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[Phyllis]

^But you need to find your strangly English father voiced by Liam Neeson!

But...Liam Neeson is Irish. Does he use a fake English accent in that game? I can't remember.

I really, really, really want to answer "Fallout 3...again" to this thread. I love it, and have had an urge to play it again for the past few days. I cannot. Stupid red-ringing X-Box. I also should get around to finishing Eternal Sonata. It's interesting...based on some weird dreams Chopin had when he was deathly ill. It's also rather pretty and colourful. Sadly, that is also an XBox game.

Hmph. Maybe I'll rekindle my Flight of the Hamsters addiction...

[Hobbes]

I have to say that I am finding myself wasting more and more hours of my time playing Team Fortress 2. It is becoming a bad habit to load it up for just "a few minutes", and discovering a few hours have passed. I'm not even THAT good.

[Yannick]

Crystal Pokemon! The solution for all nostalgic thirsts. I gave the kid a name that wasn't "???" this time because I realized it was for me to make up. >_>

[Mata]

I'm still on Assassin's Creed II when I have the time. I'm doing absolutely everything possible before continuing with the story (except finding all the feathers, that would be silly). It's taking ages, I'm thoroughly enjoying it, and it's saving me a shed load of cash by my not wanting/needing to buy anything else to keep me occupied

[Pikasyuu]

i've just pre-ordered Pokemon Soul Silver, which is the first game i've ever pre-ordered in my life. thirteen more days until it comes out, and i'm fairly sure each day will murder a little bit of my soul until the fourteenth when i pick it up. then, through laying my hands upon that glorious piece of technology, i will become whole again.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

[Novander]

So after 41 hours of actual gameplay I finally completed Mass Effect 2. Oh my God, it is the best thing. I mean, except planet scanning. Planet scanning sucked, but other than that it is the best thing.

I had two ME1 characters and having played through with my female paragon infiltrator, I now need to do the whole thing again with my male renegade adept, but I want a different game to play inbetween, just to spice things up a little. So I finally got round to completing Assassin's Creed. I'd got all the way to the final fight two years ago back when I was last playing it then got so frustrated fying repeatedly. Seemed a lot easier tonight, only died a few times before killing the old master.

Now I've got a number of options. Gears of War is one of the first 360 games I got and quickly decided it wasn't for me. I could give that another go. My housmate just got Final Fantasy XIII, so maybe there's that, but I'm just not generally down with JRPGs something about them irritates me. Which leaves spending money on a new game, which would almost certainly be Arkham Asylum, unless anyone has any better suggestions. Brutal Legend is next on the list. Hopefully I can do both of those and the ME2 re-playthrough before Alan Wake comes out.

[Industrial Kybos...]

So after 41 hours of actual gameplay I finally completed Mass Effect 2. Oh my God, it is the best thing. I mean, except planet scanning. Planet scanning sucked, but other than that it is the best thing.

Yeah, that pretty much nails it. Brilliant game, but dull-ass planet scanning.

If JRPGs annoy you, give FFXIII a miss: it won't do anything to change your opinion. Brutal Legend is fun, but totally style over substance, so my suggestion is giving Gears another pop (it is good) or grabbing some Arkham.

I'll still be plugging the hours into FFXIII meself, though I am also getting the itch to pick up ME2 again. Looking forward to the eventual release of Valkyria Chronicles 2 as well - who saw that sequel coming?

[Tarantio]

What Inky said. I could never get into Gears' multiplayer, but playing the campaign on co-op is brilliant fun.

I got FFXIII, I'm right at the end and I haven't played it in over a week because it just totally bored me. Sure it looks pretty, but there's nothing there of value, and what is there is all far too derivative of the older FF's. I actually went and played VII again for the first time in ages; it's not even my favourite FF, and I'm enjoying it a heap-load more than XIII.

I've spent a fair few hours in Battlefield Bad Company 2's awesome multiplayer recently, after getting the worst of the bugs related to my slightly dated computer ironed out. I'm trying my best not to get addicted, since there's only six weeks of term left and I have a lot of coursework to do

Oh, p.s. I got into the closed beta of APB recently as well. I can't talk about it, unfortunately, due to an NDA, but I'm looking forward to being able to try it out

[michael1384]

Fallout 1 is ridiculously hard for low levels. The save system also has me a bit grrrrrr'd. I want to get one of the new Pokémon games purely for the gimmiky pedometer that levels up your pokémon.

[mooooooooooopo]

I found the best way to survive Fallout 1 at the lower levels was to pick an incredibly dangerous fight with some bandits and hope to win by dumb luck. If not, reload.

If you win then loot and sell their weapons and you should get a good few thousand bottle caps. The you can buy some decent armour and weapons and the game suddenly gets a lot easier.

[Mata]

I could never really get into Gears - I've played through the first one in single player and the second one in co-op and I just could really care less. I felt like nothing changed after the first five minutes. They're an okay five minutes, but nothing really spectacular.

Batman: AA I thought was great for about 95% of the game with loads of fun ways of keeping you interested.

At the moment I'm mostly playing God Of War Collection. It's an HD remake of the first two God Of War games, showing off just how far ahead of the curve the game was when it came out. It effortlessly competes with games five years younger, swimming by in an updated 60fps and 1080p. Lovely stuff. It's also got a cracking story that's told with gameplay too.

I'm also giving Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a bash on the Wii, for reasons that I shall not disclose...

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

I've not been playing anything but I have been watching Paul playing through God of War I - III and, gore aside, they are very pretty games.

Actually I lied. I have been playing The Sims 3, I find it quite boring but I am reasonably addicted. I'm looking forward to the next expansion pack where you actually get to control your Sim at work, hopefully taking away an element of "c'mon time, go faster already" while everyone is at work and you have nothing much to do but watch the trees writhe about in the wind.

[Novander]

I was running Big Screen Gaming for some guys this morning (console games up on a cinema screen) and when they didn't have enough time left at the end for another game of Fifa (thank god) they stuck on the GoW3 demo. If I ever get a PS3, I'll certainly get it.

[Industrial Kybos...]

I'm also giving Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a bash on the Wii, for reasons that I shall not disclose...

Disclose! Disclose, damn you!!!

More importantly, how is it? I'm so far up Silent Hill's posterior that you can only just see the tips of my sneakers, but I've not bought Shat Mem because... actually, I have no idea why not. Beyond being cash-strapped, that is...

[Mata]

I was playing it because I was going for an interview with the company that made it.

It's pretty good and reasonably short. It's a very different take on Silent Hill. There are clearly delineated 'safe' and 'dangerous' points of the game. It's very slow paced. The game gives a pretty decent psychological profile of you at the end too - mine was quite accurate! I'd say it's definitely worth playing, but it's a weekend rental (about 6-8 hours gameplay I think) rather than something to own. It's a very interesting approach to narrative and a good spin on the plot from the original Silent Hill.

[Mata]

Oh, and it's the first 'hardcore' Wii game I've played that I thought was worth recommending to friends, albeit in a limited scope.

[Novander]

There's been some discussion over on The Escapist recently about games that could be considered art, and one of the games mentioned was Jade Empire, the only Bioware game I'd never played. So I bought it off Steam and it seems pretty good so far. Of course, it's Bioware so even if it's their worst it'll still be exactly my sort of thing.

[Tarantio]

There's been some discussion over on The Escapist recently about games that could be considered art, and one of the games mentioned was Jade Empire, the only Bioware game I'd never played. So I bought it off Steam and it seems pretty good so far. Of course, it's Bioware so even if it's their worst it'll still be exactly my sort of thing.

Jade Empire is great, its a good old-school Bioware RPG similar in scope/design to KOTOR, but with a much more involving combat system. It looks pretty as well, which is never a bad thing. Hope you enjoy it

[Mata]

I quite liked Jade Empire, although the good/bad thing was very simplistic. The ridiculous thing is that the choices in most games haven't become much more complex since then while BioWare have continued to push forwards.

I'm sporadically playing the God Of War Collection at the moment, God Of War II to be precise. It's still a damn decent game but the writing isn't nearly as good in the second one.

I've also just replayed through Army Of Two with my housemate Matt. It's a damn fun blast when played in co-op and it's a real shame it got so much stick when it was released. The writing is very dumb, but it's not really much worse than your average Hollywood action film. I liked it so much that I've just ordered the sequel

[Novander]

Well, the tutorial/introduction level in Alan Wake scared me. Looking forward to the rest of the game. In a Oh God I Want To Play It But Don't kind of way.

Also, Cursed Treasure (Don't Touch My Gems) is my latest Tower Defense addiction.

[Pikasyuu]

Pokemon: Leaf Green.
It satisfies a craving for a simpler time.

[Hobbes]

IRC Uno

[michael1384]

I am currently playing Red Dead Redemption, so far it is amazing. People have described it as 'Wild West GTA'. They're not far off, but the wanted system is a lot more complicated and there are a lot more consequences to being wanted. After you have shaken off the initial manhunt, you will have a bounty on your head,,. Bounty hunters will try to hunt you until you pay the bounty yourself.

It appears to be the first Rockstar game (That I've played anyway) to take itself 100% seriously, which is kinda scary.

[Hobbes]

I am currently playing Red Dead Redemption, so far it is amazing. People have described it as 'Wild West GTA'.

PC version please!

That is all.

[Mr Fuzzy]

PC version please!

Damned right. Announced, ignored and left to go away. Rockstar have forgotten their roots, man!