Discussion What's your favourite video game you've been playing?

[iTRiP]

If anyone is into Starfield & wants a long interesting quest line to do, I highly recommend your character joining the UC vanguard & do the quests infiltrating the Crimson fleet. All the quests associated with that playthrough are the most complex I've come across in over 500 hrs already put into Starfield with several different character builds & play throughs.

Funny that you should mention those missions of Starfield now, last time I tried playing such, it had some sort of issue and could not be accessed on my game, for the base gameplay from start to the unity used to be my go-to playthrough, makes for some great gameplay, like you say it might be worth taking more time to explore the game further some time.

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Anyway I had my most recent favorite game a proper playthrough again since I last did it in December of last year, lost my completed progress when I formatted my pc earlier this year, though it was about time to go for the grand again in Need For Speed: Unbound, such a great game I tell you, for racing and building cars, the graphics are wonderfully beautiful, and the performance is astonishing on my rig. Took me three days to do it all again.

Besides the great gameplay every day in NFS:Unbound on the pc I had some strange things happen with the EA app that this game launches with, noted every time I wanted to launch said game the game gave an error, lastly I figured it would only launch if I had resarted my pc, reinstalled the app and did not resolve the issue, oh well least there was some workaround to keep playing.

Looking for something fav to get into now again...

 

[Wolfshadw]

Going retro here. Been playing a lot of Galaga and Ms. Pac-Man recently.

-Wolf sends

Still being retro.
Made a couple of additions since then...

Mostly play Asteroids on the Tempest machine and Joust/Defender/Wizard of Wor on the MKII machine.

-Wolf sends

P.S. For anyone interested about the Tempest system, there are a few things of note:
1) It doesn't come with a molded coin door like the other two. It's just a painted decoration, but I understand you can (or could) purchase one directly from Arcade1Up.
2) This image is actually altered. The lit, Tempest Marquee does not show up well on my cell phone camera so I took two pictures: 1 with the units off and 1 with the units on. I then cut the marquee from the Tempest "off" image and pasted it to the Tempest "on" image.
3) The trackball on this unit sucks. Many people have reported this. I will be replacing it before too long. Fortunately the primary games that I play do not use the trackball (but it is required to select which game to play).
4) I've only noticed this in Asteroids, but the ship's fire audio does not match up with the game play. Press the fire button once and you get, "Pew, pew". Press it four times in rapid succession and you get "Pew, pew, pew". It does take a little getting used to. Edit: Audio is synchronized in Asteroids Deluxe.
5) My unit actually came with a riser included. Not sure if this is the same with every unit (without the riser, it's stands only about 45" tall.

Ultimately, I'd give this unit a "B-" grade, but with a trackball replacement so I can enjoy some of the other games (Missile Command/Centipede/Millipede), the grade will probably raise to a B+.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Thanks to some replies to a question thread I made on Steam Forums asking if there's an easier way to quick switch weapons in The Last of Us 2, I discovered I had somehow not seen that you can simply choose what weapon to put in slots 1-4, by holding down the 1, 2, 3, or 4 key, then scrolling with the mouse to the weapon in the tree you want in that slot. Then it's just a tap of 1, 2, 3, or 4 key to quick select that weapon. In my defense though, I was searching the bindings menu and saw no mention of slots 1-4 being assigned to those keys.

I just started a Survivor mode playthrough after beating it on Moderate and Hard. To my surprise, the Listen feature that highlights where enemies are at certain distances and clarity depending how upgraded it is, is not available in this mode. The enemies as well, even standard runners at the beginning, can have hard to predict attacks, making it hard to dodge them at times. I have definitely taken to running in many situations to escape, especially if there's little to no loot to be had.

 

[iTRiP]

Gald, you got that sorted, and continuing play...

I finally scrounged up the will power to take on the Secrets of the spires of Avatar Frontiers of Pandora pc game, damn when I got into the game, I had to revisit the tutorial page just to figure out the controls again, least this game had one of those, any way made for some great couple of days' worth of gameplay, I'd say that was my most recent favorite game, brilliantly done game, nice graphics & audio and such!

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Must have had this content for some time and never gotten around to play it.

Besides that, I'm redoing my windows installation hoping for a better result than last time, at least I don't have to redownload everything again, should be pretty fast to get back into full running order this time!

 

[Frag Maniac]

Well it looks like you have pretty good spec to run it on. Is Secrets of the Spires story content DLC, I've never heard of it? Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry had nothing but praise for that game. He was not just impressed with it's graphics and performance either. He made a point of debunking all the trash talk of people saying it looked like a Far Cry clone. He said the combat is very different from Far Cry in that you are very vulnerable to fire, so you have to choose your plan of attack, and take out enemies in a certain order via stealth to avoid getting killed. IMO I've always felt over powered playing Far Cry, it's pretty arcade and mundane.

Last night I got into the meat of my Survivor playthrough of The Last of Us 2. There's a stretch of segments playing as Ellie taking on MANY WLF that is very hard to get through. I finally found a way that works well enough for me, but it's still hard due to no Listen feature to see where enemies are. They also tend to be far more resistant to being grabbed for a stealth kill if they're already on alert. This difficulty mode really helps you determine which crafting resources should take priority too. I've found ways to start a couple of those segments without raising suspicion, which helps immensely, especially since they have dogs.

 

[iTRiP]

Well it looks like you have pretty good spec to run it on. Is Secrets of the Spires story content DLC, I've never heard of it? Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry had nothing but praise for that game. He was not just impressed with it's graphics and performance either. He made a point of debunking all the trash talk of people saying it looked like a Far Cry clone. He said the combat is very different from Far Cry in that you are very vulnerable to fire, so you have to choose your plan of attack, and take out enemies in a certain order via stealth to avoid getting killed. IMO I've always felt over powered playing Far Cry, it's pretty arcade and mundane.

Last night I got into the meat of my Survivor playthrough of The Last of Us 2. There's a stretch of segments playing as Ellie taking on MANY WLF that is very hard to get through. I finally found a way that works well enough for me, but it's still hard due to no Listen feature to see where enemies are. They also tend to be far more resistant to being grabbed for a stealth kill if they're already on alert. This difficulty mode really helps you determine which crafting resources should take priority too. I've found ways to start a couple of those segments without raising suspicion, which helps immensely, especially since they have dogs.

You got that right, I don't suppose you'd go into Avatar expecting to play decent combat gameplay (the stealth is there thou), maybe just maybe you'd have it possible if you find some way to play it right, but the balance is just not there, just for the graphics and audio, voiceovers and story progression in my opinion it's still fun to play, keep in mind I used a trainer (witch I'd rather not do, rather have games be balanced and playable on any setting out of the box), I wasn't at all interested for that unbalanced gameplay otherwise, at least I got to play and finish said gameplay in my own time frame whilst getting all the glam that the game had to offer.

 

[Frag Maniac]

You got that right, I don't suppose you'd go into Avatar expecting to play decent combat gameplay (the stealth is there thou), maybe just maybe you'd have it possible if you find some way to play it right, but the balance is just not there, just for the graphics and audio, voiceovers and story progression in my opinion it's still fun to play, keep in mind I used a trainer (witch I'd rather not do, rather have games be balanced and playable on any setting out of the box), I wasn't at all interested for that unbalanced gameplay otherwise, at least I got to play and finish said gameplay in my own time frame whilst getting all the glam that the game had to offer.

What about Secrets of the Spires, is it story DLC?

 

[iTRiP]

What about Secrets of the Spires, is it story DLC?

Basically yeah, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora... at this point consists of three parts namely the main game (own map and story plus side quests, then the Two dlc's :Sky breaker and the other Secrets of the spires, both of them with their own map story and side missions but it's all worked nicely together in the big picture of the main game thus far.

I put 160 hours into this game thus far and could be much longer to do everything the game has.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Basically yeah, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora... at this point consists of three parts namely the main game (own map and story plus side quests, then the Two dlc's :Sky breaker and the other Secrets of the spires, both of them with their own map story and side missions but it's all worked nicely together in the big picture of the main game thus far.

I put 160 hours into this game thus far and could be much longer to do everything the game has.

Thank you, wow, that's a good amount of content. Does all that have enough variety though, or can it start feeling repetitious?

 

[iTRiP]

Thank you, wow, that's a good amount of content. Does all that have enough variety though, or can it start feeling repetitious?

Yeah, I reckon it can be quite repetitive, most of it, but the story drives you to do it all, besides the completionist content that is really repetitive, still fun thou, but there you have to drive yourself to do it all, everything does however take part on a different area of the game world map, so nothing takes place in one place for too long.

Then again, I don't see much replay ability possible once it all has been done, that I find sad because so many other and older games one can replay endlessly from start to finish, maybe this one too if you really like the avatar world that much.

Anyway, for what I experienced playing I'd still say it's a worthy game even thou it has flaws, but they are overcome able. I still recommend playing it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Yeah, I reckon it can be quite repetitive, most of it, but the story drives you to do it all, besides the completionist content that is really repetitive, still fun thou, but there you have to drive yourself to do it all, everything does however take part on a different area of the game world map, so nothing takes place in one place for too long.

Then again, I don't see much replay ability possible once it all has been done, that I find sad because so many other and older games one can replay endlessly from start to finish, maybe this one too if you really like the avatar world that much.

Anyway, for what I experienced playing I'd still say it's a worthy game even thou it has flaws, but they are overcome able. I still recommend playing it.

I usually start out on the default difficulty, then do the harder modes. So I guess I get on average 3 playthroughs with most games. I did this even with the Far Cry games. The only real annoyance was the grind to hunt for pelts to make more holsters and gear bags. In Far Cry 4 I went to using a particular large embedded rock at one camp to toss bait at. I'd get most of my upgrades just there. There was also the climbing of towers to unlock map view in each region, but at least they varied the towers a bit.

 

[iTRiP]

I usually start out on the default difficulty, then do the harder modes. So I guess I get on average 3 playthroughs with most games. I did this even with the Far Cry games. The only real annoyance was the grind to hunt for pelts to make more holsters and gear bags. In Far Cry 4 I went to using a particular large embedded rock at one camp to toss bait at. I'd get most of my upgrades just there. There was also the climbing of towers to unlock map view in each region, but at least they varied the towers a bit.

You don't say, ah man if I just think about the grind of some games, that's really not for me, I like smooth gameplay progression, like for instance when I am able to reach a quest or mission in a game, I expect it to be playable and such as completable.

Ok, ok some games's grind can be good because you're still getting to see and hear most of the content of said game content, you know what I mean, I mean I don't want to be staring at something ominous when you know you could get all the eye candy right?

Anyhow last favorite I completed and enjoyed game was Portal 2, I just finished reinstalling my windows, this time it was easy, I already had everything installed where it ought to be, I was done in one day, then the next day this game caught my eye.

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The Portal 2 game was a blast, from start to finish in 12 hours, what a rush trying to beat all those levels and make it out before the day was done, now I'm looking for my next game again...


Just wanted to add what you said on Farcry, I actualy own Farcry 2, and Farcry 6, never had Farcry 1 nor Farcry 5, but I extensively played Farcry 2 back to back, did playthroughs with all the characters and difficulty levels, I even played one playthrough and made it to the conclusion with still having 101% shooting accuracy intact (now that I think about that that was some immersive and intense gaming thing I ever done!, and completed Farcry 3 many times, I don't own that one nor Farcry 4 anymore, but for some reason unknown to me I can't get myself to play Farcry 6.

What to play next?

 

[Frag Maniac]

Far Cry 4 brought in the climbing gear and a much more vertical map, which was one of the most appealing things about it. Some still nitpicked that it's world map was vaguely based on the same basic layout as Far Cry 3, even though the vertical and different land features and structures made it look very different.

I loved Portal 1 and 2, but last time I played Portal 2 I skipped the last advanced map, the one where you had to bounce up and down several times in the same spots while turning around to get your bearings just to see where to go next. I started feeling a bit too disturbed (disoriented) by it at that point.

 

[iTRiP]

If anyone is into Starfield & wants a long interesting quest line to do, I highly recommend your character joining the UC vanguard & do the quests infiltrating the Crimson fleet. All the quests associated with that playthrough are the most complex I've come across in over 500 hrs already put into Starfield with several different character builds & play throughs.

Just checked again, on my rig those missions are all flawed, even thou my pc and the game files are in top notch shape, anything besides the main questline doesn't work right, either get Kernel errors or the gameplay is flawed beyond recognition, I don't know how you got to play that, what deferent settings or something, for me I'm even using the same setting as what I used on my previous GPU, now that I have a better gpu the game seems to hate my pc even more, only this game thou, so far.

 

[boju]

Many issues with Starfield can be addressed by deleting pipeline.cache before playing. It'll recreate it in seconds.

In Windows search put
%LOCALAPPDATA%

Then go to
Starfield\pipeline.cache < delete file

 

[iTRiP]

Many issues with Starfield can be addressed by deleting pipeline.cache before playing. It'll recreate it in seconds.

In Windows search put
%LOCALAPPDATA%

Then go to
Starfield\pipeline.cache < delete file

Thanks for that if that even works, I wouldn't want to have to do workarounds to make a game playable, why can't the dev's who created this game just fix the issues, I believe this was one of the most expensive game I ever bought on steam, they sure ought to have the money to pay their people to get the game sorted.

 

[Frag Maniac]

...why can't the dev's who created this game just fix the issues...

Sadly that's one of the most asked questions, especially regarding PC game development, in the last several years.

 

[iTRiP]

Sadly that's one of the most asked questions, especially regarding PC game development, in the last several years.

You know you or I or anybody can understand if there had been a limited budget to create a pc game, but then surely as soon as it sells there ought to be the money to make the title flawless, one game comes to mind where this happened at least is: Cyberpunk 2077 for instance, that being true you don't want to tell me that that's only possible when insane sales had been reached.

Thinking about it if I could 3d model or program, level/quest/story design or whatever it is that all games all consist of to create even half as good as I could play, maybe I could even have added something, and maybe there would have been less issues with games as a whole, but I reckoned when I started gaming that the people that can do that had it covered and there never ought be running out of great games that where perfected flawlessly for endless reply ability till the end of time.


Update: Latest favorite game I completed: GTA V PC Lagacy Story Mode... such a great game, it's realy awesome to play, but I get kernel errors if I max out the settings, so just found more stable ones to play with and no troubles, flawless gameplay all the way.

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[American2021]

I once had to submit a final paper for a graduate college class and my Internet Service went offline. So I drove to the local Internet cafe (which are not as prevalent as they once were) to buy an hour and submit it that way. While I was there a guy on the other side of the row with a headset/mic on playing World of Warcraft stuck his head over the panel and asked me what I was playing. I replied that I was playing "Master's degree." He said that he had never heard of that game before. I told him "I know" and went back to submitting the paper.

 

[punkncat]

I picked up Jedi Survivor on sale. I have to say that I am unaware if they changed the game engine or tweaked what they were working with, but it is beautiful, at least my few minutes played so far. It isn't quite as shiny as CP77 but is a FAR sight better than Fallen Order. Haven't gotten in far enough to really judge the controls and game dynamic yet. I was sort of star struck with the opening scene and soundtrack.

edit- I see both are UE4

 

[iTRiP]

I picked up Jedi Survivor on sale. I have to say that I am unaware if they changed the game engine or tweaked what they were working with, but it is beautiful, at least my few minutes played so far. It isn't quite as shiny as CP77 but is a FAR sight better than Fallen Order. Haven't gotten in far enough to really judge the controls and game dynamic yet. I was sort of star struck with the opening scene and soundtrack.

edit- I see both are UE4

Yeah Jedi Survivor is a good one, I think I've said this before but now that I think on that game again and my playthrough I was astonished with the interesting key-combination in put they came up with in the later stages of the game to make to player traverse all kinds of obstacles to proceed throughout the game.

I don't want to spoil anything for you, so I won't say anything else about that besides when I played the one thing that bothered me about Jedi Survivor was that one can't finish off the boss battles firsthand, but I don't know have not played it again and it had many updates since I last played it.

Any way my latest favorite game I played was Half-Life 2:

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[Hemispheres]

Oblivion Remastered.

 

[artk2219]

I just finished my play through of Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun, i had not played that game in over 20 years. Im now running through the firestorm expansion, Westwood definitely cranked up the difficulty on the expansion pack.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Been playing red dead redemption 2 on pc even though I beat it a while back on Xbox. Running a 5060ti 16gb but even that cards can max the game out at 1440p and the game has great graphics. Fun game if you want to run around like a cowboy.

 

[Mindstab Thrull]

Barring stuff like Magic: the Gathering as a physical TCG (ie not on Arena or MTGO), the three games I'm most likely to play are Titan Quest, Age of Empires III, or Masters of Orion II: Battle at Antares - and I think TQ is the newest of those? and it came out in 2006 and hopefully this summer we actually get a sequel according to Steam... Titan Quest II... I'm so excited!