By Jim Rossignol on November 27th, 2009 at 3:11 pm.
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 think were all playing Steam purchased games.
Nabbed Champions Online for it’s filthy seductive price and then hopped over to Impulse and finally got Sins of a Solar Empire for an embarrassingly low price.
I will take breaks from both with short breaks of trying to convince people playing L4D2 to cut that shit out and play Borderlands with me. A task I’ll no doubt fail.
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I am just going to assume that all ambitions to play anything other than L4D2 (except maybe Borderlands, I think I’m near the end of my first time through that)will go unfulfilled. The pile grows…
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What have I been doing? How kind to ask! Well, I got married, visited London, played a fair bit of L4D2 (which would be better if I had a few regular people to play it with), I did enter both of your recent competitions (Ents are totally compatible with i7 processors ya know?) and am otherwise having fun in Mount & Blade warbands beta most nights.
Oh and occasionally melting rather expensive miniatures in idiotic attempts to solder them together.
And I have an embarassing injury that I’m going to get sorted now :(
Otherwise everything’s grand, cheers!
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Congrats on the marriage!
Remember, a man isn’t complete until he’s married: then he’s finished! :D
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I’m mainly running around punching people as Heavy with my new Ushanka and hopelessly pursuing gaming dreams in the UDK.
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I’m doing my duty to mankind in Left4Dead 2, and once the government has cleaned away all the corpses, I’ll tour the streets in a GRID like fashion, as driving is cheap when jerry cans are placed everywhere
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Earlier this year, it was hard to not be disappointed when so many major games that were supposed to release slipped into next year. But now I find myself in a position where I am spoiled for choice between so many amazing games… Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, L4D2 and Borderlands are enough to keep a person happy for months. They’re all installed on my hard drive now, all begging for my time to play them. It really is a happy state of affairs as far as gaming goes :)
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Borderlands has way less replayability than L4D2, Hunam. Just sayin. Maybe you should let it sit around a wee bit and play L4D until people wanna do something different for a while.
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But with the amount of games I buy and the aspolotion of games in Q1 2010 means that if Borderlands isn’t finished before January it may never get done.
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Had the day off work so had a big wank
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That’s the spirit.
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I miss the Fridays of yore when RPS would post a nice little game in the morning and that’d be my Friday sorted. That was when they loved us.
:(
Anyway, currently I’m playing Blood Bowl (Cyanide and FUMBBL), Left 4 Dead 2, Borderlands and Half-Life 2 again.
On my to-restart list:
Bioshock
Mass Effect
STALKER
…and I’m sure there must be others.
And, erm, to actually start playing:
Gothic 2
Pathologic
Planescape: Torment
System Shock 2
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Watching new Mass Effect 2 trailers, repeatedly. Tali in ‘looking actually useful this time’ shocker.
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Not planning on buying anyone any videogames for christmas… But if Steam had vouchers I’d probably buy some of those.
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Dragon Age is my current squeeze. Then I want to go back to Titan Quest. And then the enormous, imaginary stack of games I’ve bought in various DD sales over the past some months.
And I’m being prevented from playing them by painting toy soldiers (slowly, and not terribly well). *Sigh* Don’t they have machines for this?
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I have a list as long as my arm of things to play and yet every time I sit at my PC I fire up Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer without even thinking. I’m not actually enjoying it so much (It’s good and everything but I have a completist itch that just doesn’t get scratched by unending multiplayer games) and yet I can’t seem to stop. Hopefully this weekend I’ll allow myself to get sucked back into Ferelden and battle the Blight in Dragon Age. Although it’ll be hard not to at least dip into Borderlands or Torchlight to get my loot on.
And all of that assumes that I don’t pick up a copy of serious sam HD or even left 4 dead 2 this weekend.
Christmas will probably reserved for some classic netbook gaming as my parents might frown upon me dragging my desktop all the way down when I visit…
In the mean time, work continues on my UDK project and I will continue to get as many RPS references in there as is humanly possible although I’ve been terribly scared off by Kieron’s articles on amateur projects and may never be able to bring myself to write another line of UnrealScript again!!
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Mainly playing Left 4 Dead 2 when I get the chance. The 4v4 matchmaking and new scoring system make games so much more intense and fun.
And now that they’ve got the balance largely sorted, I’m finding myself occasionally back to DoW2 as well now, when I’m not preoccupied with the above.
Speaking of Steam sales, the next one is due to start in about 30 minutes. Get your orders in if you want them, the next batch is coming soon.
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Too much going on socially to play any games and 360 uber releases CoD and Forza 3 are eating what little time I have remaining. The list of stuff I have to play come the new year is gargantuan. I think I’ll start with Borderlands, but there’s a ton of indie stuff I want to get my mitts on as well. As always a case of too many games and too little time and money.
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Oh, games? I’m still juggling Torchlight, Borderlands and Dragon Age… Depending on how much time I think I’m likely to have playing before I get interrupted. Torchlight fits nicely in a lunch break, Borderlands for a couple of hours in the evening, and Dragon Age when I’m sure I’ve got 4+ hours available to play in one go at the weekend…
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Hmm Torchlight. Strongly considering getting that. Looks like good fun, if it had co-op I would be all over it.
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I finished Dragon Age a few days ago (at 3½ am on a work day, erk) and couldn’t stop myself from gushing uncontrollably about it on my blog. Last week I spent a day playing through Modern Warfare 2 and found it to be a pretty entertaining if 100% ridiculous and self-obsessed game which mostly just made me want to replay Modern Warfare 1.
Now I’ll probably go back and play some Borderlands again, if I can get one of my co-op partners to resume our in-progress playthrough. Assassin’s Creed 2 (for X360) and Uncharted 2 (for PS3) are both being saved for my christmas wish list.
I’m not planning to get L4D2. I’ll be playing it way more than I want to in the university gamelab anyway. Kinda burned myself out on L4D1, so for me, L4D2 is way too soon to catch my interest, sadly.
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Mostly playing Borderlands, aiming for Level 50 but my girlfriend demands I play co-op with her so I don’t shoot ahead in leveling :/ And a few lunchtimes slogging through the Monkey Island episodes… more because I feel I ought to than because of a genuine desire to play them.
I shall be helping out with the RPS game, hopefully. Awaiting further orders, sir.
Aside from that I’m busy making games and learning ZBrush. Drinking, too. Alec’s housemate has my sympathies.
Oh, and I played Nameless mod some time ago. It was pretty damn good although I think it required a more in-depth knowledge of the specific forums and circumstances than I posessed.
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I’m playing Gyromancer (too much), finishing Uncharted 2 (The final boss is NOT fun), also fiddling with Forza 3, and just got Demon Souls and Dragon Age on the PC to play…
Must also get around to completing Brutal Legend…
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I guess I spend more time configuring games than actually playing them. Bu, er, no, I’m not playing anything at the moment. Set up a bunch of those old id software games (doom, hexen etc.) on laptop (one with shitty integrated card). Also, “played” with digital painting programs and map editing tools for a while. Aside from that, the usual stuff – studies and wikipedia.
No real gaming till Christmas holidays – a shitload of work to do.
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I’m waiting for all the Steam discounts. Can’t wait to get great bargains. Besides that…Dragon Age.
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I had given up buying games for, well, most of this year (for one thing, it makes the wife huffy – although she loves the Plants Vs Zombies tune) until some of the more recent Steam games < £4 offers. And everything not on huge sale stays on the xmas list.
So now my still-to-finish / milk of sweet creamy gameplay list currently comprises S.T.A.L.K(*phew typing huff huff huff*).E.R., GRID, Sins, Fallout 3 and Assassins Creed; not to mention that I’ve never got round to finishing Sega Rally, TimeShift (it was cheapy cheap), Bioshock, Faces of War, Dark Messiah, Ground Control 2, Shadowgrounds, Spore, Portal, Streetfighter 4, and probably loads more that I got for £1 in a closing down sale or something then promptly forgot about.
That’s excluding a good few Wii games left from last year, too. and it doesn’t help that I installed a new HD and either deliberately or accidentally lost lots of savegames for the stuff I had completed.
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My finger was poised over the ‘purchase’ box of a whole new PC system (i5,dx11 etcetc) when the phone rang. Why oh why did i answer it?
It was the garage; my car needs a complete overhaul of the engine block; it’ll be a cool £600.
Fuck Fuck Fuck. No new pc for me, and a rusting chunk of badly designed metal sitting on my driveway.
Anyway, i was going to be playing GTA IV, DA:O, medieval 2 (again for some reason, maybe with the fourth age mod). I was so looking forward to finally being able to see all the bells and whistles. There will be no fun in my house this xmas. (Well, PC fun anyway)
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When I myself actually play something, it’s typically been Dragon Age, Borderlands, or maybe a smidgen of Torchlight, along with a weekly Everquest II gathering. (You might be surprised how much fun EQII can be. Especially if you ever played the first Everquest, which was dreadful.) There are various other things I want to work on, including (boo! hiss!) console games like Uncharted 2 (which I am renting and really ought to finish so I can return it) and Brutal Legend, and Batman: Arkham Asylum. But I don’t seem to get to them much.
To my faint surprise, Black Friday frenzy has been absolutely awful as far as presenting me with videogame deals (I think I’ve bought one all week, Midnight Club: Los Angeles for $10), so that hasn’t really expanded my backlog. I should add that it’s not that there haven’t been deals, but the prices have been too high on games I wanted, and the real bargains have been on games I already own. For example, $20 Borderlands on Amazon earlier tonight – much better than the $45 I paid, but, alas, I did pay that $45, so no point. On the plus side, this means I am free to spend my monies on lavish hardcover collections of The Far Side (for my parents), an astounding array of dirt cheap movies on DVD and BluRay, and what will ultimately be something like 8 seasons of TV to watch, half or more on BluRay. We’ll see what Steam comes up with in the next few days, though.
And really, the thing I’ve been doing -most- lately, is watching video LPs from the Something Awful Let’s Play subforum. Positively addictive.
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Nothing on the PC, except trying to get Kings Bounty to stop crashing the machine. New Super Mario Brothers for Wii though. FANTASTIC game.
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I’m bouncing between Dragon Age, Borderlands and raiding with the PCG WoW guild. Still got a massive pile of games on steam unplayed since last Christmas.
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PCG on Steamwheedle? If so, small world..
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Bored of L4D2. To me, campaign’s aren’t as compelling as the first. Internet is full of idiots, don’t know enough people to play with regularly – may have something to do with it.
Thus, learning about and ‘reading’ interactive fiction.
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@Arsewisely
Maybe it’s because your name is Arsewisely that you have no friends. Just a thought.
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ello there we should play some L4D2 – I’m Slerbal :)
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Hey! Absolutely, I’ve never seen you playing it – must be more observant.
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Meaning to finish Dragon Age, but after going through the entire Redcliffe/Sacred Ashes questline, Orzammar is coming off as a bit brown, and lackluster to me. I might head on over to the elf area instead. Also, waiting for my new headset to arrive, so I can run through L4D2 expert realism with some friends.
In the meantime, I’m playing King Arthur and Solium, with Shattered Horizon breaks in between. Enjoying all three immensely.
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Wrestling with Netframe 3.5 issues. failing.
Pootling through Plants Vs. Zombies by way of stress-relief.
Keeping an eye on the Nameless Mod torrent (sooooo sllloooow).
Bitterly rueing the ending of Borderlands.
Keeping an eye on the Steam deals, hoping the next one is as good as the THQ one ( I had too many of them already to be tempted) 20 minutes to go..
Musing over upgrading to Windows 7 or eating my own foot. One is surely a bigger pain than the other, right?
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Between studying I have been playing Dragon age, Left 4 Dead 2 and Overlord 2.
I am currently waiting for Steam to update to see if they have any games I actually want on offer.
Good times.
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Waking up late the morning after our American Thanksgiving, and giving thanks for the miracle of wireless connection that allows me to stay in bed under the warm covers while journeying through the intertubes. Stayed up to 2am playing the Solium Infernum demo, to see if I could get anything interesting to happen before being abruptly cut off at the end of turn 19.
I’m organizing an online Diplomacy tourney since I can’t afford SI right now, and need to upload holiday music to my big band webcast radio station. I just finished the first playthough on Borderlands with a friend, and found that the return to Fyrestone was more fun than the end boss.
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I’ve been pretty much just doing Uni work and sleeping for the past 3 week.s Makes me sad, still I can have a bit of a break this weekend, mid-term exams are done.
Anyway, brought PvZ. and Osmosis.
I’ll certainly be getting my Dad ‘Serious Sam HD’ for Christmas, The second encounter was pretty much the only fps he was every any good at (he was still awful, but he had fun).
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I’m trying to finish my dissertation so I can go make an indie game.
:)
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Being busy sadly. Trying to clean the house, whilst having the shadow of an as yet unbuilt bed hanging over my head. All the while engaging in some light procrastination (hence this comment) and being harassed to join friends in games of Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 (which I’m also writing a review for, which is a little bit late).
I find myself occasionally browsing the Steam sale and have my mouse hovering over the purchase button. The knowledge that the next round of sales are going up in about 11 minutes isn’t helping me get things done.
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Playing GTA4 (PC) for the first time. I plan on staying in Liberty City for the week end :)
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In prepararation for this years big RPGs, Risen, Dragon Age, Divinity 2, Borderlands, etc… I’m clearing my plate with some recent oldies:
King’s Bounty 1 (in honor of KB Armored Princess) – a perfect laptop game
Gothic 3 – in it’s post-patch state i feel it’s definitely under-appreciated
Fallout 3 – not as compelling as I’d like it to be, for some reason. maybe because I’m playing it on “hard”? this may be the first game where “Hard” difficulty is simply not as fun :/
Men of War – This game is badass, difficult and deeply satisfying. woo!
I want to play:
Anno 1404 aka “Dawn of Discovery”
Knight’s of the Chalice
King Arthur
Dragon Age
Stalker: Call of Pripyat
Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy
Elemental
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Not much time to play at the moment. The Mrs is home more than usual, which means couple stuff.
Otherwise, Mass Effect for the first time, possibly continuing to a second run through immediately. Then I’ll pick one of 7 games from the THQ pack I’m most interested in; CoH: ToV, STALKER, TQ, TQ: IT, DoW: DC, DoW: S, DoW2. While doing that I’ll maybe play around trying to get the 2 for which my PC does not meet the min spec; RF Guerrilla and Saints Row 2, working in some playable way. If they don’t work I’ll just put them aside for my next PC (when ever that might be – sigh). If all else fails I can always dabble in the 3 I wouldn’t usually have bought; FSpecW, FSpec: TH and Frontlines. The rest I own but can always replay. Except Juiced 2 which is a pointless addition for a keyboard and mouse kind of player.
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Oh and don’t think this fun thread can make up for the lack of genuine RPS articles. My productivity today has actually been worsened for not having the chance to read a good solid review or something early in the day.
Poo to you with knobs on!
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Yesterday I bought 24 different games but today all I am playing is Serious Sam HD (SOOOOOOOO much fun) and Red Faction: Guerilla (much more enjoyable than the reviews led me to believe). Will probably have a match or two of Blood Bowl when at the pub.
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Top of my must complete list is ‘The Void’ but I’m more likely to spend this evening on my 360 playing ‘Saints Row II’ because I feel like some silly mindless fun right now and the ring finger on my mouse hand has been going numb in protest at the amount of time it’s been spending wrapped round a mouse lately. If I weaken and fire up my gaming PC then I’ll probably play some more L4D2.
I’ve just got back from doing some indoor climbing at The Castle. It’s a meat space game I’ve just taken it up recently and so far it seems just like an annoying platform game except you need muscles rather than expert timing. I’m not sure that’s a good trade but the increased blood flow and distance above the ground does make it strangely compeling. I’m not very good at it but that shouldn’t matter too much because they release new levels across all difficulties every week or two. Annoyingly they also perminantly delete some of the old levels at the same time and they charge a frankly ludicrous subscription fee that makes the average MMO look positively cheap.
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I’m reading about various immunological matters, and not much else. Earlier I played through Route Kanal in HL2 which I do on occasion as I find it relaxing. The quiet parts, at least. I love the light and the sun-bleached concrete and general ambience in that level. My favorite bit is the little shelter on a raised platform that has wind chime sounds playing. Once I’m done reading about B-cell activation, I’ll play through Highway 17, which has my favorite spot in the game: the building on the bluff that the combine are in the middle of inspecting.
Thanks for asking! I hope John brought a mirror!
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I always find that building really creepy. What with the howl of the coastal wind and breaking of waves coming from outside, and the creaking of the floor boards. Plus I can never remember if which is the building with the poison zombie and which is the one with the roller mines. Of course it’s the latter, but I still manage to convince myself I’ve heard that tell-tale weasing that so grips me with fear.
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Been having a look at the steam offers, playing some Dragon Age, etc etc.
Also, harrasing my friends at DreamHack on our TeamSpeak.
Other than that, I’ve been trying out a bit of Rise of Flight, which is truly amazing when you get the controlls and settings mapped out right.
I’m supprized there aren’t more people playing it… Feel sorry for these russian developers.
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I’d say 90% of the flight sim community I hang out with passed on Rise of Flight due to DRM and the fact it shipped with just a couple of planes and they charge quite a bit for the extra ones. Poster child for “Let’s gut the game before release then sell the players tiny pieces they will have to buy to play with others, at exorbitant rates”
If it had come with at least six planes, I’d have had no qualms about dropping $50. I still pine for Red Baron.
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I just finished off Dragon Age – I’ll be waiting for a patch or two and maybe some more DLC before I go for my next playthrough. In the meantime, I’ve got three console rentals to hack my way through. The new Ratchet & Clank (which feels like a warm and familiar blanket of destruction now), which is the last in the series, the new Wolfenstein, which is shockingly a lot of fun and makes the player so ungodly powerful that I feel genuinely sorry for the nazis, and Heroes Over Europe, which is a solid bit of aeroshootery.
Each one should take me 3-5 days to get through. After that? Dunno.
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I picked up Mass Effect in a Steam sale a few weeks ago and have been playing that when my friends haven’t been around to play L4D2. I’m very glad I waited until it was around £5 and think it’s a fairly average game.
I don’t feel attached to any of the party and my hopes of courting the doom-robot creator Tali are now dashed because I have to choose between the incredibly dull xenophobic human or the sexified blue alien. The personal development with the female human, Ashley Williams, was odd. Without having taken on any missions (except the compulsory ones) and leaving her polishing guns, she has started hitting on me whenever I talk with her. Likewise with the blue alien. It seems I missed the part where I developed a relationship with either of them… Then there is the crazy physics when driving the planet exploration buggy. That bit feels like they gave it to a work experience student.
I hope that it picks up toward the end and there are some fantastic revelations. Like I’m the reincarnation of an ancient evil that was imprisoned in an alien beacon and I get the choice to consume the galaxy. Really though, I suspect that once I get Batman AA running (GFWL pops up on the splash screen then stutters and dies) I’ll forget all about Mass Effect.
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Mass Effect was a great game. I was going thru a divorce right when that game came out, bought that sucker, went home buried my head in the story of M.E. and polished off a few bottles of GIN, I think I completed most of the side quests even. I also went back and played that game again this year. Love huge epic story lines like this one.
The prequel book was also an excellent read. If your a Sci-FI lunatic like myself.
Give the game a chance, it seems to really pick up pace twards the end, although I know what you mean about not feeling attached to the characters in the beginning. I was kinda pissed later on, which was probably the reaction the developers were looking to illicit, when I couldn’t save some of the other friends I had acquired during the game, I won’t spoil the story, but I now classify this game as a WIN!
=)
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I didn’t intend for most of my post to be emphasised. Just the word dashed. Bother.
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To Edit your post you need to access the thread via the forum rather than the front page. :)
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Oh, it also helps if your logged in when you post in the first place…
EDIT: D’oh!
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I am the only one who actually noticed how similar the good king looks like Jim?
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Lord Kitchener. But now you come to mention it…
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Kitchener? Kerrrist, my British history is not what it used to be.
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I just beat Serious Sam HD. It was great =) I hope they come out with The Second Encounter too
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I am building a fake moustache to go with my top hat and monocle.
Aside from that, I’m playing two separate Blood Bowl championships and my 3rd and 4th Dragon Age playtrought at the same time while I try to find a reason why I should keep playing Champions Online.
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I was going strong in Dragon Age, advancing a sizeable ammount each night.
But then come Solium Infernum and I’m now trying to descipher this complex thing and understanding it so I can be all the arch-fiend I can be, so I guess Ferendel is going to be on hiatus for a while.
If the SI bug gets stronger I may come out of my turtle shell and try to explore that weird realm of multiplayer by email :-P
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I want to finish Arcanum. That’s about it.
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I’m currently racing the calendar to see if I can wrap Dragon Age up by Christmas. I’d dearly love to just sit and plow through it but my degree is acting as a black-hole-like time sink at the moment, malevolently sucking leisure time into its unchartable depths. Christmas time is Deadline Time. Bah.
I’m also yet to play all the campaigns on L4D2, to my great distress. I got some playtime in last weekend but a good chunk of that was spent in lobbies watching the game failing to find a server again and again and again.
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Working today, trying to talk the girl into buying us Borderlands so we can spend the weekend rocking that game. =)
Purchased L4D2 (360) the other day, game is a ton and a half of fun. Love the story behind the characters, I was delaying on the purchase until I read your article about passing judgment on the game. Tons of fun with my XBL buddies over the Holiday.
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Well, I just completed Borderlands, only for the titles to roll and then for the game to carry on after the titles. Which pissed me off, once i complete a game, i want it to stay complete, closure, finished. Now i’m not sure whether to carry on, knowing no ending is in sight, or what to do, start again.
I hate it when games do stuff like that
On a totally un-related point, i was pissed off when i completed Fallout 3, only for the titles to roll and it not to let me carry on afterwards
fuckers
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I’ve absolutely no funds for games without cutting into beer money, so I’m trying a couple that have been sitting on my shelf for fucking ever now, Dominions 3 and Sword of the Stars
Not really getting either so far, but Dominions at least lets me play as a Giant Fetish and make blood sacrifices. That definitely counts for something.
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Gah, these games. I’m going to put a plastic bag over my head until the right parts of my brain die and I start thinking these are fun.
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Dominions 3 takes while to learn, yes.
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Fallout 3 – GOTY. I’m playing on whatever difficulty it defaulted to and it’s feeling a little easy but about right for just being able to wander around without getting killed too often. Hoping to have the patience to play through it vanilla and then start messing around with mods that’ll doubtless break it when I add too many.
Resisting even thinking about DA:O until I’ve completed F3 at least once.
Hoping to get round to doing another playthrough of Mass Effect before 2 comes out. I did enjoy it, and I kept the chicks in my party most of the time so the slush-plot made a little more sense.
Grid sat there sealed and waiting for a day when my gf and I are in the mood for crashing cars. She’s mostly still wanting to play Dirt but I’m deeply bored of it.
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Working.
Although trying to, but got interrupted today. One of our database servers is corrupt and needs repairing. Then it needs synching again with any uncorrupted data since the last backup. Then the system all need to be re-checked and re-enabled, etc…
Going to be a late one today, possibly during the weekend as well.
Groan/Sigh.
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I am trying to get Champions online to work on my work computer cause its crashing my macbook pro/windows7 hybrid. I fear that I am going to regret spending $20 on that game. Why don’t I listen to my inner critic?
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I was a little disappointing that Dragon Age did not take advantage of a Co-Op gameplay setup. I wish games like this took a split screen option move often, seems a huge game like this would allow for a ton of fun with a second person playing next to you or over XBL.
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Picked up Dragon Age for 22 squid from Steam yesterday, so was looking forward to a bit of dragonage, but the parents are up this weekend…
Still, Sunday afternoon is for playing that as well as reading Raymond Chandler and novel writing. Wow. That sounds like an excellent Sunday. Is it too early to be praying for the end of the weekend?
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You can pay games with squids on Steam ? Brilliant !
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Bought a real (as in ATI HD 5870, Core i7-860, 4 gigs of RAM) gaming computer this year after abusing my poor laptops for years, played more games than ever: The Witcher (fun), Morrowind (dated, but fun), Half-Life 2 + Episodes (mostly fun), Fallout 3 (fun, but probably only because I used 10+ mods), Dragon Age (fun, but severely disappointed by the small size of Denerim); with Risen (underwhelming), S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (fun, but scary) and KotoR (fun, but kinda crashy on Win7 64bit) still in progress, probably a little foray into L4D2 (still hoping there’ll be an incredi-bargain for it). I also checked out TNM earlier this year, but I gave my Deus Ex CD away (as in, borrowed to people that then switched countries), so I’d have to repurchase that first.
Christmas will be gaming-free (out of lack of aptly prepared computers where I’ll spent it), which is always good for my reading list and also helps my social life.
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Deus Ex is $10 on the various DD sites — less than lunch is always a good price, but a game that old rarely goes on sale.
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Abso-fricken love the D.E. Series thus far. Looking forward to playing the 3rd installment, especially after seeing that they are using Square Enix for Cinematics (FF Vids always look amazing) hopefully they will develop the story as good as the first few games.
Love the plot and side missions and all the crazy mods, augments and weapons. Not to mention the cool character design for androids in Invisible War.
I NEED to play this Nameless Mod, however, right now it keeps crazying, all I get are music and white shapes when I launch it on my laptop and my desktop…….hmmm…..techie brain, GO!
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Trying to talk myself out of buying l4d2 cause it is horrible on my current computer but still something keeps dragging me back to it even though i don’t have enough money
Oh and everyone buy Madballs in… Babo:Invasion for a steal at $2
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I just bought KOTOR on Steam for $2.50. It’s installing now.
Before that, I was addicted to Audiosurf.
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Yup I just bought KOTOR too. One side of my brain went into autopilot and completed the purchase before the other (more sensible) side could ponder when I will actually get around to playing it. Not just playing… REplaying it… It’s definitely one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played, and the story twist at the end left me with my jaw on the floor back then. Yes, I know, it wouldn’t have as much impact for a first time player today, but back in 2003 (was it?), that was the best twist I had ever seen in a game.
If you haven’t played the game yet, buy it. For 2.49$, you absolutely cannot afford to miss it.
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It’s a classic, and far better than all the prequels combined. I prefer KoTOR 2, but if you like RPGs or Star Wars you’d be silly to pass it up.
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Solium Infernum at the moment, with the odd bout of Tropico 3 in between. Once I actually get a day off work I might try a third run through Dragon Age, or see how well a gunslinger Mordecai plays in Borderlands.
Got a pile of stuff I’ve bought in various weekend sales I haven’t played yet, although payday on Monday and Sims 3 expansion is looking tempting …
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NaNoWriMo for all of November. I only need to write 20k words in the next three days to win.
So many games stock-piled for December…
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I’m working on a project to re-do all the dialog, story, and most of the quests in Call of Pripyat, wrangling with the slippery, spottily-documented scripting and my own runaway ambitions!
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I’m busy spending what little money I have on Steam sales. Now to figure out how to make the time to actually play the games..
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Currently working on my game Globe Clicker, a geographic trivia with satellite photos. It is about to be released for the Xbox360 (XNA Indie Games). I may release it for the PC platform later on.
Good job with your website, I like it.
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that looks quite good i hope all goes well and ill have to keep an eye out for it
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I installed the first Max Payne. Fun.
My big objective is to get a pair of Goldsmithing Spectacles in FFXI by the new year.
And also to magically make the phone lines around here not suck. Alternatively to magically lay optical broadband cables.
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I’ve been preparing for an interview all week, which I had this morning.
Fingers crossed.
So I’ve not been playing much.
But by the end of the year I want to finish loads of stuff.
I’ve been taking my time with Dragon Ages.
I’m about 35 hours in so far.
So I’m not going to rush it, but after I’ve finished that there are a few things I want to tidy up before buying anything else…
Borderlands
Bioshock
DoW II
Far Cry 2
STALKER
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At the suggestion of some other forum dwellers I’ve been playing Iji an indie platformer game which is actaully rather breath taking ! Also there was that Thanks Giving day thing where we celebrate our ancient victory over the native americans but eatting native birds and what not in excess ^_^ (isn’t that what it’s really for ?)
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My copy of Hearts of Iron 3 Arrived today, that and Dragon Age – its massively engrossing, a huge time sink, now supplemented with what appears to be another huge time sink in HoI3… Gah! :)
Oh, also Peterhead play Abroath in the Scottish Cup on Saturday, going to try and get up to Kirkcaldy for that.
Oh, and the reason this is a reply to you Railick, is that I am pretty much blaming you entirely for my purchase of it! You and your nefarious links to those AARs…
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For ongoing titles, I have…
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (10% through).
Borderlands (25% through).
Dragon Age: Origins (25% through).
Gyromancer (5% through),
Left 4 Dead 2 (10% through).
Osmos (5% through).
Red Faction: Guerilla (60% through).
Torchlight (90% through).
Champions Online (waiting for global account-wide perk item unlocks before starting an alt).
My priority list…
1. Complete Torchlight.
2. Play more Borderlands.
3. Play more Dragon Age: Origins.
4. Complete Red Faction: Guerilla.
The rest I’ll play idly from time to time, in between.
Completing Left 4 Dead 2 in co-op will shoot to the top spot as soon as my partner is able to play! I don’t want to play too much of that at all until he is. I’m hoping I can get Torchlight done with then, maybe my Alchemist retired, and a Destroyer started anew which I’ll play at a lazy pace, unless the Shadow Vault grips me.
Champions Online will probably climb that list again though once the global unlocks are in place. I want me a Bear!
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Unfortunately, not a lot of PC gaming left for me ’till the year ends. I’m going to take on Demon’s Souls and finally play God of War. And then Bayonetta.
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Installing the THQ pack.. Bought Batman for £15 also..
Finished Borderlands, few hours into Dragon Age mixing that with Left For Dead 2..
Got electric rebate so drink went from Bells to Single Malt.. Good times!
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I have to put down MW2 sometime and at least start up L4D2 so my harddrive is not holding the files in vain.
Next week I will be adding Dirt 2 to the list of games to play. Thank god the weather is crap outside and I’m putting Christmas on hold for as long as I can.
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Currently playing through the original Operation Flashpoint campaign, and then hoping to nab ARMA2 and join the MP fun. Thanksgiving break helps with all of this.
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Woke up and thought “hey i’ll play Dragon Age for half an hour” 4 hours later i wonder where the time has gone. Already bloody dark outside.
I wrote of blog post about how wonderful Osmos is.
Erm still need to complete:
Left 4 Dead 2 (got up to swamp fever)
Risen (entered the town as a bandit for the don)
Dragon Age Origins (i’m expecting lots of people to say that)
Been playing Fallout 3 on and off and the original Alien Vs Predator for nostalgia. Needing to buy the Men of War expansion and just bought Dead Space in the steam sale. Waiting for the girlfriend to come home for a night in together. Life is good, can’t complain.
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Replace A for Of and we have a winner. I should add i’m happily avoiding Modern Warfare 2. Finishing Borderlands was underwhemling for me, shame really. I’ve had a quite rocky relationship with that game.
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It seems I like playing Borderlands. Is not something planned, It just happends. I have other options, like Torchlight, and watching movies online on a streaming site. I have tried that FlashForward serie, and is a bit slow and…he… predictible? (I think did a joke here). I tried Firefly, but there are very few episodes on the site I use, and its somewhat slow. I am also reading some George RR Martin books. Storm of Blades, or something like that, is also boring. Oh, I am also busy sick, I have something like flu, It has been like that for more than a month now, so It could be something more serius than flu.
Again, Borderlands is still giving me fun. /hat to Gearbox artist and engineers for this excellent crafting of a game.
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Hope it’s not hog-snots. Get well soon.
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I’m making Climate Challenge 2010 which Kieron interviewed me about a long time back (*prod*). Things are going well there. Lots to do and just started testing it. :)
As for what I am playing most recently I completed Red Faction: Guerilla, Borderlands (twice) and Dawn of War 2 and ams playing some Left 4 Dead 2 with friends. L4D2 is great but hasn’t grabbed me like Borderlands did which I find surprising! I really enjoyed Dawn of War 2 and gobbled it up in a couple of days. I found Red Faction: Guerilla was an awesome stress reliever. I literally flattened *everything*. Now to decide what to play next – must resist Steam/Impulse Thanksgiving sales…
Gobion
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Reading endless philosophy books to prepare for my upcoming interview while resisting the urge to play through Dragon Age again.
Gaahh.
itwouldbesoeasytojustclicktheiconohmygoodness
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Played through Dragon Age about 1.7 times. (“Sooo! Full of questions, are you?”)
Found the Worst TF2 Server in the universe. (“I’m not cheating. My pal the admin just gave me special powahs. You can pay to get them too.”)
Decided to replay Hostile Waters and make everyone complain about their assigned jobs as much as possible. (“This is not a helicopter and this is not good!“)
Manically pondering Great Moments In EVE Online. Fighting temptation of resub with the mantra “98% of the time is spent looking for the good parts and you know it.” It’s not catchy, but so far it works.
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Just finished Dragon Age, and blogging about why I love it so very much when it’s so flawed.
Playing LOTRO a bit to make the most of the free welcome back week. I am really enjoying it, again despite huge sucking flaws, dunno why I’m liking it so much more this time than last time I was there.
And the house has acquired a PS3 recently so next on the list is more little big planet with the spouse and watching him play uncharted 2. Trying to be strong and ignore the steam sale.
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Yet again I was trying to teach a bunch of undergrads feminist theory and issues of gender and sexuality.
Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem. But this university is different. – it’s full of politically inactive, complacent well-off types who are unable or unwilling to grasp the issues at stake. If they do even recognise the issues we’re trying to get across, they do so in a very detached manner. These are issues for other people, in other places. Not, as we’re trying to get them to realise, very mundane and everyday things which have vastly important effects.
In any case, I got wankered last night and have been teaching since 9am, so my plan is to sit down with a bottle of red and play some EVE, TF2 and maybe some Serious Sam if I’ve solved the sound problems I was having.
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My desktop’s PSU died a week or so ago, up until which point I was engrossed in NWN2, a game I’d gotten over 2 years ago but finally revisited now that I have a machine with enough welly _and_ the game has reached its final patch. (I bought Dragon Ages for a friend, but rather than buy yet another game in a month I’m broke, I thought I really should go back and play existing ones I’d barely started.
With my NWN2 savegamers out of reach, I stuck Jade Empire – another game in my “to play” file – on my laptop and am now about 7 hours in – and really enjoying it. Despite the whole Bioware “Let me hug the kitten/let me eat the kitten” moral obviousness.
There’s also “Fable 2″ on my XBox. One of those games where, despite the fact I keep seeing stuff that I think “I really wish that wasn’t so obvious/simple/consolised”, I keep playing.
Oh, and “Zelda the Minish Cap” on my GBA Micro. 23 years after the release of the first Zelda game, I’m finally getting into them. Never say never.
P.
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I had the day off so I have been completing Assassin’s Creed 2, recording and writing music, deciding that Dragon’s Age is an RTS at heart and thus evil and unplayable, and about to get into multiplayer GRID. Also will be justifying spending day in room today with lots of socialising tomorrow. Not dysfunctional, not dysfunctional, everything’s OK, there there now.
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Basically playing Darkfall while completing Mass Effect and S.T.A.L.K.E.R which I both acquired during recent steam weekend deals.
So much games to play, and so few time *sigh*
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Bought GalCiv II Ultimate Edition. While that is downloading, I was playing Saints Row 2. I bought chaps for my female avatar, and then tried over an hour to complete the outfit. (Clearly chaps and a pink thong on the bottom. But then you need boots, a vest, a hat and matching jewelry… And what to wear under the vest, and then I found these nice wristbands, but I can’t wear the same on both arms, now can I? So I had to find a matching second wristband. Also I needed a new bike, because you can’t see that I’m wearing chaps when I’m driving around in a car. All of these items were in different shops that forced me to drive across the city multiple times. But that’s alright when you are staring at a chaps & thong clad woman the entire time.)
Also I am roughly 75% through the main quest on Dragon Age, and will probably finish that sometime soon. Somehow I have gotten a little bored in the forest section, and stopped playing for a while.
Other than that I was thinking of finally buying Armageddon Empires. Solium Infernum looks awesome, too, but I won’t play it if it hasn’t got good single player. And I don’t really enjoy 1v1 or FFA multiplayer. But the demo has reminded me that I have been wanting to pick up AE for ages now, so I might do that if GalCiv II doesn’t deliver.
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Godammit, giving a shit about what my avatar looked like would obviously make all games about 70% better. But I just don’t give a shit and can not bring myself to. Do the chaps give improved agility?
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They give a style bonus. So you get more respect for finishing jobs. But so would wearing any trousers. And I have already finished the game, so I don’t need the style bonus anyway.
But dressing up girls is awesome. You get to stare at them half naked half the time, and there is something very satisfying about finishing a new look. I could just have her run around near naked all the time, but somehow that is less fun. When I was still playing the missions I had her dressed with a fedora and a fancy dress. (complete with dress gloves, diamond earrings etc.) But today I saw those boots in one store, and I remembered that I had seen chaps somewhere else before, so I just had to try to create a complete outfit for that.
I guess you just have to be the kind of person who likes that kind of thing.
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Star ocean 2 on ps2
TFC and Natural selection for Fps
and Elven legacy for Strategy Desires
and i guess i will have to try to new Incarnation of Forgotten Hope 2 (2.2) in the next few days
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Discovering how much time plants versus zombies can eat up.
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Playing Borderlands, helping out with the RPS game, and throwing myself at the gaming industry.
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Yay!? Lord Kitchener. Can I not escape you? I’ve just been writing an essay which this blighter’s featured in, with his business with the French at Fashoda in 1896.
Been playing the Age of Chivarly mod for Half-Life 2 in the small moments of spare time I get when not reading 19th Century politics and warfare.
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I’m in the beer money/games money camp at the moment so will be finishing Dragon Age and then playing it through again with a different character repeatedly until I a) run out of characters to play b) drink so much I can no longer drink c) save enough money to buy Assassins Creed 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.
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Currently downloading Fallen Earth through Steam, bought for a tenner-and-a-half in the last hour of the first sale Steam had. It’s currently going at around 600kb/s and is due to complete in a bit less than two hours. Registered my account but still umming and ahhing about whether to start my subscription as I have mock exams in two weeks and intend to actually do lots of work for my exams this year, as I’ve held back to re-take them. At least I get a free t-shirt!
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines for $5. I’d wanted to play it for years, but never had.
What an awesome game. I downloaded the community patches of course. It’s was a real challenge to balance being a vampire in a seedy underground world and being a “good” person. Loved it.
Now I’m desperately trying to rally support for the Grey Wardens in Dragon Age, while trying keep my temper under control after I reload for the 5th time after a particularly nasty battle. And this is on normal!
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Reading the L4D2 forums
Apparently putting L4D2 on sale on black fucking friday is a sign that Valve hates their customers.
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Mad ain’t it?
As annoyed as I am for having lost out on a saving of £15 between L4D2 and Dragon Age, that’s my own stupid fault, not Valve’s for some price drops :P
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Still playing *nudges Kieron and Jim*, but am intending to play Borderlands once I get my graphics card fixed up.
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Hmm. Meant to say still playing Darkwind
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Just finished work. Waiting for people to get themselves in gear for a Solium Infernum PBEM game.
S’about it.
Might break out the Cobra to spice up the evening.
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I’m in gear :(
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What am I doing? Well…
Yesterday a girl I know came over and we were… relieving stress for a few hours. Then I watched “Up” for the first time and found it to be absolutely delightful. Also I finally got to installing Windows 7. Wasn’t in any hurry because I was running build 7100 since May.
Today I slept in because there were no sales worth waking up for. I am also a little sick, so perhaps going out today is not a good idea. I played some MW2 multiplayer and ate lots of shrimp.
I also updated my facebook profile with the following:
♫
Massive explosions and luminous smiles
Rifles and orgasms and tropical isles
Logic and cider and helmets with wings
These are a few of my favorite things
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Practical science and long formal dinners
Fantasy novels and hot contest winners
Highlands of Scotland and meaningless flings
These are a few of my favorite things
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Magic of money and clever deception
Animal passion and good contraception
Thunder and lightning and tipped over kings
These are a few of my favorite things
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Later today I plan on playing some more, studying some, maybe re-watching “Up” if my sister comes over (she hasn’t seen it either). And… that’s about it really.
Thank you for asking.
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Currently playing THIRD AGE: TOTAL WAR as Dale and just worked out how to remove that ridiculous ‘feature’ which generates a full-stack of enemy units inside an enemy city with zero forewarning.
I’ve also spent half the year revisiting the BioWare/Obsidian/Black Isle RPG stable. Having gone through KotOR 1 & 2, JADE EMPIRE and MASS EFFECT, I installed BG1 & 2 plus all the expansions planning to play through them using that mod that allows you to link them into one mega-game, then realised how long that would take, screamed, and installed ICEWIND DALE instead, which is more fun than I remember it being the first time around. Trying to work up the enthusiasm to finish it so I can replay PLANESCAPE TORMENT and then confront the towering edifice of the complete BG experience.
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Well I’m in the last few days of my PhD. As a result, I have rather wisely been playing Dragon Age, and have also brought several games for ridiculously cheaply in the sales recently. No, wait, the word is stupidly. Stupidly, wisely, I always get those confused.
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I’m presently playing a (now several months long) co-op game of Sword of the Stars (a friend and I against 3 AI teams, though we’re down to just one that controls the other half of the galaxy). It’s been, frankly, amazing and I’d be very pleased to complete it by the end of the year playing a couple of hours a night as we have been.
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In my solo gaming time, I’ve gone back and picked up King’s Bounty: The Legend where I left off this summer. I’m enjoying it enormously, again, and would hope that this time I’d see it through to completion. I’ve no idea how far away that is, exactly. I just got to Ellinia.
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As to other ambitions before year’s end, it’s going to depend on my mood. I’ve got a big stack of uncompleted games, and a frankly horrifying pile of things I’ve bought but haven’t really had a chance to play yet (damnable weekend sales, this Black Friday stuff isn’t helping either). I’d really like to get into AI War (and its new expansion), and I’d love to take a good stab (ha ha) at the Witcher. No idea if I’ve got time to finish that one before New Years, but the break’s got to help.
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And yes, I went for the 25% off-sale for L4D2.
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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…
:)
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I’m battling some horrible BSODs with Windows 7 :(
Just got myself Osmos, which I am looking forward to playing.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Playing The Void…
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just started up Batman: AA from the Steam stale and it’s pretty impressive.
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This nights having fun with C&C Kane’s Wrath (no kidding), also coming back to Plants VS Zombies and TF2.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THOSE GODDAMN STEAM SALES.
I’m just about to buy KOTOR
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KOTOR for $2.50 isn’t a sale, it’s a giveaway.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Going through Fahrenheit for a first time. Wonderful game, if you have a controller.
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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! (:
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You do have vodka as well right?
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woah dude theres a beverage here!
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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 (:
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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!
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Happy Birthday Demon Beaver!
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Thanks! (:
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@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)
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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.
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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?
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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.
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You can turn up how many points the ai uses to navigate, its a cpu drain but modern pc’s can take it.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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That’s a good trick to know, thanks for sharing!
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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!
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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.
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After I smite Korax and finish up with Hexen I’m going to start a jigsaw. My fun is old fashioned.
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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….
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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).
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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!
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just got L4D2. hard rain is insane.
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Back to some heritage. That’s right, I’m finally going to finish JK2: Outcast without cheats.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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…
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