So, what're you playing?

[Sky]

Nebu, I'm just wrapping up chapter 1 of Risen (basically the real Gothic 4) and loving it. Some here don't like it because it's eurojanky, but I love the series and the voice acting is pretty decent this time around. If you don't mind retro graphics, Gothic 2 Gold is the previous high point in the series.

Divine Divinity is a diablo sorta thing but more rpg. Might not be a good fit since you didn't like TQ and Torchlight, but it's more of an rpg than either of those, imo. Still trying to get Sacred 2 running on Windows 7 (well, meaning to get back to trying), that looks like fun. Two Worlds was pretty eurojanky, I got distracted by something and never finished it. Drakensang is a lot of fun, but you have some companions in it.

Santa came early and gifted me a copy of Just Cause 2. Just jumped in for an hour to check it out, it's a lot of fun. Runs great on my system, runs good in 3D Vision (as a supported title), and the 3d really works well. Playing with the 360 controller, so shooting and looking takes some getting used to, but I prefer the controller for driving, so I'm sticking with it. Really looking forward to some mayhem with this one. Tradtional reaction of 'oh no, I'm pinned down by a dozen dudes, out of grenades, and here comes an APC with a 50 cal on the roof' turns into 'yay! 50 cal!' BLAM BLAM BLAM

You can tell they are working the 3D angle, too. Lots of the cut scenes and effects play it up without being too obnoxious.

[Yegolev]

Totally unrelated to previous posts in this thread, I am playing a new game of STALKER.  I don't know why, I just had the urge to play something of that type, something where I can stand around and eyeball things through binoculars before creeping up and shooting them in the braincase with a silenced pistol, but that also had interesting parts.

[Ard]

Tradtional reaction of 'oh no, I'm pinned down by a dozen dudes, out of grenades, and here comes an APC with a 50 cal on the roof' turns into 'yay! 50 cal!' BLAM BLAM BLAM

My personal mayhem preference there is to blow up stuff until they send in air support, then steal the helicopter as my escape plan.  It makes me a sad panda when there's no air support for them to send.   

Finished Risen last week.  Definitely worth playing through, but it does slow down some for the last third of the game which is more straight dungeon crawling rather than exploring, at which point you're already stupidly overpowered unless you did something weird.

Started up Fallout:  New Vegas, which I swore up and down I wasn't going to get until it was patched there and back again and all the DLC was released in game of the year form.  I blame Amazon having it for half price for this lapse.  Black Mountain Radio is pretty much the best thing ever though.

Trying to play Metro 2033, but my god, not only do I suck at that game, but it's actually giving me claustrophobia.  I may need to call it quits early on this one, which makes me sad.  The atmosphere is pretty outstanding.

[ghost]

I'm trying to wrap up both Mass Effect and New Vegas, and I have to admit they are both getting a bit draggy.  I've been jumping over to Eschalon, an old school type RPG, which has been pretty fun. 

[Hawkbit]

I'm hoping the Eshalon games go on Steam sale.  I played the demo and really liked it, but I'm having a hard time dropping $30 each for them. 

[stu]

I popped BC2 into my PS3 to see if the new Vietnam maps were available yet. They aren't but there are a couple more traditional Battlefield maps available. I had a good time sniping and evade helicopter detection this afternoon.

[Engels]

Been playing BC2 Vietnam all day. Its well worth the purchase if you are at all a BC2 fan. The artwork is amazing, the mechanics, if you can believe it, are a shade smoother than BC2 and it all seems to 'just work'. The maps aren't ginormous like the recently added maps for BC2. They are lots of maps with both camps fighting for control of a hill top. The weapon selection is limited, but hey, its a 15 dollar expansion, so its good for what you get. I especially love the M21 sniper rifle in HC mode. That said, my scores are absolutely terrible.

[Stormwaltz]

I tried Minecraft today.

Oh shit.

[Lantyssa]

Ha Ha!

[Ard]

I tried Minecraft today.

Oh shit.

Hah, this is why I'm staying way the hell away from that game.  Dwarf Fortress and MMOs are bad enough for me.

[squirrel]

I tried Minecraft today.

Oh shit.

[ghost]

So I bought and downloaded WoW Cataclysm about a week ago.  Holy fuck it's boring. 

[Malakili]

So I bought and downloaded WoW Cataclysm about a week ago.  Holy fuck it's boring. 

But you've been playing non stop all week anyway, and are just getting around to posting about it, amirite?

[ghost]

So I bought and downloaded WoW Cataclysm about a week ago.  Holy fuck it's boring. 

But you've been playing non stop all week anyway, and are just getting around to posting about it, amirite?

Actually, no.  I decided to level up through some of the new stuff as a Tauren Paladin, got to level 15 in about two light nights of playing, and haven't been able to really log back on since. 

[Rasix]

Like 1-12ish or so isn't new at all really for a Tauren. 

[ghost]

Like 1-12ish or so isn't new at all really for a Tauren.  

It seemed a bit different to me, but I hadn't played a new Tauren in a while.  All the level 1-6 quests were new, and a lot of the 7-12 weren't ones I had done before.  Well, at least in this current format. 

[Sky]

Still working through Risen and Just Cause 2. Great balance, I love having two differently-paced games going at once. Sit in the evening with a crackling fire and play through Risen, getting immersed in the world; then jump into Just Cause 2 and get an adrenaline shot of over-the-top action.

[HaemishM]

The Christmas game splurge has started early! I will be alternating through Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer, Blood Bowl (if there's a spot in the F13 league when a new season opens up, let me know!), Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Napoleon: Total War, Madden on the 360, FIFA 11 on the 360, Forza Motorsports 2 and somehow find some time for EQ2X, Final Fantasy XII for the PS2 that I bought last Christmas but haven't played, and Persona 3 (about 20 hours into it).

[WayAbvPar]

The Christmas game splurge has started early! I will be alternating through Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer, Blood Bowl (if there's a spot in the F13 league when a new season opens up, let me know!), Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Napoleon: Total War, Madden on the 360, FIFA 11 on the 360, Forza Motorsports 2 and somehow find some time for EQ2X, Final Fantasy XII for the PS2 that I bought last Christmas but haven't played, and Persona 3 (about 20 hours into it).

I just started playing BF:BC2 again this week (they suckered me back in with Vietnam), so add me to your friends list so we can get shot to pieces by all the hackers together!

[dusematic]

The Christmas game splurge has started early! I will be alternating through Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer, Blood Bowl (if there's a spot in the F13 league when a new season opens up, let me know!), Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Napoleon: Total War, Madden on the 360, FIFA 11 on the 360, Forza Motorsports 2 and somehow find some time for EQ2X, Final Fantasy XII for the PS2 that I bought last Christmas but haven't played, and Persona 3 (about 20 hours into it).

Dude, how is Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers?  I was thinking of getting it.  This is coming from a guy who never got into Magic and doesn't know the rules but always longingly loked at the Magic nerds table in highschool as brethren.  I read bad reviews about the computer game.  Good introductory experience or no?

[Nightblade]

So I bought and downloaded WoW Cataclysm about a week ago.  Holy fuck it's boring. 

Should have just used a trial account like I did. Took one run of Wailing Caverns for me to "DONE! *Walk away*"

[Azazel]

I'm mostly playing "install shit on new computer, troubleshoot wife's computer, my old computer died, transfer stuff from it's drives to other computer".

It's not as fun as it sounds... 

[WayAbvPar]

I played that for a week at work (including 14 hours on a Saturday  ) not long ago. It blows.

[Paelos]

I just got done playing (install the new PSU after it exploded, along with new RAM).

Now I'm playing all my games on hi-def settings! 

[Trippy]

The Christmas game splurge has started early! I will be alternating through Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer, Blood Bowl (if there's a spot in the F13 league when a new season opens up, let me know!), Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Napoleon: Total War, Madden on the 360, FIFA 11 on the 360, Forza Motorsports 2 and somehow find some time for EQ2X, Final Fantasy XII for the PS2 that I bought last Christmas but haven't played, and Persona 3 (about 20 hours into it).

Dude, how is Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers?  I was thinking of getting it.  This is coming from a guy who never got into Magic and doesn't know the rules but always longingly loked at the Magic nerds table in highschool as brethren.  I read bad reviews about the computer game.  Good introductory experience or no?

It's a good intro experience.

[ghost]

So I bought and downloaded WoW Cataclysm about a week ago.  Holy fuck it's boring. 

Should have just used a trial account like I did. Took one run of Wailing Caverns for me to "DONE! *Walk away*"

I should have known better.  The burnout makes it so that they could probably cover it in chocolate and blow jobs and it wouldn't interest me.  And that sucks.   

[Azazel]

I played that for a week at work (including 14 hours on a Saturday  ) not long ago. It blows.

It got better. The 1tb sata drive in the 2-day-old PC which I'd spent the better part of 2 days installing many gigabytes of Steam games onto, had a fatal shit-itself error and is 90% DOA. I've been backing up the Steam stuff to an external using the excruciatingly slow Windows backup program for the last 4 hours. Seems to be about 53% done. Yay.

[raydeen]

Fallout 3 GOTY. Holy hell what have I been missing all this time. Loving it. By the time I get through with this I'll be able to get New Vegas on the cheap with all it's extras and after that Skyrim with all it's goodies. I learned my lesson with Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights. I just wait now until the big pack o' stuff comes out and then buy it. Saves a bunch of money which is in short supply.

[HaemishM]

The Christmas game splurge has started early! I will be alternating through Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer, Blood Bowl (if there's a spot in the F13 league when a new season opens up, let me know!), Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Napoleon: Total War, Madden on the 360, FIFA 11 on the 360, Forza Motorsports 2 and somehow find some time for EQ2X, Final Fantasy XII for the PS2 that I bought last Christmas but haven't played, and Persona 3 (about 20 hours into it).

Dude, how is Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers?  I was thinking of getting it.  This is coming from a guy who never got into Magic and doesn't know the rules but always longingly loked at the Magic nerds table in highschool as brethren.  I read bad reviews about the computer game.  Good introductory experience or no?

I'm enjoying it. The biggest downside is that you can't really customize or build your own decks - you only unlock cards from pre-made decks. But the play itself is pretty decent, it's a good way to learn the rules of Magic and you can play local co-op or Internet head to head play. I've enjoyed it. Got it as a Christmas gift but it would have been worth it for the $10 it's going for now.

[Vision]

Is Fallout 3 worth creating a window's partition on my Mac to play? I hear so much about New Vegas that I am contemplating jumping off the Cataclysm ship and re-addicting myself to something else.

[dusematic]

I'm hoping the Eshalon games go on Steam sale.  I played the demo and really liked it, but I'm having a hard time dropping $30 each for them. 

I'd pounce on each for $10 or both for $25.  Not sure why those games have never been on sale.

[Hawkbit]

I'm hoping the Eshalon games go on Steam sale.  I played the demo and really liked it, but I'm having a hard time dropping $30 each for them. 

I'd pounce on each for $10 or both for $25.  Not sure why those games have never been on sale.

Exactly.  That's my exact price point on them. 

[dusematic]

I'm hoping the Eshalon games go on Steam sale.  I played the demo and really liked it, but I'm having a hard time dropping $30 each for them. 

I'd pounce on each for $10 or both for $25.  Not sure why those games have never been on sale.

Exactly.  That's my exact price point on them. 

You'd think all the hardcores would have bought the game already.  Like, I'm never buying that game for $35.  It just won't happen.  There are at least two guys here that would buy it at the above price point, and indubitably a fuckload more if they had a splash page as part of a Steam sale. 

[lamaros]

Blood bowl. Tried to give anno 1404 a shot but found it to be humorless.

[ghost]

Is Fallout 3 worth creating a window's partition on my Mac to play? I hear so much about New Vegas that I am contemplating jumping off the Cataclysm ship and re-addicting myself to something else.

Yes.