Today, I have been mostly been playing..

[Dasquian Belargic]

(A thread in which to post which video games you've been playing. Simples!)

Dragon Age: Origins

What about you?

[Droo]

Starcraft 2 with Peter, and we've been kicking arse!

[Rhinn Ikthoos]

John Madden 2010.

[Crusader]

...with myself...
Oblivion ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Spot of Left 4 Dead... which is apparently a lot easier than Left 4 Dead 2!

[Zeven Ekkel]

I just finished Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga on GBA. I liked it a lot.

[Morgan Evanar]

OpenOffice Writer
:(

[Dr. Giger]

Starcraft 2, L4D, and a bit of Red Dead Redemption. And now I'm gonna play a bit of Fallout 3.

[Inyos Aamoran]

Dungeons & Dragons Online...


Don't judge me. It's free. :grumble

[Nathanial K'cansce]

DragonQuest VIII and DragonQuest IX. Playing IX made me jones for VIII. -_-

[Pierce Tondry]

Sam and Max: Season 3, Episode 5. Brought a tear to my eye, it did.

[Damon Frey]

OpenOffice Writer
:(

MS Visual C#

dont you try to outnerd me, boy

[Acacius Blade]

Due to the incredibly slow download of the WoW: Cataclysm Beta client, I decided to crack on with Stalker: Call of Pripyat last night. The more I play the Stalker games, the closer the series edges towards my number 1 stop. However, it has to pass some very strong titles to get there - specifically Half Life 2, System Shock 2, Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, on my iPhone

[Acacius Blade]

Ooh, I never knew Sonic 2 was available. Gimme gimme!!!

[Damon Frey]

Today was a healthy outing with Plants vs Zombies, tomorrow though is looking like a Team Fortress 2 kind of day.

[Oriadin]

Angry Birds, man that game is addictive!

[Barton Henning]

more Dragon Age!

[Droo]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. :cool

[Anne Phoenix]

It's been mostly CounterStrike: Source lately, at home. Star Wars: Rebellion while at work.

[Acacius Blade]

Same as Droo - Bad Company 2. I have to say, I'm really enjoying it. Did okay considering it was the first time I'd played multiplayer. I think t's a far better game than MW2.

Also been playing WoW. Finally made it to Level 79. One to go, hopefully I'll ding by the weekend.

[Liam Jinn]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. :cool

That's basically all I've been playing lately.

[Crusader]

Dragon Age: Origins
I started a human noble warrior!

[Droo]

More Bad Company 2, listening to an angry Russian curse the other team as a bunch of mountain-crawling n-words. :ohno

[Acacius Blade]

Minecraft!

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Meowcenaries. :ohno

[Travis North]

Bad Company 2 and Halo: Reach. Both games best enjoyed in a party when playing online, especially with Reach and its halo kids (I'd kick them in the throat if I could).
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[Tear]

Quite a few Bad Company 2 Players. What system do you guys play it on? PC, Ps3, 360?

[Droo]

Always PC for me!

[Acacius Blade]

The only time I've played multiplayer on a console was when I first got GTA4 on PS3 (I now have the PC Version). And I played a bit of co-op Borderlands on PS3. I only got the PS3 version because I couldn't wait another week for the PC version. Then I bought the PC version anyway and sold my PS3 version.

Like Droo, I'm a PC online gamer first and foremost.

[Crusader]

And I played a bit of co-op Borderlands on PS3. I only got the PS3 version because I couldn't wait another week for the PC version. Then I bought the PC version anyway and sold my PS3 version.
You made Randy Pitchford a happy man I guess and so did I with Gabe by buying Left4Dead2 for both PC and Console!

[Acacius Blade]

Borderlands: The game so good, he bought it twice!

[Crusader]

I played a part of the Halo 3 campaign since my Halo Reach UK import has not arrived yet.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Batman: Arkham Asylum

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

[Crusader]

Damn my copy of Halo has not Reached me yet.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Even more Batmans.

[Liam Jinn]

Battlefield BC2 and Madden 11 on the 360

[Crusader]

Resident...Evil 5
Resident Evil 4 (movie) reminded me how awesome this game is...btw the first minute in the endfight in RE4(movie) is a total rippoff of the battle against the Wesker at the end of RE5.

[Acacius Blade]

Not yet played all of RE5 but so far it isn't a patch on RE4 in my opinion. The location of 4 is just too awesome. The village full of crazies, the swamp, the castle, the mines. The prison/facility. Creepy as hell and incredibly atmospheric.

[Oriadin]

I went back to Resident Evil 1 on the wii. That game is still awsome and I dont think the RE games have been scary since RE code veronica

[Acacius Blade]

I've got all the Resident Evil games bar the on-rails shooter and the handheld games. I've got, Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil (remake) , Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube, and I've got Outbreak and Outbreak: File 2 on the PS2. Oh, and RE5 on the PS3. It'd be cool to play Outbreak online. I believe File 2 had online functionality but I dunno if it's still available - I wonder if I can do it through Playstation Network (even if I can, I doubt there'd be anyone else playing it).

I assume your Wii version is the remake that was released for the gamecube? I love the stuff they added. Those Crimson Heads scare the crap out of me.

I've been playing Stalker: Call of Pripyat. Since I started playing the Stalker games last year, I've loved losing myself in the world of The Zone. The 'survival' aspect of survival horror is quite good. You get hungry and so have to eat occasionally. I don't think you get hungry enough, and food is a bit too plentiful. I'm sure there's a mod to make it more realistic. There's one for the original, Shadow of Chernobyl. I'll be returning to that (with said mod, Oblivion Lost, installed) when I finish Call of Pripyat. The mod adds things like vehicle functionality (it was already in the game code, but the mod just unlocks it), a sleeping bag to jump forward 5 hours. While that's good, I think it spoils the 'survival' aspect a bit, since the dark night isn't as scary since you can bypass it. What would be good is if you couldn't use it in certain situations, such as if there was a rainstorm or thunder and lightning - the noise would prevent you from sleeping so you'd have to wait it out in the dark, find somewhere safe, high up and out of reach of the monsters. It just depends on how it could work. For example, if you can 'hear' something then you can't sleep - such as a monster growling nearby, or heavy rain and thunder. The mechanic is certainly in place - noise you make can alert enemies - walking through bushes is louder than open ground, and there's a noise gauge in the HUD. I'm rambling now, lol. I haven't played the Oblivion Lost mod so perhaps there's more added features than I know of. I know at the very least that combat is more realistic (you die from fewer gunshots but so do your enemies), the night is darker, you get hungry quicker and you can sleep up to 5 hours at a time, and you can drive vehicles. That alone will be awesome. I'll play it soon.

[Oriadin]

I've got all the Resident Evil games bar the on-rails shooter and the handheld games. I've got, Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil (remake) , Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube, and I've got Outbreak and Outbreak: File 2 on the PS2. Oh, and RE5 on the PS3. It'd be cool to play Outbreak online. I believe File 2 had online functionality but I dunno if it's still available - I wonder if I can do it through Playstation Network (even if I can, I doubt there'd be anyone else playing it).

I assume your Wii version is the remake that was released for the gamecube? I love the stuff they added. Those Crimson Heads scare the crap out of me.


Yeah, thats right. You only have to play that game for 10 minutes and you can feel the tension right there. I never felt that from RE4 even though I enjoyed playing the game. I played the demo of RE5 and didnt feel scared at all so never bothered to play it. The controls were awkward in the old resi games but that style of gameplay really added to the tension.

[Acacius Blade]

It was all in the camera angles of the static shots.

[Crusader]

More Halo Reach for me today.

It is kind of funny that I was glad to kill Brutes instead of Elites today. So far I am really enjoying this game but I must admit that Halo ODST's storytelling was a lot stronger than in this game. On the Gameplay side this is kick ass as always.

The difficulty scaling is really well done. The highest difficulty setting cries for a 4 player coop game but so far my lone Wolf aproach gets me through this game.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Dead Rising 2

>D

[Crusader]

I am still trying to REACH greatness

[Dasquian Belargic]

Some more Dead Rising 2

Have just discovered how to make lightsaber :3

[Rossos Atrapes]

Alright, it wasn't today, but last night: Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I've been playing this game a lot recently, and it's ranked with Super Smash Brothers as a game that's great to play with friends.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Fallout 3 :)

[Crusader]

Halo Reach and Kinect adventures

I am only a few credits away from turning Halo Reach in a 1000G Game :)
Lt. Colonel here I come!

[Morgan Evanar]

I beat Mirror's Edge and just started on WoW, which I'll be done with in about an hour and a half.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Levelling like a BOSS in WoW.

[Lykaios]

Rock Band 3

[Dasquian Belargic]

Spot of Warcraft III

[Acacius Blade]

Minecraft last night (as usual). I'm gonna be checking out some of my recent Steam acquisitions. Shatter is awesome! I'm looking forward to World of Goo. Oh, and I highly recommend Machinarium. I got it over the weekend when it was on offer on Steam. Very charming with gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds that are a joy to look at.

[Morgan Evanar]

Have you labeled your mine yet?

[Crusader]

...Alan Wake with all the lights off in the room.

[Atreyu]

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition (had a game online in a private league I'm in - lot of fun). :)

[Acacius Blade]

Have you labeled your mine yet?

I've started to. I've also started to turn it into a neater version as opposed to a chaotic labyrinth, making longer tunnels making it easier to navigate. The goal is to fill an entire double chest with diamonds. Once I've done that, I'll start a new world and make an awesome map. I'm thinking the overworld from Super Mario World.

[Acacius Blade]

A bit of Minecraft tonight. Not much mind - just enough to test out the new microphone. Very pleased with the results! Now I'm gonna have a little stint on Shatter!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Mass Effect

Finally getting into this game :)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

PocketFrogs LOL Its so addicting...plus Owen loves it when the frogs race.

[Crusader]

Your Shape: Fitness evolved on my Kinect and after that 2 games of Halo Reach :)

[Crusader]

I am cheating on my X360 right now. I borrowed a PS3 from a friend of mine and I have been playing heavy rain with a Move controller and I must admit this is one of the best gaming experiences that I had in a while.

So after having said that I am not only afraid about the fact that I am not only cheating on my girlfriend with my Xbox but that I am cheating on my Xbox with the PS3...love is so complicated :D

[Dasquian Belargic]

I really want to play Heavy Rain, but I refuse to buy a Playstation :cry

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Finally getting back into Lost Odyssey.

[Dasquian Belargic]

more Mass Effect 2 for meeee

[Crusader]

Hideo Kojima, I curse you for screwing up MGS4. How could you fail me again after releasing a perfect game with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

[Acacius Blade]

Crusader, I curse you for failing at MGS4-liking. How could you fail me again after playing a good game with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

Yeah, I love Guns of the Patriots! Best game on my PS3 ever!

Been playing Eve Online with some mates. I can't believe how difficult that mission was last night! Level 1 mission in a frigate and I lost the damn ship. I wasn't even engaging the enemy, just trying to get to the objective and bug out. Good job it wasn't an expensive ship and I have another bigger one to use. But I can't use that big one for this mission so I'm gonna lose standing for not completing it - Grrr!

Minecraft will be on the cards tonight methinks!

[Crusader]

It is not a terrible game but it could not live up to my expectations. The gameplay infact is spot on although the boss fights could have been tougher. The final fight against Liquid Ocelot is more a tribute to the series compared to the boss fights against REX/Liquid in MGS1, Solidus/Ray(s) in MGS2 and the BOSS/Shagohod in MGS3.
Sure the split screen montage in the corridor at the end is epic in presentation but the car chase in MGS1 or the motorcycle escape in MGS3 were way more intense.
But the biggest downer for me was the outro that gave me the impression that I was watching a bad soap opera series final and worst of all the reappearence of Big Boss that tells you once again that if you had not done a single thing since the beginning of MGS1 the end result would have been nearly the same since Liquid was never such an evil motherfucker we just misunderstood his motivation right from the start...seriously?!

[Acacius Blade]

I basically took the game as one big movie tribute to the Metal Gear Solid series. I loved all the stuff about the PMC's, GW, proxy wars, the Patriots, SOP etc. And I love the names of all the characters in the series. My favourite has to be Ocelot's name given to him by the Mujahadeen for being a sadist - Shalashaska, a russian slang word meaning 'prison'. I love that! He's so infamous he's got his own name with these people. Makes me think of the whole Keyzer Soze thing.

[Captain Untouchable]

Minecraft.

I think I need rehab... :uhoh

[Acacius Blade]

I take full responsibility for his addiction.

But I'm not ashamed. I'm proud as hell! :D

[Captain Untouchable]

As long as you don't mind me shamelessly ripping off some of your construction innovations, that's fine. :mneh

[Acacius Blade]

Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism, :p

[Crusader]

Dragon Age
Mostly the DLC packs these days since they were on XBL for 50% less

[Acacius Blade]

Been playing DC Universe Online. Enjoying it so far. Can't see it having the depth and staying power of WoW. But that's no surprise since Hell hasn't frozen over either.

Character creation isn't as extensive as Champions Online, but it does seem better despite that. Equipping new gear like in WoW, your appearance does change. At character creation there's no options for shoulsder pads, but you can obtain them in-game during play so thats something I find much better over Champions. Plus the fact that you're doing missions for/with or even against the likes of Batman or the Joker (depending on your morality) is a lot of fun. My starting city is Metropolis and its just awesome flying around. I was a bit gutted that the Daily Planet is 'bottled' by maniac (enclosed in a stasis field) but the fact that its there is awesome enough, along with LexCorp HQ and a simply vast cityscape to explore. For the moment the locations are limited to Gotham and Metropolis but they're so big it's not an issue for me yet. A level cap of 30 seems to be limiting for a number of players judging by the Steam forums. But content patches can sort that out and I'm a slow leveller anyway (well, in WoW anyways!)

I've made a few characters and the one I've concentrated on is Minerva: she can fly, has sorcery as her power and I chose Wonder Woman as her mentor while her weapon of choice is a staff. I've yet to play the black-clad, white-caped Afro Avenger I made but I have a free day tomorrow :)

[Peter McCoy]

I've not returned to DC Universe Online since the weekend I bought it. Got to Level 20 and thought "Bloody hell this is boring". Once again, it's a perfect example of the developers/publishers hoping the source material will carry it. We're gamers. We want gameplay; Not an incomplete product with class combinations that are broken, unimaginative combat. I'd say it's on par with Champions Online when that was released - fun for the first weekend, then boring and repetetive due to lack of content and depth.

I did start re-playing Bioshock. I got up to Hephaestus but have to start again again as I formatted by PC and forgot to back-up the saves. The reason for the format was Stalker: Call of Pripyat. It decided to stop working. I'd tried various fixes, none of which succeeded in allowing me to launch the game. I did manage to launch it after reinstalling, but after it crashing once I'd increased the graphical settings it then returned to the good old "X-Ray 1.6 Engine has stopped working." upon launching the .exe.

But post-format it's running like a dream, and even better thanks to the Reloaded mod I installed which fixes several bugs, improves textures, adds to the atmosphere of the game allowing it to recapture more of the forboding, creepy, unsettling feel of the first game. The sky textures are simply brilliant and dynamic. When a blowout occurs you have to get to a protective safe area but if you manage to find one that allows you to see the sky while inside, it's just awesome! The clouds part and it looks like a huge explosion in the sky with this horrible orange/red searing mass of energy above you, like the devil reaching out to grab you. That coupled with the explosions and flashes make it really quite intimidating. Human NPC's such as other stalkers or bandits caught in the open are doomed - and some are not killed but get their brains fried and they turn into zombies. I was on my way back to the derelict ship I use as a base when I passed some bandits sitting off taking a breather on the side of a hill. Just as I reached Skadovsk the blowout started so I just made it really! After it passed I went back the way I came and the three of them were still sitting their, zombified. As I approached they got up and started to shoot at me awkwardly. That was an awesome moment!

The mod also increases the draw distance so that wen it's a clear day to can see ridiculously far. If I could get high enough I'm sure I could see from one side of the area to the other. And the weather is beefed up to an incredible degree. Fog for example: You start on a hill above a dried-up river basin. In that basin is a derelict ship. beyond it is a road that leads up a hill and around to a warehouse/yard. If I stand at the edge of that starting hill, I can see just beyond the ship in the unmodified version, the ship itself being crystal clear, the road beyond fading into the distance fog and the warehouse might as well not be there. With this mod, I can see a bridge around and beyond the warehouse from that same spot more or less. And when the fog and rain kick in, again from that same spot I had to walk to the bottom of that starting hill for the derelict to be a murky silhouette. Just incredible. I have no intentions of leaving this area any time soon and it's the first of three major regions in the game. With a number of missions to carry out, dozens of locations to visit with bandits, stalkers and mutants lurking along the way, there's just so much to do.

If you guys haven't played any of the Stalker games I can't recommend them enough. With mods, the original still looks great even by todays standards. It can prove a challenge to get running on some systems given it's bugs, but they are definitely worth putting up with/working round with fixes if you can. Some say the original is the crown jewel of the series and the second game (prequel) being the weakest but I honestly think they are all classics worthy of attention. The first for being just that and more, from it's original take on the FPS genre by combining survival horror and RPG elements into the often brainless run-and-gun champion-of-the-consoles genre in one of the most realistic yet at the same time imaginative and original settings ever in a game. The second improved on the graphics but lost some of the originals creepy atmosphere, but again is resolved by 3rd party modifications. Plus the addition of being able to modify and repair your gear added some nice depth, and the fun yet at-times broken factions warfare adds a dynamic element to the areas in that territory can change hands during play. Again, mods fix this and there's even mods that add it to the original.

The 3rd outing and true sequel - Call of Pripyat - is the most well-made and bugless (but not bug-free) version, with an improved UI and inventory system, DX11 graphical support and very well-realised locations including a larger version of Pripyat than the originals that make it, so far, my favourite. Though the games do have their jumpy moments, they are genuinely scary experiences in terms of tension. I was at a location north-west of the derelict ship I call home, in a place called the Sawmill. Literally, a disused sawmill with a warehouse, ouside covered storage area, what looks like a water tower, and a one-storey derelict building with attic. I'd foolishly ran back there to loot the corpses of some zombified stalkers I'd dispatched previously, but it was late and by the time I got there it was almost midnight and getting very dark. I had a building I could hide out in the attic in, or I could brave the long walk back to the ship - I say walk since I couldn't run due to the scavenged equipment I was carrying, that's why I was out there in the first place. So I decided to stay put. I was already shaken as on my return there were a handful of Fleshes (mutant pigs with many eyes and shard pincer-like stalks for legs) and two mutant boars that decided I looked tasty.

So I'm up in the attic, the roof is in bad shape with holes and gaps in it. One end of the attic, the boards are damaged and I can see below into the room which itself has half the wall missing. It's pretty quiet and very dark. So I turn on my flashlight which just seems to make is even creepier as the shadows in the game are very cool. The flashlight's small cone of illumination just seems to accentuate the surrounding blackness. So I crouch behind some boxes to roleplay the fact that I'm hiding out until morning whil i actually get comfortable in my computer chair. I even at that point got undressed and into my pyjamas as if I really was settling down for the night. So I'm in the chair, in my PJ's, with the lights off and me headset on. All of a sudden his horrid screetch! More Fleshes. Now I know I'm safe in the attic and they can't get me but bloody hell was I scared! Just the feeling that I couldn't leave without having to deal with them had me on edge. So I sat up and leaned towards the monitor, on alert. I uncrouch and move to the gap in the boards for a peak. It's hard to see even with the flashlight but I turn it on anyway. They see me and let out another awful high-pitched scream before running off in frustration at their out-of-reach supper. So for the next I'm not sure how long I'm watching them and listening to them. I'm not sure how fast the in-game minutes go by but it feels so slow when you're in this situation!

Eventually I decide to squeeze through the gap in the roof and head up on top. Soon the Fleshes are joined by two even more frightening and vicious miscreations - Pseudodogs. They look sorta like wolves but they have no snout, and a really big bloodied maw filled with a wicked grin of razor-sharp teeth. Not easily scared by gunfire, they leap at you when they've closed the distance and the more mature ones have the ability to attack you with psychic projections of itself. If you shoot them, they disappear but you have to kill the real one to end the onslaught so usually it results in a lot of ammo wasted. Again, I was safe, but anything but relaxed. The pseudodogs quickly killed the two Fleshes, adding to the corpses of my previous battle. Thats when one of the most fascinating elements of the game kicks in. The A-Life. Whether you're present or not, the world of Stalker is a living, breathing, dynamic one. I watched in darkness, my flashlight now off so as not to disturb the creatures, as the pseudodogs dragged the Fleshes corpses along the ground to a spot they deemed suitable to stop and eat. It was so cool! They'd take a few steps back with all four legs before jerking their heads back, dragging the corpse a few inches before taking a few more steps back and repeating the process. Just brilliant.

During my stint as David Attenborough on that roof, I braved a thunderstorm amid rain and lightning. And the lightning is truly something to behold in this game! The changes in light and shadows when the lightning strikes is breath-taking! Seriously, check it out on Youtube! Trees that are invisible in the distance are illuminated as silhouettes whenever the lightning strikes, highlighting hills, rocks, bushes, buildings, telegraph/electricity poles, even mutants/NPC's on the move and other snippets of detail across the murky landscape between you and the source of the light. Eventually late night turned into early morning and around 4am the red glow appeared on the cloudy horizon. At first I thought it was another blowout and I was still trapped on the roof and somehow doubted this shabby building would provide adequate shelter. There was the warehouse on the other side of the yard/road but with so many enemies around I didn't fancy hiding out in a shelter that was limited to ground level with huge open entrances large enough for trucks to pass through. But it was just the birth of the sunrise. And what a sight it was as that dim red turned to pink and then to salmon-orange as it rolled closer across the sky. The clouds behind me took on a golden glow as daybreak approached, with the stars above slowly fading away and the darkness pulled back to breath new light across the Zone. At that point a mutant boar strolle dinto the Sawmill's grounds and the pseudodogs decided it was time for breakfast. The scrap occured on the far side, opposite to the way I was to make my escape. As much as I wanted to watch, I leapt down from the roof quickly rather than climbing into the attic and using the ladder and started making my way back to the Skadovsk. Along the way a few blind dogs tried to take me on but once I killed the first one on it's first run, the others scattered and were easy pickings as they ran around me scared. Eventually, easily over an hour of realtime later, I was back at the Skadovsk, unloaded all my loot into my stash box and started deciding what I was keeping (ammo, new guns, supplies) and what I was selling (extra guns I already had a version of). I made enough cash to order a sniper rifle off the fence, Nimble, but instead repaired my armour and upgraded some gear.

Just one tale of many that, collectively, are quickly making up my favourite gaming experience ever.

Whenever there's a stint of sales on Steam, there's often a special pack of Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat together. I think the reason the 2nd game (Clear Sky, prequel to Shadow of Chernobyl) is never included is because it was self-published by the developers whereas the other two weren't. Just a guess!?

[Kyle Krogen]

It's all about League of Legends, Baby!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Dragon Age Dragon Age Dragon Age Dragon Age



(Origins)

[Crusader]

^ good girl! So with how many characters have you shared a tent yet? :P

[Dasquian Belargic]

None! I am saving myself for Alistair ;)

[Crusader]

What games do you guys and girls play these days?

I just finished a playthrough of

Duke Nukem: Manhatten Project "Hey girl I know this classy place where you throw quarters in the bed and..."
Mirrors Edge: Hard difficulty and without firing a gun "Faithy"
Dragon Age plus some of the DLCs "And now we have a dog. And Alistair is still the stupidest member of the party."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ..."Why can't I hit enemys with a rifle while shooting from my hip but once I hold two guns akimbo style I suddenly become a sharpshooter with sidearms"
Right now I am playing some

Serious Sam HD
Halo Reach: 2nd Mappack and a lot of Rumble Pit
Kinect Adventures and SportsTo do list:

Assassins Creed 2: Brotherhood
Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light
Homefront
Dragon Age 2On the horizon:

Duke Nukem Forever
Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC and Good Shepard

[Dasquian Belargic]

Been playing some Mirrors Edge myself... this game stresses me out!! I think it's the fact that the whole premise of the game is pretty much you running away from guys with guns :uhoh

[Ezra Na'chtion]

Just started playing TF2. Never played it before today. Its alright. I just needed a First Person Shooter and did not feel like anything in my Xbox library was worth my time. Otherwise I'm playing League of Legends or Dragon Age: Origins.

[Park Kraken]

Star Wars: Rebellion last night on my laptop at work. While Empire At War might have better graphics and gameplay, Rebellion lets you pit a force of 250 CEC CR90a Corvettes against a Super Star Destroyer and 12 TIE Defenders, with the Corvettes winning the battle (although about six of them were destroyed).

[Morgan Evanar]

I played Batman Arkham Asylum. What a fantastic game.

[Sanis Prent]

How the shit am I the only person here playing Fallout: New Vegas

Here's reasons why you should be too:
My sidekick is an irradiated Mexican ghoul named Raul who is a gunslinger and has a fancy, well-coiffed moustache
You can set the game to require you to sleep and drink water. I've been drinking out of dirty irradiated toilets to live. You haven't survived shit until you've had to do this.
I had to hire whores for a casino catering to johns with ridiculous tastes. One wanted to have sex with a robot. I programmed a robot to be a whore. And no, it's not an ergonomic kind of robot you'd want to have sex with. When I turned it on, it asked me to assume the position
The main bad guys are a group of maniacal fascists trying to reinvent the Roman Empire

Sweet holy shit this game is everything that I loved best about Fallout 2 and 3 rolled into one.

[Sanis Prent]

Furthering the case for New Vegas, I finally learned to play caravan. There's a lot of gambling in this game naturally, and this is easily the most profitable card game. I've bilked thousands of bottle caps off of poor sucker NPC's and laughed my way to the bank.

Money is nearly meaningless to me now!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Pokemon Black :3

[Peter McCoy]

I played Batman Arkham Asylum. What a fantastic game.

I installed this on Steam. Graphics are just incredible compared to the PS3 version I've already completed. Mark hamill as The Joker is awesome. I love the crap he spews over the communication system throughout the game. The first time you get to prowl around stalking the thugs before you actually get outside he says something like "I don't even think he's real!" - fuckin' love it!


Star Wars: Rebellion last night on my laptop at work. While Empire At War might have better graphics and gameplay, Rebellion lets you pit a force of 250 CEC CR90a Corvettes against a Super Star Destroyer and 12 TIE Defenders, with the Corvettes winning the battle (although about six of them were destroyed).

THIS! I have been playing Supremacy (European version) using VirtualBox. Just an epic game in terms of scale!)

[Irvine Bezra]

dissidia 012
starcraft 2
and crysis 2 has a good soundtrack

[Dasquian Belargic]

New Super Mario Bros for DS

Addicitive!

[Peter McCoy]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Charlie, my fellow System Shockee - you should play this mate! The storytelling style as well as the plot is very Lovecraftian and the tension and gameplay remind me of System Shock. But there's no weapons for you to kill the monsters with so it's a choice of running, hiding or dying. You can close doors and then barricade them with boxes or slide a table across it to slow them down but eventually they'll break through so you need to be gone ASAP! A list of things you'll need.


No lights on
Headphones
Spare pants
Your mummy!I just tonight realised why it's called Amnesia; having played it for a few hours now, it's the one medical condition I long for! So I can play it again and again, but also to forget the horrors that lurk within... :ohno

[Dasquian Belargic]

:ohno oh man that game is terrifying

[Taataani Meorrrei]

More Fallout New Vegas. Highlights recently:
I've been banned from every casino in Vegas. The three families don't like it when you bleed them for over 10,000 chips on blackjack. Still, they comped me the high roller suite at every casino and I got free meals, free booze, free drugs, and all sorts of other high roller perks.
Deathclaws (Christin calls them atomic rancors) are nastier than in previous games and no fun to fight.
Traded Veronica (my lesbian armored punching machine sidekick) for Boone (my terse, psychotic, baby-murdering PTSD sniper sidekick)
Hoover Dam is fucking massive
I upgraded my PipBoy 3000 to a PimpBoy 3,000,000,000. It is now gold plated, diamond encrusted, with rubies for buttons, and swanky 70's funk music plays when I use it. Also if I look at it in the daylight all the bling makes it almost unreadable!

[Park Kraken]

CS:S mostly while at home. More Rebellion while at work. My brain died on me at work after I spent an hour naming each ship of a production run of 1,000 DP20 Corellian Gunships to act as anti-starfighter escorts for my fleet of Mon Calamari Cruisers, Dauntless Cruisers, and Bulwark Battlecruisers. I was going to send a fleet of about 15 ships to blockade each of the one hundred Imperial planets left over.

But at least it was worth something. I built 10 Super Star Destroyers as the Empire one game to invade the Corellian Sector with, and the game was over in 5 seconds because the first planet I invaded, Commenor, ended up with me capturing Luke Skywalker, which was the final goal that ended the game. :lol

[Taataani Meorrrei]

Peter, I'll look into amnesia, that looks cool

[Dasquian Belargic]

Street Fighter on the 3DS

[Peter McCoy]

Charlie:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent - on sale now for £6.49, down from £12.99

US price is currently $9.99 down from $19.99

http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/

I've managed to get Dungeon Keeper 2 working using VirtualBox so I've been playing that the last two days. Gotta love Bullfrog's wit!

"The very rock yawns in anticipation of your next fascinating move!"

[Taataani Meorrrei]

no thanks. fuuuuuck that

at least in system shock I could get a wrench or a piece of shit gun to flail impotently at my enemies with

[Peter McCoy]

Ya big shithouse!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Final Fantasy III DS :)

[Captain Untouchable]

Battlestar Galactica Online.

To hell with Vipers: my pimped out Raptor is ownage. :love

[Dasquian Belargic]

^ You gotta give us a review of this game

[Captain Untouchable]

BGO is free, and browser-based. When it comes to MMOs, "free" is obviously a relative term: you can spend real-world money in order to buy Cubits, which allow you to buy certain ships, to level up your systems beyond a particular point, etc. However, the game allows you to loot Cubits from killing NPCs as well, which is a refreshing change. Playing without paying is actually a viable option.

The story was something we were worried about before hand... and to be honest, it's not that bad. They've set it during the back half of Season 2: after the Pegasus shows up, but before Lee becomes a Major. The basic premise is that a weird alien gizmo overloaded your FTL and shot you into a mysterious, unknown sector: and there's evidence that the Colonials and Cylons have been there before. As with most games based on shows, they've added new ships and things to make it more viable for players, but it "feels" like Battlestar, even if it doesn't necessarily fit perfectly with the canon.

We were also a bit worried about the graphics while you're wandering around. The good news is that, at the moment, that accounts for a tiny part of the game. You can land on Galactica or elsewhere to repair your ship, buy upgrades, and to activate your "dailies" (get x amount of tylium, destroy y enemies, scan z asteroids, etc) which give you XP and resources. You get your daily assignments from Apollo, but if you blow anything up, you go and brag about it to Starbuck. There are a few basic missions from the Old Man, but it looks like they're intending to add more.

The actual bulk of the game is flying around and blowing stuff up. The controls and GUI took some getting used to, as did the equipment upgrades. Depending on what ship you pick, you get a different balance of Hull, Computer, Weapons, and Engine slots. You can install enhanced sensor grids, afterburners, decoy drones to evade missiles, and there are a selection of ECM gizmos that fill the role of buffs and de-buffs: you can scramble someone's weapons or nerf their acceleration and turn speed; or you can boost your own. Or both.

It isn't the best MMO in the world. It's still in Open Beta so it may improve, but at the moment there aren't that many quests or missions. It is however a lot of fun; even if it's purely for the novelty value of cruising around in a Viper, Raptor, or Raider and blowing stuff up.

[Alexia Sturkov]

I dabbled into the Free MMO Spiral Knights. Visuals are nice, so far I've been able to play without paying for anything. The game appears to be limited by an "energy" limit that your toon has. This energy is used to enter the dungeons and is used each time you take an elevator down to a lower floor. Seems really simple so far, but I've only played a few hours. The game has an emphasis on crafting and leveling items and feels a little like Phantasy Star in that regard.

http://www.spiralknights.com/

[Park Kraken]

Re-created Warlord Teradoc's Crimson Fleet at work. Sadly I had only comissioned 18 Mark 1 Victory Star Destroyers by the time I found and crushed the Rebel Headquarters. It was pretty fun fielding that fleet with an Interdictor Cruiser, 36 Squadrons of TIE Defenders, and 36 Regiments of Stormtroopers for Planetary Assaults.

[Tear]

no thanks. fuuuuuck that

at least in system shock I could get a wrench or a piece of shit gun to flail impotently at my enemies with

A pretty funny Kotaku (http://ca.kotaku.com/5792282/a-compendium-of-freaked+out-reactions-to-amnesia-the-dark-descent)post about the game. Some of the videos posted in the comments section are priceless.

[Dasquian Belargic]

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my favorite Amnesia video - and clearly this is the way to play this game, with friends on voice chat

[Captain Untouchable]

OMG. The latest Battlestar Online patch added even more music from the show's soundtrack. :eee

[Zereth Lancer]

I played Amnesia up to the water part where all you see is the footsteps. At that point, I was like all WTF how do I get away from an invisible monster, in the dark? I kind of gave up at that point.

[Sanis Prent]

I may buy amnesia and make Christin play it. That would be worth it to me.

[Flux]

Not technically today, but the last few games I played were Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, and Plants vs Zombies.

[Lykaios]

Just started Fallout: New Vegas on Friday

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

Yessss :3

Keep me updated on your travels and actions. Any idea what kind of character you wanna play?

[Dasquian Belargic]

I gotta pick that game up on pay day.

[Park Kraken]

Empire At War: Forces of Corruption Expansion. Just tried it out for first time the other day, ended up playing a one hour game as the Empire vs Rebellion in the Maw Installion. I hate the new Rebel MC30a Cruiser, but I loves me TIE Defender hordes (ala Lord Shadowspawn) led by Boba Fett. I won, but I lost 2 ISDs and about 70 squadrons of starfighters, vs the Rebels losing something along the lines of 25 Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, 60 Support Capital ships, and some 60 Squadrons of starfighters. |I

[Zereth Lancer]

More Minecraft for me. Gotta build, build, build.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Played an hour or so of Bioshock. S'rather fun, I must say. It took me forever to muster the courage to fight my first Big Daddy though :uhoh

[Peter McCoy]

I think Bouncers are much harder than Rosie's. You can strafe in and out of cover and whittle down their health whereas the Bouncers can charge you, snare you by drilling into the ground and blur your vision with that roar of theirs. To have to face a Bouncer on the first go is bad enough but at that point in the game you have very little in the way of stopping power. I think I had maybe 4 armour-piercing pistol rounds. Plus on my first playthrough when you get the telekinesus plasmid I'd replaced my Electro Bolt with it to keep Incinerate, so I was buggered and barely handled the bastard first time round. It was a combination of setting him on fire then running around to get the most out of the flames until they died before doing it again. Thank God for the health stations becuse I ran out of fiurst aid kits pretty quickly.

Electric Buck for the shotgun works wonders against Bouncers.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

I didn't play any New Vegas today, but I'm just about to the point in the game where I can beat the game for an NCR victory. I'm gonna play the Dead Money DLC with Veronica as my tagalong first though. I still have one more casino to get banned from!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Portal 2


finished the single player story today :D

[Lykaios]

Well after playing pretty much every single spare minute I can, I will definitely say this game is fuckin' awesome!

I haven't totally sided with one faction, I'm kinda just winging it and playing along with what's convenient at the time.

Getting to Nellis AFB was a major pain in the ass...those bloody bombers were brutal and killed me numerous times, until I pretty much did opposite of what the note said and went NE just following the cliff line and then running along the fence, took me a whole frickin minute that way.

It was also a pain in the ass to find Cerulean Robotics, but hey who wouldn't want a robot whore?

Had I known Neil was a temporary companion. I wouldn't have gone through all the trouble of recruiting him. Although had I not done that I wouldn't have been able to come across Raul, who would've thunk? He was born where I was! :lol

More to come on where I'm at with this at a later time...I've yet to figure out a tactic to kill those damn deathclaws.

Th one thing I didn't do is I didn't play with the Hardcore Mode on =/ But since I'll definitely play this again, I'll do it then.

[Morgan Evanar]

Portal 2 was fantastic.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

Well after playing pretty much every single spare minute I can, I will definitely say this game is fuckin' awesome!

I haven't totally sided with one faction, I'm kinda just winging it and playing along with what's convenient at the time.

Getting to Nellis AFB was a major pain in the ass...those bloody bombers were brutal and killed me numerous times, until I pretty much did opposite of what the note said and went NE just following the cliff line and then running along the fence, took me a whole frickin minute that way.

It was also a pain in the ass to find Cerulean Robotics, but hey who wouldn't want a robot whore?

Had I known Neil was a temporary companion. I wouldn't have gone through all the trouble of recruiting him. Although had I not done that I wouldn't have been able to come across Raul, who would've thunk? He was born where I was! :lol

More to come on where I'm at with this at a later time...I've yet to figure out a tactic to kill those damn deathclaws.

Th one thing I didn't do is I didn't play with the Hardcore Mode on =/ But since I'll definitely play this again, I'll do it then.

Regarding the Boomers yes I got stuck there for a day and it pissed me off. It's more dependent on dumb luck and not stopping. It does not hurt to wear a shitload of armor and take a lot of drugs though!

Cerulean also got me stuck because everything in Freeside tends to look the same because everybody is poor and broke and shit. But yes I pressed onward because Fisto is hilarious

I never bothered with Neil. I raided Black Mountain on accident really, and after killing Tabitha and everybody else I found him on the way out and was like "Uhhhh...well they're all dead now so did I win anything?"

As far as deathclaws, this probably depends on the build your character is on. My first character is gun intensive, so I found that at minimum, you want a gun in .308 with armor piercing ammo, and you probably want to fire from elevated safety when possible. Clearing Quarry Junction and the Deathclaw Promontory are fucking hard if you're low level, period. I highly recommend the .50 caliber anti-material rifle with AP ammunition, and a chemical cocktail of psycho, steady, jet, and if you think those fuckers might even breathe on you, med-x.

If you haven't guessed it, my character is high pretty much all the time.

Also holy fucking shit you have to play it on hardcore mode. You haven't survived shit until you've had to drink out of a dirty and irradiated toilet to live.

[Dasquian Belargic]

In 5 minutes, I'll be heading out to New Vegas...

[Mayhem]

Been playing Champions Online mainly lately with my cousin. We picked up the F2P since he can't game that often. Still a big time WoW player, and just downloaded the recent addon for Mass Effect 2 for my 360, so I'll be playing that again soon.

[Tear]

More to come on where I'm at with this at a later time...I've yet to figure out a tactic to kill those damn deathclaws.

I generally lay down a few mines before I engage those guys. Then I try my best to hobble them, aiming for the legs, once their speed is crippled it's just a matter of kiting them to death.

Mines are good because if your shots don't cripple the legs before they reach you the mines will either kill or hobble it for you.

[Zereth Lancer]

Playing Call of Cuty: Modern Warfare 2 again on the 360. Black Ops can suck it.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

More to come on where I'm at with this at a later time...I've yet to figure out a tactic to kill those damn deathclaws.

I generally lay down a few mines before I engage those guys. Then I try my best to hobble them, aiming for the legs, once their speed is crippled it's just a matter of kiting them to death.

Mines are good because if your shots don't cripple the legs before they reach you the mines will either kill or hobble it for you.

This works too, I just never seem to carry mines because a good stockpile is heavy. Maybe I'll give Veronica a bakers dozen though

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Finished Bioshock. Very fun :)

For some reason, whether they are Rosies or Bouncers, I don't really have trouble with either one of them. I managed to get the combat tonic or whatever that shocks anything that physically hits you. Made dealing with enemies very very easy. Frankly it was a godsend since my aim isn't really all that stellar to begin with ^_^;

Also, I couldn't find it in myself to harvest the little sisters, so I saved every one I came across. Next go-round I'll harvest them I suppose.

The fight with Fontaine I gotta admit was crazy easy. I was expecting something a bit more challenging. Course, it might've been the types of plasmids I was using and the conventional weapons I had. Arctic blast 3 + shotgun (customized with rapid fire) makes him pretty much a cakewalk.

[Zereth Lancer]

Today I played Minecraft for the last time. I don't see the point of it anymore when the other players on my multiplayer server insist on filling my projects with lava. Not just lava, but lava that's set as high in the air as possible so it rains down upon me. Goodbye Minecraft. It was fun while it lasted.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p156/LoungieMu/facb146f.jpg

Nice face, Lanius. I think I'll take it!

[Captain Untouchable]

Today I played Minecraft for the last time. I don't see the point of it anymore when the other players on my multiplayer server insist on filling my projects with lava. Not just lava, but lava that's set as high in the air as possible so it rains down upon me. Goodbye Minecraft. It was fun while it lasted.

Find a multiplayer server that isn't populated by a bunch of dicks? :huh

[Flux]

I found Yoshi's Island on Gameboy Advance for supercheap! SO HAPPY!

[Taataani Meorrrei]

So after running into what threatened to be a game-crippling save game bug in New Vegas, I worked my way around it just fine. My Legionary is level eight, hated by the NCR, and I've just killed the entire officer corps of Camp Forlorn Hope. I may loop around and kill all the other soldiers there and loot it.

Funny enough, my general karma is still rated "Very Good". There's something to being a hero from a certain point of view :D

Also I got my very first confirmed bachelor line of dialogue, and got to hit on an uncomfortable NCR Major in the Mojave Outpost. He didn't seem to be offended by my advances, but it sounds like the NCR has something akin to a Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in place and he's worried about appearing to be "more than friends" :lol He did mention that the Legion were more tolerant about "that sort of thing" So hooray for being progressive!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars! (for 3DS)

[Captain Untouchable]

Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars! (for 3DS)

Is it good? :ohno

[Dasquian Belargic]

So far I have played through the first two episodes of season 1. It's pretty simple fun, but I'm enjoying it. If you've played any of the other Lego games, you'll know whaty ou're in for :)

Also been playing a few hours of Fallout New Vegas today. I seem to have fallen in with the NCR by accident :uhoh

[Taataani Meorrrei]

It's easy to have a cozy relationship with the NCR as they're more or less the gatekeepers for a lot of the real estate in the Mojave Desert, and you want to stay neutral with them at the very least.

Of course I say this, and then I use the ARCHIMEDES II weapon at Helios One to vaporize their entire platoon garrison at the plant and now I have Rangers actively tracking me down to assassinate me.

[Dasquian Belargic]

:love Boone

[Taataani Meorrrei]

Haha yeah Boone is a crazy good sidekick especially if you're pro NCR. His story is very sad though.

Actually, come to think of it, almost all of the companions have a sad story except maybe ED-E

[Dasquian Belargic]

Think I might have just shot myself in the foot where the Brotherhood of Steel is concerned.

I was just done with chasing off the NCR ranger from that super secret Brotherhood bunker, went back to deliver the good news - and forgot to take off my NCR fatigues! Before I could change outfits, Boone had taken out the Brotherhood Elder with a headshot.

So I did the decent thing, stole his robes, went down into the bunker, hacked the turret control terminal and reprogrammed the turrets to kill Brotherhood personnel on sight.

v:)v

[Peter McCoy]

I need to get me New Vegas! It sounds so much better than Fallout 3!

[Captain Untouchable]

Think I might have just shot myself in the foot where the Brotherhood of Steel is concerned.

I was just done with chasing off the NCR ranger from that super secret Brotherhood bunker, went back to deliver the good news - and forgot to take off my NCR fatigues! Before I could change outfits, Boone had taken out the Brotherhood Elder with a headshot.

So I did the decent thing, stole his robes, went down into the bunker, hacked the turret control terminal and reprogrammed the turrets to kill Brotherhood personnel on sight.

v:)v

I can see how that might have pissed them off a bit! :lol

[Taataani Meorrrei]

Think I might have just shot myself in the foot where the Brotherhood of Steel is concerned.

I was just done with chasing off the NCR ranger from that super secret Brotherhood bunker, went back to deliver the good news - and forgot to take off my NCR fatigues! Before I could change outfits, Boone had taken out the Brotherhood Elder with a headshot.

So I did the decent thing, stole his robes, went down into the bunker, hacked the turret control terminal and reprogrammed the turrets to kill Brotherhood personnel on sight.

v:)v

Did you have a save prior, or if you did, did you just say "screw it" and keep on trucking? I ask because if you end up wiping out The Brotherhood it's going to make recruiting Veronica just about impossible and that's a shame because she's one of my favorite companion NPC's.



I need to get me New Vegas! It sounds so much better than Fallout 3!

It keeps Fallout 3's great design and gameplay mechanics but the spirit of the game is much more in keeping with Fallout 1 and 2.

The problem with Fallout 3 is that the Capitol Wasteland is almost too bleak. Civilization doesn't feel like it's gonna take root there, and with a few exceptions you just don't have the same sort of communities and interactions. Mind you, this isn't a critique of the game so much as to say that Washington DC after World War III is simply crushed. It's completely understandable that it would be much more primal and more devastated than other areas.

The one true critique I have of Fallout 3 that New Vegas most assuredly fixes is that you just cannot become a God King sort of character the same way you did in Fallout 3. Further, the outcomes of the plot in Fallout 3 were very black and white, and the storyline relied upon a lot of father/child tropes and a healthy dollop of deux ex machina at hte end. The Fallout universe has always thrived on morally gray themes, and it felt a little lacking before.

New Vegas probably has thousands of possible endings, and is much more dependent on your choices along the way in shaping your epilogue. To this end, you sacrifice the ability to play the game after you've beaten it. Honestly, that's a good thing. You should be forced to play through multiple times in order to do everything, because choices in a game do more than just open doors, they also close some others.

To give you some basic sense of how the game can flow, you can align yourself with four main factions:


Caesar's Legion
The New California Republic
Mr. House
You can also become your own faction, with the aid of Yes Man


Now having four considerably different story arcs would be cool, but if that isn't enough, you can also align yourself with a big number of minor factions too, including:


The Brotherhood of Steel
The Powder Gangers
The Followers of the Apocalypse
The Boomers
The Great Khans
The Omertas
The White Glove Society
The Enclave Remnant
The Chairmen
The Kings


And these are just the factions with enough pull for you to either join them or use them to influence the main plot. Some of the main factions have minor sub-factions within them (Caesar's Frumentarii or NCR's Rangers) and there's also the dozens of gangs, cults, and other assorted organizations you don't join or control but have their own extensive stories that form the background noise of the Mojave wastes.

The Mojave Wasteland isn't just geographically big. It's culturally vast. It feels much more like there's been 200 years for civilization to crawl out from under hiding in vaults to try to scratch together a society again. There's politics, there's intrigue, there's double dealing, ethical quandries, and black and white don't really exist in and of themselves.

The NCR is the consensus "good guy" faction but there's a lot of crap they pull that is objectionable and considerably so, depending on your character's entirely-rational point of view. It's widely discussed that they probably don't have the people of the Mojave's best interests at heart, and are much more inclined to barely keep the peace and milk the electricity from the Hoover Dam and whatever resources they can while holding the line and send it back to California. Add a potential war crimes subplot in the mix and you can't blame somebody for being pushed over the edge by the men and women under the bear's flag.

The Legion, while easily the villains of the lot and hated by almost all, have their strong suites. It's the classic "Mussolini at least made the trains run on time" argument, in the sense that while the Legion is a violent and autocratic dictatorship propped up on slavery, they do not tolerate the sort of depredation and massive criminal acts like highway banditry, murder, theft, etc that the NCR does little to anything about. In fact, Caesar is an extremely articulate and thoughtful social engineer, it could be said. While it might be difficult to agree with the methods, some do and it doesn't all come down to moustache twirling villainy for it's own sake.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I didn't have another save sadly so I just kept on playing. I have met 2 other possible companions so far (Cass and Arcade, I think they were called) but no one has made me want to drop Boone.

[Peter McCoy]

I'm currently on a playthrough of Fallout 3 but I'm playing through it quite quickly so as soon as I finish, I'm getting New Vegas! Sounds awesome! And I'll definitely play on the hardcore mode!

[Dasquian Belargic]

I've continued my quest to piss off a variety of factions today by sticking one finger up at the White Glove Society. Think you're better than me, do ya? Well, how do you like being bludgeoned to death with your own cane?! Bet you're wishin' you'd offered me a membership to your fancy pants club now!

And so begins my inevitable downward spiral into brutality in the name of the NCR!

[Taataani Meorrrei]

The only reason to humor the white glove society is if you are creating a Patrick Bateman style character, which would actually own

[Dasquian Belargic]

I think on my next play through, I am going to do just that.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

There is actually an achievement called Meat of Champions if you do that, where you eat the flesh of the heads of all three major factions. I guess the only way that would work is if you side with Yes Man.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Either the Legion is giving me the cold shoulder, or I've hit some kind of glitch. Whenever I try to talk to Caesar, or Vulpes.. whatshisface, the game zooms in on them for a few seconds as if it's about to begin a conversation and then zooms out :( I know my reputation with them is Vilified but I'm dressed in Legion armour and I've got the Mark of Caesar in my inventory. Won't they even speak to me?

[Taataani Meorrrei]

Are you villified after getting the Mark of Caesar? If so, I'm surprised that you even got close enough to Caesar to talk to him, even in Legion armor, because the Praetorians and mongrels would've aggro'd you.

Have you reverted to a save and tried again? That's odd.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Went to the Gamorrah for a hot little number; can't remember her name, but that doesn't really matter now, does it. Then I left. I pretty much only went there for tail, then it was off to find Benny. I let him escape so I could specifically crucify him, and that's exactly what I did :eee

I've basically thrown in my lot with Caesar and his Legion, mostly since Charley told me it was pretty much exclusively a boy's club and I don't care if I'm a girl I want in. It's interesting seeing how the character dialogue changes when confronted with a female lead.

I've got Boone waiting for me back at the Lucky 38 since I want him as far away from my current activities as possible.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

You're leading poor Boone on just to break his heart later. At least my Legionary is honest enough to tell it like it is.

You ought to find Veronica now, just to see if the Cherchez la Femme perk makes that match a little interesting ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Are you villified after getting the Mark of Caesar? If so, I'm surprised that you even got close enough to Caesar to talk to him, even in Legion armor, because the Praetorians and mongrels would've aggro'd you.

Have you reverted to a save and tried again? That's odd.

Guess that's what I'll have to do :(

On the upside, I managed to recruit Veronica! I don't suppose I'll be able to finish her quest-line, but she is fun to have around :)

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Wiped out ranger station echo yesterday. Also tested out the sexbot; it's... A bit nervewracking to listen to. Today I killed ranger ghost and stole her clothes. I think it's safe to say that the NCR despises me.

[Peter McCoy]

I'm gonna wait until next month to get New Vegas. For now I'm working my way through Fallout 3 and Magicka.

This playthrough of Fallout 3, I'm concentrating on small guns. I would have liked to go for Big Guns but it's impractical since the early game has bugger all in terms of Gattling Guns etc so you're not benefitting when you level up.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Wiped out ranger station echo yesterday. Also tested out the sexbot; it's... A bit nervewracking to listen to. Today I killed ranger ghost and stole her clothes. I think it's safe to say that the NCR despises me.

Me and Boone gonna hunt you down >:

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Ha! Me and ED-E will be waiting, profligate scum!

[Dasquian Belargic]

We're 1st Recon, you'll be dead before you get a glimpse of our red berets :cool

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

It's a bit difficult to fire a gun while you're hanging from a cross :D

[Sanis Prent]

Didn't read any of that shit because honestly I'm tripping balls on some jet and whisky but while you pendejos perforate each other I'm makin caps bitches!

[Sanis Prent]

Watching Christin play through Quarry Junction reminds me of why I hate that place. Deathclaws suck

[Dasquian Belargic]

Watching Christin play through Quarry Junction reminds me of why I hate that place. Deathclaws suck

I accidentally went there once and it was not pleasant. Not planning on going back there any time soon!

[Sanis Prent]

She's level 18 and cleared it by the skin of her teeth.

I think I was level 22 when I did it and I had to leave Boone at the outskirts because he kept dying

[Sanis Prent]

Also playing through as Sanis is the greatest way to play. Drunk and high constantly, letting everybody else do the fighting for me, and making bank. I'm doing mostly good guy quests, but will steal everything that isn't bolted down!

[Sanis Prent]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p156/LoungieMu/db190335.jpg

Wasteland scoundrel ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Just Cause 2

It's incredibly satisfying to blow up so much stuff. I just surfed a jet into a skyscraper.

[Peter McCoy]

I quite enjoy Just Cause 2. The voice acting is fucking atrocious, but explosions are awesome. Grappling a pursuing car to the road itself always makes me laugh - the only thing missing is the Wilhelm scream.

[Dasquian Belargic]

You really feel like the star of an action movie playing this game. I just shot a bloody satellite out of the sky with a fighter jet.

[Sanis Prent]

Jenny, not sure if you've played Dead Money DLC in New Vegas, but they're getting ready to put Honest Hearts out within the week, so...go go go!!!

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Whoooole lotta story material about The Burned Man / Malpais Legate / Joshua Graham

[Park Kraken]

Out of curiosity, and against my better judgement, went ahead and tried out Zynga's Frontierville on Facebook. A little like Farmville, but actually challenging. Still a major lag fest when trying to visit neighbor's farms that are crammed up with stuff. At higher levels I'm going to be nice and have a open plain that will be other-people's-internet friendly. If I play it that long, that is. :p

[Droo]

Unbelievably, I'm installing SWG... :uhoh

Pre-CU SWG!

[Park Kraken]

Need more neighbors!

I'm sending invites out to everyone on SWF that's on Facebook.

[Dasquian Belargic]

BioShock 2 :)

[Peter McCoy]

Unbelievably, I'm installing SWG... :uhoh

Pre-CU SWG!

Despite the bugs, I'm soooooo glad you told me about this. Master Swordsman - Master Ranger for the win!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Playing some Fable 3 tonight. Always did like the Fable series.

[Yog]

world of tanks world of tanks world of tanks world of tanks :partyhard

[Crusader]

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
WOW I know this is basicly just an expansion pack to AC2 but the new combat and guild system has basicly changed how I play AC. Now I am really looking forward to AC: Revelations since not only did they make the game mechanics better but it has proofen that the character Ezio di Auditore has a lot more to offer than just one episode. Like I said WOW. I did not think that I would enjoy this game that much.

[Tom Harriman]

How did I survive this long without Mass Effect being a part of my life?

:love

[Morgan Evanar]

<3
I beat Bayonetta. Game gets hard halfway in.

Now playing Dirt 2. I uh, found a copy for PC but it behaved strangely so I've been playing it on the 360.

[Peter McCoy]

Started a single-player game of Alpha Centauri as The Hive. I thought I was expanding rather quickly but am somehow backed up against the coastline. That will have to be remedied with a contingent of Synthemetal Sentinels armed with Impact Hammers! Vendetta upon you, CEO Nwabudike Morgan of Morgan Industries! You and your bloated followers shall not stand in the way of my social experiments!

Gotta say, I love the story and characters of Alpha Centauri. The ideologies of each faction leader make for an interesting read. I remember reading the online novella when the game was still in development.

Also re-subscribed to WoW. Made a Goblin Hunter and really enjoying it so far. This will be my very first horde character I've properly done. Got a Troll Mage to level 8 in the past, but I plan to see this bad boy through to Level 85. Currently Level 11, got my pet panther called Bob. I really like the changes so far - no need for ammo, managing my focus quite well, and starting at level 1 with a pet was awesome.

And I also have an urge to play KOTOR so that will very likely get installed tonight when I get home from work.

[Dasquian Belargic]

The story and characterisation were probably my favourite part of AC. I love all teh quotes from the faction leaders - particularly the Chairman of the Hive! Very creepy!

"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."

[Rossos Atrapes]

Pokemon World Online (http://www.pokemon-world-online.net/index.php)... is quite possibly the biggest potential time-drain I've found recently on the interwebs.

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[Tom Harriman]

Mass Effect: thou art conquered. :smokin

That's gotta be the first time in about five years I've actually sat down and played a game from start to finish inside a week. Usually I get distracted and what-not... but as Jenny knows, I just couldn't stop playing. :uhoh

Downloadable content next! And then on to Mass Effect 2... :ohno

[Crusader]

Well the DLC for Mass Effect one is pretty lame while the DLC for ME2 is actually a must have. Epecially the Lair of the Shadow Broker, Overlord and the Arrival.

[Dasquian Belargic]

What was the DLC for the first game? I can't even remember playing any.

It all pales in comparison to Shadow Broker anyway, which you are going to love Jace since you romanced Liara ;)

[Sanis Prent]

Speaking of, I need to start playing mass effect

[Peter McCoy]

My Human Hive is unsurpassed! I've wiped out the Morganites and claimed their bases as my own, and the bookworms at The University have but one single stronghold left - and the knowledge within shall soon be mine! But I have to say, I'm ashamed of my slow expansion, I'm usually much quicker off the mark with Yang's minions. I should have spread across the continent much earlier.

Once I've conquered the planet I may start again, perhaps on a random map rather than the "Map of Planet" which always looks the same with the same landmarks. Lack of fertile land near my starting region nerfed The Planetary Transit System (a secret project - wonder in Civilisation terms) which allows new bases to start at size 3 - the lack of nutrients straight away causes starvation so my population drops to two instantly.

There's got to be a way to take advantage of that project early in the game when nutrient production is low. I'll have to check the tech tree since no matter how good the land is, you're limited to how much you can extract at the start, but that project comes quite early. Grr!

Still not started KOTOR yet. I am off tomorrow though so it shall be a Day of Games. A good multi-hour sesh on New Vegas which will result in a few episodes uploaded over the course of the weekend (since I never did a mid-week one).

[Captain Untouchable]

What was the DLC for the first game? I can't even remember playing any.

It all pales in comparison to Shadow Broker anyway, which you are going to love Jace since you romanced Liara ;)

There are two DLCs. One is free (Bring Down the Sky), set on a "hijacked mobile asteroid", and introduces a new race of aliens (Batarians - don't know if they're in the later games). The other (Pinnacle Station) costs $5, but has a ton of stuff - you can unlock "Shepard's Apartment", and also a holographic training room where you can run around and shoot things: which is apparently quite useful for unlocking all of those "kill 150 targets with a shotgun" type achievements (if you didn't already know, that lets you add "Shotgun"/etc specialism to a class that wouldn't normally get it when you replay).

Basically, they just add a couple of planets with a couple of bonus assignments, a couple of new achievements, and a couple of hours of extra gameplay; and makes it possible to go from Level 1 to Level 60 in a single play-through, rather than having to replay the first few stages with a completed character.

I'm playing BDTS this evening - I'll let you know if it's worth the effort of replaying the game to the point where you can access them. :)


Speaking of, I need to start playing mass effect

I cannot stress how much you really do. I'm as blown away by Mass Effect as you seemed to be by Fallout: New Vegas. :D

[Dasquian Belargic]

Picked up my pre-order of Ocarina of Time 3D today :eee

[Droo]

Picked up my pre-order of Ocarina of Time 3D today :eee

Have you ever played OoT before?

[Dasquian Belargic]

Yes, I had it on the N64 :)

[Droo]

Then you know full well the gaming joy that is in store for you! :D

[Sanis Prent]

I've started playing borderlands a little

[Dasquian Belargic]

Then you know full well the gaming joy that is in store for you! :D

It's been great so far - the music is always makes me giddy - and the 3D is just the icing on the cake!

[Peter McCoy]

I've started playing borderlands a little

Who've you gone? I'm quite fond of the soldier. Gotta love that turret of his :)

[Sanis Prent]

The big guy who uses shotguns and explosives

[Peter McCoy]

Brick. Never played as him yet. I've only played Roland the Soldier and Mordecai the Hunter. Co-op with friends is a blast - literally! Opting to go down the medic tree as the Soldier allows me to shoot people in order to heal them. Sniper rifles for long-range healing, immense-damage low-accuracy shotguns for point-blank healing, and a rocket launcher for aera healing. Boo-yah!

[Crusader]

I finally beat Duke Nukem Forever

I must admit I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand some boss fights are insane in the difficulty department but this normally makes it just more rewarding for me in the end but on the other hand a lot of early levels are just ugly and don't get me started on texture quality...since you can basicly tell which textures where done first and which one last.
The levels later in the game are pretty good.

Duke makes one thing better than Bioshock and therefore has the most nonphysics based flooded level since No One lives Forever (The only game that does this better is Hydrophobia btw but they have physics engine for that!). The feeling of rising water levels really gives you the urge to act quicker.

Another thing I really liked are the minigames and ego items. I am a huge sucker for minigames that is why I spend hours in Rockstar Games. I love bowling in GTA and Liars Dice in Red Dead Redemption.

So my finally thoughts on this game are:
Would I recommend this game? Probably not. Why? Did I not have fun with this game? Well I did and I now have a Gamerscore of 900/1000G. Well the truth is Duke Nukem Forever is a relict of the past and I consider it as such. Nothing in this game is brilliant and new like it was back in 2001 when they released the infamous 10 years of Duke Trailer that featured a lot of stuff people had never seen before in a FPS.

Duke Nukem the Relict
So what is Duke Nukem Forever it is a relict that shows us how far gaming has come in 15 years. Duke Nukem Forever tried to do what other games did in 2 or 3 iterations in just one step just to be released at a time where all of its ambitious goals have been already achieved by other products.

The future of FPS
Cliffy B (Creative Director and Producer of "Gears of War" at Epic Games) said 2 years ago that the future of FPS games are RPGs and I must admit when I look at this forum I guess I have to agree. We could call our forum Mass-Effect- & Fallout-Fans lately. Randy Pitchford will have to show us that Duke Nukem will still have a place in this future.

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Been playing Alice: Madness Returns... Of course :3

It's not an amazing, mind-blowing game by any means... And the whole autosave/checkpoint thing can be annoying at times (might just be because I got it on the xbox rather than PC) but overall I'm having fun with it. :D and at the end if the day that's all that matters to me!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Lots more Ocarina of Time!

I've just finished saving Princess Ruto from inside Lord Jabu Jabu's belly. I think that is probably my least favourite level when playing as young Link.

[Peter McCoy]

My favourite two parts as Young Link are the whole Deku tree part and when you first get out into Hyrule Field. Just love it :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

I've got Epona now. I love riding around Hyrule Field. The music is just epic!

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[Droo]

The feelings that music stirs in my little fanboy heart... :love

[Dasquian Belargic]

All done with the Forest Temple in OoT :)

I am not looking forward to hearing this music again :lol

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Oh, and here's two of my favourite bits of OoT music:

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If I start humming the Song of Storms, it will get stuck in my head all day. I even learned to play it on my ukulele!

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[Droo]

If I start humming the Song of Storms, it will get stuck in my head all day. I even learned to play it on my ukulele!

I was whistling that in work the other day, and started driving people mad. And yes, it goes without saying that the Gerudo Valley theme is freakin' awesome!

[Dasquian Belargic]

It sounds like something that would be on the Kill Bill soundtrack.

[Captain Untouchable]

I started playing Mass Effect 2. :ohno

The intro bit is evil. Not only do you have the shock of the Normandy getting exploded... but all the bloody controls and interfaces changed. I may have had a teensy bit of a panic that I wouldn't get to the bridge fast enough to save Seth Green. ^_^;

[Dasquian Belargic]

Fire Temple, done and dusted.

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[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Started The Rise of the Argonauts. It's fun so far if not a little stilted at times. I especially like being able to dedicate my deeds to the gods.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Water Temple, byebye! Being able to equip and unequip the iron boots with just a tap to the touch screen made this level soooo much more tolerable (although still pretty fiendish at times!)

[Droo]

Grats on conquering the evil Water Temple!

Since KOTOR has been an absolute bitch (multiple crashes, characters freezing to the spot, saves disappearing) I've decided to start playing Fallout 3. I have to admit, I'm seriously excited about sinking my teeth into this one, and with six days off work coming up as of Thursday, well, I know what I'll be doing with my free time. :D

[Sanis Prent]

Excellent. Have fun nuking Megaton

[Crusader]

I completed Homefront by Kaos studios(Khendon Sevon worked on this game) yesterday. I must admit I had a great time while it lasted and this is where the real problem is: It did not last long enough.



Homefront is a first-person shooter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter) video game developed by now defunct Kaos Studios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaos_Studios) and published by THQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ), in which players play as members of a resistance movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_movement) fighting against a near-future Korean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea) military occupation of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States).


This game is actually Call of Duty for adults. The characters are not cardboard heros. Warcrimes happen but they are there to support the narrative and not for the thrill of teenagers.

It is about war and it's consequences for the civilians. All your actions lead to reactions. Already the Half-Life 1 like bus/railway intro shows you that this time duty does not call this time you really fight for freedom and survival.

The rest feels a lot like COD. The controls and the weapons have the same flair and the AI is just as smart/dumb as in COD. The game has got nice establishing shots but they are never as frequent and overused as in COD.

Your teammates do really help and they feel like real characters and not like Staff Sgt. John the fifth that was killed by generic sniper Nr2 like the other Johns before.

If this game is reduced on Steam pick it up. It is cool just not worth the full price.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Just managed to complete the side-quest to get Biggoron's Sword :D

[Droo]

Just managed to complete the side-quest to get Biggoron's Sword :D

I felt such a sense of achievement when I got that big bugger! :D

[Atreyu]

Not playing overly much, however for the last month I've been playing on Mastermoves.eu (http://www.mastermoves.eu) - specifically Powerboats (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38531/powerboats) (a board game). The free registration option is a bit limited (max of 3 tournaments) but I'm enjoying it a lot, playing against others on the ladder as well as a couple of personal threads. Fun way to burn 5 mins a couple of times through the day. :)

[Captain Untouchable]

I just completed Mass Effect 2. How long until 3 comes out? :ohno

[Dasquian Belargic]

The Bottom of the Well in Kakariko Village is a bitch. I forgot about the illusion floors that you fall through >_<

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Dammit Jones! If I end up buying a 3Ds and only playing OOT on it... *fistshake* soooo nostalgic :(

Where the he'll did my ocarina get to...? :| it looked like the cute little forest one

[Dasquian Belargic]

I'll bring mine with me next month so you can try before you buy :D

[Captain Untouchable]

Part of me wishes this had actually happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJUzmhiYsrU

(Spoilers for the end of Mass Effect 2!)

[Emelie Shadowstar]

I'll bring mine with me next month so you can try before you buy :D

Uhh apparently the boy took my silly joking serious the other day >_> *holds up teal colored 3Ds and OOT* yay? Lol

[Droo]

I'm obsessed with Fallout 3. It's remarkable how much time can slip by will in this game.

[Sanis Prent]

Hahaha yes! Another one hooked

[Droo]

It's terrible, really. I stopped playing at 22:30 with every intention of making good on a promise to post today, and in the last two hours all I've done is scribbled a few notes and procrastinated over browsing everything and anything Fallout related in a desperate bid to sate my wasteland hunger. It is all I can do to actually not resume playing.

[Vince]

I'm obsessed with Fallout 3. It's remarkable how much time can slip by will in this game.

Quoted for much truth.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Finished Rise of the Argonauts last night. It was fun, and although it didn't get good marks from critics I enjoyed it for all of the choices it allows you to make while talking with people. Choosing which gods to dedicated your deeds to was probably my favorite part about it.

Unfortunately the ending is a bit lackluster, and considering that there's so much exposition throughout the entire game, the ending is too short and feels like the writers gave in and tacked it on.

[Morgan Evanar]

Playing New Vegas now. I love how morally ambiguous it feels. You can do a thing with the right intentions but you may well be paving the road to hell.

Godspeed, space ghouls!

[Sanis Prent]

Gonna put some time in with my legion character now. He's heartbroken that Arcade won't return his affections, so he will sell him into slavery.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Been playing a spot of Elder Scrolls: Oblivon. I cannot play this game without becoming an assassin for the Dark Brotherhood.

[Peter McCoy]

I always play as an Orc - mainly because all the human-looking characters look awful, and I don't like the other non-human-looking races.

Been playing a lot of Call of Pripyat over the last week (hence still no New Vegas Episode 3) and I finally reached the city of Pripyat and decided to share this:

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Apologies to Droo, I was on Ventrilo at the time and picked him up at the end.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I agree with you there Peter. The models in Oblivion are all uuuugly. I don't think they hired a lot of voice actors either because so many of the male NPCs sound the same.

Was that lightning storm a random occurence? If so, that is cool as hell. Even if it was a plot-triggered element, its still pretty neat... but if the game is randomly generating storms, that's badass.

[Yog]

Just Cause 2. It dawned upon me how huge this game is when I tried flying an aircraft across the island..

[Peter McCoy]

Yup - it's completely random. I honestly don't know if there are scripted ones, but it definitely does random ones too. The mod pack I'm using has a mod called Atmosfear with it - completely enhances the weather effects to make if more immersive and - when it's bad weather - oppressive. The difference in weather with it are incredible. A normal sunny day can be very pleasant and I'd honestly go for a picnic if not for the mutants skulking in the undergrowth. An overcast day can be foreboding while the lightning and rain etc makes me downright terrified!

And here's me trying to find cover from a blowout. I was very picky about where I was going to seek sanctuary from the imminent nuclear blastwave - I could have stayed put but wanted to be amongst friends, lol!

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[Dasquian Belargic]

Just Cause 2. It dawned upon me how huge this game is when I tried flying an aircraft across the island..

I know right? It can take an absolute age to travel anywhere!

[Morgan Evanar]

There are a lot of model replacement packs for Oblivion, check SA. They have all the mods mapped out for you already.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Charley and I have been playing Deadliest Warrior 2 for the last few hours - what a depraved and awesome game :D

[Dasquian Belargic]

After clocking Puzzle Agent 1 & 2 yesterday, I'm gonna try some Sam & Maz today. It's a point and click adventure weekend, apparently.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (3DS) :eee the little Lego Jack Sparrow is adorable, and they use the actual soundtrack from the movies in this game. Fun!

[Peter McCoy]

I'm finally playing Portal 2 - picked it up on the last day of the Steam Summer Sale.

Absolutely loving it. I adore the alternate areas. By that I mean the maintenence areas etc that are not part of the test chambers. The aesthetics are fantastic. It was the same with the first game - all those places you weren't supposed to be in were brilliant.

[Dasquian Belargic]

About to load up some Rollercoaster Tycoon :D

[Park Kraken]

Been playing some 1503 AD at work. Fun, fun game, but time consuming. Very demanding people, but it's fun to reach such an advanced age of civilization that you can build the 44-gun Frigates and go around blasting other AI players and Pirates.

[Peter McCoy]

I love Rollercoaster Tycoon. The Go Karts are a goldmine! When they lose popularity, just close the ride, delete a section of track, replace it, re-open. Bam! Cash Cow!

The rollercoasters I make never get used as the guests say they look too intense.

[Peter McCoy]

I should be done with Portal 2 relatively soon trhis evening. I'll either farm some equipment on Borderlands or install The Sims (original) with ALL it's expansion packs :cool