What are you playing now? Part 3'ish

[Orogun01]

Gave up on Max Payne 3. Got to the last, or thereabouts, bossfight with a guy hiding behind a riot shield and shooting a grenade launcher, died close to 100 times on hard and a few more on easy. Just couldn't figure out what direction the game was shoohorning me into then decided I didn't care. A shame really it was pretty good otherwise.

 

Why are most bossfights anoying anomalies that you just wish were over. There are better ways of making it difficult than having the player go through a trail and error process because the gameplay is different from what you have been doing 90% of the time.

I shall now proceed to point my finger at you and laugh heartily: Ha, Ha, Ha.

That is all.

[Morgoth]

Gorgon didn't finish Max Payne 3, so he's clearly not a gamer.

[Orchomene]

Man, Crusader Kings 2 just sucked up most of my weekend. It's been a while since a strategy game pulled me in like that.

 

Prepare yourself spending a lot of hours into this game. It's really addicting.

[Tale]

Anno 2070. I'm really liking this game. I've played one of the world event missions and 3 campaign missions. I think I know what I'm doing, just need to plan my cities better.

[mkreku]

Ok, I have now played with the maps system in Path of Exile for a few (too many, actually..) hours.

 

They removed the Maelstr

[SadExchange]

Ok, I have now played with the maps system in Path of Exile for a few (too many, actually..) hours.

 

They removed the Maelstr

[mkreku]

Btw, I counted my last run: 18 rare monsters (yellow) + the act 2 boss. No maps dropped. Back to the beginning.. after a 15 minute waiting period (for some reason the zone reset function doesn't work for me).

[Tale]

Anno 2070. I'm really liking this game. I've played one of the world event missions and 3 campaign missions. I think I know what I'm doing, just need to plan my cities better.

 

I bought this game collection off the Steam sale and started playing tonight. I only got through 3 campaign mission so far, so not too far, however am sort of getting the hang of it. Seems like there's a ton of depth to explore with this game and any game play videos for beginners have helped quite a bit so far. Can't wait to explore more into the game and its depth as I'm sure it'll provide better and better gameplay.

The one thing that bothers me about it is they have limited unlocks. Like, you have to do the world event missions within a certain time frame or you can never get those upgrades. Unless you buy the DLC.

 

Granted, the DLC is only a dollar, that still seems totally uncool.

[Labadal]

Got my fourth party member in NWN2: MotB. Why can't I use them all at the same time? I can't decide who should be left behind.

[Starwars]

There is a mod somewhere that allows you to use all party-members at once which can be handy. However, it *does* break one particular cutscene (along with the quest progression) later on so be careful if you decide to use it.

 

EDIT: I've mainly been playing more Civ V with the Gods and Kings expansion. Really enjoying the game a lot despite a few flaws here and there. Main annoying thing is that (in classic Civ fashion) turns can take sooo long in latter parts of the game, especially if you want to play more big and epic maps.

Edited July 24, 2012 by Starwars

[SadExchange]

 

The one thing that bothers me about it is they have limited unlocks. Like, you have to do the world event missions within a certain time frame or you can never get those upgrades. Unless you buy the DLC.

 

Granted, the DLC is only a dollar, that still seems totally uncool.

 

I agree, I went through the first campaign, which I believe was 4 missions, and have now started on my first world event I believe. And I agree that only being able to unlock stuff during the world events is kind of crappy. On a better note, after playing about 4 1/2 games now, I believe I'm getting the hang of it and am really enjoying the depth offered and I don't even believe I've scratched the surface really. I look forward to more missions or non-mission unending games. Or even Multiplayer to check it out. I bought the collection off steam, so while I missed the stuff in the deluxe edition (which I'm assumed came with the collection, but it didn't), I know what you mean, because of not even being able to pay a couple bucks for what's in the deluxe edition including tech tree, soundtrack, and two bonuses.

[entrerix]

tried playing max payne 3. the game installed fine but then wouldn't start, it would just get frozen at the "initializing" screen.

after spending 3 hours reading forums and trying to get the game to work, i gave up and uninstalled it. i'll try again after they patch it.

 

played crysis 2 instead, i'm 6 hours into it and it kinda sucks. i don't know what i was expecting, crysis 1 was not very much fun either. i liked far cry though...

 

maybe i'll try playing League of Legends? i keep hearing people talk about it and it's free to play right? hmm, maybe i should just go back to writing until guild wars 2 or borderlands 2 come out..

[Raithe]

Now that I'm back online I was able to finish downloading Space Marines via Steam.. so I'm about to give that a try and see how it feels..

[Blodhemn]

tried playing max payne 3. the game installed fine but then wouldn't start, it would just get frozen at the "initializing" screen.

after spending 3 hours reading forums and trying to get the game to work, i gave up and uninstalled it. i'll try again after they patch it.

 

played crysis 2 instead, i'm 6 hours into it and it kinda sucks. i don't know what i was expecting, crysis 1 was not very much fun either. i liked far cry though...

 

maybe i'll try playing League of Legends? i keep hearing people talk about it and it's free to play right? hmm, maybe i should just go back to writing until guild wars 2 or borderlands 2 come out..

 

Nice... can't believe the hassle it is to get some of these games to work properly.

[Orogun01]

tried playing max payne 3. the game installed fine but then wouldn't start, it would just get frozen at the "initializing" screen.

after spending 3 hours reading forums and trying to get the game to work, i gave up and uninstalled it. i'll try again after they patch it.

 

 

If it's frozen at the loading screen its a simple solution, log in to the Rockstar club and if you don't have an account then make one.

[entrerix]

you mean, exit the game, sign onto a website and then try my game again and see if it works?

[Mamoulian War]

you mean, exit the game, sign onto a website and then try my game again and see if it works?

 

Or download a fix, if the laws of your country allows you to bypass DRM on your legally owned piece of software.

[Mamoulian War]

maybe i'll try playing League of Legends? i keep hearing people talk about it and it's free to play right? hmm, maybe i should just go back to writing until guild wars 2 or borderlands 2 come out..

 

I recommend you to play this game, it is awesome DotA clone. Just beware, the level of retardness and immaturity of the community is sky high, so I recommend you to find as soon as possible some like-minded online friends and try to play premade games only... The level of fun increases more than tenfold this way...

[entrerix]

so its a drm issue? i saw a lot of people with the same problem saying it was a bug relating to rockstar social club, but i tried all the fixes suggested and none of them worked.

 

rockstars website has a few suggestions, those didnt work either, im just hoping it gets patched.

 

as for league of legends, immature people on the internet dont bother me as long as i can mute them...

[Orogun01]

you mean, exit the game, sign onto a website and then try my game again and see if it works?

Inside game press "Home" log into your Rockstar Social club account or make one.

[entrerix]

That doesn't work, I press home, nothing happens

[SadExchange]

That doesn't work, I press home, nothing happens

 

I don't have this problem, however when I try to play from my laptop, instead of my desktop, I can't get past the part where you need to tie it to your account, although it's already tied to the account from playing through the entire game on my desktop. I think all this stuff, like "Rockstar Club" is useless and doesn't serve a purpose.

[Orogun01]

That doesn't work, I press home, nothing happens

Takes a bit but usually a prompt appears telling you to press Home after starting the game, or you could try starting the social club first then the game.. If it doesn't then maybe you got a serious problem.

[Gorgon]

It serves a DRM purpose. You have to create an online profile, which gives them time to check if your game is cracked. Of course it didn't work, but then nothing they ever try works. Diablo 3 was cracked maybe a week later than norm complete with an always online server emulator.

 

That and execs love looking at statistics. Information about how their customers play their games will likely be used to screw something up that didn't need changing some time in the future.

Edited July 25, 2012 by Gorgon

[Malcador]

Decided to give Hard Reset a go, forgot I really suck at FPS games of this sort, but is nice to just blast stuff for a while. Also playing Civ 4, giving 5 a break, did play one map where the AI was a lot more aggressive than I recall - I guess they were all non-vanilla Civs and got some improvement to that. But about to unleash my SoDs on the Germans, huzzah.