General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Exactly. Release Back in Action was a dissapointment. If you are a fan of JA, I would not fully recommend it when it came out. Now, I would.
 
I'm replaying Q4, always liked the look'n'feel of the Strogg and the engine is still very capable of good graphics, even if it's from a time when the particles and effects are very good looking, but some textures and decals are very bad low resolution sometimes.

But I can understand why iD was sold to Zenimax, the gameplay is totally obsolte, sometimes I feel I'm back in 1995 (the game is from 2005).
Some tactical elements and combat moves would enhance the quality of the fights by miles, like staying and moving while crouching, using cover for firing and so on.

Funny thing is, the marines sometimes with you and enemies CAN do this, firing from cover and leaning.

One thing I would like it A LOT is if they made a game with a story of the Strogg, adventure or RPG preferably. Sure, the subject machines/cybernetic races that uses organic components was beated to death by now, but there are very vicious and fun ideas in Q2/Q4, like using humans torsos to connect components, using only the head like a computer chip, filtrate liquid using only the digest system of the body and so on.
 
That game was laughably bad. It didn't even deserve the Quake name. The original is still my favorite.
 
I finally finished playing Heroes of Might and Magic 5. It didn't record my playing time in total, but with an average of two hours a map with five maps a campaign and fifteen campaigns over all the expansions I took at least 150 hours!

That's not even counting the time in skirmish with the PC.

I will never forget this.

If I went into the random map generator and made a map with the maximum settings and played with the AI update (the computer is almost as smart as a human player) I could easily have a game over 20 hours long. I did it...multiple times in fact. I've had some games with impressively long, deep, and complex matches, but HoMM 5 takes first place by FAR!

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
TorontRayne said:
That game was laughably bad. It didn't even deserve the Quake name. The original is still my favorite.
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Q1 and Q2 are always favorite, I prefer Q2 for the single player campaign and Q1 for the MP.

Q3 was the beginning of the end, at least for me. Q4 is not bad, just "meh".
Disappointing sure, but not the worst game ever done.
 
brfritos said:
TorontRayne said:
That game was laughably bad. It didn't even deserve the Quake name. The original is still my favorite.
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Q1 and Q2 are always favorite, I prefer Q2 for the single player campaign and Q1 for the MP.

Q3 was the beginning of the end, at least for me. Q4 is not bad, just "meh".
Disappointing sure, but not the worst game ever done.
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Funny thing is I never actually finished a single Quake game. I tried Q2 twice and concluded that the game was one fucking endless dungeon crawl with no purpose to it. Q3 was a fun mp.

Oh and Q4 wasn't made by Id if I'm not mistaken.
 
maximaz said:
brfritos said:
TorontRayne said:
That game was laughably bad. It didn't even deserve the Quake name. The original is still my favorite.
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Q1 and Q2 are always favorite, I prefer Q2 for the single player campaign and Q1 for the MP.

Q3 was the beginning of the end, at least for me. Q4 is not bad, just "meh".
Disappointing sure, but not the worst game ever done.
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Funny thing is I never actually finished a single Quake game. I tried Q2 twice and concluded that the game was one fucking endless dungeon crawl with no purpose to it. Q3 was a fun mp.

Oh and Q4 wasn't made by Id if I'm not mistaken.
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The original popped my LAN cherry. It was also my favorite deathmatch game. Man I miss those days.
 
Well it was a collaboration between Raven Software and id so it's a bit tricky to tell who did most of Quake 4. Raven used to be great but kinda started going downhill around that time, they mostly do CoD dlc now.
Didn't find it that bad, use a Quake 2 music mod and it starts rocking. A few of the npcs were pretty fun to be around... well the sarcy engineer anyway, can't remember any others apart from the leader bloke who got turned into a boss.
 
TorontRayne said:
The original popped my LAN cherry. It was also my favorite deathmatch game. Man I miss those days.
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Come to think of it, it was my first MP game too and I played quite a bit of it but I never finished the campaign. I only remember the game clearly up to the lava boss, probably because I only played SP in the demo.
 
maximaz said:
TorontRayne said:
The original popped my LAN cherry. It was also my favorite deathmatch game. Man I miss those days.
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Come to think of it, it was my first MP game too and I played quite a bit of it but I never finished the campaign. I only remember the game clearly up to the lava boss, probably because I only played SP in the demo.
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I remember playing Deathmatch on that level. You could shoot rockets towards the spawn points, gibbing those who spawned in the line of fire, which can be pretty cheap, but is always fun as long as it isn't happening to you. I always liked the Cthulhu-esque Quake as opposed to the Stroggs.
 
Playing "Zeus:Master of Olympus" at the moment after I found my old CD some days ago. Awesome game, I may try to get the add on aswell.

Graphics and style are adorable.

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It was the first one in the series if I remember right? There was also Pharaoh, I think. Awesome graphics, still to this day. :)
 
.Pixote. said:
I love those games Surf Solar - the one I played the most was Caesar 3.
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I have Caesar 3 but not sure how as I didn't buy it. Still a great game and those isometric graphics be stylin'.
 
Alphadrop said:
I have Caesar 3 but not sure how as I didn't buy it. Still a great game and those isometric graphics be stylin'.
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I got it for free buying a Packard Bell computer in 1999. Nice one, but I never played it after finishing the campaigns, making a single custom scenario and having to uninstall it to make room for something else.

Some things I've been playing lately, or trying to play:

Civ 3, still holding up, but I tire of the cheating computer players attacking me for no gain with their free cheated units. I wonder if turning down AI aggression below normal counts as cheating on my part.

Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide was a bit naff. Perhaps the type of character I chose (druid/shifter) just wasn't any good. I'd be more effective bashing away with normal weapons and armour so basically all the levels I put into shifter were wasted (and I didn't realize from the start I was giving up spellcasting progression entirely). I was a bit disappointed since I heard the expansions were better than the original campaign. However, I started on Hordes of the Underdark and am liking it much more so far (with an infinitely more effective character).

Tried to install Beyond Good & Evil and failed. Turns out this is because the DRM on the retail version cannot cope with 64-bit systems and consequently prevents the game from being installed. Fuck you, DRM. I tried installing the game on my older computer (which however cannot run it) and moving the files, but for some reason trying to copy the huge 2 GB assets file gives an error message; maybe this is a problem with NTFS? Edit: Just did some searching and it seems it's an old Win 98 shell problem; using a DOS prompt may work.
 
Might just be easier to get the GoG or Steam versions, they're cheap and DRM free. There is a fairly simple method but it requires the shady side of legality.

Shadows of Undrentide is a bit naff, better than the OC but runs out of steam pretty quickly. HoU is a proper gem though and feels very D&D in it's design and layout.
 
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