What are you playing now

[Morgoth]

Gothic 2 and Painkiller are horrible games for today's standards. So do yourself a favor and play through the HL2 series.

 

Best shooter evah!

[WorstUsernameEver]

Gothic 2 and Painkiller are horrible games for today's standards. So do yourself a favor and play through the HL2 series.

 

Best shooter evah!

 

This only makes more and more interested in playing Gothic 2.

[Starwars]

Painkiller is way more fun than HL2. Still replay it occasionally.

[Purkake]

I just replayed Duke Nukem 3D and it's still surprisingly fun.

[Enoch]

BG1, just about to go investigate the Iron Throne, with Tutu and a host of mods.

 

The Grey Clan is probably one of the most 'extensive' quest/combat based BG1 mod out there - I can ignore the horrendously bad voice acting (actually unlistenable), but couple of the battles are pretty whacky. Just had a boss who summons 3 waves of magic resistant battle horrors, and then two mages who contingency with invisibility, minor globe of invulnerability, mirror image and a couple others, then can cast up to level 7 spells (Power Word stun, Flesh to Stone) if given the chance. :/

 

Of course, the king of vanilla BG1 challenges is Aec'Letec...

Grr. I would be playing BG1tutu, if my video card hadn't died on me. I got the unusual urge to play the original and installed it just a few days ago. (I generally find it too long and grindy; I doubt that I've played past the Cloakwood with more than 2 characters.) Got as far as shooting some bears for extra XP on the map where Gorion died, and when I started up the next morning, the best the machine would do was 4-color 640X480.

 

Now I'm stuck on my notebook while I wait for a replacement to arrive. The notebook could certainly handle the BG games, but it lacks a disk drive and I don't like to mess with noCD cracks. So it's a round of Civ 4 for me.

[Raithe]

Pootling around on Red Faction Guerilla. Having a bit of a pain picking up enough salvage... Anything non mission related seems to suddenly end up swarmed under a dozen EDF soldiers within seconds..

But it's making me ponder picking up Red Faction I & II....

[Deraldin]

Haven't started any of them yet, but I have copies of Super Mario Galaxy 2, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Chrono Trigger DS so I'll probably be starting those up soon.

[Big Bottom]

I lost my Chrono Trigger DS card...it must be around here somewhere!

[Tigranes]

Grr. I would be playing BG1tutu, if my video card hadn't died on me. I got the unusual urge to play the original and installed it just a few days ago. (I generally find it too long and grindy; I doubt that I've played past the Cloakwood with more than 2 characters.) Got as far as shooting some bears for extra XP on the map where Gorion died, and when I started up the next morning, the best the machine would do was 4-color 640X480.

 

Now I'm stuck on my notebook while I wait for a replacement to arrive. The notebook could certainly handle the BG games, but it lacks a disk drive and I don't like to mess with noCD cracks. So it's a round of Civ 4 for me.

 

The original BG1 is unique - it's better balanced than any modded copy, as Tutu can introduce various weirdities and summoning is broken-ish. I'm just too used to the high resolution now, though, and various modded things like faster bears and BG2-style contingency-loaded mages.

 

That said, good old wand of fireball + oil of fiery burning hasn't failed me so far... now on to TOTSC content before returning to Baldur's Gate for the final showdown. I'd play some Icewind Dale ironman, but need to find my CDs... maybe I'll make an ironman thread when/if I do.

[Syraxis]

Playing Dragon Quest IX single player, so far I'm having fun with it. My biggest gripe with the game is that one cannot choose a class in the beginning of the game, default starting class is a minstrel and it takes a bit before the player reaches a certain area where they can change jobs.

 

But so far it's only dragon quest game that didn't bore me within the first hour or so. To an extent I'll describe it as a mix of a JRPG and Icewind Dale; light on story, heavy dungeon crawling.

Edited July 19, 2010 by Syraxis

[Hurlshort]

Playing Puzzle Quest 2 on the DS a bit. It is a solid sequel to a great game.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I give up on Neverwinter Nights 2, the story is just so bland, the characters uninteresting and the combat is just plain boring. I'm playing on easy and still getting my ass kicked since none of my characters can ever hit the damn target.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

The Lord of the Rings Online Beta - it's been fun so far. That's really about all I can say since testers are technically under a NDA.

 

That's odd, since the game has been out for years. I take it you are playing the new free 2 play stuff?

 

Yes, that is correct.

[Tigranes]

I'm playing on easy and still getting my ass kicked since none of my characters can ever hit the damn target.

 

How is that possible on NWN2? Unless you've somehow built amazingly inept characters by coincidence...

[taviow]

I, too, am playing NWN2. Crossroads Keep right now, on normal. It's not too hard really.

[Deraldin]

I'm playing on easy and still getting my ass kicked since none of my characters can ever hit the damn target.

 

How is that possible on NWN2? Unless you've somehow built amazingly inept characters by coincidence...

 

City Watch quests? Thieves warehouse/Fihelis estate with the 50 million amazing invisible thieves?

[Tigranes]

The invisible thief warehouse is famous for its idiocy, sure. But that's one broken area - and even then, if you know how the game mechanics work it's not difficult. I think there was one other encounter similarly broken, but in general? NWN2 is not a difficult game, unless you don't know how the D&D stuff works and make screwed up parties (which, to be fair, is a bit too easy to do).

[taviow]

The invisible thief warehouse is famous for its idiocy, sure. But that's one broken area - and even then, if you know how the game mechanics work it's not difficult. I think there was one other encounter similarly broken, but in general? NWN2 is not a difficult game, unless you don't know how the D&D stuff works and make screwed up parties (which, to be fair, is a bit too easy to do).

 

Invisible thieves warehouse? I really don't remember that. Did I get past it already?

 

I, too, am playing NWN2. Crossroads Keep right now, on normal. It's not too hard really.

Edited July 19, 2010 by taviow

[Deraldin]

The invisible thief warehouse is famous for its idiocy, sure. But that's one broken area - and even then, if you know how the game mechanics work it's not difficult. I think there was one other encounter similarly broken, but in general? NWN2 is not a difficult game, unless you don't know how the D&D stuff works and make screwed up parties (which, to be fair, is a bit too easy to do).

 

Invisible thieves warehouse? I really don't remember that. Did I get past it already?

 

If you don't remember it, then I'm going to guess not, but it's fairly early in the game. It's one of the missions you get from City Watch quest line.

[taviow]

The invisible thief warehouse is famous for its idiocy, sure. But that's one broken area - and even then, if you know how the game mechanics work it's not difficult. I think there was one other encounter similarly broken, but in general? NWN2 is not a difficult game, unless you don't know how the D&D stuff works and make screwed up parties (which, to be fair, is a bit too easy to do).

 

Invisible thieves warehouse? I really don't remember that. Did I get past it already?

 

If you don't remember it, then I'm going to guess not, but it's fairly early in the game. It's one of the missions you get from City Watch quest line.

 

Oh, *that* warehouse.

 

Honestly I didn't even know/remember they were invisible. I must have done something right after all! That mission was pretty straightforward/unremarkable for me.

Edited July 19, 2010 by taviow

[unskilled-]

Played some Donkey Kong Country on a working SNES today! Although the game isn't my cup of tea, it was fun to finally hold an snes controller after 10 years or so! :|

 

Now I'll just have to get my hands on the n64 and a crapload of games that include ogre battle 64 *orgasm*

[Mamoulian War]

Started to play League of Legends for the first time... Training with Nunu atm... But for whatever reason, i'll always get the suckier people in my team

[mr insomniac]

I'm playing on easy and still getting my ass kicked since none of my characters can ever hit the damn target.

 

How is that possible on NWN2? Unless you've somehow built amazingly inept characters by coincidence...

 

City Watch quests? Thieves warehouse/Fihelis estate with the 50 million amazing invisible thieves?

That warehouse was truly frustrating. As Han Solo said, I prefer a straight fight to all this sneakin' around. It's too bad, cuz I was kinda having fun up until then. Instead I got hit with IWD2 Ice Temple flashbacks, and stopped playing. Twice. Maybe someday when I've played the hell out of all the other games I'm interested in, I'll try NWN2 a third time.

 

EDIT: oops. in the meantime, I've just started playing Singularity. Not that far into it yet. Nothing really stands out to make it a great game yet, but it has potential.

Edited July 19, 2010 by mr insomniac

[Gorth]

That warehouse was truly frustrating. As Han Solo said, I prefer a straight fight to all this sneakin' around. It's too bad, cuz I was kinda having fun up until then. Instead I got hit with IWD2 Ice Temple flashbacks, and stopped playing. Twice. Maybe someday when I've played the hell out of all the other games I'm interested in, I'll try NWN2 a third time.

The warehouses and orc caves. Major detractors/fun killers

 

Getting the hang of Space Rangers 2. Still need to work on my sense of money and get a feel for what is cheap and what not. Both trade items and equipment. Quite fun so far.

[Majek]

Hl2 series the best shooter ever? Yeah right. HL2 is just an overhyped overrated butchered game that should've been much much more.

 

Deathspank demo is what i'm playing now. Ron Gilbert made some great stuff. This will definitely be worth it's money. o.ob