What are you playing right now?

[Zomboid]

Agreed! Having a good time with Mass Effect... Zomboid you find yourself use the same 3 guys all the time, or are you trying to balance it out?
I'm always using Wrex and Garrus. They're pretty damn useful. I really enjoyed Garrus' side mission to find Dr. Heart.

[Fathom Zero]

Blockland! :O

[MLE]

Photoshop Hero

[Seven Force]

Mega Man ZX: Advent

[Qwarx]

Just beat Portal, I'll return to playing Super Mario Galaxy tomorrow.

[macrodeath]

Continuing to play Final Fantasy XII, Dragon quest VIII and Die Hard Trilogy. And just played first Silent Hill trough (again), with UFO ending.

[Fatacula]

I'm always using Wrex and Garrus. They're pretty damn useful. I really enjoyed Garrus' side mission to find Dr. Heart.

Yeah, I seem to use Wrex all the time as well. He seems to be a good mixture of tough as hell and Biotics. For the Tech side Iv'e been playing Tali'Zorah, who's name I had to look up online just to not sound like to much of a dumbass :)

[timrpgland]

If you are going for the ally achievements (which give you character bonuses) you pretty much have to do everything in a continue with that character in your party. Can't mix it up at all really. Counts side stuff as well. At 870/1000 of the achievements but haven't played it since my 3rd finish on insanity. I can easily get the 50pts and grind to 60 with one of my 3 finished careers but the last 80pts is for 4 ally achievements... meaning another 2 FULL playthroughs to get them all. Don't really feel like beating it another 2 times at this point.

Loved the game though. Hope to see more good stuff from Bioware during the transition.

[kateness87]

Final Fantasy XII, mostly. Also trying to get better at Guitar Hero 3 but that hasn't happened yet...

Oh, and Super Mario RPG via a rom, because that game kicks ass.

[Esuohlim]

Final Fantasy III, then probably Wind Waker again.

[executioneer]

spider solitare

[Fatacula]

Good lord thats a lot of play time! Thanks for the insight :)

[Guitar Woman]

Trauma Center, on the DS.

The plot is ridiculous.

[Guitar Woman]

Also, the magnify tool is fucking broken and retarded and the biggest reason all my patients keep dying.

[bigtimecow]

i'm slowly completing mario galaxy again so i can get the 121st star, and i downloaded paper mario from the virtual console the other day so i'm playing through that slowly.

i'm so slow with games. not because i suck but because i play them for like an hour every couple days :(

[zeldasbiggestfan]

I haven't played Zelda in awhile, but! Today I started Super Paper Mario again.

[Zomboid]

In that case, you'd better get to playing zelda again, post haste! The world is a sadder place without you in it and doing what you do best, my friend! :)

[boshobosho]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Bioshock, and I occasionally go back to Arcanum. I will beat that game someday, I just have to enjoy it for long enough, not just in spurts.

[zeldasbiggestfan]

In that case, you'd better get to playing zelda again, post haste! The world is a sadder place without you in it and doing what you do best, my friend! :)
Fuck you.

[MLE]

I thought Zomboid brought up a salient point, my friend.

[Guitar Woman]

I was up all night playing Fallout. Either I have a knack for making failure characters in wRPGs or this game is hard as FUCK

[macrodeath]

Aaah, Fallout. Didn't work on XP, but when we got Vista, it's playing just right. Fallout 2 works too...
Yeah, i've been playing Doom again, Space quest 5, Leisure suit Larry games, Grim fandango, and Sam & Max :)

[Fathom Zero]

Please don't call them wRPGs, you asshole. Thanks! :)

[Guitar Woman]

why

[Fathom Zero]

Because that's a stupid classification.

[Guitar Woman]

why

[Fathom Zero]

why why why

why why why

why wyh why

[Guitar Woman]

I am requesting an explanation because you are being illogical

EVERYONE calls them that, I don't see what your problem is

[Zomboid]

Fallout 1 and 2 are fucking classics. I finished mass effect last night so now I'm playing assassin's creed and after that, mario galaxy. I'd probably have started it already but I don't have the rf switch thing here and I'm too lazy to fuck around with the cables every time I switch consoles.

[Emu]

Where can I get Fallout? :(

[Guitar Woman]

http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=813036

[Zomboid]

This should be both of them. You'll probably wanna play the sequel after ya beat the first. It's a little bit different in some ways but overall it's about as good. The main difference is that there's more comedy in the second one.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/870129

[Fathom Zero]

EVERYONE calls them that, I don't see what your problem is

I'm willing to contest that with bullets. NOBODY calls them that.

[Guitar Woman]

I like how this game enjoys putting me up against small armies of overpowered enemies who I swear to god get two combat turns in a row and all have incredibly high agility allowing them to dodge EVERY FUCKING ATTACK I MAKE THEN RUN IN AND RAPE ME

How the fuck do you survive having dynamite covertly planted on you then getting hit with three consecutive frag grenades, jesus christ

[executioneer]

have you tried adjusting the combat difficulty down some :(

[Guitar Woman]

lol, I got turned into a mutant and then the survivors of the attack on Vault 13 got the same treatment ;<

Most people would be unsatisfied, but I think that's a pretty awesome ending!

[argonath]

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 for the Xbox, and (to a lesser degree) The Simpsons Game on the Wii.

[Spetsnaz]

I've been playing Saint's Row on Xbox 360 for the past week.

And as for Fallout, I loved those fucking games as a kid. Ever play the offshoot Fallout : Brotherhood of the Steel for PS2?

[Dr. Boogie]

Currently playng WoW, but it's just about run its course.

[Fathom Zero]

HEY STOP STEALING

[Dr. Boogie]

I don't know what you're talking about, and I ain't gonna dig through this thread to find out.

[Guitar Woman]

Really Obscure Game Bittorrent Search: Omikron Edition

it sucks

[liquidstatik]

fiesta online ;D

[Esuohlim]

I've been playing some hard-ass Super Mario World romhacks, like Luigi's Adventure and Super Demo World, and I have to save state like every 15 seconds.

[executioneer]

la-mulana

p.s.: FUCK la-mulana

[Fat_Hippo]

lol, I got turned into a mutant and then the survivors of the attack on Vault 13 got the same treatment ;<

Most people would be unsatisfied, but I think that's a pretty awesome ending!


Uhhhh, you DO know that there is a "happy ending" to the game, don't you? And not only the mutation one? It involves kicking mutant-army ass, so if you haven't gotten that ending, you haven't REALLY beaten the game yet.

At the moment, I'm playing CoD4 on Veteran, which is simply hellish if you haven't tried it yet, but I'm about 3/4 through. I'm also playing Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic on the side and I've started a new game in Baldur's Gate 2 with a shitload of mods.

And if you're wondering where I get the time, I'm on Vacation.

[Codiekitty]

I beat Panzer Dragoon Saga last night, and boy did that ending suck.

The game itself was okay. Really good at some spots, really annoying at others, but anyone who calls it the greatest RPG ever is trying to justify laying down $150 for it aside from collection reasons, wants everyone who can't afford it to be jealous, and/or simply off their rocker.

[Guitar Woman]

Splatterhouse.

:\

[Guitar Woman]

So this is probably the worst 6 dollars I've ever spent

[Grossenschwamm]

Fallout 1, Arcanum, and I just completely finished Twilight Princess on the Wii.

My preferred acronym for fallout 1 and 2 is C*RPG, or just RPG. Calling it western is so odd...you don't see everyone calling an RPG from Japan or Korea an eRPG, do you?

*It's on the computer, so "c" works out pretty well.

Splatterhouse is just gory. The second and third ones are also gory, but have better gameplay value and better looking gore. However, they have the same driving plot line so I consider Splatterhouse 3 more of an expansion of 2. I guess that's just me being finicky. Though, having your evil mask tell you to save your girlfriend from the same house in two games is a little repetitive, despite the crazy mutant mode and time limits in number 3 (I guess having that little kid tacked on counts as an extra story element...but whatever).

[Guitar Woman]

This game'd be great if it didn't control so horribly and had a little more gameplay variety

I feel like I'm playing Faces of Evil: Jason Voorhees Edition :x

[Guitar Woman]

Also, I finished Battletoads last night.

I feel so special

[Moobs]

just completed assassins creed, now for a bit of pokemon blue..

[Esuohlim]

How many games do you guys usually play at once? This question is mostly directed at GW but normal people can answer too.

I find that if I try to start something while in the middle of something else I end up completely losing interest in the other game. Right now I'm about halfway through DS FF3 and I can't bring myself to play it for more than five minutes without turning it off >:

[Emu]

If you awnt me to include everything I'm playing on-and-off:

Final Fantasy 2/4
Persona 3
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
Star Ocean: TtEoT
Shenmue
Marvel v. Capcom
Sonic Adventure
Spyro the Dragon
Castlevania: SOTN

and probably some others

[Fat_Hippo]

Esuohlim, that happens to me sometimes too. My advice to you, would be to simply fight your way through this tedious part, because it might get better later again. Sometimes all it takes is a half hour, and suddenly you're motivated again. Unless of course, you're simply tired of the game mechanics in every way 'cause there's no variety, and then you might as well give up.

Now to your question: It varies. Sometimes only one, sometimes as many as 4. I usually have one main game though, playing others a bit on the side. Some games I play sporadically. You know, nothing goes over a good round of worms for example. Mhhmmm...I gotta play some Worms again...now where did I put that CD...:confused:

I also just realized that I hadn't quite finished Mafia yet, and seeing how I've only got 2 levels left, I might as well finish it, even though I thinks it's way overhyped by most people.

[Guitar Woman]

I play too many games ;<

Not lately, though, cuz everything I've started playing in the past month I've hated to death for some reason or another and quit.

Currently, my CONQUESTS IN PROGRESS are as follows:
The Longest Journey
Fallout
Earthbound Zero
Super Mario Galaxy
ActRaiser
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Normally I play way more stuff at a time than this, but the computer I got stuck with after mine exploded is a horrendous piece of shit that has problems running NES emulators, and since most of what I'm playing these days are PC games I'm really SOL at the moment.

[bigtimecow]

WHILE I'M WAITING FOR BRAWL

i just bought viewtiful joe for 5 bucks and it's hella fun. getting hard, but still fun and... "viewtiful" (?) as ever

also on the last (i think) level / puzzle in zack and wiki. this thing is taking me forever to figure out. but i THINK i got it.

and i need to collect the last like 20 stars as luigi in super mario galaxy

[executioneer]

i'm basically constantly playing master of magic and master of orion 2 in between whatever other games i'm playing

[Grossenschwamm]

I'll always play Arcanum and Bladur's Gate 2. It's just that there's so much variety in how you can play the game, and there's an option to make combat real-time or turn-based, as opposed to Fallout 1 and 2 constantly in turn based combat.
Don't get me wrong, both Fallouts are great games, and have a great deal of variety and replay value as well. They're made by the same team that made Arcanum!
Another game that's good, despite massive bugs and glitches;
Vampire, the Masquerade; Bloodlines.
It's a complex game, but it's easy to pick up. It came out back in '04, but it didn't run well unless you had a computer that was good by '06 standards.
Also, I tend to play up to four games at once, in a staggered rotation.
At one point, I was playing Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Arcanum, and Half Life 2. I'd play each one for about two days, then switch to another for two days, then take a gaming break, and continue the pattern over until each game was done. I guess it's like an exercise regimen, but you don't get in shape and your eyes are the only thing that's sore at the end of the day...

Ah, and Guitar Woman, I'm guessing your sig is part of a Metroid comic? That looks like Ridley.

[Fathom Zero]

How many games do you guys usually play at once? This question is mostly directed at GW but normal people can answer too.

I find that if I try to start something while in the middle of something else I end up completely losing interest in the other game. Right now I'm about halfway through DS FF3 and I can't bring myself to play it for more than five minutes without turning it off >:

I can play upwards of four, but only if they're the same genre. For instance, right now I'm playing Bioshock, the Orange Box, and Halo 3. But if I were to play Mass Effect again, I wouldn't be able to adjust as easily. Only adjust isn't really the word I was looking for. More like, switching between the games is seemless.

[WhiteRat]

How many games do you guys usually play at once? This question is mostly directed at GW but normal people can answer too.

I find that if I try to start something while in the middle of something else I end up completely losing interest in the other game. Right now I'm about halfway through DS FF3 and I can't bring myself to play it for more than five minutes without turning it off >:

GTA: San Andreas - PS2
GTA: Vice City Stories - PS2
NCAA Football 08 - 360
BF2 - PC
Grandia 2 - Been playing this game off and on for 2 years and i'm only halfway through.

[Zomboid]

Mass Effect and Halo 3 again. Mass Effect cause I really wanted to play it again and I wanna unlock the hardest difficulty and then in a couple months I'll probably be back at it again. Halo 3 cause I'm trying to get some of the achievements. I helped sam get a couple the other day and it's actually pretty fun.

[Codiekitty]

Neutopia 2, cleared the first five dungeons. It's a little better than the first one, but still has its own quirks, namely using the Fire or Wind Staff on enemies tends to recoil them into you.

[Angryhydralisk]

I've just finished Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The last boss was good and challenging but the game almost felt like it petered out by the last dungeon. I mean, shit.....my prize in the last dungeon is a hammer.

[Guitar Woman]

So I think a better title for The Longest Journey would have been "MacGyver: The Game"

[MetalMilitia]

I've been trying to play SimCity 4, but as with all other SimCity games I can never manage to get enough chumps to move into my city without completely bankrupting myself.

[Codiekitty]

I beat Neutopia 2. Eh.

Some parts are better than the first game, namely dungeon design. Other parts could make the Dali Lama curse.

[Guitar Woman]

I just found my first ever gameboy with Pokemon Gold still in it and working. It's been lost since I was 11.

I'm playing that. :D

[Esuohlim]

Have fun trying to play a game you can't save anymore since the internal batteries have most certainly run out by now.

[executioneer]

i'm playing the windows remakes of the old ICOM classics (shadowgate, deja vu 1 & 2, uninvited)

[Guitar Woman]

Have fun trying to play a game you can't save anymore since the internal batteries have most certainly run out by now.
Well, no, that's what I meant by "still working."

It saved the clock and everything!

[Sam]

Devil May Cry 4, No More Heros, Zack and Wiki, Halo 3 with Zomboid, Advanced Wars DS, and Vagrant Story. :(

[Emu]

I can't get into Vagrant Story no matter how hard I try :[

[darkvare]

im playing contra advance, halo 3, castlevania DoS, resident evil ds rebirth mode, umbrella cronichles, megaman zx, guitar hero 3 and zelda phantom hourglass for the thrid play time
something off topic for emu http://www.grupogifo.com/images/hecho_mex.gif

[bigtimecow]

i thought i was done zack and wiki but i am not. the level "barbaros land" is hard as fuck though. and the LAST level that i'm on right now (the one after that) has less hiramQ than the one before it. weird.

OH YEAH AND BRAWL COMES OUT OUT IN LIKE < 3 WEEKS

[Esuohlim]

Well, no, that's what I meant by "still working."

It saved the clock and everything!

What the hell is this witchery >:

[Sam]

What the hell is this witchery >:

My Silver still works too.

[Emu]

My silver works, but my brother's gold doesn't.

[Pub Lover]

I'm playing Silent Hill. I'm in the school's hell alternate basement with the clompy monster.
Should I have a shotgun by now?

[Emu]

Yeah. It's in the library, I think

[Pub Lover]

Thank you. I don't need to know where it is. I'll enjoy looking myself. ;)

[Emu]

It might not be there, but you should definitely have it by now, I know that. Because

in that one storybook you find about the boy fighting the monster that foreshadows the boss, his bow and arrows = your shotgun.

[Pub Lover]

It was that item that gave me the idea that I should use the shotgun. Plus the pistol gets me killed everytime.

[Dr. Boogie]

I started playing Dark Messiah of Might and Magic again. Now that they've finally fixed the huge number of crashes (mostly), the game is actually playable.

[Guitar Woman]

Super Paper Mario is brilliant :<

[Slobulus]

I recently began playing Zelda: A Link To The Past for SNES (i find that title interesting today) and managed to get far enough where i became a walking talking bunny. It happened right after i had my first Aganihm(sp) fight which i thought was the last fight in the game. Now it looks like I will be traveling around the map as a rabbit before I finally reach the actual end. Its a remarkable game. I find it pleasing especially for a game made many years back when the Super Nintendo was released. Super Nintendo is still a powerful and beautiful system. :)

[Emu]

I stroke mine nightly.

[MetalMilitia]

I've been looking for a new single player FPS recently so I downloaded Blacksite Area 51. It's really terrible and I'd advise everyone to avoid it.

The graphics are pretty nice, but everything else about the game feels like it was pulled straight out of a 1998 shooter. It probably would've been an OK game given another year of development, but as it stands it's just horrible.

[Codiekitty]

I beat Rez on the PS2 and that has got to be one of the worst games ever made.

[Zomboid]

I recently began playing Zelda: A Link To The Past for SNES (i find that title interesting today) and managed to get far enough where i became a walking talking bunny. It happened right after i had my first Aganihm(sp) fight which i thought was the last fight in the game. Now it looks like I will be traveling around the map as a rabbit before I finally reach the actual end. Its a remarkable game. I find it pleasing especially for a game made many years back when the Super Nintendo was released. Super Nintendo is still a powerful and beautiful system. :)
I started playing that again last night. I'd gotten it for the virtual console a long time ago but forgotten about it. Also, out of the blue, last night my roommate decided to buy me 3000 wii points so we can play punch out. So I've been playing a couple other older games as well.

[MetalMilitia]

Has anyone got The Club? I'm thinking of buying it on Steam.

[Guitar Woman]

Sam and Max Episode 4.

It's completely fantastic and I'm not even past the first screen yet.

[DuFresne]

I bought Audiosurf on steam last night. For anyone who doesn't already know, it's a puzzle/racing/rhythm game where the music you choose from your computer is converted into the track your race on. It's fun, simple, and addictive like any good casual game should be, but I'm honestly amazed at how well the game interprets the music you pick. I was expecting to be disappointed there, like it would only interpret from the volume or pitch or whatever like Media Player, but it actually delivers an excelent representation of a song's mood and movement at any given point in the song.

[MetalMilitia]

I had the demo till it expired. It's quite difficult on the default mode - mono mode is fun though.

[Dr. Boogie]

I tried the demo for The Club. It seemed pretty boring to me. Basically just a generic shooter with the whole point-scoring system in place to spice things up. And melee combat sucked.

[DuFresne]

It's quite difficult on the default mode - mono mode is fun though.

Agreed. I was not surprised when I realized that most of the people on the scoreboards were playing mono mode. Strategic color-matching is great for other puzzle games, but here it just diverts your attention away from the song and track and thus doesn't really work :\

[WhiteRat]

Getting my ass handed to me playing COD4 on Live isn't fun for more than 30 minutes.

[timrpgland]

In excitement for #3. I started up a Deus Ex continue this week.

I'm getting close to the end. At Paris during the lockdown.

I really wish the sequel lived up to the original. :( The mood and feeling of the first game was never replicated in Invisible War.

[stitchfan626]

Endless Ocean for the wii. it seems kind of relaxing to see a scuba diving simulator on the wii.

[Codiekitty]

Wasn't that game called Aquanaut's Holiday back on the Playstation?

Anyway, I'm playing Phoenix Wright 3, and I'm to the second trial in the second case. It's kind of blah so far.

[MacLeon]

Princess Maker 2 For MS-DOS.

[Emu]

Your stupid text formatting isn't making you any friends.

[Zomboid]

I like it!

[Tadao]

Princess Maker 2 For MS-DOS.
__

[MacLeon]

Your stupid text formatting isn't making you any friends.
I am not looking for someone like you to be my friend.
I like it!
:)

[MetalMilitia]

I am not looking for someone like you to be my friend.

:)

...or anyone else that actually likes to read what someone is attempting to communicate though a text-only medium. :\

[Tadao]

Emu is the only one being nice to this fool. By saying "Someone like you" just shows how dumb you really are. And you really can't detect sarcasm :)

[executioneer]

i was being nice the first time, too

i hope the dick gets banned

[Girl Drink Drunk]

I'm currently trying to close all the Oblivion portals in Elder Scrolls IV. I really need to find a better game to play :(

[Karmapolice]

I'm playing Frontlines: Fuel of War which I just got yesterday.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I'm playing CoD4. stuck on the second part of the two sniping levels. where did all those guys come from?! Hardened mode is tough. :P

[Fat_Hippo]

Yeah, that part really is pretty damn tough, but if you try long enough, you should find a strategy that works for you. I did anyways.

[MetalMilitia]

I'm playing Frontlines: Fuel of War which I just got yesterday.

Yeah me too. I just played the first single-player mission last night. I was kind of drunk at the time but I don't remember being impressed.

I'll give it another go today - hopefully the multi player will be good.

EDIT:

Fuck this game is frustrating. For a start the server browser is the worst pile of shit in existence. Every time it adds another server to the list it automatically jumps to the bottom of the page which is just fucking annoying. Furthermore half the servers it finds don't work for some reason.
When you finally do get in game the game freezes every 2 minutes for about 5 seconds despite being completely fluid the rest of the time.
I really wish I'd pirated this game prior to spending the ~60 dollars it cost in the Steam store.

[RPGmaker]

Lets see ... On Ps2 Im playing Growlanser: Heritage of War..
On Ps3 im playing Assassin's Creed..
On 360 im playing Halo 3
PC im playing WoW / FFXI depending on Raids and King Camps
PsP im playing FFT ( Usually at work )
Ds im playing Hirogishami: Ruined Blue Earth Remix ( also at work or before bed)

Its fun having 3 tv's in my room .. im a nerd leave me alone in my own little world:rock

[Karmapolice]

Fuck this game is frustrating. For a start the server browser is the worst pile of shit in existence. Every time it adds another server to the list it automatically jumps to the bottom of the page which is just fucking annoying. Furthermore half the servers it finds don't work for some reason.
When you finally do get in game the game freezes every 2 minutes for about 5 seconds despite being completely fluid the rest of the time.
I really wish I'd pirated this game prior to spending the ~60 dollars it cost in the Steam store.

Yeah I heard that the Download version has some issues. I got the retail DVD version, and so far it works fine for me. Try lowering the "foliage" in the video option maybe that would help.

I wish there are offline bots in the game because recently I just found out the full game is more unbalanced than the beta. The drones take more damage, you can shoot grenade launchers up close without fear of splash damage. You can't use airstrikes where you wanted anymore and light machineguns are more accurate than the Assault rifle. Things were so much better in the Beta.

[Falconer]

I've been playing silent hill origins for the PSP.

[Fat_Hippo]

I'm playing JA2, with fan patch 1.13, since it's a pain in the ass to play without it. So far it's pretty cool, though kinda easy. That's probably my own fault, since I set it on easy, but it just starts pretty hard in my opinion, and then lightens up. That's it at the moment, though I'll probably be playing Crysis soon, if everything goes according to plan.

Edit: Okay, it's not gonna be as easy I though it would be, since I just found out that mines, your only reliable income, dry up after a while, which I did NOT KNOW. I'm gonna have to hurry the fuck up to take another mine. Fuck.

[Fathom Zero]

After spending a week with it, Call of Duty 4 doesn't have as much depth in it as I thought it would. Back to Halo 3 for me.

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah I heard that the Download version has some issues. I got the retail DVD version, and so far it works fine for me. Try lowering the "foliage" in the video option maybe that would help.

I wish there are offline bots in the game because recently I just found out the full game is more unbalanced than the beta. The drones take more damage, you can shoot grenade launchers up close without fear of splash damage. You can't use airstrikes where you wanted anymore and light machineguns are more accurate than the Assault rifle. Things were so much better in the Beta.

Right so I've sorted out my frame rate issues by lowering the settings dramatically. The single player is actually pretty fun, if a little too easy.

Multi-player is aright but I still have a few problems, the most annoying being that 90% of people use the grenade launcher as their primary weapon on urban maps. This wouldn't be so bad if you had less ammunition or if it was less accurate.

One thing I do like about the game is all the destructible objects in the maps. The physics overall are well done.

[liquidstatik]

chrono trigger && 12sky

[Karmapolice]

...the most annoying being that 90% of people use the grenade launcher as their primary weapon on urban maps. This wouldn't be so bad if you had less ammunition or if it was less accurate.


They should also add a minimum arming range for grenade launchers just like in BF2 so it will be useless on close quarters.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Virtua Fighter (32X version) on an emulator :lol

[Karmapolice]

Playing Galtanor's Invasion in UT3

[WhiteRat]

I played Forza Motorsport 2 for 5 straight hours today. :\

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Yeah, I finally randomly found a SAW and basically ran around screaming and firing and throwing grenades until I somehow survived long enough. I really didn't think it would work, I was just pissed off.

[BlackHexen]

I'm playing three games now. Everyone is cool and awesome:

Klonoa. Cutest game ever with Katamari series. Old school platformers are good.
Tomba2. Platformer and console RPG mixed together. I like this a lot. Zippo is my best friend.

And 3. is one of the best games ever: mAX pAYNE 2. I have never played better action game. Graphic style, good music and good plot with coolest fighting ever. Attitude is melancolic and individualist. More this kind of games. If someone can say more games like this, i'm thankful. AND MAX PAYNE IS FINNISH YEAH ALLRIGTH YEAH!!!!

[executioneer]

i'll finnish YOU >:

[Zomboid]

I'm playing resident evil 4 again.

[ElPila666]

The Punisher remains me Max Payne, maybe you should try that one, also there are the Hitman series but they just more stealth than the others. i still have to try the last Shyphon Filters they were fine at the psone, i really miss Gabe Logan

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I'm playing three games now. Everyone is cool and awesome:

Klonoa. Cutest game ever with Katamari series. Old school platformers are good.
Tomba2. Platformer and console RPG mixed together. I like this a lot. Zippo is my best friend.

And 3. is one of the best games ever: mAX pAYNE 2. I have never played better action game. Graphic style, good music and good plot with coolest fighting ever. Attitude is melancolic and individualist. More this kind of games. If someone can say more games like this, i'm thankful. AND MAX PAYNE IS FINNISH YEAH ALLRIGTH YEAH!!!!
dude, i freaking loved klonoa, until it sold out like sonic did.

[liquidstatik]

CHRONO TIGGERRR, and its HARD ;_;

[executioneer]

chrono tiger hahah

[Guitar Woman]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6634/jsr6wm7.jpg

[Esuohlim]

I'm playing Super Mario Sunshine again :]

I've been playing nothing but Mario games since September :(

[liquidstatik]

chrono tiger hahah

whooops forgot the r!

[executioneer]

right now i'm trying to get OMIKRON: The Nomad Soul running, but i have run into some snags

snag #1: it has got oldfashioned cd copy protection, that was designed for win 98 and therefore CAN NOT SEE THE DISC WHATSOEVER. fixd by using a nocd crack.

snag #2: tries to display the eidos logo and crashes to desktop- i hear the sound for about a half second, but see nothing. i have tried all sorts of combinations of compatibility modes/etc, atm i am downloading new gfx card drivers to see if that helps (probly not though, since it does it in software accelerated mode too)

edit: of course it isn't even trying to do 3d at that point, so who knows

[executioneer]

well new drivers did not help, but replacing the three .mpgs in the FLI directory with empty txt files with the same name and extension DID :eek

[liquidstatik]

hahaha, nice. :o

[executioneer]

unfortunately, i don't think i can do anything about the last problem: this game sucks

it's got resident evil tank-style controls for the non-combat parts, and in order to save you have to collect "magic rings" (cough cough ink ribbons) and there's a limited number of them and you also can use them to buy hints when you're stuck, so what inevitably happens is in the sake of being frugal i will not save when i really should and then get killed/the game crashes and i have to restart (THIS JUST HAPPENED BTW)

although the story IS interesting, and i think i've actually gotten farther this time, the interface and mechanics are just so off-putting

maybe if i had it for DC and could feel more secure that it's not gonna crash (and so that the shit control scheme could be justified) i'd be enjoying it more, idk

oh ps for some reason when you're in the inventory screen it gets incredibly unresponsive, sometimes you have to push a button two or three times before it responds

[Guitar Woman]

I was always able to save without gathering the magic rings, sort of like how in Tomb Raider 3 it says you have to gather Save Crystals to record your progress, but you really don't.

I could be wrong, it's been forevereverever since I've played. :(

I've never had problems with tank controls in any game, either, but I guess that's a big issue for some people

[executioneer]

well on the pc when i can't use a controller, it just seems more annoying

it's really the most minor of my complaints

oh btw it wouldn't let me use my gamepad for whatever reason

[bigtimecow]

i just started playing the incredible machine :O

edit: again

[Dr. Octogonopus]

GW, I freaking loved JSR. Especially JSRfuture. One of the few games that involved roller skates, graffiti, and LSD I will ever like.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6634/jsr6wm7.jpg
That screenshot looks pretty gay :O

[Girl Drink Drunk]

I'm playing The Tick on a Genesis emulator.

[stitchfan626]

i'm playing endless ocean (i know, it's a relaxingly addictive scuba diving sim, but this will do until SSBB comes out).

[Symphony of the Belmonts]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

[WhiteRat]

Daytona USA 2001 for Dreamcast. I'm thoroughly enjoying the awesome soundtrack.

[Karmapolice]

W40k: Dawn of War

[timrpgland]

Been playing The Witcher finally. I've heard mixed feelings about it but I'm liking it.

[Dr. Boogie]

Finished Stranglehold over the weekend. A fun Max Payne-style game with enough variation to keep it from being totally derivative, but a little too short to justify the $60 price tag.

[argonath]

Picked up Guitar Hero III and SSSB over the weekend. Not a lot of time to play either of them, but they're there when I'm ready, dammit.

[WhiteRat]

Finished Stranglehold over the weekend. A fun Max Payne-style game with enough variation to keep it from being totally derivative, but a little too short to justify the $60 price tag.

I've been trying to finish this game for about 5 months now but every time I play it I get bored and quit after 5 minutes.

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah same. In the end I deleted it because it was taking up about 12GB of space on my hard drive.
The combat just isn't as fun as other third-person-slowmotion-em-ups.

[Karmapolice]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars under Sabayon Linux

[theaccidentalmimo]

Wild Arms III, because it was 5 bucks. And strangly enough, I like it better than the Final Fantasy I paid 17 for.

[BurntToShreds]

I've been switching between Army of Two and Smash Bros. Brawl. If you wanna play Army of Two, Send me a friend request. My Gamertag is KingOfHell.

[Karmapolice]

I'm gonna get it tomorrow. If you want to add me my tag is elgie :rock

[stitchfan626]

super smash bros. brawl. the one thing i'm getting a kick out of in this game is the stage builder mode. i already made a couple of stages (some examples include the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and a partially crude adaptation of the first Pit from Mortal Kombat 1.)

[OxBlood]

Just finished Persona 3, now playing Odin Sphere (both games just came out some weeks ago here).

Waiting for Condemned 2.

[Dr. Boogie]

Finished Condemned II over the weekend. All in all, an improvement over the original, but they use darkness way too much in that game.

I didn't think they could have the game in Germany because of there being people on fire (and also mutilations and body modifications, but mostly the flaming guy)?

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah when I played the first game on PC I had to have my monitor set to "super-brighto-cheat-mode" in order to see what the hell was going on. I can see why they do it but it gets annoying pretty fast.

[RaNkeri]

Aggressive Alpine Skiing :(

[Dr. Boogie]

Yeah when I played the first game on PC I had to have my monitor set to "super-brighto-cheat-mode" in order to see what the hell was going on. I can see why they do it but it gets annoying pretty fast.

They actually do this the worst in the very first level. In the last half of the level, you'll be fighting all-black creatures against an all-black background. I could feel myself getting eye strain.

Thankfully, they never do it that bad again. Well, almost in one level, but that's it.

[Chojin]

I thought the first condemned was cripplingly boring, and it doesn't sound like adding doom 3 elements to it would help much ;<

I played a bit of stranglehold on the 360 - great graphics and a lot of things are executed well but the controls are downright terrible. and unfortunately the torrent I got for PC requires dual-layer DVDs ;<

Smash bros is a good game but mostly more of the same and the online is a joke.

Still playing strikers ;<

installed oblivion again, spent an entire day loading it up with mods, and then got bored of it the day after.

pretty bored of fiesta ;M

looking forward to mario kart and wii fit, and moreso on the latter. I've already been on a diet and exercising for the past two months, but I think it'll be fun. that company that's making the brain-control game also seems interesting :o

[Karmapolice]

OpenArena - a free open-sourceQuake 3 clone

but before that i played Army of Two. The coop part is great but the game itself is way too short. I just bought it last Saturday, played it for more or less an hour everyday and now I'm on the last mission of the game. The online feature is lacking. I wish you could join somebody's single player game and vice versa just like in Crackdown.

[executioneer]

I played a bit of stranglehold on the 360 - great graphics and a lot of things are executed well but the controls are downright terrible. and unfortunately the torrent I got for PC requires dual-layer DVDs ;<

does daemontools/whatever not properly emulate dual layer or does it just not let you run it from a mounted image

[OxBlood]

Finished Condemned II over the weekend. All in all, an improvement over the original, but they use darkness way too much in that game.

I didn't think they could have the game in Germany because of there being people on fire (and also mutilations and body modifications, but mostly the flaming guy)?

Actually, the first one IS confiscated here, so I guess the second one will be too. But luckily, we have Austria and the UK around, so we poor german gamers (living in Carebear-Country as it seems), can still get our hands on it.

Strangely though, the guys who watch over violent media and give out the ratings, confiscated (forbidden to be sold in germany) Condemned 1 and Dead Rising, but gave Assassin´s Creed a 16-Rating, which would be your "Teen" if I´m not mistaken. Assassin´s Creed of all things.

[Dr. Boogie]

To be fair, Assassin's Creed is so boring that you're likely to miss all the violence because you're struggling to stay awake.

[Guitar Woman]

I love Assassin's Creed :(

[Guitar Woman]

admittedly part of the reason is for how broken it is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4zC9i0Vt0o&feature=related (http://www.litkicks.com/HerbertHuncke)

[Shyandquietguy]

I have been playing Dungeon Keeper 2 for a while now. Keep truckin', I know I will. And I mean that last line in the term of "I am stuck in a closed campus dorm."

[Redem]

Well got myself San Andreas recently mainly cause my comp getting old and I'm cheap

[OxBlood]

To be fair, Assassin's Creed is so boring that you're likely to miss all the violence because you're struggling to stay awake.

But it´s a good example of how random our Rating-Guys are. The game IS pretty violent and murder IS the point of the whole thing after all. And thats normally their point. "Blah blah, violence should never be the point of the thing, blah blah bunnies and candy don´t kill people, let´s ban everything else, yadda yadda." Desperately trying to protect the youth, ignoring all other reasons for violent or problematic behaviour...*sighs* Which is okay with me, as long as I as an adult person am not...*thinks of a word*...paternalised? Which is sadly exactly what´s happening here.

[The Mighty Pinto]

Picked up Condemned 2: Bloodshot over the weekend, but I didn't get a chance to play it until Monday night, and I've resolved to do a chapter a night, so I'm on chapter 3 right now.

Anyone else notice how the first chapter is an obvious reference to Return of the Living Dead Pt. 1? I mean, the last half of the level takes place in a Medical supply warehouse, and the whole stage is littered with creatures that are obviously Tar-men. All it needed was Clu Gulager.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

My friend just showed me this game called Crime Fighter 2.0 that came out for windows in 2000. I've finally found a game so terrible it's fun. Picture Drug wars made by germany and then translated awkwardly to English. For instance you can "Organize" a car from the lot, but sometimes the owner shows up and you gunfight him. Too bad the owner is "Rambo", "Granny" or "Al Capone". You can kidnap children from a park and either ransom them or sell them for child labor. Sometimes that doesn't work because they have Tommy Guns though.

[MLE]

I just started the new Ace Attorney game for DS. It seems to be of the same caliber as the last three! If you liked the other three, you'll like this. If you didn't like them, you won't like this.

Personally, I think the series is fabulous.

[Guitar Woman]

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/4/3/21/f_Morrowind5m_f05cf39.jpg

[Emu]

and that's what, WoW?

[Dr. Boogie]

I thought you hated that game.

[Guitar Woman]

Morrowind has the worst running engine and most agonizing gameplay I've ever fucking seen, but I do like the story and general mythos :o

I also modded the fuck out of it, that might have helped a bit

[King Hadas]

I finished Mass Effect and am going through it again as a girl this time (you can make a character that looks an awful lot like Major Kira from Deep Space Nine, I wonder if that was intentional). What they did with your characters dialog was really clever, giving your character the general tone of what your going to say through the conversation wheel rather than just spell it out for you adds a whole new layer to the dialog and makes it very difficult not to play through the game as a hardass. You have to understand how much I loved the writing in this game since if anyone asks I'll tell them Mass Effect is fantastic without bothering to tell them that the gameplay is awful. I'll only turn the difficulty down on a game if I feel the game mechanics suck and the only other game I've ever done that with is the Resident Evil REmake. Also, they're way to stingy with the autosaves.

[Guitar Woman]

I beat REmake on Real Survival with an exploding zombie stalking me throughout the mansion, stop being a nancy.

Then again, tank controls seem to really bug the fuck out of other people and render a game all but unplayable for them, so whatever

[King Hadas]

You know I've beaten God of War 1 and 2 both on god mode. It was hard but I enjoyed doing it because I enjoy playing God of War. Now, I like Resident Evil okay, but I don't like PLAYING Resident Evil. Ya feel me?

[Fat_Hippo]

I've started playing Dawn of War + Expansions again, especially over LAN with my brother. It's good.

[Guitar Woman]

oh oh I also got to play TF2 finally :o

It actually really sucked, but I have concluded that it was because the 360 port of the Orange Box has the worst aiming in the history of console shooters

I tried out every class except Soldier, and I sucked least with the Demoman.

I also ran around screaming MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC MEDIC over and over again

[bigtimecow]

me and some friends are on a gta spree

gta3
vice city
vice city stories
san andreas

and brawl duh

[XtinaxFan]

Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast.
The people going nuts when they get out of my speeding homicidal vehicle never fails to amuse me.

[bigtimecow]

man i wish i had a fucking dreamcast with crazy taxi and that power gem crystal whatever game

i just found metal gear solid the twin snakes and have started that. :D

[Mintrude]

Oblivion. Can't find a will-o-the-wisp anywhere.

[WhiteRat]

Sonic CD. Just got this off of Amazon for 5 bucks and it's easily worth the money. First time playing it and it's a nice twist to the old school Sonic games.

[peacetokengy]

Age of Empires on DS!

[Fat_Hippo]

Still playing some DoW, but I'm also getting into Unreal Tournament 3 and Crysis. Now, graphics comparison: I'm sure Crysis could look better if I had a PC from the future, but for what my hardware can run, and it's pretty good, UT3 beats Crysis out of the water. More time should have been spent optimizing Crysis, because as it is, it's pathetic how much hardware it needs to do what it does.
Unfortunately, being the idiot I am, I played the shit out of original UT before starting to play UT3, and despite their differences, they're still pretty damn similar at the core. So I don't actually feel like playing UT3 much at the moment, so I'll probably finish Crysis before playing UT3 much more.

[BlackHexen]

I finished Max Payne 2 few weeks ago. Now i started Final fantasy 9. It's fucking awesome, why I haven't like this before >: (

[Pandajuice]

I finished Max Payne 2 few weeks ago. Now i started Final fantasy 9. It's fucking awesome, why I haven't like this before >: (

FF9 is my favourite of the series. I just managed to complete FFX-2 last week actually with 96% on the first play through. An enjoyable game.

Right now, I'm playing through the Hitman series that I gave up on a few years ago. I'm enjoying it a lot more now than I did when it came out.

[thebiggameover]

im still playing psu. ive been playing it for almost a year now. wtf?

[Fathom Zero]

Oblivion. Can't find a will-o-the-wisp anywhere.

I could never find it, and when I killed it, it never dropped anything.

[Zomboid]

What? I always got attacked by those fucking things. Most of the time I didn't have anything that could hurt them either :(

[executioneer]

fucking hate wisps

and anything else that damages your stats so you have to take a potion or spell to restore them, but especially wisps cause they're nearly invisible when they haven't seen you and COMPLETELY invisible when they have >:

[Girl Drink Drunk]

I'm playing Shinobi III at the moment, bitches.

I've had many close calls with Wisps. Also, I fucking hated those goblins.

[layla17]

Army of 2

[Guitar Woman]

Phantasy Star Online!

Also I got TES Arena working, it's ok.

[MetalMilitia]

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.

This game never got the recognition it deserved. It's really fast, skillful and strategic.
I mean people say it takes skill to be good at UT or CS, which is true but at the end o fthe day you're still just pointing on the enemy and clicking. In HL2DM you actually have to consider exactly which weapon or object is best suited for the situation. So in a matter of seconds you need to look around you check for suitable grav gun objects (sinks, toilets and radiators are preferential) if none are in range switch to your best weapon for the range at which the enemy is at while simultaneously avoiding anything they throw or shoot at you.

It's just a shame it probably won't ever get updated with new official content. Most of the user maps are junk.

[Esuohlim]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8843/beavis1iz8.png

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8392/beavis2zr9.png

I spent the better part of this afternoon playing through Beavis & Butthead for Genesis again :nostalgia

[Guitar Woman]

HL2 Deathmatch was over for me once I found out how to suit zoom snipe people. It is really fun, though!

[Asila]

Mass Effect STILL. This game is taking forever to get through.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

They need to make a Deathwish game. Only make it good, not like "The Warriors" game.

[Guitar Woman]

You are out of your mind :<

[Karmapolice]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

[Action Ham]

Well. I decided to hit up Code Veronica again, despite the fact that the last time I played it, it horribly glitched a few rooms away from the final boss.

[Zomboid]

I spent the better part of this afternoon playing through Beavis & Butthead for Genesis again :nostalgia
I love that game! It was one of my favorites as a kid too. I especially remember this one time where I was in the video store with my mom and this younger kid was there with his mom. He was looking at the game, put it down, then went to tell his mom he'd like to rent it. They were a few aisles down but I heard them just fine and when they started coming back to get it, I took it for myself :D


Then when I saw him in school, I made fun of him by telling him how awesome it is.

[Esuohlim]

Beavis and Butthead is fucking impossible if you don't know what you're doing. I tried it from memory and ended up forgetting about the gum under the teacher's desk and the soap in one of the bathrooms. I don't know how anyone could have finished that game without a walkthrough.

[Fathom Zero]

I have 4x the number of kills with the pistol over the guy below me on a server. I'm numbah one.

[executioneer]

i just finish half life 2 ep1

it's ok!

[Fathom Zero]

Left 4 Dead is gonna be tight.

[Karmapolice]

Kingpin: Life of Crime. I can't find a linux version of the Krazebot.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I've been playing Symphony of the Night. I still need one more Dracula relic. I think it's the eye. Help?! Where's the last boss I need to kill?!

[bigtimecow]

trauma center for the ds. this game is frustrating as fuuuuck.

and sonic rush for the ds, after trying sonic rush adventure and getting sick of all the stylus bullshit.

[OxBlood]

Jade Empire, love that game.

[T-Rex]

I'm back on Vegas 2's single campaign. Man, being a total bad ass rules. Forget stealth, breach doors and run in shooting! I usually keep a Scout Tactical as my secondary weapon. It's so retarded, yet so satisfying to kill somebody at close-range with a blind-fire shot from a sniper rifle.

[Guitar Woman]

GTA: Vice City!

The soundtrack is fantastic, the rest of it is ok.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Are you playing the PC version, GW?

[Zomboid]

Beavis and Butthead is fucking impossible if you don't know what you're doing. I tried it from memory and ended up forgetting about the gum under the teacher's desk and the soap in one of the bathrooms. I don't know how anyone could have finished that game without a walkthrough.
Yeah, I remember getting about 3/4 of the ticket pieces and being totally in the dark as to how to get the rest. Also, I think you can fuck yourself over and have to start over if you don't save enough money for certain things.

[Guitar Woman]

Yes!

The controls for that RC Helicoptor mission were so bad that I thought I'd never be able to finish it

[Dr. Octogonopus]

I got stuck on that part too.
Having a laggy crappy comp didn't help.

[Pub Lover]

The controls for that RC Helicoptor mission were so bad that I thought I'd never be able to finish it

That part took me three months to get through. Fuck the helicopter, I wanted to just shoot the barrells.

[Emu]

Picked up Portal today :(

[Madface]

I'm playing RE4...and I can't help but notice that the rocket launcher is like the deus ex machina for every boss fight. I mean i got powned by the two gigantes in the underground steel mill or whatever the fuck but as soon as I pulled the rocket launcher the bastard died before I could change weapons.

[Guitar Woman]

only weenies use the rocket launcher. Get a Red 9 or something.

[MadballChibcha]

Rght now I´m on Ninja Gaiden Black, and having a little SMB 2 and 3 just for nostagia value.

[Fat_Hippo]

I'm playing some Arcanum again, and since I for once tried to be a magick user, I am once again reminded how much magic sucks in this game early on. Especially if you wanna play in character, and as a good half-elven mage, I just don't think it's appropriate if I learn necromantic spells, which means I can't get Harm, which furthermore means I need to get stone throw, which sucks. So offensively I am fucked, defensively I am fucked, and I can only cast about 4 stone throws before I'm out of fatigue, which might kill a thug, if I'm lucky.

Being a half-ogre fighter is so much easier, but it just gets old fast. And I've been a molotov-slinging, bullet-flinging technologist so often before, and a thief too, so this was kinda my last option. Magic is just unbalanced in this game.

I'm just totally reliant on my companions, which is really lame. They do all the work, while all I can do is fall over from exhaustion after a few spells. Crap.

[MarioRPG]

I decided I'd try Twin Snakes out to see what that guy was all about. Turns out I love the game.

[executioneer]

i just beat portal, wooooo

[Forte]

I just started playing portal lol

[Ant10708]

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hour Glass for DS. I really enjoy it so far except having to constantly journey back to the Ocean King Temple.

I am also playing Super Smash Bros Brawl whenever I can get someone to come over and play.

[Niolani]

I'm playing Metroid Prime Hunters and Phamtom Hourglass on my new DS console. And I agree with Ant10708, it always annoying to always go back on the Ocean King temple. You always have to do it quickly before the sand of time run out of the hourglass. Most annoying parts of the game.

[Guitar Woman]

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6159/lol2hd3.jpg

[stitchfan626]

on the DS, Pokemon Diamond (got Dialga yesterday). and on the PS2, Forgotten Worlds, Final Fight, and SF2: CE via Capcom Classics Collection 1

[OxBlood]

"The world ends with you". Wonderful game.

[WhiteRat]

My newly purchased Nintendo 64.

[Fathom Zero]

My friend is giving me every one of his video games, including N64, Gamecube, PS2 and fifty games. He says he has every game he needs on his kickass emulatin' computer.

[Emu]

give him my shipping info

[Fathom Zero]

Phat chance of that, bro-dawg.

[WhiteRat]

Tonight I went into the local game store looking for cheap n64 games. Instead I found a Sega Saturn for 20 bucks as well as a few games including Nights. My months long search is over.

[Emu]

What the fuck

Everybody gets good deals but me :[

[Esuohlim]

I can't find a Wii anywhere :(

I went to Blockbuster this afternoon and they had signs in the windows saying they were in stock. They told me they sold them all in two days :(

[Pub Lover]

In GTA:SA if you put the car lifting magnet onto a car, deploy the cable as much as it will go then get into the car & drive away, the car will swing into the air. I am doing this while imagining that I am Willie & doing it for real.

Maybe including lit fireworks.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Just started playing Twilight Princess for Wii. I didn't think I was going to like it but love it now. I just don't like how they mirrored the game to make Link right-handed.

[Zomboid]

I can't find a Wii anywhere :(

I went to Blockbuster this afternoon and they had signs in the windows saying they were in stock. They told me they sold them all in two days :(

Why do you want one so badly?