The "What are you playing?" topic.

[naut]

(sooo boooring, midway through Halo 2)

Why? Do something fun instead.

[pevergreen]

Its one of those things where I just need to do it and then never play it again.

[Prussian to the Iron]

still attempting to do the Halo series (sooo boooring, midway through Halo 2) just so I can say I've done it, DDO. Thats the main things.

boring? Halo 3 yeah, but Halo 2 was the best campaign!

off course I was infected when i was like 8 or 9, so that probably makes it better.

i still occasionally play halo 1 PC online. still a huge community (oddly enough, larger than Halo 2 vistas community!! )

[Monk]

boring? Halo 3 yeah, but Halo 2 was the best campaign!

off course I was infected when i was like 8 or 9, so that probably makes it better.

i still occasionally play halo 1 PC online. still a huge community (oddly enough, larger than Halo 2 vistas community!! )

Halo 2 on PC is largely regarded as a butchered port, it's no surprise that the PC version of the first has a larger following.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I played a little of Halo 2 on Windows 7 and it's terrible. Halo 1 was pretty good though.

/how is Halo 2's story better than the first one??

[Azathoth]

Play it on the consoles. Halo on the PC is like playing a DS game with an emulator.

/how is Halo 2's story better than the first one??

All blame lies with the cliffhanger.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Halo 1 didn't have a cliffhanger ending...

And I prefer a mouse and keyboard. Played some of Halo 2 on a friend's Xbox, but since it was coop it was kind of like this:

Him: dakka dakka dakka
Me: is it safe yet
Him: dakka dakka just kill that grunt dakka
Me: dakka?
Him: dakka melee dakka nevermind

[Prussian to the Iron]

how is Halo 2's story better than the first one??

aside from the fact that you actually leave the Halo Ring? the betrayals, the array of characters, the cliffhanger, the depth.

Play it on the consoles. Halo on the PC is like playing a DS game with an emulator.



All blame lies with the cliffhanger.

i bought it for the PC and xbox (both halo 2 and 1) and on the PC it's better. maybe its that the graphics are better, maybe its the easy-to-use custom server list you can join.

Halo 1 didn't have a cliffhanger ending...

And I prefer a mouse and keyboard. Played some of Halo 2 on a friend's Xbox, but since it was coop it was kind of like this:

Him: dakka dakka dakka
Me: is it safe yet
Him: dakka dakka just kill that grunt dakka
Me: dakka?
Him: dakka melee dakka nevermind

I think he meant the massive cliffhanger at the end of Halo 2, saying that Alexander the Pretty Good's thought about the second story being better is due to the cliffhanger.

i think that most shooters perform better on the consoles, but Halo 2 was much better playing juggernaut with a mouse and keyboard, being able to repeatedly click my energy sword at the others.

ah, good times...

[Thermal]

I'm playing ...

Forza Motorsport 3 for xbox 360
Fuzion Frenzy 1 for xbox (I've had it 8 years and still I play it )
I would also play kung fu chaos if it was xbox360 compatible, but nay, it's not

[Prussian to the Iron]

gettin back into Modern Warfare. at level 55, its fun owning everyone with my digital MP-44 after going on an MP5 rampage.

[Azathoth]

Fuzion Frenzy 1 for xbox (I've had it 8 years and still I play it )

LOL I hear you. My favorite minigame is...well, it had Rubble in the title and you had to drill across the roof of a construction project.

[Thermal]

LOL I hear you. My favorite minigame is...well, it had Rubble in the title and you had to drill across the roof of a construction project.

Rubble Alliance?

My favs are twisted system (jumping & ducking poles) Blast man standing (3 lives, avoid getting blown up) & Victim (beating people to death () to make sure they end the round with the bomb)

[naut]

Spore. Much less fustrating and much more enjoyable once patched and with Better Spore installed.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Okay, I've finally hit what may be the greatest video gaming point of my life:

Playin CoD 4 on the PS3 on Monday, Wednesday, and friday

playin CoD 5 with my buddies on those days plus weekends

playin rock band 2 just about every other day

playing Morrowind (best PC gmae I've ever played)

just found the first disc to Republic Commando, and now I'm gonna go back and go on the hardest difficulty listening to metallica and foo fighters. doesnt getmuch better than this.

[Thermal]

playing Morrowind (best PC gmae I've ever played)

Morrowind & Oblivion are masterpieces, never really got into fallout 3 as much though

[Prussian to the Iron]

Morrowind & Oblivion are masterpieces, never really got into fallout 3 as much though

i played FO3 once or twice at my friends house. i really liked it. its fun being evil in that.

my buddies gettin it for christmas, so I'll play at his house. not enough play time at my house for it :(

[gaelic cowboy]

I have just escaped from Butcher Bay an I am attempting same from Dark Athena nice bonus to get the first game in the new one.

[Hooahguy]

After a few days of playing the demo of World in Conflict, I am confident that I know enough about the game to post a review.

World in Conflict was just as I expected. Not like Company of Heroes, but still has that fast-paced combat that needs to be micromanaged for you to win. The game is fast-paced and at times frantic. The single player campaign is also excellent. There is quite nothing like calling down close fire support around your position of weak-armored APCs while Russian tanks close in and pray the shells don’t accidentally hit your vehicles/men as well (the Pine Valley mission).

Something I love, in fact, it's the thing I love the most about WiC is that the entire repetitive process of base building is eliminated. Combat starts within two minutes of the game starting.
What I love so much is the game doesn’t revolve around destroying the enemy base. While CoH had the fierce combat of WiC, you still had to destroy the enemy base in the end, which was annoying because it wasn’t really realistic. But then again, neither is a heavy tank being dropped from a plane (the sheer weight would probably cause extensive damage) but I do suppose that’s hypothetically possible. And I love it how flanking is just as important in this game just as one would expect. Its jsut not apparent that it is.
Also, I love the huge size of the maps. It allows for lots of movement. In CoH, it was smaller, more infantry based maps, that were perfect for the game by the way, and besides, WiC has to be large enough for choppers and carpet-bombing. Carpet-bombing in CoH just wouldn’t work, for it would destroy almost half the map, even on a 4v4 map. Also, what I miss from CoH is the cover system. In WiC there’s no real cover system for infantry, besides buildings and trees, but I guess the map is too large for you to micromanage something as small as infantry cover.

The aspect of the game that no one class can dominate the battlefield has its ups and downs.
An up is that it forces teamwork and therefore provides a better MP experience. But only if teamwork is used. If not, it just gets annoying.
This is a negative, as well as the fact that if you are playing with bots you can’t really communicate with them, so you really are on your own. Nothing like trying to provide air support when your idiot bot ally keeps targeting the APCs instead of the AA rocket launchers that are shooting your choppers down. It’s very frustrating, but I'm sure it’s also very rewarding when you do use the built in VOIP and other means to coordinate tactics with each other and win the match.

The Tactical Aid, or TA feature is very fun to use. With TA, you get to call down arty barrages, AT strikes, and even tactical nukes if you forget about it for too long and let them accumulate. By the way, nukes are way awesome, but not necessarily a match winner.

As stated before, I love it how every class is reliant on other classes. Air needs armor to get rid of AA units; armor needs air to get rid of enemy arty and support to get rid of enemy aircraft. Support needs armor and air to keep away enemy units so they can provide fire support without being harassed. And infantry— well, infantry needs everyone to look after them. Better to just go with armor, but infantry do make great ambushing units. But they can rarely hold themselves in battle, and more often than not, they are literally run over by my more than eager tanks.

Blobbing, as in CoH, just doesn’t work most times, but it does work in some cases in CoH, if the opposing player doesn’t have the full means to demolish the blob before they get to the base. At least in WiC any blobs are sure to find themselves devastated by heavy choppers, and if the enemy has enough TA points, they will face planes, arty falling all around them, and if they are (un)lucky, a fuel air /daisy cutter bomb, depending on the side you are on, right on top of them. And if they are REALLY (un)lucky, a nuke will be launched, or at very least a carpet-bombing mission.
Basically, it really is not worth it, even if you had the reinforcement points to get a blob. Most people only have 6-8 units at a time, and that’s if they are really lucky. I usually command at most 5. More than that is too hard to micromanage and I usually end up losing many of my tanks if I do command more than 4-5 at a time.

Another thing: within each class, every unit has to rely on (a few key) others. For instance, heavy tanks are shredded by infantry AT squads, so they need medium tanks to fire White Phosphorous shells into the midst of infantry, and mediums need to be protected by heavy tanks from other tanks, though they can stand their own in battle quite well.
But the only shame is that there are no real unique units in the game, only unique skins (and a few unique TA’s, like the fuel air bomb), but underneath every faction is the same, which I guess levels the playing field for multiplayer.

I know this is a long review so I’ll wrap up. The NUMBER ONE aspect I love about this game, besides the absence of base building, so it's technically the NUMBER TWO thing I love, is that in most RTS games, when you launch an AA missile against an aircraft the target is pretty much dead. But in WiC, you can actually drop flares and evade. You aren’t resigned to the fact that once that missile launches, that chopper may as well be dead. This aspect makes WiC so realistic and very hard not to love, as well as very cool to watch.
I also learned the concept of smoke as a ruse and how to use it properly for tanks. TIP: when using smoke, don’t leave the cover of smoke right after you apply it. That’s just dumb.

As of now, I love this game.
But considering I've already spent about 10-15 hours playing the demo, which only includes one map, Seaside, and I'm nowhere near bored of it yet, plus the numerous fan-made maps and mods, I'm not too worried about getting bored of this game. But Im still a horrible n00b when it comes to this game. Oh well, I guess I will learn.

And now, for a little AAR I made about a recent match I had, to reward you for actually reading this long review:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The game was 6v6, with everyone else a bot (didn't have internet connection to play with real foes, so this is the next best thing). I chose armor, which is my favorite because I actually know how to use it really well, at least compared to the other classes. The map is Seaside, by the way, because it’s the only map available on the demo.
Sorry for the low graphics I had to play on the lowest settings for it to work on my desktop, which wasn’t made to play games like this.

I started out with two Abrams (heavy tanks) and two Patton tanks (medium). I sent them towards the supermarket, which they quickly secured. Then I sent them to take the town center, which is the central part of the map, and whoever holds it usually wins.


After taking the town center, I began to move my tanks to the TV station, which was to the northeast of the town center. A few Soviet choppers came. I blew smoke and retreated, but not before they took out a Patton tank and dealt some more damage to the other tanks. On the way back, an artillery shell landed close by, which was lucky because a direct hit means another tank down the drain.


After getting another Abrams, I took my tanks back down to the city, and retook the town center which was lost when the choppers came earlier.


Then some commies took the super market, which I had to retake. But in the process, I lost a Patton tank to a precision barrage, which damaged a few other tanks as well.


I sent back my damaged Abrams to be repaired, but in the process, a random artillery shell landed nearby, creating a gorgeous explosion, and missed my tank by inches.


I saw that the beach was undefended, so I told my three Abram tanks, one of which was newly repaired (the one that had the near miss) and the other two were brand new reinforcements, to take the beach while my remaining Patton tank was repaired.


As luck would have it, just as my tanks got to the beach, the Soviets exploded a fuel air bomb right over their heads, destroying them instantly.


As you can imagine, this was a huge blow. I just lost tanks worth 3,600 reinforcement points to one blast. It took me a few minutes to get together a new force of two Abrams and a Patton.


They took the beach, but there was an air strike as well as numerous choppers and tanks that wiped out my three tanks, another devastating blow. (The Patton indicated in the distance was soon taken out by a Russian heavy tank and a well-placed artillery round.)


But then I launched a huge artillery barrage on the TV station, earning me enough points for three Abrams tanks. Now, I only had about 3 minutes remaining and we were still behind so I had to work fast. This is where the glory of WiC comes in, and where the battles become frantic. I told my tanks to retake the beach.


En route to the beach, they had a near miss with an air strike. Clearly, fate wanted us to take that beach.


They took the beach, and moved inland. By this time, I had made another Patton tank, which was en route to assist them.
My tank squadron moved quickly to take the town square.


After taking the town center, I noticed we were about tied and only a minute and a half remaining. So I sent my tanks to take the TV station, thinking it was undefended. I was wrong. There were many AT defenses in the area, so I pulled back.


Since all my Abram tanks were heavily damaged, I had them fall back for repairs, while my two Patton tanks came forward to mop up, and then the timer ran out, much to my relief.


It really was an amazing match, won by quick maneuvering and luck.

[Martok]

Have just started playing Armada 2526.

I'm really enjoying it so far. At the very least, it's a worthy member of the space 4x sub-genre. I suspect it could end up being even more than that, but only time will tell. For now, however, I'm definitely having fun with it.

[pevergreen]

Borderlands.

Diablo with guns.

[Crandaeolon]

Have just started playing Armada 2526.

So, how is it? More information, pretty please? How would you compare it to, say, SotS or GalCiv2?

[Fragony]

Dead Space finally found the courage

[Owen Glyndwr]

Lately been playing a lot of EB and Civ4. Madden '03 and GH2 on the PS2

I recently played through HL2 and Portal. I may play through Episodes 1 and 2 when I return to University given I'm not too busy with finals.

As for the Halo discussion, I thought Halo 2 campaign was really fun up to the point where you have to play with the Arbiter. I really liked the idea of fighting for the preservation of humanity, and I think I would have preferred it if that was what it was all about (Probably why I like GoW so much). Halo 1 is still my favorite of all of them, probably because I have the fondest memories playing it.

[Veho Nex]

Il-2 Hoping to get a new joy stick for christmas that will blow my Logitech Attack three away

[Martok]

So, how is it? More information, pretty please? How would you compare it to, say, SotS or GalCiv2?

So as not to risk derailing this thread, read my response here.

The short answer: I'm liking it so far, but it's still early yet.

[Azathoth]

Playing Arcanum. Might do a short review when I'm done.

Some problems thus far:

1. You level up ridiculously fast, but get so few skill points to spend! There's like 80 different spells alone, and dozens of technological skills, never mind the 8 regular statistics and 16 regular skills (and health and fatigue). The level cap hack is definitely useful here.

2. Running around the cities takes a huge amount of time. I would say Tarant (London I guess) is about equivalent in size to the Imperial City in Oblivion, but it takes so long to go from place to place! Also, travelling between cities is ridiculous. It takes 3 weeks to get from Black Root (red) to Tarant (green); there's actually a railroad between them, but I haven't tried it yet because I'm not a rich bastard.


My party so far consists of Virgil (duh), the half-ogre from Shrouded Hills, and a sexy half-elf from Dernholm. My goal in the game is to become a suave and witty gunslinger.

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[Prussian to the Iron]

2. Running around the cities takes a huge amount of time. I would say Tarant (London I guess) is about equivalent in size to the Imperial City in Oblivion, but it takes so long to go from place to place! Also, travelling between cities is ridiculous. It takes 3 weeks to get from Black Root (red) to Tarant (green); there's actually a railroad between them, but I haven't tried it yet because I'm not a rich bastard.

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do you mean how big the Imperial City was meant to be? it is extremely small when you compare it to Vivec or Mournhold in Morrowind, the capitals of Vvardenfell (the island you are on) and all of Morrowind, respectively. even comparing it to Anvil in Oblivion, it is still only a little larger.

anyway, you dont get a horse? that sucks.

[Azathoth]

Tarant isn't actually that big, but it FEELS big, because it takes hours to go through every house and store and all that. This is Tarant - there's an orange line on the birdge representing the player character.

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[CountArach]

The HistWar: Les Grognards demo.

[G. Septimus]

I'm currently playing
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, and Call of Duty: MW2 on

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