What Video Games Are You Playing?

[Doggett]

Pokemon Emerald. 

[Doggett]

I really couldn't afford this, but I got it anyway. It's too darn hard !

[3mnkids]

Silent hill: origins

[Jack]

Finished Second Sight on the PS2.  It was okay, some cool parts, some not so cool.  It's a shooter but you also have psi-powers, like you can posses an enemy guy and have him shoot the other enemy guys.  Overall the gameplay just wasn't all that fun.  Some parts left you wandering around with no idea where you're supposed to go or what you're supposed to do when you get there, I hate that.  One part had you going to one room and copying a file from a computer to a disk, take it to another room, load it onto a computer and play it on the video player, then go to another room and watch the video.  Good grief, you could wander around for a week trying to figure that crap out.  I just read a walkthrough of course.  The more straightforward shooter stuff was more fun, and some of the environments were fairly well done.  It's kind of a memorable game, for what that's worth.

[Jim H]

I just tried out Mercenaries 2.  Pretty solid so far.  It also has a very different feel from most GTA-style games, which is cool.  Peter Stormare's voice work is just as amusing as it was in the last game.

I was also playing Shadowrun on my Genesis.  I've beaten the game three times, but it has great replay value.

[Torgo]

I started playing on dynasty mode on MVP BASEBALL 2005 on the PS2 using the Anaheim Angels as my team. This is the last baseball that I really liked.

[InformationGeek]

I'm playing through Half-Life 2 again and of course, I'm still trying to beat Dragon Quest 5.  Luckily for me, I just have one boss fight left.

[Torgo]

I picked up a used PS2 game by Capcom called "Okami" that came out in 2006. You play a japanese god who is reincarnated as a white wolf and must save the world. Plays a lot like a 3d version of Zelda but with controlling a wolf instead of Link.

The graphics are amazingly beautiful and the game highly original. Check it out.

[Jim H]

I've been playing classic games again.  I recently started A Link to the Past for the SNES.  This is my first "real" play of it.  I'd briefly played it in the past, but never from the beginning and never for very long.  Some how, it just got skipped over in my radar.  So far, I'd say it is excellent.

Other classics I'm playing are NES games..  Sky Kid, Vindicators, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and others.

[Psycho Circus]

Yeah Baby!!

[Mr. DS]

[Jack]

Started playing this years ago and thought it sucked.  Started on it again recently and it still sucks.  It basically goes like this:

1)  Get killed
2)  Restart from predetermined save point
3)  Hit X several times so you don't have to watch the cutscene again
4)  Play through the next ten minutes of the game PRECISELY as you did the last 4 or 5 times.
5)  Finally, you've made it just a little farther than last time!!!
6)  Get killed instantly.

Repeat, repeat, repeat.  It gets tedious real fast.

[Neville]

I've obtained an old copy of "Conflict: Desert Storm", and it feels like some series worth playing. The controls are a bit awkward, and my new system plays the sound FX with a noticeable lag, but the missions are very exciting and the gameplay has just the right ammount of caution and planning and blowing stuff (and people) up.

If I manage to finish it, I plan to play the rest of the series.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Right now playing Condenmed 2: BloodShot for X-Box 360.

[Jim H]

Right now playing Condenmed 2: BloodShot for X-Box 360.

Favorite bit of the entire game: "slept like a baby".  You'll agree with me when you get there.  Enjoyable game, though not quite as good as the original.  The multiplayer is also better than you'd expect.