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The "What are you playing?" topic.
I don't think we've ever had one of these. May as well give it a try. The idea is simple: say what you're playing, what it's on, and what you think. Progress is optional.
Currently playing:
PS2: Shadow Hearts. About half way after 10 hours. Quite a good RPG, this. A bit different to the usual JRPG; it's got a dark atmosphere, a good(!) random encounter rate, and an interesting battle system which requires concentration and more participation from the player than blindly hitting attack over and over.
Wii: Red Steel. Still dawdling through the opening. Fun. Over the top action movie silliness with great controls.
PSP: Lord of the Rings: Tactics. I've got about 2 hours of play recorded; I'm only playing on my lunch hour when I don't want to read a book. It's nice enough, the missions are bitsized so I can typcially play two per lunch break.
And I am going to finish one of them before I so much as try another game! Even if I get new ones. Even though I don't get much playtime, so it takes ages to finish anything. No more flitting from game to game: I'm going to finish what I start, either playing till the end or until I have had enough and am no longer enjoying myself.
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Yay, first after-first-post post!
Civilization IV: Warlords. I'm on a roll with Saladin, playing the easiest difficulty (just learning the ropes, hey!). Despite it being the easiest difficulty, it's not easy for me at all. (Then again, I suck at every game I play.)
I'm playing quite expansionist, keep pushing on settlers after settlers in the hopes of widening my Empire as far as possible -- it's a Pangaea map, so gaining as much land as I could is a priority of mine, despite the drawbacks in maintenance/research. But have been avoiding war so far except for the underhanded Aztecs (damn that Montezuma) attack when I overextended my military. Took me the whole Middle Ages to stop and get back at them.
Right now I'm in Industrial. A very, very fun game. And the Great Walls are beyond awesome.
I've also been getting back on EU2. Awaiting the new AGCEEP with extreme anxiety. Come on, guys! Where's the new map you promised?
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Red Orchestra Ostfront.
MTW VI SamWars.
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All on PC:
MTW:VI, Viking Era Irish campaign, in the mop up stage, should be done in 10 turns or so. Also have a Early Era Danish campaign from a while back, may get around to that after my Irish campaign is done.
I also have Dawn of War I may go back to for some fun, short games, while M2TW and Warhammer MoC are sitting in their boxes, awaiting a newer, faster PC (and patches ~:rolleyes: ).
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I made the mistake of re-installing GTA:San Andreas.
Now, if you want to excuse me, I just unlocked San Fierro and I have 50 snapshots to take :creep:
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The odd few turns of Alpha Centauri, when I've got the time. When I get back home in the weekend I may go for a few years as Epirus in EB.
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Just finished a Dawn of War MP game. I lost (which is bad ). To a good friend (which is even worse :wall:). I think im going hear the story of his "Victoraaaaay!!!" every time we meet for approx. 3 months....
Currently on my HD: DoW, Mount&Blade (with The Last Days mod), EB.
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Solo play - Civilization Warlords - got drawn back into Civ4s "just one more turn" addiction thanks to the Arena. Got quite far playing Elizabeth on Prince, but then I lost a town to a back stab due to a lack of a military. I also messed up by building the National Epic in a different town from my Great Library and other Wonders. So now I want to start afresh and do things right this time.
I still have a very promising NWN2 campaign on hold - just arrived at Neverwinter - but that's an experience I am holding on for a while so I can savour it. I don't really have enough leisure to do it justice
Multi-player (co-operative with son) - Dawn of War Dark Crusade. 2v2 skirmishes with the AI are fun; the AI works like a real team so it is hard to beat. By contrast, it's a yawn playing solo.
PBM - M2TW HRE campaign in the Throne Room. I should be playing M2TW solo as well, as its a much more satisfying experience than Civ4. But not nearly as addictive. I confess I'm also waiting for the patch, as learning about the 2H and shield bugs has dampened some of my enthusiasm for the battles (knowing they could be better).
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Ummm... Rome Total War, because I refuse to play M2TW until someone mods it to fix many of the gameplay problems I have.
Doom 3 off and on...
That's really it.
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Blast from the past style: Armed and Dangerous
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PC: M2TW, Cossacks 2: European wars, Far Cry. Plus I just beat FEAR.
Xbox 360: Just beat Splinter Cell:DA, Superman Returns, Oblivion DL content (Theives den and Wizard tower), trying to finish Quake 4. I'm going to pick Star Trek:Legacy again soon.
PS2: Every once in a while I'll pick up SoC and kill a Collosi.
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During the workweek: Birth of the Federation, Romulan campaign, Normal difficulty, Domination mode. Have conquered the back-stabbing Cardassians and the "couldn't take a hint to leave me alone" Klingons. Am in a cold war with the self-righteous Federation, and the Ferengi keep demanding tribute even though I overpower them on a scale of at least 4:1. ~:rolleyes:
On the weekend(s): MTW/VI - Pocket Mod, Fatamid campaign, Normal difficulty, GA mode. No progress yet beyond the first few years of building/training -- Caravel kept releasing updated versions of the mod, and I was compelled by my neurosis to keep downloading/installing them (thus nullifying the progress I'd made previously). :blush: This is going to be the latest update for a while, though, so I finally feel free now to play how I will. :2thumbsup:
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Mostly Fire Emblem: the sacred stones (GBA), my second playthrough, started right after I finished it the first time.
I still have to finish the final chapter of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, but I'm taking a break from that now.
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During the workweek: Birth of the Federation, Romulan campaign, Normal difficulty, Domination mode. Have conquered the back-stabbing Cardassians and the "couldn't take a hint to leave me alone" Klingons. Am in a cold war with the self-righteous Federation, and the Ferengi keep demanding tribute even though I overpower them on a scale of at least 4:1. ~:rolleyes:
Maybe I should mix in a little BotF with my MTW. It's been a while since I've played. I wonder if it will run on my girlfriend's laptop. :inquisitive: Never tried it on a widescreen, do you know if this works?
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WoW -- unfortunately way too much time on this, but my S.O. is infatuated with it, so that's our social gaming time together.
M2TW -- most of the non-WoW, solo gaming hours spent here.
GalCiv2 -- pretty much through with this, but I still go back for a short campaign or two when I want a break from M2TW.
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Maybe I should mix in a little BotF with my MTW. It's been a while since I've played. I wonder if it will run on my girlfriend's laptop. :inquisitive: Never tried it on a widescreen, do you know if this works?
I have no idea, unfortunately - I've just got a plain old 17" CRT monitor. I've *heard* it works okay on flatscreens and laptops, but that the image might not go all the way out to the edges (since the resolution is fixed at 800x600).
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Playing on PC:
Call of Cthulhu
M2: TW (just got it the other day)
EU III demo
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Well, have only a PC so:
Medieval 2, quite a great game IMO, even with it's flaws.
Anno 1701, very fun game, takes a lot of time though, you basically populate some islands in the new world and produce goods to advance your population from pioneers through settlers and citizens to merchants and finally aristocrats who pay a lot more taxes. To get all the stuff you need for your population to advance, you will need to open settlements on other islands and build ships to bring the products to your main island. Most of the game is peaceful but wars are also possible with three types of ships able to fight(two merchant versions without cannons) and some land based soldiers. The combat is pretty basic but the focus is on building up and trading with AI players, foreign cultures etc. Well, got carried away in explaining, on to the next
Gothic 3, most of my playing time is spent with the other two at the moment but from time to time, i still play some Gothic 3, a few more patches really couldn't hurt the game, but it can be fun nonetheless.
Supreme Commander Beta, playing this now and then if I have some time and there is a joinable game since open games are not that many, the players always want to start quickly it seems and often joining doesn't work or you get kicked because it has already started.
Lately I also started Silent Storm Sentinels again and may play a few other older games or new demos from time to time(like Mount&Blade).
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I'm kinda split between medieval 2 total war kicking turkish ass as milan or playing starcraft brood war on battle net, siege tank + goliath = pwnage
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Well, I 'play' in 3 'categories' pending time and mood ~;)
a) just got Anno 1701 and am delighted and having fun - one just has to have plenty of continuous time to make it worth while...
EU III demo (yesterday) - no comment yet - full version due end of the month
RTW TE5.1, finished 2 campaigns( Rome and Britons) and thinking about starting a 3rd (was waiting for gold, but that won't happen now...:no: )
b) I've 'shelved' Caesar IV ; M2TW for the time being awaiting patches, games with lots of potential but currently falling short...
So its Pharaoh, Baldurs Gate 2, and Victoria
c) for 'fillers' or 'quicky's' I do Minesweeper, Kyodai Mahjongg, and Flight Simulator X
PS, forgot 4th category : bought but not installed/played yet - Oblivion; Age of Empires 3; Freelancer; Emperor rotmK; Quicken Willmaker plus...:ahh: :oops: :laugh4:
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Pc: Age of Empires II (again...), Rome, and Star Wars: something or another (I cant find it)
PS2: Mercenaries: playground of destruction (again), Final Fantasy X (again), Final Fantasy VII (again), and Scarface: The world is yours. All you do in that game is sell cocaine...and kill people...and do missions where you kill people to protect people, deliver goods, smuggle, all with our favorite foul-mouther Cuban.
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Hmm.. What I play?
Mostly PC:
TES IV - Oblivion: It's addicting, but it won't last long without the amazing mods out for it. The only thing I hate the most is that the incredibly lousy animations :inquisitive:
M2TW: My favorite Strategy/Turn-based game. I hated the numerous flaws it had, but because of the mods fixing these problems it's been great.
Source games (DOD:S, CS:S etc) - Great online games, despite of all the 9 year olds cursing and saying "suxsors, noobs, and hacks etc."
Dark Messiah: Play it from time to time. Mainly because of the unbelievable combat system. But the games really short. Hoped it was like Oblivion.
Warcraft 3: Play online Battle.net (Kodo Tag!):yes:
I REALLY want to play World of Warcraft, I haven't bought it yet. Hear that Buring Crusades expansion came out for it. I fear that it will suck my life away, but I still want to play it...:skull:
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Playing Rome, with EB .8 installed, amazing. Oblivion from time to time. Used to play M2TW hard, but have given that up until the patch comes.
Currently waiting for Vanguard Saga of Hero's to be released though. Looks like a very nice game, from what I've read.
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I've finally, finally got my hands on the Julian May's "Pliocene Exile" / "Galactic Milieu" SF saga so I'm spending a fair share of my free time making my way through this, not much time left for games I'm afraid.
Like some posters above, for my strategic fix I also play the excellent Birth of the Federation but in my case with the (heavenly) Ultimate Dominion Wars 2 mod installed.
In my current game I'm leading the mighty Dominion forces... and as I've been lucky enough to have the game randomly generate my empire on the edge of the map, so far I'm bordering only the ever tedious Federation. :wall:
Our diplo relations have more or less crumbled to dust during the last 10 turns because of a contested minor race solar system into which we've both been stuffing credits, hoping to make them join *our* side. I've managed to get them into a military alliance with my empire, but right after that the Feds had built up a starship range-enhancing Starbase in the system closest to the neutral zone dividing our empires (meaning that they can now invade me) and have 3 light cruisers chillin' out there.
I didn't like that at all, so I've (strictly as a show of force!) brought my 18 attack fighters, 18 battlecruisers and a dominion battleship to hang out on our side of the trenches... :juggle2:
I'm currently waiting for their next move while stuffing some more creds down the contested minor race throat. And when the little people finally DO join me, the Dominion armada is going to power up their warp engines and cross the neutral zone right into Federation space... to teach them a lesson in obedience. :whip:
"Victory is life!!!"
The other strategy game I'm playing is the fantastic Jagged Alliance 2 with the community made 1.13 mod installed. It brings into play hundreds of new weapons and many, many game enhancing tweaks, some quite extensive.
The most fun & enjoyment I get out of the game is when I have to defend the towns that I've liberated because my mercenaries get to fight together with 20 to 30 A.I. controlled militia forces against equal number of enemies. This means some huge, yummy turn based firefights with a lot of people, weapons, options and lots of tactics involved. And that's all I ever wanted from a squad level turn based strategy! :2thumbsup:
I'm considering getting my hands on either MTW: VI in order to try out that Samurai mod for it (got sick of vanilla MTW a long time ago and most mods are made for MTW:VI which I don't own)... or Starshatter space sim / tactical capital starship combat game because it looks way too cool to ignore - a kind of Total Air War or dumbed down Falcon 4.0 of space sims!
Or maybe both of them?
Being a Star Trek nut that I am, for my action fix I'm dividing my time between Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates with the Universe at War (TNG) mod and Starfleet Command 3 with the Generations at War mod installed.
Both games are in many ways similar but each one tends to have something the other doesn't - and those mods really make both of them shine... specially GaW because vanilla SFC3 is simply put, crap.
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Currently playing Lost Planet, not that great imho, but as filler it will just have to do. Also playing Wario:Smooth Moves and Zelda:The Twilight Princes.
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Eh, I'm playing CyberNations, OGame, NationStates, AstroEmpires and Earth 2025. All are browser-based games.
I'm also playing Master of Orion 3 for the PC.
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Splinter Cell: Double Agent on the PS2.
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c) for 'fillers' or 'quicky's' I do ...Kyodai Mahjongg...
Thats one been on my HD for years now, great game to play when you got some time to kill! :2thumbsup:
For the rest I am playing too much games at the same time (as usual... :dizzy2: ):
CSI 3 dimensions of murder: short and fun, got it for free, propably finish it today...
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers: got it two days ago, still have to get into it
F.E.A.R.: Awesome game, I only dare to play in daylight... :laugh4:
Civilization IV: Only when I got plenty of time ahead... so damn addicting...
X3 Reunion: Flying around once in a while, very relaxing game...
Medieval II: Working on giving the Scots world domination
GTR and GTL: For the occasional racing kick
Other games I still have on my HD that I still have to finish are SWAT 4, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, LOTR Battle for Middle Earth II.
I need more time... :laugh4:
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Browser Games:
Ogame
Cybernations
For King and Country
lastknights
3 different Mafia Games
PC Games
M2TW
RTW Vanilla
RTW RTR 6.0 gold
LOTR BFME2 Rise of the Witch King
Star Wars Battlefront 2
DND Online Stormreach
Motorcross Madness 2
Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
Neverwinter Nights Plat Edition
Baldurs Gate
Baldurs Gate 2
Icewind Dale (all three with all xp packs)
Homeworld 2
Master of Orion 3
DND Dragonshard
Total Annihilation
Delta Force: Xtreme
Gamecube:
Battalion Wars
Mario Party 4 (with my sister)
NHL Ice Hockey 2001
Dark Summit
Smash Brothers Melee!
Some Wrestling game
Soul Caliber 2
XBOX 360
Dead or Alive 4
Topspin 2
Fifa 07
Project Gotham Racing 2 or 3 whatever it is.
Thats all i can think of right now.
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Well, these are the ones currently installed on my laptop, which is all I play...
Hitman: Blood Money: Great episode in the Hitman series, recommend it to all of you. Best graphics and physics so far too...
Medieval II: Total war: What can I say you already don't know yourselves? Keeping this mostly for PBMs and an occasional attempt at Otumba
Victoria: An Empire under the Sun: The strategy game to rule them all, IMO, playing this less and less as deadlines come closer and free time gets sparser.
Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday: Great fun. Faster and intenser than Victoria. Also gets boring quicker, once you have established yourself firmly...
Europa Universalis III (demo): Well, there is a whole thread for this one, but it looks promising, and I enjoy toying with the text files to produce funny combinations. The Papal states getting the Calvinist reform is my favourite so far. Looking forward to the full game.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne: Can't beat it for atmosphere and film noir dialogue. After beating this 6 times on different machines, need to beat it again to see the good ending... Also recommend trying out the Cinema 2.0 mod. It adds some funkier visuals, although the film noire gets intermixed with Miami Vice somewhat...
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Victoria: Empire under the sun. Nearing the end of my first campaign, as UK to build the British Empire...
Once that's rounded off, i'll switch back to Morrowind and HoI2:Doomsday + MDS2 mod, and rebuild the British Empire...
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I REALLY want to play World of Warcraft, I haven't bought it yet. Hear that Buring Crusades expansion came out for it. I fear that it will suck my life away, but I still want to play it...:skull:
Oh, it will suck your life away, but you might as well join The Collective. You will be assimilated.
P.S. you don't need the Burning Crusades expansion right away, unless you're going to race to level 60+, or you want to play one of the 2 new races (both of which are dorky, IMO). It's a lot of fun if you take your time through the early levels, and in many ways I think that's the best part of the game.
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Currently playing: F.E.A.R.
O, what horror, what horror! Playing this game surely's a good way to stop your heart from beating once in a while. As soon as I hear that paranormal-like sound effect and seeing the flickering of that HUD, my brain freezes!
It's a good game, and despite I've heard people complaining about the repetitive surroundings, it actually's very effective, for seeing certain similar-looking areas might make you think twice before advancing.
The expectation one hath, 'tis too much. The tribal music when you are to engage in battle with foes sounds great, but howsabout the suspenseful music (or sound effects) that make you expect the most horrific occurrences in some climax? Not good for the heart, arrrgh! Especially when nothing happens at all.
The weapons are great.
The visuals are great (even on lower-medium settings). I'm playing it on my low-end PC with DX8 and have most settings to lo-med, with LCD resolution of 1280x1024, and it runs great. Only the autosave slows down the thing, but that's usually over very quickly.
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I've always got a game of Imperialism II on the back burner and I just wrapped up two of my best campaigns ever. The first one I completed in 1764, the second in 1754. And that was on a difficulty level of 380, playing the weakest available faction and, of course, with my personal iron man rules ~:)
Also playing the occasional scenario of Shadow Magic, on my way to finishing the game. The last one was terrific fun, I captured eight cities in the first 20 turns or so and wrapped the whole thing up really neatly, capturing every city on the map and killing the enemy wizard on the last move of the last turn. You don't often get to do that in the AOW series because the scenarios end as soon as you fulfill the often obscure victory conditions, which is pretty annoying when there is still plenty of challenge left in the level!
The latest enthusiasm though is for the Europa Universalis Demo, which currently has me anticipating a new game more than I have in a long time.
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Resident Evil 4. Because it's like giving crack to an addict. It's the PS2 version, obviously, because the GameCube version sucks.
I want to play the European version though. :(
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Browser Games:
Ogame
Cybernations
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You play CN? Which alliance are you a part of?
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Well, on the MacBook Pro Windows partition I have a stalled M2:TW game as the Moors - still learning, and there's something about it that doesn't grab me like MTW. Ultima Online gets booted up regularly (now in my ninth year of this MMORPG).
On the OSX partition I have a game of Baldur's Gate 2 just finishing (about the tenth time I've gone through this) Civ IV which as others have noted, is too addictive and tends to get me into trouble, and I'm trying out WoW a little - pretty landscapes, but I've never been a fan of levelling games. I have an installation of Victoria too, but it is all too overwhelming to get into.
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I am currently having fun playing the Settlers IV Gold. Do any of you guys here play this good old/new 2001 classic?
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I play Settlers II, I find it much better than any successor...
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Europa Universalis III demo, Call of Duty 2, BF2, and on N64...Ocarina of Time!*
* The music of Kakariko village is still the best to have a chill out drinking session ever. Although I may be strange.
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Ocarina of Time! I loved this game!
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PC:
-America's Army (I'm new to the game, if anyone has tips, that'd be great)
-MOH:AA (online only, really)
-Mafia (fooling around in Free Ride for the most part)
-HOI:II Doomsday (of course)
-M:TW VI (XL Mod)
-BI (Corsair Invasion Mod)
Gamecube:
-Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (I just got back to it)
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Lots and lots of Flightsim 2004. With all the add-ons I've installed it's up to 13 gigs.
IL2-Pacific Fighters series but I don't have the new all-in-one IL2-46 DVD edition yet.
Still On the slow slog through Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory. maybe I'll finish it this year.
Not sure I even have enough room on my HD to reinstall M:TW2. I'll have to clean out some junk.
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I am currently having fun playing the Settlers IV Gold. Do any of you guys here play this good old/new 2001 classic?
I had a blast with the original Settlers, which was on the Amiga, but I wasn't nearly so impressed with its sequels on the PC.
Settlers IV is the latest isn't it? The 3D version? Yes, I'd like to try that game out, but I'm not going to buy it until it becomes a budget game. AU$29 is about my limit for any game these days, with very occasional exceptions. One of those exceptions will be EU3, which is due out here next month.
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Looking at getting back into Eve-online... just so relaxing a game to play.
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Resident Evil 4. Because it's like giving crack to an addict. It's the PS2 version, obviously, because the GameCube version sucks.
I want to play the European version though. :(
That's a first :inquisitive:
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Right now I'm playing;
M2TW
Civ 4 Warlords
Act of War
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1) MTW
2) STW
3) RTW
I notice that alot of people that were playing M2TW seem to have gone back to playing other games.
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I'm playing Aevum Obscurum daily (10 mins or so)
Have the Anno 1701 Demo installed (can't be bothered to buy the game itself, demo is good enough for now)
And I'm playing Fire Emblem (6 and 7)
that's it really ... apart from a MTW2 MP game now and then
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Settlers IV is the latest isn't it? The 3D version? Yes, I'd like to try that game out, but I'm not going to buy it until it becomes a budget game. AU$29 is about my limit for any game these days, with very occasional exceptions. One of those exceptions will be EU3, which is due out here next month.
Hi,
Settler III introduced the first ever 3D engine and Settlers IV drastically improved on it. The latest version, which cannot really be called a settlers game is Settlers V (Heritage of Kings). It is really a fusion of the Settlers IV with AoE with much more AoE in it than Settlers. It completely revamped almost everything focusing more on combat and losing the good old classical carrier system, now it is recourse gets exploited and gets "magically" teleported to some invisible treasury. It also included (shock, horror) cavalry for the first time ever in the series! It is, however, still an exceptional game, capable of beating most other RTS games both with the story and the graphics. It does, however, lack the extreme complex depth that the Settlers 4 and below had. If you desire to buy it then The Settlers IV Gold is pretty cheap at the moment, I got it for £7.50 off Amazon.co.uk so if you want to try it I would strongly recommend it.
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Currently, I'm playing Frets on Fire. I would be playing OFP, EB, ArmA, possibly EUII, probably BG2 if I had the time.
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Yeah, I thought Settlers V sounded interesting but I wasn't sure how it had been received. Sounds like it might be worth a look.
Thanks for the recommendation on Settlers IV, I've got all the other games in the series so I guess I might as well check that one out as well ~:)
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PS2
NBA Live 2005 - Just messing about with a super-team.
Call of Duty - Borrowed it off a friend. He needs it back by Wednesday so I should get through the American missions as soon as possible, but I don't think they're as fun as the other two campaigns.
PC
I'll be playing RTW again soon when this Gaul PBM starts. Better reinstall it.
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Sim City 4 lately.
I just can't help my micromanaging fetish, and because I can't micromanage effectively around the house, I have to settle with building a Megalopolis.
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Thanks for the recommendation on Settlers IV, I've got all the other games in the series so I guess I might as well check that one out as well ~:)
Good luck. Enjoy destroying Morbus and watch out for Shamans!
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M2:TW English campaign also Vicky.
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PC
RTW (1.5 and RTR Platinum, Carthage on RTR, about 20 turns in)
BI (1.6)
Call of Duty2
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (best online game I've ever played, great community of star wars nerds, if thats your thing I highly recommend)
Hearts of Iron 2, recently bought it cheap, still getting used to it and getting into it
MOHAA, mostly MP, but SP is suprisingly fun
PS2
NFL Madden 2007, if you don't like in the USA you won't understand how amazing this game is
LOTR: The Return of the King, for goofing off with friends, nothing is as satisfying as stabbing an orc as Frodo or Samwise
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MOHAA, mostly MP, but SP is suprisingly fun
Which servers do you play?
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Wierd, noone other than me is playing starcraft, but battle.net is still always full i guess its those koreans
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Originally Posted by Caravel
1) MTW
2) STW
3) RTW
I notice that alot of people that were playing M2TW seem to have gone back to playing other games.
Wow you're a real Total War fanatic aren't you?
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The only game I have active on my computer is Battlefield 2.
I wish I had more time playing it... but alas, RL is demanding quite a lot of my spare time these days.
Hence it can take 1 or 2 weeks between each session.
The consequences is getting a little rusty BF2 skills. It usually takes 1 or 2 rounds getting creamed before I finally make some decent stats.
The upside is, the game never gets boring. The best buy I ever made.
I had a fun session this weekend on a local server (ping of 34) with relatively few players on the Wake Island 2007 map. All players averaged around 100 points and I received a couple of badges and ribbons in that one round.
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Most of my time's gone into Guildwars lately (minesweeper when the net is down ~:)).
In the event that other people are around, there's Phase 10, Uno, Catchphrase, Cranium, Risk, frisbee . . .
Ajax
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MTW:VI (slightly tweaked my own personal homebrew) Nov in Early. Mucho fun turning digitized enemies into digitized enemies full of arrows.
Mechwarrior 4 You get to pilot around in a walking tank carrying more implements of destruction than you can shake a stick at turning other walking tanks into molten slag.
StrongholdA castle builder. Gotta love it. You get to build Castles. This is potentially the only drawback of MTW. I can't design what my Castles look like, and the Castles in MTW are so ugly.
I haven't played Settlers in so long I forgot which version I own. But I liked it alot.
I spend equal time tinkering with MTW tweaking and whatnot but I don't think thats considered playing the game.
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I am currently playing:
Combat Missions: Afrika Korps: Very fun and quite intense at most times to very exciting and exhilarating at others.
and Barbarossa to Berlin: I've never taken such a beating from any AI like this game has administered to me before!!! DAMN Kv2's:wall:
Call of Duty 2: Playing on a realism mod is extremely more statisfying, especially when that guy you just shot in the chest will actually die instead of wasting half of your clip. If you have played the game, you will know what I mean.
FIFA '06 for the PS2: I dislike the game mechanics as they seem unrealistic and "phony" at times. The manager mode is my favorite/best part of the game. I have already gotten fired from coaching the Houston Dynamo to a horrid season(I won like 3 game out of 15, and it wasn't even mid-way through the season yet lol) to coaching Wycombe FC from League 2 in England to mid-table of League 1!! Sooo fun that manager feature is. I also fixed a tourny my team was in:laugh4: We took first place:laugh4:
M2TW: Im usually broke almost all of the time:inquisitive:. It kinda resembles my wallet, weird huh?!
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Have been playing Sniper Elite (http://www.sniperelitethegame.com/). A game that requires you to have much patience. The enemy AI is brutally efficient even if set to Easy AI.
But the realism portrayed is pretty cool. It's really satisfying to line up carefully and squeeze off a shot to an enemy's head from a large distance with a sniper rifle, as you then witness the bullet's traveling with the bullet cam, plunging itself into the target, as a piece of flesh (and bone?) is ripped out of him.
Take into account the considerations one must take for a single-shot kill: gravity, distance, wind, background noise, elevation, etc. Not to mention to carefully protect the flanks/rear of your shooting position with tripwire grenades for instance, as you work alone.
Relocation is very important too: a few shots from one place and you need to move your ass fast to another spot. As said, the enemy AI is sometimes ruthlessly efficient and may just flank you sneakily when you think you're safe, deploying their own snipers to pick you off.
The tension that builds up when you get closer to your goal (for instance picking off an important officer, or destroying a convoy, or to give cover fire to an ally).
Sniper Elite is one of those games that seems so under appreciated. While it has some annoying slowish elements and some anti-climaxes, it's certainly a good game and the only one of its kind :)
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Finished Shadow Hearts :balloon: 22 hours, over two months. Nice game, but by the final hours I was sick to death of the judgement ring. It was a nice idea at the start, and through much of the game, but by the end I wanted to be able to painlessly spam my characters' attacks a la nearly every other console RPG out there, rather than having to focus carefully on what was happening and time my button presses to the sweaps of the ring. It was a new kind of monotonous, and one whiuch couldn't be mitigated by my favourite tactic of reading a book while spamming attacks, and only checking the screen now and then to see if I need to heal yet. It's going to be a long time before I start the sequel; I don't want to see another judgement ring for a very long time.
Next up is Shadow of the Colossus. I need a short little game to play between now and Okami's UK launch, so starting 60 hours of Baten Kaitos or something wouldn't be sane. The game's had much adoration on this forum (waves to Fragony :gring:), and when I found a mint condition copy of the special collector's edition staring me in the face for less than the price most places are charging for the standard edition it seemed like a hint. Not sure what I'll make of it. On the one hand I like games which try to be different, on the other I'm a frog who has never liked boss battles.
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What are you playing?
That's a tough question to answer for me. :yes:
For the past few days, I haven't been playing anything. But ever since I got my Wii, what games I do play have been almost exclusively of the console variety. I also finally picked up a PS2 and a couple games. But, from there, I've been spreading my time around pretty evenly. Wii Sports is still a favorite and of course, I'm still advancing however slowly thru the excellent Tomorrow's Princess, then there's Excite Truck and Red Steel. On the PS2 side, I'm playing alot of Dynasty Warriors V. I'd say those games by far make up the bulk of my playing, but it's by no means exclusive.
Right now, I feel the urge to beat the crap out some anonymous Mii- so I think it's off to Wii boxing. :smash:
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On the PC, every three weeks for the next few months, short spurts of my Epirus EB 0.8 campaign. On my little laptop in Leiden, just finished Secret of Monkey Island and have just started LeChuck's Revenge. Been ages since I played them, and they're still just as great as always; even better really, since I probably didn't get half the jokes ten years ago.
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Shadow of the Colossus = pure luv
No leveling up. No new weapons. No random encounters. No enemies except the bosses...
You would think it would be an extremely boring game, but it's just the opposite! But it has replay value too because of unlockables.
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Company of Heroes.
Very enjoyable game, and arguably a well-produced one too. Intense, and fast, maybe too fast. Ever since I started playing TW at some point I got off the fast clicking and hectic chaotic RTS style of C&C (though I'll probably still get the new one when it comes out).
This game has too much micromanaging: when I have two squads and the enemy one and I use one to pin them down I then send the other at their flank I expect them to use their grenades automatically (regardless of maneuvering); it's too fast and rushed (while you're building you must command battles too); etc. Basically it should be less fast overall, and those special abilities must be used automatically if it fits the situations. And units should respond more properly to their surroundings: an MG crew I deployed to cover a zone should redeploy automatically if enemies are outside their current zone.
Been looking for some mods, but haven't really found any that take care of speed and realism exactly how I'd like it. It's stupid how units fighting up-close don't die fast or how they don't engage in melee, though on the other hand it gives you time to respond with the game's chaotic nature.
They should really make more strategy/tactical games with this engine. I wouldn't even care if they'd kept reusing it, as long as they make good games therewith.
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M2 English camp. on H/H
Oblivion ocasionally
at friend's house play:
FEAR trying too hard to scare me ha!
Gears of War, the counter-Halo
Fight Night Round 3
some Hitman Blood Money
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Doom II. There was once a time where I didn't go a day without playing this game, and I don't know why I ever stopped this habit.
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I'm currently playing;
Icewind Dale II
Mark of Chaos
Call of Cthulhu
Call of Duty 3
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Originally Posted by Sensei Warrior
Mechwarrior 4 You get to pilot around in a walking tank carrying more implements of destruction than you can shake a stick at turning other walking tanks into molten slag.
That was the last Battletech game for me, ever. The poor excuse for a plot, combined with the iffy FMVs and annoying gameplay really did it. In terms of physics, controls and game balance it was better than MW3 which was a poor effort. Neither is a patch on MW2 though of course, especially the 3dfx Interactive Edition that i got with my first Voodoo 1 4MB card. There is something about that game that is far better than the later releases: Ambience...
:beam:
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Alright...
I just installed a new game on my laptop.
Europa Univeralis III
My first experience with this series.
Simple but OK graphic, lots of intrigue and diplomacy.
I like the feature of getting your enemy to annex land to you as a price of peace compared to the TW variant (what you take is what you get).
Vassalage is also a great feature I didn’t find useful until I was attacked by several nations at once (being France I found myself waging war on 3 front lines) and my vassals/Allies took completely care of 1 of my front lines.
Also noticed that this is not a fast pace game and you are in danger of spending too much time in front of your screen.
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Bought Battle For Middle Earth 2, personally I think it's terrible. Incredibly tedious, buggy and overall boring. Will be returning it from whence it came.
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Great pun rythmic...
I forgot to mention that I also play Battlefield 2.
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I'm currently enjoying The Movies for the PC. It's a quirky, fun version of Sims 2.
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Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
I'm currently enjoying The Movies for the PC. It's a quirky, fun version of Sims 2.
Ah yes, I quite liked it, too bad about the shortage of wannabe actors, seems so unrealisitc
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Hey I just found out that my dad ordered (for my use) Flight Simulator X...
Does anyone have it? Verdict?