What are you playing now? Part 3'ish

[GhostofAnakin]

DX:HR. Damn good game. I'm actually sorry I've bought it on a Steam Sale for 5

[Nepenthe]

DX:HR. Damn good game. I'm actually sorry I've bought it on a Steam Sale for 5

[Malcador]

I should give it another go, maybe I'll shoot everyone for the first half, then creep around for the second.

[Gfted1]

Meh, I never made it out of the tutorial.

[Hurlshort]

Meh, I never made it out of the tutorial.

 

That's a shame, the tutorial is rather lame in that you can't play the way you want to. After that it turns into whatever you want it to.

[Gorgon]

It's pretty good, although they kinda cheated by pretending the game has melee. You just stand close to an enemy and press a power button which leads to a cutscene. That's not really melee.. it's a cutscene.

 

Anyway stealth with an updraded silenced pistol is a very satisfying way to play. It's got great atmosphere too.

[GhostofAnakin]

Meh, I never made it out of the tutorial.

 

The tutorial was a streamlined version of the rest of the game. It was more on rails, with the player basically having to follow a specific path through the level. The rest of the game tends to give you multiple paths, and multiple ways to approach those paths.

[Gfted1]

Meh, I never made it out of the tutorial.

 

That's a shame, the tutorial is rather lame in that you can't play the way you want to. After that it turns into whatever you want it to.

Meh, I never made it out of the tutorial.

 

The tutorial was a streamlined version of the rest of the game. It was more on rails, with the player basically having to follow a specific path through the level. The rest of the game tends to give you multiple paths, and multiple ways to approach those paths.

 

It wasnt a case of me being dissatisfied with the tutorials choices, it was a case of raging vertigo. I bought it day one and at that time the mouse pointer was wicked fast (even on the slowest setting. I know its since been patched) and that combined with the first person perspective made me literally dry heave after about 10-15 minutes of play. I think I remember there being a kinda 3/4 perspective but that wasnt any help, which is weird because the 3/4 perspective was fine for me in FO:NV. So I just put it down and never went back.

[Oner]

Red Alert 3 + Uprising

Wish there would be an RPG where the playable classes are the Empire's infantry units.

Also, Quest for Glories. All of them!

[Morgoth]

[HoonDing]

That's just animal abuse.

[meomao]

It's pretty good, although they kinda cheated by pretending the game has melee. You just stand close to an enemy and press a power button which leads to a cutscene. That's not really melee.. it's a cutscene.

 

Anyway stealth with an updraded silenced pistol is a very satisfying way to play. It's got great atmosphere too.

 

I'm playing mostly melee and while very abstracted I like that style of gameplay because it's an interesting form of problem solving (honest: I'm grinding for XP ).

 

But I agree: great atmosphere. Great freedom. An interesting plot. And the dialogue wheel beats anything Bioware has done so far.

 

More importantly, I'm actually surprised by the fidelity to the original DX. I mean, they really got what's great about the original and improve what could be possibly improved.

[GhostofAnakin]

Not sure if it was a glitch or not, but I had a handful of odd things happen during the last little bit leading up to the battle of Hoover Dam.

 

First, there's Arcade. After I finished his personal quest, he walked into the Remnant bunker and I couldn't find him after that. So I couldn't add him to my party for the remainder of the game after that point.

 

Second, ED-E seemed to just disappear on me as soon as I reached Hoover Dam. He was nowhere to be found until the point where I was making my way to the Legate's camp, and even then he just sort of ... froze by the gate and wouldn't follow me. I don't know if it had anything to do with Cannibal Johnson following me, as if he was part of my party.

 

Lastly, not really a glitch like the above, but Veronica didn't seem to even acknowledge me wiping out the BoS bunker for Mr. House. She tagged along with me with not even a comment about what I'd done.

[Jaesun]

I played the alpha of [NDA] for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes of horror and shock, I shut it off and went back to playing Ultima VII: Serpent Isle <3

[Morgoth]

That's just animal abuse.

 

That picture was meant for the Steam thread. I screwed up. I apologize.

[HoonDing]

You should at least have shopped Gabe's face on it, then.

[Lexx]

I tested the demo of Batman Arkham City. It wasn't that bad, maybe I will buy the game when it's in a sale.

[Labadal]

Beat LOTR: War in the North. It's a decent game in co-op, but I still think it has been one of the biggest personal disappointments for me this gen. I hadn't read much about the game other than it was developed by Snowblind. I liked their previous games despite being unbalanced, but WitN felt uninspired. Not enough skills to choose from and they wereboring on top of that. Loot was also boring, and I hated the way Aragorn sounded in this game. It's not that I dislike the game, but I was hoping it would have been more like the Champions Norrath or Dark Alliance games. My brother felt pretty much the same.

[Tale]

Started playing Saint's Row: The Third last night. Pretty fun game. I like the customization. It's not quite up to Just Cause 2 for destructive fun, however. But I like the atmosphere more. I'm hoping it has a good progression curve.

[kirottu]

I have been trying to play New Vegas, but I'm stuck inside "start new character" loop.

[pmp10]

Space Rangers 2.

A utterly bizarre combination of genres.

Nice choice of options means it's quite fun when you start to play.

But that works only until initial learning curve is defeated - that's when the game turns out to be too shallow to be interesting long-term.

[Fighter]

Max Payne 3. The shooting is very satisfying.

[Monte Carlo]

BG1. My mighty Chaotic Neutral Barbarian is now level 5 and reaving up and down the Sword Coast. Am about to disband my core group of whiny Jaheira and her useless husband for Shar-Teel and Branwen.

[Pidesco]

I deserve congratulations, for I have died.

[GhostofAnakin]

I decided to give Modern Warfare 3 another chance. Man, am I rusty. I had a kill:death ratio of almost 2:1 in MW2, but I'm struggling to even keep a 1.00 in MW3. The maps that I played on don't seem to be very sniper-friendly.