So, what're you playing?

[Paelos]

I'm playing 4 hours of Minecraft while thinking I've only played about 30 minutes. Then I realize it's midnight.


Oh dear god...It's happening again.


And I still haven't finished the west wall!

[rk47]

Neverwinter Nights -
Rogue 4 / Cleric 3 / Shadowdancer 1

Sooooo broken.

[Rendakor]

Picked up Gears of War 3 at midnight tonite and played some versus; god I missed this series. Had to buy a new 360 since I got rid of mine a while ago, so I sprung for the special edition GoW 3 one with the 320gb HD.

Any must-play 360 exclusives come out lately besides Gears?

[Murgos]

Do you think that EVE doesn't have enough data?  Is the learning curve for X3 so shallow you're bored in moments?  Is Dwarf Fortresses UI too intuitive and attractive to keep your attention?

If so have I got the game for you:  Aurora

4 hours playing minecraft?  Phah, I spent four hours reading the tutorial for Aurora last night and I'm hardly half way through it.

Aurora is an nth degree detailed, quasi realtime (continuous turnbased?), space 4X with, uh, functional graphics.  Most everyone will hate it, those of you who will love it probably already know who you are.  Have fun!

e:  To further whet your whistle here is an excellent AAR by the games creator. http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,112.0.html
He's roleplaying the three different human factions in an extension of 1980's cold war fiction.

[Minvaren]

I got bored and started Fallout 3 GOTY today.  I played the original Wasteland (well, about 80% of it), but neither of the previous Fallouts, and I haven't really read (well, retained) that much about them.

Aside from the annoyances of GFWL not being able to detect where my mouse was, and Steam always insisting on re-installing outdated/redundant DX vWhatever and ancient C++ redistributables, it's...  sort of and not sort-of what I was expecting.  I was expecting a bit more RTS play, but it feels like Borderlands with slower movement and heavier on the RPG elements.  I liked the Ultima-throwback spec/class picking at the beginning (and it pegged me, the personality geek), though accidentally clicking the scroll wheel seemed to break the game and I had to restart it.  Bit surprised at the unarmed spec, considering the amount of hostile gunfire I've encountered thus far - but I'm only to the first town, so...

Also still playing MTG 2012 - almost through the Archenemy campaign, and winning that mode seems to be luck of the draw.  And I still detest artifact-based decks.    

(re-edit : perfectionism)

[Malakili]

Well, with the f13 minecraft server beingupdated to 1.8, I've been happy with that.  I'm at a standstill otherwise though.   Waiting on the next Project Zomboid patch.  No shooters interest me at the moment.  No MMOs interest me at the moment, and I'm in the off again phase of my on again off again relationship with Starcraft 2.

Hum de dum.  Any suggestions?

[jakonovski]

League of Legends? Very competitive but you don't have to maintain your twitch mojo like in SC2.

[Malakili]

League of Legends? Very competitive but you don't have to maintain your twitch mojo like in SC2.

I've been considering it actually, but I've heard the community is not very nice to newbies, and I've never gotten into a MOBA game before.  I played the original DOTA mod a few times and its alright, but I don't know if a full game like it would keep my attention.  Then again, at the low low price of free to try, I suppose it can't hurt to give it a whirl.

[Ruvaldt]

Hum de dum.  Any suggestions?

F13 Blood Bowl!

We're competitive, but very newbie friendly, and there is a wide array of teams available for different playstyles.  We have a very active community here on f13 and several side-leagues to complement the main league which is starting up very soon; we may have 32 teams signed up and sign-ups end in a day, but even if you don't have a spot in the main league you can play in the Feeder League or a side league, like Horns & Hooves.

[Hawkbit]

League of Legends? Very competitive but you don't have to maintain your twitch mojo like in SC2.

I've been considering it actually, but I've heard the community is not very nice to newbies, and I've never gotten into a MOBA game before.  I played the original DOTA mod a few times and its alright, but I don't know if a full game like it would keep my attention.  Then again, at the low low price of free to try, I suppose it can't hurt to give it a whirl.

Honestly, the whole MOBA genre likes to eat their young.  I haven't played one of them where I have been talked to nicely.  I played one game of MP in Demigod, and was trash talked so horribly by my own team that I never played it again.  After I grew thicker skin, I had more fun in LoL.

Also, I suck at them and take my time learning how to do things.  Others don't like that.  If it gets bad, just turn chat off.  You'll lose, but just think about how much better you'll feel that they lose too.

[trias_e]

Planescape: Torment.  Haven't played it in a very long time, but it's just as good as I remember.  Widescreen mod is a lifesaver.

[rk47]

SPiderman SHattered DImensions.

What the fuck are they thinking. I like the art, but the pace is just wayyyy toooo fast.

Very disorienting.

[Azazel]

I picked up Gears 3 and have been doing some MP in that. Also started playing 007: Bloodstone, which isn't nearly as bad as people seem to say. It's not awesome, but it's certainly okay.

[jakonovski]

League of Legends? Very competitive but you don't have to maintain your twitch mojo like in SC2.

I've been considering it actually, but I've heard the community is not very nice to newbies, and I've never gotten into a MOBA game before.  I played the original DOTA mod a few times and its alright, but I don't know if a full game like it would keep my attention.  Then again, at the low low price of free to try, I suppose it can't hurt to give it a whirl.

The community is a bit special, but the developers have made it very easy to ignore people. Also the tutorials are good and hammer on the important points.

edit: and nothing is better than having a team of cretins bray GG's and other trash talk into the chat after they destroy your inhibitor (important structure), but then proceed to drop the ball completely and lose the game.

[Nebu]

I bought "Gun" on Steam for $5 because I love western themed stuff.  Wow... is that a terrible game.

Playing "Need for Speed" games, Shift at the moment.  I need a new MMO that has decent pvp soon.  I'm starting to twitch.

[Mrbloodworth]

It's called minecraft.

[Bann]

I found a amazon giftcard and made my semi-yearly sports game impulse purchase. Do other people do this? I'm not sure why I think I'll like/get into a sports game every so often, but when the urge hits, its strong. I pulled the trigger and preordered fifa12 (releases tomorrow.) I hope I get more out of this before it joins the lonely sports game corner with MLB 11 and NHL 10. At least this one was a (mostly) free ride thanks to that giftcard.

Still playing Disgaea 4. Finally clicked on a link detailing an innocent dupe method, and gave into it. After spending maybe 15-20 hours farming for managers and brokers and getting up to maybe 80ish of each, I know have more 300 stacks then I know what to do with. Will probably power through the rest of the game now.

Also still playing LoL. Bought Gangplank, and after playing a lot of laneplank, spent the weekend figuring out how to jungle with him. I like him alot. Got into a premade with mostly f13 folk last night, had a blast.

[Xanthippe]

Minecraft is feeding my crafting jones.  In fact, it has replaced ATiTD for me as the best crafting game ever.

Playing a little Space Pirates and Zombies.  Thinking about playing the Sims until I realize how buggy World Adventures is and then I shelve that idea.  Terraria just doesn't consume my thoughts like Minecraft does.

[Nebu]

Terraria just doesn't consume my thoughts like Minecraft does.

Does Minecraft have the same sense of adventure that Terraria has?  I'm not really interested in building for the sake of building.  Like the tests in ATitD, I need to have some goal for my crafting. 

[Mrbloodworth]

It does, and its adding more to it with he additions of strongholds and such. It also has balanced PvP   

[Xanthippe]

Minecraft has pvp?

[Mrbloodworth]

Yep :)

Walk up to someone and swing.

[murdoc]

Gears of War 3 when I get a chance. I'm a sucker for the first two games and this one is by the far the best.

[Paelos]

Minecraft has pvp?

Not when the server has it turned off. Which is good.

[Mrbloodworth]

Minecraft has pvp?

Not when the server has it turned off. Which is good.

Boooooo.

[Paelos]

Believe me, the last thing we need is more xp orbs flying around causing the server to take a time dump.

[Mrbloodworth]

Believe me, the last thing we need is more xp orbs flying around causing the server to take a time dump.

Eh, we have it on our our server, its not like we go around killing each other, but sometimes its funny :P

[Trippy]

Minecraft has pvp?

Not when the server has it turned off. Which is good.

It's turned off on the f13 server, though there are ways around it >.>

[Quinton]

It was clearly suicide by creeper, no foul play here.

[HaemishM]

League of Legends? Very competitive but you don't have to maintain your twitch mojo like in SC2.

I've been considering it actually, but I've heard the community is not very nice to newbies, and I've never gotten into a MOBA game before.  I played the original DOTA mod a few times and its alright, but I don't know if a full game like it would keep my attention.  Then again, at the low low price of free to try, I suppose it can't hurt to give it a whirl.

The community is a bit special, but the developers have made it very easy to ignore people.

I've actually had both good and bad community experiences in LoL. There were a few people that gave me pointers, and didn't harass me when I sucked. Of course, there have been more examples of complete shitdicks than nice people, but it's there. Compared to my one day in Heroes of Newerth, it's a fucking land of milk and honey. That is a community full of total mongoloids.

[jakonovski]

HoN is populated 99% by German UT kids. LoL only 50%

[Thrawn]

Maybe I should start a new thread for this?  It seemed to kinda fit here though.

How about someone tell me what to play for a change, I'm getting a bit burned out on LoL and think I'm done with Deus Ex for now.  Like many of you I'm sure, I have quite a few games between Steam/GOG that I've picked up on sale or in bundles, but never actually gotten around to playing.  So here is my list of games that I own, but haven't played much, or at all.  Someone tell me what here I really should play first and I'll try to finish it (or at least play it enough to decide I don't like it and move on).

[Minvaren]

Definitely a thread in and of itself.

Of what I've played of your list:

Audiosurf
AC2 (if you liked AC1)
Bioshock 1
Witcher 1

Are all definitely "worth 15-30 minutes with to see if they grab you" material.

[Thrawn]

AC2 (if you liked AC1)

I played though most of AC1 and enjoyed it quite a bit, but never finished it for some reason I forgot.  Does that matter much?  The story seemed kind of a mess anyways so I'm guessing it's not a big deal.

Definitely a thread in and of itself.

Well I guess if a mod gets bored and agrees they can move it.    If I wasn't in school right now I'd put some effort into playing through games as people suggest them and tracking the list and stuff, but in reality it will probably take me a week or more per game from lack of free time.    Hmm, maybe if I remember though I can make a goal out of killing mass amounts of time doing this my next break or something.

[Kail]

How about someone tell me what to play for a change, I'm getting a bit burned out on LoL and think I'm done with Deus Ex for now.  Like many of you I'm sure, I have quite a few games between Steam/GOG that I've picked up on sale or in bundles, but never actually gotten around to playing.

What kind of game are you looking for?

If you need something long and sandboxy, I thought  Grand Theft Auto (San Andreas is my favorite, but Vice City is good too), Just Cause 2 and Red Faction: Guerilla were fun.

If you're after something with more narrative, Vampire: Bloodlines is good, or the Witcher, as Min points out.

If you need something to kill a few minutes, Audiosurf and Beat Hazard are quick little time wasters.