What are you PLAYING?

[The Great Meech]

A ton of Team Fortress 2 on the PC--custom payload maps are going to be the death of me.

I have Mario Kart popped into my DS along with Donkey Kong Country 3 in the GBA slot, but I haven't been playing much of either--just goofing around.

On the PSP, I'm slowly going through the post-game content in Jeanne D'Arc.

 

[Garrett]

Still mostly WoW lately, though trying to cut back on the amount of time I spend playing. I also started playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance again. Looking at my game saves, I seem to pick up the game briefly every 7 or 8 months. I forget what's going on in game, and start over each time. Yesterday was the first time I'd ever got past the second level.

I've also been into "casual" games lately, like Bejeweled and Hexic. Enough so that I find myself dreaming of walls of jewels and all the possible combinations I can make.

 

[Tomato]

Call of duty 4 on xbox live, Prince of Perisa and sometimes Halo 3.

 

[DBR]

NHL '09 for the most part: I am in the playoffs . And a bit of WOW: my character is at level 48!

 

[BigFoot]

I played quite a bit of Magic Ball over the weekend. I also got 3-on-3 NHL Arcade on Friday, so I played that for a couple of hours. It's a fun alternative to NHL '09. And damn the game is fast paced. It's also a shit-load of fun when playing it online.

 

[rafterman1701]

Halo Wars and Killzone 2 demos. Finished the main quest on Fable 2 and downloaded the DLC. Played some more Burnout Paradise. Played some of The Maw. And Rock Band of course.

 

[Mistral]

Tried the Vigilante 8 demo with my neighbor over the weekend and decided to download the whole game. Stupid, juvenile and sometimes frustrating. We had a blast!
Got my "wings" prestige on Sat. in COD5.

 

[CommodoreKong]

I just started playing No More Heroes the other day. I'm really enjoying it, I've already killed several assassins.

It basically feels like a Zelda game with less polish set it a stylized modern day world with over the top violence.

 

[nealish116]

Post-college graduation, I have finally began to play my collection of RPGs that I've bought over the years but never had the time to go through. I beat Final Fantasy IX last week and I'm currently playing Final Fantasy XII. I'm about 1/3 through and have been really enjoying XII; it may end up ranked as my favorite Final Fantasy the way it's going.

 

[trekkerguy]

I was playing Fallout 3, but a couple weeks ago my game locked up on me and I'd have to start from an earlier save (which was twelve hours before the save that got screwed up), and I haven't gone back to it yet.

Save. Constantly. I had that happen a few times to me traveling the wastes
and it pissed me off. Just make sure you save, and if the game seems to
be slowing up at all save, save save save.

The weird thing is I hadn't actually had any problems with the game up until that point. So it caught me completely by surprise.

Which is exactly how it happened to me.
Sucks yours was soooo far back, mine was about half an hour back from
the time it froze. Just save often, everythime you accomplish something
new or travel a decent distance would be my recomendation.

Well what are you playing on? The Xbox LIVE Arcade has a huge selection
of puzzle and board games, yes even Chess and Sudoku.

And at the moment has the broadest base of games, from the ones you
mentioned, to a pretty good selection of action/adventure or RPGs.

Playing on a PC. Thanks for the tip. I really didn't know XBox catered to the minority taste.

Ah, ok. The Xbox LIVE Arcade I think is they're best attempt at catering
to everyone, still getting there on other games but much better this time
around. As for PC, it's definitely hard to find games anymore.

When I worked at Gamestop I watched our PC section shrink from two
shelves to an endcap. But there's still online shopping.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Dust was overplayed back when the WTC towers were still standing.

I know. I played some in those days. Then I didn't play from 2001 to 2005 and they were still playing it.

The classic terrorist scenario, the airport/plane was one of the least popular maps. Not sniper friendly, I guess.

Does anyone even play the VIP maps? Are they still around? I haven't explored Counter Strike Condition Zero enough to tell. (I'm debating getting CS source.)

I swear some of the voice mikes I hear that some players were born after the original CS was created. I'm killing 8 year olds online (Or they are killing me.).

 

[Aragorn]

I'd play Left 4 Dead if my friends weren't too cheap to get it.

I guess Rock Band 2 is my mainstay.

 

[The Borg Queen]

I'm currently playing Chrono Trigger on the Nintendo DS, at the end of the month I'll be getting Star Ocean: Second Evolution on the PSP and Dragon Quest V on the Nintendo DS.

A month later, at the end of March, I'll be getting Phantasy Star Portable on the PSP.

Living in New Zealand sucks. All release dates are subject to change, and some games are never actually bloody released here at all, no matter what the release dates are suppose to be!

 

[Jax]

Played Resident Evil 5 demo on split screen and online co-op, really fun though I would only buy the game weeks/months down the line when heavy price drop occurs do to money and I would prob avoid SP and stick with CO-OP with my friends.

Oh and I love what the set up is like on split screen, looks very nice.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Fallout 3....i am really getting into this game, its been a long long time since i played a game this much for so long...its fantastic.

 

[Rii]

Does anyone even play the VIP maps? Are they still around? I haven't explored Counter Strike Condition Zero enough to tell. (I'm debating getting CS source.)

I don't know if as_oilrig is still in the official rotation or not, but it was/is the last of the VIP maps. I never saw an official es_ map, those were all gone by the time I started playing.

I was totally hooked on the Warcraft III RPG mod for Counter-Strike (not to be confused with the Counter-Strike TD map for Warcraft III ) for a while there. At the time Source was released I messed around with it for a while, the eye candy was nice enough but the lack of the WC3 mod brought me back to vanilla. From what I understand it's since made the leap to Source but hasn't garnered the same level of interest there, oh well.

I swear some of the voice mikes I hear that some players were born after the original CS was created. I'm killing 8 year olds online (Or they are killing me.).

Yeah, I never made the transition to voice. I'd already spent a couple years with the game sans voice, saw no reason to change. Also I think I might've still been on dial-up at the time it was initially implemented.

Counter-Strike can probably lay claim to being the most enduringly popular multiplayer PC game around. Starcraft is its only real competition, but that game long ago ceded the "casual" throne to Warcraft III and, like Quake/III, remains notable only as a venue for professional play whereas CS/CSS is still one of the most popular FPS games around coming up on a decade since release. Valve took the relevant stats down a few months back, but at the time CS: Source was crushing Team Fortress 2 by a truly embarrassing margin. I suspect that's part of the reason they took it down. Xfire has COD4 listed as the most popular FPS on PC at the moment, but CS (and other Steam games) are woefully underrepresented on Xfire as the two platforms share much functionality, so it can't really be taken as an accurate assessment.

 

[Gatekeeper]

I have a PS3 and am currently playing through Resistance 2 on the superhuman mode. Before that, I played and beat Bioshock (absolutely awesome game!) and have a nice collection of gold, silver and bronze medals (and a level 7 ranking) from playing Motor Storm: Pacific Rift.

Fun stuff, although R2 and MS can be, well, a bit aggravating at times.

Gatekeeper

 

[Jax]

Am going to be playing FIFA 09 later, carrying on building my Villa team up and I might even start playing online.

 

[John Clark]

I'm thinking of getting Assassins Creed and Left for dead

 

[Lonemagpie]

Assassin's Creed is beautiful to look at, and great fun in places, but also very repetitive. It's essentially a testbed for the crowd-interaction stuff planned for Splinter Cell Conviction, rather than a game of it's own.

Personally I think if you could graft the first-person view from Mirror's Edge (which feels even more like a technical demo) onto the combat system and jumping-down-into-fights thing from AC, you'd have the perfect Batman game...