The useless what-I-am-playing thread

[Tebonas]

Digging my teeth into Beyond the Sword now. The Mods and new random events are fun. Can't wait until Fall From Heaven is ported to BtS.

[Signe]

I've been staring at the still sealed box of Odin Sphere a lot lately.

[Xerapis]

Hmmm...haven't really been branching out at all lately.

Playing some sporadic DOW, but other than that, it's just

DATH'REMAR!!!  ~sigh~  I think I need to make my own guild.  Primary requirement:  Your name does not say "I am a 13 year old dumbass".  Secondary requirement:  You are not a selfish thieving asshole.  Tertiary requirement:  When faced with the choice between helping a fellow guildie complete some quest that gives you no benefit, or running off and grouping with strangers or soloing...there is no choice there.  You know what you should do, and you do it.  Cause you were there once.  And you're not a selfish asshole.

Oh, and you should like to give adorably gruff dwarf hunters presents of non-combat pets he doesn't have yet.  Not a requirement.  Just a "nice-to-have" quality.  ^^ 

[Driakos]

I played Company of Heroes pretty much all day, yesterday.  I suck at it.

Something about the game though, makes me want to keep playing and get better.  You definitely have to change a bit from the typical RTS approach.

That it is beautiful doesn't hurt the appeal either.

[schild]

I have trouble keeping myself away from Titan Quest with IT.

[HaemishM]

Playing Prince of Persia: Rival Swords on the Wii. Good game so far.

[Phildo]

Should be playing Persona 3.  Instead, it's going to bite into my Blue Dragon time next month.

[Margalis]

On topic, I just beat Devil May Cry. The first one.

[rk47]

Hmm, Marvel Trading Card Game..what a mouthful.

[Xerapis]

Shouldn't they be worried that their acronym will be too close to Magic?

Anyway, I seriously plan to snatch up the next CIV expansion as long as it gets some positive word-of-mouth here.

Other than that, I really need to get back and finish conquering the planet in DOW.  I love being Space Marines.  But I think I need to track down one of those mods that eliminates the number cap on some of the units.  I want an army of terminators with apothecaries backing them up.  Oh, and I hate that I can't attach skull probes to a unit that has a leader already attached.  They should be two separate things, since some of the command units can't see invisible.

[Tebonas]

The new Civ expansion is worth it. They added some new features you can play around with, scenarios that change the scope of the game, and random events spice things up once in a while.

I went back towards Fall From Heaven 2 a bit too soon to give a detailed analysis, but what I saw I really liked.

[Xerapis]

Cool.  Now the question is, are all the new features hard-coded, or can I disable them if I hate them?

[Tebonas]

The random events can be disabled, of course.

Everything else is hardcoded, if you don't use the new techs/tactics, some other Civ still might. No counterintelligence for example means leaving enemy agents a free reign.

[Azazel]

Started playing a bit of WoW again, though not too much. Finished Max Payne again about a week ago and went straight into Max Payne 2, which I finished tonight. Those games still hold up really well visually and viscearally, as long as you don't mind the fact that you're really just doing the same shit over and over.. but then so are most games.

Have been playing a bit of BF2142 which I picked up for half price (Aussie version with no spyware FTW!), I've unlocked all the generic grunt upgrades, and up to the good Assault rifle, now working on getting a special ops guy out of the sniper class. The game is surprisingly fun.

Also, looks like it's going to be back into my re-plays of Far Cry and HL2 for my against-CPU doses of pewpewblammo, now that Max is done with.

[Xerapis]

MWUAHAHAA!

Trust me, I'll be using counter-intel extensively.  lol

Good on the random events being flaggable.  I don't usually like that kind of thing (unless I saved right before it).  I used to hate the random career cards in Sims 2.

Did I hear correctly that you can mix-n-match leaders and civs now?

Also, kinda on topic, is there any DIY way to mod a PS2 to play Asian games?  The BF seems uncertain as to how to find a place to do it.  His geek ed is still somewhat lacking.  Luckily, he makes up for it in another ways :D

[Yegolev]

Weaning myself off of Overlord with Final Fantasy Tactics.  Last night I somehow thought it would be a good idea to wade into battle with a monk, chemist, oracle, black mage, and time mage.  Actually I probably would have been OK if my one guy with Revive wasn't taken out, and my chemist knew how to use phoenix down, as it was I lost the oracle and black mage so I just powered it off and went to bed.  Even more annoyingly, I blinded several of the enemy and they still landed hits every time.  Either blind isn't crippling or I was unlucky.

[Tebonas]

Checked with a custom game in Beyond the Sword today. You don't seem to be able to mix and match Civilizations and leaders, Xerapis.

[Yegolev]

Wario Ware: Smooth Moves.  Unlocking multiplayer is extremely lame.  It is fun but it gives the feeling that IS didn't really try very hard.

[HaemishM]

Just picked up Shining Force for the Virtual Console. I thought I'd played this game way back when, but I hadn't. And it does kick some ass. Of course, there's a smattering of Prince of Persia: Rival Swords for the Wii and FIFA 07 for the Cube until Madden 08 and FIFA 08 come out.

[Margalis]

Shining Force was fun. The combat itself is not very complex or tactical but it has just enough RPG elements to keep it interesting. The later installments didn't really do much to improve the overall experience sadly.

I got Mario Strikers to play with some friends of mine. It's pretty much exactly what I wanted - a fun multiplayer game that is fairly quick to pick up and play, but still an actual game. I'm still pining for a Tennis game though. If I got a Wii tennis game that was similar to Wii Sports but let you move your guy and had some more options I don't think I'd ever stop playing.

Yesterday I also beat Kid Icarus with a friend of mine. I did the last castle level and he did the final stage. Yes, that Kid Icarus.

[KyanMehwulfe]

Still slowly trekking through FFV. Fun job system; I don't care for the story or cast, though.

Hopefully some Quake Wars all this week now that con-weekend-from-hell is over.

[Yegolev]

Managed to do lots of things other than play vidya games over the weekend, but I got some time in with Final Fantasy Tactics.  Considering I'm once again just fighting things and dicking around with the job system, it's looking like I will have a hard time finishing this and finally marking it off the list.

Also, after a conversation with schild, I fired up La Pucelle and I think FFT is going to go back to the shelf again.  I find that I'm really into leveling up my items via purification, but I'm going to have to read the manual (or gamefaqs) again to figure out how this helps me.

[Strazos]

It helps mostly by giving you lots of xp on whatever items were worn by the person firing off the purification. Making large circles and summoning gods or whatever with the purification helps as well. Bonus points if the first purification starts a multiple purification cascade miracle.

I personally disliked the sort of "hands-off" leveling scheme of the game, but I liked the characters and writing.



As for me, I just bought the entire Shadowhearts series tonight. NO IDEA when I will ever get to play it, but at least I have it now.

I might try to make some progress in Odin Sphere, in between Heroclix and EQ2.

[Xerapis]

I'm actually taking a break from WOW right now because my primary WOW buddy had to head back to the States for a couple weeks because his grandfather died.

So I've been playing some Overlord and some Titan Quest.  I had upgraded to Immortal Throne, but then couldn't find a decent trainer for it.  When it comes to single player, I'm pretty much just on cheat mode these days :P  So I downgraded, and am having lots of fun WAR/SPI.  Nice thing about endless life/energy: I can pick my outfit based on what looks cool only :D

Speaking of trainers, anyone know a reliable one for Overlord that works with no-cd?  I'm having no luck.

[MrHat]

I played through most of the Eternal Sonata demo last night.

It was reasonably fun.  Fighting was involved, the story and pacing are extremely FFantasy though.  If you like that sort of thing, it will be fun for you.

Edit: Stranglehold demo tonight, woot!

[Moaner]

Why didn't someone tell me Painkiller was fun?  I played the demo last night on steam and laughed with glee as vampire demon things hurled across the room and stuck to the walls as I shot them with my wooden stake gun.  Looks like a great dumb shooter, and I love me some dumb shooting.  For $10 I couldn't pass it up.

[Phildo]

Managed to do lots of things other than play vidya games over the weekend, but I got some time in with Final Fantasy Tactics.  Considering I'm once again just fighting things and dicking around with the job system, it's looking like I will have a hard time finishing this and finally marking it off the list.

Also, after a conversation with schild, I fired up La Pucelle and I think FFT is going to go back to the shelf again.  I find that I'm really into leveling up my items via purification, but I'm going to have to read the manual (or gamefaqs) again to figure out how this helps me.

The point of levelling up items is so they can be combined later on to make super items.  Most important is to combine the bits that level your parameters, the ones that give you passive bonuses.  Forget what they're called because I haven't played the game in years, but you can make some pretty hardcore items.

[Yegolev]

I later found something talking about how the game changes after your people reach level 100.  But in the short term I figured out that I really need to combine the stat-leveling attributes.  Somehow leveling up the monsters and items to do this has managed to become time-consuming.

Playing Makai Kingdom now.  Sigh.

[schild]

Soul Nomad is out in like a month too. Oh, and Persona 3 next week MAYBE HARHARHARHAHRAR.

[Riggswolfe]

Well, I finished Final Fantasy 12. It was extremely easy to beat the last boss I noticed. In fact, I pretty much just watched the battle and occasionally picked up the controller to cast a dispell or something.

I'm sort of stuck. I may play FFX and finish it, but then again, Persona 3 comes out in about a week, and two weeks after it if memory serves Bioshock, Stranglehold, Dynasty Warriors:Gundam, and Blue Dragon come out. So I'm afraid to start anything new. Then of course there's the new Civ expansion, as well as a project I've been meaning to start writing a database for a pen and paper RPG I play and will be running next summer or so. (The old 2nd ed D&D Birthright campaign world.)

[MrHat]

Just finished a couple goes of the Stranglehold demo.  You should check it out, damn fun.

I wonder if they'll be a firefight replay mode.

[Rasix]

Just finished a couple goes of the Stranglehold demo.  You should check it out, damn fun.

I wonder if they'll be a firefight replay mode.

Yah, I think I'll ask for this one for my birthday.  Max Payne style action with destructive environments and more of an action movie flair.

Played the Eternal Sonata demo also.  I think I'll pick this title up also.  The combat isn't spectacular, but it's fairly interesting and the game is absolutely gorgeous (must have a tolerance for anime style art). I didn't see a lot of potential depth to this title either, but it looks to be a solid jRPG and fun. 

[Velorath]

I've been meaning to start writing a database for a pen and paper RPG I play and will be running next summer or so. (The old 2nd ed D&D Birthright campaign world.)

I still have all my Birthright rule books (pretty much everything that was put out).  I really liked that setting.  Shame it didn't catch on.

[Moaner]

Painkiller is even better than expected.  I played the hell out of it the other night and am looking forward to more.  The way levels, objectives, card collecting is set up I can see myself playing it off an on for quite some time.  Lots of replay.

Soul Nomad!  I can't wait, it's my most anticipated game of the year.

Also, if Persona 3 isn't released this week I'm swimming to Japan to choke people.

[schild]

Soul Nomad!  I can't wait, it's my most anticipated game of the year.

Really? Nice. I've been playing it. There's no press embargo. Let me say - it's really well done. I get my actual review copy this week. Gig, the main enemy, is one of the best villains since Kefka or Bob Page.