Jan '09: What Are You Playing?

[Duskblade]

Been playing Dungeon Runners on my comp and Need for Speed: Undercover on my Wii.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Finally got sucked into World of Warcrack so...

PC: World of Warcraft, Company of Heroes, Bioshock
Wii: Metroid Prime 3 - Corruption
DS: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

I'm REALLY wanting to pick up a copy of Red Alert 3 but I'm still ticked about their DRM restrictions. 2K was smart enough to remove the issue from Bioshock, if EA would do the same with RA3 I'd go out and buy it today. I don't like the idea of being restricted on how many times I can install a game. Many times I'll install a game just to check it out but then will uninstall it and then reinstall it later on when I get around to wanting to play it through. I'm not one to keep unused software on my machine.

 

[Protagonist]

My gf and play a lot of Mario Kart Wii and Guitar Hero: World Tour together. I also log into World of Warcraft every now and then, but most of the time only when I'm too stupid to do anything else, but too insomnia-stricken to go to sleep.

 

[Woas]

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.

 

[Deset Gled]

I'm working on finishing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS). A great game, but it's no Dawn of Sorrow.

On the console front, I just got Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, which should keep me entertained until my big box o' Rockband gets shipped to my apartment. I also plan on finishing God of War 2 one of these days.

Am I the only gamer in the world that just never really got into Mass Effect? I've tried to get into that game three times now, and every time I pick it up, it gets about three good sessions before something else seems a ton more entertaining, and ME goes back on the shelf. Something about the "personal interaction" mechanic simply does not pull me in at all.

 

[Steel_Wind]

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King. My Holy Paladin is pretty much full T7 now. Naxxramas has fallen, Obsidian Sanctum and Archevon as well. The only boss left is Malygos on both 10 man and 25 man Heroic - and he's a damned tough nut to crack, too.

Which pretty much means that's the only thing I've been playing much of as, well, that's the nature of WoW.

But I have got 15 hours or so of Sacred 2 in over the holidays. A very well done Diabloesque game and highly recommended.

As for Mass Effect...I have to confess I just could not get into it. I expect that there is an amazing game there and my wife and son both pushed through the start and loved it. The pacing in BioWare's CRPGs has always been hard for me to push through that initial beginning and get into the "good part" of the game. Mass Effect's pacing pushed me to the limits of moy tolerance with it's slow start (read: boring) and I just could summon the effort to push through it to get to the "good stuff".

Someday, perhaps.

 

[Thanee]

As for Mass Effect...I have to confess I just could not get into it. I expect that there is an amazing game there and my wife and son both pushed through the start and loved it. The pacing in BioWare's CRPGs has always been hard for me to push through that initial beginning and get into the "good part" of the game. Mass Effect's pacing pushed me to the limits of moy tolerance with it's slow start (read: boring) and I just could summon the effort to push through it to get to the "good stuff".

It's certainly not for everyone... you really have to like reading through the whole conversations with all the NPCs.

Picked up Mass Effect for cheap (PC). Real good game but almost unplayable from bugs (random freeze ups and crashes).

Really? I had very few crashes (like three or four) during the whole play-through. Did you patch it to 1.01?

Bye
Thanee

 

[John Crichton]

Tales of Vesperia (360) - Hoping to finish it this month.

God of War II (PS2) - Gonna fire it up this week!

And the the usual rounds of Rock Band 2 on PS3 when the mood strikes or friends are over.

 

[evilgenius8000]

Been playing a lot of Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and its 3 expansions. Also spending time with Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2.

 

[love.christine]

I never owned any consoles until this year. I bought myself a PSP3000 with an Amazon gift certificate my parents got me.

I bought the following games for it and am alternating between them currentls; Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, Dungeon Maker II: The Hidden War, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.