What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog?

[GoodSarmatian]

Baldur's Gate 2 was great. Baldur's Gate 1 was not. It was somewhere between OK and good, but it was not great.
Too bad that PC RPGs stated to become shoddy console ports around the time UIs in general started to become better.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Clearly the Baldur's Gate/NeverwinterNights/IcewindDale games were far better than all this newfangled crap. Skyrim just has showy graphics.

The strangest one I heard from someone, "Why play Skyrim when you can play Metal Gear Solid?"

 

[Arakhor]

Well, I've been spending several hours recently rebuilding my Oblivion installation from three years ago. Praise be to Wrye Bash and to its prophet, a Data Files backup!

 

[gay_Aleks]

Did not like Obvilion. I feel like the freedom is constraining; "look dude, there's a big evil out there. have this rusty dagger and run towards the estate which is bajilion kilometers away" isn't a very.. stable story.

 

[Hygro]

auuuuuugh talk about interesting video games

 

[madviking]

Pfft. Pong is supreme.

yes

 

[cybrxkhan]

Did not like Obvilion. I feel like the freedom is constraining; "look dude, there's a big evil out there. have this rusty dagger and run towards the estate which is bajilion kilometers away" isn't a very.. stable story.

If you play TES for the main quest you ain't playin' it right.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Also, I got aggravated at a fishing side quest.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Also, I got aggravated at a fishing side quest.

Now that was a stupid side quest, I have to admit, trying to find all those fish.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Moved on to playing Rome TW, using 'RPG criteria' to improve the challenge.

 

[Takhisis]

Pfft. Pong is supreme.

It is a very good game. Google's Pac-man doodle is also very addictive. Golden oldies!

Moved on to playing Rome TW, using 'RPG criteria' to improve the challenge.

How does it work? SOunds interesting and I still have it installed on the Windows partition.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

How does it work? SOunds interesting and I still have it installed on the Windows partition.

The faction leader is 'me'...so any battles that 'I' am not involved in get auto-resolved. It makes it pretty hard to come up with more than one good general at a time, and auto-resolved battles hardly ever result in the enemy force disbanding.

At some point I 'retire' the faction leader to governing a city and start playing the heir.

 

[Takhisis]

Interesting. What I came up with was never retreat and only expand in the direction your empire did. Seleucids: move into Armenia and Parthia, attack Egypt and unify the Greek world. Macedonia: put up with the Romans and unify the Kingdom. And so on and on. The Romans are effin' overpowered.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Interesting. What I came up with was never retreat and only expand in the direction your empire did. Seleucids: move into Armenia and Parthia, attack Egypt and unify the Greek world. Macedonia: put up with the Romans and unify the Kingdom. And so on and on. The Romans are effin' overpowered.

I tried similar things, but 'never retreat' and such seemed to just make it harder at the expense of eliminating choice. You might find that getting less optimal results from a fair share of the battles is enough to keep the strategic game a lot more interesting without putting limits on your choices. I started out with just numeric limits...managing every other battle, or two out of three and such...but this 'role play' system is less obtrusive, and it adds a layer of strategy to managing the faction leader and heir.

When I play Romans I do make a point of expanding so as not to interfere with the other Roman factions. They are overpowered, so the game only gets interesting playing them when you have to fight the others, but if you let them get really strong they can put up a good fight.

 

[Mise]

A little late to the party but I really like Destiny. It got "bad" reviews because it doesn't fulfil the role of FPS or MMORPG as well as other FPSs or MMORPGs, but actually I think it's a really decent mix. Granted I've only played a few hours so far, but the "MMO" element of it reduces the "loneliness" of most FPSs, and the "RPG" element increases the longevity by giving you something to strive for, other than the "FPS" element's raw fun of shooting stuff and killing badguys.

 

[PhroX]

A little late to the party but I really like Destiny. It got "bad" reviews because it doesn't fulfil the role of FPS or MMORPG as well as other FPSs or MMORPGs, but actually I think it's a really decent mix. Granted I've only played a few hours so far, but the "MMO" element of it reduces the "loneliness" of most FPSs, and the "RPG" element increases the longevity by giving you something to strive for, other than the "FPS" element's raw fun of shooting stuff and killing badguys.

I haven't played it, but from speaking to a couple of friends who have, they say it's a solid but unspectacular shooter, and not much more than that. Seems to me that the bulk of "bad" reviews were less that it is an outright bad game, and more that it wasn't even close to being what it was claimed that it would be, and ultimately very disappointing for the "most expensive game ever". Given the time, money and hype involved, people were expecting more than just a reasonably well made but by the numbers shooter with a co-op mode: if you want to have some fun for a while shooting things with some other like minded people, you could do far worse. If you're expecting something revolutionary, go elsewhere.

 

[Mise]

Well, I'm not really tuned in to games journalism (lol it's universally terrible), but personally I haven't played a more compelling FPS since the original Half-Life. I'm not saying it's the best FPS since HL, just that it's been a really bloody long time since I've played an FPS that has gripped me this much. I don't know what the hype was like for it mind so can't comment on that.

 

[azzaman333]

A little late to the party but I really like Destiny. It got "bad" reviews because it doesn't fulfil the role of FPS or MMORPG as well as other FPSs or MMORPGs, but actually I think it's a really decent mix. Granted I've only played a few hours so far, but the "MMO" element of it reduces the "loneliness" of most FPSs, and the "RPG" element increases the longevity by giving you something to strive for, other than the "FPS" element's raw fun of shooting stuff and killing badguys.

Yeah, it's a really fun game, even if it pretty much lacks any storyline whatsoever. The mechanics are probably the best I've ever experienced in terms of console FPSs. It does get a tad repetitive at times, but as far as I'm concerned it stays fun despite that.

 

[bhsup]

Hey you FPS fans, what do y'all think of Miracle Of Sound's FPS tribute song?


Link to video.

 

[Saigon]

I've been playing Fallout 3 and I'm having fun with it, but it just isn't as engaging or "alive" as New Vegas was for me. It seems like I'm one of the few people who actually prefers NV to 3, but 3 just feels too cramped/annoying (areas blocked off) in the city areas, as well as too empty in the rural areas. There doesn't seem to be a healthy middle-ground.