GR00T: Loaded The Witcher 3 on the new rig a few days ago, and fired it up with the intent to just spend a few minutes to see how it ran. Well... still playing it. Damn, what a great game.
I really need to try this one - I don't understand why it's taken me so long. Also, the last week or so I've REALLY wanted to go back to the first Witcher game. I liked it but for some reason stopped playing fairly early. Sooner rather than later I'm going to fire it up - I sort of *don't* want to restart, but I'm not sure how lost I'll get if I dig up my old saves. I remember the mechanics being fairly deep and unusual, plus the journal being a bit obtuse so I think going in cold from my last save is a bad idea, but I don't want to go over the open again.
I've been playing X-Com Interceptor the last few nights. I ALWAYS wanted to try this one and, terrible gamer that I am, it was the one I was most excited to see show up here because I'd finally get to give it a go (the fact that I still have my 3.5s of X-Com probably had somthing to do with this).
Good game - little slow at the start but the time controls take care of that. It's fun to launch probes and slowly increase your circle of influence into deeper regions of space. It really *feels* like probing, hoping to set up deep space mining in farther flung regions - almost an "Alien" sort of thing - lonely, dark and distant out there. The combat feels a bit *off* but I'm guessing that's just because stats, ship and technology play a strong role, along side player skill. I'm guessing as I develop new tech and fighters, combat will feel closer to a proper flight sim.