What am I playing in January '09, lets see...
Picked up
Mass Effect for cheap (PC). Real good game but almost unplayable from bugs (random freeze ups and crashes).
Still going strong on
Left 4 Dead. And I hear a map pack is coming out as soon as Valve get's off... er, comes back to work from vacation!
I snagged a cheap-ish copy of
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. I usually hate 'Japanese' RPGs with the effeminate characters, drama-queen storylines and horrible dialogue. But this one is a guilty pleasure of mine. The crazy combat system is the big draw for me.
And I'm planning sometime this month, probably in a week or so to pick up this little known game
Mount & Blade. Info from my two friends who have it, this little known indy-game by Paradox is a 'hard' fantasy/medieval sandbox/RPG game. You start off as a single warrior and around your are warring factions that play out without your direct input (basically the computer playing a war game with itself). You are free to make allies and enemies with the different factions which all have their own Pros and Cons. Eventually you raise an army, get granted titles/land, upgrade gear... Graphics look kind of poor, but I'm told gameply makes up for it tenfold.
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