Assassin's Creed III...Which contains one of the coolest twists of the series so far...I can honestly say I didn't see that coming...A very pleasant surprise indeed... ...

A truly excellent and immersive game...And one which I've barely started on... ...



Phew, think I got away with that one...Yes...*Walks away quietly*...

I'm not reading a novel but I've been looking through a Ripley's......believe it or not book.

Edit: Wrong thread! I feel stupid Anyway.... I've been playing oblivion a lot lately.

Been getting immersed in Far Cry 3. I enjoyed the ambivalence of FC 2... and so far find the more involved storyline in 3 to be quite enjoyable.

I also got The Witcher 2 for Christmas- and so have a dilemma. (So many games- so little time- darned work.)

The Witcher 2 is a very unique game in a lot of ways. TW2 is a moderately long game with an interesting storyline and neat combat mechanics. Since the endings are drastically different depending on choices you make during the game, you might want to play through it over again at least once. There is a learning curve because some of the dialogue is universe specific and confusing at first. You'll hear names thrown around like you should know them (if you played the first game you should but I hadn't) and terms that are used regularly in world that you kinda have to figure out on your own.

The content is very dark and adult while still remaining fun. This game touches on lots of bases where other devs are afraid to go. As I said before, the intended audience is definitely adults.

The characters are truly unique and I have to say that this is where the game really shines. TW2's story is pretty linear but choices you make have huge impacts on the game's multiple endings so keep this in mind when you're playing through.

You might be surprised/upset by the inclusion of graphic nudity if you choose to pursue romances. This is definitely a game you'll want to play alone because some people will be easily upset by the content. I found the entire experience to be entirely enjoyable and a nice change of scenery from generic hack and slash games.

I'm quite interested in The Witcher games, I will have to pick one or both up at some point.

Currently I have been playing Dark Souls and Borderlands 2. So far I have been enjoying Borderlands more because you can jump right into it with no knowledge and have fun. Splitscreen coop helps too.

I haven't tried Dark Souls but have heard that you actually have to think to play it, which I like.

I have a lot of love for Dragon's Dogma for the same reason, because you can't just "smash 'X' to win" as with the majority of action oriented RPG's these days. While the graphics aren't too shiny/amazing with Dragon's Dogma, the pawn system actually adds something unique to a growingly tired genre and it manages to maintain the need for a tactical playstyle...something that is absent from a growing list of action RPG's.

I've sunk my teeth into a bunch of games lately and have found myself pleasantly surprised with several of them.

Yes you do, and BSing with people you haven't seen for a year while consuming alcohol doesn't make for a good time with a game that difficult.

Metro 2033; absolutely superb game, with excellent atmospheres and a wonderfully well-realised environment, and manages to balance the fine line between being challenging and frustrating.The character you play, Artyom, is rather fragile and squishy so you have to be smart about how you fight and use stealth, and going in all guns blazing usually not so good an idea. The AI for the human enemies is rather off, with every enemy in an area instantly being alerted to your presence and knowing exactly where you are if you don't immediately one-hit-kill patrolling guards with a silenced weapon, and also has the tendency to have guards running about like a bunch of headless chickens in the middle of firefights which can make battles odd affairs at points. The fights with the various forms of mutant wildlife that you can get into are intense as hell, and dodging packs of the things whilst trekking through the irradiated ruins of a post-apocalyptic Moscow and keeping an eye on the oxygen bar on my gas mask is one of the most memorable and tense experiences I've had in a game for quite a while.

I think you can also get it for free off Steam, now, so if you've got a reasonable PC I'd say it's definitely worth your time.

Metro 2033 is awesome. I have played through multiple times and the only criticizm I have is that the stealth could've been more refined. All around an awesome game with a fresh take on the post apocolyptic survival genre.

I've been TRYING to play Morrowind. I die a lot, and even though I don't mind dying in the game, it takes like 10 minutes to load my last save. It's too slow.

Dark Souls, you say? A masterpiece right there. I can honestly say that after I was done with it, I came out humbled. More patient, more tactical, and less prone to RAEG when I screw up or die. Its good that DS2 is in the works, as I'm eager for another game in the Soul series.

Currently, I'm playing MUD. Three guesses as to what that is,

So far the controls in DS are hurting the experience for me. They seem spotty at best, or else I just suck.


Is your MUD text based?

I had that problem too. My once FPS-ONLY subservient hand eye coordination suffered greatly at first. All I can say now, however, is that death and frustration is a major element in DS's experience . Persevere, fellow undead, and we may yet see the light of the Sun! Praise the Sun! Lol

And yes, my MUD is text based. Just started playing the genre yesterday and it was suprisingly addictive! Very fun reading the descriptions of areas and using my imagination to visualize it!

Oh you missed that riposte? TIME TO DIE FOOLISH SCUM.
- Dark Souls

Farcry 3!

GODDAMN it. I really need to buy FC3. I was hooked with 2's map making mode, but with 3, you can actually put NPCs in yer maps! The possibilities with this are endless! Maybe even a self-made co-op map!

I've been playing Rage. I'm not the biggest fan if it. I somewhat regret buying it

Some of my friends over at the internet says so too. Just your usual After the End scenario. When I saw the trailers, I was excited, but 'me frenz opinyunz' kinda dissuaded me from buying it. Bought Borderlands instead.

Uleni had the right idea. I tried Rage's demo at the Eurogamer Expo, and my only thought about it was 'this is just Borderlands without the fun or the charm'.

I'd recommend Borderlands to you any day, though. Borderlands is awesome.

Rage was pretty bland. Point and shoot, change guns, repeat. That is basically the entire storyline. While there are some interesting parts (giant mutants in city) the game is pretty uninteresting.

For such a promising introduction it turned out to be underwhelming.

My brother gave me Rage for free...Game (the shop) sent him two copies for some reason...*Shrug*...

I think I was overcharged... ...

Not great...

Borderland on the other hand is a great title. The art style kind of put me off, but it is a ton of fun to play, especially with friends.

Metro 2033 is finished! Christ, the ending of that game is wierd as hell...

And now onto finishing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, as part of my New Year's Resolution to finish my back catalogue of uncompleted games.

I've been staying home for two weeks, recuperating after an operation. To keep myself entertained, I bought the latest hitman (haven't touched it yet) and I also downloaded SWTOR, not expecting a whole lot from it - it's the first online game I ever gave a chance.

What can I say, I like it. Quite a bit. It's nothing like KOTOR 1+2, of course, but then, I never expected that. I like that you can play it completely on your own, without worrying about some whackos killing you for no good reason. It's got many classes and races for characters and it has skill trees that give it a real RPGish feeling. Also, in some places, the dialog is pretty good for such a game. And there's a surprising amount of it - far more than in Oblivion, anyway.

I also like that you can play it for free

I've been playing minecraft. Built some pretty interesting things.

I've hated that game since the last update. Their changes to the world seed are retroactive so my world with a gigantic sprawling castle that I spent weeks building is now within a snowy climate. All water freezes and snow falls all over everything.

Just (finally!) started playing the orginal Fallout. It's a very good game, and I'm enjoyingthe turn-based combat a lot; makes me think of a turn-based D&D with guns and mutants, and it's pretty damn fun.

Currently playing Machinarium, which as it turns out is rather lovely.
(Hello all by the way, I think this may actually be my first post in here...)

Hi, Phon! Welcome.

Currently playing Oblivion.

Hi there.
Decided I would spend some time on this site now I am doing rather more writing than playing...

Hello! I recall you from the Official forums with Niamh. You were always posting screen shots.

I had to google that game, someone in one of my IT classes plays that all through the lecture. Lol.

I'm playing lots of Skyrim with a little Borderlands 2 and Dark Souls mixed in. And some Creation Kit! (if you can call that playing)

I am now playing X-Wing. As with Tie Fighter, there is a fan made patch out there that will allow you to install it on a 64-bit OS. For a 20 year old game, it is still lots of fun.

Still working my way through Dishonored.

I read about this game in the last Game Informer (or maybe it was 2 issues ago) sounds interesting.

It's a lot of fun, but difficult. The more people you kill, it affects the health of the city... the more you sneak, the less guards, etc etc.

It's challenging. And then when you get your weapons taken away, you're like... crap, lol

Is It a free realm game like oblivion, skyrim, fallout, etc, etc?

Nope, it's linear. You have a mission, you do it, and the game is won.

-sighs- I don't like games like that, so I'm a bit disappointed

It's ALL in first person too, which makes me nauseated at times with shooters. Hence why I always opt for the swords he uses instead of the crossbows.

First person only? Forget it, not my type of game.

Yep... You can't even personalize the character. You never see his face either. At least not as far as I've gotten.

The Outsider is kind of hot though.

I only got to play about 30 minutes of it... basically the tutorial. I was hoping the main game would have some Assassin's style free roam.


Also: why don't you people trim down the quote stack??

Because no, that's why! XD

Elizabeth, I don't wish to sound rude, but you've done a pretty abysmal job of giving a good picture of the game, you know.

KoB; Dishonoured (I'm spelling it correctly) is probably, I'd say, one of the best games of 2012. It's flawed, at times it's messy, it's storyline is a mess of cliches, but overall? It's one of the most atmospheric, enthralling, well-designed and intelligent games I've played. You want a sense of that atmosphere then I recommend you go and watch the launch trailer.

The game builds a big, sprawling world for you to play in as the character Corvo, and while it isn't technically a free-roaming sandbox game calling it linear is a complete falsehood; every objective can be completed in multiple ways, using stealth, full-on combat, a dizzying array of arcane powers or an arsenal of gadgets and weapons, and it's even entirely possible to play the game without killing a single person.

It's setting, Dunwall, is superb (primarily the brainchild of Deus Ex's developer Harvey Smith and Viktor Antanov, the man responsible for Half Life 2's famous City 17); an oppressive, gloomy, quasi-steampunk dystopia, riven by plague, rife with poverty and social inequality and slowly and battling an encroaching zombie problem. It's packed with details, with dozens of in-game books and audio journals to read and listen to.

Gameplay is truly stellar; swordplay is fast, fluid and has a genuine sense of impact, while you can switch between a flintlock, a crossbow with various ammunition or magical powers with your free hand, allowing you to play how you wish. One of the best parts of the game is the arcane spellcasting you're able to use; you start out with Blink, a short-ranged teleport that can get Corvo into all sorts of areas of the level, but slowly but surely unlock more as the game goes on, including the ability to possess people and animals, summon swarms of rats (believe me, Dishonoured takes the common rat from being the easily-defeated cannon fodder of most games and turns them into a genuinely terrifying threat when they swarm). That in turn allows for a huge variety of gameplay. Want to evade a guard patrolling by nipping into the rafters? Sure, why not? Want to throw enemy's own grenades back at them with a gust of wind? Easy. Want to stop time as somebody shoots at you, possess them and then walk them in front of their own bullet? Yeah, that can totally be done.

The narrative is kind of predictable, the writing is almost entirely exposition or characters telling you what to do next and the characters are all rather flat, but despite these flaws, Dishnoured is still one of my favourite games of, well, ever. And to think you were turning a nice young man off such an experience, Elizabeth. For shame, I say, for shame!!

Shutup, Colonel Mustard, I ain't in the game review business XD

But seriously. I'm terrible at describing games. Along with driving and giving directions.

Currently playing Final Fantasy III, and falling in love with the series all over again...

Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga...

I've been getting increasingly disillusioned with the Lego games down the years...Including the LOTR one...Too complicated...

So I went back to the start and have loved every minute so far...

I used to play with Legos when I was a child.

I still do!

Me too!!...*Cough*...I mean, I join in when my boy's creating...Yes, yes that's it... ...

Nah, I love the early Lego games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the first Harry Potter one), but then they kinda changed somehow...Just felt like they were pushing it a bit...And then the glitches started creeping in...But, unlike Bethesda who seem to be trying to patch the games...Travellers Tales have never bothered, so if you do some things in the wrong order, the game will break and you have to start it all over again...