Game you're playing. How far you are.

Alister McFap II Esq. · Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:07 am

I didn't play any of the 3D Mega Mans (Men?). Just some 2.5D ones (X8).
ZX series are good playing.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:08 pm

WORLD OF TANKS (closed beta)

It's pretty wicked.

Taco-Hero · Post by **Taco-Hero** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:31 pm

I started playing this game, 'Echo Bazaar' after watching some video on the Escapist, the game is a free-browser thing wich is sort of interesting.

I'm not sure how far I am.

And I ordered New Vegas on Amazon so that's cool.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:27 am

I've been playing Gears of War 2 because I got it for christmas in 2008 but it was still in the shrink wrap and I decided to play it once and for all. It was actually pretty good, very polished and paced quite well. The game was also of decent length, if the game counter is to be believed then I spent atleast 20 hours on it.

I played the first one when it came out and I didn't remember it that fondly except for the at the time revolutionary cover system that is now everywhere. I remember the boss fights in the old one were really bad but in this one they were okay.

Alister McFap II Esq. · Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:11 am

Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch

Try it.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:46 am

Kashluk wrote:WORLD OF TANKS (closed beta)

It's pretty wicked.

Open beta soon. It was fun, I just got bored very quickly.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:00 am

And there are still some pretty big balance issues. Light tanks become pretty useless after tier 3 and 4 or so. Also, the tracked artillery on latter tiers becomes insanely powerful combined with their 'all-seeing vision' over the battlefield.

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:58 am

HAHA. Kashluk i play that game too. I have been playing for less than a week, but that last XP and CRED boost helped me get a decent array of tanks, although i made the mistake of diversifing my tanks instead of focusing on a specific Type.

Is your name Kashluk in the game? xD

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:23 pm

Yeah, I play with the same nick I use here. I've been trying different types of tanks myself as well. Playing solely as USSR, I've gotten so far:

- the best (tier 4) Soviet light tank, A-20
- tier 6 medium tank, M-34-85
- tier 4 SPG (artillery), SU-5
- and I'm about to get my first heavy tank on tier 5, KV-1

I think I've played for 1Â½ weeks or so? The XP/cred boost was nice, in a way, but now it feels like everyone's rolling a tier 8 - 10 tank. I end up at the bottom of the player list (in order of the tank tier) in almost every game I play with my tier 6 tank these days.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:49 pm

Kashluk wrote:Yeah, I play with the same nick I use here. I've been trying different types of tanks myself as well. Playing solely as USSR, I've gotten so far:

- the best (tier 4) Soviet light tank, A-20
- tier 6 medium tank, M-34-85
- tier 4 SPG (artillery), SU-5
- and I'm about to get my first heavy tank on tier 5, KV-1

I think I've played for 1Â½ weeks or so? The XP/cred boost was nice, in a way, but now it feels like everyone's rolling a tier 8 - 10 tank. I end up at the bottom of the player list (in order of the tank tier) in almost every game I play with my tier 6 tank these days.

My girlfriend played that game and she said that it was boring as hell.

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:02 pm

Women don't understand tanks. I haven't tried it, but a woman going, "Boy, this game full of tanks is boring" doesn't sound reliable to me.

Burning Oasis · Post by **Burning Oasis** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:24 pm

Retlaw83 wrote:Women don't understand tanks. I haven't tried it, but a woman going, "Boy, this game full of tanks is boring" doesn't sound reliable to me.

Yonmanc · Post by **Yonmanc** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:36 am

Burning Oasis wrote:
Retlaw83 wrote:Women don't understand tanks. I haven't tried it, but a woman going, "Boy, this game full of tanks is boring" doesn't sound reliable to me.

Alister McFap II Esq. · Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:18 am

achokkus suggested me to play some GTA 4. So I'll play it.

Post by **Manoil** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:35 am

Alister McFap II Esq. wrote:achokkus suggested me to play some GTA 4. So I'll play it.

Follow up with either the DLC or Red Dead Redemption

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:02 am

I've been playing a little bit of Monkey Island 2 and despite not really having got anywhere in the game thus far, I can really appreciate the writing. It is well thought out, interesting and above all genuinely funny. They don't make games like this any more these days.

Alister McFap II Esq. · Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:11 am

Manoil wrote:
Alister McFap II Esq. wrote:achokkus suggested me to play some GTA 4. So I'll play it.
Follow up with either the DLC or Red Dead Redemption

I don't have a console. I played RDR with a mate in germany. It was ok.
Unless it comes out on PC I won't be able to play it.

SenisterDenister · Post by **SenisterDenister** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:21 am

The console port of GTA IV is terribly optimized, to the extent that if you don't have at least a quad core with at least four gigs of ram and a video card with 512 dedicated memory on it good luck getting the resolution out of 1024x768, let alone getting 30 FPS.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:21 am

Alister McFap II Esq. wrote:
Manoil wrote:
Alister McFap II Esq. wrote:achokkus suggested me to play some GTA 4. So I'll play it.
Follow up with either the DLC or Red Dead Redemption
I don't have a console. I played RDR with a mate in germany. It was ok.
Unless it comes out on PC I won't be able to play it.

I tried GTA 4 on the PC and the port is so horrendous that I decided it wasn't worth the effort. It really handles worse than a piece of shit.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:21 am

Worse port than fucking Fallout 3.