What are you playing at the moment?

[Charger]

Hey good to hear from you 8bit! Hopefully we'll get to see more of you soon then!

[Zzzptm]

Yeah, always good to see familiar faces. Or avatars or screennames!

[Thelemech]

Playing Forza Horizon 5 on my new Xbox Series S. Looks and plays incredibly well.

[Zzzptm]

Going through the achievements on Civ6

[Thelemech]

Playing Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered. The game looks fantastic on the new Xbox and was very lovingly remastered.
Already finished about a fifth of the game and enjoying every minute of it.

[Charger]

Call Of Duty MODERN WARFARE 2 Open Beta


Looks pretty damn nice...and feels pretty good too.

[Zzzptm]

Getting ready for Victoria 3 which releases 25 October!

[Zzzptm]

4 days to the release of Victoria 3.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

What dat den?

A Queen Victoria simulator?

[Zzzptm]

It's a grand strategy simulation of the Victorian Era and a little bit more on each end, 1836-1936.

Unlike other grand strategy simulations, it's not about painting the entire map in the color of one's nation - it encourages "taller" gameplay as opposed to "wide", conquer-everything gameplay.

[Zzzptm]

EPIC GRAVEDIG

My current games list:

1. Baldur's Gate 3 - OH WOW THIS IS AN AMAZING GAME and I will be eager for the release version coming out later this week.

2. American Truck Simulator - Texas just got new content and Oklahoma is coming out later in the week. Have to say it's loads of fun, tooling around in my home state and seeing just how well the SCS team has captured the essence of Texas driving.

3. Old World - the gamers have been sleeping on this solid masterpiece of a 4X game. Tutorials are great and I have been playing a lot of this gem of late. I started because of some major mod issues after recent content releases in other games I've been playing and I'm glad I got into it.

4. Victoria 3 - now that the modding dust has settled, this one's fun to get into again.

5. Cities: Skylines - I do this instead of painting with watercolors.

6. Divinity Original Sin 2 - Was playing this until I bought BG3 from the same studio. I'm doing some completionist type runs so I can see plot lines I missed before. Highly entertaining game and was the main ad for BG3 in my experience.

7. Master of Orion 2 - Picked it up for cheap on Steam and got the 1.50 fan patch that uses a different launcher... it's a true classic, in every sense of the word. Original release turns 30 and this game is 27 years old - and it still holds up, in my opinion. It's straightforward and loads of beer 'n' pretzels fun.

[Vyn]

For the first time in a coon's age, I'm going to carve time out for a game. I preordered Baldur's Gate 3, have my key, have it downloaded, just waiting for go-live. I had played the pre-release a while back and what a stunningly well done piece of work. Looking forward to the real thing. Looks like me and Z will be hitting it August 3rd!

[Zzzptm]

Awwwwwwwwwww yeah!

My first run-through, I managed to get truly good and massacred by underestimating a trap setup. From now on, when I see a D20 above my character's head, I plan to not open any boxes until after I've plugged up any odd, fireball-sized holes in the room...

[Zzzptm]

Just read that Larian recommends removing all save games and uninstalling early release BG3 prior to the release version, so as not to have any possible code glitches. I will do that now so I'll be ready on the morrow!

[Zzzptm]

Took a long lunch break, coincidentally timing with the BG3 release.

It's a *good* game.