Weekend Gamer: What are you playing?

[Jetherik]

Another wonderful weekend has arrived and hopefully for all that will mean gaming goodness. With lots of outside chores to take care of, my gaming will be limited. I want to try to finish up UFO: Aftershock (this game is turning out longer than I thought), some CoH, and I think I will reach into the wayback machine and pull out Darklands for kicks and grins. If I have time I hope to see Superman Returns or Pirates. Anyone see those movies? What will you be doing and playing this weekend?

[Mortis]

Castlevania DoS until my eyes bleed.

[LilEvilFish]

I'm actually going to be playing Live For Speed S2, I never got into the original version but now I've developed a love for this one, shame I only have the demo but it's one electronically distributed game that I feel like investing in.

Other than that it'll be hopefully Animal Crossing on the DS, and a spot of BF2 if I feel bored. Oh and I need to repair the whammy bar in my guitar.

[Heretic Machine]

Well, I just joined a clan in Jedi Academy so I'm gonna try to spend some time everyday on that. I've been toying with the idea of starting a new run through of Xenogears, and will be spending some time playing Furcadia of course.

Also, found my old Earthbound Player's Guide and that has reignited old memories of hippy-stomping.

[Soap]

Everquest 2. After quitting my WoW addiction, I recently had a craving to bash rats so thought, "hey Soap, which MMO bashes rats the best?"

[SexualChoc]

With any luck, New Super Mario Brothers as of tomorrow, and SOCOM for the PSP now that my Network Access PIN has come. Long live handhelds!

[captainstrombosis]

Gonna dig out all my old Mechwarrior/Mechcommander games and play those.

[Salesmunn]

With any luck, New Super Mario Brothers as of tomorrow, and SOCOM for the PSP now that my Network Access PIN has come. Long live handhelds!

Hey man, your sig is horrible.

[fitbabits]

Kelegacy will be playing Meteos and Trace Memory on the DS, plus whatever else we fine folks snagged for him from the CC sale.

[pseudopseudo]

Since I finally beat Paper Mario for Gamecube (the Shadow Queen is a bitch unless you're wearing the right patches), I'm waiting on Resident Evil 4 to come in the mail. And hopefully soon enough I'll have my DS Lite, and I can hopefully veg out to some NSMB or Tetris DS.

[PIPBoy3000]

I started replaying Planescape: Torment, which I am again reminded of how great it is.

I've also been playing the HL2 mod Combine Destiny, which is incredibly long. The combat and layout is reasonably good, but could have used some physics puzzles and alternative gameplay.

[PopoWRX]

Fired up Rome: Total War again this time with the XGM mod playing with the Greeks.

[bKangy]

Probably Geometry Wars and GRAW on hard, unless by some piece of magic, Amazon.co.uk manage to get my copy of Oblivion to me by Saturday instead of Monday (no post on Sundays :( ). I might hit it up on next day order actually.

[vistigris]

I'm going to play through Half-Life 2 again so I can get Episode One and play it. Might play some Burnout Revenge or Geometry Wars if I need some variety.

[Xaerin]

Completed Evil Genius AND Riddick in the same week, which is some kind of record for me, usually I'm 2 a year.
Moving on to Project Snowblind, hear it's only about 10 hours so might get that done in a week as well!

[Rook34]

Metroid Prime 2..maybe a little Diablo 2, and NSMB.

I also see Pirates in the very near future. Like Today. 7.p.m. WooT!

[gspot]

Howeworld, some free DOD Source to see if I want to buy it, Guitar Hero Sat night.
Maybe I'll finish Metroid Prime, Probably not.

[The Iron Weasel]

Metroid Prime, Fire Emblem: Path Of Raidiance, Guitar Hero, Rouge Squadron 2: Rouge Leader, Ratchet And Clank: Up Your Arsenal.

[Metal Jesus]

Probably some Sam & Max. I installed Ubuntu linux on my main laptop with SCUMMVM and now I'll finally get a chance to see what all the fuss with this game is about.

[sleemo]

Titan Quest, if there's a patch out yet.
I finally got Faselei! for NeoGeo Pocket, so I think I'll dust off that ol' thing.
Warioware: Touched for DS. I still love this game too much to not play.

[screwtape]

Brain Age. My 1 doesn't look anything like an 8, but the brain surgeon seems to think so.

I just signed up for Gamefly, so I've got Oblivion and Hitman for the 360.

[phantomhitman]

I can hopefully find and buy cod2 goty for the 360. Seems strange that I cannot find it anywhere...
I guess I will have to pick up the normal cod2 and just buy the map packs.

[Doctor Setebos]

Tales of Symphonia! I've owned it for two years now, I HAVE to finish it eventually. At least before the Wii gets here.

Since I finally beat Paper Mario for Gamecube (the Shadow Queen is a bitch unless you're wearing the right patches)QFT! (finally beat it last month!):D

[drakkarim]

the same as all my weekends since march, oblivion

[Goronmon]

GRAW and WoW looks like.

[Kelegacy]

Absolutely nothing. I'm on vacation next week so maybe games then, but this weekend I'll be away visiting my best friend from college, an old roommate of mine. We'll go out gallavanting F. Scott Fitzgerald-character style: drinking it up, making fools of ourselves, spending copious amounts of cash in the name of fun.

[Bad_Buddha]

I finished up Call of Cthulhu a couple of weeks ago and haven't been able to get excited about anything lately. Been playing bits and pieces of several games to see if one grabs me and gets me intrigued.

Still waiting for that spark.

[Kelegacy]

Kelegacy will be playing Meteos and Trace Memory on the DS, plus whatever else we fine folks snagged for him from the CC sale.
Ah, yes, I nearly forgot! EternalGamer picked up Metroid Pinball and Pokemon Saphire, but again, I'm away for the weekend. The games will probably be waiting for me when I return. You guys are awesome!

That also means thecrazyd, Blue, and Djinniman should be playing Advance Wars: DS, if my packages get there on time. :)

[askheaves]

I picked up Half-Life 2 for xbox in the bargin bin at Circuit City monday and I'm just about to the point where I gave up on the (hacked) PC version. I'll give beating that a shot.

And I need to find something fun for the DS as I'm travelling to Minnesota and Chicago next week and will be there for over 2 weeks with no other game systems.

[pseudopseudo]

I picked up Half-Life 2 for xbox in the bargin bin at Circuit City monday and I'm just about to the point where I gave up on the (hacked) PC version. I'll give beating that a shot.

And I need to find something fun for the DS as I'm travelling to Minnesota and Chicago next week and will be there for over 2 weeks with no other game systems.
What're you up to in Minnesota?

[Maskatron]

Oblivion on my PC.

Well, I just joined a clan in Jedi Academy so I'm gonna try to spend some time everyday on that.

Good to see there's still people playing. I've been thinking of reinstalling it.

[Bydo_Empire]

Mostly playing guitar, but my Atari lovin' continues. Lately it's been Atlantis, which is kicking my butt.

[zrikz]

Gonna finish up Sin Episode 1, probably play me some WoW, maybe check out Oblivion seeing as I havnt played in in about a month... oh yes I forgot, I get to replace my motherboard today when I get home from work.. so as long as no problems occur I will be playing games... if problems occur I will post here and complain and cry and that is all. Been playing super mario brothers 3 on an emulator and world 4 is kickin my ass, I hate it cause I cant beat a level in it! AHFWRAR

[Pinku!]

Aside from villainy and mayhem in City of Villains, I'll be plowing through Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana. I have a BAD habit though of getting to the end of games and never finishing them so I SHOULD just hunker down and beat Aria of Sorrow and New Super Mario Brothers.

Curse my fickle ways!

[bapenguin]

Gonna get back into BF: Modern Combat on the 360.

Also gonna check out Dragon's Lair HD for a review.

[mille.mots]

I'll be playing GRAW, mostly. Maybe even with EverlostMI. If I'm not playing that, it'll probably be Mario Kart DS.

[askheaves]

What're you up to in Minnesota?

Visiting family mosty, escaping from work, maybe interviewing in Chicago if somebody there wants to hire me. Also have one of my 10 year High School reunions end of July. I'll be in/around the Twin Cities mostly after 2 weeks from now.

I need to add that I plan to play more Dance Dance Revolution this weekend as well... because I want to become impressive at it.

[Rakael]

I'm getting back into Animal Crossing: WW for some reason. I have been playing the shit out of it lately. Other than that, well, nothing really. I just have little desire to game any longer, though I will still hang out on here and talk about gaming.

[Spigot]

I finally unlocked the Hard difficulty in Ouendan, so I'll probably be giving that a whirl this weekend in between taking my son to see a magic show and hopefully catching some squiddy fun at Pirates of the Carribean.

Otherwise, just the usual Animal Crossing and Trauma Center on the DS. I'm kind of sick of Star Ocean 3 at the moment (I spend almost 40 hours on that stupid medieval planet, get off it for 10 minutes and end up right back on the stupid thing... grr...) so I've been playing some other stuff lately.

Fatal Frame 3 and Deception 3: Dark Delusion on the PS2 have kept me busy the last couple nights (nothing like summertime for a horror game or one filled with gory traps) and I'm debating firing up Dungeon Siege 2 again and putting some serious time in on my new computer that won't slog down when I crank up the graphics. I still want them to patch the menu screen to run at something other than 480x200 though.. yarg.

[mos]

Phoenix Wright (finally!)
Rome: TW (again)

Rome has become my "nothing interesting has come out in weeks, so I have to play something" game.

Looking forward to Prey next week to relieve the drought.

[Wyrm]

I'll be starting up with some Titan Quest and I probably wont get any further than that. Breaks between the long hours of hacking and slashing will include forays into Guitar Hero to thrash a bit here and there, and perhaps some Paper Mario as well.

I STILL need to finish RE4. I finally got to the second disk and I probably only have a few hours left to play, but man, I seem to only put the disk in late at night, and I cannot go to sleep after I play that game.

Not gaming related, but I finally picked up my copy of Maddox's "The Alphabet of Manliness" and I have yet to stop laughing while I read it. The man knows how to write some seriously funny stories.

[Zurik]

Some more Titan Quest. Gonna work on Valkyrie Profile, never finished that. Moving all my computer guts into a new Thermaltake Armor case.

[phantomhitman]

Phoenix Wright (finally!)
Rome: TW (again)

Rome has become my "nothing interesting has come out in weeks, so I have to play something" game.

Looking forward to Prey next week to relieve the drought.

i am sending you a pm, just to let you know in case you have notifications turned off.

[Evil Avnovice]

Creating yet another character profile in Oblivion. (360)

Guess I'm backing down on Trace Memory (DS) yet again. :(

[Sl1pstream]

Chromehounds. They seem to be having server issues, which sucks.
Not much time to play games this weekend.

EDIT::

We are currently experiencing some issues with the online component of Chromehounds. We have discovered that there is an artifical limit on the number of players that are able to play online at any one time. SEGA would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused and would like to assure you that we are working to correct this issue. We have already carried out two rounds of server maintenance and greatly increased the number of players that can play online. At this time we are working with Microsoft to increase this number even further during the scheduled server maintenance on Tuesday 11th July.'

[Bone]

I finally got around to playing Dreamfall: The Longest Journey last weekend, and loved it so much that I am now playing the original The Longest Journey. Both of them have the best storytelling and dialogue I've ever experienced in any game. Emotion, humor, fear... they pack it all in there.

Although if I were feeling cynical I might call them The Longest Cutscene.

[Spigot]

Creating yet another character profile in Oblivion. (360)

Guess I'm backing down on Trace Memory (DS) yet again. :(
It only takes 3 hours to finish that game! It takes longer to wait for the loadscreen to go away in Oblivion! Just beat it already :)

Good call on TLJ, Bone. Awesome game.

I might actually play some Dawn of War this weekend if anyone wants to kick my butt in some online play. I suck at RTS's these days.

[DeadPixel]

Titan Quest and maybe some Soldiers Heroes of WWII (coop).

[maharahaj]

I'll be starting up with some Titan Quest and I probably wont get any further than that. Breaks between the long hours of hacking and slashing will include forays into Guitar Hero to thrash a bit here and there, and perhaps some Paper Mario as well.

I STILL need to finish RE4. I finally got to the second disk and I probably only have a few hours left to play, but man, I seem to only put the disk in late at night, and I cannot go to sleep after I play that game.

Not gaming related, but I finally picked up my copy of Maddox's "The Alphabet of Manliness" and I have yet to stop laughing while I read it. The man knows how to write some seriously funny stories.

I picked up Alphabet of Manliness too [yesterday] and am enjoying it immensely so far. As far as games go, I will be playing some more MotoGP06 as well as start up Battle for Middle Earth2; both on 360. Plus, watch the World Cup final on Sunday.

[score]

LOZ: Minish Cap.

Great game. Highly recommend it to anyone.

[Returner]

Xbox306
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
MotoGP 06

PC
Titan Quest
Hard Truck: Apocalypse
Advent Rising
Rogue Trooper

[TheHulk]

Picked up Thief and Call of Cthulu for my XBox. Gonna try and focus on those 2 for now.

[RestlessAvenger]

Going to be playing LOTR: BFME2, MLB2k6, and maybe a little GRAW on the 360, and then lots more Metroid Pinball, Meteos, and Trauma Center on the DS.

[Everlost_MI]

The Prey demo and God of War are on my plate for this weekend after hitting the theater to see Pirates 2 in honor of my five year anniversary to the Mrs.

[Heretic Machine]

I'm getting back into Animal Crossing: WW for some reason. I have been playing the shit out of it lately. Other than that, well, nothing really. I just have little desire to game any longer, though I will still hang out on here and talk about gaming.

Dude, I recharged my DS today and put AC: WW in it. I haven't started playing again yet, but I keep looking over in it's direction... I just dread to see what my town will look like when I turn it on.

[JRR006]

I reinstalled Oblivion during the week, and spent about an hour yesterday wandering up The Gold Coast from Anvil to the northern border of Cyrodiil. Nirnroot, yay! I'll probably mostly be playing Live Arcade games. Although yesterday, I found my No One Lives Forever discs...

[Phanto]

Probably starting Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, playing StarWars Episode I Pod Racer for PC, thinking in starting too Tian Quest and NBA hangtime for N64.
Yes... there is a lack of good games this months for me so I starting to play oldies but goodies :)

Probably I'm going to see Superman Return with my father this sunday :)

[Bumbuliuz]

Finally finished GTA-sa on my 360 after doing 60% of the game again on my 360 becuase I couldnt stand looking at the ps2 version anymore ;) Like so many I picked up a Ds Lite, the white one. The shop here in Iceland only had 1 left and no black, no worries I like the white better. I wanted the new Mario, but the crappy shop still didnt have it yet. So I picked up Advace Wars on the recommendation of Gamespot. I am charging my Ds Lite now, will try after that.

Also I just got Table Tennis for the 360 and I will try it over the weekend.

[Ravenlock]

DS Lite still owns my gaming time - I'm so happy that I held off getting a DS until the Lite, partly because the design is so much better but just as much because now there's a library of AWESOME games for me to play, many of them cheap. :D

On deck: MP: Hunters, New Super Mario Bros, Castlevania: DOS, Trauma Center, Animal Crossing: WW, Age of Empires DS (which is actually really, REALLY good), Ultimate Spider-Man, and as soon as Gamefly gets it to me, Phoenix Wright.

[dorkus_malorkus]

Dude, I recharged my DS today and put AC: WW in it. I haven't started playing again yet, but I keep looking over in it's direction... I just dread to see what my town will look like when I turn it on.

Prepare for some major weed pulling! Been there.

[Spigot]

Prepare for some major weed pulling! Been there.
I've always wondered what my town on the Cube version of Animal Crossing looks like nowadays. It must be about 3 years since I fired that up.

In my mind's eye I see skeletons of neglected animal friends scattered about town, cobwebs and broken windows in all of the houses and my little avatar sitting there on his step looking haggard and unshaven from years of solitary confinement.

Hence my fear of starting the game up and seeing what is going on.

[Kelegacy]

I picked up Polarium today and it's pretty neat...and only 8.96. The Circuit City deal is still going on. I also grabbed the last version of Advance Wars for 8.96, and I think I might sell it on ebay instead of giving it away. Or, I could trade something for it.

[Spigot]

Advance Wars DS is great. Why would you want to get rid of it?

[Kelegacy]

Advance Wars DS is great. Why would you want to get rid of it?
I already have a copy, bought it back in January. I also bought 3 new copies last week during the Circuit City 4th of July sale and shipped them to 3 EvAvers AT COST (since we're such a nice community). I bought one more copy today because I wanted to sell it or trade it for something else. It's worth MUCH more than that, but Circuit City's crazy 8.96 deal meant I could go in and rape their shelves. The game wasn't in the bins, still read 34.99, hence the reason I was able to buy their entire stock and give them away to needy people.

It pays to use cheapassgamer.com!

During this sale I was able to get Metroid Pinball, Trace Memory, Polarium, Meteos, Pokemon Saphire, Sigma Star Saga, FF: Dawn of Souls, Tales of Phantasia, Drill Dozer, Mario Golf for 8.96 each. I hope we see more of these deals, because I get all giddy and inflate my game library.

[Spigot]

Ah, that makes sense.

$8.96 should be the standard retail price all the time. Imagine how much game sales would skyrocket?