There’s not much going on at RPS Towers today, hence the lack of posting. Kieron is off on a journey of some kind, Alec has been eaten alive by his hungover housemate, John has been imprisoned in a laser-cage beneath the fortress of his arch-nemesis, and I’m busy sending off a fleet of carrier pigeons, destined for our sinister agents, to see if I can have them both rescued.
So what about you, readers? What have you been doing? What are you playing? Tell us what is on your “must complete” list for the remainder of 2009. (I was trying to Dragon Age finished, but Call Of Pripyat and Sins Of A Solar Empire have defeated me.) Did you enter our i7 processor competition? Did you download The Nameless Mod? Are you going to be helping out with the RPS game? And are you planning on buying anyone a videogame for Christmas? Where are you, and what are you doing? Speak!
I keep buying games i have no time to play. Seems easier to spend money when you dont actually receive anything (steam). few clicks and its another grey name added to the list…
:)
I’m battling some horrible BSODs with Windows 7 :(
Just got myself Osmos, which I am looking forward to playing.
I find myself wanting to engage in conversation with the RPS lot on this dreary day in order to get a little closer to having a life worth living. I am put off by the far-too-large number of comments.
I recently finished Psychonauts after I finally picked it up on gog. A shame I didn’t play it earlier, I have to admit.
Now I might start TNM again, after my game in progess died about half a year ago during exams.
Somehow there is no urge to play more recent games at the moment. Which is good, I think.
I’m playing at least five different games – which is more than I usually like to take on, but I’m having fun. Currently, L4D2 has decided that it is #1, the best and most important of all. So I’m just playing that. I want to finish up all these games and start something new, big and cool in the new year. Top contenders: Call of Prypiat, The Nameless Mod, or Thief 2!
Playing The Void…
Oh god. I am currently in the middle of:
L4D2, Dragon Age, Metroid Prime 3, Metal Gear Solid, Vice City, Osmos, GRID, Dead Space, and of course…………………………..EVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just started up Batman: AA from the Steam stale and it’s pretty impressive.
This nights having fun with C&C Kane’s Wrath (no kidding), also coming back to Plants VS Zombies and TF2.
Playing Gyromancer – which has reached the kinda-repetitive-but-I-want-to-find-out-what’s-going-to-happen-next phase. Mean to get back to Torchlight which had reached the aforementioned phase when I bought Gyromancer – but I bought GRID for 3 quid yesterday and have just this moment splurged a whole 6 pounds on Majesty 2; damn Steam and their compellingly cheap sales…
Finished my first play through of Dragon Age, now resisting the urge to play through again with another character/background.
Borderlands is on the backburner.
Toying with the idea of buying L4D2 after seeing the PCG review. (friends can apparently send you invites to a game you dont own?!)
Made the mistake of signing back up to Eve Online.
2009, unfortunately, holds nothing for me.
PC only college/yankie gamer here (full disclosure: I get smoke pot with my dealer and play Halo 3 on Xbawks–though, I don’t think it counts).
My current game rotation is MW1 (Love me some non-hardcore 32-48 player brawls), Battlefield 2, Warcraft 3:TFT (really love the 1v1 matches), Torchlight, Left 4 dead 2, Team Fortress 2 and finally C&C:RA3. I love me some multiplayer, if you can’t tell.
I am a really HUGE Battlefield fan… But it seems as though Dice dropped the ball with the PC crowd- Battlefield 1943 not being released until spring of ‘10, and passing us over for Battlefield: Bad Company (Had to watch the single-player played through on youtube to catch up with the story for BC2).
Had no real desire for a gimped multi-player for MW2… I have no real desire to pay $60+ for a full RPG game (Dragon Age– Thanks for putting pay-4-DLC in the game on DAY 1)… Left 4 Dead 2 was the only game I enjoyed buying.
“Early” 2010 holds a lot for me… Starcraft 2, Battlefield 1943, and Battlefield: BC2. Good. Deal.
Still playing STALKER:ShOC even though I have left Clear Sky languish. Still have to finish Trine, will probably buy Machinarium and eagerly awaiting Call Of Pripyat. Ugh, unemployment sucks.
Since Assassins Creed 2 got delayed for PC, the only game I was really looking forward to for the end of 2009 won’t be out in 2009. And I can’t get Deus Ex to work on Win 7 for TNM. So I’m just playing random stuff (Hitman: Contracts, Quake 3, APB Beta, Shattered Horizon and Arma II, although I’m soo bad at the latter that I can’t risk playing multiplayer). But, having bought a TrackIR for ArmA II made me try out some flight sims, and I’m slowly starting to get hooked on FSX and X-Plane..
Oh, and my son just peed on the floor. Darn. Yeah, I bet you all wanted to know that.
THOSE GODDAMN STEAM SALES.
I’m just about to buy KOTOR
KOTOR for $2.50 isn’t a sale, it’s a giveaway.
It’s an impressive sale, that’s for sure. I sold my copy of KOTOR ages ago after utterly failing to get into it on my first couple of attempts. This sale, however, has it at such a discount I was compelled to pick it up and give it another shot. I blame Jim.
I’m working on an adventure game engine. (SLUDGE) The Mac and Windows versions of it are finally equals and the number of knows bugs in the engine can be counted on one hand. It may get out of beta before the end of the year!
Playing:
*Ghostbusters (PC, dull and middling game barely saved by the dialogue and humor)
*New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, oh god it’s heaven yes quite so)
*Assassin’s Creed 2 (X360, which is what the first game should have been and then some, has too much Dan Brownisis in it, and is serious competition for Thief 4)
*Torchlight (PC, Fate 2.0)
Doing:
*Writing, freezing in a house near the sea, getting ready to install Fallout 3: GotY, smoking, missing the girlfriend and considering sipping some liquor while I twirl my moustache.
Going through Fahrenheit for a first time. Wonderful game, if you have a controller.
LAN party at my house, right now, celebrating my birthday! ^_^
Playing:
Borderlands, CS 1.6, MW1 (WHICH HAS LAN PLAY!), Demigod, L4D1, and more Borderlands (really great game when you’re in shouting range of your teammates!)
In addition, someone brought Kahlua and Cream, so white russians galore!
Great party, great fun! (:
You do have vodka as well right?
woah dude theres a beverage here!
Yeah, Vodka is here aplenty! Wouldn’t be a white russian otherwise (:
Also, we just discovered the L4D2 discount on Steam (25% off). Add that to the four-pack, which is already a 25% off, we have a 43.75% off! I guess we’ll add that to the LAN in a few hours (:
Hey your birthday is exactly one week after my birthday. I had birthday LAN last weekend. We only played CoD 1 and Warcraft III.
Anyway happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Demon Beaver!
Thanks! (:
@Torchlight being Fate 2.0 . Did you know that they just released a new version of Fate in 09-2009 ? It is called Fate Traitor Soul and contains everything from the other 2 versions and then a new campaign or some such, I didn’t realize they were still releasing Fate games. (Obviously released to get some of the Fate fans back from Torchlight before it was released or something)
I’m still on the fence about whether I want to get dragon age. I dinnae trust the setting, and I think I’m one of the few people who thought KOTOR was just alright. But I keep hearing how responsive it is to your choices.
Assassin’s Creed 2 I will be getting, on account of how me and the wife were recently in florence and it blew my mind. The opportunity to run around all that stuff sounds too much fun. It will go on a pile, like all me other games, on account of the fact that I don’t have much time for gaming right now. I haven’t fired up my gaming computer in at least two months. Last thing I played was a section of the vanilla STALKER, which I still love greatly. Man, I remember when I first bought that. God, it’s great.
When I do game right now, I’ve got a baldur’s gate game going on the wife’s laptop, with the widescreen mod. second time I’ve attempted to play it, and I think I’m not as annoyed by the forgotten realms setting.
I would love to play left 4 dead 2. I really, really would. But I don’t game regularly enough, don’t know enough other gamers, so the chances of me doing coop with anyone are slim to none.
You know the last thing I completed? Portal. and that was about 4 months ago. Loved it though. I’ve got save games scattered about all over the shop, but that’s life with a 1 1/2 year old. Time enough to game later. for now I just stockpile like some demented digital beaver. And read RPS. It feels like I’m almost gaming.
Want to check out that nameless mod, too. and replay deus ex.
Also trying to replay Baldur’s Gate with the widescreen mod at the moment. Much fun, although the pathfinding issues and light interaction with companions sometimes makes me want to return to newer RPGs. Do you get graphical glitches (black boxes around some moving objects like birds), or is it just me?
nope, it behaves itself fine with me. I had that happen a bit with fallout when I was playing it on the laptop, but not bg.
You can turn up how many points the ai uses to navigate, its a cpu drain but modern pc’s can take it.
I’ve never heard of a lan party where people baught new games from steam while AT the party just to play them right then and there :P must be the vokda talking, are you certian you’ll be able to download the game 4 times over 1 internet connection in time to actaully play it?
You make a valid point, sir. But, there is one frood here who already bought and downloaded the game a while ago… once we have the accounts, he could (maybe? not sure) use the “backup local game content” option in steam to pass it without download
I’m not sure whether that would work or not (and would be interested in hearing if it does), but if you’re going to do that you definitely want to have the friend that has it start that backup well before the party. Steam backups take ages, presumably because of the compression.
That should work, actually. I just passed around the L4D2 demo files at my house that way. Just back them up (in whatever size chunks you want), pass the files/folders around, make sure you’re logged into your account that has the game on it, and double click the .exe.
update: It really worked, and quite quickly, too! Ten minutes of doing the backup directly into someone elses computer (through a mapped network drive), and another 10 to install… voila, L4D2 without 8 hours of DL!
That’s a good trick to know, thanks for sharing!
I’ve done this plenty of times when having to move larger games like HL2 and TF2 onto other computers. It takes a lot less time than downloading those games all over again!
I’m currently trying to put up with Risen’s foibles long enough to finish the thing (almost at the end of chapter 2, at the minute, I’ve got all bar one of the disc thingies), and I’ve just started playing something called “Divinity 2″, which is apparently another european port from earlier in the year.
At some point I will doubtless be getting my hands on New SMB Wii, if only because the rest of the family wants it. I’d like to replay Dragon Age, too, but I think it’s still too soon to do that again.
Oh, and there’s always time for a quick Sins of a Solar Empire 1v1.
After I smite Korax and finish up with Hexen I’m going to start a jigsaw. My fun is old fashioned.
L4D2, when I can gather the troops. Was loving Dragon Age until I started hating it– not sure I can go back. Watching my cousin attempt to play The Void, and sharing his pain. Tried to play stalker with that ultimate mod thingy, but it’s started crashing. Seriously considering Mass Effect. I really should try and finish Monkey Island Ep 4, but it’s just not as awesome as Ep 3 was….
Myself? I’ve been playing through Plants vs. Zombies (TALLNUT), as well as some COD4 multiplayer. I just purchased L4D2 at 40% off (woohoo, Black Friday).
Still working through Braid (my head asplode).
I was alternating between l4d2 and dragon age. My pc froze during dragon age, so i loaded up l4d2 until the ragequitters and the ‘i only play survivor’-quitters and the nubby-nublets drove me to anger. Then I played more dragon age. Then I played more l4d2, and finally found a good versus game right before i was to meet some old mates for dinner and beers. The pain!
just got L4D2. hard rain is insane.
Back to some heritage. That’s right, I’m finally going to finish JK2: Outcast without cheats.
What’s happening with Rogue Warrior? I have seen hardly any news, videos, or marketing for this game at all and it’s coming out in a couple of days?
Got the THQ pack off Steam at a bargain, playing DOW2 for a start. Kinda meh, but we’ll see where it goes. It’s also nice to finally ‘own’ some of the games I played but never bought. Think I’ll try STALKER next.
Well Valve have a lot to answer for.
A week ago my to-play list was as follows:
Arkham Asylum (ps3)
Football Manager (whenever I’m stuck with the baby)
Guitar Hero (ps3) (When my mate is round)
GRID (ps3)
Team Fortress 2
Wolfenstein (when I could drag myself to it)
Now Valve have forced me to purchase:
Plants vs Zombies (50% off, how could I refuse)
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (£1.70… £1.70… thats less than my breakfast. I bought it twice, so I could force my friend to play it)
So Wolfenstein can now go take a running jump off the nearest cliff (I was only forcing myself to play it anyway) And I suppose PvsZ can join Football Manager when I’m stuck with the baby in one arm. I have a feeling that KOTOR may just consume me whole though when I start it up. Haven’t played it in 2 or 3 years and its one of my top games of all time.
Bloody Valve and their irresistibly cheap deals, I’m dreading the next couple of days, they may force my hand to my wallet all over again.
I’ve been playing settlers 10th anniversary with my son. Just me sat over his shoulder talking about what the little people are doing and how he can get more done. No enemies, no goals, just lots of food production.
On purpose i have had him place the farms, windmills and bakeries on different ports so he can see it all in motion.
ive been playing stalker kinda off and on and killing floor and im just summoning up some cash for a bunch of games like gyromancer,plants vs zombies, and L4D2
Playing Dragon Age, reading about Dragon Age plus a smattering of forum reading and following a Blood Bowl Let’s Play.
But yeah, how about some Dragon Age?
I just caved in and bought Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines on Steam.
I had borrowed it from a friend years ago and failed to complete it before he wanted the disc back.
The years have been kind: with the unofficial patch (6.6) installed the game is less buggy, also it runs quite nicely on my laptop.
I’m somewhat surprised by how linear the game is. Each quest seems to be leading me by the nose. Despite that, I’m enjoying it greatly.
Does the patch do anything about the ridiculous loading times that was a major issue when it first came out? I could never get into the game in any decent way because I literally spent more time at the loading screen than playing…