Currently playing...

[Chirpychicken]

Currently playing Fallout New Vegas on my laptop and Bloodborne on PS4 (ready for the DLC)

[Darkflame]

Invisible Inc's DLC. Still love it.

Although I am stuck on a mission right now and am not sure if theres a bug in the procedural generation or just me missing something.
"Find the laboratory" it says....but I think I have sent at least one agent to each room now...hmm..

[VNVObit]

Just finished the main plot of Assassin's Creed Syndicate (and mopped up a few of the side quests)
Really enjoyed it and liked the fact the map wasn't too big which meant not too much of endless trekking.
The combat was fairly simplistic but enjoyable nonetheless as was banter between siblings. Particularly liked the WW1 bit and roaming the various train stations.

It was a little strange seeing places I know in real life in a game (albeit from yesteryear and probably in less detail).

next stop is Fallout 4 though might give Gauntlet a go on the PS4 first

[MattyP]

Love this time of year as I get a bit more tome to chill out and grab some more game time than usual.

I've mostly being playing on the WiiU and in particular Super Mario 3D world. Such a lovely fun game. I'm currently up to 112 stars and need 130 to gain access to the final level. The gamepad has been great on this as I can sit with everyone in the room whilst they watch some TV I'm sat carefully trying not to swear at it at the more challenging bits...

[Chirpychicken]

I was given a copy of Fallout 4 for PS4 by my better half this Christmas, currently really enjoying it.

I will probably die lots due to my build but it should be fun I decided to concentrate on luck for mysterious stranger and bloody mess perks.

Surprisingly I'm loving the shelter building mini game I even grabbed the perk to unlock rarer crafting items just for that.

[Chontler]

Grinding through Chronicles X with the sound off while the baby naps. It's the only way I can play the game anyway and the sleeping babe makes me feel less bad about buying it and let's me enjoy it.

[Zoot]

Playing Tomb Raider back to front. What I mean by that is that I have never played any tomb raider games before, but got "Rise of the Tomb Raider" for my XBOne and really liked it. Eager for more, I then played Definitive Edition on the XBone, and then went back to "Legend", "Anniversary" (too hard and frustrating in places), and am now half way through "Underworld" on the 360. I must admit that as me and the Mrs are currently watching "Ashes to Ashes" having the lovely Keeley Hawes as Lara is very nice indeed.

Camilla Luddington is reasonably convincing in the two XBOne games, but her pronunciation of certain words is laughable - posh totty with no command of the Queen's English.

Overall, as a Tomb Raider virgin not plagued by glorious times past, I love "Definitive Edition" and "Rise", and it has made a great change from playing Mass Effect all the time. No interest whatsoever in online multiplayer, however.

[funkstar]

The Talos Principle, acquired in the Humble Monthly - it's been mentioned a few times in this thread already. It manages to be be quite great in spite of it being essentially a very conventional (first-person) "light guide" puzzler with (entirely optional) story bits. Lots of reading, if you want it (I did).

I think it manages to be great by being extraordinarily well-crafted in both of these aspects: the puzzles are extremely clever, and explore the possibility space astonishingly well - I kept worrying that either it would start repeating puzzle chunks, or that it would swamp you with mechanics to compensate. But it doesn't do that (although new mechanics are introduced fairly regularly.) Even fairly deep in, it seems to say "Did you think that you understood those blocks? Well, here another trick you hadn't thought of. And another. And another." The story, starting from booming-voice-in-the-sky is very, very well-written. Preposterous, of course, but lots of very neat touches, that slowly makes sense of the world(s). Entirely skippable, if you're so inclined, although I wouldn't recommend it.

Pretty much the only parts that annoy me are those godawful tetromino puzzles. I'm sure there's a point or two to be made about having them there (from pocket philosophy and upwards) but that doesn't make them any less annoying.

I shall definitely be acquiring The Road to Gehenna (the DLC/expansion pack) at some point in the future.

[rowan]

people like me who are years behind the times at best

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but having now played quite a bit of The Stanley Parable

Just got this myself today. Non-stop immersed for 5 hours, great fun, everyone should try this.

[F-ZeroOne]

Grinding through Chronicles X with the sound off while the baby naps. It's the only way I can play the game anyway and the sleeping babe makes me feel less bad about buying it and let's me enjoy it.

Also playing this, not for everyone but if you enjoy JRPGs you'll probably enjoy it. It is big, though. I've been playing it for a fortnight and then had a go on the XBox One for a bit and it felt like the controller had shrunk, I'd been using the Wii U pad so much...

[Mat]

Dragon's Dogma on PC, and thanks to a Steam buddy, I've transferred across my PS3 save.
Such an awesome game

[Darkflame]

Still Xenoblade here too. Taking it slow, loving every bit of it.
Not a massive JRPG fan, but I am a massive exploration fan, and the combat is fast paced and flashy enough to trick me into feeling its not grindy

Only just got my first Mech recently too. Thats fun. I mean, I was having fun with the game, then it gives me a Mech. Which transforms into a vehicle - and it transforms properly...but then , the icing on that cake, it has 8 weapon slots. 8! I mean for fucks sake I am happy enough with a mech with a chain saw.
Also - more bonus points for letting me name the thing.

[funkstar]

I finished The Talos Principle which is the best FPS puzzle platformer (or even just best game) I've played in a long time. It did get a little more self-derivative towards the end, and one aspect of the final puzzle (well, in one of the endings) annoyed me quite a lot:

Spoiler: show

The "oncoming storm" time limit jarred for both ludic and narrative reasons: gameplay-wise there had been no time limit of that sort in any of the prior puzzles. And if the storm is triggered by a child program climbing the tower, why isn't it triggered by the presence of The Shepherd and/or Samsara? Does Elohim control it? That doesn't jive with the fact that neither Elohim nor Milton had any such agency elsewhere... Boo.

However, I think this mainly annoyed because of the excellence of the rest of the package. Thought-provoking, full of marvelous head-scratchers, serenely beautiful. So, er, a typical Croteam game. Yes.

Moving on, I've cracked the lid on Mushroom 11, another puzzle platformer from the January Monthly. While the art design means that I cannot call it charming, there is so much to like about this. The central mechanic (and I hope, the only mechanic) is really cleverly done, and the puzzles, although not (yet?) as cerebral as in Talos (probably due to the dependence on the dynamics of the... blob... thing... you control) are well-done so far. John Walker's WIT threatens that things may not be all that perfect come the later stages, but so far this is pretty damn good.

And in a throwback, more Red Steel 2. The Wii really is a great machine, but I can't shake the feeling that if this had been on any other platform, it would have gotten mediocre reviews. Also, a family means that I just can't justify using the living room TV for my single-player centric playing, so the Wii gets even less play time than I would like. And my Wii backlog looks so tasty...

[Mark]

Moving on, I've cracked the lid on Mushroom 11, another puzzle platformer from the January Monthly. While the art design means that I cannot call it charming, there is so much to like about this. The central mechanic (and I hope, the only mechanic) is really cleverly done, and the puzzles, although not (yet?) as cerebral as in Talos (probably due to the dependence on the dynamics of the... blob... thing... you control) are well-done so far. John Walker's WIT threatens that things may not be all that perfect come the later stages, but so far this is pretty damn good.

I've just added that to my wishlist, cheers. Sounds pretty cool.

[Darkflame]

And in a throwback, more Red Steel 2. The Wii really is a great machine, but I can't shake the feeling that if this had been on any other platform, it would have gotten mediocre reviews.

Not just you, Red Steel 2 disappointed me as well. It seemed like it wanted to be more non-linear but they couldn't pull it off.
I loved chucking enemy's in mid-air and then blasting them, however.