What are you playing now?

[Orchomene]

I've decided to try Eador. I'm pretty impressed for the moment. It's been a long time I've been so interested in a turn based strategy game. It's a very well done mix between heroes and Civ.

[alanschu]

I played a lot of the original Civ. Probably should have used capital letters for lot...

Played Civ 2 once at a friend's place.

 

Then came Alpha Centauri and it just went straight for my gamer-heart

 

I enjoy the backstory. It helps that when the game first launched you could do a personality test on the site which would put you in one of the factions. I am an official Gaian... I feel more allegiance to those than I do to my real life nationality

 

Spartan Federation! \m/

 

One thing I miss is the UN votes. I like the idea of the countries not necessarily being so adversarial.

Edited December 5, 2012 by alanschu

[Humanoid]

My only real complaint about Alpha Centauri is the colour palette: red, blue, with sprinkles of occasional green. I could describe it as being somewhat visually oppressive, which although thematically appropriate in an alien new world, just wasn't particularly fun to look at. On the other hand, it had more personality than a lot of RPGs, and some of the best voice work ever - apparently all the VAs were asked to use their natural accents (which makes it doubly sad that Firaxis dropped the ball with the XCOM voicework).

 

Oh, the other complaint would be supply crawlers, ugh.

[melkathi]

 

Spartan Federation! \m/

 

One thing I miss is the UN votes. I like the idea of the countries not necessarily being so adversarial.

 

Things would have been very different for the Spartan Coalition if Deidre Skye had shot Santiago on the Unity when she had the chance

Did you ever get to read the Journey to Centauri?

 

And agreed on the UN votes.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

After playing Far Cry 3 for awhile I've come to the conclusion that while killing humans is great and all, I'd have really preferred the game if it was about a group of shipwrecked/stranded people trying to make it off the island while also having to live off it (i.e. the game without the human baddies and with a bit of tweaking). Maybe a mod will come out...

[Majek]

Red Dead Redemption, while i'm waiting for the GOTY version of RDR to arrive. So i can play the game in Hardcore mode. :3

[Guest Slinky]

Finished Dishonored.

 

Gameplay was fun, as I've always loved stealth games, but characters and story were rather forgettable. I never really "got in" to the game because of that, didn't care what happened to people and taking out your targets wasn't satisfying. Good game but could have been great, I can't help but being bit disappointed in Arkane.

[Keyrock]

Red Dead Redemption, while i'm waiting for the GOTY version of RDR to arrive. So i can play the game in Hardcore mode. :3

I'm still waiting for this game to come to PC. Good chance it will never happen.

[melkathi]

Red Dead Redemption, while i'm waiting for the GOTY version of RDR to arrive. So i can play the game in Hardcore mode. :3

I'm still waiting for this game to come to PC. Good chance it will never happen.

 

Don't fret, I have a plan.

We'll make a PC exclusive game that all those console players will wait for and never get.

We'll call it Green Alive Corruption.

[Gorgon]

Did anyone get Ezio does the American revolution. Also known as Assassin's Creed 3.

[Calax]

Did anyone get Ezio does the American revolution. Also known as Assassin's Creed 3.

Yep. Not worth the first week price IMO. To slow to get going, and to reliant on "BUT DERE BE AN ENTIRE WOOOORLD OUT DERE FOR YAH!" style gameplay and content.

[Labadal]

Almost done with Tales of Graces f, wich means that I can go back to Yakuza 4 and finish that up.

 

I haven't played on the PC for a few days, so no Planescape progress.

 

I've been going back to Valkyrie Profile on PSP. I'm now on chapter 3, clearing out all dungeons. This means clearing out all Caves of Oblivion, wich can be a pain in the ***.

 

 

I really tempted to get a PlayStation Vita, but my PSP and 3DS backlogs are big as it is. I'll just have to resist the urge to get one right now.

[Tale]

Did anyone get Ezio does the American revolution. Also known as Assassin's Creed 3.

I have it. Got really bored with it. I blame the narrative.

[Keyrock]

I'm doing the final push in the Mere in NWN2. Man, the Crossroads Keep battles were fun. Easy, but fun. My favorite part was the last part in the courtyard with all the undead pouring through the gate. I just kept pounding the bottleneck at the gate with Sunbeams, Sunbursts, Hammers of the Gods, and turned anything that managed to make it through (it really helps being a cleric in this late push in the game). Serious levels of smiting going on. It was a slaughter, a glorious slaughter.

Edited December 7, 2012 by Keyrock

[entrerix]

Did anyone get Ezio does the American revolution. Also known as Assassin's Creed 3.

I have it. Got really bored with it. I blame the narrative.

 

this for me too, i was REALLY excited for the game, but frankly, its boring. I'm about 75% through it but i don't feel the urge to finish it.

[Deraldin]

Did anyone get Ezio does the American revolution. Also known as Assassin's Creed 3.

I have it. Got really bored with it. I blame the narrative.

 

this for me too, i was REALLY excited for the game, but frankly, its boring. I'm about 75% through it but i don't feel the urge to finish it.

This is about where I'm sitting right now. I've finished up all the collection stuff and I'm sitting about 85% through the story, but I have touched it in weeks. I'll get around to it eventually, but I don't really have much desire to do so right now. Probably by Christmas as I've found myself at least remembering that I haven't finished it lately.

 

It's not bad, but it's slow. Half the game is reintroducing you to concepts that you've probably already seen. They need to cut that out from the next game.

 

Oh yeah, and I go around to starting up Civ5 again now that I have Gods and Kings. Playing as Spain on Prince with Continents. Going well so far. It's about 1600 and I own maybe 25% of the continent. I'm running into happiness problems with my conquests sadly.

Edited December 7, 2012 by Deraldin

[alanschu]

You're playing Civ5. This excuses dropping other games.

 

Also. Multiplayer

[Tale]

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4. Overall, I much prefer Saint's Row 3. The car handling is better.

 

But I'm strangely curious about what will happen to Nico next. He has a measure more morality than I expected from a GTA protagonist.

[DungeonKeeps]

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4.

 

How's the multiplayer population?

 

I heard it's pretty dead.

[HoonDing]

I've been going back to Valkyrie Profile on PSP. I'm now on chapter 3, clearing out all dungeons. This means clearing out all Caves of Oblivion, wich can be a pain in the ***.

The PSP in-game movies are very bad compared to the original. I hate the Final fantasy touch Squeenix added. It looks terrible (at least they left the music alone).

 

Original had classy 90s anime style.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-JJXbF7cXc

[Tale]

I'm playing Grand Theft Auto 4.

 

How's the multiplayer population?

 

I heard it's pretty dead.

No clue, I don't do MP.

[GhostofAnakin]

Still playing through Mark of the Assassin. It's kind of creepy how much Felicia Day really does look like an elf.

[Lexx]

Started playing Red Dead Redemption. So far it is not bad, but I am having huge problems with figuring out who is friend and who is not. I'll see some dudes fighting, I run up to them, shoot and then there is -50 reputation. Oh well.

 

Also that PS3 thingy is damn huge. I always thought consoles are small and handy, but this thing is like a house. A little bit bigger and one could live inside of it. Seriously, with that size, a normal pc doesn't seem that unreasonable anymore- also while looking at the prices of a recent console.

 

PC master race just can't be conquered with that.

[LadyCrimson]

Started playing Red Dead Redemption. So far it is not bad, but I am having huge problems with figuring out who is friend and who is not. I'll see some dudes fighting, I run up to them, shoot and then there is -50 reputation. Oh well.

One of those games eh? Can you run up to them and talk to them first, or does that have the opposite issue of running up to say hi and they shoot you dead?

[Maria Caliban]

Doing the Mass Effect operation for this weekend. There's been a lull in my Skyrim journey as I've been drawing a bunch lately, but I figure I'll return the Thieves' Guild to its former glory tonight and then take up the Dark Brotherhood up on its offer. I still haven't gotten far in the main questline. I ought to do that at some point.