What are you playing right now?
This could be fun. Post about your current gaming addictions. Recommend stuff!
Pokemon Pearl
Hi, I'm Greg, and I'm a Pokemonaholic. I have been ever since Red and Blue hit US shores. The GBA games were disappointments, but Diamond and Pearl are utterly fantastic. They may even surpass Crystal as my all-time favorite. I'm not likely to catch them all this time, but I'll still end up putting dozens of hours into this addictive game.
God of War
Yeah, yeah, I'm behind the times. I finally picked this up when I saw it for $15. It's a blast. I love the combat, it's stylish and deep. I'll probably pick up the sequel when I've finished this one.
Pokemon Pearl
Hi, I'm Greg, and I'm a Pokemonaholic. I have been ever since Red and Blue hit US shores. The GBA games were disappointments, but Diamond and Pearl are utterly fantastic. They may even surpass Crystal as my all-time favorite. I'm not likely to catch them all this time, but I'll still end up putting dozens of hours into this addictive game.
God of War
Yeah, yeah, I'm behind the times. I finally picked this up when I saw it for $15. It's a blast. I love the combat, it's stylish and deep. I'll probably pick up the sequel when I've finished this one.
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(The above are all PC versions, just to clarify)
Game's almost 10 year old, and infected people STILL wait in the spawn for medpacks while infecting their teammates...
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vvvvvv Yeah ShaggE, but I think the cartoony designs are more characteristic of the mayhem and the absurd physics of TFC. It would be weird rocket-jumping in a game that looked like Battlefield 2.
Stalker
King's Quest 8
Master of Orion 2
...and I also got Zelda: TP on hold, I must really get together and finish it soon, usually I use to be so in to them I play through them in just a few sit's, but this time I just don't feel like it.
Although sometimes suprisingly annoying...
Well, that and it didn't have many side quests.
And i'm waiting for Electroplankton, Mario Stricked Charge and...SAM&MAX BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON!
There is no escape!
I am also playing Monkey Island 4 again. I have recently played several other Lucasarts games. Good times.
I've just got back into Psychonauts too, so I could do with finishing that off soon (just in the bull fighter mind at the minute).
Every game Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has made. The deluxe editions where possible
Stalker
Silent Hill 1 (I love my PSX)
Silent Hill 4 (PC)
Sega Mega Drive Collection (PSP)
Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX (AGAIN! I always get halfway through then get bored and start over)
I flick between games after playing each one for about an hour. (Excepting for the Shivah which only takes about 1/2 an hour to finish but has a commentary mode). I get bored easily
Ben Jordan (Great and free)
Broken Sword 4
I somehow hooked on windows' Spider Solitaire lately... always playing it for a while after lunch... I dunno why... heh, oh well...
Hey, yeah just remember now that you mentioned "Broken Sword 4". Yesterday at the shop I saw a Broken Sword game with the title ark something but when I looked at the screenshots on the box it's the same game as the one that I have titled "The Angel of Death"! A change of title after several weeks released??
It's the wonderful policy of giving one name for the UK/European market (Angel of Death) and another for the North American release (Secrets of the Ark). They did it with the first BS game too (Shadow of the Templars-UK, Circle of Blood-NA).
@Jake - hahahahaha!!!
Yes, sometime that happens! One day, I was craving to play a sci-fi space first-person-shooter: so recollecting Wing Commander as one of my favourites, I installed it and tried to have fun with it; but bang! what's this? why's the screen so small? why's the picture jagged everywhere? why oh why my wonderful memorable experience on the game eluded me that moment? Well, I guess I'm the one that changed... but that's because computer changed too!! And at alarming curve at that, leaving me no chance to relives my nostalgia of a classic game! Argh!! At least I have some old games that I still enjoy playing... but some just feel like killing my sweet memory by playing it again ten-fifteen-years later.
... played DarkStar One instead.
That isn't to say new games are all crap, but they spend so much time on textures, meshes, coding, and voice acting, they don't often have the time or resources to actually make a fun game. Legend Entertainment is a good example of proper game design and ethics, though they went out of bussiness a long time ago.
I enjoy a game like Far Cry, Doom 3, Half Life 2, blah blah, as much as any other FPS fan, but that's only one genre. What scares me is the RTS craze that started back in the mid nineties never really stopped. They still crank dozens of RTS games every year, it seems like 90% of games are either FPSs or RTSs, and then you get the occassional adventure game.
But those are often not really adventure games, or they're so low budget that the code is almost viral. At least there's Telltale, and they even have managed to get some attention. It's tough for an adventure game to get attention. I've seen a lot of people react almost violently to hearing about Sam & Max though. Generally they're upset mearly because the main actors are animals. I'm betting those people have some kind of testosterone disorder.
I agree totally. I have actually started selling most of my newer games so I can buy older ones.
I have never understood what is so great about Far Cry. Sure, it had good graphics and a charmingly different setting (Outside! Sunny! OMG!). But I failed to see why it was so popular.
I'm more concerned about the number of MMORPGs that are being developed. It's like WoW was some kind of fungus, with the millions of new MMORPGs springing up. I believe there was/is some kind of rumour of the Dreamfall sequel being an MMORPG
Another thing I don't get is why WoW is so popular. I've attempted to get hooked on it multiple times but it always gets so BORING. Click, wait, click, wait, click, wait... Congratulations, you have killed a rat! Kill another 5632854038830 of these and maybe you'll go up a level! Then you can spend some time trying to figure out if any of the new spells open to you actually differ at all from your current roster. And maybe you can skin these rats and after making 679 pairs of trousers you can make yourself some boots! Oh no, it only had a leather fragment on it, better kill some more things so you can make a full piece of leather! You will need 20 pieces of leather to make some pants. Each piece of leather is made of 3 leather fragments.
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Ah yes, Legend! I played some of their games: Timequest, Eric the Unready and Spellcasting series. I think I'm going to hunt for the other titles!
It's not that I don't like classic games, but I just can't replay them again. I still plays classics I could get my hand at. The last classic game I played was "Lost File of Sherlock Holmes: The Serrated Scalpel". If I haven't play them, sure I can stand the bad graphics or the lousy sound effects. But for replaying, it has to be really good. I guess it's also a matter of taste, like for example, I would play all Monkey Islands again; I'd also play Ultima 4,6,7,7SI but not 1,2,3,5,8,9, and StarControl not WingCommander, and Undying not Quake or Doom, and ChronoTrigger not FinalFantasy, and Conquest of the Longbow (oooh yes, I really want to play this... sadly, I had sold the game long time ago), and I would not play any AGI-typing-games of Sierra, etc., etc.
In one word: stealth. The stealth subgenre is becoming more and more popular, and we haven't had a good first person stealth game since Thief. There's just something primal about silently hunting down your enemies that appeals to human instinct.
Plus, it's one of few single player games where a single headshot can kill you (on higher difficulty settings), which really adds to the need for strategy and patience.
I enjoyed Far Cry because unlike most FPSes (especially most 'atmospheric / story' FPSs in the Half Life style) the bad guys presented slightly formidable foes... and they were formidable in ways other than "it takes 80 shots to kill them." The game had limited stealth, which was fun especially in the jungle / beach environment (lots of combinations of interesting natural and man made cover, lots of moments where you could really sneak up on someone and feel that it wasn't scripted for you to do so) and it had enemies who were able to call for reinforcements but also use cover and vehicles to their advantage as well. Many games allegedy have such a thing, but again, in Far Cry it felt like it was happening because of my actions beat to beat, not because I walked over a script trigger which played the "call for more dudes" cutscene. The game didn't throw new set pieces and new plot reveals at you left and right like Half Life does, but I found that the moment to moment gameplay was far more engaging than either Half Life game.
Far Cry didn't use that particular tactic, but it used a very similar one where a lone guard will sometimes run off and get backup if he can't see who's shooting at him.
In either scenario, the feeling of "uhohwhat'dIdoholycrapI'mscrewed.....
THEYWANTMETOTAKEDOWNACHOPPERWITHAPISTOL????" is pure gold.
It totally made up for it with the amazing plot. Seriously, that plot trumps Zelda in so many ways it's not even FUNNY.
I hope they really do make a sequel like they clearly intended to (ever seen the clip after the credits?
And so Greg doesn't feel alone: I'm playing the Pokeymans too. Point me at any game that gives you a ton of OCD-based objectives and I'm all over it.