So, what're you playing?

[Hawkbit]

Every time I attempt to play Oblivion, I get lost in mods and never actually play the damn game. 

Each and every time some mod gets broken, borks the whole game and I have to start over.  I've had just enough of a taste of some of the leveling mods that I don't want to play the base rules anymore. 

How's your stability with all those running?

[birdsguts]

You can most of the above from a package located here: http://alluvion.org/ Look for the one called TCOM Oblivion Mod Compilation.

There are installation instructions here: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYTrAQ8yzT__ZHpwNHc0ZF84ZDgzOHR2Zm0&hl=en

Thanks for that. Especially the comp link. Will have to read up on what it does and then save it for a rainy week.
*Quoted for new page anti-burial measures*

[Azazel]

I tried Oblivion a couple of times. It never really held me, though the concept is nice enough. I also can't be arsed modding the absolute shit out of it to that extent just to make it decently playable. I should go back and finish Fallout 3. And Army of Two's DLC missions.

Instead, I've just been playing WoW. Teaching my wife to play a Pally has been mostly fun with only minor painfulness. 

[trias_e]

Starcraft 2, League of Legends to relax, and motherfucking Amnesia which is motherfucking 

[Tarami]

Yeah, Amnesia.

[Murgos]

How's your stability with all those running?

I've had one unexpected CTD during a longish play session but I've also gone longer without a hitch. The Steamline mod autosaves your gave in a rotating 15 deep queue every few minutes so I didn't lose anything with the crash (Steamline also fixes a corrupt save bug that cn occur using the default save so I highly recommend Steamline).

30-45 fps with all the bells and whistles except when there is a mob of 10 - 15 NPC's on the screen.  I'm using an oldish Core2Duo and 8800GTS.

Some of the mods in the TCOM pack are out of date and need updating, TR0LL is working on a new compilation but who knows when that will be ready.  I'm happy enough with it as it is now.

[Cyrrex]

Instead of going back and finishing Demon's Souls (I will, I promise!), I realized that I had an unopened Uncharted 2 sitting on my bookshelf, so I cracked that instead.  Two hours later, and I'm wondering what the hell took me so long.  That game is sweet.  It's a bit cliche, but I really do forget that this is not live action sometimes.

[rk47]

I think I played the hell out of Oblivion and had no desire to repeat the experience. Story is meh and exploration is ruined by level scaling, only hope is mod, but it still doesn't fix the terrible talking faces they had. I rather load up Fallout III and fire off miniguns at people to ease stress.

[HaemishM]

Mod List:

Dude. HOLY FUCK.

[ghost]

I've never been able to get much past the exit from the escape sequence that starts Oblivion.  I get out and think, "great!  I'll save and come back to this later."  Only I never do.

[Bunk]

That list isn't out of the ordinary for ElderScrollsNexus frequenters. Sadly, I recognize about three quarters of those mods.

The only reason my Fallout 3 list isn't just as long is that I installed FOOK, which is just one huge (1.1GB) compilation mod.

[trias_e]

Yeah, Amnesia.

Water.

Amnesia is equal parts and  .  I highly recommend it...as long as you want to have an unrelentingly brutal experience in total helplessness.  I think it's pretty awesome.

[Tarami]

It is pretty awesome. I think it's a really interesting adventure/puzzle game aside from being scary. Maybe most of all, it's pretty god damn impressive to have been made by a team of five. Some people complain about the quality of the voice acting, but I'm not too bothered. It's hammy sure, but not to a fault.

[Murgos]

I've never been able to get much past the exit from the escape sequence that starts Oblivion.  I get out and think, "great!  I'll save and come back to this later."  Only I never do.

I'm using a quickstart mod.  It drops you at the exit to the initial dungeon with a crate at your feet with all the stuff you could get in the dungeon and the quests in your book.  Like I said, almost all gripes are addressed or minimized in some way these days.

[Big Gulp]

A couple of problems with the Elder Scrolls series, although I love 'em and buy them all.  First, the lack of morality.  Aside from the dark brotherhood side quests it's pretty much devoid of chances to either be a major prick or a saint.  Fallout 3 started to address that, but I'd like to see them do that with ES more, and add some nuance.

Secondly, because I play all of these games like a sneaky archer the game starts to feel like Thief, but with really dumb AI. 

[Murgos]

Secondly, because I play all of these games like a sneaky archer the game starts to feel like Thief, but with really dumb AI. 

I'm pretty sure that one of the guys on both the Oblivion and FO3 teams was a senior contributor to some of the early Thief games.  Apparently not the AI guy though.

[WayAbvPar]

That is pretty much how I am playing Darkfall atm...archery is reasonably easy to level, and not too expensive. Once I get it close to max is when the magic grind will start, and that will be spendy and long.

[Chimpy]

I am playing League of Legends (in very mediocre fashion) between my usual bouts of Windows Solitaire when I am bored with job hunting.

[MuffinMan]

Picked up Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions from a RedBox last night. About an hour into, the story is generic as hell but that's not why you play a Spider-Man game. It's a fun God of War with webslinging so far. Gameplay switches up with each dimensions's Spider-Man, Noir Spider-Man is Splinter Cell-lite with webslinging. Don't think it's worth $60 though but certainly worth a rental or when it comes down in price.

[HaemishM]

Got my XBox 360 with Call of Duty 4 so will probably be playing that in between watching the football this weekend and playing EQ2.

[Sir T]

I wound up playing Space Rangers 2. Really enjoyable, especially for an "old" 2D game.

[NiX]

Picked up RUSE and have been playing that. Decent enough strategy game with some interesting ideas.

I also grabbed My Life as a King on the Wii, decided it looked like crap, so I snagged my save file off the system and have been playing it on my computer. God damn this game looks good with 8x AA. If only I could do SSAA. Anyway, this game is super addictive and I see why Schild was so into it when it came out.

[Ard]

Beat Resonance of Fate finally.  Well worth doing it, and the story is told in a really roundabout fashion since you're not actually the main characters in it and not everything is explicitly spelled out.  I'm sure that alone would annoy some people, but I liked it.  Long freaking game though, hit right around the 60 hour mark, without doing any of the post game stuff, or creating any really retarded guns.

Started playing The Void.  That game is literal nightmare fuel.  It actually gave me some unsettling dreams the night after I started it.  Congrats Icepick Lodge, you made a game that is so discomforting has me thinking the only way to win is to not play.  We'll see how much more of this I can stomach before running away crying.

[Paelos]

I reloaded Rome:TW and now I'm pwning the Gauls and Britons. Next, either the Dacians or Carthagenians. Hopefully not Germania since I signed an Alliance with them early on.

[Riggswolfe]

Xbox
Deadly Premonition

I keep circling this game. It's supposed to be really, really weird. Sort of Twin Peaks on acid is my understanding. Considering the main character is an FBI agent who has an imaginary friend he talks to I'm very tempted.

Sinners Sandwich

I've also heard that you save by calling into the FBI HQs. Which lead to this post from another board I frequent:

I just picked up this game today.

You know what I like most about it? The save-game mechanic. Where you find a telephone and report back to FBI HQ to update them on your progress.

Can you /imagine/?

"HELP I CRASHED MY CAR AND THERE'S ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE AND I DUNNO WHERE I AM OH MY GOD!!"

"Hey, me again. I'm in some kind of weird Otherworld, full of zombies and weird mutant plants."

"Hey, it's me. Still trapped in this weird hell-scape. But on the plus side, I found the red hand, so maybe I can make the elevator work!"

"Hey guys, it's York again. I hope you're getting these. Anyway, I managed to kill the demonic tree and evade the weird axe-wielding raincoat-jawa. Just thought you'd like to know."

"Hey, me again. I finally got back into the Real World, and I'm in a diner. I ate a Turkey sandwich (the meat was purple, for some reason, but who knows why), an entire roast chicken, a fried-rice omelet, and a couple sides of onion rings. I was *REALLY* hungry. Still workin' on solving that murder case! It'd be easier if I didn't keep getting yanked into this other dimension, haha! ... What's that, Zach? Yes, this /is/ very much like the Silent Hill games. Anyway, boss, that's what I've been up to lately. Further reports as events warrant!"

I can only imagine that somewhere in the FBI, there's an answering machine hooked up to a dedicated phone line, devoted solely to receiving Agent York's field reports. Crowded around it would be a number of very concerned FBI agents and criminal psychologists, taking notes.

Ya know, even Agent Mulder himself would reject these reports as "too crazy".

I love this game.

From everything I've heard this game is terrible on all technical merits. Shitty graphics. Blurry textures. Uneven voice acting. Totally inappropriate music.

Yet so crazy and enthralling that the people who play it swear it's the most fun they've had.

[HaemishM]

Xbox
Deadly Premonition

I keep circling this game. It's supposed to be really, really weird. Sort of Twin Peaks on acid is my understanding. Considering the main character is an FBI agent who has an imaginary friend he talks to I'm very tempted.

Sinners Sandwich

WHAT... THE... FUCK?

[Riggswolfe]

Xbox
Deadly Premonition

I keep circling this game. It's supposed to be really, really weird. Sort of Twin Peaks on acid is my understanding. Considering the main character is an FBI agent who has an imaginary friend he talks to I'm very tempted.

Sinners Sandwich

WHAT... THE... FUCK?

Ehhh...that's not even the weirdest. I almost posted the other one I've seen which is usually titled "There's an F and a K in my coffee."

[Yegolev]

Someone twisted my arm and made me play Brutal Legend.  Turns out it is great, at least the non-game parts are anyway.  I'm about to get back into old metal thanks to this game.  It's like middle school all over again when I play this.

[jth]

Finished Alan Wake last week, it was such a disappointment considering the same people made Max Payne. The story and atmosphere weren't that bad even if it borrowed a lot from several places, but the game itself was just a mediocre shooter.

Started Max Payne, been a while since the last playthrough. Still awesome, I only wish they had added real widescreen support.

During workdays, I'm still going through the motions with Lord of Ultima, hoping the endgame would start sometime in the near future. Managing 200+ cities is very tiresome though, some days I don't even bother.

[Segoris]

Any opinions on the Shadow Hearts series, and did they age well enough to play for the first time now? I'm thinking of picking those up off ebay/amazon. Should I skip any of them or is playing them in order worth it? Or avoid all together at this time?

[Riggswolfe]

Any opinions on the Shadow Hearts series, and did they age well enough to play for the first time now? I'm thinking of picking those up off ebay/amazon. Should I skip any of them or is playing them in order worth it? Or avoid all together at this time?

I've heard good things about Shadowhearts and have often been tempted to get them myself.

[MrHat]

I've had a lot of time away from home and these iOS games have kept me sane:

Slice It! - puzzle game where you have to cut a geometric shape into X amount of other geometric shapes.  Challenging.

Plants V Zombies - fantastic Tower defense game

Words with Friends - Scrabble.  With friends.

WSOP World Series of Poker Texas Hold 'em - Great poker game, with offline 'career' mode and online multiplayer.

Angry Birds - one of those sling shot the bird into stuff to knock them over games, but with tons of levels.

[Cyrrex]

I've had a lot of time away from home and these iOS games have kept me sane:

Slice It! - puzzle game where you have to cut a geometric shape into X amount of other geometric shapes.  Challenging.

Plants V Zombies - fantastic Tower defense game

Words with Friends - Scrabble.  With friends.

WSOP World Series of Poker Texas Hold 'em - Great poker game, with offline 'career' mode and online multiplayer.

Angry Birds - one of those sling shot the bird into stuff to knock them over games, but with tons of levels.

Angry Birds has been on top of the iTunes game charts for probably 4 months, which is crazy considering the transient nature of apps that cost 5 bucks or less.  It may be, pound for pound, one of the all time great games.  I think it costs a dollar.

[Hawkbit]

I've got so much going on I can't focus on one game.  It's frustrating...

PC
Subbed to WoW, not playing it.  Not entirely sure I'm excited about it enough anymore to enjoy the xpac when it arrives.
EVE - it's taunting me back.  I need to get this subbed and back in action with the BC ops going on.
PuzzleQuest 2, awesome game, playing when I don't have enough time to get into an RPG.
Fallout 3 GOTY.  I hadn't played this in a year or so and didn't have the DLC when I did play it.  I forgot how awesome this game is. 
Dragon Age with most DLC, sitting on my desktop, can't be bothered to finish it.  Will someday this winter though when I'm trapped inside by the cold.

PS3
Demons Souls - it owns me
Assassin's Creed 1,2 - will get Brotherhood.  Not sure why I like these so much. 
Red Dead - Constantly falling back on this in my spare time.  Just an amazing game.
Deathspank, almost finished it and getting ready for the new one next week.

[ghost]

I picked Darksiders back up and am trying to go through it.  It's pretty cool, but has a blandness that I can't describe. 

.....so I end up going back to Demon's Souls after about 30 minutes.

Also "playing" Eve, which consists of me having missed the daily op by an hour or two either direction.