I figure we might as well have the full set.

Currently I'm playing Project Zero 2 (aka Fatal Frame 2) on the PS2. It's good, but the camera has been made less intuitive than in the first game, and it wasn't that easy to start off with! Not sure if this one is as scary either, but it's giving out some nice horror montage footage early on, which the first game held on to until the last night of the game, which not many people got to (it was worth it though!).

A couple of days ago I played through Strider on the PS1. Strider is a game that I have loved since it came out... Which I think was 16 years ago. I can normally finish it in about half an hour, maybe less. The PS1 version is a good copy of the original arcade machine and has all the voice samples, but I preferred the slight remix that was released on the Megadrive/Genesis because it had better music and a better end sequence.

I've also just restarted Medievil on the PS1. The graphics are very ropey by today's standards, but the gameplay is all still there, and those regional accents are still fantastic!

Oh, and I've been playing a bit more Spider Solitaire on Windows than I really should, too!

What are you playing?

PC - Guild Wars. Lots of Guild Wars. With an occasional Sims 2 now and again.
GameCube - SSX3. Love that game. I always play as Zoe, she's so hardcore. \m/ (>_<) \m/

Right now I am all about the Guild Wars.

Heh. Jonman made this topic first!

Anyway, I'm playing Tales of Symphonia and an assortment of fighting games.

Recently I have been playing cat & mouse, rounders, tennis(ish), volley ball(ish) and 'card board boxes were made for hiding in and protecting oneself from dodgeball attacks'. All in all, a good day in the sun today

On a more computery note , I played Lemmings ( a Christmas edition I think) last week, which was mucheous fun!

Zoe is always my favourite character too. I think I preferred the the tracks on SSX2 myself, the boundaries were more clearly defined. I often find that I think 'oo, I wonder what's over that small ridge' only to find myself warped back to the track. If you're going to tell people that they can find their own way down the mountain then I figure they really should give you pretty much a whole big chunk of a mountain to go down!

It does get rolled out when I'm lapsing between other titles, but I'm running out of characters to max out on their stats! With Zoe I've got all gold, and I even found every hidden item on all the tracks. Now that took some doing!

and you say animating takes up all your time?

Guild Wars is taking up a lot of my time just recently, it's a lot of fun and I've gotten bloody far. I've also given Viewtiful Joe another go recently, but I got to a hard boss, tried for about an hour, gave up and played Guild Wars

I keep deciding I'm unhappy with my characters... at around level 12

Escape Velocity: Nova (for Mac OS X or *shudder*Windows). It's a modern game which feels very much like Elite in 2D. Very addictive and it proves the fact that games don't have to be 3D to be fun.

*rolls up sleeves*

Working my way through Star Ocean:Till the end of time.
Also continuing to plug away at Phantom Brave.
Currently playing lots of Pool Paradise, as me and Kat can play together.
Also Detonator (budget PS2 puzzler - 2 thumbs up).
And Burnout 3 (determined to finish that one).
Having a bash at Luigi's Mansion, as I've hardly played it since buying it a year ago.
Slowly working through Halo 2.
Occasionally dip into Frequency and Project Gotham 2.
Toying with Theme Park World.

Currently on back burner to get back into:
Paper Mario 2
Baten Kaitos
FFX-2
Ico

Things I've not played for blimmin' ages, but do have the best intentions of getting back into:
Zelda:Wind Waker (still need to finish off the last tenth of the game).
Mario Sunshine.
Metroid Prime

This list will change in a couple of weeks when Kat gets back from Seattle in a couple of weeks with a suitcase filled with cheap software.

I second the last three of Jonman's games. Same reasons, too.

I've finished all of the last three games and felt decidedly unimpressed by them, and in particular Zelda.

Mario was nice, but lacked character, then again the only Mario that I have _really_ enjoyed was Super Mario Brothers on the NES. The others are nicely designed but have never really gripped me. Bear in mind though that I've never played Mario 64, which I'm told is the best. For 3D platforming there are three pinacles for me: Jak & Daxter, Soul Reaver on the PS1, and the original Tomb Raider. All of these had great character design as well as brilliant level layout. I just don't think I like to be controlling a tubby, moustachioed plumber.

Metroid Prime I will probably return to, although I'm not sure if that's because I want to or because I want to feel like I've not missed something.

I missed out one from my list: Internet Reversi on the Windows system. I often have a couple of games to relax before I go to bed. I'm probably playing more of this than anything else at the moment!

But he's got a water powered jetpac! How can you not love that?

When I've got a big clunky shoulder buttons on the controller that make my fingers ache to control it with.

"You have a woman's hands, my lord....."

I'm currently playing about 4 games right now. First off are my PS2 games, Final Fantasy X-2, The last chapter and part 4 of the . hack series. Hack Quarantine, And Inuyasha the secret of the cursed mask. I'm also replaying (Because my 5 year old cousin deleted my data on my Xbox) Jet set radio future, 1 of my favorite games because it involves one of my favorite things to do, rollerblading! XD

I forgot about the games I'm returning to... Skies of Arcadia Legends.

I'm also playing Tales of Symphonia, but that's just because I have gaming ADD that forces me to play multiple games unless I am _gripped_.

I'm playing far too much guildwars than is healthy at the moment, and despite my late start I'm slowly creeping up on becoming a good player. Though, that said, I still have a long way to go, as I'm not even finished the shiverpeaks yet...

I dug out Black and White again and other than text based games thats it really.

I can't really comment, as I'm a gamer nerd, addicted to Minesweeper and Freecell...

I spent way to much time playing Startopia and will probably do so again when I have a better shiney box.

Tend to look on online games like Typershark, Insaniquarium and other Popcap goodness. Though every now and again launching dogs at undead kitties just calls to me and I wander over to the Other Side.

I played......pong yesterday, and feel as though I had a history lesson....I'm hating runscape at the moment, My computer is too slow for it sorta.

I WAS playing Suikoden III until my fiance deleted it (it wasn't that good anyway) and uhh... Wolrd of Warcraft. That's about it.

Jonman and I played Pong on a huge wall-projector. I think I won, but I could be wrong. I definitely beat him on an original Spacewar machine. It's amazing how much fun you can still have with such old games!

I not only kicked your ass, but I attached it to a rocket and shot it into space. At Pong.

You did beat me at Spacewar though. Although it wasn't running on the orignal hardware - it was an 80's console version (I want to say Intellivision, but I could very well be wrong).

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.

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.

In your head maybe.



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

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

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.

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....

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.

Reversi and Go are very different games.

Reversi

Go

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

^ That can't be healthy ^


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

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

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

*shrug*

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

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.

^ 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.

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

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).

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....

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