
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Make sure to download the free DLC packs (there's like 16 of them). Actually I'm pretty sure those are bundled into the steam release so lol nvm

Also Blood and Wine is pretty worth it at some point too but it's endgame content.
 
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DuskEngine said:
Make sure to download the free DLC packs (there's like 16 of them). Actually I'm pretty sure those are bundled into the steam release so lol nvm

Also Blood and Wine is pretty worth it at some point too but it's endgame content.
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Can confirm that they're not all bundled into the steam release- there's a few quests, gear packs and alt-models for characters that you have to go and attach to your account if you want them.
 
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Been having fun with a coop horde mode for doom, called Complex Doom Invasion:
 
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