I'm a "traitor" playing Guild Wars 2 almost exclusively. However I'm getting to a point to either take a break or roll something new.
So does playing Avengers Alliance on Facebook count? :roll:
Wishing I could afford to buy the PS3 (or at least justify it as I have an XBox360) just to play The Last of Us. Yes, I know, zombie games are a dime a dozen, but this one looks awesome.With the PS4 on the way, I'm sure you'll be able to score a deal on one soon as some people prepare to dump them (although, I readily admit, I'll probably keep my ps3 and get a ps4). Other Naughty Dog classics include Uncharted 1,2,3 which should also compel you to get a ps3 ( ' ;
Archage looks like it might have some potential but I am just so jaded and cynical about anything and everything that I am not holding my breath on it and expect it to disappoint me like everything else has. When I find games I like the look of, the mechanics or unrestrained pvp turn me off (Aion is a great example of that). When I find games I like the mechanics off (or at least can tolerate) the aesthetics turn me off (Champions Online is a perfect example of this). I expect Archeage will end up as another grind type game with intrusive unwanted pvp elements and anything I like about its aesthetics or mechanics will end up being overshadowed by those things.
I like many of the features of sandbox games but I also like a little "on the rails" play as well. Basically I want a game that has a story I can be a part of but also lets me step off the tracks to explore and find my own stories.
Wait...
you can get Civ V on a Nexus??
or am I misreading that?
Wait...
you can get Civ V on a Nexus??
or am I misreading that?
I've been playing a great deal of Hearthstone lately... such an addictive game >_>Me, too! Yes, it is quite addicting! Great if you're short on time!
Played some Kingdom of Loathing recentlyI met my husband in KoL :-* :)
I can safely say that SW:TOR is reeling me in -- I haven't subscribed yet, but picked up some cartel coins for preferred status.Prolly too late to mention it, but sometimes, can get $5 SWTOR game box on ebay. With the code, it gives 30 day sub, then preferred status after 30 days.
Prolly too late to mention it, but sometimes, can get $5 SWTOR game box on ebay. With the code, it gives 30 day sub, then preferred status after 30 days.
If you are on Harbinger or Shadowlands, I'll be glad to show you how to get unlocks with credits. My villain group has a guild on Shadowlands and is pretty active.
STO.This is true, but cryptic/pwe/Atari dropped champions online dev, as soon as they saw sto needed help. but they never went back to fix Champions and still refuse to do anything with this game. No foundry, no meaningful content that's not temp missions, lock boxes, and temp events. That is why Im not playing that much or not at all.
It's not too bad (in particular, if Champions Online had been done as well, I'll bet half of us would be playing it). Ground combat's a bit blah, but on the other hand there are two kinds of combat and space combat's quite jolly. Enemies are a bit undifferentiated in the early levels, but then again so were the Hellions and the Skulls.
I went back to diablo 3 when they released the expansion, and I have to say, the game now is what I thought I was going to get at launch. It works much better and is a lot more fun than the RM auction house driven pile of manure they delivered originally.
As of late, ... messing with the GTN in SWTOR ( ' :Which SWTOR server are you on? I'm on Harbinger and shadowlands, Imperial side, since I'm the villainous type.
Which SWTOR server are you on? I'm on Harbinger and shadowlands, Imperial side, since I'm the villainous type.
See, I've tried to get into Civ 5... I never could. The fact that you can't stack units on a tile bugs me for one thing... and there's just something about the interface and the whole areas of specialization that I don't like. I'm much happier in Civ IV with it's fairly intuitive tech tree and fat stacks of armies, which I can spend hours and hours and OMG when was the last time I ate playing.
See, I've tried to get into Civ 5... I never could. The fact that you can't stack units on a tile bugs me for one thing... and there's just something about the interface and the whole areas of specialization that I don't like. I'm much happier in Civ IV with it's fairly intuitive tech tree and fat stacks of armies, which I can spend hours and hours and OMG when was the last time I ate playing.
I don't know what to do with myself these days.
Still pretty deep into WoW. This is by far the longest I've stuck with it. Probably because of the pet battle and garrison additions - I'm a sucker for side stuff.question, I thought the full 1 to 50 was free in star wars tor. Free to plays were made to level slower. This is why most free to plays do not play star wars old reb. I think.
I logged into SWTOR and realized I couldn't increase in level or gear without buying an unlock for my account (for level increase) and unlock PER CHARACTER (for gear). Or I could subscribe and get the gear unlocks, but I'd still have to buy the expansion for the level increase. F that noise. I appreciate so much how City did their Premium restrictions...
question, I thought the full 1 to 50 was free. Free to plays were made to level slower. This is why most free to plays do not play star wars old reb. I think.City of heroes did everything better than most games out there. Graduated rewards structure, upgrades permanently attached to your account rather than your character, a friendly gaming environ that was fun for all ages and was largely self-policing... And that was the problem. It wasn't enough of a skinner box to keep people mindlessly clicking for a dozen levels, getting frustrated, and then paying to get unstuck. IE, it was popular but it didn't keep people in that brain-dead clickzone that big MMO studios want them in. Which is why other games don't replicate its strategy.
I agree by comparison City of did good to their free to plays (even though there were some things I personally did not agree with).
The recent argument in New Efforts about whether there are good new games or not made me think this thread should be rezzed.
I'm playing Xcom, Saints Row 2, Lyne (elegant little puzzle game that's super cheap), the Game of Thrones RPG (not the Telltale series. This one's gameplay is awful but the story is really good and makes it worth a play if you get it really cheap like I did), Stacking (can't recommend highly enough. it's just ridiculously charming) and Suits: a Business RPG (funny little game. costs a buck. gameplay is basically old school pokemon but the humor is more than worth the time).
There's a Game of Thrones RPG? Just don't accept any wedding missions.
Just finished a Classic Ironman playthrough of XCOM EW for the achievement - which was really challenging for me.
Now satisfying my wait until Feb 5th for XCOM 2 by revisiting the newly released Darkest Dungeon.
Fallout 4. Though i play on normal now, because i found survival mode more in the cheesy direction in feel. Enemies become nothing but sponges and i had a few to many fights where i spent the entire time hiding and running while the stimpacks slowly healed me. Poor gameplay imo. I may switch back to very hard as that had some fun but overall, im back on normal and may switch to a realistic damage mod somewhere along the line.The upcoming survival mode changes look promising; less of making enemies bullet sponges and more of making survival needs somewhat realistic. That said i've mostly been playing it on hard mode and making my own fun. Like elaborate and somewhat realistic settlement builds, elaborate and absurdly unrealistic settlement builds, and currently i'm hacking every Protectron i can find and storing them in a shed at the Egret Tours Marina.
I find a certain joy to making unstoppable characters though. And even find it challenging to try and make settlers an unstoppable army.
The upcoming survival mode changes look promising; less of making enemies bullet sponges and more of making survival needs somewhat realistic. That said i've mostly been playing it on hard mode and making my own fun. Like elaborate and somewhat realistic settlement builds, elaborate and absurdly unrealistic settlement builds, and currently i'm hacking every Protectron i can find and storing them in a shed at the Egret Tours Marina.
i'm also giving SWTOR another (probably brief) chance after about a year of not playing.
i have a RL friend who i don't get much time to hang out with much anymore and we'll probably be playing GW2 together soon since she's already playing it occasionally with her fiance. NCsoft as the publisher aside, it's a not terrible game by a decent studio.
When ESO's Thieve's Guild expansion launches i'll probably buy it and start playing again for a bit.
Oh, and i may give TSW or Rift some attention in the next several months if i find the time and inclination.
When you look at the reports Wildstar is generating such little amounts even as of the end of 2015 that it's certain to be on the chopping block and the axe is likely being lifted right now. Went ahead and read an article, http://mmos.com/news/investment-bank-predicts-grim-future-for-wildstar . When the predictions are that bad, and NCSoft has shut down more successful games in the past, you know the bad news is immenent :/. It's, well, NcSoft :(.
I'm not surprised.
I tried the F4 new survival mode for a bit. I'm not impressed to be honest. While eating/drinking/sleeping is a nice touch as is diseases and the damage is good, it's all ruined by the save changes and removal of fast travel, the pace slowed down a lot. The inability to save anywhere makes the game unplayable to me due to my ILS issues.
After some consideration, I've decided to give EVE Online a go. Have only had one session of a few hours as of today, but have been doing research for a few weeks in an attempt to soften the learning curve. Somewhat interesting and different enough (for me) to keep playing further, I think. No real sense yet of how good or bad it might be as a game or as a fit for my tastes.
I should take the time to look it up, but, isn't EVE.... ancient? I seem to remember playing it like.. at least.. 15 years ago and it was a pretty complex game already.
It's new to me, and the mechanics of the game appear to be different than anything else I've played before (you know...the one or three MMOs I've tried... ;) ). Jury's still out on whether this will be a game I'll stick with.
Maybe it becomes a lot of fun once you've randomly unlocked some good options for your character (I mean, my wife is having a blast playing it, but my wife's character is max level with awesome gear and tons of gear mods, and a bunch of Talents and Perks, and she has a little BB-8 mini-bomb following her around and chasing after enemies and blowing them up in a single hit), but right now, all I have is a trio of nearly-useless guns and the "great" (read: "useless") ability to make enemies glow red for half a second, so I'm not feeling it.
The problem is that we don't have two separate accounts (and we're not exactly going to buy another PS4 and a second TV to play it on), so we can't play together.
XCOM2
Aww that's a shame. It's a real experience.
I have paid no money, but I am playing Guild Wars 2. I hate to admit it almost, but I like it, more than Rift
Played a little of the Division. It was... okay. It's a game I seriously want to like, but the game itself keeps fighting me at every turn....
I have paid no money, but I am playing Guild Wars 2. I hate to admit it almost, but I like it, more than Rift
Can anyone recommend a game for a casual player MMORPG style?
Can anyone recommend a game for a casual player MMORPG style?
Middle Earth Online is pretty casual. I have been off and on there for years, and it still cool to hunt orcs.
Boy does it. I really wanted to like the Division too. What it sounds like to me is if you aren't max level, there is no need to do the missions on Hard. You don't really get weapons good enough to mow down purps and yellows until level cap.
Eventually near the end game you won't even see red bar health enemies anymore. So enjoy it while it lasts:)
The game is fun in small doses, if you can find some people to play with it will be a little better. The game just made the same mistake all online games make now, they tried to appeal to EVERYONE and that is a sure fire way to mess up your game. The game just feels spread thin.
The Dark Zone is fun though, it really brings out your inner bandit. If you can get a team of 4 people who are pretty decent and geared out, you can basically hold entire instances at gun point. I don't even do it for the loot, I have no interest in taking peoples hard earned items. I just want them to know who is in charge of that particular DZ.
I actually did start to really like it, especially after I got to 30, got a bunch of pieces of hand-me-down High-End gear (so I was GS 155 right at the start), and then update 1.2 pushed me even higher. I'm both looking forward to and dreading 1.3 (since the weapon changes will buff my oddball LMG-centric build, but the new tier of gear means I'll have to start looking for new equipment all over again)
Got back into EVE Online this month and have been mostly just derping around low sec in rifter frigates. Good times.
The expansion dropped at midnight between monday and tuesday and I had my warrior (who looks remarkably like Skeletor) hit lvl 110 on friday morning... 2 a.m. or so.
Has anyone tried Age of Empires II.......HD? I just saw it on Steam.
The original game is really, really, good.. I had a working copy of this up until a few years ago and it was always nice having it there for when I wanted to play. I remember the graphics being pretty grainy/blocky though so a 'remastered' version sounds pretty tempting..!
They also say the game has 'improved' ai and all these new features, soooo, I am wondering if they remastered or redid..
I would really like a reMastered copy of this game, I think.
Anyway, just checking if anyone's played the old and new version and what the comparison might be? Is it pretty much the same game with updated graphics + some new stuff, or a whole new game?
I'm tempted to grab Command HQ off of Steam, too. This is another game that is just fun, even though it's pretty ancient. The mouse interface is pretty good for its time and the gamplay is awesome. I used to modem play this with a real nice guy that sold games at the same store I did when it was new. Many late nights..
I'm in nostalgia mode for some reason.. Trying to pay my data limiting ISP less, too, by playing some *sigh* single player..
Gave Overwatch a try, because of the free weeekend. I don't think it's really My Game, but it's fun to try out all the characters. I'm mostly using Pharah, because she's so straightforward (which is both a strength and a weaknesses)
Here's a free Steam code for Never Alone for whoever wants.
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Enjoy, it's supposed to be good but it's still in my infinite queue so I can't say first hand.
I started playing DC Universe On-Line.
It's entertaining in short bursts but I doubt they will ever see any of my money.
I'm playing Madden NFL '08 on PC
I think it's worth while to play through the story lines at least.
Well, now that EVE now has an F2P option, I've popped back in to try and get used to the place since I know my old corp wanted me back.
I've already lost one scout and almost lost my favorite miner to a pirate. The place hasn't changed.
EVE - just in case you forgot that humanity can be awful
I do have some spare steam keys
I've been considering starting a separate thread for that, as I have them fairly often with all the bundles I buy. What do we think?
I have been on a huge Dark Souls binge. I beat the 1st a couple of times over the last couple months and now have moved onto Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin. I always forgot about great the souls games are.
I just finished an EU3 campaign (normal difficulty). I started as Rajputana (an Indian minor state), formed Hindustan, took over India, kicked the hordes out of Siberia, worked West to take Persia and a stretch of the southeast Mediterranean coast, then squashed Europe - the Holy Roman Empire is effectively dead since Hindustan holds essentially all of modern-day Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, leaving Spain (formed by Castille) and England as the only major Western powers relatively intact. Oddly the Eastern Roman Empire made a bit of a comeback - I suspect because I've basically gutted most of their usual adversaries.
Any one knows of a good mmo to play? I pretty much threw TSW in the trash.
I would suggest LOTRO if you are a fan of Middle Earth. If you can stomach NCSoft, GW2 and Aion are both interesting. If you enjoy a pvp world, check out Warhammer: Return of Reckoning....That's the truth, in fact I have made wftg Star Wars Tor my home game now :(.I do not mind Nc to a point. But thank you for your suggestion same with Exxar.
Since the loss of the City, all MMOs are pretty boring.....
I would suggest LOTRO if you are a fan of Middle Earth. If you can stomach NCSoft, GW2 and Aion are both interesting. If you enjoy a pvp world, check out Warhammer: Return of Reckoning....
Since the loss of the City, all MMOs are pretty boring.....
I think, even before CoH, mmo's have been pretty boring. The first mmo I played was lineage 2, I got bored pretty quickly. I played GW for about 2 years, but ultimately got bored of having to wait around for some person of x or y all the time in 90% of it's content, like the only time a player could get a character through it's story in the later releases was when they were first released. Especially luxon side, god forbid a player get through one mission without having heroes from nightfall, or a few monks, since it was 100% impossible(escort mission with ultra weak and fragile escorts). After playing CoH when I tried going back to GW, I felt to limited and pidgin holed into only 1-2 things. That was when I realised mmorpg's were crap; if players are so ultra dependent on one another that they wait for a person who only does one thing, how can they be fun?
Felt AoC was kinda dull to, all it had was boobs
Plague Inc: Evolved (http://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/25-plague-inc-evolved)
It ain't new, but I only learned about it yesterday... and I love it.
Right now I'm waiting for a dungeon queue in FF14. I also play WoW, ESO, a bit of STO, and whatever game the MMO Book Club subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMMOBookclub/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMMOBookclub/)) is playing.
The current MMO Book Club game is Lord of the Rings Online. I installed it and have been playing it for the past couple hours, but it's so slow (CoH has forever spoiled me as far as base running speed goes), and the characters are unappealing.
I played quite a bit of it but burned out around January. The good, for me, was a coherent vision of Middle-Earth untainted by Peter Jackson. The bad's the really fairly pedestrian MMO combat and the looming presence of the trinity in the background (it's not as bad as some [1] but it's still definitely there). The ugly... well, it may seem a trivial gripe but after playing the City I really do want not to clip through other players and mobs. There's a much diminished sense of positioning in combat, I think, when there's no constraints on movement.
I don't think I'd quite call allowing hybrids of the three roles avoiding the trinity. avoiding the trinity is a /ta troller superteam :Pi tended to play Defenders, Corruptors, and Controllers with a variety of powersets. None of them did much healing on purpose (yes, Twilight Grasp has a fairly large heal as a side-effect, but that wasn't why i was usually using it, and the same thing for Howling Twilight's rez), instead focusing on buffing and/or debuffing with healing as the very occasional desperation move. By the standards of most Holy Trinity advocates that means they weren't really healers, so were they Tanks or DPS?
i tended to play Defenders, Corruptors, and Controllers with a variety of powersets. None of them did much healing on purpose (yes, Twilight Grasp has a fairly large heal as a side-effect, but that wasn't why i was usually using it, and the same thing for Howling Twilight's rez), instead focusing on buffing and/or debuffing with healing as the very occasional desperation move. By the standards of most Holy Trinity advocates that means they weren't really healers, so were they Tanks or DPS?
Edit: To be fair they did tend to do a fair bit of DPS when soloing and not focused on supporting teammates, as well as using aggro control to group mobs for AoE affection, so i guess they were hybrids solo and bad healers on teams?
Star Trek Online FYI avoids the trinity in a rather brilliant way. Any career can heal others, "tank" or dps, and in any possible permutation of the 3. They're all hybrids if you know how to build.
no ones ever "looking for tank" or "looking for healer".
Wandered back to Middle Earth. I mean, who doesn't want to hunt some orcs?
PETO?
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Orcs)
Occasional Marvel Heroes, Soda Dungeon, The Long Dark, the Zero Escape series, and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
PETO shouldn't watch this video, then (https://youtu.be/txvKrTplOVs?t=284). Kumail Nanjiani's character might have a case.
For some odd reason my post disappeared. But I have been playing Fallout 4, I love having 14 body guard companions and 3 regular ones :) I have given mmos a break for awhile.
It didn't disappear, you posted it in the thread about looking forward to 2018 games. I only know this from me posting my above post there because your post fooled me :Dah :) that explains it :). I really thought I posted in this one. If a mod can go and delete my post from the looking forward to 2018, I would like that. And thank you, and thank btw Vee :).
Decided to return to Battletech. Fun strategy game, even if the campaign is rather long.
Champions on Line 8)
I acquired CIV 6 finally and am playing around with it....just one more turn...
Been playing the crap out of Axiom Verge. It's insanely good. If it's not the best Metroidvania I've ever played then Symphony of the Night only wins by a nose. It's like someone took the Serpentor machine and put every great NES game that didn't feature Mario, Link or Bo Jackson in there. Getting it free on Epic was just the icing on the cake.
Right now, I'm playing Deltarune for the third time (on the PS4 this time rather than computer), but I... really need to finish Octopath Traveler and Divinity: Original Sin II.
(Tried out Jump Force, didn't really like it much)
I recently bought Civ III off of GOG for about $1.50. I'm not playing much but I couldn't resist a cheep nostalgia bomb.
I'm currently playing Skyrim (I suck at it) but once in a while I go back to Aura Kingdom and Secret World Legends or play any game I could find on the PS4.
Nothing fills the void no matter what I play. I miss CoH...I need my fix :'(
Vividly remember selling and playing the original XCom. Such an addictive game. Very popular where I lived, with, the more .. sophisticated players. Considered one of the best games of its time and I played most of them back then due to we were allowed to take everything in the store home 'for testing'.
Employees would then bring the games back to work (or maybe a huge program like Microsoft's Professional Developer for BASIC ... *whistle* <3) , have them inspected for that 'still new' appearance, and, were given the duty of re-shrinkwrapping and re-shelving them as new.
I could go through a new game, even a game like XCom or Wizardry or Ultima or Pirates! <3 in a week or less. I usually 'checked out' a new game every 1-3 days on average (titles came out fast then so I had plenty) - depending on how long it took to complete and whether it was even worth (imo ofc...) completing.
Christmas was hands-down my favorite time of the year because I really liked helping people pick out a game that I felt pretty sure they would have fun with. I was the *only* person at our store that liked working during Christmas, of course.. I was real lucky in that job due to, mostly, I was allowed to BS with people about games...all day. And read gaming magazines. Hands down my most favorite job of all time. Far from the ...fanciest.. (the pay sucked too) but it is definitely my favorite.
Good Times : ) Fun game. I bet the newer flavors are fun too.
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P.S.
Yes, I realize the above is super duper wrong and should never have happened. LUCKY ME! I could never have afforded to play all of those games, otherwise. And I could never have sold so many of them, otherwise, either. I was the guy to go to when you wanted a new game for yourself or someone else and every game wasn't fun for everyone (except usually me) so I could usually find a person (read: male - there were never any females in our store except one ex-marine who I built gaming machines for : D *wave*) for *every* game and visa versa. If it was buggy and/or frustrating I'd tell people that, too.
The business in mention, above, which was a normally really honest business in the Midwest.., has been out of business, since decades. Since not long after I left them. I'm not sure if we were ever the largest game reseller in the country but I know we were in the top 3.
My punishment for this wrongdoing was... Neverwinter online.. I literally spent every spare penny I had after bills on this game. They charged by the minute and I had bills from them that were .. very high for the amount of money I made.
I really believe that what goes around comes around and me and that company did do wrong. We lost everything in the process : ) So I guess it all worked out.
If anyone knows of any sites I'd be grateful if you could point me in the right direction. ;)
I highly recommend Xcom:Enemy Within if you enjoyed the originals. The complete edition with expansion and dlc is 7.79 at CDkeys, which I've used many times and is a good price (although it's lowest price ever was 5.24 from humble bundle, per gg.deals).
https://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/xcom-enemy-unknown-complete-edition-pc-steam
Right now I am bouncing around Skyrim (legacy), Fallout 4, Xcom2, and various single player games and mmos such a SWL and waiting for double xp on SWTOR.
a co-op game of Starcraft II
STO (of course)
Ohh I'm glad I'm not the only one still playing : )
Impressive list. You know, if I finally make a Homecoming account a meteor will hit the servers or something so maybe it's better for the entire community that I've not been playing.
What exactly are you waiting for? Between all your other MMOs and the stuff you mentioned watching in the Flash arc it's like you're doing everything you can to avoid playing the game we're all here because of.
Ohh I'm glad I'm not the only one still playing : )
Impressive list. You know, if I finally make a Homecoming account a meteor will hit the servers or something so maybe it's better for the entire community that I've not been playing.
Plus, CoH isn't 100% back, yet, so, the longer I wait, probably, the better it is - and if it poofs again I don't have to go through that again.
I have some other stuff I'd like to work on, too, when you have time...
What exactly are you waiting for? Between all your other MMOs and the stuff you mentioned watching in the Flash arc it's like you're doing everything you can to avoid playing the game we're all here because of.
Be careful you don't wait so long you miss it at its best.