Games you're playing right now, and my freetime's demise

[StupidBoy]

At the moment I'm using the Vault 101 armour from Moira, currently working through her survival guide quests. The Mirelurk one is proving to be annoying.

That Mirelurk thing is just hard as hell. But when you get a combat shotgun things will get easier.

I recommend you use a Stealth Boy

[Andrew]

As it happens, I just came across one thanks to a run-in with some unfriendly wastelanders. I'll just need to stock up on some ammo and aid.

[imefimef]

PC games

FIFA 2009 the best graphics ever for a PC football game
NBA live 08 (dynasty and of course i use patches)(NBA 09 not in PC damn!)
Strategy games:Empire Earth I ,Age of mythology I & the Titans expansion and Age of empires II(i've finished also AoE III but i didn;t like it as no 2)
And NFS most wanted,Carbon and Undercover

nah, PES(Pro Evolution Soccer) 09 has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better graphics, even gameplay, the only down side is #of teams, but it still has more features than FIFA.
btw i have PES08,09, FIfa 07,08,09 so i'm not just talking out of my ass

[Lean]

I have plans of getting Assassin's Creed, but after reading your thoughts about it, maybe not. Mass Effect is top on the list of the wants right now.

[Andrew]

I'm still keen to pick that up actually but I'm trying to cut down on my spending right now and I've only just recently picked up Fallout 3 so I'll wait until I see it on special or second hand somewhere.

[Lean]

So have you decided to blow up Megaton, 'drew?

[el badman]

Assassin's Creed was alright, great animations and vivid world, but very repetitive after a while, and disappointing ending.

I'm still trying to resist the urge of finally starting to play GTA IV, still waiting for a 2nd patch, even though with some tweaks it's more than playable now...But I'm trying to finish Far Cry 2 first, and possibly one or two episodes that I have still left from Sam & Max Season 2.

[Lean]

No Fable II for the PC I believe.

[Andrew]

So have you decided to blow up Megaton, 'drew?

No detonator, I squealed to Lucas Simms and handed it over.

[Doobie]

Currently I only play NBA 2k9 and Call of Duty : world at war on ps3, and mlb 2k8 and soon left 4 dead on xbox 360

Considering Halo Wars, madden 09 (again), Killzone 2.

[Jing]

Just picked up NHL 09, so far not too bad, yet to try the EASHL because spending time trying to get to the big leagues in Be a Pro.

[Lean]

Just got Mass Effect, any advice how to start?

[JaoSming]

Put the game in the drive....install.....start game
ok im sorry

[Lean]

Alright, you got me there, Jao.

[el badman]

Be a prick to everyone Lean, slaughter everyone and add some points to your "intimidate" skill, that'll open new dialog options.

[Lean]

Haven't started quite yet, just did a "test run."

My brother ran onto some bugs at the early missions, right after the Eden Prime one. In-game stuff doesn't show up. When he played again yesterday, though, got past it. But he got stuck again, unable to save his game.

[Lean]

Currently stuck in Mass Effect. Can't save the damn game, except for the AutoSave function. I'm looking for ways to solve it. Shucks.

[Patr1ck]

I think there is a patch out that may fix that. Or a "patch" that you are using is why you can't save.

[Andrew]

I'm just about up to where I am in my first play through, in terms of levelling up and quests completed. I've certainly gotten through it a bit quicker second time around and tend to have a better idea of what I'm doing. I'm taking advantage of the hotkeys more often as well, such a fundamental element of the game's controls I wasn't bothering with.

[el badman]

Currently stuck in Mass Effect. Can't save the damn game, except for the AutoSave function. I'm looking for ways to solve it. Shucks.

Weird stuff. I remember mine crashing every once in a while, but no issue with saving. I know that simply launching the shortcut with the "run as administrator" option checked did solve some problems for many people.

I finished Far Cry 2 yesterday, so I can finally focus all my attention to GTA IV now. Still in dire need of a 2nd patch, but it's definitely lots of fun as it is.

[Patr1ck]

How is Far Cry 2? Worth a play through?

[el badman]

It's weird, it could have been absolutely phenomenal, but in the end it's like it "restrains" itself to be only a good FPS.

The shooter's mechanisms are some of the best I've seen, the visuals are gorgeous (the best I've seen after Crysis and STALKER: CS, but with much better performance), it keeps you in the 1st person perspective at all times (seeing your hands heal yourself, fix a broken engine, hold your map, unjam your weapons...), which really adds to the immersion. And of course you got this huge environment that you can visit on foot or by vehicle.

On the other hand, there's no "fast travel" possibility (there are buses but they're not that helpful), so it gets tiring very fast when you need to go the other corner of the map each time you pick up a new mission. Well, it wouldn't be that bad, except that enemy checkpoints scattered all across the roads keep spawning back, so even if you've just killed them 2 minutes ago, and if you went to do something else after that and you come back, there will be new enemies chasing and shooting at you. It gets annoying very rapidly to travel long distances then...
Also, because of the free-form type of gameplay, it can be pretty hard to actually keep up with the story. Because there's no interaction going on (besides in a few spots), and everyone you see pretty much wants you dead right away (there's barely any NPC), it really doesn't help the storytelling at all and in the end you don't even know why you're doing what you're doing.

Still, if you have 20-25 hours to kill, it's definitely worth it.

[[Q]]

been spending a lot of time with the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix download from the PS Network. it's actually gotten me back into Street Fighter (I used to be a huge fan when i was younger) and I might pick up and play some of my older PS2 and PS1 SF games I got. Man I can't wait for Street Fighter IV next month.

[Lean]

Got the game fixed up with the 1.01 patch for Mass Effect. And liking the game thus far.

[StupidBoy]

Stopped playing Fallout now for a while, got back into 2k8. I'm finnaly getting Bioshock this week, I know its great, but do you guys have anything to say about it?
Later, Im also getting Far Cry 2 and Force Unleashed