What are you playing now?

[Kelverin]

Finished Icewind Dale, with a solo Cleric/Mage.

 

Imported over to Heart of Winter. Burial Island is much easier with a 24th level Cleric.

[Mulatdood]

I'm playing Rock Band for the Xbox 360, and sometimes Dynasty Tactics 2 for the PS2.

[Pidesco]

15,000 is high points? Pfft. Try a half-million!

 

 

I only got time to play my Civ game for a half-hour or so last night, comprising about 10 turns of peaceful development.

 

It's enough for the game to consider me a Caesar Augustus. What's up with that?

[Hell Kitty]

R6:V2 and Masq.

[Tale]

The oft (but not wholly) underappreciated PSOne RPG Chrono Cross. Probably the most non-linear JRPG ever made. Not Oblivion/Morrowind non-linear, but slightly-less-than-Deus Ex non-linear. You always go to the same place next, but there's optional events you can miss out on (I missed an event at Hermit's Hideaway), you have to make tradeoffs on some characters you recruit (if you get Kid early, you can't get Leena), and at least one area has a choice of paths (access through a tunnel in a forest, climb the cliff wall, barge in through the front gates).

[Deraldin]

I'm playing the "Why won't my Red Alert 3 Beta Key work?" game.

[Tale]

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

 

Pretty fun number so far. Thank god the thumbstick isn't required and you can use the dpad. But why do I use the thumbstick anyway? I hate that thing. Madness.

[Deraldin]

And you guys thought Croatia was tough. Argh! Stupid GDI! 4th mission and we are back on the same map that gave me problems in original Nod campaign. Same map as the one with the nuke truck convoy. GDI started attacking before I managed to get any units out. Finally managed to beat them back somewhat, but I ended up losing because I ran out of funds.

[Hell Kitty]

Condemned 2.

[Calax]

And you guys thought Croatia was tough. Argh! Stupid GDI! 4th mission and we are back on the same map that gave me problems in original Nod campaign. Same map as the one with the nuke truck convoy. GDI started attacking before I managed to get any units out. Finally managed to beat them back somewhat, but I ended up losing because I ran out of funds.

I'm on the third mission of kanes wrath.

[Bokishi]

Kane's Wrath require original C&C3?

[Calax]

aye laddie

[Bokishi]

Booo! I'm used to stand alone packs now. Is the campaign just as long?

Edited March 27, 2008 by Bokishi

[Oerwinde]

Jumping between Europa Universalis 3 magna mundi gold mod, The Godfather, and Smackdown vs Raw 2008.

[Tale]

And you guys thought Croatia was tough. Argh! Stupid GDI! 4th mission and we are back on the same map that gave me problems in original Nod campaign. Same map as the one with the nuke truck convoy. GDI started attacking before I managed to get any units out. Finally managed to beat them back somewhat, but I ended up losing because I ran out of funds.

I'm on the third mission of kanes wrath.

I thought that wasn't out until tomorrow! BLAST YE!

[Enoch]

I have once again abandoned my Civ4 game. It was rather late in the Medieval Age, and I had a strong enough tech/population/production lead that an eventual victory was pretty much assured. So rather than endure the tedium of building a huge army to kick everyone elses ass or climbing the tech tree to the spaceship, I started over again.

 

This time, I'm Ghandi. I began by executing a perfect Axeman rush against the Celts. My warrior spotted their worker outside their capitol and stole it in the opening moves (AIs get a free worker on Monarch difficulty). Because this is Monarch, the AI had a free archer defending her city, but my warrior just camped out on a forested hill next to their capitol. He was never attacked. With an enemy on its doorstep, the AI is essentially crippled in the early game, and won't send out workers to improve its territory or settlers to expand it. While my warrior was hanging out in Celtia, I discovered bronze working and a source of copper 2 tiles away from Delhi. As soon as I had the Wheel (to make roads), I had it connected to my city, and my 2 workers (one of which I had captured from the Celts) were chopping forests to make Axemen. After plenty of chopping and a little whipping (using Slavery to sacrafice population for production), I had 7 experienced Axemen (I had chopped a Barracks while waiting for the Wheel to finish) and marched them south to Celtia. The AI had 4 archers and 40% cultural defense by that point, but it was no contest.

 

That left me in an interesting situation, though. I'm on a small continent all of my own, with Galley-range access to another continent that is home to at least 1 other civ (Peter of the Russians). I have a work boat underway to explore the other landmass and look for more rivals. The problem is that my continent has some very odd resource distribution. There's a band of jungles between Delhi and the captured Celtic capitol with a couple rivers running through them, but they contain no special resources at all. The only happiness-producing luxury resource on my whole continent is Wines. So my two main technological priorities will be Monarchy (for Wineries and for the Hereditary Rule civic so that I can sustain more than 5 content citizens in my cities), Iron Working (so that I can deal with all this Jungle), and Code of Laws (so that I can build Courthouses, which are essential to maintaining a big empire without drowning in costs).

 

I'd love to grab the Pyramids because they'd help solve my happiness problems and have great synergies with Ghandi's "Philosophical" trait. But the only stone resource is on the far Southern end of my continent, and I doubt that I'll be able to get a city down there anytime soon. Without Stone (or the "Industrious" trait), I really doubt that a city limited to a population of 5 would be able to beat the AI to the wonder. Another excellent wonder to build would be the Great Lighthouse-- given the shape of my continent, a most of my cities are going to be coastal. That one, I think, is a bit more in-reach. I'm thinking that I'll research Masonry once Sailing is done (Sailing was chosen to open up trade routes with Peter), and then through the religious techs to Monarchy. I'm also hoping that Peter's Judaism will spread to me once trade is opened. A state religion and temples will really help with my happiness problems.

Edited March 27, 2008 by Enoch

[Calax]

I just hit that mission der... Good freaking god you need to post defenses quick.

[Deraldin]

I just hit that mission der... Good freaking god you need to post defenses quick.

 

Like I said earlier, and you people thought that Croatia was difficult. I have a feeling that you really, really need to get those purifier corpses up and running fast. Ignore static anti-air defences and go straight for a few mantis units. More expensive, but they can at least manage to kill some orcas before they completely unload on their target.

[Pidesco]

I just got pottery and two settlers from my first three goodie huts in CIV! WTF!?

[Enoch]

I just got pottery and two settlers from my first three goodie huts in CIV! WTF!?

Play Noble+ difficulty and you'll never get a Settler (or Worker) again.

[Pidesco]

I know, that's what I usually do. But two settlers in a row? C'mon.

[SteveThaiBinh]

I've never had that, and I played a lot on Warlord before making the switch to Noble.

 

You should buy a lottery ticket.

[quake]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

 

Interstate 76

 

On the tabletop: Necromunda RPG!

[mkreku]

How did you get Interstate '76 to work? I haven't been able to get it started for years.. Great game otherwise!

[Tale]

I'm absolutely loving Crisis Core. It's more action game than you might expect of a Final Fantasy title. And the action's not remotely as deep as you'd find in Devil May Cry or even God of War, but it's several steps above Diablo. And the levelling system is absolutely nonsensical. It's entirely dependent upon a slot machine.

 

But I find myself enjoying the combat a bit. And rooting for that slot machine to go all 7s so I can get a level. It's like a gambling addiction.

 

And I'm really really enjoying the characters. Abhored Genesis at first. With his prose and his hair color that looks like a bad brown dye job. But he's kind of growing on me. I hope it continues. Definitely liking Angeal, Zak, and Sephiroth (a happier Sephy).

 

One thing that kind of irks me is the absolute lack of pronouns when referring to characters. Just use one guys, I know who you're talking about already.

Edited March 28, 2008 by Tale