What are you playing at the moment?

[Zzzptm]

Read David Mitchell's book Unruly and it made me realize I'd been playing Crusader Kings III all wrong. It's not about building and growth, it's about killing anyone that threatens the stability of the realm, if you want to be a ruler that provides stability and relative peace. Gotta go for the dread in that game.

[Zzzptm]

Cities: Skylines 2 is an absolute shitshow. Game was so bad, it made me want to go back to Cities: Skylines 1 to check against and then, after 2 hours total between the 2, CS2 was so bad it made me want to get back to work.

[Thelemech]

Come join us in BG3, Thel!

Doing a run as Karlach right now, WONDERFUL in-head dialogue streams we get in that one!

BG3 is coming to the Xbox soon according to the publisher and when it does I will definitely buy it.

[Zzzptm]

Yes, it's a magnificent game. Wish I could say that about Cities 2, but at least I got my refund in a timely fashion.

[Zzzptm]

Just started a game of Red Dead Redemption 2 with my daughter. That is one beautiful game! Great story line thus far. A few bugs forced us to re-do some missions, but such a beautiful country depicted in the game. Made me want to play more American Truck Simulator, so I did that yesterday.

[Thelemech]

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most beautiful games from the last generation and it's just incredible.
The work and care that went into it's development is astonishing.

[Zzzptm]

Absolutely so, it's fantastic and immersive. The fact that it released without massive technical bombs is testament to the care that went into the making of it.

[Charger]

Too bad that the game itself isn't very good....but it is pretty but boring as hell! Which is the problem with these open world games...95% of the time is mindless wondering which I do not like at all!

[Zzzptm]

That "mindless wander", though, does appeal to a gamer like me who likes to stretch back and take it easy. That's why I also enjoy the truck simulator game, once I get out of the dock and on to the highway, I get to exhale and enjoy. I'd love a fishing game where you don't have to fish, for that matter.

[Thelemech]

Too bad that the game itself isn't very good....but it is pretty but boring as hell! Which is the problem with these open world games...95% of the time is mindless wondering which I do not like at all!

I  think that yes there is a  tedious nature and a lack of content compared to some triple a games.
I do enjoy just wandering around in open world games and this game is a  true work of art.
I also think that the fact they were able to get the game to perform so smoothly on the Playstation 4 and the Xbox One was genuinely great

[Charger]

I've always preferred games that you have a rather linear plot (with different maps and missions) which guarantees action as opposed to open world games. I played another one of these open world games back in the day called Farcry (which I think was among the first ones) and while it was kind of fun at first it got tedious really fast...

The graphic on these games however is indeed quite spectacular quite often.