The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Meneldil]

What is FTL? I was playing as the Protoss-like race. I guess I just have to get used to the game. Unlike Sins of a Solar Empire it's one of these games that requires a bit of training.

[frogbeastegg]

Started Silent Hill: Homecoming. I picked it up a while ago on the theory that, although I don't like survival horror much, I enjoyed Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 and this game's meant to be quite similar. Plus it was stupidly cheap.

I'm getting close to halfway through. So far I like it. No more, no less. It's all quite average.

The current section (police station) might make my opinion dip thanks to some questionable design decisions blobbed together in one section. Not sure how many more attempts I shall bother with; the difficulty spike feels cheap and I don't like the game enough to continue repeatedly dying Just Because(TM). :sigh: One more play session. If I don't get past the station then I think I will lose what wobbly interest I have.

[Beskar]

What is FTL? I was playing as the Protoss-like race. I guess I just have to get used to the game. Unlike Sins of a Solar Empire it's one of these games that requires a bit of training.

Faster than Light.

I started the game as humans, but their downside is that they only operate on nodes, while other races seem able just to fly in from anywhere.

If I was to change something about the game, it would be that you can build a colony anywhere. Not because it is get you any resources or anything, just so all my ships don't get stuck on corners and in dead-ends, etc as humans.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

What is FTL? I was playing as the Protoss-like race. I guess I just have to get used to the game. Unlike Sins of a Solar Empire it's one of these games that requires a bit of training.

FTL, as Beskar said, is Faster Than Light. Each race has a different mode of travel, which significantly changes how they play. I'm trying to remember how I learned the game, but I'd definitely recommend you play as humans and against humans to get the basics down.

[Fragony]

Fallout 3 is kicking my butt all over the place, man this game is pretty damn hard

[Ser Clegane]

Finally got around to start playing Mass Effect during the holidays.

Great fun - like the KOTOR games.

Bioware games seem to be the only ones that I frequently find enough motivation to actually finish. I guess I should order Dragon Age

[johnhughthom]

Playing through Mass Effect myself to get a save to continue on ME2, they are still saying you can import your save right?

Ser Clegane, if you are enjoying Mass Effect and generally enjoy Bioware games you will love Dragon Age.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Fallout 3 is kicking my butt all over the place, man this game is pretty damn hard

i brought it to my main Vista computer, ad oddly it's working. there tends to be some lag in Rivet city where there is a bunch of stuff happening at once, but not too much.

I think I'm about 50% done throught the main quest, but I'm not sure. I'm trying to be as un-knowing as possible about the game other than if I get stuck.


when I'm done with the MQ, I think I'll do mothership zeta, and then either point lookout or broken steel (BoS).


Operation:Anchorage was a letdown. I thought it would be longer. still cool though, and it got me Power Armor trainign at like level 8-9. so now I'm running around with Tesla armor, courtesy of some enclave soldiers who were nice enough to donate 8 fingers, a gatling laser, some missiles, some laser rifles and pistols, and their armor. nice folks when you get to know em

great game. only thing I hate about it is that companion recruiting relies on Karma level. I got my karma all the way down almost doing the "Power of the Atom" (blowing up megaton) for -1000, but then I couldn't get Jericho, he being dead. than I went to recruit Fawkes, and he's only for good karma. so now I'm gonna go donate money to churches, pure water to hobos, that sort of thing.

[Hooahguy]

reinstalled ETW


but i also installed Darth Mod Ultimate Commander which makes it a billion times more fun,

[al Roumi]

great game. only thing I hate about it is that companion recruiting relies on Karma level. I got my karma all the way down almost doing the "Power of the Atom" (blowing up megaton) for -1000, but then I couldn't get Jericho, he being dead. than I went to recruit Fawkes, and he's only for good karma. so now I'm gonna go donate money to churches, pure water to hobos, that sort of thing.

I know you just said you want to be as un-knowing as possible but...

If you want a sidekick with no karmic qualms, you do have 2 options... Jericho (Ghoul bodyguard in Underworld) and a Robot [whosenameican'trememberightnow] (roaming outside the Robot factory).

Also, I suggest getting Broken Steel before any of the other dlc, if not for the quests then at least for the xp extension. I capped out before completing the main story having done a few side quests.

Also, i hope you have been playing your char whilst logged in to WindowsLive! because I didn't until i got the dlc and then discovered that I couldn't play the dlc with a character not started through windowslive!

[Prussian to the Iron]

i'm logged in, but it wont sign in to the actual online part. its offline live. so im assuming all my achievements are for anught :(

and i thought charon was the ghoul? ive seen the robot near robco, RL-3. for 1000 bucks though i cant afford it. i could for like 500.


and i have GOTY with all DLC, so I'm good with that thing.


BTW: at 24/1820 megabytes transfer on my MAG beta on ps3! this will take 4ever!!

[CountArach]

I've gone back to Civ 4: Warlords with the Total Realism mod. This is one of the few games that I have always gone back to.

[miotas]

and i thought charon was the ghoul? ive seen the robot near robco, RL-3. for 1000 bucks though i cant afford it. i could for like 500.

Yes Charon is the ghoul and he will go with you regardless of your karma, and you don't even need to pay for him, just kill the ghoul woman who runs the food shop when she goes out for a cigarette. Also the robot does care about your karma, he wont go with you if you are too good or too evil, only if you are neutral.