General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. I barely got the game to work on Win 7, which made me want to cry at first. I love it. Would be neat if Arkane Studios eventually make a new one, but chances are slim I guess... Yet another underappreciated game taking a bad rep and ruining all hope for future improvements because of bugs.
 
aenemic said:
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. I barely got the game to work on Win 7, which made me want to cry at first. I love it. Would be neat if Arkane Studios eventually make a new one, but chances are slim I guess... Yet another underappreciated game taking a bad rep and ruining all hope for future improvements because of bugs.
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Thats odd.. I have no problem to play Dark Messiah with steam on win7.
It's quite decent game.
 
woo1108 said:
aenemic said:
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. I barely got the game to work on Win 7, which made me want to cry at first. I love it. Would be neat if Arkane Studios eventually make a new one, but chances are slim I guess... Yet another underappreciated game taking a bad rep and ruining all hope for future improvements because of bugs.
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Thats odd.. I have no problem to play Dark Messiah with steam on win7.
It's quite decent game.
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Yeah, it seems all sorts of messed up. Some people can play with no issues whatsoever, others can barely get it to work at all. And there's no support from Arkane for Win 7, while people barely play it these days hence little interest to solve the issues from the community.
 
Dark Messiah used to blue screen due to my processor when running on Windows XP but not 7, that's how shonkily it's programmed.

Still a fun game when it works.
 
Dust 514 with the Immobile Infantry. In a game where you've got to pay (with space dollars) for every life, jeep or tank you wanna use, pubbies sure are willing to spawn shitloads of tanks for me to blow up with my five dollar fittings.
 
Wintermind said:
Dust 514 with the Immobile Infantry. In a game where you've got to pay (with space dollars) for every life, jeep or tank you wanna use, pubbies sure are willing to spawn shitloads of tanks for me to blow up with my five dollar fittings.
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You should try Planetside 2 for the same reason. I'm no fan of shooters and I love it.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
I tried Dark soul......
It is decent game.
But problem is bad performance.....
Damm every thing is in slow motion.
 
Been replaying Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Wesp's Plus Patch recently restored a lost level called Night at the Library. I finally played through that part of the game and posted a mini-review of sorts here. I tried to be as spoiler free as possible so check it out if you want. :p
 
The Vault Dweller said:
Wintermind said:
Dust 514 with the Immobile Infantry. In a game where you've got to pay (with space dollars) for every life, jeep or tank you wanna use, pubbies sure are willing to spawn shitloads of tanks for me to blow up with my five dollar fittings.
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You should try Planetside 2 for the same reason. I'm no fan of shooters and I love it.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
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Do players have to buy in game gear they lose upon dying? Because its the best part of DUST.
 
I just remembered why i rage at my precious warhammer games some times.. The AI is quite fucking stupid some times and the guy who thought it was a good idea to switch to a "cutscene" in the middle of a fight should be shot.

Decided to go trough vanilla DOW 2 and the xpack again but i'm not sure i can be arsed seeing how the vanilla game had more of this crap than the first DOW and i thought that was bad >:|
 
So, I have been playing some Half Life 2, and, with no desire to sound like a douche (not today at least) I gotta sincerely ask, why do people praise that game that much? They build it up as the peak of gaming everywhere but I just can't get myself to care about this game. Is because I played just now so I missed the context of the moment in history when it came out? Is the game just overrated and I didn't know? I am curious.
 
Walpknut said:
So, I have been playing some Half Life 2, and, with no desire to sound like a douche (not today at least) I gotta sincerely ask, why do people praise that game that much? They build it up as the peak of gaming everywhere but I just can't get myself to care about this game. Is because I played just now so I missed the context of the moment in history when it came out? Is the game just overrated and I didn't know? I am curious.
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Well it is indeed no use to hold it up to modern standards, as Half Life 2 shaped modern games somewhat.

But just asking why people like it is hard for me to answer. Do you have any specific gripes? Personally I thought the writing, characters, game design, music and world were all top notch.

I am curious why you seem to dislike it. Don't you like the G-Man and Breen speeches? The maturity of it? The perfected pacing? The level of polish in the gameplay?
 
For one, it's too linear, the combat has no kick to it, the puzzles are kind of meh. I can't talk about the writting, because I didn't play Half Life 1 so I don't get who the characters are or anything, but that is more my fault than a flaw of the game. I just felt it was very monotonous. I guess I just played it out of it's context.
 
Walpknut said:
For one, it's too linear, the combat has no kick to it, the puzzles are kind of meh. I can't talk about the writting, because I didn't play Half Life 1 so I don't get who the characters are or anything, but that is more my fault than a flaw of the game. I just felt it was very monotonous. I guess I just played it out of it's context.
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But the story has very little ties to Half Life 1. It's a story on it's own, you just follow what happens. I find it strange that you don't seem to get much out of the writing because you didn't know the characters beforehand. They all have introductions in the game.

Does the combat have no kick to it because of the animations, sounds and such? Because it does have quite a kick to it when it comes to challenge and good encounter design, I would say. If you play on the right difficulty setting it can give you a perfect challenge in my opinion.

And I'm sorry, but I just can't see how someone can't like a game with such great acting and facial animations, speeches you just don't see in games since, an intimate and layered storyline and polished fps gameplay.
 
I just wish Valve would get of its fucking ass and finally show us Half Life 3.
They have had six years to work on it.

I know I am not entitled to it but I am part of a large group who would really like to see it now so that we can buy it and play it.
 
Maybe I just don't like FPS in general, New Vegas is the only one I can think of that I like, and not because of the FPS bits of it. Oh and Planet side 2 but that one is completely different kind of FPS.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I just wish Valve would get of its fucking ass and finally show us Half Life 3.
They have had six years to work on it.

I know I am not entitled to it but I am part of a large group who would really like to see it now so that we can buy it and play it.
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I wish they would release EP3.. :(

Walpknut said:
So, I have been playing some Half Life 2, and, with no desire to sound like a douche (not today at least) I gotta sincerely ask, why do people praise that game that much? They build it up as the peak of gaming everywhere but I just can't get myself to care about this game. Is because I played just now so I missed the context of the moment in history when it came out? Is the game just overrated and I didn't know? I am curious.
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To be honnest.. The expansions where much better especially EP2 but i did not disslike the vanilla part anyways. Also have you been to ravenholm AKA the "scary" place yet? That part is quite awesome!
 
Just finished Bioshock Infinite, and while the story gets confusing and goes way overboard with the mystical crap, it's still good enough. I liked the relashionship between Booker and Elizabeth.

Gameplay-wise it's the same old Bioshock, but better, more fast-paced with more options and cooler/harder enemies (I loved the George Washington-looking robots toting gatling guns). The Skyline concept was really good but it's a bit under-used. They also did away with the dichotomic moral choices which is also a plus in my books. Great PC port too (look at dat FOV slider! They always forget about those usually).

Overall, I strongly recommend it if you liked the first two games, but be ready for weird shit to happen plot-wise. The opening quote alone should tell you what to expect.
 
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