So, what're you playing?

[Sjofn]

Hell, sometimes you say that with the sarcastic option. 

Maybe it's true though, maybe a headache is all I need to get me to finally be an asshole to everyone. I can never manage it completely in any game I've attempted to do so. Even my "Renegade" Shepard was like 80% Renegade, 50% Paragon. I have problems.

[Margalis]

Started playing Tactics Ogre for PSP. One of my all time favorite games, even though I've only played the Japanese version and couldn't read the text. PSP version introduces quite a few changes, not far enough along to weigh in on them. If you like SRPGs this is the pretty much THE game to play.

[Sheepherder]

Crysis needs to throw more power armoured Korean tank punching ninjas with miniguns and long rifles at you.  With helicopter support.

[Samwise]

Plowing through Sam and Max Season 3.  Finally.  Top-notch stuff as always.

[Minvaren]

I seem to have plowed a fair bit through ME1.  At least, everyone's primary weapon and armor skills seem to be close to maxed out.

Driving around in the Mako is still a PITA, though, and if I see "you are approaching the 150-item limit..." one more time...  

(edit : Also, there needs to be an option for romance with Tali...)

[Rendakor]

Started playing Tactics Ogre for PSP. One of my all time favorite games, even though I've only played the Japanese version and couldn't read the text. PSP version introduces quite a few changes, not far enough along to weigh in on them. If you like SRPGs this is the pretty much THE game to play.

How are the load times? I've played it twice (PSX and GBA versions) but I've wanted something to do on my PSP for a while now; if they're not too bad I'll probably pick it up.

Playing Pokemon White and working toward my 7th badge. Also fucking around on Rift as a cleric; soloing as a Justicar and healing as a Sentinel. Stalled out on my rogue at 42 due to WAR T3 syndrome; hopefully by the time my cleric gets to that point there will be enough players around for Rifts/Dungeons/PVP to become viable again.

[Margalis]

Tactics Ogre for GBA is a different and much worse game.

The PSX version is a port of the Super Famicom game, it's actually a lot worse than the SFC game because of the loading, even loading of things like sound FX mid battle IIRC. There's basically no loading on the PSP version, certainly not in-battle. It's basically the same as the cartridge version.

[apocrypha]

Thanks to the Skyrim thread I am currently playing... Just Cause 2. It's hilarious.

[tgr]

I tried out JC2 a long while ago (I bought it shortly after it was released, mistaking it for uncharted 2 for some reason, never gotten around to correct that mistake), and it didn't jive very well with me. I'm going to have to give it a second shot at some point.

As for what I'm playing right now, still mafia 1 and wurm (and very occasionally EVE, bitter vet represent), but a friend of mine made me buy and test mount and blade: warband. Graphics are ... well, let's just say the game has an option to use DX7, and that should say everything about the graphics I think. I've barely scratched the surface, but I like it so far.

[Sheepherder]

This game is no longer about Korean tank punching cyborg ninjas.  This game is now about cyborg alien melee tentacle robots that are weak to nuclear explosions except when they aren't.

Also, the most prolonged explosion of an end boss, ever.

[Malakili]

Magicka - hilarious, but also good.
WoW - been leveling up characters, I can see that I'll probably be "done" with Cataclysm in a shorter time frame, but its decent while it lasts.
Global Agenda - less often but still a couple nights a week

[Sky]

Tried to polish off Fallout:NV over the weekend. I'll just post this here to stem the occasional steam pms I get: Yes, the game can be crashy on my machine. Also, it crashes on alt-tab almost every time, so I also quit out when I'm trying to work around a bug and looking up codes on wiki (last night was an unresponsive npc and I had to manually increment the quest forward a notch). Good game, though. Not real happy that
So buggy. I'd rather have a good game with bugs than a polished boring game, though.

Currently 70 hours in, Boone and ED-E for the sniper win.

[apocrypha]

I tried out JC2 a long while ago (I bought it shortly after it was released, mistaking it for uncharted 2 for some reason, never gotten around to correct that mistake), and it didn't jive very well with me. I'm going to have to give it a second shot at some point.

There is an initial learning curve because the physics are a tad nutty. Also, treat it like a James Bond film on steroids - you don't worry about the plot or how grossly amoral the protagonists are and how abhorrent the motives are, you just sit back and enjoy the explosions.

[Tebonas]

Dragon Age 2 (fooling around until the Signature Edition comes per mail, then I'll start for earnest). Although the game feels like there are parts missing. Maybe Varric has partial dementia? Everybody acting like I should remember my Mercenary days grates a bit.

[Sky]

Finished Fallout:NV last night. Steam friends rejoice!


Wanted to do a second run-through as a psychotic mohawk assassin chick who kills everyone in the wasteland, but at 70 hours just to do a basic good-guy run-through...maybe not.

Thinking about Divinity II or Alpha Protocol next.

[Mrbloodworth]

Finished Fallout:NV last night. Steam friends rejoice!

WOOOooo!  

[Sky]

Actually with the class starting monday and running through April, I think that was the end of gaming season 10/11 

[Mrbloodworth]

Actually with the class starting monday and running through April, I think that was the end of gaming season 10/11 

BOOoooo!

[Yegolev]

I am more or less only playing Just Cause 2 right now.  It's hilarious, I love collect-em-all games, and I don't have to think too hard.  I haven't progressed the story far enough for the Sloth Demon's voice to change, mostly because I don't need to and I dislike his actual voice.  Currently at 51% completion with practically zero plot progression.  It's fabulous.

"Try to deliver oil now, you pipeline jerks!"

[Sky]

I pretty much just veered right off into tomfoolery, as well. Maybe I should fire that up, something I don't need to put any thought into would go well with studying :)

[Minvaren]

ME1 is almost growing on me.  Waiting for the traditional Bioware 3/4-mark plot twist...

Depeche Mode DLC on RB3, woo!  More of this and they'll get a keyboard sale out of me yet.

[Sjofn]

Being a dick in DA2 turns out to be totally fun for me, because I can still do the "good" thing, I am just an enormous douchebag when I do so. That's a perfectly fine balance for me, so Aggressive Jerkface Hawke will indeed live out his days being an asshole with a heart of gold. It shows the most glaring flaw of the "three voice" thing though, because sometimes I will be all RAAR DICKHEAD -> asks a question in a totally gentle, non-confrontational tone -> RAAR ANGRY MANHAWKE CONCLUSION in a conversation. The other two tones flow with the "generic uni-voice" delivery a lot better, while ANGRYHAWKE sounds a little bipolar.

That new Sims game is out this week, I'll probably pick it up and play that. I need something light and fluffy, I think.

[WindupAtheist]

Daggerfall collapsed in a pile of intractable save-corrupting bugs a while back and was uninstalled with disgust. Toyed with taking a poke at Morrowind, but uninstalled as soon as I got off the boat. It's just an unremittingly ugly grey-brown place full of ugly people and I have no desire to visit it. Guess I could play Oblivion. Meh.

[Paelos]

Daggerfall collapsed in a pile of intractable save-corrupting bugs a while back and was uninstalled with disgust. Toyed with taking a poke at Morrowind, but uninstalled as soon as I got off the boat. It's just an unremittingly ugly grey-brown place full of ugly people and I have no desire to visit it. Guess I could play Oblivion. Meh.

Morrowind isn't that bad. You really should give a better look.

[WindupAtheist]

I've played it before to a reasonable extent. Just no urge to go back upon actually looking at it. Plus I need a game where most if not all NPCs can respawn, else I tend to depopulate the world to an annoying degree.

[Paelos]

The only thing that annoyed me about Oblivion (other than the obvious portal copying) was the fact I couldn't join the Legion. I was rocking kickass Legion gear in Morrowind.

[MuffinMan]

Daggerfall collapsed in a pile of intractable save-corrupting bugs a while back and was uninstalled with disgust.

Being Daggerfall I believe that is "working as intended."

[WindupAtheist]

Morrowind just feels like a dead world to me, a construction kit in need of a game. I looked at a bunch of mods and found, among other things, an incredibly detailed one that let you turn people into slaves/thralls/vampires. I was gonna set Morrowind Nythrax up in a mansion full of vampire whores with their tits out. But man, it would just be a room full of soulless ugly Bethesda mannequins going "Good to see you outlander!" while everything interesting happened in a tiny text box.

[Minvaren]

Daggerfall collapsed in a pile of intractable save-corrupting bugs a while back and was uninstalled with disgust.

Being Daggerfall I believe that is "working as intended."

I think it took a few patches to get rid of the constant save-corrupting bugs.  Even then, other glitches abounded.

Finished ME1.  Looks like Bioware changed the formula and moved the plot twist to 90% through instead of 75% through or so.

[Ironwood]

Morrowind just feels like a dead world to me, a construction kit in need of a game. I looked at a bunch of mods and found, among other things, an incredibly detailed one that let you turn people into slaves/thralls/vampires. I was gonna set Morrowind Nythrax up in a mansion full of vampire whores with their tits out. But man, it would just be a room full of soulless ugly Bethesda mannequins going "Good to see you outlander!" while everything interesting happened in a tiny text box.

In a tribute to the hard working people at f13, I installed Oblivion and gave it another chance.  It was working, okayish, I guess until I got a quest that just seemed a little too hard.  I opened the console and gave myself some nice gear.

On zoning into the dungeon I saw the enemies had also used the console and given themselves EVEN BETTER GEAR.  Then I remembered that the scaling wasn't just level scaling.  Utterly fucking lame.

I'm going to try and find some mods for it today to 'fix' it, but I don't hold out much hope.

(For those of you who are going to say 'Wait, you tried to cheat and you're pissed off because you couldn't ?', that's not the point.)

It still sucks balls.  Also, lockpicking and speechcraft mini-games :  I'd forgotten how silly they were.  Hell, I'll sign off here before I repost my rant from the original oblivion thread.

Dammit, can't they FUSE all of the Elder Scrolls games into one ?  That'd work.

[WindupAtheist]

They should just make Daggerfall-but-better-and-actually-works in the Oblivion engine. Crank out a big procedurally-generated world, with better dungeons and more variety. Seed it with endless random quests/loot and a shitload of factions. Maybe let me become Baron of some province somewhere as an endgame thing. Don't even have a fucking main quest because nobody cares. I'll play it forever. Let me and a couple friends run around multiplayer online. Holy shit.

I think I will mess around with Morrowind a bit just to tinker with the editor and mods. I've already used it to nerf Godrod Hairy-breeks. He's the Nord barbarian in the cave just outside of... whatever the next city after Sedya Need is if you're heading toward Balmora. Fucking dude is level 12 and two-shots your level 1 ass. Fuck that, I shaved 10 or 11 levels off him.

[Sheepherder]

In a tribute to the hard working people at f13, I installed Oblivion and gave it another chance.  It was working, okayish, I guess until I got a quest that just seemed a little too hard.  I opened the console and gave myself some nice gear.

On zoning into the dungeon I saw the enemies had also used the console and given themselves EVEN BETTER GEAR.  Then I remembered that the scaling wasn't just level scaling.  Utterly fucking lame.

(For those of you who are going to say 'Wait, you tried to cheat and you're pissed off because you couldn't ?', that's not the point.)

It still sucks balls.  Also, lockpicking and speechcraft mini-games :  I'd forgotten how silly they were.  Hell, I'll sign off here before I repost my rant from the original oblivion thread.

Enemy gear does not scale with the gear you're wearing.  It scales with your level.  Where were you exploring?

If you are ever tempted to use Avdlevel or Setlevel cheats, don't.  The first levels you up in just about the least optimal way possible, the second just sets your level stat, which is the least optimal way unless you like your game to spawn dickpunchingly hard enemies.

Lockpicking and speechcraft are terrible.  Whoever created them could find employment divining subterranean wrong.

Install the latest patch, the unpatched game suffers an integer overflow that will kill saves eventually.

I'm pretty handy with the editor, so I could give some pointers and/or just do it myself if something is really busting your balls.  You can do a lot of shit that makes the game infinitely nicer with just some basic coding knowledge and a list of the game settings.

If you're playing a melee character find some way to macro toggle run off -> [back/side] power attack -> toggle run on to one button press.  So you don't look like such a fuckup when you [back/side] power attack and miss completely because you stepped [back/side] too far. I imagine AutoIt would work.

You should make a new thread just for people to rant about Oblivion in.

[Ironwood]

Not to be a prick (honest), but are you REALLY SURE ?

I hadn't levelled, but I gave myself a bunch of Elvish and Mithril shit.  When I went back into the dungeon, they were all tooled up with enchanted flaming blades.  They really, really, really didn't have that shit first time around when I killed four of the five of them.  This time I got my ass handed to me by the first one.

I'm staggered if that's a coincidence.  This was the Azura vampire dungeon. 

I have the latest patch, but the game is still WRONG on a variety of levels.  I require some nice mods to make it all better, but it would seem that time has moved on without me and I have no idea which of the fifteen thousand are actually any cop.

Oh Well.

[Mrbloodworth]

I liked oblivion. There is a mod that enhances the textures, and also fixes some gazillion bugs and quests with little game play alteration ( such as cheats ).

[cironian]

This was the Azura vampire dungeon. 

I think those guys always have magical weapons. Maybe you just lucked out the first time and the weapons were spawned with some worthless debuff instead of fire damage?