The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[Strazos]

I have a feeling he leaves the game running while unattended. That's the only way I can think of that you could accumulate 180+ hours of gameplay.

[Calantus]

How do you guys play more than one game at a time? I can't stand switching games until they're done (or I tire of them).

Anyway, here's my "list":

WoW

[Yegolev]

FFXII does not work like that as far as I know.  Only 180 hours into it, though.

180?  Is it really that long that 'only 180' is an apt descriptor for indicating barely begun familiarization?

Hello, I'm Yegolev, nice to meet you.  Everything I post is implicitly green.

Seriously though, I actually do have over 180 hours clocked in FFXII, sidequests and hunts and such, and I have not detected any sort of level adjustment on boss monsters.  My alpha squad is around lv 60 and my last excursion into the endgame (Bahamut) was easy as pie, although I have not encountered a boss in there yet.

How do you guys play more than one game at a time? I can't stand switching games until they're done (or I tire of them).

I guess it's like those guys with eleven wives.  I just like to whore around.  I get bored, or most of the time I am distracted by New Shiny.  Example: if I don't finish Ar tonelico before Atelier Iris 3 arrives in May, I am probably not going to ever finish it.  I am able to execise a little restraint, such as limiting myself to just one Shin Megami Tensei game at a time or limiting my vs-fighter time to just Virtua Fighter 5.  Furthermore, everything I am listing now is going to be swept aside once October arrives, regardless of the completion state.

Last night I finally left the ship in SMT: Digital Devil Saga.  I did so because my wife wanted to see the cutscenes before she went to sleep, but I had just found a super-nice area to level.
Played a little Super Paper Mario yesterday, too.

[Yegolev]

This weekend was super-whore-time.  In no real order, from Friday to now:
Gears of War (restart)
Sam + Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die
UNO (XBLA)
Super Mario World
Ar tonelico
God of War II
Various Wii Sports
Various Wii Play
Kororinpa
F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. is awesome.

I am not counting the demo of Symphony of the Night, although I did play some of it, since I did not put any more time into it than it took to see that is was not worth spending any money on.

[Strazos]

Buddy got a 360 on Friday. We finished Gears of War on the Hardcore difficulty yesterday. Very fun game. We'll get around to Insane eventually.


As an aside...this game has to have some of The most gratifying sniper rifle kills...ever.

[bhodi]

God of war 2 is kicking my ass right now; I just spent 2 hours trying and failing to beat Theseus on titan mode. I'm also playing fallout 2 and have rogue galaxy somewhere in the back to finish.

[Moaner]

I picked up GRAW II.  If you liked the first one as much as I did, do yourself a favor and pick this up.  It's very cinematic and although the storyline is pretty cheesy the presentation is top notch.  I never played the first one much online but I'm thinking some co-op would be fun if anyone is down.

[Rasix]

Fallout 2 with an occasional WoW instance.  Had just about the worst Black Morass group ever tonight.  First time I've ever seen a mage get owned trying to do adds.

Fallout 2 is just awesome on a stick.  Had to restart so I could play with that fixpack someone recommended.  Shooting people in the head never gets old in that game. I don't even notice the graphics. 

Aside: I don't think my wife can tell the difference between the games I play anymore.  They're all just WoW.  Course.. it could be just a knock against WoW graphics in relation to F2.  :-D

F.E.A.R. is awesome.

I don't get why people like that game. Seemed just so very ordinary.   

[schild]

You resubbed to WoW.... AGAIN?

[Xerapis]

JOIN THE DARK SIDE!

WOW IS LOVE!

COME TO DATH'REMAR HORDE!

~cough, cough~  Sorry about that.  I'm ok now.  Must be the yellow dust.

[Yegolev]

F.E.A.R. is awesome.

I don't get why people like that game. Seemed just so very ordinary.   

I could say the same about WoW.  But the things I like about F.E.A.R. from my initial exposure is the atmosphere and how well it controls.  It is actually scary and I appreciate that.  I like the enemy jabber as well, it's pretty entertaining.  I also like to think of it as Blood 2 so that I can finally end the nightmares.  Damn Monolith.

[Sky]

I'm still playing through FEAR, though I think I'm getting toward the end now (I've been playing on and off since Feb, I'm the slowest gamer evar). I like the creepy atmosphere, but mostly the weapons and the enemy AI. Playing through the same area a few times is always a little different depending on the tactics you use, though there is some scripted stuff. For single-player fps, it's right behind Far Cry in my book (though for me the trigens ruined Far Cry's great jungle merc game).

So my current list now that honorable #1 pc is up and running again:

FEAR
EQ2
Jade Empire (SO much nicer than the xbox version! Thanks Bioware!)
MUA

I've got X3, Guild 2, and Gothic 3 on deck. No idea when I'll have time to play them. Also have bundled copies of Dark Messiah M&M and GRAW that I haven't opened. At some point planning on getting 1701AD, almost grabbed that instead of JE.

[Strazos]

At least in the demo, I HATE HATE HATE the squad AI. It's terrible. I'd be better off doing all the missions solo.

[Yegolev]

There are squadmates in F.E.A.R.?

[Ironwood]

No.

[Strazos]

Sorry, I meant GRAW2.

[Yegolev]

Oh, Sunday night I played UNO and Hexic or whatever it is called.  I have no excuse for my behavior.

[Murgos]

I will admit that I downloaded the 10 day free trial for burning crusade (mostly because it lets me play with my inactive WoW account) I doubt if I will spend the money for the full thing.  The 10 days is about up and I've only logged in twice.

The concept of MMO's appeals to me, the actual thing kind of leave me wanting though.

[SnakeCharmer]

Just picked up F.E.A.R.  Great great fun, despite the graphics being a bit...ordinary?  Guess I'm spoiled by GoW.  The sound effects are awesome splendid.  More than a few hair raising effects with surround sound.  One of the guns sounds like the automatic rifles used in Aliens 

As an aside:  Everytime I start up my 360 with FEAR in the tray, it gives me the message 'The disk is unreadable' message, saying it's dirty.  It's NOT dirty, it's frakin' spotless.  Kind of weird/n00b question, but is my 360 about to take a dump? 

I suppose the smart thing to do would be to test other games...

[stray]

Finally cracked open GoW2.

[voodoolily]

Why didn't you just post in the "What're You Playin'" thread? Lazy, I tell you.

I am playing my own sordid version of Oregon Trail, wherein I battle ticks, solar radiation poisoning and dehydration, and try to avoid unfriendly locals who want to shoot me off their property unless I flirt or cry. My cowboy hat usually functions as +1 Stealth versus Rednecks, but sometimes those fuckers roll a 20, and the red tail hawk feather in my hat gives me away as some liberal biologist-type. I also sometimes end up with the ailment of "some spiny thing in my boot", "some wet squishy thing in my boot" or hafta dirt-ski down a 45-degree slope to save myself an extra half mile of hiking, which often results in said ailments. Fortunately, I have immunity to poison oak and bee stings. On the plus side, I'm only like 100 xp away from another ding.

[Strazos]

And that 100 xp should be an easy grind if you just stick or orcs or goblins...but good luck if you run into a bear instead.  :-D

[Sky]

At least in the demo, I HATE HATE HATE the squad AI. It's terrible. I'd be better off doing all the missions solo.

That is why GRAW sits unopened. I may not ever bother with it. I have a couple of those games for xbox, too. My dad loves 'em. One was 720p, so a friend and I loaded it up one day and tried to play. I do not understand how people can stand that kind of retard AI gameplay. It's like they couldn't give you soldiers, so they suited up some guys on a shortbus. My dislike for AI is fairly well-explained elsewhere in these forums, though. It's a crime how far graphics have come with AI still being the level of a drooling moron. AI is /hard/.

My breaking point on squad AI was Medal of Honor: AA. The one where the brit I was escorting kept shooting me in the back trying to hit nazis beyond me, then when I moved, he ran out into the yard and got cut down by the nazis I was trying to clear from cover, ending the mission. Like 20 times, every time a failed mission because of his shitty AI (and of course, the nazis are eagle-eyed sharpshooters that could see me anywhere even without LoS to return fire).

No, give me a KotOR-style (or Freedom Force, or any other decent team-based game), where I can pause and queue up everyone's actions. Even XML/MUA has the occasional "Oh, look...Wolverine just jumped off a cliff to his death" kind of stupidity. Hey Wolvie, Magneto can fly, you can't.

But I love dirt-skiing. We used to descend from some peaks we liked to rockclimb by skiing down a talus ravine.

[murdoc]

Cheating enemy AI bugs me almost as much as bad team AI.

I hate how it didn't matter how much I snuck around, how quiet I was, how out of the way I went, the damn Mexicans in GRAW knew EXACTLY where I was going to pop up. There was NO flanking in that game imo

[Yegolev]

Last night, Twilight Princess.  Almost played Link to the Past, but I had already bothered to go get the the TP disc.

Also some UNO after I set up music streaming on the 360.  Played a couple rounds to something by Jon Hallur.  Now I guess I am going to have to rip, rip, rip.  So long, PS3 music tracks!

[stray]

So long, PS3 music tracks!

You'll regret it!  Just wait until fall, then you can stream music from your virtual, microtransaction paid Sony stereo within Home. In AAC and not that WMA shit.

...


Actually, I don't even have tracks on my PS3. Well, just one track: TV Casualty by the Misfits.

Everything else on my PS3 hard drive are ripped vids of TV shows (naturally). Music streams from my Mac. The way it should be.

[Yegolev]

Meh, why would I do that with the PS3 in the fall when I can do that with my 360 now?  Ironically, I don't expect to have much in the way of storage issues with the PS3 but I'm picking my poison early.  Perhaps just in time since it seems our 300-disc player is on its last legs.

[Riggswolfe]

I'm playing:

PC: Fallout 1, Fallout 2, then Planescape: Torment. Earlier this year I did the whole Baldur's Gate series so this should complete my goal of experiencing all the old school awesome PC RPGs.

Console: Madden 07 (though I'm quickly getting bored of it), Rainbox Six Vegas (same), Crackdown (bored of it too) and a few old XBOX games I never beat the first time around. I've put aside Rogue Galaxy for a couple of months now and need to get back to it, but the story started boring me.

[ahoythematey]

I am not counting the demo of Symphony of the Night, although I did play some of it, since I did not put any more time into it than it took to see that is was not worth spending any money on.

Wait, what?  Do you mean that it's not worth paying money for Symphony of the Night again, or just not worth money at all?

[stray]

Meh, why would I do that with the PS3 in the fall when I can do that with my 360 now?  Ironically, I don't expect to have much in the way of storage issues with the PS3 but I'm picking my poison early.  Perhaps just in time since it seems our 300-disc player is on its last legs.

I was kidding (mentioning microtransactioned virtual Sony steroes should have given that away). I don't care about music playback on consoles myself.

[EDIT] Wait a second. What are you talking about exactly? Streaming from PC? Or just ripping songs on to the console's hard drive? If that's the case, both consoles do the same thing. There is no "waiting until fall" for that.

[Big Gulp]

As an aside:  Everytime I start up my 360 with FEAR in the tray, it gives me the message 'The disk is unreadable' message, saying it's dirty.  It's NOT dirty, it's frakin' spotless.  Kind of weird/n00b question, but is my 360 about to take a dump? 

Could be...  As the proud owner of a refurbished 360 (since I've had to go through the send it back for repairs bullshit) I no longer keep games in the drive.  I always make sure there's nothing in the tray before I shut it off, and I haven't run into any more problems.  Superstition?  Me being ultra-paranoid?  Probably, but the 360's hardware sucks enough that I'm taking no chances.

Really, for so much that MS has done well this gen (and I do think that this is the system to own right now) they've absolutely shit the bed on hardware quality.  Worse is that they won't acknowledge the problems.  Meanwhile in bizarro-land, it looks like Sony's got a pretty solid system, hardware-wise.

[Yegolev]

I am not counting the demo of Symphony of the Night, although I did play some of it, since I did not put any more time into it than it took to see that is was not worth spending any money on.

Wait, what?  Do you mean that it's not worth paying money for Symphony of the Night again, or just not worth money at all?

I already have a nice, shiny SotN blackdisc and a machine to play it on... so, the first one.  The 360 version doesn't appear to warrant $10, as I believe it only received a graphical update.  If there was some more gameplay (which would be kinda ridiculous in a good way) then I would probably buy it.  I bought Ninja Gaiden twice so far, after all.

Wait a second. What are you talking about exactly? Streaming from PC?

Yes.  I see no reason to halfass the job and try to rip music to a console that won't hold what I'm packing.  Or just because I can potentially fill them up with game shit instead of music shit.  I have several CDs ripped to my PS3 right now, actually.  My PC, it has plenty of space now (734GB) and can expand a whole lot since it only has four disks, one of which is 80GB.  Seems to make sense.

As for why, I can listen to my music in the living room instead of my office.

[Yegolev]

Ah, yes, what I am playing....

Last night I racked up just over 20,000 zombie kills in Dead Rising before I had to go to bed.  It's every man for himself, bitches!

[Ironwood]

I so want Dead Rising.

I must buy myself a wee xbox.

[murdoc]

Every time I decide to play Dead Rising, the crappy saving system does me in and it goes back onto the shelf.