So, what're you playing?

[Sir Fodder]

Yeah, guns suck. I played through Red Faction: Guerrilla using just the sledgehammer and the thrown sticky charges, was a lot of fun. I think I also did Mass Effect I + II without guns. Was thinking of doing a "gun light" run though GTA IV not sure how possible that is though...

[Soulflame]

You could play a demoman in TF2.

I've been playing TF2 on the PC, and Dragon Quest Monsters:  Joker 2 on the DS.  Mostly heavy/pyro, and just reached the Bemausoleum in DQM.  I'm taking a short pause to hit 150 monsters collected.  It's Pokemon, but one where you can design the abilities from the ground up for the monsters you breed.

[Ingmar]

Mount & Blade is hardly a computer-crippling graphical tour de force, and there's a lot of settings you can turn down. I wouldn't stress about it from that standpoint.

[ghost]

Well, finally finished Dragon Age: Origins.   

That only took me five months.

[Threash]

Playing the shit out of Heroes of might and magic 6 right now.

[Sky]

Back to minecraft for a while, don't want to start anything new before I rebuild the pc.

Didn't make 50 in the month I allowed Rift (from 42 ). Ye gods that's a boring game the third trip to 50.

[Threash]

Didn't make 50 in the month I allowed Rift (from 42 ). Ye gods that's a boring game the third trip to 50.

Did you actually login at all? cause that should take like... three days or so.

[Sky]

It's not that fast. How much do you play at a sitting? I played about a week and got maybe two levels, doing stuff around droughtlands. I only have about an hour a night to play.

Partly it was so amazingly boring doing the same exact quests over and over that I just stopped playing.

[rk47]

Heroes of Neverwinter

[Threash]

It's not that fast. How much do you play at a sitting? I played about a week and got maybe two levels, doing stuff around droughtlands. I only have about an hour a night to play.

Partly it was so amazingly boring doing the same exact quests over and over that I just stopped playing.

Well there is your problem right there.  You were doing a zone way too low for you, in your 40s you should be doing IPP, Shimmersand or Stillmoor.  Edit: even if the quest exp barely goes up there is a huge huge difference in mob kill experience, which is actually a very large part of your total exp in Rift.  Going from green mobs to equal or higher level mobs will give you about triple the exp per kill, and at least half your leveling time.

[Sky]

Good point. It did occur to (I do know better, heh). I guess it was the completionist in me. It's not strong, but part of why an mmo tends to have longer legs for me than most pve/questers is that I like to take my time and savor each zone. I just ran into a paradox of wanting to do that but not enjoying it.

Especially since I was playing a necrolock that could take swarms of higher level enemies. Ah, well. Probably done with that game for good at this point.

Close on the heels of the blandness, the amount of pop-in at max settings was atrocious. BLAM here's a giant stone structure you didn't see one pace ago. Constant low level irritation from that got old.

[Igglethorpe]

Sounds like Sky and me play MMOs very similarily.  The issues I had with Rift were many.  I only got to level 35 or so on my first characcter.  Issues I had specifically (my opinions of course):

 - Poor gameplay (the whole game felt stiff, rigid, and clunky).  Hard to pinpoint, but I'm sure any gamer can relate to this.  WoW comparisons are inevitable and I feel that WoW has more fluid animations, better combat, and overall better feel.
 - Writing / Lore issues.  I don't know where to begin here.  I feel the writing in this game is terrible.  I have absolutely no vested emotional interest in any character / situation I've come across.  Voice acting is equally bad. "May you live a 1,000 years" anyone?  Terrible.
 - Models and environments.  Mixed bag for me.  While I think the Rifts themselves look pretty neat, I feel just about everything else (including the dungeons I've seen) looks awful.  Very bland with little art design.

Anyway, this thread was about which games we are playing.

RAGE currently for me.  Next up, ME2 second playthrough.

[Sky]

2pts for posting here and not the lurker thread :)

But the gameplay wasn't an issue for me, I actually liked the combat well enough. Also, the models and environments were ok, if uninspired.

And I really don't like WoW at all. Lasted almost a month in Rift after taking two to 50 previously (about six months in alpha). WoW I got one character to 48 (about three months) and lasted one afternoon last year.

[Igglethorpe]

Thanks for the points!  Honestly I always intended to start posting but haven't felt the need until now.  Been enjoying this forum off and on for several years.  Just noticed the lurker thread, too.  Looks like I was about to be deleted! 

To further discuss RAGE, I know a lot of people think that game is a mixed bag but I am enjoying it.  I think I've put 50 hours into it so far, almost all single player.  Will probably do a 3rd playthrough with Insane mode and attempt to find every card, sewer, etc.

ME2 is perhaps my favorite game of all time simply because the story was so engaging.  Playing ME1 and importing characters was certainly a big help in the backstory.

[Paelos]

ME2 is perhaps my favorite game of all time simply because the story was so engaging.

I'd recommend Deus Ex then if you can put up with the crappy graphics.

I just wanted to get that in before the rest of the forum starts yelling PLAAAAAAAAAAAAANESCAPE!

[Ingmar]

If you want a different take on a story driven game I can't recommend Bastion highly enough, by the way.

[Sheepherder]

PLAAAAAAAAAAAAANESCAPE!

I agree.

[snowwy]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam while i hold my breath waiting for BF3. If you ever thought" Wow, BF:BC2 sure was a lot of granate-spem", welcome to Vietnam. Wanna move? Get naded. Wanna revive someone? Get naded. Wanna do anything at all? Oh, we have a granate here with your name on it.  Tried going back to FO:NV and finish off LR-DLC but the shooter-wasp has stung me again.  Spending more time watching terrible Jihad-Jeep BF3 videos than anything :( Sadly, C4 and Mortar goes in the same slot apparently. Decisions, decisions...

edited because i can't spell, I'm euro

[Rendakor]

Playing around on Minecraft with Buildcraft/Industrialcraft/Equivalent Exchange while I wait for the real release. Is it easy to have like, 2 separate installs or whatever? I'd like to come play on the F13 server but I can't be arsed to uninstall/reinstall mods every day based on if I feel like playing single player or multi.

Also borrowed EDF: Insect Armageddon for the 360. It's good mindless fun, although I'm not sure I'll buy it because none of my friends are playing it anymore. Still need to finish Disgaea 4, and Gears 3...

Going to try Dungeon Defenders tonight after my WoW raid with some guildies.

[ghost]

Fucking christ.  Dragon Age Origins:  Awakening is very.....tedious.  It may be another 10 months before I finish this one. 

[rk47]

Fucking christ.  Dragon Age Origins:  Awakening is very.....tedious.  It may be another 10 months before I finish this one. 

That expansion was utter money grab. I kinda hate it. Then came dragon age 2. Unsurpassed in terms of decline in quality. No doubt the one year EA rush helped to contribute to that.

[WayAbvPar]

FIFA 12
NHL 12
Darklands 

I really wanna buy a few more games, but I don't have time for these as it is. Plus BF3 will be out next week, so yeah. I am pretty locked in.

[jakonovski]

LoL is my life now, but I've managed to squeeze in some Red Faction Armageddon.

[Big Gulp]

Is no one playing Arkham City???  I'm currently stuck between money being tight/waiting for the PC version or I would have bought it already. 

On my rare game playing time I've been dicking around with Terraria again, and an occasional bout of Shogun 2.

[stray]

Is no one playing Arkham City???  I'm currently stuck between money being tight/waiting for the PC version or I would have bought it already.

I might get it. Why not the Xbox? What's the difference? Seems like a fitting console game anyways.

[NowhereMan]

I was looking forward to it but it seems to be following in the footsteps of Space Marine and isn't available through Steam in the UK. Will have to keep an eye on what outlets are actually offering it.

[Cyrrex]

I have a GIANT boner for Arkham City.  I thought Arkham Asylum was one of my top 10 favorites ever, and I'm not a comic/Batman nerd by any stretch of the imagination.  I cannot fucking wait to play that game.

Problem is, I will have to!  Have Gears 3 to get through, which is awesome, and Dark Souls, which is fucking awesome.

Speaking of Dark Souls, I've only had time so far to put 3 or 4 hours into it...and have made almost no discernible progress beyond some leveling up.  It might be the only game ever (along with it's forebearer) where you can accomplish almost nothing except dieing like a bitch for hours on end and still love every second of it.    It's almost hilarious how hard this game is right from the begining.  The first boss is just absolutely slaughtering me.

I wish I wasn't so damn busy.    There is entirely too much good shit coming out at this time of the year.

[Big Gulp]

Why not the Xbox? What's the difference?

Three tween/teenage daughters and an infant son who is only soothed by Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  Much easier to jump on my computer to get my fix.

[stray]

Three tween/teenage daughters and an infant son who is only soothed by Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  Much easier to jump on my computer to get my fix.

Makes sense  

[Sand]

Downloaded Rome Total War and Medieval War yesterday based on someone's recommendations in the Steam thread.
Started Rome last night. Not bad. Having trouble raising cash fast enough to recruit or build quickly enough. So researching online strat guides now.

[NowhereMan]

If you're playing as Julii then that's pretty normal. Otherwise the simplest way to keep money rolling in is kicking out an army of diplomats early on getting Trade rights with every other nation then concentrating on building ports and markets in every conquered city as a priority. If you're playing Scipii or Brutii that should be plenty to keep money coming in combined with the occasional spate of conquering other cities and enslaving the populace to promote growth in your own cities and to pacify the conquered. I haven't really found out if there's any big reason to be merciful to anywhere you conquer.

[AcidCat]

I've only been able to put about two hours in so far but I'm really digging Arkham City. I like the change of environment from the last game to allow more freedom and exploration, feels more like Batman should.

[PalmTrees]

Bouncing between a few games atm.

City of Heroes, running a time/dual pistols defender. Fun combo so far.

Dragon Nest, getting my sharpshooter to 32. Like my elementalsit better, but she's at the cap. I like the gameplay but the equipment system annoys me with all its randomness.

Third playthrough of New Vegas. Trying the options I haven't picked yet so going Legion with melee/unarmed with a side of explosives and trying to be evil. Skipping a bit of the side stuff I've seen a few times before to hurry this one through.

[Sky]

Got the new pc up and running, loaded on Metro 2033 to push some graphics. Runs smooth as silk, but I think I'm over shooters at this point.

Thinking of a pre-TOR run through KotOR 1/2 or maybe ME 1/2. KotOR 1's engine hasn't aged well and the widescreen hack I used was too buggy on my DLP. ME1 is a bit too dated after playing ME2. So I might just jump into ME2.

Sad when I have a decent new rig and I'm most wanting to play Minecraft   (gotta find my password!)

[Big Gulp]

Thinking of a pre-TOR run through KotOR 1/2 or maybe ME 1/2.

Played WoW?  Then you've played TOR, only the better, more polished version.

After Dragon Age 2 I shouldn't have been surprised.