Weekend Gamer - What are You Playing? [Archive]

Jetherik

06-24-2005, 11:06 PM

Good weekend to you! The question is as it will always be at this time - What are you playing this weekend? I picked up Star Trek 2 Empire at War and the expansion pack for it, Orion Pirates, in the bargin bin to try them out. I will also be doing a little WoW and some CoH. That is, if I have the time. What are your plans for the weekend?

Pumped'Up

06-24-2005, 11:11 PM

too many games to play and catch up on. I'm in the process of deciding which 22-23" LCD HDTV to buy for games. Otherwise, I will pickup Guild Wars this weekend.

woodentaco

06-24-2005, 11:16 PM

Battlefield 2, lots and lots of it. My old WoW guild has a couple of people who love a good FPS, so we're playing together and having a blast. That game is so rewarding once teamwork gets going

if76

06-25-2005, 12:15 AM

too many games to play and catch up on. I'm in the process of deciding which 22-23" LCD HDTV to buy for games. Otherwise, I will pickup Guild Wars this weekend.

Get a CRT. They're half as expensive and actually have better image quality than LCD. Best Buy doesn't hook them up to an HD signal to trick you into thinking they're worse.

Bushido

06-25-2005, 12:32 AM

guildwars-Eve online- Im also looking for suggestions.

thecrazyd

06-25-2005, 12:36 AM

Umm... Battlefield.

ddbrown30

06-25-2005, 12:53 AM

I'll be playing more Psychonauts. Everyone should go buy this game right now. It's available on XBox and PC and I think it's out on PS2 now as well. This game is amazingly fun and is one of the most humorous I've played in years. Go now.

Fyd

06-25-2005, 01:21 AM

i cant play !!!!!!!!! i must study ;(

Offworlder

06-25-2005, 01:31 AM

Yeah. Battlefield 2. Goodtimes... Except when the other team has a bad ass in a jet bombing spawns and tanks left and right and we have no one on our side good enough to counter him/her.

(Suppressing urge to gripe about server browser yet again...)

dr_qwandry

06-25-2005, 02:19 AM

Far Cry
Dune 2
that's pretty much it
My girlfriend just got puppies, so i'm pretty much occupied with that

nesmercal

06-25-2005, 02:48 AM

Well, on the PC side, I am playing the upgrade game. Spec'ing out a new board, chip, memory, etc. All a necessary evil to prepare for the games of the future not to mention being able to run the present ones much better!

On the XBox, I hope to put some time in with Alien Hominid, Destroy all Humans, and Conker.

Nesmercal

51|RandoM

06-25-2005, 02:50 AM

the "find a bf2 server that doesn't suck" game.

score

06-25-2005, 03:11 AM

Guild Wars for me.
That game is addicting.

Furious Wang

06-25-2005, 03:20 AM

Finishing up Paper Mario Thousand Year Door. Still enjoying the game but I take back my "Oh Crap, This game is awesome!" award. Just waaaaaay too much pointless backtracking.

This one part after Chapter 5 really pissed me off more than anything. Anyone who's played it knows what I'm talking about. I wouldn't have minded going back to Pirate Island to get Pianta's Daughter if I hadn't just came from there.

bumgut

06-25-2005, 03:27 AM

3 words:

LEGO STAR WARS

fushi

06-25-2005, 03:50 AM

Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and the occasional session of FFX and Wario Ware: Twisted

Heretic Machine

06-25-2005, 04:08 AM

Mostly playing some MUCKs and GTA: SA... Messing around with my new wi-fi router.

To Bumgut: Congratulations on buying the best Star Wars game, ever.

fitbabits

06-25-2005, 05:29 AM

I'm unfortunately stuck at work today, so there will be little game playing from me. Tomorrow, on the other hand, will be full of the following:

Cold Winter (PS2) - What Shadow Ops for Xbox and PC should have been.
Winning Eleven 8 (Xbox) - Can't. Stop. Playing.
Worldwide Soccer Manager 2005 (PC) - Glasgow Rangers (my team) are in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League; a surprise for me since I failed at the qaulifiers last season!
Rome: Total War (PC) - But only if I have sufficient time to devote to it.
Burnout 3: Takedown (Xbox) - Hands-down the best arcade racer ever made.

I'll probably mow the lawn and do some housework in between all of the above. Oh, and my wife and I are going to see Batman Begins for the first time.

bapenguin

06-25-2005, 05:49 AM

probably Guild Wars. Hot Shots Golf. My last weekend as a free man!

Nesta

06-25-2005, 05:49 AM

BF2...so much fun!

ALso will get a little Guild Wars in. Picked it up a couple of days ago to play with an old UO buddy. Good times so far.

Spigot

06-25-2005, 06:13 AM

I was able to get work off today, but alas, I have to spend it in the 8 hours of hell known as MY COUSIN'S WEDDING.

Hopefully we'll get home at a decent time and I can play some WoW or Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. I'm going through my collection to find games that I haven't spent much time on and I'm loving Stranger's Wrath.

I'll probably play some Phantom Brave as well. Great TRPG.

StoneGut

06-25-2005, 06:17 AM

Guild Wars for me with a little bit of Advent Rising for desert. Two great games!

fitbabits

06-25-2005, 06:18 AM

probably Guild Wars. Hot Shots Golf. My last weekend as a free man!

You getting hitched then, bapenguin? Congratulations! Best thing that's ever happened to me.

GBSOD

06-25-2005, 06:23 AM

Rise of Nations, I never tried it when it came back in 03. It is great. I also intend to finish Splinter cell CT this weekend. If I have time I may even put a few hours into my second play through of Vampire:Bloodlines.

Commissar Rob

06-25-2005, 06:55 AM

Doing a trip to the in-laws this weekend (today actually), so not much time for gaming - especially since I'm not much of a handheld guy. Nonetheless, I did get in some quality time with Destroy All Humans.

I also reinstalled Starcraft and had the computer throughly trounce me. I guess that's character building... :(

Kelegacy

06-25-2005, 07:13 AM

i've been huddled over and before the toilet this whole week. I want to play San Andreas for PC but i cant even sit up straight for more than a few minutes. Plus it's going to be 100 degrees today in Maine, so i'm trying to work up the strength to go back home to my parents pool...i just dont want to taint the chlorine with a film of brown water...

VoodooKarma

06-25-2005, 07:21 AM

probably Guild Wars. Hot Shots Golf. My last weekend as a free man!

Either your getting married or your off to prison. Pretty much the same thing anyways :). I keed, I keed...Congratulations and good luck!

This weekend I am playing GTA:SA and Kirby Canvas Curse, talk about playing two totally different games but both are great.

TacRod

06-25-2005, 07:40 AM

SWAT 4 coop and NWN coop with a random dungeon generator. Also, some Doom 3 with the duct-tape mod. I might work on my OFP project tomorrow.

I'm still looking for PC coop recommendations. Old/new, demo/full, any genre.

EternalGamer

06-25-2005, 08:20 AM

Just finished God of War last night (mixed feelings on this one for me, but the extra unlockable stuff was great). I picked up six games at a recent buy 2 get 1 free sale so have to decide which to start on next (God of War was the first of them). I will probably start either Doom3 or Psychonauts. I will probably also work on Mario 64DS and Minish Cap a bit each (nearly done with both) while I enjoy a little sun this afternoon and nurse a slight hangover from last nights Chocolate Martinis.

I love summer weekends.

Dan

Everlost_MI

06-25-2005, 08:47 AM

probably Guild Wars. Hot Shots Golf. My last weekend as a free man!

Getting hitched next weekend, bap?

Everlost_MI

06-25-2005, 08:48 AM

Playing a bad game of recovering from a great night out with the wife and friends. Other than that, it's GTA:SA and if I play my cards right I'll get out and snagged BF2.

TrackZero

06-25-2005, 09:31 AM

Still playing WoW, since a friend finally picked it up and joined, I'm helping him play along.

On my DS, about half-way through Kirby's Canvas Curse. Damn what a great game.

And I still intend to finish off the last 1/3 of Psychonauts sooner or later this week.

Heretic Machine

06-25-2005, 09:42 AM

Hey, got an unexpected refund check from the University :) So maybe not this weekend, but -next- weekend I'm going to pick up a game or two. Probably Destroy All Humans, possibly Psychonaughts as well though I'm tempted to hold onto it for July.

Jetherik

06-25-2005, 09:48 AM

probably Guild Wars. Hot Shots Golf. My last weekend as a free man!
Your last weekend as a free man? Then you might as well do it right and stay up until 3am playing, because it will be about the last time you can. Congrats!

fitbabits

06-25-2005, 09:48 AM

This weekend I am playing GTA:SA and Kirby Canvas Curse, talk about playing two totally different games but both are great.

You're a very sick person, VoodooKarma. The conservative politicians and lobbyists can see right through you. You're attracting females by playing Kirby then, when you've lured them into your trap, you're going to kill them and steal their money. Then, when the cops show up, you'll kill an officer of the law, steal his or her car and run over old ladies while you escape listening to Anthrax or Slayer.

Any society that allows people to play such widley different games deserves what it gets.

Wadmaasi

06-25-2005, 10:14 AM

Frigging MissionForce: CyberStorm (DirectX 2 required!) and Starsiege (assuming I can get it to play nice with my joystick).

VoodooKarma

06-25-2005, 10:16 AM

You're a very sick person, VoodooKarma. The conservative politicians and lobbyists can see right through you. You're attracting females by playing Kirby then, when you've lured them into your trap, you're going to kill them and steal their money. Then, when the cops show up, you'll kill an officer of the law, steal his or her car and run over old ladies while you escape listening to Anthrax or Slayer.

Any society that allows people to play such widley different games deserves what it gets.

hehe...I play Kirby during the day when I get a chance and GTA:SA after the daughter goes to bed. She got up late last night to get a drink of water and happened to walk in during a cutscene where Officer Tenpenny drops about 5 F-bombs, I am going to have to hook up a motion sensor to my living room!The good thing about playing Kirby is it washes away that dirty feeling I get after killing cops and hookers in GTA :D .

FyrionX

06-25-2005, 10:18 AM

I'm leaving for Princeton Univ. tomorrow so I won't be playing a lot this weekend;(

bapenguin

06-25-2005, 10:20 AM

Yup getting hitched next weekend. Thanks all for the well wishes....

jschuur

06-25-2005, 10:27 AM

Psychonauts (funniest game I've played in a long time), Destroy All Humans (also funny, but not quite as good) and of course Battlefield 2 (still single player, until I get the hang of the maps).

ddbrown30

06-25-2005, 10:29 AM

Psychonauts (funniest game I've played in a long time), Destroy All Humans (also funny, but not quite as good) and of course Battlefield 2 (still single player, until I get the hang of the maps).

Excellent. Definitely the best game I've played in a long time. The last game to absorb me like this was KOTOR and I play a lot of games.

fitbabits

06-25-2005, 10:38 AM

hehe...I play Kirby during the day when I get a chance and GTA:SA after the daughter goes to bed. She got up late last night to get a drink of water and happened to walk in during a cutscene where Officer Tenpenny drops about 5 F-bombs, I am going to have to hook up a motion sensor to my living room!The good thing about playing Kirby is it washes away that dirty feeling I get after killing cops and hookers in GTA :D .

Sick person AND an irresponsible parent! Just wait till Sen. Lieberman gets a wiff of this... :rolleyes:

I remember playing something a while ago which contained it's fair share of violence and f-bombs (Kingpin, perhaps) and my in-laws stopped by unexpectedly to drop off some plants. I didn't hear them come in due to the probably excessive volume of my PC speakers. My mother-in-law's face was classic when she heard what was going on and when she saw me blowing the snot out of some NPC.

riposte101

06-25-2005, 10:44 AM

Conkers. This game is great!

Blue

06-25-2005, 10:48 AM

Playing some WoW - both brothers and my nephew now play, so that makes it even more entertaining - trying to get my Hunter to 50. Too bad I'm on a mission where I run around looking for dirt. Bah. Also playing the work game. Not nearly as fun, but the money out-does the exp rewards.

And grats to Bap on his last free weekend. It'll be five years for me this August. Best decision I ever made. Well, that and purchasing Killer Klowns from Outer Space on DVD.

Mister Pie

06-25-2005, 12:33 PM

A bit of WoW, a bit of Guild Wars, and a whole lot of studying for the MCAT.

fitbabits

06-25-2005, 12:48 PM

A bit of WoW, a bit of Guild Wars, and a whole lot of studying for the MCAT.

Oooh, my wife is a 4th-year medical student and I remember the days of studying for the MCAT.

I just called her and asked her what advice she would give to anyone currently studying for it and she said, "do lots of practice questions, allow plenty of time to study and read each question thoroughly before answering it."

Best of luck.

Babbster

06-25-2005, 12:53 PM

Like others in this thread, I'll be picking up Destroy All Humans (Xbox) later today and kicking it alien-style tonight and tomorrow. It looks to have that Mars Attacks! feel and I just can't afford to pass that up. Monday or Tuesday (my "other" weekend), I'm going to have to decide between grabbing a DS and picking up an LCD monitor to replace my slowly dying CRT (for PC - I'm not replacing my cheapo 27" HDTV until the 360 hits).

evilpenguin9000

06-25-2005, 06:04 PM

I'm still hopelessly addicted to WoW. My small guild continues to grow little by little and that's cool.

My friends and I discovered the territories gametypes in Halo 2 and have been playing that obsessively. Makes it a little more even as I can't just own them like when we deathmatch.

mister_slim

06-25-2005, 06:53 PM

Still working through a massive DS backlog, to which I've added a pile of GBA games. Also trying to get my Dreamcast working. And hopefully finish some writing.

Kelegacy

06-25-2005, 07:06 PM

Still working through a massive DS backlog, to which I've added a pile of GBA games. Also trying to get my Dreamcast working. And hopefully finish some writing.

Are you part of any writing groups, slim? I was thinking of making a thread at one time for artistic outlets, to see who was in the mood to share their writing, or just to commune openly about such endeavors. I know Evil himself enjoys writing, as well. If it's one thing I miss about my creative writing groups/classes in college, it's the osmosis of creative juices and critiques.

I'm hawking a story right now (in the fantasy/sci-fi publications but i fear it doesnt have too much of either to suffice a place there) but currently I'm just brainstorming and doing little else. I just took a shower though, and that's the best place for my thinking. Plucked a new idea out of the shower head, too.

mister_slim

06-25-2005, 07:15 PM

Are you part of any writing groups, slim? I was thinking of making a thread at one time for artistic outlets, to see who was in the mood to share their writing, or just to commune openly about such endeavors. I know Evil himself enjoys writing, as well. If it's one thing I miss about my creative writing groups/classes in college, it's the osmosis of creative juices and critiques.
I'm mostly just playing around with nonfiction, gaming-related pieces right now. If I think something is interesting, I toss it up here, usually. I'm willing to read through short stories, though I don't have a ton of time for critiques.

Hijinx

06-25-2005, 08:47 PM

I will be leading some more fools to victory as Commander in BF2 and making sweet turns in Forza.

Life is good :)

Shifteh

06-25-2005, 11:32 PM

DeadPixel

06-26-2005, 09:45 AM

- Silent Hunter 3
- Soldiers Heroes of WWII

51|RandoM

06-26-2005, 09:48 AM

I can't stop playing bf2.

Even if all the servers were empty, I'd still be cruising around somewhere in an attack copter, flying under bridges, buzzing oil rigs, rocketing SAM sites, etc.

Considering the crap this game makes you put up with sometimes(crashes, crappy browser, etc. ad nauseum), it must be pretty good to grab me like this.