So, what're you playing?

[rattran]

Playing around with Sacred2 gold (the EU version with the expansion, now on steam) It's much more fun than at launch. Still crasherific, but good for a bit of arpg fun.

[Zetor]

Following a momentary lapse of sanity, I found myself as a tester of a translation project for "Generation XTH", a japanese dungeon crawler series for the PC. The game's actually pretty fun, feels like a cyberpunk take on oldschool Wizardry / Bard's Tale games* with some modern gameplay elements (crafting/upgrading, team skills, etc) and thankfully there's a functional automap unlike SOME GAMES I could name. Also, apparently you can transfer your characters between the games just like Wizardry 1-3 or Bard's Tale 1-3. Oh boy. 

Some screenshots here if anyone's interested, demo should be out within a week I think.

* apparently such games are HUGE over there, with their own sub-genre and everything

[satael]

Following a momentary lapse of sanity, I found myself as a tester of a translation project for "Generation XTH", a japanese dungeon crawler series for the PC. The game's actually pretty fun, feels like a cyberpunk take on oldschool Wizardry / Bard's Tale games* with some modern gameplay elements (crafting/upgrading, team skills, etc) and thankfully there's a functional automap unlike SOME GAMES I could name. Also, apparently you can transfer your characters between the games just like Wizardry 1-3 or Bard's Tale 1-3. Oh boy. 

Some screenshots here if anyone's interested, demo should be out within a week I think.

* apparently such games are HUGE over there, with their own sub-genre and everything

Seems interesting if the story is any good.

[koro]

The UI and art direction for that game gives me a big Infinite Space vibe.

[Fabricated]

Currently:
Sleeping Dogs - Probably getting towards the end which is kinda sad; this game is not very long. Still fun though. People complained about the shooting but it's alright- not very deep since you just jump over a table, hit slomo, and headshot your way to glory but if you bother mixing martial arts into it when you can it's fun.

New Vegas - Doing Mr. House's errands on a new character; I want to do a Mr. House ending this time since I did NCR before but man does a particular order from him make that hard. Supposedly there were cut conversations letting you talk him out of it too.

[Sky]

I'm almost pure kung fu in Sleeping Dogs. The fiancee has gotten sucked into the story and likes it, but the story segment I just did with a long gunfight was kind of meh...reminds me of so many game sequences like that...so I worked on kung fu-ing as many guys as possible (pretty much everyone not across the gallery from me). That was pretty cool.

Still hate the motorcycles, though. I'm the George of the Jungle of motorcycles.

[Fabricated]

Motorcycles are horrific. Ironically the smartcar knockoff is the funnest car to drive outside of the most topend racers since it handles really well. Of course, it doesn't work great for the highway chases so the game helpfully provides you a car capable of doing those.

[Rendakor]

Following a momentary lapse of sanity, I found myself as a tester of a translation project for "Generation XTH", a japanese dungeon crawler series for the PC. The game's actually pretty fun, feels like a cyberpunk take on oldschool Wizardry / Bard's Tale games* with some modern gameplay elements (crafting/upgrading, team skills, etc) and thankfully there's a functional automap unlike SOME GAMES I could name. Also, apparently you can transfer your characters between the games just like Wizardry 1-3 or Bard's Tale 1-3. Oh boy. 

Some screenshots here if anyone's interested, demo should be out within a week I think.

* apparently such games are HUGE over there, with their own sub-genre and everything

Do want.

[Mrbloodworth]

Planetside 2, lots and lots of planetside 2.

[Thrawn]

DotA 2, Planetside 2, Race for the Galaxy (Board game)

[bhodi]

Don't starve, NS2, anno, MWO. I've got skyim and sleepy dogs on the back burner, and mark of the ninja + hotline miami to finish.

[Ingmar]

Finished SR3, not sure what I should queue up next in the 10 games. I'm at 6/10 now. I might try Assassin's Creed 2 but fuck do I hate the meta-plot (and Desmond, and playing Desmond) in AC.

[Lt.Dan]

I resubbed to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and have played through their newbie island a couple of times.  Actually pretty enjoyable forming a group and fighting into a dungeon to kill a boss.  Funny to look back at some of the gameplay complexity that's been stripped from the genre - careful pulls, roaming mobs, puzzles, having to actually navigate in a dungeon.   

Won't last though. I'm being way to sentimental about old-schoold MMOs. Testicle pounding grind, corpse runs, and a vacant world await! 

[Samwise]

I burned through Little Inferno last night, having received it for Christmas.  Weird little game.  Oddly hypnotic.

[tazelbain]

Is there a game in Little Inferno? The description made it seem it was only a little sandbox.

Vaguard: generally everything is better today for MMOs except the feeling of "going were angels fear to tread" is gone.  As far as I know that has never been replicated. I guess it can't because all virtual dick punching has been removed, but it'd been interesting if it could be.

[Samwise]

Is there a game in Little Inferno? The description made it seem it was only a little a sandbox.

Kind of?  I'd say "toy" is a better description than "sandbox".  It has a story, and some small puzzles that give you achievements if you solve them, so it's game-like in that respect.  But the core of it is like a Facebook game where you click a thing so you can get money so you can buy a new thing to click.  The draw is that it's got cute hand-drawn-looking graphics, and instead of "click a thing" it's "set fire to a thing and watch it burn", and the fire effects are pretty (also some things explode and/or scream when burned).

[Sjofn]

dragon age 2

[Yegolev]

[jakonovski]

I haven't played anything per se, but I'm utterly addicted to Giant Bomb's Persona 4 endurance run. It's over 100 hours and I'm only a third through it all!

[Paelos]

I started playing Assassins Creed and Tropico 4. Also, I'm playing a long form game of Rome Total War again because I want Rome 2 to release already.

[ezrast]

Going to be spending a completely inappropriate amount of time playing Path of Exile, assuming the servers don't melt.

Open beta starts in two hours and the client is available for download, by the way. It's free for all and there are no more wipes incoming. There are no more excuses. If you have any interest in the ARPG genre at all and this is not making its way onto your hard drive, you are officially a bad person.

[Paelos]

But is it fun?

[MrHat]

But is it fun?

It is.

At least, the beta build I played a couple months back was damn fun.

[Job601]

But is it fun?

It is much less fun than Diablo 3 or Torchlight to play, but it's way more fun to talk about.

[Ingmar]

Does it still look like a game from 2003?

[trias_e]

I think it looks pretty good personally.  Yeah, it does looks like a game from 2007, but that's really not all that bad.  They at least do a good job with the environments.  The character models and animations are a weaker point.

For myself it's eventually much more fun to play than either D3 or TL2, but you have to get through the initial levels which are certainly much slower.  The fun curve is exponential in this one, compared to the linear or logarithmic curves of D3 or TL2.

[Shannow]

Ashamed to say that in the last 3 weeks I have not touched another game except Fifa 13. I'm on a holy quest to win a Div 1 championship online with my Ultimate team. I suck. Closest I came was 1 win away and then I got, in what is now referred to in my house 'as the game that wont be named', Neymared. #!$!#.


Also never link your credit card to your Origin account. Never.  It's like my MTG addiction all over again but with little balls..:P~ Oh and having a web app and a ios app , evil!

[Yegolev]

Sucked into Blocks again, spent time on a new world since the old one didn't have a stronghold or a nether fortress.  Already dug into the stronghold and ... silverfish suck dick.

Otherwise I've been trying to play Dishonored.  I'm all into the atmosphere.  Wish I could make time to finish Arx Fatalis.

Played some Crimson Shroud over the weekend.  It's not bad.

Last night I fired up Dark Souls again (which got me out of playing Blocks) and spent an hour or so figuring out where I left off, then three hours of dicking around.  Spent some time practicing parries on those assholes in Darkroot.  Wasn't in a hurry to go back to Sen's so I engaged the Moonlight Butterfly, which went well thanks to a couple chaos fireballs.  Investigated my armor options and settled on the Stone and Gold Hemmed sets for now.  Considering farming the stone knights to get a shield, not that the Baldur shield is bad.  Used Gold Hemmed and Flash Sweat to run underneath Hellkite and open the gate.  That went well enough that I will see about trying to kill him sooner rather than later.  Will see about making some elemental weapons before I go back to Sen's.  Need Twinkling Titanite.

[Yegolev]

Decided to download Path of Exile.  Why is this such a slow program?  Was it made by the WiiU developers?

[Maledict]

The download speed is ridiculous, due to the absolute hammering they are getting at the moment. Oddly enough in game the speed is fine.

Personally finding it a much more interesting game than D3 or torchlight 2. Quite surprised by that, but also filled with despair at how bad blizzard have gotten in comparison.

[naum]

Civilization V -- finally, the game is such a state that I am motivated enough to proceed past the first 10-20 turns. Some things I still find incredibly irksome (like city states), but with the G&K expansion plus patches, there's actually a enjoyable playable game underneath after all.

Football Manager 2013 -- enticed by one of the big Steam sale deals, have not dented much as of yet other than to fiddle with the UX panels and created a league/realm for further play.

Europa Universalis III -- yes, for nostalgia sakes, fired this up again

[HaemishM]

Football Manager 2013 has absolutely OWNED me the last few weeks. I still get in a game of LOL and Mechwarrior but I have been ignoring Crusader Kings II in favor of FM13. It's just fantastic.

[Yegolev]

Personally finding it a much more interesting game than D3 or torchlight 2. Quite surprised by that, but also filled with despair at how bad blizzard have gotten in comparison.

Yes.  This game is on the right track.

[Fabricated]

Now:
Sleeping Dogs - Bit closer to the end. I really don't dislike the shooty bits. Not as fun as beating the shit out of people but still. I may get the martial arts tournament DLC if it isn't retarded.
Path of Exile - Working on making a really boring as shit sword-n-board tank build to pile up an interesting stash and see if I like the later acts.
Battlefield 3 - Playing it again, sadly discovering the game has largely died even despite the release of a pretty good new DLC pack and it being better than all the COD titles.

[MrHat]

Personally finding it a much more interesting game than D3 or torchlight 2. Quite surprised by that, but also filled with despair at how bad blizzard have gotten in comparison.

Yes.  This game is on the right track.

For real.

The skill gem system is everything I wanted D3's rune system to be.