So, what're you playing?

[Paelos]

I really, really wanted to like King's Bounty.  I spent entirely too much time with it crashing, though.  Never did get it to work quite right.

Same. The game is worthless from a technical standpoint. It's like a very very very broken version of HoM&M

[Sky]

Seems stable for me, but I've only been doing the tutorial. Kind of odd they pillar box the 16:9, but also nice that they have a widescreen UI that adds some art to pad the extra width.

For AC1, I have the 360 controller. The controls seem funky, I remember having a tough time getting used to them the first time I played. I think I ran the tutorial a couple times and still felt I needed more practice before being able to play.

[bhodi]

That's weird, I've put 34 hours into King's Bounty so far and haven't had any problems at all, except for one random slowdown that went away when I reloaded the client.

[Ingmar]

I never had any technical problems with it back when I played it but I did come to the conclusion that games translated from Russian aren't "for" me.

[HaemishM]

Still got FIFA 11 on the front burner, though having a hard time deciding whether to level up my Pro (de la ROJO!), play a season with Liverpool or Notts County or build up my Ultimate Team. Because I don't have enough stuff I've not finished, I picked up Madden 11 for the 360 and am knee deep in the pre season with Green Bay. I also was given a copy of Napoleon: Total War for an early Christmas present that I somehow have to find room on my overstuffed home hard drive for. If anyone wants to play Madden on the 360, let me know.

[Hawkbit]

Kings Bounty both base and Princess crash within 60 seconds of logging into a character.  Win 7 Pro 64 bit.  I dunno - I put a few hours into trying to fix it but just found that I had more to do. 

With AC1, the best way to think of the controller is to imagine that the four right buttons (triangle, square, circle, X on a PS3 controller) are laid out like your avatar.  So top button is head, bottom is feet, and so forth.  That made a lot more sense contextually once I understood that. 

[ghost]

Still on Mass Effect 1.  I think I'm going to stick with it as I'm very, very happy to see that they've worked Frogger into the equation.  


Edit:  I know this has probably been hashed out, but holy fuck the Mako sucks.  Let's see, we're a super advanced spacefaring society that can traverse the galaxy and we're going to set you down on a mountainous planet in a fucking 6 wheeled dune buggy.  Whee. 

[Yegolev]

Interesting results from a GIS of "mako sucks".

[Margalis]

I've been playing LoL but I think I'm going to stop, games take too long, are often frustrating and the leveling up takes forever. At this rate to enter ranked games I'll have to play for another 100 hours.

There are a lot of things about the game I like but also a lot of things I don't like. In many ways I think the core gameplay of SOTIS, the DOTA-alike for SC2, is superior, though that suffers horribly from leavers and no matchmaking.

The concept of DOTA games is really good but I don't think anyone has nailed the implementation yet.

[Lantyssa]

I choose to believe it is because you have no choice.  We should leave it at that, regardless of reality.

[penfold]

Currently playing World of Tanks, Minecraft, World of Goo. The longetivity of WOT and MC is suprisingly resilient, I am looking forward to forthcoming patches and the WOT softwipe.

I have Fallout NV to finish, Left for Dead 2 to play as it was cheap on Steam. Also a whole bunch of games to finish including Bioshock 2, Wolfenstein and CIV IV. I'm trying not to buy anything new but failed in the Steam sales, other than L4D 2 I also have a pack of Indie music/puzzle/shooters.

[Minvaren]

Borderlands: Playing through as a soldier.  Don't get the level scaling - one level below a quest and you get mauled.  One level above (with the same gear) and you can generally muscle through it?  Headshots seem to be the key to things.  Holding my attention for an hour here and there.

Rock Band 3: Took a bit to get it calibrated, especially after turning on DD.  Pretty major change from #2, but I like it!  Guitar Hero might be out on its ear.  Still need a keyboard...

WoW: Got my Netherwing Drake on my main, now waiting for the 80-85 grind starting in 24-ish hours...

[Ingmar]

RB3 is great. Managed to get a group of 4 people together on expert to gold star some stuff Saturday night, love it. The 'all instruments' mode, changing difficulty on the fly, and drop in/out in the middle of a song stuff really works out well for party type situations with the more casual players - at one point I think we had 20 people singing along to Don't Stop Believin'  (SF crowd ).

[ghost]

Interesting results from a GIS of "mako sucks".

That was good for a belly laugh.

[Sky]

Started Risen. Been waiting to get moving on it, I have a box copy from an old amazon gift card that's been on the shelf for ages. No secret that I'm the resident Gothic fanboi, and I'm loving it. Planning on starting out with the bandit camp as melee with some bow, sneaky sneaky. I've never played the bandit camp faction, I usually do one playthrough as paladin and one as mage (cheating like a mofo the second time).

[jakonovski]

WoW, WoW and more WoW. A bit of Undergarden for relaxation (awesome game).

[Teleku]

Yeah, I grabbed Undergarden when it went on sale.  Pretty neat.  I guess I should say I'm trying lots of random Indie games, since Steam has had a shit ton of them on sale for insanely cheap since the Black Friday sale and the current scavenger hunt sale.  Ben playing them and lots of shit I got as part of packages from last Chistmas sale. 

God knows how much money I'm going to spend on games I'm not going to play this time around.   

[Samprimary]

super meat boy on pc is awesome and I'm shocked nobody is talking about it. it's pure platforming bliss.

[bhodi]

But then you can't throw the controller when you don't get an A+.

Some of those levels are just depressingly, cripplingly hard. On the order of VVVV's Vedi Vidi Vici.

[squirrel]

Going through my backlog so playing a lot of Forza 3 and Assassins Creed II.

But I keep getting distracted by Infinity Blade on my phone. Fun little game, repetitive but still a good time. Makes me wish my commute was longer. Something irks me about playing an iPhone game at home surrounded by $$$ worth of gaming gear.

[Velorath]

Just finished up the RDR Undead Nightmare DLC.  Very well done stuff, and I'm impressed they got so many of the voice actors back for it.  Next up, more zombies with Dead Rising 2 (borrowing from a friend of mine that just finished the game).

[Yegolev]

Fable III with the wife, also a little LotRO.

Shadow Complex, just got the rockets.  Whee!

Super Mario Galaxy 2 with the boy.  World Six, 57 stars.  He wanted the game guide very badly and so now he looks up the map we are on while we are playing and tells me things about it.  If it's possible, I might be raising a bigger game nerd than myself.

Reading Siddhartha via Droid, which is free on Kindle.

Recently acquired Super Mario Bros. 2: Inside Out part one.  Need.  Part.  Two.

Also Nintendo Power issued July/August 1989.  Features: Mega Man II, Faxanadu and Dragon Warrior.  Previews: Robocop, Duck Tales, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Ironsword.  Some Bad Dudes tips as well.

[NowhereMan]

Finally got round to buying and playing DA:O. It's definitely generic and I get the feeling I'm missing something in the fights. With all the abilities available I find I'm sticking on the buffs and just going with the same 2 or 3 special abilities over and over again with a spell caster doing the occasional buff and offensive spell. Most of the time I win and then sometimes I get raped and just reload until I win. Is there more to the abilities than I'm bothering with? Are there any decent buff items? Reading the descriptions items don't really sound all that useful outside of potions.

[Rasix]

Enjoying a leisurely jaunt threw the "everything old is new again" part of the WoW expansion.

Having trouble deciding what else to play, debating between Amnesia (not sure I'm in the mood for a scary game) or replaying something like Borderlands, DA:0, or Oblivion that ran like dog shit on my old PC, but should be beautiful on my new build.

[Surlyboi]

Tron: Evolution - Glowy, neon Prince of Persia with the occasional lightcycle, run-away-from-the-bad-guys interlude. Playing it more for the link to Legacy than anything else as I know the movie will leave me going, "How the fuck did that get that way?"

Mass Effect 2 - Because the HD on my 360 shit the bed and I had to play through both to get back to where I was in preparation for ME3. Plus, I hadn't done all the DLCs before.

Infinity Blade on the iPhone and iPad. It's repetitive as fuck, but they've boiled down the ding gratz to its purest essence. Plus it's pretty.

[WayAbvPar]

Darkfall (4 months in and I am still a PvP speedbump, but I am still having a ball)


Just picked up NBA 2k11 again after setting it aside in frustration. Made a new My Player (3 point specialist SG instead of Pass First PG), and I am having A LOT more fun. I haven't wasted all my drills learning which ones are doable, so I was able to level myself up past my first player in about 10x less time played. Drafted 1st round, made the NBA roster out of Summer League. Haven't played an NBA game yet (that will be tonight!).

Still playing some NHL 11 with my goon team when they are on. Actually earned my Legend card this year- something I never did manage in 250+ games in 2009 and 2010. Actually playing some of the single player taught me how to best score on the AI goalies, and I never looked back. Still annoyed with the matchup AI that sets my .500 or under team against the top elite teams in the world on a depressingly regular basis, but since I don't have to worry about grades any more I don't feel like never playing again after we predictably get raped.

[Nebu]

Just finished my second trip through Dragon Age: Origins.  I tried to follow that up with KOTOR, but it just didn't hold my interest.  From there I tried Torchlight, but the art direction drove me nuts.

Question: Can anyone recommend an RPG that is worth giving a shot?  I enjoyed Dragon Age more than Morrowind and prefer games where I only have to worry about one character and not a party.  I also don't have a console system (other than my PS2).

[Rasix]

Just finished my second trip through Dragon Age: Origins.  I tried to follow that up with KOTOR, but it just didn't hold my interest.  From there I tried Torchlight, but the art direction drove me nuts.

Question: Can anyone recommend an RPG that is worth giving a shot?  I enjoyed Dragon Age more than Morrowind and prefer games where I only have to worry about one character and not a party.  I also don't have a console system (other than my PS2).

Some things to try:

The Witcher - Mature, story driven RPG that has you making some interesting choices.  You may not love the combat and in some areas you run around a lot.  Still, it's a fantastic RPG experience.
Deus Ex - one of the best single player / single character RPGs ever made.  It's a hybrid shooter, but success is still largely stat based.
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - love this game.  Bit buggy. Mature, dark, and funny.
Oblivion - more TES, if you liked Morrowind, play this.  Generic RPG world with some very interesting stuff to do.
Titan Quest - Diablo-y with Greek/Roman mythology flavorings.

The following games have very small parties, which you don't directly control most of the time.  Also, they're hybrid shooters, moreso than Deus Ex.  Might not be your style.

Fallout 3, Fallout 3: NV - hybrid shooter, you don't have many companions and you don't really have to manage them.  It does its best to maintain the charm of the series.
Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 - generic space opera.  Excellent games.  Second one swings farther over towards being a shooter.

Might be way too shootery:
Borderlands - fun diversion. Pretty shallow.
Bioshock - It's pretty good. Just not a great follow up to System Shock 2.  OK story, fun, but the booga-booga scares get old.
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl - Great environment.  Difficult and shooting elemements tied to more traditional FPS twitch skill.

All listed above are available on the PC. 

[ghost]

I would also echo Vampire: the Masquerade if you haven't played it.  It's buggy as fuck though. 

[bhodi]

The fan patches have made it not at all buggy, if you can get it to run on your PC. They fix a lot of the in-game bugs and quest weirdness.

[Nebu]

Some things to try:

The Witcher - Mature, story driven RPG that has you making some interesting choices.  You may not love the combat and in some areas you run around a lot.  Still, it's a fantastic RPG experience.
Deus Ex - one of the best single player / single character RPGs ever made.  It's a hybrid shooter, but success is still largely stat based.
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - love this game.  Bit buggy. Mature, dark, and funny.
Oblivion - more TES, if you liked Morrowind, play this.  Generic RPG world with some very interesting stuff to do.
Titan Quest - Diablo-y with Greek/Roman mythology flavorings.

The following games have very small parties, which you don't directly control most of the time.  Also, they're hybrid shooters, moreso than Deus Ex.  Might not be your style.

Fallout 3, Fallout 3: NV - hybrid shooter, you don't have many companions and you don't really have to manage them.  It does its best to maintain the charm of the series.
Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 - generic space opera.  Excellent games.  Second one swings farther over towards being a shooter.

Might be way too shootery:
Borderlands - fun diversion. Pretty shallow.
Bioshock - It's pretty good. Just not a great follow up to System Shock 2.  OK story, fun, but the booga-booga scares get old.
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl - Great environment.  Difficult and shooting elemements tied to more traditional FPS twitch skill.

All listed above are available on the PC. 

Thanks a lot!

I played Titan Quest and got bored pretty quickly (see also torchlight). 

I may give Deus X a try... that is if I don't start playing WoW again.

[Rasix]

It'll look and feel a bit dated.  You can hunt down some texture packs, but, IMO, they don't alleviate that much.

Still an excellent game, and it's really nice the options you have for character builds and taking on different situations.

Helpful plot related spoiler that I'll try to make not too spoil-7y, so read at your own risk:

PS. It's Deus Ex.  

[Paelos]

I ran too the first time. I'm unashamed of my ability to follow instructions. 

[Lantyssa]

Look for all of those during the Steam holiday sale.  Those are all solid RPG recommendations.  (I really like Deus Ex 2 as well, though I'm in a minority on that.)

Vampire has my vote for best of the lot, btw.

[Minvaren]

Some things to try:

The Witcher - Mature, story driven RPG that has you making some interesting choices.  You may not love the combat and in some areas you run around a lot.  Still, it's a fantastic RPG experience.

Fuck.  Yes.

In other news, Billy Joel pack on Rock Band downloadable content.  Waiting on the accordian instrument for "Downeaster Alexa."