By Alec Meer on July 15th, 2011 at 9:54 am.
It’s been a pretty dry couple of weeks for both games releases and games news, which for a games site makes it the equivalent of existing on a thin gruel made from ground-up snail shells, hoping that a good meal’s just around the corner. The traditional games Summer lull has forever been confusing – it’s not really like gamers suddenly abandon their machines for three months in favour of foot-to-ball, camping excursions and ill-advised picnics. Still, there it is.
Which begs the question – what are you playing right now? Is it any good? Do you feel like you’re just killing time/scratching at the walls until the flow of new stuff becomes thicker, or are you happy as a monkey with all the indie and retro stuff around at the moment? Anything weird’n'wonderful you reckon we’ve missed? (And don’t say Dungeons of Dredmor, I’m playing that at the moment). Hold forth!
15/07/2011 at 09:57 Sigvatr says:
There’s been a lot of great Doom maps released over the years. The community is still very active, and the quality of maps coming out lately has been astounding. It really is a testament to how great a game it is.
Some great maps to check out:
- Sunder
- Deus Vult 1 and 2
- Alien Vendetta
15/07/2011 at 10:28 diebroken says:
To add:
Scythe 1 | 2
Memento Mori 1 | 2
Plutonia 2
Karma Sutra
Hell Revealed 1 | 2
Whispers of Satan
Speed of Doom
(Damn, I wish I had ZDaemon installed at work now with all the WADs…)
15/07/2011 at 15:51 soundofvictory says:
Thanks for the WAD suggestions. I’ve been rocking GzDoom and Skulltag for multiplayer recently. I’ve also enjoyed recently:
-Ultimate Torment & Torture
-UAC Ultra
-All the community chest packs
Who cares if the game is… I don’t want to think about how old it is. It is still more fun than a lot of modern FPS.
15/07/2011 at 09:57 skinlo says:
I am currently playing Assassins Creed Brotherhood and Bioshock 2, both bought in the Steam sales.
15/07/2011 at 10:16 Juan Carlo says:
Like most people here, I got a big ol’ back log.
I just finished Divinity 2 on nightmare as a pure warrior which took like 80 hours. I don’t know why I torture myself, but for some reason I can’t not play games on the hardest difficulty imaginable. Anyhow, it was an above average RPG for the base game, buyt the expanision kind of sucked so it was a hard slog towards the end.
I’ve also been playing games from the steam sale: Plants vs Zombies (awesome), Super Meat Boy (awesome), and I’m about to start “Still Life” (which I’ve been meaning to play for years).
But in terms of my best “recent discovery” I picked up a casual RPG called “Dangerous Highschool Girls in Trouble” that’s pretty fun. You play a girl in the 1920s and rather than fighting (like most RPGs) you and your friends will “flirt,” “fib,” and have insult battles with “enemies” on the map (which is a small town in America). It’s a very charming game with some funny writing and it’s a shame no one really seems to have heard of it. It’s a bit girly, yes, but I’m obsessed with the 1920s so having any video game set in that era (much less an RPG!) is irresistible to me.
My only complaint is that I wish they would have had a guy narrate the entire game in an old timey 1920s newscaster voice like in the trailer:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/27400/
15/07/2011 at 11:21 Richard Beer says:
Likewise, I just bought Bioshock 2 in the Steam sale and am trying that whilst also belatedly getting involved with Minecraft.
15/07/2011 at 19:53 MattM says:
@Juan
I am with you on the difficulty thing. I almost always start on the hardest or 2nd hardest difficulty in RPG’s these days. I find that western RPGs are super easy on the normal difficulty if you are the type of person who likes to do most of the sidequests. I also find that they are often hardest during the first 5-10 hours. By the end of Divinity 2 I could 1 shot all the bosses with a multi arrow/power arrow combo.
15/07/2011 at 09:58 Choca says:
Blood Bowl mainly. Getting my ass kicked by freaking dwarfs (and not dwarves, this is warhammer :o ).
15/07/2011 at 10:01 Scatterbrainpaul says:
I’ve been really tempted to buy blood bowl, still have the board game somewhere from my childhood
15/07/2011 at 10:07 Donkeydeathtasticelastic says:
I’ve only actually owned Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition for a few days and I’ve already clocked sixteen hours.
Been playing Spiral Knights, too.
15/07/2011 at 10:15 Choca says:
@Scatterbrainpaul : It’s Blood Bowl so it’s a great game but it does have some terrible flaws. I really enjoy it, though (and have been since the very first edition) because I can just get online and get a match going in five minutes. Something that is pretty much impossible to do with the board game these days.
15/07/2011 at 10:32 jon_hill987 says:
I still can’t make myself spell it any way other than Dwarves when talking about a race…
15/07/2011 at 10:51 ItalianPodge says:
Blood Bowl for me as well. I only bought it when it was in the Steam sale a few days ago but already have many hours notched up.
Managing to get a touchdown in the first games of a campaign is a sense of achievement few games have given me recently, playing as the Dark Elves I try and suck the slower teams in towards the ball and then send a Witch Elf flying down the wing. It’s just sooo frustrating when they fallover or drop the ball though, which is what makes it so great when you make it. Starting to learn how to cover for those potential errors. Very good game.
Anyone know if the Legendary edition is compatible with the Dark Elves edition for Multiplayer?
15/07/2011 at 10:51 frenz0rz says:
Ah yes, I’m still playing a fair bit of a Blood Bowl. Was put off my clan’s elf league a little last week due to a horrendously bad run of luck, whereby I conceded on the second turn when recieving and had three of my best players out. One of whom was dead. Still, fought back with the next game in the season yesterday, and managed to scrape a draw! Wooo….
15/07/2011 at 10:52 frenz0rz says:
@ItalianPodge
Unfortunately, that would be a no. The two versions are not compatible. I wish they were, as I have a few friends who bought Dark Elves Edition but couldn’t quite be tempted to blow more money on Legendary,
15/07/2011 at 11:16 LowKey says:
guys guys guys, come play in the RPS Divisions of Death for many a laugh
15/07/2011 at 12:52 ItalianPodge says:
@frenz0rz thanks very much, I have a friend with the Dark Elves version. A shame we can’t play together maybe I can persuade him to get the Legendary edition but I’m looking forward to entering The Ruthless Runners into the RPS Divisions of Death!
15/07/2011 at 15:34 Jake says:
Blood Bowl as well, took a punt on the Steam sale and I am now utterly hooked. I’m playing Skaven who are ridiculously nimble and fragile and even though everyone knows they aren’t as cool as a real Chaos god their high risk play style really appeals to me.
I’m still a rookie and make loads of mistakes, I didn’t want to join these RPS leagues until I know what I am doing but will do eventually.
16/07/2011 at 10:41 Sorbicol says:
To all the new BB players, do enter a league and get playing real people. It’s so much better than the really rubbish AI in the SP campaigns, and so much more fun. You’ll learn a hell of a lot more too, and most of the more experienced players will be willing to offer lots of advice. Checking out http://www.bbtactics.com is also very helpful as well!
15/07/2011 at 09:59 Scatterbrainpaul says:
I only picked up one game in the sale, Kings Bounty Armoured Princess. I’d never played the series before and i’m really enjoying it. It kind of reminds me of one of my all time favourite Mega Drive games Shining Forrce
15/07/2011 at 13:14 Similar says:
I’m playing Armored Princess too. Got it from a previous Steam sale because of an RPS WIT, but first got around to trying it now. I’m nine hours into the game and it really is very good.
Also playing some Minecraft on the side. Of course.
15/07/2011 at 09:59 Jams O'Donnell says:
Not playing much really as I don’t have much time for gaming at the moment, but when I do game I’m digging into my Steam Summer Sale haul, specifically Frozen Synapse and Alpha Protocol, though I’m awfully tempted to switch to Call of Pripyat now I’ve finally picked it up.
I seem to be playing with my PSP more than my PC lately, because I can at least squeeze in a good hour or two over the course of a week while sitting on buses and the like, and on the PSP I’ve been mostly playing ZHP and Tactics Ogre.
(also, now I finally understand the difference, it doesn’t beg the question but merely raises it)
15/07/2011 at 19:55 MattM says:
Get the Call of Prypat complete mod first, it is good for a first play through.
15/07/2011 at 09:59 Evil Otto says:
I’m playing the games I bought in the steam sale, Amnesia and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory in particular. Both are fantastic.
15/07/2011 at 11:21 Wunce says:
I picked Amnesia up from the sales because I wanted to scare the living daylights out of me. Unfortunately, there was a tonne of immersion breaking things I found which really ruined the scare-factor
(e.g. enemies that can’t be avoided disappear when they walk away; when you are in a room with a monster, simply look at the wall crouched until he leaves you alone; early on hints would appear when you were about to be attacked, taking out the surprise)
I found the storyline, exploration and puzzle solving to be the games strong points – all things you rarely hear mentioned about the game.
15/07/2011 at 13:21 thebigJ_A says:
Simply look at the wall till he leaves you alone? Sure, except when he kills you. You were in a dark room, or out of his line of sight. He couldn’t see you. When those things find you, you’re dead unless you flee fast enough and hide again. Staring at a wall doesn’t help. That’s for when you see them but they don’t see you, to keep yourself sane.
Early hints? You do know the monsters are different from one playthrough to the next, yes? Sometimes you open a door and one’s there, other times you hear it coming and have to hide.
And of course they disappear. They’re freakin’ monsters. They leave the area you’re in so you can continue. What did you do, follow them around?
You fail at horror. Don’t pick at the seams. Amnesia’s the best horror game in years.
15/07/2011 at 15:10 Donjonson says:
thebigJ_A – If it wasn’t scary for Wunce then it wasn’t scary, no need to be offended. We’re not all hard as nails no fear adventure striders. Scariest bits for me me were the invisible water things. I actually started laughing at a few points, a weird reaction to finding myself so terrorised!
15/07/2011 at 16:45 runtheplacered says:
I dunno. Didn’t sound like he was offended at what Wunce was saying. It sounds more like he was correcting Wunce on things that didn’t make any sense.
16/07/2011 at 07:57 Wunce says:
It seems that he does sound genuinely offended.
I should clarify that the crouching in the corner worked 100% of the time for me, but perhaps I was lucky. All that matters is that at the time I thought that I was safe and hence removed any horror.
15/07/2011 at 10:00 Turin Turambar says:
Reading A Dance of Dragons. When i finish it, i will come back to M&B Warband and Time Gentlemen, Please!.
16/07/2011 at 11:59 EOT says:
Wait…it’s out? Bollocks. I knew I should have taken up Waterstones pre-order offer (if you pre-ordered it you only had to pay something like £4 so you got the book half price).
15/07/2011 at 10:00 airtekh says:
Well I’ve got a list of about ten games that I still haven’t played yet. Mostly stuff from 2009 or 2010 though.
I just finished the Portal 2 coop the other day at it was absolutely brilliant.
I’m about to start Splinter Cell: Conviction and also have a crack at Monday Night Combat.
15/07/2011 at 10:01 whollyrandom says:
Oblivion, modded with OOO and the Oblivion XP Levelling mod. I may also take off the level cap at some later point; at the moment I’ve run into a slight problem in that I’m breezing through the access-to-Arcane University questline but have no money at all because none of the quest rewards give you any real reward beyond the recommendation. Curse my decision to pursue non-remunerated personal advancement!
Also, some Terraria multiplayer – lovely, lovely – and lots of Sanctum multiplayer, which is brilliant fun although I suspect I need to replace my existing, known-them-since-University-they’re-part-of-the-family friends with people who can actually bl**dy shoot.
15/07/2011 at 10:03 J. says:
I bought Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII on the day of release, so I got those to plow through. BoD has been great fun so far. Also playing Bad Company 2, which I nabbed from the Steam sale. Got Terraria for cheap as well, but already played it “through” in a few evenings.
15/07/2011 at 10:04 jakonovski says:
I’ve been mostly playing Rift, but tonight I’m going to start on Nexus: Jupiter Incident. Funny little space strategy, that.
15/07/2011 at 11:42 mickygor says:
Ah man Nexus is my favourite game of all time :D
15/07/2011 at 20:21 kaelus says:
That game is incredibly brutal, I know this because I too am playing through it. It’s so unforgiving but so fun! Good luck you will need it. Also there’s a really good mod for it. I don’t know how to do the linkage so here it is
http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-eternal-conflicts
it’s a sick looking star wars mod :)
15/07/2011 at 10:05 aircool says:
Alien3 on that megadrive emulator. One of my favourite platform shooters ever.
15/07/2011 at 10:54 frenz0rz says:
That was probably the first game I’d heard that got the sound of a pulse rifle *just right*.
Tough game though.
15/07/2011 at 11:30 Mechorpheus says:
I always found that game FAR too long to handle without a save feature (when played on the actual mega-drive, naturally), and couldn’t ever get away from the fact I found the SNES version to be slightly more ambitious (butI don’t necessarily mean ‘Better’, as if anything that was even harder, and with the pseudo-open-world style I often found myself lost). I never came close to completing it on Mega-Drive. Maybe I should try again on an emulator…..
15/07/2011 at 11:35 aircool says:
The fourth levels had the most awesome graphics and audio. Thr final levels were kind of a letdown. The game was hard (especially compared to most current games), but you soon learnt where all the aliens and whatnots where hiding. Breezing through a level on brainautopilot was incredibly satisfying.
15/07/2011 at 10:06 WMain00 says:
A mix of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and The Witcher 2. Recently reinstallled Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines and Beyond Good & Evil, so I have options!
15/07/2011 at 23:04 Pointless Puppies says:
I love you just from the RCT3 mention. I don’t really get the hate for it. Aside form the kiddy art direction, it honestly was about as good a 3D transition as the RCT series was going to get.
Too bad Atari doesn’t give a shit about the series, or else we’d have something new in the series in the past 5+ years :(
16/07/2011 at 05:44 Tergiver says:
I’d love to see another Roller Coaster Tycoon. I’m a compulsive un-installer (I play way too many games to keep them around), but RCT3 has remained on my computer for years. If I’m not tinkering with it, a niece or nephew is.
15/07/2011 at 10:06 Pike says:
Currently playing Assassin’s Creed II (from the Steam sale) and I just picked up Dungeons of Dredmor last night but haven’t gotten too far in that yet. I’m really enjoying AC2 but I was one of those strange people who actually liked AC1 (if Ubisoft hadn’t gone DRM-insane I would have purchased both AC2 and ACB at full price on release rather than picking them up for cheap in the sale).
15/07/2011 at 10:07 Sorbicol says:
Couple of things,
Frozen Synapse which is excellent. I’m on UK server 6 if anyone fancies a challenge.
Solium Infernum. Just getting to the backstabbing stage….
Portal 2. Bit behind the times but picked this up in the steam sale. It was quite sublime in places, Game of the Year (so far) by a country mile.
15/07/2011 at 10:07 Chizu says:
Picked up Dungeons of Dredmor when it came out the other day.
Fun little rogue-like
:V
Otherthan that, the usual man shoots in tf2 and such.
15/07/2011 at 10:08 Handsome Dead says:
Left 4 Dead 2 because smokers are cool and i am the best smoker.
Also Steambot Chronicles because it is the best game
15/07/2011 at 10:10 Cake Hunter says:
I just downloaded Dig-N-Rig and loved it! Spend 2 hours straight on the game, got a pile of treasure and… then the game crashed and I lost everything. TT *Use the save button!* Still waiting for Limbo.
15/07/2011 at 10:12 Dawngreeter says:
AssBro here. Almost finished it, spent ungodly amount of time doing all the stuff I don’t need to be doing and neglected the main storyline as much as I could. I’m paranoid that some of the side missions will vanish if I proceed with the main story and I don’t want that to happen. Yes, I’m obsessive. Love the story, I liked The Truth, though AssCreed 2 had it better.
Also, been wantin’ to resub to EVE since Monday. I’ll probably do that when AssBro’s done with so that I can actually play it.
Also, DoW2:R (Doughtoor). Which I bought and installed and never once started. I wanna play it in multiplayer. I don’t think I’ll get around to it soon.
15/07/2011 at 10:12 Hmm-Hmm. says:
I never understood why gamers -do- need a steady supply of games at such a rate.
I mean, I understand it from a game journalist’s point of view (and moreso from a developer/publisher’s point of view), but the amount of games released is staggering as it is. Nah, a lull in the release of games is only good. Gives us time to catch a break and finish some games for once.
Back when I only played mac games.. I actually finished all the games I played. Well, aside from Baldur’s gate and BG2 (both of which I do still need to finish).
As it is, I’ve been playing Duels of the Planeswalkers, tuning the decks I’ve unlocked fully and unlocking others. Aside from that, a bit of Borderlands, Solar 2 and I’ve started playing Planescape Torment for the very first time.
15/07/2011 at 11:48 Brutal Deluxe says:
You lucky bastard: PST is unbelievably good. It almost physically hurts whenever I try to replay it.
And I must say I agree with the need for some breathing room, especially after the summer sale. If no more games are ever released, I will still have more than enough to play through.
15/07/2011 at 15:41 Cyberwizard says:
I completely agree that a lull is good. I “restrained” (I use quotes because, is it really restraint when I already bought most everything I wanted in other sales?) myself during this year’s Steam sale and only bought 3 games, Singularity, R.U.S.E., and Terraria. Even with that, I have 134 games in my account, probably 90% of which I haven’t beaten. And that’s only what I have on Steam.
I definitely can’t keep up with game releases every week. I’ve kept up better than ever but still only have 4 games released this year (Dawn of War 2: Retribution, Homefront, Portal 2, and Terraria). I just don’t have the funds to spend on a new game every week.
So I am working through my backlog, trying to actually finish some games. Right now I’m playing Supreme Commander 2 and will probably get into Terraria soon.
15/07/2011 at 17:26 Jake says:
MTG: Duels of the Planeswalkers is really good fun although I wish there were a few more options per deck
15/07/2011 at 10:12 idiotapocs says:
Playing mostly amongst boxes of sand: San Andreas and Bully, both of them are shitloads of fun.
15/07/2011 at 10:13 Zeewolf says:
Shift 2 on the PC. I stupidly ended up with both the 360 and PC version of this back when it was released, and played it a lot on the 360. Now recently I decided I wanted to try the classic cars dlc that EA released for free for the PC-version, so I registered my copy on Origin and downloaded that. Obviously I ended up getting hooked on the main game again. Maybe I’ll actually “win” it this time.
Also playing Drakensang: River of Time. Still not sure about it. Kinda like it, kinda… I don’t know. It hasn’t really grabbed me yet, but I see potential. But I went to great length to get the English boxed copy (it’s not for sale here), so I don’t want to give up on it just yet.
Oh, and Civilization V, in the new hotseat multiplayer mode. That’s been very fun, but now we’re in that late-game part of the game where nothing happens and we’re just waiting for me to win basically. The late game was the most important thing that needed fixing in Civ IV, but instead of fixing it they made it even less interesting for non-warmongering civs. Re-introduce global warming or something!
15/07/2011 at 10:14 MrPyro says:
Been replaying Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, because the campaign mode is a lot of fun (shame Soulstorm wasn’t better).
I’ve got a just started run of Planescape:Torment on my laptop, but I really want to sit down and play that in big chunks so that I can keep the plot in my head, and I haven’t really had the time.
15/07/2011 at 10:14 KauhuK says:
Crysis 2 that I got from play.com sales and Fallout NW with dlc:s and project nevada mod. Also I need to continue my clans quest to be shogunate in Shogun 2.
15/07/2011 at 10:15 StingingVelvet says:
Playing New Vegas again from the start with Honest Hearts and Old World Blues both out or about to be out. I love me some Fallout and open-world RPGs in general and can replay them pretty much all the time.
I finished FEAR 3 and am replaying it as Paxton Fettel, which you can do. It’s really neat to play as Fettel because of the possession mechanics and such. FEAR 3 is not some amazing game but it’s a very solid shooter and plays well. Looks very console-y but also runs at 60fps maxed out, so whatever.
Bought Cthulu today on Gamersgate (DRM free!) and will probably try to fit that between New Vegas and Deus Ex 3 next month. Can’t believe Deus Ex 3 is out on just over a month! So exciting.
15/07/2011 at 11:11 diebroken says:
When you finished FEAR 3, what ‘level’ do you end with?
I’m playing through FEAR 3 now (at interval 5 ATM), and seem to spend the first 5 mins playing (read: using cover for 200 secs, spending all slow-mo time, etc – making a coffee) each interval to gain ‘points’ just to ‘level up’ (a pretty sad thing to think about really in a FEAR game…)
15/07/2011 at 19:51 StingingVelvet says:
@ diebroken
There are 8 levels but the last one is short and mostly story-based. It is also frustrating and annoying. 1-7 are all normal though, barring a brief section with dogs in level 6. I finished the game on character level 14 I think?
And yeah, the fact they left the points and leveling mechanism in singleplayer is pretty stupid, but oh well.
15/07/2011 at 10:15 Ian says:
Crying at the Steam sales mugging me again. :( Though only to the tune of £30 for a fair few games, so it could be a lot worse.
I’m currently getting stuck into Planescape: Torment and am about halfway through Bob Came In Pieces. Which isn’t quite what I anticipated but is good fun none the less.
15/07/2011 at 10:16 Casimir Effect says:
Alpha Protocol and having a great time playing it. Except for the boss fights, which seems silly and unnecessary. Although being able to freeze time and plant 5 headshots into them makes it a bit more trivial.
15/07/2011 at 10:16 el_murph says:
Just completed Minerva’s Den which was very good but am a little sad that we won’t be getting anymore Rapture for the for foreseeable future.
15/07/2011 at 10:16 varangian says:
I moved house recently so for 6 months or so I’d been too busy to play much more than a few rounds of TF2 now and again. But now the place is sorted I decided to treat myself so I got Just Cause 2 and Portal 2. I’ve played lots of JC2 and its the one I’m enjoying most. Ignoring the main storyline and just wandering around creating mayhem has an enduring appeal.
Although I loved Portal I’m not finding the sequel that great. Too much wandering into a test room/arena, gazing around to find the magic spots where you’re allowed to create portals then implementing the necessary sequence of events to get to the exit so you can go to the next room where you gaze…
I guess it’s one of those things that worked great when it was a only a few hours of gameplay but not so much when stretched to a full length game. I’ll get through it eventually because the mad AIs are fun characters and the story element may prove interesting, but I find I can only play long enough to get through two or three tests at a go before boredom/irritation become the predominant feeling.
As for the future I’ll probably get back to buying games as they come out when, depending on how the release version pans out, the likes of Bioshock Infinite, Deux Ex Revolution, Arma III and Dead Island see the light of day. All looking good in teaser/trailer form.
15/07/2011 at 13:04 skinlo says:
I’m the other way round actually, both are good but I preferred Portal 2 by far. Just Cause 2 gets boring for me after 1 hour, you just keep having to find endless crates and blow up endless fuel canisters. After you’ve gone to the highest point and explored both sides of the mountain range, there nothing much to do except for the storyline which is crap.
15/07/2011 at 10:16 Acosta says:
After buying 15 games in the Steam Sale, I just keep playing my uber adventure with Baldur’s Gate saga and the The Big World mod collection, which is awesome and scary at the same time. After completing the difficult and lovely Durlag’s Tower, I’m earning my fortune in Amn.
16/07/2011 at 00:32 jaheira says:
Durlag’s Tower is my favouritest ever RPG dungeon.
15/07/2011 at 10:18 harvb says:
Currently not playing much, but when I am it’s Mount and Blade Fire and Guns of Instagib.
15/07/2011 at 10:19 misterk says:
Starcraft 2. I resisted the multiplayer, but it has me in its terrible grasp.
15/07/2011 at 10:20 Man Raised by Puffins says:
Finished L’homme Chauve-Souris: Loony Bin Punch-Up t’other day, now revisiting a previously discarded Empire: Total War Warpath campaign.
Oh, and the war-themed hat simulator that must not be named.
15/07/2011 at 10:21 Text_Fish says:
I started revisiting The Dig last night and found the atmosphere is still just as haunting as ever. The sad thing is I got up today and because I have a day off, decided I wanted to play faster games so I could fit more in to this precious timeslot. Have shooty games melted my brain? I’m afraid that may be the case.
15/07/2011 at 11:50 Brutal Deluxe says:
I’ve been re-playing the dig on scummvm on my PSP for the past couple of years. It seems to be the perfect theing to play on flights, which is the only time my PSP sees any action these days.
15/07/2011 at 10:21 Xercies says:
Tomb Raider Underworl, damn is it a really pretty game and full of really good platformy goodness. Thank you steam sale.
15/07/2011 at 10:24 bleeters says:
Terrania and Sanctum, mostly. So much entertainment for so little moneys.
15/07/2011 at 10:24 BerZerK says:
I recently picked up Unreal (Gold Version) again, and by accident found out that someone made a set of high definition textures for it, making the game look a lot nicer (hard to believe really).
15/07/2011 at 10:24 phenom_x8 says:
allready at the witcher2 2nd chapter now,great game,plenty of choices, and can’t wait to replay it with different choice.Btw, I get it by borrowing and installing my friend’s copy,is that considered as pirating?
Oh,yeah just downloading arma2 free recently!awesome game,just DL the scenario and you’ll get hours of fun! guaranteed!
15/07/2011 at 11:00 Kyrelle says:
Um. Yes. Yes, it is. *facepalm*
15/07/2011 at 15:59 phenom_x8 says:
Damn, I knew it! Thanks for the answer kyrelle, gonna buy it at GOG I guess!
15/07/2011 at 16:18 sinister agent says:
I lend about half the stuff I’m not using to friends. I don’t see why games should be an exception, especially if it means they end up liking it so much they buy their own copy. Sheesh.
15/07/2011 at 16:26 phenom_x8 says:
@sinister
That’s what I was thinking before, I borrowed it, not steal it and my friend lend it wholeheartedly! It is him who has it!
But, I’m gonna buy it to show some support at CDPR!
15/07/2011 at 10:25 jack4cc says:
tf2. What else is there ?!
15/07/2011 at 16:20 phenom_x8 says:
care to trying ARMA 2 free already?? DL the client then DL the custom scenario SP mission or Campaign at armaholic.com. Dont forget to grab the create pbo tool there to extracting and creating .pbo campaign file into individual SP mission because ARMA 2 free are not supporting custom campaign yet!
15/07/2011 at 10:26 Ginger Yellow says:
Picked up Hegemony Gold last night, having meant to try it for ages and loving the demo. Played till 2am. Great stuff – I love the ebb and flow of it. Still getting my head around some of the mechanics though.
15/07/2011 at 10:27 BwenGun says:
Replaying Fallout New Vegas with a few mods, principally Project Nevada and a few cosmetic changes to make the Strip feel more vibrant and alive. I also installed the New Vegas Bounties, which was a surprisingly good questline, even if it mostly boiled down to whittling away at the targets health and trying not to get one-shotted by the later ones.
15/07/2011 at 10:29 torchedEARTH says:
Dungeons of Dr… oh, I feel shame now. What a shame I feel.
I’m playing Batman: Arkham Asylum again. It’s bloody awesome.
15/07/2011 at 10:29 jon_hill987 says:
Magic the Gathering Online.
The Commander format has got me back into it again. Such a money sink though…
15/07/2011 at 10:30 drewski says:
Dungeons of Drednor, Fallout 2, Civ IV.
And, erm, Scribblenauts.
15/07/2011 at 10:30 Deano2099 says:
Just one level left to do on Desktop Dungeons (Gorgon in Crypt). Also been playing Dawn of War 2: Retribution, which I got in the Steam sale expecting to mostly play single-player, but am addicted to The Last Stand.
Plus Heavy Rain on the PS3.
15/07/2011 at 10:33 The Sentinel says:
I like these dry spells. Like everyone else I’ve got a backlog of games I’ve been meaning to play. for instance I’ve been playing GTA IV. I bought that at Christmas there (Steam sale, natch) but it took me six months to get around to it. It’s not bad. Not as good as San Andreas or Vice City – R* seem to have sucked all the madcap fun elements out in favour of something supposedly grander – but it’s still decent. If ever a game needed a Gouranga bonus, this is it.
I’ve also just battered my way through X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse. I’m a large fan of the X-Men generally so it’s curious I’ve waited this long to install the game I’ve owned for months now. Got from the start to beating Apocalypse in two days flat – really enjoyed myself, too. Lots of geeky marvel X-Men references and ‘intertextuality’, if you like that sort of thing, and the game’s a belter, too. Cyclops for the win!
In between that I’m playing odd spots of Solar 2 (not quite as good as I’d hoped, still need something to scratch that Jenova Chen Flow itch) and I finally installed The Precursors as well. Some interesting issues getting my Gamersgate version to behave itself but there’s a pretty cool game buried under all the lack of polish.
16/07/2011 at 12:26 EOT says:
If you want all that fun and sillyness back I would suggest Saint’s Row 2. A much better game in my opinion. The PC port is…eh…crap. CDProjeckt did it terribly. I would suggest getting it on the consoles if you have one.
15/07/2011 at 10:33 Tei says:
I tried (and failed) to get back to RIFT. I finished the last Terry Pratchet book. I have a huge backlog of games, so I feel like a nuclear apocalypse survivor hidden in a bunker designed to feed 80 persons for 100 years.
15/07/2011 at 10:35 Flint says:
Not really playing anything at the moment, though I very much wish I was. I picked up a fair few games in the Steam sale which I want to start playing (Fallout New Vegas in particular) but I’m on a holiday at the moment, away from my home gaming computer. I’ve got my DS and Pokémon White with me to provide some gaming company but I’ve not really been in a pokémood lately so I’ve not been doing anything active with it.
15/07/2011 at 10:38 Slimu says:
Just doing my first try on Fallout (1). Nice game with some bugs, but a great summer experience. Also I started playing Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light in coop mode with a friend. Besides that, just waiting for august/september game rain.
P.S. And fighting the good fight in TF2
15/07/2011 at 10:38 Cunzy1 1 says:
Getting stuck into some RPGs that have waited long enough.
Away from the desktop I’ve been trying to get off of 0 Battle Points on Tatsunoko vs Capcom. I might have to fight continental fighters because players from Asia are mentally brutal.
15/07/2011 at 10:39 detective says:
A bit of Max Payne for me
15/07/2011 at 10:40 ninjapirate says:
APB:Reloaded, still. I’m almost afraid to admit that I’ve already put more than 400 hours into the game.
I’ve also reinstalled GTA San Andreas (and I can’t help but imagine how awesome a remake of this game would be).
With every hour that I spend playing GTA SA I’m feeling this growing urge to rewatch “The Wire” and listen to my old rap CDs…
16/07/2011 at 09:00 Ganj says:
I’ve been pottering with APB Reloaded a lot recently too. It’s surprisingly fun – something that’s come as a bit of a shock after only really intending to have a play around with the character customisation.
I’m not sure if after the lure of bars to fill, (missions reward rep with various gang members – that unlock more guns/cars/clothes/etc) I’ll stick around long – I suspect that in order to progress to the top tier you’ll need a clan. voice comms and such and I don’t think I have the fortitude to dedicate to that sort of thing anymore.
Having said that, it’s still a lot of fun to play, (when the currently somewhat skewed matchmaking system works) and the forthcoming patch is adding a third action district along with some fixes to the matchmaking, so perhaps I’ll be around for longer than I intend after all.
Along with plodding away towards GWAMM and 50 Hall of Monument points in Guild Wars, that’s most of my time accounted for.
15/07/2011 at 10:41 Vandelay says:
Considering I managed to spend just shy of £100 in the Steam sale, I’m not exactly light on things to play.
Instead of my usual reaction to the Steam sale of dipping in and out of everything I’ve bought and not actually playing that much of any of them, I’ve been focusing on just two. This had mainly been Fallout 3 and Super Meat Boy. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how much I’m enjoying Fallout, following all the mixed opinions and my own feelings on Oblivion. I’ve mostly been enjoying just wandering around themap, taking in the sights and exploring the (mostly) abandoned buildings. In what must have been about 6 or 7 hours play, I’ve actually only managed to complete about 6 quests, so I think I might try and speed it up a little bit.
My only real problem at the moment is that I always seem to have no ammo. Most traders seem to only carry very little and it makes a lot harder to travel the map when you know you will not be able to attack most of the bandits or mutants you come across. Perhaps this is fault with me deciding to not use the fast travel, but a few more stashes littered around the place would easily solve the problem.
Super Meat Boy has also proved a worthy purchase. The strive for perfection on every level is so compulsive and the sense of satisfaction when you finally do execute a series of perfect moves is amongst the greatest of gaming moments. Unfortunately, I’ve become stuck on one of the last levels, Omega on the chapter called The End. After dying what must be what must be well over 200-300 times I think I might, put on the back burner and move onto another one of my 16 or so purchases.
15/07/2011 at 10:41 Phinor says:
Way too many games to play yet I’m looking forward to new releases as always. From Dust coming at the end of the month and the Giantbomb quicklook was pretty sweet.
Currently playing Red Alert 3 (Steam sales), L.A. Noire (dirty console gamer I am, my first console game in a year), trying to get into Age of Conan (but MMOs fail to grasp me, anything after WoW has been rather boring) and got back into iRacing and got a promotion after few safe Skip Barber races. Star Mazda is pretty great based on my fifteen minute quick test so that’s definitely my next car. Also bought Settlers 7 Gold edition but yet to try that and the other 150 games I have in my queue.
15/07/2011 at 10:41 Theoban says:
I’m back on the TF2, and playing Just Cause 2 again. One because I forgot how wonderful it is, one because damnit I just fancied flying planes into people again.
15/07/2011 at 10:41 Perkelnik says:
Im replaying Max Payne for the 9th or 10th time. Its pretty awesome, as always.
“I was a ninja. My kung-fu was strong.”
15/07/2011 at 10:43 RagingLion says:
I am completely unaffected by a lull in games coming out as there’s almost nothing I’d buy new even if I knew I wanted to play it anyway. This month From Dust’s still coming out which probably interests me more than almost any other game release this year, but I still might not get it now because of all the other stuff.
Currently playing: Thief 2 in theory – had a quick go through the first level but think I was doing it wrong by not taking the guy with me straight away so I need to restart that. ‘In theory’ because SpaceChem is what is currently getting the most time from me. I’m often spending hours on each puzzle, gradually working out how to solve different parts of the requirements and then iterating and bug solving heavily after that.
15/07/2011 at 10:46 Myros says:
I went a little different this week and won $250 dollars on pokerstars. Now back to regular gaming so I dont become addicted ;p Frozen Synapse likely.
15/07/2011 at 10:48 Bluerps says:
In recent times I tend to spend my time slaying the minions of a certain mad god, and I’ll probably continue to do so for quite some time. When the next Terraria patch hits, I’ll probably sink some 10-20 hours into it, like I did after the last couple of patches. Also, I’ve got a absurdly huge list of unplayed games on Steam. Cuse you Valve, for lowering your prices! Curse you!
Also, I play some games not relevant for RPS (you know – console stuff).
15/07/2011 at 10:49 Tinarg says:
You haven’t covered it yet, which strkes me as odd since it’s PC (& Mac) only and rather good:
Tiny Token Empires
Even my girlfriend likes it. No, the game has no uber cute characters.
15/07/2011 at 10:53 Milky1985 says:
I have a lot of steam sale stuff to play and some wow stuff i’ve been doing (even tho the firelands stuff is utter bullcrap i can’t not play it for a day due to the delay in getting the sodding quests done so obviously it works well :/ )
I have also been playing a little bit of a certain game i should not be playing due to it not really being a demo that was available to everyone or not meant to be avialable to everyone. All i can say is that its really good (and the money is set aside for it at release)
16/07/2011 at 12:32 EOT says:
So….Deus Ex HR? Good innit.
15/07/2011 at 10:57 frenz0rz says:
The steam sale couldnt have come at a worse time – I was really getting into my EVE trial, really starting to enjoy it. And then suddenly – BOOM. I have a massive backlog of games to get through and my free time diminishes rapidly.
Anyway, I’ve been playing a lot of Fate of the World. It is possibly the hardest game I have ever played. I failed the Fuel Crisis scenario 7 goddamn times. Still enjoying it.
15/07/2011 at 11:28 Bostec says:
Tell me about it, after 7 hours playing it, i’m still stuck on the fuel level, I just can not do it.
15/07/2011 at 11:00 Carolina says:
I recently finished Clive Barker’s Jericho, after having it in my list and not playing it for a year due to bad reviews; I must say I was pleasantly surprised with it. Along with the very good Undying, poor Clive doesn’t seem to have good luck with his incursions in the videogame industry, but I like his games.
Now I’m finally finishing The Void. It takes a long time when you are compulsively perfectionist as I am, and even more if you watch the fantastic Let’s Play afterwards, to match your progress.
I also kill some time doing Arenas in World of Warcraft, but I’m getting bored with it. Season 9 was my first one and I honestly don’t see how people can take PvP seriously in such an imbalanced game.
Other than that, I play some small indies or quick multiplayer games from time to time.
15/07/2011 at 11:03 dethtoll says:
Metroid Prime Trilogy. I’ve finished the first game, which I know like the back of my hand (very short list of games like that- Fallout 1 and the original version of Resident Evil being two other examples) and have started in on the 2nd game, which I last played on the Gamecube about 5-6 years ago and hated. It was crashy, the bosses were too damn hard, I didn’t like the ‘ammo system’ (call me a purist but the only ammo that belongs in a Metroid game should be explosives) and the light/dark world concept bored me/came off as obvious padding. I think I gave up around Torvus Bog, which to be fair everyone hates. I’m actually about to re-enter that; not looking forward.
But on the Wii it’s pretty much majorly improved: the crashing issues are gone, and with the Wii version’s aiming system being similar to that of Metroid Prime 3, combat and movement feel much more intuitive, so I wasn’t wasting ammo so damn much.
16/07/2011 at 12:52 The Sentinel says:
Uuugh, that bloody Boost Guardian! I’ve never been able to get past that motherf*$!!*. What posessed the devs to make you fight in a tiny arena that’s constantly draining your health, I do not know. :( A shame, I love the Metroid Prime games very much. The first one was spot-on perfect and I was really enjoying the second right up until that point..
15/07/2011 at 11:04 Kyrelle says:
Loving the indie/retro goodies of the summer… acquired and played through Tiny Bang Story and Lume, finally picked up Machinarium. Also got the Indiana Jones/Loom/The Dig bundle… reliving my youth. And when after something faster paced, enjoying the 8-bit splendour of RotMG or Spelunky.
15/07/2011 at 11:08 Persus-9 says:
In answer to your questions.
What are you playing right now?
Just Cause 2
Is it any good?
It’s brilliant and you know it.
Do you feel like you’re just killing time/scratching at the walls until the flow of new stuff becomes thicker, or are you happy as a monkey with all the indie and retro stuff around at the moment?
Neither I guess since I’m playing AAA stuff that I didn’t get round to earlier. Plus I never buy AAA games at release. I rarely spend more than £10 on them unless they’re something like Civ or The Sims which I don’t expect to follow the usual steep depreciation curve.
Anything weird’n’wonderful you reckon we’ve missed?
Nothing that springs to mind no, sorry.
15/07/2011 at 11:08 D3xter says:
I’m still not sure what this “summer drought” people (and websites) are telling me about is supposed to be about…
I just got: Hydrophobia: Prophecy, BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, Alien Breed 2 (Summer Sale Prize), Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West, SpaceChem, HOARD, Flight Control HD, Alpha Protocol, Dwarfs!?, A.R.E.S., STALKER: Clear Sky, STALKER: Call of Pripyat, Monday Night Combat, Stubbs the Zombie, Capsized, Jamestown, Aquaria, Sanctum 4-Pack, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Drakensang, Prince of Persia: Two Thrones, Hitman: Blood Money, Oddworld: Stranger’s Warth, Sam and Max: Complete Pack, X3: Terran Conflict, Eufloria, I-Fluid, Time Gentlemen, Please! and Plain Sight
in the Steam Summer Sale and while I already owned (and played) a few Retail like Alpha Protocol, Drakensang and Sam&Max Season 1+2 I barely got to playing many of the others…
I put some more time into the Penny Arcade: Precipice of Darkness Episodes, Super Meat Boy, Sanctum, HOARD, SpaceChem and Hydrophobia and did a bunch of the Steam Summer Achievements…
After the sale was over “Cthulhu Saves the World” got released… so I had to get that and Dungeon Siege III was available for only 11€ at http://www.g2play.net/store/ (still is for 17€ while it’s 55€ on Steam) so a friend bought 2 copies, gifted me one and we’ve been playing that for a few hours…
I also found out yesterday that I apparently won the Steam Summer “Grand Prize Giveaway” and these were the Top10 games on my list, which I now got or will get when they come out: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dungeon Siege III, Stronghold 3, Saints Row: The Third, Serious Sam 3: BFE, Metro Last Light,Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Might & Magic Heroes VI, Brink
I installed Brink already and got into that for a few minutes and saw there was a Heroes VI Beta going on…
I also still have some unfinished games I got Retail installed on my HDD which I have to get back to at some point… most notably Witcher 2, Alice: Madness Returns, Bulletstorm, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Bully and probably a few others…
All the while I had 2 exams I had to learn for last week and I still got one ahead of me next Monday…
At the moment I REALLY, really cannot complain about a lack of games to play…
16/07/2011 at 12:37 EOT says:
I hate you.
15/07/2011 at 11:09 ShaunCG says:
Ooh. Failing to get good at Frozen Synapse (for the Gaming Daily league). Getting close to the end of Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (pleased to see someone else upthread playing this). Taking sparing steps into DoW2: Retribution (must ration this experience). Laughing and failing in Atom Zombie Smasher: the first Blendo title I’ve really fallen for. Oh, and Sanitarium during lunchtimes at work.
Over in consoletoy world, I’m playing the old PS2 games Global Defence Force and GDF Tactics as part of an “EDF Week” to celebrate the forthcoming launch of Insect Armageddon. Good times. I also need to play the SNES EDF on an emulator, and that’s kind of like a PC game right?
Edit: harrumph, someone upthread needs to close their bold tag. Adding one to the top of this comment in the hope that works.
15/07/2011 at 11:14 deejayem says:
I’m playing the “desperately trying to revive dead laptop” game. Sadface. Especially as I have Portal 2 waiting for me when I finally get it working again.
15/07/2011 at 11:22 S says:
I am wondering what happened to the 503 competition:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/15/errorz-againz-rps-still-needs-your-503/
Or am I the only? Maybe I missed something. Also I am not scratching the walls waiting for the next influx of digital gaming goodness, no sir. I am rocking back and forth in the corner of my room nibbling on the remains of a Rustlers burger (that’s all we eat right?). Plotting to commit some form of mass crime (because that’s what the cool guys in the video games do), jealous of all the happy people outside drinking Pimms and playing sports (posh sports like cricket and polo, I’d imagine). Then crying about the fact that no one apart from my mummy loves me. All of this may or may not be true. You decide.
15/07/2011 at 11:22 Decimae says:
I’m playing the Achron Campaign 1 preview. It’s a tad hard for me, as I’m a terrible RTS player.
15/07/2011 at 11:24 Isometric says:
I’ve been playing Assassins Creed Brotherhood, which is okay I guess. It’s filler till Deus Ex Human Revolution and Red Orchestra 2 are released. I should finish it before then though.
Minecraft takes up a lot of my time and Team Fortress 2 has crept back into my life just before all this free business started. I am still playing Frozen Synapse too, what a game.
15/07/2011 at 11:26 Carra says:
As soon as my Dance with Dragons copy arrives I’ll be sitting outside, reading.
As for games, still got a huge back catalogue to go through. Currently trying out Rift (bought during the steam trial). And some BF2: Vietnam.
Still want to go back to SpaceChem and continue where I was stuck last time too.
Other todos: Kings Bounty, Men of War: assault squad, league of legends,… and a dozen others;
15/07/2011 at 11:31 Tei says:
*failed reply*
oops.
15/07/2011 at 11:33 lowprices says:
Oh god, where do I start?
Well, I’ve been reivestigating TF2 since it went free to play, so I’ll probably play some more of that.
But I also got the Guild Wars trilogy in the steam sale, as well as Fable 3.
Then I bought Cthulhu saves the World and Breath of Death yesterday. But I might also look in at Realm of the Mad God. Then I wanted to do a hardcore run of Torchlight at some point…
Maybe it’s good I don’t have a boyfriend at the moment. Poor fucker would just get neglected.
15/07/2011 at 11:35 reticulate says:
I’ve just been finishing up the LA Noire DLC cases to my satisfaction. On one of those inferior console boxes, obviously.
Outside of that, Minecraft. I’m really just waiting for Deus Ex next month.
15/07/2011 at 11:39 Spacewalk says:
Still playing Hexen, still playing Quake. I don’t need newer games when I have those two.
15/07/2011 at 11:39 Atrak says:
Having bought the complete pack in the steam sales Mount & Blade Warband has me firmly in its grasp with the Floris Expanded mod. Took awhile for me to get past the initial stage of constant failure and ‘what the hell do i do’ moments but I’m glad I stuck with it, its such a unique and interesting game.
15/07/2011 at 11:40 NemsMole says:
Trying to power through The Witcher so I can play the apparently fantastic Witcher 2. It’s just so grueling and tedious. I’m just into the 4th chapter, anyone know how long’s left? Is it even worth it?
15/07/2011 at 18:42 Jake says:
I gave up at about the same stage with the same thoughts. But then I gave up on The Witcher 2 even earlier. I think I just plain don’t like Geralt.
15/07/2011 at 11:41 Moni says:
Every time this comes up I always say Far Cry 2 and Crysis, because I never actually get around to replaying them.
15/07/2011 at 11:42 Web Cole says:
New release of Project Reality today, which I will be playing.
SQUEEEEEEE
15/07/2011 at 11:49 Mechorpheus says:
Currently flittering around between a few things:
Starcraft 2 – Multiplayer mainly, I still am not very good, but slowly getting better
Fallout New Vegas – Enjoyable, if slightly concerned about the lack of quests I’ve found so far, but I do like it more than Fallout 3. With the ‘true’ Iron-Sights I just tend to play it a bit like an FPS, which is more my taste.
Sniper Ghost Warrior – Picked this up in the steam sale. I’d heard some really bad things about it, but for some piffling amount of money I figured I’d give it a shot. And you know what? It’s actually really good fun. So far it’s basically a whole game made out of those bits from COD where you follow an AI around and be stealthy, sniping and headshotting the odd enemy, which were personally my favorite bits of COD. The shooting is satisfying, it looks really good, and it HAS A QUICK SAVE (GOTY for that alone imho).
Dead Space 2 – Playing this again, as I’m reading the Martyr prequel novel, and I’m a bitch for all things Dead Space.
James Bond: Bloodstone – Bought for my by a friend. I don’t HATE it, but its nothing special. FAR too easy so far, but not offensive. RPSs comment of the ‘That’ll do’ attitude is bang on.
F.E.A.R. 3 – Finished the Single-Player as Point Man FAR too damn quickly, so am playing it again as Fettel. The lack of length really bothered me for some reason, more than in lots of other games which were of similar length. I guess that’s because it was really enjoyable, solid shootybollocks. Also, the enjoyable sounding coop stuff (specifically F**king Run) is somewhat ruined by the fact that all of maybe 7 people and a dog are playing it online, and most of them seem to be using some kind of carrier pigeon in place of an internet connection, so I’ve yet to sample them.
Quake 1 – Bought this in the steam sale, and have thrown the DarkPlaces engine at it. DAMN its pretty, especially with the high resolution resource pack. Highly recommended download.
DreamKiller – Yes I know, painkiller on a budget with if anything MORE angst, but for £5 I thought why not, some enjoyable ‘silly’ FPSage, the perfect antidote to Duke Nukem related disappointment.
DiRT 3 – Very enjoyable, ‘more of the same but polished to hell and back’. I just wish those stupid Gymkhana parts would go away, as they are damned frustrating.
I’ve also just started playing Brink, but so far…… meh. Need to play more of it I suppose, but hasn’t grabbed me so far. Seems far too easy to defend the objective, and you die FAR too easily. I’ll try and keep plugging away.
I have Sanctum to look at, but not gotten to it yet. Any thoughts?
15/07/2011 at 17:16 Brutal Deluxe says:
I tried Sanctum out briefly, but found that it’s lacking as a shooter and also as tower defence game. I abandoned it in favour of playing a shooter game and a tower defence game.
15/07/2011 at 11:49 arienette says:
Making my way through all the indy games I picked up in the steam summer sale. Also, the Oddworld games. There’s a few other games I’ve picked up recently that it turns out my Pc can’t handle.
15/07/2011 at 11:51 alphager says:
I finally bought Vampire: The Masquerade:Bloodlines in the Steam-sale and just got to Chinatown.
When TF2 went F2P I re-installed it and have been having way too much fun.
Just Cause 2 is my “You have 20 Minutes to kill”-game.
I got around 20-30 Games that I have yet to play and i finally rented a Server capable of hosting Minecraft…
15/07/2011 at 11:58 mickygor says:
EVE and League of Legends for me. Always come back to just these two games.
15/07/2011 at 12:06 I_have_no_nose_but_I_must_sneeze says:
King’s Bounty: The Legend owns a sizeable chunk of my soul at the moment. I am generally terrible at strategy games, but its RPG elements and its quirky charm somehow keeps me going. I’m currently in the Land of Death, getting my army decimated on a regular basis. I wholeheartedly blame Alec for getting me into this mess.
I’m also playing through Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light with my sister. We’ve both been big fans of the franchise, having even finished Angel of Darkness, so this is a good opportunity to finally eradicate a variety of endangered species together.
On a barely related note, I started reading Perdido Street Station and it looks very promising. What a setting for a game that would make, eh? Planescape Torment for a new generation. See, I knew I could make this relevant to gaming somehow.
15/07/2011 at 12:15 ShadowBlade says:
Mostly developing Rooks Keep with my brothers. It’s taking most of my time.
Game wise, i’m playing Far Cry 2 (drifted away after the nasty 73% bug), Assassins Creed 2 (which is excellent) and Divinity 2: Dragon Knight Saga (also great).
Mostly though, i’ve been playing Serious Sam HD: both encounters from the Steam sale. Awesome games!
Also dive into a few hours of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel cooperative quite often. And starting to get into Oblivion.
15/07/2011 at 12:21 Vurten says:
Trying to force myself to finish Fable 3.
Would you kindly write something interesting about Panzer Corps which was recently released? Would love me some good ol’ turn based loving.
15/07/2011 at 12:24 InternetBatman says:
I dropped so much money on Steam sales. I also have Beyond Good and Evil, Metro 233, and Genoforge complete staring me in the face. I probably won’t buy another game until the Old Republic comes out. Right now I’m playing Dawn of War II for the first time and realizing that people weren’t just being snotty when talking about how much more advanced it is than starcraft.
15/07/2011 at 12:27 deejayem says:
Did RPS ever do anything on Gemini Rue? I got all excited by the previews then never got round to actually playing it. Anyone know if it’s any good?
15/07/2011 at 12:38 SwiftRanger says:
Playing PlanetSide again, anyone who ever had a PS account has received 45 days thanks to the SOE account hacking snafu.
15/07/2011 at 12:55 Chris D says:
Right now I’m revisiting Recettear. Attempting to see if I can unlock/find/make everything this time. Also RUSE from the steam sale.
I would like to be playing Cthulhu Saves the World but it keeps crashing immediately due to an unspecified “problem”. I swear one day I’m going to find whoever writes these error messages and give them a piece of my mind. With an axe.
15/07/2011 at 13:09 Stompywitch says:
Alpha Protocol, really enjoying it, but I can see why people thought it was flawed.
I’m going stealth / techie right now, but I want to do a Guns! Guns! Guns! run later.
15/07/2011 at 13:10 Gunsmith says:
i recently got SS2 working in 7×64 so im happily shooting, bludgeoning, hacking, upgrading, running, collecting, scavanging and researching my way through one of the best games ever made.
oh happy days
15/07/2011 at 13:14 Rinox says:
Dwarf Fortress. Trying to get that drowning room to work before the end of winter, so I can mass drown that pesky goblin invasion as they follow my maze towards a kitten tied to a rope.
15/07/2011 at 13:14 swagger says:
mainly rummaging around in cupboards for out of date prescription drugs to play with.
that and LoL.
15/07/2011 at 13:23 Gassalasca says:
Just finished Beyond Good and Evil this morning, followed by The Cat and the Coup.
Am about to start The Mask of the Betrayer, mostly due to its being hyped in these comments thread here.
15/07/2011 at 13:35 Duke of Chutney says:
Cthulu saves the worlds and Solium Infernum mostly this week
personally i rarely buy games when they have just come out, well at least not A list games. I often get lower budget indies in opening week. I wait for A lists to accumulate more reviews and opinion and drop in price. So a summer lull isnt so bad for me.
15/07/2011 at 13:35 utharda says:
F%cking Realm of the f*cking Mad f*ucking God.
Thanks RPS.
15/07/2011 at 13:37 utharda says:
Also some Panzer Corps, which is really great fun if you liked PG. I’m very happy with it.
15/07/2011 at 13:38 squareking says:
Whoops. It ate my comment!
15/07/2011 at 13:45 ata says:
I’m playing through New Vegas again, also have the DLC to try this time. I had intended to play it differently from my first playthrough but I’ve ended up morealess identical to my original play through but still thoroughly enjoying it all the same.
Also dabbling in BC2/TF2 manshoots as well as reading ADWD.
15/07/2011 at 13:50 postmangg says:
I’m reveling in the awesome that lingers from the Steam summer sales. I’m playing 25 games simultaneously in 5 minute intervals.
besides that Age of Conan on the new pvp server, some Darksiders and bouts of Precursors when it doesn’t run like crap
15/07/2011 at 13:54 Maykael says:
I’m finishing Witcher 2, as when it launched college got in the way. I love the story, the characters, I like the combat (though it is still not responsive enough, maybe in a patch or two), but I feel it needed more sidequests and, generally, speaking more of that beautiful world and its politics to explore.
They need to do something of the first Witcher’s scope and length, with this engine and writing. Fingers crossed for Witcher 3 then.:)
15/07/2011 at 14:11 vagenr says:
Bought a bunch of games at tehe steam sale.
Currently playing:
- Company of heroes with exp.
- King’s bounty-the legend
- Age of Conan
15/07/2011 at 14:12 Wizlah says:
Frozen Synapse, still on the campaign mode. I’m still to scared to go online, but soon I will. Honest.
Man, I love rushing people with shotgun guys.
I just picked up Sword of the Stars on the dead cheap at Impulse. looked briefly at the tutorials, and realised I was going to just have to read the fucking manual. Looking forward to starting universal conquest at some point in the distant future. I like the map though.
Still working on my Witcher game in bits and pieces. I won’t have time to put a serious binge session on it for a while now.
God though, Frozen Synapse is great.
15/07/2011 at 14:15 Nero says:
I recently bought Beat Hazard Ultra and after have playing Beat Hazard (classic) for loads of hours it feels fresh again with plenty of new interesting ship types. Also been doing a bit of PS3 since my computer is crap. Have done a hard evil run of InFamous and have just finally ordered Portal 2.
15/07/2011 at 14:18 Duckpoop says:
I am currently focused on playing the Morroblivion mod for Oblivion, which I am really enjoying as I have never played Morrowind before. Of course, I tried playing Morrowind before turning to playing it modded into Oblvion, but I just couldn’t take how slow everything is, the combat, or the inventory management in it. I also have the following installed and I intend to play them soon:
Fallout NV DLC’s
Pathologic
Risen (this will be my 3rd playthough? I will probably stop after chapter 2 or 3)
Dead Space (I can’t get past the first 10 minutes of this game. I’ve installed this game, played it for 10 minutes, then uninstalled it 3 times already… This may be my last time, but I’m going to force myself to play it for an hour first I think)
15/07/2011 at 14:20 slpk says:
Not playing medic on TF2 because of all the noobs in my team and feeling cheap for changing to spy and raping the other team.
15/07/2011 at 14:23 egg says:
Portal 2! Just picked it up at the Summer Sale. God, I love how I firstly fell in love with the puzzle within shooting portals only to be surprised by one of the best characters ever created in a game when I played the first Portal. And it’s happenning again!
And Sanctum as well. Which is really cool, though not as cool as Defense Grid.
I recently discovered I have previously purchased Mass Effect 2. I think that happenned about a year ago. I might play it then.
Also, Team Fortress 2!
(and Tiny Tower boo hoo!)
15/07/2011 at 14:24 slpk says:
Not playing medic on TF2 because of the noobs in my team.
Feeling cheap for playing spy because of the noobs in the other team.
Thanks Valve!
15/07/2011 at 14:27 Severn2j says:
I have lots to play, Im still working my way through the Witcher (with the sequel waiting on GOG for some free HD space), I bought the Valve Complete Pack, STALKER Bundle (with added Complete MODs) and Amnesia Dark Descent in the Steam Sale, which should keep me going for a looong time.. And on top of that, I need to do some Minecrafting because my wife is running low on resources (I mine, my wife crafts).
Its a full time job, being a gamer…
15/07/2011 at 14:30 Hypnotoad says:
Adventuring in Space Station 13, as a chef I was failing to cook food. I was murdered, fed through a grinder and my meat cooked and served to the crew for my failure. Then the station was invaded by orks.
That and motorbike racing. In Men Of War.
15/07/2011 at 14:32 spongthe1st says:
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood single player, Shogun 2 co-op multiplayer campaign, Minecraft multiplayer, Terraria multiplayer and Warband multiplayer on the Mercenaries mod.
Thinking about firing up Mafia 2 again, as well as Magicka and Dead Rising 2. I’ve probably forgotten something.
So many games, so little time.
15/07/2011 at 14:37 drlemon says:
I’ve got a few new games. I’m playing , cthulu saves the world, Magicka, frozen synapse, and defcon, in order of most recently. I rarely have space to install new games because half life 2 keeps trying to install, and i have such little space on my partitioned hard drive.
15/07/2011 at 14:40 sasayan says:
World of Tanks, DoW Retribution campaign and last stand, aaaaaand Sims 3.
15/07/2011 at 14:40 Tom4J says:
Fallout: New Vegas. Its actually improving my career as between re-boots and system crashes I’m re-writing my CV and doing up my portfolio…
Tom j
15/07/2011 at 14:49 pakoito says:
Playing Zelda: Twilight Princess in DolphinEmu for PC on the afternoons, The Witcher 2 during the nights. Sleeping all morning.
Once I’m done with Zelda I’ll go for Divinity 2 and/or finishing Nehrim. And meanwhile I play Blood Bowl, Desktop Dungeons, Terraria, and the alikes every now and then.
15/07/2011 at 14:49 nemolom says:
Die2nite, Terraria, TF2. Seems I prefer games with T’s and 2′s in them. Maybe I’m a T-2-taler…
15/07/2011 at 14:53 bwion says:
In theory, I’m still playing Defense Grid, but I had to walk away for a bit because I was getting, er, obsessive. NO YOU MAY NOT HAVE EVEN ONE POWER CORE, STUPID ALIENS. ALL THE POWER CORES ARE MINE. ALL OF THEM.
Ahem.
So, in spite of having bought a bunch of games in the sale recently (including the aforementioned Defense Grid), I’m now playing modded-to-hell-and-back Morrowind. Which I have owned in one form or another since its original release. Which I’ve actually *finished* once (er, sort of. I finished the main quest. I don’t think it’s actually possible to *finish* Morrowind).
And I’m probably going to get Dungeons of Dredmor and Cthulhu Saves the World/Death of Breath VII in a moment or two. AND THEN NO MORE NEW GAMES FOR A WHILE.
Also, have a nice shiny copy of A Dance With Dragons, but have to finish rereading the previous two books in the series first (especially since I find I don’t remember a thing that happened in A Feast For Crows).
15/07/2011 at 15:17 InsidiousBoot says:
Starcraft 2, Bad Company 2, NFSS2U, CCS , ..
15/07/2011 at 15:23 CTA says:
I finally finished a full game of Civ V this summer, sending humans to Alpha Centauri as the Egyptians, who the rest of the world hated for no reason but were armed to the teeth. Any hostilities were met with brutal, uncompromising force. The Americans declared war on me after the Mongol Genocide, then backed down as soon as I put my cannon outside their closest city. Then a few centuries later they did it again, this time chickening out after I razed one city. They did it again in the twentieth century. Suffice to say the American culture lives on only as a diaspora in the Egyptian Empire. After slapping India for a while, they gave me half of their land and Siam backed out of the world war after a few cities were taken. The Iroquois and China were engaged in their own war on their separate continent, which never spilled over to the other.
This is why I love playing CiV. It’s like making alternate history by playing games. It would be great if the AI players weren’t so borked and denounced people for the insolent act of breathing though.
15/07/2011 at 15:27 shoptroll says:
Picking through my backlog, currently halfway through the Starcraft II campaign, mixed with spats of Jamestown or Portal 2 co-op. Can’t forget Kingdom of Loathing for my MMO-lite fix.
EDIT: Huh, it looks like there’s a massive delay today with my comments :(
15/07/2011 at 15:38 shoptroll says:
Currently:
- Kingdom of Loathing. After 6 years of play, this is still my “MMO” fix. The devs are going through all the quests and overhauling them with new art or redesigned mechanics and the game is all the better for it. Like Cataclysm without the $29.95 down-payment.
- Starcraft II Campaign. About 60% through. Great gameplay but I feel Blizzard’s writing has degraded over the years. Campaign didn’t grab me the same way SC1′s campaign did. Might just be the lack of mystery with the main characters and the new ones aren’t terribly interesting (maybe because ones like Tosh were imported from the books?) yet. Too much flanderization I feel going on. That said, it does feel like it’s picking up finally as I’m finishing a couple of plot threads.
Not as regularly:
- Portal 2 Co-Op. Just started the hard light bridges section. I really hope the DLC has a lot of co-op added. More fun than single-player and the difficulty ramp is a bit sharper which is nice.
- Jamestown. I don’t play bullet hell schmups, but when I do… I play Jamestown. Still can’t beat the last level on Legendary difficulty :( Great game and I wish they would put the soundtrack up somewhere for download/purchase.
15/07/2011 at 15:41 Bahumat says:
Old school MUCKs, because that’s how I roll when I want story, narrative, and text.
Team Fortress 2, already salivating at the chance of resetting my stats once I hit 500 hours again, probably this week. (This will be the fourth time. My *actual* total hours in that game are hovering around 3-4k at this point.)
Also UFO: Alien Invasion, because it is pleasingly close to original X-Com. All it really needs is X-Com-esque destructible everything, so I can blow shooting holes in buildings.
Also, I’m taking my daughter to the pool, because she has to have something more to do than play Nintendogs.
15/07/2011 at 15:57 Moonracer says:
I bought Mount & Blade: Fire and Sword, didn’t like it for some reason, downloaded the mod “Blood and Steel” for Warband and have put an insane amount of hours in and having a blast. Oh well.
Also, bought a month of MMO Fallen Earth and half way through they drastically changed the combat. I think it actually is a little better now, but it was a bumpy ride.
15/07/2011 at 15:58 Mendrake says:
Oblivion, for fun
Invisible war and Darkstar 1 to practice for doing Lets Plays about underrated games
15/07/2011 at 16:06 sinister agent says:
Starting a game that I bought in the Steam sale, then after half an hour getting distracted and thinking I should play that game I bought in April that I haven’t touched. Then I play that for half an hour and remember that I bought a game I’d wanted for months a few weeks ago and play that instead. Repeat for a few hours until I remember that the prawns in the fridge will go off if I don’t cook them today, then I go downstairs and open the fridge, only to see that I’ve loads of bacon that needs eating and start cooking that instead.
Then I realise I can’t play , say, Risen while eating a bacon sandwich, so I put on an episode of Cracker because I still haven’t got through the box set yet, and Cracker was fucking brilliant.
Possibly I am indecisive. I haven’t made up my mind about that yet.
15/07/2011 at 16:07 Avish says:
Just got “A song of ice and fire”from Amazon and will start reading today (It’s about time, I know).
Gamewise I’m slowly trudging through Divinity 2 and maybe I’ll take a break for one of New Vegas DLCs I picked up on Steam sale.
15/07/2011 at 16:24 squareking says:
I played X-com for the first time last night. Things will never be the same.
I have a veritable shitton of games to finish, including Amnesia, Crysis and Borderlands. I want to spend more time with Terraria, Frozen Synapse and X-com.
I bought a few things during the Steam sale, including the X Superbox. Terran Conflict hasn’t clicked with me just yet — it is remarkably slow — but I’m hoping it grows on me. I bought a 3D Pro Gold stick just for Freespace and I plan on getting some mileage on it, dammit!
All this talk of Hexen and Quake makes me wish I’d picked those up.
15/07/2011 at 16:29 Torgen says:
Actually dropped City of Heroes a couple weeks ago when I slipped a disk in my back and was confined to bed, and played Wurm Online for a few days (one of the few games I can run on the laptop.) Still have a backlog of games from *last* year’s Steam Summer Sale, but today am playing “fix the leaking toilet” followed by “weed the dormant vegetable beds and start seeds for the fall planting season.” :P
15/07/2011 at 16:49 Targaff says:
I just installed Tron 2.0, I picked it up from a bargain bucket a long while back and never got around to playing it. That, and OpenTTD.
15/07/2011 at 16:49 runtheplacered says:
I’ve suddenly had this stick up my ass to play command and conquer games again. So I reinstalled C&C Gold for a bit of nostalgic goodness. I also picked up C&C 3 during the sale so I may get into that next. I’m also been tooling around with Project Zomboid, playing some Bad Company 2 with a buddy of mine. I’m sort of idle until I get the new DLC for New Vegas (which I haven’t played through since it came out) and soon From Dust comes out which will take my attention.
15/07/2011 at 16:55 Severian says:
Finally kicked my League of Legends habit and have moved on to other things.
1. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: playing it solo and really enjoying it. Yes, using mouse and keyboard is a tad annoying and finicky, esp. on those angled jumps, but I’ve already decided to not care about getting top scores (every time you die, you lose points) so dying repeatedly isn’t too traumatizing. The level design is fun, the puzzles not so bad – but I kind of wish they were more levels where you just blaze through all weapons max, non-stop killing machine, no jumpy-jumpy to worry about.
2. Spectromancer. Got this on sale via Steam, a poor-man’s MtG but with some additional clever ideas (like no mana-screw). Played a chunk of a campaign, got a feel for the cards, and then jumped online. Have been surprisingly successful. I recommend this if you’re looking for a game you can sit down and play for 15-30 min as a break.
3. Civ V. Have yet to lose a game (at Emperor, and even a couple at Immortal), even with the latest patch that has shaken things up in interesting ways. I swore Napoleon was going to win – he owned his own continent, was well ahead of me in tech, had finished the Apollo project and 2 pieces of the shuttle before I even started researching it. Meanwhile, the Persians nuked 6 of my cites and things looked grim. But I just started cranking tech, pushed the Persians back until they capitulated, and was able to build the shuttle before Napoleon made his 3rd piece. WTF?
15/07/2011 at 17:00 MikeBBetts says:
I can’t imagine anyone whose job isn’t to play every video game, but instead toils endlessly under a never-ending backlog of games, gets bored during the summer.
15/07/2011 at 17:08 thesundaybest says:
I think the last time you asked this I was playing Assassin’s Creed II and working on building a dedicated gaming PC.
I am happy (sad? sad.) to report that I am still doing both things.
15/07/2011 at 17:30 fallingmagpie says:
At the moment I’m not playing anything, both because I was on holiday and missed the Steam summer sale (sad, but fiscally a good thing) and because I only have a laptop with integrated graphics that can’t really do much.
What I’m looking for is an involving single player RPG, which isn’t graphically demanding (so maybe is quite old), that I can sink 50-odd hours into. Any suggestions?
(Oh, and I’e already played Planescape and Fallout 1 and 2.)
16/07/2011 at 05:49 sinelnic says:
Pathologic? (!)
16/07/2011 at 13:13 EOT says:
Pretty much anything on this list (excluding the one’s you’ve already played and the Witcher series of course);
http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue#rpg/
15/07/2011 at 17:31 PeteC says:
Just finished the main story in Torchlight which I felt was a little overrated. Just got too repetitive for me. Maybe I should have played on a higher difficulty. At least that’s what everyone keeps telling me anyway.
Have just started Defense Grid which bought in the Xmas Steam sale and it’s fantastic. I’m kicking myself for having left it so long. And this coming from someone who doesn’t normally like tower defense type games. Amazing value for £1.40.
15/07/2011 at 17:43 Odeon says:
I’m too broke (as usual) to buy new stuff (and have been for far too long 8-( ), but even though I see news of lots of cool-looking-and-sounding games here on RPS, I don’t really feel a lot of draw to play most of them. I’m sure they’d be plenty of fun and what-not, but my gaming time is very limited and I’m more than happy enough to use it playing my preferred MMORPG AfterWorld (www.afterworld.ru).
It has no restrictions on player advancement except for what you can afford and the amount of time you can play it. It’s “free to play” in that there’s no subscription, but everything you do costs a small amount of in-game money (AWD), which can be “purchased” with real world money directly (via donations currently since it’s not quite out of the testing stage yet) or by selling resources (nothing new there). It’s got just under 100 different skills that have no caps and no other skill requirements. When it goes live/gold, in-game money will be able to be withdrawn directly, with no middle-man (eBay and the like) needed.
It’s had me hooked for several years now and I really can’t stand the wait for the gold Survival update, which will bring tons of additional content, extremely upgraded visuals, and an overall vastly-improved experience. Considering how hooked I am now, I’m almost a bit scared of what Survival will do to my social life!
15/07/2011 at 17:48 Odeon says:
Did the comments function go boom? There’s an empty Page 4 here and my actual comment is not showing up… What gives?!
15/07/2011 at 17:54 oceanclub says:
I just upgraded to an i5/8GB DDR/z68 with SSD cache machine, and that and the Steam sales have kept me busy both new and old games and cackling that I can turn up all the settings to ULTRA MEGA HIGH.
(Except for Metro 2033 – it beat it!)
Hopefully in the next few days I’ll actually get around to playing something properly.
P.
15/07/2011 at 17:55 Farsearcher says:
I have few monies and an old PC so I’m mostly playing old stuff.
I’m still playing on Baystation 12 (Space Station 13 variant with emphasis on RP) and have been for about a year. Its fun to play something where your objective is to keep things running and stop them blowing up.
I was playing Cataclysm a zombie apocalypse roguelike thats still in alpha but features extensive crafting, lots of potential there.
Single player wise I have an Oblivion campaign with Francescos mod, deadly reflex and a number of other mods. I’m mostly just exploring the world, and doing the odd quest I can get to the main plot later.
I also have various campaigns in other games to come back to – Vampire the masquerade bloodlines with Wesps patch
Knights Of The Old Republic 2 with the restored content patch which I quit a while back due to something screwy happening which seemed to break the game – will have to try again after a reinstall
And in my to play pile I have Planescape Torment – I notice a few people mentioning that, have we all been influenced by RPS to try stuff?
15/07/2011 at 18:01 pepper says:
ARMA II with mods etc.
Forgotten Hope 2(2.4 release today!)
Dark Messiah Heroes of Might and Magic(someone described it as sir kickallot’s journey through a spike filled world).
Battlefield Bad Company 2(its meh, definitely not worth of the battlefield name though).
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe(its free!!!!)
15/07/2011 at 18:13 Hybrid says:
Realm of the Mad God has been taking up my gaming time for the past week. I even thought about buying another character slot and more space in the vault but now I realize I’m just about done with the game and that stuff isn’t absolutely necessary. I plan on getting back to L4D2 and TF2 since I haven’t played those in a long time. I also have to finish Duke Nukem 3D, and possibly replay Quake 1.
15/07/2011 at 18:19 ResonanceCascade says:
I’m playing Just Cause 2, Cthulhu Saves the World, Thief 2 and Escape From Butcher Bay.
And I’m flat broke, so I’ll probably finish half of them this weekend. Yay?
15/07/2011 at 18:24 Morganov says:
I’m loving Fallout New Vegas.
Passed on it back at release. Turns out it is fantastic! Not exactly strides ahead of F3 but then F3 was brilliant. Escaping every other night back to the wasteland is a real treat.
State of the art graphics be damned – the magic of F:VN and other similar old RPG titles is the world and by extension its roleplay value.
15/07/2011 at 18:41 ResonanceCascade says:
reply flail.
15/07/2011 at 19:09 Bullfrog says:
Rock n Roll Racing this evening, then I’m going to finally try and get into X3 properly.
15/07/2011 at 19:18 Bullfrog says:
Rock n Roll Racing this evening then an attempt to get to grips with X3.
15/07/2011 at 19:26 Howl says:
Darksiders. I picked it up in the Steam summer sale and played through it in nvidia surround. I had dismissed it as some console nonsense at launch. Now I’m wishing someone would have come along and excitedly said, “HAI! GUESS WHAT? SOMEONE REMADE SOUL REAVER!”. I would have been all over it a year ago.
I loved it so much that I’m going through it again on Apocalyptic and trying for all the achievements. I don’t think I’ve done that since Batman.
15/07/2011 at 19:29 HeavyStorm says:
RotMG (thank you RPS for ruining my life) and trying to finish Witcher 1 again to play the second one with the right save.
15/07/2011 at 19:35 Durvik says:
I went on an indie spree with the recent Steam sales.
Nimbus, Zen Bound 2, NyxQuest, Nation Red, Machinarium, Tiny Bang Story, Cogs and Trine.
Now I’m between Icewind Dale 2 and King’s Bounty: The Legend.
16/07/2011 at 05:58 ResonanceCascade says:
How is Icewind Dale 2? I bought it when it came out, but one of the discs was defective and I just never got around to returning it.
15/07/2011 at 20:02 Spiny says:
Just finished Thomas Clancy’s cell of the splinter, conviction edition.
Picked up in a previous steam sale.
Have to say that the eurogamer review was spot on.
Too Much man shoot, not enough man neck snap.
Tomorrow will see me embark upon Mass Effect.
16/07/2011 at 10:14 Bullfrog says:
Chaos Theory is the best blend of creepy grabby snappy action. I had a friend tell me just yesterday that Conviction was too shooty.
15/07/2011 at 20:11 Gandaf007 says:
Playing Realm of the Mad God.
All the time.
Alec, I detest you.
15/07/2011 at 20:42 DSMK2 says:
Been modding and playing this game by George Moromisato:
Transcendence
It’s a space based rogue-like, and I’ve found it pretty fun, though it gets pretty challenging at parts with it’s learning curve. There’s a sizable mod database for the game, many of the mods are really good, plus modding is really easy.
Worth a look!
15/07/2011 at 20:48 Synesthesia says:
I’m back with company of heroes, damn i love that rts, and i got the free men of war, but for the life of me i dont get it. Here comes the love.
I also got a few things i got in the steam sale, got the dreamfall pair. Then the online panoply, tf2, kf, etc.
15/07/2011 at 23:08 blackjackshelak says:
Just pre-ordered Natural Selection 2 for some beta-stage fun, and I’ve been splitting my time between NS2, Killing Floor, Men of War: Assault Squad, and X-Com. All this recent business about the new game has really spurred me on to spend more time with UFO:Enemy Unknown. Still kind of learning the ropes since I haven’t had the game for too long, but it can really suck you in. I already worked out a system for naming and arming my soldiers, and I’ve even started writing after-action reports so I can remember some of the craziness.
15/07/2011 at 23:14 Pointless Puppies says:
Currently playing through Assassin’s Creed 2 and hot DAMN it’s such a great game. I knew that the game was a huge improvement to AC1 before I dove into this one, but even with my heightened expectations this game is a hoot. It’s unbelievable just how much effort was put into the game. I can almost taste the blood, sweat and tears poured into it by the developers.
It’s also beautiful on my PC running at 60 FPS. As with AC1, AC2 has some of the best texture work and architecture I’ve ever seen.
16/07/2011 at 01:06 handyman24602 says:
Panzer Corps a beautiful Panzer General remake, you get get called “Herr general”, which is a bonus.
16/07/2011 at 06:03 sinelnic says:
I’m currently celebrating Mr Smith’s ascension by playing this game he developed while travelling across Russia in a hand-made raft, Pathologic.
I’m absolutely in awe at what this bastards are trying to accomplish, this play you play as an actor who can actually die by its rules. I can’t wait to finish it using all three characters to see how the experience morphs and enlarges, if it does. I might never do it, though.
I was really scratching at the walls before this, Portal 2 was very short and after that, the emptiness, the void, FIFA 11 “be a pro” mode.
16/07/2011 at 08:36 Arona Daal says:
Buck Rogers : Countdown to Doomsday (Goldbox RPG) using D-fend.
Tf2
a bit :Winspmbt
Project Reality (The new 0.96 ,YES)
CoH multiplayer (which i got from Steam Summer Sale with 4 or 5 other good Games)
16/07/2011 at 10:56 washaa says:
I’ve been in the middle of a Stalker: SoC playthrough for some time now, but somehow I’ve made Freedom mad at me and I’m having second thoughts about carrying on. So I’ve put this on ICE and…
VampireTM: Bloodlines! I’m in Hollywood(the third chapter?), currently downloading the new patch. Enjoying the non-shooty bits so far. My Tremere character is feeling kinda broken since I’ve spent points all over the place, but I just got through the graveyard without any trouble, and from what I’ve heard that’s one of the harder parts. I like the way characters can only beam or scowl at you, and at the slightest provocation.
16/07/2011 at 11:55 EOT says:
I’m trying to learn how to play Men of War and Shogun 2 online. It’s not going well in glorious Nippon, I’ve lost all 15 of my Shogun 2 games badly.
I’m fairing slightly better in Men of War with about a 40/60 win rate and a load of close losses. Not played any ranked games though….not sure how. Team games are a lot of fun win or lose as long as at least one person speaks English. Being shouted at in Russian is even more confusing when the English version of the game seems to lack a Cyrillic character pack.
16/07/2011 at 13:16 EOT says:
Where has page 5 and my comment gone RPS?
16/07/2011 at 17:54 Davee says:
Not much, I’m afraid. I’m on the last week of a three-week roadtrip through the US west coast! Currently typing this in a motel near the Washington/Oregon border.
Only a tiny bit of Realm of the Madgod (Damn you for getting me back into it!), which is all this poor laptop can handle.
17/07/2011 at 03:10 Devan says:
I’m still playing lots of League of Legends. It’s managed to provide 90% of my gaming needs for the past 6 months or so.
18/07/2011 at 12:52 McDan says:
I was at a festival getting all muddy and listening to loud music, what a cad I am. So that was fun, and it means I get about 4 days worth of RPS to read in one massive session of lovliness, lovely.