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Yuri's Revenge.

Still playing Skyrim, with 2 new characters. It turns out changing/add/removing mods makes a save game become unstable.

Trying to play a bit different now since I now have the Alternative Life start. Going for a melee based female Nord who will join the Stormcloaks, The other character will be a Stealth based Argonian male who will join the Empire.


Thats another oh 100+ hours added onto my already 280+ hours rofl!

Dragon Age Origins.

Dow2 retribution

 kirsanth wrote:
Any playing EVE Online?

I know I will have many questions.

Fire away, played eve on and off for about 5 years

I'm playing FTL, I just burn hours playing it, it's so good!

Just finnished downloading Of Orcs and Men some mintuts ago, the game looks promesing from what I can tell by the inf steam gave me

I actually got my original NES working again. So, I've been playing Kirby's Adventure and The Legend of Zelda

X-Beyond the Frontier, Guitar Hero, and FTL.

Colony Wars, and ME3

Batman: Arkham City.

Mainly because I could install that and I couldn't get past trying to update Origin when I tried to install ME3.

Well, I borrowed Skyrim from my brother...and it's just as awesome as everyone said it was. I put ~12 hours into it this weekend

Dragon Age II. Not a bad game/series, at least not when compared to Mass Effect, but its good enough.

Episode 4 of The Walking Dead. It continues to be disturbing.

Currently, Streets Of Rage 2 and Serious Sam 3:BFE.... Good times!!

And just this morning I downloaded the FM13 demo, had to go to work though so haven't had time to play it yet.... I'm getting itchy fingers....

Right now, having a look at Doom3 BFG edition.
I can safely say that the only reason to get that if for doom 1 and 2. Doom 3 is still a crappy system shock 2 wannabe, and they made it even more annoying by giving it unskippable cutscenes and a intrusive save system.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Right now, having a look at Doom3 BFG edition.
I can safely say that the only reason to get that if for doom 1 and 2. Doom 3 is still a crappy system shock 2 wannabe, and they made it even more annoying by giving it unskippable cutscenes and a intrusive save system.

Really? I enjoyed Doom 3...not as much as the first two mind, but still...

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Right now, having a look at Doom3 BFG edition.
I can safely say that the only reason to get that if for doom 1 and 2. Doom 3 is still a crappy system shock 2 wannabe, and they made it even more annoying by giving it unskippable cutscenes and a intrusive save system.

Really? I enjoyed Doom 3...not as much as the first two mind, but still...

Fair enough. I just didn't enjoy Doom 3 that much compared to the first games.

X-COM when my lady is busy, co-op Borderlands 2 with her when she isn't.

Good stuff, excellent times.

Good old Dawn of War: Soulstorm.
Almost every day since it came out I play a party of skirmish.

I am just waiting for February 2013...

-Dead Space 3
-Crysis 3
-Bioshock 3
-Aliens: Colonial Marines.

Baldurs gate 2 Throne Of Baal. Oh god knows how I hate those damned drow!

Oblivion of all things. Its utterly pish compared to Skyrim in almost every way but still has a certain charm. Admittedly The dark brotherhood questline story is good as is the thieve's one.

The length of these questlines also kinda puts skyrim to shame, oblivion's DB questline has like 20 medium length missions compared to the skyrim one having about 6 of any notable length/depth.

I think this is the difference in design ethos in a nutshell, skyrim has less than half the quests but these are far better designed and engaging.

I think people only say they like Oblivion more because almost every mechanic in that game can be exploited to ridiculous levels. Yes with a little research and effort you can break the game to your will but any immersion is lost as a result.

Things that i now wish were in Skyrim? Night-eye as a spell, the Cameoline spell, paralysis in illusion, pickpocket being a perk of sneak and first person horse riding.

Assassin's Creed III. It's pretty fun, not as good as Brotherhood or Revelations, but still fun in its own way. The only thing I dislike about it is taht it seems the Assassins have devolved in terms of firearm technology. I mean, you have Ezio running around during the Renaissance with that teeny tiny little pistol mounted on his wrist that was so easy to use, but now a couple hundred years later during the American Revolution I'm stuck using a bulky flintlock pistol? What the hell?

Looking forward to AC3. Will be getting it for Xmas.

Sorry, won't play AC3. Lost interest in the series when I was forced to have a permanent internet connection to even play a single player game of AC2.

Also won't touch Bioshock 3, despite having just read the book "Bioshock: Rapture" which set up how Andrei Ryanov built Rapture in the first place and how "Frank Fontaine" started the splicers and set it all tumbling down in an effort to put himself in Ryan's place. The reason I won't touch BS3 - the copy of bioshock 2 I bought corrupet my Bios and it was only due to me being friends with the IT guy where I worked that restored my PC to a usable condition.

Also getting annoyed with Batman: Arkham City, and don't know if it's my keyboard or what, but I just can't get Batman to slide, so am stuck in the steelmill and can't get out. Anyone able to confirm if this is a bug of some sort and I need to get the game patched? I know it has told me I need to update my graphics drivers, and will do this as soon as I can get connected again, but wonder if there is more to it than that. Love the rest of it, but this is starting to make me paranoid about new games.

@ Conrad be careful, if you update your graphics drivers you might fry your bios

 Perkustin wrote:
Oblivion of all things. Its utterly pish compared to Skyrim in almost every way but still has a certain charm. Admittedly The dark brotherhood questline story is good as is the thieve's one.

Things that i now wish were in Skyrim? Night-eye as a spell, the Cameoline spell, paralysis in illusion, pickpocket being a perk of sneak and first person horse riding.

I always enjoyed having a ring that could toggle night-eye for those dark ruins of Cyrodiil , unless I'm mistaken the Khajiit night-eye in Skyrim isn't quite the same thing.

Battlefield 3 and team fortress 2. Mann V.S. Machine all the way!

At the moment Rome Total War. Sadly I just got backstabbed by the Britons who are building a massive empire in Europe (as you do) and they attacked me with a stack of chariots. My hastati didn't do so well.

 RossDas wrote:

 Perkustin wrote:
Oblivion of all things. Its utterly pish compared to Skyrim in almost every way but still has a certain charm. Admittedly The dark brotherhood questline story is good as is the thieve's one.

Things that i now wish were in Skyrim? Night-eye as a spell, the Cameoline spell, paralysis in illusion, pickpocket being a perk of sneak and first person horse riding.

I always enjoyed having a ring that could toggle night-eye for those dark ruins of Cyrodiil , unless I'm mistaken the Khajiit night-eye in Skyrim isn't quite the same thing.

To be fair Skyrim's dungeons, for the most part, are Floodlit by comparison. Oblivion's are truly pitch black, which can often get annoying and makes night-eye a neccesity for stealth play. I suppose thats another thing that is different about oblivion, yes you can be the invisible sneak-king but killing anything? Good luck... It seems 6x damage doesnt go very far, although some of the dumber enemies can be hit multiple times before noticing . It makes sluthing a bit more tense as often you have to forgoe loot because you have no chance of killing the opposition. Whereas in Skyrim you are merely plodding through dungeons tapping people with your magic insta-gib dagger.