What are you playing? (Redux)

[derspiess]

Of course.

Well then where do you want to go?  Cleveland??   

[Razgovory]

Played a little Bioshock 2 last night.  I was pretty convinced I wouldn't like it as much as the first one, since I wanted a prequel rather than a sequel, and didn't have much interest in playing an entire game as a big daddy, but so far it's a solid game.

I got though I'm not sure why.  It didn't seem like a game that needed a sequel.  The first one was cautionary tale of why we should not only throw libertarians into the ocean but shoot them before hand.  Now it seems to lack that interesting part of the story.  The game play is almost exactly the same as the previous one.  Also in the first game the city had only gone to hell about one year ago, so while it was pretty beat up it made sense that some stuff worked and some people lived.  Now it's almost ten years later and the lights are still on and there's still cans of beans everywhere.  I admit I haven't gotten to far so maybe they'll explain that as well.

Yeah it sounds silly. And kinda boring to go to the same place.

I just couldn't get interested in it.  I tried to play through it, but kept getting bored.  The first game wasn't exactly original (System shock under water) but this feels identical to the first one, and toward the end the first one was starting to get dull.

[The Brain]

Of course.

Well then where do you want to go?  Cleveland??   

Cincy.

[Ed Anger]

I'm trying out the Ironclads demo. I noticed the game is down to 10 bucks, which is the max I'll pay for a Russian made game.

[derspiess]

Of course.

Well then where do you want to go?  Cleveland??  

Cincy.

Replace splicers with crackheads and it might work.

[DisturbedPervert]

I'm not playing the Starcraft 2 Beta which just came out today.  I never registered my War3 on their website and now I can't find my cd keys, so I can't apply for a chance to be in the beta.   

Hopefully a private beta server comes out like last time so I can play that until the official release.

[The Brain]

Shadowgrounds: Survivor

Totally OK (so far) budget game.

[DontSayBanana]

Thunder Force V: Perfect System.

Lot of plot depth for a scrolling shooter.

[DisturbedPervert]

Starcraft 2 Beta

Someone wrote an AI so you can play single player against the computer.  It's pretty good too, it kicked my ass at first. But multiplayer on Battlenet is where the real fun will be.  Game runs good even on my three year old notebook.  Can't wait for the release.

[Razgovory]

Is it any good?

I've been playing Grand theft Auto 4, which involves taking irritating people out to dinner and bowling and to play darts.  Which is about as much fun as it sounds.  Occasionally I get to kill some irritating people which is nicer but I'm getting tired of driving through a gigantic city to get from one place or another.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Playing D&D 3.5 on Friday coming up, my usual group, new module of some kind. The DM has some ready made chars on hand. I'm gonna go Tank, likely. It's my strength as a player.

grabbed a sweet deal on a 3,5 book "the Complete Divine" for 5 bucks at a local thrift store  yesterday. Going to utilize that in the campaign idea I've been brewing for awhile, The Pirate thing, that I had a thread about.

Also playing Mutants and Masterminds on Sunday. It's a tastic weekend. I'm getting kinda bored with my TK based hereo in that game too, thinking of going for some kind of Ben Grimm analog when we finish our current arc.

[Syt]

Finally ordered HPS' Renaissance: Pike & Musket about 16th century battles this week (along with some of their Napoleon games; used to have some of the old Talonsoft Battleground games).

Otherwise playing a bit of OOTP while watching spring training.

[Razgovory]

Playing D&D 3.5 on Friday coming up, my usual group, new module of some kind. The DM has some ready made chars on hand. I'm gonna go Tank, likely. It's my strength as a player.

grabbed a sweet deal on a 3,5 book "the Complete Divine" for 5 bucks at a local thrift store  yesterday. Going to utilize that in the campaign idea I've been brewing for awhile, The Pirate thing, that I had a thread about.

Also playing Mutants and Masterminds on Sunday. It's a tastic weekend. I'm getting kinda bored with my TK based hereo in that game too, thinking of going for some kind of Ben Grimm analog when we finish our current arc.

So does anyone actually play 4th edition?

[Syt]

Oh, we'll have another Firefly RP session on saturday btw.

[grumbler]

I resumed WitP AE for a bit.  I must say, as the game has developed (I'm now at the end of May 1942) I have been more impressed with the AI.  It uses cruisers pretty aggressively for commerce raiding, so as the US I had to put the Oz navy plus HMS Warspite (intercepted on its way back to Inida from its Seattle overhaul) to protecting the Townsville-Port Moresby convoy route.  In a series of ding-dong battles most of the RAN has been wiped out, in exchange for 3 large IJN CAs sunk and a couple damaged.  Warspite ended the exchange as king of the hill, docked at PM.  PBYs spotted two IJN BBs approaching from the south, so Warspite withdrew to Horn Island in the eTorres Strait and then, because Horn I lacked the fuel to support it, it passed through the Strait en route to Darwin.  The IJN was not deterred - it chased Warspite all the way to Darwin and sank it with 3 BBs.  That was actually pretty cool.

The AI over-extended itself in that op, though.  Junyu and Hiryu were sent to trash the shipping off the Australian east coast as far south as Sydney, which they did.  Going so far took them out of the cover of Kido Butai, though, and I ambushed and sank both with Yorktown and Enterprise.

It will be interesting to see if the AI is well-enough programmed to understand that it cannot sustain these kinds of shoestring offensives.  When the US has as many front-line carriers as the Japanese (even acknowledging better Japanese pilots) the IJN needs to go carefully.  These little raids with a coupla carriers are way too risky.