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[XaverJin]

Over the past couple of months i seem to have acquired too many new games to play, so i'm finding it difficult to decide what to play sometimes!

Theres Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC to replace the disappointing Modern Warfare 2 PC, and Final Fantasy XIII 360 which i have because my ps3 is back at home , I recently reactivated my World of Warcraft account upon my brothers nagging, and just yesterday i picked up the Dawn of War 2 Gold pack! :S

Anyone else ever had this problem? or maybe have an opinion on these games?

[Valerie Valens]

You should see the list of games I have on Steam, that's not counting the tons of old PC abandonware games, not so abandonware games, emulated games, my stack of burned PS1 and Dreamcast games, my collection of super famicom and GBA cartridges.

As far as PC games go, I'd say to pass up on the modern toss and keep it old school. Quake 1 and the Scourge of Armagon mission pack is still fucking excellent. Quake 2 turned out to be fucking awful on single player though.

[chalcara]

I have a similiar problem, but it's more like "I have time to play - lets fire up WoW!" and so I neglect my other games...

[John Roberts]

You have no soul, Chal.

[XaverJin]

You should see the list of games I have on Steam, that's not counting the tons of old PC abandonware games, not so abandonware games, emulated games, my stack of burned PS1 and Dreamcast games, my collection of super famicom and GBA cartridges.

As far as PC games go, I'd say to pass up on the modern toss and keep it old school. Quake 1 and the Scourge of Armagon mission pack is still fucking excellent. Quake 2 turned out to be fucking awful on single player though.

Quake 3 Arena has never been beaten in my eyes and never will o.o

My Steam list vs yours!

I'll be surprised if i dont win

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I have a similiar problem, but it's more like "I have time to play - lets fire up WoW!" and so I neglect my other games...

My Problem with WoW is that i tell myself "I'll just go on the check my auctions.." 2 Hours later i'm farming reagents, reputation or Badges from Dungeons..

[randomizer]

Well, Val probably has more games than me, but I still beat you



Minus 3 or so as they are non-steam games in the list.

[XaverJin]

Bah, if i adden a bunch of non-steam apps to my list i'd be there all day :S

but yes, you do have more official steam games than me.

[Valerie Valens]

Take a look, not shown are the X-Com games I have yet to download.

[XaverJin]

would you like some Steam with your serious sam?

[chief]

I.... don't game

[XaverJin]

I.... don't game

Thats like if i posted in the art area and told everyone i dont draw

[Vlad Yvhv]

My PC games consist of Neverwinter Nights Diamond, NetHack, Miner VGA, and Scorched Earth 3d. I should probly re-install Doom and Doom 2... I don't have as many games as most casual gamers, but I have snagged some really fun ones for the various Nintendo consoles (SNES, N-64, and Gemecube). I kinda wish I hadn't let my folks sell my NES and the games I had for it back when I was going to collage...

[The Man]

I miss back in the day when I didn't know games so well. They still had nostalgia. When you become over competitive it begins to feel like a bad date. Sometimes you feel very good, but most of the time it's meh..

[An7imatt3r]

I think I have 70 games atm, excluding the one linked game that I have. I wish I could fit more on the screen, but alas this is just my tiny laptop.

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[Ratty Randnums]

You should see the list of games I have on Steam, that's not counting the tons of old PC abandonware games, not so abandonware games, emulated games, my stack of burned PS1 and Dreamcast games, my collection of super famicom and GBA cartridges.

As far as PC games go, I'd say to pass up on the modern toss and keep it old school. Quake 1 and the Scourge of Armagon mission pack is still fucking excellent. Quake 2 turned out to be fucking awful on single player though.

What she said.
With the added problem that my tastes change with my mood. So one day I might really really be into an RTS, 3 days later I'll rather play an RPG. And I'm of the philosophy that one should try to play a single game at a time to get the full experience from each.
It's not that I'm fickle, it's that there's so much variety to choose from. And (again) while I love the games I love (just like the movies I love) the ones I want to play vary with my mood. So I find it difficult to hold the concentration to complete games and get the full experience from them.

My list of games I'd like to play just this second:
1. Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy IX (for a 2nd time)
3. Serious Sam: TFE HD
4. Quake 1
5. Red Alert 2
6. Red Alert 1 (which I'm still in the process of beating but haven't touched in about a week, 3 more missions to go)
7. Castlevania Chronicles for the PS1

And I've been playing "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance" on and off for months now. It's just so bland and mediocre I have to almost force myself to play it unless I'm in just the right mood. But I have to beat it before I can move on to the obviously superior "Aria of Sorrow".

[XaverJin]

My brother recently bought me Command and Conquer 4.

I remain..indifferent to it :/

[Xian Shade]

And I've been playing "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance" on and off for months now. It's just so bland and mediocre I have to almost force myself to play it unless I'm in just the right mood. But I have to beat it before I can move on to the obviously superior "Aria of Sorrow".

I'll say this much: stop when you get to Order of Ecclesia. THAT game is bland, and tiresome, and wtf, and 'how do I proceed', and 'why is he doing that?' and many other things that allowed me to complete/beat it in a week, and made me take it back and get 1/10th of my money back while they sell it for full price again. It feels like a mix of the recent castlevania games (metroidania) with a poorer version of Castlevania II, Simon's quest.

It involves repeated trips back to town, annoying sidequests to get items (also involving returning to town) and finding the people in the FIRST PLACE to bring them back to town to become useful. Can't even get the good (bad) ending without saving all the people, and some are pretty well-hidden.

Worst is the weapon system. No longer can you randomly buy or obtain weapons. You have to kill a certain type of enemy often enough, or in a certain way, pray there's nothing else on the screen when it appears *coughmedusaheadscough*, and hold up for 5 seconds to 'absorb' the weapon ability. I figure they couldn't have a female character wielding enormous weapons due to physical size & ability, so they just attribute it to becoming a magical weapon...

Worse is that, once again, there's little to no ties to the Belmont line, and you aren't even out to kill Dracula. You're out to prevent his return, supposedly.

A fairly good, if not confusing and frustrating one, was portrait of ruin. Tag team combat abilities by switching (or using) two different characters. One specializing in weapons, the other magic. Interesting characters, great music, and some of the best and toughest boss fights I've ever had. Nothing like facing Death when you're at such an early level, and he even tells you how stupid you're being for challenging him when you can't even use the vampire killer.

[XaverJin]

Hey you

[E-Master]

I also have a stack of games I haven't played entirely yet. Though I do try to find the time to play them of course.

As of right now I was trying to play all of the metal gear games(Not the spin offs but the ones that are connected with one another). Afterp laying the Guns of the Patriots I decided to cosplay as Otacon for Anime Expo 2010.

[Ratty Randnums]

And I've been playing "Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance" on and off for months now. It's just so bland and mediocre I have to almost force myself to play it unless I'm in just the right mood. But I have to beat it before I can move on to the obviously superior "Aria of Sorrow".

I'll say this much: stop when you get to Order of Ecclesia. THAT game is bland, and tiresome, and wtf, and 'how do I proceed', and 'why is he doing that?' and many other things that allowed me to complete/beat it in a week, and made me take it back and get 1/10th of my money back while they sell it for full price again. It feels like a mix of the recent castlevania games (metroidania) with a poorer version of Castlevania II, Simon's quest.

It involves repeated trips back to town, annoying sidequests to get items (also involving returning to town) and finding the people in the FIRST PLACE to bring them back to town to become useful. Can't even get the good (bad) ending without saving all the people, and some are pretty well-hidden.

Worst is the weapon system. No longer can you randomly buy or obtain weapons. You have to kill a certain type of enemy often enough, or in a certain way, pray there's nothing else on the screen when it appears *coughmedusaheadscough*, and hold up for 5 seconds to 'absorb' the weapon ability. I figure they couldn't have a female character wielding enormous weapons due to physical size & ability, so they just attribute it to becoming a magical weapon...

Worse is that, once again, there's little to no ties to the Belmont line, and you aren't even out to kill Dracula. You're out to prevent his return, supposedly.

A fairly good, if not confusing and frustrating one, was portrait of ruin. Tag team combat abilities by switching (or using) two different characters. One specializing in weapons, the other magic. Interesting characters, great music, and some of the best and toughest boss fights I've ever had. Nothing like facing Death when you're at such an early level, and he even tells you how stupid you're being for challenging him when you can't even use the vampire killer.

I'll probably play it eventually anyway lol.
Yeah from what I understand the player character is way underpowered in Ecclesia, probably because IGA was all "Lol you want a grrl to fight evil? I'll give you a grrl."
I mean, did you ever play Castlevania Legends*? The storyline was about 100x better than "Lament of Boredom" and made the Belmont/Dracula relationship much more interesting.

*The only other Castlevania with a female protagonist. It was the first origin story the series got before IGA retconned it out of the series to place Lament of Innocence in it's place. IIRC from an interview he said something to the effect that he thought having a female protagonist was silly.