So, what're you playing?

[jakonovski]

I was unable to return to LoL after Friday's Skyrim delivery fail, so I actually completed two games, Rage and DeathSpank 2. Rage had one of the worst endings I've ever seen, while Deathspank was highly enjoyable. Now on to the Baconing.

[Azazel]

Playing bits and pieces of SP Space Marine - decent but nothing special gameplay-wise and MP Space marine - actually pretty average, but I'm sadly a sad case for 40k. I think I'm mostly playing it because it's right there on Steam, so it's easy to boot up.

I've had a really hard time enjoying this.  It's fairly bland.

You're correct on this, sadly. I've been writing up my thoughts on it and will BiiF it when I'm finished.

Mostly been playing LOTRO this weekend. Friends over for a long session Friday night and then got on in the mid-late afternoon yesterday with my wife and before we knew it, it was 8pm.

[tgr]

Rage had one of the worst endings I've ever seen

I'm not sure I'd call that an ending, more like a cessation of content.

[Sheepherder]

Finished planescape:torment. Had always heard good things about its story. Must've been collective nostalgia. Found it average at best.

No, it's you.  I first played the game in 2009, it's the best thing since sliced Deva.

[rk47]

Cliched as fuck. Horrible Box cover. Stupid, long winded dialogues about morality and immortality. Fucking high-horsed bullshit about philosophies. Lack of awesome loot, no romance that climax into something meaningful. Terrible graphics.

Totally loved it.

[jakonovski]

Not having Skyrim is serving me well. I got back to Demon's Souls today and stomped two bosses, Armored Spider and Butt Demon. Also farmed a shitload of skeletons for leveling.

[Quinton]

I am loving Skyrim.  Game has grabbed me in exactly the way that Oblivion failed to.

[Zar]

Finished the main story on Batman Arkham City.  Great game.  Now obsessively collecting the remaining Riddler trophies. 

Skyrim beckons.  PC or PS3 though?  My PC is getting long in the tooth.  I wish there was a demo so I could see how it runs.

[Azazel]

Nod. I'm hearing things that make Skyrim sound like it bypasses the stuff that made Oblivion boring for me. It looks pretty full-on on PC, though - and considering what BF3's requirements appear to think of my 1-year-old machine, I'm not sure if it's worth getting.

[tgr]

If you can bear a menu/inventory system which is shat out of the brains of a console developer, then Skyrim is exactly what I wanted out of a game such as this.

For the most part it's just annoying insofar that you can't really visualize which items are in your inventory, and as such you can easily f.ex accidentally sell your sword etc, and my club/sword/axe is in the Weapons category while the shields are in Apparel, etc etc etc. Small things, which has driven me to raging from time to time, but the rest of the game outweighs this in my opinion.

As to the system requirements, I'm running it on a quad2duo 2.83ghz box with a gf285 at 2560x1600, and I'm getting 30-60fps for the most part, even with EVE running in the background. Make of that what you will.

[Ingmar]

Erm, why wouldn't your weapons be in weapons and your shield be in apparel (where armor goes)?

[Rendakor]

Because you wield your shield, bash with it, etc.?

[Ingmar]

I can't think of a game I've played ever that treats a shield as a weapon rather than armor for that sort of categorization, but I'm probably forgetting something I guess.

[MisterNoisy]

Nod. I'm hearing things that make Skyrim sound like it bypasses the stuff that made Oblivion boring for me. It looks pretty full-on on PC, though - and considering what BF3's requirements appear to think of my 1-year-old machine, I'm not sure if it's worth getting.

It helps if you think of Skyrim as Fallout 3/NV with swords instead of comparing it to previous Elder Scrolls games.  As for system demands, my brother and my buddy are both playing it with older machines (Core 2 Quad/GTX460) at 1080p on high settings and haven't reported anything untoward as far as performance goes aside from the semi-random CTDs everyone gets.

[Sheepherder]

Cliched as fuck.

Not that I recall.  The rest stands though.

[Rasix]

Skyrim's going to be stealing some time from LoL.  The UI is as bad as advertised.  I'm sure I'll manage.

[tgr]

Erm, why wouldn't your weapons be in weapons and your shield be in apparel (where armor goes)?

Because I'm used to having a character portrait where I put different things like helmet, gloves etc, so I can visually see what I have equipped, and it's kept entirely separate from the rest of the inventory as such.

I literally don't care if something is categorized as a book, a scroll, food, misc, weapon, apparel or god's left nut, what we're left with is an UI that is clunky and prone to errors, and whoever thought this up should be ashamed of themselves.

[Cyrrex]

Arkham City.  Taking my sweet time.  Damn, Rocksteady sure knows how to make Batman games.  They should really be allowed to take a crack at all superhero games, IMO.  Seriously, after seeing this quality, why would you let anyone else make your superhero game? 

I would also like to add:

[Sky]

We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.

[trias_e]

I'm trying to switch to Terran in SC2, but the relearning process is really hard.  Gonna stream so I have motivation to keep playing.  twitch.com/trias_e

[Nebu]

I can't think of a game I've played ever that treats a shield as a weapon rather than armor for that sort of categorization, but I'm probably forgetting something I guess.

DAoC shields had damage ratings and were treated as weapons.  They were also treated defensively by size and block rating. 

[Malakili]

I'm trying to switch to Terran in SC2, but the relearning process is really hard.  Gonna stream so I have motivation to keep playing.  twitch.com/trias_e

League of Legends absolutely destroyed any interest I had in playing SC2.  Maybe Heart of the Swarm will get me back involved.

[trias_e]

If there's one thing that would never make me quit SC2, it's LOL.  I find that game even more frustrating, believe it or not!

[jakonovski]

Since the SO took over Skyrim I'm playing Rochard. Only played it for 30 minutes but I love space miners and Jon St.John.

[PalmTrees]

Finished Dragon Age 2, went with a mage. I mostly liked it, enough to do another run with a rogue at least.

[Xanthippe]

Dungeon Defenders and Minecraft, and wondering why the hell the rest of you aren't playing Minecraft.

[Ironwood]

Because Elena went mental for Batman : AA.

I will get there, I promise

[Sky]

wondering why the hell the rest of you aren't playing Minecraft.

I think you know why.

[Velorath]

Picked up Infinity Blade 2.  Don't have an iphone 4S so I don't get all the graphical bells and whistles, but it still looks great, and while the gameplay isn't drastically changed from the first game, what improvements they have made are nice.

[Sjofn]

I can't think of a game I've played ever that treats a shield as a weapon rather than armor for that sort of categorization, but I'm probably forgetting something I guess.

DA2 does! 

[Amaron]

Playing Terraria now while I wait for SWTOR.   With Hardmode and Hardcore added it's like a different game.   Little stuff like potion sickness make it so you actually need better gear to do well too.    There's a lot more decoration stuff as well to mess with.   Consumables make farming actually have a point as well.

[Sky]

Terraria makes me appreciate Minecraft a lot more. I've been messing around the last couple nights and really like the improvements, but I can't get past the SNES nature of it. I won't put too much time into it, because I can remember how obnoxious some of the later mobs get - teleporting imps that can fireball through walls can FOAD.

[Xanthippe]

I haven't gotten too far in Terraria, although I did find it was a great deal more fun playing with people than alone.

[trias_e]

The Binding of Isaac.  It's simple, gross, and strangely addictive.

[Azazel]

Because work is filling me with stress and so forth, I haven't had the mental capacity to do much lately. Hence I've been playing very small amounts of CoD: Black Ops (mostly MP but a bit of SP) and a really small amount of LOTRO.