Official "Lonely Life Recent Game Happenings Thread"

[Cavey]

I played The Moon Sliver last night. It's just my kind of thing: Walking, exploring, poetic and over in the space of an hour

I'm also playing Randal's Monday. It's a point and click adventure game in the same vein as the old Lucasarts adventures, but without the endearing characters and top notch writing. It's not a bad game, but it's main protagonist isn't very likeable and it thinks it's much funnier than it is. I'm sure I'd have found it more amusing when I was a teenager...

 

[user 115627]

After a long break I tried 'Frets on Fire' again - kind of a freeware Guitar Hero adaption.
I got the hang of it again pretty quick. Played on hard difficulty as usual and thought I was doing well enough.

...and then came 'Battery' by Metallica. Now my wrist just hurts like hell.

 

[Mr Seal The Albatros]

Looking around the Free to Play games on Steam. Might pick up Cry of Fear and (if it has an offline mode) Warframe.

Anyone know any games that have a style of gameplay like TF2 or multiplayer Halo, but can be played offline with bots?

 

[Locke]

I'm playing Skyrim.

The Daedric prince Meridia pulled me a thousand feet into the air as part of the "Break of Dawn" quest, and while up there, a dragon attacked. So now I'm stuck high above Skyrim, watching helplessly while a legendary dragon attacks Meridia's little blue ball of light.

....and now a second dragon showed up, lol. They're ignoring me, but they keep going after the blue light.

 

[lonelyfairy]

Oh, I miss playing Skyrim... Great game.

 

[ardour]

Someone has recreated the classic Baldurs Gate using the Neverwinter Nights 2 game engine.

The graphics are dated as you would expect:

http://www.nexusmods.com/neverwinter2/mods/794/?

 

[user 115627]

Fallout 3 crashes more often than Postal² ever did...but at least the crashes are predictable.

 

[Tealeaf]

Crypt of the NecroDancer has Steam trading cards now... like I needed a reason to play more.

 

[Katerina]

I'm playing through Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the 3DS. I still have the original nintendo 64 version but it's been years since I played it. Getting a lot of nostalgia from it

I downloaded the DLC for Dark Souls way back in September but still haven't gotten around to it. I mean to get back into the game this week although I'll still be hours away from getting into the DLC.

 

[johnny196775Again]

gibbets is fun

 

[shadetree]

Played through the second season of telltales the walking dead and then i finished up the wolf among us ep 1-5. Really great games. I hope they keep adding new series it really adds something to the point and click adventure style.

Wolf among us is a trip, its even got the little mermaid as a stripper and georgy porgy is her pimp lol, and somehow it still comes across as a serious narrative too. Great writing and presentation.

 

[Cavey]

Played through the second season of telltales the walking dead and then i finished up the wolf among us ep 1-5. Really great games. I hope they keep adding new series it really adds something to the point and click adventure style.

Wolf among us is a trip, its even got the little mermaid as a stripper and georgy porgy is her pimp lol, and somehow it still comes across as a serious narrative too. Great writing and presentation.

I loved both seasons of The Walking Dead, but I sometimes feel like I shouldn't. They contain no real gameplay and they only offer the illusion of choice, but where they succeed is in making you really care about the characters. In 40 years of gaming, I don't think any game has sent me on an emotional rollercoaster the likes of which Season 1 Episode 5 sent me on...

 

[Rahvin]

Yesterday 3 friends and myself stormed the marines base in GTA V online. Many lols were had running past tanks and soldiers while zipping along the runway in cars that belong in a fast and furious movie, stealing jets and raining down hell. Good times~

 

[Cavey]

I shot down Pagan Min's helicopter. Far Cry 4 may have been a stuttery mess when it was originally released on PC, but at it's maximum settings, it's one hell of an amazing looking game. Shame the story is absolutely awful and that it has no sympathetic characters at all.

 

[Sci-Fi]

Completed 100% of Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham, and completed all 50 achievements.

Went back to playing Lego Marvel and remembered why I quit playing it before. Even with it updated so I could free play many levels which previously locked up the game it still has freezing issues.

 

[Tealeaf]

I tried to play Space Hack again but I just can't and left my first bad Steam review. I snuck in a ***, too.

"Honestly, the only people I think this might be targeted towards are 8-year-olds who may not care. At the same time, I worry that if I had an 8-year-old and I gave them this game they'd think I no longer love them and run away from home."

 

[Cavey]

I spent a while contemplating playing The Evil Within, but in the end I got no further than checking out various settings: removing the borders, unlocking the frame rate, removing the stutter that no one else but me seems able to see. Yup, when you enjoy messing with the settings rather than actually playing the game, you truly have joined the mythical 'PC Master Race'.

Edit: I added a smiley there so people won't think I actually AM a 'PC Master Race !!!!111!!!ONE' kind of dude.

 

[Katerina]

Yeah to me The Evil Within looked like you're trying to peer over the guy's shoulder whilst looking through a letterbox. Put me off getting it.

 

[Mr Seal The Albatros]

Started getting into Five Nights at Freddy's. The atmosphere gets to me so much, I keep quitting the game before the jumpscares happen.

 

[Cavey]

Started getting into Five Nights at Freddy's. The atmosphere gets to me so much, I keep quitting the game before the jumpscares happen.

I've got both 'Five Nights' games to play through at some point. They kind of remind me of the old Sega/Mega-CD game Night Trap... but more aimed towards jump scares instead of cheesy teen horror.