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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Blondie » Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:19 am

Fallout New Vegas.

Though spending about 5x more time modding than playing.

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Post by Blondie » Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:39 am

Damned chords. My fingers do not work that way!

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Post by Trolldor » Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:27 am

Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Assassin's Creed 2

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Post by Trolldor » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:12 pm

Red Dead Redemption and Force Unleashed 2.
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Post by drl2 » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:25 pm

Minecraft. It's bacon and cheese deep fried in a flaky crust of crack cocaine. (Yes, the graphics are blocky and early-90s-ish, but it doesn't matter.)
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Post by beige » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:27 pm

Team Fortress 2 binge lately :oops:
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by GeneticJen » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:12 pm

Just spent £220 on gaming stuff. :/

Lately I've only been playing for a few minutes at a time, so I've been playing games like FIFA 11. I've not had time lately to sit and enjoy a game with a good story. Last big games like that were Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2 and Heavy Rain. My xbox 360 died a while ago and I still haven't replaced it, so it's all PS3/OSX/iOS right now.

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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by normal » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:23 pm

I'm playing WoW again. Someone please shoot me =( I hate myself =(
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Pappa » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:27 pm

Normal wrote:I'm playing WoW again. Someone please shoot me =( I hate myself =(
Shoot yourself you lazy bastard!
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Post by normal » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:29 pm

Pappa wrote:
Normal wrote:I'm playing WoW again. Someone please shoot me =( I hate myself =(
Shoot yourself you lazy bastard!
But then I wouldn't be able to play WoW anymore and loathe myself doing it!
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by leo-rcc » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:32 pm

Still playing Assassins Creed 2, done the storyline for the third time. I still need to find all the feathers.

I've pre-ordered Assassins Creed Brotherhood.
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by Blondie » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:38 pm

£220? That's a doddle! At christmas I get to upgrade my PC finally.. New mobo (Asus of course), i7 cpu, 4 or 8 gb of DDR3, a second GTX 460 1gb so I can setup sli with the one I have already, new sound card with faceplate (haven't decided which model yet). About $700-1000 in toto. :biggrin:

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Post by drl2 » Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:13 am

Normal wrote:
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Normal wrote:I'm playing WoW again. Someone please shoot me =( I hate myself =(
Shoot yourself you lazy bastard!
But then I wouldn't be able to play WoW anymore and loathe myself doing it!

When I left WoW I used a "scorched earth" policy to guarantee I'd never come back - I sold all my characters' stuff and gave the money away to members of the guild I was in at the time. I didn't delete the characters, though, because the temptation to roll a new character might come up, but the temptation to go nude questing to try to get minimal equipment for my old ones wouldn't interest me in the slightest.
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Re: What are you playing now?

Post by drl2 » Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:18 am

Anthroban wrote:£220? That's a doddle! At christmas I get to upgrade my PC finally.. New mobo (Asus of course), i7 cpu, 4 or 8 gb of DDR3, a second GTX 460 1gb so I can setup sli with the one I have already, new sound card with faceplate (haven't decided which model yet). About $700-1000 in toto. :biggrin:

I don't buy Asus products anymore; all five or so of their boards I've bought over the years have either died prematurely or not fully worked out of the box. Last motherboard I got from them decided not to retain BIOS settings after the first week of use - I ended up sending it back for repair, they sent it back to me marked fixed, but it wasn't. Sent it back again, got it back unfixed again. Sliced it up with a sawz-all, sent it back again with a note asking for a refund, which for some reason they didn't honor. :dunno:

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