OT: What other games are people playing??

[Aku]

yeah arryn that 5 part video was the exact same one i downloaded

Another interesting game is the expansion Jump to Lightspeed for Star Wars Galaxies BUT that is if they dont mess it up. They claim it will be like the old x-wing and tie fighter games and you use your actual skill not character skill for it but I want to see it first. It could land up being a horrible expansion and buggy as hell like how Alien Invasion was just now for Anarchy Online.

[Arryn]

Aku said:
Another interesting game is the expansion Jump to Lightspeed for Star Wars Galaxies BUT that is if they dont mess it up.

Having been one of the original closed-beta testers for SWG on through the release and for several months thereafter, Sony left a very bad taste in my mouth. They will mess it up. Bank on it. They've messed everything up 'til now so I don't see them suddenly "getting it" and doing something smart. SWG had a great deal of promise (kinda like the now-defunct E&B, but with even greater potential) and has realized hardly any of what was promised. I could even live with all the broken promises and outright lies if they would have just left the damn game alone and quit "fixing" things that weren't borked, and "rebalancing" the game into a dull tedium of impotence.

Aku said:
Anarchy Online

Which has to be the most aptly-named game of all time. (Somehow, I just don't see too many people paying to play games called "Unlimited Tedium" or "Not Tested 2" or "You've Been Punk'd, Again!".)

[Lepakko]

Dominions 2
Dungeon crawl
Age of wonders games
total war games
Horizons
Ultima Online

and little
diablo 2
UT2004

[PrinzMegaherz]

Dom 2
Chaos League (Blood Ball without GW License)
Doom 3

and waiting for Final Fantasy 11's europe release.

Magic was very fun when I played it regularly at school. It was basicaly everything about outsmarting your fellow players by finding new ways to defeat their decks.

Oh, and that shivan dragon really looks great

[mmalficia]

grin now this is a fun topic :>

Allo' all btw. games list

dominions demo (trying to make up my mind yet)
SEIV
mechwarrior 4 mercs, league play
TOS Warring suns
ID2 edge of chaos, (by far the best "thinking mans" space combat sim out there IMO)
aow2,doom3(waiting for HL2 unpatiently) and my creative max outlet modding for morrowind and expansions. (dropped my eq addiction a year ago :>
ZangbandTK
empire of the fading suns hyperion edition (i so wish someone somewere would make a modern sequel to this (think SEIV but when you conqure the planets you actualy gota move troops build units cities ect ect . and toss in religious fanatical tyrany))
Alpha centari alien crossfire (sids civ in space my favorite game of his )
and looking into MGTPLAY at the moment(free magic Online so i can play with my younger bro whos off at school )



anywho thats my list 'sal
Mmal

[Alneyan]

Lepakko said:
Ultima Online

I know I am too curious, but... Do you play UO on the official shards (OSI) or on private servers? I know I definitively spent too much time playing UO in the past, though that was on private shards.

[Gandalf Parker]

Alneyan said:
I know I am too curious, but... Do you play UO on the official shards (OSI) or on private servers? I know I definitively spent too much time playing UO in the past, though that was on private shards.

Ive been REAL tempted to get back into UO. Its the only Online world I really liked. But I played it at the wrong time. Not early enough for the best parts, and not late enough for private shards. From what I hear, everything I loved about it is still there and everything I didnt like is fixed by having access to private shards.

I was even debating that it might be a good thing to do with all this ISP equipment Ive got rotting in my garage. Do a nice little local shard.

[Aku]

I played Ultima Online for 4 years but quit because the game was turning to crap. UO was a badass game but as time went on it became drummed down so much. I am told now that you can bless an item for 100gp and it stays blessed until you die. I saw UO turning like the other mmorpgs so I quit and the community was degrading into children. Has it changed at all in the past few years?

[Truper]

mmalficia said:
empire of the fading suns hyperion edition (i so wish someone somewere would make a modern sequel to this (think SEIV but when you conqure the planets you actualy gota move troops build units cities ect ect . and toss in religious fanatical tyrany)

Have you been playing Hyperion MP? I was a big fan until Matt came out with the Version that increased all the movement allowances to what I thought were absurd levels. I stopped playing it at that point. I'd be interested to know if you're playing that Version, and if so, how much you enjoy it.

[Alneyan]

Hmm, that would be an idea Gandalf. A UO server for Dominions players? Or even a UO server based on Dominions? "Thou shalst be smited by my hammer of righteousness!" would probably be a nice way of introducing an Energy Vortex/Energy Bolt. Or perhaps not.

I heard such reports from the official shards Aku (for example, there is the hour where you can gain skills more quickly; what purpose does it serve? If you want high skills, you should be ready to spend a lot of time on it; if you don't like leveling, it won't change much for you), but private shards are quite different from OSI. How different mostly depends on the shard in question: some are closer to a free-for-all setting (sometimes with much higher skills when creating a character), others are only interesting if you intend to roleplay, a few are plainly elitist, and so on.

At least, that was how it used to be back in the days when I played UO, but since the updates of the official servers had no impact on the private shards, they should have remained unaffected by the official changes. On the other hand, it is more than likely than the player base has dwindled in the past years; it happened for the French shards at any rate.