General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
Lazarus Plus said:
Birth of the Federation a lot recently. Love that game. People still play it multiplayer.
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is there a working patch for the super slowdown around turn 150? stops me from playing it more.
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There are two things about that. One, you can unpack your stfres.bin (or whatever it was called, a really fat file full of data) to be uncompressed, which will help but will make the file larger. There is a patch that seems to help tremendously, though if it addressed the cpu directly I am not sure. There is also a somewhat unstable beta to force set your CPU rate.
 
Started playing Bioshock 2. To my surprise, I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I thought it would suck and be forced. Maybe it's because I've been playing a lot of Borderlands but I'm totally immersed.

Planning to finally finish Uncharted 2 after.
 
Yeah, pretty excited for the Bioshock Infinite release. The "gameplay" videos make it look great, but I have major doubts that the movement will be that smooth in game.
 
Playing a little bit of Saints Row The Third. The game is quite enjoyable, but I don't understand why they had to remove some of the customization options that made the second game so awesome.

maximaz said:
Started playing Bioshock 2. To my surprise, I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
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I felt the same way about the game, be prepared for some jaw dropping moments.
 
Helps if you don't read the art book, you can see where they cut some really interesting corners later in the game.
I still really like it though, nice and solid and the machine gun and drill are things o' beauty. Stories really really dumb but it pulls the right emotional heartstrings at the right time.

Currently playing APB: Reloaded, apart from random minimising (sorta fixed by playing in windowed mode) it's very fun/frustrating depending on who is in the team.
Only really has the basics in place so can't see it staying interesting for very long.
 
sea said:
BioShock 2 is actually a lot better than the first one. The story is a bit contrived but I think the core gameplay is worlds better and more fun, once they stopped pretending it was supposed to be a System Shock 2 sequel and just turned it into a straight-up shooter.
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I don't know, I liked the first a lot more than the second, specially because the story.
Maybe is just me, but I liked the gameplay of Bioshock more, even with his inconsistencies.

I'm replayiong now Raptor - Call of the Shadows 2010 edition from GoG. :)
 
Serge 13 said:
Alphadrop said:
Currently playing APB: Reloaded
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Really?! I thought the game was pretty much abandoned by now. Heard it was a major disappointment.
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Oh APB died after a month but Reloaded is a f2p relaunch that's got a fair amount of players now it's on Steam.
The gameplay is a tad repetative, mostly just being go to point a to guard/collect/investigate and then to point b to do something else. The meat is in that the enemies are always other players.
The main focus is customisation though as the decal and tatoo design software are amazing. It even comes with a basic music maker, only has a few things like a low pass filter and reverb though.
Trying to take people down with stun weapons is a bugger though, was funny when I did manage it as the guy was using a mic and kept calling for help.
 
Finished Bioshock 2. Has its flaws but a damn good game. I'm amazed as I always dismissed it as a cash grab and thought that the Rapture events didn't need a sequel. If there was to be one though, then this is it!

Not only does it fit well, it's better than the first one in many ways. The levels are more focused but reward exploration big time. The characters and the voice acting were good in Bioshock but got cheesy at times; here they still take things seriously but inject some humor as well. Not every one is equally excellent but mostly thanks to the superb voice acting, I actually lol'ed quite a bit (Father Wales = hilarity). The story may not have as cool of a twist as "WYK" and while it is very flawed and incomplete (a damn shame), the ride itself is done much better. The choices throughout the game actually impact the game itself and the ending as well. Speaking of which:

[spoiler:330edcadcd]I loved the one where the girl looks back into the ocean and the well-dressed bodies start popping up all over. That was an epic and fitting ending to Rapture. [/spoiler:330edcadcd]

Anyway, glad I bought it. The only real issue is that the multiplayer is driving me insane refusing to work on my PC. I hear the whole PC release was handled ridiculously shitty.
 
The multiplayer performance was very meh right after release. No matter what game I joined, the lag would be tremendous. Seemed ok otherwise, but it never really hooked me. It was also hard to keep on the same team with a friend, which is kinda good and bad.
Not a fan of Windows live for games, but I got over it.
 
Just finished Saints Row The Third. Amazing game. Too bad that the game was a bit rushed. Probably because of GTA V. But it was definitely one the best game I have played this year so far.

And now ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Heavy Rain.
 
Team Fortress 2. I'm glad that there's an update coming up with some unique new Pyro weapons.
 
Playing the "new" Battlefield 3 maps, I'm having more fun with the Karkand map alone than I had with all of the standard maps combined. These maps are larger, much better designed and just more fun. I hope they release more remakes (or new maps) of this quality in the future.

Also playing Jagged Alliance 2.
 
Sin Lucifel Angel said:
I am playing DOOM3, Fallout 3, Bullet Witch, and Resident Evil, I am hoping to get the new Silent Hill as well to play
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I had to do a quick search on the Bullet Witch, and it looks kinda interesting. It's kinda like Bayonetta, which if it had co-op play, would be a great time waster. I might eventually pick up a X360 now, since there seems to be more than 5 games I want to play now. :P

Which RE? 5? 1?

I am kinda pissed all the Sega oldies are going to show up on PSN instead of some kind of compilation. After all Sony did to screw up their security and such, I doubt I'll buy anything on it.

Speaking of Resident Evil, I've been training my Mercenary Reunion again. My little bro and I was able to get 740 k on public assembly. I am hoping to break 300k on solo play, which is a lot (or hell of a lot) more difficult. Reunion is a lot more intense than original Mercenary, since you can't use Wesker dash to get to places fast, and it's all about the combos instead of the time.

I've also been playing some Parasite Eve 2 on the side, since I only need one more play through for the gunblade.
 
Makagulfazel said:
Not a fan of Windows live for games, but I got over it.
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I've never had a game simply start without GFWL making me restart and re-update shit several times. There is always some error message waiting as well. It amazes me how MS can't get it to work well with WINDOWS.
 
I hate GFWL with a passion. I never had so many issues with games like those which use that GFWL. Not because the games didn't worked. But because GFWL decided to be a bitch. Its awesome if you either cant save your game or even start it because a third party software which you actually don't need to run the game isn't working correctly :D
 
maximaz said:
Anyway, glad I bought it. The only real issue is that the multiplayer is driving me insane refusing to work on my PC. I hear the whole PC release was handled ridiculously shitty.
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That's an understatement, to explain why the PC wasn't getting Minerva's Den they said something along the lines that it was impossibly to code the DLC for the PC which made no sense.
Then they did it and sneaked it out quiet like when no one was looking.

Also yea, GFWL sucks, luckily mines borked in such a way that while it doesn't work I can run games on it fine.
 
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