So, what're you playing?

[kildorn]

Does anyone have an opinion on Skyrim: Breaking Dawn or whatever?

[HaemishM]

Amnesia...I just transfered over my old steam saves and have to finish it, I was about 2/3 of the way through...it's tip-top for atmosphere. Play it only at night alone with the lights out and the sound turned way up.

This. I'm thoroughly enjoying getting the ever-living piss scared out of me between bouts of LOL.

[Ironwood]

My problem is that my save is in the Prison level and I can't remember what the hell I'm doing or what I'm supposed to do or what the story's led me to.

Which led the wife to say 'Well, it is called Amnesia'.

 

[Fabricated]

Check your mementos I think.

[Brogarn]

6 days later and while I still had a couple goals for SWTOR PvP, I've been convinced to go back to playing WoT after being on hiatus since December. Joined a clan and all that. I'm embarassingly out of practice and I rather dislike the IS7, but don't feel like grinding out another Tier X for Clan Wars. But damn is this an addicting game. And it's nice being in PvP matches where I'm not trying to remember which of my 15 keys does what, when, why and how. Just worry about positioning, team positioning, and targeting. Takes you out of your UI and into the game. Not that I won't be all over GW2 when that comes out, but this is a nice break from standard MMO PvP.

[Yegolev]

As is, I'm in a bit of a gaming conundrum.

My suggestion, based on my own lack of time and stressful job, is something made of pure mindless fun like Just Cause 2.  I restarted Infamous recently and it is also fun but I keep wanting Cole to crack out cheesy one-liners, and I miss the grapple.  Electric Spiderman < Mexican Spiderman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsnGomomhMM

I do have to stand up for The Last Remnant, though, since only I and Ard seemed to like it, but it really is a fantastic JRPG.

[Furiously]

I was playing tdu2 recently. Who knew that Eden was still patching it. I realized I was spending more time in the casino than anything else and disconnected my wheel.

[Tebonas]

Done with Diablo 3 for now, so its back to Avernum 1 for my RPG fix, Warlock: Master of the Arcane for slightly shorter play sessions and the new Magic the Gathering for when I want to relax without having to think too much.

[Xilren's Twin]

New Magic Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is out as of yesterday so im slinging spells again when not playing D3.  Has both 2013 core set cards and Planeschase games.  Still a bargin to feed your magic addiction for $10.
Oh yeah; they have an Ipad version now, which makes total sense.

edit: Swords to Plowshares FTW!

[Tebonas]

They have? Damn, seems I was too fast to buy it, then.

[Rasix]

There is just far, far too much to do in Skyrim.  Jeebus.  The amount of side content in this game is absurd.

[luckton]

I've had the itch lately for playing Emperor: RotMK, so I am.  A shame they stopped making games like that.  So much time...invested back in the day 

Any recommendation for current-gen titles like that?

[Khaldun]

Anybody know anything about Fray? Steam says it's available, but there's no info anywhere.

[HaemishM]

Finished Amnesia. Fantastic game, well worth what I paid for it and more. Popped my head into Limbo. That is a gorgeous game, that I may not be able to play long enough to finish it. I'm terrible at platformers.

[Rasix]

Finished Amnesia. Fantastic game, well worth what I paid for it and more. Popped my head into Limbo. That is a gorgeous game, that I may not be able to play long enough to finish it. I'm terrible at platformers.

It's like 5 hours long.  I finished it.  I'm terrible at platformers.  Not sure I'd be able to watch a small child die that much now.

[Ruvaldt]

Any recommendation for current-gen titles like that?

I remember that game being pretty good.  I was a big fan of the Caesar series, Master of Olympus, and Pharaoh, which were made by the same folks at Impressions.

The only newer game that I know of in that strain that is worth playing is Children of the Nile made by Tilted Mill in '05, which happened to have some folks from Impressions involved.  They updated that game and made an expansion for it in '08 as well.  There have been a few Roman city-builder games over the past few years, but the two that I bothered to play were terrible.  CivCity: Rome was exceptionally derivative.  The years haven't been kind to city-builder games.

[Kail]

Grabbed "Magical Diary" off Steam, a game about playing a girl going to a high school for mages, because I don't think I've played anything like it.  Fired it up and mucked around with it for a while, playing randomly, and somehow got the ending where she ends up in a relationship with the abusive, lying asshole character and drives away her friends (who were trying to protect her from him).  Then I spent the rest of the day feeling really guilty/disappointed that I ruined this imaginary character's life. 

Also grabbed Darkspore from the 75% off sale.  Ugh.  I wasn't expecting much, but the game is very much Not For Me.  Probably the weirdest thing is the story: all the dialogue is delivered by one voice actor, who sounds like ADA from Zone of the Enders, and the tone is a very schizophrenic mishmash between "gore and violence" and "Saturday morning cartoons for nine-year-olds".  Gameplay's not bad, but not really enough to grab me since I'm not really a huge Diablo fan.

Been trying to get into Dawn of War 2 recently, I wish I'd started earlier.  I haven't been able to play a ranked match, it spends like ten minutes spinning around looking for people of an equal level (I.E. complete noobs) before giving up.

Also finished Take on Helicopters, which I had a lot of fun with.  It's a helicopter sim, but there's a career mode with a story attached which I thought was neat.

[Bann]

Dark Souls. I dont know why I ever stopped playing, but after finishing up with Dragons Dogma, I went back. Very glad I did. When I'm on the computer, mostly MTGO. Getting pretty happy with a standard BR zombies deck, won a standard PE with it yesterday. Blowing my AVR packs in limited events now. I'm very bad at AVR draft.

[Yegolev]

I know why I stopped playing Dark Souls.  It starts with Sen's and ends with FUCKING BLADE TRAP.  I'll go back I suppose, but not yet.  The real mystery is why I stopped playing Demon's Souls.

Instead there's Infamous.  I started a new game due to the sequel being free* on PSN.  I'm about 30% into it.

The wife and boy just beat Lego Batman 2 today, subtitled "And His Has-Been Friends".  It's the usual TT quality, though, so if you like that sort of thing it's worth the purchase.  The voices were odd at first, but that goes away quickly.  Turns out my wife knows more about Wonder Woman than I thought, starting with "She can't fly".

Then there is Dragon's Dogma.  PSN: Yegolev, Pawn: Duff.  Only lv9 so far but I really like it.  Haven't read the manual, either.  Figured out the secondary and tertiary pawns do not level, so I ditched them both for something nicer and I MIGHT go back down the well in starter town.  Maybe.  It was also neat to stop in an inn and find out someone had already borrowed my pawn.

Diablo III, hard to make time for it and I also made the classic mistake of reading negative forums (F13 in this case) and my opinion is a bit deflated.  If it gets too low, I'll just play some Titan Quest and I should regain respect for it until Torchlight 2 comes out.

I grabbed several of the other free* PSN games, including Little Big Planet 2.  More of the same crap, gamewise, but the boy seemed to like it.  Nice that all my shit is still there from the first one, but not nice that I have to play what seems to be a harder and more infuriating platformer in order to unlock new craft elements.  I might try to work on building that bulldozer complete with tracks, if I end up bedridden in such a mysterious way that I can't work but can play video games (most likely this will be a mental disorder).

[rk47]

Playing a classic that I never finished.
Desu Ex

[HaemishM]

Turns out my wife knows more about Wonder Woman than I thought, starting with "She can't fly".

Yes, she can. Maybe not in every iteration of the character, but most of the ones I remember in the last 20 years can fly.

[Hutch]

Turns out my wife knows more about Wonder Woman than I thought, starting with "She can't fly".

Yes, she can. Maybe not in every iteration of the character, but most of the ones I remember in the last 20 years can fly.

I thought she could just leap hella high.

Haha, seriously though. Wonder Woman doesn't need the invisible jet anymore? Since when?
Why are you kids still on my lawn?

[Kageru]

Playing a classic that I never finished.
Desu Ex

Still a great game. Though I did download a 1.7Gb community built texture patch that might have helped the graphic shock. It's probably relatively easy to find.

If you get audio cut-out there's also a fix for that.

[rk47]

Eh...levels feels a lot smaller. But I guess this is a multi-path shooter RPG in its infancy. I can forgive it, but the 'take time to wait for reticule to center' model didn't work. I will finish it though. Just like Dungeon Siege full pack I bought. That game is shit. Utter shit. I don't know why ppl liked Dungeon Siege franchise. 

[Ingmar]

Eh...levels feels a lot smaller. But I guess this is a multi-path shooter RPG in its infancy. I can forgive it, but the 'take time to wait for reticule to center' model didn't work. I will finish it though. Just like Dungeon Siege full pack I bought. That game is shit. Utter shit. I don't know why ppl liked Dungeon Siege franchise. 

I don't think anyone did like it, which makes the existence of sequels pretty baffling.

[rk47]

You sure? Metacritic score for DS 1 is 80/100
I'm pretty shocked by that.

[Zetor]

The U5: Lazarus mod is the only thing that (sorta) redeems Dungeon Siege, imo.

[Phred]

Any recommendation for current-gen titles like that?

I remember that game being pretty good.  I was a big fan of the Caesar series, Master of Olympus, and Pharaoh, which were made by the same folks at Impressions.

The only newer game that I know of in that strain that is worth playing is Children of the Nile made by Tilted Mill in '05, which happened to have some folks from Impressions involved.  They updated that game and made an expansion for it in '08 as well.  There have been a few Roman city-builder games over the past few years, but the two that I bothered to play were terrible.  CivCity: Rome was exceptionally derivative.  The years haven't been kind to city-builder games.

Actually really similar gameplay from the Anno series (2070, 1404)

[Trippy]

You sure? Metacritic score for DS 1 is 80/100
I'm pretty shocked by that.

I liked DS1 but that was mostly cause of the mule. Seriously.

There was a The Dragon article in its early years about using a pack mule to carry your stuff in D&D. It was a funny and practical article all in one. It's one of the few The Dragon articles that has stuck with me to this day. Playing DS1 was a constant reminder of that article and playing D&D in my youth.

[Rendakor]

Picked up Record of Agarest War 2 despite my better judgement because I'm a sucker for fancy collector's editions. Haven't tried it yet, but hopefully the revamped combat system means you can kill things without the exponentially-increasing-in-power combo attacks.

Still playing D3 when my friends beg me to, mostly as a social activity since we don't see each other much IRL anymore.

Also getting into Warhammer Fantasy (the tabletop game); have the first few models of my impending Ogre horde on the way.

[Sky]

Also getting into Warhammer Fantasy (the tabletop game); have the first few models of my impending Ogre horde on the way.

Yay!

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=16395.0

[Yegolev]

Turns out my wife knows more about Wonder Woman than I thought, starting with "She can't fly".

Yes, she can. Maybe not in every iteration of the character, but most of the ones I remember in the last 20 years can fly.

There was Wonder Woman not involving Linda Carter or Gleek the Monkey?

[HaemishM]

Why yes, yes there was (is). It was the late '80's/early '90's reboot that gave her the flying powers.

[rk47]

Picked up Record of Agarest War 2 despite my better judgement because I'm a sucker for fancy collector's editions

Did you get the booby mousepad ?

[Phred]

You sure? Metacritic score for DS 1 is 80/100
I'm pretty shocked by that.

I liked DS1 but that was mostly cause of the mule. Seriously.

There was a The Dragon article in its early years about using a pack mule to carry your stuff in D&D. It was a funny and practical article all in one. It's one of the few The Dragon articles that has stuck with me to this day. Playing DS1 was a constant reminder of that article and playing D&D in my youth.

DS 1 was pretty damn fun co-op too.