What game are you playing lately?

Let's start a new discussion here guys. The "Crysis 3 Alpha" thread kinda got derailed after inserting talks about counter-strike, unreal tournament 3 and other games LOL. Here's what this thread is about:

Q: What game are you playing lately?
> give a short description of the game and why you decided to play it, continue playing it or stopped playing it.
> give your recommendations
> things you like about it, things you dislike about it.

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So I'll go first


I'm currently playing Mass Effect 3. A futuristic game that is like a mixture of FPS and RPG since you are free you make your own storyline unlike COD and battlefield series that you can only follow a particular storyline.

Battle scenes are relatively challenging, but not as much as BF3 or crysis 2 wherein you would experience a lot of deaths and failures. Just a few failures when you're facing really strong monsters. I find it fun and relatively long to finish (since I finished the BF3 campaign in just 4 days, this I'm on my second week) but there never was a boring moment (unless you got lost in the galaxy or running around in the citadel figuring out the next move). If you're an FPS kind of gamer, this is a good game. By the way I haven't played Mass Effect 1 or 2 but it seems to be okay wherein you wouldn't be filled in with what happened before.

Likes:
Lady characters are HOOOOOOOT! I can say developers really took their time to shape each character's bust, arse and figure hahahaha
I like Miranda Lawson (voice actress: Yvonne Strahovski) and Diana Allers (voice actress: Jessica Chobot). Yvonne Strahovski is a popular actress. She played Sarah Walker in the comedy-spy action series Chuck. Even EDI is hot LOL (the battleship's AI). It's nice that they really used the actual looks of the voice actresses.
EDI
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Miranda Lawson (Yvonne Strahovski)
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Dislikes:
Went with Jane Shepard as the main character and she's getting these glowing scars on her face LOL. Trying to remove them by getting more paragon points but the renegade points just kept coming like it was inevitable X__X

Also, movement is relatively limited compared to BF3, COD and Crysis 2 wherein it had dedicated keys for crouch, sprint and so on. In Mass Effect 3, those would be compounded to using the SPACEBAR. LOL. But you'll get a hang of it after some time.

New Vegas

Playing it for two reasons: 1. I got it for free and 2. I have a new video card. Other than that, I am not a big fan of the game. I will eat my words IF I can finish this game and it gets dramatically better.

Here it is in a nutshell: Walk across a post-apocalyptic desert running errands for people all the while you gather garbage to either sell or use to manufacture other items such as bullets –which you never have enough of. At various points along the game, depending on the substance of your interactions, groups of people and their friends get mad at you and hate you – or love you if you do something for them. Very much like junior high school minus the radiation.
I am most disappointed in the graphics and the amount of walking from point A to point B. Add to it the tedium of having to pickup and judge every piece of crap you come across to see if it would be valuable to you or not. I can kind of forgive the graphics (2 years old) but the general game play is meh! If I find a good deal on a great game at Steam, I will never finish New Vegas.

Glad there are more gamers on here.

Been playing at several games myself.

Dead Space 2..trying to finsih it. Esentially, you are a space ship engineer that destroyed an artifcat that was changing humans into monsters. One of the commanders recreated it somehow or another and the monsters are back. It's a very dark and blooy game but a good story.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive...this needs no desciption. Good ol' CS with newer graphics and some game play changes.

A Game of Dwarves- A fun little game. You are a Prince dwarf. Daddy Dwarf (King) decides its time for you to stop being a fat lazy dwarf and sends you out to run your own clan. Basically you dig, explore, build, harvest resources and fight monsters. Kind of an RTS with a little strat and rpg. Humorous at times.

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Originally Posted by Pablo 54

Very much like junior high school minus the radiation.

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LOOOOOL!
that sounds boring X__X
what are you planning to play next?

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Originally Posted by Saryn

Glad there are more gamers on here.

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yep! :) we are here. I did hear Dead Space 2 is cool. Can't find a source for now.. is it too creepy??

Not really playing anything right now. Been doing hardware experiments so the only time I fire up a game is for said experiment. I was considering downloading all the latest updates for STEP and replay Skyrim, but I've already logged over 400 hours into it. I will probably play Blops 2 when it comes out. If you are interested in my older stuff:

Currently playing Mechwarrior 3 on my 98box.

Mechwarrior 3 is a mech game that takes place sometime in the 31st century. You can call it a FPS but I recommend the use of a joystick with all Mechwarrior games. You are tossed into a mech to command your lance and you can pretty much tackle the missions any way you please. Sometimes the missions are pretty linear but that is only because you have one objective that you must get to or said object gets destroyed, or you lose it, you catch my drift.

Instead of a gear loadout on the human you configure your weapon and armor loadout on your mech. You can never walk around outside of your mech in this game. You pick up salvage from the battlefield and the mechs you kill, sometimes gaining new mechs in the processes. A very niche kind of game IMO, but if you like one mech game you pretty much like them all.

Likes:
I have loved all Mechwarrior games as Mechwarrior 2 was the second PC game I ever played as a kid. I like the idea of stomping around in a huge mech and the storyline isn't too bad either if you can follow it throughout the games. I like how you can play with a keyboard and mouse, joystick, or even a controller if you take the time to program it. Learning curve isn't too steep. Back in the day the graphics for these games were pretty top notch for what they had to work with. I like how pulse lasers in Mechwarrior 3 are straight beams rather than actual pulses. This makes absolutely no sense, but I do like them better. Much easier multiplayer setup than 2 (due to LAN being more normal).

Dislikes:
Mechwarrior 3 and 2 both need to be played on older machines, but that isn't a fault of the game itself. This particular one can get repetitive in some areas with the "drop in and destroy this and come back" type missions. I feel more time was put in to the graphics of Mechwarrior 3 than actually giving it character but actual gameplay over 2 makes up hugely for this. Heat management seems much harder in this game than any of the others. Mech balance seems kind of off too, but you can easily make up for this with skill on both accounts.
I give it a like for graphics, but I give it a dislike too. For when it came out I feel they did a fantastic job in the graphics department, but I feel they could have done better with the hardware they had available. For instance, they give a default texture resolution handle of 2, 4, or 8MB but no API options. I think they could have done more if they programmed for Glide since the Voodoo 5 was out at the time. Mechwarrior 4 came out 1 years later and the difference is very apparent with what they could have done.

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Originally Posted by najiro

LOOOOOL!
yep! :) we are here. I did hear Dead Space 2 is cool. Can't find a source for now.. is it too creepy??

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It can be. I recommend starting with Dead Space 1 then playing 2 for the story to make more sense.

If I could find a game that could match the original Diablo, I would buy it.

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Originally Posted by PP Mguire

I will probably play Blops 2 when it comes out.

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same here!! blops 1 was really something. Story was intriguing! So mason killed JFK?!? LOL!
good review on mechwarrior. never really had a chance to do console gaming. Yeah games you play when you're younger kinda makes you look for them later especially if they add a new installation. Did play baldur's gate II before which led to playing neverwinter nights I and II .. tried playing elder scroll's IV oblivion.. it takes too much time moving around trying to figure out what's next in a huuuuuuuuuuuge map. ~_~ I think im done with those kinds of RPG

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Originally Posted by Saryn

It can be. I recommend starting with Dead Space 1 then playing 2 for the story to make more sense.

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hmmm. I played Mass Effect 3 without playing 1 and 2, it still made sense
games do give you some sort of recap I believe :)
Well, im not a teenager anymore and being a professional gives you a very limited time :(
still gaming is still in my blood so I still play some if I have time. Hence, I limit that to what I deem are the best games.

By the way guys, PRIMOCHILL is giving away free Borderlands 2 codes
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

I think this game is one of the hottest today. Primochill is a good aftermarket cooling hardware makers too. They just started a facebook page, you might want to LIKE them. Hence, I am not connected to them... just passing out information :)

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Originally Posted by najiro

same here!! blops 1 was really something. Story was intriguing! So mason killed JFK?!? LOL!
good review on mechwarrior. never really had a chance to do console gaming. Yeah games you play when you're younger kinda makes you look for them later especially if they add a new installation. Did play baldur's gate II before which led to playing neverwinter nights I and II .. tried playing elder scroll's IV oblivion.. it takes too much time moving around trying to figure out what's next in a huuuuuuuuuuuge map. ~_~ I think im done with those kinds of RPG



hmmm. I played Mass Effect 3 without playing 1 and 2, it still made sense
games do give you some sort of recap I believe :)
Well, im not a teenager anymore and being a professional gives you a very limited time :(
still gaming is still in my blood so I still play some if I have time. Hence, I limit that to what I deem are the best games.

By the way guys, PRIMOCHILL is giving away free Borderlands 2 codes
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

I think this game is one of the hottest today. Primochill is a good aftermarket cooling hardware makers too. They just started a facebook page, you might want to LIKE them. Hence, I am not connected to them... just passing out information :)

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I personally think all of the CoD games suck. I only play them to keep up with them since I played the previous 8 games anyways.

Mechwarrior isn't on console, if I got what you were saying correctly. I don't do console gaming at all. I didn't do anything in depth, but I kinda don't have the time or else I would. It's easy to play on one screen and type on the other lol.

Oblivions map is small, and the fact that you have fast travel makes it smaller. I barely traversed Cyrodil as opposed to looking at the brilliant scenery in Skyrim.

Ohh I see. yeah I was actually confused when I read "played with old PC" and "98box"
what is 98box?? LOL
okay sorry for a noobish question but I don't have any idea hahaha.. *uses google search just now*
no luck.. i'm still confused LOL

Anyway, I find the oblivion map huge! Getting out of the first scene and into the open map took an hour or so.. not really my kind of games now. I do like COD :) Only started with COD 4 up to the latest installations. I don't want to play the older ones just to get the full picture of where the characters come from and why they do what they do. I find the story very interesting, some conspiracy theories and it does depict some real life scenarios. It had drama and that's one thing I like. You won't be seeing some seemingly superman kind of characters that make it until the end LOL. Ghost died... I think Soap died in MW3's last scene.. only Price is left LOL.

Pretty sure 98box is either a computer with win98 on it or an emulator.

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Originally Posted by najiro

Ohh I see. yeah I was actually confused when I read "played with old PC" and "98box"
what is 98box?? LOL
okay sorry for a noobish question but I don't have any idea hahaha.. *uses google search just now*
no luck.. i'm still confused LOL

Anyway, I find the oblivion map huge! Getting out of the first scene and into the open map took an hour or so.. not really my kind of games now. I do like COD :) Only started with COD 4 up to the latest installations. I don't want to play the older ones just to get the full picture of where the characters come from and why they do what they do. I find the story very interesting, some conspiracy theories and it does depict some real life scenarios. It had drama and that's one thing I like. You won't be seeing some seemingly superman kind of characters that make it until the end LOL. Ghost died... I think Soap died in MW3's last scene.. only Price is left LOL.

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Lol context clues. It's an older specced PC with Windows 98SE (heavily modded) on it. I use it to play those games that just don't like newer hardware and modern OS.

The current CoD story line starts with 4. 2 and 5 are WW2 based games. Blops is also another spin off but that's what you get when you have 2 different studios making the same named game.

Why did it take you that long to get out of the sewers? It takes me like 10 minutes but then again I've played Oblivion a million times. Please don't take this the wrong way, but it's people like you who kill RPGs for people like me who love to spend hours into it. It's the whole point. I'm tired of people who whine about things and then crap like Oblivion and Skyrim are released with so many "features" that make the game essentially extremely easy to beat even on hardest difficulty. I mod my TES games to be harder and some people just want them to be easier =/
Then again, I'm a diehard Morrowind fan.

Im not saying its not fun. I did play it. I even dedicate time to make the character coz I dont want to use the default character. I edit every feature available. About the sewers, it took me a while coz well... I kinda adventurous so if I see an open route, I explore that.. get lost LOL. When I got out, I was running around looking for quests, to the castle, to the lake, to the houses and so on. I does take some time to get to places. Please do not take my word negatively :) I did finish baldur's gate and neverwinter I and II which literally took me a month or so, playing it 6hours+ a day. I like RPG games, but I CAN'T play them them now with such limited time available which sucks :\ I can only play 2 hours a day the most. Right now I haven't played a thing for 3 days due to work activities.

Yea I get you. I'm a full time dad and even though that makes it sound like I have a load of time, I don't. Any time I sit down I have to get back up to go do something else so it makes playing RPGs hard. That's why I've been playing my classic favorites. No learning curve, just play.

I remember playing Baldur's Gate II twice. The first round I played the role of a good guy. The second one I played as a bad guy LOL. It was kinda hard and stupid... guards and authorities would chase you as soon as you go near them LOL! It was a really open ended game. I remember finishing the game with some side quests still open. It really takes a lot of time. If you like RPG, Mass Effect is kinda similar I believe.. It doesn't follow a particular storyline, you can do quests based on your own will... Hence it is integrated with FPS gaming as well. Really nice :)