What are you playing?
 

What games are you currently in the midst of playing? What games have you recenly beaten? What games do you plan on picking up sometime within the next month or so?

Currently Playing

Xenogears (PS1)
Final Fantasy 6 (PS1)
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (GCN)
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (GCN)
Fire Emblem (GBA)
Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA)


Recently Beaten

Final Fantasy 5 (PS1)
Devil May Cry (PS2)
I-Ninja (GCN)
Sword of Mana (GBA)
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge(GBA)


Soon To Purchase

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA)
Soul Blazer (SNES)

Been playing starcraft, Metroid Zero Mission(it's a bit too easy and I'm on normal, I killed ridley in 5 seconds flat.) and hopefully D2 soon.

I recently got rise of nations : thrones and patriots but havent really gotten a chance to play it, and also im thinking of buying a gamecube with zelda the windwaker.

And when u have nothing to do, go download the multiplayer sof2 demo, even though it's an ''older'' game its still alot of fun :D

Diablo II LOD (PC)
Socom Navy Seals (PS2)
Kirby's Dream Course (SNES)
CnC Generals (PC)
Super Mario World (SNES)

Playing:

D2: LoD

That's about it, folks!

Wc3 xpac d2 lod halo pc

I'm playing, Hunter: The Reckoning, for XBox right now. Had it for a while, but finally had some time recently. Its not bad.

I haven't been playing much lately...

Playing:
-CS(PC)
-RB6 Raven Sheild(PC)
-Tribes 2(PC)
-Halo(Xbox) also beat
-PG2(Xbox) also beat

Wanting to play again:
-Star Wars Galaxies
-Starcraft

Wanting to Purchase(good question):
-Halo2 when it comes out

As you can see my list is small, not many games out there I care for. I am mainly looking for a good MMORPG, don't say WoW. The game had me hyped, but now I look at it and think... "I was going to get that?". I am sure it isn't going to be as great as a game as I want. That is why I am looking at SWG, the game has grown a lot and I have heard a lot of good stuff.

OT: Nice, Raz. Gonna have me a sick-ass Xenogears themed sig soon, got a friend making it now.


Currently playing Diablo 2 (of course) and playing Legend of Dragoon on PS1 right now.

playing d2lod, cs, gunbound, um and sometimes wc3 ft, i want to get a bunch of games, but i dont want to spend so much money and i dont enough money either, games i want to get are prince of persia, hitman3, true crimes for pc, some nba game i want more, cant think of them

Currently Playing:

Farcry
Unreal Tournament 2004
Ninja Gaiden (like 3rd time through, still incredibly fun)
Syphon Filter: Omega Strain (Better than made out to be)

Playing:
Halo(Xbox)
FFX-2(PS2)
Xenosaga(PS2)
.Hack\\infection(PS2)

Waiting for:
Halo2(Xbox)

Looking for:
Any good PC game that doesn't require broadband connection.

Lineage2 - (I'm red right now('tis teh suk :())
BF1942 (CUZ VIETNAM SUXS! (choppers do(HAR!!!!(Only Play with clan though))))
Gunbound (when I got like 30 mins to play something(or 15(or10(or EVEN 5!))))

WC3TFT (custom games mostly [aos mostly] ), D2, CStrike (rarely), *Insert Random Console Game Here*

Waiting for HL2, Doom3, and WoW.

Got a few more to add...

Now Playing

Mario vs. Donkey Kong (GBA)
Gungrave (PS2)

I purchased a ridiculous number of games this weekend...I really shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist.

I've got MvDK halfway finished and Gungrave is supposed to be abhorrently short. Like two hours. Once I finish both of those games, I'll be starting on Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (GBA).

By the way, for those of you unaware, Pac Man Vs. on Gamecube is disgustingly fun. It shouldn't be as entertaining as it is.

Just Beaten:

Hunter: The Reckoning
Tom Clancey's Ghost Recon
HALO - Lengendary SP (Again... Bored)


Now Playing:

Blood Omen 2: The Legacy of Kain
Tom Clancey's Rainbow Six 3

Oh, Titus, please say that BO2 isn't your first foray into the Legacy of Kain series. That game is easily the least impressive of the bunch.

Well, I bought it a long ass time ago, right when it came out, but wasn't very impressed, so I stopped playing it. I decided to pick it up again after hearing your rave reviews on the series. Honestly, I'm still not that impressed yet, but its not my first dip into the series, I don't think. I did play and beat the very first one of the series (I think at least) that came out for Playstation years upon years upon years ago.

What ones would you recommend over BO2, and why is this one so much different and unimpressive?

I'd certainly hope so. I got bored of blood omen 2 before i got anywhere near to beating it.

I'd recommend picking up Soul Reaver far before either of the Blood Omen games. Then I'd suggest playing SR2, and then Defiance. The two Blood Omen games are definitely cool, but the SR games are just much better.

The reason Blood Omen 2 is so disappointing is based around few key factors:

1) Extreme technical issues. Blood Omen 2 features a sacreligious lack of polish. The hit-detection sucks, the framrate drops constantly and there are a number of clipping problems. On top of that, there are a number of cinematics in the game where the audio track is offset from the video by a full five seconds. Plus, the animations are stiff and repetitive and the sound effects are occasionally glitchy. There's just a ton of bugs.

2) The puzzle design is atrocious. Seriously, it's all lever and block puzzles. Boring, uninspired and very, very done.

3) The level design is 100% linear. You don't revisit areas, there's little to no exploration to be found and you don't have much of a choice as to where you should go next.

4) The story is a bit convoluted. It fucks with the Legcay of Kain plot a bit too much. Thankfully, Defiance cleans up almost all of the messes that BO2 made.

It's just not up to LoK standards. The bar set previously by SR1 and SR2 was just too high for BO2 to reach, especially considering that the BO2 team was a completely separate group from the Soul Reaver/Defiance team.

If you pick up Soul Reaver, you'll enjoy the hell out of it. That's the first one I played, and it's the game that got me hooked on the LoK series. SR2 fills in a lot of plot elements that you might be confused about. If you're really interested in the LoK series, here's the order I'd recommend.

Soul Reaver
Soul Reaver 2
Defiance

And then the Blood Omen games if you're interested in filling in the backstory. The Soul Reaver games and Defiance are the most important to the central plot, the Blood Omen games are just basically filler.