Weekend Gamer: What are you playing?

[Jetherik]

Well, what is it? What games do you plan on playing, conquering, or being totally frustrated by this weekend?

[Gorvi]

Nice and early this week! Rogue Galaxy, FFXI, and Metal Gear Ac!d will be taking up my time.

[Mortis]

A whole lot of something on the PC, Lost Planet multi, and Just Cause.

[bapenguin]

I got a new processor coming today, so I'm thinking of picking up some beefy PC game to throw at the bastard. Anyone got any suggestions? Also borrowing Battlestations: Midway from a buddy so I'll be checking that out.

[JudasGoat]

The Burning Crusade train keeps a-rollin'.

[laggerific]

Ultima Underworld in dosbox...about halfway through..then UW2, and system shock.

[Ventura_DK]

Still debating. Maybe good old City of Heroes or a round of Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Feeling like playing super hero games this weekend.

[mikeohara]

WoW and a little something called WII.

[Wadmaasi]

Still plugging through FFXII (made it to Archades last night, after a bit of time spent leveling and mark/esper-hunting ), still having a great time.

[EWolfmanD]

Rogue Galaxy and Hotel Dusk: Room 215.

[Heretic Machine]

Been playing lots of DBZ on the Wii, and actually rewatching the original Dragonball (corny English dub edition). I may go pick up Lunar Knights today, if I can find a copy (and if I feel like it). The game sounds great, though I'm a little upset that since I don't own either of the first two Boktai games I am put at a disadvantage (they give you an energy regeneration boost when in the GBA slot). I also hate that a Megaman side-quest was removed from the game because Capcom of America didn't agree to it (Capcom of Japan did). But it still sounds like an awesome game, so I'm going to pick it up at some point this month, money is just a bit tight at the moment.

[51|RandoM]

I got a new processor coming today, so I'm thinking of picking up some beefy PC game to throw at the bastard.

Processors aren't the bottleneck in PC gaming nowadays, you may not notice any significant difference.

[Syl]

D&D.

Then probably that Supreme Commander demo until i can beat the AI on hard. Bastards.

[Goronmon]

Rogue Galax and FFVI for me.

[Felonous]

I received my replacement Xbox 360 so I'll get to finally give Gears of War a good working over, plus I will be giving the Crackdown demo some attention too.

I'm sure I'll do a couple hours of BF 2:MC also, it is always good for some multiplayer action.

[zipR]

I hope to play a bit more of Thief: Deadly Shadows, which seems to be a lot better than people give it credit for. And to change things up, I may play a bit more of Planescape:Torment.

I know, I know, I gotta get with the times. I'm a sucker for cheap games with a colon in the title. And I play slowly.

[Headcase]

Probably just WarioWare. Or Excite Truck if I can finally find it on the rental shelves :mad:

... or GH2 if I can fix my guitar.

[bapenguin]

Processors aren't the bottleneck in PC gaming nowadays, you may not notice any significant difference.

It is in my case. I'm running a AMD 3200 with a GeForce 8800GTX. Comparing my benches to some of the others on the net now, i'm down about 20% where I could be.

I'll be upgrading to an FX-60 and OCing it to hopefully...3ghz.

[Bad_Buddha]

Been playing a lot of Freelancer lately. Will probably hit up Guild Wars for a while. Will probably be setting up a wireless router, too. Decided to go for the Buffalo unit that many here suggested.

Might pull the Beemer out of the garage and work on it to get it ready for spring. :D

My wife is up in Alaska on business for the weekend so I get to help my daughter get prepped for Tolo! The joys of parenthood! :D Also need to get her to the State HS Bowling AllStars tournament!

Proud Dad!

[menage]

Oblivion, maybe I'll start that Knights quest. Checking out the Supreme Commander demo (if it holds up on my system).

Maybe some old Snes games like Ghouls n Ghosts or Cybernator.

[Jokath]

CoH/CoV = 90%
War3 = 10%

[Bydo_Empire]

My wife and I are leaving on a 9-day cruise tomorrow... so nothing but DS for me all next week. Hopefully I'll get in some quality time w/ Castlevania:POR and Elite Beat Agents.

[Kamalot]

I'm gonna try out the Scions of Fate game in the banner advert.

[TRiLoGY]

Im playing Zelda on the Wii, However, with all the Talk of FFVI coming out on the GBA in the USA, I might fire up FFVI on the PS1 :)

[phantomhitman]

my bed (still overcoming the heebeegeebees)

[Kamalot]

my bed (still overcoming the heebeegeebees)
Man. It must have been a good show. I saw them live in concert in the late 80s.

[Borys]

NOX! from Westwood.

I have already beaten the Wizard path, now I am moving on with the Conjurer's one. It's way easier, I have already almost 30K in gold saved up for Triple Fireball Staff of Recharge. Currently I am clearing Temple of Ix. Can't wait to play as Warrior as it should be the easiest path!

Betrayal in Antara!

I have just started it on a Virtual PC (Windows 98) on my XP machine. I am in Panizo right now closing First Chapter. I don't get the reviews - it's a great game, much, much better than Return to Krondor.

Baten Kaitos 2

Way to boring to motivate me to move any further. I am 19 hours as for today.

[rein]

I'm gonna try out the Scions of Fate game in the banner advert.

Post your impressions when you do. I want to give it a shot but this weekend is going to be FFXII. If I can find a way to make the Scions of Fate game play at work, I will have to give it a try next week.

[DaedalusFolly]

Viva Pinata, my most recent acquisition, thanks to CaptStu.

[The Continental]

Finally getting around to playing Dead Rising. Despite enjoying the demo, the dependence on time management for the actual game kind of has me feeling a bit cheated, as if I'm really missing out on all there is to see and do within the game.

[Bad_Buddha]

Man. It must have been a good show. I saw them live in concert in the late 80s.
Johnny-come-lately!!!

I saw them back in the 70's when they were the opening act for KISS! :cool:

[Deadend]

Today is 360/PC, tommrow is drunken party gmes on Xbox 1/Wii. Yay for 21st birthday happening on a sunday!

[Cavalier]

Rogue Galaxy and a bit of Vanguard. You never know I might even fire up Lost Plant.

[ÜberJumper]

Probably the snoozefest that is the Supreme Commander demo, just to see if I'm wrong about how boring it is.

Then some Company of Heroes - Skirmish AI mod, to wake me back up.

[Bumbuliuz]

I installed Vista on my machine and have finally got the pc just the way I wanted. So I will be trying the Supreme Commander demo later today.

On the console side: I bought Zelda2 and Mario World on the Vc today. On the 360 I am playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, I am loving the comic book feel of the game.

[51|RandoM]

My wife and I are leaving on a 9-day cruise tomorrow... so nothing but DS for me all next week. Hopefully I'll get in some quality time w/ Castlevania:POR and Elite Beat Agents.

If you go on a cruise with your wife and conspicuously spend time with your DS, aren't you going to get your ass in a sling?

Many years ago I was on vacation with my fiancee's(at the time) family. I had to fake a sunburn just so I could get a day by myself to goof around on a jetski. Jetski >>>>> Day 2 at the Magic Kingdom.

[Gpig]

I think I might put in Syberia for the xbox tomorrow and try it out. I'm in the mood for some adventure gaming.

[i aint yer pa]

I picked up Marvel UA, so I'll be playing that (hopefully co-op on Live) and some Viva Pinata. Maybe some Tiger Woods, too. All on the 360 (obviously).

I started playing Contact on the DS months ago, but never got back to it. I'm starting it over this weekend and working all the way through it.

[Gorvi]

I think I might put in Syberia for the xbox tomorrow and try it out. I'm in the mood for some adventure gaming.

Oh god that game is awful. I'm not trying to tell ya not to try it, but my wife and I couldn't get past the first half hour of that game, and we both really like adventure games. Hopefully you get more enjoyment out of it than we did.

[Gpig]

Oh god that game is awful. I'm not trying to tell ya not to try it, but my wife and I couldn't get past the first half hour of that game, and we both really like adventure games. Hopefully you get more enjoyment out of it than we did.

Haha, well I have been meaning to try out Otogi as well so maybe I'll put that in after 30 minutes instead.


Baten Kaitos 2

Way to boring to motivate me to move any further. I am 19 hours as for today.

God damn it. I bought that game back during the buy 2 get 1 thing at toys r us because they were sold out of my 3 other choices for a third game and I haven't played it yet. Glad to know I picked such an exciting game.

[Gorvi]

Haha, well I have been meaning to try out Otogi as well so maybe I'll put that in after 30 minutes instead.

That's a much, much better game. I've been meaning to try to track down Otogi 2, but I can't remember if that ever came out over here or if it was only released in Japan.

[Kamalot]

That's a much, much better game. I've been meaning to try to track down Otogi 2, but I can't remember if that ever came out over here or if it was only released in Japan.
It came out here.

[Sl1pstream]

Okami, since the game finally had a European release this week.

[Rook34]

Finally beat FEAR and Lost Planet. Lost Planets last board was fucking tough as hell, and FEAR ...I still don't understand what all happened. Can anyone fill me in?

I could barely ever hear what anyone ever said in the game anyway.

[Majster Wichajster]

Okami! Yes, Europe; bite me.

Also a lot of Every Extend (not Extra). You should check it out, it's awesome and it's free. On that note - this guy. (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html)

[Wedge]

Okami! Finally!

[miah]

Been playing Tomb Raider: Legend mainly, its pretty cool. Also playing FFXII on my PS3 (because there are no good PS3 games yet).

[Kelegacy]

ROGUE GALAXY!

Hoping to sink some time into it this weekend. The weapon customization is distracting me too much though, as I always want to meld the best weapons.

[thecrazyd]

I'll be playing a little Metal Slug with my roommate hopefully.

[cannedpasta]

I just got a PSP (preparing myself for Castlevania later this year... heh) along with Socom FTB2, GTA:Vice City Stories, Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops, and Capcom Puzzle World, so I will probably be playing tons of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.

[Bydo_Empire]

If you go on a cruise with your wife and conspicuously spend time with your DS, aren't you going to get your ass in a sling?Hah, no, she knows me too well... I am curious to see the ship's arcade, though.

[bapenguin]

I'll be playing a little Metal Slug with my roommate hopefully.

The Wii version? How is it? I've been tempted to pick it up.

[fitbabits]

Winning Eleven on Xbox 360. Crackdown, R6 Vegas.

[Ted Huge]

FF12. The fire was burning low, but I'll try to throw a few logs on it.

Civ4 --- because my insula (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6298557.stm) demands it.

Stomp around the Crackdown demo some more.

[thecrazyd]

The Wii version? How is it? I've been tempted to pick it up.
Yeah, it is the Wii version. Haven't had much of a chance to play it yet, but I'll let you know. But it is pretty hard to mess up (2D) Metal Slug.

[Sandman]

This is a good weekend for RPGs. I'll be playing WOW : BC as usual. Rogue Galaxy is getting some love....I love that story recap feature. .hack//G.U. Vol. 1//Roots came in this week and I'll start it as well. If I need some mindless break from the action I have Rumble Roses XX...working on getting those 1000. Oh yeah, and I'm looking forward to that Mass Effect interview tonight.

[NeoCutter]

I'm right at 8700 and change. I've got all my 360 games stacked up at home including a few I've been saving b/c school is in full effect. I'm going to look at the achievements for all my games and live arcade as well and see if I can be at 10k by the 12th when the deodorant world cup of games begins! ;0)

[Rook34]

Burnout Revenge and Oblivion again. Finally.

Oh and I should probably beat Okami one day, too.

[Metal Jesus]

I'm playing Deus Ex: Invisible War (xbox) and Sid Meier's Pirates (PSP). Looking forward to Ratchet & Clank next week!

[Hagetaka]

Halo 1.
Starcraft: BW.
Diablo 1.
Fallout 2.

I've finally gotten around to playing some of the games that I played as a kid.

[Soul182]

I think I am gonna try to get into lost planet. Maybe it is just me but that game is not blowing me away. The graphics are great but the game is kinda BLAHHHH. I am finally going to dig in to OBLIVION and Gears always works its way in somehow

[Gorvi]

I'm playing Deus Ex: Invisible War (xbox) and Sid Meier's Pirates (PSP). Looking forward to Ratchet & Clank next week!

How is Pirates? I have it sitting around still in the shrinkrap, I couldn't resist it for $20.

[Citizen Philip]

How is Pirates? I have it sitting around still in the shrinkrap, I couldn't resist it for $20.

Pirates! For PC was lots of fun, easy to get into and interesting. I'll be playing GalCiv 2: Dark Avatar, game was suppose to come out next week.. but they released early.

[Akeldama]

Battlestations Midway.

Thank the good lord it's finally released in the UK. For my Boomtown review I was stuck playing mostly complete tards.

But thanks to the game being released to the public today a lot of my XBL Friend's List will be online over the weekend.

[YoungAlCapone]

Just bought my 360 last night, so I will be enjoying Gears, PGR3 and the Crackdown demo. I am thinking I might pick up either Table Tennis or a couple of Xbox live arcade games as well, but I did drop a lot of money last night, so I am a little hesistant to be spending anymore on gaming just yet.

Just finished the first Berserker part on Gears, and unlocked my second garage in PGR3. I love both so far.

[tiremfej]

Rainbow Six: Vegas, Battlestations: Midway, Oblivion, and perhaps some GTA: San Andreas for the Xbox (I never did finish it.)

[dorkus_malorkus]

I am LOVING my 360 since I got it a couple weeks ago. Gears for me along with probably Hexic and/or Bejeweled. The achievements for Bejeweled 2 kind of suck. There should be at least one or two gimme's. I did get the x8 cascade so maybe that was one.

[MSUStud911]

I'll be playing Vanguard and hopefully some Rogue Galaxy as well. I'll play some Hotel Dusk and I might pickup Lunar Knights tonight.

[Everlost_MI]

Army of Anyone concert tonight and maybe some Gothic 3 after hanging at millie.motts' house on Saturday to partake of some adult beverages.

[Spigot]

I hope to play a bit more of Thief: Deadly Shadows, which seems to be a lot better than people give it credit for. And to change things up, I may play a bit more of Planescape:Torment.
Oh wow, that is the epitome of the perfect weekend, my friend. If you're playing Thief 3 on the PC, make sure you install the high-res pack (http://www.john-p.com/textures/Thief-DS/index.shtml). The game becomes what it should have been to start with. Just wait till you get to Shalebridge Cradle... *shudder*

Im playing Zelda on the Wii, However, with all the Talk of FFVI coming out on the GBA in the USA, I might fire up FFVI on the PS1 images/smilies/smile.gif EW EW EW! FFVI on the PS1? Come on. Either dig up the SNES copy or get the GBA version (it's out already). The PS1 versions were nasty... worst emulation ever...

Betrayal in Antara!

I have just started it on a Virtual PC (Windows 98) on my XP machine. I am in Panizo right now closing First Chapter. I don't get the reviews - it's a great game, much, much better than Return to Krondor Oh, that is just wrong. Wait a minute... I thought you were saying it was better than Betrayal At Krondor. Never mind. BaK was one of the best PC RPG's ever (at least in my opinion) but Return To Krondor, while good, wasn't anywhere near as good as the original. Betrayal In Antara is good but I much preferred Betrayal At Krondor.

think I might put in Syberia for the xbox tomorrow and try it out. I'm in the mood for some adventure gaming. Haha, well I have been meaning to try out Otogi as well so maybe I'll put that in after 30 minutes instead. Syberia is great on the PC. I never tried the Xbox version. If you only play the first one, you'll be disappointed as it's really only the first half of the game/story. You must play the second one right afterwards.

Otogi is great but Otogi 2 is where it's at. (And yes, Otogi 2 DID come out over here... I'm looking at my copy right now.) Otogi 2 gives you, what, 4-5 different warriors to play as and is just super fun (and a little less difficult than Otogi 1).

Ok... enough of what everyone else is playing.

I just finished Phoenix Wright: And Justice For All last night (man, that last case had some obscure/maddening bits to it!) and it was awesome. If you liked the first one, definately pick up PW:AJFA.

The best part about finishing Phoenix Wright 2 is that I can now start to play Hotel Dusk. I've just started Chapter 2 and can't wait to play this thing.

Since I'm working this weekend, that means lots of DS time so it'll be mainly Hotel Dusk and Castlevania: PoR when my eyes can't handle the reading.

When I'm home, I'll spend my time on the consoles playing Zelda on the Wii and Rogue Galaxy on the PS2. If I can't use the TV, then I'll be working on my gnome mage in WoW:TBC... just hit 62 yesterday... something is wrong when I hit 3 levels in less than a month.

I'm also playing the final stages of the "Box Up The Books In Your Old Office" game so I can get everything cleared out of there and into the basement. I'm off work next week but it's going to be a working holiday as I have to paint the old office and put in laminate flooring for my son's new room.

Yippee.

[Jetherik]

It is in my case. I'm running a AMD 3200 with a GeForce 8800GTX. Comparing my benches to some of the others on the net now, i'm down about 20% where I could be.

I'll be upgrading to an FX-60 and OCing it to hopefully...3ghz.

If you like RPGs try Gothic 3 - that will tax your system...

[TRiLoGY]

EW EW EW! FFVI on the PS1? Come on. Either dig up the SNES copy or get the GBA version (it's out already). The PS1 versions were nasty... worst emulation ever...

Unfortunately it's not out on the GBA in the UK and I dont have a snes lying around, so the PS1 Version will do just fine for now :)

[Spigot]

Import it!

I didn't notice that you were in the UK till now. A thousand apologies, my thrice-damned friend.

[TRiLoGY]

Import it!

I didn't notice that you were in the UK till now. A thousand apologies, my thrice-damned friend.

heheh, no worries. :)

hmmm, importing sounds like a great idea! This is a stupid Question, but are GBA games in any way region locked? (Im guessing by your suggestion that they are not.)

[Gorvi]

heheh, no worries. :)

hmmm, importing sounds like a great idea! This is a stupid Question, but are GBA games in any way region locked? (Im guessing by your suggestion that they are not.)

Nope, both GBA and DS games are region free. :)

[TRiLoGY]

Nope, both GBA and DS games are region free. :)

:D

Thanks Spigot and Gorvi!!!

/me Runs off to Import FFVI Advance...

[bapenguin]

If you like RPGs try Gothic 3 - that will tax your system...

I've heard pretty medicore to poor things regarding G3. I just ordered GW: Nightfall (not taxing) and Call of Juarez (taxing) from GoGamer.

[Spigot]

heheh, no worries. :)

hmmm, importing sounds like a great idea! This is a stupid Question, but are GBA games in any way region locked? (Im guessing by your suggestion that they are not.)I wasn't 100% sure about the GBA games but I knew that DS games aren't. Hence my being able to play the latest Phoenix Wright game (And Justice For All) since last October instead of 2 weeks ago and Ouendan too.

I love region-free games... especially if they have a full English translation on it.

[laggerific]

Finally getting around to playing Dead Rising. Despite enjoying the demo, the dependence on time management for the actual game kind of has me feeling a bit cheated, as if I'm really missing out on all there is to see and do within the game.

Don't give up...it's really intense the first time through...I went through 1 day several times before I was willing to bite the bullet and go all the way through...it was intense, but exciting...then my second time through I was able to really capture more of the game. It's actually a pretty ingenious system...by the time you are maxxed out you will be able to pretty much see the whole game, and the great thing to me is that it's not a huge commitment to play the game through to see more, like so many other 20-50 hour games.

[laggerific]

I think I am gonna try to get into lost planet. Maybe it is just me but that game is not blowing me away. The graphics are great but the game is kinda BLAHHHH. I am finally going to dig in to OBLIVION and Gears always works its way in somehow

Yeah, I just finished GoW to clear some gaming space for Lost Planet, and the stilted mission based game play really was a let down. I love the multiplayer, especially rifle matches...and the single player is good, just not as cohesive as it could be.

[Disgustipated]

Lost Planet (Thanks Psykoboy2) and I'm going to TRY to get a copy of FFVI Advance. I really wanna play it again. :\

Edit: Oh, and I managed to acquire an English version of Resident Evil 4 for PC. I might give that a go.

[Metal Jesus]

I am surprised at how much I am enjoying Pirates on the PSP! There are a bunch of cool mini games to dig into and the open-ended gameplay keeps it interesting. I didn't play the PC version, but I've read that they revamped parts of the game that people used to complain about (like the ballroom dancing).

[ezzkmo]

More WoW. Why not...

[flinxz]

It is a SCUMMy weekend for me.
Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Full Throttle (maybe)
The Digg (maybe)
Loom (maybe)
Sam and Max Hit the Road

I hope to sail thru all of these games rather quickly. I never have finished Flight of the Amazon Queen though. I plan on spending the most time on Sam and Max, then go thru the new stuff next week.

[Panda Love]

I resubscribed to WoW. So much for school.

[Phanto]

Sa but true.. I got no fucking game to play.. since I bought the Wii all my attention went there but after I finished Zelda and got bored of Wii Sports I can't think of any game to play on my PC anymore...

[Everlost_MI]

I've heard pretty medicore to poor things regarding G3.

I snagged G3 last weekend and I am totally hooked. After a little bit of tweaking, it runs really well on my system (p4 Intel Core 2 @ 2.13Ghz, 2 gigs of RAM, 256MB ATI Radeon X1300Pro and the Sound Blaster X-Fi Audio. I think it's more fun as than the first two Gothic games, if you dug them that is. The choices of where you can take the storyline, at least so far, are more diverse than the previous games.

[balamoor]

Holy Giant Wombats... Pirates CSG online is owning me like Tigole owns Draft, this is probably one of the most underrated online Collectable games out there and is a hell of a lot of fun to play. If you’re bored this weekend give this a spin. http://piratesonline.station.sony.com/

[resikel]

Probably won't play anything. It's time for me to catch up on some 24, Heroes, and Battlestar Galactica that I missed in the past two weeks.

[Spigot]

Sa but true.. I got no fucking game to play.. since I bought the Wii all my attention went there but after I finished Zelda and got bored of Wii Sports I can't think of any game to play on my PC anymore...Pick up Trauma Center on the Wii. It'll keep you busy for quite some time.

Or get WoW. You'll never beat WoW... It will beat you!

Maybe I could get you over to my house and you could work on some of the stacks of games I have lying around. I wish I had the affliction of no games to play.

[Xaerin]

GBA: Castlevania - Circle of the Moon
Xbox - Dead Mans Hand
360 - Dead Rising
PC - Neverwinter Nights and some XNA

[EL CABONG]

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