By Jim Rossignol on September 30th, 2011 at 4:35 pm.
There’s almost too much to play! I probably should be hammering noobs on the Battlefield 3 beta, but it really could be anything. Hell, I have that epic game of Supreme Commander to get done, new Minecraft to explore, Dead Island to continue, Stalker mods to work on, and some secret things to preview. But what do you think I should play? What are you going to play? Suggest me do!
And yes, I probably will just end up being paralysed by choice and end up laying down in the sun…
Psychonauts!
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It certainly crossed my mind, so to speak.
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Seconded! Downloading now. But while I wait for that, I’ll be off in Durlag’s Tower in BG1 trying to make it to the bottom. Feckin’ traps.
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I have just restarted Baldur’s Gate from the beginning for no reason!
Bye bye PhD!
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Temping to once again try to get somewhere with that. (That being Baldur’s.)
Or Planescape Torment, the surprisingly unengaging game that I should in theory absolutely love. Weak start, perhaps.
Or Fallout 2, if I can even remember what the hell I was doing in it. I knew I finally had the blasted car and had completed most of the top of the map…
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Agree! That’s my plan for this weekend!
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Does anyone know if they’re updating just the Steam version or the GOG one as well?
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Yes! to psychonauts also Planescape: Torment is a little slow at the beginning, I would give yourself some time to simply meet and talk to the various characters in the game.
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Well Planescape has this weekend wrapped up I reckon, followed by The Binding of Isaac, while I download mods for a MegaMod Installation of Baldurs Gate: The Big World Project.
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I’ve downloaded Dungeon Keeper 2, Ground Control 1 and 2 and Empire Earth, so probably that and some Minecraft on the side.
<3 GOG.com
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Probably going to try the free to play City of Heroes thingy. Haven’t played the game for a while, should be fun.
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Ah yes, me too. I think I lost my old account details though. Time for some serious login archaeology.
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I hate when that happens, especially since I have about ten thousands different logins, e-mail adresses and passwords.
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I hadn’t realised it was gone FTP already – must jump in and give it a go as it was once my favourite MMO. If any of us do stick it out, perhaps we could set up a RPS guild (does it even _have_ guilds? I can’t remember…)
P.
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CoH has Supergroups silly. Free players cannot join them, old players with sufficient vet rewards can (about 33 months playing time) and, obviously, subscibers :)
You can still team up and do missions together.
Free players are limited in chat options as well (to stop gold spammers), but if you add someone to friends you can chat with them. Global chat name or character chat name I think.
I’m giving it a go with the whole two characters you can create on a Free account. I’ll find my old account if it looks like I want to get back into it.
Vague thread over on the forums, we seem to have settled on Union server. It is typically the busier of the two old British servers (all are in America now though and you can join any you fancy)
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?1544-City-of-Heroes-Freedom
Got to say the respawn of mobs seems way too high compared to what I remember -I wonder if it is because of more players. I do a street mission and as phone my contact I get jumped by the same team I just put down. Any I’m off to create a villain.
Global name is @Zapster1 if any RPSers want a hand starting out (and by that I mean advice I haz no money)
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I would say Assault Squad, but since it wasn’t one of the choices, I say Stalker Mods. Do a journal of surviving in the modded zone. I always enjoy RPS journals. It’s like playing without spending all the time and effort!
I however am going to spend most my weekend losing to Russians in MOW: AS matches. Perhaps if I get bored of being ground to dust by IS-3′s, I’ll play some nice Star Wars: Rebellion (Supremacy).
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Ah, good choice. I’ve been enjoying MOW:AS duels with a friend lately. The co-op campaign was a let down, but the multiplayer is good fun.
Non sequitur: in the article pic, it looks like the woman is about to dole out a vicious paddling on that dapper gentleman… and it appears he enjoys it. Then there’s the curious guy in the back, who looks like he just finished deucing out that tennis ball beneath him. All in all, an amazing drawing.
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I am going to play an obscure indie game called Painkillers ‘n Booze, followed by a game of darts with my dentist. Single player.
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Meh, they nerfed the dentist drill.
I’m going to play ‘dear surgeon why is this thread sticking out of my side, did you leave something in there?’ tomorrow. It’s a new game I haven’t tried before.
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@Temple: Oh god, flashbacks to my post-appendectomy this past March. Was poking around my belly and noticed this little line of plastic sticking out of my skin. Pulled on it a little and felt a gentle tug somewhere on my muscle wall. It was one of those moments in life where I paused and just considered throwing up.
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I think the binding of isaac has me for the immediate future.
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This, mostly. However, if I feel the need to exercise further punishment upon ethically questionable decisions, I will most likely find myself playing some Company of Heroes, which i acquired in its most recent sale. Also, after that, Men of War.
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Binding of Isaac for me as well, definitely. Been playing it lots since release and I feel like there’s still loads more to see and unlock. And possibly I’ll give Frozen Synapse a go, too.
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This, a thousand times this.
Two thousand times if the damn game stops deleting my data.
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I plan on getting the binding of Isaac, and I will no doubt also get a healthy dose of League of Legends.
Saturday afternoon will be spent in a pub playing Ascension and Small World. Just bought Ascension, so really looking forward to trying to out.
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Well im still playing the POP Mod for Mount & Blade Warband.
Ive not really liked many of the games which came out recently. Deus Ex 3 was ok. Other than that i would play the New Witcher2 DLC stuff. Im gonna do that soon :)
Or maybe go outside and enjoy the sun? We never know when we might see it again.
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The POP mode is awesome!
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DXHR, first time through. Hopefully.
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I recommend doing what I did – buy a nice joystick (I got the Thrustmaster T.16000) and spend all weekend playing Wing Commander and Flight Simulator X. Master the thrust!
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Hmmm, that or Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X Joystick or a Logitech.
I would like thrust control…
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Just finished wing commander and WC2. First time I’ve played them since my Dad’s 486. They held up a LOT better than I expected them to!
Will be embarking on the third installment soon – never played that one so totally open minded.
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Descent is still really good after all these years too, and that’s not nostalgia talking—playing it first-time after catching it in a GoG sale recently, having missed it back in the day.
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GOG’s edition of Wing Commander 3 runs brilliantly despite its ambitious 3D engine and full motion video. The acting is even better than I remembered. You won’t be disappointed.
Well, unless you want to use throttle control on a joystick in WC3. Then you’ll be disappointed. I can’t get it to work, even in the game’s “Thrustmaster” mode. A minor quibble, though.
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Deus Ex 1, Limbo, and Bastion.
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Anyone here play Game of Thrones Genesis yet? Was thinking of picking it up this weekend but wanted to see some reviews first.
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Wrote up some early thoughts for a site. It’s very involved. Not much fighting, more espionage and careful diplomacy than large scale battles. It is pretty fun, but expect to spend a lot of time with the manuals, and don’t be afraid to use the pause button.
I will say it’s the first game I’ve played that has “Bastard” as a playable unit. So that’s something.
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Lots of my non pc playing friends have been posting about Fifa 12 all day on Facebook. I take it that it came out today. Might be worth a look
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(spoken with shameful look) I purchased that particular foot-to-ball title myself today. Being the first year in ages that we’ve had the same game the consoles have i thought it was time to get stuck in again.
So ill playing that and the bf3 beta. EA should start sponsoring me
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Exactly same thing for me, Inglourious Badger.
Two days ago I remembered that the copy of Medal of Honor that I picked up for cheap a couple of months ago was still a “Limited Edition” copy and therefore I could get into the BF3 beta early. Then last night I semi-impulse purchased FIFA 12 off of Origin, which sound like EA’s tie-games-to-a-storefront plan is working.
I would undoubtedly have bought FIFA 12 eventually anyway. I am an American who has virtually no interest in soccer as a sport, and in fact I hadn’t played any sports videogames since childhood before I picked up FIFA 11 earlier this year for a few bucks (awkward shill mode: EA does good sales). I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable action game with some light RPG and management aspects, and most importantly of all, it is a great same-room multiplayer game, which is rare for the PC. I have one friend, whenever we hang out, somehow we end up in my apartment at the end of the night drunkenly playing FIFA. So he would have made me buy FIFA 12 at some point.
Dunno about my opinions on the whole annual sports thing yet, as I got FIFA 11 for $15 and the PC version of FIFA 12 is only $40, and currently I’m happy with my purchase.
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Definitely Dead Island and BF3 Beta, but also Guild Wars to get the juices flowing for its sequel’s release next year.
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Stabby-stabby Vindictus! *glee*
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Same here. It has become quite endearing to me, the volume of content seems immense.
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Binding of Isaac. So addicting.
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GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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Addicting sounds stupid and pretentious, just use addictive.
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@Megadypes (and Matty_Gibson?): Further explain this addicting/addictive problem that you perceive. I lack a full understanding of this issue and would like to hear you elaborate on it.
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I shall be playing Alpha Protocol – £1.50 from steam sale, and Tropico 4 – £1 from on live.
Maybe the best £2.50 i’ve ever spent in my life
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Alpha Protocol is good fun. The game is definitely messed up in so many ways, but still really enjoyable.
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Me too. I haven’t run into any buggy parts yet, but it’s still early. I just started my first real mission and I feel like a spy, what with all the talking and influencing and trying to figure my handlers out. And growing a JOLLY GREAT BEARD. It is gorgeous, and great for disguise. No one will ever recognize me behind that thing.
The mouse is really juddery, though. Apparently there are .ini fixes for that, which I shall try as soon as I get home. Also, for the first time ever, I wish I had a ‘walk’ button. I feel silly jogging all around my own safehouse.
What I won’t be playing is the Battlefield beta, or at least the Metro level of the beta. Found it very yawn. Crouching in bushes and getting shot in the back – boring! Vehicles please.
This is all just so much faff, though, as I’m preparing for my Tuesday release-day delivery of Dark Souls. Eat your hearts out, PC-only gamers! This is one you would clasp to your bosoms if only you could.
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Yay Alpha Protocol!
I honestly never found very many bugs in the game, and the only irritating thing for me was the hacking minigame, but even that wasn’t so bad since my mouse had on-the-fly DPI switching.
I did stealth and pistols primarily (started as ‘recruit’ so I started with almost nothing in the way of skills) and ended up feeling pretty overpowered by the end of it.
I’ve been toying around with the idea of loading it up and playing again and befriending different people, but something tells me that if I want to play a game like that I should just go ahead and buy DXHR.
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Apparently the way you walk in Alpha Protocol is to push your analogue stick only halfway.
No, there is no way to do this on the keyboard. I decided that even for £2 I was falling into “not worth the time and interest invested only for it to then fall apart” territory.
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Play Marathon. I wish I could play Marathon. I’m going to look into how I can play Marathon.
Well that was easy.
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Boom!
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Thanks, Thants… Thanants? I googled something while writing the comments and found that very link, played it for a little while and got a little scared about the fact you can’t save whenever you want, last time I played that game (OS 8.6 on a beige Macintosh Performa 640, at age… I dunno, 11? Total guess) I didn’t even know how to save so it didn’t bother me. Just knowing I ‘have’ all three Marathon games is enough, though, I don’t know why I didn’t look for them sooner.
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Don’t be afraid of the save terminals. Let them guide you into a wonderful world of old-school bliss. Soon, you’ll learn to go two, even three minutes at a time without saving.
(Oh, and the Rubicon mod is a great continuation of the game)
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“Thanks, Thants… Thanants?”
Taking this way off topic (but you started it), has the Look Around You team go on to do anything else after that second season? Boy, that was brilliant stuff.
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Not together, as far as I know. The people involved have each been doing their own things but nothing like Look Around You, sadly.
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Dead Island was pretty fun.
But also, the answer is obviously Psychonauts. Or ArmA2 with ARPS on Saturday/ARPS+folk on Sunday.
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Just played Stanley parable so i may look into more mods. Also its October so time to break out Amnesia!
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I’ll be picking up Amnesia for $5 in the inevitable Halloween sale. I plan on playing it in the dark with my headphones on and hating myself for getting it.
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I did that with penumbra, i don’e see why this shall be any different. My halloween line up is amensia, Insanitarium and Trauma, maybe VtM:bloodlines again, and if it snows I have cryostasis sitting on my desktop, although if todays weather is anything to go by… not so much.
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The sun causes radiation burns. You’re far safer to lay out somewhere cool and dark.
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I’ll be tucking into heaps of Team Fortress 2, with a side of Fallout 3.
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It’s dangerous to go alone! Take these.
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Wow, that Wanderer mod sounds AMAZING. I love the idea of having to worry about food, clean water, and scavenging gas for a motorcycle in order to fast travel. I’m going to have to check that out.
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For god’s sake, if there’s any weekend to forgo the PC and get outside it’s this one. After the summer we’ve had, you owe it to your levels of vitamin D to drink beer in the sun.
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what is this ‘outside’ of which you speak? is it a myth, like dryland?
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BURN THE WITCH!
Also, here in Scotland it’s pissing down. Of course.
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Outside is rubbish! Tried it before and it was like a 3d TV, unless I’m wearing glasses its just all blury and hard to see!
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I’ll try my best to not play anything at all. Instead I should spend my time reading, writing and drawing.
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And I’m going to spend it running around outside with a hoop-and-stick[tm]!
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Finally finish The Witcher 2 (because I suck at the combat and the infinite blocking is now in with v2.0)
Practice TF2 for a community Highlander match on a private server I frequent
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That’s a good idea. I might finish up my 2nd trip through the game (I’m probably halfway through chapter 2 on Roche’s side) so I can start a 3rd in that fancy new dark mode.
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OIO ( http://bit.ly/riH4jj ) released last week by a little French studio. This game deserves to be known =)
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Why not Stellar Impact ??
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Driver SF…
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Any idea if a PC demo of Driver was ever released? I’ve not been keeping up with events.
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I should try to finish Thief, but I think I’m going to end up going back to trying to get farther in Terror From the Deep. I’m already pretty far. (Deciding to beat it on hardest difficulty was a big mistake. Still… Must. Press. On.)
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Apologies if you know this already, but just in case, to save you immense frustration, there is a guide at the following link to avoiding the game-ruining bugs in TFTD’s research tree:
http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=TRTBAG
It’s a little spoiler-y, but there are a few things you must not do, or the game becomes unwinnable and you end up stuck in an endless chain of grinding ufo and terror sites. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend reading even if it means some spoilers. It’s better than breaking your game.
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Thanks! I knew about some of these but not the mind control one. Hopefully I didn’t bork that up. I’ve got all the armor and most of the ships already, and fortunately have not researched the alien type that messes everything up. However, I’m not in good shape for the endgame. The aliens are constructing bases and artifact sites left and right, and I’m desperately recruiting more and more soldiers to keep up, and failing. Hoping to eventually put the best of the best on the final mission(TM) for the final push to save humanity from Not Cthulhu. But man, is it looking more and more like a losing battle.
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Going to play some League of Legends. The new game mode (Dominion) is probably the first hint at innovation in the “MOBA” genre. It’s pretty fun, but nonetheless not going to replace the base game for me, because that is (still) also pretty fun. :)
Dominion might be a good starting point to get into that particular addiction, because it’s not as rigid as the Classic LoL. I think you could just hop in and have some fun with it.
Other than that, BF3 beta and The Witcher 2 2.0! Going through chapter 3 now and my savegame has luckily not become incompatible. (I feared the worst… ^^)
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I’ll be playing Jade Cocoon for the PSX
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I hate you.
You made me all nostalgic and sad.
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Well, you still haven’t posted the long awaited “wot i think” on Men of War: Vietnam, which I’m really looking forward to..
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Didn’t sir Rossignol already post a wit ? something vaguely pointing to the fact that “you’re too hard, you whore of a game” ?
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League of Legends! Just got really into it in the past couple of weeks. Some of the heroes are hilarious!
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Battlefield 3 Beta :)
And Starcraft, always Starcraft.
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Why can’t i stop playing Starcraft 2?
I blame blizzard for my future self expending 6 months in a darkened room trying to catch up with future-old-now-present titles
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Minecraft at first; I’ve got some work to do on the dev server for a big event we’re holding for a community I’m a part of.
Then some Magic, with real cards, since the Innistrad launch party is this weekend.
Then some pen-and-paper d&d, because I still roll that way.
Aaand in between all that I’ll hopefully be finishing up Dark Messiah Might & Magic (for the first time) and Kotor 2 (for the fifth time) before the week starts again.
I shamefully still have yet to buy Witcher 2 or DXHR, because a couple damn steam sales caused my to-play queue to become distended and grotesque. However, I am slowly conquering it! Witcher 2 is my next planned purchase, and I hope to be able to complete it before Skyrim day.
EDIT: Oh yes, possibly some BF3 beta in there somewhere, if I can get over my distaste for the current state of the battlelog system/process/whatever for launching the game.
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I’ll be trying to play some Binding of Isaac (when the kids are a-bed) also Shores of Hazeron and the 6-player RPS game of Dominions 3 I’m involved in at the moment.
Oh, and the PBeM game of Med2:Total War Teutonic Campaign that I’m playing with a friend. I’m Novgorod, he’s Lithuania.
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Frozen Synapse, Trine, Guild Wars Trial, Bastion, The Binding of Isaac. Yes, I just had a steam splurge. Games are everywhere, it’s a mess.
The binding of Isaac: The mysteries in this game are so great. Tarot cards as weird random spell-effect things are just the best idea.
And – you’re in your mums basement, and all the main enemies you fight are distorted, mutant variations on you? And, as you get powerups, you yourself become distorted and mutated? And the final boss is your mum? That’s solid.
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I might pop in to The Witcher 2 2.0, briefly… check out the Arena/Tutorial, and the combat changes. But I’m still saving playing the majority of it (halfway through chapter 1 currently) and Deus Ex HR for when I’ve got some work out of the way. Which is likely what I’ll be doing… working.
Aside from that, I might pop on to the BF Beta a little, maybe find some time for a few turns of my Napoleon Total War campaign, and die screaming at the ARPS+FOLK Sunday evening ArmA2 session.
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“Supreme Commander to get done, new Minecraft to explore, Dead Island to continue, Stalker mods to work on”
Creepy! I was going to log on and say I need to play those exact same things. With added RO2. But still, stop copying my choice in gaming Jim!
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I’ll finally finish DX:HR. After that, I’ll kill some babies, and (hopefully) mum.
And after THAT, I may start a game of Sengoku. Or the new Total War DLC, I’m not sure yet.
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Off to the Gempei wars… and when I am done playing Samurai Chess with Total War… splish a little urine on noobs in BF3… assuming I am not crashing all over the place…
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Dungeons of Dredmor! I’m on level 6, have just crafted some of the best armour in the game, and am on my way to give Lord Dreddy a right royal arse kicking.
Oh, and I’m playing through Morrowind again before Skyrim, as I’ve played Oblivion to death and hadnt been to dear old Vvardenfell in many years. Spent a couple of days installing more or less every mod in this here guide and it was well worth it – the game looks utterly spectacular.
I’ve also been thinking of getting into GalCiv2 again at some point, but thats opening up a whole can of space-worms, and one that would threaten to consume my time for weeks to come.
And I’ve just realised I went and bought Alpha Protocol last week. And Frozen Synapse too. Oh dear.
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I have to say OIO too, would love to see some thoughts on it here :)
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Adhere to the calmness before the cliche. Forsooth, Tuesday will be the Day of Rage.
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you non europeans will burn in a glorious fire
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I know what you mean about choice paralysis, I have far too many appealing choices. I’ve been playing a bit of Majesty 2 Complete and enjoying it, trying to start a game of EU3 with all the expansions, craving a skirmish or two in Rise of Nations, and seriously considering trying to get into Frozen Synapse. Oh, and there’ll probably be some Sword of the Stars multiplayer. And maybe some AI War.
Crap, I’m going to end up just staring at my computer playing nothing, aren’t I?
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Ah yes, “the staring at a long list of games for ages and not playing anything blues”. This world of choices, it is not made for people like you and me. And if I finally do make a choice, it’s usually a game that I’ve played too much before already, which probably translates to Fallout: New Vegas in my case. But hey, at least the DLC is new ;)
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I like that.
I have far too much to choose from. Not that ultimately that’s a problem. I too have EU3 and AI War sitting here. Taunting me. I also have Sengoku. Frozen Synapse. Plus a whole slew of other titles.
Prepping (mods etc…) to FINALLY play Fallout 3. Yes, I’ve never really played it. A friend is playing through New Vegas right now and has basically bludgeoned me with the Fallout stick to play 3.
Of course I also have an ongoing HOI3 game. Playing as Finland and deliberately upsetting both Russia AND Germany. (It’s not going well). Plus I’ve got Morrowind to get back too.
GAMING OVERLOAD!!!!
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it’s usually a game that I’ve played too much before already,
Yup. AI War, SotS, and RoN are each well over 300 hours played for me at this point, yet they’re still on the “to play” list. I’ve got a pile of unplayed stuff a mile high, but I tend to gravitate back to old favorites more often than not.
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Easier to just play stuff you already know.
I’d say about half my games I’d love to play, but I fire them up and think “Oh god, I’m going to have to sit through another tutorial… Maybe later.” List of games this applies too is far too long.
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I don’t mind a tutorial; it’s games with stories that I never have time for. “Oh no, I should probably be paying attention to this, and I don’t really feel like it…I’ll just put it aside until I have time to relax and concentrate.” AND THAT TIME NEVER COMES.
I’m currently trying out the Clash of Kings mod for M&B Warband. It still feels quite beta-y, but the notion of M&B in Westeros makes me drool.
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YES! Games that make you sit through a bunch of interminable cut scenes before actually getting to do anything. Hate that. Just let me play. Give me exposition as I go!
I don’t mind interactive stuff though. Far Cry 2 springs to mind.
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I’ll be playing a healthy dose of Lord of the Rings Online, what with the release of Isengard and all…
Maybe a little Space Marine too, to stay in shape before the Exterminatus update is relased (which should be soon-ish™)
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Crap, my reply to Vinraith above I completely forgot I have Space Marine sitting there too.
Problem was it got released, it was really hot and my desk is uninhabitable. Then when it cooled off, I broke my toe and was unable to get to my child proofed desk.
Then I forgot about it…
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It’s the Jewish new year year, which means a long weekend for me.
Between amusing a 3 years old daughter and trying to make a month old baby to laugh a bit (charming fella!), I’m playing Baldur’s gate 2 for the 2nd time (last time was 10 years ago) and finding it quite as good as I remembered. Except the horrible inventory system….
Tried a bit of Empire: Total war but couldn’t get my self addicted as I thought I would…
Is Napoleon any better? (Got them both for 10$ on steam’s summer sale).
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Yes, Napoleon is better.
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Shogun 2, The Witcher 2 2.0 and BF3!
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I feel like some kind of RPS outcast for not suggesting some kind of Mod/Indie/Atmospheric shooter, but I’m gonna be hitting up Fifa 12 this weekend and I’m rather looking forward to it.
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Your not an outcast, not everything needs to be some artsy pile of rubbish. Sometimes just wanna kick a damn ball, club a ball, toss a ball, fire a gun, or hack something down.
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Had I not bought FIFA 11 I’d be buying 12. (I refuse to get on the yearly bandwagon for anything other than Out of the Park Baseball). Though I am amused by the seemingly growing number of clips on Youtube of the new Impact engine causing some quite hilarious glitches. (My favourite being the goal scorer running, celebrating, then seemingly dying.)
I should return to FIFA 11.
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I’ll hopefully get to finish Space Marine some time over the weekend, maybe some more Dead Island if I can gather my crew (of one other person) together. Then Deus Ex if the weekend gets expanded to include Monday as well.
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Wizardry
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Which one?
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Teddy Leach
EDIT: DAMN IT, COLD. YOU’VE RUINED EVERYTHING.
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VI
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I am going to play with myself all weekend.
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@ Tei
Unlike most games that one actually has a decent ending.
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@Tei
Try it with 3D specs on.
@jaheira
Yep. I hear it’s called a ‘screenshot’.
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IL2 Sturmovik.
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Ha, I thought I would be the only one to say that! I just got 1946 two weeks ago. The last flight sim I played was secret weapons of the Luftwaffe. What a change! I splurged like an ahole too and bought a x52 pro, rudder pedals, and a ps3 eye for facetrack noir.
I totally suck! I finally am ok at taking off and flying straight and turning without falling out of the sky (trying all the CEM stuff on). Just learned how to do a snap roll, am working on barrel rolls.
I’m epically afraid to go online but might pop in to get the lay of the landscape this weekend.
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That new blood Adam convinced me to try out a Paradox strategy game, so I’ll be grappling for Russian hegemony as Novgorod in EUIII.
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Anyone playing Red Orchestra 2? That’s where I’ll be – in between Deus Ex:HR.
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Yup, guess I’m gonna squeeze in some GT5 too
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I too will be playing RO2, this weekend. It is a great deal of fun I have to say.
By comparison
I was extremely excited about BF3 until I fired up the beta last night. I have nothing against Origin – EA have every right to compete against Valve et al – but it really is horrendous. Here is a brief list of things I like to do while playing games that Origin either does not allow me to do or makes it extremely difficult
- tweak the graphics options to my liking prior to playing
- change to key bindings without having to hide in game so I’m not interrupted
- change my name
- launch the client itself without being directed to a gaming-social media website
My initial experience has really dashed my hopes for BF3, and it has nothing to do with the gameplay which as far as I can tell is solid.
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@joebucksvoice
I think that’s less Origin’s fault than DICE’s crazy browser-based Battlelog system, coupled with the fact the beta is multiplayer-only. Origin itself seems relatively inoffensive, I have no problem with the other games I have on there, like FIFA or Mirrors Edge.
But I agree that it is really annoying. The first time the game started up it was windowed, and ALT-Enter didn’t seem to be working. So I had to go into the options menu to force full screen, all while people were shooting at me. It was bizarre.
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Having just grabbed The Witcher 2, 2. Might give the dork mode a try, want to see what the pocket protector accessories add in terms of stats.
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The new Shogun 2 DLC, Rise of the Samurai! It’s surprisingly satisfying taking over neighbouring provinces by swaying them to your alliegance with your diplomatic dude (can’t remember what he’s called).
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He’s called Barry Scott.
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Bang! And the stain on your relationship is gone.
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Hehe. ZING!
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I’ll be making the most of the Path of Exile beta. It’s satisfyingly meaty so far, and I must collect all the precious’.
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Me too, probably. But my hand is turning into a claw from all the ARPGs I’ve been playing recently. I’ve been telling people I’m a chronic masturbator to hide how much D2, Titanquest and Two Worlds 2 I’ve been playing over the past few weeks.
PoE has some really novel ideas. The limited heal pots, the open skills system. It’s VERY interesting so far and surprisingly deep.
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The skill system is definitely the highlight. Particularly how choosing your class really doesn’t limit what skills you can use in the game.
ARPG’s should come with a health warning.
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Probably continue with the games I have been playing lately. This has mainly been playing Diablo 2 for the first time and Dead Rising 2.
Having said that, last time I played Diablo 2 I got decimated by the some boss at what I think is the end of Act 2 and suddenly realised that my character was in no way capable of facing a single enemy with high hp and damage (necromancer with most points on the teeth and a few on skeletons to keep enemies pinned.) Whilst in Dead Rising 2, I have very little time to get Katie’s second dose of medicine (where do you even get it from?)
I’m thinking I’ll probably just get annoyed and settle with some BF3 beta instead.
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Teeth is actually a really good skill against bosses, because you can hit it with all the projectiles (if they’re close enough).
You probably just need to get yourself a good act 2 mercenary and run the tower in Act 1 until you can make him a Malice runeword polearm.
Don’t forget to use curses if you’re playing a summoning necro!
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To be fair, I did only give it one attempt. It was just that my skeletal army died out in about a second and I was left running around trying to dodge his attacks that made me think it might be a little tricky to win it. I also had just lost the staff I was using as my main weapon.
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Well, that’s your problem. With a necromancer, you want to be using a wand, as they can spawn with +skills for your class.
Duriel is definitely one of the worst bosses to kill if you’re new to the game.
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Can anyone add tanks to that boring metro map, please? and maybe a copter.
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No kidding! This is the first true Battlefield game for me, but this map doesn’t feel like anything special. In the land of bushes and low walls, the tall man is king. Or would be, if it weren’t for the snipers.
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The alpha map had an APC, and less clipping issues… beta is sorta meh, but the flow is better… many a game never made it off the first rush in metro… noob sauce spread to thin… who knows…
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Fifa 12 for me and maybe some Witcher 2 :D
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ICO / Shadow of Colossus HD or TF2
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Yup, I’m going to be playing a bit of ICO / SotC too. And some Age of Conan on my NEW PC WHICH ARRIVES TOMORROW! WEEEE!
Really looking forward to seeing what a difference it makes to the Khitai areas. It’s a beautiful game even on my current rig, so this new one should allow me to pump everything up to max :D
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I’ll be playing some Dwarf Fortress and maybe finishing off the Dead Island campaign. I might try Sengoku again although I didn’t get into that after my quick play test.
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You should play Supreme Commander. It doesn’t get enough love compared to its fiddly, small-scale brethren.
I’m going to play “baking the Christmas cake on possibly the hottest October day on record”, which is what I get for being organised for once.
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Wing Commander 3
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I’ll bet you stay up late nights just polishing it, huh?
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Never played it before. I picked it up on GOG last week and I finally got a Joystick, so I’m going to try it out.
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Wind Commander 3 was AWESOME. If you enjoy the game and want some more fun in much the same vein, I recommend downloading the free and very well done Wing Commander Saga over at http://www.wcsaga.com/. It’s not done yet, but is still being actively worked on.
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must finish Deux Ex: Human Revolution, although i’m sure all you time-rich internet folks have done that already.
seeing as i picked up Broken Sword from Gog.com i may be playing that, but me and a bunch of mates are still trying to beat the new Sanctum level they released last week.
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I’m going to try to finish the Lonesome Road DLC for New Vegas, so I can focus on a second playthrough of Witcher 2 with the new updated combat.
Lonesome Road is feeling like a depressing and tedious slog so far, compared to the more lighthearted fun of Old World Blues. But maybe it’ll pick up. I’m going to force myself to finish it, regardless.
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Spider Solitaire while watching unfunny parodies of Lady Gaga videos on Youtube and quietly weeping over my life.
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I’ll play ‘Make the blasted deadline or else!’ mostly, but will make sure to have a few hours of ‘Dungeons & Dragons Online’ (with some fellow RPSers) and maybe a bit ‘Blood Bowl’ strewn in here and there.
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DoW2 Retribution 1v1 Ranked
I’ll try to push into top-50 again( currently 68-th).
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Turrican 1 and 2.
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One of the best platformer ever made for C64 and amiga. But some people argue the megatron (or whatever are called) are better, and use interesting arguments.
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Yep! Amiga version for me (though I love my C64 games too).
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“And yes, I probably will just end up being paralysed by choice and end up laying down in the sun…”
Story of my life. I won’t be playing anything as I’ll be away, but next week I’ll be continuing with The Witcher in the hopes of finishing it soon so I can finally play the sequel.
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…I probably will just end up being paralysed by choice…
So glad i’m not the only one.
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Dr(5-f)r. It’s everything a game should be. It’s everything I miss from Driver 1, and the best of its sequels (being able to change vehicles) without the rubbish that it picked up along the way (pedestrianing, guns).
Jibb
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How about you use your Press Power and get your hands on some Tribes: Ascend or Firefall beta?
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The Firefall beta is amazingly unplayable at the moment.
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Re-rolling a Witcher 2 character – on EASY mode.
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Probably the BF3 beta, if it works on my laptop.
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I’m doing bits of Saints Row 2, in between work and other stuff. God, the mayhem is soooo good. Also, the customisable character.
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Frozen Synapse.
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I’m going to play F1 2011 and do some Geocaching.
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Supreme Commander 2 and Age of Empires 3. Some Battlefield BC2. May try to do some DOW2: Retribution online.
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Uw, uw, Age of Empires 3! Good choice. I should finish the campaign.
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I don’t want to be a traitor to my PC brethern… but it’s GoW 3 weekend for me. Gears of War 3 with it’s wonderfully addictive multiplayer man shooting, and God of War 3 finally came up in my game queue coincidentally. And Uncharted 3′s Subway demo/beta thing starts tomorrow too. So my PC will probably only be playing the “study for midterms” game this weekend.
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Oh, and I’m getting a Droid Bionic today, so I’ll probably see what I can do to get games running on there. I hear the absence of the Nvidia chip is causing some problems.
And I just remembered Witcher 2 2.0.
So… screw mid-terms. They’re wanna-be finals anyways.
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finished Gears 3 earlier this week.Pretty average experience,that started to feel like a job rather then something to enjoy.
Its actually the first time i’ve switched on my 360 for about 3 years,and to say i was shocked at the graphics would be an understatement.
It seemed like what i remember the graphics to be on the OLD original xbox….no lie.
…and this is supposed to be a good looking game on the 360.
Big relief to get back on the PC tho which was nice.
(sorry to go off topic)
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http://www.offroad-game.com/ – this was released today. Looks interesting?
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Try that mod “Underhell” for HL2, it’s an hour or two in length but you’ll love every minute.
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I’m playing GTA San Andreas at the moment, and I have no idea why. Probably gonna’ boot up Warhammer Dark Omen tomorrow.
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Binding of Isaac and F1 2011 in terms of PC gaming.
However, I may try some (don’t faint here guys) CONSOLE action, as in Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD remake. Never played the two originals, heard a lot about them, and really looking forward to it.
The only problem with two great games on one disc: THE DECISION OF WHICH ONE TO PLAY FIRST!?
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I’m itching to play a bout of Minecraft in the new Hardcore mode. Plus I’ve got a friend who wants to play Titan Quest online.
I did just buy and play through Dungeons of Dredmor, but with a hearty amount of save scumming. I’m itching to try some proper play-throughs with different roles.
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This weekend will probably get eaten up by either Sword of the Stars, Civ 5, or Dungeons and Dragons: Online. Might give a new f2p MMO a test spin (as this tends to quench my appetite for new games without costing me anything). I have a big back-log of games to go through, but those are the only ones consistantly getting my attention right now.
I may even play them with other human beings. (While I do play DDO quite a bit, my naturally low tolerance for the nonsensical proclivities of the younger generations does prevent me from engaging with the other players in any sort of meaningful dialogue or even joining a guild.)
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I have DXHR to finish and some veeery old samegames of Psychonauts I need to dig up. But before I’ll get to those I’ll have some more fun with Cities in Motion.
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Trackmania 2 will probably get an awful lot of playing from me. And it should receive the same from you! It’s all kinds of ace.
The BF3 beta would be nice if I can ever get the damn thing to work. EA have come up with an absolutely bloody awful method of getting into the game.
Should try to push through and finish Chantelise.
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Binding of Isaac and some Dwarf Fortress. Also checking out Rise of Immortals, it just popped up on Steam.
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I’m making my way through Mass Effect 2, so I think I’ll have plenty to do for a weekend.
Especially since now that I just put together my team, I may have decided that Adept doesn’t really suit my playstyle, so I’ll probably be restarting all over again with a more snipery sniper Shepard: I do like the Adept’s biotic powers, but the only weapon I usually have ammo for is the SMG, and I’m not much of a burst-fire fan –I think I’d be more comfortable with a sniper rifle myself and delegating biotics to a teammate. That’s how I worked with Liara in ME1 and we were a wonderful team.
I miss Liara :,,(
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After you finish ME2, get the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC. It’s the best of the DLC for that game, and you get to reunite with Liara for the mission.
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I’ve been holding off on the Witcher 2, waiting for the 2.0 patch so I’ll maybe have some of that.
There is also the Battlefield 3 beta which I’ll have to have a pop at.
Unless I start playing the Binding of Isaac, in which case I’m sure my weekend will disappear.
And I’ve also finally got rounding to giving Global Agenda a try and could do with devoting a few hours to that.
But then again with this weather – maybe I’ll just spend the weekend in a beer garden somewhere.
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I just finished “Dark Messiah…” finally, which was a blast. (I’m hoping that the combat in Skyrim will be half as fun, but I fear not.) I’d like to finish AC2, the end of which I reckon I’m pretty near. Also bought “Binding of Issac” and played around with it a bit; am not sure it’s my type of game yet, but will give it more time. Otherwise, I’m thinking i really should finally get around to playing some Baldur’s Gate, after buying the entire D&D pack from GOG last week. I’ve installed and modded them, but haven’t gotten stuck into them yet.
P.
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The new patch and content for The Witcher 2 looks like a good idea.
Possibly Red Orchestra 2 in the near future too.
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Dunno yet. I’m hammered.
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Then it doesn’t matter. Being hammered can turn any gaming experience into a novel one.
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I’m working on getting hammered myself, but instead of sensible pursuits, I usually do daft things like change operating systems while I’m pished. Ends in tears – every time.
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“What!? Windows 3.1? How did this get on here? My computer doesn’t even have a floppy drive!”
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I’m planning a bit of FM2011 to relearn it ready for FM2012 in three weeks time, but I keep getting distracted by looking at Blood Bowl at 80% off on Steam. I expect I’ll have caved in and bought it by tomorrow night.
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Command & Conquer. Lots and lots of Command & Conquer.
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Minecraft 1.9pre2, hardcore mode adds such a great dimension to the game.
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I’m going to messing around with and mostly breaking 1.9 pre2 as well, 1024 height worlds are silly good silly, so golly? or perhaps silood, looks like potion brewing might make it in for 1.9 final beta (finta or beal), or however to term the madness, also i might be due some sleep, curse you large games library!
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I’ll probably stick to EU3, Sengoku and the first Deus Ex, it’s gonna be a good weekend.
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Now that I finally got around to installing Windows 7 I’ll be burning hours on Human Revolution, FIFA12 and prolly Just Cause 2. You know, Just Cause.
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Just Cos’ 2: Why the fuck not?
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I’ll be creating some pets on The Sims 3 Pets demo. The demo was terribly broken as it needs Origin to be dowloaded. I tried many times to create an account on the website, but it was broken too. Then I came to know that many people who downloaded the demo lost their savegames and custom content, because the demo is connected to The Sims 3 and uses the base game launcher.
Then I decided to simply download a hacked version that doesn’t use stupid Origin program, that doesn’t break the base game and I can say that besides all stupid thing EA does, the game seem to be fairly decent, much better than The Sims 2 iteration. The animation of the animals is spot-on and they look quite good in a cartoony kind of way and the customization options are quite impressive.
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Gal Civ 2.
Got to blow up some SUNS!
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Fact: The destruction of the sun is the number one cause of global warming!
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I’m going to get back to Cortex Command now that the A.I has been updated, I’ve spent more time flying around with a jetpack as a dismembered torso in that game then the time I’ve spent on some AAA games. Goodtimes.
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Been over a year since I played an adventure game and I feel like playing one. Started Lost Horizon and am enjoying it so far, it reminds me of the Broken Sword games.
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Play the Game of Thrones RTS, and tell us wot you think! I want know if it’s crap or not.
I’ll probably be getting back into SupCom 2, or seeing if Frozen Synapse will grow on me,
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I am going to continue not playing all the game I bought and have not yet played.
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I can’t recommend anything very recent to play, as I rarely buy games when they’re brand new. I’ve yet to get my hands on DX: HR, the second Witcher, Dead Island or even Portal 2, which is now ancient by internet standards.
I’m now playing Dragon Age, which I’ve been putting off for a long time as I’m pretty bored of generic fantasy. It did take me some time to warm up to it. The storyline is your basic good vs evil mumbo jumbo and I struggle to particularly care about most of the companions. They do have their moments, though, even if that dog has more of a personality than all of them combined. And taking down a High Dragon after multiple attemps was very satisfying.
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I finally bought Blood Bowl, the price tag this weekend was very agreeable. Learning the game might take me the weekend.
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Anything noisy/scary/gory because my mum’s coming down this weekend.
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I’m going to be snacking on a wide range of things, SotS, Frozen Synapse, GTA4, AssBro Multi player, Project Reality, Dirt 2, Splinter Cell: Double Agent(when I finish it I’m putting the disc in a blender), Watching my fiancée play Dragon age while I play something windowed (I’m her wiki controller)…..
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All right, RPS-O-TRON, I’ll rewrite what you’ve devoured, despite the fact that this is buried under a mountain of comments. This is how committed I am to this site and to procrastination.
I can’t really recommend anything that is very recent as I rarely buy games when they’re brand new. I’ve yet to get my hands on DX: HR, the second Witcher, Dead Island or even Portal 2, which is ancient by internet standards.
I’m now playing Dragon Age. I’ve been puttng it off for a long time, as I’m pretty bored of generic fantasy. It did take me quite a while to warm up to it. The storyline is your basic good vs evil mumbo jumbo and I struggle to care about most of the companions. They do have their moments, even though that hideous dog has more of a personality than all of them combined. And taking down a High Dragon after multiple attemps was very satisfying.
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This week, I ‘ave been mostly playin’ Rift!
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wow and minecraft. arnt i a cliche lol trying out the buildcraft and techcraft from yogscast videos.
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Seeing if Banshee Rush is a viable strategy.
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How about Ultima 4?
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Apart from the wonderful Frayed Knights, this will be a non-PC weekend for me with the rest of Gears of War 3′s spectacular campaign. I was lukewarm about GoW 2 and mostly appreciated GoW 1 for its sexy muscular architecture, but GoW 3 is very impressive and is the linear singleplayer experience to beat for all action game developers out there.
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BF3 Beta…
…oh wait nevermind, I can’t rebind my mouse – assholes.
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How about playing the new Lonesome Road DLC for Fallout 3?
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LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!!!!
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1) I hope to enjoy the new Falcon BMS release with my new X52 Pro HOTAS and Freetrack (diy TrackIR) setup.
2) And if I get a chance to install my new gfx card, BF3 beta.
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I’ll probably spend altogether too much time restarting the Challenge Mode of Batman: Arkham Asylum because one punk manages to hit me in Round Four and I MUST therefore begin again.
It’s the weirdest thing: I was there from the late 70′s, banging coins into arcade machines, but never gave a shit about high scores. Something about B:AA , however, makes me rabid about improving – while the rational part of me tuts and says: “Improving what, exactly?” So I tell my rational part to fuck off until he beats my current ranking of 78-in-the-world at the ‘Intensive Treatment (Extreme)’ challenge. That shows him.
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Minecraft and fallout new vegas maybe try to install origin and onlive and see what they are like
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just finished Capsized(a little gem indeed)now it’s time for some Limbo,hope to finish it this weekend
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Got sword of the stars complete edition from a certain former RPS writer at the meet up last weekend so am going to see if I can actually figure out how the real time battles work and how not to have my butt kicked every time I try to expand! Could take more than a weekend :p
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I will likely be playing some Aurora (the Dwarf Fortress of 4X games Aurora) this weekend.
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Downloading Game of Thrones:Genesis right now even though reviews are split – gotta try it for myself. Also Sengoku, Space Marine and WH40K:Retribution (again). I love the weekend.
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I’m mostly going to be playing X-Com, a bit of Inazuma Eleven on the DS, and bugstomping and tweaking for the new version of My Little Fortress.
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My copy of Red Orchestra arrived today so I will be mostly playing that :)
Tried it for an hour today, I got shot three times without seeing anyone, then I shot a nazi in the back. Then it crashed. I suspect this will be the way of things over the next few days.
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The computing toy is just a Binding of Isaac and (cheap!) Alpha Protocol machine for the moment, in between El Shaddai and Radiant Silvergun on the wonderboxes. Ico and Colossus collection will further kick sand in its face when I go and pick it up tomorrow, and OMG DARK SOULS will actually knock over the poor spreadsheet device’s sandcastle in a week. And steal its boyfriend. It may or may not have regained its composure by the time Skyrim comes out.
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Shogun 2 TW, RO2, F1 2011 and FM 2011.
Weekend = Gone.
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Play Quake Live, Jim! I’m sure there’s some CTF going on that you could enjoy.
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It’s interesting that no one plans to play A Valley Without Wind. Has interest in the game died that much? I was at least expecting a writeup from RPS.
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Well, Jay Barnson (Rampant Coyote) just released his very indie, ultra old-school Wizardrylike Frayed Knights, and I’m at the office late tonight … yeah, guess so. But I also picked up Alpha Protocol on the Steam sale, so I have choices to make.
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Dwarf Fortress has gone and drawn me right back in again.
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I can’t get it till midnight Monday, and it’s a console game, but I’m agonna be playing me some Dark Souls! I expect I’ll be playing it pretty much exclusively till Skyrim comes out, though I may check out Rage.
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I’ll balance out the oh-so-expected “realistic” hours with BF3 with a few hours of Strat-O-Matic Baseball’s computer version in dice mode to remove as much of reality as possible from a baseball game played with real player stats. Sprinkle in a little World of Tanks and learning Blood Bowl (which I just bought from the Bargain Bucket, thank you!) and I’m set until American Football starts tomorrow.
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I went onto GOG to get Broken Sword like RPS told me to (not much time to consider it as I saw the article this morning). Then I saw Beneath a Steel Sky on the basic, no need to buy anything shelf… so that’s what I’m playing. I’d read about it on Wikipedia for some reason and not copped on that it was freely downloadable and would run on modern PCs. Still playing Desktop Dungeons as well.
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Where are people playing SupComm these days? I thought GPGnet was dead… is it not?
I don’t have Forged Alliance, just the first one.
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Well, I was going to spend the weekend shooting nazi’s and my fellow team mates in Red Orchestra 2, but then I broke up with my girlfriend so I’ve been mostly playing with myself. Sadface.
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