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Topic: So, what're you playing? (Read 2220017 times)
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Minvaren
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Singularity is starting to annoy me with the frequent bouts of "use gimmack quickly for surprise onslaught or die!"
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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rk47
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Two Worlds is a solid 6 so far on my book, but I've only just escaped the tutorial and been set free in the world. That took like an hour. The voice acting is laughably bad, and the dubs are even worse. Constantly mouths are moving like some awful Japanese dubbed Godzilla movie. Combat is not great. The magic system is ok, but ranged stuff is just dumb. It all feels very lockon targety done poorly with a lot of stupid skills that don't do much.
It looks good though, and the open parts and crafting bits are neat. If only the UI wasn't complete ass. How is it that gaming companies can still manage to screw up an inventory screen in this day and age?
STILL SHIT THO. I CAN'T FORGIVE THE FINALE. C'mon a TURRET MINI GAME DURING BOSS FIGHT WHERE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT HP can help me survive? Bull fucking shit. And people are crying over Twitcher2 combat...Two Worlds II is an abomination.
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Are you thinking of Divinity 2?
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WindupAtheist
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Bailed out on Icewind Dale 2 after a couple days of playing. It's Baldur's Gate minus everything good, or Diablo plus "Haha two-thirds of your party just got paralyzed by the first spell cast, just go reload" bullshit.
Edit: On the bright side, it made me miss Baldur's Gate enough to want to finish writing up the 'lost episodes' expansion thing I wandered off from a year ago. Assuming that goes down all right, I might give BG2 a proper go.
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« Last Edit: July 13, 2011, 09:42:48 PM by WindupAtheist »
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Morat20
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I finally got a game (two actually) for my hand-me-down DS. I picked up HeartGold and SimCity. I have played HeartGold for about 90 minutes, at most, and tried out the little pedometer thing.
It's amusingly fun, mostly because I sort of recognize the plot and pokemon, since whatever season of Pokemon is one my kid watched when he was younger. (Strangely, I miss his absolute love and devotion to Pokemon. Becoming a surly teenager is sad. The happy kid who loved him some Pickachu and had a secret crush on Officer Jenny was much more fun.)
I picked the...firey pokemon of some sort, and proceeded to wander around in deep confusion. I also captured an owl of some sort, and some sort of spider, and then another creature playing the pedometer game.
I also decided that being able to name your rival is amusing, and suspect that many other people have also named him "Asshole" because he keeps interrupting them.
I just wish I could take the DS on night shifts.
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Rendakor
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I also decided that being able to name your rival is amusing, and suspect that many other people have also named him "Asshole" because he keeps interrupting them.
Close, but I think this is the more common name for him:
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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WindupAtheist
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Badicalthon
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pedometer Does it ping when you point it at the forty year old dude lurking around the Pokemon cards in the hobby shop?
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Dropped Two Worlds for now because apparently I fucked something up and the main quest is now broken. So I may or may not come back to visit it.
So instead I'm trying again to go through Dragon Age: Origins. I'm enjoying it more this time than before, mostly because I spent the time to work out the tactics. Without good knowledge of the tactics mechanic it becomes super a super fiddly control nightmare.
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kildorn
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W40K: Kill Team came out this week on XBLA. It's a cute little actiony 40k game with on couch only coop. Which was sadly kinda fun, since THQ promptly shut the studio that made it down.
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Morat20
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pedometer Does it ping when you point it at the forty year old dude lurking around the Pokemon cards in the hobby shop? I stay away from those guys. :) I feel creepy enough just playing the damn game on my DS, while hiding inside my house with all the shades drawn. Still, the world could use a pedo-meter. :)
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Malakili
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10 hours into New Vegas, enjoying it quite a bit.
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Minvaren
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Still creeping through Singularity. Looks like they also borrowed a bit from Portal, what with all the "cake is a lie" scribblings everywhere. Playing a bit of GH6 again as well - amusing as hell getting 40 stars on a song.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Minvaren
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Man, Singularity was short. Ending was a bit . DA:O is up next.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Murgos
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Still playing a lot of LotRO. Picked up a cheap boxed copy of Mines of Moria from a local brick & mortar for the access to zones and classes (and the free month of subscription level access).
I have tried several times before to get into it, since beta really. This time I decided that I would just play ultra-casual explorer style (it's free you know?) and with the deed system and pretty solid crafting system it really fits that style, not too mention the ridiculously huge and detailed world.
I also updated my graphics card from an 8800 GTS to a 460 GTX during this period ($129 from Microcenter with rebate!). I only have a PCIe 16 1.1 board but the information I could find shows that the impact due to the lower bandwidth is pretty minimal at resolutions like my monitors 1680x1050. At ultra-high quality & DX 11 LotRO looks much better than I thought possible. I figure the 460 GTX was a good choice because it's cheep and when I do upgrade my MB and CPU I can just be sure to get a good SLI board and another 460 GTX and be at pretty high quality for less overall than say, a 480 gtx.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Picked up Red Dead Redemption the other day, think it was £12 or something.
Pretty good, nicely done, liking it. Bit annoying having to search the web for some things because the in-game instructions go by too fast and too small to be read and the manual is useless. Specifically I had to look up how to lasso & hogtie things and how to do the quick-draw random events.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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jakonovski
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Man, Singularity was short. Ending was a bit .
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trias_e
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Got new computer. Using it to stream Starcraft 2 and not run 10 fps :D justin.tv/trias_e
Otherwise playing SMT: Devil Survivor, which is a solid game, although it feels somewhat too long for me.
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MuffinMan
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Man, Singularity was short. Ending was a bit . Damn, just looked it up because I remember being satisfied by the ending, I think I only saw two when I played through but it looks like there were four. Maybe I can find find youtube videos of the other two although one of them does sound shitty.
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I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Minvaren
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Hmm, had figured there were two...
but not four. Might need to poke at it a bit more.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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rk47
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Space Rangers 2 : Reboot is worth every penny. The start game kinda sucked ass, but that's expected..but I like the amount of planning the players had to make if he wants to get anywhere with the game...wish there's a 'second chance' after getting destroyed though, not the 'load game' kind...maybe get back to the closest planet and play it from there etc.
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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Bann
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Digesting my steamsale feast. Only thing I see myself putting 20+ hours into at this point is Total War Shogun 2, but I'm fine with that as its the only thing I really paid more than McDonalds money for. Getting back into League of Legends now that I have a working desktop. Could not find/recover my old account, but I don't mind grinding back up again. Played a bunch of games with Annie farming IP, and just bought Janna. I'm a sucker for movement speed and the range on her tornado just makes me happy. Looking forward to a big bunch of games with her when I get home from work today. Also still really enjoying the failoffs in the bloodbowl, and looking forward to season 5.
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PalmTrees
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Trying to play some Black Prophecy now that they've opened a NA server but the game is a bit crashy. I've only managed two missions so far, I keep crashing when I try to zone back to the hub area.
Started Heavy Rain but Mr. Architect froze in mid animation while sitting down. I thought the whole game had froze, but while I was futilely pushing buttons my kid finished his homework, got up, and by the sound of it, turned on the tv.
Tried some Forsaken World. F2p mmo from Perfect World. Meh, what you'd expect. They tried a bit with the main story line quest. You save the city from an enemy plot to blow it up. But the world has such a lackluster, lazy design. What finally got me to quit was their odd dual currency system. You need to run this one particular instance to get the type of currency used in the auction house to buy stuff other players are selling. I just wanted 3 fish for a quest and not to waste a job point on fishing, just let me use the money I already have.
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Paelos
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Tried some Forsaken World. F2p mmo from Perfect World. Meh, what you'd expect. They tried a bit with the main story line quest. You save the city from an enemy plot to blow it up. But the world has such a lackluster, lazy design. What finally got me to quit was their odd dual currency system. You need to run this one particular instance to get the type of currency used in the auction house to buy stuff other players are selling. I just wanted 3 fish for a quest and not to waste a job point on fishing, just let me use the money I already have.
I tried it as well, and got to level 15. The game suffers from having a whole bunch of shit going on that's basically meangingless. Tons of jobs that don't mean much because of the dual currency problem. They toss you into tons of daily quests that are all grindy and stupid. They make you go into instances, but they aren't really fun, different, or require anything in coordination beyond whack a mole.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Amaron
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Finally got around to starting up Eschalon Book 2. I'm sucked in just like the first one again. Playing on hardcore difficulty with the eating/drinking/save restrictions adds a nice touch to the game.
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Yegolev
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. Found and used the secret exit from Dracula's castle, tried out the two areas and decided I need to grind up a bit more... although I can probably get through the Training Hall. I might need to learn to use the glyph that makes Shanoa fast and adds a damage shield, it might rock. More than the owl familiars? Hard to say. I haven't found much to beat Acerbatus + Globus yet, especially now that I have Strike over 10,000. Nitesco is awesome but limited area.
Saint's Row. I might not get to the end of it before I move up to SR2, but it is more fun than I remember. Probably because I haven't played a GTA-style game since GTAIV.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Paelos
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I'm playing Oblivion again so I can do a Radicalthon on the Main Quest of the game.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Yegolev
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I wish I had it in me to do one of those.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Merusk
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I wish I had it in me to do one of those.
I know the feeling. I tried with Master of Magic and crapped out about 20 turns in.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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MisterNoisy
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Lots of Terraria with my brother and some friends, combined with some EDF:IA and some ST:O (which has improved markedly since I was last subbed). Between those and Summer of Arcade, I should be good until the holiday crush.
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XBL GT: Mister Noisy PSN: MisterNoisy Steam UID: MisterNoisy
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Paelos
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I wish I had it in me to do one of those.
It's not hard, you just take a bunch of screenshots, make up a backstory and get all snarky with the questgivers.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Tebonas
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Some Lord of the Rings, since I discovered you can now solo the Books, and with my trusty mountain goat I bought from all those accumulated VIP points. Also giving the newly patched CivV another chance, along with Spectromancer and Magic for the quick evening fix before going to bed.
But mainly its Fallout New Vegas Time now.
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AcidCat
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Got a couple hours with Bastion last night, really enjoying this little game. Cool kind of retro-feel action RPG with an amazing sense of style and tone.
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Dren
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Mass Effect II (Just finished the first game. Fun to go from one right into the other.) MtG: Planeswalkers (My son is getting into it now, might have to get a second one for the other computer to do some duels!) TF2 (Still scratches my itch for some good old fashioned online FPS action)
First time for me since like 1996-1997 to not have a subscription to an MMO. Kind of nice actually. I have a ton of old games to go through for cheap now!
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Yegolev
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I wish I had it in me to do one of those.
It's not hard, you just take a bunch of screenshots, make up a backstory and get all snarky with the questgivers. Many things are easy if you just gauge difficulty by the word count of the task overview.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Rasix
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It all just takes a lot of time. At least it did with the Dwarf Fortress ones I did. With the limited amount of time I have now, I just don't think I could do one. My job was really easy at the time too. And with Dwarf Fortress ,it can get a bit difficult. You're not always assured to have an interesting session, and you have to try and look for the story in the chaos. It makes your play sessions a bit more strucutred than they normally are. Plus, you need to stop early to organize your screenshots and write them up before you forget it all.
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-Rasix
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