What game are you wasting time on?

[DraQ]

I've started 1st Unreal. For the n-th time. But this time I plan to finish this thing. So far I'm having fun - great level design, challenging enemies - something that current 3d shooters are missing.

Also, music and atmosphere.

And graphic potential put to actual use.

I only wonder why Epic didn't implement specular in Unreal - it was in 1995 beta.

 

[Excommunicator]

Just started with Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic. AoW2 was always my favourite all-round TBS, and the praise that Shadow Magic gets around here prompted me to give it a proper look.

So far I have had no disappointments at all. It seems to be one of those truly great expansions that simply adds to the greatness of the original with many smaller touches (e.g. small but significant things like recruitment queue looping, the mission selection structure and various added spells and units) without altering the solidity of the original. The way an expansion (and in some cases, a sequel) should be.

The only real problem I had with AoW2 was the occasional lack of detail and clarity on the main playing map and the way it is sometimes difficult to see outlines and units in the terrain. Compared to the likes of Wesnoth, AoW2 is much prettier but just not as functional and easy to work with, although I would very happily take the occasionally disappointing randomness of AoW2 over the enraging pointlessness of Wesnoth. I would say Shadow Magic is shaping up as my new favourite incarnation of TBS

Speaking of Wesnoth, I have restarted the game with the "Sauron's Mod" which allows you to introduce more determinacy into the attacks of all units. So far I am having a lot more fun. If only they had made such a feature a part of the original, I would call it deserving of being on a favourites list. It doesn't seem quite just to do so with a game knowing how hard it is to tolerate without the mod. If only it had been so easy for Oblivion though

 

[DraQ]

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-reign-the-future-of-war

I never finished it, but I remember it having a lot of cool mechanics and decent AI.

P. bro game, overall.

 

[spekkio]

I remember that I even failed tutorial a couple of times, Cassidy-style.

 

[Phelot]

I've been playing Angband at work. Yeah yeah, I know Tolkein isn't awesome anymore and there are much better roguelikes and crap. Whatever. It's fun.

Nothing better than finding one of those rooms with a large block-like building with no door... should you choose to tunnel through you might find treasures or, in the case of my boring 18th level warrior, a horde of nasties come pouring out. God I love that.

 

[Leonard DeVir]

Still playing my first playthrough of NV. I always mod the hell out of it with 140+ mods - but at the time Im done, a few mods are updated, and I can start over. Damn compulsive modding sickness, good riddance.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

Meh. A response I hear from the ladies all the time.

 

[felipepepe]

Meh. A response I hear from the ladies all the time.

Your ladies rate you in %? Ah, you're a dating sim player!

 

[anus_pounder]

DX:HR and Emperor : Battle for Dune. Say what you will about canon rape, I rather enjoy the cheesy acting and music of the game.

 

[Sceptic]

You mean Dune? Eh, every single game rewrote most of the canon, so it never bothered me that much, especially since aside from Cryo's game they don't make any direct references to characters/events from the book. And Emperor's FMV's are a high point of cheese, they're great fun.

 

[Kawaii Theurgist]

I'm just kind of playing Human Revolution right now. It kind of works as Sluagh simulator, I guess, and it is quite fun as long as you don't mind the game not understanding what the concept of ghosting actually is. And Jensen's is a pretty cool guy and his voice ties me up and does all kinds of stuffies to me with absolutely no resistance.

Though I kind of really enjoyed AitD 2008 earlier and am kind of looking forward to playing the updated PS3 version later so my taste is nothing to write home about, I guess.

Oh, and I have been playing Sentinel Returns too. Weird thingie. Lovely thingie, too. Awesome atmosphere for a puzzle game.

I gave Yume Nikki a try. I'd read on TVTropes it was a surreal and creepy game, but it turned out to simply be a very dull, empty and pointless one.

Yume Nikki, as well as the entire genre it spawned, depends entirely on how much do you want to get absorved into the surreality of it all and to develop your own understanding and interpretation of the gameworld and the symbolism. In a way it could be argued they are not even games, per se, but simply the doujin descendants of L.S.D Dream Emulator, a japan only PSX game that followed mostly the same premise and concept in a very basic 3D engine.

However,

There's no story unless you've smoked enough pot to imagine one, no sense of progress other than the number of objects you've found and, once you have gathered all of them, your heroine kills herself because that's how a deep and dark game must end, man !

That you consider the ending to be done just for deep and darkness shows the game, or "the experience" if you want, just didn't work for you at all, which is kind of understandable given it doesn't work for a lot of people. Madotsuki killing herself is a beautiful way to end the story, given her doesn't really has a live outside of her own dreamworld so she either dissociates enough to kill herself or kills herself intentionally to permanently escape into her dreamworld, at least from her point of view. Death of the main character as an ending isn't automatically dark. You are most probably going to get the same ending, which doesn't automatically turn your life into a faux deep, faux dark, faux edgy affair.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS I JUST FINSHED QUAKE 2 IT WAS LOTS OF FUN

I AM THINKING OF TRYING DES EX FOR THE FIRST TIME I HAVE DUES EX SYSTEM SHOCK 2 AND BLOODLINES IN MY GAMING QUE

 

[meh]

Finished JA2 and started playing Deus Ex: HR. The major downside of this game for me is that browsing RPGCodex/4chan and what not I've got spoiled pretty much everything and the discovery of references to the real world or first Deus Ex or finding-out gameplay elements are less satisfactory when I've already read about them.

 

[pipka]

Fired up Freelancer, played for few hours. Then decided to uninstall freelancer and install Independence War 2.
Got mouse config from GOG. And it's awesome. No need for joystick on my laptop. And the controls are easy.
And the mod management! Best support for mods ever! Just drop the zip in the folder and off you go.

Will try X3TC in the near future. After some mod hunting.

Also playing DAO.

 

[Phelot]

I just lost my lvl30 warrior to a retarded carrion crawler in Angband on around level 27.

First it paralyzed me which was pretty lucky for it. Then a fucking Tengu teleported me to itself. I actually thought this would be good since it got me away from the crawler and the Tengu's barely hurt me at this point, but then a unique showed up and started hacking me. THEN the stupid fucking Tengu phased door, disappeared, and allowed the crawler to come back at me. From there it was a sad show seeing my character slowly hacked to death. In the end the crawler got the final blow.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Operation Flashpoint with Liberation 41-45 mod - it finally adds decent armour.

Armored Brigade.

Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge - damn, it's so tedious to mod it... But it was well worth the price.

 

[Ruprekt]

Will try X3TC in the near future. After some mod hunting.

Let me know if you want suggestions in that regard.

 

[Satori (original)]

Operation Flashpoint with Liberation 41-45 mod - it finally adds decent armour

Pfft, nigga you a pansy, get Arma: Cold War Assault aka OFP 1.99

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Operation Flashpoint with Liberation 41-45 mod - it finally adds decent armour

Pfft, nigga you a pansy, get Arma: Cold War Assault aka OFP 1.99

What are the benefits? Do OFP mods work with it? Also, does it finally offer semi-realistic armour or something like that?

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Fighter Squadron - WWI. Finally some opportunity to fly something that isn't a flying computer.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Rune

 

[Menckenstein]

Rune

Beating people to death with their own limbs is good fun.

 

[laclongquan]

Finished JA2 and started playing Deus Ex: HR. The major downside of this game for me is that browsing RPGCodex/4chan and what not I've got spoiled pretty much everything and the discovery of references to the real world or first Deus Ex or finding-out gameplay elements are less satisfactory when I've already read about them.

Dont worry about it! I got spoilered about Bloodlines all the time but my first run of Bloodlines, happened just last year, was special. A great game wont be spoiled.

 

[Jack]

Currently playing MOO, EU3 and Dragon Wars. Good times are being had, even if I'm doing terrible in EU3. I haven't really touched EU3 since release and must say that I'm impressed with what they have done with it, looking forward to Magna Mundi by the way.

Tried to get Omikron: The Nomad Soul to run on windows 7 without any success, if you got any tips they would be appreciated.

Next up I'm thinking of giving the X series a go along with a replay of World of Xeen. Maybe Freespace 2 if I got the time.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Wizardry, Hard Nova, occasionally Space 1889. The usual kind of stuff.