What are you playing now?

Very enjoyable ! In true open world fashion, the first thing I did was destroy my own base !

BTW, I have a strange bug with smoke n fire FX, they keep floating on my screen and are visible through walls and geometry ! I have an ATI 4850 !

 

Strange that never happened to me, i'm really far into the history now i'm at level 27 and i add no problem like that so far, the only one that happens to me but fortunately rarely is a complete freeze of the game it is annoying but nothing that a restart can't fix. Because of that i gained the habit to it F5 after and before some major event.

 

It certainly was an oddity, I think I started 3 games and I had the "stuck" issue all 3 times. I could move the camera, but not my actual self in the world. I'll try the mod again once I finish Mass Effect 2. ME2 is getting pretty good BTW, but the controls have a certain clunkiness that ME1 did not have. The cover system is way too binding and can leave you stuck when you need to really move. I wish Bioware had stuck to the overheating system instead of this thermal clip BS just to make the game more like a shooter and force you to use all the weapons. All in all, I miss many of the things I could do in ME1. The game is still enjoyable, but adapting is a bit of a pain.

 

played two hours of Spiral Knights, and though I hate these free to play levelling up stuff, this one feels cool , fresh and fun ! and its just < 300mb install !!!!

 

dungeon siege 3...what a great game...10 hours in, nothing to complain so far, exactly what you expect from such a game...but just more polished and everything gameplay related smarter implemented (for instance: side missions really reward you!!)

 

I'm re-discovering Torchlight. Small problem, Steam maintains separate sets of characters for PC and Mac versions of the game. Madness, I know, so it means if I want to play it I gotta boot up the lappy rather than my phat PC rig. Fortunately, TL is lightweight enough to run great even on built-in sandy bridge graphics, so it's not a real issue.

 

Battlefield 2

In anticipation of the third, I decided to fire this up again after probably 2 years of not playing it at all. There are packed servers out there, to my delight. Still a great game. Tons of teamwork even with randoms, and plenty of 'Battlefield Moments'. At this point I'm not sure why I stopped playing at all. I hope BF3 lives up to it.

 

FEAR and FEAR 2. Rather similar except for the loss of leaning in FEAR 2. Picked the whole series up last weekend with that sale. I can't get over how low poly FEAR 2 still is and the texture detail ranges from impressive to 1999 (again similar to the original game).

 

TL has a netbook mode, lol. It's gonna be lightweight.

 

Characters are stored on your local machine not online. I'm assuming both version use the same save data files so you may be able to manually transfer your characters from Mac to PC.

You'd have the same issue if you played at home on a Win7 machine and then tried to play it at a friends on a Win7 machine.

Regards,
SB

 

Heh, the netbook mode is available even in the Mac version of the game...

For the most part I get no slowdown with all settings on full, unless there's a lot of transparencies on screen all at once. Then performance crashes and burns rather bad with sandy bridge graphics (crap framebuffer bandwidth, I suppose). Still, it's not so bad it becomes unplayable, and it's a quite enjoyable game too if one just overlooks its faults (like the wonky skill system, too many and hard-to-judge weapon stats, too prolifient and too random and mostly utter shite loot, way too small stash and so on.)

I'm really looking forward to TL2, hopefully they've fixed these quirks by then. Also, they've promised a Mac version as well, which is great.

It supports Steamcloud, or Playsteam, or whatever the FRAK! its called. I know, coz I've seen it synch after exiting the game. If it's not uploading my save files, then whattaheck IS it uploading...? I can't think of anything else worthwile, you can't even change the key bindings in Torchlight, so the settings aren't worth duplicating across machines.

 

I've been playing regularly for 5 years. It's still the best multiplayer game out there I think. It's pretty amazing that is has managed to pull that off.

 

If the class system is as well-designed as it was in the now ancient RtCW, then I'm sure it'll be a ton of fun. I sunk SO many hours into that game, even with its balance issues re. weapons and even the maps themselves. I had such high hopes for Quake Wars, and they never panned out...

 

Decided to play Fable - the lost chapters since ive just bought Fable 3
and its a chore, I dont care about my character, the story, the new locations, new weapons or anything
to be honest I want to uninstal it but there is some little voice inside my head saying "you bought it you might as well finish it" and I do try to finish the games I buy but I am having no fun whatsoever

 

Thanks for letting me know not to buy it

I've finished first play through of Witcher 2! Great game, but now I want Witcher 3 to come out yesterday! I will lessen that pain by playing it again making different decisions at some point though. For now I'm back to finishing GTA IV.
Also now and then Crysis 2 MP for some shooter fun. Look for KOMP tag

 

Quit while you're ahead. Time you spend playing a game you don't enjoy is time you could have been enjoying another game.

I'm still playing RE5. I've beat the game 4 times now, including veteran, going for Professional next. Also scooping up all the achievements, only four left. The game is not as inovative as RE4 was but it's still adictive. Sheeva in her tribal costume is to die for. I wish the PC version had local coop. /me shakes fist at Capcom

 

Gotta hand it to them. Capcom character models are almost universally amazing.

I just finished Braid. It was fantastic.

 

I loaded up RE5 again too, but I am just continuing my first play through. I think RE4 is probably the better game and have that installed yet on my TVPC (with a big restorative texture pack too) but I haven't touched it in a long time.

Also loaded up SupCom FA again.

 

May I ask, what did you like about it? The mechanics are stripped into nothingless and challenge is non-existant. Even Ebert saw the game for what it is. That's the typical pretentious "hipster" game with no substance.

 

The business suit is where it's at for me...

It's too bad Chris' outfits aside from his default all make him look like a dumbass.