What game are you playing now?

Without being able to get my Dragonage:Origins game working on the PS3 again, the disk had some minor marks it seemed on close inspection so I took it to Game to get it repaired (they've got a really good disk repair service there) and the guy just looked at it funny and said it didn't look damaged to him and just gave it a wipe over. Tried it at home and it crashed within a minute again.

Googled it (which I should have done initially) and it seems to be a fairly major problem since Firmware 3.30 was released. Bioware have announced a patch to fix it which will be released this weekend :)

Told ya so :p

I ordered fallout 2 recently. should come this week. Dont tell me one is better or anything. Im unsure if either will even work on my pc/laptop.

I mainly got it because i enjoyed fallout 3 a lot. Especially the atmosphere of 50s naiivety. I was used to the glitches from morrowind and oblivion, so it didnt faze me too much.

Only thing that really got me was that enemies levelled to approximate your own level (or so it seemed). So really, you never actually got more badass. All you got was more cool shit to do in VATS (until reapers sprint, by which time you could pretty much cockslap supermutants anyway).

Heres hoping FO2 is a good game. sounds it, from what ive heard.

I did eventully get MechWarrior 4 to work, which is nice because it's really great.
I've almost finished the campagin, then I'll see if I can get the online working.

I did try the first fallout, and its rather confusing with quite a bit of a learning curve. I may be wrong, but I think fallout 2 will be similar

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

I ordered fallout 2 recently. should come this week. Dont tell me one is better or anything. Im unsure if either will even work on my pc/laptop.

I mainly got it because i enjoyed fallout 3 a lot. Especially the atmosphere of 50s naiivety. I was used to the glitches from morrowind and oblivion, so it didnt faze me too much.

Only thing that really got me was that enemies levelled to approximate your own level (or so it seemed). So really, you never actually got more badass. All you got was more cool shit to do in VATS (until reapers sprint, by which time you could pretty much cockslap supermutants anyway).

Heres hoping FO2 is a good game. sounds it, from what ive heard.

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FO2 is actually a good game, but has very little in common with FO3.

My friend got me kinda hooked on this game http://games.adultswim.com/robot-uni...line-game.html it's actually fun :)

Just blew the dust of Armored Core: Nexus. I hadn't played it for about 4 or 5 years till the last couple weeks. Remembering where all the hidden goodies are has become half the fun.

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FO2 is actually a good game, but has very little in common with FO3.

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So im beginning to see. It was only £3 from play.com though, with free delivery. I paid more than that for a really, really shitty bagel at work today.

The definitive FO2 walkthrough, should you be interested in that sort of thing, or want to make sure you didn't create a shit-stain of a character, or whatever.

I recently dusted off the first Kotor. I had forgotten how simply amazing it was. I'll try to reinstall and beat Kotor2 this weekend

I'm playing Tropico 3, The Longest Journey and soon after, Dreamfall. These are repeats but I am bored.

I really want a Simcity 5, but one designed to work better and with more "culture" aspects.

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The definitive FO2 walkthrough, should you be interested in that sort of thing, or want to make sure you didn't create a shit-stain of a character, or whatever.

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This is pretty useful. The only manual i got was in a .pdf which, needless to say, i havent bothered opening yet so having a hint or two what to actually do is proving quite useful. Also quite a few perks are different on here than in FO3.

Per's guide is very, incredibly spoily though, I wouldn't read it before your first play-through or three

Also there are some fan patches that restore content that was nixed because Interplay had to get the game out for the Christmas sales, but I wouldn't recommend those for your first go either

Gone back to Empire:TW

Started playing the longest campaign length (occupy 40 regions) as Sweden, on Normal campaign difficulty and Hard Combat difficulty.

Tried Hard campaign difficulty but I hate having so little cash to work with.

One thing I dislike about this game is that there are so few different units. All other TW games have a broad spread of different units from nation to nation. E:TW is extremely limited on this. :|

I suppose there was some homogeneity in troop types across Europe by the 1700s, but not that much surely.

Indeed. E:TW is the TW title with the least replayability. In R:TW it made a world of difference to play with the Seleucids or the Scipii. In M:TW after a campaign with England, a campaign with Egypt would be totally different.

And the special units are worse than useless.

There are many things to dislike about E:TW.

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Just blew the dust of Armored Core: Nexus.

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Shame what they did to the series starting with 4, innit?

If you guys haven't played Portal yet, you no longer have any excuse. Steam made it free for PC and Mac.

Go play. Now.

And to think, I almost paid (how much was it, again, Wraithy?) to get it on the xbox.

See, my putting things off for long periods of time often pays off in the end.


It's very slow to download from them, though. Even worse than EA, I think (I'll decide for sure when it is done).


I've been alternating between replaying Tomb Raider Anniversary (which I couldn't finish, I got quite stuck in a boss fight near the end, and since those are the parts that bore me the most, anyway, I quit retrying it) and Sims 3.

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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

If you guys haven't played Portal yet, you no longer have any excuse. Steam made it free for PC and Mac.

Go play. Now.

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Except for, you know, those of us who just have no interest in that sort of game.

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It's very slow to download from them, though. Even worse than EA, I think (I'll decide for sure when it is done).

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Wonder if its cause of the Mac launch and everyone flooding them for one of the best games in recent years. My Steam client can usually match my utorrent download rates when I go for good weekend deals, or when patches come out.

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Except for, you know, those of us who just have no interest in that sort of game.

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Can't believe I'm quoting Lewk...

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Originally Posted by Lewkowski

I prefer to pretend those people don't exist. Kinda gross.

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Except for, you know, those of us who just have no interest in that sort of game.

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Not to mention those of us gamers who do like that kind of game, but have no interest in installing Valve's best selling trojan/virus (Steam) on our machines.

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Wonder if its cause of the Mac launch and everyone flooding them for one of the best games in recent years. My Steam client can usually match my utorrent download rates when I go for good weekend deals, or when patches come out.

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247.3 KB/s currently, and it keeps dropping to even slower.

Doesn't matter much, really.

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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

If you guys haven't played Portal yet, you no longer have any excuse. Steam made it free for PC and Mac.

Go play. Now.

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Except I have no interest in Portal, nor do I have Steam, nor do I have any interest in Steam.

Plus I have plenty of real games I actually want to play.

Thanks for the heads up Ominous, Now I'm thinking with Portals. :P

Wish I had money to buy Burnout Paradise though. :(

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Except for, you know, those of us who just have no interest in that sort of game.

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Puzzle games with witty dark humor?

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Plus I have plenty of real games I actually want to play.

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Huh. What would those be, and what would make them more of a "real game" than Portal?

Hexes!

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

quite a few perks are different on here than in FO3.

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I don't know if it's immediately obvious, but damage model is more complex in the older versions. This summary does not have spoilers.

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Plus I have plenty of real games I actually want to play.

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Is it necessary to be so dismissive?

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Is it necessary to be so dismissive?

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Considering how OG presented it? Yes.

On the game-playing front, the slow release of info about the latest World of Warcraft expansion and the upcoming release of Starcraft II has me thinking about reinstalling Warcraft 2. I don't think I've looked at that since I had my tonsils taken out, when I was a kid.

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Considering how OG presented it? Yes.

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Exactly

Awesome :up: never figured both of you had your panties in such a twist

"ny1 who hsnt plaed this gam sux"

"hur hur u guys r too srs"

I'm depressed that I understood that. :(

How do you think I feel, I wrote it

It's not quite so great a game as OG makes it out to be.

For the price, it was acceptable. Not really sure how it got such rave reviews and so many awards.

Causes massive motion sickness, too.

Ah well, the kids want to try it.

Portal is both funny and clever.

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Portal is both funny and clever.

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And if they want to unpackage it from the virus it's currently bundled with, I might be willing to give it a try. Otherwise, fuck it. I've got plenty of funny, clever entertainment options which don't involve raping my computer.

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It's not quite so great a game as OG makes it out to be.

For the price, it was acceptable. Not really sure how it got such rave reviews and so many awards.

Causes massive motion sickness, too.

Ah well, the kids want to try it.

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Its a short game, and the gameplay alone can become dull around the middle. The ending picks up the pace nicely, but again its still a puzzle game.
What makes it so great is how Portal weaves multiple stories into the game, using crap most players wouldn't see. The drawings on the walls, the stashes of seemingly random crap in certain areas, I like the Black Mesa Powerpoint the best. Its that hidden humor in a puzzle game that you really didn't see before Portal. The way they rolled the credits, first game I can say I've sat through the credits for.

Spoiler:

Hell, even the companion cube doesn't make much sense unless you follow the story on the wall, and listen to how glados emphasizes certain directions.

Did you kill all the radios to get the extended ending?