The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

I'll be finishing up Dying Light soon. It's been a really fun open world zombie game so far, much better than Dead Island. The platforming is surprisingly fun most of the time and before I got good enough weapons I was mostly running away from zombies, but at the point I'm at now the combat has become a lot of fun. I really didn't expect much out of it, but it's been surprisingly very good. 

Tomorrow I get to play the first episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, and I'll likely do a bit of raid mode as well, so that should be fun. Between that, buying the newest Sherlock Holmes game from a PSN sale and buying an intriguing indie game called Hand of Fate, I have ton of stuff to play for now.

Damn, I didn't realise it was such a short game.

I think I will get Dying Light soon, I have a few old PS3 games to trade in since they don't work with PS4.

Now I just need to get Oblivion up and running in a playable manner. Despite being able to run heavily modded Skyrim with only a few rare crashes Oblivion is lagging every few seconds on my current install. Funny thing is I haven't installed any mods I didn't use before when my system had less powerful hardware and I had it up and running with graphics mods pretty damn good before having to do a full system reset but now I've changed from 4GB RAM/2GB GPU (might have even been my previous 1GB SLI GPU's) to 8GB RAM/4GB GPU it runs atrociously. Mind you Oblivion stability was always more problematic for me than Morrowind. Might even just clean install and then install Nehrim over the top, it's a better game IMO.

Outside of Elder Scrolls I also started up Mass Effect again. I'm trying to go pure Paragon on this save. 

I also tried for the second time the demo of The Evil Within but also for the second time I've uninstalled it and have now decided not to bother. I never got past the second chapter in the demo but it hadn't hooked me plot wise by that point (quite confusing really) and the controls feel rather clunky on PC to me. I probably could have plugged in my 360 controller for Windows but in past experience any game that involves shooting is ridiculously hard to control with a controller after using keyboard and mouse; either that or the game in question just switches on aiming assist of its own accord which is completely unnecessary if you're using K&M. Glad I never bought this one.

I also restarted Dragon Age 2. Not sure how long I'll be sticking with it this time. I've played the first game to completion several times but there's something about this one that seems much lesser. I enjoy the dialogue scenes (I'm trying to roleplay a smartarse Hawke) but that's about it. Whether I manage to stick with it this time will determine whether I eventual pick up the third game. I know most people say it's a lot better but I don't see the point in bothering with it if I can't get through DA2. 

As for my Dragon Age II run, well I do still put it on every so often but like with what happened with my original save by the time I get into act 2 the story isn't really holding my attention at all and I wouldn't be surprised if I suddenly realise I haven't touched it for a month or more.