By Jim Rossignol on May 3rd, 2010 at 10:33 am.
It might be a little quiet here today due to it being a UK Bank Holiday. Britishers mostly get the day off, see. RPS doesn’t generally notice or care about such things, because we’re of that quasi-employed caste of the freelancer, but the team does need to rest and go out blinking into the sun, on occasion. So I thought we could turn the discussion over to you guys for a bit and see what you’ve actually been playing. It’s all very well us banging on about the latest and greatest, but what are you guys actually playing? What games kept you entertained in April? What have you dabbled in this weekend?
Over the past couple of days I’ve finally got around to starting Mass Effect 2, I’ve played a bit of Quake Live CTF – which remains wonderful, even if the servers are a bit quiet – and, speaking of quiet servers, I took a look at this ambient multiplayer thing: Tranquility, which is apparently shutting down later this year. Something sad about that. Discovering something beautiful at the end of its life…
I’ve followed in Alec’s footsteps from a while back and am currently trying to play Morrowind with mods (having not played it at all, with or withouts mods until now).
To be honest it’s taking a lot of patience… right now I’m struggling to peel back the veneer of awful to find the game that so many seem to love. Am I missing something here..?
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I’m probably not the person you want replying, since I don’t really find Bethesda’s games as good as many people seem to, but I don’t think you’ll find a good game there. The only good that could come out of a Bethesda game is the mods the community member make, and playing it without any is playing a bad barebones game.
If you’re still not liking it with the mods, you’re probably not going to like it no matter how hard you try.
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I personally would start playing the game as is, no mods, and add more along the way, as i get used to the game. (Although i ususally get a mod that removes encomberance)
As for morrowinds gameplay, for me it always revolves around the freedom.
Did you know that there is an assassins guild somewhere in Vivec? I played that game with that knowledge alone, and went to find them. Try doing something like that.
Or get yourself a floating amulet, and start going places you arent supposed to. Rob a bank and level 2, and have more junk than you know what to do with.
Find the talking mud crab merchant, no guides. Or get the scrolls that let you jump over the whole island….
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ignore the game and do fun stuff.
It shouldn’t be hard to find the fun. Personally I spent about 2 years mostly just exploring the island and finding random things. Didn’t do a lot of the quests.
Maybe that isn’t so cool now there are so many open world games, but back when it came out it was basically the only beautiful open world game to explore. I remember being wowed by a lot of the scenery.
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Autohotkey is your friend. That’s all I’m saying.
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The start of April involved finishing off Dragon Age: Origins Awakening and realise Dragon Age is the first game in months that I’ve wanted to go back to so soon.
Permanent fixtures in my gaming rotation are WoW, Blood Bowl and FUMBBL.
Until-I-complete-them games are Just Cause 2 and Creeper World.
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Currenly playing Beat Hazard. Just beat Hero Core, need to pick up another game now. Might start Mass Effect.
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Currently playing Persona 4, but don’t banish me from this site just yet, since I’m playing it on the PC using PCSX2 :P
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Not going to spoil anything here for you, but make sure to try to go for the True Ending.
Also, is it working well with PCSX2?
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I bought a second-hand ps2 this week and I’m currently addicted to persona 3 (persona 4 is sitting by, along with lucifer’s call & digital devil).
I will be very tempted to get a ps3 for persona 5!
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blargh: I’m using the latest public beta (r1888) and GSdx for the graphics. It’s working mighty fine so far, just a bit of stuttering when playing FMV and the odd graphic glitch here and there. Gotta love the convenience of having save states, otherwise I feel the dungeons would be a bit too grindy for my taste.
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Heh, the dungeons are indeed pretty grindy but the social aspects of the game, characters and fairly unique storyline more than make up for it, IMO.
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This only serves to remind me that I need to figure out which settings will get PCSX2 to actually work with P3 and P4. I’ve been trying on and off for two weeks to no avail. :(
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This game…. to this day Teddy still haunts my nightmares with his awkward phrasing and that creepy smile.
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Alexander: if you tell me what problems you’re having exactly, I might be able to help.
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Me playing different things. I’ve been trying FF7 with the retranslation patch, which makes the game quite less embarrassing that I remembered, and quite a pleasure to play with the other graphic patch and a wireless xbox controller.
I’ve also played the new Sam & Max. A bit weird to control, but greatly written and designed as usual. I’ve been also advancing in the Tales of Monkey Island, which make so many nods to adventure clichés (and I’m talking about the literary and film references) that sometimes I surprise myself wowing alone at the screen.
In the DS, if someone is interested, I’m playing the Miles Edgeworth adventure which is just the same as the other Phoenix Wright games, with a bit more wit in the dialogues and a bit more of routine in the gameplay.
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Left 4 Dead 2.
What, there’s other video games?
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I hear there’s this game called Left 4 Dead 1
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I don’t know that one. Is it anything like Left 4 Dead? (Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry. Had to be done)
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AvP Classic 2000: Very jumpy but suffers from All The Walls Look Exactly The Same syndrome which most games pre-2003 did, making it bloody difficult to find out where I’m actually going.
Dirt 2- I love the driving and the ease with which you can ruin the race for other drivers but the menus have consistently into a seething rage every time I try to you know, play.
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I do find myself going back to Dirt2. It’s just challenging enough to be interesting, but kind of okay for relaxing too.
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The menus. The menus!
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What’s wrong with the menus? I thought they were kind of impressively flashy. I liked them.
Fairly easy to navigate, looks good, so what’s not to like?
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They are snazzy, and there’s a good chance that they succeed in creating atmosphere, but their usability is low.
Things like having to go outside for certain options is needlessly opaque design, and I’m certainly no fan of the bombastic xtreem style they’ve gone for, but the kicker is that the menus are so complicated it take about 10 seconds or so for them to load up after every race – empty, meaningless delay and removal of control.
It’s not deadly, but after a long session, or after ten or more hours of total play, that constant delay really grinds.
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Ah, that might be why I have a higher tolerance for them, then. I’ve only played Dirt 2 so far in short bursts (15-30 minute sessions).
I can see how they would become annoying the longer you play, though.
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I bought Dirt 2 because it was super cheap the other week. The menus are indeed a blight upon humanity (and something it seems codies are persisting with the if F1 2010 interview is anything to go by) and I despise the XTREME nonsense, but the races themselves are good and they seem to have got their mojo back as far as delivering arcadey handling with a modicum of a challenge. As a proper rally nerd the lack of much content in that area vexes me, but I can see why changing it to an off road racing game nets codies more cash. The rallycross tracks are a bit bum as well. If I’d paid full price these things would be major issues, but at seven quid they’re just niggles.
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Just Cause 2 (halfway through it)
Left 4 Dead 2 (trying to complete realism / hard with 3 friends)
Dwarf Fortress (trying to build a 150 level magma pump thingy)
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Dwarf Fortress has always fascinated me but I’m crap at it. Recently I mentioned it in conversation to a friend of mine who doesn’t play many games but likes an intellectual challenge. Yesterday I found him in his room having spent all day on a new fortress. We will both sit our final exams soon. WHAT HAVE I DONE
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Set his computer on fire or something, seriously.
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Give him some Meth. That way he can DF by day and study by night.
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Just started X3: Terran Conflict. No idea whether I’ll get into it — I kind of suspect not, but for some reason which I don’t entirely understand I do feel like going back to it, so we’ll see. I’m reinstalling Just Cause now that I have space for it again, because I feel like a bit of silliness. I’ve been playing a fair bit of QL lately, but it’s bloody frustrating at a certain level of seriousness, when you care enough to be frustrated by playing below your potential, but not enough to put in the time and effort required to stay sharp.
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TC is a weird one, I never really knew what the hell I was doing, but it is kind of addicting.
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Just completed Episodes from Liberty City a couple of days ago. Currently playing Metro 2033. I had actually played the first couple of chapters of Metro a few weeks ago, but it had failed to hold my interest in front of Just Cause 2. Well, in my second time around, the game is starting to grow on me. The sad thing is, I’ve already finished 4 out of 7 chapters before I really got into it. Oh well…
Apart from this, the usual multiplayer fare. Back into TF2 after a while to show off my Grizzled Veteran medal :D, and a bit of BC2 and MW2 depending on my mood.
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Just Cause 2 Demo.
Lord of the Rings Online
Europa Barbarum
Starcraft (replay single player campaign before Wings of Liberty)
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Also playing through single player Starcraft at the moment. Pretty fun and there’s a registry patch that makes it play nice with Win7 64-bit.
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My very first playthrough of Deus Ex is keeping me enthralled. I’m glad I’m finally playing it after hearing about it from you lot and others (mostly Tom Francis) for so long. I’m about 15 hours in. On the side, I’m playing a bit of Aaaaa!
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I envy you :D
It’s one of those games/books/etc. that I’d love to be able to experience for the first time again.
(Well, I say that, but my only realistic hope is amnesia, and when it comes down to it I’d actually rather not go that far.)
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I dunno, to be honest I find Deus Ex almost as engrossing even on my fifth or sixth playthrough – there’s something abou the way it all unfolds that makes you forget what’s coming while you’re playing it, and there’s always more secrets to be discovered or alternative ways of doing things so it never feels stale.
I just wish the Revision, HDTP & New Vision mods would make the final push towards finished releases, I’ve been waiting for them for what seems like years…
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There’s also the mods which I look forward to playing next. But I know exactly what you mean. I’d love to have one of those Men in Black memory erasing thingos for all those games/books/movies you want to experience for the first time. I’ll just savour my first playthrough. This may sound daft, but I love the graphics the way they are. I usually find high resolution texture packs look distracting. Especially when the textures are inconsistent or they are coupled with low poly models.
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Replaying Deus Ex makes it so painfully obvious what made Deus Ex so brilliant and many modern games not so: the option to do things the sneaky way, to find a back way in, to be rewarded for exploration. Even Deus Ex’s moderately good storyline makes a refreshing change from the military special ops / medieval drivel that has been rammed down my throat again and again.
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Im going to say something here criticizing Deus Ex. Forgive me in advance if you will.
I am an OCD explorer in games and the fact that you were given skill points for finding ‘hidden’ areas was slightly bad for me because I had to find them all just for the points and not for the realistic way i wanted to perform.
basically i became a nosy bastard even though in real life I would never have acted that way just to beat the game, it lost immersion because i am a points whore?
Anyway Im playingthe nameless mod atm and just finished dear esther.
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Company of Heroes (in a 2vs2 Tourney next weekend)
OpenTTD multiplayer (oh god why is it 3 in the morning?)
Synergy (working on a new map for it)
Captcha: 123N. That’s the simplest sequence ever.
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Open TTD? Wow. How does that even work in multiplayer?
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Either you all join up to one company vs rival AIs, or you run your own companies against each other.
It’s good fun, building a corporate empire with a group of friends.
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I love OpenTTD, only have one friend who would be interested but he’s always busy. Would be great to play it with some actual people. The AI is usually awful!
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As far as OpenTTD coop goes, there’s no better example than, well, #openttdcoop. Their networks are utterly insane. For example: http://wiki.openttdcoop.org/File:PSG89.png
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Captcha’s great, I play it all the time!
Oooh, look what I got : NNNH
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Mirror’s Edge. It has it’s flaws of course (plot…), but I still like it a lot for trying something very different in gameplay and art direction.
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I effing LOVE Mirror’s Edge. I didn’t even notice there was a story, but the gameplay and environments really captured me… until the very last level of course where it became very frustrating.
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Fantastic game
The level design was a little off in some points (Rarely accelerated in to a mad chase) and the combat was pants, but otherwise brilliant.
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Very good game, not without its fault of course, but very fresh styling to it. Enjoy :-)
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Finished Mirror’s Edge now. It really was excellent, I think it got unfairly low reviews.
Now playing – Adventures of P.B Winterbottom, and Sam & Max Season 3: The Penal Zone. Both great games.
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Totally agree, Mirrors Edge is imo a fantastic game that was very unfairly rated down in many reviews at the time of release.
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Just discovered Minecraft, and occasionally OTTD. Had a sudden urge to play RCT2 but my disc is scratched ;(
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I’m finally getting stuck into Trials HD, which seems to have grabbed me in a way that Trials 2 never did.
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Why oh why can I not get Trials HD for PS3? Curse you Microsoft exclusivity! (I have got Trials 2 remix on PC).
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Anno 1404 and Splinter Cell Conviction for me. Which is an odd pair of games now I come to say it out loud, as it were…
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Hoo boy, you’re a fan of awful DRM of all kinds, huh?
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I’ve been playing the wonderful Anno 1404. Probably the most enjoyable city-building game I’ve ever played, once you start playing the freeform mode.
Critically well-received also (although there was one leading UK games publication which bizarrely screwed the pooch in their judgement of it.)
It really is fantastic funsies.
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Killing Floor
Red Orchestra
Guild Wars
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I’ve been playing Fallout 2 for the last week or so, punctuated by the occasional short burst of Team Fortress 2 in which I am confused as to how my opponents are attacking me when it’s not their turn.
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I’ve been playing a lot of dragon age, and in a lot of other games I’ve tried to use the space bar to pause. Results in frustration and giblets.
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Napoleon:Total War. For the first time, it feels like the Total War franchise is going in the direction it should have done. The conflicts are fluid, and it never devolves into laborious expansion into ungarrisoned cities.
Can’t wait for true multiplayer.
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By the way Jim, is your QL name public knowledge? (I can understand why you might choose to keep it quiet, of course.)
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Reading that back it seems a little ambiguous. I wasn’t claiming to know your account anme, and asking whether anyone else did. I was asking what it is, while acknowledging that you’re quite possibly intentionally not telling :)
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I think its been public, because it’s the same name I used when I was playing competition level.
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As far as single player games are concerned, right now I am playing Dawn of War 2. About 5 hours in so far.
Multiplayer, L4D2, BC2 and since I just recently purchased it I’ll probably also jump in to Guild Wars.
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I tried replaying Jets n Guns Gold but reverted back to vanilla after half a dozen missions. There’s just something about Gold… there’s too much wacky crap, too many silly weapons, the new missions are too stupid, the balance is neither here nor there. Original was a finished, wrapped up product, Gold is like they killed the executive producer and just couldn’t stop twiddling with it.
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Frozen Synapse.
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Lovely lovely Frozen Synapse. “Tango down!”
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Frozen Synapse!
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Lots of Bad Company 2. Almost level 31 already.
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Damn.. still Rank 6, here.
I would have been able to progress more had I not had to give up my previous soldier name because it would no longer allow me to log in, so having had to make another one, all my progress was for nothing. Not to mention the 2 weeks after purchase where I couldn’t play the multiplayer at all.
All that had kind of put me off the game so I’m not playing it as much as I thought I would.
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Almost exclusively BC2 for me. Hardcore, mixed. About Rank 19 iirc. Mostly enjoyable, sometimes infuriating and still getting way too many disconnects.
When I wasn’t playing BC2 I was watching Season 4 & 5 of The Wire – weaker than the earlier seasons, but still good… you know, in case you were wondering.
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I’m about 50 points away from Rank 7. Had an awesome game last night as co-pilot (Pilot?) in a tank. A frantic, intense game is where BC2 shines.
Haven’t had any disconnects yet.
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I have been getting back into playing EVE this weekend, nice bit of relaxing mining :)
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Alot of Men of War online, some BFBC2, some L4D2, Borderlands DLC, Dirt 2 aaand Clear Sky complete, its way better than the base game.
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A man of taste.
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Mechwarrior 4, on the rerelease. It’s even better than I remember. And it seems to have more weapons now than it did in my day. PPCs with capacitors? Rocket Launchers? Napalm Missiles? Smoke grenade long toms (whose idea was that?!)
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I’ve been playing insane amounts of the Sims 3 lately. I’d never tried the expansions before and they’re good fun!
One of my little simmies just became world martial arts champion :D
Also, Arma2, best game ever.
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The Sims 3 World Adventures! Possibly the best expansion pack in all the series.
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Torchlight
Wars In America II
HPS Middle East 1967
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Over the past months, I`ve been playing quite a lot of Dragon Age: Origins and Fallout 3 (bought them during my vacation in the US, yay for decent voice acting and all). I have to say that I’ve got bored by DA:O pretty quickly though. I personally blame the shallow plot for that. Apart from that it’s quite a good game.
After finishing FA3 the first time I started a game on “very difficult” settings and am definitely planning on playing through the whole bunch of addons that came with the GOTY edition. But TF2 is recently doing a great job at keeping me away from that. :)
Which reminds me of the new Sam & Max season. The first episode seamed a little bit too easy, but since it is the introduction to a new line of episodes, I’ve got high hopes. Oh, and I bought Trine during the 5 $/EUR sale. A little short, but funny nevertheless. This extra level dissapoints though. Nearly the same as the tower level (curses!) with the rising lava.
Looking back, I am playing pretty much atm…
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Single Player: Just bought GRID, and playing Miles Edgeworth, Bioshock, Fallout 3 w/ LOTS of mods, Cooking Mama (I just LOVE Cooking Mama =P).
Multi Player: L4D, L4D2, TF2.
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I’m finally playing the first Halo, it’s 2001 baby!
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This weekend has mostly been San Andreas, Dirt 2 and the first section of Men Of War, over and over again.
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I’ve been playing the “Adventures of Sean 2″ on an Apple Mac that is at least 10 years old!
Check out the amazing graphics – http://www.allegro.cc/forums/print-thread/590961
If anyone else remembers AoS2 and has managed to run it on a pc made this decade then please let me know….
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Still playing Guild wars which has claimed an unholy amount of my time over the years and finally got round to playing l4d2for the passing. Though the most fun ive had reccently has been playing trine.
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I’ve completely replayed Stalker:SoC (with oblivion lost mod) a few days ago and I’ve just installed Clear sky for the first time.
Played a little faction wars already which was fun.. except for the incredible shitty guns.
The guns seem to be even worse then in SoC but that might just be me being spoiled by the endgame weapons of SoC not to mention I’ve only used shotgun so far which have always sucked in SoC :)
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Guns in CS only start to get good out of the Swamps/Cordon.
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I couldn’t agree more. The starting guns in CS are absolute bollocks. The game also seems to delight in cheap trickery to stop you getting more: bandits stealing your money, etc. I’m glad I persevered, though, as by the time you’ve got to the Red Forest you should have a pretty sweet rifle or two (three, four…).
“This rifle is mine. There are many others like it but this one is mine.” /FMJ quote
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I’m still to freaked out to keep going with my SoC campaign. Just did the retrieval mission for the scientists and I think I have to back track which is annoying.
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I’m replaying Outcast for the first time in years thanks to GOG.
Looking past the chunky voxels and clunky user interface it really was ahead of its time. The voice acting in particular is excellent and puts other classics from that era to shame (*cough* Deus Ex *cough*). The water effects are very good, almost as good as the pixel shader effects seen in much later games.
My biggest issue is with finding specific characters. It’s realistic in that you have to ask for directions but it gets very tedious having to continually ask where someone is to find them – especially as it has an excellent radar map so it would have been trivial to mark quest characters on that.
Other than that I’ve been passing my time with Beat Hazard, the Tron 2.0 Killer App mod, and Left 4 Dead 2.
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Hmm, I’m playing Outcast too. I actually really like how everything is not just marked on my map, especially character locations. I love how they actually point at the person if they are nearby. Of course, that sorta’ fails when you are in the city and they point through walls.
My favorite moment so far was asking a random Talan about Maar (the dumb Overseer in the starting region). I got the response, “But Ulakai, he’s right there!” I can’t remember any modern game that would not allow a character to say something bad about another character just because he was nearby.
The only problem so far is that the combat seems way too easy. I like how the basic grunts weapon fires so slowly that I can get out of the way, do something else, forget that I was dodging, and then manage to get hit. I don’t know if it ramps up later, but I feel like I could storm the big city with just the most basic gun if I wanted to. Luckily, the combat isn’t why I’ve been enjoying the game.
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@ Cooper
I found the combat never gets that tough – although I know I’d struggle if I tried to take on the most heavily defended areas (High Town, going through Daokas to regions other than the city) with just the basic guns. I also sometimes struggle if I’m too lazy too go to recreators and end up running out of ammo.
Of course that was me as a whippersnapper I’d probably be a lot more competent at aiming now.
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I am always playing Team Fortress 2 at least once a week. But other than that:
Warioware DIY (AWESOME)
Sakura Wars: Farewell My Love on PS2 (Very interesting niche game: I now totally understand why it took this long to export a Sakura Wars game to the West. It’s not bad at all, but it relies on the player liking relationship-sims* and turn-based tactical battle games.)
Final Fantasy XIII (I don’t understand why people complain about the fact that there’s a long, linear plot-driven part before the game opens up to let you go wherever you want. EVERY FINAL FANTASY GAME IS LIKE THAT. FF13 is just a lot more action/realtime-tactics-oriented than any previous FF.)
Master of Magic (via GoG)
Just started Bully & Guild Wars thanks to recent Steam sales. If my PC can handle it, I hope to play Fuel as well.
*It’s a lot like what we’d call an “adventure” game, but there are scheduled events throughout the whole plot that happen, or don’t, as you play through. It’s a bit like Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day movie where you’re supposed to play through the plot multiple times and say and do different things to see everything and affect how people feel about you. In the case of Sakura Wars, the clever part is the adventure portion ties into the tactics battles: how much certain characters like you affects how well they fight beside you. And it’s a bit like Sailor Moon crossed with Power Rangers except most of the characters are actually likable. Also, it’s set in an alternate 1930s New York City and you get to fight giant demons with steampunk robots that turn into jets.
In short, it’s exactly the sort of game that can only be made in Japan because if you tried to pitch this sort of thing to the bigwigs at EA they’d think you were mad.
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I have several hundred pieces of coursework due in next week but I’ve just arrived at Vandenburg and those scientists need me damn it!
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Still working my way through the backlog from Steam’s Christmas sale:
Just finished Mass Effect (now waiting for ME2 to appear real cheap)
Close to the end of GTA 4
Part way through Mirror’s Edge
Psychonauts and Men of War still to tackle
Also waiting for Valve to fix L4D2 so I can actually play this Passing thing you’ve been writing about (but I haven’t been reading as I don’t want it spoilt too much).
And outside of Steam I’ve just finished STALKER:CoP, which I really enjoyed. So I’ll probably be replaying that soon at either higher difficulty or with any mod that looks good.
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I’m currently playing Stalker Call of Pripyat as well – I added some mods after several hours of play and haven’t look back since. Vendors buy even garbage guns and a weight fix for misc items. I’m surprised how superb it runs even on my crappy system. Also even more surprised at how bug-free this title is compared to it’s predecessors. Seriously, best Stalker Game to date.
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I’ve gone through my backlog (still 90 unfinished games, damn you Steam).
Games beaten (for the first time) in April:
-Just Cause
-Space Quest 2-6 (with a guide in other hand)
-X-COM: Enforcer (suprisingly good)
-Shadow of Colossus
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-Overlord
-Quake I-II
-Call of Duty 4
Other games played lately:
Grand Theft Auto 2
Overlord II
Left 4 Dead 2
ToCA 3
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Fallout
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I just couldn’t resist reinstalling Deus Ex after reading the Deus Sex article Friday morning. After that, I’ll finally play The Nameless Mod. Denton’s even more badass than I remembered him…
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I picked the game up during the £1.50 sale. First game I’ve purchased twice because I’m too lazy to walk five foot and install it. Just finished playing through yesterday. Cleaned out the lower two levels of Area 51 and binged on chocolate and zyme before blowing the reactor. I’d been saving it all for a special occasion.
Bank Holiday means my Napoleon: Total War is in the post for a few more days. Not sure what will fill the void… perhaps not even games.
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SP: Dwarf Fortress, King’s Bounty, Aaaaa(etc.), X-COM, Constellation
MP: FUMBBL, The Corporate Machine
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The flatmate and I are still trying to complete Dawn of War II so we can play Chaos Rising which we bought at release. Stuck on a damn Eldar Farseer.
I’ll probably fire up Bad Company 2 while off too, need to complete single player on that and I’ve just started enjoying blowing things up in multiplayer.
Oh and I need to do my weekly ‘play Lord of the Rings Online for a few hours while listening to podcasts’ thing
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Far too much League of Legends.
Far, far too much.
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Playing a bit of Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age these days. They have been my stable gaming diet for a while now. Though I did get Outcast from GoG the other day, so that will probably worm its way in and break the Valva/Bioware monopoly on my gaming heart soon enough.
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A lot of Mount and Blade: Warband, some Guild Wars, a few games of Project Reality and some Europa Universalis: Rome to round it all off.
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Solium Infernum:
I’m currently in 3 active games (the others just stopped due to host issues), and am enjoying my experiences in each – the game in which I’m just about to kill off the guy who took Pandemonium being my current favourite. (Save it crashing for the host right now – but Vic seems good and will probably fix it.)
Bayonetta: Just finished it for the third time, but stopped after a level of Hard mode. What was ordinarly a tough game becomes ludicrous – every enemy now acts like it’s on ice (ie unpredictable and extremely agressive) and late game enemies get put in place of the ordinary soldiers.
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I’ve been playing the game of “get-GTA-4-to-work-properly-without-stutter”. It was interesting at first but now it seems to just be extremely annoying. I’ve always been cautious to avoid poor ports in the past but the steam sale was just too good.
Before that I played the misadventures of PB winterbottom. Great little game, with some good puzzles and a quirky charm. Only complaint is that maybe it could have been longer? In any case I haven’t finished all the challenge levels properly yet(and for 4 pfund I can’t really complain). Also the whole silent movie theme worked well with my broken laptop sound.
Today though I intend to start Giants, having bought it in the GOG sale and modded it up. I have a feeling it’ll run better than GTA 4.
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Just picked up Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis and Republic: The Revolution at a local charity shop. Republic is confusing as hell, so I intend to spend the day breeding dinosaurs and “releasing” them to the public. Muahaha.
Also been playing some Heroes of Newerth. Fantastic game, but oh so frustrating when you lose and you dont know what you did wrong. And the community are mostly bastards.
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I’ve recently completed both Time, Gentlemen, Please and Machinarium – making for the most concentrated adventure gaming I’ve had since 1996.
Nearing the end of Dragon Age, now, with ME2 on the horizon AND I’ve got FOUR great strategy games just begging to be played: Company of Heroes Gold, DoW 2, WiC expansion and SupCom2 I got from the wonderful guys at RPS yesterday via the royal Mail.
God knows when and if I’ll play those copes of Bioshock 2 and Prototype that are hanging around here somewhere
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COD4 MP ((It’s Mr. Master sergeant I to you, private! Well worth 15 euros…)
Leave Home (again…)
aaaand…that’s very much it…waiting for something new to appear..
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I’m playing work. Although technically work involves playing physics games.
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I’ve been playing Strange Journey for a week now. It’s a DS game, but I play it on DeSmuME on PC, so hey, it counts as a PC experience ;)
FF 13 and TWEWY before that.
The last things that a I played on PC, hmm… Elemental Beta, Dragon Age and the first Assasin’s Creed.
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This weekend I finished the Whispered World, and I actually did like it a lot.(except the ending) And I played through the Last Express, which might actually be the best game ever.
Continuously playing Solium Infernum, and dabbling in TF2.
Furthermore I’m planning to play some Civ:IV mods, Deus Ex, and find a new adventure game to (re)play.
Waiting on: Alpha Protocol, Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake and Revenge of the Titans. (And further along the line: Civ:V, Xenonauts, Elemental and Gray Matter)
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I’ve started levelling a new WoW character so no other games exist for the coming months.
Before that? Some more Anno 1404, finished Mass Effect 2 and had quite a bit of fun with Galcon Fusion.
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Last month was a quiet one I suppose. I spent some time getting to know BC2 and actually enjoyed the engineer class, at least as long as it took to gather all the gear. Still not too excited about that game though, every death due to a camping assault chopper is steadily eating away my interest. Coming from a traditional class based FPS background, the vehicle spam seems very hard to get used to. Same could be said with the ridiculously unnecessary deaths due to being unable to gib myself. Seriously, what’s up with the no gibbing thing, sometimes you’re being revived several times by some overly enthusiastic medic to an utterly doomed position.
Other than BC2 it’s really been the same classics that never seem to get old. The Paradox trio (Crusader Kings, EU3 and Victoria) are still on the plate. Persuaded by some lovely stories, I once again decided to try my hand at DF resulting in a miserable (though not miserable enough to be interesting) failure.
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That DF failure was probably not as miserable as that time I forgot to press the pause button when I took a break. Poor fellows starved to death.
I then promised myself never to play it again before I finished The Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress. In other words, I haven’t touched it ever since.
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You need to have a rant to the medics who are rezzing you to instant-gib. These people need to learn.
Although can’t completely blame them as it’s a self serving thing to do. They get 50-80 for rezzing regardless if you instant-gib. Maybe a design tweak is in order.
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Settling in to GTA4 here and making the most of being abandoned to a hen weekend so I can use the big TV and surround sound.
Not completely sure what the fuss is over it just yet, the city is big, pretty and feels alive but it doesn’t feel too sandbox like to me and the characters have very little appeal.
Maybe I’ve just been spoiled on Saints Row 2 with its huge variety of mini games available from the start and frequent opportunities to cause mayhem.
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Well, I can’t afford a new copy of Windows right now, and I’m too stupid to do much this Ubuntu build a friend set up for me, so I’m currently all about the browser stuff.
I’ve just discovered Minecraft, and literally cannot get enough of building little cabins all over my island. I like the peacefulness of it, it kinda feels like a pleasant cross between Wurm Online and Dear Esther.
The only other games I’ve been playing, aside from the odd distraction at Kongregate, are Lords of Ultima, which is pretty good, if not that interesting, and Echo Bazaar, which I think is incredible. It’s part choose-your-own-adventure, and part collectable card game, with which you deal yourself little narrative arcs. The writing is honestly some of the best I’ve ever come across in a game; mostly comical, and occasionally wonderfully macabre. And the world the game exists in (“Fallen London”, the capital brought bodily to hell sometime in the 1800s) is so wonderfully realised and expanded upon, so well conveyed…
I thought I could get across why I like this game so much, but I don’t think I’m doing it justice, so I’ll just leave the link here, and urge you all to give it a few minutes of your time. It really is worth it.
http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com
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I absolutely love the setting, thank you for recommending it. However, I’m not sure if I will play it for long, as I dislike the continuous “TWITTER IT”-buttons and the BUY MORE ECHO. It detracts.
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Left4Dead 2
Monkey Island Special Edition
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Still making my way through The Witcher (bought it in the Steam Xmas sale). Was also planning to give Guild Wars another shot, bought it in a sale about 3 years ago but never got very far, unfortunately they’ve made it so you can’t log-in unless you can remember the name of one of your characters, which I can’t. :(
Will probably also play some M&B Warband and Minecraft Infdev later (screw going out blinking into the sun).
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Deus Ex
Teudogar and the Alliance with Rom
Privateer: Ascii Sector
Minecraft (infdev version)
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Have been playing GTA 4 because I’ve got EFLC installed now. Just want to play it as a run-through and then get the 100%, which I have to say I have not got ever since I first got the game within a week of its release.
Also have Assassin’s Creed 2 and Just Cause 2 installed as well. Planning to play them soon, but damn uni keeps getting in the way!
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Been mostly switching between Stalker: Clear Sky (Complete Mod) and Tomb Raider: Udderworld.
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I’m currently netless, so right now it’s a lot of Fallout3, Stalker:SOC with the Complete mod and Deus Ex.
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A metric f**k-ton of Heroes of Newerth. I’d like to play the Liberty City Stories that I paid for. Getting that to work would be as bad as piracy though. Why did I buy it? GTA4 never worked. Why would this? God damn.
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Currently playing through Mass Effect (again), will probably go back to BC2 afterwards while I wait for more ME2 DLC to be released (rumour has it they’re announcing one today).
Gotta play Deus Ex sometime (bought in Steam sale, never got past 2nd mission).
Also I have a copy of Dragon Age Origins from the lovely chaps at PC Gamer which I really want to play but know I shouldn’t as it’s exam season (AS Level) in a few weeks, and DAO would suck all revision time away.
And finally, I should probably get around to finishing STALKER SoC sometime (I installed STALKER complete, then went on holiday, forgot all about it and started Mass Effect when I got home).
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Still playing Hexen. Always playing Hexen.
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dude, i hope you are not joking because imagining someone playing Hexen every day makes me really happy for some reason i can’t understand
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I wish that it could be every day but it’s more like once a month maybe twice. There was a period last year when I played it every second day for three months when I was in the process of well and truly deciding whether that or DooM was going to be my favourite PC game ever. It’s got to the point where I don’t even need to physically play Hexen more than once or twice, I can just close my eyes and picture it in my mind quite accurately. I’m not sure if you’ve experienced that with a game having played it so much so you probably think that I’m pulling your leg so you’re just going to have to take my word for it.
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@spacewalk: Oh I believe you, I have the entire Counter Strike map rotation engraved into my mind, I can visualize my way around de_dust better than my own home.
That’s not a boast btw, but rather a horrific side effect. I haven’t even played CS in 5 years.
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I have got at least an extra year out of CS:S through the zombie escape maps. Ridiculous good fun with the nerdz. But I too have the maps engrained, although they are a lot less engrained than de_dust, and de_office and so on. Gotta move on though, maybe try multitheft auto.
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@CS muscle memories..
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I also got the Deus Ex collection recently from Steam (when it was like 3£).
I remember playing it when first came out, but I was so young that I barely understood what was going on due to my lack of english skills, I never even got inside the base thingy in the first mission.
But now I’ve been playing it for about 20 hours (I play slowly as I need to try every path and see what’s behind every door/safe/building) and I have to say this is one of the best games I’ve played in a long while. I can’t see much wrong in it, other than the slighly out dated graphics, but they ain’t bothering me what so ever.
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Very littlle for the next 18 days until my finals finsih. Although I might indulge in a bit of casual gaming or a few goes of Spelunky or Audiosurf from tomorrow onwards. The snooker, which is my current method of relaxing from the horrible stress or revision, finishes today so I guess a little bit of relaxation gaming couldn’t hurt.
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Been playing a lot of stuff lately via RPS recommendations and postings:
1. Zombie Driver: good fun with a game-pad, esp. the new “slaughter” mode. However, once I played through the campaign and got a gold medal on all the levels (except for those damn suburbs), my interest in returning dwindled. Definitely worth the $5 I payed for it.
2. Dirt 2: surprisingly challenging. On casual, you win races easily but bumping the difficulty up a notch makes races a lot more hard-core. As in, you can’t really f’ up if you want to win. Part of me likes honing to perfection, another part of me marvels at the absurdity of replaying the same track 10 times in a row.
3. Desktop Dungeons: at work, usually, for a 10-15 min break. Really love the design. I’ve unlocked all the levels, but not all the characters yet. The Factory level is tough as nails.
4. Demigod: yeah, I know.
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I still like Demigod.
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@Jim
I own (and like) Demigod, along with a friend of mine.
WE stopped playing it however due to the often hour-long attempts to get an actual game.
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Yeah, if you play at off-peak times, good luck finding a descent game. And then there’s always a chance that once you start playing, it will all come crashing down via the connectivity problems which still haunt DG. But when it all comes together, it’s a beautiful experience.
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Thanks to a laptop that crashes from heat with 3d graphics, im now playing a good few fun 2d games.
Slay
Desktop Dungeon
Spelunky (Unlocked all the rooms, love playing as damsel)
N, still
ZAngband
Dwarf Fortress (Ill get more into this after my exams)
Neptunes Pride
Ikariam
Plants vs Zombies (Im so close to having all water plants)
X-COM
The reimagined Monkey Island
Creeper World
Osmos
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Mainly the Frozen Synapse beta and SupCom 2. Occassionally a bit of BFBC2, although I’ve been thinking I want to get back into TF2 sometime. I don’t have many unlocks or hats, but they just awarded medals for long-haul service, so I definitely want to brandish that one. Plus TF2 is one of those games I find that even after I’ve been away from it for a while, I can just pick it right back up again and not have to suffer getting beatdowns for it. As long as you’re doing what your class does best you’re contributing to the team.
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Ever since it was mentioned here last time I’ve been playing Dwarf Fortress exclusively.
Losing is fun.
I’m having a crapload of fun.
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About 1/3rd of the way through The Longest Journey.
Not really an adventure gamer, but after hearing about it for so long I promised myself I’d get it if it ever dropped to around $5.
It’s growing on me. Wasn’t that impressed by the first but, but I’m getting into the flow now. It acutally doesn’t have much in the way of puzzles, so it’s mostly just following the story.
Enjoying the fantasy world parts a lot more than the dull future-city parts.
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I said I would never play this game, but this week I r bin mostly playin’: WoW.
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Nothing seeing as school work could be pretty accurately rendered as a vat of superglue at the moment, but I did just buy Codename: Outbreak off Ebay after reading that article the sunday papers linked to. Also, I kind of want to get cryostasis. Also Final Fantasy XIII. But this is a PC gaming blog meaning that PC gaming is the only thing ever.
The Machination’s Blog
The Machination’s Twitter Machine
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Due to my computer slowly dying and my lack of funds to buy a new one (only have managed to buy a 500gb hard drive for a new computer) I can only play a few games on my computer… So mainly Quake Live at the moment :)
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I’m playing Privateer: ASCII Sector and DoomRL because I’m scared of my creaky old pc imploding if I dare try anything more demanding for extended periods. Which means I own a lot of games I got off Steam that I haven’t had a proper play of, including but not limited to The Void, X3:TC and M&B: Warband. I did successfully complete the main story of JC2, though. And I’m loving Beat Hazard.
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Must finish (Last 15% of):
Kings Bounty, Majesty 2, Age Of Wonders 2
Must get around to playing (Miles away from finishing):
Dragon Age, Empire Total War
Also gets played a lot:
Blood Bowl, Desktop Dungeons
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Re-installed Age of Empires 2 last night. It works well with Windows 7, except for the water which has a weird color.
It’s surprisingly still good looking, and it’s still my favorite RTS. :D
Otherwise I’ve been playing ArmA II a lot lately.
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I blame the XCom articles for forcing me to reinstall and fan patch Jagged Alliance 2. Ludicrous amount of guns makes for ludicrous fun.
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Basically same thing here. Read articles about X-Com. Remembered that I have the game from Steam but haven’t actually played it yet. Played for an hour. Seemed like a lot of fun, but the UI is very very clunky and dated. Reminded me of Jagged Alliance 2. Thought to myself: why am I not playing Jagged Alliance 2? Suddenly it’s 2 AM and I need to get up early for work the next day.
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I”m working my way through Red Steel 2 at the moment, and I’m solving my backlog of Phoenix Wright games I’ve missed. On the PC side of things, though, I’ve been pulled into the somewhat dicey world of emulation via the fantastic Mother 3 translation project. I never had an NES, SNES or PSone so I’m experiencing lots of the early games that I missed. Final Fantasy Tactics in particular is deliciously addictive right now. Also, M&B Warband is much improved from the original. I’m having a lot of fun with that one. Still wish the graphics were better, though…
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Dragon Age again (so I can take a new char into Awakening)
Vice City (got it off steam for one point five pounds)
Medieval 2 (how do merchants work)
Osmos (love this weirdness)
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http://gameolosophy.com/games/online/medieval-ii/medieval-ii-total-war-economic-strategy-guide/
That might help. Also send a couple down to the the southern edge of the map in north Africa. When you get there the map expands and there are gold deposits there. Very profitable. Kind of an easter egg.
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Revisiting Oblivion, which I never completed, with FCOM this time around. Finding it much improved, though still unsure if I will actually complete the thing.
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I know how you feel, 150 hours and I never did finish it.
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If the “endgame” is anything like Morrowind’s was, I really don’t feel like I’m missing anything
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Thanks you just made me feel slightly better about it. :)
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I guess if you’re going purely by time I’m mostly “playing” PC Fitness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJFNL8a9qPM . One hour a day now for about 30 days just because I scared myself by making a fatty grunt when I was getting out of a chair.
As for proper games, well I’ve just found my old X-Box (which still works after 3 years left in a shed) so I’ve been catching up on the Xbox games I never played when the console was live. Mostly Stranger’s Wrath (which is almost like a proto Arkham Asylum) and Burnout 3 Takedown.
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Hmmm, me and my mates on Vent have been playing CoD4 Promod the last couple of days, didn’t realise how good it was and decided to check out what the fuss was all about.
I’ve also been playing a bit of Killing Floor, MW2, CSS, BC2 and GTA4 which I still need to complete. Also GTA4 multilayer is quite fun too.
Also I’ve been playing the APB Beta every Sunday with people from Vent as well and it is deffo a game best played with mates, it’s good but I just feel like it still has a way to go yet :\
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DRM-Hate aside, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of Splinter Cell Conviction. The guys who made that game of 24 should take heed. Besides that, DiRT 1 (good old steam), L4D2 a bit, and Chaos Rising. Also recently got my copy of Arkham Asylum back, so I’ve reinstalled that for a 2nd go through.
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Well, I’m currently playing:
Bad Company 2 (almost rank 30!)
DiRT 2
Team Fortress 2 (I haven’t gotten a single hat in 50 hours of playtime)
NBA 2k10 (My Player mode is amazing, even despite the fact that you can’t change the simulation quarter length)
Blockland (attempting to build an overly complex scripted Team Deathmatch based on Call of Duty 4)
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You can change the My Player quarter time with patch 1.1. Install it! :)
(Unless you’re talking about dropping the sim time down to 5 minutes or something, you can do that also with some google searching)
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Replaying the original Ghost Recon, with the Heroes Unleashed mod this time. Wish they made them like this nowadays.
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I managed to pick up very cheap charity shop copies of Crysis, Messiah, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Hellgate London (yes, I know only the single player mode works nowadays).
And then I discovered that Crysis and Hellgate London still don’t work properly in Wine. Tch.
So, I played through Quake and the mission packs in one of the stupidly-tricked-out Quake engine replacements instead.
I guess I’ll get around to playing Messiah at some point? I remember it getting the usual “Shiny are awesome” press when it first came out…
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Started April playing Crusader Kings: Deus Vult. A fantastically fun and original game which, sadly, eventually collapses under the weight of two major design flaws.
Since then, I’ve been replaying Fallout 3, this time with the Wanderer’s Edition mod pack installed. I loved even vanilla FO3, but now that I’ve played with WE, I couldn’t imagine ever going back.
Thanks to Vinraith for CK and WE; I picked up both on his posted recommendations.
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I bought Titan Quest a few months ago and never really started it. I was bored yesterday and loaded it up, and I’m really loving it.
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count me in as a fervent Titan Quest fan. i played through the original 3 times (with the same character, moving through the 3 difficulty levels) and even started a couple other characters. loved it. i suspect it has something to do with the non-random level design, which is impeccable and keeps the story driving forward.
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Finally managed to find the page where I could download the Hammerhead DLC for Mass Effect 2 yesterday, and have been playing that quite a bit – man they hide their FREE DLC pages away really well!
Later on I’m going to be getting into some multiplayer Titan Quest as well – great game, made all the better by diablo-style co-op.
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I’ve been playing a helluva lot of Mount and Blade and yesterday I finally moved onto Warband. Those little extras make it worth while. I’m having some of the most fun i’ve ever had in a game.
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I’ve recently been through the Campaign of CoD:MW2 again, on almost the hardest setting.
Playing Warcraft 3:The Frozen Throne again, dusted it off – and it’s still a great game ^^
I’ve been looking for a reason to delve back into TES:Oblivion for the umpteenth time, but alas I cannot find anything to really drag me back into having fun in it, mm thinking about it I might try for the 100% chameleon but I cbf with the oblivion gates etc.
Played through Half Life 2 all over again also.
CoH played all over again, BF2, and I’m probably going to buy the Saga of C&C series so I can play RA2 again, I lost my CD =(. I wouldn’t mind giving Elite Sniper a shot too looks good.
oh and also a mahsiif respect goes out to ArmA2, I’ve played it so much, I can actually shoot more than 2 people without dying.
**In case your wondering I hurt myself and now have much spare time to burn away while I get better, so any good suggestions will be considered -_-** happy gaming! >.<
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Reinstalling Titan Quest ATM, but I am hungry for some RA2… for some reason….. grrr.
And also I should look into getting The Chronicles Of Riddick working on my machine, XP doesnt like it =’(
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Crysis, Dirt 2 and The Whispered World( in German). Excellent stuff und highly recommended.
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I’ve started playing Dwarf Fortress for the first time over the last week. Its been enjoyable, if a little hard to get into at first. Thankfully liberal use of tutorials and the wiki means its not too bad.
Other than that, I’ve played a little TF2. I’ve got a huge backlog of games I’d like to get round to playing, but exams are managing to take up most of my free time.
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I’ve been playing TF2 and BC2 online a lot.
Man, that pyro nerf. Shit’s rough if you’re not used to airblasting a lot. The shotgun is basically pyro’s primary weapon now.
That said, BC2 got another patch after. the most notable change being that darts no longer fly faster than real bullets.
I’ll miss tagging infantry then locking on with RPG for hilarious moments of “wtf hax”.
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I’m all into filling the holes in my gamer-knowledge right now. Playing “Another World” with the Vintage Game Club… Next up will be “Psychonauts”, I guess.
In between, regular doses of zen-meditation via “Everyday Shooter”, while The Passing has gotten me to fire up “Left4Dead2″ again at times. This, and then there’s my ongoing struggle with the editor in “Sleep Is Death”.
When I’m done with all that, I’ll happily turn back to my PS2 (heretic, I know!) to play the small library of games I always wanted to play but never had time to (“God Hand”, “Resident Evil 4″, “Okami”, “Killer 7″). Luckily, I don’t feel like missing out on any recent games right now anyway…
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Replaying The Witcher and trying for some different choices. Since I completely missed the Ultima V Lazarus mod for Dungeon Siege when it came out, that’s what I’m going to start with after the Witcher.
After that, in no particular order, there are several games I own but have yet to start playing :
Men of War
Stalker : CoP
Metro 2033
And perhaps I should finish GTAIV, even though I grew rather bored with it after a while.
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I’ve been hammering into 2v2s with one mate in the SC2 beta, and playing 2v2s in Dawn of War 2 with another mate. Adding the free units for the vanilla DoW2 has brought me back to the game (the expansion didn’t really grab me). I feel kinda frustrated with the way Orcs and Nids bleed so much requisition into their more fragile units. Not a huge problem for my Eldar play, but the balance seems a bit off with those two factions. Playing a lot of Bad Company 2 now that the server browser is usable.
I’m also eagerly awaiting the next couple of Dwarf Fortress patches; I don’t want to jump into the new version until the military and fishing bugs get sorted out.
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I picked up Borderlands on sale a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. Playing through with 2 sets of friends so playing it once with the hunter and again with the siren.
I’m a buy it on sale kinda-guy so I have no idea what games I’ll be buying this year. With that said, Borderlands could potentially be my game of the year.
I’m also playing some co-op skirmishes on Company of Heroes with my father-in-law who’s just discovered it.
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For me 2010 has been a big point-and-click adventure binge. Started off with Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please, then ran through Dave Gilbert’s Emerald City Confidential and Blackwell Trilogy. Then a quick re-play of Fate Of Atlantis, and in the last couple of weeks Yahtzee’s Trilby series. Next up will be Toonstruck. Also: Episodes of Telltale’s Sam And Max in between all the others, which works really well.
And not PC related, but I also played Super Mario Bros Wii to 100% completion, only to be presented with the type of end screen which I haven’t seen since the days of rubbish Ocean 8-bit film licenses. Bah.
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Fallout 3 GOTY with wanderers edition mod. Brutal.
Metro 2033 – great so far. Best scripted rollercoaster in years.
Stalker complete
Left 4 Dead 2
Have gotten some play lately.
And the thing I seem to spend the most of my game time doing: Installing any random game then fluffing around trying to get widescreen working. Some quite recent games just don’t do it. Space rangers 2 reboot and hammerfight are both bloody annoying in this. My monitor has a handy “4:3 in Wide” button for when I give up ….
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Answering that question has made me realise I must be in a retro phase at the moment…..
Playing The Dark Mod , which made me want to play Thief3 again, so playing that as well.
Also replaying Dungeon Keeper 2 and 1 again (just found KeeperFX) – I just love the DK games!
On top of that there is System Shock 1 and 2 – that was kicked off by the wonderful mouselook fix that appeared recently, so slugging through those again.
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Have gotten back into SHMUPS for the first time in ages – Warning Forever, Everyday Shooter, Beat Hazard and Leave Home being my favourites atm
Also picked-up Space Rangers 2 in the GetGamesGo ‘sale’ thing and it’s just a lovely thing – cheesy and fun – the antithesis of stodgy spacegames like X3 or sprawling epics like SoaSE or SotS…
Also PB Winterbottom but it really does know how to drive you NUTS – it makes Braid look obvious in places :)
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I’m about to enter the final third of Mass Effect 2 (quite possibly rivalling KOTOR in terms of how accomplished it is, even more so if I squint and imagine its actually set in Star Trek universe!)
Picked up L4D2 for £13 and almost finished one play through on all campaigns with some friends. I’m very impressed with it but glad I waited until it was £13
I bought Men of War for £2.50 or something stupid from direct2drive a week ago, its installed but not started it yet
Finished Dead Space on PS3 last week and have just been sent Prototype from my rental company, so will probably give that a go some time later in the week
Also installed Kings Bounty (bought for £1 or something from eurogamers site) played for an hour but couldnt get into it. I’m sure I’ll give that a go again soon.
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Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, with the Restored Content Mod.
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The Void, which is a game about teaching men the girly names of colours by showing them naked ladies.
It’s a fascinating game, and I love that it tells you only as much as you need to know to survive, and not one iota more. Occasionally frustrating, but the worst so far was due to a bug (if you can’t see the colour splotches to mine, turn off anti-aliasing). It shows up how plain, boring and simple most games are these days.
Before that about 1.3 games of GalCiv2, a weekend spent mindlessly clicking the numbers bigger in Titan Quest and some old arcade games in MAME, since finishing Mass Effect 2 (thanks chaps!).
ME2′s a bit weird… I really enjoyed it (how can you not love a game where you’re a journalist-punching, shotgun-wielding human pinball?) but there are a big bunch of things I found to grumble about, mostly about the weapons (or lack therof) and combat at the start of the game. Maybe because I went in to the first game with no preconceptions, loved it warts-and-all, then went straight to the second with expectations higher than were reasonable, not expecting the changes that were made.
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Currently playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 multi-player which I love even though I am a little bit crap at it. Since last weekends Steam sale I am also trying a bit of race driving in GRID which I am even more crap at. Bit of an ego deflationary weekend all round really.
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BC2, L4D2, Mount & Blade, Chaos Rings, Dungeon Hunter, Solomon’s Keep, Uncharted 2, Fifa 10 :)
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I played some Battlefield Heroes this weekend and it was fun. Tried the new map that wasn’t very fun though, it’s kinda like a killbox map.
And I’ve played CoD4 like mad because I recieved it for free from a friend :)
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With old the great modern games I have, like prototype, I am currently playing this little old JRPG, Grandia 2, por PC, or course. Not bad.
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With old the great modern games I have, like prototype, I am currently playing this little old JRPG, Grandia 2, por PC, or course. Not bad. Not too impressed, however
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As of late:
GRiD (other than the propensity for me to crash often, I love this damn game)
DiRT 2 (I really wish there were more Rallys and not as many RallyXCrosses)
Trine (after four months I finally figured out how to get further)
BF:BC2 (almost 25, yay?)
Flotilla (I really wish it was longer)
GTA: San Andreas (I wish the mouse controls weren’t so damn finicky)
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I’m glad that I’m not the only one playing GRiD (and sucking at it).
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EVE (as always)
Assassin’s Creed 2
Just Cause 2
Bejeweled Blitz (I know, and I don’t care :P)
And MW4 once I get my Joystick and stuff set up the way I want
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Playn Batman:AA, obtained at some Steam sale, and Race Driver Greed multigeek racin, got it this weekend. Both are fun enough.
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Playing Dirt 2 WHEN IT’S NOT CRASHING ALL OVER THE PLACE. Had no issues with the demo at all, but it took about two hours of constant retries to get past the first bloody race without the game crashing. Hurrrgh.
Also, Starcraft 2. It’s like Starcraft 1, but with less “oh christ the UI is horrible” moments, so even my measly 50 APM can accomplish something.
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I’ve been absorbed in the science fiction genre. I’ve been playing Aurora, Distant Worlds, and have been getting back into X3: Terran Conflict, since the new patch and bonus pack came out recently.
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Left 4 Dead 2 is my primary gaming food source lately, but I’ve also been playing a little bit of Modern Warfare (1), Borderlands, World of Goo and Company of Heroes this week.
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This week I shall be mostly: going back to KOTOR to be a baddy, dabbling with Frozen Synapse, finally finishing Dead Space.
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Addicted to Just Cause 2. Also Deus Ex, testing a new exe that will help the game cope with modern PC’s.
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I’ve been enjoying DIRT2 from the steam sale, and also slowly working my way through Pokémon Soul Silver on the bus (I’ve got to the third gym now, spent a few days earning coins to get a Sandshrew from the gambling place).
Also, Red Faction : Guerilla, which is kinda good fun, but the plot really bugs me. So the martian terrorists are upset, because the government thinks there are terrorists and is unhappy… and I’m on the good side how, exactly? Still, can’t complain too much for how little it cost.
And finally, a bit of Dungeon Siege 2, which is fun for wandering around and magicking some dudes up.
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Starcraft 2 Beta :)
There’s a sci-fi film festival in London and they’re handing out beta keys at the Apollo Cinema near Picadilly Circus. Grab two just in case.
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I’ve been playing GTA:SA. First time I’ve played it on the PC, used to it on the PS2, and combat seems a lot easier now I have almost perfect aim. The advantages of a mouse over a joystick I guess.
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Dawn of War 2. Also, following some Starcraft 2 on youtube (although I’m still intending not to buy the game.. at least when it first comes out). Also, KOTOR.
Prior to that, the Whispered World demo.
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It is not a bank holiday here in the colonies, but -que hatred – I spent the weekend playing assassins creed 2.
Despite the incomprehensible story, the gameplay is a great deal of fun, and I really enjoy the ambience and envioronment.
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Heroes of Newerth :)
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I’ve been playing a mod for Mount & Blade for a little while now (finally got a castle, woo!) and a bit of GTA IV, even though the settings are the minimums and it still hiccups from time to time (grey swathes of road briefly pop up every now and again).
I’m also playing Bad Company 2 online when people I know are about.
Alongside all this, I’ve been playing on my DS (heathen non-PC device I know) Pokemon ever since the last two came out (ended up getting it a day before release day, the postal service was a little too efficient).
Though I might start playing Borderlands again as someone just gave the first two add-ons.
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So…
Settlers 2 10th anniversary with my son. Advance wars days of ruin/age of sadface/regionalised gritty title with my other half and might and magic:clash of heroes on the DSiXL i was recenky given as a replacement for my recently dead ds phat.
So yeah, my pc isn’t getting much love, but last week i went on a bioshock and fear2 bender and i’m on the home straight of both.
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quite a lot of open transport tycoon. The 1.0 version is lovely
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At the moment, World of Warcraft and Heroes of Newerth while waiting for something new and interesting to hit the shelves.
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Right now playing The Dark Mod. Whipped out my Doom 3 CD the other day, installed The Dark Mod. Haven’t had this much stealthy fun in ages.
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Nothing..PC issues are annoying.
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At the moment playing world of warcraft lich king and dragon age with with moments of TF2 and borderlands.
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GTA4 and L4D2
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Just got done with Jedi Academy. Laughing maniacally when using force grip to throw opponents into lava / bottomless pits.
Starting on SWAT 4. Finished the first two missions. First went off without a hitch. Second one, one of my squaddies got jumpy and perforated the suspect. Apparently I need to see to their loadouts. Oh well, at least he survived.
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Starcraft 2 Beta
World of Warcraft – much to my own shagrin
Bad Company 2
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I’ve been roped into a five-day Star Trek Online trial. Still not really sure what to make of it. Like Champions Online, it seems to mostly play like a single-player game. Unlike Champions Online, soloing everything just isn’t as interesting or engaging.
There’s a sort of “emptiness” that pervades the game, I think because a) it’s set in space, b) nobody ever speaks aloud to you (except Spock’s occasional ramblings), and c) space combat is a bit slow and ponderous.
I think back to games like Star Control 2, which certainly had (a) and (b) at least — but aside from the lively combat, it also had a theme where feeling empty and alone makes sense. Whereas Star Trek isn’t supposed to be about the cold depths of space, it’s supposed to be about the people you explore it with, and they just can’t really seem to bring my crew to life for me.
Anyway, still a few days left in my trial, so we’ll see what I think by the end. Not looking so positive at the moment, though.
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I had to reread “Star Control 2″ in your sentence a few times before it set in.
Best game, ever. Nothing can ever top it, unless they recreate it EXACTLY how it was but with updated technology.
Thanks for bringing up a great game! :)
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I’ve been playing Left 4 Dead 2 and… not much else, actually. Well, some classic N64 Smash. But on the PC, tis just L4D2 when I am off to play videogames on the internets.
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Was playing TF2. Celebration of update 119 hit. Pyro killed under depressingly baffling circumstances. Decided to rediscover point-and-click adventure games. That I bought from Steam.
… damnitall.
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At the moment I’m revisiting Haegemonia: Legions of Iron since I saw that a multi-core friendly version of it was being sold on Good Old Games, and with a registry hack to get it running in 1680×1050 res it’s still drool-makingly gorgeous.
I’ve also been playing a bit of multiplayer Jedi Outcast with a friend of mine and some agreeably stupid bots, who always run into detonation pack traps going for the lightsaber in the Jedi Master game mode and get blasted clean off of the Bespin City map because we’ve been screwing about with the gravity settings…
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I actually just finished Police Quest 4. Released in 1993, a year after the Los Angeles riots, this game is mostly famous for being written by Daryl Gates, chief of police during those riots but not for long afterward. Gates was in the news recently — specifically, the obituary column — so it seemed like time to give it a whirl. Mind you, I don’t know how much he really had to do with the game; he’s credited as “author”, but a different person is credited as “writer/designer”, and really, what does that leave for the “author” to do?
Also, Desktop Dungeons. Despite many attempts, I still haven’t managed to complete the main dungeon as a Rogue.
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I’m trying to play that tranquility thing, it loads the menu screens but can’t load levels. :(
Also, Crysis on hardest difficulty.. seeing how far I can get before dying once. I’m playing it really safe and I’m finding it incredibly immersive with how vulnerable the player feels. It’s reminiscent of ol’ times staying up late on school nights playing the first Operation Flashpoint.
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Mechwarrior 4
I was lucky enough to get it downloaded before the big Mektek server crash, and suffered through the utter crap that is the MTX distribution client, and I’m glad I did. The last Mechwarrior I played was 2 in ’96, and I’m glad to see it wasn’t just nostalgia that made me love these games. The combat’s satisfying and I’ve spent hours just customizing mech loadouts. The default control scheme is probably one of the worst I’ve ever seen, though.
Dwarf Fortress
I’m sticking to 40d until the DF2010 ‘issues’ are worked out, and because I’m too lazy to port over my modded raws.
Dungeon Keeper 2
Because it’s Good to be Bad™.
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Settlers 7. It is better than the last 2 installments, but it is also more RTS-like and time pressured hard at times. Fun though!
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I just played Star Wars: Republic Commando. I’m trying to go back and play a bunch of games that I missed during my school years now that I have a disposable income and a lot of free time.
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I picked up Slay (for the iPhone) and have been plugging away at it. The lack of good documentation (or any real online discussion about it) is disappointing; there’s been a lot of trial and error to figure out some of the rules.
Also: Sleep is Death, but my playing partner has been too busy for us to give it much time yet.
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Left 4 Dead 2. It hit my price of $20 recently so I bought in. It’s been great fun so far.
On the one hand I liked that the original’s campaigns were independent pastiches of zombie movies which didn’t need continuity. But on the other hand, I quite like the way that L4D2′s campaigns fit together as one big story.
I have also been playing the demo of Cortex Command. It is wicked difficult and unforgiving, but a brilliant mix of old school worms-a-likes and ragdoll physics. I just wish the ragdolls were a bit less ragdolly.
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Oh, also Tilt to Live on the iPhone is brilliant.
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So far I’ve playing: WoW, Bioshock, Mount & Bl;ade Warband, and Starcraft II of course!
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I’ve been playing Monster Hunter 3. I had never played any of the games in the series and many people compared the combat to Demon’s Souls, so I decided to give it a go. It’s… interesting. The game is not particularly endearing to me, with it’s meh localization and it’s very Japanese gameplay focused on grinding. At least, that is what I keep telling myself, because I can’t put the damn thing down. Very much a love / hate thing going on there.
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Looking at my Steam account’s recently played list:
Left 4 Dead 2
Team Fortress 2
Audiosurf
Trine
Deus Ex
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I have been playing Freespace, I’m quite sad I missed this one when it came out, it is very good though and has aged well.
Also been playing a bit of GRID. Single races, I just can’t bring my self to do the career mode.
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Howdy
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Oh and hey, you know what I just replayed recently and was awesome? Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Head Or Tail of it. Probably the best text adventure I’ve ever played
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I’m near the end of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, at the Polyp fight (it’s the angry fetus-looking thing). I wonder why the game gave me so much regular ammo before handing me a ridiculously powerful infinite ammo weapon but whatever. I’m more mystified as to why Jack doesn’t remark on finding such a thing at all.
I was playing Fatal Frame II on my PS2 but the disc needs to be resurfaced since it’s started freezing in the game (normally I might have to reset a few times to reach the title screen and it’s smooth sailing from there).
I’ve been irregularly playing Quake Live, the internet version of Street Fighter II CE, Battlefield Heroes, Operation 7 (an MMOFPS with hilariously awful voice acting and gun customization), Cross Fire (another MMOFPS that’s not as unique but I’m better at it and have had some hilarious battles) and Lost Saga (an online fighting game that’s like Power Stone with tons of characters).
I also gave Perfect World (gasp) a try and its character creator is impressive (though it could use height + weight modifiers) but the gameplay is way too traditional for me to get into. So Phantasy Star Online is the only online RPG I’m still into.
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Oh and before I forget, my girlfriend and I have been playing the wonderful finals study break game, Dynasty Warriors 5 XL. Nothing better to calm the nerves and mind than sending twenty men flying in a single blow.
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If you’re a CoC fan, you might appreciate these:
http://www.chocolatehammer.org/?p=1555
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I’m playing Just Cause 2 on PS3.
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I had the same issue – just e-mail their support and they’ll tell you what the character name is, took a couple of days though.
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The above was intended as a reply to the guy who couldn’t get into an old Guild Wars account.
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I’ve discovered the limitless joy that is Burnout Paradise, finally (always loved the Burnout games, glad one finally made it to PC). I’m also steadily plodding through the Witcher (great game, but it just doesn’t seem to grab me and pull me along for some reason) and dabbling in some Sacred 2 Gold multiplayer.
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My computer’s power supply broke, so I’m replaying Commandos 2 on my grandmothers computer while I wait to replace it.
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Just finished up a campaign of bloody conquest in Empire: Total War which has been bubbling off and on for the past few months, ending with the subjugation of the Indian subcontinent, the Americas and Western Europe plus a mini-invasion of northern Russia just for kicks. Good fun.
Playing Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer on the 360 off and on. Which is proving more maddening than it’s worth I’m finding.
Oh, and TF2.
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Friend and I recently renewed WOW, so that’s a time sink.
Rockstar Bundle from Steam (on sale last week, at least in the States)
BC2
Oblivion
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Just started AC2. Very interesting and fun to play. Like Batman: Arkham in Florence.
Playing TF2 as always. Love it.
Need to finish STALKER:COP. Love it as well, but slightly less since I bought an exoskeleton and lost my ability to sprint.
Playing SC2 beta, which I love, but hate getting owned in.
And I’m trying to play Evil Genius, which I love, but doesn’t run terribly well on my NB-205 netbook.
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@Mr Labbes: I wasn’t sure I’d like it as I can either be total rubbish at racing games or at least get by well enough. I’m glad it is the latter. Though the crashing thing makes Le Mans incredibly frustrating. After many many restarts (including some after I was over 12 hours in and mucked up the turn) I finally nailed it and was first in my class through the first 20 hours. Then I took a corner too sharply and destroyed my front right wheel and went too far to undo it via Flashback. So I coasted to a stop and took 16th place. Stupid, fun, race.
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TF2, of course. Happy to get my Grizzled Veteran badge, not quite so pleased that it makes it slightly harder to disguise lack of skill with noobness.
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Portal (finally), and HL2 Episode 2. Also, Minerva: Metastasis, Research and Development, and Radiator.
Also packed in some KOTOR, Dead Space. April was a month of games.
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Interesting – I also booted up Tranquility a couple of weeks ago after not playing it for years, only to find out that it’s shutting down. It had a good run, though – I played it a lot back in college.
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Been playing GTA 4, L4D, Making History, the Beat Hazard demo & the UK Truck Simulator demo. Oh, and some LoTRO. Loving the GTA…
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Oh, and last night I reinstalled Hidden & Dangerous 2 and had some multiplayer action. I’d forgotten how good it is.
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I’ve been playing the everloving hell out of Master of Orion 2. That game is still magnificent.
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Baldur’s gate 2. My party this time around, in particular – Jan Jansen, Minsc and Nalia make for some extremely amusing conversations. Not so much Nalia, it’s more Jan’s seemingly random stories he hurls at her at the most inconvenient times…
Then theres the ongoing battle between Minsc and Jan for Boo’s affection. Jan tries to lure Boo away by feeding him crackers while Minsc’s not looking, and in Minsc’s words “Boo is becoming rather portly!” If only he knew….
I’ve also been playing company of heroes. I didn’t bother with it when it came out because the setting didn’t appeal to me much. I realize now that I could be commanding penguin squadrons on giant ridable snails for all that matters, it’s just an awesome RTS.
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For non PC gaming it has been over 40 hours of Monster Hunter Tri on Nintendo Wii.
On PC, Beat Hazard, Lead and Gold and as always Team Fortress 2.
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Solium Infernum
X-Com: UFO Defense
GRID
Kings Bounty: The Legend
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Am I the only one playing Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD? Seriously?
……………aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Calm down dear! I’m playing it too!
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OK I lied.
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- Guild Wars
- Allods Online
- Plonetsomething.. (whatever is called that EVE clone with robots)
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“Plonetsomething”
Why do I get the feeling this games has not captivated you lol.
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Perpetuum Online
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I am finding Allods Online surprising good. But I have a build that “just works”. I don’t know if outside this build ( Hellion pet + Vampire nuke) exist a game. What I can see is fantastic. I am a eyecandywhore, and the game has it, eyecandy.
About Perpetuum online.. something as click on me. I like it. Is the only game that is soo boring, is fun. Playing it is somewhat like taking a cup of tea. Wen I am in that mood, I need Perpetuum.
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I’ve been playing a bit of L4D/L4D2 lately, as usual…and Crysis, which I’m pleasantly surprised to find is better than I thought it would be. I went in expecting a standard space marine shoot-em-up (which, well, it is what it is at its heart), but it’s got some clever ideas. My video card and my processor have yet to start openly weeping and/or catching fire, even on “very high” settings, which is also a nice bonus.
I also just picked up GTA3 (and a few others) during Steam’s Rockstar week, so I’ve been messing about with that. It’s pretty fun…light on plot, but honestly, it’s been one of those years when I just need to steal a flatbed truck and drive it on the sidewalk, up onto a ramp, and onto a cop car. GTA3 delivers.
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L4D2 and Crysis here also. In the middle of Grid, and just finished Red Faction Guerilla.
I installed Air Buccaneers but didn’t get to play it. I also have Psychonauts and Freedom Force waiting for me.
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StarCraft 2, L4D2 (The Passing and others), DotA, God of War 1 from the PS3 Collection, Valkyria Chronicles.
I’m also playing the waiting game while Arenanet support gets back to my friend about his Guild Wars account (same character name issue as people have mentioned above). I bought the game on the Steam sale, but want to play with him so I’m being patient.
I also have an X-Com game going that I’m slightly stalled on – landed battleship assaults are just so big!
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Spelunky (as always, it keeps me entertained during classes), finally getting into TF2 indepth, silly indie games from TIGSource and JayisGames, Just Cause 2, tried Splinter Cell Conviction and was not impressed, dabbling in DwarfFortress, as well as Left4Dead2 and the Passing DLC which is pretty entertaining.
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My April:
1. Finished Dragon Age (I found it disappointing because it omits or dumbs down so many classic rpg elements)
2. Attempted to install and play Freedom Fighters but it just crashes to a black screen.
3. Started and finished Evil Genius (really good looking, funny and fun but also very frustrating in speed and sudden difficulty spikes)
4. Started Tomb Raider Underworld (very good looking but with an awful camera and sub-par controls/movement, rubbish combat and very simplistic puzzles/levels so far).
…plus a steady amount of TF2
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TF2, QL and tried reinstalling Quake 4 only to find it’s pretty much dead. :(
Also playing through Prey. Everything about that game is absolutely stupid but it has this hard to explain “badassness” about it that makes it really fun – some of the level design and art direction is amongst the best I’ve seen.
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I’m playing guild wars again! An Elementalist Necromancer. The lure of fire and zombies was too much to resist. But I also want to make a Dervish/mesmer. Ack!
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I recently resubbed to Age of Conan for the upcoming expansion.
Best MMO on the market, hands down.
Still playing valve games in my down time.
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I tried the Fallen Earth Trial, and found it quite enjoyable. I’m not playing it subscribed. I am also playing L4D2 on and off, and COH when I want some strategy.
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After a long history of tinkering with Dwarf Fortress I’ve finally given NetHack a try… just in time for finals of course. looks like I’ll be part of that long and noble tradition of people who nearly fail college due to their ascii adventures. My girlfriend is pleased with any sort of change since she was tired of “those fucking dwarfs” and was actively beginning to celebrate every time they got killed by a carp or elephants or whatnot. On the other hand, now I wake up in the night in a cold sweat from dreams of hopelessly trying to identify potions and scrolls.
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And the obligatory me-too only after everyone else has had fun molesting the thread. Why is that? OH YES I WAS WORKING AGAIN. No one reads this far down anyway. Four pages? I’m so far down this list I need bloody sonar to reach Jim at the top.
I’ve just finished Lost Planet, sweet chocolate jesus it feels good to get that damn game off my drive. I shall format its unclean bytes from my system. Twice. With feeling.
Also: Trine and the ever unfinished Saints Row 2.
But no more Lost Planet. NO NO NO! Begone foul spirit. LEAVE THIS PLACE.
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Been too busy playing to come here to post anything worthwhile in time, but…
Mostly Final Fantasy Tactics, which I’ve been playing on ePSXe after patching my original copy with the PSP translation for added understandability. It looks shockingly good for a game that’s so old once the graphics filters are set up right. Chrono Cross was absolutely gorgeous, shame about the battle slowdown. Makes me wish for a PS1/2 card for a computer – just slap it in a PCI slot and you get to play all your old favorites with perfect emulation and modern filtering to make them look beautiful on high def displays. I’d buy something like that in a flash, but I doubt it’ll ever happen.
Other than that I gave that music shooter game a try (too floaty, and having the volume of the track as a power up is quite distracting), more Guild Wars, downloading Mechwarrior 4 to give it a shot (never tried before), finished up Drone (what a great game, I’ll be interested to see how it develops) and played (and lost) my first ever Space Hulk. Good times.
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Diablo 2 (I know, I know, new ladder).
Bit of Borderlands.
TF2 / L4D2 / BF:BC2 with a dash of Shattered Horizon for my FPS fix.
Running around a bit in Eve still.
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The unofficial RPS-readers Top 10 most played games of April 2010 so far:
1. (24 mentions)
Left 4 Dead 2
2/3. (20 mentions)
Team Fortress 2
Bad Company 2
4/5/6/7. (9 mentions)
Dirt 2
Dragon Age
Dwarf Fortress
Guild Wars
8/9/10. (8 mentions)
GTA 4
Just Cause 2
World of Warcraft
(just in case anyone is interested in this kind of thing)
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Just a bit of spare time there eh bro? ;)
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After a lengthy kick on the (awesome) Mass Effect 2 (which knocked its predecessory into a cocked space hat), I’ve been playing through Fallout 3 again with the stupendous Wanderers Edition mod (realism/bullet time plus dozens of other tweaks), Fellout for graphics, and Existence 2.0 for music. Wonderful.
After that, it’s time to finish the Witcher.
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Currently I’m playing loads of things, but The Whispered World and Champions Online are probably taking up most of my time right now.
I’ve gone back to CO to see how I can get on with it, now, and to see how it’s evolved, but mostly I went back because I wanted to see what Vibora Bay is like, and a friend is tagging along with me. We’ve got two intricately tailored builds (after me putting weeks of research into builds) which compliment each other and have great synergy, whilst at the same time being complex builds. If you happen to spot Enthraller and Vargtass romping around, that’s us!
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Though I do have to admit that mostly I’m playing Champions Online to take my mind off Guild Wars 2 (obsession!) and because it provides something that few games do: the ability to play a character that isn’t a bleeding human. YEESSSSS. </Megatron>
Especially a really eccentric character, something just… refreshing in how peculiar and completely absurd it is, sometimes one just needs for something to play that’s peculiar and absurd, you know?
Also been doing Trine though, forgot to mention that, and Madballs. Madballs is much loved. I pikced Lunnye Devitsy up off Gamer’s Gate and I’m poking that and finding jubilant elation in its Knytt Stories-ness. I really want to go randomly driving around beautiful places just for the sake of exploration in FUEL, but Steam haven’t given me my key yet, so I’ll be playing that soon. I’m juggling bits of Outcast in there, too, and that’s about it!
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Is Guild Wars 2 free? or is it root of all evil WoW pay to play?
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You pay for the box (usually around £30) and then it’s free to play for as long as you want to play, no subscriptions there! So no need to worry about that with Guild Wars 2, it’s free of such evils.
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Well just recently started a new campaign in E:TW with Britain after stopping my Easy Swedish one which eased me back into the game after the new patch.
About 30% through Stalker: Soc with Complete 09 installed. I save that one for weekend nights when I feel like scaring myself shitless.
Still plodding along with GTA IV, about a mission a month. Haven’t installed the new patch yet though. I have heard average things…
Most of my time is spent with BC2 at the moment. Almost at Rank 7. Trying to do all classes at about the same speed too.
How do you all have so much time for gaming? I’m lucky if I get 20 hours a week.
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Redfred: I’m on disability, so…. mostly I have free time for gaming. Also, interesting – when I picked up BC2 first thing I did was max out the assault class, and now I’m slowly plodding between engineer and medic – I’ve not played the recon class once – I’m rank 17 and I’ve never so much as spawned as one. I love sniping, but every time I see a sniper in BC2 I’m filled with rage as I think of all the stuff they could be doing that might help win the game, like spotting (snipers never spot? why?!) and blowing up stuff with C4.
How’s the new ETW patch? I’ve been feeling the call of Sweden recently myself, too. I love that faction.
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Yeah BC2 really is amazing when you get a game where your team works as that, a team. I think there is a bug with spotting at the moment because its sometimes luck if the game registers you pressing ‘q’ when there is someone clearly in front of you. Although most snipers should spot a lot more.
E:TW seems to be pretty good now with the new patch. I’ll need to update you as I have only played one easy game so the AI was pretty simple as expected. Sweden are pretty fun to play as even though I couldn’t quite get them to a constitutional monarchy.
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Fallout 3: Broken Steel. All frickin’ day.
Are you really taking all of these answers on board? And what are you doing with this information.
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Fallout 3: Broken Steel. All frickin’ day.
Are you really taking all of these answers on board? And what are you doing with this information?
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Gah! It told me it didn’t post the first time. Curse you, lying WordPress wibblishness.
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Since exams finished, I’ve blown through a handful of the shorter games in my backlog. Ben There, Dan That (not bad), Abe’s Oddesee (ugh), and Machinarium (<3), while Time Gentlemen, Please! has been started, but will probably remain in limbo for a bit as I've just begun Dragon Age (frickin' finally). Also a bit of L4D2 mixed in here and there, which I'm finding to be quite an improvement over the somewhat repetitive original.
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Strange. When did “ugh” become an exclamation of joy?
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Assassin’s Creed 2. I beat my way around the bastardly DRM to discover a truly excellent game underneath. It’s really a shame about the DRM, because it’s preventing a lot of people from playing a game that is absolutely excellent in every other way.
It’s clear the devs took the biggest complaint about the first game–the repetitiveness–and completely overcompensated for it. There is no way to get bored in AC2 for the first hundred hours. So many fun and varied side missions to do, and even the ubiquitous “collect 100 so-and-so” quests have an effect on the story and gameplay. The background information is far more skilfully woven into the plot now, too, and the writing’s pretty damn decent, if slightly convoluted. It’s a truly excellent sequel, and I’m enjoying every minute of it.
The best part? “It’s-a me, Mario!”
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OK thanks for that link RedFred. You da man.
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The “Reply” button is … I’m trying to be polite here ….. eccentric?
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It likes to keep threads interesting! :D
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Been slowly and intermittently wrapping up a second playthrough of Mass Effect 2; got fairly far in a game of Civ 4 – Rise of Mankind before it got too intense for my puny 2gb of RAM; some DOD:Source and lately a bit of Frozen Synapse!
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Far, far too much. I have a regular group of 6 other friends who play, meaning we can almost always field a squad. The resulting temptation to play is horribly destructive of productivity.
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Recently bought COD4 in the Steam sale and been playing that through on various difficulties. Dabbling with some TF2 and also playing lots of that lovely Frozen Synapse. That’s it, really.
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I’ve been playing Just Cause 2 mostly. The two paid DLCs pulled me back to it. So far I’ve poured over 50 hours into the game and haven’t even finished the main story yet.
I’m also waiting for Steam to get more FUEL keys so I can try its mega-America map. Racing games are really not my thing but I figured experiencing the giant map tech is worth 3 ½ euro-monies.
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Currently playing STALKER with the LURK mod installed. Playing through again before I play Clear Sky : Complete before I splash out on Call of Pripyat before I even install Metro 2033 before I replay Half-Life 2 with the cinematic mod before I play standalone mods like Dear Esther, Radiator, Minerva & R&D before Episode 3 comes out before Portal 2 comes out before I get my hands on Bioshock 2 before I play through all the levels of Left 4 Dead before I pick up Left 4 Dead 2 before I play Mass Effect before I buy Mass Effect 2 before I replay Arkham Asylum after my save-game got deleted before Monkey Island 2 : SE comes out before I play Mirrors Edge at all before I finish Borderlands before I finish Far Cry 2 before I start Full Spectrum Warrior again (and finish it this time) before I can get a DRM free crack for Splinter Cell : Conviction (after I legally buy it) before I replay Deus Ex & Invisible War before Deus Ex 3 comes out before I get a chance to replay Thief : The Dark Project (and finish it) before I ever get past installing The Metal Age before I decide if I should bother with Deadly Shadows before I figure out where The Dark Mod would even fit into all that before the BlackMesa Mod comes out and I wonder why I never replayed HalfLife before I quietly play all the XCom games so I can pretend I did years ago with everyone else before I go back and play Fallout 3 again from scratch before I play the DLC for it before I play Sins of a Solar Empire just in time to see man colonise the stars.
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I just reinstalled UT2004 last night for the first time in years and realized how much more fun it is than most modern online shooters. They certainly don’t make ‘em as fast and expansive anymore (there’s like a million maps in this thing).
Also started Bioshock which I’ve had on Steam since forever but only recently started properly. Seems like a good one, burning people with flames coming out of your fingertips is pretty fun at the very least. Big Daddies sound like whales. I like that.
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Finished BFBC2 single player on Sunday, I might delve into the multiplayer sometime this week. (Tough I don´t know how long I will play that at all, so many hitscan weapons, real life weapons are boring..)
Also haven´t checked out the new L4D2 DLC yet.
And of course Quake Live CTF, on the euro public servers!
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Played through VVVVVV (great), PB Winterbottom (good, but definitely doesn’t measure up to the first-rate indie platformers (VVVVVV, Braid)), Mass Effect (really enjoyed, but hated the terrible cookie-cutter sidequests and was sometimes disappointed with silly dialogue choices; really looking forward to ME2).
Tried to play The Lost Vikings after someone compared Trine to it, hated it. Spent a little time with good old Battle Bugs, which I never finished as a kid and don’t expect to be devoted enough to finish now (although I’ll come back to it when I’m nostalgic).
Played X-Com for the first time. Liked the openness and challenge, spent a little time with it, and (heresy) decided it wasn’t for me and I don’t want to put the time in to finish a game.
On the docket:
Men of War
ME2 (hope it gets cheap soon)
KOTOR (started years ago, wasn’t in the right frame of mind, didn’t get very far)
Deus Ex
Time Gentlemen, Please
replaying vanilla Monkey Island 2 (not a fan of the new graphics or voice-acting in the SE)
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(Hope this reply works *crosses fingers, prays to the quote button god*)
Battle Bugs, nice, I recently thought of that game again, but didn´t know the name anymore, gotta dig that up again for myself. :-)
Rhinoceros bug for the win!
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You suck!
You’re awesome!
:D
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- Dawn of War 2 (playing through the campaigns again)
- SC2 beta
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Torchlight, World of Goo, GTA 2, Championship Manager 00/01.
And Minesweeper. Always, always Minesweeper.
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Left 4 Dead 2 scavenge mode and only that. And some openttd.
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“Still playing Hexen. Always playing Hexen.”
I am too, you playing this in skulltag? if yes we can do multiplayer =)
And want say there is new hexen under development http://www.hexenmod.com/
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