General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

I'm playing No One Lives Forever 2, but I have to play in 15-minute sessions 'cause I feel like vomitting all the time. It's also giving me a horrible, horrible headache, and occassionally (when things get tough and I'm stressing out) a boner.

It's still fun, though. :roll:
 
System shock 2


...and that's pretty much it.

thinking about downloading Shadow Complex for the shitbox.

waiting for age of decadence pretty much.
 
Playing the new wolfenstein.

It's fun, but it's just way too easy; and I'm playing on Uber (hardest difficulty). You've got pretty much unlimited ammo, ultra-speed-boosting-night-vision, and bullet time... along with regenerating health. The weapons handle very well though, and feel solid; which is important since pretty much all you're doing is shooting.

My biggest gripe is the insane swaying your camera does whenever you sprint. I've never had anything in a game make me sick before, but this sprinting makes me nauseous. Combining that disgusting swaying with the bright turquoise glare of veil, and it's not a good time.
 
requiem_for_a_starfury said:
What control method do you use?
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Keyboard. I always use the arrow keys on a keyboard for racing games. Joysitcks and controllers feel too cumbersome for me, like I'm trying to steer with my elbows, and it causes me to misjudge corners and end up kissing the walls.

Don't get the wrong idea, though; driving like an asshole is intentional :D - I can be pretty agile when I want to, like handling that chicane near the end of the Circuit de la Sarthe (The Le Mans circuit) at 140-160mph by weaving through really close to the barriers.
 
Allow me to update:
I am SUFFERING trough fallout 3.
Its worse than i remembered.
I wouldnt give it more than 60/100.
EDIT:
I would have already be done with it if it hadnt bugged a save i had.
 
requiem_for_a_starfury said:
Leon said:
GRID. I drive like an asshole.
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What control method do you use? Normally I just plug in a 360 controller for racing games but with GRID no matter how I adjust the sensitivity I just have to breath on the thumb sticks and the car goes veering off like a turbo charged supermarket trolley.
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I use gamepad for GRID, but I never touch analog sticks, driving with D-pad is much better for me. Although yeah, it's a really difficult game for me too, I just cannot play it on anything higher than lowest difficulty. I suck at it bad. Love the game, but suck at it. Of course for the most part I'm into more arcade-ish racers like Flatout, so no wonder.
 
The new Wolfenstein. So far I'm unimpressed. The graphics are functional but unimpressive, and the... Actually, "functional but unimpressive" describes the whole game pretty well so far.
 
Leon said:
The new Wolfenstein. So far I'm unimpressed. The graphics are functional but unimpressive, and the... Actually, "functional but unimpressive" describes the whole game pretty well so far.
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Is it at least enjoyable?
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Is it at least enjoyable?
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It's mediocre, forgettable, piss easy even on "uber" difficulty - just another console shooter. Yes, it might be enjoyable, but after playing some of it I decided I'd rather enjoy something else.
 
Well don't give up on it just yet, you may as well like it. It's not that "Wolfenstein" is borderline terrible, it's just mediocre and nowhere near the level of RTCW. Still miles better than something like Far Cry 2. Yes, this is me trying to comfort you. :)
 
There is probably a good game in here somewhere, but I'm not sure that I can be bothered with actually finding it. If you've already bought it, you may as well give it a fair chance.
 
Thanks guys,

Well I hope its at least enjoyable in a general way, I can live with a game that is acceptable with a good moment once in a while.
I haven't bought a FPS for the PC in quite some time as there hasn't been anything remotely interesting that is somewhat sci-fi.
 
Got Trine (From the makers of Shadowgrounds and SG:Survivor, same engine blablabla)
Really nice fairytale atmosphere with enviromental / physics puzzles and platform elements. I would recommend it if you can get it on one of the discounts at steam or other sites.

I also got Call of Juarez, Bound in blood and suprisingly it is both a nice game and a good (Spagetti) Western. Enjoyable.

Other than that, tried the Mini Ninjas demo and I liked that one too.

Feels weird to play games that I like without any problems so far.
 
Playing through Fable again.

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The replayability sucks balls. It's all pretty much the same, and most of the features have been done better by older games and just feel like excuses to make more money or get more pieces of equipment(most of which are crap compared to what you can just buy from a store).
For example:
Being good or evil and having people react to your presence as Such(fallout)
Looking for hidden treasure behind doors that unlock after doing a specific thing(zelda series, tomb raider, etc.)
Having romances(hell, even GTA did this better)
Buying houses and managing them(simcity, etc.)
Building a fighting style(devil may cry 3, diablo, RE4, etc.)
Maybe I'm missing something, but there has to be a reason to explore and do meaningless quests for something other than for cheap eq or money.

[spoiler:6cffd6c989]Is there anything worth my time for in the silver chests? I'm already in prison and I've only found four keys.[/spoiler:6cffd6c989]

The quest design sucks balls too. Fetch quests, kill everyone quests, save village by killing bandits quests, treasure hunting quests, and aside from a small handful of quests that's about it. Evolving in real time is boring, and I'm about sick of this game. Only thing keeping me going is the character building, which is above average for a game like this and the best feature of the game as a whole.
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Can anyone recommend any mods that can enhance my experience and help me squeeze the last bit of fun out of this game? Playing the lost chapters version, btw.
 
Sacred 2 is great and underrated and people here need to play it and stop whining about it not being a real RPG.
I didn't hear anyone say that, but I heard you all thinking it.

Seriously, it's huge, a freaking immense game, with metric tons of boobage as would be expected from perverted European developers. I've been having a lot of fun with it.
Granted, I've been playing the console port and I've heard from a lot of people that it's actually less buggy, controls better than the PC version, and has a lot of issues fixed that made the PC version a bitch.

That's pretty weird, but hey, I'm enjoying it.
 
Beat wolfenstein 09 and was overall feeling satisfied. I had expected it to be shit after seeing some of the trailers, but it turned out to be passable. The complete lack of manual saving was a huge turnoff though.

Then I dug out my RTCW cd and installed. I'm now about halfway through it and my opinion of wolf 09 has soured.
 
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