So, what're you playing?

[fuser]

Is Magicka at a semi stable state yet? Been watching the number of patches going out but the launch playability is holding me back from buying.

[Mrbloodworth]

Single player yes, multiplayer, ill find out tonight.

[rrazcueta]

I've just received my tax returns and am considering a PS3. I already have an 360, and am trying to decide if its worth it to pick up a ps3 or not. I have a few questions if anyone would like to way in. First, what do you consider the ps3 exclusive "must play" games? (you can skip Demon's Souls. One of the main reasons Im considering a ps3 is over how much you love that game has gotten here) Secondly, I like that the ps3 has psn for free, at least right now. I've not gone ahead and got an xbox live as I'm a bit of a cheap bastard. I'll probably get either fifa 11 or nhl11 again for ps3 if I pick one up for the grindy grindy ultimate player feature, but what other games do you find really shine online? Finally, does anyone have an opinion on harddrive size? I intend to use the ps3 as a gaming system, and not as storage for movies/music. Thanks for any advice you have.

The PSN download store is getting better all the time. I have something like 30 games, and none of them are full downloads (e.g. Mass Effect 2 or Infamous).

Outside of Demon's Souls, the must haves are Uncharted 2 (1 is also good, but play that on Easy) and Metal Gear Solid 4 are probably the best games on the system. If you like sports games and you've ever liked basketball, then NBA2k11 is phenomenal. It's not an exclusive, but it is flatout the best sports game I've ever played. And free online play. I also hear MLB The Show is amazing for a baseball game, but seeing as I don't like baseball...

There are a ton of exclusive games that fill certain gaps if you like them. Flower is beautiful, and fLOw is also pretty neat. God of War is fap city as far as graphics and mindless gameplay are concerned. Killzone 2 is worthwhile in the same way, but you have to be forgiving. It's got weighty controls, and it makes fighting the fight pretty arduous. I hear KZ3 fixes that. InFamous is good if you want something like Crackdown. I really liked Valkyria Chronicles as soon as I realized it was X-Com but WWIIish. The animu didn't even bother me that much after a few missions. Gran Turismo 5 is a phenomenal car game. If you love cars you should have that. There's a bunch more, but I think this should be enough for now.

[Trippy]

Can replace the internal disk with any size you care to install.  Suggest doing so right away so you don't have to dick around with data transfer.

No you can't. The PS3 will only fit up to 9.5mm height 2.5" drives. Many of the larger capacity 2.5" drives are 12.5mm in height and they won't fit.

[Yegolev]

Can replace the internal disk with any size you care to install.  Suggest doing so right away so you don't have to dick around with data transfer.

No you can't. The PS3 will only fit up to 9.5mm height 2.5" drives. Many of the larger capacity 2.5" drives are 12.5mm in height and they won't fit.

Ah, did not know this.  I'd have been pissed if I discovered this after ordering a new HD.  Since I expect my PS3 to shit the bed any day, I am not bothering with this.

[Minvaren]

So close to 5-starring "Panic Attack" on RB3 hard...  Don't think I'll even attempt that one on expert.

Winding down the last 2 weeks of the WoW sub.  Seeing more and more people grinding old rep and soloing old content.  The game is looking like nearly all grind at present (dailies/reps/pets/mounts/gear/etc.), so it's about time to step away for certain.

Pondering a programming side-project/pipe dream after that completes, so serious gaming might take a hiatus for awhile.

[jakonovski]

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2.

[ghost]

On hour 87 with the Witcher currently.  Factoring in 20 some odd hours in previous aborted attempts over the past 2 years to play through it, I've probably got 60 or so into it this time  I had no idea it was this long of a game.  I'm ready for it to be over, but with my new rule of not starting a new game until I beat the one I'm playing it might be a while...... 

[Ingmar]

Hm, my Steam stats say 28.2 hours, and I did finish it. I wonder if there is some missing time there, but I don't remember the game being tremendously long (other than Chapter 2).

[ghost]

Hm, my Steam stats say 28.2 hours, and I did finish it. I wonder if there is some missing time there, but I don't remember the game being tremendously long (other than Chapter 2).

There is a fair chance I'm not too good at it .  And I'm trying to do every little task. 

[Azazel]

Mostly bite-sized gaming now that I'm back at work and tired all the time again. Little bits of WoW - like 40-90min sessions that last for 10-20 quests a couple of times a week.

Some 360 FPS multiplayer on CoD:WaW and BF:BC2 - mostly because I can't be arsed moving to the PC, and because I'm intrigued at the fact that I seem to actually be decent at them when I feel I should be at the bottom of the leaderboard.
A few races on Blur every couple of nights. A bit of online and SP.
Little snippets of Rock Band. Wife sometimes plays a song or four on Dance Central.

Finished Marvel Ultimate Alliance (the Classic RPG to end all Classic RPGs) with my friends the other week. We only started playing it 2 years ago!
Started MUA2 with them the other night. Wonder if we'll finish in 2011 or 2013?

Lots of playing with the new cat. Prioritising that over videogames. He's lost 5 chew-toy mice so far, and I'm damned if I can figure out where.

[Hawkbit]

They're under the fridge, washer/dryer or in your furnace ducts.  The laws of physics get weird at two places:  The sub-atomic level and the cat-mousetoy level.  I've found them embedded in things like something off Fringe.  Every time we move I find tens of them under things in the weirdest places.

I just finished a second romp through Assassin's Creed 2, going to try to head back to finish the last few % synch I have left.  Now I'm also into Brotherhood, maybe about 20% synched.  Holy crap this game is like an MMO in many ways.  There's so much meta-game its not funny.  Going to the ! for the quest might leads past 12 different things I need to stop and check out:  Renovating stores, upgrading gear, collecting crafting/quest materials, taking out towers, saving citizens to indoctrinate into the Brotherhood.... the list goes on.  It's totally got that "Ooh shiny" about it.  What they've done with the evolution from AC1 is nothing short of amazing. 

WoW sub just ran out last night, so that's done for a long time.  Blizzard actually took the monkey off my back themselves. 

RIFT beta, Minecraft get ample time.  I bought Two Worlds 2 and haven't cracked it open yet due to time (other games).  Wife is going out of town tomorrow so it will get the post-kid-bed time. 

[Azazel]

Yeah, we do semi-regular sweeps of under the couches as well as multiple-daily of under the fridge. I found 4 of them last night before going to bed. By the time I got up this morning, all 4 were missing again. 

[Lantyssa]

They're under the fridge, washer/dryer or in your furnace ducts.  The laws of physics get weird at two places:  The sub-atomic level and the cat-mousetoy level.  I've found them embedded in things like something off Fringe.  Every time we move I find tens of them under things in the weirdest places.

They contract with ghosts to move them into weird places.  They do this to help aid their parents learn to hunt.

[Shrike]

Lots of playing with the new cat. Prioritising that over videogames. He's lost 5 chew-toy mice so far, and I'm damned if I can figure out where.

Wait utnil he gets older and starts "losing" the genuine article. Not too long ago I found a rabbit the little savage misplaced in the storeroom. Not sure what I'm going to do about that, but it'll probably involve a breather, a lot of Chlorox, and maybe a belt sander.

Oh and video games...

Drunken Xbox fun: Gears 2. Working through it with a friend from work. Eat wings, drink beer, play Gears on Sat night. On my own time I scored a nice vintage copy of KotOR. Been picking at it here and there.
PC: WoW (still) and been horsing around with Vindictus. Kinda cool, but the community is barking mad. Least they look that way to me. Fighting is fun, though.
Gamecube (yep, the 'cube): Trying to actually finish Fire Emblem and replaying all the Metroid games.

[jakonovski]

I'm into Blood Bowl again, played two games today. One a league match with my DE, the other with an old Chaos team against a friend. I suffered 13 casualties and two deaths during those two games.

[Chimpy]

Some friends of mine who played EQ (I never did) were playing on Project 1999, an emulated EQ server that is set to original style EQ. I tried it for about an hour and wanted to murder someone back in November. In late december, that server was down and they tried one on the EqEmu serverlist called "EZ Server" where levelling is ridiculously fast, no death penalty, no corpse runs, there are teleporters everywhere, and custom loot (lvl 50 raid gear drops in a lvl 30 zone for gearing up). I tried it on Christmas cause I was bored and am enjoying it quite a bit. It has the added bonus for me of being 100% free which being unemployed is a huge selling point.

[MisterNoisy]

Aside from playing the 'add stuff to the new PC' game, I picked up Global Agenda for half off during the Steam sale, and have been playing a bit of that.  It's pretty entertaining, especially for less than the cost of a decent lunch.

[Sky]

Wow, actually hitting the 40 hour mark in F:NV with plenty left in the tank. The fiancee doesn't like the setting at all, so far her favorite has probably been EQ2. And I got a firm eye-rolling when I got a headsplosion from a thug in slomo bullet cam. "Stupid juvenile gore" was the mutter. She just doesn't get it  Though I'm with her on the swearing, the voice acting is mostly bad and the swearing feels forced in a lot of places, especially after something like Mafia 2 where it felt natural. I guess the caliber of VO talent helped Mafia 2 alot, too.

Makes me want to get into voice acting, some of it is just so wretched, I'd have to be an improvement.

[Bunk]

Yea, so I decided to check out the Minecraft hype. Well, at least I won't have to spend money on any other games for a few months...

[Hawkbit]

It doesn't end after only a few months, trust me.  I still might buy games, they just get played in tandem. 

[Bunk]

I am sitting here at work scratching out plans for an underwater biodome Utopia.

[ghost]

I am sitting here at work scratching out plans for an underwater biodome Utopia.

..............and he's hooked.  That didn't take long.   

[Ashamanchill]

I was wondering if you guys could help me: I'm jonesing to play an RPG. I've already played the usual suspects, Like DA, Oblivion, and Drakensang (not for me) and what not. Any recommendations?

Edit: Oops forgot to clarify. For PC. And ya Masquerade was pretty cool, I watched my roommate play it.

[Rasix]

That's really not a lot to work with.

Definitely The Witcher or Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, if you haven't.  Do you have consoles? Do you like jRPGs or sRPGs?  Have you gone through most of the Bioware offerings?

[Sjofn]

I was wondering if you guys could help me: I'm jonesing to play an RPG. I've already played the usual suspects, Like DA, and Drakensang (not for me) and what not. Any recommendations?

See, if you had put off playing Mass Effect for an eternity like I did, you'd have stuff to play until Dragon Age 2 comes out next month! 


Speaking of which, I am polishing off the remaining unfinished Dragon Age playthroughs I have sitting around, because I can't decide which warden(s) I actually want to import. I am so broken. 

[Tebonas]

I would second the Witcher.

The other game I would recommend right now is Divinity 2, because I'm totally engrossed in it at the moment. But only with the Expansion because the original ending, while hilarious in the "totally unexpected" way, is not at all satisfying.

It stands to question what you didn't like about Drakensang though, because in some regards they are quite similar and you might not like these games for the same reasons.

[trias_e]

Watching a roommate play doesn't count:  Vampire Bloodlines multiple times with different bloodlines, with the standard fan patch, should be your first priority.  Others are obvious...Baldur's Gate trilogy... Planescape: Torment... Deus Ex... Mass Effect, but I'm assuming its been played.

[Ingmar]

Blood Bowl, Blood Bowl, Minecraft, and Blood Bowl.

[Mrbloodworth]

A large amount of "My life as king" on the Wii.

[Yegolev]

Yea, so I decided to check out the Minecraft hype. Well, at least I won't have to spend money on any other games for a few months...

Not as much time as I would like lately.  Supplies!

For LotRO, I have gotten another character into Moria, hooray (?) for legendary weapons at last.  I'm appreciating the performance boost even with the shitty Third Age crap; I was able to beat four goblins that were two levels above me all at the same time, and I didn't even use a potion.  We will see what I think about it after I level and melt down a hundred or so items.

As for WoW, I am having a hard time generating the desire to do anything in the goblin starting area.  It's even more cartoony than Mario RPG.

Some Just Cause 2 (PS3) since I don't have to pay attention to anything.

Picked up where I left off in Nier (PS3).  Comedy increases once Weiss joins.

Started Record of Agarest War (PS3) but so far have not been able to get back to it.  Early verdict is somewhere between Fire Emblem and FFT.

I'm poking at Magicka (Steam) but I'm bad at it.

For music, I've mostly switched to Grooveshark, but I do miss the the thing where Pandora would give me lots of things that more-or-less sounded like what I searched for.  Just now I'm listening to everything they have by Flock of Seagulls.  Yesterday was Johnny Cash.

[Velorath]

Just finished up Dead Space 2.  Just messing around with some iphone stuff until MVC3 hits in a week.  Someone gave me a couple itunes gift cards they didn't need, so among other things picked up the Phoenix Wright iphone game, Game Dev Story, and Infinity Blade.

[Ingmar]

so among other things picked up the Phoenix Wright iphone game

Tell me this is just a port so I don't have to buy a touch or iPad.

[Velorath]

so among other things picked up the Phoenix Wright iphone game

Tell me this is just a port so I don't have to buy a touch or iPad.

It's a port of the DS version of the first game.

[Ingmar]

Phew!