what games you all play?

[Jesusabdullah]

I got an Alpha Centauri disk somewhere that I wanna try sometime. Is it good (I mean, clearly TTH thinks so, but <shrug>)?

Edit: Further, is the expansion worth digging up? I don't have it.

[TellTaleHeart]

The improvement between Alpha Centauri and Alpha Centauri+expansion is bigger than the improvement between most games and their sequels. The change in graphics is slight, but the change in gameplay is amazing.

[Tim]

oh!

....and i started playing puzzle pirates the other day. it's fun. even if i feel sorta dumb playing it xD

Hooray! ...I mean, Yarr! Another pirate!

In addition, still playing Kingdom Hearts 2.

And scrounging around for others to play Pirates with me. I just bought a bunch of the new expansion, Davy Jones' Curse...I even pulled a couple of kraken.

[Boogiebop]

At the moment I'm sharing my time between.

Shadow of Rome (ps2): Great game. Shame about the pissy stealth parts.

Prince of Persia: Warrior within: Allright I suppose but the shitty rock soundtrack and unlikeable version of the prince drops it below the other two in the series.

SIN: Emergence: Jesus Christ this game is like playing though someone's wet dream. It opens with the biggest pair of ingame tits I've ever seen, that's counting the Mario Bros, and it gets worse from there. Oh and it's an uninspired shooter as well.

Vampire:Bloodlines: If the game was finished It would be pretty good. But it runs like a bitch even on a 'twice the god damn recomended specs' machine. It's a shame Troika went under, they made awesome games.

Prey Demo: My first thought was "whoppee, another fps set in a dingy space station with tentacles coming out of the walls built with the doom3 engine" but after playing the demo I'm looking forward to the full release. The presentation is absolutely spot on and theres a good few gameplay elements that set it apart from the likes of Doom and Quake 4.

I'm debating whether to give a game called 'Primal' a shot. It's going for dirt cheap in my local super market but the reviews don't tell me much. Anyone played it?

[Jops]

Not playign anything now, but lately i've been going trough MMO free trials. I find virtual world very intriguing especially when they have their own market, politics and stuff like that, so i wanted to see the goods and the bads of them.

Lineage 2:
Actually not a free trial, but a private server called Xtreme. Well, not counting the private server issues (stuff not implemented and "corrupted" admins), the game is rather boring, going with nonsense killing of mobs for money and XP, unless one gets in a clan involved in the whole castle-siege thing. Player driven politics, with alliances and wars, are great fun.
I honestly don't know if on the official version it was intented to be played like that, but huge alliances struggling and fighting in order to take control of the whole server (aka getting all the castles available) was the only thing that made that game worth playing.

D&D online:
Played a while ago as beta tester and loved it. I really like the "separate instance system" used there. You can play without worring about the typical MMO lamers (aka PKers, KSers and anoying people in general). In a good cooperative party (wich wasn't too difficult to form) it was great fun.
Also, i must say it was the best adaption to real-time of a turn-based system i've ever seen.
The problem is: once you've done all the quests and reached lvl 10 there's nothign left for you there, and for a MOO that's quite sucidal.

EVE:
This and D&D are the best ones i've played so far. EVE's market and politcs aren't very easy to figure out, but once you understand them it's a kickass game. If you don't, well, it may quickly become a bit ripetitive.
I liked the classless system wich allows characters to be very different from each other. This way, a good specialized char won't feel uselss even if in a group of much more experienced ones.

RF Online:
A real piece of crap, i couldn't even get as far a playing 'till the end of the 10 days trial. I think what lured me to play it was the graphic models of one of the 3 factions (Bellato), wich reminds me my drawing style.
Other than that and the "kiss my ass" emote, nothing's really good in that game: Quests are idiotic, players are basically forced to go trough xp-run grind for the 1st 30 lvls before they can do somethign even remotely interesting, character appearance has an extremely limited customizability and what you read most is "you're too low level to do <insert thing you were trying to do here>".
Not to mention the overwhelming number of people doing botting and 2boxing.

City of Villains:
It's great for character design. There are so many possibilities for the char appearance that you'd spend hours just to create your char (and then, later, at the tailor shop). Unfortunately missions are very ripetitive: by the time you reach lvl 15 you start getting bored and consider creating a new char. After a while, the only missions i actually consider fun are the "rob a bank" ones. A bonus goes to the huge amount of emotes available, wich allows you to get in the main square and set up a show with a bunch of friends: these are often hilarious.

[Jops]

It's a shame Troika went under, they made awesome games.

Ah, good old Troika Games, you shall be missed.
I loved you so much and i'll never forget you.

They always made games with a crapload of bugs and issues, but damn, those games were still AWESOME!
(I went trough Arcanum 4 times, and finished ToEE 3 times)

Boogiebop, see if you can find some Fan-made patches. I did that for both Arcanum and ToEE: they fix the game real good, even better than the official ones.

[Killbert-Robby]

I quite enjoyed EVE. And as a trader it meant it didn't actually take over my life. Initiate autopilot, pull out book, study, set mining target, study, autopilot, study, etc.

[The Mortician]

Paper Mario 2.
Still working on ranking up in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Still playing GTA: San Andreas.

[RemusShepherd]

I got an Alpha Centauri disk somewhere that I wanna try sometime. Is it good (I mean, clearly TTH thinks so, but <shrug>)?

Alpha Centauri is the best Civilization type game ever made. It's better than all the ones that came before, and they never matched it afterwards. The one complaint I have is that there are too few factions so after a while you've played against almost every opponent. (Never, ever trust the religious fundies in that game. )

I have not played the expansion, but have heard good things about it. It was just too much effort to track down. And Spore is coming out soon to (hopefully) fulfill my Civ-type gaming needs.

[Czar]

I got an Alpha Centauri disk somewhere that I wanna try sometime. Is it good (I mean, clearly TTH thinks so, but <shrug>)?

Alpha Centauri is the best Civilization type game ever made. It's better than all the ones that came before, and they never matched it afterwards. The one complaint I have is that there are too few factions so after a while you've played against almost every opponent. (Never, ever trust the religious fundies in that game. )

I have not played the expansion, but have heard good things about it. It was just too much effort to track down. And Spore is coming out soon to (hopefully) fulfill my Civ-type gaming needs.

Hmmm... Note to self: If I come across the expansion I'm impulse buying it.
I got the game ages ago, but can't seem to find the expansion anywhere...

For Operation Flashpoint I resorted to mail order to get the game and the Resistance expansion, might have to do that again.

[TellTaleHeart]

Alpha Centauri is the best Civilization type game ever made. It's better than all the ones that came before, and they never matched it afterwards. The one complaint I have is that there are too few factions so after a while you've played against almost every opponent. (Never, ever trust the religious fundies in that game. )

The Alien Crossfire expansion adds 7 new factions. Five are human, including a Pirate faction that starts out with seabases, Two factions are alien with radically different gameplay than the humans. And if that's not enough variety, the expansion includes a faction editor so you can make your own.

[Prettydragoon]

*shudder* I haven't played computer games since I had to go cold turkey on Civ II.

Other than that, I used to play hooky in college, I've played footsie on occasion, and I frequently play the fool.

[War]

I didn't think the expansion for AC was all that good. Factions are easy enough to make yourself (without the editor) and other than that all it really added were a few new techs.

I'm currently replaying Deus Ex.

[Vorticus]

I got an Alpha Centauri disk somewhere that I wanna try sometime. Is it good (I mean, clearly TTH thinks so, but <shrug>)?

Alpha Centauri is the best Civilization type game ever made. It's better than all the ones that came before, and they never matched it afterwards. The one complaint I have is that there are too few factions so after a while you've played against almost every opponent. (Never, ever trust the religious fundies in that game. )

I have not played the expansion, but have heard good things about it. It was just too much effort to track down. And Spore is coming out soon to (hopefully) fulfill my Civ-type gaming needs.

I've yet to get the expansion but the core game is solid. I have to agree on the best Civilization style comment, other the others were lacking something or had too many extraneous features. As to trust, don't trust any of them unless you're following the exact government/social/economic model that they do.

[Killbert-Robby]

I'm currently replaying Deus Ex.

Brilliant game. It's exactly the kind of game I like to play, the one where just screwing around and seeing what you can achieve is an option. Second one kinda sucked in my opinion though. What ending did you get the first time you played through DE?

[Skylark King]

Just recently finished Suikoden 5, seriously considering going back and re-playing Suikoden 2.

[Killbert-Robby]

For you Oblivion-philes, I stumbled across this. A multiplayer mod http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mloxto01/

It's bare bones for now, literally there isn't much AT ALL, but he's working on it, so I'm keeping an eye on it.

[McDuffies]

and I frequently play the fool.

Ha! I won the last unoficcial "the fool" championship of eastern Europe!

[Jesusabdullah]

I got an Alpha Centauri disk somewhere that I wanna try sometime. Is it good (I mean, clearly TTH thinks so, but <shrug>)?

Alpha Centauri is the best Civilization type game ever made. It's better than all the ones that came before, and they never matched it afterwards. The one complaint I have is that there are too few factions so after a while you've played against almost every opponent. (Never, ever trust the religious fundies in that game. )

I have not played the expansion, but have heard good things about it. It was just too much effort to track down. And Spore is coming out soon to (hopefully) fulfill my Civ-type gaming needs.

Hmmm... Note to self: If I come across the expansion I'm impulse buying it.
I got the game ages ago, but can't seem to find the expansion anywhere...

For Operation Flashpoint I resorted to mail order to get the game and the Resistance expansion, might have to do that again.

Remus: Spore looked badass. If I don't feel too poor, I'll probably buy it.

Czar: If you get the expansion, can I have the torrent?

The Alien Crossfire expansion adds 7 new factions. Five are human, including a Pirate faction that starts out with seabases, Two factions are alien with radically different gameplay than the humans. And if that's not enough variety, the expansion includes a faction editor so you can make your own.

Heh, pirates--yarr! I think I'd install it just for that, but I think I'd be too cheap to buy, especially if making new factions isn't too bad.

[[AlmightyPyro]]

For you Oblivion-philes, I stumbled across this. A multiplayer mod http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mloxto01/

It's bare bones for now, literally there isn't much AT ALL, but he's working on it, so I'm keeping an eye on it.

Oooohhhhhhh.... Aaaaaaaahhhhh