What game are you wasting time on?

[Metro]

Well... so much for Spellforce. After a few hours it just got too tedious. The RPG elements are okay but they are mostly drowned out by the RTS elements and, unfortunately, they aren't even good RTS elements. Pretty generic and not particularly challenging. That and even with the bindstones (ports) getting from one place to another to turn quests and such in takes an inordinate amount of time. I'm sure it improves somewhat later on but I can't see myself putting the time in to get there. The Orc 'bonus' campaign in WC3 TFT expansion was more entertaining and basically the same mix of genres.

 

[RK47]

I like witcher 2, but the overwhelming love for this game baffles me. What's up with the love of- GRABUMGLMIMLBMLEMMLEE

*buried under a pile of potatoes.*

 

[Data4]

I think Far Cry would benefit from being a little shorter, starts feeling kinda dragged-out from the second half onwards.

Length is fine, it's the indoor corridors with trigens that needed to go. Fortunately the rest of the game is fun enough to compensate. Last level sucks ass though.

Is there a mod that nerfs the trigens? I'm all about the challenge, but the jump in difficulty between the Hawaiian shirt wearing thugs and the trigens was ridiculous. I tried about a half a dozen times to play the game and quit every time I got to the trigen area and died a gazillion times.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Have fun with Freespace 2, great game, I played the enhanced version a few years ago and the mouse and keyboard controls work really well. I might try it out with a joystick in the near future.

As to Fable, I enjoyed the tutorial in the first one until it turned into a mashing button game down linear corridors, I was surprised how fast it turned into a horrible console clickfest. I didn't even realize I was getting killed fighting a boss and automatically resurrecting myself with the fifteen potions I had because the inventory was so bad. I heard the rest of the series are worse.

Bioshock, I wanted to love and like everyone else I loved the atmosphere, gathering the logs (reminded me of Doom 3) and piecing the story together but the combat, weapons, upgrades, it all failed. It didn't work as a straight FPS nor an RPG. I remember at the time wishing they would have just focused on one or the other and tried to make it good. Like Fable, I'm not even going to 'demo' the second one.

Farcry, I really liked that one, irritating at times but a good solid shooter. I'm probably one of the few people on the planet that didn't mind the Tri-gens. Sometimes they were a hassle but I remember the treetop level with the hanging pathways, and some indoor areas, had some great times.

I recently played Crysis and immediately bought Warhead (the expansion). I liked them both too. Like Farcry, they both peter out in the end but still worth it in the world where there aren't any good FPS's anymore.

I skipped Farcry 2 altogether because it sounds like it will just piss me off. I 'demoed' Crysis 2 and tried playing it a few times for several hours but it's a COD or something. I just can't get into it so I'm glad I didn't do the pre-order on that one.

Right now, Risen, I 'demoed' it and after two hours bought it. It completely reminds me of G2 and it just sucked me in. Still playing it. I understand the last two chapters will probably disappoint me but I've already got my moneys worth out of it. First modern RPG I've played in awhile that I've liked. (Of course I never bothered with DA or Fallout 3). Liked New Vegas but never finished it.

The others are Dirt 2 (convinced me to buy a wheel and pedals), ToCA3 and Live For Speed (Oh, and Flatout, for drunk nights). Haven't played racing games since the Carmegeddon, I'76 days but damn if they aren't fun with all of the force feedback and physics.

I also just reinstalled Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. So I have my RPG, my tactics/strategy, and action. Surprisingly the action is racing games instead of FPS, but Crytek fucked that one up for me.

Despite the decline, there are a few new rare things out there worth playing, it just takes a lot of research to figure out what they are.

 

[Baddygoal]

Far Cry 2 is a massive turd. A rotting piece of shit.

At first glance it might seem promising - decent graphics, a good flamethrower, flammable environment (which grows back really quickly), underused setting (Africa), the whole malaria thing.

But when you actually start playing you'll be greeted with crappy sluggish console-feeling aiming and shooting, enemies which respawn every 10 fucking seconds, enemies which shoot you on sight and chase you for no reason at all, fake choice involving two factions but you will end up doing missions for both anyway, absolutely fucking shitty open world 'missions' which are exactly the same every damn time.

In short, FUCK YOU Far Cry 2.

 

[Baddygoal]

On topic, replaying Ultimate Doom. Oh the sweet sweet level design

 

[sea]

I liked Far Cry 2 initially and really appreciate what it tried to do, but the more I think about it the more I realise it wasn't that great a game. I thought the actual shooting action was very well done, but it just got so old and stale after a while, and the fact that you're forced to do just about every story mission rather than picking your path as you're initially led to believe sort of ended up as a letdown. And yeah, the respawning enemies get old, fast. I also really appreciate them trying to do something different with the setting, and it took a lot of balls to make a game based on a real setting where topics like blood diamonds, civil warfare, disease, famine, Western exploitation of third-world conflict etc. get mentioned, but after a while it seemed to pay more lip service rather than actually address those problems head-on in an intelligent way.

At least the level editor was fun to mess around with.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The respawning enemies in Far Cry 2 absolutely killed the game for me. I loved the environment and the sense of freedom, even though the maps are actually kind of linear. But there's no point playing a game like this, where you have to plan out your missions, conserve ammo and try not to get shot, when everything you accomplish gets wiped away every 5 minutes.

I was interested by the story, of basically being this amoral mercenary in a TPLAC (Tin Pot Little African Country, Yes Minister reference), but it wasn't enough to keep me playing past the second part.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS FAR CRY IS OKAY BUY BROS LOLLOLLOL IT SEEMS LIKE THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IT AND A CONSOLE SHOOTER IS THAT FAR CRY IS FUCKING ALOT LONGER BROS I AM GETTING A LITTLE BORED OF IT

I COULD COMPLETE FAR CRY 2 AND I GUESS I APPRECIATED THE MORE UNIQUE SHIT IT TRIED

I THINK THE RESPAWNS AND DRIVING TO MISSIONS TURNED OFF GAMERS AND I UNDERSTAND WHY UNFORTUNATELY HERE IT WAS SUMMARIZED AS LOLLOOLOL CONSOLETARD HERE WHEN CONSOLIZATION WAS THE LAST FUCIKING PROBLEM WITH THE GAME FUCK ME THE FIRST FAR CRY PLAYS PRETTY CONSOLISH

BROS I THINKI THE RESPAWNING WAS NEEDED TO CONSERVE SOME DIFFICULTY I GET WHY IT WAS ANNOUING BUT I THINK IT MADE SOME TENSION WHEN CRAWLING BACK FROM A HARD ASS BARELY ESCAPED MISSION

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS ALSO I FINISHED ULTIMA 1 TODAY IT WAS A FUN LITTLE DIVERSION

 

[anus_pounder]

Jagged Alliance 2 1.13
Just Cause 2
Wither 2
Deus Ex........Invisible War Wanted to try out the Texture pack.

 

[Ulminati]

Still playing League of Legends (shameless referral link to the EU server) a ton. Had a scandinavian mini-tournament a few days ago where 3 all-Danish 5-man teams, 5 all-Swedish 5-man teams, 2 all-Norweigan 5-man teams and a Finnish/Icelandic team duked it out for supremacy. Needless to say, my team kicked a lot of swedish arse.

 

[Baddygoal]

I COULD COMPLETE FAR CRY 2 AND I GUESS I APPRECIATED THE MORE UNIQUE SHIT IT TRIED

I THINK THE RESPAWNS AND DRIVING TO MISSIONS TURNED OFF GAMERS AND I UNDERSTAND WHY UNFORTUNATELY HERE IT WAS SUMMARIZED AS LOLLOOLOL CONSOLETARD HERE WHEN CONSOLIZATION WAS THE LAST FUCIKING PROBLEM WITH THE GAME FUCK ME THE FIRST FAR CRY PLAYS PRETTY CONSOLISH

BROS I THINKI THE RESPAWNING WAS NEEDED TO CONSERVE SOME DIFFICULTY I GET WHY IT WAS ANNOUING BUT I THINK IT MADE SOME TENSION WHEN CRAWLING BACK FROM A HARD ASS BARELY ESCAPED MISSION

BRO did you play it on Xbawks or PC BRO?

Just Cause 2

 

[commie]

Fallout 3. Trying yet again..FWE, MMM, Fellout and some minor other shit. I decided to explore the wasteland for a change rather than go to DC where I invariably lose the will to play and to live. It actually worked a bit, game is pleasant enough as a hiking simulator without walls of rubble and subway tunnels channeling you into the same location over and over again. Sure, most of the locations are the same shit, but with the different creatures, slower leveling and other things it's ok to pass time on while I wait for a bit of time to pass before another go through TW2. Unfortunately I've run out of stuff to see in the wasteland so will have to go to DC now...

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO I PLAYED FAR CRY 2 ON THE 360 PLAYING FAR CRY ON THE PC NOW

 

[pipka]

Evil Genius. DK lite, DF extra-extra lite. Lacks Z-axis. Somewhat amusing.

 

[Baddygoal]

BRO I PLAYED FAR CRY 2 ON THE 360

BRO thats your problem right there. You won't notice the shitty shooting mechanics if you play on a 'bawkx-three-sixty.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Armored Brigade

 

[BLOBERT]

BRO I PLAYED FAR CRY 2 ON THE 360

BRO thats your problem right there. You won't notice the shitty shooting mechanics if you play on a 'bawkx-three-sixty.

BRO DO YOU THINK THAT IS ALL THERE IS TOO IT I MEAN I HAVE PLAYED SOME OF THE DECENT PC SHOOTERS

THE GUNS HANDLE NICE IN FAR CRY NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT I THINK FAR CRY IS BETTER WITH RECOIL AND SWAY FOR SNIPERS AND FUCK WHILE I AM AT IT I THINK STEALTH WORKS A LITTLE BETTER MAYBE IT IS BECAUSE WITH A MOUSE I CAN USE THE FUCKING SILCENCED SMG AS A SNIPER JUST ABOUT ALTHOUGH WHETHER THAT IS GOOD OR NO WHO KNOWS

BROS I STILL THINK SOME OF YOU GUYS HAVE HAND EYE COORDINATION FUCKING BRIAN DAMAGE IF YOU CANT HANDLE A CONTROLLER FOR AN FPS YES IT IS HARDER BUT IT ISNT THE END OF THE WORLD

BROS I GUESS MAKING SHIT CROSS PLATFORM IS GONNA FUCK ON OR THE OTHER IN SOME REGARD I CAN SEE WHY PCTARDS HATE FAGS OF WAR THAT SLOW ASS SHIT WOULD BE LAME WITH A MOUSE

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Bad Company 2 more like I Want To Be A Modern Warfare: The Extended Cutscene

 

[Jasede]

Right now, Touhou crap and Ketsui and ESP Galuda. Divinity 2 expansion on the side, and Killing Floor.

Just sort of waiting on Deus Ex 3.

 

[Baddygoal]

BRO DO YOU THINK THAT IS ALL THERE IS TOO IT I MEAN I HAVE PLAYED SOME OF THE DECENT PC SHOOTERS

BRO the feel is important in an FPS, or at least it is to me. Movement speed, recoil, aiming smoothness, sensitivity, whether or not it's a 1-1 distance mapping as it should be when it's a PC FPS controlled by a mouse instead of a velocity/acceleration to distance mapping as it's done with console shooters controlled by analog sticks.

Doom 1 and 2, Unreal 1 up to 2004, Quake 2 & 3, RTCW hey even Far Cry 1 all handled well (on PC). I hated the feel of the first Halo (tested on PC) from the first few moments of the game, same with Bioshock and Far Cry 2. It's all about the feel BRO. The levels/setting/story/enemies are all icing on the cake. No point having the icing if the cake itself it shit, if I may stretch the metaphor, BRO.

 

[CreamyBlood]

I agree 100% with the above. I thought Doom 3, Quake 4, ETQW and Crysis 1 felt alright as well.

 

[mangsy]

Beat the Dead Money DLC this past weekend. I was really impressed with it (I've never encountered a worthwhile DLC before). Looking forward to trying Honest Hearts at some point.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

Eating up time now playing an RPG for once...well jRPG. Never got around to playing the Gamecube Paper Mario, and going through it now. Surprisingly, so far, it's an incline over the first, which was already a fun game. The writing, which is kind of akin to a Pixar movie, is improved over the first, keeping a strong cartoony, whimsical theme.

Combat is even better too. There's more moves, gimmicks, enemies have a lot more abilities, and the "audience interference" works real well. Also it's a little more difficult than the first, which is good, but I still feel Nintendo really needs to get with the times and have difficulty settings (though with things like New Super Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong Country Returns, with the super guide as a "safety net", Nintendo games have been pretty decent).

So far, so good.