Hey NPF, whatcha playin'?

[Satan's Onion]

So I finally--finally--got myself a copy of Disgaea DS, after being obliged to reorder it because GoHastings.com are a collection of dipshits who couldn't find their own asses with flashlights, a map and a crack team of experienced ass-location guides. I've only poked around in it a little so far, so once I get into it in earnest you may never hear from me again. But I already like pretty much everything but the voice acting, which sounds fairly mediocre.

I've also been doing some grinding in Final Fantasy V Advance, because I've started that game like three times already and I want to actually finish a playthrough for once. Besides, all that job-level grinding is good for killing time when I need to. Working on getting Level 5 Death from the Library of the Ancients. (Fact: more RPGs need library dungeons. I think that's a neat idea.)

[Geminex]

Just playin' me some thief 2 at the moment. Good game. Very atmospheric. Occasionally hilarious. Extremely immersive. Flash bombs FTW!

Other than that, advance wars DS. Trying to finish all the war room maps with Hawke.

[Thadius]

Hey Sith, maybe you should wander on over to the thread. We could use more cannon fodder players.

Anyways, what'm I playin'? Namuch, actually. For some reason, recovering after a total system crash leaves me with little desire to play. I'm constantly afraid that if I do ONE THING I'll upset some delicate balance within my computer and have to restart it all over again.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Sithdarth

Dwarf fortress. I finally figured out how to work the command system. After 3 or 4 false starts I've got a fortress with Dwarfs that have started to reproduce. As I type I am violently resisting the urge to go back and let the game eat another 5 hours of my life and a little bit more of my soul.

Ehh, I've kinda gotten bored now that I've stopped losing. Building massive doom traps etc. etc. just feels kind of like a waste of time when I know I'm going to survive regardless.

[Sithdarth]

Hey Sith, maybe you should wander on over to the thread. We could use more cannon fodder players.

Are you kidding just glancing at that thread is what got me this deep. I'm not delving any deeper.

Ehh, I've kinda gotten bored now that I've stopped losing. Building massive doom traps etc. etc. just feels kind of like a waste of time when I know I'm going to survive regardless.

Haven't gotten to that point yet but I know its coming eventually. At the moment I'm seriously planning the removal of a hill so I can build a mega wall or maybe I'll just remove all the up ramps and use it as part of the wall.

In other news the shear awesomeness of the game and the dwarfs was cemented when one of my guard dwarfs had a baby while on duty at her guard post and simply carried on guarding the drawbridge. Now that's dedication.

Edit: Oh and I've picked up Borderlands again in my non-dwarf fortress time. Planing to preorder Mass Effect 2 and when I get some money Dragon Age and Darksiders are definitely on the list of things to play. That is if Dwarf Fortress ever lets me go.

[Thadius]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Ehh, I've kinda gotten bored now that I've stopped losing. Building massive doom traps etc. etc. just feels kind of like a waste of time when I know I'm going to survive regardless.

...The current game may not want/need someone of your caliber, but something tells me you'd add a degree of Fun.

Good sir, if you'd be so kind as to click the link in my signature and sign up, I would be much obliged...

[greed]

I'm playing

Katamari Forever - because it's so damned addictive.
Disgaea 3 - Liking the story more than the first two so far, and my only gripe is the removal of tutoring. I miss being able to teach a healer offensive magic so easily.
Mass Effect - Replaying in preparation for ME2.
Dwarf Fortress - starting to get there, probably a bit behind where Sith is at.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Thadius

...The current game may not want/need someone of your caliber, but something tells me you'd add a degree of Fun.

Good sir, if you'd be so kind as to click the link in my signature and sign up, I would be much obliged...

I'm really not all that great, yet. I can survive pretty much everything, but I haven't done much with magma, nor have I done a whole whole lot of creating items and a few of the more finnicky things still catch me now and then, like ramps that don't want to work quite right for wagons, or getting my dorfs to not leave their shitty dirty clothes on top of my open defensive flood gates.

However, this is why I'm bored with my fortress.My current fortress is so self reliant that I have a trap (which surrounds my trade depot, because fuck elves), where if a goblin/whatever steps on a pressure plate the whole place closes down with flood gates. I then use a lever to drown them--so basically a drowning chamber linked to pressure plates as well as the standard lever set up. You must go past this to enter/leave my fortress. (This is also the fourth such unavoidable trap, the first is a cage trapped chokepoint, followed by dwarven atom smasher, followed by weapon traps)

I released a couple captured goblins into my fortress for shits and giggles. One almost escaped, tripping that trap and sealing my fortress.

I did not notice this until the goblin died of starvation or something and started rotting.

I currently have 146 dwarves and over 3000 in my food stocks, with seven champions all of which are legendary in wrestling + one other weapon and then expert + in shield use and armor.

I have no HFS or magma on my map, though, which means I can't unleash demons and hope for SoF so I can see how I fare there. I have plans for them, but it's pretty pointless if I don't have any.

So really I'm pretty much just trying to get economy started so I can see how terrible that headache is and/or waiting for a megabeast to attack so I can maybe have something resembling a challenge.

I did steal the Workgill save file, however, and plan on loading it up next time I'm in a state of mind to play and dicking with all those things my fortress doesn't have.

Once I'm fully confident in my skills I may sign up, though.

[synkr0nized]

Borderlands, though having played out each class I am playing it less unless friends are on.

Brutal Legend Letdown, which I recently just sped through, had me happy at first with the great animation and humor. It's too bad that the gameplay is mediocre at best and the ending is utterly terrible. Oh well. I still have serpents to free!

Mass Effect on a second character to refresh for the release of the sequel. I had a good time playing an offensive biotic instead of a Terran Ghost infiltrator this go. Somehow the Mako annoyed me a lot less this time, though I wonder if I just landed on less planets since I didn't need the XP or the completionist achievement anymore. lolularity is easy mode.

Space Invaders Extreme is just the kind of DS game I love. It's quick, it's beautifully animated, and it's fast-paced fun. I also like the heavy music motif going on in it.

Counter-Strike was one of my first online-with-people games since back when it was a beta mod for HL, so I still play that fairly regularly when I have an urge to shoot at people (well, the Source version, at any rate).

I've been playing a bit of Zero Hour skirmishes lately. I tend to get into a Generals kick for a few weeks every half a year or so. I like the general powers, I guess.

e3: The new Super Mario Bros. Wii, while entertaining alone, is probably the best thing aside from Smash Bros. on that console [perhaps the only thing, but that's another story...] with friends. It is equally fun to work together to demolish the levels and to work against each other to kill all of your teammates and make the team fail the levels. I am a big fan of picking someone up and tossing them toward an enemy while yelling, "Go get'em." That was good times.

I just logged a few hours in Guild Wars for the first time in about two months. Had been going pretty strong with that for a while last year up through November but just stopped due to Borderlands and work. Still not as exciting and certainly not as novel as it once was, but I guess I like character-hopping in that game well enough (I have 11).

I should get around to playing Fallout 3 to completion instead of just being like level 5-10 and doing jack shit. And Bioshock, too, so I can justify playing the second one.


I have also been playing Settlers of Catan, Fluxx, and Puerto Rico whenever possible/we get enough interested parties together. Unfortunately, the "write grant proposals and book chapters" game is going to have to take priority now.

e: Oh and the "interpret mixed signals" game has been going on, though I've gotten better at cutting through the BS.

e2: And as much as I hate the character design for the player-character, I may have to get Bayonetta. The combat is too much fun.

[CelesJessa]

I.... I'm playing....

Wow I'm actually not playing anything, despite having a brand new Xbox 360 and games in my room. I need to fix this.

I guess I'm kind of playing The Sims 3.

And to an extent I'm playing Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. I've actually never beaten the remake so I've been sloooooooooooooooowly going through it. In very very short bursts. I think I'm only after the Ocelot fight. It doesn't help that the cords to my Gamecube are kind of crappy so I lose image every ten minutes.