Whatcha been playing lately?

[Nathan]

A lot of Rome: Total War, a little of San Andreas. I can't seem to get into it as I did with Vice City, but I'll keep trying.

[CovenantJr]

Tonight I'm playing Fable......



Or that was the plan, until I discovered my Xbox lacks the cable required to connect to the tv. Bloody Microsoft!

[Encryptic]

I was actually making progress on Metroid Prime 2 again, then I got to the next boss. I *thought* I had defeated it, but then I realized that was only half the battle.



Oh well....I also bought the Sonic The Hedgehog collection for GameCube a while back so I've been playing that as well.

[Lorelei]

Playing Neverwinter Nights again on my laptop and Sacred on my desktop. For those who are unfamiliar, Sacred has a similar feel to Diablo - much more hack and slash than RPG but great fun after a hard day at the office.

[Worm of Despite]

Bought a GameCube, as well as Resident Evil 4 and Zelda: the Wind Waker. Going to take it one game at a time; I can't stop playing Resident Evil 4, anyway!

[Nathan]

Worms armageddon with a pal from school. (we gave up on worms world party after we found out how amazingly bug-ridden it is.)

[CovenantJr]

Bought Knights of the Old Republic, since Darth has been banging on about it for so long. Unfortunately, I can't play it for the same reason I can't play Morrowind: a dodgy audio connection that results in loud buzzing at all times I'm getting a new one...

[Nav]

KOTOR 2 is out tomorrow, yay! I'm still going through KOTOR trying to complete all of the side quests, so I'll probably hold off buying it for a couple of weeks.

I finally got properly into San Andreas last week, and I've just unlocked the airfield. Flying is hard! I've put together some cool modified cars too.

I downloaded a cool Amiga emulator at the weekend and managed to find the vital (and not strictly legal) ROMs just lying around on the internet. I've been re-living my youth, playing Rick Dangerous, Cannon Fodder, Super Cars, Frontier and the like. Awesome!

[The Pumpkin King]

If you have an Amiga Emulator, then PLAY ELITE II. You're some sort of strange unearthly demon if you don't.


As of now, I'm playing a lot of X2: The Threat, trying to get myself a nicer ship. Right now, I'm doing a lot of mobile mining in a nice asteroid belt I found... I have one fighter commanded to follow me around in case of any pirate attacks.

[EDIT] Whoops, I noticed you have Frontier there. Wasn't the full title "Frontier: Elite II?" So, I guess your'e not some sort of strange unearthly demon.

[Nav]

Yep, it's Frontier: Elite 2 alright. I've not gotten very far as of yet, and the game has served to remind me how much more difficult things were back then. I'm kind of annoyed with it at the moment, after I flew a long and dangerous mission only to have my customer welch on me at the end of it. If I ever get hold of her...

That'll teach me not to get half of the money up-front I suppose.

[Nathan]

I've got X2: The threat. I got bored of it after a while because my transport ships servicing my factories kept getting destoryed while I left them running overnight.

[The Pumpkin King]

I've got X2: The threat. I got bored of it after a while because my transport ships servicing my factories kept getting destoryed while I left them running overnight.

Which is why you assign escorts such as corvettes to your transports if they're in contended sectors.

Sometimes a sector's so bad you'll have to assign a spacecraft carrier or battleship, or two.

Or, for the really poor person, a vast network of laser towers. I've heard stories of laser-tower guarded routes doing wonders, and it costs a fraction of a fully-equipped battleship.

As for me, my space mining operation's going pretty well. Eventually I hope to get a big transport vessel, with a bunch of smaller ones within it, and download that autolaunch/autogather command software and script you can get online so I can blast the asteroids in a smaller freighter, and have those ships leave my big freighter, gather the bits that I just blasted off, return them to my big ship, unload them, and then rinse and repeat. I also want to have a few defending corvettes, and eventually maybe even an M2-class destroyer guarding my fleet.

But that's a long way off. =P

I'm making decent money now, but I can't help but think my credits would be better spent towards a ship capturing operation... *ponder*

[CovenantJr]

Rick Dangerous

[Nav]

Waaaaaagh!

[Usivius]

I have Xbox. The games I plodding through right now are: KOTOR, Halo (1), Crimson Skies (lots of fun), and puttering through games of golf with Links 2004 with the wife, along with some smash-up fun with Totalled! (takes frik'n long to load each game, but fun nonetheless -- hoping for a littel more 'realistinc' demolision derby style game for Xbox, though...)

[I'm Murrin]

I'd be playing some FF if my TV remote was working. Grr.
But I have just gotten (downloaded) Halo and Alice, to see what the second's like and whether either will even run on the lappy.

[Loredoctor]

I am playing Sims 2 University

[Avatar]

I'm still playing Rome: Total War. Have modded the game files so that I can play the supposedly "unplayable" factions, and increased the campaign time limit by a few hundred years.

--A

[CovenantJr]

KOTOR 1 & 2. Both great games.

[Nathan]

Increased the campaign time limit? I've never managed to get anywhere near the limit before conquering the whole world...