Here’s a strange thing that happened: this week I had Monday and Tuesday off and I thought to myself, ‘time to get some quality gaming time in’. I looked at all the game I had, all the games I still had to finish, and I was totally like, ‘I HAVE NOTHING TO PLAY’. It was ridiculous.
It was the equivalent of a model with a walk-in wardrobe full of clothes going, “I have nothing to wear”. It was so silly.
I think the difficulty for me was more, I didn’t know what I wanted to play. the choice was sort of paralysing. I’m keen on Assassin’s Creed: Unity — I want to make my own mind up about that game — but I lent it to Chris Jager from Lifehacker. I’m keen to finally finish off Alien: Isolation, but that isn’t the kind of game you want to rush through and I felt like I should be checking out something a little newer. Shadow of Mordor? I think I’m gonna get to that during the Christmas holidays.
I settled on Dragon Age: Inquisition. A game I wasn’t sure I wanted to invest in. Most people are finishing this game with 80 hours on the clock. I’m not sure I have that kind of time for a game that isn’t Dark Souls so it was tough to commit to, but the hype for this game was so strong that I’ve decided to run with it.
So that’s what I’m playing this weekend. How about you?
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Dragon Age and Far Cry 4
Co-Op in FC is a blast.
This is me exactly. Coop is a beast.
SMASH
BROOOOOOOOOS!!!
WII UUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Currently dividing my time between Far Cry 4 and PES 2015, so will probably continue to do so this weekend. Although gaming time looks pretty limited the next few days.
Dragon Age: Inquisition with sprinklings of Minecraft and Destiny and Shadow of Mordor.
Halo collection
pokemon ruby
finishing off dragon age side quests.
The 80 hours for dragon age is with a bunch of side quests, I’ve finished the main story on normal difficulty last night and only hit 35ish hours played on that save game. Don’t feel like I’ve rushed either but I guess I started leaving some zones un opened because I found the side quests didn’t seem as fleshed out or as self contained as they have in other games like mass effect/skyrim.
I thought the side quests that had a lasting effect on an area, like opening the dam, were much better than elder scrolls quests.
I liked the lasting effects and I liked the follow ups like judging someone from your side missions or opening up a new task for your advisors but I didn’t find many that felt as fleshed out and varied as things like the assassins/thieves/mage guild style quest lines in the elder scrolls series, or things like baldurs gate side quests where you fight totally new enemies for totally new reasons and can get lost in another adventure. Don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed the game and I will still be playing it but I just felt the side quests weren’t what I was hoping for.
Ah, I think the main story is way better which is what I was there for.
I’ve already found some different enemy types hidden away in the new areas within areas ( if that makes sense).
So after the main campaign, everything else has felt like icing on the cake.
The conversation has been amazing. Found them all more interesting than Mass effect etc.
I agree on those fronts although I enjoyed baldurs gate 2s main story immensely but that is one of my all time favourite games, inquisitions story was well done and had me wanting to find out more the whole way through. No part of the main story felt like a chore at all which even if you do beat the story in say 25 hours (trying to take out any time but the bare minimum for the power needed to unlock story missions) that’s a long time to not have anything feel like a drain in a single story line. I have found some interesting enemies and I do think fighting some of them has a much more special feel to it then a lot of other RPGS have with some large opponents requiring the use of actual tactics specific to their behaviours but it didn’t feel as varied as some other universes. But like I said before my favourite series is baldurs gate based off the DND rule set with an overwhelming number of different enemies to throw in to zones so maybe I’m judging it unfairly on that front.
I think that has a lot to do with current tech, takes too long, costs too much to get 3D modellers, animators & AI programming etc 🙁
yeah that’s a good point, imagine having to do voice work and animation for every quest dialogue in something like baldurs these days.
I am taking my sweet sweet time with DA:I. I don’t mind if i’m playing it over the next few weeks/months. It’s enjoyable exploring and doing side quests and seeing the impact of everything. There also doesn’t feel like there is a push, or rush to get through the story.
I didn’t mean to rush it in mine, I just got pokemon and will be playing that a bit this weekend but I’m still planning on putting in a lot more time on the side quests I’ve missed. I was surprised when I realised I was near the end of the main story
I didn’t mean to finish the main campaign so quick but it was too Damn fun.
Borderlands TPS with friends, then trying to complete Dark Souls II DLC and a mixture of Etrian Odyssey IV and Disgaea 4.
ALL is for my lord…
Mopping up leftovers in Dragon Age & Pokemoning
The Walking Dead Pinball.
I haven’t follow the pinball scene much lately, has stern delivered them already?
I think he is referring to the Zen Pinball table
because humblebundle.
No idea. We’ll see what tickles my fancy. New Vegas, Destiny, Skyrim, I’ve been waiting to try out the FM 2015 demo and see if it’s any improvement over 2014, finally got Populous The Beginning working 😀
If I had GTA V, that would be my weekend
I’m playing “refrain from buying any more games in Black Friday sales”.
I predict heavy losses.
I’ve been finishing up on games. Finished AC: Rogue, Tales of Borderlands last night, achieved all Gold Medals on every stage on every setting in Star Fox 64 3DS yesterday.
Might jump in to Dragon Age or play some co-op games. I also picked up Persona Ultimax despite knowing nothing about Persona (aside from Pat jerking off over it). Mainly because it was nice to get the game in a month instead of a year.
Also want to get some recording done, been real slack over it as of late (2 months behind). Trying to get a friend over for some commentary but he’s been stalling for 3 weeks.
…Oh yeah! Gotta vote tomorrow as well.
Have to vote, don’t want to vote. They’re all jerks and I want to vote for myself instead.
I’ve voting for whatever will piss off Liberals.
Especially over their ads. Have you seen them? The Liberal ads are terrible. Usually going something along like,
Labour: “This is what we’re planning to do with your money”
Greens: “This is what the Labour and Liberal party have done with your money”
Liberal: “Those guys are assholes!”
They’re ALL arseholes!
I reckon they need to make some rules for the political ads so that they’re not just about sledging the opposition. Like okay we get it, they’re the opposition, you hate them, good 4 u.
vote below the line and put in ever smaller drawings of dicks, then they have to work out if more dick is good or bad.
I did my democratic duty by postal vote, so I have my weekend to myself. I can’t remember, do State elections have sausage sizzles?
Looking at smashing more WoW – just levelling my toons to 100 while there’s not a lot of content. Best time to do it. Had four 90s to start with, finished my 3rd to 100 yesterday. 4th is almost 94. Once that’s done will probably just smash PvP and the odd heroic while waiting for the new content.
Oh, and also catching a metric crapton of crap Pokemon on my AU version of AS, so I can trade all my stored ‘mon over from my US copy of X. Not fun. Region locking is the devil. But thoroughly enjoying AS – feels like what X and Y should’ve been. lots of tweaks and improvements.
You’re liking ORAS more than XY? Huh.
I’m enjoying it but it feels small after Y, so fee Mon to Cath in each area.
I’m not that far in yet though
Still haven’t finished X or Y yet. For some reason they’re not grabbing me like every Pokemon before. AS seems to be getting it’s hooks in. Not far enough into X/Y or AS/OR to explain why though. It’s weird.
I started South Park: The Stick of Truth last night and had a blast… literally, because I made an effort to fart on every single person I saw, along with each of my downed enemies.
I will be playing more of this. If I have to share with my wife, I will probably start a second playthrough of The Wolf Among Us after finishing it Wednesday night and now really wanting to go through and see what the other choices are like. Amazing atmosphere, actually gave me the urge to reply Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. The world of the Fables is akin to the Masquerade in many respects and the mood/setting felt so familiar.
It only gets better. The second night is hands down one of the most funny/gross/outrageous things I have ever played in a video game.
Dragon Age for the foreseeable future.
[Losing terribly at] SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
Wondering if my copy of Hatsune Miku Project Diva 2nd f will actually make it too me… seems like JB were the only ones to get it, got a minuscule amount of stock… and despite pre-ordering it, they can’t advise if/when I’ll get them…
I had an unfortunate experience where I had pre-ordered from ozgameshop on the day it became available but did not see that it was NTSC version (still not sure if I ordered it before they actually advertised this, but what the hey). I only discovered it when I bought the song club pass and other DLC and attempted to download it and the Vita said ‘application not found’. Interestingly, it imported my JAP save well enough. So I chucked it on ebay, ordered the correct copy from ozgameshop and then bought a digital version to tide me over in the meantime. Digital version does take up over 3000MB though, not including the edit suite.
Yeah… In the end I was probably always going to double dip on both the PS3 and Vita digital versions as well… But I’ll wait til Mon/Tue to see if they can give me an update.
Otherwise I’ll get the Vita version and wait for a sale on the PS3 version, I can wait roughly a year for one! lol
I think I’ll try to finish off XCOM The Declassified Bureau (or whichever order those words go in).
Watching the Vic election coverage, intending to play something other than Destiny, and playing Destiny…
Well, at least you tried. It was probably inevitable.
Had a brilliant time last night doing the daily mission and the nightfall strike, was just such a laugh. 🙂
Dragon Age and Lego Batman 3.
Putting Far Cry on hold til I’m done with Dragon Age.
Definitely Pokémon Alpha Sapphire.
30 hours already, nowhere near finished, still want more.
Working, but whatever time I do get I’ll be distributing between Far Cry 4, Dragon Age and Smash Bros.
Dragon Age Inquisition
Followed by: Dragon Age Inquisition
Then; Dragon Age Inquisition
After that: Super Smash Bros
and finally: Dragon Age Inquisition
Why not Dragon Age Inquisition?
Yeah, I noticed that >:-|
I’ve got no time for it. Too busy playing Dragon Age Inquisition
GTA V(PS4), The Last of Us(PS4), Far Cry 4(PC),
Talisman board game – trying the firelands expansion with a few friends.
The AC:U patch is out for PC now so I’m going to give that a try. If not back to Far Cry 4 for me, I just opened up the north so many camps and towers to climb!
re invigorated 4K gaming after stupid boring non content finished it in 4 days WOW
4K on watchdogs
just bought crysis 3 and NFS rivals on sale
waiting for the crew with new xbone controller for windows
and we wont talk about my purchase of sims 4
I’ll be playing “Main Menu”. It’s very exciting. You open any game, get as far as the main menu, hear your kid start crying, click “Exit”, and try again in an hour once he’s settled.
Man, I hate that game.
Worst game. So sorry.
Definitely more Far Cry 4, I was going a mission last night to protect two giant statues and failing horribly at charging in or sneaking around with a bow, so I ended up grabbing a helicopter, going up and then wingsuiting onto one of the statues and hiding in it’s palm with a silenced rifle getting all the headshots and hiding from helicopters. It’s fun. I want to play more dark souls but now that they’ve announced the current gen versions I don’t really have a reason to touch my 360 anymore
HMCC and GTA Online, I’m guessing.
Probably playing as much of Far Cry 4 as I can, with some GTA V in between. Putting off Dragon Age until I have some more time…
Destiny…again.
Dragon Age on XB1
After spending a few hours trying out multiple class/race/gender combos in the prologue, I’ve (finally!) decided to go with my male human mage for the long haul. Working through the Storm Coast at the moment, and having a blast. Party banter between Blackwall and Sera is hilarious. Almost made me spit coffee all over my TV.
Will probably get some Destiny in tonight if my friends come online.
Blackwall is literally the worst
Got my Brothers little boy staying over sat-sun so setting up another screen in the lounge so we can game side by side he only 7 so will have to try stick to the not so violent games but yea as my brother is pretty crap with money his boy doesn’t get to play/own any of the newer consoles I like to think im kinda the cool uncle with all the games.
Dragonage and GTA online.
Witcher 2. World of tanks.
And trying some stuff in unity.
@markserrels no Super Smash Bros.!? The biggest selling game on the Wii U! Whats the dillio?
I’m going to pick up Smash but more importantly, I’m going to watch more of The Wire.
In the last few days, I’ve watched two and a half seasons. Planning to finish the whole series pretty soon. Also to be productive but that’s far less important.
Lords of the Fallen and Far Cry 4!!
Dragon Age: Inquisition! I’ve only done 20 hours so far so I’m looking to add a few more over the weekend.
I’ll finish killing my crew in ME2 so I can play the most with Legion, then probably start DA:I, maybe have a poke at some of the little games on my Steam list because I swear I am going to play some of these games I buy in the sales, I promise.
Dragon Age 3 and a little WoW.
Probably some more Pokemon and LEGO Batman. Smash Bros if it arrives but I doubt it.
Far Cry 4
GTA V (PS4)
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Pokeymans
Smash Bros
Alien: Isolation
So spoiled for choice.
Got some friends coming over tomorrow night for board games night, probably play Settlers of Catan.
If I get any time I’ll try to get some AC:IV in.
Cards Against Humanity AU edition. Big party of Saturday night…….can’t wait.
I want to spend some quality time DA:I this weekend in-between all my social engagements….
I’ll probably check in with Xur and maybe run VOG if people are around for it. Also, I have a hankering for some Sunset Overdrive. To be honest, much like you @markserrels I find myself get paralyzed with indecision and too much choice.
I’ll be giving the training missions in Elite:Dangerous a go in preparation for the 16th December when my kids will cease to have a dad and instead have some guy who sits at a desk and needs a shower badly.
Having a games day/night tomorrow so board games will be on. Possibly a few rounds of MK8 with the group.
Sunday will finally be the time I rip off the shrink wrap and load up DA:I!!!!!!
Dragon Age. I’ll also (probably) hop onto Destiny to see what Xur has for sale – see if I can get another exotic I don’t have room for or the time to upgrade.
Far Cry 4, its looking like the first game im ever going to platinum! That is if I can get the fucking co-op to even work. Stupid uplay. Ergh.
I’m planning to get Kingdom Rush’s endless mode working on my PC.
Gonna try finish The Evil Within
I don’t have a 3DS so I’ve been DYING to play the new smash. Entire weekend is reserved. Doritos have been bought. My body is ready.
Playing some Attack Wing tonight with my xbox mates.
If I have time I’ll try and do another VoG Raid in Destiny.
Have been tooling around with the multiplayer mode in DA:I but haven’t touched the SP because my wife wants to finish it first (and has been hogging the console since it came out!)
But my SP game at the moment is Black Flag, which I’ve only just started so if I can’t ge a raid together I’ll keep rockin’ that.
Im thinking I might start on Mount and Blade Warband, mainly because it has so much positive feedback and I’m hopeful I’ll get addicted to it to stop me from ceaselessly buying games during the steam sale.
I have 100 hours on the clock for DA:I and the end is nowhere in sight. Love it!
PS4 – doing my collectibles cleanup on Thief before commencing a platinum run. I finished the game recently and thought it was pretty good overall. Not as bad as I’d feared what with all the people slagging it off. Might also play some Skylanders Trap Team with my daughter.
PS3 – Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt. Liking it so far but a bit of a disconnect between my gun levels and the monster levels at the moment. Got to get better guns! Might also play some Tokyo Jungle with my kids.
PS Vita – Miku! And also play Eufloria HD at the moment. Quite a nice little game now that I’ve spent some time with it.
2DS – Kirby Triple Deluxe.
I am really struggling to find the time to play both dragon age and farcry 4 while still playing warlords
I’ll be playing copious amounts of games (DA:I, FC4 GTAV etc) as I have 2 broken ribs and a compound fracture of my L2 (in my spine). Soooo other than falling asleep from the pain or the pain killers (whichever is taking effect at the time), I will be playing games in bed ! just got to make it to the hospital for a CT scan and back without dying from pain… wish me luck, im gonna need it !
SOOOOOO MUCH FUN !!!!
Just picked up an msi r9 295×2! So I’m gonna crank up the quality settings to ultra and enjoy demolishing some of the more demanding games!
I’ll be trying to survive in “This War of Mine”,the longer I lasted was 14 days. Other than that I’ll probably hang around COD’s multiplayer. I wanna finish Ryse and Never Alone too but, their gameplay is not so good.
Everyone needs to play SUPER SMASH BROS!
On holidays, finished Bioshock on Thursday so no idea what I will play now. More Pokemon, but aside from that, I really don’t know.