What are you playing III

[KurtFF8]

Part 2 (http://www.revleft.com/vb/you-playing-2-t174458/index.html) reached 500 posts.

To start it off: I've been playing a bit of Minecraft. I'm tempted to rebuild the Berlin Wall on my server.

Although I've done it before:

http://i.imgur.com/ewUP8Np.png

[Rugged Collectivist]

GTA V and Total war: ROME II

I can't decide if I want to play rome or Civ V right now.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

AC IV. Just bossin it.

[Rugged Collectivist]

AC IV. Just bossin it.

Is it fun? How does it differ from III? Are the present day sequences any less idiotic?

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Is it fun?

Mind you, I love Ezio (<333) however this game is probably my favorite to play out of them all. I've literally only played 4, to a max of 5 of the main missions have just been beating all the side shit. You go whaling, hunt sharks, monkeys, jaguars. Go around raiding British and Spanish naval forts. Commandeer and pillage British and Spanish ships of commerce and the navy. Fight legendary ships. Start fights in taverns and legit get drunk. Party with Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, mothafuckin Anne Bonneys on deck. You can pillage underwater wrecks and stuff. Fucking, it's awesome.


How does it differ from III?

You'll find this out in the beginning but you're not following a story line like any other in the AC series. Basically you play a badass pirate dude name Edward Kenway who happens to kill an assassin turn Templar and assumes his identity for short-term treasures. You work with Templars but eventually, you get dicked over, then you just pirate it out from there. That's all I'll tell you. Starting off, he's not really affiliated with the Templars or assassins, he's just goin out for the loot. PRetty much, there is no "grand mission," other than the "American dream," circa 18th century.


Are the present day sequences any less idiotic?

I actually love the present day stuff and was sad the they killed Desmond but yeah, it's pretty alright so far. Really, you're like an employee who plays through lives of historical cool folks in future movies or whatever aka help Templars find cool stuff on the low, imho.

Again, I've only played like 4-5 real missions.

[Ritzy Cat]

I love Minecraft.

I am a member of SCoM on there
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/237194-the-socialist-commune-of-minecraft-scom/

(Socialist Commune of Minecraft)

Although Minecraft is so much more basic than the real world, socialism, classlessness, global access to resources and means of production, make it MUCH more efficient than some of the monarchy/empire groups that run rampant on Minecraft servers.

A friend of mine started the "Communist Thread" (basically communists + anticommunists duking it out) in the Philosophy forum on the Minecraft Forums, it's hilarious to see the 12-13 year olds (which make up the majority of the playerbase on that game) spit up recycled "c0munizzim is DIctator" that they were force-fed by their misinformed teachers. I've actually started my own Minecraft server that is supposed to model the real world, I implore people to build towns and cities and civilizations, although they still must protect themselves from invaders. Lots of fun.

I also play a lot of Civilization V, and I just got done beating both the Portals. There was some cool underlying themes in Portal/Portal 2 I'm surprised more people haven't noticed. How supposedly that a higher, all-knowing, orderly (almost robotic, LITERALLY robotic) figure forces you to "test" for them and even when you think you've destroyed it, it comes back. Reminds me of the NSA. Valve has made some pretty cool games.

And don't even get me started on League of Legends. The amount of time and money I've invested into that game...

I used to play Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations on the Xbox. At one point, I was #22 on the Brotherhood multiplayer on the Free-for-all mode in the national rankings for NA. I have a channel where I posted a bunch of videos of my gameplay, but I'm too embarassed to show you all. I sound like a kid. (Although I was, I think I was 15 or something).

[bcbm]

didn't beat assassins creed 3 yet but i couldnt wait any longer so i got some more credit card debt and about ac iv and holy shit vox is right, this game is great. it is pretty much all of the best parts of the previous titles with a lot less of the crappy and boring stuff. but i too am only a few missions in. just doing enough missions to unlock enough stuff to become a fierce marauder

[Sinister Intents]

Skyrim currently

[Rugged Collectivist]

I want to get back into minecraft. I've only ever done single player and I'd like to try multiplayer but I stopped playing for a while and I let my step brother use my account. He's probably gotten me banned from a few servers and if I tried to reclaim it he'd throw a fit because it's all he ever does. I'm tempted to just buy him his own account or just let him have the old one and keep the new one for myself but I don't feel like I should have to.

Dilemmas.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

AC4. Not stopping till I'm no. 1 prosperous pyrate.

Cant Do Gold by Vox Populi

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[Intro]
Quarter-million dollars cash in my guest room (turnt up)
Thumbin’ through the bands, I be playin’ with the check (Vox!)
Count a cool two mil’ without breakin’ sweats
Matey I’m always fuckin’ flexin’, wearin’ a gold chests

[Hook]
I’m rockin’ pistolas, I’m talkin’ three of those (flex)
Bad dancers, I got plenty of those (you know)
Diamond rams, I can’t do the golds
I’m firin’ 40s, I can’t do the 36s (Vox)
Keep it real ’til I de-synchronize, put it on my CREW (turn up)
Keep it real ’til I de-synchronize, put it on my CREW (BLAOW)
Thumbin’ through the bands I be playin’ with the check
Keep it real ’til I de-synchronize, put it on my CREW (YARGH)

[Verse 1]
Quarter-million dollars cash in my guest room (turn up)
Thumbin’ through the bands, I be playin’ with the check (YARGH!)
Count a cool two mil’ without breakin’ sweats
MAtey, I’m always fuckin’ flexin’, wearin’ a gold
Adewale through this work, I don’t have to bench press
When it come to plunder, me hearties love to flex (flex)
Thatch, he a stone cold killer with the pistol (CANNON)
Run up in my warehouse, your mama gon’ miss you
Stay up on my grizzle, thumbin’ through a check (okay)
Stay a real pyrate, I’mma put it on my CREW (YARGH)
Fell in love with fast ships since Jackdaw (you)
Cod piece disrespect me, I’ll just leave his ass wet

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
He ain’t never been scared, two-hundred on his head
Cash – dead bastard, what his son is
That’s your ass if I catch you slippin’, with my gun it’s…
Black mask, I’m always fuckin’ hangin’ with the robbers
Thumbin’ through the bands, I be doin’ it (you know)
I’m a real pyrate, rat, break your fuckin’ back (flex)
You a picaroon, you don’t want no get back (BLOAW)
I got raw, bounced back, gotta live with that
Same situation, get it how you live, bucko (okay)
Worth a couple of commas, you ain’t even average (YARGH)
I’m flexin’, MAr-ee Read,
Free me Cappin' Sparrah, I’m worse than scurvey!

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[Futility Personified]

Battlefield 4, absolutely bezzing game, nearly got all the unlocks for the classes I use though. I ordered Bioshock Infinite today so got that to look forward to inna week.

[Sinister Intents]

I'm playing Fallout 3. I will create an evil character and kill them all!

[Marshal of the People]

Europa Universalis III (with the Steppe Wolf mod).

I have Europa Universalis IV but I really like the Steppe Wolf mod (even though it is so buggy) and it isn't available for EUIV

[Rugged Collectivist]

I bought EUIV but I can't get into it because it's really hard to learn the basics.

[Marshal of the People]

I bought EUIV but I can't get into it because it's really hard to learn the basics.

It is a lot easier than EUIII!

[Rugged Collectivist]

It is a lot easier than EUIII!

Never played EUIII. I got it because I'm a huge victoria II/ Crusader Kings II fan

[Hrafn]

Waiting intensively on the next episodes of the Walking Dead and the Wolf Among Us - and of course the recently announced Game of Thrones game.

[Rugged Collectivist]

I'm reinstalling Guild Wars 2 because I'm tired of searching for another suitable MMORPG. Is it just me or is there a lot less to choose from nowadays? I blame f2p.

Also all this talk of EUIV has reminded me of all the games I've bought and never played very much. I spent like sixty some dollars on EUIV. It's actually pretty depressing.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Spec Ops: The Line - PS3

Ho
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SHIT.


Everyone who hasn't played this game, HAS to play this game.

Seriously: If you have ever had any kind of ethical or moral problem with the way that warfare is portrayed (and even glorified) in many modern military shooters (like Call of Duty or Battlefield), you need to play this game.

If you're interested in such controversial topics as PTSD, or the use of White Phosphorus, you need to play this game.

If you want a moody, atmospheric experience that regularly fucks with your head, you need to play this game.

[Per Levy]

played through shadowrun returns, while there is a lot to criticize, like the very strict liniarity and the pretty short campaign and other things, i really liked it, the story was great, the ending bittersweet, the combat fluent and satisfying and the world is pretty awsome. i just wish you could save your character and import/export the char into coming campaigns and player created content. so far i dont see that option but whatev. playing a bit galciv2 too from time to time.

[Rosa Partizan]

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny - the 2013 HD Version. It's really nice, but if I could play the early 90ies version (or the whole trilogy), I'd be completely happy.

[Derendscools]

I only play Crusader Kings II and the Heroes of Stalingrad now for some reason, nothing else...

[ArisVelouxiotis]

Hitman Absolution,Civ 5, mw3 basically

[Ele'ill]

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[Rugged Collectivist]

Crusader Kings II. Waiting for (yet another) expansion to come out. I'll forgive paradox though because this one looks awesome.

RAJAS OF INDIA

here are the features from the wiki



Rajas of India features twice the landmass of the base game.
Play as an Indian ruler. Start a new and quite different type of game by playing as an Indian raja in 867 (if you have The Old Gods expansion) or at any point between 1066 to 1337 AD.
Three new Unique Religions. Choose between the Buddhist, Jain and Hindu beliefs for different benefits.
Caste System.
Experience Indian Events & Decisions.
Elephants and Jungles.
Hundreds of new Provinces including Central Asia and large parts of Siberia too.
New Interface Skin.
Indian characters get a unique set of facial profiles and clothes.
Steam MP Matchmaking and Steam Workshop: These features are brought over from Europa Universalis IV into Crusader Kings II, together with Borderless Windowed mode in the patch together with the release of the expansion.

I don't know how they're going to justify Jain warlords and it's too early to play as a Sikh but other than that I'm very excited.

[RedCornFlakes]

Been playing Minecraft with my E-GF ;)

[Comrade Jacob]

Tropico 4, I can't wait for the 5th.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Bioshock!

VIwC9_VCZCY

[A Psychological Symphony]

Pretty much the only game that I've been playing recently is DotA 2 with some friends. It might be an actual addiction, I don't know yet.

[RedCornFlakes]

Garrys Mod
(removed personal info - Quail)

[ArisVelouxiotis]

Pretty much the only game that I've been playing recently is DotA 2 with some friends. It might be an actual addiction, I don't know yet.

League of Legends :wub:

[Ele'ill]

if I was playing rust I would wait outside people's houses until they went to their storage sheds and I would gun them down in cold blood and take their shit

[Sinister Intents]

GTA: San Andreas!

[edwad]

i've been playing a lot of civ rev because its free on xbl right now (go get it if you like civ games) and tropico 4. I've been on and off with gta v and saints row 2.

[Derendscools]

I was playing Victoria 2 and this happened.
http://s15.postimg.org/n31ubra8q/v2_4.jpg
A proletariat dictatorship in the south.

[Krasnyy]

A proletariat dictatorship in the south.
Completely lulz

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Super_Smash_Bros_Melee_box_art.png
Playing this on an emulator:)

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Some time ago I played, and finally beat, Tales of Xillia. As far as the anime "Tales of..." series go it was a good game. Nothing terribly original but not the worst such game either. Was a decent time killer and something simple to play (which, after all, is the only reason I bought it). Next time I am on break I will probably get Tales of Grace (F). Seems all right so why not. Need traditional JRPGs to play when not overwhelming my brain with school shit. Wait, screw that, will buy instead the remake of Final Fantasy X.... yes, yes.

[Philosophos]

League of Legends :wub:

Sigh... You disappoint me :( But I don't blame you LoL is much easier than Dota.


Lately I've started playing Neverwinter Nights 2, which is like the best rpg game ever and I totally get it because the story line and the gameplay is more of a Story Telling RPG which I love, but damn it it's so hard to play certain classes that it makes wanna break my laptop.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I've been playing Dominions 3: The Awakening again, in preparation for the next one, which has come out recently. There's something quite entertaining about playing as the necromantic-themed Ermor, picking a human lich as a pretender deity, and then naming them Jesus (and hey, thematically it all fits too, since Ermor is explicitly based on the Christian Roman Empire).

It's even more entertaining when Jesus gets eaten by a giant octopus, or cursed.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Metroid: Other M.

Orrible H. I hope someone in Nintendo has some kind of attack of common sense and they write Daddy's Girl Samus out of the canon. Like, say that she was just a deranged fangirl of Actual Samus, who went aboard an empty ship while having some kind of psychotic breakdown, and managed to hallucinate the entire nonsensical plot. Also she had daddy issues up her strangely well-defined arse.

[Hrafn]

Finally got Metro:Last Light.

Also a neat little horror game called Betrayer. Set in early 1600's colonial America.

[Naroc]

Fallout new vegas! I've always been a fan of the Fallout-Series and though the story of Fallout 3 and NV aren't as good as the ones from the older games, i really like the gameplay

[Yukari]

Out of extreme boredom and inexplicable fondness for the previous game Conviction, I dl'd Splinter Cell: Blacklist. The stupefying plot just melts yer brain with all the mumbo-jumbo dialogue and jingoist bullcrap present in unprecedented volume that's unheard of even for a video game. Doubtful I'll ever be arsed to finish it.

"WE NEED TO GET THE CLEAR FROM THE CEE TO UTILISE THE FGI ON THE CPT, STAT!" That's rite.. wait what.

[Sinister Intents]

Fallout new vegas! I've always been a fan of the Fallout-Series and though the story of Fallout 3 and NV aren't as good as the ones from the older games, i really like the gameplay

I fucking love the Fallou Series! Every fucking game is awesome as hell, currently I'm still playing Fallout 3 and I've killed everyone, 'cept those marked essential :( Though there are methods of making sure you don't find them, but that takes a long time and they eventually come back, so no vast emptiness for me yet...

[Naroc]

If i remember correctly, there are actually some mods which delete the Essential-settings for all characters. But why do you want to kill everybody? Don't you think you might get a bit lonely out there? :grin:

[Sinister Intents]

If i remember correctly, there are actually some mods which delete the Essential-settings for all characters. But why do you want to kill everybody? Don't you think you might get a bit lonely out there? :grin:

Lol sweet! Are there any for Xbox 360? That'd be awesome to kill everyone off in that game :) I'd wanna just make it so no creatures or people respawn ever, thus completing the game in my eyes because everyone is dead :) then I'll start the game over and do the same thing over again. Though some characters like followers get to strong to kill like Fawkes

[Naroc]

Yeah, Fawkes is absolutely overpowered. Attack him/her/it with 4 mini-nukes? Ha, hilarious, not even a scratch :laugh:

But i think the fact that you're a XBOX Player is a problem, 99% of the mods are only available for PC Users :/

[#FF0000]

I've been playing Command and Conquer 3 with my friend, because I want our friendship to end forever

[Futility Personified]

Just finished Fallout 3: Broken Steel.

The problem with these games is if you are a lover of the whole gathering and scrounging survival aspect, the shooting becomes painfully simple. I know that's kinda the point of levelling up, etc, to be uber, but there's something unfulfilling when all you can see is fire or explodeyness, you effectively cannot be killed, you have all the good weapons and you need to use vats in order to actually know what you're hitting. Fucking brilliant though. Survivarium had better be good!

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I've been playing Command and Conquer 3 with my friend, because I want our friendship to end forever

I actually thought C&C3 was good, but then again I played it when it came out because I'm a granddad or something.


Survivarium had better be good!

Survarium? I read the wiki article and stopped when I saw the following sentence:

"Although Survarium is external to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, the developers intend to include comparable features, notably the anomalies and artifacts that reference the Russian science-fiction novel Roadside Picnic, and the 'ecological catastrophe' that renders much of the environment uninhabitable for humans."

Now, I'm glad that people are more likely to read Roadside Picnic, which is basically one of the best books ever, because of this. But come on. The anomalies in Roadside Picnic are supposed to be alien, in every sense of the word. They aren't supposed to be hazards in an MMO or, even worse, stat-boosting gear.

It's like, when Quake came out, the first one I mean, it had great atmosphere (actually somewhat enhanced by the engine being horrible from a modern perspective, if you can believe that), inspired design (let's not talk about the story), but it turned things that should have been semi-Lovecraftian horrors into easily-killable monsters, and kept score of how many you'd killed.

I think a videogame adaptation of Roadside Picnic - if such a thing needs to exist - should be one part Amnesia, one part Metroid and one part Tomb of Horrors. And there's no need for ISO Standard Hostile Human Dudes. The environment should be your enemy, not because it's hostile but because it's alien.

Anyway, I've been playing Evil Genius. You could probably make an EG mod about the day-to-day operations of the typical Trotskyist sect. Instead of an Evil Genius, you have the Political Committee Member. Instead of henchmen, newspaper salesmen. And so on.

[Futility Personified]

Whoops. Survarium it is!

Would I be correct in understanding that you feel the anomalies are completely incomprehensible and that's how they should remain? STALKER has to be one of my favourite games of all time, I can understand the annoyance that the source material has been butchered but as you say, since those games i've been determined to read it at some point. When the mystery is stripped away however, and you can rationalise what happens in those games due to *spoilers bla bla bla* it does lose a lot of its power. It'd be like logically deducing everything that happens in a drug trip, once you find that missing element, you can't just flow with it any more.

[Hermes]

I really liked STALKER (and Roadside Picnic).

What I really think would make the game a ton better, in my opinion, would be a kind of randomized anomaly system, for every playthrough. In the same playthrough you could, with enough luck, map out certain safe spots, learn the attributes of certain anomalies. You could, with enough luck, pick up something that nets you a ton of cash, and doesn't kill you. Or, of course, you could be unlucky, and then you die. And everything is randomized again. A roadside picnic-esque roguelike is my dream game, I guess.

I'll never play Survarium because I'm an anxious wreck who has trouble interacting with people, and they don't have a singleplayer option :(

[#FF0000]

I actually thought C&C3 was good, but then again I played it when it came out because I'm a granddad or something

It was, but no one has ever gotten more angry at anyone as I have at my friend while playing this game.

Fuck Scrin.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Whoops. Survarium it is!

Would I be correct in understanding that you feel the anomalies are completely incomprehensible and that's how they should remain? STALKER has to be one of my favourite games of all time, I can understand the annoyance that the source material has been butchered but as you say, since those games i've been determined to read it at some point. When the mystery is stripped away however, and you can rationalise what happens in those games due to *spoilers bla bla bla* it does lose a lot of its power. It'd be like logically deducing everything that happens in a drug trip, once you find that missing element, you can't just flow with it any more.

Well the butchering of the source material has been going on for quite some time - just consider Tarkovsky's film, a.k.a. "three middle-aged men running around a meadow being symbolic". Now, it needs to be said that all of these are enjoyable in their own right - to me at least (my sister fell asleep halfway through Tarkovsky's "Stalker"). It's just that they fail to capture what (I thought) made the novella great.

And yeah, the anomalies are incomprehensible in the sense that you can (often) tell what they're doing, to an extent, but you can't tell how or why (it's made clear that there is an intelligence - of some sorts - behind the Zones, and the title of the novella comes from a theory about how these intelligences (intelligence?) formed the Zone). They hint at what Lovecraft, for example, explicitly spelled out in "The Whisperer in the Darkness" and elsewhere - that our knowledge of the world is strictly local, that there are vast regions of matter where the laws we hold to be eternal and fixed don't work. And I think that, by hinting instead of explicitly talking about it, Roadside Picnic is eerier - although it's the sort of intellectual eeriness that I find difficult to describe.

Anyway, yeah, read the book. It's one of my favourites, and one of the few SF works that actually features aliens - or at least their candy wrappers - instead of funny-looking humans.

Now that I think about it, the notion that natural laws are local and mutable over time is much more "dialectical" than the usual metaphysical supposition that they are universal and eternal.

[Rugged Collectivist]

I just bought "the guild 2 collection" because it's on sale and I couldn't afford Rajas of India. I'll have more to say after I actually play it :grin:

Unrelated: for a brief moment I seriously considered playing WoW again. I know, shocking. The lack of quality mmorpgs is getting to me. Or maybe they're out there but I've grown tired of the genre. It's probably for the best. I don't really have the time to invest in them anymore.

EDIT: I almost forgot. I also bought Influent. I'm still in the early stage of learning a language (and language learning in general) so I can't speak for it's effectiveness in relation to other vocab learning methods, but I will say it is "fun" (as fun as something like it can be.)

[Rugged Collectivist]

I just bought "the guild 2 collection" because it's on sale and I couldn't afford Rajas of India. I'll have more to say after I actually play it :grin:

I've played it a bit and here is my verdict: It's excellent. One of the most entertaining and addicting games I've played in a while. Someone described it as a mix of 'the sims' and 'settlers', which is a really good description.

It is buggy, but not unplayable. From what I've gathered the 'renaissance' expansion contains all the content from the vanilla game except the tutorial and the campaign. I haven't played the campaign and I probably never will but you'll likely need the tutorial, as this game is somewhat complicated. You'll also need to download the latest patch from some website, steam doesn't have it.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East. It's actually... alright. I remember hating the game when it came out, but I think that was due to my very misguided III loyalism (I also hated IV, and later realised that it's actually quite good). I like the Stronghold - it's just that there's no excuse for the only female unit that doesn't have its tits out going around in fishnets. (I imagine those are really practical in combat. Also, I'm a crazy liar.)

[Hrafn]

Just finished Mirror's Edge, which I bought when it was ultra-cheap on Steam a while back. Sweet heavens it was good. Stillllll aliiiiiiive

[Comrade Jacob]

Yep, still Skyrim.

[Max]

Titanfall is amazing, its the only game I've played in over a week.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Just finished Mirror's Edge, which I bought when it was ultra-cheap on Steam a while back. Sweet heavens it was good. Stillllll aliiiiiiive

But was the story good? That is the real question.

[Hrafn]

But was the story good? That is the real question.

I personally enjoyed it.

[ArisVelouxiotis]

Hitman absolution.I think it's pretty good.

[Hermes]

Hitman absolution.I think it's pretty good.

I liked Absolution a lot more than other people I know, but the one thing that still REALLY aggravated me were the closed off/sectioned/rushed levels, etc.

Even Blood Money wasn't as bad , in that regard, but I'd really love for a return to Silent Assassin-type levels. I'm stoked, a new one is coming out and I think they said they planned on doing that.

I'm a sucker for stealth games, and almost every time I'm disappointed. I haven't gotten a chance to try the new Thief game, but I've heard it wasn't very good either ;(

[ArisVelouxiotis]

I liked Absolution a lot more than other people I know, but the one thing that still REALLY aggravated me were the closed off/sectioned/rushed levels, etc.

Even Blood Money wasn't as bad , in that regard, but I'd really love for a return to Silent Assassin-type levels. I'm stoked, a new one is coming out and I think they said they planned on doing that.

I'm a sucker for stealth games, and almost every time I'm disappointed. I haven't gotten a chance to try the new Thief game, but I've heard it wasn't very good either ;(

Yeah I mean especially in the harder levels stealth isn't really an option.
I really liked the level where you killed a guy in the desert and you had likve 100 ways of killing him.

[Zoroaster]

I just finished Red Dead Redemption. Jesus, the West sucked and was amazing at the exact same time.

[Rugged Collectivist]

I just finished Red Dead Redemption. Jesus, the West sucked and was amazing at the exact same time.

To be fair, RDR probably represents the West as accurately as GTAV represents modern America.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Shadowrun: Dragonfall on the PC. Storywise, it's far superior to Shadowrun Returns.

Also getting really hyped for Child of Light, which comes out next week.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

[/I]Also getting really hyped for Child of Light, which comes out next week.

A friend actually gifted me with that pre-order not too long ago. I am excited for it as well. I do not play many games anymore but it looks to be a harken back to the old school while mixing in folklore Valkyrie Profile style. The art is gorgeous and though the story seems conventional, I am interested to see if it takes innovative turns since it seems to be Indie-oriented. Should be fun (unless it is hardcore, but so as long as it isn't Dark Souls hard, I should suffice).

[Per Levy]

warlords battlecry 2, a yay for the classics, nothing is better then a daemon deathknight slaughtering everything in its way. its really good and i liked this more then anything warcraft related.

[Hrafn]

Playing the latest version of the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 2, after having left it untouched for many months.

"I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice."

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

To be fair, RDR probably represents the West as accurately as GTAV represents modern America.

A quite accurate hyperbolic rendition, then?

[Tenka]

Morrowind. I used to play Oblivion, but it was a bit hard on my crappy computer, plus the story sucked and I wasted way too much time utilising the great number of perverted mods for it. In Morrowind, I don't have to worry about any urges to wank getting in the way of actually playing the game. I am... free.

[Rugged Collectivist]

A quite accurate hyperbolic rendition, then?

Hyperbolic being the key word here.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

To be fair, RDR probably represents the West as accurately as GTAV represents modern America.

To be fair a lot of people in the West died because their horse glitched and the cougars got them while they were picking flowers.

Anyway, apparently I'm playing Heroes of Might and Magic titles in reverse order now, so I'm on to HOMM4. As I said, it's actually quite a good game - it differs from the usual HOMM3/5/that thing what I won't even mention model, which is always a good thing.

The town specialisations could have worked out a bit better though - forcing you to choose between two creatures at each level is a great idea, but the execution suffers a bit - usually there are maybe two or three ways to play each town, which means that once you pick one, your choices have been made for you. Also some creatures are just... useless. Like, if you picked an Ogre Mage over the Cyclops, there's something wrong with you.

[#FF0000]

I've been playing Dark Souls 2. Got about 10 hours in with my Swordsman. Got stuck so badly that I actually started a new character. :mellow:

Breezing through now, though.

[Delusional Kid]

Anyone else play supreme ruler 2020?
I've been addicted to it quite recently.
I'm playing a campaign as Russia, currently locked in a massive epic war with China.

[Comrade Jaraxxus]

I play Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and League of Legends.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Hotline Miami. Excellent, if short, game where you assume the role of an animal-mask-wearing serial killer on a rampage through Miami in the late eighties, goaded on by mysterious messages on your answering machine, leading you to buildings full of mafia guys that you must eliminate.

And it has an incredible soundtrack.

[CommissarNgugu]

Thinking, should I play Fallout: New Vegas or Brutal Doom? In FO:NV, I have a guy in a black tuxedo, a Keffiyeh, wielding a Galil to rip the Wasteland a new one. In Brutal Doom, I have excessive gore that makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a Sesame Street flick in comparison. I can also flip the bird, pun intended definetely. (Note: Brutal Doom does not include Big Bird or fatality of said borderline rapist getting ripped open) :lol:

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Child of Light.

Believe the hype. It's beautiful to look at, beautiful to play, and beautiful everything.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

FTL: Faster than Light.

Well, I've learned one thing, and that is that I should never be the captain of a spaceship.

[CommissarNgugu]

FTL: Faster than Light.

Well, I've learned one thing, and that is that I should never be the captain of a spaceship.

FTL is just brutal. More like "Get Fucked at FTL speeds". Nothing like having the Medbay, O2 and Door controls blocked off by fire and loss of oxygen at the same time. Oh, and weapons and shield controls are shot to hell also.

[Futility Personified]

Crysis 3 and Uncharted 3.

Crysis 3 was quite good, but it felt really short. There was a vague revolutionary sentiment in it and stuff about giant corporations and debt in the background but that didn't really mean jack shit in relation to the plot, which was a bit gibbery / obvious. Gameplay was solid though, aside from the RPG spam that becomes prevalent later on.

Uncharted 3 was reasonably long, though just past the half way mark, it began to piss me off. The creators said they'd make set pieces first and decide the plot around that, and it really fucking shows. There were a few little side tangents that weren't developed, which would really have improved the whole thing. The little hints at the start / middle of the game were just dropped at the end. The fact that at the end, when you get to this city surrounded by a sandstorm, all opulent and wonderful, that the water happens to be tainted and... that's it. This illuminati hellfire club type group you fight all game just want this magical water, because they rule through fear apparently. With their abundant resources and connections, couldn't they just have developed a neurotoxin appropriate to their needs? The mythical vibe of the other games could be a bit fantastical, but they were at least coherent. It's almost as if the writers thought they were genius by going "oh you thought it was all magic! Well, we don't only write magic stuff, this was all real and you were just off your nut on drugs!". Bullshit!

Both were cheap as chips second hand at CEX, but it grates that the stories were taped on instead of nurtured to fruition or at least given depth.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Policenauts on PC (with a PS emulator).

One of the games that Hideo Kojima created before Metal Gear Solid (although after he'd made Metal Gear 1 and 2). It's one of those graphic adventure/visual novel games that are huge in Japan. Lots of text, lots of clicking around, a few shooting sequences...all set to a hard sci-fi storyline that can basically be described as "Lethal Weapon IN SPACE!!!".

You know that part in MGS where Snake first meets Otacon, and Otacon explains to Snake how he got into robotics?

You know those anime cutscene that plays in the background? That's from Policenauts.

(.....and yes, this game IS awesome).

[Thirsty Crow]

World of Tanks.

And I'm a bit tipsy so I wish for a confrontation match - you Nazi...ooopsn sorry Germans against my State capitalist KV-3 killing machine.

[mindsword]

To be fair, RDR probably represents the West as accurately as GTAV represents modern America.
im pretty sure it cant be that realistic. i mean there have to be some historical fallacies. we cant possibly know everything about what things were like at that time.

[mindsword]

supreme ruler 2020
hearts of iron 3
eve online

trying to get vendetta online working.

try the top 2. alot of communist state options.

[synthesis]

Does anyone still play GTA V? I know I'm late to this party, but my buddy loaned it to me so PM me your PSN if you play it online. (They're adding some good DLC next Tuesday, I think.)

[synthesis]

Also, I might be able to get a secondhand PS4 for about $250. Is it worth buying yet? And what are the best games for it?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Sacrifice. I forgot how good the game was - both in terms of gameplay (I wonder why this sort of third-person RPG/RTS hybrid isn't more popular - in fact Sacrifice is the only such game I can think of - it doesn't lend itself to much strategic complexity but then neither does the very popular Westwood-Blizzard style of RTS games) and in terms of visual design. The visual design in particular is fantastic - fantasy without the usual "elves vs. dwarves vs. dragons" guff.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I found my SNES and n64 recently so:

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES)
Super Metroid (SNES)
Super Mario 64 (n64)
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (n64)
Banjo Kazooie (n64)

also been playing with ground forces in War Thunder on the pc :>

[Marflaxen]

Victoria 2.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

street fighter II

Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword
Super Mario Galaxy

War Thunder

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii.

This game made me fall in love with JRPGs all over again.

[Hrafn]

Just did Episode 4 of The Wolf Among Us. Great as always, can't wait for the final one! Although I'll miss it a damn lot.

[Futility Personified]

Buying Skyrim with the DLC today. I had dreams of dragons and pwning. I wasn't enamoured with a lot of the choices in the story (support imperialism or support populist racism, anyone?) but the prospect of 150+ of gameplay has me mesmerised.

[#FF0000]

Y'all should try Dragon's Dogma. (It's better than Skyrim, imo)

[Futility Personified]

Is it console friendly?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness (a very legal copy, which means I can't play online). The capitalist AI makes me fearful and paranoid because, while real-life capitalists aim to maximise the rate of profit, the AI capitalists in Vicky apparently aim to maximise the grief they cause me by building fancy dress factories that produce guff no one is able to afford, driving me deep into bankruptcy and causing various profanities. To get around this I'm forced to pick an absolute monarchy and appoint various reactionary parties to the government, which at least gives me the option of ignoring the fancy dresses and building manly stuff like ammunition factories and canned food factories and railroads.

Also it is fun to scheme to take over chunks of Morocco for no better reason than having a base that allows for expansion in Africa.

[DOOM]

BF II project reality

[Rugged Collectivist]

This

AmR49vdESRM

[Zoroaster]

"Borderlands 2". Torque is the coolest.

[CommissarNgugu]

Got around to getting the "Ballistic Weapons" mod for UT2004.

[bcbm]

mount and blade: warband, mount and blade: with fire and sword, sir you are being hunted, rise of nations extended edition

[Rugged Collectivist]

I re bought skyrim while it was on sale with all the dlc and it's pretty much the only thing I've been doing over the past few days.

[Hrafn]

Just finished The Wolf Among Us.

So, so, sooo amazing.

[#FF0000]

Monster Hunter 3rd or whatever on a PSP emulator. We found out that we can actually get online to work.

[Zoroaster]

"Ride to Hell: Retribution".

The worst game I've ever played. Fuck.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Dark Souls II.

[PeoplesRepublics]

UnderSiege, the Stanley Parable and Victoria 2

[thriller]

Nidhogg and L4D2. Friend gifted me both games and it's hard to stop 'em once I start.

[Zoroaster]

Dark Souls II.

Praise the Sun!

[#FF0000]

My first save for Dark Souls 2 got deleted when I formatted my hard drive. I thought it was saved to ~the cloud~ but nope.

I wouldn't be bothered if not for the fact that I got like the Demon's Great Hammer for one of those small smooth and silky stones on my first try :mellow:

[Hrafn]

Just finished The Wolf Among Us.

So, so, sooo amazing.

Episode 4 of The Walking Dead Season 2 comes out on iOs tomorrow. C'moooon Telltale, don't keep me waiting like this

[Hrafn]

Episode 4 of The Walking Dead Season 2 comes out on iOs tomorrow. C'moooon Telltale, don't keep me waiting like this

Finished it. Too short, as always, but jesus christ how tragic and exciting. I wholeheartedly recommend the TDW and WAU series for everyone.

[The Red Star Rising]

Crusader Kings I, modded so I could try my hand at Pagan Lithuania.

My intent is to import the game to Europa Universalis, then Victoria, then Hearts of Iron 2 so we can see how history is derailed.

So far, Germany seems to have united quickly, North Africa is almost completely conquered by the Catholic states, the Reconquista was fought by France which intervened after the Kingdoms of Spain fell, Pagan Lithuania rules most of what are now Western Russia, Belarus, Northern Ukraine, the German baltic coast, the Baltic nations, Scandinavia, Ireland, Iceland, Western North Africa, and bits of Britain proper, Italy is dominated by Sicily, the Byzantines are hanging on by a thread after an implosion of Seljuk power but seem set to recover, and the Mongols have been beaten back after a hard struggle.

I predict much amusement to happen in the future.

I also am not looking forward to having my Romuva nation be the target of endless holy wars from my Catholic, Orthodox (the Byzantines usually recover after initial troubles in this game), and Muslim neighbors come Europa Universalis.

Might try to colonize America and be gentler to the continent than was historical.

Victoria's rise of the Isms will be absolutely hilarious on my bloated multiethnic empire. And by hilarious I mean stricken with constant bloody revolutions by this disaffected group or the other. Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, Fascists, Reactionaries, Conservatives, Liberals, Moderates, Nationalists, oh the carnage!

Oh and Germany is almost garaunteed to try and steal territory from me.

Then of course is the inevitability of a world war in Hearts of Iron 2.

I'm planning not to grow too big and powerful as I still want to have rivals and allies to engage with in the later games. World conquest under whatever ideology I happen to have by that point can wait for Hearts of Iron.

The question is; under which ideology will Lithuania try to unite the world under?

[Hermes]

My intent is to import the game to Europa Universalis, then Victoria, then Hearts of Iron 2 so we can see how history is derailed.


Does the earlier generation really have working converters for all titles? I had no idea. I tried getting into CK1 once or twice, but then CK2 came out and I was too spoiled with its graphics and gameplay to go back.

--

I've been playing a lot of Panzer Corps recently. I really love wargaming, and own a few board wargames, but no one I know near me enjoys playing them, so I'm stuck with solitaire. It's nice to be able to play against something, even if it's only AI.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

The Banner Saga - PC

So imagine a game that's a combination of Tactics Ogre, Fire Emblem and Oregon Trail, taking place in a dark Norse-inspired fantasy world that is slowly but surely dying, and done entirely with Don Bluth quality hand-drawn animation.

Yeah, it's that goood.

[The Red Star Rising]

Does the earlier generation really have working converters for all titles? I had no idea. I tried getting into CK1 once or twice, but then CK2 came out and I was too spoiled with its graphics and gameplay to go back.

--

I've been playing a lot of Panzer Corps recently. I really love wargaming, and own a few board wargames, but no one I know near me enjoys playing them, so I'm stuck with solitaire. It's nice to be able to play against something, even if it's only AI.
Yep, just transferred to Europa Universalis after hitting a crash wall in Crusader Kings one (apparently the game couldn't handle the number of assassinations I was doing to keep the empire together) as a test. I'll try properly finishing CK1 later, but Crusader Kings was just....erghh.

However, the fact that some countries flat out don't exist in EUIII and the provinces are quite different, as well as it having vassals remain separate has lead to much...strangeness... in the map.

Edit: I think I'm going to go back to Crusader kings and go to 1399, as I'm currently stuck in a vicious cycle of constant revolts and high infamy. This time I'll load up a save before I ended up fucking up with annexing too many vassals.

[Zoroaster]

"The Wonderful 101".

The greatest game ever made. The hype, the presentation, the gameplay, everything. Buy it. So good.

[The Jay]

I don't have the cash to buy xbox one, but I desperately want the new Metal Gear. Luckily I have a friend who has one. Is anyone else pumped for the release?

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

[Deep Sea]

Bloons Monkey City. Funny how this flash game presents monkeys as settlers and 'bloons' as an indigenous menace to be eradicated. I often wonder how many people playing the game compare it in their minds to America, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

[Lord Testicles]

King of Dragon Pass, partly because its a cool game and partly because my graphics card is dying.

[The Red Star Rising]

Update on Lithuania: I switched from Tribal Depotism to a Monarchy (thank crystal dragon Jesus) and am thus far more free from constant god damn revolts. I've also engaged in much expansionism.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2v29un5.jpg

Muahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!! The Boreale is miiiiiiine!

Up next for conquest: Siberia. But first I have to deal with some pesky Timurids...and I need to extent my colonizing range.

Should I go communist/socialist in Vicky? Y/N?

[Slavic]

Should I go communist/socialist in Vicky? Y/N?


Lose all your overseas cores and let loose your inner Fascist. You know you want to.

[The Red Star Rising]

Lose all your overseas cores and let loose your inner Fascist. You know you want to.
The Christian Holy Roman Empire vs Fascist Pagan Lithuania vs Athiestic Communist France/Iberia by the time of Hearts of Iron 2?

That'd be...different.

Ah well, I've already irrevocably derailed history by having a powerful European pagan state survive to the 1500s.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Well it's that time of the year again, I'm going to play Galactic Civilisations 2.

Please send food, water, medical and toilet supplies to:

Lord Guzonja
Chief Bumfucker, Iconian Refuge
21000 Iconia
Space

[thriller]

Counter Strike: GO. All day, every day. I used to play CS 1.5 back in the day all the time. I'm pretty impressed with CSGO, since 1.6 and Source was a let down.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Master of Orion 3, and while most of you have probably heard that MoO3 was an unplayable mess, I actually quite like it. Sure, it can get micromanagement-heavy (unless you leave the micromanagement to your ostensible ministers and viceroys, who unfortunately were all dropped on their heads as babies), but come on, you're playing a space 4X, did you really hope to avoid the spreadsheet in space syndrome? If the answer to that question was yes, you must be one of those people who thinks Sins of a Solar Empire is a 4X. I think most people were just upset that it wasn't more similar to MoO2:BaA, which is a great game, but one that has been imitated to death and beyond (in fact arguably most modern turn-based space 4X series copy MoO2:BaA in some aspect at least). I'd pay money to play a 4X game that took some hints from MoO3, plus a more detailed resource/economic system and a bit of complexity in the research tree.

[The Red Star Rising]

http://oi61.tinypic.com/256r4hs.jpg

The world before Lithuania (the big purple blob) taking over Alaska, East-Rome finishes it's conquest of what is now South Africa, and before an Anglo-Sicilian war robbed Sicily of most of her colonies.

France is being as France always is in Europa Universalis. Although this time it seems that the big blue blob has eyes on the entirety of the old world.

What's really divergent is those four native American countries surviving well into the 17th century and *expanding*.

Oh and Byzantium formed the big purple blob and England conquered east Africa and Southern Arabia. That's a bit off the wall.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Black OPS II. Zombies. Original. Headshots only. Starting level? 20. Gitsum!

http://blackops2zombiesguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/monkey-bombs-in-black-ops-2-zombies.jpg

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Brutal DooM - PC

Hahahahhaha! Yes, keep coming demons! You are ants and I am your destroyer!!

[Ro Laren]

Started playing Guild Wars 2 again.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I decided I wasn't taking my self-hatred far enough and downloaded Dwarf Fortress for the first time in years.



Its safe to say that if I ever knew what I was doing in earlier versions I certainly don't now.

[#FF0000]

I decided I wasn't taking my self-hatred far enough and downloaded Dwarf Fortress for the first time in years.



Its safe to say that if I ever knew what I was doing in earlier versions I certainly don't now.

Hell yeah dude play dorf forts.

I should go make sure mine's up to date. I got the new one as soon as it came out.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

I used to play it loads back in 2007-2010 when I had a LOT more free time, I must have sunk hundreds if not over a thousand hours into it but I kind of lost the plot when the big 2010 update changed a lot of stuff and was incompatible with old saves and I was too busy by that point to try and learn it all again. I've tried a few times over the last few years but now that I'm unemployed I figure I might as well find something that will make seem applying for jobs and masters degrees relatively less punishing.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Escape Velocity: Nova. Alright, so the game is unplayable unless you play as a merchant type at least some of the time, but at least I'm working for the semi-feudal empire against the fascist federation and the caste-based oligarchy.

My God what have I become.

[Slavic]

LITHUANIA INTO SPAAAAAAAAAACE!!!




East-Rome finishes it's conquest of what is now South Africa,

Also wtf South African ERE????


I started playing Hearts of Iron 3: HPP mod for realzies this time last week.

Republican Spain
Kicked out the fascists Flange and Franco within 4 months along with their German tanks.
Received Soviet support during the war but not enough for the Stalinist to have a plurality in the congress. Aligned toward the Comintern for 4 years but switch to the Allies after the Social Democrats won a second term.

Germany denies Italy access to the Axis, DOWs Austria and Italy defends Austria. Germany has now annexed Italy and Austria.

The Allies leave the Czechs to die and are annexed. Fascist Slovakia forms.
Molotov Ribbentrop is signed and Poland is partitioned. The Allies step up and the war begins.

Denmark surrenders to Germany without a fight. Skirmishes along the Maginot Line and the Alpines but no major gains/loses. Luxemburg is annexed in 4 days. The Germans pushes hard and take half of the Netherlands and stall 50km outside of Amsterdam.

Germany takes all of French Tunisia and holds a defensive line against the combined French and British forces on the Libyan-Egyptian border. German Ethiopia/Somalia is lost.




It is now the Spring of '41, a joint British-Dutch force has pushed the Germans out of the Netherlands and has captured the cities of Koln and Dusseldorf. They have secured the Northern Rhine and are advancing toward Bremen and Hanover.

I have my 1st and 2nd Armies positioned along the Portuguese border in case their Nazi sympethetic government decides to join the axis. I am readying my I. and II. Mountain Corps for an invasion of the Alpine Front, and my I., II., III. Calvary Corps to break the stalemate in Tunisia.

My government is leaning towards the Allies hard and will most lilkey accept an invitation within 2 months time.


Anyone interested in the happenings of the USSR-Japan-China war that has been waging?

[Non-Aligned]

Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion Expansion

[Hermes]

I started playing Hearts of Iron 3: HPP mod for realzies this time last week.

Republican Spain
Kicked out the fascists Flange and Franco within 4 months along with their German tanks.
Received Soviet support during the war but not enough for the Stalinist to have a plurality in the congress. Aligned toward the Comintern for 4 years but switch to the Allies after the Social Democrats won a second term.

Germany denies Italy access to the Axis, DOWs Austria and Italy defends Austria. Germany has now annexed Italy and Austria.

The Allies leave the Czechs to die and are annexed. Fascist Slovakia forms.
Molotov Ribbentrop is signed and Poland is partitioned. The Allies step up and the war begins.

Denmark surrenders to Germany without a fight. Skirmishes along the Maginot Line and the Alpines but no major gains/loses. Luxemburg is annexed in 4 days. The Germans pushes hard and take half of the Netherlands and stall 50km outside of Amsterdam.

Germany takes all of French Tunisia and holds a defensive line against the combined French and British forces on the Libyan-Egyptian border. German Ethiopia/Somalia is lost.




It is now the Spring of '41, a joint British-Dutch force has pushed the Germans out of the Netherlands and has captured the cities of Koln and Dusseldorf. They have secured the Northern Rhine and are advancing toward Bremen and Hanover.

I have my 1st and 2nd Armies positioned along the Portuguese border in case their Nazi sympethetic government decides to join the axis. I am readying my I. and II. Mountain Corps for an invasion of the Alpine Front, and my I., II., III. Calvary Corps to break the stalemate in Tunisia.

My government is leaning towards the Allies hard and will most lilkey accept an invitation within 2 months time.


Anyone interested in the happenings of the USSR-Japan-China war that has been waging?

Oh god, HPP is my favorite HoI3 mod, by far. Though, the only other mod I ever really play is the WW1 one.

I love the idea of playing as Rep. Spa. in the mod, but I find that the short term warfare of the SCW is where most of the action ends, especially with that neutrality you get. It's difficult to make a noticeable difference (or, I'm just really bad, which is likely).

Are you playing with the most recent version? I don't think that Germany is supposed to annex Italy if that happens, anymore.

[Slavic]

Oh god, HPP is my favorite HoI3 mod, by far. Though, the only other mod I ever really play is the WW1 one.

I love the idea of playing as Rep. Spa. in the mod, but I find that the short term warfare of the SCW is where most of the action ends, especially with that neutrality you get. It's difficult to make a noticeable difference (or, I'm just really bad, which is likely).

Are you playing with the most recent version? I don't think that Germany is supposed to annex Italy if that happens, anymore.

Pretty sure it is the most recent version. Italy asked to join the Axis and Germany said no. Germany invaded Austria and Italy intervened due to their independence guarantee.

Yea Ive pretty much been on high speed since the SCW. My neutrality is at 0 right now but I wasn't planning on joining allies, but I wasn't able to properly align to the Comintern so I decided to let my drift go toward the Allies. Gonna go hit Northern Italy and North Africa. Maybe if Portugal is stupid and flips Axis I can get the whole Iberia, Gibraltar aside.

USSR is currently pushing into Korea, they escalated a skirmish with Japan into full blown war.

[Hermes]

Pretty sure it is the most recent version. Italy asked to join the Axis and Germany said no. Germany invaded Austria and Italy intervened due to their independence guarantee.

Yea Ive pretty much been on high speed since the SCW. My neutrality is at 0 right now but I wasn't planning on joining allies, but I wasn't able to properly align to the Comintern so I decided to let my drift go toward the Allies. Gonna go hit Northern Italy and North Africa. Maybe if Portugal is stupid and flips Axis I can get the whole Iberia, Gibraltar aside.

USSR is currently pushing into Korea, they escalated a skirmish with Japan into full blown war.

Yeah, if Germany denies the Rome-Berlin Axis, you can pretty much guarantee a war between them over Austria, it seems. I could've sworn the annexation was an issue due to lack of wargoal that they fixed, though, due to the... ahistoric/unrealistic nature of a complete annexation of Italy.

I love the event chains they've got set up in the Pacific theatre, it's so much better than the vanilla game. I've always wanted to play a game as Communist or Nationalist China, but I don't think I have a good enough grasp of the game mechanics to give even a chance for victory. One of these days.


Master of Orion 3, and while most of you have probably heard that MoO3 was an unplayable mess, I actually quite like it. Sure, it can get micromanagement-heavy (unless you leave the micromanagement to your ostensible ministers and viceroys, who unfortunately were all dropped on their heads as babies), but come on, you're playing a space 4X, did you really hope to avoid the spreadsheet in space syndrome? If the answer to that question was yes, you must be one of those people who thinks Sins of a Solar Empire is a 4X. I think most people were just upset that it wasn't more similar to MoO2:BaA, which is a great game, but one that has been imitated to death and beyond (in fact arguably most modern turn-based space 4X series copy MoO2:BaA in some aspect at least). I'd pay money to play a 4X game that took some hints from MoO3, plus a more detailed resource/economic system and a bit of complexity in the research tree.

I've more or less just started getting into 4x games (and am pretty bad at them, hah). So far I've toyed around with Galactic Civilizations 2, Space Empires 4/5, and Endless Space. Really enjoyed GalCiv2. Have you heard of/looked at/tried out Distant Worlds? It looks really neat, but... you're in luck if you want to pay money, for me the cost is kind of prohibitive for a game I'm not sure of.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Daikatana.

Yes, THAT Daikatana.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Total War: Rome II

It's really not as bad as people have been saying, and they've patched it quite a bit since launch.

[Per Levy]

Master of Orion 3, and while most of you have probably heard that MoO3 was an unplayable mess, I actually quite like it. Sure, it can get micromanagement-heavy (unless you leave the micromanagement to your ostensible ministers and viceroys, who unfortunately were all dropped on their heads as babies), but come on, you're playing a space 4X, did you really hope to avoid the spreadsheet in space syndrome? If the answer to that question was yes, you must be one of those people who thinks Sins of a Solar Empire is a 4X. I think most people were just upset that it wasn't more similar to MoO2:BaA, which is a great game, but one that has been imitated to death and beyond (in fact arguably most modern turn-based space 4X series copy MoO2:BaA in some aspect at least). I'd pay money to play a 4X game that took some hints from MoO3, plus a more detailed resource/economic system and a bit of complexity in the research tree.

you might find distant worlds or the infamous aurora to be your liking, the latter one is actually pretty damn awsome, its free too, its just very very dificult to get into, the learning curve is massive and i myself didnt got into it all that much, cause its a lot of work, but what that game has to offer is pretty damn amazing. just google ,aurora 4x, and you should find the forum of it. i also should mention that its graphics are pretty much spreadsheets and a universe map, so to speak, but it actually is way more fun that way.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

you might find distant worlds or the infamous aurora to be your liking, the latter one is actually pretty damn awsome, its free too, its just very very dificult to get into, the learning curve is massive and i myself didnt got into it all that much, cause its a lot of work, but what that game has to offer is pretty damn amazing. just google ,aurora 4x, and you should find the forum of it. i also should mention that its graphics are pretty much spreadsheets and a universe map, so to speak, but it actually is way more fun that way.

I actually have both installed. When it comes to Aurora I'm still figuring the interface out. Distant Worlds... well, I've played a bit, and apart from the usual thalidomide baby AI problem, the economic part seems really underwhelming? So far I can't construct any planetary facilities for example. It's almost as underwhelming as the sliders in Sword of the Stars (GO BANKRUPT <-------------> KILL PEOPLE).

Also the race selection isn't really to my liking, you have space cats and space dogs and space rodents and space lobsters and space bug-eyed seals and space big-titted women and...

I play as the big-titted women. Don't judge me, they get nice boni and the picture of the bug-eyed seal disturbs me. It's as if it can see into my soul and knows all the horrible things I've done.

[Slavic]

and the picture of the bug-eyed seal disturbs me. It's as if it can see into my soul and knows all the horrible things I've done.


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[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Those nuns drove their own bus over that cliff! Stop it! You can't prove anything! The police couldn't prove anything!

[OvenVilson]

Final fantasy XIV daily and Fallout 3. I picked up Amazing Spider-Man but don't like it all that much so I'll have to force myself to play.

[The Red Star Rising]

http://i57.tinypic.com/33vlnah.jpg
Who the hell needs rails for History? (The world circa the 1770s.)

And yes that is Ming China taking over the North American west coast, why do you ask?

In my experience the vastly greater balkanization of the Americas than in OTL has actually worked to greatly hurt the revolutions of the American states, as declaring independence requires drawing territory and thus declarations of war from multiple countries.

It's 1780 something now and things like Argentina got nommed by sicily and the USA's revolution was crushed by France so quickly I literally blinked and missed it due to France stationing armies in each of it's American colonies in case of war with Sicily (which, due to being kicked out of Italy, is now soley an American power), England, Morocco, Hedjaz, or myself.

My ever so moronic allies in Ming China, though aping my highly progressive nature (I had a bill of rights in the 1500s!) with their own bill of rights and constitutional monarchy (though I remain an Empire to have an Emperor title), have had the lack of foresight to declare war on Kyoto when the Miamoto Shogun of Japan tried to conquer Aki, and due to the Daimyo system in Divine Wind being beyond broken Ming China, Ryuku, Pegu, and Myself have been in a many decades long quagmire in Japan and the Eunuch faction in China won't declare war on Kyoto and I can't drag them into a war with Japan either. As a result Ryuku, Pegu, and Ming have double digit war exhaustion fighting a war that had the Daimyo system been less dysfunctional; would have resulted in Ming Japan years ago.

I also had to step in and attack Poland repeatedly out of fear that it was getting too big for my comfort; especially when all my best provinces were right at it's doorstep. So over the course of a few wars I liberated pretty much every country I could; and by the 1780s I liberated Albania and Mal something or other from Polish Tyranny. The Irony of Eastern European Politics is that the Pope (who was kicked out of Rome by the Sicilians and had to flee to a province he took in Crusader Kings in modern day Poland, and any home of him returning were lost when Rome went Protestant in the largely ineffectual reformation movement), relies on my Protection.

My nation is 100% pagan. Were this EUIV and CKII, I would be reformed Romuva rather than just a generic "animist" nation.

And the Pope and Poland don't exactly like each other much. (-200 relations). Of course, I had great relations with the Pope in CKI to prevent crusades, but now I seem to be so strong that in the three times a crusade has been called against me; not one declaration of war fell on my lap.

With the Ming westernized with my help, I expect them to be one of the eight great powers in Victoria. The number three great power based on it's economy probably.

Depending on how France fares when it goes full Napoleon (it hasn't risen above 0 stability since the 1700s began so I expect a bloody revolution sooner or later), it will be the second great power of the world. Germany (actually occupying all the Lombard culture provinces), England, Byzantium and Hedjaz should also fill out some more of the G8 in the future, though I'm not sure on the eigth member.

How strong am I exactly?

It would take the other seven greatest nations combined to have an advantage over my economy and manpower. I'm so strong in fact that I fully plan on sitting on my ass in Victoria.

I do have an idea to run a regularly updated council with Revleft and other forums to decide the future of Pagan Lithuania though.

Addendum: Vijayanagar has all but completely thrown France out of India after centuries of French occupation of southern India during the parition of Vijayanagar's initial big Indian blob (they came very close to ruling the whole subcontinent before Byzantium, England, and France fell on them and exiled them to north-western India) and looks set to form Hindustan and westernize. This has helped further France's downward spiral of destabilization and likely inevitable revolution at this point. The Hurons also broke away from France to add insult to injury.

Now my biggest question isn't why China or Byzantium have gone full colonialist, if the ERE survived in strength to the 1700s but couldn't expand much farther in any direction by land I have full confidence that they'd try setting up colonies, and if the Ming were kept Stable and westernized, they'd probably want a piece of the world pie before the middle kingdom was completely shut out. It's not why south Italy is a bastion of Protestantism, the Pope was kicked all the way up to Poland decades ago by that point, perhaps they no longer felt a connection. It's not why Europe has such friendly relations with a massive Pagan block at it's doorstep that's eradicated monotheism in much of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Scandinavia, and works to further Paganism; Lithuania is a modern nation with armies that are qualitatively (I have my quality slider set to maximum and am way the heck ahead of everyone techwise) and quantitatively (I have a standing army of a million and a manpower pool of three million) vastly superior.

It's not even that the King of Brazil is a berber named Muhammed Al-Said even though Arabs have been entirely Christian (save for the strip of Lithuanian land that is purely pagan) since the 1500s following the Crusader Conquest of North Africa in the middle ages and the demise of Ottoman Persia/Mesopotamia and Yemen Arabia. Maybe his parents were trying to be Ironic, and Brazil was formed out of either Moroccan or Hedjaz territory. Or hell, that Louisiana formed out of my southernmost west-Canadian and China's northernmost American territories before I crushed and annexed them. Maybe they just really liked the name Louis.

No, my question is; what the flying fuck is non-westernized Korea doing in Sumatra?

[Per Levy]

I actually have both installed. When it comes to Aurora I'm still figuring the interface out. Distant Worlds... well, I've played a bit, and apart from the usual thalidomide baby AI problem, the economic part seems really underwhelming? So far I can't construct any planetary facilities for example. It's almost as underwhelming as the sliders in Sword of the Stars (GO BANKRUPT <-------------> KILL PEOPLE).

Also the race selection isn't really to my liking, you have space cats and space dogs and space rodents and space lobsters and space bug-eyed seals and space big-titted women and...

I play as the big-titted women. Don't judge me, they get nice boni and the picture of the bug-eyed seal disturbs me. It's as if it can see into my soul and knows all the horrible things I've done.

i do share your criticism of distant worlds, tbh. i also add that i felt like the game was playing itsself why i was watching at it do everything without me. personally i really liked the diplomacy in that game, many of the actions, like keeping an embargo on a planet with a fleet was pretty nice. stuff like this you dont really get to do in most 4x games today.
and yeah i hated most of the races, the humans are made to be super bland(go figure), the bugs where lke the only interesting things, well the green skinned aliens are in there for referencing several things like star trek and star control, i just like how they were like the nicest people around. also im sad that they made the only squid like race really really weak uninteresting things where i wanted a race of star spawn. but anyway, i still look for a good 4x space game myself, especially since i probally wont be able to play galciv3 anyway, to old com for that. and many of the other 4x space games that are in the making dont look so good, but whatev. one day i'll learn aurora and just mod it to my hearts content and be happy about that i guess.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

i do share your criticism of distant worlds, tbh. i also add that i felt like the game was playing itsself why i was watching at it do everything without me. personally i really liked the diplomacy in that game, many of the actions, like keeping an embargo on a planet with a fleet was pretty nice. stuff like this you dont really get to do in most 4x games today.
and yeah i hated most of the races, the humans are made to be super bland(go figure), the bugs where lke the only interesting things, well the green skinned aliens are in there for referencing several things like star trek and star control, i just like how they were like the nicest people around. also im sad that they made the only squid like race really really weak uninteresting things where i wanted a race of star spawn. but anyway, i still look for a good 4x space game myself, especially since i probally wont be able to play galciv3 anyway, to old com for that. and many of the other 4x space games that are in the making dont look so good, but whatev. one day i'll learn aurora and just mod it to my hearts content and be happy about that i guess.

To be fair, I think I might have been a bit too harsh, it's still a fun game. One time a space jellyfish ate all of my mining ships and that's always a plus. But it still lacks that special something.

I think I would only be happy with a 4X game I designed personally. And I would be the only person who was happy, as most people tend to bleed liquid hatred out of their eyes the moment you mention micromanagement.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Wolfenstein: The New Order - Xbox One.

Nothing more fun than killin' nazis. But would you believe that the story is actually really good?

[DOOM]

Well it's that time of the year again, I'm going to play Galactic Civilisations 2.

Please send food, water, medical and toilet supplies to:

Lord Guzonja
Chief Bumfucker, Iconian Refuge
21000 Iconia
Space

:laugh::laugh:

[Slavic]

@RedStar

That Colonial Byzantine Empire has got my panties dropping.

Can't wait for Vicky, I'm def down for a council game in Vicky.
I want to the Minister of the Department of the Freeing Nations Tab : D. I will not take my position seriously.

[Ele'ill]

I want to play dead island 2 and I want to play dying light

zombie games

[Rugged Collectivist]

So it turns out I'm way better at killing floor when I'm drunk than I am sober. This isn't true for any other games.

I also grabbed "Omerta: City of Gangsters" when it was on sale. It's a little repetitive but it's a solid TBS game (though this is only a small part of it) and it's pretty engrossing.

Also, it's entirely possible to fight Klansmen with a baseball bat. So there's that.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Taking a break from space, playing Europa Universalis 4. I have to admit, I never liked the previous EU games, but this one is really good. I'm not really good at it, though, in fact I'm not good at all. My Portuguese-Burgundian empire somehow ended up almost entirely isolated in Burgundy and the Netherlands. Stupid overpowered Castille. Probably no colonial expansion for Portugal, either, although we still have some provinces in the Iberian peninsula.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Rebel Moon Rising - PC

An old-school FPS that was one of my personal faves back during the DOS days. Basically you're part of a lunar secessionist movement attempting to declare independence from Earth's government by force of arms. Think something along the lines of Heinlein's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Pretty much all of your weapons are plasma-based, with your standard melee weapon being the only exception (it's a mining drill). The game also introduces tactical elements later in the game, as well as the use of a jetpack.

This game was created by Fenris Wolf, and was primarily produced and designed by the multi-talented arch-reactionary Theodore Beale. One of those examples of loving the art but hating the artist.

[Hrafn]

Finished The Walking Dead: Season 2 - Episode 5 a while ago. A magnificent ending. At least the one I got was. It felt perfect, with all its ups and downs.

[Look away] was one hell of a choice to make, but the only one I could.

[The Red Star Rising]

Update on EUIII: There is no converter for Divine Wind to Vicky I so I've had to hand convert it.

So much text, so much pain, so much hate.

At this point I think I'd suffer less if I just got Vicky II because I'm only halfway through this bullshit.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Master of Orion 2 - PC

[Rugged Collectivist]

I started playing '7 grand steps' again. I have no idea why such a repetitive game is so fun.

I'm thinking about playing GTA V for a bit. I got it last December and still haven't finished story mode. Maybe I'll play way of the samurai 4 instead.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I've been playing X3: Terran Conflict for the last few weeks. For those not in the know, the X games are space trade and combat simulators similar to the old Elite series. So far so good, except:

(1) The plot is best ignored. The various races really aren't that well-characterised (you have the default humans, the paranoid humans, the traders, the violent jerks whose name happens to be the name of my home city appropriately enough, the religious etc.), and the designated "good guys" gradually go from "too stupid to live" to "psychotically genocidal". And the setting actually had potential, too.

(2) It takes forever to earn anything. Damn space bourgeoisie.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bret_Serra_9539.jpg

Pictured: one of the Space Bourgeoisie. The helmet protects him from the class struggle.

(3) The voice acting is generally passable, but gets horribly corny in places. The death messages - the last message of a pilot you've killed - are particularly bad. I distinctly remember one pilot's last words being a pretty unenthusiastic "Lost profits aaaah...". I laughed at that for maybe a minute. Then of course I had to hear the same disappointed lament for lost profit at least a dozen times.

(4) Bugs and stupid design choices. Some ships are too big to comfortably fit through the jump-gates. A piddly, low-end frigate can destroy almost anything if you're not in the sector it is in due to a simplified combat model. The auto-pilot, or auto-pillock as everyone calls him affectionately, is a morbid bugger possessed with a hatred for itself, for the ship it is steering, and above all the pilot who didn't want to manually steer during tedious routine cargo runs and so on. If there is an asteroid, it will splat the ship on that asteroid.

(5) The "alien alien" race uses a weapon known as a Kyon emitter. This encourages cruelty toward fictional anime characters.

But apart from that, I am having fun. I'm just trying to keep myself from cheating as the prospect of spending hours grinding the trade system in order to buy one measly corvette isn't that appealing.

[Red Commissar]

X games are fun, jewel in the rough but you are right there are a lot of mind-numbling bad aspects of it. I guess a consequence of the scope of the game and the small dev team. I've played X2 and X3 and its associated expansions, Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude.

I haven't heard good things about the sequel, X Rebirth though. Seems to've been a real dud.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Wing Commander 1 and 2 - PC

These games are both over 20 years old.....and yet they still hold up shockingly well all these years later.

[Palmares]

After mostly finishing Skyrim, got the Legendary Edition. Until I finally finish this goddamn game, I don't really wanna start any others. I have almost all of the Assassin's Creed games for example. And those awesome Batman games too.

[DDR]

Update on EUIII: There is no converter for Divine Wind to Vicky I so I've had to hand convert it.

So much text, so much pain, so much hate.

At this point I think I'd suffer less if I just got Vicky II because I'm only halfway through this bullshit.

What do you mean there isn't a converter for Vicky? Here, the complete list of converters between paradox games:

http://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/wiki/converters

http://sourceforge.net/projects/paradoxgameconverters/files/?source=navbar

[bcbm]

picked up 'fallout: new vegas' again. working up my level to do some expansions
'call of duty: modern warfare 3.' enjoying the campaign and various special modes, though i'm still pretty atrocious at multiplayer.
downloading 'defiance' since its free on psn right now, give it a whirl with a bud i made in mw3.
'skyrim' sometimes when im drunk but all my characters are saved during quests and i just want to dungeon crawl and fight shit. might start a new char for that. same new vegas. just gotta remember to do char creation sober, that shit is impossible drunk.
'deus ex: human revolution' was plowing through this game, but i'm nearing the end of the hengsha hub area and kind of bummed. i like just slumming around the cities being a cyberpunk crooked corporate enforcer

[Palmares]

Drunk gaming! Never tried that. Obviously I used to do heaps of stoned gaming. Fun, but I often lose focus of what I'm doing, haha.

[bcbm]

Drunk gaming! Never tried that. Obviously I used to do heaps of stoned gaming. Fun, but I often lose focus of what I'm doing, haha.

i mean you can combine the two for good effect as well. i feel bad with the people i end up playing call of duty with when i come from the bar and smoke one up...

[Os Cangaceiros]

I don't own a working system anymore but I was playing "Shadow of Mordor" on someone else's xbox recently and that's a pretty fun game IMO

[ℂᵒиѕẗяᵤкт]

Sonic the Hedgehog on my Kindle. I've got it's immediate sequel and the legendary Sonic CD on this baby, too.

[Zoroaster]

E. T: The Video Game.

Yeah, that E. T. I have officially become a pessimist because of that game. Christ.

[Slavic]

"Lost profits aaaah...".

A capitalist till the end, that guy is hardcore.

Ive re downloaded since they expanded the career mode.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

X games are fun, jewel in the rough but you are right there are a lot of mind-numbling bad aspects of it. I guess a consequence of the scope of the game and the small dev team. I've played X2 and X3 and its associated expansions, Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude.

I haven't heard good things about the sequel, X Rebirth though. Seems to've been a real dud.

I'm not feeling it so far, to be honest. I think the main problem is that it takes forever to do anything. Seriously, even crossing a system can take irritatingly long when you're using anything heavier than a corvette (and with the turret mechanics being a bit hit-and-miss, flying a frigate or destroyer - destroyers being things that would be called battleships in a blue-water navy for some reason - feels like flying a very large, unwieldy and painfully slow fighter). And the money takes forever to pile up. And when it does, you can buy a new ship - which is like your old ship but slower and doesn't manoeuvre as well. It's more powerful, but you'll face more powerful opponents anyway. To add to that, the weapons all look and feel basically interchangeable - it isn't like Freespace 2 for example (what a great game that was) where you could tell even the variants of weapons (Prometheus R/S) by how they behaved. The universe feels a bit flat, too, with an interesting setting but nothing really happening except for some storyline missions.

[Palmares]

Taking a break from Skyrim, so playing Batman: Arkham Asylum and Hitman: Absolution. Pretty awesome games.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I think the stress is literally starting to kill me, so I'll do what I always do, buy a ton of unhealthy food (so long, wallet-senpai! I'll see you on the other side, friend), a few litres of something carbonated, close the blinds and play old CRPGs like I'm 12 again.

So.

I've pretty much run PS:T into the ground. I've played Baldur's Gate so many times my keyboard has stress marks. I've even played NWN again a few times, mostly so I can make fun of Aribeth de Ponceyponce getting killed (god, that character...).

I need something new. Yet old. Something I might have played back in the day but missed. A more obscure title, something not made by ChoicezWare and so on.

Help an old man out here?

(Also, keep it to western RPGs please. Anyone who suggests Eternal Sonata will be killed by sniper.)

[DOOM]

NFS U2
definitely my favourite game of this franchise + the nostalgia gives me comfy feels.

[BIXX]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R., wonderful game, especially with misery 2.whatever running on it.

Also a game called space station 13- which is really really fun to fuck around in (and it has a terrible UI which makes it even better).

And finally, Hotline Miami. Holy shit I love that game so much. I don't even know where to begin.

[Chomskyan]

Final Fantasy VII (PS1)

Syphon Filter (PS1)

Yugioh: Forbidden Memories (PS1)

[PhoenixAsh]

Black Flag...I wanted to finish 100%...to replay AC3.

Skyrim got a bit of a chore especially when achievements didn't spawn.

[BIXX]

Does anybody be have Payday 2? I wanna play with folks. I'm considering getting the accumulated DLC as well.

[Palmares]

Black Flag...I wanted to finish 100%...to replay AC3.

Skyrim got a bit of a chore especially when achievements didn't spawn.

Once I get my hands on AC1 and 2, I'll think about starting all those games - I have every other AC on Xbox 360.

I'm pretty close to finishing Skyrim, but I have so many other games which I wanna play, and have almost exclusively been playing it for the past few months, I need a fucking break. Still probs take me another month to finish it...

In comparison, finished Hitman:Absolution in a few days. On easy mind you, haha.

Now playing Sleeping Dogs. It's an open-world/sandbox game based in Hong Kong. Nice to play such a game, not in the USA. Driving on the left hand side of the road muthafuckas!

[Hermes]

Does anybody be have Payday 2? I wanna play with folks. I'm considering getting the accumulated DLC as well.

I've got payday 2, but I'm not all that great. If that's fine with you, pm me your steam name and we can see if our schedules ever meet up, etc.

[Zoroaster]

Teletubbies: The Video Game.

12/10: Needs more content.

[Futility Personified]

I got GTA 4 fir £4:50, I forgot how enjoyable it was.

[PhoenixAsh]

Once I get my hands on AC1 and 2, I'll think about starting all those games - I have every other AC on Xbox 360.

I'm pretty close to finishing Skyrim, but I have so many other games which I wanna play, and have almost exclusively been playing it for the past few months, I need a fucking break. Still probs take me another month to finish it...

In comparison, finished Hitman:Absolution in a few days. On easy mind you, haha.

Now playing Sleeping Dogs. It's an open-world/sandbox game based in Hong Kong. Nice to play such a game, not in the USA. Driving on the left hand side of the road muthafuckas!

I finished Skyrim...but I wanted to do all the achievements. The game is huge and overwhelming if you want to do everything and unfortunately some trophy's are glitched. I think I am currently at 90% of all trophies but the Deadric artifacts one didn't pop when I got them all. :crying:

AC 1 was awesome. It was one of those games that had the "wauw" factor. Compared to the other ones it is perhaps a bit boring...but I still remember it fondly. I think I missed one AC title. Although I played AC2 and Brotherhood. AC3 and BlackFlag.

The one problem with AC, imo, is the future story line. I detest that part of the game and I think it is pure shit. It reminded me of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It had the same effect on me. Luckily the game play itself as well as the Abstergo story arc more than make up for it. Although I am glad Desmond is gone.

I am a bit of a completionist and it pains me to know that I usually arrive at a game late and fail to get all the Trophy's for the multiplayer...which is an excellent change of pace from COD.

I liked the Hitman series as well. Played all of them except Absolution on the PC.


Do you know; The Last of Us?

[Palmares]

Ah man, but that's on PS3! I kinda wish I got a PS3 in some ways now, as it's not region-locked. But yeah, on the gaming TV show Good Game, that game rated as the second best game ever, behind Skyrim. Instead, another highly rated game I've been playing hard (as having a break from Sleeping Dogs - only because I'm mad at the game for not saving hours of gameplay I saved...) is L.A. Noire. Pretty cool fucking game eh. Questioning witnesses and suspects and trying to figure out if they are lying or not.

With Skyrim, I'm not really one for achievements really, or at least getting them all, but I know one of the best ways to get the right number of daedric artefacts is to do the glitch for the hircine mission where you can get both daedric artefacts. I did this, but didn't kill someone is another mission (or two?) so made it impossible for me to get that achievement.

Hell, with Hitman:Absolution, I just finished the game. Have fucking heaps of achievements still. There are some many random objects to collect. Fuck. I'm just trying to sneak the fuck out of places and kill the targets, which is more annoying when you get deducted points for killing "non-targets". Hard to change outfits without doing that. So I just said fuck the points, I just wanna kill. Nothing beats killing every single enemy on a level and dumping their bodies into bins and off cliffs when you are fucking sick of sneaking around and getting caught all the time. ;)

[PhoenixAsh]

Lol yes...achievements and trophies are really annoying for completionists like me. I love the Dragon Age franchise but they released a horrible, horrible sequel which is really a boring chore after the first act...not to mention when you already played it before. I missed one of the trophies. And I want to get that one last trophy...except I don't want to play that game anymore!! And it bothers me :mad::mad:

Things were so much better when I could just play and finish the game :lol:


The Last Of US is a good game (don't do the trophies though) which has its moments but it really becomes excellent because of the character interaction. It also has one of the most interesting multi player parts I have ever played.

You chose one of two factions which influence how your character looks. You play a cycle of 12 in game weeks of 72 missions in three modes. You are limited in your ammo and you need to build your special gadgets and weapons from things you collect from lock boxes. Your objective is to win.

So far...pretty standard. Except what they did is that they gave you a clan you need to provide for by collecting parts (which you get by kills, finding them in boxes and staying alive). The clan will grow as long as you collect enough parts....the clan members however get sick and start to die when you don't. If all your clan members die you will too. They also present you regularly with events that affect only you...you need so select a challenge to complete in three game days or something happens (usually bad) and these challenges get increasingly more difficult.

That combination makes for some really intense game experience.

If you need to buy a PS3 for it...well...in that case I would not recommend it. If only because the game is also on the PS4 in NextGen mode and as beautifully rendered as it is on the PS3....it blew my mind on a PS4. Except that is a lot of cash...

Perhaps there are some other future titles which would be able to persuade me to not eat well for a couple of weeks. Like AC Trinity or the Witcher.


I think I played LA Noire a long time ago. I liked the concept...but I played it on a PC which was not strong enough to carry the game so it became glitchy and lost a lot of its game value.

[IWantToLearn]

I've been playing this game which is like a F2P version of Gears Of Wars.
It has some paytowin problems but if you get lucky you can get some real money weps through RNG and sometimes they put missions which reward the best and more fun PVE weapons for days.
Even if PVP is not your thing or you get overwhelmed by people using the best weapons, i think the co-op PVE makes up for it.

3dQCNQXHTWQ

[Palmares]

Still playing L.A. Noire, pretty close to finishing it. But you wouldn't believe what one of the clues I found was, "Law and authority" by Peter Kropotkin! I'll let y'all know what happens when I meet the anarchist. :lol:

[Palmares]

Just finished L.A. Noire. Fuckin' cool game. Pretty fun trying to match people's lies to the evidence you have to prove it, amongst other cool elements. The anarchist distributed Kropotkin books and was a suspect in an arson. This game has the option of arresting different suspects depending on the evidence you have against them. There was some evidence that went against our anarchist friend, but I didn't think it necessary to arrest him. Wouldn't wanna stop him distributing his books now would I? :lol:

Probs will return to playing Sleeping Dogs, though, I just bought a copy of Bully: Scholarship Edition.

[ColumnNo.4]

World of Tanks and WarThunder. I recently downloaded Steam and Team Fortress 2 but can't stand the game. I'm waiting for GTA V to be ported to the PlayStation IV before I purchase one. Has anyone seen the trailers for The Division?

[Palmares]

Finished both Bully: Scholarship Edition and Sleeping Dogs. Been playing Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 and Batman: Arkham Asylum a bit. Just waiting for my copies of AC! and 2 to arrive in the mail, and I can start going through almost the whole franchise (I have all the games, minus one or two?). Maybe I'll return to Skyrim: Legendary Edition in the meantime.

[PhoenixAsh]

I just bought AC: Rogue.

The game is almost like Black Flag...with some minor alterations. So far it seems to be a bit of a repetition with slighly more sluggish game play...although the game is by far more challenging. I am only at 9% completion so I can't yet say how this will develop. As far as I know there is a huge plot twist which will radically alter the game and its game play.

The story so far as well as the missions are much more enjoyable and the main character is far more interesting.

I was a little set against AC: Rogue...and was looking forward to Unity. But given the current reviews about frame rate issues and crashes I am not in a real hurry to switch from old to new gen.

I will though...because Unity is beautiful.

[Lord Testicles]

I was a little set against AC: Rogue...and was looking forward to Unity. But given the current reviews about frame rate issues and crashes I am not in a real hurry to switch from old to new gen.

I will though...because Unity is beautiful.

Beautifully broken from the sounds of it.

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[PhoenixAsh]

Yes :D I think that is very well put.

From what I have seen so far the Frame Rate isn't game breaking at all.
Although there are some reports of crashes...and pop-ins can be distracting.

More positive reviews are comming out after the Day1 chaos and negativity though.

I come from the time when games had two colours and beeps as a musical score. So I am used to games being a little...unpolished or crashing. And sometimes small glitches and pop-ins can add to the enjoyment.

What I do however think is that these "broken" games at DoR is awful. People py a lot of cash for games that sometimes are just plain broken or "not as advertised".

Day on Patches are the rule rather than the exception.

As with Battlefield...that game was basically unplayable.

[bcbm]

skyrim - will probably play this on an off for years. running a nord barbarian, orc hedge wizard, dunmer pure thief (no combat)
gta online - im realy bad at this when high
ac: rogue - i liked the ship warfare of black flag, but realy preferred the colonial america frontier setting of ac3 so this game is really good so far. have done some of main quest but mostly just exploring, getting new outfits and the naval campaign

[PhoenixAsh]

I have finished AC: Unity.

Inspite of the bugs...the game world is amazing and huge. The questline is good...especially if you played AC:Rogue...but the ending is a bit...meh.

I missed the real link to the Revolutionary situation in France...but that was not a really big issue. I had more problems that the game takes at times a political position that I didn't care for.

There is always something happening around you. Side quests abound. And the integration with Multiplayer is awesome.

Ultimately the game is too overflooded with collectibles. And collecting everything becomes a real chore at times.


Currently I am playing Dragon Age Inquisition...which is awesome...and is what Dragon Age II should have been. My first playthrough lasted 100 hours and I am sure I may have missed some side quests or conversation options. I discovered that for the platinum trophy I needed to finish the game on nightmare...so I am currently on my second playthrough choosing a different story flow.

[Palmares]

Been playing AC1 a bit. My introduction to the series, so it's exciting. I think I must have played it a tiny bit years ago, as it seems somewhat familiar - the whole parkour thing, etc. Let y'all know when I finish it.

Got my hands on Don Bradman Cricket 14, NBA 2k14, and UFC: Undisputed 3 recently so been give them a go too. What can I say, I dig sports game...? :o

[DAN E BOY]

Call of duty: Black ops 2.

I know it's an old game, but I just love shooting the zombies. :)

Best series of video game ever, IMO.

[PhoenixAsh]

It is definately one of the best episodes of the series. Together with modern warfare 2.

things have gone down hill from there...

[PhoenixAsh]

Been playing AC1 a bit. My introduction to the series, so it's exciting. I think I must have played it a tiny bit years ago, as it seems somewhat familiar - the whole parkour thing, etc. Let y'all know when I finish it.

Got my hands on Don Bradman Cricket 14, NBA 2k14, and UFC: Undisputed 3 recently so been give them a go too. What can I say, I dig sports game...? :o

If you liked part one...then part two will blow you away. AC1 did become a little bit repettative in its missions which were a bit limited in its scope.

AC2 and its DLC are arguably the best of the series. Rapidly followed by brotherhood.

I have not played revelations, unfortunately. Although I am considering of playing it.

AC3 was visually awesome. And the story line and the breach out of the city were very well done and added a new dimension and scope to the game.

AC: Black Flag was good. I liked the novelty of the naval concept.

AC: Rogue was nice. But ultimately it was Black Flag in a different setting and it was too short. The storyline however was

[Palmares]

gta online - im realy bad at this when high

While I usually stay away from online gaming for a variety of reasons, I did play GTA5 online because I was staying at a friend of a friends house, and unfortunately it was a video-game playing bong den....

So naturally, I joined in for a bit. I hate bongs, but I do like getting stoned.

It was actually pretty fun. But man, some of the players are serious muthafuckas who are really good. And of course hella sexist, etc, ad infinitum.

I just got the internet on with Xbox 360 now, but I doubt I'll partake in online gaming now.

[PhoenixAsh]

Been playing AC1 a bit. My introduction to the series, so it's exciting. I think I must have played it a tiny bit years ago, as it seems somewhat familiar - the whole parkour thing, etc. Let y'all know when I finish it.

Got my hands on Don Bradman Cricket 14, NBA 2k14, and UFC: Undisputed 3 recently so been give them a go too. What can I say, I dig sports game...? :o

If you liked part one...then part two will blow you away. AC1 did become a little bit repettative in its missions which were a bit limited in its scope.

AC2 and its DLC are arguably the best of the series. Rapidly followed by brotherhood.

I have not played revelations, unfortunately. Although I am considering playing it.

AC3 was visually awesome. And the story line and the breach out of the city were very well done and added a new dimension and scope to the game.

AC: Black Flag was good. I liked the novelty of the naval concept.

AC: Rogue was nice. But ultimately it was Black Flag in a different setting and it was too short. The storyline however enriched the overarching story ove the series. And if followed directly by AC:Unity it will start to make a lot more sense.


AC: Liberation is an odd one out. It doesn't necessarilly add to the overarching story line. But you play a strong and decently well developed female assassin. The setting is small and contained. Perhaps 40-45 hours or so. And the game requires you to adopt different personas for your main character that have different abilities and limitations.

I enjoyed this episode immensely. Maybe because it was small and because it was really a very entertaining and lovely stroyline.

It plays parallel to AC3 timewise in New Orleans and is limited to three main, and ultimately contained, locations.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I'm replaying Chrono Trigger (on my WiiU).

It's amazing. This game is almost ten years old now, and it STILL manages to surprise me in many ways. Just about everything in this game is perfect.

If Square Enix could make another RPG that had this sense of scale, this sense of wonderment and variety, AND with Toriyama's art direction......well, it would probably signal the entropy of the universe, but it'd still be pretty awesome.

[bcbm]

While I usually stay away from online gaming for a variety of reasons, I did play GTA5 online because I was staying at a friend of a friends house, and unfortunately it was a video-game playing bong den....

So naturally, I joined in for a bit. I hate bongs, but I do like getting stoned.

It was actually pretty fun. But man, some of the players are serious muthafuckas who are really good. And of course hella sexist, etc, ad infinitum.

I just got the internet on with Xbox 360 now, but I doubt I'll partake in online gaming now.

get a ps3 and gta online and lets cruise

but yeah, online is full of dumbfucks. i have all mics turned off by default so i dont have to listen to idiots ever, i just do mssions or whateer and its okay. ive made a fw friends

[Palmares]

get a ps3 and gta online and lets cruise

but yeah, online is full of dumbfucks. i have all mics turned off by default so i dont have to listen to idiots ever, i just do mssions or whateer and its okay. ive made a fw friends

Damn, I have GTA5 on xbox360. So We have compatibility issues... :(

[bcbm]

sell ur xbox get ps3, itsa better platforrm

[#FF0000]

I've been playing a lot of Ground Zeroes and EVE Online. Managed to get into a very, very fun null-sec alliance with a friend so it wasn't at all a drag to get started.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Freelancer, because nostalgia, eh?

Although, looking back, the politics are kind of fucked up. The backstory sort of paints Liberty (space America) as thoroughly unpleasant, but in actual gameplay they're the bog-standard good guys with a grizzled badass president (albeit one with more X chromosomes than most examples). Meanwhile groups like the Outcasts, who might as well wear a big "fucked by capitalism and drug prohibition" sign, play the role of bad guys.

[PhoenixAsh]

You get that a lot in games. But what is the game about? I have never heard of it.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

You get that a lot in games. But what is the game about? I have never heard of it.

Freelancer was an early (not as early as Elite but a lot earlier than things like Darkstar One, what a disappointment that was, X-3 etc.) space/trading sim, with a bit more of an emphasis on storyline than is usual in the genre. It was made, I believe, by the brother of the bloke what did the Wing Commander series.

The major political powers occupying the game map are mostly space versions of various Western states, with space America, space Britain, space Japan, space Weimar Germany, and space Barbary Pirates.

It's still a pretty good game, although the graphics look a bit, shall we say dated.

[PhoenixAsh]

Most of the best games are dated though ;)

[TheBigREDOne]

Team Fortress 2. I was playing on a modded server and... Oh man. This was a crazy one. Every time I respawned I was a random class with weird load outs I shouldn't have. Nothing more liberating than being a scout with a minigun :lol:

[Rosa Partizan]

I'm playing Risen 3 - Titan Lords

This is an RPG and the best thing about it is the graphics. It's atmospheric and the day-night-changes are quite impressive. Smoke, water, fire blah blah are really, really great. I like how you're free in your decisions which path to take, there are so many quests and there is no chronological order or hierarchy how and when to take them. You can choose in which guild to play and this influences the game play, so you can play it through more than once. I also like how the NPC's behavior is unpredictable and how their reaction has consequences for the rest of the game, but what I don't like is how you have to BUY talent levelups instead of getting them by gaining experience points, wtf, c'mon. The fight modus is challenging and the opponents very different and unpredictable, too. I miss, however, weapons like two-handed swords, these have to be standard in EVERY RPG goddamn :glare: So if you like a really open game play where almost everything is possible, where little actions or items can have big consequences, this could be interesting. To me, it's frustrating :lol:

[Futility Personified]

Far Cry 4. Just finished it, really enjoyed it.

Although, spoily spoily spoily spoil


It annoys me that yet again, we have another false choice system that mars an otherwise interesting story.

You have Sabal turning it into a theocracy, you have Amita turning it into a slavery run narco-state. Pagan Min just has a slavery narco state. The message I took from that was progressive change is futile, reactionary change is (fortunately identified as) reactionary, so let's stick with what we know.

I know it's just for entertainment but come on, bloody IGN and whateverhaveyou has an abundance of people thinking they are so damn deep proclaiming "power corrupts" with all the authority of someone who has just completed a video game and so has been endowed with wisdom.

There is no perfect liberal balance, everything is political, and eagles are fucking grim.

Pagan Min was quite a funny chap though.

[TheBigREDOne]

Far Cry 4. Just finished it, really enjoyed it.

Although, spoily spoily spoily spoil


It annoys me that yet again, we have another false choice system that mars an otherwise interesting story.

You have Sabal turning it into a theocracy, you have Amita turning it into a slavery run narco-state. Pagan Min just has a slavery narco state. The message I took from that was progressive change is futile, reactionary change is (fortunately identified as) reactionary, so let's stick with what we know.

I know it's just for entertainment but come on, bloody IGN and whateverhaveyou has an abundance of people thinking they are so damn deep proclaiming "power corrupts" with all the authority of someone who has just completed a video game and so has been endowed with wisdom.

There is no perfect liberal balance, everything is political, and eagles are fucking grim.

Pagan Min was quite a funny chap though.
You know afterwards you can kill Sabal or Amita, right?

[Redistribute the Rep]

i spent the whole day playing the sims 4, which I got for Christmas, killing all the sims in the neighborhood

[PhoenixAsh]

Serial killer sim

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Super Mario 3d World.

Yep, it's Mario. Yep, it's awesome.

I've always loved Mario. I thank him for making me the little commie I was. ;)

[Atsumari]

Cook Serve Delicious. I never expected a restaurant simulator to be so amazing.
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Sometimes, work really does feel like this.

[Hermes]

i spent the whole day playing the sims 4, which I got for Christmas, killing all the sims in the neighborhood

did you enjoy sims 4 more than sims 3, if you played both?

I've always enjoyed playing the sims franchise, even though I'm conscious that I'm playing it wrong. I'll play for a generation or two, just working to get to the top of the career ladder, completely ignoring all social interactions that aren't mandated by the Social Need, and then start over.

[Asero]

I just finished downloading Strife: Quest for the Sigil Veteran Edition, a game recently rereleased on Steam a few days ago. The basically about a mercenary agent joining a rebel front to overthrow an oppressive post-apocolyptic corrupt theocracy in an open-world FPS-RPG using the DOOM engine published in 1996.

youtube.com/watch?v=9NWEsvKA15Q

[Redistribute the Rep]

did you enjoy sims 4 more than sims 3, if you played both?

I've always enjoyed playing the sims franchise, even though I'm conscious that I'm playing it wrong. I'll play for a generation or two, just working to get to the top of the career ladder, completely ignoring all social interactions that aren't mandated by the Social Need, and then start over.

I never had the sims 3 , but I did have the sims 2 and I'd say it's an improvement. There's a lot of bugs though and stuff missing, like before the patch there weren't even pools. Well, there need to be more updates, I think they released it a bit too early, but I do see the potential in it.

[BIXX]

I'm gonna get GTA V on the pc as soon as it comes out.

Might play AC liberation soon too

[Ro Laren]

Destiny. Just bought a PS4 with my sister for Christmas. I've only played for a few hours but I'm surprisingly enjoying it. I haven't been able to stay interested in games for a while.

[Red Eagle]

Fallout New Vegas. I love kicking out Caesar's Legion and the bourgeois NCR and creating an independent New Vegas.

[bcbm]

hooked up laptop to new tv via hdmi and i have been playing super metroid and terranigma on that. its nice

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Supreme Ruler Ultimate (which sounds like something Idi Amin would call himself while pissed), Cold War scenario, playing as Mexico (which is apparently a democracy because the PRI was of course the most democratic party in the world, they won every election for 70 years, what more do you want).

I spent my entire time trying to butter up the Soviet Union, then went bankrupt because I didn't keep track of how much I was spending on megalomaniacal construction projects, including "let's cut every tree in Mexico for export".

It's like a bad satire of Trotskyist politics when you think about it.

[DOOM]

I'm a big fan of grand strategy games. Is Supreme Ruler Ultimate good? What are the differences to let's say HoI?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I'm a big fan of grand strategy games. Is Supreme Ruler Ultimate good? What are the differences to let's say HoI?

I haven't played HoI since, uh, HoI I I think. Now, compared to what I remember about Hearts of Iron, Supreme Ruler (Ultimate is the latest game in the series) has worse graphics, more military options (satellites etc.), larger timeline (up to the present day and beyond, actually), slightly dodgy AI, some pathfinding issues, a better (IMO) tech tree, and a slightly better economic model.

[Hermes]

I haven't played HoI since, uh, HoI I I think. Now, compared to what I remember about Hearts of Iron, Supreme Ruler (Ultimate is the latest game in the series) has worse graphics, more military options (satellites etc.), larger timeline (up to the present day and beyond, actually), slightly dodgy AI, some pathfinding issues, a better (IMO) tech tree, and a slightly better economic model.

What is troop management/movement like?

I played Supreme Ruler Cold War and was very... overwhelmed, I guess? It seemed that, at any time, you had a million units and the only way to realistically get anything done is either let the AI handle it, or lasso all of them and right click on a capital city. That is, the warfare aspect seemed like much more of an RTS-like than something like HoI did.

[TheBigREDOne]

Fallout New Vegas. I love kicking out Caesar's Legion and the bourgeois NCR and creating an independent New Vegas.

Fuck Yeah! Fallout NV is definitely better than F:3.

[CaptainCool309]

I used to be an avid World of Tanks player, but as my laptop got older and the game's graphic's got more advanced, I've had to retire until I can get a better computer.

As of now I'm hittin up that young Free-To-Play World of Warcraft trial until level 20. I also play Dead Frontier, Yugioh Dueling Network, and Nationstates online.

On my handy-dandy Nintendo gamecube I play all kinds of shit, but the games I'm focusing on the most are King Kong (such a classic, it never gets old), Red Faction II, The Sims: Bustin' Out and NCAA 2005. (I'm trying to lead the Nebraska Cornhuskers to the national championship with my high powered option offense! Wish me Luck! :grin: )

I also have a Namco TV Plug N' Play which has a bunch of old school arcade games that I have fallen in love with. Pacman, SuperPacman, Galaga, Super Rally X, Mappy, and Dig Dug, forever have a special place in my heart :wub:

[Rusty Shackleford]

The Long Dark, Napoleon Total War (Probably gonna get Darth Mod vecause vanilla TW is so basic after experiencing Darth Mod Empire), and a bit of Rim World and HOI III

[bcbm]

doing my annual run through of mass effect trilogy, only on the first game and mostly just fucking around on random planets.

skyrim as always

gta online, been playing a bit with palmares which is fun and getting stoned and pretending to be a truck driver which is also fun

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

What is troop management/movement like?

I played Supreme Ruler Cold War and was very... overwhelmed, I guess? It seemed that, at any time, you had a million units and the only way to realistically get anything done is either let the AI handle it, or lasso all of them and right click on a capital city. That is, the warfare aspect seemed like much more of an RTS-like than something like HoI did.

Yes, the troop management is pretty complicated. To be fair, though, usually you would let the AI do this; it's a bit of a thalidomide baby but so is the enemy AI. One thing that might be new (I can't remember honestly) is the ability to form battlegroups, although only a given number of them, and yeah, if you're playing as the USSR and have ten million units, that's still not going to help a whole lot.

Anyway, I've just started playing Alien Isolation. I haven't even started the main game, I just fooled around in the Nostromo scenario a bit. Burned Ash to a crisp, then got told off. You'd almost think burning random "people" with a flamethrower is weird or something.

[DOOM]

FIFA 15
And I fucking suck at it

[RedPanda55]

Playing Battlefield 4 on the PS4 right now. If I'm lucky, I'll be playing the closed beta for Planet side 2 on that console. On PC, I've been alternating between Supreme Ruler 2020, Elder Scrolls 3, Mount & Blade, and some medieval life sim/strategy game called The Guild. Not sure if any of you have heard of it, but I saw it on Steam and thought it was interesting.

[Palmares]

So now that I have a PS3, playing GTA Online (as bcbm mentioned), and now getting into PS3 Only games. Played and finished (2/3 days) Heavy Rain. Reminds of LA Noire somewhat, but shorter, though also much sadder.

Adjusting to the controls is a bit annoying, but getting used to it the more I game.

[Halert]

I have been playing a lot of dota2.
I also started playing space egineers as of late.
I have just finished Dragon age: Inquisition.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Endless Legend.

I am seriously impressed. "Planet-based" 4X games (like Civilisation, and as opposed to space-based 4X games like MOO2:BAA) tend to follow the model set down by Civilization to a "t". Endless Legend breaks from that, to a considerable degree. There are still cities, for example, but they don't project an influence area - instead, building a city gives you the region the city is in. You can (and should) build districts to expand your city (to be fair, Warlock: Master of Disappointment the Arcane did this earlier, but it was implemented fairly badly there if I recall correctly). You can make "empire plans" that boost some aspects of your culture - if you save up influence points by not engaging in diplomacy (diplomacy always costs something) like some influence-point-hoarding empire plan junkie. There is a market where you can buy, pretty much anything short of winning, really. And so on.

The world is colourful and vibrant, and the background is interesting, with distinct factions (all of which have a different playstyle) and a touch of humour in many of the descriptions.

[DurrutiAnarcho]

Playing/played erepublik for years. Currently in an online browser-based MMO guild that is experimenting with free online MMOs. One of the games we're on is Dawn of the Dragons on kongregate.

Console wise I've been out of the loop for a while. Played master chief collection for a bit and still dabble at minecraft occasionally. Most of my time is in the political game (erep)

[Culicarius]

Currently I've got Overlord and Final Fantasy 7 that I'm slowly playing through. I picked up Mass Effect 2 over the winter sales. I've only played the first one and I liked it a lot. Plus I get a little bit of EU4 in here and there. Currently in an Iron Man mode game as France, and I have an online game with two friends where I'm playing Muscovy, one is playing the Iroquois, and another is Milan.

[Shinyos]

A ZDooM source port mod. Specifically, Hideious Destructor.

I know this is old but,


Brutal DooM - PC

Hahahahhaha! Yes, keep coming demons! You are ants and I am your destroyer!!

The author of that mod is a misogynist nazi sympathizer, and an overall bad apple. His fanbase also aren't the type of people you would want to be around with. Might want to reconsider playing that.

[Hermes]

Stunned that I was able to beat the Low Countries and France scenarios in the vanilla Panzer Corps campaign with decisive victories, unlocking Sea Lion. First time I've been able to.

Of course, I'll probably fuck it up, and there are probably those who can do it on a much higher difficulty than normal, and with fewer casualties, etc, but oh well.

--

Wow, this is like pulling teeth. I almost wish I hadn't unlocked this scenario.