What are you playing now?

[SPMaximus]

10000 seeders and 20kb/s.

[Trolldor]

At the moment it's FIFA 11 and I've also went back for an 8th play through Heavy Rain. Considered starting another game on Mass Effect 2 just so I'm fresh for the finale, but will probably do that early next year. Red Dead Redemption lost its appeal pretty quickly actually but I guess it's because I'm now completely bored of GTA. RDR looks better than any GTA game, it's bigger, and it's very different in it's setting. But it's still too similar in far too many ways, and I now feel like I've been playing the same GTA game over and over for a decade.

I agree about AC2 being too easy, but I extend this opinion to computer games in general now. I remember when you can buy games that were really fucking difficult or even next to impossible. I know it's about making the games accessible, but nowadays even the highest difficulty setting isn't too hard to beat. If there are difficulty settings, the highest one should be a real challenge. For example, some of my fave NES, SNES, Master System 2 and Mega Drive games were the ones that gave me the most trouble completing and really tested me.

You should have to work at a game and get good at it in order to complete it. That's how I feel anyway.

Checkpoint Disease.

The games can actually be quite a bit more of a challenge, but the use of checkpoints (and their ilk) mean that you don't have to get through the entire level at one sitting. Four difficult spots become one at a time, as opposed to four every time you fail one.

[Blondie]

Fallout New Vegas: So awesome I can't even begin to describe it.

[SPMaximus]

Just tried Spore, i tried it when it came out and thought "fucking awful", but i forgot just how awful it was, so today i tried it again and whaddya know, its utter shite

[Animavore]

I rented Metal Gear Solid 4 the other day and only played it once.
The game before that, Dead Rising, was a pile of dung.

[tattuchu]

I'm playing though FFXIII again, since I have a better idea of what I'm doing now. Fighting is much easier since I'm more familiar with the battle system, and I'm trying to be smarter about upgrading and such. I think the gameplay could be a little more varied. Some mini-games or side quests (besides sorting through the marks) would be nice. But I am enjoying the game still. It's an incredibly beautiful game, that's for sure, with an amazing attention to detail and wonderful aesthetic. Now that I know the storyline, also, things make a like more sense to me. The cutscenes aren't just gibberish. And I'm enjoying the interplay between the characters. Some genuine touching moments.

Anyway, where are the cacti? I've made it to that big field (and past it, actually, into the tower) and there are none there. Do they appear at a certain point or something? I thought they were always there

Also, how do I ride the goddamn chocobos? I remember wondering this the last time. Eventually I was able to ride them, but I don't remember when or how. What gives

[stripes4]

I'm playing though FFXIII again, since I have a better idea of what I'm doing now. Fighting is much easier since I'm more familiar with the battle system, and I'm trying to be smarter about upgrading and such. I think the gameplay could be a little more varied. Some mini-games or side quests (besides sorting through the marks) would be nice. But I am enjoying the game still. It's an incredibly beautiful game, that's for sure, with an amazing attention to detail and wonderful aesthetic. Now that I know the storyline, also, things make a like more sense to me. The cutscenes aren't just gibberish. And I'm enjoying the interplay between the characters. Some genuine touching moments.

Anyway, where are the cacti? I've made it to that big field (and past it, actually, into the tower) and there are none there. Do they appear at a certain point or something? I thought they were always there

Also, how do I ride the goddamn chocobos? I remember wondering this the last time. Eventually I was able to ride them, but I don't remember when or how. What gives

[tattuchu]

What? Are you saying I should be doing something productive or something instead? It's just...it's just, this is a really beautiful game. If you played it, you'd see

[stripes4]

What? Are you saying I should be doing something productive or something instead? It's just...it's just, this is a really beautiful game. If you played it, you'd see

[Eriku]

Mashed my way through Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed II over the course of a few weeks. Red Dead Redemption is about to be done all over again before I venture into the zombie add-on, and after that I have Heavy Rain waiting.

FIFA 11 regularly gets played as well.

[Azathoth]

What? Are you saying I should be doing something productive or something instead? It's just...it's just, this is a really beautiful game. If you played it, you'd see

Wankers won't release it on PC I'm not paying for a fucking PS3 they can get stuffed

[Animavore]

Getting Black Ops at 12 o'clock tonight

[Mr P]

Goldeneye for the Wii, I played the original on the N64 and never really got into any FPS games since... they never lived up to this original. This new version's not a re-make but the opening section was slightly familiar, the rest of the game has kept me playing for an hour or two.

[Animavore]

Black Ops is pretty good. Well designed levels and fast paced. The controls are smoother making it easier to kill people. Kill streaks are harder to get so the skies above are not so chaotic. Also the volume has been nudged down on planes and helicopters so you don't hear them roar overhead like before. Some people may not like this but I prefer it, I felt it got too noisy sometimes on MW2. I'm not big into the layout and I'm not decided yet on the new levelling up system. You can do an awful lot of customisation though.

[Animavore]

I've found one thing to hate about this game. There is no "mute all" button for the multi-player. Which fecking gobshite over-looked that? I have to mute everyone individually and if someone new joins mid-game I've to press select to bring up the scoreboard and mute them also. It's like trying to stamp out fires

I expect them to have a patch post-haste.