What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing?

One of these Battle Royale games just game to Xbox One, there's a free trial, but I bet you need Xbox Gold to play. It isn't 100 players though, I think it's 2-16

It's called The Culling. It looks pretty bad but all the talk on this thread of Battlegrounds has me curious

Finished X-COM 2 as I expected too. Hardest difficulty on Ironman sounds like more trouble than fun. I'm sure we could do it.

Tried competitive in Overwatch once I clocked up to level 25. I ranked as high gold, and then won a couple games to become platinum. That sounds shiny, but a quick look around the net shows that I'm thoroughly average. Which I'm okay with- I recognize that the ranking largely serves to match you with people that will give you close games. I thought I was worse to be honest- I hardly play FPS games anymore. I play Mercy, Lúcio, Soldier 76, Pharah, and Roadhog, roughly in that order. Occasional D. Va maybe? I rotate a bit more in the 3v3's which I think are really fun but I tend to be bad at. 75-80% of my quick match or competitive time is probably with those first 2 heroes.

So, tried Overwatch at the free weekend and bought it on the subsequent Monday.

Enjoy it thoroughly, especially if my friends are online. The thing with Overwatch is, it's so easy to enjoy, even if you're losing. The shooting mechanism is solid (hitscan FTW), and there is a lot of chance to do heroics. My favorite hero is now Reinhardt, even if I do some stupid things with him (being shot at in the back, running away with charge, only to fall into chasm). Playing offensive Reinhardt is surprisingly tactical (finding the right time and place to charge). The others are Pharah, Bastion, Reaper, Soldier 76 and Mercy.

It's still overpriced though.

Fallout 4. I now have a rocket powered baseball bat.

Finally giving NMS a bit of a rest and playing the seasonal thing on Diablo 3, but I'm not 100% feeling it.

Sevej wrote: So, tried Overwatch at the free weekend and bought it on the subsequent Monday.

Enjoy it thoroughly, especially if my friends are online. The thing with Overwatch is, it's so easy to enjoy, even if you're losing. The shooting mechanism is solid (hitscan FTW), and there is a lot of chance to do heroics. My favorite hero is now Reinhardt, even if I do some stupid things with him (being shot at in the back, running away with charge, only to fall into chasm). Playing offensive Reinhardt is surprisingly tactical (finding the right time and place to charge). The others are Pharah, Bastion, Reaper, Soldier 76 and Mercy.

It's still overpriced though.

It's incredibly enjoyable! Not even close to everything is hitscan though. Of the characters you mention, only Bastion, Reaper, and Soldier76 have hitscan as primary fire, and they all have range issues (less so for Soldier). Aside from "sprays" like Winston's Lightning Gun, Mei's Ice Gun, and Symettra's ...uh.. Light(?) Gun, the characters I think of as traditional hitscan are McCree (Revolver) and Widowmaker (Sniper Rifle). Dodging Pharaah rockets is routine, Lucio's gun has memes made about it because its bullets are so slow. And dying to random Junkrat balls is a wonderful introduction to the character.

Have fun out there! I am 2-0 in my placement matches so far, but I will end up in ELO hell and Bronze to be sure.

Legomancer wrote: Finally giving NMS a bit of a rest and playing the seasonal thing on Diablo 3, but I'm not 100% feeling it.

Yeah, the seasonal thing on D3 was cool the first couple times, but it gets old pretty quickly, ESPECIALLY if the set highlighted for the class you want to play is subpar. A couple seasons back, the Wizard set was Delsere's Magnum Opus and the set bonuses were mediocre, at best. I have far more fun playing my Tal Rasha's and Firebird sets, so it kinda left a sour taste in my mouth about the whole seasonal thing. It's also a LOT more fun to run the season with other people. I'm not quite sure how things are going to change when the Necromancer comes out, but I'm hoping that they spruce up the seasons a bit.

The Necro has been quite fun, but is having some similar problems. Some of the skills are just underwhelming in their effect, which makes the sets based on those skills (like Trang'Oul's) very underwhelming. In the beta, there's a merchant who looks like a giant satyr named "Dahnk M'eme" who hands out full sets for 200 blood shards, so they could be tested. I've tried all four and I have to say that, right now, I'd never play anything but the Inarius set, because it makes an otherwise underwhelming skill in Bone Armor into pure insanity. I have no pets(!) I just walk into a crowd, cast Bone Armor to do massive damage to them, and then surround myself with a combination damage and armor field that multiplies the damage of the rest of my skills in that radius by a ridiculous amount. It's insanely fun. The rest of the sets pale in comparison. That said, outside the sets, I'd probably never play anything but a max pet build (golem, warriors, mages.)

So, I have a pretty crap laptop despite only being a year or so old. Also, recently, I borked my windows install trying to revert back to 7, so I'm now running Linux Mint "Cynnamon" or whatever. My point is I can really only play low requirement games.

I logged into Steam yesterday and saw a game "Mark of the Ninja" on sale for about $3. It's awesome. Great stealth tactics, in which I normally do not like stealth games. I've only done the first 3 missions, but I have already found myself going back for stealth achievements and high scores. On the first mission I have successfully climbed above Josh Look lol Anyhow, it's great. I can't recommend it enough. Add me on steam QPCloudy.

Also, thinking about CS:GO, but I keep reading it's got a toxic community. Not sure if I want to deal with it.

Counter-Strike players are some of the worst of the worst.

MARK OF THE NINJA is great. It's made by Klei Entertainment, and they also made SHANK, which is a sidescrolling good time with the same engine as MotN, but a more ...direct approach to enemy engagements. Then they made a zillion dollars from DON'T STARVE.