What game are you wasting time on?

[RedScum]

Chivalry. Pretty fun, even more so if you got some mates to play with.

 

[Ulminati]

Eagerly awaiting the linux native release that's going to support multithreading so Stereotypical Villain can haz an even larger SPEHSS MEHREEN battlebarge without lagging. With docked drop pods allowing for MULTIPLE SIHMULTENEOUS DEVASTATING AND DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES.

 

[eklektyk]

went from painting map with potato to grinding bones with lizzies ..... [eu3-bb:le]

 

[sea]

Finished Mysteries of Westgate.

Hmm.

Okay, so the game has some strong points. There are quests with nice C&C and use of non-combat skills, more so than I thought at first (although there are also places where you will fail or succeed at checks no matter what your skills are, which is lame). The world itself is well fleshed out and you eventually explore a pretty large number of locations. There are some quests that require ingenuity to figure out, simple puzzles, that sort of thing. The companions also grew on me a bit later on and I liked how I could influence them.

But... man, does the story take a messed up turn near the end.

Spoiler

So the Night Masks are an ancient vampire cult led by some ancient vampire, who has an evil operation to use humans as cattle in a massive factory under the city. Eventually the leader wants to use their blood to fuel a vampire army and take over THE WORLD!!!!! The curse of your domino mask turns out to be... uh, I don't even fucking remember. There was a spirit who was a paladin lady? And she was cursed to remain banished to the mortal world after death? And this is connected to the mask somehow? And then you fight her and the curse is gone? But then there are all these other villains who show up in the final 10 minutes of the game, who you only saw extremely briefly earlier, and they turn out to be masterminds behind the plot? Or something?

What a fucking mess. I like the idea of plots within plots, betrayals and all that good stuff, but very few of the characters are properly introduced or developed. I had no idea who half the people involved in the endgame were and they seemed to just die, come back to life, etc. at will, saying it was "all part of the plan." And then the final boss is a wizard who turns out to be a lipstick-wearing demon who has zero development or direct involvement in the plot whatsoever. Uh. Right. I'm sure it makes sense to someone, somewhere, but the way it's presented makes it almost impossible to figure out what's going on. Maybe that's the point, and it's an intentional subversion, but it comes off far less like competing villains with master plans and more like someone saying "and then X happened, then Y, then Z... but wait, then..."

Still, had fun. Better than the original campaign, not as good as the other expansions, though. I can appreciate what they tried to do, especially given the small size of the team, it's just a shame it didn't really work out.

And whoever though that making a module with extremely difficult combat, yet no mage follower, needs to have their head examined. Basically if you don't play as a mage yourself, you're screwed (which of course you can't realize until you're already 5+ hours into the game). That's just weak, and probably made things less fun than they should have been.

 

[Infinitron]

sea I warned you!

 

[Humppaleka]

Started Hotline Miami Official Achievement Run™. 3 first levels done A+, a lot more to go... This game is such a blast to play.

 

[ohWOW]

Hard Reset and Disciples III.

Pretty fun despite their shortcomings.

 

[Ulminati]

But... man, does the story take a messed up turn near the end.

I never finished MoW, but I've been told from several places that the story makes more sense if you play the evil route, as the BBEG feeds you bits of plot exposition.

 

[spekkio]

On my "catching up with the newshit" run.

Completed Desu Ex: Human Revolution + Missing Link. Great fucking game overall, minus some bad things (final mission and boss , bots / turrets way too easy, some augs way too next-gen, not enough sidequests in hubs, etc.). But for a game released in 2011, it's a fuckin' masterpiece.

I think I'm going to start the new Alice now.

 

[Aeschylus]

On my "catching up with the newshit" run.

Completed Desu Ex: Human Revolution + Missing Link. Great fucking game overall, minus some bad things (final mission and boss , bots / turrets way too easy, some augs way too next-gen, not enough sidequests in hubs, etc.). But for a game released in 2011, it's a fuckin' masterpiece.

At least they realized their boss fights were terrible and included ways to beat them all with no challenge whatsoever.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Switching back and froth between Skyrim, New Vegas, Dark Souls, and testing shitty Oblivion-clones like Kingdoms of Amular.

Tried Risen recently. Way to mediocre.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

testing shitty Oblivion-clones like Kingdoms of Amular.

'tis a Fable clone.

 

[DragoFireheart]

testing shitty Oblivion-clones like Kingdoms of Amular.

'tis a Fable clone.

Semantics. Oblivion and Fable are both shit games.

 

[Fatty]

In order of what I spend the most time on:

Terraria
Stalker SoC
Sacred Gold
Baldur's Gate (one...final...push to actually finish it for once. Currently dying repeatedly to Nimbul with SCS installed )
Saints Row (this PC tard needs some serious XBAWKS help - I fucking suck at this game)
M&M1
Ultima III
Recettear
Rome:Total War

hmmm no wonder I can never finish a GD single game

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Karl Marx 3.0 states, "Humanity Has Risen! has signed up as Chaplain."

My poor Space Station 13.

edit:

Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) has been touched with the stun gloves by Spigot The Bear!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) stammers, "DDoonntttt yyyyoou dddaarree ttoouuucchhh meee ddeeggeeennneerraateeee leeftiisssstt"
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear feeds Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) finishes eating the swedish meatballs cake.
Not enough charge!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nuuuuuuu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) exclaims, "Nu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Spigot The Bear now you are Swedish! You will love Abba and socialism forever!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "een Nu vHY I veeLL shooPPuRg dueesh"
Spigot The Bear exclaims, "Yuoo hefe-a nu chueece!"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) exclaims, "eHHHHH - Borg Borg Borg!"
Spigot The Bear laughs.
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) cries.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

All those librul carbs, you monster

 

[sea]

Now that I'm done with Neverwinter Nights 2, I feel I'll finally get around to playing and finishing the first one. I could never ever get past chapter 1 on account of the insane amount of shitty filler combat, but... okay well that's not going away, but I seek some solace in the fact that apparently the expansions are okay. Plus I spent money on it, so I must suck as much value from it as I possibly can!

Also, this engine is still buggy as hell, even the fixed-up GOG version. If I pick the 3D audio provider then it stutters so badly it becomes unplayable. Running 2D Miles provider, it runs smoother than I have ever seen it on any computer (constant 60 fps). Weird.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Karl Marx 3.0 states, "Humanity Has Risen! has signed up as Chaplain."

My poor Space Station 13.

edit:

Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) has been touched with the stun gloves by Spigot The Bear!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) stammers, "DDoonntttt yyyyoou dddaarree ttoouuucchhh meee ddeeggeeennneerraateeee leeftiisssstt"
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear attempts to feed Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Spigot The Bear feeds Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) the swedish meatballs cake.
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) finishes eating the swedish meatballs cake.
Not enough charge!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nuuuuuuu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) exclaims, "Nu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Spigot The Bear now you are Swedish! You will love Abba and socialism forever!
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "Nu"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) says, "een Nu vHY I veeLL shooPPuRg dueesh"
Spigot The Bear exclaims, "Yuoo hefe-a nu chueece!"
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) exclaims, "eHHHHH - Borg Borg Borg!"
Spigot The Bear laughs.
Geoff Bongos (as Humanity Has Risen!) cries.

I'm not into online games, but this looks awesome.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Beaten Deus Ex: Invisible War. I thought it would feel good to

Spoiler

pair up with Leo and just take everyone out

because you'd think it should be awesome when your final quest is "fuck everyone", but the ending area was just as disappointing as the rest of the game. All the factions were pretty retarded, too: lol Nazis, lol robots, lol capitalism, lol religion, hurr durr capitalism and religion are two sides of the same coin; it's like some crappy undergraduate political philosophy essay or something. And not a single memorable quest or character. Basically, the game really is everything the Codex has been saying it is.

At least it's better than Mass Effect.

Also beaten Assassin's Creed 3. More of the same basically, except in a new setting. At least it didn't require you to do any of the inane side stuff like hunting and chasing almanac pages in order to advance the main plot (the tutorial notwithstanding), so I breezed through it fairly quickly.

Uninstalling Uplay as we speak.

Next on my popamole edutainment list:
Max Payne 3
Borderlands 1 and/or 2
Hitman: Absolution
Bioshock 1 and/or 2
Batman: Arkham whatever
Sleeping Dogs
Skyrim: Dragonborn


See you in a mental asylum.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I just finished reading the Mask of Loki by Roger Zelazny and boy does parts of that book seemed to have been borrowed by Assassin's Creed. It's probably just a coincidence, since a lot of fiction writers seem to like to make global conspiracies out of the Assassins, Templars, Freemasons, alien beings posing as gods, memories of past lives and so on and so forth, but darned it all if Mask of Loki and Assassin's Creed don't share all of those elements.

 

[Jaesun]

Playing The Legend of Kyrandia for the first time. Fucking beautiful as expected from a Westwood game, and enjoying it through my glorious MT-32. The puzzle logic is......... a bit odd. But enjoyable so far.

 

[crojipjip]

Ungame.

 

[Jashiin]

 

[Grim Monk]

Hitman: Agent 47 / For the First Time / On Hard Difficulty...

Got stuck for ages trying to do the "The Lee Hong Assassination" with no civilian casualties.

(Even checked on Youtube, but all the walkthroughs killed the waiter.)

Finally did it: shot him, his bodyguard, and everybody else in the his hideout before doing any of the other objectives.

Not really "stealthy" but it worked...

 

[shihonage]

Slowly grinding through Dead Space 2 and sometimes Guild Wars 2.

Lost all remnants of interest in Tribes: Ascend.