The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Csargo]

Back to HOI2 with the Kaiserreich mod. I'm going to finish this game as the German Empire, go back to HOI2 regular and finish a game as Britain, and then install Kaiserreich again, which will hopefully be out of beta stage by that time.

By the way, it's a great game, even in beta. I'd certainly recommend it. A lot of work went into that mod, and they're still pouring it in.

What does the Kaiserreich mod add? Or do you have a link handy?

@frogbeastegg:Hopefully your not disappointed.

Still playing my HoI2. I really need some new games.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Caught between Battlefield 2 and Oblivion. On BF2 i've discovered the wonders of the 'support' class, and on Oblivion i've discovered the wonders of a mod i downloaded that gives you the ability to buy blackpowder bombs from the 'Copious Coinpurse'. Nothing like bringing terrorism to Cyrodiil.

[Kekvit Irae]

Caught between Battlefield 2 and Oblivion. On BF2 i've discovered the wonders of the 'support' class, and on Oblivion i've discovered the wonders of a mod i downloaded that gives you the ability to buy blackpowder bombs from the 'Copious Coinpurse'. Nothing like bringing terrorism to Cyrodiil.

I can see it now...

"Stop! You are under arrest, citizen! You can either pay your fi-"
"FOR AZURA!!!" *explodes*

[Martok]

Well after far too long (at least two months by my reckoning), I finally have a brand-spanking new PC.....and what a joy it is.

Since I picked it up on Saturday, I've already played a fair bit of GalCiv 2, which never really did run on my old machine. I've also gotten back into MTW/VI, having started up a new Spanish campaign. In addition, I downloaded and played the Medieval 2 demo a couple times, although I did so mostly to stress-test my computer's video/graphics abilities. (I'm happy to report everything ran smoothly at max settings. )

My newest addiction, however, is SimCity 4. Egads, I've been having way too much fun building roads & highways everywhere!

[The Spartan (Returns)]

replaying Kingdom Hearts 2 btw. love that KH series, no.1 in my top 5 list. i want KH3 now!!!

[professorspatula]

Good grief, what are you doing posting outside of the Medieval themed Total War forums Martok? I thought you got a nosebleed if you left their confines!

Anyway, I am currently mostly playing my own modded version of RTW which I am writing an AAR for it. Although it's about 10 times more fun to play the game than actually knuckle down and write about it.

I also have had a few skirmishes in Dawn of War and Total Annihilation. I was playing GCII not that long ago, but I never really enjoy the campaigns much. Plus after a while it crashes and I can't be bothered to replay the last 5 turns or whatever when I have hundreds of moves to redo.

MTW is calling out to me as well. It's telling me I must continue my Crusader campaign. I must resist!

[Martok]

Good grief, what are you doing posting outside of the Medieval themed Total War forums Martok? I thought you got a nosebleed if you left their confines!

Special breathing apparatus -- attached to a camel costume.

I also have had a few skirmishes in Dawn of War and Total Annihilation. I was playing GCII not that long ago, but I never really enjoy the campaigns much. Plus after a while it crashes and I can't be bothered to replay the last 5 turns or whatever when I have hundreds of moves to redo.

Hmm. I haven't had any problems thus far, at least not with the game's stability. I'm having a bit of difficulty remembering how on earth I get my economy going, though. (It's been a little while since I played -- and boy, does it show!)

MTW is calling out to me as well. It's telling me I must continue my Crusader campaign. I must resist!

Bah. Come back to the Dark Side, professor; you know want to!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

What does the Kaiserreich mod add? Or do you have a link handy?

It's an alternate history mod - what if Germany had won the First World War?

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...6&page=1&pp=20

It's still in Beta, but it's worth a look. There are some bugs, but you can fix some of them yourself - just look at their own forums, in the bugs section.

[naut]

FIFA Manager 06, playing as Chelsea. Really enjoying it, so far undefeated in my second season.

[frogbeastegg]

Put Dragon Quest on hold; I've had enough for now. However good a game is, playing it for several months makes you sick of it.

I'm now playing Kororinpa on the Wii for a change of pace. It involves rolling a ball through a maze, tilting the level itself via the motion sensors in the Wiimote. It's skillful stuff, and actually quite relaxing. Best of all one of the balls has a frog in it

I'm nearing the end of the second case in Phoenix Wright 2, and still riding around on my giant rat in Puzzle Quest.

My M2TW game may go onto hold; I loaded up my save game and the AI went completely psycho on me. Now I'm stuck in loads of tedious wars and the AI just won't stop. It offers me peace and breaks it within a couple of turns, over and over. Most disappointing, considering that in my first play session the AI was mostly peaceful, limiting itself to sensible wars which were fought with large armies of good troops.

[drone]

Just picked up DoW:Dark Crusade, so I'm relearning how to play RTS games again.

Also have downloaded the SamuraiWarlords mod for MTW. Going to start up a campaign soon.

[ElectricEel]

I am currently playing Freespace 2. It is a PC space-shooter, resembling the Wing Commander series, released in 1999. Though the game failed to achieve any massive commercial success, the still very active fan community is proof of the game's quality; the source code has been released to the public by the developer, Volition, and the Source Code Project continues to improve the game. In my opinion, it is certainly amongst the best games I've ever played. I think I'm playing through the main campaign for the fourth time now; there are also numerous user-made campaigns, the Freespace 1 campaign ported to Freespace 2, and a Babylon 5 total conversion (along with prequels/demos for a few other total conversions) available.

There's a large number of games sitting on my shelf I really should play... There's Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Homeworld, Hearts of Iron: Doomsday, Neverwinter Nights 2, Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, I could still have more fun with Morrowind, and lots of other stuff... Then there's the games which I haven't touched for a while, but where I have a game in progress, such as Diablo II and the EB mod for RTW. I guess I should hold off of buying games for a while. Could be quite a while, considering how many I have accumulated. I've still got a load to sell off, as well...

[Csargo]

HoI2:Doomsday Germany 1936 campaign.

[Rilder]

Playing Oblivion, Pacific storm(well was), and WoW (kinda, not really in the mood for it)

[Crian]

I am currently playing Freespace 2. It is a PC space-shooter, resembling the Wing Commander series, released in 1999. Though the game failed to achieve any massive commercial success, the still very active fan community is proof of the game's quality; the source code has been released to the public by the developer, Volition, and the Source Code Project continues to improve the game. In my opinion, it is certainly amongst the best games I've ever played. I think I'm playing through the main campaign for the fourth time now; there are also numerous user-made campaigns, the Freespace 1 campaign ported to Freespace 2, and a Babylon 5 total conversion (along with prequels/demos for a few other total conversions) available....

Cheers for Freespace 2! Check my sig, sounds familiar? I've just bought a new computer and once I get the time I'll download the source code project as well :).

Currently I'm playing Medieval 2 and SpellForce 2 (came bundled with my 7600GT). I'm currently looking for an RPG to devote time to, maybe NWN2.

[pevergreen]

Spellforce 1 and its expansions could be the best RPG/RTS i've ever played if the hero auto attacked. Its such a simple feature. Put that on auto and make a hold key. So annoying to have my army rush enemies but have to continually micro my hero.

[frogbeastegg]

Kororinpa has fallen beneath the joint onslaught of the frog and her boyfriend. Victory is ours. Nice game; could have used twice as many levels IMO.

I'm not starting anything else presently, and Dragon Quest needs to stay on hold until I can't hum the entire score of the world map music from memory. Phoenix Wright 2 probably won't take me much longer; I guess I shall start something fresh once that is done too.

[Quintus Of Pompeii]

Just Bought WoW. Playing on Shullcrusher realm. Level 8 Dwarf Hunter. =D

[Monarch]

Just Bought WoW. Playing on Shullcrusher realm. Level 8 Dwarf Hunter. =D

get out while you still can.

[Rilder]

get out while you still can.

WoW isn't that bad tbh, gets way to much bad rap tbh, has a kinda bad community, but just play on RP servers or stay out of the barrens and simular areas.

[Bijo]

Final Fantasy V.

I always like these stories and such, but it suffers from the typical thing those old-style RPGs usually have: repetitive annoying battles you can't avoid (unless you flee in-battle).

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Ah yeah, and they also suffer from the fact that you can't move "freely" in a finetuned way in all directions.

[Xiahou]

WoW isn't that bad tbh, gets way to much bad rap tbh, has a kinda bad community, but just play on RP servers or stay out of the barrens and simular areas.

I agree there. I played WoW for a few months straight and, ultimately, the idiots that comprise the community turned me off of it. Additionally, the tedium of higher levels and the related boring quests were a turn off as well. I still go back occasionally and subscribe for a month at a time. I try to coordinate it with friends/relatives subscriptions, and we usually cancel again before it becomes too tedious.

It's a fun game if you don't get too wrapped up in it and get addicted. Although, I tried the RP realms to get away from the idiots- it doesn't work. The RP realms are a joke- actual RPers are few and far between. (not that I wanted to hardcore RP myself, but I hoped I would get away from the morons who spam all the public channels with Chuck Norris jokes, ect)

.........

A game I've picked up and been enjoying recently is Izuna on the DS. It's an extremely old-school dungeon crawler. You play as a ditsy teenage ninja, who offends the gods of a small village and gets everyone cursed- so, she gets forced into braving various dungeons to face the gods and get them to lift their curses.

Some of the great "old school" things I like about it:
-You will die, especially in the earlier levels- get used to it.
-When you die, you lose all items, money, talismans, ect. that you have on you and get kicked out of the dungeon and have to start over.
-The dungeons are randomly generated each time you enter them.

In general, the gameplay is very simple but also challenging and somewhat unforgiving. To cast talismans, you need to use SP points, but the less you have, the less strength your normal attacks are supposed to have. You can also apply talismans to your weapons to make them stronger, but apply more than a weapon can handle and it can break easily or even get completely destroyed.

I like it.

[sapi]

get out while you still can.

Heartily seconded (unless you want to let go of your real life for some reason)

Trust me - I've seen the effect it has on people firsthand

Currently playing:
M2TW 1.2
DoD:S

[edyzmedieval]

get out while you still can.

Thirded.

I received 2 trial packs of WoW. Haven't even opened them. I want to stay away from that game until my life has become worthless. So far, it's more than worth.

[Csargo]

It's an alternate history mod - what if Germany had won the First World War?

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...6&page=1&pp=20

It's still in Beta, but it's worth a look. There are some bugs, but you can fix some of them yourself - just look at their own forums, in the bugs section.

Well that was a complete and total failure. I couldn't get it to work, and I'm not sure what I did wrong since the instructions are not very specific. Well I'll try again later

[professorspatula]

I'm currently playing a bit of MTW (Martok will be pleased), and also Aliens RL. It's a fairly fun Rogue-like game with an Aliens theme. It's surprisingly atmospheric considering it's just ASCII text and the odd sound effect and some limited music: http://alien.chaosforge.org

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Well that was a complete and total failure. I couldn't get it to work, and I'm not sure what I did wrong since the instructions are not very specific. Well I'll try again later

It worked well enough for me...try asking on their forum.

[Veho Nex]

Halo and Diablo and Civ3

[edyzmedieval]

Somebody drag me from RO. In my spare time, I play RO. Man, it's so addictive. I had 2 hours to play today, before I went to school, and I played hardcore man. I couldnt get my eyes off the screen.

RO is too awesome.

[Veho Nex]

Ro?