Weekend Gamer - What are you playing?

[Jetherik]

The question should be this week - who is not playing Oblivion? But with a multitude of games out there, we have to ask - What are you playing this weekend?

[phantomhitman]

Finishing up top spin 2 today and trying to get more medals in bf 2 for the 360. Damn achievements run my life......

[Wadmaasi]

Tomb Raider: Legend and Painkiller Black, with some God of War on God Mode. The guy I bought Oblivion off (he bought regular, then picked up the CE and is selling me the regular for $15) is shipping it tomorrow. w00!

[fitbabits]

This weekend I'll mostly be playing the real estate game...

[Wolfgang]

GRAW and CoV

[bone_matrix]

Well, now that a good friend of mine (The Letter 3 on this here board) quit Halo 2 (one of the few games we can get a group for) I'll be doing Oblivion (obviously) with a dash of COD2 or GRAW. And maybe watch some Futurama in my office while playing WoW. Maybe.

[AspectVoid]

I've got a good mix of games to play. Oblivion is, of course, on the list, what with my horse soon to be pimped. I've also got more GRAW to play (working on getting the tank drivers free), Burnout Revenge (I wish I could drive like that in real life) and Condemed came from Gamefly (my best friend was at one of the MS preview events for the X360, and he said this game was the best of them). Besides that, well, I probably won't have time for anything else, actually.

[KamaItachi]

Mostly GRAW, I've been tryiing to solo the online co-op campaign with varied success. It's tough, but hell of a lot of fun.

[Bydo_Empire]

I'm burned out on gaming. In fact, I'm selling off a big chunk of my collection. If I play anything at all, I may do another level or two of Psychonauts as I really need to finish it (fantastic game, btw), and maybe some Tetris DS.

[HaZer]

I'll be watching TV, still waiting for eVGA to ship back my spiffy new step-up card. :(

[Everlost_MI]

This weekend I'll mostly be playing the real estate game...

And how's that going, mon frere?

[thiby]

I just got Metroid Prime Hunters, I'm gonna play that...maybe finish up Super Princess Peach.

[fitbabits]

And how's that going, mon frere?
Funny you should ask...

We just sold our current house and had an offer accepted on our new Colorado digs. Not the one I listed earlier, a better one (with an even more awesome home theater setup). :)

[Everlost_MI]

Writing my final milestone and paper for my class will suck the life out of my gaming this weekend. But I hope to put sometime into ES:O and Blazing Angels. Oh and that little GRAW Best Buy tourney that myself and the aptenodytes forsteri editor are in.

[Everlost_MI]

Funny you should ask...

We just sold our current house and had an offer accepted on our new Colorado digs. Not the one I listed earlier, a better one (with an even more awesome home theater setup). :)

Ooh! Very nice! So all is set except for the paperwork and the moving from hell?

[uaq]

I recently got a new GFX card so I've been playing through all the games I couldn't play before: BF2, FEAR, Chaos Theory and Cod2.
I just tried the Heroes of Might and Magic 5 demo and I don't really "get it".

[Bumbuliuz]

I am 112 hours into Oblivion. Finished the main quest and all guild quests. I am now moping up the rest of the quests. I have finished 143 quests so far and my char is only at lvl 24 ;) After that mabye some FarCry on 360. I am trying to keep my mind busy waiting for my copy of Football Manager 2006 ships on the 360 and my new pc :D arrives in next week. Amd X-2 4400+, 2gb Ram, 250Gb Sata2 HD, 2x7900Gtx 512mb and Creative Xi-Fi sound card for some 7.1 loving :)

[fitbabits]

Ooh! Very nice! So all is set except for the paperwork and the moving from hell?
Yup! We're looking at reams of paper for counter offers, disclosures, lead reports, etc... It's all looking the same.

As for the move, the thing I'm most anxious about is moving our cats. :(

[Rakael]

The original Kingdom Hearts. Never beat it before, so I am determined to conquer it this time. I will say one thing though, Square should stay out of the platformer genre. If the rest of the game didn't make up for the horrible camera and piss poor controls, I would have tossed this one aside after about five minutes.

[EternalGamer]

Metriod Prime Hunters and Tetris DS for me. Hunters is great and I am enjoying it far more than the second Prime game, which I never finished. It plays similar to those games but faster paced and without as much aimless wandering around. There is still some exploration, but for the most part, the game is alot more linear (which I like). The graphics look comparable to the Cube games on the small screen but it moves at least twice as fast, which is highly impressive. I was hesitant after playing the demo that came with the DS a year and a half ago, but the game has made amazing progress in that time. I hated the demo, but love the final product.

Dan

[TRiLoGY]

Oblivion..

[MAbans]

It varies.

after 420 HALO PC or HALO 2 on XBOX depends on my mood.

World of Warcraft takes up tons of time. MC this weekend.

[emyln]

Gonna be doing 2 things. Playing Oblivion and ... after Tuesday's WOW patch, I keep getting disconnected so gonna be trying to fix that. Which will probably lead to frustration and me playing even more Oblivion.

[joruussuun]

NO GAMING... :(
Going up to my sister's to visit my new 2 month old nephew for the weekend.
MAYBE Civ4 with my brother-in-law if I'm lucky.

[AspectVoid]

Oh, and I also need to get freaking Live working on my 360, as I kept getting an error message when I tried to join any games. Its very annoying.

[screwtape]

Oblivion, GRAW, FNR3, Metroid Prime: Hunters... gaming goodness overload.

[fitbabits]

NO GAMING... :(
Going up to my sister's to visit my new 2 month old nephew for the weekend.
MAYBE Civ4 with my brother-in-law if I'm lucky.
Feck the gaming, get going with the damn comics!

Congrats to your sister.

[Kelegacy]

Ob.

Livi!

On?

[joruussuun]

Feck the gaming, get going with the damn comics!

Congrats to your sister.
Hahaha... I wrote the script for the next comic yesterday (ooh, it's a good one) and handed off to Knite, he's gonna try it first. I don't know how long it is going to take (because of his real life obligations like work/school/life), if it looks like it is going to be a few days, I'll try and throw something up there. :D

[fitbabits]

Ob.

Livi!

On?
Never mind...

[Kelegacy]

Never mind...
I was up late running away from Will 'O Wisps, having my intelligence drained and damaged. I'm still feeling it this morning.

I hate Will 'O Wisps, with a passion.

[fitbabits]

I was up late running away from Will 'O Wisps, having my intelligence drained and damaged. I'm still feeling it this morning.

I hate Will 'O Wisps, with a passion.
You just reminded me of this (http://www.willo-the-wisp.co.uk/). :)

Ooh, fun (http://wtw.tarka.org/willo.wav).

[Ghostbear]

WoW AQ this weekend, and when i am not doing that I will be finishing the thieves guild quests in oblivion.

[Dr Quincy]

Battalion Wars!

[panopticon]

Metroid Prime 2, with a side of Zelda: Minish Cap.

[Heretic Machine]

I won't be playing Oblivion this weekend, as I'm going home and probably not gonna have time for it anyway. Gonna bring my 360 and get in some Geometry Wars, AstroPop and PD0. Been having a lot of fun with PD0 lately, a lot of the trolls that were ruining the game just after launch have moved on to GRAW! :p

Might try to buy Guitar Hero, but if I do that I'm gonna have to con the money out of my parents. Was gonna try to sell back my text books for the cash, but I go there this morning and they tell me that for my $120+ worth of books (the ones that weren't going to be useful anymore), they'll only give me $20 because they don't have the orders for next semester in. They say in a couple of weeks they'll be worth a little more...

[maharahaj]

Three day weekend! Time to start wrapping up the guild questline acheivement points i dont have yet as I beat the Main Story and Mages Guild questline the other day. [Side note: anyone notice the game get alot easier once the main quest was completed? I was at level 20-21 at the time slowly chugging threw enemies; then all of the sudden its like hot knife through butter and rediculously high priced loot drops like a light switch was thrown afterwards (including more strong potions of healing and magika than I could carry)]. Also plan to chip away at my Top Spins2 season and might pick up Tomb Raider too.

[Phanto]

Well I'm going to play Oblivion and of course I'm going to a LAN PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :D ;) FROM TODAY STARTING AT 7PM UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

The lan is being called "Santo Lan" which mean in english "Saint Lan".

I hope you guys a have a nice weekend aswell :p ;)

[Cha-Ka]

I burned out on Obivion pretty fast and I picked up Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War/Winter Assault on a whim. It turns out I don't hate RTS as much as I used to. I'm having a great time building and killing at the lower difficulty levels.

For the Emperor!

[KamaItachi]

You just reminded me of this (http://www.willo-the-wisp.co.uk/). :)

Ooh, fun (http://wtw.tarka.org/willo.wav).


Oddly, that was the first thing that came to my mind...

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/images/evil%20edna.jpg

[bapenguin]

Picked up Burnout, so hope to get a bunch of that in. Probably Oblivion as well. :)

[fitbabits]

Oddly, that was the first thing that came to my mind...

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/images/evil%20edna.jpg
Excellent! :D

[Entropy Effect]

Still working my way through the batch of games I got with my 360 last week so it is Oblivion, GRAW, and Top Spin 2 for me.

I am also finding it hard to resist spending hours and hours trying to unlock achievements in the Arcade games. Damn you, Hexic.

[Kelegacy]

Picked up Burnout, so hope to get a bunch of that in. Probably Oblivion as well. :)
How much is Burnout going for? I've been thinking of grabbing it.

[Montolio]

I'm one of the few people I know not playing Oblivion...in fact everyone I know is playing that title hehe.

I have my hands full with Blazing Angels at the moment. It's a lot of fun but it's one of the few 360 games out that makes you earn your achievements. It's a lot like DOA4 with regards to the fact that you have to really build-up your skills to be successful. It takes some patience and trial and error, but I can see people trying this game and abandoning it shortly thereafter because it can be fairly difficult at first. I say don't be fooled, this game is good fun once you find your stride.

I'm should also get BF2:MC from Gamefly today, so there should be some good times with the crew over the weekend. If you're on my Friends List or just want to jump into the action just shoot me a message, invite, friends request...whatever. After that, I think I'll move on to the new Tomb Raider.

[AspectVoid]

Picked up Burnout, so hope to get a bunch of that in. Probably Oblivion as well. :)

I love Burnout. My only problem with it is now when I'm stuck behind someone in traffic, the first thing that comes to mind is "Damnit, if this was Burnout, I'd ram him off the road, powerslid through that corner, and could be home in a couple of minutes!"

[phantomhitman]

montolio, there is a way to cheese achievements in that game as well, but i wouldnt know anything about that type of stuff ;)

[Montolio]

I love Burnout. My only problem with it is now when I'm stuck behind someone in traffic, the first thing that comes to mind is "Damnit, if this was Burnout, I'd ram him off the road, powerslid through that corner, and could be home in a couple of minutes!"
I had that same line of thought while I was playing NFS:MW haha.

[dotbomb]

Oblivion is on my list. Once I finish the dark brotherhood quest line I'll probably take a break though as I will have completed all the guilds and the main story.

Once that's complete I'll be back playing GRAW and Burnout.

[Dr Quincy]

I love Burnout. My only problem with it is now when I'm stuck behind someone in traffic, the first thing that comes to mind is "Damnit, if this was Burnout, I'd ram him off the road, powerslid through that corner, and could be home in a couple of minutes!"

That's no problem with Burnout; it's simply real life failing to live up to the dizzying, high standards video games have established.

[Steele Johnson]

I'm going to play more Oblivion since the WoW patch is causing a lot of lag.

I'm also thinking about picking up The Godfather. It's getting really good reviews and I loved the books/movies.

[Whimbrel]

I'm playing through the original Freedom Force and maybe starting Deus Ex Invisible War. I seem to be stuck in some kind of Looking Glass/ Irrational/ Warren Spector vortex after all those damn escapist articles you kept posting.

[Montolio]

montolio, there is a way to cheese achievements in that game as well, but i wouldnt know anything about that type of stuff ;)
Really? I didn't know that. Man I got my arse handed to my at first but I'm to the point now where the AI doesn't last too long. I've had some damn fun matches with some friends and I think we're just about ready to take on some other clans. Capture the Base is just crazy :-)

Achievement boosting is the new it thing. It's always fun to lord something over a friend and tease them for a time before they figure out how you got it before them. I'm doing my best to turn to the powers of Google and the various achievement sites only as a last resort. For example, I needed help finding those 100 pieces of fruit in Kameo. I couldn't believe how many times I just walked right by them hidden in plain site haha.

I think once eveyone gets used to making 360 games they'll work out some really interesting achievements that mean a little more. At least I hope so.

I shot you a friends request too. Somehow, I missed your Gamertag on when I was reading through the tag thread on the site here. See you online!

[thecrazyd]

I will be playing Bone Act 2, and maybe some Oblivion.

[TheBrainKills]

Oblivion, but I should get back to GRAW so I can join the tuesday gig. Also practise my PGA golf before I take on BAP.

[dr_wily]

Still playing RE4 slowly, savoring its every wonderful moment (aka dying 100 times, and miserly restarting to conserve health)

[cppcrusader]

Ironically my first free weekend with my new rig happens to coincide with the weekend my aunt, cousin, and grandma are coming down for their vacation. So I'll be in Coccoa Beach all weekend with them and not playing games, unless I remember to stop off at the house and grab my DS on the way.

Oh well, I guess a little sun might do me some good.

[NeuroMan42]

WOW, Oblivion, and just reinstalled Starcraft.

SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!!!

[easi]

Not Oblivion.

[fitbabits]

Not Oblivion.
Liar, liar, pants on fire. :)

[Metal Jesus]

Daxter PSP.

The graphics and gameplay are simply AMAZING on the PSP. Pick it up!

[51|RandoM]

No Oblivion for me either, did everything. It'll sit there on the drive, though, waiting to see if any of the upcoming downloadables expand the game(as opposed to just dressing up some aspect of it).

Think it'll be a console weekend for me, probably grandia3 or maybe finish up DQ8.

[Phades]

How much is Burnout going for? I've been thinking of grabbing it.

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet on Kameo. I've been trying to get it back from a friend of mine. He's being very slow on beating it. Sooo, soon as I reaquire it I'll let you know. Assuming of course you'd still be interested at that point.

[agentgray]

I'l be playing in a Good Friday drama.

After that it's Metroid DS, Tetris, DS, Animal Crossing DS, possibly finishing up Psychonauts, maybe get back into Guild Wars, and possibly a GaCiv II game or two.

Yeah, I intend to veg over the weekend.

All of this is after wonderful yard work and gardening. I love spring.

[fitbabits]

I love spring.
Ditto on that! It's by far my favorite season...

[askheaves]

I returned Oblivion to the video store. Debating if I should skip paying a phone bill in order to buy it, or start up a gamefly subscription... which won't get it to me by the weekend.

If I'm smart, I'll play 'cross things off the to-do list.'

[TalkingOctopus]

Pikmin 2 - I like the original better so far. I don't really care for the caves. But it is still pretty good.

[bean19]

A little bit of Top Spin 2 and Suikoden V (if it ever gets here through Gamefly, this will be the 5th day shipping. . . I normally get them in three or less).

Mostly though, I have to write a feature story for journalism on Monday, read a chapter I have a quiz on for psychology, create a powerpoint and write a five-minute speech for persuasion, and create a java application.

Fuck all these back-loaded classes. I really should get to work on these today and tomorrow so I can cool out on Sunday, but that won't happen.

[joruussuun]

All of this is after wonderful yard work and gardening. I love spring.
Haha... I love how my home owners association has people come around and take care of our yards for us. Mow, edge, mulch, etc...
I just don't love the HOA fees... :(
EDIT: Then again, I live in a townhouse community, so the yards aren't too big.

[Kelegacy]

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you yet on Kameo. I've been trying to get it back from a friend of mine. He's being very slow on beating it. Sooo, soon as I reaquire it I'll let you know. Assuming of course you'd still be interested at that point.
Yeah, probably. Hit me a message when you get it back, on here, gmail or Live.

[Roc Ingersol]

Probably more WoW.
Still no 360s in my immediate area, and I'm not too sure my PC can handle oblivion that well.

Though the mods available on the PC side are making me wonder if I shouldn't try anyway.

[Pinku!]

Oblivion would've been on my list, but my lite came in this week so now I can finally play these 10 or so DS games that've been sitting around my shelf...once I finish Aria of Sorrow. Never had a DS so I'm having a BLAST! Super Princess Peach is first on my list of DS goodness with some Tetris DS sprinkled in for good measure. Going to try and put off any more Oblivion-ness until the husband builds his new rig later this year, since the game I swear is going to make my poor 9600 explode.

*phew* Finally, got my first post out of the way after lurking here forever. Please be gentle with me, I'm delicate. :) Seriously, you guys make my boring desk job SO much more bearable. That and the fact that the higher-ups here don't care if I'm playing my ds at my desk...

[junkie24]

Playing WoW still.

Can't wait until I pick up a copy of Oblivion. Reviews have been outstanding so far.

[Phanto]

WOW, Oblivion, and just reinstalled Starcraft.

SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!!!


LOL!!!!!!! I heard that in the Lan Party I'm going maybe they will play Starcraft oh.. i can't wait to SCV rush!! :D :D :D

Yes milord..opps wrong game.. :p

[Fyd]

Oblivion, DoD:S, FEAR....

[Rakael]

*phew* Finally, got my first post out of the way out of lurking here forever. Please be gentle with me, I'm delicate. :) Seriously, you guys make my boring desk job SO much more bearable. That and the fact that the higher-ups here don't care if I'm playing my ds at my desk...


I so hate you.

Welcome to the community though! :)

[The Iron Weasel]

Oblivion and MGS3: Subsistance, maybe some Devil May Cry 3, and BF2.

[i aint yer pa]

I'll be doing the EVE-Online thing this weekend. My new cruiser with my new missile launchers is a mushroom clouding laying mo-fo.

I also get to ply Easter egg hunt tomorrow with the children. Wipee!

[Blue]

Working my way through the first Kingdom Hearts. Just made it to Atlantica and loving it thus far. After jumping off the MMO ship I decided to start playing through games I just never got around to and am forcing myself to beat one before I move onto the next. Beat God of War last week, this week began Kingdom Hearts.

I'm thinking next on my list is going to be Alien Hominid. We'll see.

[MojoJojo]

Not going to purchase Oblivion for awhile. Probably will wait for the Ultra Platinum Game of the Year Special Edition Collector's Edition with all the crap that people are paying for piecemeal.

[Jetherik]

Going to try and put off any more Oblivion-ness until the husband builds his new rig later this year, since the game I swear is going to make my poor 9600 explode.

I would stop being nice to your husband until he builds his new rig so you can play Oblivion! :D
Welcome to the community!

[Sl1pstream]

City of Heroes
Tomb Raider Legend
Battlefield: Modern Combat
GRAW

[Spigot]

Oddly, that was the first thing that came to my mind...

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/images/evil%20edna.jpg
I loved Will-o-the-Wisp! Man...

I'm stuck at the in-laws this weekend so I'm playing a bunch of DS games (Super Princess Peach is addictive!) and plowing through Kingdom Hearts 2.

I'm really missing my PC.. these in-law computers suck.

[A Lusty Alien]

I finally took the leap, and added World of Warcraft to my growing collection of MMORPG accounts. Probably also going to add some CoH/CoV to the mix.

Oh yeah... And taxes.

[geckokidd]

Fight Night Round 3 and trying to break 775,000 on Geometry Wars

[ezzkmo]

Guild Wars again. Gotta pump myself up for Factions!

[Borys]

Oblivion. I love it.

[Major Dan]

I am working, but between that I plan on playing some The Outfit (with my son) and Oblivion :D