Weekend Gamer: What are you playing?

[Jetherik]

Once again, like a train out of control, the weekend is here! By this time I figure the Wii injuries are starting to occur as people pitch, hit, and bowl a bit too much. "But it was fun doing it," they will say. How are you enjoying your Wiis and PS3s? If you have both, what do you like best? What games will you be playing? And if you are like me and don't have one (or a Xbox), what games will you be playing this weekend?

[JudasGoat]

Burning Crusade. Ugh, after a year off, the addiction is back with its full weight and malice.

[Gorvi]

FFXI and Pheonix Wright 2. :)

[Lind]

Want to advance a bit more in Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii) this weekend and perhaps even finish it. Will ofc also play a fair bit of Burning Crusade, really good expansion I gotto say and I'm impressed by the stability of the servers.

[CH3SH1R3_CAT]

Finally getting into FFXII and trying to beat Call of Duty 3 on veteran... LoZ: TP is sitting on my entertainment center calling my name too.

[GunnyMo]

Trying to finish up FFXII and, dammit all, putting more hours into the timesink that is Burning Crusade. Draenei (I don't think I'll ever be able to spell that damn word correctly) Shamans for the win! Woot! :D

[kokyunage]

If anybody is looking for some cheap games, try TowerRecords.com (http://www.towerrecords.com/Games/Default.aspx) . TowerRecords is going out of business and their website is having a 25% off sale everything (including games) January 19-22. There are some good deals for some brand new Next-Gen games.

Some Examples
PS3 (new games):
Resistance: $44.99
Fight Night Round 3 $44.99
Call of Duty 3: $44.99

Xbox 360 (new games):
Lost Planet: $44.99
Rainbow Six Vegas: $44.99
Gears of War: $44.99

Nintendo Wii (new games):
Warioware: Smooth Moves $37.49
Zelda: $37.49
Ultimate Alliance: $37.49

[Headcase]

I will be performing moves which may or may not be smooth.

[Blog]

Still playing with my Wii. I hope to finish Zelda this weekend, which will give me more time to dig into Wario. Wario is just plain nuts, perfect for any modern gamer with serious ADD.

[Akeldama]

The Battlestations Midway demo. I have full preview code here, but our debug machine is in Copenhagen and I'm in London, so I'm stuck with one mission only for the moment.

I'll probably play some Lost Planet too, got it last week but haven't had time to do anything with it yet.

[Mortis]

Lost Planet and Just Cause.

[Zander]

UGH. Burning Crusade I guess.

This must be what it's like for a former Heroin addict to put the needle in the arm for old time's sake only to get hooked again.

[Varsity]

Company of Heroes! :) The funny thing is that I'm not very good at it. I can't remember the last game where I had to keep on reloading to try again.

[menage]

Lost Planet, Oblivion, Viva Pinata, Gears.

Hopefully a crackdown demo:p

[bapenguin]

Company of Heroes and Red Steel on Wii. One more week without the 360.

[Borthcollective]

Burning Crusade, go go Druid power.

[Kamalot]

Elebits (Wii)
Contact (DS)
Phantasy Star Universe (360)
Viva Pinata (360)
Zelda (Wii)

[wezlypipz]

Playin' some LOST PLANET, still can't beat Green Eye. I used to be so much better at video games when I was younger :D

[Xaerin]

Alot of Dead Rising and NWN. Maybe the odd bit of FF:T on the GBA.

[Kamalot]

If anybody is looking for some cheap games, try TowerRecords.com (http://www.towerrecords.com/Games/Default.aspx) . TowerRecords is going out of business and their website is having a 25% off sale everything (including games) January 19-22.
WOW WOW WOW!

I spent WAY too much money on this sale! :eek:

Nanostray ($23! (http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3349278&title=Nanostray))
Sigma Star Saga
Contact ($27! (http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=4326950&title=Contact) )
True Swing Golf ($15! (http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3374152&title=True+Swing+Golf))
Elite beat Agents
Excite Truck
Bionicle Heroes (DS - FPS)
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin
Lost Magic ($15! (http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3400594&title=Lost+Magic))
Metroid Prime Pinball w Rumble Pack ($15! (http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3349300&title=Metroid+Prime+Pinball))

The 360 controller is only $38!

Thanks...I think.

[Rarely Operable Brain]

Well, I got "conned" back into WoW after retiring for 5 months, so if my son "allows" me to, I'll be playing that, Gears of War, and/or Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.

[Librum]

Burning Crusade. It's been interesting to watch the guild dynamic totally fall apart with my 20 and 40 man raiding guild squeezing everyone into as many 5 man raids as they can. But there's so much else to do, quest-wise, that it's hard to just keep up with it all.

I'll also hit some Company of Heroes as well. I, too, have had an uncommonly hard time with the game, for someone who usually breezes through RTS titles. I think it's mostly because it's a squad _tactics_ game within a real time _strategy_ game, and you have to look at it that way. It comes down to a lot of micromanaging - you can't just grab a group of guys and throw them at the enemy, they'll just die unless you have vastly superior numbers.

I've been practicing mostly in the skirmish settings, and if I can stop the initial German tank blitz with rapidly deployed fortifications I have a fighting chance. But if I give them an inch, they'll swarm me. Tank traps and mines are your friends!

[Franjo]

NBA 2K7 on 360...I must improve on my 2-8 record.

[Bad_Buddha]

I picked up the Guild Wars Special Edition for cheep. If it shows up this weekend I'll be dabbling with that. Kind of a push-back against the Burning Crusade hype.

Still having fun with Fate. Getting into Vampire: Bloodlines a little. Played the Tutorial of DoW: Winter Assault Again. Might get back into that.

I'm at one of those places where I just don't know what to play. I'll probably pull something out of the backlog and get sucked into it. In the mean time I just bounce around until something grabs me.

Taking ballroom dance lessons with my wife! Kind of fun to get out into the world and act like a real human being!

[Arphahat]

I'll be playing a stupid, pointless, gay little game that consumes almost ALL of my time: Animal Crossing: Wild World. I don't know what it is about it, but I play it to the exclusion of other very cool DS games (including FFIII, MarioKart DS and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2).

When I am not playing AC:WW, I'll likely be struggling with "Carry Me Home" and "Psychobilly Freakout" on hard on Guitar Hero II.

And, maybe, just maybe, if I am somehow persuaded by my mini-guild compatriots, I will play a bit of Guild Wars (which I still think is a direct descendant of Diablo II... but no one, including my guildmates or anyone here, seems to agree.)

[MrTyzik]

Still playing Final Fantasy III and also Mystery of Time and Space.

Hopefully picking up Castlevania: PoR and Advance Wars: DS (still haven't played it) this weekend.

[Camtron]

I just tried out Warioware last night and that is a metric ton of fun, so I'll be doing some of that. On the Xbox 360 side of things, Oblivion is like a fine wine and still working on Lost Planet (where's the Crackdown demo!?!?!?)

[PostedOval]

I just got my original Xbox modded this week...and the dude put 14,000 classic games on the HD.

Yes. 14,000 video games.

I can't wait to dig into some retro-lovin'!

[Felonous]

I'll be playing the "Microsoft Dead Xbox360 Shuffle" game. Last Sunday I go to play my newly purchased Gears of War and the game locked up a couple times, only minutes into the game. So I try the unplug/replug all cables and HD. It still locks up but this time right at the Xbox 360 bootup logo! I again unplug/replug and try again to only get this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/357681003_b40a8e5e81_m.jpg

The dreaded red ring of death! CRAP!

So after jumping through the service reps hoops of doing exactly what I had already done before, they authorized a RMA. Yesterday I received the box to ship the Xbox 360 back to Microsoft and today I'm going to drop it off at UPS.

The only good news out of this is that they did not charge me for the repair, even though I'm just weeks outside of the one year warrenty. I had purchased my 360 right before Xmas when the 2nd wave of shipments had hit the local Best Buy (me and my friend camped overnight).

My concern is this, up until now the box worked flawlessly. I had it in the open and it had plenty of ventilation around the main unit and the power supply brick. I called my friend that bought his at the same place and same time as I did, and come to find out his did the ring of death just one day before mine and he had to send his in for repair also. Not a good sign...

[mikeohara]

gonna try finishing up R6: Vegas this weekend and play some wrestling with boo ... err Rumble Roses XX (have until Sunday courtesy of local Blockbuster).

[Grey]

I just started Psychonauts a few days ago since it came free with my steam acc. After the first few levels i totaly got into it. Thats what i call creative gamedesign. I guess ill finish it tonight (i dont make a step out of the door this weekend, im done with everything behind my four walls atm) and then i probably will play some DoD:S, HL2 SP or Rainbow Six Vegas ... dunno yet, but its gonna be a game weekend (first for a long long time).

[he1ixx]

looks like wii zelda and trauma center and helping a buddy through the gears of war campaign via co-op. and maybe some eve-online. and maybe some warioware...

too much fun to be had, really. if the crackdown demo drops, i imagine i'll be hitting that pretty hard too.

[Ghostbear]

Burning Crusade, Company of heroes, and Dawn of War:Dark Crusade

[MrWonderstuff]

Fable: The Lost Chapters (on my 360).

What a wonderful, sweet, funny and entertaining game. As I'm from the UK it's very heartening to hear all the regional accents.

[dotbomb]

Gears of War, Lost Planet, Viva Pinata.

[violentp]

World of Warcraft, again. Day of Defeat and anything else that may have the word "of" in it.

[Shifter]

Burning Crusade.... gah!

[Zanzibar]

Hey Felonius, let me know if you get a new console or if they fix your old one. I get occasional lockups when I played GoW and still happens (at almost exactly the same frequency) with Lost Planet.

..which is what I'll be playing this weekend. I just got to the Green Eye level. I hear it's a controller-hurler.

[Zanzibar]

World of Warcraft, again. Day of Defeat and anything else that may have the word "of" in it.
Leg of Lamb? Duchess of York? Jesus of Nazareth?

[Sandman]

World of Warcraft, maybe some Legend of Zelda....and maybe some Motorstorm.

[violentp]

Leg of Lamb? Duchess of York? Jesus of Nazareth?

I'll also be watching the Lord of Rings, Memoirs of Geisha and some Raiders of Lost Ark.

[Sandman]

I'll also be watching the Lord of Rings, Memoirs of Geisha and some Raiders of Lost Ark.

No Temple of Doom or damnit Last Crusade breaks the mold.

[flinxz]

Elebits
I think I have time to start Zelda as well.

[Animated X]

I am playing catch up on all the games I bought over the last year and never finished, since I am flat broke and can't afford new ones.

Xbox:
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Prince of Persia - Two Thrones
Psychonauts

Ps2:
FF XII
Okami (If I can get back into it)
Trapt

Its nice to be able to spend time finishing up old games instead of constantly getting distracted by new ones. But I still find I am struggling with my compulsion to actually try to finish all the games I buy.

Is it worth it to play a game for 20 hours just to finish it (*cough* X men legends 2 *cough*) when you would rather be playing something else?

[maharahaj]

Lost Planet and Elebits

[Bydo_Empire]

I'm in the Temple of Time in Zelda (wii), and I hope to put a few more hours into that. I also just picked up a classic controller (which is awesome), so I'll probably spend some time w/ Castlevania IV and TJ&E. I'm so proud of my new baby (the 5200) that I'm sure I'll squeeze in a little Qix or Pac Man.

[Edit] Oh yeah, I also borrowed Bully from a friend at work, so I should probably give that a spin. I've heard nothing but great things and kept meaning to check it out.

[eth3rton]

Lost Planet
Resistance : FoM
Motorstorm

[i aint yer pa]

My one and only goal this weekend is to work on the Dead Rising Achievements I still don't have. Not sure if that's possible in one weekend, but I'm willing to find out!

[Serapth]

Im going back through old games and getting the low hanging fruit acheivements. Probrably PGR3 and COD2 first off. Im sick of having the lamest gamerscore amongst all my friends.

Funny thing is, I dont even really care, but somehow it just feels required...

Also, I may go to the Detroit autoshow. I got free tickets from work, but damn I hate finding parking for Cobo hall.

[Disgustipated]

Since I beat Phoenix Wright 1 a couple of days ago, this is what I'm working on:

Perfect Dark Zero (What the hell is up with all of the haters? The game is GOOD, and really fun, especially in multiplayer!)
The Outfit (A surprising little gem... made by PC gaming's current RTS darling, Relic)
Burnout Revenge for 360 (Awesome game, the graphics, the sound, the sense of speed... the FUN... all combine to form 360's best racing game)
Possibly Viva Pinata... I've had it for a few weeks and haven't really tried it out.

[BlackPete]

Burning Crusade. No question.

My Draenei Shaman is level 16 "already" and hoping to hit 20 this weekend for ghost wolf form. I say "already" because I only have like 4 hours per night, maximum :(

[Knightsaber]

Oblivion and Morrowind

I can't stop, Oblivion is sweet as-is on the 360 and Morrowind modded to hell and back is almost just as good.

Edit: WTF Phoenix Wright 2 is out and I didn't notice?

[Kelegacy]

Don't know yet. Sorta in the mood to get back into Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, especially after playing that fucking atrocity that is Enchanted Arms. I want to play a real JRPG now.

Might go through the back catalog and see what I have. Still should get back into Okami or FFXII...oh, and Bully.

[BlackPete]

...especially after playing that fucking atrocity that is Enchanted Arms. I want to play a real JRPG now.

I popped that game disc in, played for about 15 mins, and decided that I wasn't going to play it. I just got that "vibe" that the game was going to suck. Good to see that I was right :D

Sorry to hear that you had to play it, though.

[sprankton]

Try to fire up Lost Panet, because I got a disc error last week and have yet to try again out of fear of seeing it again (prob will)...

Finish up my NHL season
Finish Marvel: UA

[Kelegacy]

I popped that game disc in, played for about 15 mins, and decided that I wasn't going to play it. I just got that "vibe" that the game was going to suck. Good to see that I was right :D

Sorry to hear that you had to play it, though.
I own it. I need to ditch it...and fast.

What's the trade-in value on a turd?

[Serapth]

I own it. I need to ditch it...and fast.

What's the trade-in value on a turd?



... ill pay postage. I consider that a bargain for that game!

[Sandman]

I'm waiting on the PS3 version of Enchanted Arms....it'll be worth it.

[shunoshi]

Me and my buddy finally got off our rears and picked up Guitar Hero 1 & 2. So, it is total jam session this weekend, sprinkled with a little Wii Sports as always.

[TheHulk]

Have to figure out what's wrong with my router then start up Lost Planet and Gears. Maybe some more Marvel:UA also.

[Sl1pstream]

Lost Planet
Rainbow Six Vegas
Evil Dead Regeneration (Picked it up for 8,50 EUR new, it's still not a good game but at least I didn't pay a lot).

EDIT:: How did I forget about WoW BC? Anyway, I will be playing that too, a lot.

[ezzkmo]

WoW BC arrived today, so probably that :)

[A Lusty Alien]

Vanguard Beta, Bridge (the card game), Dungeons & Dragons (the pencil, paper, and dice game), WoW: Burning Crusade, and maybe some City of Heroes.

[Phanto]

dammit I don't have any good game to play just trying to get hooked up again with Warcraft III: TFT, playing some Wii Sports and I'm considering paid one month for WoW so I can finally reach lvl 60 :eek: .

[Orosco]

Hopefully Burning Crusade, but Stormrage's BC server has been dumping people every night since launch, makes questing impossible. Soo...
Some older games I have, Killer7 and Undying, and some FFXI on the 360. Its nice to sit back and play it on the tv, and the Blue Mage job is kick-ass. Now all I got to do is make some friends to group with, which for me is harder than leveling. ;)

[Disgustipated]

Update: Uno. Fucking Uno on Xbox 360. Pseudopseudo, what have you unleashed? :(

[Kelegacy]

Reinstalling, after 3+ years, Blade of Darkness for PC. This spiritual successor to Die by the Sword was foolishly overlooked. It's a great game, but I'm going to play as a different character this time.

[Jenga]

Oblivion and Morrowind

I can't stop, Oblivion is sweet as-is on the 360 and Morrowind modded to hell and back is almost just as good.

Edit: WTF Phoenix Wright 2 is out and I didn't notice?
Just finished Phoenix Wright 2 about a week ago. Right now I'm playing Morrowind with the Darker Morrowind mod and those vampire mods that really flesh the vamp parts out.

Can't wait for this Monday. Hotel Dusk finally comes out.

[dirtbag]

I'm playing Paint the New House Before Moving Your Stuff In.

[resikel]

I played a little bit of Donkey Kong Junglebeat Gamecube on my Wii last night. I'll be shopping for Donkey Konga 1 and 2 today.

And since I picked up Guild Wars: Nightfall Collector's Edition for $29.99 last Thursday at EB, I'll be grabbing the original Guild Wars at BestBuy for (hopefully) $19.99 with/after a $10 bucks OFF coupon.

I also have a $5 bucks OFF coupon for any Gamecube games at Toys R Us so I'll be swinging by there to pick something up on the cheap -- SuperMonkey Ball perhaps or TOS (?)

[Everlost_MI]

Zelda:TP for the GC and Rainbow 6: Vega$. Going is slow in both with many house chores/projects in motion.

[pseudopseudo]

Update: Uno. Fucking Uno on Xbox 360. Pseudopseudo, what have you unleashed? :(
I knew exactly what I was doing. ;)

As for me, I'll be playing a bunch of stuff, if and when I have the time.

PSP
Killzone: Liberation (I'm impressed so far.)
Work Time Fun (The most addictive, least fun game ever.)

X360
Dead Rising (Still pluggin' away.)
Gears of War (If it gets here.)

PSOne
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (I'm re-hooked.)

NES
Battletoads (Hopefully I can finish it.)

[Spigot]

I've been playing the "Get Over This Stupid Cold" game that I've been losing for most of last week. I'm finally feeling a bit better, so that's good... just in time for work tomorrow!

When I haven't been hacking up a lung or waiting for death to claim me, I've been playing Burning Crusade mostly. Got my Draenai shaman up to level 10 (very neat intro area for them... love the quests and their storyline) and also got my main VERY close to 60 last night (I've only been playing him for 2 years... about time I go on an instance run instead of soloing pigs for XP).

When I wasn't playing WoW, I worked on the third case of Phoenix Wright 2 a bit more and also have started on the Goron Mines in Zelda: TP (Wii).

Not a lot of playing going on this weekend due to this stupid cold but I'll probably spend today playing the DS more than anything.

[Norse]

I've been finishing Lost Planet this weekend. Other than that I've only played some XBLA; Lumines, Geometry Wars and Bejeweled 2.

I just ordered Elite Beat Agents and Hotel Dusk from Videogamesplus.ca. They should arrive in 3-5 days so I know what I'll be playing next weekend. These games haven't got a release date here yet so I decided to import them. Since I get 2 games for the same price 1 cost over here it wasn't really a hard choice to make.

[mikeohara]

I've been playing some more games I bought for the 360:

Viva Pinata, Saints Row, Lost Planet, and Tony Hawk's Project 8 ... and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.