The Gaming Thread

[Iced Coffee Man]

Keep practicing

[Jack T. Chance]

Section 8...

Haven't posted in this thread in awhile, but I now have a good reason to!

Besides myself, is anyone else here a fan of Robert A. Heinlein's classic military SF novel Starship Troopers?

And I DO mean the novel, not the movie franchise that deviates wildly from the source material.

If, like me, you are a fan, and have wondered what it would be like to play a Starship Troopers FPS based on the BOOK, not the movies, next month, you'll finally know what that might have been like.

Next month, a new game comes out for the PC and Xbox 360 that will be the closest thing we're ever likely to get to a Starship Troopers game based on the novel!

JOIN SECTION 8!

I just wish there was a playable demo available, 'cuz I don't want to wait 'til August 25th, I want to play it NOW!

[RayvenQ]

Keep practicing

I am chuffed now, got my first 100% (albeit on easy but what the hell) on the song Misery Business (By Paramore) Damn that was an awesome match between the game sequence and the song, after a while i hardly even had to look at the screen.

[Jetfire]

I mainly play EQ and on occasion EQ2. I also play quite a few of the online games on reflexive and popcap. I recently joined my hubby and his friends in his D&D campaign. That's been pretty fun.

Ah another EQ Player. I'm on the Luclin server; my guild has just started poking around Meldraith's Mansion. (Stupid Breakneck). I've been playing for 9 years now, and been to 4 Fan Faires now (all in Vegas).

Sometimes I also head to EQII, Vanguard and Free Realms too, depending on my moods, but EQ is my main game. (Final Fantasy's are also a time sink I play when I don't want the computer. )

I'm also in 2 DnD games; they started as DnD 3.5 games at least, but now they're Mutants and Masterminds games. We've been playing together for years; pretty much as long as I've known the GM. Since our players are scattered all over North America (Fredericton, Toronto, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Trinidad, San Diego and elsewhere), we play on IRC.


*Removed my gaming stories and moved them to the Gaming stories thread. Thanks for the link! *

[Rapscallion]

Aion - anyone know what payment schedule for that is going to be? Same as GW as in buy the game and play for free? Monthly fees?

Rapscallion

[lordlundar]

NCSoft hasn't officially said, but it's a major ticket MMO for them so odds are it's a subscription setup. Expect roughly $15US per month.

[Broomjockey]

Reinstalled Deus Ex. Am playing.

Still sweet game. And now due to the rules of the world, someone else somewhere will reinstall it because I mentioned it.

[gunsage]

Dammit! DON'T YOU DIE ON MEEEEE!!!!1

Hey guys, what's up? There are almost too many games to count that I have since last time, but basically what you should know is I have a bunch of newer games (thanks Santa!) and I'm on XBL about every night. One game I'm especially having fun with right now is Bayonetta, but I've bought Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2, and a few other things recently as well.

Again, my gamertag is TheGunSage. Check me out if you get the chance.

[Broomjockey]

Bizarrely, I'm still playing Deus Ex.

Or rather, playing it again. During Steam's holiday sale, I picked up the Eidos collector's pack for $50. Awesome buy. Played the snot out of Arkham Asylum, eventually hit a wall on hard difficulty, can't get past it yet. So as to not burn myself out on AA though, I played through some of the other stuff in the pack.

Or tried to, anyway. I played Deus Ex: Invisible War, kicked its ass up until the ending, when the game basically forgot that it's supposed to offer me a choice between stealth and combat. Had to respec, lost some of the mods I liked in exchange for the mods I needed, but managed to win still. Also popped in the original Deus Ex, which still kicks ass in every imaginable way.

However, then we get to the games in the pack that I suck at. The Hitman trilogy. What. The. Fuck. On the first one, I can't get through the training. I get up to the orderly in the hallway, he sees me, and I get sent back to the start. Fuck that shit. I do little better on the other two. Tried playing Thief: Deadly Shadows, and did okay, except I keep forgetting to ever save and so I do well, up until I don't, then I die, and have to start from the beginning. *sigh*

Next on that list will be the Tomb Raider games. I've also got Silent Hill: Shattered Memories kicking around. I was originally only going to play it when my friend was over, but he's pretty much abandoned the idea, so I'll need to actually sit and get through the rest of that.

[RichS]

After this past semester, I finished both Batman: AA and World of Goo on their Story modes. I actually played Batman twice through Story mode, the first on medium, the second on easy - I just wanted to play through it again.

I also put together an old machine destined for recycling, and have rescued it for some DOS - Win9x gaming. So far, I've installed both Crusader games, Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 2 and 3D, and I'm working on more. I actually heard one of my daughters say "Cool!" during playing Screamer (old DOS 3d racing game, pretty good graphics for the time it was made) ...

Now, I want to put in a better graphics card in my kids' computer so I can be able to play games that I can't install in 64-bit Win7. It'll have to wait until tax refund time, though, and my classes for Winter are going to start soon.

[LewisLegion]

19 days until Mass Effect 2!!

[Gravekeeper]

19 days until Mass Effect 2!!

<3

Fallout 3 will have to do me till then. And then ME2 will have to do me till the Dragon Age expansion in March. -.-

[NightAngel]

I'm back in WoW. I tried LOTRO and ALLODS then went briefly ROM but they didn't hold me long.

ALLODS is good but it's new (in beta-no NDA that I'm aware of) and needs some revamping on the combat system- takes WaaaaaY too long to kill anything. Makes leveling really slow. I may revisit it at a later time.

[Gravekeeper]

I'm back in WoW. I tried LOTRO and ALLODS then went briefly ROM but they didn't hold me long.

ALLODS is good but it's new (in beta-no NDA that I'm aware of) and needs some revamping on the combat system- takes WaaaaaY too long to kill anything. Makes leveling really slow. I may revisit it at a later time.

LOTRO is basically WoW with an actual storyline. Its a solid game but its so by the numbers that it'll be remarkably familiar for any WoW player.

If you want slow leveling, no content and hours of suffering on end try Aion. =p

Horrible waste of a game. Stunning graphics, beautiful animation.....annnnd absolutely awful game beneath it. Such a waste. =/

[Eric the Grey]

I think it was mentioned around here somewhere, but since I read about it, I've been playing Champions Online on Tuesdays when WoW is down.

You can play for free up till level 15, and can only have 2 characters at a time, but I figure it's enough to figure out all the different archtypes and get a good feeling for the game overall.

So far, it's a superhero game. I haven't seen anything terribly different than City of Heroes/City of Villains.


Eric the Grey