So, what're you playing?

[Draegan]

I can't believe you're still playing that game.

[01101010]

So I finally took a few hours and finished FFXIII tonight.  I'm gonna post my rant in the FFXIII thread but suffice it to say, fuck that game.

I just picked 13 up due to having a free $20 BBY card. Thus, I shall be playing that in the coming months if I ever get a fucking day off between my two jobs.

[Yegolev]

Pretty sure League of Legends deserves a spot in my top ten games ever. I haven't finished Heavy Rain, FFXIII, God of War 3, Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 2.5 (Ahem, Awakening), Uncharted 2 or anything else because of it. Probably approaching 1,000 hours played. Haven't even started Call of Pripyat or the Majesty expansion. Haven't bought a game since God of War 3.

You are saying that you are in a LoL coma.  Knew a guy in a WoW coma.  He never bought a PS2.  I think he's in an iron lung right now.  He came out of it a few months ago, but ... some things just can't be fixed.  He's just half a man with Xbox Live Silver and a gym sock full of dreams.

Anyway...
FFXIII
DCSS

Too much work for significant gameplay.

[jakonovski]

My experience with friends who play too much LoL is that they get addicted to rage. They play and froth all night about assholes ruining their game and then go back to it again and again. I think I might be going there with BFBC2.

[Velorath]

Pretty sure League of Legends deserves a spot in my top ten games ever. I haven't finished Heavy Rain, FFXIII, God of War 3, Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 2.5 (Ahem, Awakening), Uncharted 2 or anything else because of it.

Meanwhile, Uncharted 2 is the only one of those games I haven't completed (mostly because the first Uncharted robbed me of any desire to play the sequel).

[Draegan]

Ok I need some assistance on my next PS3 game.

I've got Demon Souls right now, but I think I want to hold off on that until my DDO kick runs out.  So I need another game.  Right now I'm thinking of selling FFXIII and getting Resonance of Fate.  Any reason why I shouldn't and pick up a different game?

Suggestions?

[Segoris]

Finishing FF13 then right onto Resonance of Fate. Also, started up Aion again to play every now and then with RL friends. Then about 3-4 games of Age of Empires 3 with some RL friends. We all suck at RTS but enjoy playing against each other, so it works for now.

I was told to check out Tales of Vesperia, and to also keep an eye for the US release of Nier and Atelier Rorona. I haven't really investigated if these would be worthwhile to pick up though. Until then, it's just a waiting game for 3d Heroes and Mod Nation Racers.

[Yegolev]

Ok I need some assistance on my next PS3 game.

I've got Demon Souls right now, but I think I want to hold off on that until my DDO kick runs out.  So I need another game.  Right now I'm thinking of selling FFXIII and getting Resonance of Fate.  Any reason why I shouldn't and pick up a different game?

Suggestions?

Those are good.  I also like White Knight Chronicles, although the combat is rather poor alongside those other two.  It's pretty Dark-Cloud-2-y, if you are into that.

[Minvaren]

Got Loremaster.   

Haven't touched WoW since.  Checking out LotRO demo, it seems to have matured a bit since beta.

[Yegolev]

Checking out LotRO demo, it seems to have matured a bit since beta.

A lot.

FFXIII
Chronotrigger

[Azazel]

Just "finished"The Saboteur. Still going to dick around and finish the achievements/100% it. Not too much left to go, just 4 achievable achievements (as opposed to the bullshit ones so many games have). After that I may or may not go around and collect all of the final vehicles, then I may or may not go around and try to get the last couple of vistas.

Or not.

Hope to start Arkham Asylum shortly, when I finish this.

edit - just 1000'ed it'- Will probably collect the last vehicles tomorrow just for OCD's sake, but might skip the shittiest of the vistas that gave me the shits. Only a couple left, anyway.

[Yegolev]

I just started Class of Heroes on PSP.  It seems like someone wanted to mash together Mana Khemia and Etrian Odyssey.  More later.

Small amounts of Chronotrigger (DS), FFXIII (Chapter 11, yay), and White Knight Chronicles.

[jakonovski]

My Too Human arrived through the Icelandic ash cloud. It's total clownshoes, but somehow endearing. I likes.

[WayAbvPar]

BC2, Dark Wind, and just picked up FIFA World Cup. Looking forward to fixing Ireland v France 

[Sky]

FFH2, going to finish off GTA IV before I run through the expansions.

[Engels]

Picked up GTAIV for 8 bucks on steam this weekend. I had never played it before, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Much less console-y than I had been lead to believe. The production value on this game is through the roof, too.

Fake Edit: It has SecureCOM drm on it.

[Sky]

To enhance enjoyment: learn how to turn off your cellphone after a mission (bring up phone > options > sleep mode on). Not so much early on when you're still building contacts, but I always turn it off after I have a contact available. Otherwise it's obnoxious.  I love the game, even if SA was better. Still tweaking the graphics to the 1080p display, it ran GREAT at 720p, but I'm noticing some slowdown at the higher res. Yet to try it in 3D.

Need to find a way to banish the prompts for the social club garbage, too. At least they patched it so you don't need to log in for single player.

[jth]

PS3: Finished BFBC2 single player campaign, that was so much more fun than MW2. Started first Uncharted again, been a while since last time and back then it didn't have trophy support.

X360: Shadow Complex. Nice game, I dunno why I waited so long to get it. 

Wii: House of the Dead: Overkill, played through Director's Cut twice in co-op mode last weekend. It's awesome, but I don't see any reason for a fourth run so I'll be passing it around the Wii owners at work.

Browser (mostly at work): Lord of Ultima, I should have enough everything tomorrow to found a second city.

[Azazel]

Wii: House of the Dead: Overkill, played through Director's Cut twice in co-op mode last weekend. It's awesome, but I don't see any reason for a fourth run so I'll be passing it around the Wii owners at work.

Picked this up for super cheap the other day. Haven't opened it yet. How completable is it?


Been playing CoD4 on 360. At first I felt dirty, but it's pretty impressive looking on the big TV. It made me want to bust out my modern military models and do some kitbashing.
Have been playing Lips with the Wife. Apparently we will also be buying some of the Singstars very soon.
Also, a few levels of splitscreen EDF 2017. I'm going to finish all levels on all difficulties one day before I die, even if the game cheats like a mofo. And a little but more co-op Saints Row 2.

[jth]

Wii: House of the Dead: Overkill, played through Director's Cut twice in co-op mode last weekend. It's awesome, but I don't see any reason for a fourth run so I'll be passing it around the Wii owners at work.

Picked this up for super cheap the other day. Haven't opened it yet. How completable is it?

It takes only a couple of hours to play the story, but there's around a hundred different unlocks so you'd be playing it forever if you wanted them all. Another problem is that the game will be ridiculously easy after you get some of the better weapons (assault rifle or especially the auto-shotgun).

[Yegolev]

I don't consider "ridiculously easy" to be a problem when I am trying to get 100% in a game.  Just my view on it.

[Lantyssa]

Mostly playing house.

I went back to Guild Wars so I could finish up another cartography title and have the complete LotR collection waiting for me since Turbine got back to me yesterday.  Still doing a little WoW though I haven't had much time to devote to it.

[jth]

I don't consider "ridiculously easy" to be a problem when I am trying to get 100% in a game.  Just my view on it.

Me neither usually, but this is an on-rails shooter so even normally the gameplay consists of just aiming and pressing one button, and with the more powerful weapons it takes an effort to let anything close enough to hurt you. So it gets very boring.

[Rasix]

MMO free now.   

Getting stomped in Starcraft 2.  Getting stomped in Resonance of Fate too.  Chapter 10 sidequests are rough.

[NowhereMan]

Been replaying some CoH, fun stuff though the British campaign is annoying me, partly because the British seem more oddly specialised than the Americans and partly because every now and again a British soldier will say 'lootenant'. Also just started up a game of Deus Ex, applied the Hi-Def texture pack but the old school models and animation are unpleasant. Still having a ball sneaking my way past terrorists and stabbing people in the back of the head. Just waiting till I've got enough kit and skill points to start just blowing shit up instead.

[Teleku]

Been playing Valkyria Chronicles lately.  The game play is fun.  The graphics and style are nice.  Everything about the game is well done.  Except the fucking story.  Holy fuck, its like every horrible stupid cliche from Anime/Manga jammed into one game.  The dialog makes me physically wince every time I have to sit through it. 

Oh the things I go through for a good strategy game.  Why can't they make a god damn Final Fantasy Tactics 2?  The story of that game consisted of everybody betraying and murdering each other.  No bad romance.  No contemplation about the horrors of war.  No pigs with fucking wings.  Just backstabbing and murder.

[WayAbvPar]

Picked up X3 over the weekend, and have spent most of my free time either A) playing it, B) learning how to play it from forums, manuals, and guides, and C) trying to find a workaround for a technical issue. Luckily that has only popped up once, but I am terrified I will forget to save and have it lock up and cost me a few hours of time.

[Yegolev]

Why can't they make a god damn Final Fantasy Tactics 2?  The story of that game consisted of everybody betraying and murdering each other.  No bad romance.  No contemplation about the horrors of war.  No pigs with fucking wings.  Just backstabbing and murder.

This is one of the reasons I enjoyed FFXII so much.

[rk47]

I enjoyed Sims 3 World Adventure. I didn't bother with career, just adventures for loots in China. I was hooked, until I realize treasures respawn on every visit, that seemed to get my enthusiasm down a bit. Was grinding karate belt, then realized that wasn't the fun thing to do and moved on to France.

[Tarami]

World Adventures was ok. I didn't particularly warm to the idea of the collecting crap, I do that way too much in other games. I would have liked to see more of actually playing "the real" Sims abroad or being able to get special traits by marrying foreign Sims or some such, things that gave a little vector to the normal game. As it was it was just a bit too much like going abroad to play minigames.

Edit:
That said, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_3:_Ambitions is looking much more like what I'm looking for in a Sims expansion.

[Velorath]

I was completely unable to get into Bioshock 2 at all so I took a small break from games knowing that on the 18th I'd have both Red Dead Redemption and Alan Wake to play through.  I'll probably hold off on picking up Split/Second and 3D Dot Game Heroes until after I'm done with those.

[Yegolev]

Somewhat related to the The Sims talk, installing TS3 on a SSD and replacing the jet-engine-like 4870 with a "is it really on?" 5870 has helped texture loads.  Not completely mitigated, but helped.  I am set to just blame the programming and move on.  Also I am about to order myself one of those 5870s, the Sapphire is whisper-quiet and DX11.  Should be a nice step up from the 9800 GXT.  Not in a hurry since the most graphic-intense PC game I play is LotRO and it isn't DX11 yet.

Mostly been playing LotRO, toying with the idea of doing quests without my wife since she hasn't logged in for three months.  Instead I killed 450 wargs in Angmar, then ran a bunch of Skirmishes, traded some marks for better shoes and shoulderpads, and upgraded the shit out of my soldier.  I bought a self-heal skill for him but he still managed to die defending Gondamon.  He's a loser, but he's MY loser.

I have gotten tired of DCSS.  I kinda like some things about Stone Soup, but other things annoy me, mainly the limitations.  I am ready to look for another roguelike, but I am incredibly suspicious that there are not any better ones than the last time I looked two years ago.

I'm fighting the urge to play Titan Quest again.  Problem is that I'll forget all about TQ by the end of May whether I play it or not.

[jakonovski]

Haha, when I play BFBC2 on my 4890, the case starts generating lift.

[Sky]

My 8800GTX is finally starting to sweat, thanks to jumping from 720p to 1080p. Those are pretty great cards, given it's three years old and I'm a graphics whore.

[Yegolev]

You are not a graphics whore.  Not with that card.

In other news, Killjoy shows up and starts playing Borderlands.  After some discussion of that game's various failings, I go upstairs to do some scheduled work and end up reinstalling Titan Quest.  Stupid loot gland.