What Are You Playing? October 20th, 2012

DOOM 3: BFG Edition

Personally it just made me dig out my Doom 3 CDs and reinstall the original because I forgot how much I enjoyed it. It's mindblowing how they can actually make both the graphics and gameplay worse and then sell it as an improvement.

Yes I did play the original on PC. I havent played DOOM 3 in years and its been a great throwback so far. Im at the very end of DOOM 3 and about to start the expansion then finally I'm going to beat the new Lost Missions last.

I tried it. Its a terrible pc port with textures locked into a lower setting than the original.

Everything is significantly worse than I remember. The original DOOM games are still fun.

What system you playing doom dump weed

PS3. The PS3 version is great because you can finally play DOOM 1/2 on the PS3. DOOM 1/2 is already on XBL so a lot of people already have them, but it is not on PSN. So this is a great way to play DOOM on PS3.

What's your psn handle

It makes me so sad to see the reviews this game gets. The original was so good too. I will still be picking this up eventually.

Comes with Oculus Rift, which my roommate got the SDK for. So VR DOOM3 here we come ... when it ships next year.

Where's all this hate coming from for the BFG edition? I'm playing it right now and it runs beautifully. Obviously i've played other great HD upgrades (Metal Gear, Jak & Daxter) and I see no reason to think that doom is any worse than them. That said, if you want to see a truly atrocious HD upgrade, play the "upgraded" versions of Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow. They are awful.

Dishonored. Liking it quite a bit so far, but I do plan on concentrating on the GW2 Halloween stuff next week.

Playing nothing new that i have not listed in previous what are you playing blogs. Still One Piece, Borderlands and Pokemon. Still waiting for Assassins Creed III and Lego Lord of the Rings.

Super pumped for Hitman Absolution too now that i found out they got David Bateson to voice Agent 47.

Oh yeah, World of Keflings got some DLC too, short little campaigns so there is that too.

Urban Brawl aka Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl.

Great Doom mod which turns the game into a beat' em up in first person. It also has Max Payne style storytelling, cartoonish graphicstyle and loads of humor.

The same as last week: Skyrim Dawngaurd playing as a Vampire which doesn't suck as much as one might think. Civ 4 and Civ 5.

Dishonored or XCOM I can only get one or the other Nov 1st (budget issuses). Which should I buy and why?

I haven't played XCOM yet, but I would get it just because you're going to get far more game time out of it.

I've been playing XCOM religiously. I do have to emphasis that while this remake is true in spirit of the original, they are still both entirely different games and both stand on their own merits. The modern edition is way more focused and simplified, but the intensity, concern, and tension all remain and are even magnified in some ways. Also if you haven't already tried the demo for XCOM it's available on steam and the game's website.

TL;DR- XCOM was thoroughly worth my money, and i would recommend playing the demo to anyone.

Downloading it now.

The demo does not do the game justice in any way.

I can't speak for dishonoured but would definitely recommend xcom its great if you like strategy and I can see it having days of replayability

I'm playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and replaying the Dragon Age games.

I think i may be one of the few people that liked DA2. Other than the enviroments being recycled, i liked the more vocal main character (especially playing him as a sarcastic jerk), party member and storyline. I hope Dragon Age III fixes what people did not like though.

I don't dislike it as much as some people but I thought it was a fun game with some massive issues.

Grandia on my PSVita, but sadly I haven't had much time to play lately.

Sadly? Not enjoying it?

I'm still playing the Mechwarrior Online Beta. At present there are only four maps, eight mechs (though each chassis has four to five variants), and one game mode, but I've put more hours into it than I have full complete games. I'll probably end up buying one of the founders packages. I've already spent so much time with the game that I'm starting to almost feel guilty that it's been entirely free.

I actually just got a email saying I got in today. I'm interested in trying to play together with some kind of voice communication.

Wario Land 2

Big smile! :-)

XCOM, X-Com, and Jet Set Radio

PES 2013 and that Final Fantasy game on the 3DS with the unwritable name.

Borderlands 2
let SWTOR d/l overnight for the free thing, wasnt done when I woke up, let it keep going and went to work, wasnt done when I got home either.

For this f2p up to lvl 50 Ill try it out, Ive made peace with Star Wars disappointing me. Worst case scenario, an uninstall and a defrag.

Rocketbirds Hardboiled Chicken, Mark of the Ninja (loving it to bits), and occasionally some more XCOM or DOTA2

I LOOOOOOVE terrorizing the guards. there is just something incredibly satisfying about dropping a corpse in front of one and watching as he freaks out and kills his buddies

I have 2 copies of MGS (downloaded and Disc), Twin Snakes, 5 copies of MGS2 (Original PS2, Substance ps2/xbox, HD PS3/Vita), 4 copies of MGS3 (original ps2, subsistence ps2, HD PS3/ Vita) 1 copy of MGS4, 2 copies of Peace Walker (PSP, PS3), 1 copy of portable ops, MGS Special missions (although it doesn't work) and 3 copies of MG and MG2 (on my copies of MGS3 subsistence). :) I also have the strategy guides for 2, 3 and 4, and i also own the two MGS2 soundtrack discs.

Dishonored and loving it! Also gearing up for Warfighter

Dishonored is on console but I got warfighter for PC

Hay rides and pumpkin picking. Some of the best gaming possible.

Assassin's Creed 3.

Do I win anything?

And not playing many video games at the moment, back to the Warmachine thing.

In response to the redacted bit, naturally. Pfft, I wish I was playing Assassin's Creed 3.

Pirated Halo 4, lol

Arrrrr ye sayin' Danny boy be a pirate?

Xcom enemy unknown its addictive and also jumped back into skyrim its much more engrossing with my new roccat kaves :P

Yea there awesome just need to get a decent sound card now and they'll be even better

Yea there awesome just need to get a decent sound card now and they'll be even better

Resident Evil 6. Was very worried after reading the reviews but I have to say I'm loving it. It admittedly is the video game equivalent of a Michael Bay movie but it remains oddly compelling. Havnt been playing much video games tho since I had 4 midterms last week and one on Monday still. Fuuuuck.

It'll all be ok when I come out the other end a paeleontologist. 2 more years tho, = 20 more midterms and 20 more finals *sigh*...

Going to be a slight gaming drought for us PC gamers as other games are released first on the consoles this month. Re6 didn't even star pc development till after the console version was done.
Assassin's creed doesn't come out on PC until Nov 20th. It will however support dx11 and nvidias new Anti Aliasing Technique called TXAA. It gets rid of the temporal Aliasing that you see when you move.(The "jaggies on edges" that strobe or move when you or the camera moves). Far Cry 3 not until the 29. At least this gives me time to celebrate my birthday until then.

Thanks my Bday is saturday. I sadly have to work but luckily I have awesome people to work with that will let me take shots at work. p.s. The TXAA is only on 600 series nvidia cards.

Happy B-day, even if I'm late.

Its next saturday heh. Working nights I don't really have a grasp on what day it is.

Still rocking XCOM, and oddly enough, Theme Hospital. GOG roped me in!

Bought Halo: Reach again in excitement for Halo 4. I don't know why i ever sold it in the first place. 343 had better be keeping the same set-up that Reach had, with the challenges and how the community was all kept together, the way the campaign, firefight and multiplayer all felt woven into one perfectly sealed package. Bungie did an incredible job with cramming content into Reach and making it feel complete, it would be heartbreaking if 343 ignored that and tried to do their own thing, Halo: Reach should be a starting point in something big for the next halo saga, like how COD have spent years expanding on their COD4 formula.

Good call, but my excitement went down a lot when I heard that Halo 4 will only have 8 campaign missions. 8! That is not acceptable. Well, nowadays it is, but not for me. I also listened to an interview with someone at 343 who said 'Halo 4's campaign is about the same length as previous Halo games so it's, you know.... a significant length'. (Not quoted, just how I remember it) He didn't sound confident at all when saying that. Halo 4 is short and he knows it's short. Really makes me question how much 343 actually care about Halo's story.

League of Legends. Been at least two and a half years and I still play it all the time.

Borderlands 2... Good god I'm hooked on that game... Going to start mining again... Hoping mattay's still online when I make it home... other than that just wasting time waiting for blops 2 and ac3... Incidentally the youngest son is playing the everliving hell out of Black 2... Praying to every god there is that he does not ever learn of Skylanders

Was gone for a week in the hills hunting so I played a bunch of Mario3D while out there. Almost have all the star coins haha. Still playing Dishonored as well.

Did you get anything? (beside star coins)

I got a few birds but I had my sis take the one elk we saw because it was her first one. Plus as always we had lots of beer at camp so was a good time :P

So you got Star coins, birds, drunk, and a good time was had by all. Cool!

Yup! and I get Elk meat anyway because there's no way she'll be able to eat it all so she'll be sending some to me once it's done.

Now it also looks like I'll be playing some BL2. A friend bought some godly expensive graphics card (dunno which one) and apparently it came with 6 free BL2 codes.

Silent Hill: Book of Memories (I'm digging it) and Bioshock 1 for old time's sake.

I just replayed through the first and second. Its always surprising just how the first is a masterpiece while the second had a very light story.

Bioshock 2 simply had no right to exist. It's basically crap Bioshock fanfiction.

Just beat Uncharted 3, moved to Rayman Origins. And as a side note, I finally have broadband and can play online! Thank you wireless broadband (because they will never run cable to my house)!

Some good 'ol Majora's mask....picked up skyward sword last month and I've been on a zelda binge ever since

Back from off the grid, played a little Civ5 and GW2. Also picked up Mark of the Ninja and Crusader Kings 2 (nice sale).

Just got SBK Generations (that's World Superbikes) shipped over from Britain (yes, they don't release it in the US). Anyone interested in some 2 wheel sim action gotta pick this one up. Look for me on the track, psn: alambert

It is what it is, graphics are OK, sound is... acceptable, physics are pretty good, and at the moment the online community (at least on psn) is at an all-time high! We virtual bike racers don't have many options (I'm looking at you CAPCOM, give me a passable MotoGP game DAMMIT!) so this was welcome, probably my favorite since MotoGP 08