So, what're you playing?

[jakonovski]

I'm having a Crysis (2) while the SO is addicted to Sims Medieval.

[Ironwood]

As I said, I'd like to skip punishment.

[Zetor]

How about Wizardry [6-7-8]?

[jakonovski]

Dungeon Master Java?

edit: Lands of Lore? Eye of the Beholder?

[WayAbvPar]

Install DOS-Box and go way retro.

I haven't gotten around to re-installing DOS-Box, but I played the hell out this a couple of years ago.

[Merusk]

I was seriously considering getting out Lands of Lore or the Eye games, but I suspect I'd just be winding up for another rant...

Why would you rant on the Eye games? They were fairly good fun and it's probably been long enough you don't remember playing them.

There's always Dark Sun, too if you're going that oldschool.

[Mrbloodworth]

Ulitma underworld.

[Ironwood]

I was seriously considering getting out Lands of Lore or the Eye games, but I suspect I'd just be winding up for another rant...

Why would you rant on the Eye games? They were fairly good fun and it's probably been long enough you don't remember playing them.

There's always Dark Sun, too if you're going that oldschool.

"This isn't how I remember it, I'm not 12 anymore, where did the time go, omg I can't believe how cheesy hitting them with doors is, who are you, who am I, are these my feet etc etc etc"

[Merusk]

Old man.

[Sky]

Did you play Drakensang, IW? There was a party and it was decent.

[Ironwood]

No, I might give it a go.  I'm playing LoL and I'd forgotten how much I wanted to fuck Dawn as a young lad.

 

[WayAbvPar]

When was she a young lad?

[Ironwood]

Hell, at that stage, I got hard when the wind changed direction.  I'd take what I could get.

[Teleku]

Err, Dragon Age 1 & 2?

If you haven't played it before, Darklands is still fantastic I think (you'll definitely need to break out dos box though).

[WayAbvPar]

If only Darklands had a super patch to make it run better and smooth out some rough edges. It was and is a fantastic game.

[Yegolev]

"This isn't how I remember it, I'm not 12 anymore, where did the time go, omg I can't believe how cheesy hitting them with doors is, who are you, who am I, are these my feet etc etc etc"

Are you very certain that your problem is needing a game to play?

[Ingmar]

Hmm that Morroblivion thing might be what it takes to finally get me past the 2nd town.

[Minvaren]

Downloading ME2 - will see how it compares to the first.

Puttering with Serious Sam HD 1 and KotOR2 here and there.  Still subscribed to Rift but only logging in once in awhile - it's a nice game, but I think I'm a tad burned out on MMOGs for the time being.

[Margalis]

Still playing Tactics Ogre, still loving it. The only problem is that I want to use one of every class type, which is getting to the point where I'm fielding an underleveled squad.

[rk47]

Awesome, reminds me of the Baldur's Gate Tutu mod. If you give it a go, let us know how well it works.

I made a dude in plain old Morrowind and quickly powered him up to level seventy-something with a few of the usual tricks, but haven't gone back to him since. I'm still poking around Daggerfall though. My dude is endgame as hell, level 23 and max rank in four different guilds, lycanthropy with the ring that lets him control it, etcetera. Still haven't touched the main quest, still in no hurry to do so. My latest distractions are binding ancient lich souls to daedric items to make gear that shits all over any artifact in the game, and all the dungeon crawling required to capture the required souls.

Read the FAQ and the mind boggles.

I have morrowind and oblivion...but they need more.

Here:

Morrowind + ALL expansion pack : Blood Moon and the other one.

Oblivion + Shivering Isles.

  Not shelling out more cash for these mods.

[WindupAtheist]

Pirate it, then write a humorous story that causes at least a few people to go "Haha, I am going to go buy this game because of you!" Then nobody can say shit, because your piracy was a net gain of sales and you can prove it.

 

[Malakili]

Reinstalled Bad Company 2, the new conquest maps they've added are really quite good and have a little bit more of an old school Battlefield feel to them (especially heavy metal).   Most of the bugs from last year seem squashed, and they've added in a few quality of life things (like getting a radio message when you are the last person alive in your squad, so you can know to lay low until they can spawn in on you). 

[Nightblade]

Reinstalled Bad Company 2, the new conquest maps they've added are really quite good and have a little bit more of an old school Battlefield feel to them (especially heavy metal).   Most of the bugs from last year seem squashed, and they've added in a few quality of life things (like getting a radio message when you are the last person alive in your squad, so you can know to lay low until they can spawn in on you). 

They nerfed the Carl Gustav into uselessness too. Vietnam isn't too bad, and you can get it for 6 bucks this weekend.

[CaptainNapkin]

Vietnam isn't too bad, and you can get it for 6 bucks this weekend.

Where were you seeing it for 6 bucks? I'll bite for this price.

[Sheepherder]

I imagine that Morroblivion will inherit the same stupid facegen parameters as Oblivion.  Since I'm being a goddamn idiot about trying Morrowind again, I'll say this: the Better Bodies mod does not include something that improves faces or clothing.  Separate mods should be downloaded for that.  Another mod called Morrowind Graphics Extender can be found that can add distant LOD, shader grass, and modern resolutions.

[Strazos]

Vietnam isn't too bad, and you can get it for 6 bucks this weekend.

Where were you seeing it for 6 bucks? I'll bite for this price.

He was looking at the DLC, not/not Vietnam.

[Merusk]

I started up DOSbox and was playing Master of Magic again last night.  I think it's nearing the point I can't play it anymore, as it was causing me eyestrain.  Why, oh why hasn't someone properly remade this game or a sequel yet. 

I swear, if I win the lottery my winnings will go to creating a proper successor.

[Yegolev]

[Minvaren]

Nice graphics upgrade on ME2 so far.  But did they have to completely change the control scheme?   

[jakonovski]

Crysis 2 is surprisingly awesome. The inclusion of a real writer helps a lot, as the bad guys don't sound like idiots this time. They do act like idiots though, because the AI is rather buggy.

[Yegolev]

Sounds like I need to have played Crysis.

[jakonovski]

Sounds like I need to have played Crysis.

Not really. The plot of Crysis is simply "Americans and North Koreans fight on an island. Aliens appear." All you need to know is that Prophet is the squad leader from the previous game, and was a mysterious dude.  

[Sheepherder]

"Americans and tank punching cyborg North Koreans fight on an island. Aliens appear."

Tank punching as in they punch like a tank, not that they punch tanks, which is what I do.

[Yegolev]

Good writing like Predator, then.

[Sheepherder]

Pretty much.

The alien robot menace isn't even given a name in the first one, haven't tried Warhead yet.  But apparently they absorb energy, even nuclear explosions, except when the nuclear explosions come from a shoulder mounted launcher (lolwut?)