What VIDEO GAME(s) have you been playing? ARCHIVE

Fallout 3 We're still at the point where looting gibs is funny. Slo-mo heads and corpses flying through the air is pretty great. Really love this game so I'll have to buy the GOTY edition with the extras.

Resident Evil 5 Second co-op play-through but girlfriend got bored with it so...

Gears of War 2 This game really fucking sucks. Unsatisfying on every level. F-

Someone recommend a tense shooter for 360? Don't have XBL.

Because I never play PC games any more and have yet to get an HD TV I'm still playing on my old XBox. As a result I've now managed to track down and play every single Xbox title published that was of any interest to me whatsoever. Here's my top eight in no particular order:

* Fable
* Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
* Halo
* Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
* Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
* Project Gotham Racing 2
* Psychonauts
* Burnout 3: Takedown

I'm not sure which of those are 360 compatible, but 360 owners who've not played any of those titles really ought to check them out.

The only Xbox game I own which continues to see regular play is Earned in Blood. In spite of some glaring technical deficiencies (you're partly reliant on the skill of the friendly AI, and it's not quite up to the job 100% of the time) the level of challenge, variety and atmosphere is second to none.

Aarontu wrote:

I actually started playing Planescape: Torment yesterday. I've heard good things about it and finally got around to playing it. It seems really promising so far.

Check out this site for a fixpack, a mod that gives you max HP each level among other things, and a widescreen high-resolution mod.

Aarontu wrote:

I actually started playing Planescape: Torment yesterday. I've heard good things about it and finally got around to playing it. It seems really promising so far.

PS:T is simply amazing. The game engine really kind of sucks. But the characters are well done and very thematic, the main character is a perfect representation of the "amnesiac protagonist" template, the story is epic with a satisfying ending.

I have a DS, but nearly all of my gaming has been on PC for the past year. These days I play ranked 1v1 matches of Company of Heroes (the best RTS ever), about 2-3 times a day, and I've been getting my strategy fix from the Fall From Heaven 2 mod for Civ IV.

I was also in the Champions Online beta, and it was kind of fun, but not fun enough for me to want to subscribe when it gets released next month.

The only thing I'm really looking forward to right now is Elemental , from Stardock, which looks to recapture some of that old Master of Magic feeling.

Most of my gaming excitement these days is around boardgames, though -- either designing them, or trying to find more time to play them.

Nick Warcholak wrote:

Aarontu wrote:

I actually started playing Planescape: Torment yesterday. I've heard good things about it and finally got around to playing it. It seems really promising so far.

Check out this site for a fixpack, a mod that gives you max HP each level among other things, and a widescreen high-resolution mod.

Cool, thanks!

Hex Sinister: What do you not like about GoW2?

Going to fire up Men of War tonight and see how it is.

Just bought Shadow Complex. Incredibly excited to play it.

Still plugging away at team Fortress 2. Pickedup Dawn of War II when Steam had it on sale the other weekend. Haven't started it yet, but looking forward to it.


Just started in on Culdcept for the DS. Culdcept is a great game series that board/CCG game blend where you are playing down monsters on spaces to colelct tolls from other players. Monsters are element based, and get bonuses if they are gaurding their same element. There are versions out for the PS2, Xbox 360, and DS. The DS version is Japan only so far, but if you have a flash cart for your DS you can grab the ROM for it. A group of people have put together an English translation patch for the ROM, so it is totally playable for those of us with no ability to read Kanji.

I know this is going to be shocking, but all I ever play anymore is Guitar Hero. Guitar Hero III, World Tour, and Metallica on constant rotation. GH: Metallica still very routinely kicks my ass in a disturbingly quite humbling way.

A while ago, my wife got me Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS. I had read some fairly damning things about this game, but I was pleasantly surprised. The biggest strike against it is the lack of depth, in that there are only like 25 songs. That's great for a handheld, but pretty meager for GH.

Shadow Complex is awesome! If you like Metroidvania at all, you have to have this game.

I prefer Rock band 2 over GH:WT. That being said I love playing both. GHIII was terrible though. GHII was amzing (my entry into this genre) and the first Rock band was fantastic. It's just a really fun way to play games. It doesn't get old.

I tried Rock Band Unplugged on PSP and it was pretty awful. I can't wait for Beatles Rock band and GH5.

I play guitar expert mostly. I hate singing and I find drums CAN be fun (on Medium or Hard sometimes). Bass can be fun too on expert especially once they added that fretless strum line that comes up sometimes.


I'm picking up Batman Arkham Asylum on Tuesday at Walmart for only 39 bucks! cAN'T WAIT.