So, what're you playing?

[Morfiend]

I have been playing AoC, but I finally hit level 80 on a character and realized what an amazing grind it is to be competitive with AA abilities, and it has killed my will to log in.

I think I'm going to play some more EVE, and maybe I will install Global Agenda again. I liked that game.

[Yegolev]

My wife is still playing Dungeon Siege III, and she is telling me to not bother playing my save file, to stick with Divinity II instead.

I'm poking at GT5 once a day just to keep the paint and museum cards coming in.

The worst thing about looking for work is that you aren't just tired but also worried and anxious enough to make playing most games seem like a chore.

[Strazos]

I finished my renegade Fem-Shep ME2 playthrough while I was without internet for a week.

I think I tried to go TOO renegade - the crew bit the dust on the way back to the Normandy because I refused to send an escort.

[Rendakor]

Made it mostly through Feros on ME1, but the stupid boss battle at the end with the Thorian is a pain in the ass. Killed like 4 of it's nodes once before getting stunlocked by the stupid Asari clone and killed. Once I made it off the Citadel the game really started picking up, glad I powered through elevator hell this time.

[Minvaren]

Actually picked up Witcher 2 again today.

Gave up after 15 minutes of texture errors (Geralt's entire body was missing), no matter what settings I changed.   

[Tairnyn]

Cthulhu Saves the World on Steam. A humorous take on 90s JRPGs. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.

[Rendakor]

More Mass Effect 1; I finished Feros, recruited Liari, and am now working on the side quest to unlock the advanced classes. The plan was to play renegade but I didn't go on a killing spree back in Feros so now I'm kinda balanced. I need some puppies to kick, asap. My only real complaint with the game is the autosave; it exists, so I assume it saves very often (like Fallout) so I rarely remember to save manually. However, it pretty much only saves when you change planets, so I've had to replay multiple hours. I'm trying to get into the habit of quicksaving, but it's tough; maybe I should disable autosave (if you can?) to force myself to get into the habit.

[Fabricated]

New Vegas still. I finally decided I wanted to finish the main storyline, and discovered in the ending I missed a few things. I'll take care of those AFTER I finish all the DLC however.

As mentioned in the NV thread I started with Dead Money, just finished Honest Hearts, and I'm starting on Old World Blues. I'm basically the avatar of death now and the only way I die is if I get too lazy to pull out my good guns for things like high-level deathclaws. I really want to play through Fallout 3 now but it just feels clunky and boring compared to New Vegas...I mean, the story is interesting and I want to go through it, but DC is boring as hell honestly. Also all the rough edges that NV apparently shaved off of the gameplay are still there.

I'm sort of in limbo otherwise. I have a sub to Rift but no one to really play with, so I can't make myself bother to log in despite it being a pretty solid game (with the most forgettable setting ever). I also think I picked a bad set of souls.

[Khaldun]

Went back to work a bit on AC Brotherhood this afternoon, need to finish that. Good game, lots of fun. Need to go back with my kid and work on Portal 2 coop.

Just finding that there are almost no games any more that get me excited because oh fuck they're going to do something new or shiny. It's really just, "Yeah, ok, I'll play that, seems kind of cool. I like that." Have really not had a MUST PLAY IT IS 3AM JESUS experience for a good while.

[Merusk]

Welcome to getting older and having more important shit on your mind.  The walkers are down the hall on the left.

[jakonovski]

My Witcher 2 launcher stopped working with the new patch, but I got hooked anyway, since it's not crashing as much anymore. Played like 10 hours over the course of the weekend, and another 10 was spent with Fallout: NV.

I also dabbled in Terraria, and finally found the underground jungle. Got a pile of spores but no stingers. :(

 

[Talpidae]

Nah, it's not that.  Games have got to the same place as movies :  It's all big business and sequels with very few innovators in the market.

Hey ho.

[fuser]

Quit ME1, really dislike the game. Switched to Fallout 3:GOTY on PC but experiencing the 5-25mins random crashes on entering buildings or when someone speaks. Tried all the troubleshooting (drivers,ffdshow), swear this game is cursed.

[KallDrexx]

I just finished Point Lookout and Anchorage Fallout 3 DLCs this weekend.  Holy hell FO3's DLC and the PS3 do not get along well.  My framerate dropped to crap in a lot of places in both DLCs, and while I have never had my PS3 lock up before, FO3 caused it to completely lock up in both DLCs 2-3 times each.

[Sky]

Playing the resource-hog Civ V a bit more. Actually sucked into the game for the first time.

The Iroquois game I mentioned last week. I'm in the 1800s and the game has really started chugging and takes over 4 minutes to load from clicking the icon. Yeah...new computer build imminent.

Harald Bluetooth decided (as usual) that his neighbors all needed to die, and tried recruiting me for the war. A quick check of the advisors tells me Catherine is weak, and she's also quite near some islands I'm populating...so I tell him to give me ten turns and I'm in. He then goes and attacks Pachacuti for a two-front war. I'm in the midst of taking over Catherine's continent (I seem to have a habit of annexing everything) and Harald let his Friendship with me lapse and hasn't tried to renew it (if he renews, it's tit for tat, if I offer it he wants tit and iron, horses and gold  ). So I'm thinking once my newly minted veteran army has rolled over Moscow, it will keep going to remove my newest obnoxious neighbor, and I'll take some loot from Pachacuti for 'helping' him. And try reeeal hard to Raze or Puppet Denmark, rather than have my empire sprawl over 2/3rds of the top 1/3 of the map.

I can't seem to find a setting to let me watch enemy moves...but with the engine chugging this bad, it's probably a good thing. DX9 is even worse, the redraws take much longer. Also some niggling things with the interface, but for the most part I'm getting used to it and there are some nice additions, I'm coming around to it as a game *gasp* Hit a couple bugs where I have open borders, but another deal lapses (resource for resource) and the open borders is still active but I can't enter their territory, things like that. I've worked around them, but it's been pretty constant through the entire game, that's just one example.

Still don't like the gold>all mechanics, I've completely ignored culture buildings after the monument and just buy my culture from city-states. Also really dislike the embarkment mechanic and removal of troop transports, especially after I lost a couple knights to triremes because I didn't realize they were completely defenseless at sea

[Malakili]

Playing the resource-hog Civ V a bit more. Actually sucked into the game for the first time.

The Iroquois game I mentioned last week. I'm in the 1800s and the game has really started chugging and takes over 4 minutes to load from clicking the icon. Yeah...new computer build imminent.

Harald Bluetooth decided (as usual) that his neighbors all needed to die, and tried recruiting me for the war. A quick check of the advisors tells me Catherine is weak, and she's also quite near some islands I'm populating...so I tell him to give me ten turns and I'm in. He then goes and attacks Pachacuti for a two-front war. I'm in the midst of taking over Catherine's continent (I seem to have a habit of annexing everything) and Harald let his Friendship with me lapse and hasn't tried to renew it (if he renews, it's tit for tat, if I offer it he wants tit and iron, horses and gold  ). So I'm thinking once my newly minted veteran army has rolled over Moscow, it will keep going to remove my newest obnoxious neighbor, and I'll take some loot from Pachacuti for 'helping' him. And try reeeal hard to Raze or Puppet Denmark, rather than have my empire sprawl over 2/3rds of the top 1/3 of the map.

I can't seem to find a setting to let me watch enemy moves...but with the engine chugging this bad, it's probably a good thing. DX9 is even worse, the redraws take much longer. Also some niggling things with the interface, but for the most part I'm getting used to it and there are some nice additions, I'm coming around to it as a game *gasp* Hit a couple bugs where I have open borders, but another deal lapses (resource for resource) and the open borders is still active but I can't enter their territory, things like that. I've worked around them, but it's been pretty constant through the entire game, that's just one example.

Still don't like the gold>all mechanics, I've completely ignored culture buildings after the monument and just buy my culture from city-states. Also really dislike the embarkment mechanic and removal of troop transports, especially after I lost a couple knights to triremes because I didn't realize they were completely defenseless at sea

Using the strategic mode map can help performance while actually playing if you are having framerate issues in the late game.  I think the game is harder to play from that map, but it may be easier if you are having to negotiate bad performance.

[Sky]

If it comes to that, I'll just play something else.

[Rasix]

Started up my free copy of inFamous on the PS3 yesterday.  Interesting so far, up to chapter 3 so far.

Does anyone have any tips on how to aim better?  It's much easier now that I un-inverted the horizontal axis, but I haven't used this sort of control setup without a mouse involved in forever.

Spam spam spam.  The lightning bolt ability costs no energy and will stun your enemies.  No downside to just letting it rip.  Also, make sure it's maxed out for its level.  That'll help was as your thumbsticking improves.  Also, use cover and/or height to your advantage if you're outnumbered. 

I'm a little into the second island. This will be worth finishing.  I imagine I'll even take 100% of the neighborhoods back (please no more Spy Games, those missions are terrible).  I think I'll be skipping getting every shard, however. 

[Ingmar]

Sky, there's a tech eventually that makes your at-sea transports able to defend themselves.

[WayAbvPar]

One of the civs has that as a perk as well, I believe.

Civ V is hideously suboptimized, and may have a memory leak as well. I have a reasonably decent system (Win7 i7 920, ATI 4870, 12 GB RAM); when I am barely into the Industrial Age it takes 45 seconds to a minute between each turn SINGLE PLAYER. I can't imagine what a min spec system would do.

Hasn't stopped me from playing it a bunch recently. Bought the 3-wonder DLC over the weekend as well ( Statue of Zeus). I heard there is another patch due very soon- hopefully that will help some of the performance issues. Still don't like the city-state part of the game at all. I turn them down to a bare minimum (usually 6 instead of the normal 24 on a huge map) and basically just ignore them for the most part. My first wish for Civ VI is to lose them and bring back religion (in a meaningful FFH way).

[Morfiend]

Started up my free copy of inFamous on the PS3 yesterday.  Interesting so far, up to chapter 3 so far.

Does anyone have any tips on how to aim better?  It's much easier now that I un-inverted the horizontal axis, but I haven't used this sort of control setup without a mouse involved in forever.

Spam spam spam.  The lightning bolt ability costs no energy and will stun your enemies.  No downside to just letting it rip.  Also, make sure it's maxed out for its level.  That'll help was as your thumbsticking improves.  Also, use cover and/or height to your advantage if you're outnumbered. 

I'm a little into the second island. This will be worth finishing.  I imagine I'll even take 100% of the neighborhoods back (please no more Spy Games, those missions are terrible).  I think I'll be skipping getting every shard, however. 

Use movement to aim as well as "aiming" that really helped me when I was learning. There isnt any acceleration on the left thumbstick, so if you get your target close to the crosshairs, its easier to adjust by straifing just slightly to the left or right, instead of trying to aim and overcorrecting.

[Ingmar]

One of the civs has that as a perk as well, I believe.

Civ V is hideously suboptimized, and may have a memory leak as well. I have a reasonably decent system (Win7 i7 920, ATI 4870, 12 GB RAM); when I am barely into the Industrial Age it takes 45 seconds to a minute between each turn SINGLE PLAYER. I can't imagine what a min spec system would do.

Hasn't stopped me from playing it a bunch recently. Bought the 3-wonder DLC over the weekend as well ( Statue of Zeus). I heard there is another patch due very soon- hopefully that will help some of the performance issues. Still don't like the city-state part of the game at all. I turn them down to a bare minimum (usually 6 instead of the normal 24 on a huge map) and basically just ignore them for the most part. My first wish for Civ VI is to lose them and bring back religion (in a meaningful FFH way).

I find myself really liking the scenario that comes with the 3 wonder DLC, although the civs are sliiiightly too far apart for enough tension on the historical map.

[Yegolev]

Strafe-to-aim is fine if you need to get a shot off, but you won't get any better if you don't practice.  I used to do it, before Resident Evil 4.

[Sky]

Sky, there's a tech eventually that makes your at-sea transports able to defend themselves.

Tell that to the late Sir Swimsalot.

Well, that would've been his name if we could still rename units  

Also, it kinda trivialized my landing on Russia's shores. I picked a nice peninsula to bottle neck behind. Put my rifleman (upgraded via ruins before I had rifling) in the bottleneck and cannons behind him to hold off Catherine's army while I took out the city on the peninsula as a beachhead. Catherine kept putting her troops into the water and my frigates just VROOOM'd right over the top of them. It was totally silly, especially since the combat predictor thingy said the frigate would only damage them like 40%, and one unit was a heavily upgraded spearman (sated on the blood of Harald's horsemen) who I could barely dent while it was on land.

[Ingmar]

The combat predictor is telling you what the damage would be if you shot them with a ranged attack.

[Sky]

The combat predictor is telling you what the damage would be if you shot them with a ranged attack.

My point being a standard attack would take three turns to kill (costing the rest of my movement points), or...>VROOOMDEAD, keep on truckin'!

[Furiously]

Space pirates and zombies came out at the best time a game ever could. Plus it's fun.

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, just played the SPAZ demo and I think I'll buy it either tonight or tomorrow.  Looks pretty fun.

[Tebonas]

Well, that would've been his name if we could still rename units  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Het7q8IXLGs

Its a youtube video showing how to rename units. Its seems you can only do that when you earn a promotion.

Glad to have helped.

[Vaiti]

SPAZ is only v1.0 at the moment, is a fun game, and the to be added features sound even more fun.

The game has issues. Ok, more like AN issue. You two friendly helper ships have bat shit stupid AI and will happily waste all your REZ flying head first into ships they can't even catch, unless you quickly realize what is going on and switch autobuild off.

[Sky]

Glad to have helped.

Well, at least it can be done.

 

[MisterNoisy]

Currently playing 'wait for new PC parts to show up'.  I hate it when Newegg ships my stuff from CA.   

[ghost]

I really want to play through Fallout 3 now but it just feels clunky and boring compared to New Vegas...I mean, the story is interesting and I want to go through it, but DC is boring as hell honestly. Also all the rough edges that NV apparently shaved off of the gameplay are still there.

They could have definitely done DC a lot better.  I suppose that the subway system is realistic to how it might be in an apocalypse situation, but it's damned irritating trying to navigate through all these tunnel areas that look exactly the same.  I personally prefer the setting of DC better myself, but you're right about the rough edges.  I hope they continue the series into another interesting town.  Somewhere in Europe or Russia might be interesting. 

[Sky]

Currently playing 'wait for new PC parts to show up'.  I hate it when Newegg ships my stuff from CA.   

Heh, same here. "Please ship from NJ!" Still baffles the people at work that I can order tech parts before I leave for the day and have them here the next morning for free (usually).

(going to move the parts talk to the appropriate thread...)

[Ingmar]

I really want to play through Fallout 3 now but it just feels clunky and boring compared to New Vegas...I mean, the story is interesting and I want to go through it, but DC is boring as hell honestly. Also all the rough edges that NV apparently shaved off of the gameplay are still there.

They could have definitely done DC a lot better.  I suppose that the subway system is realistic to how it might be in an apocalypse situation, but it's damned irritating trying to navigate through all these tunnel areas that look exactly the same.  I personally prefer the setting of DC better myself, but you're right about the rough edges.  I hope they continue the series into another interesting town.  Somewhere in Europe or Russia might be interesting. 

So much of the feel of it is based around the kind of twisted version of 50's US patriotism though, I wonder if they'd really be able to make it work in another country.