What are you playing this weekend?

I got absolutely nothing gaming related for Christmas (although I've been treating myself on all the sales). Lots of Bananagrams with the kids.. and I might try to get them to play Small World again this year.. last year was a bust, they just weren't interested.

Santa bought all of us Ticket To Ride for Christmas. But the games being played right now are Horse-opoly (Horse-themed Monopoly, a present for my daughter), Minecraft (10-year old is still obsessed), and Puzzle Agent (half my Steam catalog -- not that it's huge -- is inaccessible while we have house guests).

I can now add Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Ticket to Ride Europe, and Memoir '44 Eastern Front (with winter map!) to my Christmas playlist. Thanks Mrs. Gravey, and merry Christmas goodjers!

Dragon Age Origins on PC. Played it for all of today (nine hours straight), wondered why the DLC associated with the Ultimate Edition was not showing up in the menus, fixed the problem, and now have to re-play the campaign I had done so far. Can't figure out when, how and why it deleted my save game as the profile seems to be intact (achievements, play time, stats - everything except character and campaign state). Now I will make sure that all of the DLC works before continuing, looks like the Awakening content for some reason still doesn't work.

Tomorrow, Gears Of War 2 co-op on the 360 with a friend who hasn't played it.

I have been playing "travel from one family member to another" that comes with the "defuse temper tantrum" minigame in it.

I just finished Torchlight, one year after I purchased it, on last years Steam sale.

Great game, I built a tank and just nailed the final boss with repeated devastate, my wrist is sore but the game is done.

What to play next? I only have another week or so before school starts again (online college work).

I need to play Mass Effect 1 so I can play Mass Effect 2, or maybe The Witcher or Just Cause 2 or Laura Croft and the Guardian of Light.... Damn you steam sale!

Merry Gaming everyone!

I'd go for the big story games now that you have time to really get into them. So Mass Effect 1 or The Witcher.

Christmas brought tools, so I'm playing "watch the kids" and "fix the bathroom". The Wii Pikmin remake also arrived, so that's getting my gaming time. Forgot how awesome that game is.

Sparhawk wrote:

Just bought FO3 on Steam, but the game hangs all the time.
You would think those bugs are all gone by now.

There are 1001 answers to "how to fix FO3". For me, it ended up needing the K-lite codec pack reinstalled.

Jeff-66 wrote:
cyrax wrote:

My casual/time-waster games are Drawn: The Painted Tower, Chime, and Desktop Dungeons.

Man, I just got around to trying Desktop Dungeons. This is a really fun little game, and free at that. I highly recommend people try it out, and go thru the tutorial. I am now hooked.

Btw, this is a 'short fix' game, so no huge time investment is needed, but you will need to be clever with your resources and abilities to beat the final boss of your randomly generated dungeon!

I just lost 2 hours "looking into" this because of those comments. Thanks.

To the aforementioned Daxter, Trauma Center: Under the Knife, and Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna add:

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection on Wii - the Jive Time table, while not very good at all, has cast a strange spell over me that compels me to master it. Closest I've gotten to the "Score 100,000 points" goal has been 86k. Top score to beat is 136k. Can't even get 75k on cue for the Williams Challenge marathon through all the tables and always get eliminated on Jive Time because of that.

Beat Hazard - Want to get 100million points and beat a song on Insane, then I'll consider this one beaten. Not far off anymore.

Railworks 2: Train Simulator - just starting this one, but it's a relaxing before-bed kind of game.

Ghostbusters on PC - On the 5th chapter. Really want to finish this one by the 31st. It's fantastic even despite a few annoying fights.

Home with the parents for a few days, so it's been board/dice game time. We've had some fun with Aggravation and Yahtzee. If we can find the pieces we may try some Tripoli later.

clever id wrote:
Jeff-66 wrote:
cyrax wrote:

My casual/time-waster games are Drawn: The Painted Tower, Chime, and Desktop Dungeons.

Man, I just got around to trying Desktop Dungeons. This is a really fun little game, and free at that. I highly recommend people try it out, and go thru the tutorial. I am now hooked.

Btw, this is a 'short fix' game, so no huge time investment is needed, but you will need to be clever with your resources and abilities to beat the final boss of your randomly generated dungeon!

I ran into a weird install thing with this one. Once I downloaded and extracted it, the main .exe within the archive was still reporting itself as a compressed file, I tried to extract it, but it didn't like the existing path (possibly the spaces). Changed the path to C:\dd, re-exrtracted, then the regular .exe appeared in the dd folder, and allowed me to launch the game.

Looks like it should be fun; my first game had me literally surrounded by level 4+ monsters with no pickups/other places to go, so that was rather fast. Second game looks more promising!

Happy New Year's weekend to all.

My gaming plans for the weekend are probably going to be focused on new my Steam sale haul.

1. I want to take a stab at learning A.I. War. it's the kind of game I've always wanted to be good at, and never really been able to grasp well, or 'connect' with. Maybe I'll even RTFM.

2. Amnesia: late at night, lights out, headphones on. Well, maybe. Or maybe I'll run away screaming like a little girl.

3. Batman AA: having recently finished story mode and 240/240 riddles solved on both 360 and PC, I'll focus now on trying to improve my combat, and hopefully tackle some challenge rooms.

4. For some co-op, I hope to get in some more Killing Floor or Borderlands with fellow goodjers.

5. Machinarium: a wonderful adventure/puzzle game.

I'll probably dabble with some of my other new ones, and for my quick & dirty: I'll definitely keep going in Shank (love this game), Shatter, and Super Meat Boy.

Started Super Meat Boy for real today, back home with my PS3 controller.

Man it's brutal, and I've only finished the first world. Gonna keep tackling it, a little bit at a time.

SMB is great. Might be my GOTY.

So most of you probably finished this three years ago, but I'm playing Bioshock for the first time. And using the Wii Fit, which is going fine until my daughter attempts to help me keep my balance in the yoga poses. Me and the tree pose is quite humorous. I don't bend that way, or keep my balance when I do.

Almost done with

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And I keep returning to my dark masters

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I picked up Mafia II from Amazon as a digital download (but activated on Steam) and I'm about 7 hours into it at the moment, so I'll be finishing that. Then I'll move on to the several indie games I just bought - Arcadia, Archon, Hegemony, Swords and Soldiers, and Ion Assault.

Oh, and Shatter which was gifted to me by TheCounselor.

I'll be finishing up my Level 60/Insanity character on Mass Effect and then moving her into ME2 to check out the DLC that I grabbed the other day when it was on sale.

More Dragon Age, still working through Origins, installing mods... Also Final Fantasy XII on the PS2 - such a fantastic game still - and Halo Reach on the 360 - campaign on solo Heroic. Reach Heroic is hard compared to earlier Halo Heroics.

NFS: Shift - I really love this game.
More NCAA 11 - I'm really starting to hate this game. Not really, but eight interceptions last game? Really?
Fight Night Round 4 - I'm not sure I like it more than Round 3, but it is pretty sweet. I'm spending more time in just quick matches right now to get a better handle the on the gameplay before continuing my career.

Jayhawker, your continued praise for NFS Shift is enabling me.

(Also, I've tried to add you on XBL a number of times, to no avail!)

Minecraft, Morrowind, and TF2.

If I get some desktop gaming time in I really want to get back to Dead Space so I can pick up Dead Space 2 when it comes out.

Jeff-66 wrote:

Jayhawker, your continued praise for NFS Shift is enabling me.

(Also, I've tried to add you on XBL a number of times, to no avail!)

Try again, as I peeled off a few people from my friends list the other day. I was hoping to find some the other folks that might still be playing the game.

I've given up on New Vegas for the time being. However, a patch fixed my Fable 3 play through, so I'm gonna try to finish that this weekend. Also, some Hot Pursuit, NCAA and VVVVVV.

I'm undecided at the moment.... but maybe:

Lucidity (leftover December pile commitment)
Demon's Souls (I've beat the game, but it's still got its hooks in me)
Dragon Age: Awakening

jlaakso wrote:

Also Final Fantasy XII on the PS2 - such a fantastic game still.

Man... I've tried - and failed - three times to play through this game. It's the one blemish on my otherwise perfect record of completing the (not online) Final Fantasy games.

What can I do to fall in love with this title?

Jayhawker wrote:
Jeff-66 wrote:

Jayhawker, your continued praise for NFS Shift is enabling me.

(Also, I've tried to add you on XBL a number of times, to no avail!)

Try again, as I peeled off a few people from my friends list the other day. I was hoping to find some the other folks that might still be playing the game.

Done. Thanks!

Katy wrote:

So most of you probably finished this three years ago, but I'm playing Bioshock for the first time.

Nothing wrong with that. I recently did the same with Dead Space (2008), and loved every minute of it.

General Crespin wrote:

Minecraft, Morrowind, and TF2.

I guess I finally should break down and try Minecraft. Seems to be all the rage. But man, the graphics look like something out of 1996

I'm still playing Starcraft 2, and not much else.

AndrewA wrote:
jlaakso wrote:

Also Final Fantasy XII on the PS2 - such a fantastic game still.

Man... I've tried - and failed - three times to play through this game. It's the one blemish on my otherwise perfect record of completing the (not online) Final Fantasy games.

What can I do to fall in love with this title?

I love the systems so much that they carry the game for me. It also helped to know a bit about the game's development - I imagine that the sky pirates are the actual protagonists, as they were supposed to be originally, and lame Vaan is just tagging along. I don't know, what's bugging you? To me it's kind of like FF VIII except good.

I'm hoping to finish Fallout: NV this weekend. Santa brought the family Ticket to Ride, Dominion and Small World. And of course I'll be playing League of Legends.