Haven’t been home a lot lately, but I’m playing through the Skyrim DLCs now (I’m doing Dawnguard right now), getting back into the game. Until recently I was playing a lot of Orcs Must Die 2, but I’ve managed to 5 skull everything at this point, so I’m sort of winding down on that. I fired up Civ V a few weeks ago as well and played through some of the DLCs (was trying to get the Middle Earth mod to work, but for some reason I can’t seem to get it going). Played a bit of Shogun II as well fairly recently (Fall of the Samurai DLC).
Am considering the new Bio Shock and a few other games on Steam (maybe Far Cry 3), but haven’t made any decisions to get anything new yet. Might wait for summer sales before I get anything, since it’s hard to find the time these days to play much.
Due to a change in my girlfriend’s career, she is now away from home an awful lot. I knew Skyrim would be a dangerous timesink, so never got it when it came out. Now, to take advantage of this (and save money - no going out to bars and stuff like that) I got Skyrim. It is a dangerous timesink. Am enjoying it though.
No. Playing the first or second will allow you to appreciate a few things more and you’ll have the basics already down (such as plasmids/vigors) but either one is enough to give you the “full” experience in Infinite.
Planetside 2 - A MMO FPS. Sort of like Battlefield 2142/Bad Company2 but on 3 large continents. Lots of infantry, vehicle, and aircraft battle fun.
Sleeping Dogs - Got this on sale, it’s like GTA in Hong Kong. It has more emphasis on hand-to-hand combat than GTA. Overall fun if a bit arcadish.
Uncharted - Even though this came out many years ago I never played it. It’s a little too much cutscene and not enough action, but it’s still a very impressive-looking game, I was surprised. Gameplay and plot is fun.
Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim - I wander around some in these games from time to time.
I have no idea, but I prefer to play games in order. I refuse to play a sequel until I played the first version of that game. I’ve only broken this rule once, but only because it was a game that really wasn’t about the storyline and more about the hack and slash
Not even remotely. There’s no narrative connection between the first two Bioshock games and the latest one. There are some strong thematic connections, and the game mechanics are largely identical, but you don’t need to have any experience with the other games in the series to understand or appreciate the latest one.
Started playing Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. I have the original around here somewhere and forgot how fun these games are! Perfect game for lunch break.
Just bought The Walking Dead on Steam (Midweek Madness!). Only got to play for about 20 minutes, but I enjoyed it. It made me want to re-download the Sam and Max games so I can really get my point-and-click on!
Runescape . . . . . I have a crappy computer. I don’t have PS3 or Xbox, or any other possible game platforms. (To be honest, I don’t even know if I used the term “game platforms” correctly.)
I would like to try out some of those games where you hold the controller and move around to initiate game play (like bowling), but I can’t afford them.
I’m an old fart. When I graduated from high school, personal computers didn’t exist - Hell, we were happy to have electric typewriters.
I’ve been playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 after work for the past few days. Never played the first one. Got this on a Steam sale, likely the independent sale they had around Easter, and finally got around to it. Very nice scenery and the sim is much better than what I experienced in the the one 18 Wheels of Steel game I tried.
Spent the last few nights playing Terraria. I got bored with it a year or so ago after it started shifting from “World Builder with RPG Elements” to “RPG Boss Fighting Game with World Builder Elements” but my son bought it for the PS3 and watching him play gave me a little itch to go back.
I installed Ship Simulator Extreme the other night but haven’t actually fired it up yet. Got it in some bundle (and surprised myself a while later when I saw it in my library) and figured I might as well try it out on a lark.
I picked that up last year during one of their sales – that and one expansion. I don’t think my video card is quite beefy enough to handle all its bells and whistles, but I didn’t find it all that intriguing. The controls are very wonky – the throttle is like an on/off switch (I guess unless you use some sort of analog controller). The scenery is pretty impressive, but I found the missions tedious.
One mission was to pilot a cruise ship down a river and out to open sea. It took probably 30 minutes to pull off and it was all nothing but tiny adjustments to the throttle and rudder – not exactly seat-of-your-pants stuff.
I didn’t work up the gumption to sail a tanker across an ocean – I’d probably still be doing it.
Edit … then again, I do seem to recall a mission where I had to race a speed boat up to a whaler and mess with their whaling. That mission, for me, suffered more from my video card not keeping up more than anything else, I think.
Meh … hit or miss, I’d say, depending on your levels of concentration.
I’ve lost the last month to World of Tanks. I’ve got 6 tier 4s and 1 tier 3 arty and am grinding up to my first tier 5 tank - probably a KV -1 as I need a money maker to finance everything. It’s fun and frustrating at the same time - fun in that you get to roar around in tanks, frustrating in that you’re in teams with 14 strangers who range from exceptionally skilled to totally useless. And in the lower tiers all the tanks suffer from one or more fundamental flaws, although I think at tier 5 the tanks get a bit more capable. For a free game it’s pretty awesome though.
It was “extreme” in that I ran the cruise liner into a dock extremely slowly at which point it just sat there extremely still since, surprise!, cruise liners don’t exactly back up and do a three-point turn.
In true Italian fashion, I looked at what I had done, said “nuts to this” and abandoned ship, quitting the game.
I finished Mass Effect 2 this weekend (for the 4th or 5th time). I was surprised that there were still some bits that I don’t remember seeing or hearing before (e.g. some of the bystander conversations).
Now I’ve moved right into playing Mass Effect 3 for the first time. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to import Shepard’s face that I used in ME1 and ME2 – it was very gaunt with huge cheekbones. I tried recreating it, but in the end I gave up and I had to settle for Chang Shepard’s younger, pudgier brother instead.
