What are you playing? (Redux)

[The Brain]

For whatever reason I tried to play som KOTOR. But the incredibly poorly designed intro location made me angry. Again. Just like in 2003. And I don't have the energy to get past the rage a second time. What were they thinking?

[Jaron]

For whatever reason I tried to play som KOTOR. But the incredibly poorly designed intro location made me angry. Again. Just like in 2003. And I don't have the energy to get past the rage a second time. What were they thinking?

We don't want impatient MORONS playing our game.

[Neil]

Beatles Rock Band 

Need to play that Sturmovik demo on 360.  Looks like there's another console WWII flight game out as well.

Console flight sim?  What, are you retarded or something?

[Grey Fox]

He didn't say sim. Maybe he wants to play an Arcade game?

[HisMajestyBOB]

I picked up a neat puzzle/adventure game called Braid off of Steam. On sale for only $5, and well worth that.

It's a rather innovative game where you can rewind time. The puzzles are clever, and the gimmick makes typical adventure game obstacles much less annoying (miss a jump? just rewind and try again!)

[Habbaku]

  It was a fun game and worth the purchase price when I picked it up a few months ago.  The plot line wasn't bad, either, though it has a few interpretations.  The twist was certainly interesting.

[sbr]

Started a new game as the Duke of Slavonia in CK, I tried before and had a fun game before something happened to the save.

The Duke of Slavonia is part of the Kingdom of Croatia; he starts of 35+ years old without an heir, and sandwiched between the Kingdoms of Germany, Hungary and the Byzantium Empire.  It is a nice tightrope between large but splinter-y Kingdoms.

[BVN]

Played Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan. Had never played Carcassonne before (but I have been there) and Settlers only once when it was new. I am not a huge Eurogame fan but they were definitely allright. Their success seems to be well deserved.

I'm not really a fan of Settlers of Catan, but playing Carcassonne is always great fun.

[The Brain]

Buddies are having me download DDO.

[Tamas]

Buddies are having me download DDO.

It does not look to be bad. The couple of quests I have been on so far have been qutie well-made. They clearly tried to recreate the tabletop D&D experience in an MMO setting/interface.

[Zoupa]

Buddies are having me download DDO.

It does not look to be bad. The couple of quests I have been on so far have been qutie well-made. They clearly tried to recreate the tabletop D&D experience in an MMO setting/interface.

I downloaded it and rolled a dorf cleric. I gave him 16 str and he still can't hit anything, wtf.

[Vise]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.  Pretty good.  Albeit very similiar to the first one.

[Syt]

I have quit Front Office Football (and therefore the Languish Football League) for now.

While I do appreciate the game's depth and play options it does nothing at all for immersion.

I love text based sims, like TEW2008 or OOTP or footie managers. I find, though, that player pictures, news stories and data presented in a way that you get what info you need in two or three glances at most add a great bit to "getting into it" which no football sim really seems to have.

So I'm back to playing the 1970 Pirates in OOTP. I finally found a balance between detail and moving ahead in the game - I take care of all the off the field issues (contracts, line-ups, depth charts, strategy ... ) and leave the in game decisions to the bench staff - simming the game in one pitch mode, i.e. only the final play of each at bat is shown. It's immersive and detailed, but a match hardly ever takes longer than 5 or 10 minutes (if you go pitch by pitch and manage everything yourself it can easily be half an hour to hour for a game).

[Alatriste]

Buddies are having me download DDO.

It does not look to be bad. The couple of quests I have been on so far have been qutie well-made. They clearly tried to recreate the tabletop D&D experience in an MMO setting/interface.

You mean 'Search for it, kill it, take its stuff, hoard XP, repeat _ad_ _nauseam_'? Or have they truly achieved the Holy Grail and faithfully recreated endless arguments over alignment, obnoxious min-maxing murdering munchkins and bitter elf-dwarf rows over alleged sexual behaviour or lack of the same?

[Tamas]

Well, the very first lvl1 dungeon I soloed after the tutorial featured a crypt where some lizardmen folks were busy creating undead. You had to bash 3 altars at the 3 ends of the (smallish) dungeon, retrieve 3 different gems from them, and put those into their sockets at the 4th end where they deactivated a magic wall blocking your entrance to the main altar.

This is far superior in complexity to any beginner's stuff in other MMOs.