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Topic: The useless what-I-am-playing thread (Read 199923 times)
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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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Played some Civ 4. Started an odd game on an archipelago, played it kinda like a civ rpg, where I chose techs for personal reasons rather than gaming my choices. Like...if I were running things, what would I find most important from the choices. Very interesting and I haven't been invaded yet, which is a good thing. No military units! Complete isolationist.
Going to have to insall that FfH thing.
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Driakos
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I played Guitar Hero 2, and Sim City 4 over the weekend. I'm stuck at Psychobilly Freakout - Expert.
Ohya I rolled up the King and the Queen in the same katamari, in We Love Katamari. He said some funny stuff in the debriefing afterwards. 3600! I think I could get it a little bigger, but not much.
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oh god how did this get here I am not good with computer
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trotski
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I also picked up GH II (360) over the weekend, and all i can say is:  My only complaint is the controller kills my wrist. Looks like my short-lived PGA Tour 07 career is going to take a hit.
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Yegolev
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Ohya I rolled up the King and the Queen in the same katamari, in We Love Katamari. He said some funny stuff in the debriefing afterwards. 3600! I think I could get it a little bigger, but not much.
Ah, gratz, so far that one has eluded me. Stupid King, running off when I get big enough.
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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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Sir Fodder
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Not really playing anything right now, looking around for something... Tried the Theatre of War demo but was very disappointed, has some promise but extremely poor modeling of cover/concealment and crappy UI/control scheme kills it. Rented Crackdown and that was good fun for a few days, it needs more missions and better AI though, jumping around for power ups etc.. got boring quick.
Read a neat Eugene Jarvis (Defender, Robotron 2084) interview on Gamasutra, he was raving about the indie gaming scene, been a while since I poked around in that stuff so that is something I want to look into again.
Not to veer this thread off course, but there was some talk of JRPGs in another thread, I've never played one, anyone know if there are some representative ones for either PC or 360?
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Rasix
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Not to veer this thread off course, but there was some talk of JRPGs in another thread, I've never played one, anyone know if there are some representative ones for either PC or 360?
Wrong format. Get a PS2 (and we can recommend tons) or get a SNES emulator and play FF3 (US) / Chrono Trigger.
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« Last Edit: May 29, 2007, 04:32:58 PM by Rasix »
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Zonk
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Upcoming, I've heard good things about Blue Dragon for the 360 from folks who enjoy JRPGs.
There are plenty of older JPRGs published to the PC format, but they really are best experienced in the original (which is to say, PS2). If you're desperate for one right now, the (in my opinion just 'pretty good') extremely highly touted FFVII is available for the PC.
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schild
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I really can't endorse playing games originally meant for consoles on a PC. Unless it involves aiming and guns.
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Signe
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Sometimes I play old console games using GameTap on the PC. I wish they'd start making more discs with compilations of old console games.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Moaner
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I finished up M&M IV and V a couple days ago. It was glorious. I didn't realize how much I missed old school PC RPGs!
I'm going to try to finish up Odin Sphere over the next week. I just started Mercedes's (?) story. I'm really digging the game. After I'm done I'm planning on trying Dragon Quarter and hopefully playing that until Grim Grimoire is released.
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PSN: Happy_Hedonist, SteamID: Happy Hedonist
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schild
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I've tried starting Dragon Quarter about 500 times now.
Just can't do it.
And what kills me about it is I KNOW there's something awesome there.
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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Hubby started playing Act Razor on Virtual Console. He seems happy.
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schild
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penfold
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On the PC, my main game seems to be STALKER. I've added the floating point engine mod, the realism mod and then modded it further (removed viewbob, given myself a ridiculously high weight limit and run a bit faster). It's a really good game, I'm at Pripyat now. I'm also playing a bit of DoW:Dark Crusade, I have finished the campaign with a few races now trying with another. DoW has been constantly played in one form of the other since it came out.
DS - Trying to get past the mission Pincer Strike for months now in Advance Wars, and keep failing. Also enjoying Age of Empires.
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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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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Civ4 FfH.
Island nation of elves who worship Cthulhu, undead minions who walk underwater.
Enough said. First time playing it and I'm sucked in. Good stuff.
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Yegolev
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Phantasy Star Universe was surely an Xbox title that was converted to the 360 at the last minute. Surely.
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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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schild
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Phantasy Star Universe was surely an Xbox title that was converted to the 360 at the last minute. Surely.
Neg. PC title converted to 360. Universe was never planned for the Xbox.
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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Civ4 FfH.
Island nation of elves who worship Cthulhu, undead minions who walk underwater.
I think Champions of Norrath has that too.
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Strazos
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DS - Trying to get past the mission Pincer Strike for months now in Advance Wars, and keep failing. Also enjoying Age of Empires.
Yes, that mission was quite a bitch. Awesome game though. Also, I need to pick up AoE on the DS. I can get it cheap atm.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Yegolev
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Neg. PC title converted to 360. Universe was never planned for the Xbox.
While that is very odd, it does explain a lot. Lame graphics and somewhat clunky controls. Last night, Etrian Odyssey, and I beat a stalker. Two in a row, in fact, and it felt great. More Oblivion on 360. I am playing it differently than on PC. I am just going through the Mage Guild quests instead of exploring the countryside.
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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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Azazel
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I really can't endorse playing games originally meant for consoles on a PC. Unless it involves aiming and guns.
KoTOR works well on PC, too. Not many conlsole-RPGs do, but that's one that I was happy with. Civ4 FfH.
Island nation of elves who worship Cthulhu, undead minions who walk underwater.
Enough said. First time playing it and I'm sucked in. Good stuff.
This mod sounds better and better all the time!
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Zonk
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More Oblivion on 360. I am playing it differently than on PC. I am just going through the Mage Guild quests instead of exploring the countryside.
Did the same thing. Played as a thiefy class on the PC, wandered around, beat the game, had a blast. My PC starts dying, I buy Oblivion for the 360, and I have to churn through the damn thing for achieve^H^H^H^Hdirected quest rewards.
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Yegolev
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Well... I guess I will have to send you a Friend Request so you can keep track of my achievement score. I'm halfway to four digits!
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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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schild
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Well... I guess I will have to send you a Friend Request so you can keep track of my achievement score. I'm halfway to four digits!

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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Just waiting on my credit card rewards thingy ($100 gift card) then I'll get get my 360 and Dead Rising, Gears of War, and Crackdown.
Etrian Odessy is on it's way (fuck I fucked that up) from Amazon.
Also, DotA.
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Yegolev
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Looks like "schild" goes on the Do Not Click list as well. Glad I did not make that MyGamerCard .sig image I was considering.
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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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schild
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Looks like "schild" goes on the Do Not Click list as well. Glad I did not make that MyGamerCard .sig image I was considering.
Looks like you got Rick Rolled. OH NO!
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Yegolev
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Yeah, I'm no longer a Rickroll virgin. I have no idea what it is about but I do know it is BAD. How could you do that to someone that had just played three hours of PSU?
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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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Cheddar
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GTA3 : Vice city. I was contemplating picking up liberty city stories, but am scared it will suck. I tried San Andreas; may or may not come back to it.
I am a shitty gamer.
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Signe
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I might play a weeks worth of Dragon Runners just because they opened up all the ultra uber items with this one week trial for non-subscribers. I deserve that shit.
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squirrel
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In addition to the stuff pages back (hey I'm slow) I'm playing Fallout II (OS X v) again. It's fun...
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Signe
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Err... it's Dungeon Runners, not Dragon Runners, by the way. 
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Signe
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Muse.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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squirrel
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Forza 2.
that is all.
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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