What are you playing?

[FordGT90Concept]

Beware...that's undeniably most difficult racing game I ever played. Maybe not the first few events but it ramps up after that. Pretty realistic in every regard though.

 

[PP Mguire]

Oh I forgot about that game. That I need to try as I heard it's more "to the roots". Need to get myself another wheel.

I just started playing FOB missions on TPP. Man what a blast!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Beware...that's undeniably most difficult racing game I ever played. Maybe not the first few events but it ramps up after that. Pretty realistic in every regard though.

A friend just bought a Subaru like the one in the pic and a PC i built for him. He is like a dog with 2 cocks at the moment.

 

[manofthem]

Got to play a bit of LEGO Jurassic World, and I've been loving it! It really brings me back, very cool. It's much better than the recent Jurassic Park game by Telltale

On the other hand, I haven't really been able to get too into Dishonored.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

As if on cue, Shadowrun Hong Kong got a 400+ MiB update today and i just finished achivement hunting in Shadowrun Dragonfall!

I discovered quite a bit in Dragonfall I didn't previously know. One of the things I discovered was because Lucky Strike (a mercenary NPC you can speak to) broke last time I played (or maybe I wasn't paying attention?). I only saw one minor typo at the beginning and I only encountered two bugs. The game is now pretty well polished.

I'm trying to decide if I feel like plowing into Hong Kong now or not...

Edit: I am. I missed a lot more achivements in Hong Kong than I thought. A few of them look like they were bugged. Hopefully they're fixed now.


It's clear I'm going to have to replay Shadows of Hong Kong (the mini-campaign) twice as well as the tail end of Hong Kong. This is going to take a long time...


I got Black Flag installed. I'll be playing that next. I'm thoroughly enjoying replaying the Shadowrun games.

 

[Jaffakeik]

I'm playing stupid browser game - Travian: kingdoms while waiting for CBT2 of Black Desert Online, BTW if someone interested I will have 3 guest passes(7 days) on release
will be able to share.

 

[Ahhzz]

I might be interested in that, Jaff. I'm still hoping to get in on the closed beta to see whether the game would be worth long-term (we're looking for a WoW replacement heheh), but if I don't get in the beta, I'll be dying to find some way to try it.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

Hi guys, i just finished 2 days ago my first run on Wolfenstein the new order great game , playing finally my new games now that i have hd space again.
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance ,Front Mission Evolved and Injustice Gods among us and some older games that i have to finish XD.

 

[Jaffakeik]

I might be interested in that, Jaff. I'm still hoping to get in on the closed beta to see whether the game would be worth long-term (we're looking for a WoW replacement heheh), but if I don't get in the beta, I'll be dying to find some way to try it.

I'll keep one pass for ya. Or even all of em so your friends can join in.

 

[EntropyZ]

Started to play Sim Coaster a.k.a Theme Park Inc. a game from simpler times and replaying Resident Evil 5 for the nth time with a friend. My buddy is new to the RE series, I wonder if he likes the game at all. Hopefully I will be able to talk him into playing higher difficulties, but that might be difficult since he thinks higher difficulties in games are for "try-hards" and there's no real enjoyment or reward in having a challenge.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

If you love SimCoaster, you should check out Theme Park World too. They were made on the same engine with near identical gameplay. Theme Park World came from Bullfrog where SimCoaster came from Maxis.

I never finished either game despite many attempts. This gives me a sad. I still have both but I'm not sure they'll run on new hardware.


Playing Shadowrun: Hong Kong still and will be for days. These games have a ton of reading and I'm a slow reader.

 

[EntropyZ]

@FordGT90Concept Thanks for your input. I would mention that the old Theme Park games made circa 2000 crash a lot under anything newer than Win XP. I haven't found any way to make them compatible enough so the crashes would be gone, they just happen out of nowhere, you'd be lucky if you saved when you made a lot of progress.

I revived an old office computer with an Intel LGA 775 motherboard and a Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz w/ HT. I installed Windows XP on it, put 4 gigs of DDR RAM in that beast and the only thing setting it back is the Geforce 8500 GT, THIS THING HAS A FREAKING PCI-E SLOT, HOLY NUTMARBLES!! Runs any pre-2007 games like a hyperactive 12-year old! What else can I ask this rig to do?

I already replayed Serious Sam, Mechwarrior 2 and 3, MDK, Theme Hospital, Max Payne 1 & 2, Resident Evil 2, Airfix Dogfighter, Red Alert 2, Doom, Final Fantasy VII, Half-Life, Halo, Jazz Jackrabbit, Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Twisted Metal 2 these past 6 months alone. There are like only couple games pre-2007 that are left that I would like to re-play, it's not the same as playing for the first time, which sucks though, probably because I only take 1-3 years of giving old games a rest before replaying again.

Most of these games can be run with nearly no problems at all on newer OS. Anything made before 1999 tends to have its CD music broken, so it's up to unofficial patches and fixes to correct that. 2000-ish games love to crash mid-mission sometimes.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

It might have something to do with memory. Your budget computer today almost has as much RAM as a computer back then had HDD space. You could try running Process Monitor while the game is running to see if it crashes when it reaches a certain amount of memory usage.

The only thing really unique about XP and newer is that it is based on the Windows NT kernel instead of Windows.

There aren't many games that refuse to run on newer versions of Windows. I can't really think of any off the top of my head.

Broken CD music is because, back then, games were coded for specific audio processors (like Sound Blaster) because the unifying AC'97 standard didn't exist or was too new to be implemented.

 

[Splinterdog]

I'm a graphics whore, so I'm currently basking in the delights of Rise of the Tomb Raider which is so luscious I have to pinch myself.

 

[raburgeson]

I was fooling around in compatibility mode and found to my surprise that Ultima 9 installs perfectly without it. Further fooling around looking for glitches, well I guess I am playing it. That's on Windows 7 ultimate x64. This Dell came with 8.1 and I hated it. I have 11 days left on this 7 trial. So I do not know what build I will be running. I noticed someone got bumped for not knowing what build they are running so, thought I would mention, I don't know and do not care, this load is just a temp.

 

[AFogWalker]

Finished playing The Witcher 3 (blew all my extra funds on that one... and for anyone asking.... best money ever spent on a game!).
And now i am going thru all the free space games out there, and so far only EVE looks promising, too bad its free only for 21 days...

Anyone knows a good space game ....Eve, Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous- like game... but free? i mean a persistent universe and all.... Star Conflict is fun... but its not... persistent. And their World of tanks-ish ship tree really turns me off (played WoT for a period).

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

still playing Blade & Soul (NA). Now farming for high-end gears for Mushin's Tower. Price for enhancement materials has shot up again, despite players predicting a small drop in price after the 1GB++ update/patch on Feb 10th. BTW, Need For Speed 2015 for PC is in a few weeks' time & both my heart & wallet are ready for it XD

 

[Capitan Harlock]

still playing Blade & Soul (NA). Now farming for high-end gears for Mushin's Tower. Price for enhancement materials has shot up again, despite players predicting a small drop in price after the 1GB++ update/patch on Feb 10th. BTW, Need For Speed 2015 for PC is in a few weeks' time & both my heart & wallet are ready for it XD

Im playing Blade & Soul too started 2 days ago but im on EU XD , I like it a lot and im fan of the anime so XD.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

@Capitan Harlock I see. oh yea... make sure you plough thru the main quest + side & dailies since it gives a lot of XP (bonus for dailies). If your character is a Gon Destroyer, it shouldn't be an issue reaching lvl35 but the hard part starts at lvl37 then eases off at lvl42 onwards. Make sure you have sufficient attack power or else you will have a hard time tackling solo quests. Keep collecting lots of money, dumplings & healing tonic coz you'll need them once u reach lvl45 for farming end game gears.

 

[Frick]

Got weak so bought a month of WoW. Still don't know what to do with those hundreds of green items I just cannot be arsed to put on the AH. Some of them look really nice so they would probably fetch money ... but WTH am I supposed to do with money anyway?

ANd then there's the deep sadness when I fly over the Eastern Kingdoms, missing the old days.

 

[Splinterdog]

I expect I'll replay ROTTR again just for all the tombs and other stuff I missed.
After that I'm tempted by Mad Max. Anyone played it yet?

 

[Ahhzz]

I'll keep one pass for ya. Or even all of em so your friends can join in.

By the way, the SO is interested as well (we're looking for something we can both get into), so if you could save two keys that would be great: still not been able to find/beg/steal a beta key heheh. If not, we'll just share the one thanks!

 

[Guitar]

I expect I'll replay ROTTR again just for all the tombs and other stuff I missed.
After that I'm tempted by Mad Max. Anyone played it yet?

I found Mad Max to be very fun personally. It was repetitive in a way, the same way Just Cause is if you're into that, but I like that style.

 

[PP Mguire]

When I'm at home I'm playing Destiny with the PS4 bros, when I'm at work I'm playing MGSV TPP when I get the chance. I was getting intruded when I heard that Stefanie Joosten was streaming but she quit. Sad days

 

[AFogWalker]

I expect I'll replay ROTTR again just for all the tombs and other stuff I missed.
After that I'm tempted by Mad Max. Anyone played it yet?

Mad Max was nice... but i started playing that game right after I finished The Witcher 3... so i had my expectations waaaay up. (so at that moment i was a bit disappointed....)
I replayed MM a couple of weeks ago... and it was pure fun. Note: do not rush to main story, take your time with the side quests, so you can get the most out of the game.