So, what're you playing?

[rk47]

How degrading can Prototype be if you love Fable 2, the game in which you can erect statues of yourself shitting your pants?

You better not be joking about this, I'm about to head over to my friend's place to check that game out if that is true.

[Tairnyn]

For anyone who cares, I should point out that there exists a mod which will port all of BG1 into the BG2 engine and then add a little cover story in the middle so as to weld the two of them together into one massive billion hour long supergame.

Interested - what's it called?

http://www.spellholdstudios.net/ie/bgt

I can't find my discs 4&5 of BG1, nor the disc for the BG1 expansion.   

I finally tracked down all of my BG CDs and spent most of the day working on getting this working. The Trilogy mod and a whole bunch of other fixes and additional content can be installed using the Big World Project.

[Azazel]

Tried some CoD:WaW and... meh.  More WWII bullshit and it plays so much like Medal of Honor that I'm fairly disgusted with myself.  Also, I'd like to ask that developers stop putting infinitely-respawning enemies into shit like this.  Are there really five hundred Japanese soldiers on this island?

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I thought of it.

I might (ok, I almost definately will) pick up Modern Warfare 2, but I think I'm done with WW2-era Call of Medal of Duty Honor.

[Tebonas]

I tried that Baldurs Gate Trilogy thing, but I was foiled by the graphical glitches. The odd errors while casting and looting I could take, but completist that I am the refresh errors on the map would surely drive me insane as I couldn't tell wether or not I explored an area.

[Azazel]

I could never handle BG1, back in the day. I didn't get terribly far into the game. I much prefer reading about it in WUA's radicalthon thread than playing it..

[rk47]

Seems like most of my classmates gripes back in the day was: "It's too damn long", just like Arcanum. I wish games these days are that long.

[Jain Zar]

I FINALLY finished Dragon Quest 5 after months of breaks at work adventure.
I like it better than even DQ 4 which was possibly the best 8 bit (console) RPG I have ever played so you would think 4 on the DS would continue to be my fave DQ. 
Not so.

Very little grinding (mainly since I used save and load a lot to win lots at the slot machines.  Best weapons in the game?  Yes please...) at all, and a fun quest and story.
(Its sort of like Phantasy Star 3 only not shitty, and with actual DETAIL in your generations spanning adventure.  Helps you also play the same main throughout his childhood - adult years.)

Gorgeous combat animation for the monsters, a reasonably long but not ridiculously long (roughly 30 hours including casino cheesing) quest that ends right around the time it was starting to get samey,
and just overall fun and happy adventuring. 

The fact its probably the first RPG where I get to play an entire FAMILY adventuring to save the world all at once.  Mom, Dad, Bro, and Sis (Plus hordes of pets with the typical punny names DQ is famous for now.)
all battling together as a nearly perfect force. 

Unless you hate fun or old school styled RPGs Dragon Quest 5 comes HIGHLY recommended, as does 4, but not as much. 

Now I just need them to put 6 on the DS and maybe remake 7 into something normal people with lives could complete and I will have the whole series in English.

[schild]

maybe remake 7 into something normal people with lives could complete and I will have the whole series in English.

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Too easy.

[FatuousTwat]

I could never handle BG1, back in the day. I didn't get terribly far into the game. I much prefer reading about it in WUA's radicalthon thread than playing it..

Isn't BG2 a lot longer? Or maybe it only seems that way.

[rk47]

Actually BG1 is very short if you just do the main quest only. Chunks of the main quests involve a lot of combat though, so you might struggle a bit without good equipment and gold you may have gained from doing side content.

[Yegolev]

How degrading can Prototype be if you love Fable 2, the game in which you can erect statues of yourself shitting your pants?

You better not be joking about this, I'm about to head over to my friend's place to check that game out if that is true.

Oh, it's true.  Very, very true.

This weekend I played some Fuel (360) and I like it ... well, while I like the "one giant world" concept on paper, it's quite another one when you're riding a four-wheeler for twenty minutes in order to reach a new paintjob for your car.  Also, day/night cycles are only cool if I can fucking see at night, but then again I guess it's my fault for driving at high speed next to a lake.   Hmm, well, it's still pretty cool and is the best offroad racing game I've played.

I also played some Bionic Commando (360) and... meh.  Apparently if you have a rigid cock for the original, this is really awesome.  Otherwise, Mike Patton is a bad voice actor and swinging around is pretty cool....

....until you start playing Prototype.  Please see Prototype thread already in progress.

Also some LotRO.  Did some Evendim quests.  Cannot wait for the next Book to hit so that the pathing is fixed, and stack limits are increased and etc.  Also see Graveyard forum already in progress if you care because the additions and changes are way too big to list.

Some Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia as well.  Managed to get my summoned owls to level 2, which is neat but was a BIT OF A GRIND.  Level 3?  Maybe later.

Downloaded the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus costumes for Little Big Planet.  They sure have a hook in my wallet.

[Brogarn]

The more I'm playing LotRO, the more I'm liking it. I mean, it's Diku, but its really refined and there's some cool shit in it. Plus I can headbutt people, which is a complete bonus.

[Yegolev]

I can slap people with a fish.

[Jain Zar]

maybe remake 7 into something normal people with lives could complete and I will have the whole series in English.

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Too easy.

Not liking Dragon Quest makes you a stinkybutt.  Being pissy about it makes you a SUPER stinkybutt.

Besides, even DQ7's infamous length only puts it up there with Baldur's Gate 2 and.. NEARLY EVERY MMO MADE in being overly long.
(Though BG2 actually has you doing different things here and there.)

I still don't get why a grade A JRPG fan like you hates the series.  They are usually light fluffy fun anyone with half a brain can finish.
Its got some loose free roaming in the midgame.  Some fun diversions like the casinos, TnT boards, ect.  Even if you die you just keep your xp but lose half of all the money you didn't put in the bank.  Its got cute writing.  Nice monster and character designs.  Most characters not only dress appropriately but there are few party members that are scantily clad at all.  (The dancer in 4 and Jessica in 8 are the only ones I can think of.)  There isn't any navel gazing emo shit.  The combat and magic systems are fun, quick, and elegant.  (Which is probably why almost every JRPG still uses them.  Wizardry did it right so DQ stole from the best!  Imagine if DQ took inspiration from Aphsai or Sierra games as opposed to Wiz and Ultima.. ICK.)

DQ doesn't abuse you and the worst thing you can really say about them is that they barely change.  But that's what makes them great.

Then I could happily point you to the Ultima and Wizardry games where their eventual changes from what they started like actually helped kill 2 legendary franchises.  (Though Wizardry gets the odd game in Japan which keeps to the old school design.  Tale of the Forsaken Land on the PS2 was awesome.  Wiz 8 was ass.)

[Yegolev]

I still don't get why a grade A JRPG fan like you hates the series.  They are usually light fluffy fun anyone with half a brain can finish.

Exhibit A, Your Honor.

Nice monster and character designs.

Toriyama's character designs, all three of them, make me ill.

I don't care for DQ, Toriyama aside, but I'm not content to play the same shit over and over.  At what point does it become simply a remake of a previous game?  Maybe you can argue that change killed Ultima, however it's not true that Game Franchises are meant to be immortal and unchanging entities... otherwise there would be zero point to a sequel.  There's a middle ground in there somewhere, and DQ misses it by quite a bit.  As do other franchises of note, like Medal of Honor, Madden and Quake.  This probably has a lot of subjectiveness in it, since there are quite a few people who really, really like reskinned and shiny++ FPS games.  Personally, I'm not into replaying games unless they are the actual game I played as a youth... and even then it can get old quickly.

[Moaner]

I've been playing the hell out of Stone Soup still and now 0.5 is out.  I was almost done with Red Faction too.

[schild]

Not liking Dragon Quest makes you a stinkybutt.

They're shitty, ugly, unbalanced, weaboo fodder that has horrible travel times, boring itemization, completely drab and cliche characters, all wrapped up in a mundane world with archaic system design.

Don't try to educate me, please. It's OK for you to like crappy, overrated games but don't try to inflict that crap on other people.

Edit: Also, you completely missed the point of what I said up there, but whatever.

[Yegolev]

In Order of Ecclesia, a kid named Serge wants you to show him an Owl.  When you do, the owl perches on top of his head.

[WindupAtheist]

maybe remake 7 into something normal people with lives could complete and I will have the whole series in English.

I'll help him. 

[Tebonas]

I never get that "normal people with lives" thing in single player games. You play when you have time, the longer it takes, the more money you save on new games. There is no rush if you can't fall behind a regular playing group.

[Azazel]

Sometimes games outstay their welcome. Something you enjoy for, say, 10 hours may become a painful grind at the 12-or-15 hour mark, and you just wish it would have ended sooner so you could have ended on a positive note.

Far Cry 2 was like that for me. I'm not advocating stupidly short games, but better to have a game that's a little shorter that leaves you wanting more, then a game that you just get sick of, and have to either force yourself to grind through to finish, or just end up putting down to never actually finish. (Doom 3, it's expansion, Far Cry 2, etc)

[Tebonas]

I was thinking about 100+ hours games right there. Usually Roleplaying games. With Shooters I can kind of see the problem because they are the same from beginning to end. When the premise wears thin, they should be at the end. A good roleplaying game has a sustained arch though, no rlasting poblem with that as it delivers.

Now that I think of it there are some shooters that are longish and fun as well. Your problem seems to be one of quality rather than quantity. Basically you say the game should end before you realize how crappy it is.

[Hawkbit]

I never get that "normal people with lives" thing in single player games. You play when you have time, the longer it takes, the more money you save on new games. There is no rush if you can't fall behind a regular playing group.

Did you play DW7?  I rigged a tiny little TV to one of the PS1 portables, set the whole thing hidden in my backpack and played at a call center I worked at many years ago.  I hit the 100 hour mark and gave up.  I was only on disc 2 of 4. 

I see your point, but that game was ridiculous. 

[Tebonas]

I never played any Dragon Warrior. It was just a general observation. Baldurs Gate 2 was long, but I nevertheless would have liked to play on when I was finished with it.

[jakonovski]

Vi sitter här i venten, spelar lite DoTA Demigod.

The game constantly manages to infuriate me, but I keep on playing anyway. Everything else has gone to the backburner.

[jakonovski]

How degrading can Prototype be if you love Fable 2, the game in which you can erect statues of yourself shitting your pants?

I never thought of that. It must be done.

[WindupAtheist]

I'm feeling the itch to play some UO. I haven't in a long while now. It's not in full bloom yet, but I can feel it coming over me.

[Tannhauser]

I just re-started Icewind Dale 2.  I never finished it. 

[stray]

I'm feeling the itch to play some UO. I haven't in a long while now. It's not in full bloom yet, but I can feel it coming over me.

Don't do it, man! Just move on.

[WindupAtheist]

What for? I play it for as long as it amuses me, and let it lapse when it doesn't.

[Rasix]

What for? I play it for as long as it amuses me, and let it lapse when it doesn't.

I say this as someone that would never sub to UO again: there's nothing wrong with going back to UO for even just a week.  It's usually worth the money. I got a week or two's worth of fun when they added gardening of all things.

Disclaimer: I've slept a total of like 5 hours in the past 3 days.

[Tebonas]

Got my Gold medal in Plants vs Zombies, I think I am ready to move on to other games now.

Bought and played 5 levels Guild Wars (I'm a real sucker for reduced prices on steam). The Warrior/Monk feels really easy, I'm already somewhat bored by the game. Will try some more tonight. But it feels like a inferior Sacred with an retarded people script running amok in city hubs. Turning off all Chats was the very thirst thing to improve my gaming experience after a few minutes.

[Lantyssa]

Did you get just the first campaign or the trilogy?

There's actually so much to the game that you won't figure out a lot of it for a while.  If you have Nightfall you can start collecting heroes and the fun really begins.  Though if you have a Prophecies character, it'll be a while before they can get one.

[Azazel]

I was thinking about 100+ hours games right there. Usually Roleplaying games. With Shooters I can kind of see the problem because they are the same from beginning to end. When the premise wears thin, they should be at the end. A good roleplaying game has a sustained arch though, no rlasting poblem with that as it delivers.

Now that I think of it there are some shooters that are longish and fun as well. Your problem seems to be one of quality rather than quantity. Basically you say the game should end before you realize how crappy it is.

Yes and no. Some things are good in small doses. I would not have wanted Call of Duty 4 to have been too much longer than it was. Because while it was fun and beautiful, it also had some serious flaws. Most every game will have flaws, I just like them to end before the flaws become overbearing. The last game I've really wished would keep going was Saints Row 2. Kind of RPG-ish-lite in the way Sandboxes can be, and I played it right after finishing SR1.

Dunno about SP RPGs really. After EQ, then WoW and the interaction with other humans, it's kind of difficult to get into most SP RPGs. I've spent a ton of time in Titan Quest recently, but that's not real Roleplaying, it's Diablo-style click-town, and it was on a LAN. I think the last real SP-RPG I've played was KOTOR1.

I am looking forward to playing in Fallout 3 though. Kinda saving it for when I have a holiday from work, though. Or maybe when the all-in-one DLC disc comes out.

[Azazel]

I'm feeling the itch to play some UO. I haven't in a long while now. It's not in full bloom yet, but I can feel it coming over me.

I've felt that way about EQ1 for the past couple of weeks. Though I'd rather tour guide my wife around the places I used to spend so much time in - now that she's played WoW, she'd "get it" a lot more than before. Can't bring myself to spend the subscription fee, though. Especially with 2 accounts (It'd be better with her controlling one of them, so it's a 1st-person tour rather than over-my-shoulder).