General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

I have only played a couple of chapters but I love it so far.
The only thing that 'bothers' me a little is the small size of the levels/ frequent loading screens.
Other than that the game is pure Valve quality goodness.
 
Hmm, I found that the levels aren't so much "small" as they are short - some levels are huge, but you only have small parts accessible and necessary to solve the puzzles. Visuals over substance, kind of. The few levels that are actually really big are also annoying as hell - easy to get stuck on.

With total 9 chapters, the game's only marginally longer than the first. They did put a lot more work into the story department, and it shows.
 
The story is awesome, and I really like those ruined levels... But yeah, they are all quite short and pretty easy. I'm currently [spoiler:9232aaf348]at Wheatley's last or so test, the one with the thre turrets behind the glass wall and the repulsion gel.[/spoiler:9232aaf348]
Can't play over the weekend, so I will finish the game on tuesday or so.
I like it :D
 
Most challenging for me were the huge rooms, one with nothing but white gel; another with bottomless pits and a mix of propulsion/repulsion.

You're about an hour or so away from the end.
 
Bioshock?

As a series: Meh. Another game that was being built up as the "OMG best FPS evar lololollolol, but also has a deep story". It doesn't fail on either gameplay or story or even graphics and set pieces , but over all it just doesn't add up to a "great game" in the way Half-Life did for me (only comparing because I've heard it compared to Bioshock on numerous occasions).

Infinite?

Looks interesting story-wise and setting, the story probably won't be too different, but I"ll probably still give it a try.
 
I was taking a rest from Nocturne (Already defeated Dante and Daisojou) and decided to play a little game called Odin SPhere that has gotten pretty good critics and people tell me is pretty good...... Thats why I never ever trust other people's opinions, This game fucking BLOWS! The most monotone and boring game I have ever played, and I am a guy that has a lot of patience with games, I mean I beat Persona 4, a 90 hours long game, I am a Visual Adventure aficionado, but this game is an example on how NOT to do your action rpg, when your idea of a fu game is going thru the same small CIRCULAR stages over and over to advance in some boring plot, you really should not make games. And people praise the art fo the game. Well it has very well drawn and animated 2D sprites (for the most part) but the aesthetic is typical animu bullshit, I was suprised this thign was not a square enix game, it certainly looks and feels like one.
 
I am certainly a minority, but I actually like Bioshock and Half-Life 2 more than the first. Maybe because I pretty much played them in reverse chronological order (Bioshock, then HL2 and then HL). I guess it boils down to me really liking Bioshock's setting, HL1's was the done and done science facility of careless, dangerous experiments. Then again the industry did have 7 years to copy it by that time, so...

Also, Portal 2 was incredible. I am torn to decide if it was better than the first. I mean, yes, Portal 1 is unique, but the 2 has brilliant writing, very clever puzzles, and is just as special in a good way. And then I look at those tools bombing it on Metacritic because of the micro-transactions and tell myself some really could use being Aperture Science lab rats.
 
Got some free time because of Easter an all, so I'm giving The Witcher a replay before the sequel comes out.
Currently at Chapter IV.
 
Had the urge to play some scary shit, so I decided I'd actually attempt to complete Penumbra without quitting in disgust at the terrible, terrible combat.

After realizing I could just run around pelting the dogs to death with barrels and rocks (sitting on boxes is what I did last time, and that shit was boring), and dodge spiders by bunny hopping everywhere (I didn't find out about sprinting until literally 2 minutes before the game ended; and that probably would have helped more than a little during the giant worm chase scenes), the combat got less annoying and more than a little hilarious.


Now I need to go get the second one, because the story is actually interesting and it ends on a fucking cliffhanger.
 
It works like shit, use a gamepad.

I played RE4 there are some texture mods out there as well great game.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Had the urge to play some scary shit, so I decided I'd actually attempt to complete Penumbra without quitting in disgust at the terrible, terrible combat.

After realizing I could just run around pelting the dogs to death with barrels and rocks (sitting on boxes is what I did last time, and that shit was boring), and dodge spiders by bunny hopping everywhere (I didn't find out about sprinting until literally 2 minutes before the game ended; and that probably would have helped more than a little during the giant worm chase scenes), the combat got less annoying and more than a little hilarious.


Now I need to go get the second one, because the story is actually interesting and it ends on a fucking cliffhanger.
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The combat in Penumbra is supposed to be terrible. I liked how they went the way of "you can't kill anything, be sneaky and solve your puzzles" in their later games.

I personally just rediscovered Civ Rev. It's so stupid and yet so much fun.
 
Oh God, Civ Rev was terrible. Civ IV was infinitely better, especially with the expansion Beyond the Sword.

Civ Rev was to the Civilization series what Fallout 3 was to Fallout. :(
 
Finished Black Plague, which was scary at first, but then I realized that you can sprint more than twice as fast as the Tuurngait (zombie fuckers with flashlights), and it went back to being hilarious like Overture.

I also completed Sanitarium, which was surprisingly short; but not a bad deal for $10.

They've got Gothic 2 Gold Edition on sale for $4 at GoG right now, and since my old CDs have been scratched to uselessness for years; I bought it a second time. I strongly recommend anyone who hasn't played Gothic 2 to get it. It blows the shit out of RPGs today.
 
Currently I'm playing Hearts of Iron 2 with the C.O.R.E. Mod. I'm trying to get a very successful Italy game going but I keep having trouble with Britain placing troops into areas I have few troops in via shore landings, so I think I shall start a new game. This time I need to focus on taking Gibralter and Malta, and cut off the Mediterranean Ocean to these treacherous British pigs.

Why the hell am I playing as Italy?
 
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