What video games are you currently playing?

I still need to build a new gaming desktop. My laptop came with a GTX 960M so it's reasonably competent, but I'm kind of intrigued by VR stuff and that's not going to happen with that GPU. I mean, it can barely manage current gen games and stuff on a normal screen.

Today I priced out a Threadripper build but things got silly pretty quickly. I don't think I'll be going that route. The Ryzen 7s look neat and I think I can do a whole system for less than $3k and still end up in the performance ballpark I want to be in. A Ryzen 7 with 1080ti and some arbitrary stupid amount of RAM ought to do it. An M.2 PCIe SSD is a stretch goal.

I keep meaning to do it but then I think well new hardware is just around the corner and my laptop still does pretty okay, so I don't. But new hardware is always just around the corner. I guess maybe I just don't need one and am too cheap frugal to spend that much money on a "nice-to-have."

In terms of games I have actually been playing, I finished Fallout 3 and have been in a sort of limbo ever since. I could do a run through New Vegas I suppose. In the last couple of days I've put more time into Fire Emblem on my 3DS than anything else.

 

I did Human Revolution when it came out. I also did the original Deux Ex when it came out, because I am old. Mankind Divided I have not gotten to yet. I will check it out.

 

I'm finally getting around to Ni No Kuni, 7 years after release and two years after buying it. It's pretty much Ghibli: the game. I'm digging it so far.

 

Still playing Civ 6...

 

Here's a cool little video game story that I couldn't find a better thread to post in...........

So I'm still playing World of Warships quite a bit, and have gotten quite decent at it. There are 4500 clans or so in the game, and exponentially more players than that. The clan I'm in is in the top 40 best clans by recognized ranking sites. However, there are still lots of times that I play solo on teams with other randoms just due to scheduling.

So, about a month ago I was in a random game (usually 12-on-12, no respawns, once you are dead you can only watch or exit to a new match) and the team I was on was very mediocre. I tried to carry as much as I could, but wasn't able to do enough and was eventually ganged up on and killed. There was a guy left who was in a very powerful premium (i.e. he paid for it, even though the game is free to play) ship, but he was not very good. His playstyle was not making use of hardly any of the ship's strengths. Even an average player in that ship could've helped pull a win out, but he was basically handing the other team the victory. So I got on him a bit (not rudely, but directly) in chat and told him he really needs to learn how to play that ship better, and I suggested one or two online references to look for tips, videos, or strategy. Usually that type of comment ends up in the person either ignoring you, or raging back in chat with insults. Instead, this guy started asking a few specific questions as to where to find the stuff I was mentioning, so I gave him more info.

After the match, I got in chat with him and told him I wasn't trying to troll him, but that he really could help himself by learning more about the game. I suggested a few Youtube channels, a couple of websites revolving around the game, and told him I hoped it helped him enjoy the game better. Fast forward a week or ten days and I have a message in game from the guy. It was a long message about how much the references I steered him to have helped, how much more he's enjoyed the game, and finished with a "thanks man for helping this 71yr old guy out!" Obviously through text chat I had no idea who I was talking to, but it turns out this was just an older guy who loved naval stuff and gaming.

So over the last several weeks we have actually linked up in game to play a bunch. I've pointed out more game tools and strategy to him, and we've gotten on voice comms a bunch of times. I've introduced him to some of the guys I play with, and they've been gracious enough to allow him to play too. A bunch of times he's went on and on about how much more he's enjoying the game, thanking me for pointing stuff out to him, and just overall been a very cool guy out of it all. This past week I log in and have an in game gift from him for about $30 worth of in game currency as a "thank you" for all the help.

Most of you gamers have probably seen how suggestions or advice or criticism in game chat can turn salty. So I thought this one was pretty cool. Not just because he appreciated it enough to send me in game goods, but also because it was an older gamer who ended up really benefited from the exchange. And it was pretty awesome from my perspective helping him out too.

 

I'm still playing Ni No Kuni, but I am also playing Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and in between those two getting in an occasional match of Splatoon. Between baby and work I now pretty much only have time for games on the weekends but so it goes.

 

Replaying Skyrim. Ignoring the main quest and just stealing everything.