What games are everyone playing right now?

photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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Couldn't find a thread on this, so thought I'd start one as I'm curious

What games are people playing at the moment? Any platform, phones, consoles, PC etc

The game of the moment for me is The Long Dark - a wilderness survival sim on Steam Early Access. It's in alpha but is being developed continually and is turning into an interesting game - although if you're after an action packed game it's probably not for you.
 
Entropy

Entropy

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Currently loosing a stupid amount of hours playing Civilisation IV and the attached expansion packs.

Simple, but highly additive
 
Jonah

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Not used my PS3 for quite a while but did finish GTAV, The Last of Us and Tomb Raider when I was.

At the moment, it's just occasional games on my iPhone, Dots, Threes, Stick Hero are some that are nice and easy to dip in and out of.
 
photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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I did like the last Tomb Raider, even if it was a bit gorier than traditional Tomb Raider games - shame the next one is an Xbox Exclusive (at least to start with)

Another on on my regular playlist is Kerbal Space Program - I am a frustrated wannabe astronaut so it's letting me live out a boyhood fantasy! I also had a go with Orbitor, but you really do need a degree in advanced mathematics and astrophysics to play that one...
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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photography_bloke said:
Another on on my regular playlist is Kerbal Space Program - I am a frustrated wannabe astronaut so it's letting me live out a boyhood fantasy! I also had a go with Orbitor, but you really do need a degree in advanced mathematics and astrophysics to play that one...
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In the '80s, we made a game for the Atari ST where two rockets, flown by Eric and Norm, for reasons that nobody could remember, fired rockets at each other - these rockets had their trajectories affected by the gravities of four randomly generated planets. Rockets were fired in a chosen direction and with a selected initial velocity, after that they coasted in the resultant complex gravitational field. The gravity effects were determined by the distances from the planets (inverse square law) and the mass (cube of the diameter) of each planet. The 'universe' also extended, invisibly, a metre all round the screen, so flights could disappear for considerable periods of time, before hurtling back, like Halley's Comet.

I remember a shot that had to be left on overnight and it was about twenty hours after launch that the fatal impact occurred.

A strangely therapeutic game and the only computer game that I've ever found entertaining.
 
highguyuk

highguyuk

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I'm still hooked on FM 2014, bought but never ever started FM 2015. Will buy FM 2016 and crack on with a new team though.

Hednesford Town though are now one of the most successful teams EVER!
 
Darren

Darren

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photography_bloke said:
I'm still waiting for Episode 3...

It may show up at some point within the next millennia - but I'm not holding my breath...
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Same here and oddly for a good month on Overclockers it had a special offer on a now GPU were if you brought the GPU you could choose from one of three free games and one of them was Half Life 3, maybe it was a mistake but the offer would of come from Nvidia so maybe there is a Half Life 3 being developed.
 
Noah

Noah

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Don't think I've really played games since the days of text only adventures - you are in a room, ahead is a fireplace, to your left is a door, to your right is a table with ... Son is next door immersed in something on his new PSP4.
 
bigmanthundz

bigmanthundz

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I've just bought the Alpha game Squad, I love the realism and communication between players, but I'm gonna check out The Long Dark now! I also play on Steam
 
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