What are you playing right now? - Page 8

Just wait until the kids get old enough and see what happens.

My son and I have a ton of fun playing co-op games like Lego Star Wars and Toy Story 3 (and, lately, Skylanders).

I have two girls and they prefer to play with Mommy's iPod. 

Enjoyed messing around with the Silmarils collection. I do remember the Ishar series looking better on Amiga. In fact, I'd forgotten there are AGA versions for each one of those. Definitely will try that in a emulator for comparison. Still, presently the PC version is fine. Crystals of Arborea was kind of Ishar 0 (zero). Not the best of the lot, that's for sure. But interesting to mess with for it's odd turn based combat with head shaped checkers on a checker board sort of thing. Ishar 1 is still great, even with the weak combat. Very pretty game for the time. The save game system is among the worse. You pay a fee to save. So it isn't going to be one I can play for 10-20 minutes and come back later. That stinks. Emulator would fix that since I could save game state (awesome idea, that). Still, playing it as designed is a great challenge. The sequels done have that problem. Messed with Robinson's Requiem too. I'd always wanted that one but ended up jumping to the next one called Deus. Loved the detail in it but nothing else really grabbed me. Robinson is butt ugly but still interesting. couldn't see myself playing it at length since it's damn hard to tell what the hell I'm looking at half the time, everything is blocky as hell. You have to click randomly on the screen at stuff that looks like it might be something. And it's easy to get lost in the blocky scenery. But again, the detail with your health and stuff is kind of neat. I'll work my way through this whole set. Very glad they seem to work so well with Windows 7 64 bit (in case anybody was wondering if they do...they DO!)

Other than that, I'm still doing the Nox thing.

I finally finished Bioshock. Good stuff. Eventually I got so powerful and skilled that the final levels weren't a major challenge, but since I hate overly tricky boss fights, I'm OK with that.

Regarding the attempt at a movie. . .I don't think this game would really work as the basis for a movie (unless it just took the setting and came up with a more movie-appropriate story).

I could imagine Rob Zombie doing the Bioshock movie for some reason. House of 1000 Corpses was somewhat similar as far as characters... just crazy lunacy. Of course, he'd probably linger on the violence too much.

NOX. Level 7. Galava Castle. REALLY a lot of fun. But I am craving other games, Skyrim, Bulletstorm (which I need to download/install from Origin), etc. But I may have to remove the NOX icon from my desktop to keep me from clicking on it so much.
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I dusted off "Batman: Arkham Asylum" a few weeks back. I've had it for two years, but I couldn't get past Bane (early in the game...on EASY mode). I just don't have great coordination when it comes to games like this. Thanks to YouTube, I was able to alter my strategy and take Bane down after a few unsuccessful tries, and I was able to blaze through a good chunk after that. I LOVE all the stealth parts of the game. Diving from gargoyles to silently take crooks down never gets old. Now I'm stuck at the part where I need to take out a thug who is keeping two hostages in cages, but I'll try again over the weekend.

My family got me a bunch of games for Christmas: "Batman: Arkham City," :Uncharted 3," and the "Ico/Shadow of the Colossus" two-fer for PS, and my long-awaited "Skyrim" for PC (here goes two years of my life without even following the main quest). I started playing last night...I'm HOOKED!

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If you use a mouse for gaming you might want to get a good one. Mine has a wore out left button (I blame NOX, haha) and I've been shopping for one. Logitech g9x seems to be a favorite for wired. G500 also. amazon had the g9x for $55 and then when I went to buy one with xmas money they'd raised it to $70.

Stonekeep. Dungeon crawl from years back. Played the demo when it came out and always meant to get it but didn't. gog.com had it for $3 and they have it fixed up with dosbox to work with windows 7. Somewhat ugly looking game these days but the fun is still there for fans of this sort of thing. The real video used for enemies was awesome at the time. The voice, music and sound is still pretty good. In fact, the music swells when stuff is happening. the gameplay reminds me of the old Dungeon Master games, with creaky things going on just beyond the walls. I wanted to keep going and going just to see what new things they throw at me from within the eery dungeon. This game is similar, with a lot of new things for the time. Happy I bought this and will soon justify the $3 spent with just a few more hours of play. good deal!

Farcry 2. Finally giving this some significant play. So far I'm very impressed with it.

Risen. Fired this up. Very impressive. Hard to stop playing. Was hoping to do Gothic II a little more, and Gothic 3 a bit...then hit Risen, then Gothic 4 after that...but plans get changed. This game is too good to wait. Seems a natural to follow Gothic 2 instead of what is actually there for the Gothic series after 2.

giving NOX a break.

Ordered a new g9x mouse and pad. My old one has a left button on the way out. Logitech LX4. I hate this mouse and was looking forward to the time it would need replacement. Although the mouse shot up in price just as I was about to order it. $65 instead of $55 on that one. But it can't wait and there's no other mouse I want. I just spent less on the pad.

Got my new mouse and pad. Very good mouse. WAY better than anything I've had before. Highly recommend the G9x. The QcK Mouse pad seems okay. Might be something better for more $$$. But $10 is the most I've ever paid for one. Usually I pay nothing for a mouse pad. :p

Duke Nukem Forever. Got this for 99 cents from amazon with the $5 coupon. Nice! Full game is a lot more fun than the demo was. I don't think this is worth full price, but $10, $15 or $20 perhaps. 99 cents? Uhm, yes! Very good deal. It definitely "feels" like a Duke game. Expecting the Halflife 2 of the Duke world was unrealistic. I do hope there's a DNF 2 that is tighter and more like what we'd expect from a game in the 2010s. But seriously, this isn't the complete crap folks would have you believe it is.

Bioshock. Testing the mouse on this got me playing it again. There's some graphic glitches on my newer PC I can't get rid of. A bummer... still, it's very fun to play. I hope the sequel doesn't have the graphic problems.

ARMA 2. Just a little...the mouse works great with it. Nice looking game! Funny voicework in the training section. Some guy told me to "go ahead and get the gun from the box" and I didn't see nooooo box! hahahahaha! I finally found it. I see me playing this a lot. I wasn't the biggest fan of Flashpoint 2, but this looks excellent.

Installed a bunch of racing games/sims. about to hook my G25 wheel to my new PC. Should be great since I haven't tried it with my new pc. Sims that were jerky before should be smooth as glass!

Bioshock 2 was a great game I think I liked 1 a little better. Definitely one of my favorite games of the last couple years even if it is very rail driven.

One of my favs too. Weird and incredibly creative at the same time. I'd welcome a 3rd even though I'm only about halfway through the 1st. Btw, the mouse doesn't work great with it for some reason. I die even more... will have to spend time to figure out the best way to have it set.

Hey, don't spoil Far Cry for me!

Some jerkoff spoiled *both* major Bioshock twists for me in an Amazon review.

On the PS3 version, you don't have to stand around listening to the tapes -- they just play while you continue whatever you're doing. Is the PC version different? Also, the "smoke" in the freezer level doesn't seem like a glitch to me. Maybe there's a glitch in the PC version that makes it look like it's not supposed to be there.

Once I got really good at combat, the spawning enemies ceased to be an issue. Aside from taking me out of the "you're in an enclosed underwater space" idea, that is.

I've been having a hard time with graphic glitches in bioshock. I have a AMD HD card. 11.11 drivers, which I like and staying with for the time being. Anyway, in the distance, shadowing is obviously not working right. Somewhat disapppointed in that. But I still LOVE the game.

You CAN walk around and do stuff while the tapes are playing.

Playing Unreal II a little bit. Nothing spectacular... kind of fun. One of those "should have played it years ago..."
PT Boats: Knights of the Sea. Very fun PT Boat sim. I really like this. $5 on steam for this and it's sequel. Well was $5...
Hooked up my G25 Logitech Wheel/peddles and played some racers, everything from Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage to Grid and Dirt 2 to Burnout Paradise. All fun. Didn't get the meaty ones like GTL, etc. I played it a little but it requires a lot of adjustment and I just wanted some fun.

I just picked up LA Noire at Gamestop for $7.   Right price for me on that one.   I've been giving it some of my spare time.   The kids are all over Ratchet & Clank 4 (or whichever the one that just came out is)

I'm a fan of really tough games that make me work. Not unfair ones, mind you, but ones that make me feel good about wasting time with it. When those big daddies show up and you don't have the ammo, sneak around them and look for what you need. Use your powers to the fullest... use whatever you have to take them down. I like Borderlands a lot. And it least it works well with my hardware, unlike Bioshock.

Yeah, that is annoying when all those audio things are happening at once. I'd call that a bug. One that should be fixed by now along with the others. Still, I firmly believe Bioshock is a true classic.

Here's a trick to help with the Big Daddies (at least the ones you haven't attacked yet). Follow it around, and whenever you come across a splicer, pop it (the splicer) with the Enrage plasmid. That'll whittle the Big Daddy down to size. Just stand back so you don't accidentally trigger the Daddy to attack you (the cause of most of my deaths).

The BEST is when you come across two Big Daddies in the same place -- One well-placed Enrage zap and you've got one dead and one badly damaged Daddy!

Also, proximity mines are your friend. Drop a cluster of them, then back off and shoot the Daddy. When he chases you, the mines will sometimes finish him off entirely in one blast.

What difficulty level are you playing? I *never* had an ammo issue playing on Normal.

I never use the Chamber. I go back to a save place.

Excellent tips! Enrage is one I don't use nearly enough.

Yes, there's an option to turn off the Vita-Chambers. Of course, you could always just load your most recent save file any time you get sent to one anyway. I think I was doing that for a while, but eventually just gave up and learned to get along with the Vita-Chambers. Once I got a ways into the game I didn't die too often, anyway.

You've got a LONG way to go. IMO things pick up later on. I also got a little bored in the middle.

Duke plays really well on mine. I only paid 99 cents for duke (amazon's coupon1 hee! ) but if I'd paid $10 or so for it I would have been happy. For me, it's a very good revisit. could have been worse.

I agree about Bioshock's atmosphere aging a bit. When i first started playing it was a stunning experience... but I guess I just got used to it. A 3rd game will have to be much more outrageous...



Been playing Dawn of War 1 and 2 demos for the gamersgate sale. Bought both games. Great stuff! dl'ing the first game now and can't wait to play. I hate to have to buy both games, but they made them different enough to warrant the purchases. I guess DOW1 is more my speed, RTS, but DOW2 looks like a blast too. Sales like this...what can I do?!!

From Dust. ended up reinstalling Black & White 2 because of this. I would love a new Populous game. The 3rd Populous, I liked...but it wasn't quite up to the second one. Populous 2, done for new PCs, would be awesome. I want to drop a volcano on my enemy, or hit him with an earthquake and watch his dudes fall in there! hahaha! Anyway, From Dust is a pleasant way to pass the time just like those.

LOTS of Alien Breed 2. Finally finished the first, and have the 3rd on hand. A very nice series if you ask me. Would love them to do another, with more thought out levels. Even a FPS like what they did on Amiga years back would be a treat.

Settlers 6. Stuck on the Grandmother challenge level. that one seems kind of unfair. You have to play it through and then do it again so you can get everything right. I hope they don't pull that crap in Settlers 7. anyway, I have to restart that level. Really want to finish this one and move on to Majesty 2 before tackling Settlers 7. I also have Dawn of Discovery... one of my favorite kinds of games. But I hate stuff that seems unfair, and level 8 (I believe, that's the level) is disappointing and I just want to get it behind me.

Arx Fatalis. Replaced my disc version with the GOG one. Doesn't work great with my Win7/64/AMD system. There's graphic glitches, laggy mouse control... but it's almost as fun as before. I'd restarted this one 4 or 5 times over the years. This time I'm allowing myself to get hints off the net if needed (once, so far) just so I can finish it and see all it has. I'd much rather discover things on my own but it's just been too long for this one.

I started in on Dragon Age. We'll see how far I get with it. With so much of my gaming time being short sprints of an hour or so, I think these involved RPGs where everything takes a while may just not be for me.

Also, was annoyed to discover that the "Ultimate Edition that includes the expansion pack and all the DLC" doesn't. It looks like it just allows you to download all that stuff. Why they couldn't have stuck that on the disc is beyond me (are the files that huge?). Hopefully that isn't a scam to prevent buyers of used copies from taking advantage. . .

I'm similar with the Total War games. I just wish I had more time for them. Dragon Age seems pretty awesome. I have it on steam. Also have the sequel I got for a fiver. They came out with a graphic upgrade on the sequel, similar to the recent Skyrim upgrade.

Playing Far Cry 2 exclusively. Oddly repetitive for such a high profile title. The original wasn't like this. The convoys you're supposed to attack just travel around in circles while you knock them out. lol Fun? yeah! But hardly realistic. Still... hard to stop playing. Looking forward to the 3rd game in the series. Hopefully they'll fix things.