What Are You Playing?, Games! Options

[Mata]

I think I got one match off of you on Pong, and I gave you a run for your money on others. As silly as it was, it was great to play on such a huge screen.

[CommieBastard]

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 for a while now, having a fun campaign. My problem is a lack of interested friends to play these games with. I want to run a Nobilis game sometime, but I don't know enough people who'd want to.

[Jonman]

I think I got one match off of you on Pong, and I gave you a run for your money on others.

In your head maybe.

As silly as it was, it was great to play on such a huge screen.

True - the proper head going from side to side thing. I liked that.

[ShadowWolfenNinj...]

I played Mah-jhong for about 2 hours on some Internet thingy, I won most of the games. And yet I feel sad. I once played Halo 2 on a really big TV at some gaming convention at the mall against some guy in which I forget his name, afterwards my neck hurt and at some point in time my glasses seemed to make their way on my forehead. Creepy, my glasses are possessed! Ahh! O.O

[Mata]

I used to play mah-jong (the proper version, with physical tiles) against the chinese students at my A-level college. I even won a few times. It's quite fun, a bit like the western card-game 'bridge' except with less boring bits.

[ShadowWolfenNinj...]

Yep, I play it at school When I'm bored outta my skull and I'm finished with all the way-too-easy homework they give us, and aparently I must explain the game everytime because people are idiots. But I know for a fact I suck at chess....

[Mata]

Chess is great, and well worth keeping at. If you don't get any better, look on the bright side. Eventually you will be playing against friends when you're older and you'll all be drunk. That tends to level things out

In the meantime, try 'Go', otherwise known as 'Reversi' or countless other things. It's a very simple game but the strategy of it is incredibly deep.

[CommieBastard]

In the meantime, try 'Go', otherwise known as 'Reversi' or countless other things.

Reversi and Go are very different games.

Reversi

Go

I assume it's Go you're talking about.

[CommieBastard]

Recently I've been playing Black and White for the PC. Lovely game, really appeals to the megalomaniac in me.

[Usurper MrTeapot]

Recently I've been playing Black and White for the PC. Lovely game, really appeals to the megalomaniac in me.

Word.

My evil creature can beat up your creature.

[CommieBastard]

My evil creature can beat up your creature.

Probably My creature is a good-aligned, overweight ape.

[Usurper MrTeapot]

Heh, I cheated slightly and trained him up on the Training maps before I unleashed him into the campaign.

Good are too sissy like for my tastes. Evil = fun.

[Novander]

I tried to run my creature as Good, but he kept eating people. I'd try punishing him, but he just ended up being neutral and not liking me.

Also, he got diarrhea.

[sarcastic150]

Me too(not the diorreah thing thats just weird), I wanted him to be good but i found him eating people was far more fun! (Throwing them is fun to) (I'm a horrible person! I just realised! Wait no I didn't when I burnt down a old peoples home I realised was horrible)

[Usurper MrTeapot]

Heh, I don't know how I did it but I've 'taught' my creature to cease pooping. It hasn't pooped since land one, constantly has 100% poop and has only ever done it twice.

[Hobbes]

^ That can't be healthy ^


After Mata's post, I've also been playing Internet Reversi.

[ShadowWolfenNinj...]

Ooooooh I've played go before! It was fun, On the first time I beat my cousin, He seemed.....Happy....>_> Somebody protect me....

[little_bear]

I tried to run my creature as Good, but he kept eating people. I'd try punishing him, but he just ended up being neutral and not liking me.

Also, he got diarrhea.

I tried doing being good too, but ran out of food, so just ended feeding him people.

*shrug*

[trunks_girl26]

Mine is mostly good.....but once in a while I feed him a person......rounds out his diet and all that

[Tarantio]

I didn't think peoeple still played black and white in this day and age... Granted it was a stroke of genious, but I ended up getting fed up with it quite quickly. What it needed was a more godzilla-esque thing. Not with the creatures stomping cities flat, they already do that, but with the cities fighting back with tanks and helicopters and soldiers and stuff... all they do in black and white is run around getting eaten and screaming to *you* for help. Ungrateful little bastages. It ended up that I got so ticked off at my own incompetent people that whenever I got attacked I made sure that as many people as possible died, often by failing to raise defences and sometimes by firebombing the people who cringed or went to pray for help. in the vain hope that they would learn to defend themselves. Sadly, the fifty foot tall cow proved itself to be far smarter than any of a number of civilisations and was the only one that actually did anything to help. Bloody useless peasants.

[Usurper MrTeapot]

^ Then wait for Black and White 2.

The reason its been so long in the making is the developers are perfecting the art of making every tiny arrow stick into the ground at the right angles or something along those lines. BnW2 is a world at war where your creature not only has to fireball cities it needs to hold the city gates shut as hordes of enemy soldiers try to batter them open and it can't just wander into some enemy village who doesn't like him and start dancing or he'll be struck down by arrows Lilliput style. I think that'll be more up your street.

[ShadowWolfenNinj...]

I WAS playing This old rayman game for my playstaion BUT since I'm moving in a week all my Videogames got packed up and taken to my dad's today. I am sad T.T

[mooooooooooopo]

The reason its been so long in the making is the developers are perfecting the art of making every tiny arrow stick into the ground at the right angles or something along those lines.

Pretty much as far as what I've heard from someone at work who's brother is working on that game. Much bitching. O_o

I'm not playing many games at the moment. I completed Monkey Island 1 and 2 again recently (god bless you SCUMMVM - if there's anything worse than installing Windows so I can play a game it's installing DOS).

[Jonman]

Since Mrs. Jonman got back from the US of A with a suitcase full of imported gaming goodness, I suspect I'll be posting on here substantially over the next couple of weeks.

First bit of news is that I got to spend a substantial amount of time with a PSP, a copy of Mercury, and a copy of Wipeout Pure (is for a friend, so it's now gone into the post).

Wipeout pure is very good, but very very wipeout. It's starting to feel a bit 'been there, done that', but you can't fault it technically (apart from the very occasional slowdown during big explosive sections).

Mercury is interesting. It's an excellant puzzle game. If and when I buy a PSP, it would 100% be on the list of games to get.

The machine itself has pros and cons. The screen really is amazingly lush. Yes. The machine does look very very slinky (I'd never realised from the PR shots that the L and R buttons are clear - a nice touch). But it's unwieldy. Combine the width (and weight) with the huge-nicity of the screen, and you're constantly worried about dropping the bloody thing. Extended play also proved to be quite uncomfortable. My thumb still hurts from an hour and a half of wipeout yesterday. The analog nub works pretty well, although it's questionable how much analog control you can get given the small amount of travel in it.


As for the other games, I've only really played one to any degree - Pyschonauts. And it's ace. Really really ace. You know those rare occasions when a game oozes character from the moment the power's on, when you can literally see the love and care that the developers lavished over it. This is one of those moments. What is ostensibly a me-too 3D action platformer is transformed into an engrossing, intriguing, genuinely funny, 'whoah'-inducing game. Each level takes place within the minds of a character, which psychic powers allow the player to travel into. As a result, expect a madcap style, suffering as much from acid overload as ADHD. It's proper bonkers, and the environments are a joy to run around. More to follow as I play more, but initial reaction is a big Jonman thumbs up.

Right, that's it, more details as more games get played....

[ShadowWolfenNinj...]

I've been playing the Sims 2 a lot O.o I'm addicted...