# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/81 "2012-10-16T17:55:54Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > Solium Infernum and Portal > > Yes, the original Portal (I’m the only person in the world that hasn’t played that game until this year). > > Solium Infernum is an awesome strategy game. I think that I didn’t start playing Portal until this year. It was either this year or last year. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/82 "2012-10-16T18:18:00Z")
I’m playing Borderlands 2 now. I don’t have a huge amount of spare time at the moment, so it’s going to take me quite awhile yet to finish it up. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/83 "2012-10-16T19:12:35Z")
Some sort of crappy text-based, freestyle AI game. I haven’t figured it out very well yet but my score keeps going up every time I type something and hit ‘Submit’ so I will keep going until I win. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/84 "2012-10-16T19:14:46Z")
X-Com: Enemy Unknown and The Old Republic. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/85 "2012-10-16T22:59:56Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Some sort of crappy text-based, freestyle AI game. I haven’t figured it out very well yet but my score keeps going up every time I type something and hit ‘Submit’ so I will keep going until I win. You should try [Progress Quest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest) then. Very addicting! Picked up Mass Effect 1 and 2 awhile back when Mass Effect 3 came out. Got distracted with other things and have just started Mass Effect 1. I figure by the time I play through both, ME3 will be dirt cheap (and/or ME4 may be out). ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/86 "2012-10-19T14:10:50Z")
Finished **Bad Company 2** and bought **Sleeping Dogs** last night so I guess I’m playing that now. I liked Bad Company 2 more than I thought I would. It’s funny because the game is technically very similar to Spec Ops: the Line (which I just played) but the plot and general feeling between the two – dark for Spec Ops, humorous for BC2 – made me feel like they were much more different games than they really are. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/87 "2012-10-19T14:18:44Z")
I’m not playing anything right now; however I am anxiously awaiting Assassin’s Creed III to be delivered to my doorstep later this month. I can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/88 "2012-10-19T15:59:46Z")
**Saints Row the Third** , and I’ve been meaning to crack into [Eagle Lander 3D](http://eaglelander3d.com/) soon. (My taste in games is _slightly_ bipolar.) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/89 "2012-10-19T18:21:27Z")
Grabbed several games at the free Origin glitch sale, so now I am playing Need for Speed The Run, Need For Speed Shift 2, and Crysis. All of them are quite good. The Run has a little too much story that I don’t care about, but the visuals and driving are a lot of (arcadish) fun driving across America. There are quicktime sequences in a couple cutscenes, but they aren’t long and you don’t have to replay the whole thing if you screw up. Shift 2 is a somewhat realistic career-based game where you do very short races (usually 2 or 3 laps) on various real tracks from around the world. I like that you can choose whether or not to use driving aids like antilock brakes, traction control, and stability control. It will also show you the ideal line around the track, and it’s colored green when your speed is good, then yellow and red when you need to brake for curves. And you do need to brake, the curves really sneak up on you when you’re used to arcade racers. Crysis, I never played it before but it’s like Far Cry with super powers and better stealth. I love being able to cloak and jump up onto rooftops. Only thing I don’t like is the enemies all seem to have body armor, it pretty much takes 10 or more bullets in the body or 1 or 2 headshots to drop them. And I’m still playing Fall from Heaven 2 mod for Civ4, been in the same game for 4 or 5 sessions now. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/90 "2012-10-19T18:23:23Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Finished **Bad Company 2** and bought **Sleeping Dogs** last night so I guess I’m playing that now. > > I liked Bad Company 2 more than I thought I would. It’s funny because the game is technically very similar to Spec Ops: the Line (which I just played) but the plot and general feeling between the two – dark for Spec Ops, humorous for BC2 – made me feel like they were much more different games than they really are. I love BC2, especially the multiplayer. BC is worth playing too, I played it on the PS3 and it was good in spite of the thumbstick aiming. I recently started playing Medal of Honor (the new one) and although different segments have you in different squads , it has a little of that Bad Company feeling. The AI is actually fairly useful. It’s not funny like BC2 though. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/91 "2012-10-19T18:35:30Z")
Does Pac-Man count? It’s my answer and I’m sticking to it. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/92 "2012-10-19T18:53:49Z")
Went back to playing COD:BLOPS after finishing MW3. I just like it better and want to keep playing the game with which I’ve become skilled. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/93 "2012-10-19T20:31:23Z")
I’ve been playing a lot of the DayZ mod for ARMA II. Or as I like to call it “the game of spending hours sneaking around the back woods of Russia murdering other players for food and night vision goggles…with zombies.” It’s sort of like the Battlefield games, except the map is huge, it’s every player for themselves, there are effectively two classes (“recon class” with NV goggles, ghillies suits and a .50 cal anti-material rifle and “noob” class with at best a marginally effective handgun) and all vehicles are disassembled with their parts scattered at random except for that one clan with a fully armed helicopter gunship. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/94 "2012-10-25T06:24:54Z")
I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim recently. Just the last few days ago for a change of pace I started playing Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga; picked it up a while back in one of those Steam sales. Pretty good so far. It’s a fantasy RPG; your character has a mix of combat and magic skills to choose from, and can eventually turn into a dragon and fly around blasting things. I’m not quite there yet though. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/95 "2012-10-25T06:33:21Z")
Skyrim, and I imagine I will be for a while. I haven’t even touched the main quest yet. A side note, the game keeps throwing the same dead horse at me, always in the same location, every dang time. I think it’s trying to tell me something. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/96 "2012-10-25T13:22:37Z")
Could not get Mafia to start, back to playing **Bioshock 2**. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/97 "2012-10-25T13:24:36Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > A side note, the game keeps throwing the same dead horse at me, always in the same location, every dang time. I think it’s trying to tell me something. > [@JohnT](#): > > Could not get Mafia to start, back to playing **Bioshock 2**. Do they throw dead horses at you in Mafia as well? 😃 ---
**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:** [October 25, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/98 "2012-10-25T13:29:57Z")
Man, I really want to like **Sleeping Dogs** but the combat controls are so frustratingly sluggish that repeating the same fight five times in a row just sucks all the fun out of the game. Set it aside and started in on **Darksiders II**. Mashing my twin scythes into the local fauna works a lot easier. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/99 "2012-10-25T16:10:30Z")
Just now I’m playing that classic hit Get A New Job, but when I’m not I’m on Skyrim. Probably gonna pick up XCom and maaaybe Sleeping Dogs for a Saint’s Row kick, but **Jophiel** isn’t making it sound too appealing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070/100 "2012-10-25T16:23:13Z")
Dishonored. Not terribly enjoying it and really just biding my time until Assassin’s Creed 3. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-are-you-playing-right-now/634070.md?page=6)