The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Rilder]

Current active games:

Europa Barbarorum.
Europa Universalis 3(+ expansions)
Dwarf Fortress (of course)

[Fragony]

Fragony has 20 kill streak!

COD WOW

[naut]

Left 4 Dead. Mindless slaughter!

[tibilicus]

Operation anchorage downloadable content for Fallout 3.

Opinion so far is whilst it isn't bad, I think it should be a lesson in why trying to turn a RPG into a shooter doesn't work all that great..

[Mailman653]

I bought The Elder Scrolls IV, GOTY edition for the 360. I only barely scratched the surface but it seems interesting so far, I'm hoping I'll get sucked into it as much as I did with Fable II.

[Gregoshi]

I bought The Elder Scrolls IV, GOTY edition for the 360. I only barely scratched the surface but it seems interesting so far, I'm hoping I'll get sucked into it as much as I did with Fable II.

My son got this back in September. We've both been playing it since. I've logged about 110 hours into the game so far and have barely scratched the main story. There is so much to do, I get distracted - then I get distracted from the distractions.

[Hooahguy]

i just finished Crysis Warhead.
simply amazing game. graphics are better than the first, and AI is better. i actually died multiple times a mission on easy (im now plaing on delta, after beating it on all the rest of the modes).
also, it cost $30, which is amazing for two games (Warhead and Wars- the multiplayer part of crysis)

finished Company of Heroes a month ago. also, a good game. re-defines the RTS genre.

[frogbeastegg]

I completed my Mass Effect playthrough at level 59, so I started another on hardcore. I ran through the story in ~7 hours; it was quite easy, with the exception of one or two spots. Master immunity combined with spectre X gear meant my character was a near-invincible tank of doom. It's far more fun on hardcore difficulty, as you need to use all of your abilities and squad powers frequently to survive. Taking cover is something other than a gimmic; I didn't think the game had so many ways to die in a single shot!

I'm intending to hunt down the remaining silver keys and gargoyles in Fable II. Once I'm done with that I'll head back to Mass Effect and try insanity. Three playthroughs completed and I still want to play it again; that's practically unique for me.

[frogbeastegg]

Mass Effect's insanity mode should have been named bullet sponge mode. All they did was add shed loads to every enemies' health and damage resistance, and make all of the organic enemies spam immunity.

That's it, 1050/1050 achievements, all difficulties completed, all paths viewed, and all three main classes used. It only took me 5 playthroughs, or 83 hours. Bring on Mass Effect 2.

I haven't chosen what to play next. No particular preference, so long as it's not Mass Effect!

[Martok]

You should try Birth of the Federation next.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[frogbeastegg]

I've reached level 20 with my second Fallout character, and I've collected the handful of achievements I didn't get the first time around, so I'm calling it a day. My opinion on the game hasn't changed much.

Wandering the wastes, scrounging and killing to get by, is great. I only did 17 quests total with this character, so almost all of my XP came from wandering. Finding the little stories hidden in the landscape is wonderful. Two skeletons in a car in a quiet spot, two bottles of wine and a teddy bear lying nearby. They must have been on a date when the bombs fell. SPECIAL is good, far better than the Elder Scrolls' mess of a system.

It's the rest of the game I'm not impressed by. Poor plot, poor side quests, cardboard NPCs, disappointing vocie acting, tedious conversations, mediocre writing, plot holes, logic holes, extremely boring tunnel dungeons and caves of exactly the same type which flood Oblivion and Morrowind, and so on and so forth.

Fallout 3 is a baking tray full of water. It's big and wide - and shallow. Nice if you like that sort of thing and it's certainly better than having nothing to put water in, however I'd prefer to drink from a glass a la Mass Effect et al.

I am now going to focus my attention on finishing Neverwinter Nights 2 and Dragon Quest 4. It seems like I have been chipping away at them forever.

[Xiahou]

I finished the main part of LIT, a wiiware title that came out recently. I'd describe it as a horror puzzler. It took me a little less than 6hrs to get thru all the puzzles, but there's still some replay value left and even still, it was a bargain for only $8.

After making my way through the entire school and defeating the bosses, I unlocked Rachael as a playable character. I may end up playing through it as her at some point, because I'm under the impression I'll get a different ending if I do- at the very least, you get to hear the other side of all the phone calls you got from Rachael. Also unlocked, is the very sadistic "dark mode"- I'll probably take a look at it, but it just sounds too trying to bother with.

Also on the Wii, I got House of the Dead: Overkill. Let me just say it: best on rails shooter- evar. It's very M-rated and the cheesy grindhouse theme fits it to a tee. 3 Chapters in, and I'm in love with this game.

Lastly, I'm still trying to put in about an hour a night on FinalFantasy4 on the DS and it continues to impress.

[Vuk]

I've reached level 20 with my second Fallout character, and I've collected the handful of achievements I didn't get the first time around, so I'm calling it a day. My opinion on the game hasn't changed much.

Wandering the wastes, scrounging and killing to get by, is great. I only did 17 quests total with this character, so almost all of my XP came from wandering. Finding the little stories hidden in the landscape is wonderful. Two skeletons in a car in a quiet spot, two bottles of wine and a teddy bear lying nearby. They must have been on a date when the bombs fell. SPECIAL is good, far better than the Elder Scrolls' mess of a system.

It's the rest of the game I'm not impressed by. Poor plot, poor side quests, cardboard NPCs, disappointing vocie acting, tedious conversations, mediocre writing, plot holes, logic holes, extremely boring tunnel dungeons and caves of exactly the same type which flood Oblivion and Morrowind, and so on and so forth.

Fallout 3 is a baking tray full of water. It's big and wide - and shallow. Nice if you like that sort of thing and it's certainly better than having nothing to put water in, however I'd prefer to drink from a glass a la Mass Effect et al.

I am now going to focus my attention on finishing Neverwinter Nights 2 and Dragon Quest 4. It seems like I have been chipping away at them forever.

I liked Oblivion. :P I did not care for the storyline or the quests, but I liked the gameplay. :P

[Shadowwalker]

Unfortunately I have (for some years now) not that much time left for playing.
Oh how golden were the university days...

Anyway - spent some time (overall and with a lot of breaks: three years...) in starting several Baldurs Gate: Big World Project campaigns (never got past Suldanessalar).

Still have Jagged Alliance 1.13 at my pc. Log in sometimes and fight a few battles but somehow I lost the real spirit.

Of course I still play Europa Barbarorum.

And actually I got the chance to enter the 'Paeninsula Italica for M2TW' beta team. My tasks: testing (really?! ) and asking silly questions.


The exotic games:
Still have DOSBox installed to play Eye of Beholder I, Civilisation I and the old 'The Dark Eye' RPG's (I'm not exactly sure if this was the english title.)