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After finishing the dismally grindy Harvest Moon AWL (oh, wait - it was too boring to actually finish. My bad.), and then re-experiencing Shadowgate (NES) for old times' sake, I'm thoroughly enjoying Paper Mario for the N64. Possibly the most perfect rpg ever made. /ducks

What're you playin'?

WoW.
Thief 1
Shreck 2 w/ the Daugher
SoulCalibur 2
Warcraft III since I ignored most of the backstory the first time through
Civs 3 - get those 4x skills in shape!
Windwaker.. sometimes.. eventually I'll beat it, I swear.

I've beaten it about three or four times. But I still have an unfinished game of Minish Cap that's quietly pecking at me. Is it me, or is the final boss in MC harder than in WW?

WoW (bleh)

NBA2K6 (A Jihad on YOU if you talk shit)

WoW - hit 45 last night
Sims 2 (the expansion came out, blow me)

not much else

Waiting for Oblivion and Civ 4

Playing WoW a lot, to the shagrin of my girlfriend. Playing two servers can be a little bit time consuming (Sorry Severance, had a big week of raiding on my other server, ill be back soon). My guild had a big Online Drama (tm) and so I felt compelled to come back and help them rebuild. We are doing really good. Ripping through MC now, and we did our first Rag attempt in like 5 months. We got him down to 70%.

I am also playing Ultimate Spider-Man. Again. I rushed through it the first time, having so much fun, I didnt want to stop. Now im going through it again at a more lesurley pace, doing a bunch of races and combat tours and exploring a bit more. Great game, I just wish it was longer.

On the side I am dabbling in We Love Katamari that I bought for my GF. She loves it. I think its cool, but I cant play for more than 45 minutes before I start getting bored.

I am also trying to beat my girlfriends score of 450,000 at Lumines. Some thing I dont think that will happen, because I have a hard time breaking 30,000. She is really good at that game.

Oh yeah, I also spend some quality work time at www.addictinggames.com playing all the new flash games.

Mostly UT2K4.  I wanted to try Advent Rising and Indigo Prophecy, but both had technical difficulties on my machine - Advent Rising stutters during all the cutscenes, and the Indigo Prophecy demo won't even load.  So until I build my next gaming machine, those two are on hold.   :-(

Nuffin. 

Nonsense. You're probably beta testing.....Something.

Guild Wars
Paper Mario 2
Evil Genius

World of Warcraft.
Age of Empires 3 demo (Probably will be buying it when it comes out).
Day of Defeat: Source
Burnout 3
Final Fantasy Tactics yet again.

I haven't seen a damn thing I want to buy for god knows how long. That'll change here coming up though.

COV

BF2
Poker
Mount & Blade
NCAA 2k5 (X-Box)

Anxiously awaiting 'the IVs' (Elder Scrolls and Civilization).

Nothing.  I haven't felt like gaming since getting back from Europe.  Instead I feel like going to bed and getting 8 hours of sleep.

EQ2
Battlefield 2
Vampire Bloodlines - Finally hacked to support 1680x1050 widescreen. Much love.

WoW
ESPN MLB 2k5 (X-Box) - still trying to guide my Cubs to the playoffs

Games I've played in the last few months that I might finish or not
Obscure (X-Box)
Juiced (X-Box)
Destroy All Humans (X-Box)

Hmmmm.

X-Men Legends 2 (multiplayer with my girlfriend on xbox, and a 4 player multiplayer game with some IRC FRIENDS on the PC.)
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (xbox)
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks (xbox)
Mount and Blade (PC)
God of War (PS2, I'm still trying to beat it on the hardest difficulty.)
HL2, Garry's mod (PC, woodenwars is the shit)
Tecmo Super Bowl SE2 (SNES, emulated on xbox. This is the one where you can play teams from '92-94. I'm doing a career with the '92 Steelers.)
Katamari Damacy 2 (PS2, yes I wear a giraffe on my head. No, I've still not figured out what item is on that F'ing boat on the underwater stage)

Then I played and deleted a handful of demos the past week. I consider dod2 a 'demo' as well, as I played and deleted that faster than I did CoD2.

Guess that's about it.

A little known game titled "World of Warcraft"

And your mama [/obligatory mama joke]

gave away my Xbox to my brother, and will be without console for the forseeable future.  All vanilla PC:

WoW (meh)
Puzzle Pirates (I like, but UI is frustrating and I lose interest after <60mins)

waiting on Pirates of the Burning Sea (http://www.piratesoftheburningsea.com/) Beta (2-8 weeks for a maybe)

thinking of trying Patrician 3  (http://www.strategyinformer.com/reviews/patricianiii.shtml), Medieval trade sim.  Enjoyed Pat2 for a bit.

nothing really rocking my world.  Kinda get the vibe others feel the same (?)

Sims 2. Yup, it's all about the expansion and getting my sims new whips that they can actually drive.

Planetside

SWG. Because I can now do things in it I could never do before, like soloing Krayt dragons with my ass-backward templates. Even though the CU was supposed to prevent that.

Lost in Blue.
Beyond Good and Evil.
Lunar: Dragon Song.
Virtua Tennis PSP.
We <3 Katamari: The Collect 1 Million Roses stage.
Digital Devil Saga (again, before the new one comes out).
ICO.

X-Men Legends (Xbox) - the first, not the sequel. Forgot I hadn't finished it, hell I barely scratched it. Something shinier must've come along, because it's a nice beat-em-up and it's 720p widescreen. I was a big X-Men geek when I was a kid (original Sentinel storyline/Phoenix era), so it's been fun. I've never used goddamned Gambit or Jubilee, I pretend they aren't in the game. Using Iceman and Emma Frost makes it too easy at times, though.

I should reinstall BF2, the girlfriend has actually been asking if I've been playing. She unfortunately has seen the smacktardery firsthand (via knifekill/revive morons and a long list of others), so she understands why I don't play much. But it's such a great game other than the tards playing it at times. With the new patch and favorite servers, it just got a lot better imo.

I need to finish off GTA:SA, maybe 3 missions left. Great game, probably my favorite of the year (not that that is tough, I've only bought a couple).

Count me in the 'waiting for IV' camp (Civ, Elder Scrolls).

That's right. The only game I'm playing is an xbox game. Mock at will :P

Well, yes... I have CoV and some others but I hardly even look at them.  They don't count, anyway... you're not supposed to have fun in beta tests, you know.

Shadowbane mocks you.

WoW.

Waiting on Civ 4.

Just finished Advent Rising and started playing Psi-Ops, mostly out of irritation.
We <3 Katamari.
Atelier Iris.  Surely this game has an end.
Fate, until I downloaded the Dungeon Siege II demo.
Paper Mario:TTYD.  I can't say enough good things about this game.
Mario Golf, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shortgame Suckage.

WoW (fading fast, though)

I'll probably buy Civ4.

It does. It also has a handful of optional bosses.

Oh and I am anxiously awaiting Civ 4.  Luckily it comes out right near my b-day, so I will make sure someone else gets it for me.   Ooooooh I cannot wait I am such a Sid Meir fanboi!!!!



Edit. It is a fanbois excitement that makes him mispell.  I am leaving it as is.

Why would you misspell your idol's name in such a horrible way?

WoW

Dragonshard (Well, I tried to play it, but it won't install.  Still trying to figure out if it is my CDRom or bad discs.)

WoW
my family

Awaiting Civ4 like the masochist I must be.

Diablo (for nostalgic purposes)
Prince of Persia 2
Kotor 2 (yeah, i know, i should be done with this by now, but I haven't had much time)
Sims Bustin' out on the DS

Just got Ultimate Spider-Man today for my kiddo, i might try it out.......but probably not

DAoC (after a 2 year layoff I re-upped for the new classic servers a couple months ago... still having fun with it)
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (GC)  rented it for the boy and it's taking hold of me.

Anybody have any thoughts on FF:CC?  It seems that it has multiplayer capability but one must have a GBA and special cable for each player in multi-mode.  This game is right up my boy's alley (6 yr old); and I'm actually pretty taken with it as well.  I would love to be able to play it with him in multiplayer but I'm adverse to laying out the funds for one addtional GBA, two cables... and well, the game.  I understand there are a few other GC games that offer multiplayer mode only for the GBA-linked set?  Are any of these (Zelda Four Swords?) any good as well?

Put me down with the 'Waiting for Sid IV' folks as well.

I'm actively playing (and likely to get mocked for):

Dark Age of Camelot

Colin McRae Road Rally 2005

Championship Manager 03-04

Online poker.

Thinking about playing puzzle pirates again.

I really, really didn't like FF:CC.  I already had three GBAs sitting around, so that wasn't an issue, but I just couldn't stand the gameplay.  Since the only way to permanently "learn" spells (or increase your life, or improve your character in any other way) is to choose some rare item at the end of the map, we ended up having to play a number of the maps over and over again until everyone got THE IMPORTANT item.  And, even after doing that, the boss fights were frustration incarnate.  We made it up to the final boss, but after fighting for like forty-five minutes (ressing each other and healing and ressing and dying and ressing and maybe getting in an attack or two before dying again), he killed both of us, and we haven't picked up the game since.  Also, I was mostly playing with only two people, and if you're doing the same (E.G. just you and your son), I probably ought to warn you that it's probably the hardest way to go.  You get all the added challenge of the multiplayer mode (inability to fuse spells, tougher bosses, etc.), and only one other buddy to help you with them.  Also, you loose your moogle, so one of you is basically going to be stuck doing nothing but lugging that blasted chalice around for most of the game.

Four Swords I haven't played (I played the GBA version and liked it, but it's different from the GC version, I think).  I hear it's good, though.  Aside from that, I don't know of any GC games that use the GBA, off the top of my head.  If you get a second GBA, though, there are, of course, a fair number of multiplayer GBA games you can play, without the GC.

What I've played in the last few weeks... hmm...

We  :heart: Katamari (just finished it)
Makai Kingdom (very, very slowly working my way through the campaign...)
XBox port of SM's Pirates! (to see how it compared to the PC version)
Crimson Skies (which I picked up for cheap)
Rebelstar: Tactical Command (which I think I may have beaten, but I can't really tell...)
Zelda: Minish Cap (when I got pissed off at Rebelstar's general unfinished-ness)
World of Warcraft (occasionally, when I don't have anything pressing coming up school-wise)
Master of Orion 3 (for about fifteen minutes, then I uninstalled it again)
Imperium Galactica 2 (after I finished my marathon MOO3 session)
Emperor: Battle for Dune (after IG2 crashed to desktop for the nth time)
Monkey Island series (for Talk Like a Pirate day)

Since some of you guys were talking about it recently, I am now subscribed to EVE.

Oh dear.  I hope you didn't subscribe to a game based on anything anyone here said! 

Errr.. we said something positive about Eve? Here? Best thing I can say about that game is that I finished two of the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series while playing. 

Of course, it does seem to be run pretty well and it has open pvp.  There, two nice things.  That wasn't so hard.

I really should go back to finishing Resident Evil 4 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.  Both excellent games, and I'm on the last level of both.  Sooner or later I'll feel like gaming. 

I can't stop playing Day of Defeat Source.  It's the most fun I've had with a multiplayer FPS since Thunderwalkers CTF.  Granted, I missed a lot between now and then, but damn this is fun.

Before Sept. 26th I was playing some EQ now and again.  Ha ha!  Laugh it up.

City of Heroes is what I'm playing right now. I got sucked back into the game when I got the 5 day free thing in my email for ex-subscribers. Most of what I didn't like about the game originally was never fixed but my tastes in MMORPGs have changed so I now fit the game better than when it first came out.

I took a break from Battlefield 2 to wait for the patch. I'll probably play it again when the patch is released but not as much as I had been.

I bought Fable: TLC and Dragonshard when my DSL line went down for a day since Fry's had them both on sale. Both are kind of "meh" with Dragonshard more so than Fable. I haven't played either since my DSL line has been back up but I'll probably finish both eventually.

ThunderWalker CTF? Who were you playing as back then?


Edit: fixed grammar

City of Heroes (mostly)
Toontown (a little)
Nintendogs (I feed the dogs)

I've found a new game called eBay.  Trying to figure out how to translate my mad WoW auction house skillz to rl.

WoW seems to be what most are subscribed to.  Just a few of us who enjoy spankings did the EVE thingy.  Do you like spankings?

What are you doing?  Trying to trick someone else into trying a game?  Who do you work for?

WoW
Master of Orion (the original) inside DOSbox.

Falcon 4 Allied Force.

Galatic Civiliaztions.

Rome: Total Realism (WHAT a difference), and Dungeon Siege 2.

Oh, and that silly Counterstraek game. God damned headshots.

 - meg

DOW:Winter Assault - Skirmish maps, campaign is finished now.

DOD:Source, UT2k4 and awaiting BF2 1.03 patch

Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory

Dungeon Siege II

Officailly Lost in Blue is kicking my ass. It might be the tedium of the game. Of which there is lots. Think of it as a portable, faster, more steamlined ATiTD... with better graphics. Even then it's tedious.

WOW
AOE3 Beta

and also getting CIV 4 when it comes.

Wonka[TIR] or Nunki[TIR].  My internet service provider had a private server I played on all the time.  I got to know a couple of them and eventually joined their clan.  We didn't do any tournaments or anything but it was fun playing matches against other clans.

This is my BOOMSTICK! 

Very small amounts of Dark Age of Camelot.  Can't handle much more with a newborn baby in the house.

Awww.... do we get baby pics?   :-)

Playing WoW.

Everything else is just boring it seems.  WoW is boring too.

Bleh for everything.

(http://bmwmoto.free.fr/lebowski/3_nihilists_large.jpg)

CoH (Took down the Kronos Titan, freakin long ass mission...)
CoV Beta (although I don't play much since its not at a very convienent time)
Auto Assault Beta (occasionally, needs a bunch of work though)
Racket and Clank
Katamari Damancy

City of Heroes... solo for the most part, since everyone in my old SG left the game last year. Anyone on Pinnacle?

Other than that, I've been ignoring many potentially wonderful games on my shelf.

Yesterday I bought Pacific Fighters, but the manual scares me. Any game in which I can set my propeller pitch is probably too detailed for my fragile little mind.

That doesn't sound like a game. A lot of sim companies have confused simulators and proper training lately.

I have a couple of chars on Pinnacle but never play them, they're super-nubby.  I'm on Victory still.  I'm @Signe on global.  Are you in the CoV beta yet?  I'm Frau Zerstorung there mostly and @BlackEyed Susan for global because that's the first char I made there and it won't stay reset to @Signe.

God... I really do wibble aimlessly, don't I?   :oops:

Wibbles wobble but they don't fall down.

I've not played in a long time, but you can go into options and disable some of the realsim stuff. For the longest time I gave myself unlimited ammo and just did strafing runs. That's always fun.

(http://www.ihostphotos.com/imgt/158653.jpg) (http://www.ihostphotos.com/show.php?id=158653)

Stretch Panic
Trauma Center for the DS on Wednesday

(http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W03/images/photos/top_icon.jpg)

Actively playing:
Warhammer 40K: Winter Assalt Evil Campaign.
Ys: Ark of Napthshim
Advance Wars Dual Strike Battle Maps

Casually playing:
Magic Online
Rygar (Tecmo Classic Arcade on X Box)
Castlevania (Konami Collection for the PC)

Plan to be playing soon:
Midway Arcade Treasures 3 (Primarily the San Fransisco Rush games.)
Capcom Arcade Collection (Primarily Commando and 1943.)

Been playing lots of Birth of the Federation lately.  Turn-based strategy ala Civ + quasi-realtime 3d space combat + quality production values = a game that hasn't been off my hard drive since it came out in 1999.  Even if you hate Star Trek, this game is the shit.

I feel some Diablo 2 coming on though.

Battlefield 2
Civ 3.. (yes, also awaiting Civ4)
Front Office Football: The College Years--I have to play it for a while every fall.

Downloading Mount & Blade as I type.

Actively Playing:

World of Warcraft
Total Overdose: A Gunglingers Tale in Mexico
C & C Generals: Zero Hour
Battlefield 2



Infrequently Playing:

Rome: Total War
Act of War: Direct Action
Day of Defeat: Source



On my To-Buy/To-Play List:

Age of Empires 3
Civilization 4
Black and White 2
X-Men: Rise of Apocolypse
D & D Online
Auto Assault
Gun (for XBox)
 

Ah cool, I was [FU]Badger. I don't recognize your name, though, so I'm not sure we ever played together.

World of Warcraft
EVE Online

Then less frequently..

Burnout Revenge
Metroid Prime
Animal Crossing - I went back to my town after a two year absence.  I was expecting the plague, dead animals everywhere.  Place was just overgrown with weeds, and I had a few new neighbors.  I still haven't been able to sell all the excess fruit and shells after dozens of trips, inventory is too small.  Took me a couple hours to free nearly every blank tile of grass from the weeds.  Plus, as I was running screen to screen real fast hauling fruit, I saw the biggest shadow of a fish in the water that I'd ever seen in that game.  Blows the Living Fossil/Coelicinth outline away.  It was blurry it was so big.  I scared it off though, and couldn't get it to reappear no matter how many times I ran back and forth between screens.  HUGE it was.

All you people who love Civilization should go download BotF somewhere and give it a shot to hold you over.  It plays like a streamlined Civ, in space, with lots of character and an inordinate amount of shiny for a game of it's type.  What I mean by "character" is that all major factions and minor races come across as unique.  All of the music, the sound, and the "skin" of the (rather nice) UI changes based upon who you're playing as.

When you're playing the Klingons and meet the peacful Mizarians, you get a photo of a member of that species, a paragraph describing their culture, another paragraph describing what unique structure they can build, and a voice-over where someone with a gnarly Klingon voice says something to the effect of "These guys are pussies, let's kick their ass and take their lunch money!"  If you're playing as the Federation, you get the same background information, but the voice-over is a well-modulated fellow talking up the merits of their pacifict society.  There being five major factions and thirty minor races, they recorded 150 different voice-overs to make sure the player knows how their own empire relates to whoever they've just met.  They also dressed someone up in TV/move quality makeup to pose for each race's photograph.

Every race, major and minor, also addresses the player differently when diplomacy comes up.  One of my favorites was when I talked the rather antagonistic and anal-retentive Sheliak into joining my faction, and they accepted by saying "We agree to allow you to join us, however you will handle all foreign affairs and we will not govern you."  And they're pretty talkative, sending you their own unique messages to cheer you on when you attack someone they hate, to bitch at you for sabotaging someone they like, or to tell you that bombing the Ferengi into extinction was a rather inhumane thing to do.

Combat is just the best I've ever seen in a game like this.  You can auto-resolve to avoid sitting through mismatches, but when you choose to control a battle, you get a zoomable/rotatable 3d view of things.  You issue commands to your ships or groups of ships, then watch as they fly around shooting and saying things like "Those shields won't hold forever! Muahaha!" in real-time.  For ten seconds, after which you can issue a new set of orders.  Ships level up after enough training and/or battle, but those levels are expressed simply as more precise flying and accurate shooting.  Three of my tiny but well-trained Cardassian scouts outmanuvering and shooting the piss out of a noobish Federation cruiser, dropping it's shields and forcing it to flee, was great fun even if it was a totally inconsequential battle.

Okay, rant over.  But if you have a long enough attention span for this sort of game, it's almost impossible to dislike.

My attention span wasn't long enough to read your post.  I did, however, read the first and last paragraph and referred it to Righ who likes those sorts of boring games.

I didn't see BotF on the underdogs, but I did see a link to Star Control 2...and they have an OSX port (and linux, yada yada).

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

You know, maybe I have been living under a rock, but I wasn't particularly aware of Star Control or it's sequels until I looked them up on Underdogs just now.  I'd heard the names used, but I couldn't have told you how they played.  Looking at the write-up for Ur-Quan, and the fact that it's free, I believe I shall snag it once my BotF kick runs out.

SC1 was great fun against another guy back in college.  I reinstalled it a few years back because I picked-up a $9.99 SSI  package with SC1, 2, Galactic Conquest and something else at Best Buy.. it just wasn't as much fun as I remembered.  The pterodactyl people and the UrQuan were still pretty good, though.

I happened to find a copy of the Gamecube game Eternal Darkness for $10 the other day at CompUSA and bought it. So since my computer died, I'm currently enmeshed in that beautiful piece of gaming luv.

I think that's what we paid for our copy. Being October n'all, it's fun to play something scary. I'm attempting to get all the way through Silent Hill 4 now, and it really fucking freaks me out. Last time we made the mistake of taking the doll, and died of insanity in our room after exhausting all the candles (I say "we" because I was too scared to play so made Sauced play while I watched, clutching his arm). THAT won't be happening again!

I found a UNIX joke in Ur-Quan Masters last week.  Kickass.

MMORPGS:
---Shadowbane about 3 days a week

MMOs:
---BF2 (on a month, off a month)

Other:
---Rome Total War (I can't get enough)


Interested in:
CoV
Pirates of the Burning Sea

Oh, now I'm playing the DnD online beta.

My World of Warcraft return fell flat on its face due to a few days of away from the computer. 3 days off from WoW, and my desire to play hit absolute zero.

I've been playing insane amounts of Mount and Blade.  Best 12 dollars I think I've ever spent.


I've started hitting "Mark As Read" on the WoW forum now.  An expansion and another half year of rampant mudlfation and I'll never have the desire to load it up again.  Kind of feels good to be clean. 

Playing

Sims2
Civ3

Awaiting
Civ 4
Football Manager 2006
The Movies

Mount&Blade is the only game I'm playing atm.

Thanks to Furiously's prompting, I'm playing Bloodlines again.

Unfortunately the hack didn't work for me, and the 'fixed' engine.dll was only available to fileplanet subbers (boo!).

So I said fuck it and just hex edited the dll myself. I feel very geeky, I haven't hex edited since using my fastload cartridge on my c64. But it works great! Bloodlines in 1280x720, selectable from the ingame menu!

I only wish there were a way to skip the first section of game that I've seen about a dozen times now...

Oh, and Resident Evil 0 on Teh Cube. We were lounging around the bed saturday, my cube is on the bedroom tv (no component cables), so I just flipped it on and started playing. She didn't tell me to turn it off, and actually enjoyed watching, so I got back into it. I had only just made it to the mansion, so there's a lot left. I like RE, I'm all about the vibe.

You people make me feel less like a gamer everyday.

Currently Playing:

World of Warcraft (Can't get enough of that basin)

Im currently playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete.  Never messed with the campaigns back in the day.  They are pretty fun.
Hell, the whole game is awesome.

That, and Capcom's arcade collection.  Ive completed Commando, Final Fight, Son Son, Street Fighter 2, and Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition so far. I want to complete SF2 Turbo this week, and maybe 1943.   The latter I have played, but without continuing just to see how far I can make it.  Which is pretty far, unlike Final Fight, which was continue city.  Stupid overly hard arcade games.   And I FEAR trying to complete Ghosts & Goblins, Ghouls & Ghosts, and Super Ghouls & Ghosts.  Those games got NO love for the player.

And Taito's collection comes out on the 25th, which means Bubble Bobble and Elevator Action goodness.

OMG I played the shit outta some Bubble Bobble when I was a kid.

Well, my best friend in WOW was really busy with RL stuff for a couple weeks...

I made the mistake of stopping playing until he came back.

Noticed he wasn't really showing up even after the 2 week thing was over.

Turned out he was taking a break and playing Sims 2.

So now I am too. Bought the new Nightlife expansion, and downloaded the latest de-censor patch ;)

Oddly, my characters tend to default to "none" for gender preference?

X-Men Legends II, almost exclusively.  Played it through twice solo, and mostly through a multiplayer game with a friend.  This weekend should feature four person multiplayer x-men instead of the usual Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico showdowns.

My mainstays, MTG Online and WoW, are on pause.  MTGO until Ravinica comes out at the end of the month, and WoW until I get the urge to login and Sinister Strike things over and over.  Or I get someone to start new characters with me.

I've somehow become excited about Civ IV.  I think it was the no-crossing-borders-when-not-hostile thing I read about.  I believe the area of control implementation in Rise of Nations was the biggest advancement in RTSes since Chris Taylor implemented out-of-factory waypoints and patrolling in Total Annihilation.  An area of control implementation in Civ will (hopefully) fix the biggest complaint I had as a (somewhat sucky) Civ III player:  controlling your borders was ridiculous -- what peace time nation posts the majority of their firepower to march up and down their borders simply to keep their neighbor's settler caravans from flooding into their neck of the continent?  I swear, every time I saw a little foreign town pop up in a small strip of 'free' territory in the middle of my fricking empire, I was filled with Mindless Rage (tm).

Not waiting for much else other than Supreme Commander and Rise of Legends.

Also have been getting urges to play Final Fantasty Tactics again (for like the 10th time).

You said you wanted a baby pic, so here it is  :-P

(http://st.theschwartz.net/modules/PNphpBB2/files/zoeyonthego2.jpg)

She's a girl, if that's not obvious  :-D

She's very tiny.

Yep that was the first week, and she was only about 7 pounds.  She's been eating at the level of a 6-month-old, so now at 6 weeks she's having quite the growth spurt, around 11 pounds now I think  8-)

You do realise, don't you, that all I can see is a smiley with a tongue.  Unless you want me to really believe your wife gave birth to a seven pound baby smiley face, you should fix your picture link for me. 

Hmm, maybe the picture from my guild's web site will work  :x

Much better!

All together now, everyone:

Awwwww....

My "End of Games" comes feb 4th. Supposedly a girl, but we're not 100% sure. It is half azn after all, so it COULD be a boy.

Yikes, if you can't poke fun at yourself what do you have left?

All characters start out defaulted to none for preference. It changes based on who you flirt with.

Goodbye DAoC, Hello M&B.

Head shots 4tw!

Necrooooooooo!

Hey, so I'm playing Beyond Good and Evil for the first time. S'fun. I actually keep forgetting that since I didn't live with a PS2 until a year ago, there's a shitload of goodies on the rack to keep me busy 'til X-mas. (actually, come to think of it, we haven't even cracked We  :heart: Katamari since we got it a coupla months ago)

Oh, this thread. Civ IV maybe six hours a week.

Mostly guitar.

Time for you all to make fun of me.  I finished Half-Life this past Sunday and have just started up Half-Life 2.  It runs much better than I was afeared it might.  I still don't have a microphone but I might get one if any of you are playing HL2 online and need to hear my voice.  I am sure I have lost every single online FPS chop I have ever had, but whatever.

I was playing Mount & Blade, having a lot of fun, but while working from home I think I must have eaten some bad food because I got the urge to finally play Doom 3 for real.  First time, I didn't even get as far as obtaining the pistol.  This time, I installed Duct Tape and got as far as Alpha Labs before I got the overwhelming desire to play Half-Life.  Single player.  Working+ baby+wife, remember?  HL took over all gaming at that point.

Otherwise juggling Paper Mario, Shadow Hearts and Radiata Stories.  I am surprised at how much I like Radiata, especially considering how much I despise Star Ocean 3.  Then again, I shouldn't be surprised since it really doesn't suck balls like SO3; I attribute this mostly to the less assy combat.  Save points could be closer together.

I also have had a strong urge to play Final Fantasy Tactcs.  Weird.

I've been playing  this.  (http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html)  I was feeling nostalgic.  I never know what I'm doing but I like the purdy swirly thingys.

After playing Day of Defeat Source i had to try the original.  Now I'm spoiled.  DoD:S just doesn't hold a candle to the original.  I play at least 3 times a week and have even had some marathon sessions.  Checkpoint secured!

I had a huge urge to play Quake1 the other day.  I installed my old copy, patched up, and lo and behold there are actually people still playing QW deathmatch.  Woot!  1 on 1 in ultrav is perhaps the greatest deathmatch experience you'll ever have.

I went on a couple 1.5 epic raids in EQ with my good friends last week as well.  God damn I hate EQ now...

Civ IV, a little BF2 or NBA2K6, have barely cracked RE4, and now, the Movies.

     Whatever's in the X-fire label. Plus I was playing God of War, but I beat it. Damn quick console games these days. I only started last Friday, and had MAYBE 13-15 hours in it.  I might start in on X-2 since the wife doesn't look like she's ever going to complete it.

- Stuck on WoW

- Finishing up F.E.A.R. so I can move on to Call of Duty 2.

- Putzing around with Mount & Blade.

- Trying to figure out what single player RPG to fire up... made an honest 2nd attempt at Gothic 2, but I just can't seem to get into that. I dunno, it's kind of like Morrowind for me... seems like an mmorpg without other players... I'd rather play an mmo in that case. I thought my issue with Morrowind (which I've now made 4 attempts at starting) was that it was too much reading, but G2 has voice and that didn't help... I have a short attention span.

The odd thing is... a few months ago I expected to be playing an insane amount of Battlefield 2, but I'm not.

More Paper Mario while the wife was awake, but I was in a terrible mood yesterday.  I wanted to blow up someone, so when she went to bed I tried to get some HL2 MP going.  Whoops, had to buy Deathmatch separately.  Ten dollars only hurts a little bit if you don't think about it too much.  It took me a little while to figure all this out since the last MPFPS I played was Quake II.  Found the Bat Country HL2 server, and two CTDs later I went back to SP.  I maimed and killed plenty of people, but it was somehow less satisfying knowing that they were just AI.

Civ4, Civ4 and Civ4.

and to the new parents above: I'm home on a three months (paid) paternity leave minding the 6 month old, while the missus start work again. They do sleep... a lot, just not at the times you'd like them too. And games like Civ and WoW can be played only using one hand (just remember to tell you guildies, that you're not rude, just holding an infant, when you don't answer them in chat!)

I played GuildWars one-handed quite a bit.  It's not much more difficult than with two.

I never found the avatars that attractive in Guildwars.

Heh. From my brain to your keyboard.

I've been playing  :nda:  a lot.  Yesterday I picked up The Movies and spent 4 hours on it before I knew what had happened.  Sim games are dangerous for me.  I also picked up Kirby's Canvas Curse, which is more fun than I thought it would be.  It doesn't exactly suck me in the way The Movies is, but it's a good way to waste a few minutes here and there.

Will probably play more  :nda:  again once they  :nda:  :nda:.

urban dead.

Nothing else :(

I forgot to mention Urban Dead for some reason.  I'm playing that one quite a bit too.  It's the only one I can play at work.

'Tis still a very lame season for games that I'm interested in playing.  I had hopes for AoEIII, but the demo completely turned me off.  I'm still just playing halflife 2 deathmatch.   :sad_panda:

Bit late, but:  Civ3, Civ3, and Civ3.  Unfortunately I'm having to sit on buying 4, because it may well turn out to be a Christmas present.  So in a moment of frustration, I decided to take it out on a less sophisticated world.  Oh well.  My Frenchie army just wiped out the Germans (ha!).  Next, Persia. 

I'll take your HL DM and raise it Kenrick!

I'm playing mostly Gunz, because its like DDR+fps and that is funny by itself.  Actually I am just happy to be playing fps I was totally going to be Q4 then it turned out to suck.  I've been really wanting to try out CS:S and play/buy(?) some of the better mods but I really really am not a fan of CS and dont want to end up playing it again because its just SOO FUCKING OLD.

My waiting list of games is in the sig, I'll definately try the mess that is SWG after the next hotfix (which should break more things) and CoV is always a possibility if Gunz somehow gets ruined and I really need a game.

Ive been playing Mario Kart DS this week.

Next week should be Dragon Quest 8 for the PS2, and Pathway to Glory: Ikusa Islands for the N Gage. 

Legend of Heroes for the PSP and Fallout: Tactics for the PC.  Fallout: Tactics is such a blast, it's a shame it was(is) so buggy.

Legend of Heroes so far is pretty good.  I've got a couple gripes though: a) it takes too long to get the story going and b) it's got some pretty bad Engrish in parts due to a half assed translation job.  Besides that, it's got a cool battle system, a nifty pet gimmick (I've got a bunny!), and some really solid visuals.  It's old school in a FF2 or FF3 way.  It's not really knocking my socks off, but it's shaping up to be a solid RPG offering on a platform that really needed it.

Console: Just got Soul Calibur III, so my evening will consist of having a buddy over for some vs. battles while we demolish a bottle of liquor.

PC: Been dabbling a little with Civ3 with all the Civ hype going around lately.

MMOG: WoW and Magic Online.  Though neither as much lately. Only got a little time to go around for gaming so one gets played at the expense of the others.

(http://www.musicalnet.com.tw/images/gibson/sg%20'61%20reissue.jpg)

My dirty little secret is that I'm saving myself for Vanguard.

PC:

Civ 4
Magic Online (Ravinica League and Rav drafts)
Just got done a kick of Majesty (am I the only one that loves this game??) and EU
On a DaoC vacation.

Xbox:

Rented X-men Legends.  Actually was alot of fun.

Jean Grey is completely broken as a character.  Pick her and whatever utility powers you need, like Cyclops if you need to weld or Iceman if there are fires to put out, and go to town.

One of my favorite things to do thus far in Civs 4 is race to be the founder of Judaism and then destroy the Germans.  (I always get them.. and it's always Bismark.  Same with Egypt and France with Louis XIV.. I don't get it. NEW OPPONENTZ PLZ MR KONPUTAR.)

Mainly Soul Calibur III on the ps2, but also re-playing some of the COD2 levels.

Also have Jade Empire on the xbox and  a bunch of PC games I havent finished. D3 ROE, LOTR battle for middle earth, splinter cell chaos theory.

Back to WoW after a six month hiatus… …started new characters on a less populated server, playing a Dwarf Hunter, Human Priest & Human Warlock, new game for me in a sense since previously all my /played (though I never hit the end game, just ~40 for several characters) was on Horde side. Previous to the time sink of WoW, still playing Dominions II (and waiting for Dominions III).

On XBOX, World Series of Poker and EA NCAA 2006 or whatever its called…

Galactic Civilization 2. Still not ready, but I quite like to fool around with the parts that are there already. Was watching how far along the beta is and was drawn in by it.

I need a new game to play. Just finished Castlevania Curse of Darkness, and I'll finish Beyond Good and Evil in a half hour. I might pick Metroid Prime Echos up again, since I got it for CHristmas last year and only spent 2 hours on it. Been feeling kinda meh about most of what I have now. Oh! I did find a copy of Siren for $12, but I don't know if I wanna frustrate myself (heard the wonky controls make it unduly difficult).

I picked it up for $2 last year at the Toys R Us yellow dot sale. And it's still too difficult for me to beat more than 3 missions. But what it's trying to do is really, really neat. I wish I could struggle through it.

Games like that (cool, stunning, but too hard) are usually what boyfriends are for. But if it's too much for even the Mighty Mr. Schild, it might be too much. Isn't there some trick or cheat or something to make it playable (just so you can see everything)?

Yes, hire a Korean or Japanese guy to do it, while you videotape. It may be a little weird, but you're in San Francisco. Can't be that hard.

I'm in Portland. The only Koreans I know own convenience stores and send their kids to college in Chicago. The Japanese boys look at me funny because I smile too big when I see them.

Oh a similar note, has anyone finished Ikaruga?

 - meg

I haven't, but I've watched people finish it. On video. That's the same, rite?

kek

can you link me? I need to know how.

 - meg

I have.  I played the hell out of that game.  I wonder if it's still around here somewhere... sounds fun again.

You bastard! Why do you mock me so, why, whyyyy?! *sob*

 - meg


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i felt i should add the following: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/

Finished FEAR and am now playing Thief 3 and X3.  I have a thing for 3's.

WoW also, natch, and I'm thinking of downloading the MASSIVE free trial of CoH.

I'd forgotten how tremendously boring Thief 3 was at the start.  Defo a builder, that game.


Edited to Add :  Those of you who are playing Urban Dead - How the hell are you managing it ?  I have 5 toons, and all save one are now shambling undead.  I really don't think you ever get enough TU's to actually do anything worthwhile !

(Though if you are playing, lookout for Jimmy Smit, Undead Slayer extraordinaire.  Oh, and revive him if he's been infected....)

Not much time, but dividing it between Stubbs, Radiata and Dungeon Siege II.  Taking time off of HL2 due to bossmonsteritis.

What scant, rare, little time I've had for gaming lately has been all about The Movies, though I did play some Fear in the week or so before The Movies came out.

Whee! I'm so glad that I ignored Metroid Prime Echoes last year (when Katamari Damacy was cracking me out) 'cuz now I'm playing it for the first time (past three hours, anyway) and is teh funz.

I stopped at Quadraxis.  I know how to beat him, but my bossmonsteritis is flaring up.  Also: it is awesome.

I'm only at Amorbis (the triple-worm thingy) and I already need to take a break or my controller will be smashed.

I actually had a pleasant time playing SWG over the weekend.

Still playing WoW. A little Civ4, and waiting for some good games to be released on Xbox360, so I have a good excuse to go buy one.

Playing BF2, CoD 2 and Rome: Total War on the PC atm as well as WoW and some DAoC (lowbie BG's are fun).

Xbox is sitting mostly idle, occassional Forza Motorsport and i really will get around to finishing Jade Empire one day.

PSP has been a major let-down, playing a little Lumines here and there adn just got Star Wars Battlefront (PSP) as a gift so i'll check that out.

Ive started Dragon Quest 8 today.  I like it so far, but it is SERIOUSLY old school console RPGing.

I've been playing WoW again a little, reinstalled Diablo 2, hopefully next week I can start playing games again properly.

I just finished Radiata Stories and the 'choice' you make about half way through really annoyed me. I was soo hoping all the humans would be destoryed or turned into fantasy races or something cool. And not the bullshit that was an end. I picked the non-humans so they should of been the showcase and heros of the game. Really wish my character and Ridley could of just become non-humans then create a new world where humans don't exist.

Were you always this much of a misanthrope?  Is this a new you or did I just never properly notice? 

Misanthropy is my aeroplane.

But with hilarious skills and adorable celshading!

Old school, old school....This is all I hear about DQVIII. Maybe I'll get this after all, instead of Makai Kingdom (sorry Schild).

Doesn't bother me, I picked up both. Makai Kingdom is funnier and more addictive. DQVII is, definately, old school.

Its modern graphics with 1990 console RPG gameplay.  Straight up.  Play it because you like old games, not to
see anything resembling innovation.

ding ding ding! I think most turn-based RPGs are old-school, it's just that some have better graphics. FFX is a good case in point.

Well, there is turn-based, and then there is "input commands for everyone and watch as they take their turns".  That's the real "old school" clincher for me.  Well, that, and I've found 1 mana potion in 25 hours of game play.  WTF?  It's been about a decade since I've felt so compelled to hoard MP.

I liked FFX combat, and yeah it's old school (if simply turn based constitutes as old school).

I still hate the game itself though. Maybe if the central characters had been Auron and Lulu I'd like it. Titus and Yuna? Not so much.

What do you have against femmy boys, huh?  :-P

Holden Caulfield was probably femmy/gay. Alan Cumming is femmy/gay. Iggy Pop is femmy/gay. I don't mind them. Maybe because they're a little psychotic, I don't know.

Titus is lame.

SUCK MY COCK THE LOTTA YA! I'M TITUS PULLO, RIGHT?

Yeah, the characters and voiceovers for FFX were good.  Except for the two leads.

No.  I mean it plays almost exactly like an early Genesis or SNES RPG but with polygons.
Its like they transported the FF4 and DW 2 Dev Teams to now and gave them Jet Set Radio's cel shaded graphics tech.

If that's not enough retro for you, Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land is even MORE old school.  It pretty much plays
like 1981's Wizardry, except it acknowledges player abuse isn't cool and adds things like an automap.

http://ikaruga.co.uk/

You can also use Google Video and get some Ikaruga videos.


Also, I gave up on Eve after a month.  I would loved to have played it more, having missed out on Trade Wars during the BBS days.  I just couldn't play enough to justify the subscription.  If it was a single player game though, I would still be playing it now.

I wonder if there are any other trade-based games that are single player on the PC that have been released recently.  Someone mentioned that Patrician III game...

See, Google requires effort. For your valiant efforts you get a cookie:

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CAK!

Civ 4 on the PC as I can't play SWG without getting pissy at the moment.

And Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth on XBox, which is working the survival horror thang just right, but you talk to yourself a little too much...or maybe it's the voices in your head...

Hey, did anyone do a review of a post about Resident Evil 4 ?

I'm intrigued and yet I can't find any 'real' information beyond the usual websites with advertisement mandick in their mouths...

All I know is that everyone here with a Gamecube told me that it was the greatest thing since sliced bread (i.e. Robot Jesus). I bought it recently for the PS2, and while I don't think it's the "greatest thing", it's definitely a "must buy/one of the better games in a long while" ordeal. I haven't finished it though, so maybe I'll change my mind.

Disclaimer: I haven't played a lot of horror games, so I won't bother with comparisons.

I love the Resident Evil games, all of them.  I find them different from things like Fatal Frame, which I still find too creepy to even take out of the bag.

I'm seriously thinking of purchasing it.  I've finished FEAR and I'm getting bored in X3, so I thought a wee ps2 game would tide me over while the other half is killing Ragnaros or whatever the fuck it is this week.

But I'm hearing that they're NOT zombies ?

Omg ?

Yes and no.  Not the dead-risen-again as in Night of the Living Dead kind of zombie.  They are most certainly living.  Your first encounter with them (the opening) just demonstrates that people in this village are a bit... off.  Ok, very off, but they still seem people-like.

X3 is out?! I gotta get out more...


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wtfbbq

Europe may have got it first.  OMG RARE !

X3 sounds cool.

It also sounds like the kind of game I don't have the time for  :cry:

I was so disappointed by X2 that I can't bring myself to get 3. Anyone want to give a comparison?

I think I'm gonna plug the N64 back in and play some Mario. I've been having serious ADD with games these days.

I saw X 3 in Wal Mart yesterday.  But as I am going to the land of OSX next week, I am holding off on new PC games.

Its out in the US.

I bid you an early welcome to the land of OSX.

Matters not.  We should not spoil it for you.  Just get it.

According to http://www.similarities.org/starforce.html, X3 uses Starforce, but only European versions it seems.

For you and Others :  THERE IS NO COMPARISON.  IT'S THE SAME GAME.

If you hated X2 you're going to hate X3.  It's that simple.

I played quite a bit of X2.  Its a huge space sandbox with some fighter style combat.

I can see how it's not for everyone and that it's quirks take some accomadation.  But it's pretty much the only thing around doing what it's doing and for that they get my support.

I'll be picking this up as soon as I get some free time.

I'm playing WoW again...

What is truly terrible is, I sold my old account when I quit (lvl60 dwarf priest) and now I'm being forced to make a dwarf/priest again.  Because that is what we need...

I hate my life.

It's odd - every dwarf I run into is an asshole. It's like they are all roleplaying. Only they are not.

It was like that with halflings in EQ for me. Oddest thing.

Halfings and gnomes in EQ.

I hated them both, but at least with gnomes you could always emote a "punt" on the gnomes. The halflings I just tried to ignore.

My new game is my Mac which showed up today.
iMac g5 1.9 ghz, 1 gig of RAM, Mighty Mouse, Radeon X600 video card, built in speakers, built in iSight camera, remote control, built in mic, 17 inch monitor.

Ive been messing around with it and I am so far disgustingly happy with it, even if the games I ordered from Amazon Black Friday (the day I ordered this machine.
101 bucks off!) just shipped today and some other tiles from another shipper is in transit.  I suppose I could install the Mac games I have from multisystem packs:
Quake (came with the 1996 ID Collection), Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 Battlechest, Starcraft Battlechest, and WoW...

Its almost SILENT though.  Its fucking scary.  In fact the only noise in the house right now is the clacking of the keyboard as I type.  (And get re used to a full type
keyboard after 2 1/2 months of laptop keyboarding....)

If I understand the Mac commercials correctly your IQ should have shot up 15 points just opening the shipping box, and by the time you powered it on you're standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you.

What you say is true. I mean, Jeff Goldblum can't be wrong!

Dang but he is one silver fox.

I love his work but everytime I see his face I recall him holding his ear...

(http://www.joblo.com/images_movie_reviews/fly_the.jpg)

Actually I was in my undershorts for most of the unpacking process.  I knew some package had arrived at the door while I was asleep so I wisely checked up on things before my shower.
I did everything but turn it on before my shower.  Setup was disgustingly easy.  Unwrap everything, plug keyboard into computer, put power cable in, put mouse USB into keyboard.
Turned it on after the shower (since it was cold outside I didn't think some time to get to room temperature would be a bad thing.

Turn on and initial OS setup was super quick, though it took a good 30 minutes for about 200 megs of downloads.  (For a computer that came out in mid October.)

Apparently I am running at 1440 resolution according to Nanosaur 2.  Its PRETTY.

Im getting used to Safari, though I miss my forwards and backwards thumb buttons on the mouse.  The Mighty Mouse is ok, but it sort of looks like a big suppository.  Not sure how it will
game perform though.  (Apparently there was no Quake on that Id set, just Doom saga and Wolf 3d.  I wonder if the Tenebrae Quake port has a Mac version since I now have a video card
capable of running that sumbitch..)  See to right click you can't leave your left click finger on the mouse.  It KNOWS WHERE YOUR FINGERS ARE.  (Apparently this is fixed on the bluetooth
version, but Wireless costs money and I don't  like wireless too much.  Some things are better with cables.)

Front Row kicks ass.  It turns the Mac into a stupidly simple media center with its teeny tiny remote.

Things I still need to learn:  How to read PDF files easily.  If Yahoo Messenger for Mac has a go to Yahoo Chat option.  How to burn CDs and DVDs not intended for Itunes and such so I can save all my Blizzard game Mac patcher programs.  How to exit OS9 apps and not slow down the system when running them. 

Sadly I have not become a turtleneck wearing pretentious emo art snob yet.

No little pickles?

Why am I the only one who has this dream. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes)

[edit] Nope. Nevermind.

Heh.

Val has some awesome lines in that movie.

Alkiera

That's what they named it.  The Mighty Mouse.  I call it a giant suppository with a lovely scroll wheel I can't stop fondling cuz it feels so darn nice.
I'm apparently the only person on the planet who doesn't mind using it for gaming though.  Hell, button 4 is 2 side buttons that have to be pressed
at once and I can do it relatively easily.  Was intentionally rolling under death beams in Jedi Academy this morning just to show off.  In WoW I
set it to autorun which is ever so handy.

Its not entirely better than my Intellimouse Explorer, but its not bad at all. 

However I wished Logitech provided actual support for their gamepads on the Mac though.  Telling me to jump in and hope OSX likes it, and
if I don't get full functionality to go buy some dude's 3rd party gamepad button mapper program isn't my idea of quality support.

You had better be some sort of graphic designer/filmmaker...

Mac's are pretty and all, and they have some niche uses, but they are not for gamers.

I love that "niche uses" bullshit...

I do pretty much everything on my Mac but play games. If you call everyday work a niche, then hey...

I'd call every day work a niche. If it weren't for gaming I wouldn't have a computer newer than ten years old. Maybe five years if I really just wanted that fast intarweb luv.

Depends, most of my work revolves around my laptop, so it's more than a niche for me. I'm on my machine all day most days, the fast interweb love is just a bonus.

Second branch of Radiata Stories.
Dungeon Siege II.
HL2DM.  Last DM I played was once or twice with AvP.  I need another trick besides "circle strafe" but I am getting better.
Silent Hill.  Yes, the first one.

Still playing SWG. Just finished Resident Evil 0, going to grab RE4 after the Holy Days. Then I'll be playing through Gothic II again.

I'm playing Zelda: Windwaker again after a year of not touching it at all. I'd forgotten most of it, which is fun.

MTGO, Civ4, Quake4 demo. I also need to finish my replay of Max Payne 2, and my first trek through Dungeon Siege 2.

I'm done school for about 9 months starting Tuesday, so I should have the time....

Back on the WoW teet. Figure to be there for a while. 

Almost beat Legend of Heroes, but it's got a boss fight from hell.  30+ minutes into the fight and I wipe to pure cheap shit antics.

Finished second ending of Radiata Stories.  I could run through the bonus catass dungeon... but I won't.  Even though it started off funny.

Most other games are going on the back burner because of my bastard friends and associates luring me into subscribing to both WoW and EVE.  Thanks a lot, fuckers.

The horrow. That game drove my will to continue into the ground. Problem is I really really really liked it.


Two words: Weak Sauce

I'm playing:
Bujingai
Animal Crossing DS
Tokobot
Battles: Prince of Persia
Trapt
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland 360
Perfect Dark Zero

Tokobot any good? A couple reviews I read beat it into the ground.  Also, PSP Prince, same question.

Tokobot very good.

Prince of Persia very not good. But easily one of the best looking games on the system. I mean, it's not bad. But it's not good. It just is.

Oracle of Seasons.

Guitar Hero, SSX3 and Turino 2006.

If they has included curling, it might have been actually worth it.

Digital Devil Saga 2 - I may never finish this. I love it but play it very sporadically.
Exit (new PSP game).
Age of Empires DS, which rocks.
Tamogotchi DS, which is more fun than it should be.

And an unchosen survival horror game. I'm sure I'll pick one soon.

I've been playing Resident Evil: Deadly Silence, and I've been trying to write a review for it that's longer than two paragraphs.

I've also been reliving my loot whore days by playing PSO and Diablo 2 again. I've also played Deus Ex off and on. Yeah, lot of old stuff.

Hello there!

Mmmm, why have i not finished Oracle of Seasons?  Or Ages?  Or Majora?  Oh, right... Majora gives me nightmares.

Still working on DWVIII, also Mario Golf.  Squeezing a few more drops out of We Love Katamari.  Still haven't rolled up the King, but his day draws near.

After finishing Digital Devil Saga 1&2 back to back I'm now working on:

Dragon Quest VIII
WOW
and lately Star Wars Empire at War (I'll probably be bored of it in a week or two but right now it's fun as hell.)

EVE Online and poker. I would be playing a lot more BF2, but the latest patch seems to have introduced some sort of video lag/chop that makes it virtually unplayable. /sadf

Single-player Star Wars Battlefront II (on the PC - 1600x1200 32bit color FTW). I don't feel I'm competent enough for public servers, especially since SWBF2 leans more towards the lame OMGRUNRUNSHOOTSHOOTRUN school of FPS than the original. I don't have good reflexes.

I've also returned to a PBEM 4x space game I've played on and off for ten years.

Occasionally I start console RPGs (Star Ocean, Dark Cloud, Xenosaga), play them for one or two days, then forget about them. I'm a lousy console gamer. It may have something to do with having a one year-old who like to press buttons and yank cables whenever we leave the entertainment center open.

Wireless controllers are a must if you have a toddler.  I also have my stuff inside cabinetry and generally out of reach, which you can't really do with cords.  The Logitech models are good, solid devices.

Everquest 2.

And when I'm not, I suppose I'm playing NHL 2k6, X-Men Legends and Need for Speed: Underground on the X-Box.

You are a weak man.

I'm in EQ2, too. Keep meaning to get in some Morrowind (never did finish, want to get GotY version, etc), some Bloodlines (user patches ftw) and finally download Lazarus (got patch?).

EQ2, too.  Wild Arms 4 makes little gurgling noises when I walk past the book shelf and Grandia III is in a brown van heading this way as we speak.  Hah!  It thinks I'm going play with it.  Stupid Grandia III.

Signe, your style reminds me of Emily Dickinson. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Yes, and I feel very dirty because of it.

I would feel much more dirty if the game hadn't actually improved about 3 billion times since beta. I'd put it real close to WoW in the fun factor, though it could use a bit more user-friendliness applied.

EVE, WoW (again!), FFTA, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, WarioWare Touched!, GTA San Andreas.

Oh, and Risk...the board game.

Signe's style reminds me more of Angie Dickinson.

pen and paper DnD / WoW / RTS Battle for Middle Earth.

EvE

SCII (xbox) SCIII (ps2) depending on which friend's house I'm at.  Oh and I also got in some games of EA's NHL2003 which was so much better then any later version that we tried out.  That is pretty much it.  God I'm bored today.

I am about to start in on MS Saga.

Heroes of the Pacific in the PC is doing quite well in being fun in a light and easy manner.

I've been playing SimCity 4.  It's highly addictive.

(Yes, I know I'm about 3 years behind, but I just never got around to playing it until a couple weeks ago.)

Ten minutes in to Wild Arms 4, I knew it sucked beyond my expectations.  I stabbed it with a stabby look over and over,  and will probably never play it again.  I might have to actually open Grandia III.  I can see the fear in it's eyes already.  I give it long, unblinking stares.  It shrinks, trying to blend and become unnoticable.  It won't look me in the eyes.

Fini.

Goddamnit. MS Saga shouldn't be fun. I mean, comeon, there's a fucking unicorn on the cover. And the MS stands for "Mobile Suit" as in Gundam. But you know what, it's a traditional JRPG with sweet sweet sweet customization of your chibi robot. Mines all white with a big black spiky shoulderpad and a big green blinky visor eye thing. And it's pretty goddamn cool. It's also sweet to shoot tanks.

Basically, good diversion if you just waded through something unnecessarily long like DQVIII. This game looks to be about 40 vs. the 85-100 hour long game there. Oh, and it bears positively zero resemblance to ANY gundam game of the past. It plays more like a Enix title than anything else (combat is DQVIII style with a tension type system). Essentially, it's DQ combat without the suck and infinite more customization.



Edit: And if you're wondering, yes, I still hate Gundam with the passion of a thousand suns. But Bandai managed to spit out a fun game here by throwing away it's entire past. Oh and the story is, without any other words more deserving, 'teh unoriginal suq'... but then, so was DQVIII and everyone gobknobbled that.

Some unhealthy urge has driven me back to playing Starcraft. Maybe it's all the flight time in EVE. But yea, i've been on a three-year long quest to find a new, advanced rts game to replace the habit, and it seems that i have failed me. Bloody Protoss.

Well, bored of BF2, beat CoD2 and Rome: Total War (great game though!). Got to 60 with 2 characters in WoW and got my rogue fully kitted in Tier 1/2 gear when i realized i neither have the time nor the inclination to raid. Daoc always wears of in the lvl 30 BG. Donated the xbox to xmas charity.

So now - EVE has grabbed me pretty hard. It's complex, unforgiving and big and different. So far i still like it a lot and it satisfies my MMOG addiction. Other than that, got Pirates! from Direct2play - it's ok. Not evolved enough from the original but still an ok timewaster.

PSP still a waste of bag space. Xbox 360 at least has shiny fast cars (Project Gotham 3) and beautiful boobs (DoA4). Not too mention Kameo, which im actually enjoying. But EVE owns the majority of my gaming time right now easily.

Thank you for succinctly saying what I've been trying to formulate for a while now.  Started the 14 day trial earlier this month and knew by day 7 that I had a winner and began kicking myself for not giving EVE a try way back when.  Stupid, stupid stupid.

Don't kick yourself too hard. EVE sucks without a corp.

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Sans hdtv and pc for a few days. Have the xbox and gc at the new house. Threw in a copy of Prince of Persia sands of time for the xbox, fun game. Nice art style and music. Crappy save system. No idea where I got it, either, people keep giving me old xbox games, I have a box of them. Most suck, but this one is win.

This thread should be a sticky imo. Not that m o means s.

Still playing WoW. I made 70 and am doing some raiding and instancing with my guild. WoW is just so sticky.
Little bit of Hellgate London on the side. I've got a new Marksman that I play online for teh lulz, and tried a Blademaster offline. Just tinkering with it, though.

Dammit. I tried to get into Homeworld 2, since I loved the first one, but it's just not as good as the original. I pooped out at about mission 3 or 4 I think? The one where you try to rescue the shipyard. That mission is the pits, and I just can't seem to get the hang of it. So I lost interest in the campaign.

And I'd like to pick up Sins of a Solar Empire, since I dug the demo, but don't have the funny money to blow on it now.

I'll try a reverse-chronological-order deal, starting with...

Assassin's Creed, 360.  I really like this game a lot, and for many of the reasons that most other people didn't like it.  The slow pace, collecting flags, no wacky monster enemies, climbing towers.  Gives me the impression that it's a better Thief: Deadly Shadows, but not that much better.  It just took out the bullshit found in T:DS.  I also smell elements of Zelda.

GTAIV, 360.  This is our "couple time" game, so I generally get some time in most nights.  My wife gets annoyed at me shooting people who run into my car, or people who yell things at me, or gas canisters, or cops while I'm supposed to be doing a mission.

EVE Online, PC.  Reactivated an account, learning new systems added since I last played.  Pew pew.

Rune Factory, DS.  I do some of this while waiting for the water to boil for dinner.

Mana Khemia, PS2.  Atelier Iris 3 but better.

Disgaea, PS2.  Just some more grinding.

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, PC.

Peggle, PC.

EDIT: Lego Indiana Jones, 360.

Arx Fatalis, PC.  I'll finish this damn thing one day.

Ninja Gaiden II, 360.  Hard, even on easy.

Super Mario Galaxy, Wii.  Chipping away at the stars, slowly.

Boom Blox, Wii.  Explosions are fun.

I started playing WoW again about 2 weeks ago.  I've only put a couple nights in so far and I think I might enjoy it again.  Maybe I'll get to 70 this time.

I've played the fuck out of Diablo 2 over the past month.  My frenzy barb is 58 and still climbing.  I had an IK helm drop a few nights ago.  I was quite happy.

I'm eagerly awaiting Disgaea 3 and Mercs 2.

Most enticing review of Assassin's Creed I've heard.

My fiancee yells at me when I get out of the car in GTA:SA. Dude needs an iPod or something.

I was playing Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic last week, but I don't spend any time at the apartment now that it's just a storage shed. People say it's a tough game, but I turtle and minmax like a mofo. Love that game.

Ifound a copy of Civ3 for $9.99 this weekend so it's that and Mount and Blade that is sucking up my time.

Keep playing, you eventually get one.

I'm tempted to set the radio volume to zero, except I'm afraid my wife will complain.

Oh, I've also been playing Urban Dead.

Oblivion
Diablo II
DirectDraw Surface Karaoke
Acoustic Guitar Hero: Holy God My Fingertips

I (we) have been enjoying Killing You Some Undead two ways: the lazy, easy way in Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom (co-op mode); and the attention-paying, hard(er), way in D&D 4th Edition. I'm ashamed to admit that Dark Kingdom is slightly (ever-so-slightly) more fun because I can lounge hard and brainlessly button-mash instead of having to be smart and problem-solve.  :uhrr:

I haven't really touched Cooking Mama II (DS) much, for some reason, but feel like I should. I also really wanna play Harvest Moon hard for an hour or so whenever I see mugwort for sale in the produce section of the Asian grocery store - I think it's in season right now.

me: Assassin's Creed (ps3), Professor Layton (ds), WoW

the wife: Wii Fit, Lego Indianna Jones (wii), Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (ds)

Supreme commander, X3 Reunion, Just bought Stalker so an gonna give that a whirl.

PC: WoW, Audiosurf
360: CoD4, GH3

Recently Stopped Playing: Assassin's Creed (360), Lost Planet: Colonies (360), EVE

I'm debating picking Puzzle Quest up again, but I kind of want to play it on the 360 (I already have it via Steam) :uhrr:.

Now: WW2OL (again). There are three German divisions around Wavre and we need to hold it or Brussels will fall.

Last game I was playing was:
HALO- this crap game won all those awards? I got to the first time you get in a jeep and stopped playing. What an over hyped dull game.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Speaking over over-hyped. Killing the bandits at the junkyard 4 times over (because I kept leaving the tunnel area) and THEN having to fight a military assault on the science area with no ammo, no medkits and out of time *at night*. I fail at this game.

Neverwinter Nights 2: I have the expansion everyone raves about but got half way through the default campaign and stopped when I was about to capture the castle. The dungeon hacking just got too repetitive, and the tiny maps were like walking into a 10x10 foot room.


If you're looking for me, I'll be sapp'en some panzers on the hill South West of Waterloo.

TF2.  Every now and then I wrench myself away from it long enough to do another GTA4 mission, but that's getting to be slow going for some reason.

The only game I can play in Offline mode. Titan Quest. Net getting hooked up tomorrow. Can't even play Bioshock since I had to get the last patch. And I can't get the No-CD miracle patch for diablo 2. /snarl

Back to nomal by tomorrow afternoon.

WoW for the PC
Civilization Revolutions for the 360  (great game)

Mass Effect, GTA IV - 360
MMO beta test, AoC - PC

Recently finished up the original campaign in NWN2, but haven't started on the expansion yet.  Also been playing a little bit of Halo 3 since the local Best Buy had the limited ed. for $20, as well as messing around a bit with the Too Human demo.  I'm still determined to get through GTA IV at some point as well.

Kinda-sorta WoW. On the weekends in small bursts with the wife and RL friends. I started playing Dark Messiah of MM but haven't touched it in maybe 2 weeks.

Um, ED2017 on The 360 with the wife, occasional bits of Saints Row still. And friends on the weekend started a run through of Marvel Ultimate Alliance in multiplayer. (Classic RPG action). A tiny bit of near-random XBLA action.

So very little. Being back at work sucks.

MUA is a classic rpg now?  :uhrr:

Got to one section in PoP:SoT (HeH), remembered why I don't like console games. Big beat-em-up section while keeping the princess alive. Came into the area with half-health. Can't drink to restore health or I get whomped. Guys keep coming back after I kill them (and drain their sand). Died five times and almost threw the fucking controller through the tv. Haven't been frustrated by a game like that since the last time I played a console game.

And of course, with the crappy save system, I'll have to replay the entire level to get back to that stupid fight scene again.

Threw in MOH: Pacific whatever. Now there's a shitty game. Shooters with thumbsticks on rails lolz. Thank nyarlathotep this shit was free.

Playing Battlefield 2142 to get some more unlocks, with the occasional foray into FIFA 08 on the PS2 and some TF2. Still have a couple of games of Medieval 2 I want to get back to, and Battlefield 2 as well. I was playing EQ2 for a couple of weeks, but got busy and lost the urge to login.

I'm in a retro phase. Alpha Centauri (I STILL can't find my Alien Crossfire disc  :sad_panda:) and Arcanum as an intelligence 1 half-ogre. They put a surprising amount of work into the 'dumb as a brick' dialogue.

Played through No More Heroes again, beat Ico, moving on the Shadow of the Colossus, playing Wii Fit as well. I've also been playing Killer 7 together with a friend, started about 4 months ago and still only halfway done. (Only play it about once every three weeks)

Wii Fit is actually pretty fun. If you like exercize.

That's a Vajuras thread reference.

MUA is Gauntlet with Spiderman and a very simple level/skill system

Ive been playing Sega Genesis Collection on the PS2 using its nice progressive scan mode.

With a little help from Savestates, I completed Shadow Dancer, and now I am replaying Phantasy Star 3, the black sheep of one of my favorite RPG series.
I just completed the first generation and chose the short brown haired chick.  Man, this game needed to be twice as many megabits.  Its hardly got any story or any personality to the characters.

Final Fantasy IV DS.

Amazazing.

Been playing a bit of Mount & Blade, beta testing something, and some Sins of a Solar Empire.

After burning out on trying to completely conquer a huge map single handedly, I've picked Sins of a Solar Empire back up.    Other than that, I'm beta testing  :nda:   

PS3-wise, I'm still tooling around with GTA4 and as much as I like most of it, the lack of a quick saves and having to repeat missions is a serious pain in the ass when you're trying to juggle game play with a random cry/poopsplosion.

Ultima Online - Angel Island. 

vampire bloodlines
arcanum
and tropico

Ultimate Frisbee. Considering it's a game played by hippies, it kicks my ass.

PS3: GT5 Prologue
PC: LOTRO trial

Continuing my tour of console stuff, I threw in Destroy All Humans last night. That's pretty fun and mindless.

Starting tonight, add the WotLK beta to my list.    :-)

Diablo II
Battlefield 2
PES 2008
Bit of Rock Band

After someone here posted the Cinema mod for Max Payne 2, I've been playing that again.  It really does add some nice changes to the game.

What am I playing on my brand-spanking-new beast of a machine you may ask? WoW, Diablo 2, and Baldur's Gate 2. I think I'm broken.

I've decided to give games a rest for a while so I've taken up sock puppets.

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I am ashamed to admit I play WoW again, if only to level my Druid to 70 so I can check out the DK on another server. 3 Levels to go and already bored beyond belief.

And Diablo 2, you people made me do it.

Race Driver grid is my alternative program when I can't stand killing things for profit any more.

The console gaming tour continues, played some Gladius last night.

Keep at it. So far, the DK is completely badass awesome fun to play.

Playing Resistance for PS3, some Rock Band solo mode (trying to finish up expert on guitar), Little bit of GTA4, and some SKATE. Mostly playing Work and Girlfriend for RL though.

That game was awesome. 

GameTap just added Freespace 2, so I might give that a whirl.  I also noticed they have Fallout and Sacred Gold.  It's going to be a busy and unproductive evening.

Siren: Blood Curse. And it brings the goddamn scares.

Yeah you don't need to get to 70, just 55. Stop and save yourself the pain.

I played a bit of WoW over the holidays but it's mostly over now. I was tempted to get AC going again but I've lost the CD, alas.

Mostly I've been playing the "fuck up your sleep by staying up to 2am watching Le Tour every night" game. It's pretty relaxing, but you pay for it in the morning.

You sure about that? Because my buddies still playing told me 55 does only suffice if I want to play him on the same server. Since they moved on to another server since I played, that is no longer an option for me.

Not only is Siren scary, it's really really fucking good. Like, WOW. How could they have made this out of the original game (which was horrible).

Nope, a 55 on any server allows you to make a Death Knight on any other server.  The one exception to that is new servers that haven't allowed transfer onto them yet.  On those, you'd need to have a 55 on that particular server.

(http://www.wowwiki.com/Starting_a_death_knight#Unlocking_the_Death_Knight (http://www.wowwiki.com/Starting_a_death_knight#Unlocking_the_Death_Knight))

Also, update:

PC: WoW, Audiosurf
360: GH3, MUA, and whatever comes on GameFly next (with my luck is probably NFS: ProStreet :uhrr:).

I started playing and am currently neck-achingly addicted to FFIII for the DS. Sauced played it the entire time we were in Japan, but I was too busy with Phantom Hourglass when he finished it. A year later...

I was playing Assassin's Creed, and before that I got a few more completion-points in Lego Star Wars.  Now I am disappointed that Dawn of War Gold + Winter Assault + Dark Crusade won't finish downloading before I go to sleep.

Playing Mass Effect. Its good, but not as 'adult' as I was lead to believe. I don't mean boobage, I mean, like plot content. Its a Babylon 5 reduction sauce.

WoW.  Guild drama ftl.  Luckily 2 friends resubbed so I can ignore the drama when I need to.

Super Mario Galaxy: Not bad so far.  I imagine it'll fall into the same Mario trap for me where about 60% of the way through it gets beyond my platforming abilities.

Digital Devil Saga 1 is in the mail.  YAY.  Looking forward to this.

Cecil became a paladin.

Tellah learned meteor.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAY least favorite fight in the game, Baigan/Cagnazzo. Devil's road can eat my face. Save -> Quit.

You only need about half the stars to beat the game, and really the only hard levels are the special comet ones.

Heading off to the Cave of Eblan, myself.  Dr. Lugae was more of a pain in the ass than I remember him.  Last time I buy this game god dammit!

This game touches me in all the right spots. If they ever do a REAL remake of them for a REAL console, I'll buy it (and VI) again.

Yep, although I hear this rendition is rather good.  Dancers in every town is what I hear.

Dr. Lugae? What, does he hork evil phlegm at you?  :ye_gods:

I've got the pc + tv in the new house now (but not internet until tonight hopefully). Just can't get up the desire to play the current stack of titles....still going back to Gladius. While it's not a perfect game, it's one of the more addictive things I've played in a long time.

Gladius is a gateway drug to Disgaea and other NISA titles. Which are gateway drugs to the PS3. I hope you still love your (outdated, HAR) tv.

In light or the current state of affairs, I'd say NIS tactical games aren't a gateway to a PS3.  Rather they are gateways to a new slim PS2.

I'm playing Dawn of War mostly, the initial campaign.  Maybe I will make it to the end before I get bored, but if not then I'll probably just skip to the next pack.

Also playing some GTAIV with the wife but that game is starting to piss me off on a regular basis.  One of the reasons is that there is this jump near Dwayne's apartment that I just cannot seem to get, even with an Infernus.  Otherwise I'm just poking at missions and being Otis'ed on the phone every twenty minutes by some fuckstick who is always on the other side of the city.

Playing EVE a bit, mostly working on skills until I get the time and inclination to run some Faction Warfare ops.

I say PS3 because D3 is PS3. And really, after D1 and D2, there's no real way to not play 3.

Oh, I forgot about that.  My bad.  I have Shin Megami Tensei on the brain.  Killjoy is frothing about FFIV on DS while I am calling him an idiot for not knowing about Persona 3/4.  Apparently I must buy FFIV again.

It's good. It's harder than I remember. Also, The translation is decent and the voiceacting ranges from good to lol. They didn't have Tellah SAY spoony bard. But it's still there.

Playing Digital Devil Saga.

I like it. 

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

It's awesome.  So is the second one.  I can't recall any other game in which I was fighting a boss monster that was trying very hard not to shit himself.

No. I don't like pedo anime.

Oh, you crazy free spirit, you!
 

Anyhow, DDS is shaping up to be very good.  Nice long dungeon crawls (maybe a bit too long).  It's interesting to see how they took this baseline and ended up later down the line with Persona 3.

And pedo anime doesn't like dirty hippies. Good thing Disgaea isn't pedo anime, you tasteless small-minded twit.  :oh_i_see:

The Disgaea combat/items/leveling system would probably overwhelm him.  It's the most complex system I can think of.  If I was a teenager I'd be all over it but I don't have that sort of free time to do more than putter at it.

I stayed up waaaay too late playing My Life as a King last night.  I went to the kitchen and thought "Oh shit, it's 1:30, I better stop after this next turn."  Next thing I know, it's 2:45.

Pedo anime = looks like little kids done in the oriental style of cartoon. That's what Disgaea is. Fine if you like it, awful if you don't. Which sucks because it's probably a great game.

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Fat aggression  :awesome_for_real:

There are some things just worth getting over. That's one of them. Open your mind a bit.

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No, see, this was directly directly at you. You can't make the insult if you don't get the concept behind it. Twit.

Edit: I've forgotten how to use the quote function.

Interest in WoW has completely failed me yet again. I haven't even bothered to log on for my welfare epic points in the last month. I get on for long enough to do primal mooncloth transmutes these days. I guess I should clear the shit out of the post so I don't lose it all before my next resub around WotLK time.

Been playing more Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the weeknds and when my friends come over. The problem is they're not working now, and so they get up at 3pm and play shit all night, so when they come here they want to play all night(like till 4-4:30am) while I want to fuck them off out the damn door at 1:30-2:00am since I'm working and can't handle getting my sleep cycle fucked over on a weekly basis. Also started a 4-player Titan Quest campaign with them, with the whole "we only play these characters when we all play together". We'll see how long that lasts.




I found the initial DoW campaign much more fun (I finished it!) than the Imperial Guard expansion or the stuff that came later (none of which I finished).



linky? MP1/2 are a couple of my favorite games.



What are you talking about? Links or thread please.

Drakensang, finally another roleplaying game to sink my teeth into. I think that will monopolize me for the next days.

360: GH3, Rock Band, and Puzzle Quest.

I bought PQ (again, already had it on PC via Steam) and its expansion today.  The new classes are pretty neat, playing a Warlock now, still just as addicting this time around.

I'm hardly playing GH3/RB Guitar as I still cannot figure out why playing chords with my Middle+Pinky hurts like a motherfucker.  RB Vocals gets old after a few sets, but I'm trying to make my way through the tiers just so it's "done".  Also, my voice is horrendously out of practice, so there's a bit of added challenge :awesome_for_real:.

PC: EQ2, WoW, and Fall from Heaven II.

Picked up EQ2 again, I :heart: Fury.  My graphics card is having some issues so I'm not catassing as much as I may want to (probably just a heat thing).  Reinstalled Civ4: BtS and should be starting up FfH2 again in a bit.  It may not be the greatest idea, but I've been hankering for some TBS action and can't get myself to load up Disgaea 2 for whatever reason.  Let's hope it doesn't trigger chain VPU recovers like EQ2's been doing the past few days...

Your comment is why I'm ignoring advice to skip the "boring" first campaign; that advice came from someone who really likes undead and really likes outer space.  I'm something of a completionist anyway, having a hard time picking up a series in the middle even if the first one is known to suck.

Contrary to the above, I'm playing Izuna 2 without having played the first.  It reminds me of Baroque except it's uglier, has a more "normal" story, and the main character is KAWAIII!  I might buy the first one anyway.  It's Success and Atlus, so I kinda have to.

I haven't played Izuna 2 yet, I played through Izuna 1 but it wasn't HARDCORE enough.

My suggestion, skip Izuna 1 and get Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. Or whatever the horrible rename was.

Also, Torneko came out for the PS1 in America. If you can track it down, it's amazing.

I would not call Izuna 2 hardcore.  You get to keep your level and experience when you die, for one thing.

I suppose this is one of those "fushigi no dungeon" games I have heard about.  I'm sadly new to the genre.

Yea, but instead of Mystery Dungeon, it's been neutered to be more like Pussy no Dungeon. Pick up Shiren the Wanderer if you get a chance. You'll know what it is when you see it because it has the worst cover on the entire DS shelf, next to Imagine Babyz.

Actually Izuna is more like Titty no Dungeon, so that helps.

Overlord. 10 bucks at EB Games. The minions crack me up but overall the game is just ok so far.

I liked Overlord.  It was slow in places but generally fun.  It made up for possible shortcomings with humor.  The expansion has been considered, but I'm more apt to play the Oblivion and Mass Effect expansions first.

I've toyed with the idea of getting Overlord since it hit bin pricing. The demo was a lot of fun, even if the mechanics seemed a bit kludgy.

If I want to be abused in videogames I will just play the NES Ninja Gaidens.  Or for Roguelikes any of the many free ones on the net.

Oh wait.  Even free they are unfun shitfests.

Here's an idea, try playing it first, thx.

The 'style' of the campaigns changes after Winter Assault to a more Total War-esque world map/local fight sort of thing, so if you like the more story-based campaigns you won't want to skip ahead, since you won't have those from Dark Crusade on.

The fushigi no dungeon is only abuse if you cannot let go of your RPG materialism.  Crying over losing your sweet branded and parasited sword in Baroque means you're not enjoying yourself properly; learning how to survive in the dungeon is the game, not collecting loot exactly.  It's a different mindset or take on the random-loot ideal, where your character is like a blank slate that you socket things to as you progress.  Baroque is probably the only game in which I have purposely thrown away powerful weapons, sending them to town for use on my next run.  I also don't have much fear of combining 90% of my inventory into new items that probably suck, just to see what I might get, because I'm just going to die anyway.

After a break, I'm playing with the Visual Studio C# Express again.  This fresh look could be the big breakthrough where I finally grok it.  It's not as exciting as some games, but I'm hoping for a big finale.

Same.  I've spent 10 bucks on a lot worse.  When it came out I didn't have the PC for it and it was overlooked.  Now that I'm bored, for 10 bucks I can't go wrong.  If I finish it and want more, the xpac for it is 8.99 off their site as a download. 

Also playing:
Wii Mario Galaxy
Wii Metroid Prime
PC Mass Effect
PC WoW

Waiting on:
WAR
WoW xpac
Witcher mega-patch
various others, but those are the bigguns. 

Do you only play games that begin with W? (or M?)

See I don't like that sort of thing.  I like collecting cool stuff and kicking lots of ass in the name of Truth, Love, and Courage. 
For me, Roguelikes tend to be annoying, not fun.  I don't mind a challenge, but in my videogames I always want to feel I haven't wasted my time, and that my failures were generally my fault and I will get it next time.  However long it takes from my last save point anyhow.
I have a couple console Roguelikes and they really don't do anything for me.  The first Pokemon dungeon game which is pretty tedious, and Druaga, which is less tedious but has tons of cheap deaths and the whole equipment death spiral thing I hate.  (Many Roguelikes are sort of like playing Gradius.  Its easy peasy until the first time you die and lose all your powerups.  Then the game becomes impossible and you have to do everything over again.  That isn't fun to me.)

I gave Angband a try for a while.  But after the 12 dead character and they all pretty much doing the same thing but making it to different levels I just gave up. 

Hell, even back in the C64 days I used swap disk tricks to keep from losing my characters to bad luck in Ultima, Wizardry, and the Bard's Tale. 

What are you trying to accomplish?

I've been playing um...watching Sergio Leone and John Carpenter movies. Last night I watched Once Upon a Time in the West and Big Trouble in Little China. Before that I watched Escape from New York.

Ninja Gaiden for the NES rules.

Don't forget 'O' for Overlord.

Going to make good on my promise to write a better MTGO than WOTC.  Well, it won't actually be MTG since I have my own design in mind, but I figure a card game will be an easy enough first project since graphics are hard and stuff.

I'm now playing ZOMG iPHONE!!1!

I've heard of 3G. Is that the zombie generation phone?

If it is, all I can say is "Braaaiiiiins".

Need to train Death Rattle (http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Guides:The_Zombie_Lexicon#The_Death_Rattle_Lexicon).

My bad, I meant "Bra!nz".

I really wish the remake of Hired Guns had actually come out.

:(

The Psygnosis Sci-Fi RPG from the early/mid 90s?  Or is there another Hired Guns game?

Yeah, that one.

Part of my childhood.

Playing Uncharted again so I can get trophies.

The boy has been bugging me all day to play a video game, so I finally relented and have him started on a new game of Super Mario Bros. 3.  His education begins today.

I hope your regiment is impossible games with a smattering of simple games. Like going from Mega Man 2 to Ducktales. It's the only way to raise a kid.

I'll have to be flexible, he's already crying uncle and asking to play Mario Galaxy.  Maybe I'm too hard on him; he said he couldn't get past something and I said from the other room "Learn to jump!"

Better than what my parents would say "Go read a book! Go outside! Finish your shitty vegetables!" Should I lecture him on how easy he has it? You could've started him off on Mario 1 and Golf.

FF: My Life as King is just too damn addictive. I really love this type of game and would really love to see something more detailed and with higher production values along the same line.  The ability to play it relaxed without angry monsters raping your base is a nice touch.


Still playing:
Digital Devil Saga
Super Mario Galaxy
WoW (barely, I fucking hate drama)

The boy is now playing Chibi Robo.  I'm OK with that because he had some time with The Incredible Machine 2 earlier today and he's getting pretty creative.  He has even started drawing Fantastic Contraption puzzles and solutions on paper.  In fact, he made a fucking flip-book of a Fantastic Contraption.  I still wish he could jump over a koopa, though.

I sort of feel bad for not making him go into the yard.

I started Planescape again yesterday.

Disgaea 3.

Hey, fuck you, buddy.

I found it loaded onto my old notebook, with the disc in the drive when I was moving some stuff. Also have Fallout 1 or 2 on there. Might have to do some retro gaming leading up to Spore's release, nothing else motivating me right now (and not much time or money).

Also considering a trip over to GS to grab Civ BtS for FfH2 fun. Or installing the Overlord demo again to convince myself to drop the $10 on it.

I'm nearly done my first time through Planescape.  You all weren't kidding about how amazing it is.  I prefer Fallout 2, but only just.

After that, I need something for the new computer; I'm thinking either Bioshock, the Orange Box, or Gears of War.  Probably the Orange Box.

Yeah, fuck you.

I gave Killjoy a tour of the Wii titles that don't suck since he's going to buy one.  This means Mario Galaxy, My Life as a King and Boom Blox.  I showed him Metroid Prime 3 as well and he seems to like it, so I sent it off with him.  He wasn't fascinated with No More Heroes for some inexplicable reason, possibly because driving the bike around town sucks balls and I didn't get RASPBERRY CHOCOLATE SUNDAE.  Also, he's a douche.

Otherwise I have been wifeless for the weekend and managed to get some Dawn of War time.  It's been so long since I've played a RTS (basically when WarCraft III was new) that it's just awesome now.  Today the boy and I are playing Mario Galaxy.  He's become a really great P2, stunning enemies and gathering star bits with wild abandon.

I need to get on Planescape and finish it before GameTap goes under, otherwise it's the pirate's life for meeeeeee.

Crysis, now that my machine can kick the shit out of it.

It's rather fun, but has it really come any way since farcry ?

I'm not sure.

I liked Far Cry, but I'm a cheap bastard and waiting for the price to drop on Crysis. Broke as hell since I bought the house (just bought bedroom and living room furniture, great deals but ouch). Mentioned in the FfH2 thread that I've ordered Civ BtS, so going to dig into that until Spore comes out.

Meanwhile, jumped into some Mount & Blade for the first time. Wanted to try it out before release. Fun game, killed some looters, got taken hostage by some bandits, found a castle with several clones of my character in it and was confused. Took a quest to find cows - can't find cows. Got a better quest to train some peasants that ended in a bandit attack and that was definitely the highpoint, riding down bandits was a lot of fun, listening to the cries of the dying peasants as I chopped up stragglers outside the general melee. Then the game crashed. Ah, well.

Fired up Disgaea 2 to get ready for 3, and the FF Tactics remake on the PSP for when I'm stuck away from home.  The slowdown sucks a bit on Tactics, and seems a bit worse than it was in the original version, but overall, loving it. 

Ripping the FFT disc to a memory stick is the only way I could tolerate that game. Even then I only made it halfway through before I said fuckit and started playing Disgaea 1 again.

Finding logging in to MMO's just not igniting any enthusiasm at all in me (young children in the house eat up the chance for an extended play).


Spending time on Mount and Blade again.
Previously I've played it through a number of times and with the newish build 9.6 maybe being the last Beta build I wanted to try it out again.

Some of the more noticeable newer features are:
More Hero characters for you to have in your party. 24 now instead of the original 2 and later 5.
Slightly better Sieges.
Pretenders to the thrones of each faction.

First run through was with an imported character, so it wasn't long before I'd joined a faction and conquered a few Castles. By the way you can't have all 24 Hero types in your group as they don't all get along, I ended up with 8 who could live with each other and my style of play. These Heroes are found in the place that you'd expect to find them, propping up some bar in the various towns.
This all went very smoothly as even the raiding of the Castles was changed to allow for a faster victory (you don't need to kill all the occupants now. If you can take out a significant number in the attack, then it will grant a win, but then it wants you win a Keep battle with 3 of you versus 5 of the defenders, or in the case of a Town siege, you have to win a street battle as well as the Keep). There is still some annoying reluctance on the part of some NPCs to not go up the ladders quickly but you can tell your team to advance ten paces and if you stand under the ladder, get them to follow, then advance it solves this problem mostly.

All was going fine until I conquered my first Town and then my Liege decided to piss me off and gave my hard won victory to some slacker who hadn't even helped in the campaigns that led to the capture, so I took the decision to be offended and renounced my allegiance. This causes your own properties that were gained under this fiefdom to be forfeit, and unfortunately I had many of my best troops stationed in my Castle, so I had to fight off some of my old friends with a fairly weak group. This is still not a big problem as this character is almost Godlike as he was leveled up in previous versions of the game. Still it's kinda frightening when you are being chased by six parties each with over a hundred troupes against my paltry thirty five that I had left after that last siege.

At this point I decided to try and get revenge on the King by usurping his throne. You can now do this by finding and then helping out one of the pretenders to the throne (ask a Traveller in the Inn and they can provide the location of these for a small fee).
One of the things I'd recommend doing before you try this is to gain some favour with the Nobles in that faction that you want to usurp, that way gaining their loyalty during this next stage is going to be smoother and you won't have to buy their friendship with gold too (this service is provided by the new Lady NPCs found hanging around the Courts. You have to win their favour a little before they will help you, usually by duelling some Lord who's tarnishing her good name).
I became aligned with Lady Isolla of Suno and found it a bit strange that she actually became a member of my party and I was more or less given all the powers that the King/Queen usually has, including deciding who gets what Castle, Town and Village that we seized. Anyway, it was fun being basically the King and having this cute Noble in my party who was a strong fighter and only wanted one denar a week. We gathered up the Castles and some Nobles joined our cause without a fight. I tried using the argument that she was the rightful Queen to the throne, but some Nobles still sided with the King, so I ended up stealing their Castles as recompense.
All was fine until I took the last Castle and then Ta Daa... Nothing happened. Hrmm tried finding the last of the upset Nobles to persuade, but nope wasn't happening. Waited for a couple of weeks game time and still nothing. I must of bugged the quest by not getting their loyalty before taking all the property off them. Oh well I decided to renounce my help and Lady Isolla vanshed for a while and I became the Lord of the Rebels of Swadia.
Went on to Conquer some more but decided it was too easy and made a new character from scratch to see how it was from a complete new player point of view.

The training ground that you find when you first start is not very easy, but does introduce a few of the basics. Archery was the one part that I couldn't get very advanced at in the initial training and I don't recommend spending much time here anyway.
Character creation has changed a little from previous versions, with a few more choices to your past that affect your new characters starting position. Overall I like the changes but some might still find it a bit hard at first. Especially the first few actual fights outside the training zone.
I rolled a character that was gonna be a non mounted Monk, wielding nothing but a staff and some throwing knives. I later changed to a Bow because the sieges were going a little rough in basically a Habit with no shield and a bald head for protection, so I needed to take out a few at range or I was minced up real fast, and throwing knives don't come in very large packs like arrows. On a side note though, there's nothing more fun than slinging a dagger into the face of a charging Knight and catching him right in the throat  :-)
I thought it would be about the weakest group I could make with all my Heroes similarly armed and dressed.

First thing to do is gather up some gear and hopefully get a few companions. Small groups of Sea Raiders are the perfect solution to the gear and money problem.
They are tough to beat as a straight up new player, but once you get the better of them, they drop very good loot and give great exp.
Then once you have some cash you head to all the town's taverns looking for the Hero companions and gathering some recruits from the farms or as freed prisoners.
Some of the quests I'd avoid early on are the ones that Nobles give involving villages, because you will end up with a negative reputation with that village and then you need to do some tasks for them before you can recruit new fodder soldiers. Some of the quests they want doing are pretty horrible too, like the go get some Cattle quest that has you running to other villages and you have to enter the village and talk to the Elder and buy cattle, which then needs to be steered back to the village you are helping, which itself is not that bad, but these cattle can rob you of all your money very quickly.
The other Nobles quests are fine for now, like messenger runs and recovering forgotten loans etc. They will give you that nice bit of favour with the Lords that will be handy for getting their support in case you ever want to overthrow the said Kingdom, or expect them to fight along side you.

The game has a lot of options for how you want to play it, and I like the sandbox style after playing numerous quest line RPGs, but the thing that hooks me deep with Mount and Blade is the combat. It's addictive and if you don't overpower yourself too much, very challenging and fast paced.

I'm curious as to what changes will happen to the game before release, but even as it stands now I've had years of fun for my $7 and still want to play it some more. I consider it the best bargain I've ever had. (I'm not sure what the current cost of the license is, but I'd recommend it to anyone, even at full cost)

Fall from Heaven II, mod for CivIV:BtS.  It's pretty complicated, and cool.

Izuna 2 on the DS.

Some Digital Devil Saga 2.

Started a new game of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne and am doing much better this time around.  I'm crediting my 120+ hours of experience with the SMT battle system from Digital Devil Saga 1/2.

Started a new game of Planescape: Torment.

Got a few more trophies in Uncharted.

Mostly just playing Super Mario Galaxy

Dabbling with Planescape: Torment and Digital Devil Saga.

Haven't been gaming as much lately, been reading a lot lately.

Loser.

I'm still playing WoW after about a month.  This is my longest stretch and I'm actually still enjoying it.  I just made 66 last night and am hoping to make 70 before the expansion is released. 

I've also been playing Eden, Bionic Commando, and SC4 on my ps3.  All 3 are fun in short spurts.  Eden is much better than I had imagined and has become my favored pre-sleep relaxation thingy.

Well I was replaying Sword of Vermillion, but its kinda meh.  Amusing for 2-3 hours then you realize its more of the same for another 15 or so hours.  Its not bad, but my backlog and games I want to replay seriously are high enough I might just leave it as is.

However I started playing this: http://www.actionsoft.com/midnightmansion.html

Its a Mac only title.

How to describe it?  Remember the original Montezuma's Revenge?  Imagine it with much better graphics and animation and level design.  Give it an automap and secret rooms.  Give it save points.  Add in a level editor that you can add in your own graphics to.

It doesn't have gamepad support so I have to use a third party program that hopefully won't shareware out and make me pay for it, but its fun with keyboard controls too.

Soon as I get 20 bucks to spend on shareware I am buying it.  Its really friggin fun, and the 2 demo dungeons are enormous.  they give you about a third of each level to explore before the PAY NOW comes up.  Its a good hour or so.

Jain, have you played Cave Story?

Yes.
Its another one that would have benefitted from Gamepad controls on the Mac.

But this Midnight Mansion IS Montezuma's Revenge for all intents and purposes.  Sliding poles, height for safe jumping, creatures that kill you are removed from the screen, keys to open doors, one use items to block/defeat a monster you touch.

Its part of why I really like it.  Its pretty much an homage to a game I really loved back in the day. 

Hell a year or two ago I bought the original for the Sega Master System!  (Along with the other SMS computer game remakes that all look and generally play better.  Ghostbusters and Choplifter.)

But Cave Story is a pretty rad game.  Even if the dog collecting part SUCKED A REPUBLICAN'S WANG.

Still getting together once or twice a week for Titan Questing with a minor side of Marvel UA on 360. Finally 100%ed Bully, so dabbling in Saints Row again for an hour or so every few days. WoW expired the other day. That's about it.

Trying to play a bit of FFH2, but always seem to get bothered while on the computer.

No meetings until late next week means Rock Band vocals and some Odin Sphere.

More than anything though I'm playing a rousing game of forming-a-multi-headed-beast-of-voter-registration-of-awesome at my campus for the next two months.

recently found a small gem called bootfighter. Some sort of 3D big robot fighter game. Pretty fun for a 100 mb download.
Would've been  :drill: if the online lag wasn't so bad.

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here's the link
http://mirrormoon.org/projects/windom

I've started playing the old Ultimas again to track the evolution of single-player RPGs. It's been pretty interesting -- and fun, because for me Ultima never got old. After working on Lazarus, I'm constantly thinking of how every 80's game could be remade, and I'm envisioning Ultima 2 with its time travel and planet hopping as a kind of evolutionary walk through history Diablo smash-and-grab loot fest. There's like a hundred different dungeons in Ultima 2 scattered throughout space and time, and NONE of them are used for anything.

Reloaded Oblivion on my new Rig.

Despite looking a thousand times better and being fast as hell, the game just blows.  Really, really badly.

I couldn't even explain why ...  It's missing a soul.

I agree completely Ironwood. I got a new sound card which addressed the sound issues I was having with my auzentech and oblivion. Loaded it onto my new pc with a beefy gpu and....bleh. And meh. Looks beautiful, especially with some mods to fix the console-itis.

Playing FFH2 now that I have BtS. Amazing mod.

I found the same thing when I got it going on this machine when the PC was new. It looks really nice, but feels too much like an empty MMOG, and needing tons of mods, and franky, the game doesn't have enough SP goodness to keep me interested. Not a lack of content, but as said, a lack of soul to make me give a flying sideways

Glad to hear that.  I thought maybe it was just me being an arsehole.

An Empty Mmog.  That's exactly what it felt like.  There was no drive at all to do anything...

same thing with the whole danged series, if you ask me.

I can totally play dress-up and nobody will call me a queer.

Khanhoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanhoo)

Bought some PS3 component cables for the PS2 so I could move it back up to my room.

Finished Persona 3, clocking around 85 hours. Totally worth it. Best ending of any game I've played in....awhile.

Just got started with Shadow Hearts. Not terribly far in, but it's great. The Ring is a bit to get used to, but the writing is great, and the game also has a terrific contrast between its "serious" setting, and not-so-serious writing.

Too Human, mostly.  Also dabbling with Tank Universal (Steam).

So. Too Human BiiF with Seed characters? I'm thinking that's a successful recipe for success.

Decided to go back and finish some damn games.    I'm working my way through Company of Heroes right now.

You read my mind, schild.  I already know what I am going to do but I don't have my Seed screenshots on my work laptop, so you'll have to wait a bit.

Check your PMs.

So anyone tried Loki? It's an interesting diablo clone I've played. Space Siege fell flat, but this game felt different to me. Four distinctive class, and different start locations intrigued me somewhat. Picked it up at a bargain bin today, not a bad time killer.

Loki is so terrible.

Sacred 2 is coming out soon.

Got to the end of Too Human, now going to make some new characters. It's still loads of fun.

Started Disgaea 3. It's humorous.

Also started Castle Crashers, which is both fun and delightful.

Talk to me about loot Yegolev. Would this tickle my lootbone?

I think i have a small addiction to The Last Guy.  I spent wwaaayy too long on the Washington, DC level (the mall). fucking trees covering up teh wandering monsters.

That needed a reinforcement.

Too Human and loot... that's the tricky bit. It's entirely probable that it will work for you, but the litmus test is the demo. You see every gameplay element in the demo.

Otherwise you have your staples in replayable areas and random loot and runes. There are also charms that require runes to activate and are interesting in that you activate them by accomplishing "quests" such as killing 200 enemies with a Ruiner attack. Once you do that you get the effect, and can equip two of them. To activate a Tier 2 charm, you have to socket X number of Tier 1 charms into it as well as whatever the quest thingy is.  I find charms to be kind of weak.

There are regular loot drops which sadly become less relevant as you level due to blueprints. Blueprints are essentially item drops that you have to "craft", which is quoted because you only need enough cash to make the item. In practice it just adds another layer before you can use the item.

In comparison to D2:LoD, it's shorter but far more attractive.  It's a good diversion, that's for sure, and in combat I always feel super-powerful unless I am rushing the main story. Is it worth $60? More like $50, really.

I'm probably going to wait for Sacred 2 then.

If you are either budget-minded or Old School, then yes.

Finally playing Mask of the Betrayer. I know it's Obsidian and as usual (at least from what I've read) probably 2/3 of a good game. But... I'm dying for some RPG and it's been sitting in the box for quite a while now, so I threw it in the machine (Dwarven fighter/Weaponmaster/Defender if anyone is actually curious). From the interviews, I'm also looking forward to the next NWN2 expansion pack, so that kind of renewed my desire to play it. I think Obsidian can do great things in the RPG world, but have never been given the time to do it. I've been convinced that KotOR2 would have been epic if given more time.

Anyways... that's what I'm playing atm...

Sacred is a straight up Diablo Clone, not necessarily old-school, just 'school.' Budget though? Whu? I thought it was $50.

I don't know how much Sacred 2 will cost, but Too Human is $60.  I kinda feel like it's a $45 title, unless there's some juicy DL content.  My synopsis might have seemed negative, however it's more than enough fun to compensate, for me.  You, schild, are more of a stickler.  The controls might throw you, or the story, or the ring-inventory.  Really, play the demo and you'll know if you want it or not.  It's not much more complex than that.

I don't know how much time Obsidian needed to craft a sequel to a game where they didn't have to do much, if any, alteration on the engine and little in the way of art.

I got Too Human for $5 by returning an unopened game without a receipt. It better be worth $5.

Gonna trade my second unopened game into Target and get Spore. Winner is me.

Hehe.  So Target does exchanges like that?  Where else?

Walmart, Target, wherever. Gamestop if you shop there enough. Costco is great also, but their selection is questionable, you need to know what you're after.

A winner is you!

As of sometime today, I think, you can pre-order Sacred 2 on Amazon.com.  Is there no US collector's edition?  I could get a Euro one, I guess.  I don't even know what's in the CE.  I usually only buy ones that have something nice in-game.  I can't tell you how many silly little miniatures and other weird stuff I've stomped on and tossed in the rubbish in anger due to the lack of cool in-game shit.  I'm trying to keep my stress levels down, too.

We put the new furniture on the credit card so we could defer the payment until this paycheck. Paid it off today and it bumped my rewards just high enough to qualify for another $50 amazon card.

Thanks, credit card. Free Spore!

Credit card companies hate people like me.

Finally, after 3 years of flirting with it, I made level 70 with my Priest in WoW.  Holy shit does WoW suck at 70.  There doesn't seem to be much to do other than grind rep, PvP, or wait for my silly little guild to get their shit together and do Kara.  Zzzzzzzzz...

I have 4 days off and plan to devote them to Disgaea 3.  I fucking love Disgaea.

You haven't aged as much as you think, you've only been flirting with 61-70 for 18 months.

I agree, WoW at 70 without having been 70 through the TBC era is the suck. They need to fix this with The Melting Polar Ice Caps or whatever that second expansion is called.

I tried the demo for Eschalon Book 1.  Its pretty good for an indies RPG.  I may buy it.  Which means I have two, two, TWO indies games that run on the Mac to buy.

I have made it further in Sword of Vermillion to about the halfway point.  The idea of having to reach the end sort of scares me.  Its got action RPG combat, except the combat.. really sux.

So its either buy some indies shareware games, or work on some of my other games.  Im plagued with indecision.

Castle Crashers.  Really about all I have time for given how terrible work's been lately.

Still, it's fine little game. I love the art style, and this game brings back all the right memories of Final Fight and the AD&D beat'em ups in the arcades.  Odd considering I hated Alien Hominid.  I hear the game is a bit buggy, but I've yet to run into any yet.

I think I only made it halfway through Sword of Vermillion on the genesis when it came out. I liked Joe Montana Football, but the other console titles solidified my pro-pc stance (though it was a C64 at the time). I did like Battlemaster for some reason, fun and quirky.

Playing a ridiculous game as Rome on Islands that had me mass-nuking Germany. Didn't realize every nuke gave me -1 relations with anyone friendly with Germany (all but two weak civs), so now the world is furious with me. But I've been stockpiling the shit out of nukes and can pump them out of my biggest cities every 2-4 turns. I think I have me a 'nuke the world' game on my hands.

Kinda got bored after 60+ nukes, so I played a little Jade Empire. Forgot I needed to finish that one so I started a new game.

Just waiting for Spore, mostly.  :why_so_serious:

Pick my next game!

After a few weeks of intensive LotRO (It was summer festival. I wanted wallpaper and vegetable gardens. STOP FUCKING STARING AT ME.) I feel the need to take some time off and do something else, lest I get burned out.

I've installed a shit-ton of games on the new machine, most of which I never played or barely played. There's too many to wrap my head around, too many directions I want to go in... so I'd like suggestions. Caveat, I haven't tested to see if all these in Vista-64. I've already found games from publishers small (Darkstar One) and large (Act of War: Direct Action) that won't run.

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Just got the bridge to the mountains built in Harvest Moon, Island of Happiness so now I can burn through all my stamina mining ore when it's winter. Think I'll knock up my cow and build the bridge to the jungle next.

Man Stormwaltz you buy lots of bad sims.

I wouldn't have to if they'd make more good ones...

Speaking of bad sim titles, I need to get Anno 1701 gold.

Why don't I spy Europa 1400: The Guild on that list? And dear god, not The Guild 2. NOT 2.

I hear Mass Effect sucks, stay away from that one  :why_so_serious:

I've toyed with the idea of 1701 Gold. I liked the first couple once I figured out how to set up build order so I didn't get tool-deprived and lose early. New one looks a bit too user-friendly if that's possible with the Anno series. I've played the demo a couple times and can't work up much caring.

When I started playing JE, the next disc on the list was Thief:DS. Look for the texture upgrades, very nice touch. If I had blinds on my french doors, I'd have played that instead (too much sun).

Pirates! is fun. I saw it at walmart as a $10 jewel case dealie. I've got X2 or X3, I'd like to surmount the curve on that, but with Spore around the corner, there's no way. I also have the Guild 2, very quirky and never got past the tutorials on it.

I vote for Sid Meier's SimGolf!

Stormwaltz, I'd suggest Medieval 2. That games kicks all kinds of ass. I need to get back to it, but I've been grinding away at unlocks on BF2142.

I've got that too, actually, just not installed.

What server for LoTRO do you play?

Gladden.

Mayda - 46 Lore-Master
Maessa - 22 Captain
Celefinnel - 20 Hunter

A few f13 folk are rolling/transferring characters to Brandywine.  Just sayin'.

I saw, but I'm part of a small kin of ex-AC1 players. I don't really want to move. :/

I've been playing CoX again now and then.  Missions now and then but only so I get stuff to play the Auction House.  Mostly I'm still playing with socks, though.  I paint eyes on them and sometimes try and talk to my kitties.  They usually get upset and run off so I mostly just have my hands talk to each other in silly voices.

I suggest you use the method I do. Play two games at once. One "visceral" game that you can drop in and out of, and one "thinking" game. This way you can bounce in and out of each, depending on your mood at the time.

For the visceral game, I'd actually suggest Star Wars Battlefront 2, despite the fact that I doubt anyone else would suggest it up front. This is because the SP campaign is actually pretty fun, and you'll finish the whole game in a week easily, even if you're not h4rdc0r3 about playing it. The MP/Online community for it is pretty much dead, and it's not that oarsome anyway online, so you can skip that aspect entirely.

This way, in a week you'll have played it, enjoyed it, and be done with it and you will be able to choose another "visceral" game. BF2 or 2142 or something, if you're still in a FPS mood.

Of your thinking games, most of the ones that I've got that you also have I haven't gotten around to playing, either. I'd suggest Sid Meier's Pirates! since it's good fun, though it's a pretty much open-ended sandbox, so it's a game you can play for a long time without ever "finishing".

Azazel, I think you just managed to pick the two most boring things in that folder besides The Guild 2.

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But then, it's not a very exciting folder. Finish Bioshock, Battlefront, and all the other shitty games in there and uninstall them forever.

As for a sim game, I'd play Patrician III. I've been meaning to reinstall that myself. I think I'll do that tonight.

Edit: In other words, I agree with Azazel, just so you can uninstall them. HAR. Sometimes uninstalling is better than playing!

I'd pick Kohan 2. It's awesome and pretty different from most of the other games in the genre. Speaking of which, I'll reinstall my own copy.  :grin:

Oh bollocks. Well, kinda.

As I said, SWBF2 is a good game for a single playthrough. It's a mindless but fun, short FPS. Probably a lot more fun if you like Star Wars, which fortunately, I do. (and if you don't why would you buy it?  :uhrr:)

And yeah. Once it's finished, you can uninstall it.

Pirates on the other hand is a modern update of a classic, that still holds up well. Not as good as it was back in the day, but worth a playthrough, especially if you've never played it. I keep it installed, and every now and then every couple of months I play it for a couple of days. Then I forget about it again for a couple months, rinse, repeat. Play it for a week or so, then put it into low rotation and it's perfectly fine.

And yes, then you can choose another two games for high rotation...

I've always tended towards "boring" games. Playing Atari and Nintendo never did develop my reflexes like it did the other kids. By 9th grade I spent more time with wargames from SSI and SSG.

Some of the games I play now are literally  (http://lords.throneworld.com/lote28/Deus/index.htm)played with spreadsheets (http://www.fots.cdgroup.org/).

I played SWBF2 a bit before, so I'll dabble in it, and try Medieval II for opposition. (I played the original Kohan almost all the way through, and really enjoyed it, but I've barely touched the Total War games.)

I just picked up Rome: Total War the Complete Pack off of Steam for $30. That's the original game, Barbarian Invasions, and Hannibal all together. I'm utterly loving it. Its really not that much more graphically behind than Medieval Total War. There's slightly less detail in the units, but from a slight distance, the effect is quite similar. Also, I just love the period more than medieval warfare. There's just something awesome about a full phalanx of legionnaires turtling up around a full enemy cavalry charge and surviving the blows till your own cavalry pinches the rear of the enemy cavalry from behind.

I still haven't played any of the Barbarian Invasion or Hannibal pack yet, since I'm still crushing northern Europe with the Julii, but I can't wait to get to the Elephant attack :)

Kohan 2 was frickin great, I loved it.  It always bums me out when I think about the fact we'll probably never get another iteration as I really liked the first two.

I'm going to take back my statement regarding WoW at 70.  Since discovering battlegrounds I've had a pretty good time with the game.  I like fact I can log in for an hour or two here and there and actually earn some honor.  On the other hand it's going to take me 6 months to purchase a piece of gear through rewards.  Until then I just think of it as DoD:S with swords and gay elves.

Mostly though I've been playing Disgaea 3 and Mercs 2.  They were my most anticipated games of the year and they both deliver in spades.  Between the two I'm having trouble deciding what to play.

Finished Saints Row. Going to go and (re)start Just Cause now. Haven't bothered touching Dark Messiah of MM in months. (Re)Playing a touch of CoD4 now and then as well as a touch of BF2 online now and then as well.

Playing Disgaea 3, and Tales of Vesperia at the moment.  Disgaea's a blast, and Vesperia's actually fun so far too.  Though, having not played a 360 game in awhile, I'd forgotten how damn noisy the thing can be. 

Castle Crashers is taking up most of my couch gaming time.

I'm playing Create Spreadsheets for my Boss.   :uhrr:

Disgaea 3
Oblivion
Final Fantasy IV DS
Castle Crashers

I loved Kohan.

What is Timegate up to these days?

They're working on a Unreal Engine 3 FPS game and some sorta MMO-type thing.

Several FEAR expansions and Section 8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpifTMJ-aYY).

The MMG has been a gleam in their eye for some time. I interviewed for a position on the preproduction team four years ago.

So I really, really, really want to play Elite.

Apart from the obvious answer, what's a man to do ?

Play Freelancer?

Sorry, that's just plain CRUEL of me to say.

And I am almost done with Sword of Vermilion and can maybe play something good next. 

Ironwood, cross your fingers for gog.com?

I'm finally playing through Jade Empire. I'm such a Bioware fanboi, it's a great game. Some really funny stuff in there.

Still Disgaea 3, Final Fantasy IV DS and Oblivion... and LOTRO.  I got tired of EVE more quickly than usual and find myself in an unstoppable hobbity PVE mood.  I'm a farmer!

Vermilion is complete.  And god why did I waste my time on it?  What was an interesting experiment for 90-91 is pretty much a primitive borefest now.

But I am keeping the old gaming going.  Hooked my Dreamcast back up (man I need S Video for it... HDTVS have no love for old systems.  They all look bad on them to various levels..)
and got some gaming going.  A little Crazy Taxi 2 this weekend, some Capcom vs SNK, and Evolution 2 which is a fun but simple RPG.

But seriously.  DO NOT play Marvel vs Capcom 2 with composite.  It looks like someone put a coating of vaseline over the screen.

At least S Video cables are cheap for the DC.  S Video did wonders for the Saturn.  See pixels and everything.  Too bad my reason for getting it (to play Super Robot Taisen F) lasted 2-3 sessions after that before I couldn't stand the interface anymore.  Banpresto is like freaking EA with sports games.  They merely inch the game design forward even though some of the shit that should have been standard didnt show up for close to 15 years after the series began!

Do yourself a favor and get an aftermarket VGA adapter. S-Video is only going to add a luminance channel and it'll still look like dick and a half.

If I weren't at work right now I'd show you a picture of a "VGA adapter".  :drillf:

I..

I am strangely curious about where that was going.

I know here it was going.

Anyway, I'm playing Lock's Quest on the DS among other things. It's not bad, it's not great either.

Someone hijacked my fucking WoW account last night.  Dog fucking mother fuckers can kiss my ass!!! :mob:

So...  that gives me time to play more Disgaea 3. 

Fuck, does DQ9 really come out next Tuesday?

DQ IV does, I know that much.

Went to best Buy for Spore and ended up getting Infinite Undiscovery on Monday because they were out of Spore and I've been jonesing for some CRPG XBOX play.

So far it's been pretty fucking annoying, it uses save points and it can be a LONG time between saves, at the beginning at least, so technically I'm only 15 minutes into the game after several hours of play.   :ye_gods:

Speaking of saves, I'm playing a bit of Dead Rising for the first time, and while I dig the premise of the game, the save system is pissing me right the fuck off.  Am I doing it wrong?

Possibly.  Do not reload from a save game in Dead Rising.

Yeah, I learned that one the hard way already :cry2:

But what I'm really talking about is the general lack of good save points, as the story flows.  It just seems that the only save points available after an arc completes are way on the opposite side of the mall.  Or something.  I keep running towards possible save points only to find that the door is locked or welded shut (often after having to kill a fuckton of zombies to find out this info).  I also don't get why I can't seem to get back to the security room, where I am supposedly meant to be delivering my charges.  I don't love the map, either.

Oh well, I suppose I will figure it out.  Either that or run halfway across the mall everytime I need to save.

Everything you need is always on the other end of the mall.  This is true even in video games.  Be sure to bring your katana or uzi.  There is a shotgun in the initial area, underneath a wad of feeding zombies at the base of the big bee.  Clear'em out with a bench, get the shotgun and then move on to the next part.

I also suggest you tell the survivors to go fuck themselves.  Makes the game much more enjoyable.

Is the Dragon Quest 4 for the US, or for Moonspeak Land?

If its US I am all over that shit.  Even though I might find time to play it by, oh, 2012 or so.  And that's with me being cheap and barely buying any games anymore...

US.

I've been playing UFO Defense (as per that thread) and enjoyed it so much I paid for the Steam pack shit. However that was entirely not worth it. Apoc is the only thing in ther ehalf good and it realy is pretty shit. The tactical mode is just balls when you have complicated maps.

So now I'm playing Fallout 2. I thought I played this when it came out but I remember nothing, so I think maybe it didn't. It's awesome (duh).

So I finally started fiddling with Fate:  Undiscovered Thingy even though I bought it AGES ago.  Does anyone know if the UI mods for Fate also work for this one?  I'm not going to use them yet, but you never know when you might find the urge to spice things up or cheat or sommat.  You know, for a laugh.

I did not play it (Fate 2) more than ten minutes since it did not seem to have any significant updates.  Also, I'm excited about Diablo III.

Edit for top-of-pageness to add context.  Also to say I have mostly been playing LotRO.  My wife has been playing Oblivion and I have dabbled in it as well since I have never finished the main story.  Some GTAIV also, but mostly LotRO.

Still playing Just Cause on the 360 when I have a chance to play games. It's glitchy and buggy and full of questionable design decisions but still remains to be fun. I think a big part of that is the pretty. I hope to knock it over this weekend so I can start on another game.

 :awesome_for_real:

Last week I finished Penny Arcade Adventures Ep 1 and the single player campaign in WH40K Dawn of War (with corpses turned off and shadows on medium - otherwise I would get a driver crash on my bleeding edge 512MB HD 4870 card).

Last night I started the single player Order campaign in DoW: Winter Assault. I reached the end of the first mission, and got a "Fatal Scar Error" that prevents it from being completed. The very first mission. In a game that's been out for three years.

I won't be playing Winter Assault again tonight.

Note to Relic: Nice QA, guys. In the future, try to make sure the first few missions are rock-solid and unbreakable, so your customers don't return the game in disgust. Just my opinion, of course.

That sucks, I had a ton of fun with all the DoW expansions and Company of Heroes (I didn't get the CoH expansion).

I never had any problem with any of them.

Neocron.

Two Worlds - Epic Edition.

I didn't get the Epic Edition because the last one was so awful I couldn't play more than a couple of hours without falling asleep.  For me it was really an epic waste of $$.  (http://www.tkfu.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)

Warhammer Online and NHL 09 are pretty much it right now.

Two Worlds Epic Edition worth it? I stumbled upon my old Two Worlds recently and almost installed it again.

Playing Hellgate London right now, just so that I can finish and deinstall it. But i'd rather do something else.

King's Bounty: The Legend and Wipeout HD.  Both Awesome.

I didn't get the original Two Worlds, I don't think the new edition is worth it for owners of the original unless you play multiplayer.

I'm enjoying it. Mostly run around and hack and slash, but it's fun. I'm surprised the loot whores don't like it, it's got a decent loot system. I've got about 7 hours into it according to my saved game counter, still a ton more content ahead. I'm playing as a paladin type, 2h and healing, but I'm interested in the magic and stealth content, too.

I'm not sure why people bitched about the horses, they work fine. They're just not magic legs, they have an AI and balk, but it's done sensibly. Just know if you go out near a ledge, it's going to get annoying...so don't do it.

Note I have a high tolerance for Eurorpg quirks, I love the Gothic series, even if the third wasn't the best. Ironically, Two Worlds is kinda like Gothic 3.5. My biggest gripes are voice acting and having a huge open world that has roads to everything of interest. I like to explore, and not always on a road...

I like Gothic 1 & 2, but not 3.  I didn't like Oblivion, either.  I was able to muddle through a fair bit of Gothic 3 and, though the worst of the lot, I thought it was tons better than Two Worlds.  There is yet another Two Worlds game, completely new, coming out next year.  Either March or May, I forget.  I'm sure I won't buy it so this is a just sayin'....

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and WAR.

Mostly the former, as it really is a masterpiece and it's hard to put down. A bit long winded and the plot at this point is extremely convoluted considering all baggage this game brought with it.  They seem to be tying off a lot of the plot threads, but there are just so many (seems to be some reconning, but I can't be sure). Still, this game has me engrossed.  Everything it does, it just does so well.  It's beautiful. It oozes style and polish out of every pore.  The action is fun and the stealth is serviceable (not as good as other sneakers, imo, but the Eastern Europe mission showed it off well).  Glad I picked it up despite some reservations about it (heh, last Metal Gear I played about 2 hours of Metal Gear Solid).

WAR, I took a few days off. Considering my late start, I'm going to be the guild lowbie forever. I imagine most alts will hit max level before I do.  :awesome_for_real:

I am thinking perhaps your install is corrupt in some way, neither I nor a couple other people I know had any problems like that. Rampant unit balance issues? That's another kettle of fish.

I installed VMWare Fusion 2 demo to see if I can't play some XP games without needing a partition or Boot Camp.

Installation was a SNAP, and XP installed in like 15 minutes as opposed to the hour it took in Boot Camp last year for a normal OS install.  All I did was put in my XP S2 disk, put in the key, and I went back into Macland and let XP install.

In use it makes OSX a bit pokey, and it takes some time to get up to speed when you start it.  (Just like real XP!)  I haven't tested any modern game, but Baldur's Gate ran TOO FAST.  Icewind Dale with all the fixins and at high res ran a bit too slow, though playable.  I might try a few things to speed it up.  See, VMWare actually uses its own drivers and such in XP so XP doesn't really "see" my ATI HD2600 video or anything.  Hell, ATI tools didnt even acknowledge there being an ATI video system!

So I need to tweak.  With 2 gigs of ram some of it stays for OSX no matter what, so I REALLY recommend 4 gigs or more if you want to use Fusion to its utmost.

I'll try some more games and different settings (apparently using 2 cores might actually be slowing Fusion DOWN) and see what I can see.

But as an emulation platform for old games it really does rock.  Make a virtual HD similar to DOSBox with Fusion and you can have multiple OSes all running stuff.  I might buy a full copy of 98SE to run all those apps that XP loathes.  Give it 50 gigs and I can play Warlords 3 again!  Moo2 in its Windows form!  The old Warhammer 40K SSI games!  Final Liberation with video actually WORKING!

Hell, it can even do Windows 3.1! 

They keep updating it too, but 2.x is the first time I have bothered.  (No Direct X 9 support?  That means no DoW!  No Chaos mans killing Space Marines makes Little Washuu cry.)

Oh, and I am playing Dragon Quest 4 on the DS because Etrian Odyssey 2 became a pain in my ass because the level 15 boss is a douchebag.

correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't VMware only use some form of VGA emulation driver, so essentially you can't really play anything that requires a 'real' video card? BG might work, since its so old that the processor can probably do all video handling without a problem, but anything older than, say, 2003 might be an issue. That is, unless I completely misunderstood how VMware handles video.

I didn't have any other problems playing the game, though I can't discount that absolutely. I lean towards the botched-testing hypothesis because Scar ("SCripting At Relic) is DoW's mission building language. I suspect I completed the objectives in some way that the scripting didn't expect and couldn't handle.

Ah. Well, you should skip the Winter Assault campaigns and move on to the free-form Dark Crusade or Soulstorm campaigns anyway, they're more fun.  :grin:

Im not sure.  I know it CAN do DX9 games.  Hell, they show it running Gears of War (poorly, but running it) in a youtube video.

Apparently some folks have even gotten Warhammer Online running, albeit in a slideshow fashion.

Lego Batman.  It's exactly what you might expect.
Started the Beyond Protocol beta and it's actually very interesting.  It won't win any awards for graphics but it makes up for that with an incredibly complex game system.
Also LotRO when I can... which is right after I post this.

Samurai Showdown 2.  :awesome_for_real:

God I love that game.

WAR and wipeout HD...

Game called on account of LotRO fall festival. Must collect useless crap they don't give you enough storage space for.

I kept meaning to get to (er, find) the Fall Festival but somehow I couldn't tear myself away from all the hobbit-errands I was wrapped up in.  Saw a hobbit with a neat pumpkin helmet, though.

Ah, wonder if EQ2 has any new masks this year.

This. I tried playing the Winter Assault campaign because I love Imperial Guard, but I got 3 missions in and just couldn't take it. The constant switch between Elder and Imp. Guard DURING THE MISSION was annoying as hell. Dark Crusade was much better.

I've been playing King's Bounty: The Legend mostly.  If you like HOMM, download the demo.  I've had a blast with it.

I downloaded Hinterlands yesterday as well.  I really like the concept and its a fun little game but I want more complexity. 

Also, Wipeout HD.   :heart:

Got stuck on Hinterlands after checking it out a bit. Won't keep me glued to the monitor for weeks, but its a fun little game.

I started a Dark Crusade campaign as the Tau. My first attempt to attack anything, in a nutshell:

"Hi, we're the Tau! We control all but one strategic point on the map."

"We are Necron. Strategic points are for the weak. No weapon you possess can really hurt us. Don't even think about attacking our invulnerable, Green Energy (TM) chain-casting base. Plus, all our units respawn every few minutes."

   handful of Necron units destroy the entire Tau army, including commander, vehicles, and heavy mechs

Ha ha ha! Isn't that funny? Lern 2 play, n00b.

   quits and uninstalls

Tau was is the hardest to play for me. I find the best way to play them is to put a scout unit (I think they are built at strategic points) in the squad, and kite the enemy.

Once upgraded you can pretty much lay waste to everything, shooting off-screen almost. But once something comes close, they are toast.

After the debate and ensuing discussion at my house, I fired up the pc and game ennui took over...I was kind of getting burned out on Two Worlds. Figured since the computer was on, I'd at least head back to where I was questing (I had saved in a city after a massive shopping trip). Then I figured I'd run up the hill and zomg tons of zombies and necromancers with cool voices come barreling out of this tower, and behind the tower...undead horse! Woo!

Definitely a fun loot whore hack-n-slasher. Wish the dungeons had a bit more to them, even Oblivion does better. Maybe about like Morrowind's dungeons.

Also, with all the cool armor, I ended up with a matched suit of this horrid black and red zome EBIL stuff. Great stats, but I look like some kid's wankfest of a soopercool badass. Blah. Thinking of taking the armor class and stat hits by starting to upgrade a new suit. The system is really nice, though. You get a bonus for wearing a full set of anything, there are hundreds of sets, and you can upgrade all the pieces and each upgrade carries it's stats. So my 205 AC piece could be upgraded one class by another 205 AC piece with +8 str and be 260 AC +8 Str, for instance.

Lego Batman is great.  So is Force Unleashed.  And LotRO.  I play these now.

I loved the equipment system in 2worlds, Sky.

Even if it really makes no sense, it was fun to play around with.

King's Bounty has consumed me right now.  It has the "one more turn" quality to it.  Definitely an, albeit better, HOMM Clone.

KB definitely eating into my LOTRO time.

I'm in Chapter 2 of Icewind Dale now.  Paladin, Ranger, Dwarven Fighter Thief, Druid, Bard, and Elven Fighter Mage.  (Heart of Winter and Luremaster packs installed.)

Sigh.  The Infinity Engine games would be SOO MUCH BETTER if they were true turn based.
Too much die load repeat/buff spell in some of these combats.
(Then of course you camp to get spells and HPs back.)

It was tough as hell beating the Lizard King till I had my Druid cast Entangle and my Mage cast Web the second the King declared an attack, then having my Bard and the Mage shoot their Bows and Crossbows and kill most of the lizzies before they could reach us, with a couple extra spells from the Druid for buffing purposes.

2 weeks ago: Spore. Got to space age and...I lost interest. The patch that meant I kept getting killed in creature stage didn't help.

SO, back to World War 2 Online again. I missed the 8 Day Jamm's War Allied Victory but the Axis are fighting hard this round and due to the shorter time period of Tier-0 it's going to be a long battle (one before the 8 day war was 89 days long Axis Victory).

Diest is still on the front line.

WAR
Linger in Shadows
Mega Man 9 Endless Mode

WAR, FF4.  FF4 on DS is motherfucking mix of  :drill: and  :ye_gods:

(it's awesome but really hard)

NHL 09.

LOTS of NHL 09.


Also, went back to EQ2 last month with some friends. I'm actually playing a true caster for like, the first time in a game ever (not counting my stupid WoW Priest).

Illusionist is fun, but a pain to solo with due to low DPS.

I just devoured The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard and Howard Reid.  It was fucking fantastic and after reading it I wanted a city builder.  All hail Tilted Mill, Children of the Nile Alexandria is great fun!

Playing Silent Storm again.

Fuck, it's only THE BEST turn based strategy thing EVAR.

Yes, it shits on X-Com on the tactical part.  I kinda wish they'd taken it to the logical conclusion, sorted out the wee niggly issues and released an alien one.

Those who wish to bring up Panzerkleins, just don't.

Played Fire Warrior as far as I could before vomiting blood. It's so very painful.

finished crysis warhead in 1 week. wtf.

Hm. I'm wrapping up Two Worlds, and SS is on my stack of possibles for the next game (with some Spore thrown in for good measure).

I'm considering HoMaM 5, Thief 3 (still haven't finished it due to AI bugs midway), or finishing off the last bits of Jade Empire or Freedom Force 2. Or maybe just more SimGolf. Mashunu!

More likely playing patch the stucco and repoint the concrete block with a bonus level of repaint the garage. Yay indian summer!

Disgaea 3 and WAR.  Disgaea 3 is pretty damn good.  Some of the tweaks to the system are damn cool and I'm liking the way that certain abilities chain together. I still can't level mages worth shit in this series.  WAR is WAR.  I haven't gotten to the grindy tier 3 shit and I may just keep rolling alts until they've done something drastic to address it.

Next week starts the new release flood.  Gyah.

Silent Storm would have been an all time great if it weren't for those stupid mecha suits.  If I type it this small, I really didn't bring it up, did I?

I've been playing Infinite Undiscovery.  I'm still only a few hours into it, heck, I'm not even sure if I've unlocked all the basic functions yet (You start with a reduced set and as you add members to your party you get access to their skills).  They made some weird decisions on what to voice and what not too.  There is so much dialogue though that I find my self humming A Little Less Conversation for most of a play session.

I hadn't played a jrpg since this time last year and that was more of a tactical rpg (Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness) so this is supposed to be warm-up for FFXII, Last Remnant, Star Ocean 4 and the other big name releases coming up.

I'm supposed to be getting Infinite Undiscovery for play after LEGO Batman trails off, but currently I have my wife downloading LotRO.  This is almost entirely because she cannot get The Sims to run.

The boy is all into LEGO Batman.

I am still playing LEGO Batman with the wife, and occasional Force Unleashed when I get some time.  Last night I went back to Digital Devil Saga II after a long break and the story went :ye_gods: and I was like :uhrr: but it's going to be :drill: even though I have not bothered to master any mantra with Roland outside of Dia and Media (don't shoot me, schild!).

It was a close race between DDSII, Persona 3 FES, Steambot, Mana Khemia, Disgaea 3, and SMT: Nocturne.  After 2-3 months of 360 gaming, I once again have the weeaboo fever.

I'm still into Icewind Dale, even if its endless save reload Infinity Engine shit combat.  Seriously.  Infinity Engine games would be God's own gift to nerds if they had turn based combat.

And Dragon Quest 4 on the DS, which if possible takes one of the best 8 bit RPGs and makes it even better.  And I have a rad level up spot where Metal Slimes are uncommon.  The tower you need to get this root from in Chapter 5.  I dunno about daytime, but at night roughly 1 in 5 encounters has a Metal Slime in it, worth 1350 XP per party member when even hard areas only provide around 200 for a fight.

My party of choice is:  Female Hero, Maya, Meena, and Kiryl.  Everyone uses magic, and 3 out of 4 have healing spells, plus decent close combat abilities.

If you're reloading "Constantly!!!1!" then you're doing it wrong. :why_so_serious:

Looks like my dad is letting me use his 360 this winter when he goes to florida. Some people might be excited.

Not only will that cost me an HDMI>DVI adapter, but he plays goddamned shooters almost exclusively. He's given me about twenty xbox titles I don't like (and I've tried all of them at least a bit). I honestly don't get the shooters with thumbsticks thing. Apparently he also has a Madden (which I was excited about), but it's 2005 or something (of course).

So....meh.

Take them to Gamestop and trade them all in and get something you like!   :grin:

I'm not sure they'd even take a dozen six-year-old xbox shooters. I mean the Matrix, ffs? I wish I made enough dough to build pop a proper pc. I guess maybe I'll take them all back and buy one cheap 360 game and give that to him when I give back the machine. I might even get $5 back for all of them. Maybe.

I had never played Mount and Blade before, so I picked up a copy--nice to support the devs of that game with an actual purchase.

And jesus, it's addictive. So much so it's making me think: why does the minimalist "story" of this game drive me to want to play more, to the point that it killed my Warhammer playing cold this week? Part of it is the combat engine, which is always fun. Part of it is that new parts of the game structure reveal themselves slowly (building up some towns).

I think there's a lesson in Mount and Blade for MMOG designers--I'll have to ponder a bit what exactly that lesson is. Making combat exciting is part of it, but it's more than that.

Ironwood, my fiancee thanks you. I finally unpacked a whole wall of boxes from my spare room and sorted a bunch of shit out. I didn't tell her I was just looking for my Silent Storm Gold discs :)

Played the tutorial and first mission, can't believe I got distracted away from playing this game! I've had it sitting there for a couple years now, I got it when I got Gothic 2 Gold, ffs. I think part of it was not being widescreen, but the expansion is indeed in widescreen, and the game is good enough that playing it stretched doesn't bug me.

I just got my hands on Silent Storm never heard of it before so yeh I'm playin that right now, nice one bro  :thumbs_up:

WAR. And doing my best trying to balance it time wise with married life. Tonite is date night. Tomorrow we're out all day. Hopefully that makes up for the past 4 nights of either playing WAR or watching that travesty of a MNF NFL game. It ain't easy having interests outside of those you share with your significant other. Not easy at all. I'm learnin though!

Ya, ok, that turned into an off topic. So, ya, uhh... WAAAAGH!!

I'm playing Insurgency, a halflife2 mod. Its basically a multiplayer FPS based on marines vs iraqi insurgents, with the usual multiplayer FPS loadouts. Why this one, as opposed to any number of others, especially considering the politically unsavory theme? Simply because its got better game play than most. WarRock was pretty good, but it was too small, and folks found all the superl33t hideyholes to kill you within a few weeks. This one's terrain is more variegated, so it has more variety.

Oh, ya, main reason: its free if you have any number of the HL2 packs off of Steam.

I have to catch up with modern gaming thanks to WoW.

About to start playing

Bioshock
Sacred 2
Settlers 6: The Eastern Realm

Was playing titan quest, but its a biggest pile to crap I've ever played. Another example of why pirating games works out better then buying.

World of Goo
The Witcher (Enhanced Edition)
Wipeout HD

Then the usual standbys of Sins of a Solar Empire and Dawn of War.

Fall From Heaven
Peggle Nights
World of Goo

Yes, you actually can play a level of one of one the other games while waiting for your next turn on a huge map!

I had forgot about World of Goo.  I'm SO going to play that!

Fall From Heaven 0.34 and LotRO again. My main character made 49 last night, the highest level I've gone in an MMG (I had a 48 in CoV). I could make 50 before Moria if I raced, but that would significantly reduce my enjoyment.

Disgaea 3, Silent Hill 5 and Infinite Undiscovery.  :c\  So much to do.

How is Infinite Undiscovery?

Started Infinite Undiscovery.  So far it's my favorite TriAce game, and I like it so much I'm actually considering getting the next Star Ocean (hated #3).
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
LotRO with the wife. :oh_i_see:

If a bloke around 'our' age wanted an xbox game for Christmas, which one would he want ?

Dead Space.  Well, I only played the PC version and I hear the 360 one is difficult to control, but this one is an instant classic.

Is this bloke into weeaboo?  No?  I really like Lost Odyssey and Infinite Undiscovery, and I won't tell anyone if you do.

I'll suggest Force Unleashed on the idea that most people like Star Wars and extreme violence.  If you like force-choking a jawa, stabbing him with a lightsaber, and frying him with lightning before hurling him violently into another jawa, even better.

If he's not trying to maintain an image of manliness, LEGO Batman or LEGO Star Wars Complete.  I place LEGO Indiana Jones in third rank behind those, partly for the characters and partly for that one place where you have to jump back and forth between the rotating columns... jeez.

Dead Space. But let's be honest, we're not close enough to Christmas to make that call. About 15-30 more AAA games are coming out between now and then.

Curious what you think might be better than Dead Space.

Mirror's Edge maybe? I assume Ironwood will get Left 4 Dead for the PC. Also, Persona 4 is coming out on the PS2, might not even be worth getting a 360 game. I assume Ironwood's problem is time, not money. In which case, Dead Space is what, 8-10 hours long, 15 on the first playthrough if you didn't basically master RE4. Also, thing about Ironwood, I don't even know if he's good at games. As such, Fable II might even be more his pace.

I was restricting myself to the 360.  I agree with your statements, although I'm not sure about Fable II.  He might be more into Too Human if he finds the loot and fighting interesting.

Dead Space is the answer, though.

Chaps, it's not for me.  I'm being asked my opinion by the girl of a friend and, well, I don't have a 360.  Hence my total lack of helpfulness for her.

So, you're helping by proxy.  I'll get her to check out the suggestions thus far.

Cheers.

You left me with little choice but to make assumptions.  I might have said NHL 09. :awesome_for_real:

Been playing Call of Duty 4
just hit 55 not too long ago.

Also, warhammer online from time to time

Warhammer Online - though I seem to not be playing it as intensively as previous MMOGs. I suspect I've caught a bug called "a life".

Crysis Warhead - finding this much more enjoyable than its predecessor

Want to get my mitts on Far Cry 2 and Dead Space.  Both on the PC; not sure what exclusive to console titles I particularly fancy atm.

Halo 3 that I borrowed from a friend.  Just about to beat it unless there are a bunch of false endings.  Not a bad game, I just don't get the hype.  I probably made my experience worse by the having questions of "why is this considered good? isn't this just a shooter?" going through my head the entire time. 

Presentation is well done, the music is pretty good, and it's has a reasonable degree of difficulty.  Ally AI is atrocious in parts, especially when driving.  Not sure how that got past QA.  I mean, they simply cannot drive past some areas and just get stuck.

Heh, at least I'm finishing it.  Can't stay I even try that with most standard shooters.

I just had a few games enjoyed it thus far I love the physics engine, but I have hit a stumbling block. The team I have assembled for the last four missions seems to have lower attributes than the guys that haven't even been on a mission, and to boot they are a level lower. I liked the idea in x-com that the amount of involvement a soldier had in a mission improved his skills beyond his compatriots, know any way to fix this?. Plus for me tactically it's only a slight step up from I can just load up all my guys with HMGs and blow the crap out of everything not exactly tactically astute but it sure is a blast.

EDIT: I found a cheat that lets me set my player levels gives them all good stats ;)

Don't you be trashing my precious NHL 09.

I heard the new online league thingie owns face.

This is true, but that game is far from perfect:

Too many cheese goals. Really EA, you need to work on the goalie angles AI. Way too easy to dangle out on the forehand, and pull the shot back across the net with the goalie leaning. Also some misc. other cheese crap, like coming in at the goal along the goalline is way too fucking easy to score.

Also....not enough penalties. Not Even Close. Interference calls are RARE. They also need to actually call Boarding. Double majors for high sticking would be nice, but that's something that might come up far too often; not sure how would you make drawing blood random enough to be reasonable.

And the Protect the Puck action/ability, while a nice addition, is a little too fool-proof.


The game can still be all kinds of fun, especially when you happen to get matched up against another team that tries to play Actual hockey.

You're about to reach quintuple digits.  :awesome_for_real:

Guitar Hero World Tour.

Never have I been so happy to pass on Rock Band 1 and 2.

Its way better so far.  Its evolutionary, not revolutionary, but the genre pretty much is solidified now.  I kinda want an actual microphone though.   The Controller mic aint all that.  My vocalist is a cutie though.

So far the only thing I don't like is how Midori and Pandora's outfits are all fucked up.  Midori got sleazed up quite a bit, and Pandora went retardo gothic.

After Halloween I shall have money for VMWare Fusion since my trial ended last week and I will probably finish up Icewind Dale.  My Bard and Druid are level 11 now.  I am in the 2nd main area of the Dwarf mines.  The outdoors area with the pile of Trolls.  I hate Trolls.  Regeneration is butt.  And I only have so many flame arrows left.

Sacred 2

Saint's Row 2.  I got this after reading a few posts here and I'm ready to say that SR2 is everything that I wanted GTAIV to be and more.  Rockstar can lick my balls.  My gangster looks like a cross between Al Sharpton and Grimmace.  I probably made a mistake by making him a high-talker: picking the female voice.  The comments referencing the old game and main character are funny even though I never finished the original and really have no idea who all these people are.  "Did you do something with your hair? You seem different, other than talking now."  "Yeah, I get that a lot." :awesome_for_real:

Infinite Undiscovery
Mana Khemia
LotRO
Dead Space
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

Back to Disgaea 3 and just started the Mother 3 translation.  :drill:

Considered reupping to WoW, but instead I'll just allow WoW and WAR subs to run out.

I realized I never finished Bioshock, so I loaded it up to polish it off before Fallout 3 disappoints me. I might take 20 xbox games to get a dollar off Fallout.

That may be worth it for the annoyance factor alone.

Is it as bad as they say?

Sacred 2 is yet another Diablo clone, nothing spectacular. You punch some enemies until loot falls out, you get punchy until you amassed enough loot to supply all your characters (shared bank vault included), then you move on to the next thing that is not quite Diablo. Rinse and repeat until Diablo 3 arrives.

There is a story as well, but the sound in the intro is buggy and I can't understand what the wizardly old guy with the dusty tome in front of him tries to tell me. It has something to do with Angels coming down to earth and sharing their magic with everyone. I play an ancient statue that can replace body parts as upgrades. I use a flamethrower to roast elves and talk about directives from my creators. I go out and search for Sarah Connor. Who needs the crappy story when you can make it up yourself.

Infinite Undiscovery got kicked to the curb by Fable II.

Considering all the upcoming games I'm not sure when I will make it back to IU.

- Trackmania
- cs 1.6

Bored of cod4, back to cs.

Trackmania is wonderful. Or would be if it didn't have Starforce.

I don't think it does. I got the free one from steam, don't see any starforce.

Or, AM I BLIND?  :uhrr:

Demo =! full version

yessir

Dead Space [PC] ... "giggity++".
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin [DS] ... damn thing locks up on me rarely when casting Bible and pisses me off.
Little Big Planet [PS3] ... bought an Eye and a third controller today just for this game.
Fallout 3 [360] ... I frown every time I hear a line of dialog or sound effect lifted directly from Oblivion.  I smile every time I dismember someone.

Fallout 3

Fallout 3, second try, now with 100% more English language.

Picked up Far Cry 2 for PC over the weekend and sunk many hours into it, fantastic game - is no one else playing? I didn't notice a main thread for it.

Still enjoying Fable 2 and Saints Row 2. Can't remember the last time I had so many great games to play all at once. It's wearing my wife out. My kids just know me as "that guy that sits in front of a screen" these days.

Heh, a lot of stuff I want to buy is going to stay on store shelves for the moment.  Not hurting for cash, but I find myself in a situation where feel the need to strengthen my cash reserves.

In that vein, Fallout 3 right now has my full attention.  I have Uncharted (borrowed from a friend) for when I'm finished with that title.

I was wary of it not being developed by Crytek. How does it stack up against the two Crysis games? I enjoyed Far Cry alot (on cheat mode).

I've been hurting for cash for a while now, and time is always a crunch. Since I've started dedicating more time to guitar, that's got to come out of gaming time, which was only about an hour a night anyway. I did black out the living room for saturday morning Fallout 3 for like three hours. Most contiguous gaming I've done since last winter.

More for the short-term radar thread, but I might get the EQ2 expansion. Definitely getting GTA4 in december and probably Saints Row 2 in january, since I like the random driving around and messing with stuff aspects. Possibly Sacred 2.

Haven't played either Crysis so I couldn't tell you. And it's really "Far Cry" in name only, I guess just for the brand recognition.

I think they've done the whole open-world nonlinear environment really well. The game is gorgeous (and runs really smooth on my modest machine) and the environment itself is just fun to be in. It is definitely one of those player-directed kind of games, if you just want to just go from mission to mission and beat the game you'll be kind of bypassing what the game is really about (and probably get frustrated by travel times and dealing with patrols/checkpoints). It's fun to just take your time in the game, explore, collect diamond caches, and think of creative ways to kill all the angry men that will shoot you on sight, while soaking in the ambiance of the lush gameworld.

Valkyria Chronicles <3

Fallout 3, Guitar Hero World Tour, Dragon Quest 4.

Once I get a few bucks 30 dollars for Orange Box and 30 for Mass Effect seems likely.

Getting back to Icewind Dale is a priority, as is eventually getting to Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions.  Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 and I will.

Not to mention all the rad stuff released on XBLA and Wii Ware/VC.

MY ASS IS BUSY.  Even moreso since I am making (poor) attempts at getting a life.

A really long time ago, years and years, when we first moved to the US and got Comcast, they had this deal with Fileplanet.  If you had Comcast, you could have all the Fileplanet stuff - Insider, Founder's thingy, etc. - for free.  Well, that got discontinued and Comcast even shut down that Game whatever it was called whatchamahootsie, but they never turned it off so I still had it all for free.  A couple of months ago or so, we even discontinued Comcast and I still have all that stuff for free.  Anyway, I keep getting all these hit points stacked up and I decided, just in case it goes poof! soon, to use them.  Gordon had downloaded Deus Ex, I just downloaded Painkiller, Overdose, Beyond Good and Evil and The Awakened.  I don't know much about them except I'm pretty sure you have to put up with having a dick to play them.  I STILL HAVE 1200 HIT POINTS.  Bloody Hell.  I can't use these things up!

If they don't suddenly discontinue me, they'll plop down a bunch more hit points soon, I think.  They do that.  So here's a list of what they have left.  I've removed the ones we've downloaded - well, mostly me - and the games that we already have. 


Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
HitPoints: 600

RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Wacky Worlds
HitPoints: 300

Driver™
HitPoints: 300

Atari: 80 Classic Games in One
HitPoints: 500

Deer Hunter® 2004
HitPoints: 400

RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2
HitPoints: 500

GUN
HitPoints: 350


Hitman: Blood Money
HitPoints: 350

Praetorians
HitPoints: 400

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
HitPoints: 400

CRC 2005
HitPoints: 400

Tomb Raider: Chronicles
HitPoints: 400

Deus Ex: Invisible War
HitPoints: 600

Thief: Deadly Shadows
HitPoints: 400

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
HitPoints: 400

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
HitPoints: 300

Marine Park Empire
HitPoints: 400

Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
HitPoints: 600

Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
HitPoints: 600

X2 - The Threat
HitPoints: 350

Nemesis of the Roman Empire
HitPoints: 200

Strategic Command: European Theater
HitPoints: 500

Commandos 2: Men of Courage
HitPoints: 400

Singles - Flirt up your Life
HitPoints: 400

Buccaneer's Bounty
HitPoints: 350

Neighbors from Hell: On Vacation
HitPoints: 350

I don't know why I suddenly got upset with hit points.  I've ignored them for the last six years!  I'm becoming paranoid, I think.

Beyond Good and Evil requires you to put up with having a vagina to play.

I'd get Thief 3 from that list. Hitman 2 might be better on PC, I hated Hitman on a console. Prince of Persia was a cool game until I got fed up with their obsession with figuring out some obscure trick to win a battle, the platforming was fun.

Currently:  lots of LBP

I gotta say the creativity of the Japanese made levels is amazing!

Signe, that is a list full of shitty. The Combat Mission games are fun if you like wargames.

Yeah, they look pretty shitty to me, too.  It's just free.  I'll get the Theif one and then ignore hit points for another six years, I guess.

GUN is a fun game if you've never played it. It's a western, and I believe it's very well-produced.

But unfortunately, you play a character with a wang. :drillf:

I'm beginning to get used to having a wang when I play games. 

Where on earth did you find that? You never cease to amaze me.

Am I the only one who doesn't really mind gender in a game?

I'll play male or female characters, and whenever I get to choose I pick whatever I feel like that day.  Sometimes its a HAWT CHIXXOR, other times its a dude.

No, most men don't seem to mind.  They come up with all kinds of excuses for why they do it, but the truth is obvious.  Nearly all the women I know who play MMOs dislike being male characters, even the ultra feminine frail looking elves.  So, if you're a boy, you're normal and probably somewhat dainty.

I'm trying not to get irritated that my wife and son are so incredibly shitty at Little Big Planet.  I've done one or two of the two-player puzzles by myself using two controllers, but my wife can't launch herself off of a springing platform.  My first goal, once I have an acceptable number of items unlocked, will be to make a level for them both to suck in.

I wouldn't. Thief 3 is full of teh shitty. Not as bad as Deus Ex: Invisible War but fuck it's pretty shitty.

\

I had this same exact problem for a good while.  Couldn't get pass taht one scary wedding level in the story mode.  My recomendation make them play that level (the one with a ton of springy platforms above the spikes and make them practice.  At first i tried like a trampoline (jumping at the bottom of the spring), but now find it do best if i jump just BEFORE the top of the spring.  let the spring do the work for me.

The platforming in LBP is really loose.  It's like swimming in some places.  My wife hates is because it is not responsive enough, also not having unlimited lives seems strangely punitive for this game.  As for launching from springing platforms (or anything), you must jump once the upswing has started.  It makes sense when you think about it but runs counter to years of platforming experience.

Back to my chicken noodle soup of Twilight Princess. Not having played it since it came out, I forgot a lot of things so it's not totally like a replay.

Fallout 3 and Uncharted. 

Uncharted is really good, but I don't care for the gun battles at all. Just read here about shooting from the hip.. so I'll try that.  Still, it's kind of weird that the enemies seem to have a similar health regeneration to yourself.  Anyhow, the story, voice acting, platforming, and  the general feel of it make it worth playing.

That. I don't know when I turned into such a pussy, but I just want to play the game without getting into all those pesky fights.

Fallout 3 and Gears of War 2. Nothing original in this household, baby!

Finished Uncharted.  The gun fights got a lot easier and my only deaths were due to the laser sighted one hits (laaaaaaaaaaaaame).  Overall, great game and just one of the cooler video game experience I'll remember for a while.

Then, being bored and a little done with Fallout 3 for now, I load up GTA IV.  Mistake.  I must have really been in need of a GTA fix when I played this, because I was not having fun.  The controls were bad, it looked ugly as sin, the missions were annoying and death/failure meant a complete re-do, and everything just felt unnecessarily dark.  Uggg... I felt bad after playing it and I'm not sure I want to again.  I really wish they'd re-skin San Andreas for a next gen.

Taking a trip to GameStop tomorrow I think.  Just not sure what I want to get.  Almost leaning toward WOLK just because I want something lengthy and I might finish a title like LBP and Fable II too fast. 

Tangent: I was surprised to discover this week than Uncharted was scored by Greg Edmonson (Firefly).

Currently level 15 almost 16 in Fallout 3, and my Heroine is level 38 in Dragon Quest 4.

I hate that stupid angel NPC. She sucks and is useless. 

Isn't anyone playing CoD 5? I want you all to buy it and review it before I lay down my cash. :grin:

Aswome. Can I borrow your time travel device?

I'm almost level 12!   :awesome_for_real:

It's that time of the year again: unbeknownst (love this strange word :P) to everyone but a small, ultra-nerdy niche of the PC gaming population, the yearly edition of Sports Interactive's Football Manager (Worldwide Soccer Manager in the US of A) has been released.

Game reaches the top of most charts across europe, wives and girlfriends screams alike in terror.

I just got Force Unleashed for the Wii from rental, so am playing it a bit. Sloppy SLOPPY controls.

Also, playing the demo of the above-mentioned Football Manager. Wow, now that is addictive.

There is only one sports management sim I care about.

NES Baseball Stars. 

And I don't even like baseball!

Nobody actually likes baseball.  It's what they watch while waiting for football to start back up.

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.  It's somewhat difficult, but very good.
Fable II.  It's a real mix of stupid and brilliant, but I'm enjoying it well enough.
LotRO: Mines of Moria.  Expansion nice, me like.
Nile Online... sort of.  I check in every couple of days to find out if my jews are starving.  More fun than Text Zombie.

Just got Mines of Moria and Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Theoretically, I'm also playing Hinterland.

In theory:

EQ2
Dead Space
Cod WaW
NHL 09
GoW 2
Fallout 3
Fable 2

In practice, I've been coming home and just reading a book while watching the news, and pretending to act last weekend. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2KBnfiyLU)

Yeah, I know, shameless plug for my friends and the test vid they made. They just needed me to play a bit part. :oh_i_see:

I could have been home playing on my 360, but noooooo!  :grin:

That movie was really well done.

I take it you were Emily?

If I was, then I would have better boobies to fondle at will.

Currently:

Gears 2 (Horde mode = luv)
Fallout 3 (plz to be fixing the random freezes on the PS3 version, Bethesda)
Saints Row 2
Fable 2

More games need full co-op a la Saints Row 2/Gears 2.

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/99701/WOW.png)
Made me crack up.

http://www.playauditorium.com/

Yeah, that part was pretty funny. Also, wasn't me. I was the creepy friend at the door.

I'M TOLD I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE.

Just wanted to emphasize that point. I do not wear glasses, I hadn't shaved in days. I don't actually speak like that. And we didn't bother to move the light rig, and we were losing daylight rapidly at that point in the shoot.

Was still fun though, and it's hilarious to see people crack up while watching the whole thing.

 :awesome_for_real:

Dead Space
Fallout 3
Left4Dead
Wow

Little Big Planet.  Uncle Jalapeno's explosives-riddled levels can bite my ass, but the rest of it is very entertaining.

Fable II.  I don't know what is so addictive about this stupid-ass game.  I am erecting statues of myself which depict me shitting my pants.  I am having unprotected sex with anyone that cares to follow me to a bed, and if the damn buggy-ass bed actually allows me to.  I drank three bottles of wine, three boxes of wine, three beers and one bottle of whiskey in one sitting, then puked twice and noticed I had gone from about 150 pounds to 250 while standing there.  Also, not eating coupled with exercise will not help me lose weight, only eating celery.  Only by eating celery.  I fucked the furniture store owner and I don't get any significant discount.  I really should go back to Infinite Undiscovery.

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia... I am told that I can suck glyphs off of enemies as they cast them, which fills my pants with glee, but I have not been able to try it yet.

LotRO, wherein I have reached level 20 and can now play dress-up.

GalCiv II 2.0, wherein I was last playing the Yor Collective and overexpanded in the early game, breaking my economy's spine over the knee of colony upkeep costs.

Fallout 3, wherein I now have 100 in Small Guns.

Dead Rising, wherein I find the story might be completable now that I have the Real Mega Buster.  Although that Jeep full of convicts is still an huge pain.

Left 4 Dead, wherein I died horribly and had great fun doing so.

Nile Online.  Something I can pay attention to for a few minutes every day or two is kind of nice.

LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga.  Still have not cracked 80%.

Yeah... Somehow that encounter is tougher than most of the other boss fights.  Especially if you are trying to rescue idiot survivors at the same time.  They'll sneak it a hit/stun from the .50 in the first or last frames of the roll/evasion move.  If you don't find a tree you can be chain-stunned.

Fable II and WoW.

Fable II is really fantastic.  I also liked Fable I a great deal, so this is no shock. There's just something to this game.  I'm a scantily clad hussy kicking butt for goodness, and I moonlight as a lumberjack/artist model. I think Molyneaux had it right when he asked for non gamers to try this one out.  It plays a lot, combat and quest wise, as "my first RPG", but the way it brings that in with all of the hidden goodies and depth really creates a captivating package.  Visible bugs are a little annoying, however.

WoW is still WoW. It'll be WoW tomorrow and possibly for a few months.  Interesting diversion, but quality single player experiences will always take precedence.

Just hit level 20 last night in Fallout 3, and finished the main quest in Dragon Quest 4.  Its almost time to start some new games.  I kinda feel bad.  Ive been playing both pretty much exclusively for a month now with only the odd forays into other games.

I have been messing around a little with Reign of Swords on the iPod Touch and its not too shabby but its not mindblowing or anything.  I might put it through its paces this weekend as my portable game.  Either that or the Rainbow Islands remake on the PSP.

I tried to play Fable 2 last night but it kept crashing and corrupting my save files.  Pretty frustrating.  At the moment I'm not sure if it's my 360 or Fable 2.

So, I'll be playing more Fallout 3 which took some warming up to.  I don't think I even would have picked it up had a friend not gifted it to me. 

Also, SSF2T: HD Remix!  PSN:  Happy_Hedonist.

EDIT:  Happy Turkey day, you jerks!

I made four different rocket cars in LittleBigPlanet last night.  Two were unicycles with rockets attached to the wheel.  Next I am working on a bulldozer with working treads.

This weekend I made myself "clean my plate" and finish all the games that I stopped playing when I got to the last level. It's a bad habit of mine - I don't want the game to be over yet, so I put it down, then I end up with a stack of games that just have final boss fights awaiting.

I finally finished Okami and Super Paper Mario, but didn't really get around to Folklore. Next time, I guess.

Tank treads are fucking hard to make in LBP.  Actually, even harder than making the treads is getting them linked around the wheels.  Making the damn wheels is pretty hard, too.  I put the treads on the back burner to work on my level idea, and so far it is working well enough without the treads... but I really would like to get them working.  My efforts so far have shown me that I will have to create tools and machines to strap the treads to the wheels and this fills me with geek-glee.

Castlevania: OoE is also very hard in a weird way.  The stage boss is at the beginning of the map and seems easier than just getting through the map.  Still loads of fun if you like a 2D Castlevania.

I played Lurking in Shadows and it was neato.

I updated PixelJunk Monsters, played on Casual and again quit in disgust.

Downloaded Loco Roco: Cocorecho! for the boy.  The controls are far more frustrating than in the previous game.  I want to see the loco rocos all die horribly for being so incompetent.

Also LotRO and Fable II.  These are wife-games and are consuming time I might otherwise spend playing L4D or Dead Space or Fallout 3.  LotRO is at least very fun.

Finally sat down and finished The Witcher.  It was damn solid and when they make the sequel, I'll be there in line.

Wife finally got me to re-sub up for WoW (on the 10 day Burning Crusade trial right now).

Spectromancer (Its basically Astral Masters without Deck Construction and with Achievements nobody cares about, but its good to kill off an hour before bed when I miss the Energy to play anything else)

Dead Space (Hell if I know why I love Survival Horror games when I hate Horror movies)

Fallout 3, exploring all locations I haven't seen yet from a save point right before the last mission (or, as I call it, the thing that will never happen in my nonretarded Fallout continuity)

Lord of the Rings Online (levelling until I can get a a Legendary weapon so that I can ignore the game again).

Spectromancer needs better marketing. I'd never even heard of it, and I can't say that all that often.

I hear you, if it weren't for these boards here I wouldn't know it existed, either.

I played Civilization to death, purchased civ III but never played it.  For the 4 day weekend I purchased civ IV via steam and have played it non stop ever since.  Great game.  I also purchased Titan Quest and the expansion for $9 on steam but haven't played it beyond the first town.  I own the original TQ without the expansion but for $9 steam was the way to go to get the latest.

I got Commander: Europe at War for the Mac at 50% off this weekend.  Its pretty rad.  Turn based hex wargaming.  So far my current game has me as the Axis powers ( in the tutorial start up you play the Axis ) taking out Poland pretty quickly, then declaring war on Denmark.   It was a short war there. When the Italians joined in they started rampaging about north Africa and are on their way to conquering that whole area by their little sucky selves.  Russia declared war on me but I had enough dudes on the border to not only hold out, but in many areas push their poorly trained and equipped forces back with the powers of technology research and superior human rights abuses.  I just took France in 41-42 with a little help from Italy and Romania attacking below Switzerland while Germany assaulted from the north, breaking through to Paris.  Train transport sent most of my armor and infantry over to the Eastern Front while I leave a garrison and my airplanes to deal with England and its pesky airplane harassment.  They are trying to send some landing boats into France but I gots their ass handled.

My verdict is that it is a very fun mass scale wargame and I likes it, even if the sound goes bonkers and stops working if I dare have iTunes going while playing. 

I thought France was more of a pentagon shape.

Out-pile:
XCOM
Bully
Dead Space
Fallout 3
World of Goo
Civ 4: beyond the sword

In-pile:
Grim Fandango (Yeah, I somehow missed it)
X3: Reunion (if I can get into it and not have it feel like a really lonely huge world)
Maybe some more adventure games, I never played monkey island or sam & max either, I may look them up.

I'm almost level 20 in Fallout 3!

I'm getting into a kind of Far Cry mentality with this one, I keep reloading fun areas and playing through them. Last night I was down by the Nuka Cola factory, there's this little town with a coupe Enclave outposts and lots of raiders. I found a way to get onto rooftops, and just kept playing through that area, wiping everything out and then reloading and trying it with different weapons and tactics. Such a fun game.

I'm still looking for Nuka Cola Quantum bottles to finish that quest before I go to complete the game.  I knew I shoulda grabbed all those I saw and just put them in my Megaton house.
But the thought of wandering through 30+ locations just to find glowy bottles seems to be a dumb idea. 

I can play games again thanks to PS3 :awesome_for_real:

So I'm playing Lego Batman for now until the HDTV arrives, when I shall be playing LBP, Fallout 3 and Dead Space.

Hm. I wasn't on a quest, just exploring. Probably won't be able to do it now because all the Nuka Quantum in the DC Wasteland is going to feed my Mk2 Nuka Grenades habit. BLAM!

There is a quest out in the SW boonies that has getting 30 bottles of the stuff as an optional bit.  I have like 21, but I know there are random bottles here and there.

Same, I've been building Nuka-Grenades left and right.  I'll never be able to do that quest because I've already used a crap load of the quantum floating around.

I'm still annoyed there is no Gauss Rifle (that I've seen) in this version of the game though.

HDTV all up and running now so I fired up DeadSpace last night. Only got 30 mins in before stopping to watch Batman Begins on BluRay but it managed to make me go  :drill: at the purty graphics and then  :uhrr: :ye_gods: at the scary monsters!

Think I'm gonna save it for late nights with the lights off, muahaha.

Oh hai, guess what quest I got last night?  :oh_i_see: I wonder if the quest reward would be a Nuka Grenade v.3 schematic, since I found a Nuka Grenade schematic after I had already gotten one and the second one was v.2? Does it work that way for all schematics?

As far as I know, yea. Problem is, by the time you get the 30 bottles to get the scematic, where are you going to find any more to make grenades with?

I found about 20 before I knew about the quest, sold them all, did the quest, then proceeded to find a shitload more. But I'm evil, so I've got access to twice the treasure troves a good person does.

This game is turning out to be so long, I'm not sure I have an evil playthrough in me. I'm planning on a nice sneaky ninja style to counterbalance my goody-gooderton with big guns and bombs. Might have to shelve it for a few months after I finish this playthrough and come back later. Fucking great game, though. Been really enjoying it more than anything since GTA:SA, I think.

I've only just started Fallout 3 and it's gonna be a long, slow process I think.

Also just spent an hour playing WipEoutHD which is fucking awesome but gave me serious motion sickness. Never had that before from a game. I love it  :drill:

Same, my plan is to shelve it for 6 months until just before the DLC Alaska campaign and then do another run.  I played Fallout 2 through 4 times, I probably won't do that now but 2?  Sure, I can see that.

I totally forgot that game existed.  I loved me that game back on the PS1 (don't recall the version).  And now that I wasted 35 bucks on GT5 and am hugely disappointed by it's limitations, I may have to check this one out.

I finished Fallout 3 last night.  As mentioned in the Fallout 3 thread I was less than amused by the ending slideshow that took about 2 minutes.
The reward for the bottles is another schematic?  Glad  decided to skip it.  I don't XBLA Gamer Points whore anyhow.
Who needs it?  By level 10-12 I didn't need any weapons but Chinese Assault Rifle and Combat Shotgun, with Hunting Rifle taken out when repair parts or ammo ran low.  Then Plasma Gun and Chinese Assault Rifle for the endgame.
I used a missile launcher twice, mines 2-3 times at low levels, and a couple early close combat weapon uses.  Never used any heavy weapons or mini nukes.

Now to figure out what becomes my next big home game to play.  Guitar Hero World Tour continues my GH policy of playing it a couple times a month and eventually completing it sometime.
Today I will continue Commander Europe at War which I may finish as the Axis tonight depending on how things go.
So next week I gotta pick my next game.

Right now I am on at least a rest of the month game buying freeze, if not through January.  (A big clearance sale at Fantasy Flight Games netted me about 1000 dollars of AT 43 and Confrontation for about 350.)

Thus its time to properly play some of my existing games.   (Ill include 5 possibles in each category)

I just don't know which.  Start a barely touched or never played game, (Zelda Wii, Silent Hill 3, Blue Dragon, Orange Box, Metal Slug Anthology) take a game I got someways in and quit so long ago I should take it from the top (Lunar Eternal Blue PS1, Wild Arms, Final Fantasy 5, Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter, Rygar PS2), or finish a game I am very far in and hope the time not played won't hurt my ability to complete it. (Final Fantasy X, FF12, Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land, Ys the Ark of Napsthim, La Pucelle)

Then there is that final category: Redemption.  Starting from the top a game that for whatever reason I quit and never really wanted to go back to because it annoyed the fuck out of me.   You know, give it one more chance.  Just because it abused me once doesn't mean itll hurt me any more right?  IT ONLY HIT ME CUZ I CRIED! (Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence, Final Fantasy 8 (HAHA WHAT A PILE OF SHIT), Robot Alchemic Drive (ALMOST WORSE THAN FF8 IN BEING A GAME GOD HAS FORSAKEN), Battlestar Galactica, Call of Cthulhu)

Then there is the option for casual or retro play for a while.  Arcade collections, pick up and play titles, fighters, SHMUPS, ect.

I have so many choices its making it hard to pick a choice.  I oould easily triple the amount of options in every category.

It is fucking awesome in 1080p. I seriously think it might be bad for me though. My heart was pounding for about 20 mins after I turned it off and I think I was leaning into the curves too much because it sent my sciatica into a total spasm! 100% pure adrenaline rush game  :awesome_for_real:

Yeah, why bother having fun? Be efficient.  :oh_i_see:

My endgame was a bit anticlimactic. I had a named plasma rifle, gobs of ammo, maxed out energy weapons skill and very high sneak skill. I was 3 shotting Mutant Masters, occasionally sneak criting the for insta ash.

You have Rygar and Call of Cthulhu (which I suppose is Dark Corners of the Earth).

The answer is clear.
Both.

NHL09 - I finally got called up from the minors!

Anyone who hasn't played either of the God of War games might as well pick them up from Amazon for $8 each (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_7797732_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000208101&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=04MCZ3VFD8221G9TRQBA&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463959131&pf_rd_i=468642) (today only).

Hmm.. I might just do Rygar.  The thought of dying via running away from Deep One hybrids in Call of Cthulhu because I didn't open a door and make a leap out of a window in the exact time the game wanted me to sort of horrifies me.  Especially since I would need to restart the game on the 360 to do so.

That game was delayed for HOW long and they made it so unfairly hard?  In those years of delays nobody once said "This might be too tough, maybe we should make it easier or throw in a difficulty level"?

REALLY?

I did finish Guitar Hero World Tour's main tour as a medium Lead Guitarist.  Final Tier was more me staying alive than actually playing them well.  I fear for the songs in Asgard.  I don't do complicated changeups very well, and every mistake I make tends to breed more mistakes.  (Which is why it took me over a year of GH playing to move from Easy to Medium, which I have been at for over a year and a half now.)

Commander is fun, but Germany takes it on the chin circa 1943.  If I haven't conquered all of Europe, have the UK shut down in the ocean and air, and am slamming Russia like a porn actor in a less than nice scene (HATE THOSE WANT HAPPY FUN NOOKIE PLZ) slamming .. well you know.. I am doomed by 44 and playing out a losing game for 24 more turns to get endgame score doesn't seem like a fun use of my gametime.

Historically accurate but not so much fun.  I guess I could play it on an easier difficulty level but that doesn't really seem fair either.

You are still in the fun part of the game.

Cthulhu is easy as hell. Those are the best parts in the game.

Well, that and what happens if you fail a puzzle way later in the game.

Since my 360 is still away sick, and I have too much work to do, for work. Should be mostly clear on that by tomororw night, except for a couple of bits of paperwork.

I've been dabbling in a very small amount of WoW. Also went back to Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Mostly out of bloody-mindedness in wanting to finish the damned thing. So then I'll be able to uninstall it, and then never speak of it again.

What happened to me was the CD slipped back into the case and never reemerged.

I also uninstalled the game after being unable to get past the tentacle monster thing after trying for like 2 hours. Then I read it only gets worse. It was already too 'shooty' a horror game for my liking, so I just stopped.

It got a bit shooty on the later bits, but the ending IMO more than made up for it. I finished it, and I don't finish a lot of games like that, so it can't be that hard.

Been playing Da Blob lately, and some My Life As A King since the Wii is already on.  Also Monster's Den.

Talking about shooty bits in Cthulhu and the RE5 stuff, along with the non-zombie survival game thread, got me thinking about the old  :dead_horse:

Why all the shooty? Because it's easy? The GC remake of RE and RE0 are a couple of my favorite games, mostly for the atmosphere and puzzles. The slow-moving zombies were enough of a threat to keep you from just standing around. But the bosses and any shooty-type fast-moving stuff was just annoying and getting in the way of a good, slow-paced game.

I'm tired of shooting things in almost every game I own. (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/images/smiley_icons/yawn.gif)

Almost enough to make me load up Thief 2 and ghost it.

I sacrificed my Cthulhu dvd to Yog-Sothoth. He ate it with some fava beans and a nice chainti.

I'm currently playing the shit out of L4D and occasionally hopping over to CoD5: Not-so-modern warfare. (I refuse to call it World at War).

What can I say, I loves my zahmbahs.

dude, Persona 4. :awesome_for_real:

Space Siege, finished with this one. Mildly entertaining for a bit but overall a crap game.
Assassin's Creed: Had good fun but what a horrible storyline implementation. Probably made by the same guy who designed the retarded menu structure.
I'll give Rise of the Argonauts a whirl in the coming days. It looks like it could be decent RPG.

A month and a half later?


Fallout 3.


Same playthrough.

Finally sidelined Fallout 3.

Just WOWing for now. Ever since I managed to get the English WOW to work with the Korean servers, it's my new happy pastime. Only problem is that I can't see the Korean. I mean, the quests and AH and mobs and NPCs are all in English. But the player names and chat show up as question marks. Or sometimes little clumps of question marks. Oddly enough, same thing when they hotlink items or such. I can click the link and get the English, but the link itself is a question mark clump enclosed in brackets in the appropriate color. Oh well. Still better than trying to figure out quests in Korean.

I think it's as simple as adding the correct font to your wow directory somewhere. It has been done before, the fonts should be somewhere on the internets.

Right now I am in a holding pattern I guess.  Reign of Swords on my iPod Touch, and home gaming is a casual mix of continuing my FF12 game if nothing else for Fran's badonkadonk and it doesnt require much actual thought or effort to play (its kinda like Dungeon Siege except its prettier and boss fights require me to do more than dully stare at the screen and try to see where the maps are blanked out and thus requiring me to visit it and cast Cura a whole lot..) and the Allied side at normal difficulty in Commander.  Late 42 and I have already had UK troop drops in France and early 43 has me assaulting Paris.  Too bad taking it back has failed to bring France in the game.  My endless mass of Aircraft Carriers and Battleship bombardment should count for bringing those froggy bastards back under direct control dammit! 

Curse you France!  But at least Rackham is HQed in your country so at least IRL you have a purpose and reason for existing...

With luck Russia can hold out.  Leningrad fell one turn before some armor would have relieved the city.  So close yet so far....  Moscow has fallen too but I have so many Russian troops around the city holding it will prove hard for the Germans.  I can only hope virtual Stalin died in the assault and did not escape to the backup capital...  But with my combat drops in the west, the Eastern Front should at least be eased off.  And I have pretty much OWNED the ocean.

I thought about Call of Cthulhu but decided not to.  If I want annoying fish men I would go back to WoW for a month.  Not Deep Ones, but Murlocs are cute in their own little way!

I played a bit of FFX 2 because I got it used for 10 bucks.  Tried it out as to see if it still worked otherwise FYE would be getting it back ala their used guarantee thingie.  15 minutes of play and I felt like a dirty old man. 

City of Heroes Mac open beta still hasn't started yet, and my Mac copy of Heroes of Might & Magic 5 has yet to arrive and I may need to have a talk with Freeverse about their slow shipping.

Eschalon Book 2 still aint out and thus I can't have some proper old school RPGing and the first one is only male character and download only at this point.  I dont mind not being able to play a nubile cutie, but paying 20+ for a digital download is a big nuh uh to me.  Plus its only 800 x 600 resolution and is an 07-08 released game.  Wasn't I running Voodoo 5 5500 titles in 1024 back in 2000?  I think I was!  Its pretty, but it looks off on a 24" iMac screen with a 1900 x 1220 native resolution. 

The whole DL only thing is the same reason I haven't bought Midnight Mansion, which is a Mac only homage to Montezuma's Revenge only with more levels and a level editor.  Again its fun, but is it pay for virtual product fun?

VMWare not accepting my password so I could order Fusion at 50% off and thus finish my game of Icewind Dale also is ticking me off and thus I will get it at less of a discount but with another program I need next year, probably around February when my DONT BUY FUN SHIT BECAUSE YOU SPEND TOO MUCH DICKHEAD vow ends.

So I am in a mix of a holding pattern slash too many games to play.  Those of you who buy a shitload of games every month blow my mind.  Ive got so much to play I am virtually paralyzed with what to play.

It was actually better as a teenager when I had a small selection of games to play.  I appreciated and played through more of them.  I got my money's worth. 

Persona 4.  I'm very early in but it's shaping up to be an improved experience on last year's masterpiece.  Quite an accomplishment, even if the camera sucks teh balls.

WoW.  I'm afraid of starting my DK in Northrend at 68 and scared of playing him with no rest EXP.  I'm not looking forward to possibly being underleveled at times.  Still, love the DK.

I want Christmas to get here so I can introduce LBP back into the ranks. Can only take so much grindy mechanics.

WoW Because I'm weak.

Just picked up a PS3 so I bought Wipeout right away and am enjoying that in small intervals before bed.  Waiting to see what Amazon puts up for Thursday Gold Box to see if I can pick up a new Uncharted and LBP on the cheap.

LotRO is slowly consuming more and more game time.  It really is super, and I don't mean that in a I'm-addicted-to-MMOs-and-will-play-anything way since I think the last time I spent this much time in a MMO was when some of us got into EVE back in 2006(?).

Otherwise I am just dabbling in places with my limited free time.  Saint's Row 2 made a comeback, a bit of My Life as a King (which is turning grindy) and various other small-time bullshit.

Castlevania: Order of Eclesia is taking up a significant amount of my time, in contrast with everything else other than LotRO.  Killjoy has already abandoned this because it is too hard, but I believe WoW is turning him into a massive pussy.

Finally, I have had entirely too much fun learning to implement Getopts::Long in a perl program.  Entirely.  I'm going to try to bend this enthusiasm into implementing a pair of crosslinked dictionaries in C#.  Or play some Mana Khemia.

My wife and kids are out of town, so I've taken my projector out into the living room where I have a massive wall (double ceiling) to project on.  So I turn out the lights, crank up the home theater and have been playing Deadspace on about 180 inches of screen.  It has me squealing like a little girl, and is completely awesome.  Don't think it would have the same impact on an ordinary screen, not after doing it like this.  Awesome.

A buddy of mine just got me World in Conflict for the PC, so I'm dicking around with that. It's pretty, and seems like a decent RTS. I'm just not sure how much RTS I'm in the mood for now.

Still Fallout 3 for me. 2 weeks of 4+ hours a day (my back loves the PS3) and only just getting to the point-of-no-return in the main storyline quests. What an awesome game!  :heart:


BTW, discovered a fun game the other day: The Wipeout Inappropriate Music Game.  See if you can find the funniest music to play it to. Our winner so far was Leonard Cohen. Oh god I nearly did myself an injury laughing so much  :why_so_serious:

Yackety Sax makes every game better.

Bob Newhart during Forza 2.

I would be trying to test out the City of Heroes Mac beta but oh, it can take up to 48 fucking hours for the account renewal to be put in the system so I can play my old characters, and making an open beta client it insists my password or login info is incorrect.

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT ASS FUCK I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GODDAMNED GAME.  And I can only play it tonight and unless tomorrow is a blizzard and I use a weather day I won't be able to touch the game till Monday.

I had my computer downloading it since TUESDAY EVENING.

PLAY NOW DAMMIT.

And even worse I am not even sure my Mac will get into the game itself because I DARE to not upgrade to OSX 10.5 which apparently every new fucking Mac app needs these days even when in 10.4 days developers were happy to continue to allow older OS revisions to run the damned programs.

I'm not buying 10.5.  I am skipping it and waiting for 10.6 in the late winter-mid spring timeframe. 

This kind of fuck ass shit is why so many people go consoles.

GAME INTO MACHINE.  MACHINE TURN ON.  YOU PLAY.

(Ok, Xbox 360 users don't always get this, but its a shittily manufactured machine.  THE CONSOLE GAMER JOKES AT MICROSOFT'S EXPENSE ARE ALL FUCKING TRUE AREN'T THEY?)

Take your meds, dude.

They make me fat otherwise I would.   I barely eat as is.  Normal people can have Christmas cookies with the sprinkly goodness or the frosted tree or snowman or santa kind of cookie and all.

I cannot.  And even with exercise I generally just maintain my barely acceptable weight (roughly 170 with 150 desired) so something that makes me gain weight is not worth taking.  Which means I get to be more worried, pissed off, and depressed about shit.

And angry.  Lots of that.  Stupid game.  I had my heart set on bringing Agent Rolf, Cadette Babette, Fieros Rangerbot, and Ozohc Bandit out of retirement for at least a month. :(

Even NCSoft can't figure out what the problem is and has thus sent the ticket to a higher priority.  So instead of being able to do some superhero smashy smash I am here watching Macross 7 episodes for something to do since playing another game just doesn't feel right when I want to play one certain game.

Its like asking for a Millennium Falcon for Christmas and getting a couple Micronauts figures instead.  Its nice, but not what you wanted if that makes any sense.