So, what're you playing?

[Slyfeind]

Re: Fallout 3, I went to the spaceship right after Megaton. Then I did some more stuff, and now after visiting Galaxy Radio, I'm headed to The Pitt. Crazy unbalanced. They shoulda put more challening stuff in the basic game, with every expansion, in order to keep things interesting. Still, it's fun to explore.

I'm getting a lot of CTD's too, and I never got them before.

[BitWarrior]

I guess I'm just wanting the game to be something it's not.

This. Games have to be one thing or another, they cannot be all things. Linear has advantages and disadvantages that sets them apart from open worlds, and vice versa.

I find this kind of complaint (unfortunately) to be a common one, "This game did not include X feature that I like, which made me dislike the game". Imagine if we treated movies that way: we'd be complaining that Terminator 2 didn't have a nice, warm hearted comic relief character; Avatar lacked being based on a true story; and Julie & Julia lacked any action scenes, guns and explosions.

We complain about these features, but we have to realize that isn't the *point*. I recall when Schild disliked Left 4 Dead because it lacked character customization, but that wasn't the point. By no means was Left 4 Dead designed to be a game based around character customization, equally that Uncharted 2 isn't designed to be an open world game, equally that Terminator 2 isn't a comedy, and Julia & Julia isn't an action flick.

Now I'm definitely not directing this criticism at you alone, or really at all because you're quite self-observant of the matter. This is more a post directed at anyone, and something I've been wanting to say for a while.

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[Sky]

It's a perfectly valid reason to not like games. I once saw someone play a jrpg while I was eating an egg salad sandwich that gave me gas. I now hate all jrpg.

Now if you want to complain about people saying their personal likes not being serviced leading to their proclaiming it's a bad game, that's an entirely different (and valid) complaint.

I'm not saying all jrpgs suck, I'm just saying they remind me of sulfurous flatulence.

[Ingmar]

Someday someone is going to combine the good features of Mount & Blade, the King Arthur thing, and a real deep story RPG. That is going to be so goddamn awesome.

[Yegolev]

And robots.

[Sky]

Japanese robots. Sir Rance Robot.

[Hoax]

League of Legends (been just trying out champs and solo q'ing lately)
Rumble Fighter (not much, but still fun, so many fighting styles out now)
Borderlands (still need to get my hunter to 2.5 and do the zombie island dlc w/ 4)

Thanks to the Steam Sale
Dead Space (so well done so far, about 1 hr in)
Jade Empire (haven't installed it yet)
Zombie Driver (pretty fun in very small doses, but not much depth surprise surprise)

Things I still need to finish and might but who knows
Persona 3 (final boss has charm?  fuck you game)
Persona 4 (almost there, liked this cast much more)
FFXII (ugh, I'm stuck need to grind dont wanna)
DMC4 (Bayonetta has so much more sex appeal!)

[Malakili]

Dragon Age - Just got it for christmas, enjoying it much so far.  I'm actually enjoying the slow pace of the dialogue a lot more than I thought I would.  I never feel too rushed to go off to combat.

Resubbed to Lotro - Just got the urge to do this what with the recent expansion.  My character isn't high enough to get to the brand new content yet so it doesn't matter, but I am remembering why I liked the game to begin with, the game world is really fantastic.

TF2 - My shooter of choice since release.

[Azazel]

Le sigh, I spoke too soon. Now it just crashes when I try to enter the Vault 101 Atrium.

Stupid question, but have you installed all of the patches and mods in their "correct" order?

[lamaros]

Re: Fallout 3, I went to the spaceship right after Megaton. Then I did some more stuff, and now after visiting Galaxy Radio, I'm headed to The Pitt. Crazy unbalanced. They shoulda put more challening stuff in the basic game, with every expansion, in order to keep things interesting. Still, it's fun to explore.

I'm getting a lot of CTD's too, and I never got them before.

Yeah it's a shame. I'm skipping any expansion stuff because this is my first play through. 'Very Hard' it feels like 'Normal' with that, so any uber gear from expansions would likely ruin it completely.

[Sjofn]

Someday someone is going to combine the good features of Mount & Blade, the King Arthur thing, and a real deep story RPG. That is going to be so goddamn awesome.

I hope not, you'd cease to be. :(

[Tarami]

Well well, I'm back playing WoW and instantly hooked up with a bunch of RPers. RP is fun. Dirty, dirty RP.

[jakonovski]

Le sigh, I spoke too soon. Now it just crashes when I try to enter the Vault 101 Atrium.

Stupid question, but have you installed all of the patches and mods in their "correct" order?

The GOTY version installed everything by itself and was fully patched when I first ran it. I have no mods yet. I'm also playing again, because deleting fallout.ini made the ctd go away.

[Sky]

FFH2, Burnout: Paradise and some Torchlight. Nice mix of moods.

[WayAbvPar]

Still tons of FIFA 10 (300+ Virtual Pro games and counting)

Some Silent Hunter III and IV (thanks, Steam sale!)

Poker (need to grind out another 5k hands or so before 8-Feb to earn a $300 bonus...that is A LOT of poker)

Bought BF2 for trotski so I can demand he come play it with me- should be on this weekend. PM me if you wanna join our squad of misfits 

Plan to get some XCom in over my 4 day New Year weekend

Really want to pick up Fallout 3 GOTY but am balking at the price. The Steam sale has spoiled me! Ditto for CoD: WaW, but that is a little more reasonable (at least today).

I can't remember when I have had so many fun games to play. And 2010 is going to be even better. I really need to win the lottery so I can have time to play everything. I guess the best start would be to buy a ticket, since that would marginally increase my chance of winning.

[HaemishM]

Playing Mass Effect - when it doesn't fucking crash for no reason that is. Did Bioware hire out Obsidian to do this?

Sprinkling in some PS2 games, including much Madden NFL 10. Just got 3 games for the price of 2 from Blockbuster that I haven't even loaded up yet - Xenosaga, Suikoden (?) and Front Mission 4 that will probably be in the cycle somewhere as well.

[Velorath]

Playing Mass Effect - when it doesn't fucking crash for no reason that is. Did Bioware hire out Obsidian to do this?

I don't recall having one crash during my recent playthrough.  There was one time though when the Mako started bouncing around crazily and then started spinning upwards into the sky, and I had to reload my last save.

[Hoax]

Never had a crash either.

[HaemishM]

Shit, I wish I had no crashes. I'll play for an hour or so, then bam, the game will switch from one mode to another (like out of conversation back into the game world) and the keyboard and mouse will stop responding. The mouse cursor is a regular windows cursor floating over the game, but no keystrokes or mouse clicks will make a difference. Or it'll just CTD. Yes, it is patched. No, I haven't looked at the forums. I haven't had enough time to sit down for more than 1-2 hour stretches.

[Yegolev]

GTA IV.  The driving is fantastic but otherwise I miss CJ and the more-fun feeling of the previous generation.  Will try Gay Tony soon.

Fuel, in which I have hit a quick roadblock where I am losing races now.

LotRO, in which I still have way too much to do.

[Azazel]

LotRO - Doing silly little quests for appearance cloaks.
Battlefield: Bad Company - Finished it on normal, now ripping it up on hard without any cares about hunting shit down.

[Samwise]

Played a couple hours of Uncharted today.  Not impressed overall.  Might ditch it and give Brutal Legend another go instead.

[schild]

Played a couple hours of Uncharted today.  Not impressed overall.  Might ditch it and give Brutal Legend another go instead.

This almost caused my brain to rip asunder.

[jakonovski]

I had to stop playing E:TW and Fallout3 for a while, because there's one of those "bring 2 old games, get a new release for €1" offers on Gamestop again (I must have Darksiders day one). Lots 360 backlog so now I'm forcing myself to play through Condemned 2 over the weekend. Not that I need forcing anymore, it turned out to be much better than the first game, at least so far.

[Samwise]

Played a couple hours of Uncharted today.  Not impressed overall.  Might ditch it and give Brutal Legend another go instead.

This almost caused my brain to rip asunder.

Yeah, I almost BiiFed it but I decided I didn't want to be responsible for asploding your head.    

I'm enjoying the story and cutscenes well enough, the puzzles are fun, and I don't even mind the jumping puzzles, but the combat does absolutely nothing for me (fucking thumbsticks), and it seems like the further I go the more combat there is and the lower the fun:annoyance ratio gets.

[Velorath]

Played a couple hours of Uncharted today.  Not impressed overall.  Might ditch it and give Brutal Legend another go instead.

This almost caused my brain to rip asunder.

Yeah, I almost BiiFed it but I decided I didn't want to be responsible for asploding your head.    

I'm enjoying the story and cutscenes well enough, the puzzles are fun, and I don't even mind the jumping puzzles, but the combat does absolutely nothing for me (fucking thumbsticks), and it seems like the further I go the more combat there is and the lower the fun:annoyance ratio gets.

You're not alone.

[Vision]

I just finished Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and was relatively disappointed. Even keeping in mind that I only bought this for the button mashing chaos, the charm from the first one was missing, so much so that after the first 6 chapters I knew that I would just be trying to finish it so I could justify going back and playing through Uncharted 2 again. Although what pissed me off even more than the terrible storyline and cliche plot moments, was how easy it was. I played through it on Warrior and downed most of the bosses, including the last 6, by stocking up on herbs and grains. Twas bullshit.

[jakonovski]

I played through it on Warrior and downed most of the bosses, including the last 6, by stocking up on herbs and grains. Twas bullshit.

I keep waiting for a game self-conscious enough to include a bossfight that is explicitly a drinking contest. Last one under the table wins. 

[Samwise]

You're not alone.

Oh good, I'm not insane.  I'd remembered the complaints about the implausibility of the bad guys always spawning ahead of you, and was prepared to disengage my brain for that, but I'd somehow forgotten the part about the actual gameplay for those sections being a tedious chore as well.

[Murgos]

I'm playing Ass Creed 2, it's actually really, really good.  I guess it's just sort of gotten overlooked in all the holiday hubbub.

Probably the best 'open world' game so far.  Now, if the give it a future-modern setting and make all the buildings enterable and a cyberpunk theme...

[Strazos]

Flirting with a second DA playthrough as a mage on nightmare, screwing with the new stuff in TF2, and actually enjoying Shattered Horizon. Also dabbling with SpellForce 2: Gold Edition.

And I wanted to play MW: LL, but something about the multiplayer login process screws up on my system and crashes Crysis.

[Vision]

After Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, I think I'm going to have to play MGS4 again. I need some solid narrative in my life. I also think I'll give MGO a go.

[stray]

Tales of Vesparia (finally), BlazBlue

[HaemishM]

Started on Xenosaga last night, after trying out the Suikoden 4 disc and finding out the disc is bad and I must take it back to Blockbuster. Xenosaga I'm not sure about - the way combat is done seems to rip me right out of the game itself. But it was interesting enough that I will probably continue it, if for no other reason than to find out if I really like or hate JRPG's.

[Velorath]

About halfway through Mirror's Edge at the moment.