What Game(s) Did You Last Get and What Are You Playing?

[Dizzle229]

Sale loot thus far:

 

Democracy 3

Rainbow Six 3

Far Cry 3

State of Decay + Breakdown

Uplink

 

Plus some Euro Truck 2 and Sniper Elite V2 DLC. Also, I already had State of Decay and Far Cry 3 on Xbox. Is this what clothes shopping is like for girls?

[Riku3220]

Red team won but I didn't get any free games...

 

Oh well. So far all I've gotten is:

Skyrim + DLC

Pixel Piracy

Plague Inc.

MARLOW BRIGGS

[jasignhagj]

Just bought Terraria, might get Banished while it's community choice.

[Low C]

Bought Skyrim: Legendary Edition. I held off plenty since i beat it on xbox. Time to play it with mods and such. 

[Duff]

Bought Terreria. I mean come on. $2?

[Noxx]

I feel kinda bad. I played some BO1 earlier (found the disk, didn't even remember i had it). Somehow i got host against a lobby full of EU players (i'm in the Middle East). They were all 2-barring. It was like Combat training just easier. I got Dogs and Chopper each game, even managed to get it while sniping which is hilarious cause i play on such a low sensitivity, and i can't even snipe either. Played a few games then left cause i started feeling bad.

 

Damn BO1 just isn't fun for me. Even when i do good it just isn't fun. I don't understand why.

[Duff]

I'm so used to BOII that any other COD feels slow paced. Takes forever to get your gun up in BOI, you run pretty slow, etc.

 

Haven't played it in ages. Shouldn't have prestiged way back before I stopped playing, because now I don't have my sexy classes any more (there's no way I want to go through trying to get Tac Mask Pro again).

[Estonian dude]

Today, I acquired:

Simcity 4

Rise of Nations

Warhammer 40K Dawn of War

C&C Generals (with Zero Hour)

Summer of gaming awaits.

Almost through the warrior class in NOX. [bleep]ing awesome game.

The reason why I am acquiring all those games (old games) now is that I am looking at a summer without internet and my laptop can't pretty much play anything newer than from 2005.

[Randox]

I had no idea Rainbow Six 3 was on the PC. I have it on Xbox, and it's a fantastic game. Took me a while to beat that one. I think it's still the only shooter I have played where you aren't really any tougher than the people shooting back at you, and you have to make it through the whole level without healing. Really makes you think and plan things out.

[Noxx]

I'm so used to BOII that any other COD feels slow paced. Takes forever to get your gun up in BOI, you run pretty slow, etc.

 

Haven't played it in ages. Shouldn't have prestiged way back before I stopped playing, because now I don't have my sexy classes any more (there's no way I want to go through trying to get Tac Mask Pro again).

I enjoy playing BO1 every now and then when i feel like Sniping. Sniping is pretty hard on BO1 (in general i'm not great at sniping cause i play on a low sensitivity). But sniping on BO1 is so rewarding. But yeah, compared to the new CoD's it's so slow. Even on the smaller maps. I think though, the slower paced CoD's were better in a way. A lot less BS like broken camera angles, barrels and cars exploding all over the place, etc.

[Duff]

Yeah, with Lightweight on, camera angles were all messed up (even worse when people don't have very good connections). But honestly, I'd prefer semi-broken camera angles than slow paced games.

 

I played through The Swapper last night and spent the day today finishing my play through of Fez. I had to look up a lot for the latter, but I had fun with it.

[Dizzle229]

Been playing Mafia II. It's great, but the lack of checkpoints and the neverending driving so much driving oh god make me not want to play.

[Maxingmck]

 

I'm so used to BOII that any other COD feels slow paced. Takes forever to get your gun up in BOI, you run pretty slow, etc.

 

Haven't played it in ages. Shouldn't have prestiged way back before I stopped playing, because now I don't have my sexy classes any more (there's no way I want to go through trying to get Tac Mask Pro again).

I enjoy playing BO1 every now and then when i feel like Sniping. Sniping is pretty hard on BO1 (in general i'm not great at sniping cause i play on a low sensitivity). But sniping on BO1 is so rewarding. But yeah, compared to the new CoD's it's so slow. Even on the smaller maps. I think though, the slower paced CoD's were better in a way. A lot less BS like broken camera angles, barrels and cars exploding all over the place, etc.

 

 

Black ops 2 had the worst maps ever, they literally all play like they were meant for MW2. Way too close quarters/fast paced for a Treyarch game where the guns have insane recoil and 1 magazine can't kill more than 2 people. Ive always been a fan of big maps because 1. More options 2. Only idiots run in the open and 3. less double teams.

 

Hijacked, for example, is complete trash. 2 buildings with someone always camping in. 1 spawn on each side of the map that constantly flips. Hardly any vertical gameplay and its a freakin straight line.

 

Then again all the stupid noobs whine about how they cant get cheap kills when it takes skill to navigate a big map.

 

Bring back fuel/array/derailed

[Duff]

1. Only idiots run in the open? This isn't real war, lol. Rushing is extremely fun.

 

2. How would having large maps account for high recoil guns? And I didn't find the recoil on any of the guns to be insane.

 

3. It takes plenty of skill to navigate small maps, too.

 

Honestly, I'd rather have Hijacked with 2 buildings close to each other with a camper in each than a huge map with plenty of cover for half the lobby to camp behind. It's personal preference, but I back out of every game of Drone and Aftermath (maybe Aftermath isn't considered a "big" map) I'm put on, and the majority of Turbine games simply because they're so boring. Games almost always go to time limit, and when you die, it takes forever to get back into the action.

 

Black Ops 2 had some awesome maps: Raid, Slums, Standoff.

[Noxx]

BO2 was the best CoD without any doubt. Even the people who hated it will agree with this. Even with all the bullshit it's still the most popular CoD. People want what BO2 offered. Good (small - medium) maps, good killstreaks, well balances weapons (with the exception of maybe one or two of the Snipers and Shotguns). People don't want big maps, because it encourages others to sit in a corner and make a TDM last 10 minutes. That's why Aftermath and Turbine are skipped so often. That's why Nuketown and Hijacked will always be voted for.

As for recoil on the guns... None of them actually had any real recoil. On PC, maybe. Because you don't have Aim Assist to stick to the target. But on console, if you complain about recoil on a CoD gun... then you're doing it wrong. Most guns in CoD are lasers. None of them have any recoil that should give you any problems. That's why in MW3 crossmap MP7 kills were a thing. And why crossmap Vector/Mtar kills are a thing in Ghosts. The guns have no recoil.

[Maxingmck]

But black ops 2 and ghosts also have horrible net code. On ghosts even on lan it takes bullets from certain guns longer to register which throws off the gun kick and makes gunfights unfair. Black ops 2 had a view lag even noticable on splitscreen. Ever since lag compensation, each game has seemed even less fair imo.

[Noxx]

But black ops 2 and ghosts also have horrible net code. On ghosts even on lan it takes bullets from certain guns longer to register which throws off the gun kick and makes gunfights unfair. Black ops 2 had a view lag even noticable on splitscreen. Ever since lag compensation, each game has seemed even less fair imo.

Lag comp has been there since CoD4, or maybe it was MW2. People just became more aware of it later on. I can have the same connection issues on any CoD. Some days my shots register really well and i'll drop an enemy in a second (with the PP90M1 and Rapidfire i can easily kill 6 - 7 enemies with a clip assuming the gunfights are short range) and other days the shots just don't want to register at all meaning i can put half an extended MP7 clip in someone and still die. It's something you have to accept when it comes to online gaming. Your connection will bs you, whether it's the best or worst money can buy. But then again, i've never really noticed lag comp all that much whether i was playing on a good connection on bad. I think it's an overused, overhyped term. When i play on a 2-bar or sometimes even a 3-bar, if i get in a 1 on 1 gunfight i'll lose lose it 90% of the time (the 10% is when the person shooting at me forgets how to aim). If i'm on a 4-bar shooting at someone with a 3/2-bar i'll win the gunfight 90% of the time (the 10% being if is forget how to aim). But i can agree with the BO2 view lag. Can't say much about Ghosts since i never really played it. I do know that the Silenced Mtar is popular under pro players because  apparently it has better hit registration, or something of the sorts.

[chenw]

Gog: Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity II: Director's cut and Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick obscura

 

Steam: Red Alert 3.

 

I think I might be medically insane

[Alg]

Okay... Time for some painful maths.

Steam:

The Witcher 2

Saint's Row franchise pack

Metro: Last Light complete

CIV 5: Brave New World

Crusader King's 2

XCOM: Enemy Unknown DLC (And before that, gift copy of the base game for my brother)

The Stanley Parable

 

GOG:

Neverwinter Nights 2

Planescape: Torment

 

[bleep]. There's some small of solace in the fact that card drops paid for some of it, I guess...? :uhh:

[Dax]

Building off my previous list:

 

Steam:

Far Cry.

Far Cry 2.

Far Cry 3.

Far Cry: Blood Dragon.

To the Moon.

Postal 2.

Euro Truck Simulator.

Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Bus Driver.

Trucks and Trailers.

Scania Truck Driving Simulator.

Don't Starve.

Battleblock Theater.

Stanley Parable.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Alan Wake.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

Payday 2 (x2, one for my brother as well).

 

GOG:

Baldur's Gate 1.

Baldur's Gate 2.

Deus Ex.

Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.

 

'Bout 100 bucks all up, I think.

[BattleThingz]

My favorite console games that I still play: Sleeping Dogs, TES (the elder scrolls), Dead Island, Fabled, Fallout series. In no particular order either, I enjoy those games anytime!

[Randox]

Over the last week or so I watched an LP of Rome: Total War. Looked like a pretty good game, being a bit lighter on the empire building which is probably good for me, and with a real time combat system which is a bonus for me, especially on such an epic scale. Thought I would get Rome II since Rome is a decade old, but after taking a peek at the reviews and then watching a couple on youtube, I convinced myself that I could both save $50 and get a superior game by going with the original.

 

It's a brilliant game to play, though I think the combat is going to take some getting used to for me, since I've been abysmal in the two sieges I've fought so far. In the first one I heroically lost more people than the guys I defeated, and in the second I'm pretty sure I managed to kill my own general and faction leader (who I was using while waiting for my preferred general to recover from the last fight) with my own archers. In particular, I am doing a poor job of moving up anything that isn't my frontline, meaning that my reinforcements are often standing much further away than I would like. From what I've seen though, field battles are much easier (the guy I watched wasn't brilliant at sieges either).

 

Unfortunately I am playing as the Scipii, and my incompetence has robbed me of my game plan. The idea was to take all the islands in the Mediterranean to give me free reign to move my troops by sea. I would then cross the sea into northern Africa and sweep west, then back north into Spanish territory up to the mountainous access to the rest of Europe, and ideally push east in Africa to Alexandria. During the civial war I would would be relying on naval power to defend the coastline, and I would wage most of my war from Europe where it would be easier to concentrate my forces, and use my naval power to place my armies on the coast and create another front. Now, if the Julii take all of Europe and conquor the spanish, I'd probably be unable to hold anything much to the west of Alexandria because Africa is simply too big and spread out, would create a substantially larger naval front for me to deal with.

 

Looks to be a pretty promising campain, though I am hoping I fare better against the pontics than the guy I watched (that's where I got the idea to sweep around north. The Pontics totally stalled out his advance and ultimately I moved all his major forces out of Africa and moved them to aid his conquest of Europe.

[Albel]

Shit loads of Skyrim. That's about it \o/

[Estonian dude]

Bought Gran Turismo 6.

 

Awesome so far. And completely different from GT5.

[Duff]

Well, I restarted Mass Effect 1. Much more into it this time. Gonna dedicate a good bit of tomorrow playing it. I'm playing the "good" guy. Maybe in another play through I'll try the ruthless route.

 

[hide]Maybe this time I can keep Wrex alive. I find him to be hilarious.[/hide]