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Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet. Also playing Armoured Core For Answer on the PS3

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I dislike Space Marine quite a bit. Didn't find it at all entertaining.

 BrookM wrote:
BLOOD DRAGON.

Of course!

I got that two Steam sales ago! I should play it.

Space Marine just seemed too freaking grim-dark. That's a good chunk of why I'm not really a fan of 40k and prefer warhammer fantasy now. At least in fantasy things can be both dark and light spirited. In 40k if orks didn't exist it'd be entirely grim-dark to where it pukes it out of its *sshole.

Blood Dragon sounds like it could be fun. I might try it if I get the chance.

*Edit* 'The secret world' finished downloading. I suppose I might try it out but I have quite a bit of schoolwork to do.

Started playing World of Warcraft again. I hate my friends at times lol.

Not only have they got me playing again I'm playing as part of the Alliance....

Enjoying it again though, spent roughly 3-4 hours on it already.

GTA Online. Just created my first Race and Death Match last night on my 360.

The 'hitman' games just went on sale for 80% off on steam in case anybody wants. They're going for pretty cheap. I just bought the first 3 for like 4.50-5.00 USD which is super cheap.

VensersRevenge wrote:Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet.

Right on!

And no worries - practice makes perfect. Just keep at it, stick to your lancemates, and try to catch up on all the small, potentially useful details like missile bay toggle, free look, cockpit light adjustment, etc.
The game assumes you begin playing by already knowing a lot you don't actually get told, so it pays off to read the forums, the wiki, or even Battletech background in general.

Also, some helpful links:
Smurfy's Mechlab
MWO Heat Simulator (for planning/previewing weapon usage)
MechSpecs.com forum (for build discussion, in case you really give a dune rat's arse about other people's opinions on what you want to pilot)
Camospecs.com (in case you want to apply canon regimental paint schemes)

Which faction are you joining? Or will you stay merc?

flamingkillamajig wrote:Btw it's nice to see you around again.

I've never been gone, actually - I just cut back on the number of forums I post on ... to 1.
Saves time and nerves.

Hearthstone went into open beta today.

*evil laugh*

Finally!

x-com enemy unknown. It is OMGWTFBBQ kind of good. I love it ermagerd i love it. *gush*

Aside from a few annoying moments (like when I select a research it has a cut scene telling me I chose that research - i think why are you telling me that? : meh that's modern gaming ) it has to be hands down the best game I have played, I was actually thinking normal was too easy until I got to the zombie mission (brazil) and half my regular team was out.

It also doesn't have auto save on automatically - old school gaming awesome right there - I am now starting my game again as my fave trooper died .

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
The 'hitman' games just went on sale for 80% off on steam in case anybody wants. They're going for pretty cheap. I just bought the first 3 for like 4.50-5.00 USD which is super cheap.

I thought about picking those up, but....ehhhh, I played Hitman 2, and didn't care too much for it.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I will be spending my day off sat in front of my 360, playing Battlefield 4

 Seaward wrote:
I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

Your squad gets better when you get more to choose from. I was a soldier, and my back up was Garrus and Liara

Yeah, I know at least who all is or will end up as a permanent member of the squad. Garrus is fine, dude's a bro. Liara's not bad, either. I'd happily dump James, Tali, and Ashley, though. In fact, I may dump Ashley - I originally saved Kaidan however many years ago it was when I played ME1, because I said "Biotic officer > grunt trigger-puller," but then I used a savegame editor to reverse that decision when Kaidan decided to hug me and hold up a boombox playing "In Your Eyes" when I met him in ME2.

I'd happily take Jack and Miranda back. Alas.

Much to my own despair I just reinstalled blood bowl.

Nuffle don't scorn me again.

You know I said I uninstalled SWTOR? I installed it again yesterday and started leveling a Jedi Sage. I might've also... kindof... subscribed too. :S

Guess I was in a bad mood the first time, because I'm quite enjoying it now.

If anyone wants to join me / say hi or whatever my char's name is Zordral and I'm on The Red Eclipse server. (EU)

 Lynata wrote:

VensersRevenge wrote:Starting to play Mechwarrior Online. I've got to say it's a really fun game, even though I haven't gotten a single kill yet.

Right on!

And no worries - practice makes perfect. Just keep at it, stick to your lancemates, and try to catch up on all the small, potentially useful details like missile bay toggle, free look, cockpit light adjustment, etc.
The game assumes you begin playing by already knowing a lot you don't actually get told, so it pays off to read the forums, the wiki, or even Battletech background in general.

Also, some helpful links:
Smurfy's Mechlab
MWO Heat Simulator (for planning/previewing weapon usage)
MechSpecs.com forum (for build discussion, in case you really give a dune rat's arse about other people's opinions on what you want to pilot)
Camospecs.com (in case you want to apply canon regimental paint schemes)

Which faction are you joining? Or will you stay merc?

I'm Davion. I knew enough about Battletech lore to make an informed decision. And thanks for all the links!

VensersRevenge wrote:informed decision

VensersRevenge wrote:Davion

ಠ_ಠ


Kidding! If it weren't for Kurita, I would have went either Davion or Merc, myself.

Looking forward to meet you on the fields of honor - one way or the other!

 Seaward wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I will be spending my day off sat in front of my 360, playing Battlefield 4

 Seaward wrote:
I am finally going to play Mass Effect 3. I only ever did the multiplayer while I waited for all the DLC to come out. Then I sort of forgot about it. Now I've remembered.

I do not like my squad so far.

Your squad gets better when you get more to choose from. I was a soldier, and my back up was Garrus and Liara

Yeah, I know at least who all is or will end up as a permanent member of the squad. Garrus is fine, dude's a bro. Liara's not bad, either. I'd happily dump James, Tali, and Ashley, though. In fact, I may dump Ashley - I originally saved Kaidan however many years ago it was when I played ME1, because I said "Biotic officer > grunt trigger-puller," but then I used a savegame editor to reverse that decision when Kaidan decided to hug me and hold up a boombox playing "In Your Eyes" when I met him in ME2.

I'd happily take Jack and Miranda back. Alas.

Kaidan never made it through a single ME playthrough for me I was happy running Garrus to strip shields, and Liara to spam singularity to clear rooms. Then gun down any survivors

 Lynata wrote:

VensersRevenge wrote:informed decision

VensersRevenge wrote:Davion

ಠ_ಠ


Kidding! If it weren't for Kurita, I would have went either Davion or Merc, myself.

Looking forward to meet you on the fields of honor - one way or the other!

It shall be a battle for the ages!



Well probably not, my Cicada will most likely die, but it will be fun.

I've been dumping way more time than I probably should be into a game called "Doomrl".

Just imagine what would happen if Doom got dwarf-fortress-ified. It's got about 50-70% of the frustration involved in roguelike games with none of the hair pullingly complex controls/other minutiae that makes roguelikes incredibly unfun (to me).

It plays a lot like a "top down FPS" actually, just move around, dodge, and shoot. Of course sometimes you run into the odd "bonus level" you're clearly not supposed to survive unless you know what you're doing...

Playing more of The Last of Us.

Still think it is entirely over-rated as a game, but it is less not-fun now.

Maybe.

Great in most regards, but still not fun.

Need to find something new.

I'm currently playing The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (what a horribly clunky name) due to its current Steam sale.

Its not actually all that bad. Its clearly been rushed (or rather restarted half way through its development), there are some bugs and it has nothing at all to do with the other XCOMs aside from some of the aliens.

It has some decent ideas and its sufficently interesting to have kept me entertained this weekend.

I was playing Bioshock:Infinite but it really disappointed me. I was expecting something along the lines of the first Bioshock but having to plow through wave after wave of disposable mooks has made me realise that it is just another manshoot. The setting is interesting but its not the game that I was looking for.

This article sums up my feelings on the game nicely(although I didn't get very far in it).

Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

Probably still play BG 'trilogy' for years to come.

 GrimDork wrote:
Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

I saw someone talking about that on youtube. Apparently you can't actually choose which way your character levels up and the skills are all auto assigned based on class level, or something like that at least. I don't know much about the game.

That alone would be enough to make me stay away from it. Diablo 2 has its share of horrible features, but at least you can build your character how you want.

 dementedwombat wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Just loaded up diablo3 again. Didn't even have to patch. I still think they should have just named it Super Demon Click 3, but itccan be fun in it's own way. Supposedly the AH is going out back with old yeller, and a more reasonable loot system will be the surrogate. That, plus expansion, has me interested enough to give it another go. And my friends will be playing, which is st least half the draw.

I saw someone talking about that on youtube. Apparently you can't actually choose which way your character levels up and the skills are all auto assigned based on class level, or something like that at least. I don't know much about the game.

That alone would be enough to make me stay away from it. Diablo 2 has its share of horrible features, but at least you can build your character how you want.

You gain access to the skills, but just because you get a new one does not necessarily make it better.

For example when I ran a bow wielding Demon Hunter, I went trap heavy and never used some of the shots/special abilities.

Yeah, they don't auto-assign anything, you just don't get points to spend. More like how you gain new spells in WoW or game of your choice as you reach certain levels, then you pick 6 skills to use from the batch. So no, you don't draw up a skill plan and either hoard skills or carefully invest them as you go, but if there's a particular spec/gear combination you want to play, you just do it. It would be comparable to having the same character swap being a hammerdin to using some kind of zeal build in all of 6 seconds, as long as you had the gear.

Having said that, and only having played to level cap once and being no expert, I think gimmick builds like whirlwinding assassins and throwing mastery barbarians and the like don't exist in the same way... but that's probably a fair trade to have unlimited respeccing on the fly that only costs your stacking magic find buff.

The only thing I didn't like as I played was the difficulty in getting meaningfully useful gear to drop. You might get a unique bow, but they still have random stats, and it might be sub-par or even effectively useless with a bad roll behind the scenes. Something they did for the console release is getting implemented either with or really close to the new expansion that *hopefully* makes that less of an issue.

Metal gear rising and Blood Bowl.

Banner Saga, love this game. Story starts out slow, but picks way up. It really does feel like your choices matter, unlike many games that make you choose stuff.

So is it Oregon trail with vikings or did I take the wrong message from the trailers?

Completely back on the blood bowl train, having a lot of fun with the steam community for it.

So is it Oregon trail with vikings or did I take the wrong message from the trailers?

Not really, its an turn based rpg at heart. The map mechanic does make it look like Oregon trail, but its deceiving. Its just used to show you going from one area to the next really, you do need supplies to rest but its not like you need to fix wagon wheels or Bjorn has Dysentery, or anything like that.

If you were to compare it to another tacticsy game.. FFT? Ogre battles? Something else perhaps? At least it *looks* like a grid based game.

I switched back to BG:EE, high level first world problems exchanged for being one shot able and under funded. Nice change of pace.

I'm playing mass effect 2 with my renegade femshep (who's lips are curled in such a way that it seems she's always smiling and can't take any situations seriously.

Soldier class, specialising in sniper rifles.

I find I enjoyed Mass Effect 1 the most though because I could snipe enemies from 200m+ away and it felt like there was more skill, there also seemed to be more depth in the side missions in the original. I also like the MAKO quite a lot even though it is like a space hopper on wheels!