The "What Are You Playing Now?" Thread

[Yaxa]

Nothing new to play here. I've been killing some time with Puzzle Agent 2, but it's hard not to be disappointed by the lack of improvements compared to the first one.

[Yttrium]

I've been tinkering with League of Legends. After hearing about it enough on Penny-Arcade, I thought I'd try it out. I had never heard of Defense of the Ancients (DotA, Warcraft 3 mod), so this type of game was completely new to me.

It's alright. There's still the aspect of being "grouped" with assholes, online. However, I only do the non-PvP stuff, so that helps some. It's entertaining. I saved all my WhateverTheFuckCurrency points and bought a top-cost character that showed up once on a free week. That's probably the extent of my interest in "building" at this point.

[Wool]

My plans on going on a video game binge failed to come to fruition, Between the Uncharted mp beta, Orcs Must Die, and Naruto being way more fun than I expected (100%ed it), I never got to the last half of my planned list. Finishing up Jeanne D'arc now, won't have time for much else before Uncharted comes out. I am trying to pressure a friend to play Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light with me though, I heard it was good co op and should be pretty short.

[Yaxa]

Played through Portal 2 again over the weekend. I was originally going to take my time and look for more hidden stuff, but eventually I just wanted to get on with the story. Still a shame that they didn't flesh out the historic parts more, imo. And it doesn't look like we'll ever get any real single player DLC.

Now I'm in the middle of an obscure little adventure game called The Art of Murder: FBI Confidential. Despite being from 2008, it somehow manages to feel incredibly dated. And it combines some of the worst choices of adventure game design, almost as if on purpose. And don't get me started on the localization (the developer is Polish)...

[Yttrium]

I can't believe I'm still playing Puzzle Kingdoms, the really shitty puzzle fighter. The puzzles work, and every night I do a couple more.

I'm still playing through Clash of Heroes of Might and Magic, on the PS3, but I downloaded the demo for Dungeon Defenders to try out. The PC version was terrible, all because of the play control. I'm hoping the console version is better.

I'm about to start Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but I have the *awesome* opportunity to play either the Wii version (nunchuk and all) or the Gamecube version (using the GC controller on the Wii). Recommendations?

[Yaxa]

There are basically only two reasons to pick the GC version over the Wii version:

- You absolutely must have a left-handed link (the Wii version has the whole world mirrored to accommodate a right-handed Link for right-handed motion controls)
- You hate motion controls (no Classic Controller support on the Wii)

[Wool]

Played Bastion over the weekend, it was wonderful. My only complaint is that you are constantly getting new weapons, abilities, and upgrades, but don't really have enough levels to use them all. My personality doesn't really allow for picking a favorite combo and sticking with it, I'm constantly wanting to try and max out everything. I guess that's what new game + is for.

[Mihoko Ishii]

Skyrim, Binding of Isaac, Sequence, Nation Red, and Voxatron for myself

[Yttrium]

I'm *still* playing Puzzle Kingdoms (DS)? My wife is starting to mock me.

I downloaded Nitronic Rush - freebie from a Digipen group - and I like it enough that I'm considering getting an Xbox controller to play it with.

I recently started playing Twilight Princes (Wii version). It's so-so. The dog stages are dumb

[Mihoko Ishii]

I'm *still* playing Puzzle Kingdoms (DS)? My wife is starting to mock me.

I downloaded Nitronic Rush - freebie from a Digipen group - and I like it enough that I'm considering getting an Xbox controller to play it with.

I recently started playing Twilight Princes (Wii version). It's so-so. The dog stages are dumb

If you use a wired xbox controller you can just plug it into the PC directly and it will work.

[Star-Demon]

Skyrim

[Yaxa]

Haven't been able to get Skyrim yet, so I'm replaying Syberia II along with a dash of F1 2011...

[Dawlin]

Skyrim, Orcs must Die, Old raids in WoW.

[Yttrium]

Picked up Fallout 3 for $9. I just started it. The first 5 seconds of the game are EXACTLY like what I remember from Bioshock. After that, it's more along the lines of 60% like Bioshock

Also: continuing to play Clash of Heroes of Might and Magic, Puzzle Kingdoms (the worst puzzle game, ever), and Zelda: Twilight Princess. I'm thinking of ditching the Zelda game. It just isn't fun anymore it hurts to say that about a Zelda game.

[Silke]

Skyrim mostly. Playing Arkham City off and on when I get the chance but it hasn't been much.

[Wool]

Got Limbo for $2.50 on Steam the other day and spent a couple hours tonight playing it. It was okay, but I really wasn't as impressed as most people seemed to be. I wouldn't have wanted to pay more than five dollars for it.

Picked up Zelda: Skyward Sword. Graphics look fuzzy as heck. I like the art style so this makes me sad. Can't get my component cables to work to see if that would make it any better. Not very far in, I like it so far. I hear there is a lot of filler (which will piss me off), and I hate motion controls as a rule, but everything else is good. The motion controls aren't that bad, but I'm sure I'll get sick of them eventually.

I also started Assassin's Creed 2 the other day, one of the games I got during the last Steam sale. I'm only a few hours into it and I can already tell its going to be a thousand times better than the first one. Tutorial system is annoying though. Instead of telling you what button does what, it assigns random ass symbols to commands and then tells you that this symbol performs that command. Excuse me, but neither my keyboard nor my gamepad have a "eye with a squiggly" button/key. You end up wasting time trying to figure out what it wants you to do, as you flail like a drunk baboon.

And finally I started Persona 2 for the PSP the other day. I probably won't have much time for it though. It's much better than the first one so far.

[Mileron]

Terraria 1.1 came out, bringing with it a huge host of changes, including additional bosses and new items. It's also available on Steam for another 6 hours for 2.50, or 7.50 for a 4-pack.

Skyrim. Doing bandit runs in between miscellaneous quests.

Angry Birds. I'm not very good. Better at Rio.

Still geocaching. Have a few days off this month so I'll probably spend one or two doing just that.

[Mihoko Ishii]

Got Limbo for $2.50 on Steam the other day and spent a couple hours tonight playing it. It was okay, but I really wasn't as impressed as most people seemed to be. I wouldn't have wanted to pay more than five dollars for it.

I loved Limbo, especially the art style and the ending. Some of the puzzles required a level of precision that were infuriating however. I paid 10 dollars for it and it was worth the trip by far.

I picked up the introversion bundle and have been playing multiwinia. That game is fantastic to play in bursts. I got tired of Nation Red so have been playing multiwinia instead for those 5-15 minute breaks.

[Wool]

Assassin's Creed 2 is a huge improvement over the original, although the assassinations were more interesting in the first one, and they still manage to mess things up with some of the new systems.

For example: They added corrupt officials you could kill to lower your notoriety. They start shouting and run as soon as they see you. But they still spawn even if you are at zero notoriety, and attract the attention of guards even if you don't chase them.

That's not the worst of it, oh no. They also, for some inexplicable reason, run right up to your face before they run off. And if you try and ignore them they come back and do it again!

One time I was calmly walking to a ladder when one came out of nowhere shouting "Stay away from me murderer", pushed me off the ladder, and climbed up the very same ladder I was trying to climb myself. It's like they want to die.

This is old news to most of you, two year old game and all, but I thought it was funny/bizarre.

I loved Limbo, especially the art style and the ending. Some of the puzzles required a level of precision that were infuriating however. I

Definitely. I would get stuck for 10 minutes even though I knew the solution because I didn't know the exact timing it wanted. In something skill based like Super Meat Boy that makes sense, but with something puzzle based it's just annoying.

Still worth playing though.

[Silke]

Just started Uncharted 3 while waiting for my Star Wars account to go active. I forgot how fun Uncharted games are.