OT: What other games are people playing??

Aku · #1 September 7th, 2004, 08:33 PM

yeah arryn that 5 part video was the exact same one i downloaded

Another interesting game is the expansion Jump to Lightspeed for Star Wars Galaxies BUT that is if they dont mess it up. They claim it will be like the old x-wing and tie fighter games and you use your actual skill not character skill for it but I want to see it first. It could land up being a horrible expansion and buggy as hell like how Alien Invasion was just now for Anarchy Online.

Arryn · #2 September 7th, 2004, 08:50 PM

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Another interesting game is the expansion Jump to Lightspeed for Star Wars Galaxies BUT that is if they dont mess it up.

Having been one of the original closed-beta testers for SWG on through the release and for several months thereafter, Sony left a very bad taste in my mouth. They will mess it up. Bank on it. They've messed everything up 'til now so I don't see them suddenly "getting it" and doing something smart. SWG had a great deal of promise (kinda like the now-defunct E&B, but with even greater potential) and has realized hardly any of what was promised. I could even live with all the broken promises and outright lies if they would have just left the damn game alone and quit "fixing" things that weren't borked, and "rebalancing" the game into a dull tedium of impotence.

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Anarchy Online

Which has to be the most aptly-named game of all time. (Somehow, I just don't see too many people paying to play games called "Unlimited Tedium" or "Not Tested 2" or "You've Been Punk'd, Again!".)

Lepakko · #3 September 8th, 2004, 03:51 AM

Dominions 2
Dungeon crawl
Age of wonders games
total war games
Horizons
Ultima Online

and little
diablo 2
UT2004

PrinzMegaherz · #4 September 8th, 2004, 04:16 AM

Dom 2
Chaos League (Blood Ball without GW License)
Doom 3

and waiting for Final Fantasy 11's europe release.

Magic was very fun when I played it regularly at school. It was basicaly everything about outsmarting your fellow players by finding new ways to defeat their decks.

Oh, and that shivan dragon really looks great

Alneyan · #5 September 8th, 2004, 08:51 AM

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Ultima Online

I know I am too curious, but... Do you play UO on the official shards (OSI) or on private servers? I know I definitively spent too much time playing UO in the past, though that was on private shards.

Gandalf Parker · #6 September 8th, 2004, 10:45 AM

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I know I am too curious, but... Do you play UO on the official shards (OSI) or on private servers? I know I definitively spent too much time playing UO in the past, though that was on private shards.

Ive been REAL tempted to get back into UO. Its the only Online world I really liked. But I played it at the wrong time. Not early enough for the best parts, and not late enough for private shards. From what I hear, everything I loved about it is still there and everything I didnt like is fixed by having access to private shards.

I was even debating that it might be a good thing to do with all this ISP equipment Ive got rotting in my garage. Do a nice little local shard.

Aku · #7 September 8th, 2004, 01:16 PM

I played Ultima Online for 4 years but quit because the game was turning to crap. UO was a badass game but as time went on it became drummed down so much. I am told now that you can bless an item for 100gp and it stays blessed until you die. I saw UO turning like the other mmorpgs so I quit and the community was degrading into children. Has it changed at all in the past few years?

Aikamun · #8 September 9th, 2004, 10:12 PM

Like these threads every once in a while. Have decided to leave MMORPG's behind. They have a community but minimal gameplay. Returning to strategy games. My Favorites are:

Dominions 2
Space Empires 4

Downloaded Titans of Steel, Anacreon 2, and the Chaos League Demo. Believe it or not, I am an old Blood Bowl fan. Threw out complete sets of Advanced Squad Leader, Starfleet Battles, and Car Wars but kept all of my Blood Bowl stuff. Shocked to see this game returning to computer.

I will weed these five games down to three so as to receive more enjoyment from the best.

Thanks again for the thread and info,
Aikamun

Editted: Instead of Anacreon 2, evaluating the Hyperion Mod for Emperor of the Fading Suns.

KroolDeath · #9 September 9th, 2004, 10:35 PM

This has been an interesting thread indeed. There is quite a mixture of gamers playing Dom2, which is a good thing. We've seen pure stragetists, folks who like multiple genres, etc. Its even given me some insight on some other games I might like to try that aren't necessarily mainstream so many, like me, may not have heard of them.

Keep em coming folks!

Krool

Arryn · #10 September 9th, 2004, 10:38 PM

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Have decided to leave MMORPG's behind. They have a community but minimal gameplay.

That's one of my big gripes against them. Do any of them have any sort of real persistent universe in which a player's (or guild's) actions actually matter? Where there's a real, threaded storyline whose flow you can actually affect, instead of the typical scripted "events" developers occasionally throw in, which the game companies have confused with the concept of "content"?