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I'm currently still playing through Gothic 1 and 2 (lost track of how many times I've played them now) and also playing Morrowind again (and getting addicted to it again lol).

@Des, Oblivion won't even load on my pc

DesR85 wrote:Hope you will be able to run Oblivion. My computer almost died trying to play that game.

Well - I can play it - or at least some of it (tried it last night), but it did suggest "medium settings" in 1280x1024.... I'll be cranking up the settings some more to test tonight.

At 800x600 at medium settings plus lowering the lighting effects and disabling both Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering, Oblivion still lagged on my computer. I remember that I must have forgotten to lower the viewing distance since it was set at 100%. Meh, I'm no fan of First Person RPGs anyway (with the exception of the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic demo).

Well - I run it pretty decent in 1280x1024 and with 2xAA and some other features. It does lag occasionally (I need better graphic card - only have a ATI 9800XT) - when NPCs fight or similar and some of the load sequences do take a little while ... but no doubt, the game is pretty.

From what I have read from a hardware website, Oblivion seem to favour ATI cards over the Nvidia ones (high-end especially). Also, low-end cards will suffer tremendously when playing Oblivion (yeah, mine's a Nvidia Geforce 6200 [PCI-E]). Anyway, I agree that it is a pretty game.

Now, to mention about new games, which is none at the moment save for playing the Bad Day LA demo and the Call of Juarez demo. Seems like I have been hooked on demos lately....

right now Im playing halflife2 with max settings
plan on playing oblivion when Im given the help I need


Xandax, having an ATI card is great for you. Its favored over nvidia as DesR85 said, because you can run AA+ HDR, I can not .....but hey my 7900gtx should handle it

slade wrote: Xandax, having an ATI card is great for you. Its favored over nvidia as DesR85 said, because you can run AA+ HDR, I can not .....but hey my 7900gtx should handle it

Wouldn't AA+HDR switched on severly impact the game performance?

On the note of new games, still none. I just finished playing both Joint Task Force demo and Just Cause demo. Joint Task Force demo is one of the laggiest I've ever played (I guess that having an Ageia PhysX card will help, stupid physics card...). Playing the Just Cause demo feels like some GTA clone, to be honest, and the maps are not that big.

Aside from finishing a bunch of stuff ...

I'm deep into replaying Divie Divinity, which is an absolute blast - I loved it the first time and even more this time! I'm also playing the latest NWN Premium Module Infinite Dungeons and the more recently released Darknes over Daggerford so I've got hack-n-slash and role playing covered. Loaded up Arx Fatalis again and think that will be next on the list.

On the PSP I've played a bunch of Madden (my first *ever* and am getting back into Valkyrie Profile Lenneth (finished Blade Dancer already).

On the DS it is all about Deep Labyrinth - nice first person dungeon crawler in the old scrool style.

Mike

lets see, right now I'm playing Soul Caliber 3, Tekken 5 and Smackdown vs Raw 2006. I just finished Time Splitters: Future Perfect

What I'm playing now is both the Face of War demo and Prey demo. Now I have finally decided to continue Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, the game I've left behind after I reformat my computer a while back. Just finishing off what I have started.

Robnark wrote:I'm spending far too much time playing some of the countless roguelikes I've been collecting down. I just lost my (nearly) all-conquering level 21 elven master to an emperor wight in FuryBand.

What is FuryBand? Never heard of this game before. I can't seem to find it in any game site I visited. Odd.

I'm currently playing through BG1 using TUTU - I never realised how much more fantastic it would be using the BG2 engine. I got fed up with it last time I played but now its so much fun. I'm planning to take my paladin right the way through to the end of TOB - I've never used the same character for the whole saga before

Right now I'm playing NWN original campaign with Dwarf Fighter... with the help of that halfling Tomi

Besides NWN, I at times play Fallout 2, Morrowind, HoMM 3: Complete and several other games when I get very bored.

DesR85 wrote:What is FuryBand? Never heard of this game before. I can't seem to find it in any game site I visited. Odd.

*takes a deep breath*

FuryBand is a version of FuryMod that uses its own engine. FuryMod is a (fairly experimental) mod for the T.o.M.E. (Tales of Middle Earth) roguelike game/engine, which was the successor to PernAngband after there were legal issues with the setting. PernAngband was based on Zangband, which was based on the (now defunct) Angband--, which started out as a project for putting more varied monsters into Angband.

Angband is a fairly estalished roguelike with many variants (perhaps because the standard game isn't all that great, but that's my opinion) which was based on Umoria, a Unix version of VMS Moria. Which was created before I was born.

links:
[url="http://www.furytech.net/furyband/furyband.php"]FuryBand[/url]
[url="http://t-o-m-e.net/"]T.o.M.E.[/url] (as well as a few mods and so forth)
[url="http://www.thangorodrim.net/"]Angband[/url], as well as some of the far too many variants thereof.


Other than some of the more high-profile roguelikes out there - A.D.O.M., NetHack, Dungeon Crawl - you are very unlikely to hear of most of the smaller games and variants out there. there are a lot, and a lot of the finished ones are fairly unambitious tweaks to already completed open-source efforts, although there are many more interesting ones, albeit in various states of playability. even so, I've got 7 angband variants alone on this computer, and this isn't my gaming PC.

Right now, I'm playing the Company of Heroes demo. The game is from the very same people who developed the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and its subsequent expansion packs. I am planning to replay Heroes of Might and Magic V since I didn't get to play that far as I was preoccupied at that time.

As U would hav expected i still Play fable: the lost chapters.. The game cought me and i am sold forever.. ( till the arrival of fable to i suppose )
And later on at night somethimes i play WRC ( world rally championchip one my PS2 ) and i am busy trying to waste kaileena for the second time on POP 2

Currently on my third run of the Romancing Saga: Minstrel's Song on PS2.
It is better than I expected, though takes time and lots of fighting and thinking. More you play, more in need of thinking/planning in this game.
Also, I often play Suikoden I&II and Valkyrie Profile on PSP. For PC, I only run the Sims time to time, as my PC seems to be a little unstable these days.

Oh joy and a finale 'phew-sigh of relief' I finally got Vampire the Masquerade to run for me. I have yet to make my charactor, but I will enjoy it. I plan on Neverwinter Nights and Black Isle D&D games later. I am also playing Spiderman 2. That is a very optimistic game right now. I tried Doom 3 but I was scared, Realy. Let me know if you all have any input to Never Winter, PM Me.

I've been playing Wolfenstein ET quite intensively in the last few months... As for singleplayer games, I've recently finished Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US), IMHO one of the best games released in the last couple of years.