The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I'm replaying the Game of the Decade.

I'll never tire of it. In fact, it was the first thing I installed on my new ubersystem last month. Playing NOLF at 1920-1440 now, what a glorious spectacle of colour and detail. Yumm!

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[Fragony]

lol that is my favorite scene as well

[Cute Wolf]

Playing again CNC 3 Kane's wrath, now on brutal skirmish against 3 brutal steamrolling opponent as the minimum enemies

[Hooahguy]

got 2 games: Crysis and Rainbow 6 Vegas 2.
im still deciding about R6V2, for reasons i will say, but i will talk about Crysis.

Crysis-
Crysis is so much better than Crysis Warhead.
the reason? its a real sandbox game. Warhead was more linear, thats probably why i didnt like it as much, but i will say, running like heck from a chopper and a dozen KPA soldiers, low on ammo and no more rockets is a BLAST. im having so much fun, running through the brush, diving under water, jumping into the random truck to try to evade the enemy, and i especially love sneaking up to a KPA patrol with cloak enabled and hitting them with a shotgun. pure SWEETNESS.

strangely enough, Crysis runs better than Warhead did.
the AI is intelligent, and i can no longer run and gun, as i did with Warhead. running and gunning will kill me. for sure.

anyways, i strongly recommend Crysis to anyone who has the system to play it.


Rainbow Six Vegas 2-
this is a much more mixed review.
i got this because it was only $5 on steam, so i said "why not?"
well, when it finally finished downloading, i booted it up, and when i got to the single player laoding screen, it froze, then crashed. i tried again, and it gave me a BSOD. i lowered my sound acceleration, which made it work, but by now i was having second thoughts.
then i got into the game, and it truly is a wonderful game, intense, hard, and very enjoyable. i still get crashes, and once i got the infamous "General Protection Fault" error, but for now it went away.
multiplayer is also very fun, and the ACES system and the ranking system is also very interesting.
i especially love how you can trip up your character any way you want to.

so for me, its a love-hate relationship. when it works, its a blast, when it doesnt, i just go back to Crysis.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I currently have too many games.

I got EU3 Complete for Christmas and have been spending too many hours a day on it. Currently playing as France (if you can't beat the blob, join them) in 1600 and I've kicked England out of France, diplo-annexed Orleans and Provence, am about to gain Antwerpen and the other Flanders province as a core (stupid, stupid Brabant), and am currently beating up rebels who are angry that I sent 100,000 Frenchmen to their death in the Alps against Milan, who have mostly unified Italy (though I took Nice, Parma, and the one south of Parma from them, the clods). Also I went Protestant during the reformation, which was a lot of work. Had to shift into narrow-mindedness to get the missionaries to get rid of the religious turmoil modifier. The good news is I'm a world leader in government and production technology, and only actually behind in Naval research.

Other games I've gotten, through the steam sale:
Defense Grid: The Awakening - for $2.50 I figured I'd let RPS sell me on this as a fun TD game. Kind of enjoyed the demo, who knows if I'll ever get to playing it.
Torchlight - never played Diablo (don't hurt me) and only $5... again who knows if/when I'll play it.
Crysis + Warhead - $13, wouldn't have gotten it if it wasn't for the MechWarrior mod for it that just went public beta. Only played a minute of actually game, sadly you need to set up a Gamespy account to play Crysis multiplayer (and in this day and age, such a shame). Looks beautiful.

[Prussian to the Iron]

trying to play fallout 3 GOTY on my PC, but this disc came all scratched to hell. so i gotta return it to best buy (how did it get scratched when it is new and ive had it for a grand total of 2 days???) tomorrow. hopefully it'll be a ood one, and ill get to finally play what should be a great game, after loving morrowind and oblivion, and playing this for an hour or so, i am gettin pretty excited.


other than that, I'm about to beat the RDA (soldier) side of J.C's Avatar: The Game. I think I know enough to write a basic review, but I should play both sides before I do that. great game, I encourage everyone to get it. i got it for 20 bucks off for some reason, so i'm happy with that. didfnt get to play the multiplayer yet.


still playing Modern Warfare 2. after repeatedly cursing at my TV because of ninja-knife people who always kill em repeatedly, I finally made my own knife class. my first game with it I got 20-someot kills and 5 deaths. needless to say, I love it. still tryin to get the ACR, and that will be a grim day indeed for MW2 multiplayer.




For, when an ACR comes standard into my hands every spawn, all hell will break loose, and the first two horsemen, Conquest and War, will be unleashed upon the world of man, and they shall cower under the one named "The Spartan III", and they shall ask him for mercy, and he shall rebuke it with a resounding execution before killing his next victim. And so it was, that the Anti-Fun, "The Spartan III", wrought a path of destruction and death before his wake, as men and machines fell before his endless barrage of metal and fire. The earth and it's societies crumbled into dust, as the ACR turns all in it's path into skeletons, and the AT-4 turns all in its path to dust. And the baby Jesus of old descended unto him, and asked why he destroys all in his sight. And so "The Spartan III" responded with a Scorpion missle to the statue 'O Cristo Redentor', and so the Lord on high shut down the Modern Warfare 2 servers for all eternity, for they had unleashed on themselves the apocalypse, which would spread to the mortal world if not for their closing.

And so ended the Modern Warfare 2 servers, until finally the Jaws of Oblivion were opened anew, and the horsemen of the apocalypse did descend upon mankind, and "The Spartan III", now known as "Prussian Iron" after a 700-point name change, stepped through the gates, and so mankind did end under a hail of ACR's and AT-4's, and the few that hath survived were enslaved as metal-workers for "Prussian Iron"s ACR's.

[Kekvit Irae]

I'm replaying the Game of the Decade.

As a sociology major, this made me smile and laugh.

[Meneldil]

Trying Swords of the Stars Ultimate + Argos Shipyard.

Can't say I'm really excited as of now. I'm kind of lost, can't find the AI and the early game seems to be mostly about waiting. Not as bad as HoI though, and I'm pretty sure I'll like it at some point (I'll start the tutorials today, that will probably help).

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Meneldil - what race are you playing as? Humans have the fastest start (plus easiet FTL drive in my opinion). If you're finding yourself waiting too much, just decrease the number of stars in the map and face humans. You'll have more than enough incoming. :D

[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

[Xiahou]

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on the DS. If you liked PuzzleQuest, you pretty much have to like this.

[Meneldil]

Cool, another game set in HoMM5 universe. Is Godric the one we get to lead in HoMM5? Cause seeing the good old honorable dude as a japanime-12 year old Naruto is kind of disturbing though :p

[Craterus]

FM2010, Assassin's Creed 2, FIFA 10.

More to come too

[Fragony]

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on the DS. If you liked PuzzleQuest, you pretty much have to like this.

owwwwwwwwwwwww that looks great.

[frogbeastegg]

Finished Silent Hill: Homecoming. Seen all 5 endings and got all achievements. The gameplay never rose above ok level, and the plot made less sense the more I uncovered.

Think I shall play The Saboteur next; it was a birthday present and so it would be rude not to start it next. Looks like a good game and I expect I shall like it.