What are you playing now?

[Aristes]

I've thought about recruiting a couple of folks from the Obsidz thing and doing an expert campaign. I just don't want to get one started and have to leave, since that's what normally happens. Calax mentioned that the levels are cumulative, but I don't think so. I've finished every level of Blood Harvest on expert but not in the same run. I still don't have the expert acheivement although I've finished many maps on expert by joining games in progress with PuGs. I think I've finished every map of No Mercy on expert also, but same deal. I have a lot of folks who've put me on friends, but I don't really play much multiplayer on Steam and I hate the idea that I'll start a game and leave the rest of the group hanging because I have to leave to do something after about an hour or so of play. Happens pretty frequently. One of these days, I'll just earmark the day for going through the expert maps and call on Calax to come give me a hand or something. lol

[Maria Caliban]

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one game i played, and i'm sure many will agree, that definitely required playing at the higher difficulties was NWN2 OC. sheesh, if you didn't have it at least on hardcore rules the game was such a cakewalk it was boooooring.

 

taks

 

I believe I played it exclusively on easy/normal difficulty. Of course, I never paused or took over my teammates.

 

Apparently, they're using a Gambit like system for Dragon Age, which means I can do the same there.

[CoM_Solaufein]

My character in Fallout 3 has a nasty evil title. Most of my foul deeds involves stealing. That sure racked up quickly in negative karma.

[Maria Caliban]

Trying to finish up Prince of Persia.

 

I have no problem with the graphic, and while I admit the gameplay is easier than previous titles, that doesn't bother me. The story so far, the banter between characters, and the characters themselves strike me as weak compared to previous titles. I sometimes wish Eleka would shoot an arrow in my back.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It was easy until they spammed quick time events.

 

 

But then I realized if you deflected or evaded hits, there wouldn't be QTEs, since they seem to be triggered when you block too much.

Edited February 21, 2009 by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

[Dark_Raven]

Kicking butt in the wasteland of Fallout 3. Damn Bethy for getting me hooked.

[Hurlshort]

I've continued my semi-abandoned Far Cry 2 session recently. I figured that it's much more fun if I use a cheat between missions! I go to town to get a mission, which usually involves me having to travel all the way across the African savannah to kill some random dude. After getting the mission objectives, I turn on unlimited health and drive away in my car. I blast my way QUICKLY through the ever spawning clone enemies (and absurdly aggressive civilians) until I reach my destination, where I turn off the cheat and solve the mission the usual way (with sneaking and a silent pistol until I get caught).

 

But that's really a clue as to how much the Ubisoft team screwed up the between-mission gameplay: when using a cheat actually improves the game! WHY OH WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO RESPAWN SO GODDAMN QUICKLY?? Even a small thing such as being able to take a wrong turn without having to fight the same checkpoint twice in under a minute would be such a gigantic improvement!

 

The game keeps track of a number of stats. I checked it and noticed that I've solved 69% of the game, all the while firing 25000 rounds of ammunition! 25000! It's because I keep going back and forth while I explore the savannah and the constant respawning forces me to fight endlessly. And I usually use the Dragunov sniper rifle, meaning that it's one shot, one kill. Horrible, I've probably killed the population of a small town by now.

 

I'm waiting on a mod to fix the spawn rates. I absolutely love the game, but I can't enjoy it with the entire country trying to kill me all the time. I hope one comes soon.

[Slowtrain]

I'm waiting on a mod to fix the spawn rates. I absolutely love the game, but I can't enjoy it with the entire country trying to kill me all the time. I hope one comes soon.

 

 

Is there really going to be one? Or are you just hoping?

[Hurlshort]

I'm waiting on a mod to fix the spawn rates. I absolutely love the game, but I can't enjoy it with the entire country trying to kill me all the time. I hope one comes soon.

 

 

Is there really going to be one? Or are you just hoping?

 

There HAS to be. Never give up hope!

 

I'm just assuming. It sounds like the game is fairly mod friendly, and a lot of people are complaining about the spawns, so I'd be shocked if someone didn't eventually try and fix it.

[mkreku]

Well, I kind of realized yesterday why Ubisoft Montreal made the decision to make the entire country constantly angry at you: without the constant threat of every civilian in a Fiat trying to ram you off the road, I breezed through the remainder of the game and finished it last night.

 

I didn't understand the ending though. I'm going to have to read up on it. Very confusing.

 

 

 

Edit: OK, after looking around a little it seems everyone is as confused as me. And no matter what choices you've made earlier in the game, everyone gets the same ending. A really bad ending. Oh well.

Edited February 21, 2009 by mkreku

[Majek]

There HAS to be. Never give up hope!

 

I'm just assuming. It sounds like the game is fairly mod friendly, and a lot of people are complaining about the spawns, so I'd be shocked if someone didn't eventually try and fix it.

Bah, once you have Jeep with a Grenade launcher no spawning can hurt you :D

 

I finished it once, found all the AKs and diamonds even. Never playing it again though.

[Slowtrain]

There HAS to be. Never give up hope!

 

I'm just assuming. It sounds like the game is fairly mod friendly, and a lot of people are complaining about the spawns, so I'd be shocked if someone didn't eventually try and fix it.

Bah, once you have Jeep with a Grenade launcher no spawning can hurt you :D

 

I finished it once, found all the AKs and diamonds even. Never playing it again though.

 

 

That ultimately is the reason why the constant resapwning doesn't bother me; the game really isn't very hard. As Majek said, once you have the jeep with either of the cannons, you can just drive all over the place and blow the crap out of everythin without even leaving your jeep. Every once in a while an enemey will hit you with an rpg, but al you have to do is switch to a different jeep, of which there are plenty.

 

 

I'm not saying the the respawning is good, only that for me, it is poor game design that is mostly ignorable.

[Volourn]

NHL 09. My league is now in season 6, and doing aweosme. Patch is just around the corner which should fix some problems (and, likely create new ones of course, heh).

[Hurlshort]

NHL 09. My league is now in season 6, and doing aweosme. Patch is just around the corner which should fix some problems (and, likely create new ones of course, heh).

 

I'm having a lot of issues with crashes in my be a pro mode. The game just freezes up.

[Volourn]

That sucks. No problems with that. Maybe next week's patch will help you.

[Mamoulian War]

Darkfall betatesting but atm servers down

[LadyCrimson]

After another long break from gaming, someone directed me to Mount and Blade. It's a completely free-form/non-linear ... hmm ... RPG-strategy? game. You can download the whole thing to try it out (lvl 8ish max) then if you like it buy the key to unlock the whole game. Or buy the DVD at the store, either way.

 

There's absolutely no plot/story/main questline, so if you must have that, you won't like it. There's no magic, no healing potions, no non-human enemies. The graphics work but are not special/pretty. You can ride and combat on horseback. Combat isn't just l-click button mashing, but it is very battle oriented. It's supposedly moddable but haven't tried that yet. The world/travel map reminds me of a strategy game map (think of The Summoner map traveling concept, only better/more involved).

 

I like it. It's like a big rpg-sandbox environment where you can ride around, trade, fight, join Kingdom factions, build rep/fortune/fiefdom unencumbered by 'save the world' stuff. RPG mechanics with strategy/group combat tactics. Not perfect, but fun.

Edited February 21, 2009 by LadyCrimson

[Rosbjerg]

You should try the 100 hundred year mod.. You ally with either France or England in the ongoing battle of France.. Or you could just be a bandit (like the original game) .. I personally think it's better than the original, because the setting really fits 11th century Europe.

[Shryke]

a little bit of soul calibur at a party last night

 

i never actually realised just how long it's been since i've played any games

[Wrath of Dagon]

Tried Empire Total War demo, doesn't really work at all, you'd think they'd at least do minimal testing. And what's the deal with the ships? They're supposed to be sails but work like motorized, there's no wind direction at all!

[Dark_Raven]

F3 and now Fallout 2 with that Restoration mod.

[Morgoth]

Tried Empire Total War demo, doesn't really work at all, you'd think they'd at least do minimal testing. And what's the deal with the ships? They're supposed to be sails but work like motorized, there's no wind direction at all!

The naval battles were more fun than the actual land battle. But as usual, the Total War demos just don't really represent the full splendor of the full version.

 

I think I'm gonna buy the full version, playing with Austria and then try to annex Prussia.

[Hurlshort]

The battles in Total War are just a small part of the whole picture, it's hard to get much from a demo that only showcases that part of the game.

 

All the Total War talk made me want to re-install Rome: TW. That made me want to buy Medieval 2: TW off Steam for $20. I'm downloading it now.

[Monte Carlo]

^ Upgrade to Kingdoms then download the Grand Campaign mod, that ports all the improvements into the vanilla game. It's excellent.

 

Cheers

MC

[Kaftan Barlast]

I thought the demo was very promising, but I find it very difficult to get the units to go where I want them to and face the right way. You can have a perfectly aligned line of soldiers, move them 100m forward and all fo a sudden they're standing diagonaly with their backs to the enemy. Or once when it was going really bad and I had to hit the retreat button... and my soldier responded by running straight into the enemy lines and getting butchered.