What are you currently playing?

[Shadow Wolf]

I briefly played one of the Warzone games, but I don't remember which one it was, and it was back in the day when I still very much into Starcraft, and I felt this game was too much like Starcraft, so I put this Warhammer game down and kept on playing Starcraft. Until, that is, this nonsense of "carriers = instant win" became too popular and made the game too easy knowing my victories were pretty safe and assured by doing nothing more than preparing for a fleet of over-priced and under-powered carriers that can't be easily or quickly replaced once lost. And the Protoss were my race, and though I did have Carriers as a part of my strategy, they were little more than a distraction to pull things off my Dark Templars, Archons, and Dragoons. Too bad it seemed very few people actually realized that each individual plane thingy that came out of a Carrier had very similar stats to the Terran Marine.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I wish I still had the replay of one battle I was in. It was a 3v3 match, and I literally won it by doing nothing more than recalling several Dark Templar into one enemy base, destroying a two buildings before that player D/Ced, moving to the next base, destroying one building before that player D/Ced, and then the third dropped just after that. Pathetic, but fun nevertheless.
I also miss the days of Warcraft three, and the very long team FFAs. God those were the days! Staying up all night, playing just one battle that would last several hours, having it come down to who could manage their resources better and adjust strategies accordingly. I miss those days. A friend and I were even ranked pretty high on the 2v2 AT ladder for awhile.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I need a new RTS game to get into. Warcraft, Starcraft, and C&C, I love them, but I want something new. Age of Empires I didn't care for that much, Galactic Battlegrounds was alright, and I tried to love Age of Mythology, but I found it lacking and weak, much like comparing cocaine (Starcraft) to caffeine (AoM).

 

[Aquitaine]

I briefly played one of the Warzone games, but I don't remember which one it was, and it was back in the day when I still very much into Starcraft, and I felt this game was too much like Starcraft, so I put this Warhammer game down and kept on playing Starcraft. Until, that is, this nonsense of "carriers = instant win" became too popular and made the game too easy knowing my victories were pretty safe and assured by doing nothing more than preparing for a fleet of over-priced and under-powered carriers that can't be easily or quickly replaced once lost. And the Protoss were my race, and though I did have Carriers as a part of my strategy, they were little more than a distraction to pull things off my Dark Templars, Archons, and Dragoons. Too bad it seemed very few people actually realized that each individual plane thingy that came out of a Carrier had very similar stats to the Terran Marine.

I think you're confusing Warzone 2100 with a Warhammer game, they're two completely seperate franchises.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think you're confusing Warzone 2100 with a Warhammer game, they're two completely seperate franchises.

Could be. It was many years ago, and it was pretty much humans and orcs in space. But I am pretty sure the 2100 part was there.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I would love to see a Xenogears remake, but only if they promised to only update the graphics. I'm not too sure how I feel about this "muti-part release" of the FF VII update. All it really needs is some more strategy to make it so battles aren't easily won just by holding the X button (Or O, I have it set to X).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

At least I can still get giddy like a school girl hearing the name Sephiroth!!!

 

[Revoltingest]

I just beat COSUMI Go 2 out of 3.
My game is still a mess, but I'm becoming more aware of my specific shortcomings.
So I I'll focus some study on the most glaring ones first.

 

[4consideration]

Just finished a game of Apples to Apples. My daughter won.

No one could keep their attention on the game, and just started going off in their own directions, trying to be funny -- to the point that is was time to call it... "No one is paying attention to this game. I'm out of here. I don't care if I lost."

 

[Aquitaine]

Could be. It was many years ago, and it was pretty much humans and orcs in space. But I am pretty sure the 2100 part was there.

Wouldn't have been Warzone 2100. It all take place on Earth, and your opponents are scavengers, humans and robots.
You have to design your own units: choose a turret, a chassis and a propulsion type. Hope that helps.

 

[Mackerni]

Games I'm Playing Right Now

Skyrim. I have it for the PC and PS3 but I only play it on the PS3 because, while my PC is more powerful than my PS3, I also get too tempted with mods and kill the game with bugs, glitches, and crashes frequently trying to tweak the game exactly how I want it. My PS3 is slow, but I've never had a serious problem playing the game. Even when I fix all those problems for the PC I realize soon later that half of the mods aren't worth downloading. FrostFall in particular. Very, very frustrating. I know I'm going to go back and try to play a modded Skyrim again, and I'll probably fail and go back to the PS3. At least I'm trying.

World of Warcraft. I have the retail and Nostalrius both on my computer. I love retail. I love the features you get in retail. I love the fact that it has very few bugs and runs very smoothly on my computer, even when I have other things running in the background. I also like the fact that I can use my x-box one controller for PC to play the game. I even bought the chatpad (I have WIndows 10). Nostalrius is okay. I hardly play it, because I'm enjoying retail so much. Also, and I don't have this problem in retail, but Nostalrius keeps disconnecting. I don't know why, besides the fact that the server is holding many more thousands of players than a typical WoW server was designed to hold.

MLB: The Show. For the PS3. I'm terrible at the game. I used to collect the game in its series so I could play online with other people. I don't do that anymore. I play with friends locally or with bots now. I've played this game a lot - probably played 75-100 full nine inning games, and people who've never really played this game before on the same settings as me can beat me in the game. I have really terrible reflexes, I would assume. I managed to get one or two games on the Diamond Dynasty mode won, though.

Games I'm Looking Forward to Playing

No Man's Sky. This game looks revolutionary. Take my money, please. Just take it. I'm going to pre-order it next month and play it the first day, June 21, on my PC. So many planets, so many ways to play, so much exploring to do, so many things to rename ... this game will probably be my only game for a good, long while. I like Sean Murray, I've read his articles and watched his interviews. He seems like a good guy.

Pokemon Go. A childhood-fantasy of mine is coming true. I wonder how they are going to utilize the pay-features and if they are going to make the game a blatant free-to-pay, pay-to-win model. Because of they do that, they are going to ruin the experience. I live just outside a park and catching Pokemon through this app would be pretty cool. I'm definitely going to check out this augmented-reality app for my Android.

 

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I played The Room and just bought The Room Two from google play. Best puzzle games in years.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Skyrim. I have it for the PC and PS3 but I only play it on the PS3 because, while my PC is more powerful than my PS3, I also get too tempted with mods and kill the game with bugs, glitches, and crashes frequently trying to tweak the game exactly how I want it. My PS3 is slow, but I've never had a serious problem playing the game. Even when I fix all those problems for the PC I realize soon later that half of the mods aren't worth downloading. FrostFall in particular. Very, very frustrating. I know I'm going to go back and try to play a modded Skyrim again, and I'll probably fail and go back to the PS3. At least I'm trying.

I also have it on PS3 and PC. With PS3, I would get to just over level 30, and the game would crash and the save corrupted. On PC, I have a few mods that add in things, a retexturing pack, but I go heavy on unofficial patches and bug fixes (such as fixing the random dead dragons falling from the sky when you fast travel).
For PC, there is a program called loot that scans your mods, checks the load order, and will let you know if there will be any problems and how to fix them. It makes playing with mods a much easier and far less frustrating process.

World of Warcraft. I have the retail and Nostalrius both on my computer. I love retail. I love the features you get in retail. I love the fact that it has very few bugs and runs very smoothly on my computer, even when I have other things running in the background. I also like the fact that I can use my x-box one controller for PC to play the game. I even bought the chatpad (I have WIndows 10). Nostalrius is okay. I hardly play it, because I'm enjoying retail so much. Also, and I don't have this problem in retail, but Nostalrius keeps disconnecting. I don't know why, besides the fact that the server is holding many more thousands of players than a typical WoW server was designed to hold.

I really haven't played WoW much since WotLK. I haven't played at all since MoP. And I really miss the days of vanilla and BC.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think I can get the platinum trophy FFX. The only issue is Blitzball, which is four of the trophies (win a game, win a tournament, unlock all of Wakka's reels, and all celestial weapons). I spent over an hour doing the Cactaur Village quest, but I hate playing Blitzball. I'm more enthusiastic about filling in the monster arena for those rewards.
I also noticed it's kinda funny looking at my sphere grid. Tidus has become pretty powerful and has most of the lower-half filled in, Auron has become a crazy thieving-Ronso-Red Mage type of character who has been all over the sphere grid, Yuna and Lulu are pretty even and have stayed pretty close to each other, and then Wakka and Kimahri have obviously and sorely been left behind.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Playing Beyond Two Souls at the moment. Quantic Dreams games really interest me in a lot of ways, but at times I'm seeing my purchase as an investment in the genre as much as anything.

 

[Mackerni]

I also have it on PS3 and PC. With PS3, I would get to just over level 30, and the game would crash and the save corrupted. On PC, I have a few mods that add in things, a retexturing pack, but I go heavy on unofficial patches and bug fixes (such as fixing the random dead dragons falling from the sky when you fast travel).
For PC, there is a program called loot that scans your mods, checks the load order, and will let you know if there will be any problems and how to fix them. It makes playing with mods a much easier and far less frustrating process.

I already knew all of this. I know there's a good potential if I don't abuse the mod system it can run smoother and more efficient than the console versions. I just have a serious problem restraining myself. Some of these mods look really cool, such as Alternate Start - Live Another Life. I honestly think that mod is how the game should have really started. That one mod has quite a few bugs when I played it, but there's other mods I try to use that fail on execution. Well, either it's riddled with bugs or it doesn't add to the fun factor. I'm well aware of programs like BOSS and LOOT. I have gotten a 75+-modded Skyrim to work in the past. I even have an x-box one controller to play with it, and it feels right while playing. The most major problem I have is scaling the difficultly. I add in mods that add realistic effects. such as taking showers, going to the bathroom, or add in cold elements that make it impossible to be outside for too long. And disabling fast travel. Sometimes I think that would make the game a lot more unique and precious, but boy, it just makes it feel like walking on nails. There were times while the fast travel was disable that the Frostfall mod would set in and I would get weak. trying to recover. And because I had an anti-death mod like No Death Mod all I would do while I was outside would be in this position where I looked like I was always exhausted. I couldn't recover from such a contraption, and eventually black out and my stuff would be gone and I'd be in a different place. I thought these mods would make my game experience better but in reality they just frustrate me. I'd rather have mods that only benefit realism, like buffs when you are warm or you eat enough where you feel full. Unfortunately I haven't seen too many mods out there like this.

I really haven't played WoW much since WotLK. I haven't played at all since MoP. And I really miss the days of vanilla and BC.

You really need to check up on Nostalrius. It's a free, legal private server that is meant to made feel like vanilla World of Warcraft. The rates are times one, which means that progression feels very much like natural game. They use their own code, so there's nothing illegal about the activity. It's an English-speaking server. Plus, it's so active! There's thousands upon thousands of people playing the original PvP server at any given moment. The server is actually more active than a Blizzard server. As well, everything in vanilla if not almost everything in vanilla, is scripted. The game is free, you can download the vanilla client on The Pirate Bay, and all you have to do is set the realm list to login.nostalrius.org. They are actually setting it up where you would be able to transfer your vanilla-server characters to their up-and-coming Burning Crusade realm. Oh, and not to mention this is completely legit. Even more so than Blizzard's servers. There is no exchanging gold for game time, no instant level-60s with a pay-to-win model. They also have systems set in place that are anti-cheating and anti-gold selling. Nope, this game feels and acts almost identical to Blizzard's original formula, with the biggest difference being the fact that there will be many players around you at all time. Give it a try, and let me know how you feel. I think you'd really get to enjoy it and make new friends. Link to the website is down below.

Nostalrius Begins

 

[Acim]

Games I play seem lame compared to all the interesting ones you are listing. But here is my list:

- Freecell (longtime favorite)
- Killer Sudoku (took me awhile to get good, now I'm very good at it)
- Angry Birds
- Online poker (except for Sudoku, all games on this list are played online)
- Farkle

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You really need to check up on Nostalrius. It's a free, legal private server that is meant to made feel like vanilla World of Warcraft. The rates are times one, which means that progression feels very much like natural game. They use their own code, so there's nothing illegal about the activity. It's an English-speaking server. Plus, it's so active! There's thousands upon thousands of people playing the original PvP server at any given moment. The server is actually more active than a Blizzard server. As well, everything in vanilla if not almost everything in vanilla, is scripted. The game is free, you can download the vanilla client on The Pirate Bay, and all you have to do is set the realm list to login.nostalrius.org. They are actually setting it up where you would be able to transfer your vanilla-server characters to their up-and-coming Burning Crusade realm. Oh, and not to mention this is completely legit. Even more so than Blizzard's servers. There is no exchanging gold for game time, no instant level-60s with a pay-to-win model. They also have systems set in place that are anti-cheating and anti-gold selling. Nope, this game feels and acts almost identical to Blizzard's original formula, with the biggest difference being the fact that there will be many players around you at all time. Give it a try, and let me know how you feel. I think you'd really get to enjoy it and make new friends. Link to the website is down below.

I'm definitely giving it a try. I loved the way WoW was, but once it reached beyond it's core of players who played it because they played Warcraft, and gained more mainstream attention, the quality of the game plummeted (especially when they did away with cross-specing, and then the tech-tree altogether), the amount of jerks went up, and then the populations dropped.
But to again experience the good 'ole days of being a warlock on an unstopable rampage! Once cross-specing was done away with, my warlock was instantly deflated and lost pretty much every advantage that I had, including hard hitting pets that were formidable on their own, a very high DPS rate, and nuclear-bomb powered spells. I was also really good as the hunter back then, and with both classes I was frequently at the top of the battle grounds in any given match, if not at the top.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And 7,500 is very impressive number of people online, especially given it's a private server. But, then again, WoW was really a ton better back then, and it played more like an RPG should, and not just and endless click-fest of simplicity.

 

[Mackerni]

And 7,500 is very impressive number of people online, especially given it's a private server. But, then again, WoW was really a ton better back then, and it played more like an RPG should, and not just and endless click-fest of simplicity.

Plus there was more depth. Every sort of skill used to be measured, instead of being a given. Hunters used to have Hunters Mark, you used to have to feed pets to keep them happy, hunters could use melee weapons. It is was less catered towards newcomers and more designed for the experienced RPG player.

Shadow Wolf, do you want to possibly meet up in game? My current character is a night elf druid level nine named Layno (named after my first WoW character Layna, a night elf rogue) on the PvP realm. I wouldn't mind making a Horde character though if that's what you want.