Video Games

[Firetooth]

Seeing as this is the board for a game, we should probably have a video game thread to talk about all the latest video game happenings and just general discussion. Let's start with your favourite games! I'll post some of mine:

[Camaclue]

I am ok with this
also

[Durza]

Respect for you all.
have to say though

[Drakus]

POKEMON. POKEMON EMERALD VERSION.

Also Crystal, Heartgold/Soulsilver, Platinum.

[Camaclue]

Pokemon is okay and stuff
Anyone here have a Steam Account?

[Firetooth]

Pokemon Silver ftw!

Sharp has a steam account. I also convinced him to get a GOG one so we could buy a bunch of old school RPG's. There was a sale on where you got:

Baldur's gate + Tales of the Sword Coast expansion
Baldur's gate II + Throne of Bhaal expansion
Planescape: Torment
Neverwinter nights
Neverwinter nights 2
Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale II
Another two or so games I can't remember and probably won't play

All for $21, so around £15. So I'm currently playing the original Baldur's Gate.

"So I kicked 'im in the 'ead till he was dead!"

[Kilkenne]

Can ditto most of the things on Firefight's first picture list except the Deus Ex games; Never got around to playing them. Also didn't bother with the Walking Dead series and didn't like Total War very much, but I think the reason I didn't like the Total War games was because I've always been more interested in games where you're also building more interactively and fighting. Lots of people really liked Rome etc, though, and I can see why.

Should add the Dragon Age games to the list, I had a lot of fun with those, even though the second wasn't as good as the first. Still worth the price of admission, though, and the third one might turn out to be pretty alright.

All time favorite game remains Age of Empires II.

How do you feel about them rebooting the Mass Effect universe sans Commander Shepard?

[Shadow]

Why is nobody mentioning starcraft 2?

Diablo II LOD was my go-to game for a long time, I had a silly number of characters. Don't think I'll bother with Diablo III since it doesn't have PvP. I liked AoE and I was really into Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 for a while as well. Basically I love RTS games and complex character-building games.

[Camaclue]

I enjoy MOBAs and some FPS games, like TF2, Dota 2, Half Life 2
in short, Valve games.

[Firetooth]

Can ditto most of the things on Firefight's first picture list except the Deus Ex games; Never got around to playing them. Also didn't bother with the Walking Dead series and didn't like Total War very much, but I think the reason I didn't like the Total War games was because I've always been more interested in games where you're also building more interactively and fighting. Lots of people really liked Rome etc, though, and I can see why.

Should add the Dragon Age games to the list, I had a lot of fun with those, even though the second wasn't as good as the first. Still worth the price of admission, though, and the third one might turn out to be pretty alright.

All time favorite game remains Age of Empires II.

How do you feel about them rebooting the Mass Effect universe sans Commander Shepard?

Deus Ex and Walking Dead are definitely worth playing. The original Deus Ex is hideous now and has some hit-and-miss VO and does feel outdated, but is still brilliant. The new one is probably better if you can't handle that stuff, but you're a 90's kid, right? :p As for the Walking Dead, it's basically a Bioware game without combat, and more bugs. Personally, I really enjoyed it, and think it deserves all those 80's and 90's on metacritic.

I've always though Dragon Age: Origins was kind of overrated. Bland aesthetics and dull combat. Though I still enjoyed it, it just has too much padding in the middle and is too derivative. Looks like Dragon Age III will be much better in this regard, as all the concept art looks great. Oh, and Frostbite III means much better graphics. As for Dragon Age II, it's fun with some great characters. I like the whole "Mage oppression" plotline more than the "save the world" from the original, but the execution is weak.

Age of Empires II is sooo good. I'm excited for the re-release.

As for Mass Effect sans Shepard, I'm not nearly as mad as some people are. Shepard was a good protagonist, but I don't want him to become some "Master Chief" figure where the game universe is unable to progress without him/her. I'll miss Shepard, but they got a great send off with the Citadel DLC, and who knows, maybe I can have a Turian protagonist in the next ME game. I'd love a Mass Effect: Origins deal, what with chosing from a Krogan mercenary to a Turian politician as your origin.

Also, I am now about 3 hours into Baldur's Gate. It's an...enlightening experience. Everybody keeps dieing, I think the Temple priests probably are pretty happy when they see my party coming their way. :(

[windhound]

Original 151 Pokemon the bestest.  Seriously.  I realized the other day that I never played Pokemon Black all the way through, so I restarted it...  just...  wat.


Kilk, did you see they released AOE II HD edition a week or two ago?  Same game engine, just updated graphics.  Multiplayer via Steam.

[Camaclue]

genwunners...

[Shadow]

+1 for pokemon firered, but I need to find leafgreen so I can get some of the trade-evolves. I want Kingdra, darnit.

[Pippin]

Recommend path of exile to anyone who enjoyed the diablo games or well designed rpg's in general, I think its still in beta but it's f2p and any progress will carry over to full version when its out

http://www.pathofexile.com

also dungeon defenders is a lot of fun

[Drakus]

My friend has fire red and a broken leaf green, I have emerald and ruby and sapphire, now my friend has all the hoenn starters and I have all the kanto starters. Hooray for game proxies.