Weekend Gamer - What are you playing?

[Jetherik]

Ah, the weekend is here! Mine is starting early this Friday, and with a three day weekend in the states - this sets up plenty of gaming time. What to play, what to play? Oh course there is WoW and CoH, but I am getting back in the mood for some single player games. Which means I will probably load up Silent Storm and see how that is. What are you playing this weekend?

[Klade]

WoW for me. I also am feeling the need for some more Battlefield 2 action. I haven't played that game in about 4 months now so I think its time to give it another try. Perhaps even some UT2k4 Onslaught.

[screwtape]

Just about through Ocarina of Time and Zelda 2. I finished A Link to the Past yesterday, and I'm starting Link's Awakening.

My brother just got a 360 and he borrowed a huge HDTV from a friend. So I'll be going over there this weekend to feel jealous.

[swiftdraw]

Mainly Empires at War, but I'm sure I'll get in some UT2k4 and X3.

[Citizen Philip]

Empire at War, FEAR maybe some CIV4. Probably not WoW. I've kicked that habit.

[Rakael]

Chibi Robo and Fire Emblem on the GC. Its a big N weekend for me.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Hopefully I'll be putting together my new rig this weekend. There's a possibility about half the stuff I ordered from New Egg won't come in 'till Monday though, which will be a bummer, but I guess that'd be my own fault for being cheap and going UPS instead of FedEx. Ah well, I waited this long... another weekend won't kill me, I suppose.

So... if I don't get it all, I'll probably put the lion's share of time into WoW or CoH, with a decent helping of Pacific Fighters and Battlefront II.

[zipR]

F.E.A.R. (feeling very office-y this weekend), and Thief: DS -- if it arrives on time.

And Pac Man, always Pac Man.

[bapenguin]

Finishing Condemned. Might play some BF2 after last night I forgot what a fun game that can be.

Otherwise....no idea.

[Montolio]

Geometry Wars Evolved and lots of streaming rock music. Perhaps some fruit, elixir and glass eye hunting in Kameo and a dash of LotR:BfME2 demo for good measure.

[Com_Gaunt]

Command and conquer Generals multiplayer with my brother against large amounts of CPU opponents.

[Ravenlock]

Well, I FINALLY got WoW when Best Buy had its $30 sale a week or so ago, so obviously I'm completely addicted to that right now. :rolleyes: I might get in some Guild Wars around it, but I doubt it.

Also want to finish up Psychonauts at some point, and need to reinstall Morrowind because somebody started another Morrowind mod thread over at Penny Arcade. *Sigh*

If I turn on my Cube this weekend it'll be for Battalion Wars, but I think I'll be too busy, honestly.

Oh, and heading with the wife to another couple's house tomorrow night to play Plunder (http://www.laughingpan.com/plunder/index.htm). If you're into board/card games I HIGHLY recommend that. Great piratey fun. :D

[johnperkins21]

Madden 2006 as usual, and I hope to finish RE4 this weekend. Having the three days gives me a little more time, and I plan to take full advantage.

[subgenius]

Civ IV. I'm finally starting to do better after realizing that you really do need to play the democracy part of the game (i.e. keeping your neighbors happy).

[TheKeck]

Ever since my friend (finally) got BF2 last week, I've been getting way back into that. Compound it with Battlefield 2 night here on Evil Avatar and my gaming time is spoken for!

[Nite_Moogle]

WoW, some NFS: MW or C&C First Decade in between :)

[Scaryboy]

Psychonauts just came out over here, so I shall be picking that up for the Xbox on the way home from work tonight.

[King Chaos]

Ah, just finished We Love Katamari... so I might be doing something quite different... Neo Contra... or Rome: Total War... and of course the daily 15 min. of Animal Crossing. Have a nice weekend :D

[Metal Jesus]

Not much really... kinda waiting for March when a bunch of new PSP games come out including Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider, Daxter, Pursuit Force, Syphon Filter, Ys: The Ark of Napishtim, and Astonishia Story.

[Doctor Setebos]

If I can manage to get away from changing diapers on the 2-wk old new baby, then I *might* get a few rounds of CoH in this weekend.

Might.

[Kem0sabe]

Think im gona load Baldurs Gate 2 again, i´m seriously lacking a good rpg, havent seen anything good come out since kotor 2 :(

Hope NWN2 and Oblivion launch without much delay.

[n3rdXcore]

oh y'know

world of warcraft, INFANTRY, and maybe some guitar hero

[Bydo_Empire]

Animal Crossing; WW, mostly. I might put in a few more hours in FF7... must... finish...

[Jetherik]

If I can manage to get away from changing diapers on the 2-wk old new baby, then I *might* get a few rounds of CoH in this weekend.

Might.


Learn to play with sleeping baby on your lap. Then you will really get a lot of game time in - especially at 3am. ;)

[Zurik]

Grandia III, Star Wars Empires at War, and some more D&D beta, since I can't seem to get enough of that.

[Grimgrock]

Grandia III, Star Wars Empires at War, and some more D&D beta, since I can't seem to get enough of that.

The last time I touched D&D online was about 2 months ago (maybe a bit less than that). I wasn't impressed. Has the game changed that much while it's been in beta? It was stil in closed beta when I played.

For me it'll be Empire at War and WoW, getting my paladin to level 20 (up from level 17). Nothing too ambitious. And because Monday is a holiday, I'll throw some PD:0 and Kameo in there as well. I might go back and give Battle for Middle Earth a second look. I spent some time with the B4ME2 demo last night and it was fairly decent, IMO.

[Librum]

World of Warcraft - leading the new guild on a run through Gnomeregan and beyond. Nothing like a set of new players on a new server to get things going again. I like the D&D beta, though I'm not going to bother playing it much further, since, well, my characters will be deleted. I just wanted to see if it was at least worth picking up. I haven't decided if it's going to have the 'WoW factor', so to speak.

Might grab Empire at War, though I think I'm terminally burned out on the Star Wars universe, unfortunately.

Jonesing for some tabletop action of some kind, though I doubt that's going to happen.

[Roc Ingersol]

More WoW.
Always more WoW.

Until GRAW and Oblivion hit and I'm forced to break down and hunt up a 360.
(Turbine should be punished for putting out such an oddly compelling DDO, and inexplicably charging a monthly fee instead of just charging for adventure packs.)

[Echani]

I'm planning to finish Fatal Frame / Project Zero tonight or tomorrow, and then maybe a bit of GW to get the rest of my 15k aeromancer set between bouts of studying. Fun fun funf un unf!

[Lekon]

Maaaaybe a little COV. But mostly Monster Hunter 2. MH1 was great (to me) Especially online. Hard as all hell, yeah. But fun in a weird niche way, even if there was a lot of collecting.

MH2 seems to fix 90% of the stuff I didn't like about MH1, though I'm not far into it, and I'm playing an import version, so that other 10% might be covered when its in enligsh and I can understand most of it. Fun game. Strangely large weapons still.
Might have to try putting up a review of it on EV sometime.

[Mortis]

A bit of PGR3 and PD0. The calm before the storm, every weekend after this one will be consumed by 360 new releases. FNR3, GRAW and then Oblivion. Hell yes.

[dotbomb]

Ugh I have so many games to play I don't know where to start.

Darwinia
Civ4
NFS:MW
LoTOR:BFME (got it on discount finally)
Psychonauts
Crimson Skies
Ninja Gaiden Black
Fable Lost Chapters
DOA4 (jus want to get better at it)
Kameo (achievements only)

I'll probably review that list and start finishing up some games. Darwinia has just 2 levels on it to complete so I'll probably start there this afternoon and finish the game. After that I'll probably play Ninja Gaiden Black the majority of the rest of the time. That game is just damn good. I have no hopes of finishing that game this weekend but if I do I'll have to find another game on the list close to completing and knock it out.

[Jacob Singer]

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, which seems ok so far, but I don't know if I'll go month-to-month with it. Still working through Guitar Hero with my buddies. I suck, but I've got 5 stars on everything in Easy, and most of Medium. I've gotten through a lot of songs on Hard, but no 5-Star rankings there yet. Like I said, I suck.

[HelpMeee]

World of Warcraft, my love, I only have time for thee.

[Derella]

Mostly WoW for me -- my guild has MC tonight and tomorrow, and AQ on Sunday. We finally got our 360 back from Microsoft, so I'll probably try out the Live Arcade games that have come out in the last 2-3 weeks.

[AspectVoid]

I have a mix of Grandia 3, Wild Arms 4, and Empire at War to play. I haven't had a chance to play Empire yet, as I wasn't feeling all that good last night, so I'm looking forward to it today. As for Grandia 3 and Wild Arms 4, so far the Grandia battle system is better but I'm enjoying the story in Wild Arms 4 more. That pretty much makes them equal in my book.

[Xaerin]

Morrowind, trying to really focus in and get through it, the new textures should be fun.
Making my way through Icewind Dale which has been great fun so far.
Might purchase Mount and Blade which was surprisingly kick ass fun.
And if after all that there's time left I'll put a few hours into Jade Empire.

[absolut taco]

Just bought Call of Duty 2 for the 360 last night. That will be my main focus this weekend.

[Phanto]

Today i will be formating my computer and install a fresh copy of Windows XP with SP3 yes 3, opps i should not said that ;) :D , anyway after that i will be going to play some Warcraft III TFT, and i'm thinking in playing the Sims 2 maybe i will :o .

[player66]

I'm finally getting a chance to play Quake 4 (PC) and loving every moment.. minus the vehicle bits. Overall it is the most graphically stunning game I have played so far. Each of the environments featured in the game has a unique look to it. Maybe Raven didn't reinvent the FPS with Q4, but they certainly mastered the run-and-gun FPS here.

[Nesta]

WoW and some BF2. I likey the new patch a lot. I always liked playing support but hated not being able to shoot anyone with accuracy outside of 10 feet.

Mainly WoW, though, I've been playing it for almost 2 months now and it's still as awesome as when I first started. Good, good stuff.

[KhitomerRouge]

Empire at War, a little Soul Calibur III, and I might even try to find that elusive creature, the 360.

ETA: Just got my BFME2 beta access from pre-order. I played the first with everything turned up, but based on the demo I might have to wait until I get a 7800 for all the bells and whistles.

[The_Darr]

Bf2 and for some reason "sacred" has me hooked.

[Everlost_MI]

Sacred is a great addicting game. I am trying to play Dragonshard with all the sound issues.

[Bone]

My new 6800GS card should arrive today so I'll be upgrading from a 9800 Pro and finally playing BF2 the way it should look, woot.

Although it's looking like my wife might "make" me play a single-player game that she can watch, maybe Pikmin 2 or Metroid 2 or even some Guitar Hero. I have a rough life, I know :)

[A Lusty Alien]

I am in the process of bringing yet another gamer into the CoH universe. (nSoft should start paying me commisions.) So I'm going to be working with him and mayber seeing if I can get him to level a toon high enough to play with my Tuesday night CoH group.

[TrackZero]

I get to play absolutely nothing this weekend, seeing as I'm working 12 hour shifts all the way until Wednesday. Fun city. Though I do still plan to login to WoW tonight for a few minutes just to check the AH. ;)

[Schnoogs]

The usual...Day of Defeat Source.

[Ravenlock]

Might purchase Mount and Blade which was surprisingly kick ass fun.

Highly recommended. It keeps getting better, and supporting indie developers who are doing a good job at games they truly love is always a good thing.

[Zurik]

The last time I touched D&D online was about 2 months ago (maybe a bit less than that). I wasn't impressed. Has the game changed that much while it's been in beta? It was stil in closed beta when I played.

For me it'll be Empire at War and WoW, getting my paladin to level 20 (up from level 17). Nothing too ambitious. And because Monday is a holiday, I'll throw some PD:0 and Kameo in there as well. I might go back and give Battle for Middle Earth a second look. I spent some time with the B4ME2 demo last night and it was fairly decent, IMO.

Its funny you mention WoW, because I can't get back into that. Not sure what D&D was like before, but it reminds me of a faster paced NWN. I really prefer the realtime combat, and it doesn't hurt that I've partied with some decent people. Its really a small group of friends type game, kinda like the tabletop.

[TRiLoGY]

Star Wars - Empire At War

[Librum]

Morrowind, trying to really focus in and get through it, the new textures should be fun.
Making my way through Icewind Dale which has been great fun so far.
Might purchase Mount and Blade which was surprisingly kick ass fun.
And if after all that there's time left I'll put a few hours into Jade Empire.

Ah, the original Icewind Dale? I never played that one a lot, though I devoted a lot of time to IWD2. All of the Infinity engine games were just so engaging. I hope NWN2 recaptures some of that, though I did play the heck out of NWN and the expansion packs.

[Librum]

Sacred is a great addicting game. I am trying to play Dragonshard with all the sound issues.

What kills me about Sacred was the apparent inability to change the screen resolutions (things just don't look good on my 20" LCD without being in 1600 x 1200). Is there a way around that, has it since been fixed, or did I just miss something?

[The Iron Weasel]

I spent all my money on cds, so I couldn't buy Empire At War, so therefore its BF2 for me.

[Crittias]

CIV4 has devoured my soul.

[Kelegacy]

Grandia III and MVP NCAA baseball 06. EA seems determined to make all of their sports games controllable by the analog sticks only.

[lewsid]

Open Transport Tycoon! Holy shit it's multiplayer!

...come play with trains with me on the Official OpenTTD Server

[Atorak]

Probably some PGR3. I love walking around my Ferrari collection.

I tried to pick up Psychonauts from 3 different retailers yesterday, one Walmart, one Gamestop, and one Best Buy, none of which had it. Grrrr...

[Taco]

Civ IV, going to bump it up to Prince this weekend and/or play some time limitless and shutteless games.

[Voodoo]

LAN party on Sunday. That will be my event gaming. The rest of the time I'll be doing some Star Wars : Empire At War! :)

[dotbomb]

Probably some PGR3. I love walking around my Ferrari collection.

I tried to pick up Psychonauts from 3 different retailers yesterday, one Walmart, one Gamestop, and one Best Buy, none of which had it. Grrrr...


Gogamer.com has them on sale. $9.90 for the pc version right now.

http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/GoGamer.storefront/SESSIONID/Product/View/001PSYC

[Everlost_MI]

Star Wars - Empire At War
How is that? I am itching to try it.

[Everlost_MI]

What kills me about Sacred was the apparent inability to change the screen resolutions (things just don't look good on my 20" LCD without being in 1600 x 1200). Is there a way around that, has it since been fixed, or did I just miss something?

If I remember right, you're stuck with the screen res unless you wish to zoom in and out.

[i aint yer pa]

I'm trying to finish up Resident Evil 4 on the "Pro" level. Taking Krauser down is my next obstacle and I have a feeling it's going to be hard. I'll also be putting some time in Guild Wars and possibly giving EVE Online a go. I may hold off until next week, after RE4 is out of my system.

And of course, I've got to play the Turnips market in Animal Crossing. Daddy's gotta pay for the house somehow!

[[Jez]]

Fallout 2 for me, with the release of the lastest fan patch that kills all know bugs :D

[Stevercakes]

Maybe some Tales of Legendia or if I pick up Grandia III, some of that... otherwise Battlefield 2 w00t

[askheaves]

Have a brother in town, so I'll probably pick up a 360 game in the multiplayer area. Either that or just play the Fight Night R3 demo for 72 hours straight. I'm going to explode when that comes out and there are more than 2 boxers and a 4 round fight...

Also, Animal Crossing: WW. I haven't gone to see K.K. Slider yet, plus I could use some more turnips.

[DeviousMiscreant]

Fun-filled day of shooting at my mates in the woods tomorrow, then I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend stuck in BF2 mode. Haven't had chance to play since the last update hit and aside from how long it takes to actually get into game, my main gripe has always been aircraft imbued with godlike powers, raining down unstoppable heavenly wrath upon those of us who just kinda like driving tanks.

[Grimmjow]

FFX1, CS:Source and fixing my router :(

[f1sh3r]

dawn of war: winter assault and call of duty 2. and i might go pick up need for speed most wanted. finally tried the demo and it's not half bad.

[GrinR]

Level 57 as of last night. I'm going to make a break for 60 this weekend. Possible? YES. Probable? FUCK NO!

BTW, anyone playing Horde on Emerald Dream?

[Kyle Jones]

I'll be playing some UT2K4, perhaps finally finish up Windwaker or some other gamecube games I loved and never beat, and maybe a tiny spot of WoW just to keep tabs on things. I'm on hiatus with that for now. And my daily 15 minutes of Animal Crossing, which has been almost an everyday thing since I got the gamecube version a few years back.

Also, on my buy list for when I've got cash, it's Advance Wars DS. I need to get more games to play on my cute little mario kart DS.

[Zanzibar]

Quake 4 for X360. It's a lot of fun, only troubles are occasional framerate issues and waaay too many loading screens. The controls feel top-notch.

Might start either GUN for X360 or GTA:SA. Or pop in PDZ and finish it, although I was underwhelmed with the single-player missions so far.

[GodFather]

Just picked up Rainbow Six:Lockdown for the PC and also playing Madden2006 for the 360.

Ive tried Battlefield 2 and just cant get into it. I feel like Im missing something with how popular this game is. I just feel like your running from flag to flag..

[Atepsflame]

Not a goddamn thing. 15 hours of work in two days + a 10 page research paper to write, mousetrap car to build and a Poetry Unit and essay to complete do not a fun weekend make. No sir, no sir.

[Ravenlock]

I'll be playing some UT2K4, perhaps finally finish up Windwaker or some other gamecube games I loved and never beat, and maybe a tiny spot of WoW just to keep tabs on things.

"Finally finishing up Windwaker" was a 2 year event for me. I kept going back to it, and it just kept hurting so much. Goddamn triforce hunt. :mad:

It is worth it, though. The final dungeon is great and the ending is very rewarding. :)

[Sl1pstream]

Picked up World of Warcraft. Might play that. Need to finish Psychonauts, so I can put the Xbox away.

Playing something called "work" this saturday. Read the features on the internet, might be fun for a while.

[Kelegacy]

Picked up Grandia III today, forgot how much fun the battle engine is. And Miranda sure is a MILF, huh?

[TheKeck]

I spent all my money on cds, so I couldn't buy Empire At War, so therefore its BF2 for me.

Dude, freaking Weasel man. I had forgotten about you! You haven't been posting much lately.

[Crabby]

How is that? I am itching to try it.


Fan-freaking-tastic. It gets better the deeper you go into learning the unit behaviors and actual tactics.

The realistic battle physics are really nice, mostly in reference to the space battles. Things that should logically happen do in fact happen. Such as observing fighter squadrons being shredded as they fly directly at a tartan cruiser, but being hit less when flanking or flying away. Not that they should be flanking an anti-fighter cruiser, but you get the idea. Pack enough ships out there and things get nasty. "Return of the Jedi final space battle" nasty.

[Heretic Machine]

Well, I'll be playing WoW on my 41 druid, as well as some Civ IV. It's my 21st birthday today, so I'll also be doing a fair amount of drinking. Got some DVD's for my birthday (in addition to the $630 used to buy all my new computer parts): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Seaquest DSV Season 1. I'll probably get some more money tomarrow, and head to a Gamestop and might pick up something hard-core for my new PC to play when it gets here. Gonna save $60 no matter what though, so I can buy Oblivion when it comes out.

[Everlost_MI]

Fan-freaking-tastic. It gets better the deeper you go into learning the unit behaviors and actual tactics.

The realistic battle physics are really nice, mostly in reference to the space battles. Things that should logically happen do in fact happen. Such as observing fighter squadrons being shredded as they fly directly at a tartan cruiser, but being hit less when flanking or flying away. Not that they should be flanking an anti-fighter cruiser, but you get the idea. Pack enough ships out there and things get nasty. "Return of the Jedi final space battle" nasty.

Awesome! Thanks for the tip, I'll snag this baby!

[ddbrown30]

Psychonauts just came out over here, so I shall be picking that up for the Xbox on the way home from work tonight.

Over where?

[Deadend]

I have started playing Getting Up. It's better than most of us give it credit for. The combat is ok, the tagging is fun, if repetitive to get 100%. The city has a nice design, and the cut-scenes are quite nice. The exploration segments are kinda sloppy, but that may be due to the fact the last game that was about exploring that I played was Prince of Persia 3. I was really hoping Getting Up would be Prince of Persia with Spray-paint.

[Spigot]

If I can manage to get away from changing diapers on the 2-wk old new baby, then I *might* get a few rounds of CoH in this weekend.

Might.
Good luck on that. Enjoy these times when they're small and will at least sleep for a large portion of the day. My little hellion, er, angel only naps for an hour or two during the day, thus limiting my gaming time significantly. You need to get your diaper changing skill as high as you can. Master that and you'll be sailing.

As for gaming, I'm off work for the next 11 days (hallefreakinlujah) and am staying at the in-laws for the next 3 1/2 days. I was going to play Chibi-Robo all weekend, but decided to work on finishing up DQ8 and then I'll start up Grandia 3 if I do finish DQ8.

I also have the DS here, so I'll be playing Mario & Luigi: PiT, AC:WW, Meteos, Mario Kart DS and a couple other games as the weekend (and my boredom) progresses.

Aside from that, just playing the "Visit-Every-Comic-Shop-Around-Until-I-Find-Marvel-Zombies-#3" game and maybe having a nap. Good times.

[JRR006]

Animal Crossing: WW, Guild Wars, and Dawn of War.

[maharahaj]

Quake 2 on the 360 and I will probably pick up Madden06 as the demo is pretty fun. The NFS demo is pretty cool too, but with FNR3, Burnout3 and Oblivion coming out in the next few weeks, I might not have enough time to take on NFS:MW too. God, I love the demo downloading ability of LIVE; saved my 60 bucks that would have gone to Full Auto and redirects it towards Madden.

[TheHulk]

Think I might head out after work and get a new PC game.... Maybe CivIV, Empire at War, or AoE3. Otherwise it's Psychonauts and Destroy All Humans.

[Pumped'Up]

hopefully some DQ8

[Heretic Machine]

Otherwise it's Psychonauts and Destroy All Humans.

I loved Destroy All Humans... The 360 really needs to be able to play that game... soon <.< I beat it twice already, but I still think it's three kinds of awesome.

[Borys]

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My weekend sucks :( Office work @ home.

[Riproar]

BF2 has apprehended all my gaming recreation time. And rightly so, it is by far the most cutting edge multi-player virtual warfare. If any here know of one better…I wanna hear from ya!

[Taco]

I hear all this praise for BF2, yet I still hold no interest. I think it's a EA related decision at a subconcious level. Which is good, otherwise I wouldn't have the willpower.

[baz]

Ico, maybe some Disgaea and Mount & Blade.

[mister_slim]

Chibi Robo and Fire Emblem on the GC. Its a big N weekend for me.
Heh, same here. With some Getting Up as well. And maybe catch up on the DS backlog.

[bobbler]

Exit, Grandia III, and DJ Max Portable for me. It's likely to stay that way til at least next wednesday.

[Bumbuliuz]

Full Auto and some Football Manager 2006 :)

[The Iron Weasel]

I recently discovered that I got paid quite a bit more then I expected, So I went out and purchased Empire At War. I havent gotten to play it a whole lot yet, but so far its awesome.

[Everlost_MI]

Well, I'll be playing WoW on my 41 druid, as well as some Civ IV. It's my 21st birthday today

I missed this earlier, but happy belated birthday!