The Official Gaming Thread

[TheMightyOdin]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

 

[Sucker Punch]

Anyone know of any free games that isn't turn based where you gather experience in different categories and upgrade strength etc...that isn't in 3D?

Another type of game I'm looking for. A game about world domination or ruling a country? ;D Preferably not online based and free.

The best rpg that almost follows those rules I have played would have to be "Final Fantasy Tactics."  It isnt as intricate as some of the newer rpg's and I have never played such a satisfying game since. (It is from PS1, however).

Also, Civilization Revolution PS3? Although it isn't free. Wait, how can you get all that for no $???

Tactics is turn based.

And is 3d.  Kinda.  3d with 2d sprites.

Worth buying on your iPod/iPhone though.

 

[TheMightyOdin]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

 

[Stebro]

thanks for the ideas guys, I'll go through them, I recognize some of those...I used to play rise of the nations, it's kind of similar to some of those....after searching I found a game I used to play that was kind of fun...it was called hearts of iron...there are also a game similar to that called european universalis or something...I like em, because you must take different tech paths to get different advantages...anyone know of any games like that? where you have to research stuff in order to develop say an a-bomb...

Oh, and another game I used to play a lot were the different versions of Heroes of might and magic, although I hated it once it got passed number 3...

 

[Bender]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

Where was the midnight launch??

Hey, Christina Aguilera was at the launch party with Bethesda

 

[Andy007]

Anyone know of any free games that isn't turn based where you gather experience in different categories and upgrade strength etc...that isn't in 3D?

Another type of game I'm looking for. A game about world domination or ruling a country? ;D Preferably not online based and free.

The best rpg that almost follows those rules I have played would have to be "Final Fantasy Tactics."  It isnt as intricate as some of the newer rpg's and I have never played such a satisfying game since. (It is from PS1, however).

Also, Civilization Revolution PS3? Although it isn't free. Wait, how can you get all that for no $???

Tactics is turn based.

Yea, my bad.

I still haven't finished it either. I really suck at video games.

 

[Bender]

I was stacking books on a shelf in my house in Whiterun, one of Skyrim's major cities, when I noticed a weapon rack right beside it. I set a sacrificial dagger in one slot, an Orcish mace in the other. They were on display for nobody but me and my computer-controlled housecarl, Lydia, who sat at a table patiently waiting for me to ask her to go questing. The chest upstairs was reserved for excess weapons and armor, the bedside table for smithing ingots and ores, the one next to the Alchemy table for ingredients. I'd meticulously organized my owned virtual property not because I had to, but because tending to the minutia of domestic life is a comforting break from dealing with screaming frost trolls, dragons, a civil war, and job assignments that never seem to go as planned. It's even a sensible thing to do; a seemingly natural component of every day existence in Skyrim, one of the most fully-realized, easily enjoyable, and utterly engrossing role-playing games ever made.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212033p1.html

I don't think I've ever been more excited to pick up a video game. I want to ditch work and get it.

 

[Mikhail Bloodnovsky]

I was stacking books on a shelf in my house in Whiterun, one of Skyrim's major cities, when I noticed a weapon rack right beside it. I set a sacrificial dagger in one slot, an Orcish mace in the other. They were on display for nobody but me and my computer-controlled housecarl, Lydia, who sat at a table patiently waiting for me to ask her to go questing. The chest upstairs was reserved for excess weapons and armor, the bedside table for smithing ingots and ores, the one next to the Alchemy table for ingredients. I'd meticulously organized my owned virtual property not because I had to, but because tending to the minutia of domestic life is a comforting break from dealing with screaming frost trolls, dragons, a civil war, and job assignments that never seem to go as planned. It's even a sensible thing to do; a seemingly natural component of every day existence in Skyrim, one of the most fully-realized, easily enjoyable, and utterly engrossing role-playing games ever made.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212033p1.html

I don't think I've ever been more excited to pick up a video game. I want to ditch work and get it.

Going at lunch.

 

[Bender]

I was stacking books on a shelf in my house in Whiterun, one of Skyrim's major cities, when I noticed a weapon rack right beside it. I set a sacrificial dagger in one slot, an Orcish mace in the other. They were on display for nobody but me and my computer-controlled housecarl, Lydia, who sat at a table patiently waiting for me to ask her to go questing. The chest upstairs was reserved for excess weapons and armor, the bedside table for smithing ingots and ores, the one next to the Alchemy table for ingredients. I'd meticulously organized my owned virtual property not because I had to, but because tending to the minutia of domestic life is a comforting break from dealing with screaming frost trolls, dragons, a civil war, and job assignments that never seem to go as planned. It's even a sensible thing to do; a seemingly natural component of every day existence in Skyrim, one of the most fully-realized, easily enjoyable, and utterly engrossing role-playing games ever made.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212033p1.html

I don't think I've ever been more excited to pick up a video game. I want to ditch work and get it.

Going at lunch.

Friend picked it up as well... basically said it set a new standard for open world RPGs. Production value is insane. There are some bugs, like floating boxes and people jiggling after death, but with a game this big with this much options it's going to be easy to overlook imo.

Right now it's got 94 on Metacritic - Universal Acclaim. It sounds like almost everyone's awestruck so far.

 

[Mikhail Bloodnovsky]

I was stacking books on a shelf in my house in Whiterun, one of Skyrim's major cities, when I noticed a weapon rack right beside it. I set a sacrificial dagger in one slot, an Orcish mace in the other. They were on display for nobody but me and my computer-controlled housecarl, Lydia, who sat at a table patiently waiting for me to ask her to go questing. The chest upstairs was reserved for excess weapons and armor, the bedside table for smithing ingots and ores, the one next to the Alchemy table for ingredients. I'd meticulously organized my owned virtual property not because I had to, but because tending to the minutia of domestic life is a comforting break from dealing with screaming frost trolls, dragons, a civil war, and job assignments that never seem to go as planned. It's even a sensible thing to do; a seemingly natural component of every day existence in Skyrim, one of the most fully-realized, easily enjoyable, and utterly engrossing role-playing games ever made.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212033p1.html

I don't think I've ever been more excited to pick up a video game. I want to ditch work and get it.

Going at lunch.

Friend picked it up as well... basically said it set a new standard for open world RPGs. Production value is insane. There are some bugs, like floating boxes and people jiggling after death, but with a game this big with this much options it's going to be easy to overlook imo.

Right now it's got 94 on Metacritic - Universal Acclaim. It sounds like almost everyone's awestruck so far.

Sweet. I bought Dark Souls a way back and it came with 10 dollar gift card and $10 off Skyrim coupon so picked up Skyrim at lunch for 39.99 and even got the steelbook case. Game will prolly take 100 hours to get through so 40 cents an hour is a good deal for entertainment.

 

[Bender]

I was stacking books on a shelf in my house in Whiterun, one of Skyrim's major cities, when I noticed a weapon rack right beside it. I set a sacrificial dagger in one slot, an Orcish mace in the other. They were on display for nobody but me and my computer-controlled housecarl, Lydia, who sat at a table patiently waiting for me to ask her to go questing. The chest upstairs was reserved for excess weapons and armor, the bedside table for smithing ingots and ores, the one next to the Alchemy table for ingredients. I'd meticulously organized my owned virtual property not because I had to, but because tending to the minutia of domestic life is a comforting break from dealing with screaming frost trolls, dragons, a civil war, and job assignments that never seem to go as planned. It's even a sensible thing to do; a seemingly natural component of every day existence in Skyrim, one of the most fully-realized, easily enjoyable, and utterly engrossing role-playing games ever made.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212033p1.html

I don't think I've ever been more excited to pick up a video game. I want to ditch work and get it.

Going at lunch.

Friend picked it up as well... basically said it set a new standard for open world RPGs. Production value is insane. There are some bugs, like floating boxes and people jiggling after death, but with a game this big with this much options it's going to be easy to overlook imo.

Right now it's got 94 on Metacritic - Universal Acclaim. It sounds like almost everyone's awestruck so far.

Sweet. I bought Dark Souls a way back and it came with 10 dollar gift card and $10 off Skyrim coupon so picked up Skyrim at lunch for 39.99 and even got the steelbook case. Game will prolly take 100 hours to get through so 40 cents an hour is a good deal for entertainment.

Where's the lowest sticker price for the game?

 

[Stebro]

anyone ever played a game called Ignition? it was kind of cool although I never got it to work over network or the internet..

 

[TheMightyOdin]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

Where was the midnight launch??

Hey, Christina Aguilera was at the launch party with Bethesda

I just went to the local EB games on Thursday night and they told me I could pre-pay and come back at midnight to pick it up.

 

[Bender]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

Where was the midnight launch??

Hey, Christina Aguilera was at the launch party with Bethesda

I just went to the local EB games on Thursday night and they told me I could pre-pay and come back at midnight to pick it up.

I'm still trying to get my bearings in the game. I'm so used to playing Oblivion I know it like the back of my hand. I wish it was easier to switch between favourite weapons/spells on PS3. Seems kinda cumbersome imo.

Otherwise the game is so immersive. The fights are intense, I got my ass handed to me a couple times now for being too adventurous or... pickpockety

 

[Mikhail Bloodnovsky]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

Where was the midnight launch??

Hey, Christina Aguilera was at the launch party with Bethesda

I just went to the local EB games on Thursday night and they told me I could pre-pay and come back at midnight to pick it up.

I'm still trying to get my bearings in the game. I'm so used to playing Oblivion I know it like the back of my hand. I wish it was easier to switch between favourite weapons/spells on PS3. Seems kinda cumbersome imo.

Otherwise the game is so immersive. The fights are intense, I got my ass handed to me a couple times now for being too adventurous or... pickpockety

Game is amazing, some of the scenery is awe striking.

 

[McPwnage]

man the more i hear about skyrim the more I want it, I didn't think I was going to buy it at first but now I definetly am

 

[Sucker Punch]

Skyrim's pretty good.  I do miss the days when companies made PC games though.  Seems like every game coming out now is just a shoddy port of a console game.

The interface and controls are godawful, but looking past that, the game itself is pretty good.  Better than Oblivion, but still not as good as Morrowind.

The left mouse button controls your right hand, and the right mouse button controls your left hand.  Come on, guys.

 

[Kin]

Picked up Arkham City finally. Only a little ways into it but already I'm pretty impressed by how they widened the scope of the game. I do have some minor complaints. I kind of think they lost a lot of the great atmosphere the first game had and I kind of wish they could break the idea that the villains need to constantly be using terrible, terrible puns but, aside from that, pretty great.

 

[TheMightyOdin]

SKYRIM...... Midnight tonight...... I'm getting it!

That was a fantastic line up of nerds.

Where was the midnight launch??

Hey, Christina Aguilera was at the launch party with Bethesda

I just went to the local EB games on Thursday night and they told me I could pre-pay and come back at midnight to pick it up.

I'm still trying to get my bearings in the game. I'm so used to playing Oblivion I know it like the back of my hand. I wish it was easier to switch between favourite weapons/spells on PS3. Seems kinda cumbersome imo.

Otherwise the game is so immersive. The fights are intense, I got my ass handed to me a couple times now for being too adventurous or... pickpockety

Game is amazing, some of the scenery is awe striking.

I chose to be a high elf and I've been burning everything that gets in my way. Killed one dragon and had to run from another.

The scale of the game is impressive.

 

[Bender]

Skyrim's pretty good.  I do miss the days when companies made PC games though.  Seems like every game coming out now is just a shoddy port of a console game.

The interface and controls are godawful, but looking past that, the game itself is pretty good.  Better than Oblivion, but still not as good as Morrowind.

The left mouse button controls your right hand, and the right mouse button controls your left hand.  Come on, guys.

Seriously? That's awkward. There's gotta be a way to toggle the controls. I have a friend who's got it on PC and didn't mention that.