So, what're you playing?

[rk47]

Haven't been there yet myself, but
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/White_House

I found Operation Anchorage to be quite sub-par really, (and it also finishes the quest "you have to shoot them in the head", FYI).

SInce I play a stealth-sniper type character though, I found that Chinese Stealth Suit to be an ultimately useful bit of loot. I should do The Pitt, but I want to visit the Republic of Dave first. Kinda torn between doing all these quests while capped at Level 20 and "wasting" the xp, while waiting for the second DLC disc (fuck GFWL) to come out, with the level cap raise...


Dawn of War (first one, Marine Campaign) was the first RTS I finished since Warcraft 2. I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but I liked the emphasis in DoW on combat rather than having a million peons harvesting. I'm also a Warhammer geek though, so that helped.

IIRC, Broken Steel immediately raise the cap to 30 once activated. The rest of its content does not kick in until you actually finish the main quest.

[Lantyssa]

IIRC, Broken Steel immediately raise the cap to 30 once activated. The rest of its content does not kick in until you actually finish the main quest.

Yes, it does.  A few new weapons and mobs are added into the world at large as well.

So, do the discs work with the Steam version? I might buy the second one for the new level limit.

They should.  The files need to be in the Data directory and you have to check them off on the initial loading/options screen.  All versions work the same though.

[jakonovski]

I finally beat 'Splosion Man (bart bart bart) and now it's time for Trials HD and Shadow Complex when it comes out! This is the first time that Live Arcade games are better than what's coming out in a box, and I love it!

 

[Velorath]

On chapter nine of Uncharted.  Pretty good so far, but the controls feel really loose.  Aiming and some of the platforming stuff can  be a bit of a pain.  Hope they've made some adjustments for Uncharted 2.

[naum]

Civilization Revolutions on the iPhone - never played this "lite" Civ version on the console, but it's pretty slick, and I can't believe I'm actually playing Civ on my phone…

[Hindenburg]

Raven still knows how to build a very fun shooter. Shame that they're still using the doom 3 engine.

[Azazel]

Oh, Wolfenstein?

More detail, please.

[Hindenburg]

Zee Germans, they don't speak german. Game's pure cheese. It's quite fun.
You also have a central city hub of sorts, and can buy weapon upgrades at the black market. Finding gold bags gives money, obv, and intel unlocks the upgrades for purchase.  They're kind enough to let you know in which dungeon each upgrade can be found.
Haven't played a lot yet.

[Lucas]

Between trying to finally finish Fallout 3, Oblivion (sigh) and pushing forward with Company of Heroes, I've recently re-installed Planescape: Torment, adding the Widescreen mod. First time I'm trying to play it again seriously after I beat it, umm...9 years ago.

The magic is back, so far 

[Velorath]

Finished up Uncharted, and about to start on Gears of War 2.  Also ordered Crackdown, and Mask of the Betrayer + Storm of Zehir for NWN2 for about $35 total from Newegg.

[jakonovski]

Instead of playing Trials HD, I got stuck trying to tie up loose ends before doing the final quest in Fable 2. It took me this long to realize that it's actually a good idea to buy properties and rent them out, so after a 10 hour session I'm now firmly on the way to buying all those overpriced unique properties.

[Yegolev]

I am still finding new things and people and places in Last Remnant.  I passed the "first villain isn't the real villain" part and currently I'm suspicious that there might be a third villain behind the "real" one, or that he's not a villain but actually a savior... whatever, I'm mostly doing side quests and exploring dungeons.

Related, you know what's nice?  When most travel is instant.  Pressing BACK to pop out to the city map, or to the World Map from there; just moving a cursor to a map point instead of tedious overworld travel.  Also save-anywhere, like when you come up an elevator and see a massive dragon.  Also no-random-enemies.  Last Remnant is underrated, I say.

[Bunk]

Playing Fallout 3 again - running the newly beta released Fook 2.0 mod. It's a full redo of all of the weapons and most of the armor in the game. The RAR for the beta was over 1GB. 

[Hindenburg]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Was going pretty well, first boss in Drac's castle could be one-shotted and all, and then the second comes and says "what? you've only 600 hp? Well, fuck you, my attacks hit for 108. Also, your attacks? 40dmg, tops. i'll also take over 75% of the fucking screen and rip those 108 from you every time you touch me while dodging my ridiculous attacks."

Man, this is way harder than dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin.
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Hm. So when you do finally manage to get that boss to half health, he enters "wut? fuck you in the neck" mode, where his attacks cause 258 dmg, and his patterns are modified, allowing the fucker to chain for 350. Why, konami, why?
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Hrm. So when you do finally manage to kill that fucking boss, you find out that the enemies past him hit for 75-150, and take 6 hits to kill. Lovely.

[schild]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Was going pretty well, first boss in Drac's castle could be one-shotted and all, and then the second comes and says "what? you've only 600 hp? Well, fuck you, my attacks hit for 108. Also, your attacks? 40dmg, tops. i'll also take over 75% of the fucking screen and rip those 108 from you every time you touch me while dodging my ridiculous attacks."

Man, this is way harder than dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin.

I gave up trying to beat OoE.

[Sky]

Ran through the Batman demo, nice game. Also grabbed the Arma2 demo, really wanted to like it, but I just don't have the time to dig into an opflash game these days. Also, having to follow a commander who leads the entire unit into enemy crossfire, they start getting cut down, I run and duck behind a wall and start laying down covering fire with my SAW and he yells at me for breaking formation  I loved opflash, but mostly as a lone wolf, the friendly AI leaves a bit to be desired. At this rate, I guess we will never get a game with good AI.

Back to Anno 1404.

[Cyrrex]

Finished Fallout 3 finally.  Am still playing Oblivion....gotta say that I actually prefer it over Fallout 3.

Also, I have re-cracked open Deadspace.  I always play that game on my projector, in the dark, with the sound turned way up.  God, it is scarier than hell.  So atmospheric.

[chargerrich]

Sims 3 with AwesomeMod and Indie Stone Story Progression. I need EA to release an expansion, and fast.

What is Awesomemod and what does it add?

/curious

At work or I would google it   

[SnakeCharmer]

Playing Saints Row 2.  Fun game, but needs better driving dynamics.

[Sir T]

Just bought Oblivion. Its fun so far, which surprised me as I basically hated Morrowind, but I'm looking at mods already as fuck the whole "the universe levels with you" thing.

[Stormwaltz]

My computer is still but partially set up. And anyway, the place we've moved into is filthy. When I play instead of scrub floors (and walls, oven, refrigerator, cabinets, shower, doorframes black from years of people touching them as they pass through...), I'm playing Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars on the GBA. It's a strange visual novel / turn-based strategy hybrid with an action minigame that you absolutely, positively want to turn right the fuck off.

[Montague]

I was playing Fight Night Round 4 but my wife doesn't appreciate me yelling "FUCK YOU!" at the top of my lungs at the minigames. 

Then we wasted some money on Rock Band, unlocked a few songs, and got the ChampO open beta, and finally messed around with the Arkham Asylum demo.

On top of all that I reupped my WoW sub. Gaming ADHD sucks. 

[Mrbloodworth]

Damn, I'm totally in love with Company of Heroes 

We should play, I love that game. One of the best RTS games out for a while now.

[jakonovski]

Shadow Complex finally came out! It's awesome and brings back fond memories of NES and C64 games. It's as if Metroid and Uncharted had a baby (cue Samus Aran/Nathan Drake fanfic).

I've also been trying to play SotS but ever since I downloaded ANY it has ctd'd every time I try to launch the game.  

[Khaldun]

I felt a little twitchy inside when I saw that Shadow Complex is supposedly based on Orson Scott Card's supremely bad book Empire. That might actually get in the way of my ability to groove on the game, though normally I don't let story stupidities bug me too much.

[ghost]

I'm back on Eve for some stupid fucking reason.  And some WOW PvP to try out the new patch.

[Margalis]

The Card connection of Shadow Complex does annoy me, but what annoys me more is how the game was pitched as a shameless ripoff from day 1. It's one thing to pay homage to a game, make a similar game or draw inspiration for a game, but to me it seems like they are trying to ride the coat tails of Metroid. I mean the way they introduced the games was "hey guys, we know you like games like Metroid and CV, so we made one of our own. Look, the minimap is just like in Metroid!"

Also I was extremely meh on he demo. Skip cutscene, skip cutscene, move forward one screen, skip cutscene, skip cutscene. The camera was pulled in too close as well. So all in all I have zero interest in it.

I can't remember the last time the marketing for a game was "if you like game X you'll like this, because this is our version of game X." Not that explicitly anyway.

[Azazel]

Playing Fallout 3 again - running the newly beta released Fook 2.0 mod. It's a full redo of all of the weapons and most of the armor in the game. The RAR for the beta was over 1GB. 

Linky please? Then again, despite enjoying F3 an awful lot, I'm not sure if I'll ever have the energy to play through the game again..


This weekend I did some grinding for HP in Earth Defence Force 2012 (or as we call it here, The Ant Game)
Also played a bunch of Far Cry 2 yesterday for the first time in months. I might force myself to finish that review of it that I started a long time ago. I really don't think the game's going to get significantly different enough to make a difference to a review, short of a big twist which would be a spoiler anyway if the game pulls some form of M Night Shalyaman.

Haven't played Blood Bowl this week. I was giving it a game (or half a game) per night.

[Margalis]

EDF is awesome. AKA "the reason I turned on my XBox."

[Velorath]

Finally wrapped up Gears of War 2 earlier.  Starting on Mask of the Betrayer tomorrow.

[Khaldun]

Switching XBoxes got me to dive back into some titles I hadn't messed with for a while. Playing Fable II again, I never got all that far into the first time I tried, and I sort of liked the first one. The first 30 minutes of play are really very annoying: why do I have to do *anything* interactive during what is effectively a cutscene in the beginning bit? It's not like it's teaching me much about actual gameplay except for killing the bugs/breaking the crates. As soon as I got to Bowerstone, I decided to see if I could quickly get engaged, since I want to do some evil stuff this time right from the outset. Having an entire crowd of aristocrats cluster around me while I tried to sex up one aristocrat woman was really irritating. Oh well, I'll keep a-going. Probably play Mass Effect through again too. I'd gotten part of the way through with a "bad" Shepard, didn't really like it, since the "bad" is mostly just "colossal dickishness" as is often the case in Bioware stuff.

[MisterNoisy]

I don't know if anyone else has tried it yet, but the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo is awesome.  Besides that, more Mount and Blade and Red Faction:  Guerrilla

[Rasix]

Shadow Complex and WoW.  Might BiiF SC. 

[Phire]

Almost done Arckham Asylum and the on to Shadow Complex and the games of September.

[Engels]

Still playing Call of Duty: World at War. Its just such a polished multiplayer FPS; the guns feel just right, nearly organic. I love me my M1 Garand with a scope and the sweet sweet sound of my .357's cylinder at reload. I've gotten remarkably good at this game over time. Mostly its about learning the choke points.

Aaaaanyways, found something both sad and hysterical. Turns out they have 'leveling servers', where you log in as the 'helper team', say the Russian side, and just stand at a fixed spawn pit while the german players mow you down repeatedly. After 250 deaths, you get to log in as a german and shoot stationary russian soldiers. All this in service of leveling up your toon for weapon unlocks. Its like a fireing squad FPS! Its sorta sick.

I would for the most part be outraged at such horrible sploits, but since neither valve nor infinity ward nor whoever do not keep a saved copy of your profile, and often wipe the one on your local machine by accident, its understandable that folks don't want to grind up again. I've taken just to backing up my own profile to somewhere else on my machine every now and again.