Forgot to mention I picked Disciples 3 up on sale so I'll be downloading that next.  Plus I got some Mass Effect 2 DLC but I'm not sure how much of the game I want to play again to go in on it.  I have three characters and I don't even remember why   since I only finished with one of em.

I'm waiting for some Dragon Age 2 DLC to play more of that.

I've been playing Assassin's Creed II on PS3, and enjoying it, even though I'm usually not an "action game" kind of person.  I'm finding it much less mindless than I expected, which is a good thing.

Also been looking forward to version 2 of a mod for Europa Universalis Rome called "Reign of the Ancients."  Once it's out, I'm sure that will eat some time.  The previous version (1.16) changed EU Rome from an unplayable, boring mess to maybe my favorite EU game, so this one has serious potential.

GFFA has more in common with UEaW than PR, but I envisioned it to be a poor man's PR in the sense that it adds more to the GCW era without being so demanding. I will PM you if you want more info, no need to clutter this thread unless others don't mind.

Its a good game. But i prefer Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (the first one, not the sequel), although theyre basically the same, CoH does have things like suppresion fire, which makes it bit more tactical.

il2: cliffs of dover

storm eagle studios JUTLAND

Company of Heroes

Dawn of War 2

Armed Assault 2

Sins of a solar empire of course

silent hunter V

shogun 2 (love total war)

combat mission shock force

Will be getting combat mission normandy when it comes out

Recently i played following games:

The Temple of Elemental Evil

Master of Magic

Warlords: Battlecry 3

Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy

Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga

Shogo - Mobile Armor Division

Been playing some Oblivion as an Altmer Atronach to prepare for Skyrim later this year.

Also been playing some Gal Civ 2 Dark Avatar (dont have Twilight).  Got my arse handed to me by the Thalans in my last game.  Nasty.

Lego Star Wars 3: Clone Wars Co-op with my brother.  Pretty cool.  I like the planet missions.  Could use an actual AI, however.  The enemy never take your bases.  So, I guess its kind of RTS Lite in that regard.

Played a few games of Sins of a Solar Empire.  Still can't really get into it.  I prefer GalCiv2.  Hardcore RTS is just not really my thing.  I prefer TBS.

I was always curious about Dominions 3. A year for one game???!!! Wow! Is it really that good?

I've been playing Two Worlds 2, it's a surprisingly good game. 

Dominions 3 is a great game.  And yea, there are games that last a very long time becasue if you have 16 players and turns that are taken only ever 2 days or so, you've got games that last for months and months.  Hell, they often take a few weeks just to set up. 

Now, that being said, if you got a group of friends and dedicated a day to the game, you could do a game in a day. 

Sins, of course.   DW - return of S....    And Sword of the Stars (still trying to get comfortable with the interface).

Shogun2, dow2 retribution, rift

I'd like to point out that Dawn of War I+Xpacks is nothing like Company of Heroes+Xpacks. In fact, none of the DoW1 titles are remotely similar to any of the CoH titles.

Dawn of War 2 on the other hand, it's kinda the same but not the same.

    At the moment, I play Sins with the Sacrifice of Angels Mod and Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii.  I'm loving SOA for Entrenchment; very cool mod (I like the Federation thus far, and look forward to the Borg).  M.H. Tri is a bird of another feather though; I've never seen the likes of it before.  There's lots of fun monster chopping in it, but it can be a bit time consuming.

    I also have Ghost Recon, Crysis, Star Craft, and Star Wars: Battlefronts I & II on my P.C.  I cycle through my games every few months, but nearly always have a Star Wars BF or a Battlefield on my PC; we do lots of LAN games at my house.  I'll admit that we tend to fight each other more than the enemy; it gets interesting sometimes. 

    I imagine that if/when MechWarrior V comes out, it'll become my new favorite.  I've always been a fan of that series and love joysticks.

I bought like 5 or 6 impulse games last night...the pile is just adding up.

Shogun 2 total War, DoW2 retribution, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Smacx

My main game right now   Let's do some MP.

Bought CoH, OF and ToV during Steams christmas sale for 7.5 euro. Started with the tutorial and then onto MP with friends. Very fun!

Now I'm playing the campaigns on Expert (the hardest difficulty) and are currently on US Mission #7. The campaignmissions are NOT as well done and balanced as StarCraft II but then again, what is..?

I'm also playing

DEATH RALLY!!!

Remedy released it for free and they have reworked it to run on Win7!

I played the crap out of crysis 2.  Loved it.  Went back through my old disks and just re-installed the original crysis and I'll be giving that another play through.  Still playing demigod most nights that I have time.  Just picked up anomaly:  warzone earth today as well.  Having some fun with that.  And I tried out the demo for vampire smile on the 360.  Not sure if I'll pick that up or not.  Its a bit of fun, but the hazy graphics... not sure I'm a fan of that. 

April 7, 2011 5:43:58 PM from Elemental Forums

Some of you may have noticed I've not been so active on the forums. Some of you may even be glad for it. Here's my explanation:

I bought Shogun 2 the day it came out and couldn't get enough of it.

Then I made the mistake of trying out Minecraft. Paid the $20ish, and now I can't stop.

Seriously. I need help. I'm halfway done building a wall around a medium sized island that will eventually be one giant castle. And I see blocks when I close my eyes. I get frustrated and go to punch trees, and then get more frustrated when it hurts and the trees don't disappear.

So, How many movement points does your car have? 

I just polished off S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl last night. Man, that game fell off in terms of fun at the end.  Clear Sky sort of had the same problem, but I don't care what anyone says- Clear Sky was the better game. I got one of the bad endings because I didn't feel like doing one minor task in an extremely annoying area (Pripyat).

I've also been playing a fair amount of Valkyria Chronicles 2. That's an awesome series and wish some PC developer would copy that battle system for its TBS game.

I don't know what's going to be my next go-to game. I've Yakuza 4 waiting for me, but I'm not sure if I want to commit to such a long game right now. Unfortunately, it seems as if my entire backlog consists of long games.

The only task in Pripyat for SoC that I can remember is [spoiler alert] getting the decoder to open the hidden door. Hardly minor.  

I, and most of the free world, heartily disagree that Clear Sky was better. It took some good ideas from the SoC mods, but isn't nearly as good as the first with some essential mods. Unfortunately there's aren't mods available to bring CS to the level that SoC achieved. Call of Pripyat has me interest for now, and I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm still trying out the different mods, but none of them add enough guns, or at least many of my favorites yet.

I've been playing the good Front Mission games (as in, not Evolved), the 3 Homeworld games, Sword of the Stars, Stalker Call of Pripyat, Armada II, Morrowind, X3 (About wet my pants after playing the B5 demo), a few of the older Total War games after beating Shogun 2 (which doesn't have much replay-ability for me), Sims Medieval (until the magic wore off, now I'll probably never touch it again), and  I reinstalled Sins yesterday but didn't get past the menu screen. I have a pile of games behind me that are still shrink wrapped that I haven't gotten into yet, but those will probably sit a few more months for me to get to.

Well, I had *heard* that it was a minor task...but I was just so fed up with the game that I couldn't be bothered. But now that I've heard *glitch spoiler ahead!* that you can repeatedly throw a gauss rifle at the hinge of the secret door to force it open, I might be compelled to reinstall and load my save right in front of the Wish Granter. *end glitch spoiler*

I realize I'm in the rather small minority that prefers Clear Sky, but I can't think of a single thing that was significantly better in SoC. The ending linearity of Clear Sky did suck, but SoC's was only marginally better (in the sense that, you probably knew there was no coming back). I suppose some people might prefer the fact that there are more mutants in SoC and some creepier places, but I guess I'm more of a people-killer and I like the open swaths of land to roam and loot. And while this is a criticism of both games, the devs need to stop with the dramatic setpieces to end the game. It just doesn't gel with the rest of the game.

But the faction wars? A really good idea. Upgradeable guns? Yes, please! Artifacts aren't just laying everywhere and requires risk and exploration? Fantastic.

Please don't misunderstand me- SoC is a really good game and definitely worth picking up. I just think that, if I were to give Clear Sky a 9, I'd give SoC an 8 or 8.5.

(I should note that I played both games with their 'Complete' mods....perhaps vanilla SoC kicks the crap out of vanilla Clear Sky)

Games of the moment:

Death Track Resurrection (remake of an old game from when I was a kid, sweet nostalgia, not all that good a game if you haven't got the old memories to go with it);

The Sanctum beta (with a buddy, it's definitely co-op);

King's Bounty (Diggin' the cartoony graphics, like the earlier Heroes of Might & Magic, a game for hardcore HoMM-mechanics fans, otherwise will probably bore you before you finish);

SimsMedieval (not everybody's cup of tea, should really try and demo it first before paying the chunk of change they want -- I enjoy it because I get a kick out of designing Sims and sending them on quests).

Aveyond: Twilight Something or Other (picked it up on sale, I played the first hour or so and am digging the retro-ness. Seems like a decent story. My first real foray into any of the RPG Maker st!ff. I hope it continues to keep my interest!).

Zenith Chronicles (Sometimes I just want to come home and let a cute girl ride me while I blow fire at st!ff).

Master of Orion II (permanently installed. None better has yet been made. Don't argue. You know it's true.)

Recettear (Permanently installed. It's so blixxed cute I can't delete it. I play it at least once a month.)

Poker Night at the Inventory (Permanently installed for when I can't get together with buds for poker, but want to play. I don't play this without beer or liquor. It's a hoot if you know the characters.)

Dwarf Fortress (Love-hate relationship. If you don't know, don't ask.)

That's a pretty big list. I tend to hop around a lot. I've got a deep game library and go in and out of it depending on mood.

In the docket:

DA-2 replay. I really enjoyed the DA-2 story. Game was tight, but suffered from the Mass Effect 1-like lack of original maps. Still, I liked it more than DA-1, though I admit the later was superior in design. I'm waiting for a patch before playing it again as a different character class.

Elemental: War of Magic (waiting on the 1.3 patch for the random events/hopefully dynasty stuff; that plus the bug fixes should make it much more fun to play);

Runaway: Dream of the Turtle (AVG, played the first one some years ago, was funny, am looking forward to this game, the second in the series).

PORTAL 2 (Okay, so who doesn't plan on playing Portal 2 later this month? Only the people whose budgets are, like mine, being busted by a great gaming year. Hard to complain about that, right? This year is rockin'!).

Scrapland (on Impulse sale a couple days ago, looked intriguing, so I had an Impulse buy).

Most looking forward to:

The next Carpe Fulgur release;

Mass Effect III;

Achron (http://www.achrongame.com -- RTS, but can move back in time and change stuff, you changes propagate forward in a time wave!!);

more kick-ass unexpected Indie releases.

Holding out hope for: Fallen Enchantress, the next Elder Scrolls game.

Cheers,

-MrBats

P.S. Holy Smokes, a new Mechwarrior game for the PC??!?! I knew I read forums for a reason! Huzzah!

Dwarf fortress, AI wars, Tropico 3 AbsPow, Perihelion

No, hehe. I admit there are some big differences between DoW 1 and CoH, but these do not make them nothing alike. Both are RT strategies, right? Both are set for smaller scale battles, theyre no SupCom or Sins in this regard, you rely on packs of different kinds of infantry supplemented with occasional tank, mech, etc... In both you need to get hold of the strategic points all over the map. In DoW you have heroes and commanders, in CoH you have those doctrines... I suppose both game have morale... The most important difference as i said is the more tactical approach of CoH, where you need to place precisely your static defenses and units in regard to their lines of sight and terrain, you can do suppression fire, take cover, the environment is destructible etc... it all makes for slower and kind of richer gameplay...but i prefered faster, more direct DoW.

 Overall i would say CoH is the middleground between DoW1 and DoW2, in some aspects more like 1 (base building), in other more like 2 (tactical aspects). But definitely not "nothing like" 1.