OK, what's everyone enjoying the heck out of playing, or looking forward to for Christmas, or anticipating in the new year?

Right now I'm currently playing

F1 2016
ArmA 3
Total War Attila
Total War Rome 2
Skyrim Enhanced Edition
Borderlands 2
Company of Heroes 2
DCS World
Rise of Flight
Project Cars


I will be playing the new Deus Ex title as soon as I finish Skyrim.

I keep getting sidetracked with games and not finishing anything.
Right now I'm getting into Fallout 4, whereas I didn't get into 3.
The Division...the new survival mode is INTENSE.
Skyrim SE...fun, can pick up anytime.
Star Wars Battlefront...just scratched the surface, but interested in the ship fights. I'm useless on the ground.
Ryse Son of Rome...renewed interest. Bargain game, eye candy, good battles if a little repetitive.

Flip side:
Dishonored 2...still playing, but not as good as the original.
Mafia 3...good game, but doesn't have the style of Mafia 2. Very "Far Cry", which isn't bad, but not what I'm in the mood for.

So this is a gaming question and it's not about plants?

I'm anticipating DCS World 2.5, but I've been anticipating it for awhile and I imagine I will continue to for the foreseeable future! I'll fly a bit of 1.5.x and 2.0.x in the interim, along with some RoF.

I'm deep in Bioshock Remastered, haven't played the game in years, then I have B2 Remastered and BInfinite to play after that. I bought Rise of the Tomb Raider GOTY to fit in somewhere.

I'm in the middle of Witcher 2, although I believe I'm still pretty early in it, and then I have Witcher 3 to start.

I'm also going to do a bit of F1 2016, along with Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally.
I'll be spending some time with BoS/BoM using Pat's DCG, and a bit of R6 Siege now and again.

I'll finally play Fallout 4 somewhere in between the Bioshock titles, maybe between 1 and 2, and I do plan on Skyrim SE, which unlike many people here I have only ever played through one time, although I did do EVERYTHING in the game and DLCs, there was nothing left but dynamic quests and random encounters. Took me 250 hours to do it all once.

I will also replay Dishonored and Deus Ex Human Revolution in advance of playing the new ones, but I don't have them yet, so no rush.


When it comes to games that are unreleased, there are only 2 I'm watching:

Ghost Recon Wildlands--we'll see how good it is

Sniper Elite 4--liked the last 2, so unless they screw it up it should be great



The Jedi Master

Recently got back into Elite Dangerous (Horizons). Before that I finally got around to finish Assassin's Creed Syndicate. And still using Rocksmith 2014, if that can even be called a game.

Still installed but not playing ATM:
- DCS (have not touched it since 2014)
- Witcher 3 (finished all main and side quests, still some POIs to discover though)
- Shogun 2 Total War
- Arma 3 (with Tanoa DLC)
- Deus Ex Mankind Divided (finished but not yet uninstalled)

Waiting for Dishonored 2 and Mafia 3 to enter a Steam sale (and to be patched)

For 2017, I'm looking forward to Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. And being the sunny, optimistic type of person I pretend to be for the sake of this post, Star Citizen.

So many:

Witcher 3 (Just started Blood and Wine)
Skyrim SE with mods
Oxenfree
Salt & Sanctuary
Subnautica
Shadow Complex
Outland
Alien Isolation (still playing and haven't finished the main game yet even after 50+ hours! I love this game.)
Uncharted Series (continuing my second playthrough of these games but this time around on the very good PS4 remastered version. I finished one, about 75% into the second and this it will be the third)
The Order: 1886 (getting ready to play my second playthrough of this after finishing it almost two years ago.


Looking forward to so many:
Uncharted 4
God of War
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Dishonored 2
Tyranny
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
Tahira
ABZU
Inside
Red Dead Redemption 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quantum Break
Sniper Elite 4
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Combat Air Patrol 2
Astroneer
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Syberia 3

Oh my goodness!!! I just discovered that The Last of Us 2 is confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh man this is too much. Between that and Red Dead Redemption 2 I haven't been this excited in a long time. Time to save the pennies.

Kind of out of simming for about a year now, but Steam had a nice sale and I just picked up a three year old game Assassin's Creed IV; Black Flag, and having a pretty good time with it. Not really looking forward to anything newer...maybe the new COD.

AC4 is the only one I played, got it free with my GTX770, but I thought it was great fun. The best time is sailing around the Caribbean, taking on forts, ships, upgrading your ship to take on bigger ones...


Coot, how in the world have you put over 50 hrs into Alien Isolation without finishing it yet?? I did everything I could find, went everywhere I could, and I finished in 28!
I missed getting all the logs, ID tags, and a few other achievements like killing an android with just the jack due to the frustration level but at that point I really felt like I'd done it all.
That's 28 with playing the SP DLC's as well, BTW!



The Jedi Master

Maybe Coot has a serious case of ADD? lol

I am playing Extreme G on the Nintendo 64 as well as F Zero on the Super Nintendo.

I'm not joking.

When Steam gave away Dirt 3, it rekindled my love for racing games, and some of the old ones are still the best.

I was hoping it was going to be Witcher 3 but after a good few hours in it I'm rather "meh" about it. I might re-purchase the new Skyrim and play that instead if it pops on sale between now & Christmas. Otherwise, it'll probably be Crusader Kings II.

Is it more the story that you just can't get into or is it the gameplay?

I don't know Jedi lol. It says I have 53 hours. I'm just now at the place in the Apollo core where you I haven't even done the DLC stuff. Maybe there was a lot of trial and error at first along with some replaying from previous saves if I died? I am a bit compulsive but I don't think I've done anything but go at it slow. I'm surprised I've gotten this much from it too.

BF1, BF1, BF1 - and the forthcoming DLC.

Otherwise Rocksmith Remastered, Prison Architect, Hitman, and Northern Inferno (I just wish it had the 3D TV view like Jane's Fleet Command)

I gave up all gaming after reaching lvl 100 in World of Warcraft during the summer. Will devote time now to more reading, taking care of mother who is 93 but still in good health, investing and making plans for retirement

I guess the gameplay...? It doesn't seem to be quite what I was hoping. I like to start a game, then as soon as possible wander off the main story and explore the game world, finding the incidental stuff to do. I'm just not getting that experience so far.

To be clear: I realise the problem will be with me there are enough opinions about this game from people who's opinions I respect to make me realise that. I'm quite self-aware in that regard.

I find that I'm pulled out of the game each time there's some cut-scene, which seems to happen with almost every encounter.
I find that dangers are in unsurprising and predictable formations (almost always in 4s).
I find the gameplay to be a matter of following the arrows to the next thing, do/watch the thing, then follow the arrows again.
I find that when I try to ignore the current story and try to wander the gameworld, in hardly any time I find myself at the edge of the explorable world and I'm turned around.

OK these problems occur in other games, except the limited gameworld area one. But that one is a biggie for me
In Skyrim the first thing I ever did was to lose the arrow-following gameplay and also the nearby POI markers via a mod. I guess it might be possible to similarly mod Witcher 3, but it seems less equipped to allow for finding your way by other means.

(Incidentally, losing the nearby POI markers improves gameplay IMO. It makes you notice the world you're moving through a lot more. You notice little paths, other clues etc. IMO destination arrows and POI markers removes gameplay.)

I dunno, I guess I'm looking for specific gameplay that this game doesn't provide in quite the right way. Oh yeah - and I suck at arcade combat so I like to be able to develop a character that has ranged ability plus some other melee-style combat for when there's no other choice in W3 I seem to be stuck in a premade role already. I might guess I can affect this over time but I haven't seen much evidence of this yet.

In W3 you have that hand-held crossbow but it's really ineffective and it seems like it was added as an afterthought by the game designers. The Witcher games have always been about the melee sword combat at its core.

Yeah I saw that crossbow, but as I got it immediately before the Griffin murders me every time I never got to use it (and there didn't seem to be any hint or tutorial so far :/)

I guess I just suck at it but at least in Skyrim if I suck at something I just try another approach.

You're close to the end, then. I can only guess you've indeed had numerous reloads and restarts or something like that to replay the same areas more than once to get that much time without finishing it.

The Nostromo and the other DLC are actually fairly short. Cool having the original cast voice the Nostromo one, though.



The Jedi Master

I couldn't get into Witcher3 either. Just didn't hold my interest. BF1 on the PS4 is where I spend my gaming time just now, with a little bit of RO thrown in. Looking forward to the Vietnam release for RO.