General Gaming Megathread: What are you playing?

[Dove]

Samurai Warriors 2

 

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

Alternating between Arcanum and Stalker. I'm trying to enjoy stalker, I really really am... but the cheesy combat is a real turnoff.

 

[Buxbaum666]

That would be the story that's cool and the combat that sucks.

Yeah, I guess. The combat ain't that bad, but it's really the story that keeps me going. I just managed to get off Taris (or Tarris? whatever) and would've played the whole night if I hadn't Forced (get it?) myself to quit and go to sleep.

 

[SL¥DE]

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

It's really not too bad.

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

It's really not too bad.

Unfortunately it's really not too good either.

 

[Madbringer]

Earthbound

The story of a boy, that woke up one night, took a baseball bat, and went out to randomly pummel local wildlife, until he started getting visions of a talking miniature insect.

You can bet your ass this game was the biggest inspiration for people behind Postal.

\o/

What i learned - when you kill enough birds and dogs and snakes, you get psychic healing abilities.

 

[gameopteryx]

Earthbound is cool. There's an NES version of its odd prequel floating around out there in emulation land.

I'm playing Wizardry I. It's kind of a toss up whether your first encounter is manageable or impossible, which makes advancing hard.

 

[SL¥DE]

It's really not too bad.

Unfortunately it's really not too good either.

Yeah, but it's fun if you're not expecting too much. Kind of like having fun in MvC2: You have to give up on taking it seriously.

The force powers are fun to toy with, like getting to slam a force-gripped storm trooper into a wall then fling him off the station.

 

[Stag]

Right now, I'm diving into a deep pool of console nostalgia, with N64 and PSX games.

Banjo Kazooie/Tooie
Pokemon Stadium
Ape Escape <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Herc's Adventures

Some great games that stand the test of time pretty well. Especially friggin Ape Escape. That game rules.

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Half Life 2, again. I've started playing through Half Life and Half Life 2 because I'll finally be buying the Orange Box. I've already played some Portal at a friends place and I've waited far too long for this gem. But I holding back the good stuff for later.

Also, Fallout 1. Just fun to play through it another time. Just got the last two 'end-game' regions left to do. But they're actually quite hard and will take some time.

 

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

Half Life 2, again. I've started playing through Half Life and Half Life 2 because I'll finally be buying the Orange Box. I've already played some Portal at a friends place and I've waited far too long for this gem. But I holding back the good stuff for later.

Also, Fallout 1. Just fun to play through it another time. Just got the last two 'end-game' regions left to do. But they're actually quite hard and will take some time.

You definitely need to download the Portal: Flash Edition mappack. Gameplay-wise, it is superior to vanilla portal's campaign (longer too).

 

[sbelton]

Resident Evil 4 - Not too bad, took a while to get into it. Not quite as good as some would have led me to believe.
Max Payne 2 - Playing through again to get the alt. ending for "Dead-on-Arrival".

 

[Serge 13]

I was messing with "Drakensang : Das Schwarze Auge" a bit.Damn...the graphics look neat...now what would happen if the Original Develeopers could make a Fallout 3 game with such an Engine ...damn *Dreams !!!*

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

^^^^^^

Hey has that game already been released, or am I confusing it with a similar game still in development/?

 

[Dove]

Metal Gear solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Max everything out and use patches, and it finally looks better than the PS2 version.

Use your video card settings to boost AA and AF

Phenominal

 

[Serge 13]

^^^^^^

Hey has that game already been released, or am I confusing it with a similar game still in development/?

It has been released in Austria and Germany.The game is in german and i don't that an english version of the game exists.maybe they will translate it later.one complain that i have about this game is that it isn't fully voiced.the characters say a few lines and the rest is just texts .

 

[Kyuu]

Well, I just finished Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. If you enjoy your Metal Gear Solid games (and I do), then you'll enjoy this one. Not the best in the series though: that title still belongs to the original Metal Gear Solid, I think.

Speaking of which: I bought the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection, which is the first 3 Metal Gear Solids. I never actually played number 3, so now I'll give that a go and see how it is. It'll be nice to give 2 another play through as well. I never hated Raiden, unlike most people.

I bought FFXII finally too... played a little of it. I'm not a fan of the combat system so far, actually. I haven't played too much though, so we'll see how it is when it actually kicks into gear.

Also playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma... loving it. But of course it's Ninja Gaiden, which I loved, with new content and some kick-ass dual-wielded swords. Still the quintessential action game, IMO. Screw the Prince of Persia games *ducks*.

 

[Mutoes]

Playing some red alert 2 multiplayer after hours of painful google searches and reading how to`s and then actually finding out how easily it could be played in the net >=F But it was worth it.

Also Some Dark reign: Shadowhand and other older rts games from the years back like KknD

@Kyuu
I actually liked the third one to be the best of the series so you should really play it. Much less cut scenes and big boss`s and The boss`s characters were quite good.

 

[SL¥DE]

I just played Genesis Shadowrun for like 3 hours. Being able to play it on a DS makes it all the better.

 

[Serge 13]

Just played the Space Siege demo and i must say that it was fun !