The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Prussian to the Iron]

just got (a surprise from my parents) the new MoH. I hope its good, because I have to cram everything I want to do in before the new CoD.......

hacen't played yet, probably will tomorrow and this weekend.

[Prussian to the Iron]

OMG

Medal of honor is.....crazy great. campaign is intense, the most realistic I've ever played, and just amazing. can't wait til I play MP!!!!

[Hooahguy]

Really? I heard it was ok, but not great. Heard it needs patching.

[Prussian to the Iron]

oh dont get me wrong, it could most definitely use patching. spent like 20 minutes today on a minute-long part of a mission because this guy wouldn't go with his buddies like he was supposed to, then I finally got it to work.

but overall I haven't found many problems besides jumping detection and that. I would like to say though, that RPG's inexplicably fail to hurt a wall while machine gun fire breaks much of it away.

[Fragony]

Picking it up as well, multplayer is supposedly Rainbow Sexy (and I don't mean Vegas), sounds like a game with a long breath for a niche crowd.

[Prussian to the Iron]

MP is meh. its basically BC2 without a huge amount of maps, and with less vehicles. still good though.

[Veho Nex]

BC2 mp sucked though. Like 100% was horrible buggy and laggy.

[Hooahguy]

What? I had a slow connection and it wasnt very laggy for me. Or Buggy.
Maybe the BF gods just hate you.

[Prussian to the Iron]

I agree. I think in my entire summer plus 3 or 4 months of playing BC2 MP all the frickin time, I had one laggy game. not very many bugs either, not that I encountered. maybe PS3 is better...

[Fragony]

MP is meh. its basically BC2 without a huge amount of maps, and with less vehicles. still good though.

Don't like vehicles and large maps so that's ok, most of my old clan moved on to the pc version, I probably like the gameplay.

[Prussian to the Iron]

my biggest complaint with mp has to be the the ACOG Snipers start out with, and high campability of some maps. snipers everywhere, there should be a limit based on number of players.

[Meneldil]

Protip: Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games were fun 8 years ago.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Protip: Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games were fun 8 years ago.

Get. Out.

[frogbeastegg]

I'm playing Darksiders while I wait for Fallout: New Vegas. It's one I have had on my shelf as something to look forward to for months - I was so sure I'd love it. It sounded exactly like my kind of game. I'm about 5 hours in. I'm disappointed, so horribly disappointed.

It's like Zelda, everyone says. Yes, I agree. It's like Zelda if you get rid of the colourful, diverse game world and replace it with generic grey urban ruin. If you paper said grey urban ruin with PS2 era textures. If you turn the varied, enjoyable combat into a brainless, skill-less, tedious button masher. If you replace the puzzles with ... oh, wait, no, just copy and paste the puzzles and hope your intended audience has forgotten the solutions. If you get rid of the catchy music in favour of some generic bland stuff that's so forgettable I can't tell you a thing about it because I can't remember anything. If you get rid of the simple, elegant controls and replace them with an over-complicated mess that makes weird decisions like sticking the all-important dodge/block function on the right bumper button so I have to change the way I hold the controller for a less comfortable grip that doesn't mesh too well with the way it was designed. If you tear out the loads of little upgrades you want to buy for your character, and replace them with stuff the player can't see any point in. If you get rid of the multitude of neat time wasting things to do in the game world and don't replace them.

So it's like one of the 3D Zelda games if you get rid of everything that makes them fun.

[Fragony]

facepalm du jour wut Darksiders is excellent

[frogbeastegg]

Darksiders is excellent

I was hoping you'd say that the beginning was not so good but it really picks up after the first 6 hours, or something. It would have given me some hope. Right now I'm slogging my way through the second half of that first big dungeon after getting the boomerang shuriken.

I haven't been this disappointed by a game in years. Absolutely gutted.

[Veho Nex]

So much league of legends... sooooo much.... But I think i might switch over to Company of Heroes online now.

[Hooahguy]

After playing Men of War I could never go back to CoH.

[Fragony]

I was hoping you'd say that the beginning was not so good but it really picks up after the first 6 hours, or something. It would have given me some hope. Right now I'm slogging my way through the second half of that first big dungeon after getting the boomerang shuriken.

I haven't been this disappointed by a game in years. Absolutely gutted.

Oh it opens up after the first dungeon, it's a terrific game if you can forgive some graphical inconsistencies, it's quite the looker forget about the intro.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

After playing Men of War I could never go back to CoH.

After playing MoW I'm thinking I'm probably only clever enough for CoH. MoW would be completely brilliant if I were a machine that could multi-task all my units effective. As it is, I only got up to the penal battalion mission in the Russian campaign. It's just not worth micromanaging thirty dudes' inventories to get them all the ammo and grenades you need. Plus my repairable T-34 managed to lose the repair box. -_-

[Hooahguy]

What I did in that mission was send small squads out, and kept the rest back. Where I needed men to hold the line/supressing fire I had them pick up as much ammo as possible and then left them.
I personally thought that mission was fantastic, I loved having to hold on, tooth and nail, to what resources you had. I lost the tanks early on (stupid hidden AT gun) on the right flank, so I had to relocate my men to the left flank and make the push from there, where the Germans were weaker.
That game as a whole is better with small unit tactics, IMO. But thats how I managed the missions with more men. I actually couldnt get past the Sevastpol mission, so I went into the files and bypassed it.
Theres also a mission where you sneak through German lines, that mission was great as well.

If you get Red Tide, theres many more of the small unit missions, but the first two are the bigger missions, I thought they were fantastic though.

[Veho Nex]

You gotta play with me and a buddy of mine. He is my P.I.C. for both mow and CoH/CoHO.

Right now we are dominating the CoHO boards with 8 consecutive wins, well... 7 wins and a loss because the other team dropped and THQ decided it was our loss even though we were 490 vip to their 210.

[Kekvit Irae]

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition
The first thing I noticed was that the game supports... uh... jiggle physics.

[gaelic cowboy]

Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean

Currently Force Commander Gaelic Cowboy is leading the charge against the vile Tyranid Hive fleet trying to devour sub sector Aurelia in Dawn of War 2.

For the Emperor victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

DoW2 is fun, but it's hard to go back to the campaign after you beat it once.

Currently I'm playing Dogfighter, which I got for $1.50 on Steam. Quite fun to play, though I wish there were more human players and/or the server selection lobby was better.

[Beskar]

Playing Fable 3. No one else?

[Prussian to the Iron]

My lil bro just got Force Unleashed 2. I already beat it.

It's as cool as the original, and I do like the updated moves and everything, but it is so unbearably short it's ridiculous. I mean, there are literally 4 playable locations (not including Dagobah, in which you fight nothing and is really a giant cutscene), and each of those is only about the length (if not shorter) of a mission in the first one. So.....not that great. Honestly, it could have been GOTY for me if it had been at least the length of the original.

[Prussian to the Iron]

My lil bro just got Force Unleashed 2. I already beat it.

It's as cool as the original, and I do like the updated moves and everything, but it is so unbearably short it's ridiculous. I mean, there are literally 4 playable locations (not including Dagobah, in which you fight nothing and is really a giant cutscene), and each of those is only about the length (if not shorter) of a mission in the first one. So.....not that great. Honestly, it could have been GOTY for me if it had been at least the length of the original.

[Fragony]

double wielding!

[frogbeastegg]

I finished Darksiders a bit ago. Overall verdict is a resounding meh. Lots of other games do the 'I want to be Zelda/Metroid!' thing far better, such as Batman: Arkham Asylum. Very disappointing.

Naruto: Broken Bond also scores a big fat meh. The first game, Rise of a Ninja, was a fun adventure with some nice ideas, good enough to be recommended outside of its target audience otherwise I'd never have heard of it let alone played it. The sequel got rid of some of the neat ideas, added some new ones which were badly overused (how many times did I have to watch the same few canned animations and mash buttons to bypass a barrier? Hundreds, easily.), and dragged me through a dull story mode that lacked the fun factor of the original's thanks to some terrible level design.

Parting the sea of meh and showing me that I'm not a burned out gamer soaked in apathy was Costume Quest, the new downloadable RPG from Doublefine. Highly recommended! It's a delightful little game and I thoroughly enjoyed every second I spent with it. It's genuinely charming. The whole design of the thing is playful. The writing is honestly funny, not the forced funny that so often inhabits games. The premise is simple: it's Halloween and your twin has been kidnapped by monsters while you were out trick or treating. You need to get them back so you don't get in trouble when you return home. Costumes become real when you enter combat with a monster, so if you're dressed as a robot you turn into a giant stompy robot with death missiles, a knight becomes an armoured colossus, etc. Your party grows to three people by the middle of the game, and you get a good variety of costumes to choose from, Each has different abilities, such as healing or group attacks, different affects on your characters' stats and HP, and different world map adventure abilities. The game's easy but that fits the design: it's meant to be fun and about soaking up the charm. Took me about 6 hours to finish with 100% which is about normal for a 1200 point xbox live game.

And, of course, I'm playing Fallout: New Vegas. Excellent indeed; everything I was expecting Fallout 3 to be and then some! I'm taking my first playthrough slowly, savouring the experience. I'm also doing something I don't usually: I'm playing it in concert with another game. Normally I focus on one title until I have completed it, then move along. New Vegas is too absorbing; if I play it on its own I'll finish it faster than I want to.

Playing Fable 3. No one else?

Maybe when it's half price. I liked Fable I. Fable II was ok. It had enough decent bits that I'd like to see them do the same general game design but without all the dodgy and/or boring and/or pointless bits. III sounds like it does a bit of that ... and adds some new bad ideas of its own, such as that new menu system.

Plus I really dislike the premise of the story - they want to take my Fable II character and force a future on her which doesn't match with anything I envisaged at all. For starters I can't be playing as my old hero's daughter because she doesn't have one! She's got a single son and that's it, no other children. I'd rather they left my old hero out of it completely aside from the occasional very vague reference, as Fable II did with I's hero. It looks like the only way to stop them dragging my Fable II character in is to entirely delete my old saves and that's crazy.