What are you playing? (Redux)

[Ed Anger]

Tiller's games have been hit with an ugly stick.

[PDH]

Tiller's games have been hit with an ugly stick.

They always were.

[Ed Anger]

They seemed to have gotten worse.

[PDH]

The ugly stick is now an ugly mace of -4 AI/-4 GUI

[sbr]

Anyone one else play around with the Wildstar beta?  I just got into it last night but it is pretty good.  I am actually somewhat considering pre-ordering a game with a sub fee.  I probably won't, but even considering it is a big step.

[Josquius]

I got hooked on civ 5 again. First 2 attempts ended in failure on a high difficulty level where the ai cheats. Then a game on normal difficulty... And yes. One more turn disease is strong.
I wish there was a higher difficulty level where the ai doesn't cheat though. And constant ai sneak attacks are a pain.

[Razgovory]

I've been giving Rome Total War 2 a spin.  I really suck at this.

[Grey Fox]

Apparently, Wildstar is awesome. I missed the beta tho.

[The Brain]

Played the Wildstar open beta a bit. It seems nice, me and my homies will likely play it.

[sbr]

I liked the wildstar beta buy I don't think I liked it enough to pre-order. I will keep my ear to the ground and might buy it if I get favorable reviews and more friends get it.

[crazy canuck]

Diablo III is remarkably easy.

You're supposed to go through again on higher difficulty levels. Did you never play Diablo II?

That used to be the way but they have completely changed the mechanic.  Now you only play through the acts once and you can manually change the difficulty as you go.  Once you finish the main story line you start a new game called adventure mode.  Essentially an end game system where you go through various quests to get loot and special currency to get even better loot.  The higher you set the difficulty the more of the special currency you get for finishing an adventure.

Its not a bad system.  But I can see how Raz would think it was ridiculously easy if he kept the difficulty on normal the who way through the base storyline. 

[Razgovory]

Raz is simply an ignorant peasant trying to break into the highbrow culture of Diablo III.

[sbr]

I have joined a Dominions 4 MP game over on the Paradox forums.

I have a feeling this is going to be like that test you study real hard for for 3 weeks, then when you show up you don't even understand most of the words in the first question.

I just hope I don't embarrass myself.

[crazy canuck]

Raz is simply an ignorant peasant trying to break into the highbrow culture of Diablo III.

Naw, its just that a lot of us have been playing Diablo forever - not highbrow, just ingrained.

[Grey Fox]

Raz is right tho, the entire first 4 acts are very easy on Normal.