Weekend Gamer - Thanksgiving Edition - What are you playing? [Archive]

Jetherik

11-23-2005, 04:05 PM

Here it is coming up on Thanksgiving in America. A time of stuffing ourselves, watching football, and hopefully, having two days off. Which makes this a four day weekend. After I finish cooking what I am bringing over to my aunt's house, I plan on playing WoW (just started playing it again. While I hate the travel time for certain areas, the game is still great), and some CoH. What are you playing? How are the 360 games? Which ones do you recomend? Are you happy or disappointed with the system? In other words, what are you playing this weekend? And, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Taco

11-23-2005, 04:08 PM

Quake4, Civ4, and CS.

Life is good.

Captain Awesome

11-23-2005, 04:10 PM

The gym after that huge dinner. :mad:

outfromoutwhere

11-23-2005, 04:12 PM

Disgaea, SotC, Darwinia, and FFIX.

FFIX is a "nostalgic" second playthrough. SotC was beautiful to beat, and them there time trials are pretty fun too.

rein

11-23-2005, 04:15 PM

Probably a lot of Socom Fireteam or another portable game since I have a bad case of diarrhea. :o

When I am not in the bathroom I will probably give Condemned a go.

sicker

11-23-2005, 04:17 PM

Mario Krack DS, Castelvania Dawn of Sorrow, Advance Wars DS, R-Type Final, and if I can get the Sims 2 away from my other I will open up Quake 4, CoD 2, or The Movies.

Liquidize105

11-23-2005, 04:17 PM

*gorilla noise*

And come Dec. 14th:

*gorilla noise*

Heretic Machine

11-23-2005, 04:19 PM

I'm playing my 360, mostly PDZ. Multiplayer is simply awesome... and I'm like 16th place in Dark Ops. I plan I moving up into the top ten soon :)

The sword, by the way, kicks ass. So does the boomerang and sheild.

Dabombpizza

11-23-2005, 04:19 PM

Seiken Densetsu 3 and Front Mission 3

Chi-Town

11-23-2005, 04:21 PM

Project Gotham Racing 3 and Perfect Dark Zero. Extremely pleased with my 360.

NeuroMan42

11-23-2005, 04:27 PM

King Kong, The Movies, Temple of Elemental Evil, WOW - Gotta get 5 more signatures for the Guild.

thatlukeguy

11-23-2005, 04:32 PM

Kickin' it with a tasty groove on Quake 4,
Maybe a little Battlefield 2 for flavah ;)
Age of Empires 3 to get my Home City a bit leveled,
and then it's off to work: Beta testing D&D Online :)

thatlukeguy

11-23-2005, 04:33 PM

Uh oh, I wasn't totally honest. There will much, and I mean MUCH, enjoyment of Battlefront 2 on Xbox / XlinkKai. Damn that game rocks.

DigitalFirefly

11-23-2005, 04:37 PM

I'm going to stare at my Kameo case all weekend.

GrinR

11-23-2005, 04:38 PM

After having been without internet service for the past 2 weeks (seriously, so hard to live without it you wouldn't believe it. Seriously.) it came back up today.

I'll be in Azeroth.

resikel

11-23-2005, 04:38 PM

Dragon Quest 8! Err...too big?

Heretic Machine

11-23-2005, 04:41 PM

Temple of Elemental Evil

Saw that in the bargain bin at Wal-mart today, probably gonna pick that up when I have time to give it some attention.

wudi

11-23-2005, 04:43 PM

Kotor II (lost count of how many times I've played thought it), some CS: Source, and pining for a 360 and PD0 that I likely won't get until the semester is over and I'm back home.

stingray

11-23-2005, 04:46 PM

Playing the 360 every chance I get. Trying to work my way through CoD2 before I move onto other purchased games (PDZ and Kameo).

Zurik

11-23-2005, 04:50 PM

Doing some battlefield:Special forces on friday when Gogamer ships it, also more City of Villians. So easy to just find a group of people and go!

nonchalance

11-23-2005, 04:50 PM

Mario Kart DS, a bit of Dawn of War.
On Sunday I'm going and playing football. An Essendon fan forum vs a Richmond fan forum. Yay for fat old geek footy!

Spigot

11-23-2005, 05:07 PM

Dragon Quest 8! Err...too big?
Me too! 20 hours in.

I just wish there was a quick way to see how many points you needed to boost a skill without having to go all the way back to Perigon Wharf or whatever that place is called.

I'm also working on my various movies in The Movies. I've got a special one just for Kelegacy :)

Other than that, just working. I might be doing the overnight shift tomorrow which means more DQ8 lovin'. Gotta love being paid to stay awake and play videogames.

Enjoy your turkey, my U.S. friends!

BleedTheFreak

11-23-2005, 05:10 PM

Me too! 20 hours in.

I just wish there was a quick way to see how many points you needed to boost a skill without having to go all the way back to Perigon Wharf or whatever that place is called.

I'm also working on my various movies in The Movies. I've got a special one just for Kelegacy :)

Other than that, just working. I might be doing the overnight shift tomorrow which means more DQ8 lovin'. Gotta love being paid to stay awake and play videogames.

Enjoy your turkey, my U.S. friends!

I saw a list on an FAQ somewhere, I'm sure gamefaqs.com has a copy, or something similar.

Doctor Setebos

11-23-2005, 05:13 PM

I'll get some CoH in, hopefully, and now that I've moved my second TV into the kitchen and hooked the GameCube up to it, I'll probably finally be able to finish Tales of Symphonia.

I know -- it's taking me forever. :(

thecrazyd

11-23-2005, 05:21 PM

Kotor II (lost count of how many times I've played thought it)
After playing through the shitty ending, you wanted to play it again? What are you, a sadist?

resikel

11-23-2005, 05:25 PM

Yeah Spigot, there's a FAQ at GameFAQ that tells all you need to know about the skills; it's in the latest Walkthru text.

My question is: how the heck do I upgrade my alchemy Pot to 3 slots? In game time, I'm currently doing the quest for RED to get the horse princess back.

Sykus

11-23-2005, 05:25 PM

Dragon Quest 8! Err...too big?

Same here!!!!

This game is absolutely kick ass. I haven't been this addicted to a game since the heyday of my WoW addiction.

Murmillo

11-23-2005, 05:29 PM

After playing through the shitty ending, you wanted to play it again? What are you, a sadist?
Playing KOTOR II is like having sex with a hot hot woman.. say.. Jewel Staite (Serenity/FireFly) to only have her punch you in the nuts as you are about to cum. Then doing it over and over and over again. Always so hot.. always so sexy.. but allways the nut punch right at the end.

EvilBob46

11-23-2005, 05:30 PM

Dragon Quest 8!Err...too big?

Me too! 20 hours in.

Same here!!!!

Me 4 :) 24 hours into it. A bit overleved me thinks because I spent so much time exploring. Ready to get the Venus' Tear.

mister_slim

11-23-2005, 05:34 PM

MK DS (see sig), Phoenix Wright, bits of Sands of Time and Metroid Prime 2, Soul Calibur III, maybe some Castlevania DS, and cooking Thanksgiving stuff.

Vermillion

11-23-2005, 05:35 PM

Guild Wars
Act of War
FEAR

All because there are no more 360's....

chazio

11-23-2005, 05:36 PM

playin' my 360... PDZ (lovin' it), PGR3 (sooo nice), Kameo (i think it's AWESOME), and Madden 06 (getting used to the QB Vision).

ezzkmo

11-23-2005, 05:38 PM

tons of random new stuff, aww yeah ;)

eeje13

11-23-2005, 05:40 PM

KING KONG for the cube because i'm taking a wait and see stance with the 360.

also, MARIO KART DS because it's awesome.

maybe some VIEWTIFUL JOE DS if i can stop playing mario kart.

NoName

11-23-2005, 05:43 PM

Mario Kart DS. That and "A Feast For Crows." Maybe I'll have time to finish it.

Kelegacy

11-23-2005, 06:01 PM

Dragon Quest 8! Err...too big?

Same here. This will be the only game I touch for the next few weeks.

And technically, it's VIII. :)

Bydo_Empire

11-23-2005, 06:06 PM

More of the only game I've played in the last two weeks. Mario Kart DS. Finally got my wireless router up and running, so no more McDonald's for me!

Everlost_MI

11-23-2005, 06:15 PM

Snagged a Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeMusic card and it really rocks. It's making my last few levels of Quake 4 sound even better. A little Madden 06 for me this weekend as I help the wife get the house ready for Xmas.

amusedtoe

11-23-2005, 06:28 PM

WoW and going back to play HL2, since I never finished it, with my 4 days off. :) Would have probably played FEAR instead since I finally installed it, but promptly realized Q4 and HL2 can't touch it in required specs. So that will have to wait until I can afford a new vid card. :(

Offworlder

11-23-2005, 06:35 PM

As much as I wanted to pick up a 360, I didn't have the foresight to preorder or the patience to stand in line at Wal-Mart for half a day.

Luckily, BF2: Special Forces is a big chaotic ball of super fun.

resikel

11-23-2005, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kelegacy
And technically, it's VIII.

Yeah, but some people can't read Roman numeral numbers. Remember The Simpsons episode where Bart almost got eaten by the tiger at the zoo? :)

31 Flavas

11-23-2005, 06:59 PM

what else? Mario Kart DS

Spigot

11-23-2005, 06:59 PM

I saw a list on an FAQ somewhere, I'm sure gamefaqs.com has a copy, or something similar.

I know I could just find a list of the skills. I don't want that. I just was hoping there was a quick way ingame to see how many points you needed to hit the next rank in a given skill. I want them to be a surprise though, hence my avoidance of GameFAQ's and all its FAQly goodness.

Ah well, I'll keep muddling through.

Spigot

11-23-2005, 07:01 PM

Mario Kart DS. That and "A Feast For Crows." Maybe I'll have time to finish it.

Bah. I want to read A Feast For Crows but after getting two chapters in I realized that I can't remember a thing about what is going on or who most of the characters are. So I'm going to start back at the beginning and reread the whole stupid series. Sigh. At least I have lots to read through Christmas now.

fitbabits

11-23-2005, 07:31 PM

PGR 3, CoD2, NBA 2K6 (X360), Kameo...

amusedtoe

11-23-2005, 07:58 PM

Man, I really forgot just how awesome HL2 is. :eek:

Murtaug

11-23-2005, 08:30 PM

Playing the I have to work game.

Aside from that I will probably try to work on my D&D campaign a bit, as well as prepare for the leap into Epic levels this Saturday in the monthly D&D session my friend runs. Never played an Epic character, actually.. right now is the highest level character I have played in a non-crpg D&D game, which is sad considering it is only 18th level.

I have been really big on D&D lately, probably because I can not afford a new computer, thus any new games are pretty much out of reach. And I do not really have money to throw around on games for the Xbox of PS2, nor can I afford, or find for that matter, a 360. D&D it is, couple two liters, bag of chips, few bucks to pitch in on pizza and I've got a whole night of gaming with some good friends.

The Iron Weasel

11-23-2005, 08:40 PM

I'm pretty much playing nothing. I'm not in the mood to play any of my games, I'm just unhappy that I didn't save up to get a 360.

Dirty Harry

11-23-2005, 08:58 PM

hmmmm what will i be playing this weekend, im honestly not sure, im still tweaking gta sa to make the game hellla hard for all tha playas.

JRR006

11-23-2005, 09:24 PM

Tomorrow probably some board games with the assembled family/friends, as well as some Halo 2 and Burnout: Revenge. I'll be in the retail trenches most of Friday. *whimper* But after dealing with consumers and their grubby-handed ways, I'm going to play Starcraft. Still working my way through Trauma Center: Under the Knife. And I'm considering reopening my Dark Age of Camelot account for a month to check out the latest expansion pack.

ruceree88

11-23-2005, 09:35 PM

Happy Food Eating day everyone....be thankful for all of your good fortune.

Cooking, eating, drinking all day.

WoW, and trying to finish the missions in RE4 to finally get the handcannon. Only need to get Hunk 2 more 5 star levels.

K0LM

11-23-2005, 09:45 PM

I am playing HL2 for Xbox...not bad. I am actually impressed with what the XBOX can pull off. Been playing a ton of WOW lately. I still dont understand how that game sucks me in. Other than that its cooking, eating and drinking and not in that order :)

Kagger

11-23-2005, 09:53 PM

I just beat Jak II today for the ps2. I got it before school started, had some time over the break to wrap it up.

Some things were hard, the camera at one point was stupid. It turned imo too slow, as you were being chased.

However, the worst thing came at the end. The game auto-saves. I walked into the final boss with my dark eco meter full. In Dark Jak mode on the final boss you can take off about 1/4 of the bosses health (it's divided into 1/3's). I used my 10 Peacemaker shots and a dark eco blast to bring him to his final 1/3. He then gets down and chases you. I quickly died. Now, when I respawn, I have no Peacemaker shots, and no dark eco. So I reload my point auto-save point before the boss. However, it auto-saves during the cutscene before the final 1/3, so I no longer had my dark eco meter or Peacemaker ammo. Luckily, through mad hopping, I got him down to the final 1/3, and then I took my time for a while chipping away. I beat it, barley (2 bars left, and a normal hit takes of 2 of 8).

I'll probably play some more Jedi Academy, maybe some FF: Dawn of Souls. Right now, I'm playing "Reinstall Everything after a format." With just Googletalk, AIM, MSN, and Xfire running, I had 56% processor usage, on my 900 mhz athalon. Something else was there, and AVG, Adaware, and Spybot couldn't find it. All better now.

kizke

11-23-2005, 10:31 PM

My PS2 (30001 model, old hunk of crap) finally bit the dust today after nearly five years of faithful service. After sending it to SCEA for a disc read error repair about a year and a half ago, it sounds like (and looks like, after I decided to take it apart and look at it) the disc drive motor just quit working. Now I'm stuck with a broken PS2, a lovely 200GB softmodded hard drive, and no idea what I'm going to do. I'm too afraid of buying a used system from Gamestop/EB or anything like them...any word on when Sony's gonna announce a price drop on the slimline PS2? I had my fun with the modding, but perhaps it's best I just pop that hard drive into a computer or something.

So. Rather than rocking out to Guitar Hero all weekend - as was the plan - I now have to improvise.

My friends and I are putting on our third annual Thanksgaming party this Friday. I hear there'll be four Xbox 360s there. I've yet to even see one in person, so I'm a little excited to try out Perfect Dark Zero.

I also hoped to play some Battlefield 2 this weekend, but apparently my computer can't run it anymore. I reformatted after trying every other crazy idea I had, so hopefully we'll see very soon whether it's capable or not.

Grr. I don't have $150 to spend on a PS2... :(

HALO 32

11-23-2005, 10:39 PM

Perfect Dark Zero and Call of Duty 2, and mabe Kameo

Fyd

11-23-2005, 11:30 PM

Resident evil 4, awesome game !!!

Reanimated

11-23-2005, 11:34 PM

PGR3, Condemned, Kameo, and PDZ.

Metal Jesus

11-24-2005, 12:37 AM

SOCOM (PSP)
Gun (XBOX)
King Kong (XBOX)
Lord of the Rings: Tactics (PSP)

MaiXu

11-24-2005, 01:16 AM

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Metroid weekend. Just got Metroid Prime 2: Echoes off of EBGames.com for only $22 (including shippping), and I downloaded a GBA emulator to play Metroid Fusion (which I own) and Metorid: Zero Mission (which I don't own).

All in all, shaping up to be a good gaming weekend with Samus!

Morratut

11-24-2005, 03:33 AM

Just beaten Far Cry Instincts.

I'm already half way through with FEAR. Hope to finish that this weekend. Will then be ready for the 360 launch in UK with all the games I own finished.

I'm number 8 in the queue at my local Gamestation but if I don't get it I will probably pick up AOE3 to tide me over.

omnithrope

11-24-2005, 01:37 PM

Me: Civ IV, Battlefield 2: Special Forces, Dungeon Siege 2, GTA: SA
The Wife: The Sims, Civ IV, Pirates!

Neverborne

11-24-2005, 01:41 PM

I'll be plowing through the 150cc portions of Mario Kart DS. Dry Bones rules. If I have some more time, I'll dip into FF:Tactics Advance, and start a hard mode game of Castlevania: DoS.

Even though I work in the corporate section of a retailer, I'm being forced to work in a store on Friday, and its not even a chain that carries anything fun like videogames. Oh well.

After work on Friday, I'm going to dig through some used Videogame stores to try and find a Gameboy Pocket and Mario Kart 64.

valkyrie_cs

11-24-2005, 02:11 PM

Mario Kart DS (still unlocking) and Zelda 4 Swords with the kids (yes, again!), I'd like to finish off Castlevania DS (if I'm hard enough... right at the end looking for those 3 souls). Since a few here have said good things about HL2/XBox, I may go pick that up too. Of course we savages in the non US countries don't have the 360 yet :(

Hugenex

11-24-2005, 02:43 PM

Dragon Quest VIII or arabic 8 for those of you who can't read roman numbers. Shit this game is the "shit" i'm 30 hours in and i'm still loving it!

bobbler

11-24-2005, 03:06 PM

Dragon Quest VIII for the next couple weeks probably. Then I got about 4 other RPGs I need to catch up on...

The Iron Weasel

11-24-2005, 03:40 PM

I just picked up BF2 special forces so I'll pretty much be playing that.

Ghostbear

11-24-2005, 06:12 PM

F.E.A.R, Indigo Prophecy, and Dawn of War: Winter Assault

screwtape

11-24-2005, 07:54 PM

Mario Kart: DS. I'm hoping it's harder than Double Dash - DD got to the point where I could beat a 150cc circuit with no effort or challenge whatsoever. So far, so good: I almost got my ass handed to me on a few 100cc circuits.

Still going through a bunch of games I bought for my new PS2. Jak & Daxter, Shadows of the Colossus, Ico...

There's so many good games coming out. I want to spend all my money on my gaming habit, but Christmas is coming up. The girlfriend will expect many presents. And I'm already a fucking grinch - having to spend all my money on her isn't going to help things.

TheHulk

11-24-2005, 09:01 PM

Sacred Gold, God of War, Stubbs the Zombie.

Spigot

11-25-2005, 03:24 PM

I actually spent the last day playing Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects on the cube.

I got it from my rental service and didn't expect the Cube version but it worked out for the best as I ended up working the overnight shift again last night, thus allowing me to borrow a Cube from one of the guys at work instead of lugging my PS2 in to play DQ8 all night.

Marvel Nemesis is a fun little brawler for the 2 days or so it'll take me to polish it off. I'm at least 2/3's or more of the way through it after about 4 hours of playing, so I'm glad it's a renter.

Interesting take on the Marvel universe via crazy button-mashing brawler action. But at least it'll be over shortly so I can get back to DQ8.

Kelegacy

11-25-2005, 03:51 PM

Spigot

11-25-2005, 05:29 PM

I'm sorry!

I'm pushing 20 hours in Dragon Quest VIII. I didn't want to risk taking my PS2 to work and spinning out in the big snowstorm we just had. I didn't mind risking that Marvel Nemesis game though :)

I'll be playing Dragon Quest tonight though, assuming I can stay awake. I've been up since 11pm last night...

amusedtoe

11-25-2005, 06:12 PM

What on earth do you do Spigot that lets you sit and play games all night? :confused:

Spigot

11-25-2005, 06:16 PM

What on earth do you do Spigot that lets you sit and play games all night? :confused:

I work in a residential group home. When you're doing the night awake shift you are paid to sit there and make sure nobody gets up in the middle of the night and runs away.

Soooo.... I just sit in the living room and play games all night when I do those shifts. I can see all the doors in and out of the place and it helps to keep me from nodding off around 4-5 am when it's impossible to stay awake at the best of times. I usually bring in a DVD to help kill some of the time too. If only my day shifts were as quiet as when everyone is sleeping.

It's a great job but definately not for everyone.

Kelegacy

11-25-2005, 06:32 PM

I work in a residential group home. When you're doing the night awake shift you are paid to sit there and make sure nobody gets up in the middle of the night and runs away.

Soooo.... I just sit in the living room and play games all night when I do those shifts. I can see all the doors in and out of the place and it helps to keep me from nodding off around 4-5 am when it's impossible to stay awake at the best of times. I usually bring in a DVD to help kill some of the time too. If only my day shifts were as quiet as when everyone is sleeping.

It's a great job but definately not for everyone.

Do you have any other positions available? I am officially interested!!

Spigot

11-25-2005, 06:54 PM

Do you have any other positions available? I am officially interested!!
I don't know, Kelegacy... Some of the people there make you look downright normal.

And I'm talking about the staff.

If you think that's an easy job though, there are some houses that have night sleep shifts. That's right. You get paid approx. $12/hour to SLEEP.

You won't be driving a Hummer at that rate but still...

i aint yer pa

11-26-2005, 06:14 AM

Well I was a little late to the thread, but better late than never! There's still weekend left!

I was playing a ton of NCAA 2006 (Xbox) with the bro-in-laws but now it's Mario Kart DS. Since I don't have wireless access at my parent's house I'll be spending my time unlocking all I can. I'll join everyone online next week. Can't wait!