What are you playing? (Redux)

[Neil]

Got The Witcher off Steam at christmas and I like it so far. The interface is suboptimal. So are the fights. Still an enjoyable game.

The first two books are out in German. Read them.

Will do. Your last recommendation was spot on. (Transmet) 

If you like zombies, you might also want to check out the comic series "The Walking Dead".

Sucks.

[The Brain]

BIOSHOCK SPOILER



Hey, a question: in BioShock, in the Become A Big Daddy segment, you are collecting a bunch of shit to become a big daddy. Now AFAIK I've collected all the stuff, the last thing I did was get my voice fixed. Then the Euro bitch says something about collecting the Frankenstein boots but I already collected the boots in the library. I don't seem to be a Big Daddy (screenshots suggest that there will be a hint) and when I bang on the sister hole nothing happens. Have I missed something? Is there a known bug here? Do I have to replay the whole segment?

[Razgovory]

Please don't bang your sister's hole.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Been playing Strategic Command: Pacific Theater. I tried the Malaya-Singapore scenario, first as the Japanese then as the British. My Japanese offensive went very well - I bypassed most of the British units and captured Kuala Lumpur pretty quickly. By early January my forces were on Singapore island, and reinforcements were mopping up the British units left on the Malay penninsula (mostly weak Indian units). By Jan 31st, Singapore was mine. Amusingly, I had wiped out the British unit defending Singapore itself the turn prior, but then on the British turn an air wing arrived as reinforcements. Talk about reinforcing failure.

As the British, I did a fighting retreat, first with a defensive line near Penang Island, then again in front of Kuala Lumpur, then just northwest of Malacca, and finally on Singapore Island. By the end most of my combat units had been wiped out, but I had destroyed one tank regiment, at least one division, and a few enemy regiments, including one of the Imperial Guards Elite. I was helped by the fact that the Japanese decided to attack the airfields at Singapore rather than Force Z. The destroyer escorts were sunk in a later air attack, but the battleships proved invaluable to the defense by providing shore bombardment support. By the end of February, when the scenario ends, I still controlled Singapore island and the Japanese offensive was blunted. 

Right now I'm playing the Imphal offensive scenario as the Japanese. My attacks have quickly stalled thanks to entrenched British units in the villages, completely inept Japanese air support, and vicious Allied air strikes. The only unit to have any success at all is the 31st Division, and that only because they haven't encountered any opposition. Even then, they lost their artillery to the Allied air power, although they have captured Kohima, which was undefended, so that's a plus.

I'm also reading the War Plan Orange manual, since I decided to go ahead and buy it. Hopefully it doesn't prove an exercise in utter frustration.

[Tamas]

nonono, dont buy warplan orange!

[HisMajestyBOB]

nonono, dont buy warplan orange!

Too late.

But it's better to buy WPO for $30 and see if I can handle it than to buy WitP: AE for $80 and find out I'll never complete turn 1.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Had a hack N' slash day the other day playing evil mode in LOTR third age on the old PS2. fun stuff. in a month or two I should be upgrading to ps3. more gaming then.

[Queequeg]

Played Fallout 3 all day.

Pretty good.  Nice to get back in to the universe.  Still, not as good as the originals by a long shot.  Also, can someone explain why the Enclave adopted the Midwest BoS' power armor and ditched their own?
Fo3 Enclave Armor
FoT Power Armor
Substantially more awesome Enclave Fo2 Armor.  I'm guessing they couldn't get the pipes/wires right, or maybe it didn't look good with the less-bulky Oblivion-armor models.

[PDH]

Played Fallout 3 all day.

Pretty good.  Nice to get back in to the universe.

ur ghey

[fhdz]

I've had some time for a little gaming recently.  I've played the demo for Solium Infernum (seems fantastic), and I'm a wee bit addicted to Mountain Maniac (a Flash game over at adultswim.com).

[Ed Anger]

.  I've played the demo for Solium Infernum (seems fantastic),

Isn't that a little dark for you?

Yes, I never let memes die. 

[fhdz]

Isn't that a little dark for you?

Yes, I never let memes die. 

[Syt]

A couple friends and I have long been interested in trying p&p RPGs. After some debate we've settled for the Serenity RPG.

We'll probably have our first little session tomorrow. Last week me and two friends went over the rules and character creation and also went through a bit of combat (the first ending with a player, heavily wounded and with no skills at thrown weapons, blowing herself and her pal to pieces with a grenade that she basically dropped onto herself ).

We three will start with a small adventure first to see how it plays out. We have a few more candidates to join later on, but we considered it better to get ourselves familiar with the game first to make it easier for others to settle in.

I found a good starter adventure that focuses on character interaction, doesn't require space travel, and can be easily scaled to the group.

They have to apprehend a gang of "deadman" robbers (they wear hightech zombie masks ) who've been terrorizing a small moon. The capture will go smooth, but things will take a downturn when the (elusive, unknown) mastermind behind the operation comes around and tries to cut his losses, eliminate witnesses and save his skin.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I'd love to play a F2F RPG someday; especially one based on the Firefly universe.

[The Brain]

Are there still people around who haven't played normal RPGs? What in the name of fuck?