# What video game are you playing right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 8, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070 "2012-09-08T03:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/41 "2012-09-10T22:12:14Z")
I find that interesting because I’m the opposite. I find Bethesda is good at making fun to explore world and absolutely horrible at giving me any reason to explore them. I could only tell you the plot of Oblivion or Skyrim in the vaguest terms and couldn’t name a single NPC from Fallout 3 by name. In contrast, I found DA:O very interesting in characters who lived up a fairly stock plot idea and made it something much more. To each their own, of course and I know a lot of people love Oblivion, et al. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/42 "2012-09-10T23:00:22Z")
Back at **Crusader Kings 2** just recently. Busy building a Baltic/North Sea empire around the Piasts - Poland with Lithuania, Ruthenia and bits of Hungary and the HRE, an expanded Norway and, if I get lucky, maybe Sweden soon ( the Swedish queen regnant is the doting mother of my current Polish monarch but with elective law its a crap-shoot to inherit as a foreigner ). But I tend to bounce around a lot on games. Might be back to Skyrim next week. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/43 "2012-09-10T23:30:18Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I find that interesting because I’m the opposite. I find Bethesda is good at making fun to explore world and absolutely horrible at giving me any reason to explore them. I could only tell you the plot of Oblivion or Skyrim in the vaguest terms and couldn’t name a single NPC from Fallout 3 by name. Heh. I have been known to call _Morrowind_ “Elder Scrolls III: The Search for Plot”. They’ve actually gotten better at maintaining the main plot-thread in _Oblivion_ and _Skyrim_. And how could you not remember Moira from _Fallout 3_? The most annoyingly perky and unintentionally dangerous creature in the wasteland? Besides, she gave you a stick that makes mole rat heads explode. 😃 (I will say, though, that the NPCs in _New Vegas_ are more memorable, especially in _Old World Blues_.) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/44 "2012-09-11T00:47:37Z")
I’m going between Mass Effect 2 and Twisted Metal Actually speaking of which…my copy of Twisted Metal for PS3 (the newest TM) is glitchy as all hell, is anyone else having this problem? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/45 "2012-09-11T01:26:08Z")
Black Ops. It helps with the aggression. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/46 "2012-09-11T01:31:34Z")
_Battlefield 3_. I play with a clan in one of their competative squads. A new armoured warfare expansion comes out in the next day or so which looks pretty good. Other than that, a bit of _Guild Wars 2_, _Planetside 2 Beta_ and waiting for _Bordelands 2_ & the new _XCom_ ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/47 "2012-09-11T01:57:23Z")
Guild Wars 2. I don’t have a lot of time to play with my current work schedule but any gaming time is being spent on it, I find it a good game to play for short periods at a time. Pretty much everyone I know is playing it (and vastly out-levelling me)… It’s about a month until the games I care about start being released but I can’t promise I wont move on to something else if the deals are good enough (or the wind changes). ---
**Author:** ![AndrewL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/48 "2012-09-11T02:00:50Z")
Half-Life 2. Yeah, not exactly cutting edge modern anymore, but it’s still a really well put together shooter. I got nostalgic, and decided to go back and try to get all the achievements. ---
**Author:** ![jayarrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@jayarrell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayarrell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/49 "2012-09-11T02:54:24Z")
Right now? Starflight I’ll probably do a run through of Starflight 2 once I finish with the 1st game. After that it’s back to modern games with either Rise of Flight or Legend of Grimrock. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/50 "2012-09-11T07:27:07Z")
**Starcraft 2** , mainly. Still struggling to get out of bronze league. I think I’m close though! 🙂 Am looking to buy a Microsoft xbox type controller, in order to be able to properly play **I Wanna Be The Guy**. That’s a great tip for anyone who likes an old school challenging (and when I say challenging, I do mean challenging) platformer. It’s free! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/51 "2012-09-12T10:44:07Z")
Playing the living daylights out of Mass Effect 3 multiplayer; I’ve got an N7 rating of 893 or so. Also just started a new ME1 FemShep; I intend to save the Council, destroy the Collector Base, destroy the Reapers, and romance Garrus and no one else. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/52 "2012-09-12T10:47:47Z")
Diablo 3 - though I would drop it like a ton of bricks when Torchlight 2 is out. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/53 "2012-09-12T11:14:02Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Playing the living daylights out of Mass Effect 3 multiplayer; I’ve got an N7 rating of 893 or so. Also just started a new ME1 FemShep; I intend to save the Council, destroy the Collector Base, destroy the Reapers, and romance Garrus and no one else. Garrus is Mai Waifu \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/54 "2012-09-12T13:02:26Z")
I’ve been going through the _Ratchet and Clank Collection_ lately. Some of my absolute favorite games on the PS2, and they’ve aged perfectly. I’ve already beat _Up Your Arsenal_ and am going back through the original again. ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/55 "2012-09-12T14:09:01Z")
I have been playing Max Payne 3, HL2: Episode One, Tomb Raider Legend, Anno 2070, Just Cause 2. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/56 "2012-09-12T14:54:38Z")
Currently storming thru _Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars_ with my 6 year-old. When he goes to bed, in goes _MW3_ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/57 "2012-09-17T20:26:56Z")
When this was first posted, I was finishing off _Back to the Future: the Game_, and now I’m playing Earthbound for the first time. I really wish there were more modern non-strategy non-twitch based games out there. (I have a problem with strategy due to the lack of direction and it always being extremely unclear what the best way forward is. The only exception I’ve found is Plant Vs. Zombies, and I don’t know if that counts.) ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/58 "2012-09-17T20:35:16Z")
Well, I _was_ playing Skyward Sword but the Silent Realm crap is severely pissing me off. So, I’m pouting at the moment and playing Boom Blox because the only thing more fun than Jenga is Jenga on the wii. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/59 "2012-09-17T21:01:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > When this was first posted, I was finishing off _Back to the Future: the Game_, and now I’m playing Earthbound for the first time. I really wish there were more modern non-strategy non-twitch based games out there. (I have a problem with strategy due to the lack of direction and it always being extremely unclear what the best way forward is. The only exception I’ve found is Plant Vs. Zombies, and I don’t know if that counts.) I’d consider Plants vs Zombies to be more of a puzzle game, myself. But it sounds like you’re just generally looking for turn-based goodness? I hope you’ve got your eye on the upcoming Xcom game! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/60 "2012-09-17T22:22:37Z")
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action. Challenging game on the hard setting. Impressed with the brutal AI. I was getting pissed with coninually losing a mining area which affected my daily income. Even arming the rebels after I cleared the map didn’t help. I just parked a hired merc team there, I’ll soon find out if that makes a difference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070.md?page=4)