yeah, I felt ZYirAH had a point in the Anticipated Computer Gaming thread, but anticipating upcoming PC games isa relatively small group, whereas people who play games would be more of their own thread worthy. (Excuse my grammar, i jsut hit my head a few minutes ago and this is wrong. sounding..)

Anyways....

What are YOU playing?

POOM!

I've been playing Indiana Jones and the Emperor's
Tomb on my XBox. I tell you what. Nothing is
better after a hard day of digging than coming
home to beat up some Nazis, defeating some kung fu
ghosts with the thing from Krull, and grabbing the
loot.

Seriously, when they designed that game, I swear
they must have held up a picture of me and said,
"This guy isn't buying enough games. We need to
make a game that this guy will not merely want,
but need."

Sadly, no games on the compy for me right now. Too distracting. Although I've been playing handheld Solitaire way too much.

Too much BZFlag of course.

Mainly Heavy Weapons, Zuma, Alchemy, Seven Seas & Dynomite from here, and anything else that'll stay in cache. Or, if I'm temporarily deranged, Age of Kings - hey, it's not like I needed those five hours.

Since I got XP none of my old FPS work, thank God.

This is ALL we've been playing since I got one of those plug-into-your-TV modules. This and Galaxians. My wrists hurt in that familiar long forgotten way all over again.

Absolutely. I got the Namco Museum for the XBox as
well. It has PacMan and Ms. PacMan. The real
winner is Galaga, though.

All hail Galaga!

Hail Galaga!

One of the other boxes has Space Invaders and QIX. Which gets almost as much play as Pac Man. All I need now is I, Robot...

last night i was sitting with my daughter who was playing kids PC games and she opened up the mahhjong they had in the 6-8yo category. i don't know whether it bears any resemblance to the real deal, but it only took one game and i wouldn't let her anywhere near the mouse. third time i got a very auspicious score (1052, a variation on my favourite number) and i've spent the last i don't know how many hours whistling the tune.

is this one of the mahjong variants where you have a large funky pyramid stacking of tiles and have to find the ones that match? no resemblance to the real deal but loads of fun, that one...

i think so, the pyramid wasn't so large, though, so it's probably the junior version.

a matching game, just a bit more difficult.

I already said it elsewhere, but here is the right place :

I recently finished Fahrenheit (European, and therefore uncensored verison of Indigo Prophecy).
And it rocked!

I'm currently playing Black and White 2.
It's fun, but I have trouble spreading my influence over mines and forests.
The game is a bit slow, but I can't make myself lower the graphics settings.

--
ArkanGL

GTA: San Andreas
I'm not really sure if i'm liking it. Granted, it has a lot of little additions in it that pull you into the game more (i like the RPG-styled character development a lot). The city is a lot bigger now as well, which is nice. However the story is seriously lacking in this one, specially compared to GTA: Vice City which had an excellent story.
Another gripe is the addition of dancing and low-rider mini games in which you (much like DDR) have to press the correct series of keys appearing on your screen in order to succeed. I hate those things (hated them in Pirates! as well).
Oh, and i hate the weather effects too. The one for rain nearly kills my computer and the one for heat just looks horrible. I've been looking for a way to turn them off without using cheat codes.

DIt took some time for GTA:SA to grow on me.

I had to reach the point when you leave the first city.
Then the whole world becomes much bigger.

But I stopped playing anyway.

Too many other games...
I don't think this one has any more suprises in stock.

All UT, some of the time - Classic and 2004.

Not much of a game player, otherwise.

The original is still sweet to play - esp. w/ my beloved Ren and Stimpy voice pack.

Like heavyboots, I'm salivating over what I've seen of UT2007 so far.

I'm playing my guitar.

One day, hsuan, HB and will unite to form the ultimate UT team.

ph3@r t3h 5n1p3r r1f|3.

Still playing Baldur's Gate 2 which is a fine RPG and still holds up after many years.

Also play VBS since I am becoming impatient waiting for Operation Flashpoint 2.

And like a pick up game of Fate which is Diablo without the lame isometric gameplay and strict class restrictions.

I think GTA: San Andreas gets a hella lot cooler after you steal the jetpack and it starts spawning at your airfield... Or when you steal the VTO jet, that thing is a blast. There's nothing like bringing the VTOJ up to top speed on the PS2 and travelling so fast that you will literally run into trees that haven't been drawn yet by the video system if you fly too low...

Personally I haven't been playing too many games lately. Not enough time and too much to do. I did finally get my PDA running emulators again, so now I can play just about any NES game you can think of on it. Which means all I ever play is GALAGA of course...

quote:

Originally posted by Wanderer:
GTA: San Andreas
I'm not really sure if i'm liking it.

I've been playing this as well. I'm down to the last handfull of missions. The goal to complete it is actually more compelling than the game itself. I'm holding off on the last few missions to try to take over as much territory in San Andreas as possible. If I start the next mission, the riot starts and acquiring other gangs' territory becomes impossible.

But you are right, the game itself is a bit repetitive. Also on the PC control of aircraft is very difficult. Still haven't passed the Radio Control helicopter side mission.