General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Risen is pretty damn great so far. I'm still at the beginning (I chose the Don's camp) so I can't say much, but what I experienced so far was very much up my alley. Pretty much every NPC I got to talk to had quests for me, also everyone is stronger than me in the beginning, I got my ass kicked quite a few times on normal difficulty. I also got the impression a lot of quests have multiple solutions, but I can't say for sure cause I've spent more time collecting quests than actually doing them. Dialogue and voice acting is quite decent for the most part, of course not on the same level as Bloodlines, but acceptable nonetheless. And smoking weed gives you some experience, that made me smile. I hope to play it some more today once I get rid of my girlfriend, heh..
Also, from what I hear and screenshots I've seen, PC version is a lot better than Xbox360. Xbox version also looks like shit.

Dragula said:
Risen is awful.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/risen-review
http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/risen/review.html
http://www.resolution-magazine.co.uk/content/review-risen/
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Here's some more :

http://www.realgamer.net/xbox360/reviews/Risen.html

dialogue and character interactions are a very poor copy of the system used by Bethesda
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Yeah, reviews are so useful these days..

Someone who played Gothic games better give their impressions as I haven't played them yet.
 
Like i am going to trust reviewers to do their job or not be utterly retarded these days.
I just read Pelit-magazine, one of the largest gaming magazines in finland, and their review of Risen for the PC called BIOSHOCK an RPG better than Risen.
My god.
 
I get the feeling most of reviewers sucked at this game, for about an hour or two, then stopped playing. Risen does have an old school feel to it, when you get a quest you have to actually use your brain to get it done, there is no quest compass telling you where to go. A lot of people probably expected another crap like Oblivion.
 
Yes, i would have to agree on that.
Its not a game for *insert slander about console gamers * , because it actually treats you as an adult, instead of an lobotomy patient.

On an entirely unrelated note, i lost every freaking game i had on my computer and the saves.
 
Dragula said:
No, it treats you like you have played the game before. There is a difference.
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Sure, it doesnt have a 30 minute long tutorial.
Sure, its hard.
But how does it treat you like you have played it before ?
Examples ?
 
That you have to know every exact thing in order to progress. Tried to join the mages and doing those quests. Seriously, design is retarded, and without spoiling, if you don't do some stuff in the exact order, you can't progress.
 
OK, so i thought about going for something completely different and bough dancing stage universe cause it was only 19e with mat.

Unsuprisingly its fun party game and all, but quest mode is one big whatthefuck, its ridicilously hard and, well it just doesnt seem to make any sense. Or i just suck at these games.
 
Mutoes said:
OK, so i thought about going for something completely different and bough dancing stage universe cause it was only 19e with mat.

Unsuprisingly its fun party game and all, but quest mode is one big whatthefuck, its ridicilously hard and, well it just doesnt seem to make any sense. Or i just suck at these games.
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Dancing stage universe? :wtf:
 
AskWazzup said:
Mutoes said:
OK, so i thought about going for something completely different and bough dancing stage universe cause it was only 19e with mat.

Unsuprisingly its fun party game and all, but quest mode is one big whatthefuck, its ridicilously hard and, well it just doesnt seem to make any sense. Or i just suck at these games.
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Dancing stage universe? :wtf:
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Yeah, did i spell it wrong? :D
No its not really a type of game id would usually play but i thought itd be fun to humiliate myself in front of some drunken friends, and with so low price even.

Now im playing uncharted 2 multiplayer demo which is good and demo of machinarium which is ,,, also good, mostly digging the art style of the game.
 
stopped playing Kameo right at the begining and started playing overlord. will probably check Kameo out again but damn, overlord is sweeeeet!
 
Wing Commander 2: Revenge of the Furries... i mean Kilrathi

Fun game with space based sprite hunting and pseudo-movie-like cutscenes with a mediocre story. I still prefer TIE Fighter though.
 
A bit of ARMA 2, might muck around with the editor soon. In between that and studying/job seeking I'm replaying the first three chapters of Tales of Monkey Island
 
dialogue and character interactions are a very poor copy of the system used by Bethesda
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This is the best thing in that Risen review (and some other points), because it is horribly wrong. The dialogue system is exactly like in Gothic 1 and 2 and both games have been out before Oblivion. But this review is full of errors anyway, so...
 
Jones in the Fastlane

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Also playing a bit of Rome: Total War, and Star Trek: Birth of the Federation.
 
Ex-Pimp said:
I thought it didn't come out until the 20th.
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Uh dunno about the rest of the world but I got my copy about 2 weeks ago.
I can only recommend this title. Normally I mostly play the "sandbox" modes in games like this (Anno 1404 for example).
But the missions here are just way to interesting.
Best Sim-Tycoon type game in a long time imo.
 
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