So, what're you playing?

[Llyse]

Finally cut my teeth with a good Civ5 binge, pretty good for a Civ beginner so looking forward to some multiplayer.

Will head back to The Secret World once my video card arrives though (and some Blood bowl of course!)

[rk47]

Is there anything that might interest me coming down the pike? Is GW2 worth buying? STO?

STO is f2p, so it can't hurt to check out.  I think GW2 is awesome, but I'm the resident fangal, so my opinion might be slightly biased.

I think GW 2 is awesome until you ran out of 'meaningful gains in reasonable time invested'
I used to dream of that Legendary till I realize it's probably gonna cost me real money or ungodly amount of time that could make me unemployed.

[Cyrrex]

I think GW 2 is awesome until you ran out of 'meaningful gains in reasonable time invested'

This is my problem with basically every single MMO nowadays, not because the games have changed, so much as my patience for them has simply run out.  The first 10 levels or so are a blast, filled with story content, new levels, new companions, new gear, new whatever.  It then begins to dramatically slow down on every single front, and the fun disappears. 

[satael]

Since GW2 doesn't have a monthly fee (so you can take it as slow as you want or take a break and return to it without any pressure from paying) and doesn't really have any handicaps usually associated with f2p (more inventory/bank space could be seen as a handicap) and is  a top-class product made with a real budget, you'll probably get significantly more playtime from GW2 as from a single-player game on average (sorry for the convoluted sentence).

tl;dr: yes on gw2

[Fabricated]

Sadface about ShadowHearts 2 not working so well in PCSX2, but most of the other weeaboo shit I like works fine.  Concentrating on SMT Nocturne for now.

Is it one of the games that is just broken, or is it a config issue?

[MisterNoisy]

Still playing Far Cry 3, and loving it.  Had an amusing incident last night:

While observing and marking everyone in a pirate camp with my handy silenced sniper rifle, one of the perimeter guards blundered into a white tiger, and got his face chewed off.  Of course, the gunfire attracted everyone else in the camp, and the tiger proceeded to maul every last one of them, which triggered the 'camp takeover' cutscene/music.  Bonus for never being seen and everything.  Then I ran over some sharks with a boat to get skins for crafting.

Good times.

[Ruvaldt]

Sounds like they learned some lessons from Just Cause 2.  I might have to pick it up on the way home from work.

[Paelos]

I'm trying to hold off for 2 weeks to see if they throw me a bone for the Holiday sale, but damn it's hard. Farcry 3 sounds way more fun than the previous 2.

[Hawkbit]

I was hiding up on a ridge and watched two red pirate jeeps crash into each other.  All four pirates got out (two each jeep) got out and started surveying the damage.  Then one decides to get into the less damaged vehicle and drive in a tight circle, running over the guys from the other jeep.  He got one that didn't get up, and the other started firing back.  The other guy ran for the hills, up towards me so I ran and lost sight of it all. 

It looked so oddly real.

[MisterNoisy]

The pirates have a really bad habit of keeping dangerous animals in cages in their camps - a fact that can be easily exploited in the pursuit of comedy.

[Yegolev]

Sadface about ShadowHearts 2 not working so well in PCSX2, but most of the other weeaboo shit I like works fine.  Concentrating on SMT Nocturne for now.

Is it one of the games that is just broken, or is it a config issue?

Forums/google don't list any known issues or special config, other than some display issue with the ring which I haven't encountered due to not progressing to a battle.  The symptom I have is that the movies chop like shitty molasses.  I considered try to disable MPG, but maybe I just need a new vid card.

Meanwhile, SMT Nocturne is working fine.  Save states are the best thing since save games on a cartridge.  Demon change a skill to something stupid?  Load state fixes it with no save-point hassle.

Then I ran over some sharks with a boat to get skins for crafting.

what

[Xanthippe]

Still playing Far Cry 3, and loving it.  Had an amusing incident last night:

While observing and marking everyone in a pirate camp with my handy silenced sniper rifle, one of the perimeter guards blundered into a white tiger, and got his face chewed off.  Of course, the gunfire attracted everyone else in the camp, and the tiger proceeded to maul every last one of them, which triggered the 'camp takeover' cutscene/music.  Bonus for never being seen and everything.  Then I ran over some sharks with a boat to get skins for crafting.

Good times.

Now that sounds awesome. I never played FC, but if it's on the holiday sale, I might just pick it up. Meanwhile, GW2 sounds good. Wish it was on Steam.

[MisterNoisy]

Then I ran over some sharks with a boat to get skins for crafting.

what

I could shoot at them from shore but that's a huge waste of ammo and you have to dive way down to skin them, so once I found an inflatable dinghy, I used it to herd them to shallow water and then chewed them up with an outboard motor instead.

[jakonovski]

Heavy machine guns are ideal for shark fishing.

[Yegolev]

I guess FarCry3 is on the list now.

[Ingmar]

I think GW 2 is awesome until you ran out of 'meaningful gains in reasonable time invested'

This is my problem with basically every single MMO nowadays, not because the games have changed, so much as my patience for them has simply run out.  The first 10 levels or so are a blast, filled with story content, new levels, new companions, new gear, new whatever.  It then begins to dramatically slow down on every single front, and the fun disappears. 

GW2 does this on a scale far beyond any other MMO, though.

[Ard]

I guess FarCry3 is on the list now.

Yeah, that just sold me on it as well I think, although I'd really prefer Just Cause 3 hurry up and release. 

[MisterNoisy]

So I just found another pirate camp with a dangerous animal in a cage - in this case, an Asian black bear.  This camp also had a grenadier - in this case a guy with a bunch of Molotov cocktails on his belt.

Shot the door off the cage to release the bear and then shot the Molotov cocktail guy in the waist which lit him on fire.  Between the bear and the huge fire, I didn't have to fire another round to take the camp.

Did I mention that I really dig this game?

[Kageru]

GW2 is definitely worth playing. There's lots of fun (for an MMO) content, some different mechanics, and no sub makes it a ridiculously good value proposition. The maps are beautiful and reward exploring. It just tells the achievement and end-game focused hard-core players, "well, if you want to grind, here's a ridiculously tedious carrot to chase so people can know you did". For a relaxed player you can just ignore those without any cost in power.

[Bzalthek]

I bought Towns on a whim for something slightly dwarf fortressy without the ascii cuntery.  It's rage inducing.  I'm beginning to think of it like an abusive spouse.

[Rendakor]

I bought Towns on a whim for something slightly dwarf fortressy without the ascii cuntery.  It's rage inducing.  I'm beginning to think of it like an abusive spouse.

I'd never heard of it til someone (Paelos?) mentioned it in the Steam forum the other day, but it looked good and I was going to grab it if I saw it go on sale. I'm reconsidering that now; care to tell what's wrong with it?

[Bzalthek]

Actually I don't think there is anything wrong with it.  It's like a graphical dwarf fortress only instead of dwarves mining you're a town and you have to build up an attractive place for heroes to come and clear out the dungeon as you dig open new areas.  It's still being improved upon and there's a lot of rough edges and I have trouble getting things to work like I think they should work.  The rage is mostly on my end because I've never been good at these types of games but I keep loading it up to try again.

I'm sure it only hurts me because it loves me.

[Paelos]

I like those types of games. If a strategy game doesn't make me throw a shoe across the room at least once, it didn't do its job.  

[Xanthippe]

I bought Towns back when it was in alpha to support its development, because it's a neat idea. I got the steam key and installed it. Started to play it but then realized I'd forgotten everything I thought I knew about it. See the documentation before playing, in game tutorials or whatever are lacking. It still feels unfinished to me, and I hope they aren't done with it. But it's a fun little game.

[Ard]

Okay, Seraphim officially did a bad thing for me and showed me Eador.  It's a russian fantasy strategy game along the lines of Heroes of Might and Magic, but with way, way more depth and things to do.  It came out in like 2009 in russian, and looks like it just recently got an english version released.  I couldn't make myself stop playing it yesterday.  It's for sale on GoG right now, and it's pure evil.  

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/eador_genesis

That said, it does have one very nasty technical issue.  It runs like crap on any sort of recent computer, and needs to have the CPU throttled down to play it. If you do the stupid thing and buy this on my recommendation, and have mouse lag and sound issues on the main menu, go to the settings, shut off the sounds, and start up a second copy of the game and play that one instead.  It should work fine.  There are some other ways of making it work right, but that's probably the easiest.

[Bzalthek]

Fucking cock tease man. 

[Quinton]

Spent 20 hours on a low chaos Dishonored playthrough and loved it.  Now slowly working on a no-kills-at-all playthrough.

[Xanthippe]

I spent hours playing Don't Starve yesterday, and woke up this morning thinking about it. Crafting/survival.

[Signe]

Finally started Borderlands 2.  Sheesh.  Took me long enough.  It's kinda harder than the first one but I already love it.  Have Dishonored and will be getting Farcry 3 soon.  I'm really feeling like playing a Bethesda Fallout sort of game but I think I might have played them all.  :(  And, of course, BlOPS, eventually. 

[Quinton]

I need to finish Borderlands 2!  I also installed Skyrim in hopes of starting a new playthrough and finishing the main quest this time (got distracted last time, but covered an insane amount of sidequests).

[Rendakor]

I'm almost done Persona 4 Golden; thought I'd finished it but they added a few extra months. Need to work on a few more S.Links before tackling the bonus dungeon and the true ending one. Bought Far Cry 3 yesterday too, but didn't install it yet because I know I wont finish P4G once I do. Still need to play the Torgue DLC in BL2.

[KallDrexx]

My friend let me borrow 3d Game Dot Heroes.  Holy crap the combat in this game is rage inducingly terribad

[PalmTrees]

After I got tired pf GW2 I went back to Swtor. Also just started up Ico and I've been popping into Dragon Nest a little bit.

[HaemishM]

After finishing X-Com, I decided I finally wanted to play Total War: Shogun 2. People have talked about the poor loading times but the only time it seems overlong is when I first launch the game. Otherwise, the load times are typical TW. I really like the RPG traits on generals, the ability to offer hostages and choose marriages and heirs. The encyclopedia in lieu of a manual I don't like, but it's mostly that I really don't like the HTML browser they seem to be using to display it. Some parts of the UI feel really unfinished, but I think that's mostly down to the simplistic Japanese design aesthetic they chose more than any actually unfinished assets.

[Paelos]

See, I've been upset since they got rid of the city window in favor of more crap on the map. I liked that city at a glance thing from Rome and ME2.

Otherwise I agree with your points.