The "What Are You Playing Now?" Thread

[Ibdaar]

OMG I have to many games to play!!!!!!! I have been trying to finish up Tales of Vesperia (rented from gamefly) I have infamous half finished, Dragon's Age sitting upstairs waiting for me to finish ToV, just spent my gamestop gift cards and picked up GTA 4 episodes from Liberty city, demon's soul, and CoD:MW2. I need to finish most of that so I can play Mass Effect 2 when it comes out OMG overload!!!!!!!!!!

[Wool]

I just started Batman: Arkham Asylum. I tend to be skeptical whenever the community at large raves about a game. I figured this would be good, but that I would quickly forget about it.

I was wrong. I'm still only at the beginning learning how to play and it is already amazing. The detective mode in particular impresses me. So many games try something like this and fail (ghostbusters), then you add in the stealth that doesn't suck and fun thug stomping action, good stuff.


I also just finished God of War: Chains of Olympus. One of the very many games I bought on sale over the past two years and never found time to play. It also was amazing. It was freaking amazing when you consider it was a PSP game, I could hardly believe it. Extremely impressive work they did, would still be a good game even on a console.

[Naean]

Replaying Torchlight as a Destroyer. First time was a Alchemist. I dont even remember the last time I replayed a game with a different character other than an MMO.

[Yaxa]

The detective mode in particular impresses me.

The downside is that detective mode is so useful that it's tempting to keep it on all the time, which causes you to miss out on most of the game's visuals.


I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed II, which so far has been much more fun than the first one. While the basic concept (freerunning and killing) hasn't changed, there's a lot more to do. Upgradable armor and weapons are a welcome addition, as is the ability to renovate your hometown for store discounts and extra income.

[Wool]

Playing Valkyria Chronicles. I knew I was going to like it, but I'm surprised at just how well made and polished it is. They couldn't have had that huge of a budget, it was a new IP.

I was worried it was going to be excessively cheesey in the way jrpgs and anime sometimes are, but I'm really getting into it so far. The characters are fun, and there is a perfect balance between plot and gameplay.

[Neofelis]

Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

[Ronaan]

Still NFS:Shift on the PS3 almost exclusively, but I don't have that much time to play.

And I just got a used iTouch this past weekend so I'm playing around with that. Will gladly consider picking up a few games for that, if you can recommend any.

[Ronaan]

Aaaand back to Fallout 3 I go (PS3). I am nearing lvl 13 (or 14, I forget). Game grows on you once you figure out how to do stuff, which skills are important, how repair works, etc.

I shall soon buy DLC. Should have gone for GOTY edition but ... whatever.

On a sidenote I almost fried my PS3 yesterday when I walked up to it to swap the NFS:S disk out and the Fallout3 disk in... electronic discharge from finger to eject button scared the shit out of me ... and messed up the picture, had to restart it.

[Dawlin]

Dragon Age: Empires and WoW.

[Yaxa]

On a sidenote I almost fried my PS3 yesterday when I walked up to it to swap the NFS:S disk out and the Fallout3 disk in... electronic discharge from finger to eject button scared the shit out of me ... and messed up the picture, had to restart it.

That happened to me several times (no freezes or screen corruption, though). I've since taken to using the controller or Blu-ray remote for ejecting discs.

Probably one of the reasons (along with cost) why they went with physical buttons on the Slim.

[Ronaan]

Related: Buying from the UK (I'm in Germany) backfired for Fallout 3 somewhat.
Can't buy the DLC for the UK version from Germany, have to setup a new PSN account (not a big problem), and enter billing details (big problem, country in account is checked vs the one on your CC).

Ended up buying a 20 quid PSN card over ebay from some goldseller service. The good: I had the code in 5 minutes via email.
The bad: It could have gone wrong too...
The ugly: I'll end up paying € 20 more than if I had gotten the GOTY edition in the first place.

Fallout 3 has really grown on me though, I guess I'm over halfway through the storyline mission (entering Vault 112 soon), but have yet to explore 70% of the map (wild guess). Bought the addon that raises the lvl limit to 30. Hope mobs don't scale.

[Torcer Arcana]

Mobs don't scale, in fact, you may find yourself intentionally using crap weapons b/c FO3 can get awfully trivial at high levels and with good weapons, despite its awesomeness.

[Agent-Jesus]

They do scale, sort of. The DLC that adds the extra levels also adds things like ghoul reavers and the higher tier of supermutants I forget the name of. They show up in areas where you wouldn't have otherwise seen them had you been lower level. I'm pretty sure the whole game works like that -- as you level, tougher enemies are added in.

[Thwick]

Still playing MW2 on xbox live, nearly back to 70 after prestiging for the first time.

However, I got Assassin's Creed 2 and Fallout3 GOTY edition for Christmas and just popped in AC2 yesterday. I'm hooked! I enjoyed the first one, but this one has a better story, controls, has not been repetitive in the least so far. Loving the extra history and background on the characters and buildings. Also, i've traveled throughout Italy so it's neat to play through all those areas.

[Neofelis]

Finished Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank the other day. Gonna go back and do Uncharted on hard and get all the skill ups and gold bolts in R&C.

[Wool]

I bought Max Payne 1 and 2 a couple months ago for cheap, and started playing it on a whim the other day. It's kind of cool for an old game, and also incredibly, mind-numbingly cheesey. You can't help but laugh at some of the stupid monologues he comes up with. I also feel obligated to give Max Payne the award for the "stupidest looking face in all of videogaming". He's got the douchiest expression on his face I think I have ever seen. And that's ignoring the cheeseball they use to portray Max in the comic panel cutscenes, haha oh man.

I've also been trying to finish Sands of Destruction, which for every great thing it does, it horribly breaks something else. Very frustrating. I've been thinking of writing a review for it, but never seem to measure out the patience to actually spend the time to write it.

[Eamin]

Rocking a New Game+ in Demon's Souls, probably until FFXIII comes out.

[Naean]

Mass Effect 1 then ME2 when I'm done if I get that far before FF13 comes out.

[Fenlayen]

ME2 and startrek online

[Yttrium]

Dragon's Age: Origins - for when I am sick of playing WoW for the day.
I was close to finishing Etrian Odessey 1 (regular game story), but I took several months off. I recently popped in EO2, and I really like it. I might finish 1 and pick up 2 again. Otherwise, for shorter gaming experiences before bed, in the car, etc, I either do crosswords on the DS, or play my brand new Elite Beat Agents game!

EBA is teh awesome.