What are you playing now?

[The Curious Squid]

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Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Another thing that disappointed me: I got up to the secret garden but there wasn't anything to do up there

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

I didn't even know there was a secret garden, which I guess is the point!

[tattuchu]

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Oh. This button is freaking awesome! Quite ingenious, actually.

[klr]

I've been playing the same game of Alpha Centauri now for what seems like days ... in fact it has been days. I've just limited myself to no more than an hour or so at a time. No more sitting down at 8 in the evening in the evening and the next thing you know it's 4 in the morning ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier% ... a_Centauri

It's about the only computer game I ever play now. It's 10 years old, but looks great on my 1920 x 1200 monitor, after a raft of patches, configuration tweaks and the like have been applied.

[JasonK]

...It's 10 years old, but looks great on my 1920 x 1200 monitor...

Don't make me start bragging about my 2560 x 1600 monitor.

[klr]

...It's 10 years old, but looks great on my 1920 x 1200 monitor...

Don't make me start bragging about my 2560 x 1600 monitor.

I think you just did.

That's what I'd like to have of course: You can never have a big enough monitor. Where's that <envy> smiley?

A 2560 x 1600 monitor would just cost me an arm and a leg. I could easily afford it, I'm just not sure I can justify it.

[JasonK]

...It's 10 years old, but looks great on my 1920 x 1200 monitor...

Don't make me start bragging about my 2560 x 1600 monitor.

I think you just did.

That's what I'd like to have of course: You can never have a big enough monitor. Where's that <envy> smiley?

A 2560 x 1600 monitor would just cost me an arm and a leg. I could easily afford it, I'm just not sure I can justify it.

Yeah, I happened to stumble upon one of those odd Dell unannounced and unofficial deals. One week, the 30" monitor was like $1500, then I checked and it was $1200. I nabbed one. Then I shit you not the next week it was back up to $1500.

Anyway, the justification for me was easy. I can have 4 (equivalent of 19" monitor) terminal server sessions open simultaneously. Makes doing administrative work about.. well... 4 times faster.

[klr]

...It's 10 years old, but looks great on my 1920 x 1200 monitor...

Don't make me start bragging about my 2560 x 1600 monitor.

I think you just did.

That's what I'd like to have of course: You can never have a big enough monitor. Where's that <envy> smiley?

A 2560 x 1600 monitor would just cost me an arm and a leg. I could easily afford it, I'm just not sure I can justify it.

Yeah, I happened to stumble upon one of those odd Dell unannounced and unofficial deals. One week, the 30" monitor was like $1500, then I checked and it was $1200. I nabbed one. Then I shit you not the next week it was back up to $1500.

Oh, I'd believe it all right. I keep a close eye for insanely good prices that usually last only for a few days or a week, but I've never gotten that good a bargain.

Anyway, the justification for me was easy. I can have 4 (equivalent of 19" monitor) terminal server sessions open simultaneously. Makes doing administrative work about.. well... 4 times faster.

:hum: There are others ways of managing multiple server sessions that don't involve having a scandalously big monitor. But I'll pretend to believe you anyway ...

[JasonK]

:hum: There are others ways of managing multiple server sessions that don't involve having a scandalously big monitor. But I'll pretend to believe you anyway ...

Shhh.

[Don't Panic]

I've dug out my copy of KOTR2 on the old Xbox and have been playing it all day, trying to play through it using the light side options, makes it way less fun, and a lot less profitable, still a great game though, wish I could find my copy of the first one. That was even better.

[Animavore]

I'm playing Civilisation 4. Or at least I was until I realised I'm lacking in the patience for these type of games.

[The Curious Squid]

So XC, what's the initial thought about SotC?

I've started playing burnout Paradise now too!

Also half way through the Temple of Time in Twilight Princess!

[Comte de Saint-Germain]

Been playing a lot of GTA4, now with 'control center' which allows for spawning cars, as well as repairing them, and invulnerability from bullets and explosions.. Walking up to a barricade of heavily armed police officers with a desert eagle and going headshot by headshot is brilliant.

Beside that, Empire Total War needs some cheats before I play it again.

Er.. I realise that I'm coming across as somewhat of a cheater, but I like cheating after I beat the game a couple of times.

[The Curious Squid]

Been playing a lot of GTA4, now with 'control center' which allows for spawning cars, as well as repairing them, and invulnerability from bullets and explosions.. Walking up to a barricade of heavily armed police officers with a desert eagle and going headshot by headshot is brilliant.

Beside that, Empire Total War needs some cheats before I play it again.

Er.. I realise that I'm coming across as somewhat of a cheater, but I like cheating after I beat the game a couple of times.

I don't like using cheats, when it gets to the point that I resort to cheating I usually get fed up with the game and stop playing because there's no challenge in it anymore.

[Trolldor]

I prefer games with extras or unlockables, makes it so much more fun.
Was playing a game not too long ago that when you finished you could play as any character in the game - from the household dog to the final boss.

[Comte de Saint-Germain]

I prefer games with extras or unlockables, makes it so much more fun.
Was playing a game not too long ago that when you finished you could play as any character in the game - from the household dog to the final boss.

I can remember a Spiderman game where, if you unlocked most of the unlockables you could play the game as the Green Goblin with his glider. With some work-around, I could get everything unlocked without playing the game, and only played the game as the Green Goblin - which was pretty fun (as opposed to playing it as Peter "comes great responsibility" Parker).