So, what're you playing?

[Goreschach]

It really wouldn't make much sense in terms of storyline(not that anything in fallout does), but since the US in fallout is kind of a retro old-school setting I'd like to see Europe in a pseudo-Victorian era for a future fallout game. Kindof Arcanum meets Good.

[stu]

I picked up Catherine yesterday. Fun game. I'm playing while the wife is asleep so I can really get into it.

[Amaron]

I just grabbed Bastion.  Looks gorgeous with the better graphics on the PC version.    I'm a bit disappointed that there's no random gear ala Diablo.   I think it's more worth $10 considering that but it's still fairly interesting.  The weapons are very different so I'll enjoy gathering them all.

[Quinton]

Enjoying Bastion quite a bit.  Sad that it doesn't recognize my gamepad (though it's playable with mouse+keyboard, I suspect it may be more playable with a game controller). 

[Minvaren]

Thanks for the tips on inFamous all, going to give those a shot this weekend.

Got around to starting up DA:Origins.  Took me a few to figure out how to move the whole party at once.  Not sure what I was expecting, but have been pleasantly surprised by the game so far - immersive, engaging, and dark.  

[NowhereMan]

It really wouldn't make much sense in terms of storyline(not that anything in fallout does), but since the US in fallout is kind of a retro old-school setting I'd like to see Europe in a pseudo-Victorian era for a future fallout game. Kindof Arcanum meets Good.

Don't really know about Europe but it might be fun to play one set in the ex-USSR full of Soviet era propaganda and paranoia, complete with lots of signs of people rejecting the state propaganda or subverting it. Throw in a couple of nods to stuff going on in the US and you've got the potential for some interesting stories and settings.

[Tale]

Found a shrinkwrapped Halo 2 in a drawer from when it required Windows Vista and I only had XP. Never played any Halo game but the original, so I'm giving it a go... I even have a 360 Controller for Windows.

[Sky]

Still persisting with my Civ V Iroquois, I think the game has finally won me over a bit. It's still nowhere near as good as THAT MOD (imo), but I do like it better than Civ IV vanilla for the most part. It still seems pretty shallow and gold really is way too OP, but it's a pretty fun relaxing experience.

Got sucked into Just Cause 2, such a fun game. I was showing it to a non-gaming buddy who was over and he loved it (he especially enjoyed the fact that I kept confusing the zipline and grenade buttons to hilarious effect). Fiancee loves any game with NPC banter ("That's not what my husband says" from Gothic 2 is her tagline). But the motion sickness with the controller gets to me. For some reason, yesterday it didn't affect me at all, so I ended up playing a couple hours instead of splitting wood.

[apocrypha]

Would you believe I've not played Mass Effect2? Rectifying that now that it's under £20.

[HaemishM]

I'd believe it. I'm playing Mass Effect 2 now, actually.

[Threash]

Deus exing the shit out of today.

[Rasix]

I think I'm about 3-4 missions from finishing inFamous.  Fun game, but it tends to fall in love with its touchy and at times shitty platforming. Still, it's pretty fun and it is a decent take on a GTA-like sandbox with super powers.  Difficulty curve seems just right.  No boss or situation seems like it's undoable, but there is one Satellite Uplink mission I can't figure out.

Playing some DF as well. Fotress was calm, but now we've got some goblin snatchers popping up. That's a prelude to goblins starting to kill my people while they're fishing or gathering logs.

I want to finish inFamous, but Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be starting at me, beckoning me to play.  Not sure I'll be able to resist.

[kildorn]

I think I'm about 3-4 missions from finishing inFamous.  Fun game, but it tends to fall in love with its touchy and at times shitty platforming. Still, it's pretty fun and it is a decent take on a GTA-like sandbox with super powers.  Difficulty curve seems just right.  No boss or situation seems like it's undoable, but there is one Satellite Uplink mission I can't figure out.

Playing some DF as well. Fotress was calm, but now we've got some goblin snatchers popping up. That's a prelude to goblins starting to kill my people while they're fishing or gathering logs.

I want to finish inFamous, but Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be starting at me, beckoning me to play.  Not sure I'll be able to resist.

If it's a proper Deus Ex, it's already overwritten your other game executables with it's own while you weren't looking.

[Severian]

No boss or situation seems like it's undoable, but there is one Satellite Uplink mission I can't figure out.

Is it in The Warren involving one long crossing over an intersection with the railroad tracks and waterway below? Ending up on utility pole power lines running along the right side but well below the rooftop you need to get to? That's the particular one, the only one, which stumped me for an extended period.
Good game, although I didn't get quite the feeling of freedom that I had anticipated from roaming the rooftops at speed. Maybe if I had been able to leap large distances anywhere instead of being restricted to the carefully placed lines.

[Minvaren]

Been under the weather the last few days, inFamous postponed until my reflexes cooperate again.

In DA:O, finally got past the zombie apocalypse, ranged attacks 4tehwin.  Now to see what's causing it...

[Lantyssa]

Been under the weather the last few days, inFamous postponed until my reflexes cooperate again.

It's been a bad year for that.  I'm fighting a sore throat right now, but at least it let me play the heck out of Deus Ex yesterday.

Hopefully we're both feeling better by Friday.

[Rendakor]

Still playing Disgaea 3; my goal is a level 9999 character before the fourth game hits on 9/6. The DLC sale was all kinds of a mess; they put a bunch of packs on sale, took some stuff away, and didn't discount the whole bundle pack. Then this week, the stuff that was on sale went back up, and some more stuff went on sale but still not the big bundle. I'm still holding out that next week the bundle will go on sale; maybe then I'll buy it.

[PalmTrees]

Got stalled playing Enslaved, a particularly annoying chase scene with a hard to control hover disc, so I've put it aside for now. Doing a pro-ncr run of New Vegas, and trying out the dlc I bought on a steam sale. Old World Blues was fun, but kinda long. My cowgirl went from level 24 to 34.96, and that's even with the -10%xp trait.

[Quinton]

Finished Bastion.  Working on a second play-through, but currently distracted by Deus Ex 3, which, post-patch, now has reasonable load times.

[Minvaren]

DA:O - could tactics be less intuitive?    

(goes back to pausing every 5 seconds to micromanage)

(edit: turned off "hold position" and tactics work for melee types!  More better, still not intuitive.)

[Quinton]

I am playing the CRAP out of Deus Ex 3.  Loving this game.

[apocrypha]

I am playing the CRAP out of Deus Ex 3.  Loving this game.

Likewise. That ME2 Insanity playthrough is on the back burner in a big way now. 

[Minvaren]

After 10-12 tries and poking at workarounds, I FINALLY got past what I hope is the buggiest part of DA:O.


It's not a Bioware game without bugs... 

[Comstar]

Dues Ex: Human Revolution, Eve Online: Goonswarm Federation 2011 edition, and Blood Bowl: Legendary edition.

[Tebonas]

Deus Ex 3, this is distilled gaming goodness.

[Paelos]

I've been playing M&B Warband with the newest edition of the mod Prophesy of Pendor. It's a pretty amazing overhaul mod that adds victory conditions, different factions, a story, cults, ancient kingdoms, recruitable lords, honor troops, and tons and tons of more kingdom management and buildings.

[Ingmar]

Also been playing Warband, but with the Diplomacy mod, which basically just adds a bunch of convenience features for controlling territories - npcs you can send out to gather up recruits, a treasury that your taxes go into that you pay out of for army upkeep, etc. Pretty handy.

[NowhereMan]

While waiting for new hardware to get the most out of Deus Ex 3 I've started replaying Batman Arkham Asylum. I'd forgotten how much fun this is and how cool it looks. Also been on a bit of a 40k kick and playing DoW II Chaos Rising after the Steam sale, though that's left me kind of wishing I had my new graphics card already as I can either play it on a lower resolution and have it look crappy or stick it in 1900x1080 and my computer starts to chug when any serious combat happens.

[snowwy]

Red Orcehstra 2 beta. It's like learning shooters all over again. I can't hit a damn thing, and most of my time is spent watching the respawn-menu because i was shot by a pixel at 200 meters.

[NowhereMan]

Ok so I reinstalled Morrowind. I've so far spent a day just messing about in it and have spent most of last night checking through mods and generally updating graphics and a few game play aspects (why yes, I do like the sound of a mod that makes animals act like animals rather than rampaging servants of Khorne that live only to feast on my blood). It's early days in the playthrough so far but the updated graphics (primarily people with far too much time on their hands fixing up the texture packs already there) make it reasonable enough looking and I'm remember how much more I like the gameworld than Oblivion. It just feels so different from most RPGs in terms of setting, from the weird and alien looking creatures/houses to the cool Roman style Imperials. I'm also enjoying the openness, having completed the very first mission in the main quest mission 2 is basically, "Ok fuck the main quest, go and do some other stuff then get back to me when you're bored of the world." Having wasted like 2 days on it so far and most of that not even in the game yet (I have got it set up nicely now, time to play!) I'm worried I'm going to lose a lot more time to an 8 year old game...

I can imagine the graphics being horrible if you're coming at this for the first time but with a few packs installed it's really not too bad looking. Next step is getting my character up to godly status and ninja jumping from roof top to roof top robbing everyone and everything. I'm kind of torn on altering the levelling system, there's a few popular mods out there that make the game pseudo-skill based (stats become based directly off skills, there's still levels but they're just in the back end to control encounter scaling) but I can't help but feel there should be levels damnit. I also feel like putting something in that just fixes your stat multiplier is cheating, which still leaves me with vanilla system that is almost impossible not to try gaming (because once you start min/maxing it's just constantly on your mind).

[Minvaren]

Got the 10K HOPO achievement on RB3 last night.  What, me play Rock Band much?   

Need to get back to DA:O at some point.  Just made it to Denerim, seems to be quite a few plot ends to tie up there.

[Quinton]

Goddamn DXHR was great.  So great that I'm now playing DX:GOTY with the NewVision texture pack to spiff it up a little visually.

[Rasix]

Got suckered into a SC2 league/club at work.  We had our first set of round robins tonight.  Holy shit, I'm back to being terrible at this game.  I don't think I've played in over 9 months.  Luckily the guy I played had been away from the game as long as I had. 

And more DX3.  Once I'm done with that, I'll likely finish inFamous.  Then it's either do some SC2 practice or onto Disgaea 4.

[proudft]

I assume SC2 is something other than Star Control 2?

[Talpidae]

Starcraft.