What Are You Playing Now?

[Lhorkan]

I OWNED the Gothic 2 demo. OWNED I tell you. Let me explain: normally, you only have "the lower part of town" in the city. All the other quarters are protected by a humongeous invisible wall, which lets nothig through. On the road down to the harbour district though, behind that wall, there are 2 citizens. I found out that sometimes, arrows can fly through the wall. So I hit one of the citizens, and butchered them (I could hit her through the wall). Normally, I always raid there bodies for food, but last time, she was just a little too far away to reach. I kept turning my view and clicking (to open the citizen "conatainer"), and suddenly I was in the harbour district, past the wall. Now in the demo, there are a lot less NPCs and items, but the map is still a lot bigger than the restricted walled area. Now I got my way out of the town via another gate, and can explore the content which should've not been viewable in the demo.

Also, I killed or at least beat up everyone in town, exept for the 2 guards at the front gate, the 2 guards at the gate and a Paladin (all invurnable). Some of them in a fair sword fight, others by climbing up on a safe haven (like a roof, or the city walls), and keep shooting at them until they drop dead. I killed Pablo this way, and he got a "tower key". There are several towers at the walls, and all their doors were locked shut, you couldn't pick 'em either. The tower I had the key for had a light 2-handed sword in it!

 

[JohnathanStrange]

I'm taking a break from WoW myself.

Right now, I'm really into Sid Meier's Pirates! and what I like about it is the free-form aspects:

I go where I want. I do what I want. I fight who I want.

I can attack Spanish galleons, Dutch fluyts, French frigates, English merchantmen or protect them. Sack cities, change governors, romance governor's daughters, deliver peace treaties, encourage Indian attacks, duel pirates, steal their treasure, gain royal titles, land, collect special items, sell my loot throughout the Caribbean, rescue my family, build a fleet, and so on.

I admit this isn't a game for everyone mostly because it can be repetitive seeming but it really fits my schedule: play 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there, etc. and it makes me grin. That's what I like: does it make me smile. Nothing deep necessarily.


It's what I'd like from M&B in time: lots of content.

 

[Sir Saladin]

I was thinking about buying the pirate game, it has the same sensibility as M&B but I'm spoiled, I want the close up murder rather than the grapeshot or bombs in the cannons.

 

[Worbah]

By the way do any of the finns here play CS or Diablo 2 online?