The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Husar]

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).

[TevashSzat]

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

[C-F]

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... )

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...

[Motep]

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.

[Joolz]

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

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!)


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...

[BigTex]

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.

[Nikpalj]

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.

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...

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.

"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!

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.

[Fragony]

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.

[Zenicetus]

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...

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.

[Bijo]

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.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I'm now stuck at some part. The room looks like some kind of attic, very dark, lots of wood around inside. There's a door but it's blocked off on the inside. It's some time after which Fettel tells you "she's around, her presence is strong here," which freaked me out, 'cause I'd expect to see "her" again.

[FesterShinetop]

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!

For the rest I am playing too much games at the same time (as usual... ):

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...
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...

[pevergreen]

Right

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.

[SwordsMaster]

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...

[Duke Malcolm]

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...

[screwtype]

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.

[Kekvit Irae]

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. :(

[Beirut]

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.

[King Jan III Sobieski]

PS, PS2 - Dragon Quest 8, Dragon Warrior 7

GB - Dragon Warrior Monsters

PC - MTW, VI, Pike & Musket mod, Fable ,...and I occasionally go back to play some old favorites, i.e., Quest for Glory and King's Quest (including the remakes).

[Husar]

World in Conflict beta
Medieval 2

[DukeofSerbia]

Various Moorhuhn games (Piraten mostly).
World in Conflict
Hard Truck Apocalypse (hope soon)
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Everything is for PC.

[Tiberius of the Drake]

EUIII-1503 Venice winning war against bosnians

UPDATE:1623-winning war against Poland as Prussia.

[Caeser The III]

wii:the godfather:blackhand edition(so fun! im the don on two profiles quite easy though. still fun)

myths for GTA SA: the ghost:quite scary itll appear at night time!(at cjs mom's house, her ghost)
mysterious death: go into a corner of cj's mom's house and cj will fall and die!

[Spartan198]

More games than I can name,but off the top of my head:

PS3
WWE SVR '08
Motostorm
Heavenly Sword
Assassin's Creed
Conan
Rainbow Six: Vegas

PS2
All GTAs
God of War 1 & 2
Colosseum: Road to Freedom
Spartan: Total Warrior
Resident Evil 4
"" Code Veronica
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance

XB360
DOAX2
Rumble Roses XX
SplinterCell: DA
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2

XBox
Predator: Concrete Jungle

Gamecube
Prince of Persia 1,2,& 3
All Resident Evils except 4 & Code Veronica (see PS2)
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

PC
All Total Wars except M2 & Kingdoms

....that's pretty much a short list,but there's probably several more!

[Geoffrey S]

Portal! It's pretty good, in the sense that I haven't had so much fun and laughed this much in any recent game I can remember.

Oh, and I took over Half Life 2 Episode 2 (which looks excellent BTW) briefly while a flatmate cooked a pancake. Unfortunately, it was near the end where you suddenly end up facing about three Striders and Hunters at once. Didn't last long.

[ShadesWolf]

Spartan Total warrior
Mario and Sonic at the olympics
Viva Pinata
star wars lego

[Kamakazi]

Ps2 : Dynasty Warriors 5 , DW 5 Xtreme legends , DW 5 Empires, NFSMW

Computer: MTW Tribal wars(internet) beadly state (internet)

[frogbeastegg]

Q: What, exactly, is a Patapon?
A: A Patapon is a miniature scampering eyeball, armed to the teeth with small but deadly weapons.

If the game does not live up to the promise of the manual and artwork I will cry. My PSP deserves a break from Disgaea. The Patapon will march tomorrow at lunchtime.

The xbox 360 is currently playing host to a Viking game by some lot called Creative Assembly. I'm about half way through. After a shaky start it's found its feet and is doing nicely.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Total War: VI and RTW/M2TW


Call Of Duty 4: Great MP indeed

Quest For GLory 1: Great Orgianla Adventure Game

[TevashSzat]

Sins of a solar empire.

I'm also debating on whether to get Baldur's Gate and play through the series

[Prussian to the Iron]

well, lately I've been playing alot of Oblivion, but yesterday I DLed Mount and Blade: LOVE IT!!!