What game are you wasting time on?

[Andyman Messiah]

Currently playing Inazuma Eleven 2 on my DS, a JRPG/football game where football is fucking SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Man, this shit is the monkey's banana. I mean, I thought the first game was fucking crazy as shit but this game straight opens up with FUCKING TERRORISTS BLOWING UP YOUR SCHOOL!

 

[Gragt]

Fucketh me but all that filler content in Dragon Age is annoying. It's a shame because the combat system is pretty good and the story and quest design rather decent, but all those trash encounters are slowing it down big time.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Yeah you fight the same darkspawn formations and succubuces over and over again. Baldur's Gate II has like 15 times the enemy variety.

I couldn't believe all the game journalists and people on blogs declaring it BioWare's best game ever.

 

[Gragt]

I'm far from the end but it has a lot of good things going for it, and I enjoy it a lot more now that it doesn't crash every fight, but there's a point where too much filler combat is too much.

 

[Crooked Bee]

The filler combat was bad, but I also found the character development system extremely uninspired. I don't remember the details, it was too long since I played the game and I have no intention of ever replaying it, but I do recall the boredom that the level-up choices incited in me.

 

[20 Eyes]

Currently playing Inazuma Eleven 2 on my DS, a JRPG/football game where football is fucking SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Man, this shit is the monkey's banana. I mean, I thought the first game was fucking crazy as shit but this game straight opens up with FUCKING TERRORISTS BLOWING UP YOUR SCHOOL!

Was this ever translated into English or are you playing with Moon Speak? I played the first one, and loved it. It got a bit easy towards the middle, but it's a blast to play.

 

[Fowyr]

Summoning. Very fun game. BTW, finding on the bookshelf map of teleports in Otherworld One, made by me ten years ago, was quite delicious.

 

[Morkar Left]

Game has about 4 different gameplay types...

Thanks. Sounds like a reduced SR2 in 3D. Sounds good enough to play when I buy my new rig.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Currently playing Inazuma Eleven 2 on my DS, a JRPG/football game where football is fucking SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Man, this shit is the monkey's banana. I mean, I thought the first game was fucking crazy as shit but this game straight opens up with FUCKING TERRORISTS BLOWING UP YOUR SCHOOL!

Was this ever translated into English or are you playing with Moon Speak? I played the first one, and loved it. It got a bit easy towards the middle, but it's a blast to play.

Both versions of Inazuma Eleven 2 (Blizzard & Firestorm) was translated into fucking insane british and released in Europe. God bless Level-5.

 

[20 Eyes]

Currently playing Inazuma Eleven 2 on my DS, a JRPG/football game where football is fucking SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Man, this shit is the monkey's banana. I mean, I thought the first game was fucking crazy as shit but this game straight opens up with FUCKING TERRORISTS BLOWING UP YOUR SCHOOL!

Was this ever translated into English or are you playing with Moon Speak? I played the first one, and loved it. It got a bit easy towards the middle, but it's a blast to play.

Both versions of Inazuma Eleven 2 (Blizzard & Firestorm) was translated into fucking insane british and released in Europe. God bless Level-5.

You don't know how happy you've just made me

 

[sea]

I finished Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress (the expansion). It's a really substantial improvement on the base game. Much better quest design, a way better story, more interesting and challenging enemies, better pacing, a lot less filler, etc. The ending is padded out (really could have been 1/3 the length and just as effective), the voice acting sucks and ultimately the combat is still sort of terrible, but overall I am impressed. It's nice to play a traditional expansion pack that actually improves on the original game, rather than these bite-sized DLCs that offer 2 hours of gameplay for $10 and nothing new.

 

[eklektyk]

world of tanks... much fun blowing shit up and stuffies.

 

[madbringer]

Came back to Demise. Running it felt a bit like lighting up a cigarette after half a year without smoking - good, but tinted with feelings of shame and guilt. Thought i dropped this game forever. Sort of wish i kept my saves from way back when, although it'd be hard to predict i'd want to resume the adventure nine years after i uninstalled the damned thing.

Rolled a Giant Warrior/Barbarian/Explorer to get things started, get all the +attribute potions/tomes and low level gear for future characters. It felt good when i didn't even have to look on the map to make my way all the way down to level 9, having memorized all the shortest routes when i was first playing it. Ah, such a simple yet terribly, terribly addictive and time consuming game. Been a while since i had such a good time playing anything.

 

[Astral Rag]

Nearing the end of Lands of Lore 1, one of the first games I bought "with my own money" and still enjoy replaying every couple of years.

Also trying out a post-apocalyptic RTS called "Cuban Missile Crisis: Aftermath" which seems all right but remains a bit vague thanks to the useless tutorial, shitty manual and awful Rus->Eng translation.

During breaks I play Demon's Crest emulated on NDS.

 

[Gragt]

Ah, Demon's Crest. I should replay that one.

 

[Trash]

Finished the entire Axis campaign in Unity of Command. Including all the missions you only get through reaching brilliant victories and so on. Fuck yeah.

Game itself doesn't feel like a wargame as much as a boardgame. Supply rules are fun and the AI really makes life difficult for you. It is exploitable tho*.

Also playing through Half Life 2. Never did before. Does not make the impact of the first game. Then again HL2 is quite old and dated by now. Then again again, the gunplay feels refreshingly arcade-like. Plus the art style used is as good as ever. Should've done this before tho.


*In a game where supplies are everything an AI that does not take back captured supply nodes is prone to abuse. Then again, most scenarios seem to be designed with that in mind.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Nonsense, just look at this glorious UI! Trully this is !

Scurvy dog that I am, I recently showed the marvelosity of the seven seas to my 9 year old nephew, and he has no problems with that interface. Maybe there's some hope for this world, after all.

I should've probably told him to use snes9x, but I forgot about it

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Finished Jagged Alliance 2 for the first time, remembering in the process why I always stop 2/3 through. Meduna is a bloody drag. Ended up just going kamikaze through the secret passage and blasting the Queen with rocket rifles and LAWs, feeding half my squad to the 235134 soldiers guarding her to use up their interrupts and provide a clean shot. Still, awesome game - intentionally avoided using 1.13 until I finished it vanilla in order to make replaying it even better, looking forward to it already.

For now, I'm replaying Enemy Unknown for the first time since beating it. Fantastic game. Something I didn't fully appreciate the first time around was just how... holistic it all is. Everything is quite minimalist, it's really a very simple game at its core, but every aspect of it works so well to contribute to such a smooth, cohesive whole. From research, to funding, to the slow but very steady sense of progression - if you play right, you're never using the same tools for more than a couple of weeks at a time - to the sheer dread of pressing the end turn button, to the little touches like the clunky three-frame death animations that nonetheless give the game so much personality. Beautiful game.

Will get around to Dark Souls soon, probably.

 

[RK47]

been playing multiplayer stuff. DoW 2 and Bloodbowl.
Special thanks to ironyuri for the company. Feels good to be gaming again.

 

[Sranchammer]

I got burned out on AGEOD's Civil War and DayZ is on a shitty patch so I've turned to Skyrim to numb my brain.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Sleeping Dogs. About three hours in but so far I really like it. Very satisfying melee combat, meh shooting and it even runs and looks way better than GTA4 or Saints Row 3. Looks like the developers are real busy on their forums listening to feedback so that's also nice.

Also I never actually finished Felicia Day's Excellent Dragon Age Adventure like I said I would a couple of pages ago, so.... yeah, I guess THAT is what I'll be playing as soon as I'm done with Sleeping Dogs. Not gonna touch Mass Effect 3 Leviathan. There's not enough caramelized carrots in the universe to make me give a fuck about that trainwreck.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS BETWEEN WORK AND SLEEP AND KIDS AND WIFE AND GIRLFRIEND I AM PLAYING GAMES LESS THAN EVER AND LOLOLOL I AM A PC ONLY BRO FOR NOW EVEN THOUGH I HAVE ALMOST TEN FABOX GAMES I HAVE BOUGHT AND NOT PLAYED

I FINISHED KOTC A WEEK OR SO AGO WITH KNIGHT TWO CLERICS AND A WIZARD NOW I AM PLAING THE SHIT OUT OF MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND I AM ADDICTED IT IS FUN AS HELL

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS I ALSO POSTED ABOUT RUNNING WITH RIFLES IT GOT NO LOVE HERE BUT IT WAS FUN INDIE STUFF

IN BETWEEN I STARTED POSTAL 2 THAT GAME IS TO FUCKING COOL FOR EVERYONE IT IS LIKE LOW BUDGET GTA WITHOUT CARS AND NOT GIING A SHIT ABOUT OFFENDING ANYONE

 

[Gregz]

I FINISHED KOTC A WEEK OR SO AGO WITH KNIGHT TWO CLERICS AND A WIZARD NOW I AM PLAING THE SHIT OUT OF MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND I AM ADDICTED IT IS FUN AS HELL

These are both great. I just wish KoTC had more replay value (or that Pierre would make a sequel already).

I'm still playing World of Tanks, I'm in a clan using comms and everything.

I tried playing some HoMM games (3 as a replay, and 5 which I'd never played before) but they are so inferior to King's Bounty, no reason to play them.

 

[Humppaleka]

I tried playing some HoMM games (3 as a replay, and 5 which I'd never played before) but they are so inferior to King's Bounty, no reason to play them.

Dunno, guess I have too fond memories of HoMM to consider King's Bounty better. I know it is better but when I even think of Heroes 3 I just remember every single LAN party and weekend I played it to no end with a bunch of bros, all huddled around one computer, playing hot-seat mode. Those were the times.