Now that I have an actual graphics card in my computer I just realized that quite a few games came out this year. So I've been busting through Assassin's Creed,Mass Effect, and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. All in all they're pretty amazing---Mass Effect especially---it's fantastic.

So what have y'all been playing that you find really good?


As a side note the Assassin's Creed ending sucks. Really. Bad. Great game though.

Im currently at my parents house, looking for work during the summer so unfortunately am not playing much as I only have my EeePC with me

Not much you can play on the EeePC, but i've have been enjoying some retro classics, such as Worms 2, AoE 1&2, Half Life and Blueshift, GTA 1 & 2 and SNES roms

Seriously can't wait to get back to uni though, back to my lovely gaming rig, for some serious abuse of Spore and Far Cry 2 at the end of the summer

team fortress 2 about 99.9% of my gaming time with the other .01% playing WOW. average about 15 mins a week.. maybe.

waiting for red alert 3 to come out. other than that i see a lack of good games coming out any time soon

Quote: Originally Posted by eascarface Now that I have an actual graphics card in my computer I just realized that quite a few games came out this year. So I've been busting through Assassin's Creed,Mass Effect, and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. All in all they're pretty amazing---Mass Effect especially---it's fantastic. So what have y'all been playing that you find really good?

Just put an 8800GT in a new e8400 rig (up from a single core 478 w/ agp grphics) and I, too, notice the difference in a HUGE way.

So, I reloaded Oblivion, and it's reminding me of why it got all those awards for being a simply beautiful game. The environment is killer. I'm actually replaying the whole damned thing (it's so open-universe that it has a lot of replay value). Also reloaded F.E.A.R.

Planning on purchasing Assassin's Creed and Crysis at some point in the near future -- as soon as grad school is finished (next week! . Then perhaps Spore. Heard really good things about Mass Effect -- you love it, yes?

Quote: As a side note the Assassin's Creed ending sucks. Really. Bad. Great game though.

Unfortunate. perhaps I can pick it up used, then ...

-godling

Just about anything I want... My new QX6850, 9800GX2, 4GB of DDR2, and RaptorX take whatever I throw at them and yawn...

Crysis, R6V/R6V2, WiC, CoD4, SoF3, and MoHAirborne look awesome on a widescreen, BTW...

I am kind of curious about AC, ME, and Grid, though, might pick those up in the next few weeks or so...

Right now I'm playing DarK Messiah - I know its a kinda older game , but kicking baddies into spiked walls and shooting flaming arrows at them so they run around on fire is just too funny . A friend of mine is bringing me R6 Vagas sunday ( he finished it i guess ) so I'll be checking that out. Oh and I'm still going throug the Sniper level on CoD4 for like the 100000000th time. Cant help it , I love head shots

Assassin's Creed is a really good game. It does get repetitive near the end---the whole gathering intelligence on your targets gets tedious, but the fights more than make up for it. Especially near the end you'll find yourself taking on 30-40 soldiers singlehandedly which is a phenomenally exhilarating feeling. Plus the game just looks flat out fantastic---it's amazing to be able to go flying across the rooftops of Jerusalem or Damascus.


Mass Effect is well....amazing. It's got some minor flaws---it can be quite buggy(being unable to use your shotgun in a boss fight is....) and some of the sequences can be a bit boring because they become repetitive, but the story makes up for everything. Tough choices are standard for Bioware games but they're really excelled here---more so because it makes you fully appreciate that the whole damn galaxy is in your hands. Oh and the gameplay is quite good too

Quote: Originally Posted by HigHTecHReDNecK ...and I'm still going throug the Sniper level on CoD4 for like the 100000000th time. Cant help it , I love head shots

You need to learn to detach yourself from the mud, sweat, and barbecue sauce of sniping... Be impersonal about your killing like I am... Play "Death From Above" on the hardest setting through your 50" plasma, with the surround sound system on and turned "up to 11"... Oh, HELL YEAH!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by HigHTecHReDNecK Oh and I'm still going throug the Sniper level on CoD4 for like the 100000000th time. Cant help it , I love head shots

Mace, you have to learn to relax, brother... You need to get away from the mud and blood and barbecue sauce of sniping, and do what I do for "therapy":

Plug into a 50" plasma, crank up the surround sound speakers (..."up to 11"...), and commence the carnage in "Death From Above" on the hardest setting...



Don't tell anyone, but I DID plug into one of the displays back at the office I worked in in Iraq... The locals thought I was calling in a gunship on insurgents for about the first 5 minutes of the level...

No PC games for me ATM, since I had to move back into my parents house and have no place for one. But I got myself a shiny new PS3 with MGS4 and am playing that and MGO, both are excellent. Uncharted, not so much.

Powering through on my second run of Mass effect (as a renegade), Spore CC, and mostly TF2. Seldom playing my Wii, making me regret it. Can't wait for deadly creatures & Force unleashed though.

I bought my new rig specifically to eve-online with the premium graphic content. It was awesome when the rig was working.

Its the end of the summer so this thread shuold be bumped, new quarter for games. I'm currently playin gloads of Company of Heroes - opposing Fronts, TF2 and Cryis.

jdogg and I are still playing enemy territory. lol

I finally picked up Assassin's Creed, since grad school is over, and I'm completely in love with the game. It could use some scantily-clad hot chicks, but other than that it's fantastic. Leap of Faith is just fun. Looking forward to some Spore at some point, and Mass Effect.

-godling

Lots of COD4 still, NASCAR 09 is turnin out fairly cool, & I just pre-ordered Fallout 3
- lookin forward to comin out of the Vault again soon!