I'm envious. I can't even play HL2 yet because my PC is too old. I've beaten HL about once per year since it came out... always entertaining.

Still playing AA. I just bought a new ATI 800 and a new power supply to run it. The power supply smoked after two days. Back to the 128 card. I need to build my own rig.

Kinda took a break on HL2 and Doom 3 (I don't relly like being scard in games right now... I just want ot have fun). Been playing Dungeon Seige 2 some. I really like DS 1.

I'm excited about Serious Sam 2 coming out. That's a fun game that you (at least in Serious Sam 1) you can play coop with a friend.

Good free games:

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Torus Trooper, rRootage, or pretty much anything else by Kenta Cho.

Cave Story

I'm going full DnD geek mode with Dungeon Siege 2. Ace probably finished it months ago, though.

i am having fun with rollercoaster tycoon 3

I'm thoroughly addicted to Jagged Alliance 2. I've been playing it almost exclusively for more than 3 years now. The first 6 times I played it, I would get 3/4 done and start over because I wanted to try a new character combination, or had learned some new aspect of the game that I wanted to try out fresh with a new main character.
If you can find it, I highly recommend it. It's not the best-looking game in the world (it was designed in 1999), but it is without a doubt the most fun game I've ever played, bar none.

Rome: Total War and replaying Doom3.

Total War sucked me so far in I refused to beat Rome at the end so I could keep playing.

Yeah, I've beaten HL2 twice now; borderline disappointing. Not Halo 2 dissappointing but after 5 years I expected more. But anyway, Battlefield 2 is awesome. The hardware specs are outrageous but the upgrade is worth it especially the multiplayer aspect. That and Counter-Strike Source. Oh yeah and Silk, definatley build your own rig, its the only way to go.

Funny you should axe. I just bought Doom 3 yesterday. I give it high marks so far.

I bought HL2 and a new video card a week ago (or was it the other way around?). It was cool so far. But I got to the point where you crawl across the beams of the railroad bridge, unplug the forcefield, turn off the bridge at the computer, shoot down the gunship and crawl back across the railroad bridge and accelerate past the oncoming train...only to find the tunnel forcefield still in effect. I've looked it up in several walkthroughs and I'm doing everything right, near as I can figure. Again and again and again. And I hate heights.

I could try backing up by several autosaves, but the idea of rebattling several more hours only to live through the bridge ritual again and find the forcefield still up makes me want to chew open a vein. The original Half Life did that to me once; my game got corrupted somehow partway in and had to be restarted.

Screw that. New game!

World of Warcraft my friend. You will be hooked for certain. Your postings will take a huge hit though, so selfishly speaking, I sorta don't want you to try it.

More like World of Warcrack!

Gotta agree with Mister Tan. World of Warcraft is my current timesink. It's even worse now, 'cause my wife is hooked!

Just about halwway through Far Cry. GTA: San Andreas is up next.
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I'm a World of Warcraft widow.

I just finished playing Deus Ex: Invisible War. (Yeah, I'm a few years behind . . . I just bought an awesome new computer though, so I'm catching up)

It's . . . okay. The first one was much better because of the RPG elements that they ripped out of its sequel. And the physics in this thing are ridiculous. Objects would act realistically . . . if everything in the world were made of styrofoam. Or if you had the strength of a 800 lb. gorilla. You know, whatever.

Call of Duty: United Offensive. Bought the game soon after it came out and like someone above, it got corrupted. It wouldn't let me complete the first mission even though I'd killed all of the tanks. I put the game away for a bunch of months and only recently came back to it. Now, instead of an American during the Battle of the Bulge, I'm a Brit flying as a gunner on a B-17. Progress!

Multiplayer rocks.

I've finished Half-Life 2 a couple of times too. Right now i'm halfway through Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (second time also) and Brothers In Arms. If you like WW2 games, get this one. Excellent stuff.

I'm a Mechwarrior from way back. I'm hoping that the eventually do something like WOW with the
Mechwarrior franchise. That would be awesome.

Nerf Shamans!!!!

NSFW
WoW Porn
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1604273/

ZOMGWTF!!

S. Weasel,

After you pass the onrushing train, I think you're meant to veer off the tracks to the left, down a hillside, rather than go into the tunnel.

Also, if you want to skip the bridge underbelly section (and have a bit of patience and a knack for gravity-gun construction), try building a ramp over the initial forcefield.

Icewind Dale.
Again.
Partway through Baldur's Gate.
Again.

God, I have no life.

Warhammer 40K, GTA3 Vice City (aka The Ace of Spades ™ Lifestyle: the video game) and VBS-1.
I'm waiting for Need For Speed Most Wanted and F.E.A.R. to come out. And I still have to get GTA San Andreas.

I put HL2 back on my PC a month or two ago, just to replay my favourite parts. That game's so sweet. I still haven't finished Doom 3, which despite being prettier and, yes, scarier, just got kind of ...old. Right now I'm alternating between Halo (original, not 2) and Temple of Elemental Evil (let me echo the "full-on DnD geek mode", hee!). Here in the anonymity of Intarweb I can confess this year I also tracked down the original Warlords game (c.1993) and played it all the way through. I still love that game.

Ha! You're not going to out-geek me on that score, Hiraethin. I still play Hack. That's the 1985 port, before it became Nethack. And I still haven't made it out of the dungeon alive with the Amulet of Yendor.

Woohoo! Twenty years and still losin' strong!

Warcrack here. Had 3 lvl 60's and got pretty dull. I finally decided it is like other addictions, uninstalled off desktop and laptop last week. (no 12 step programs yet, though hehe). Try quitting - you will be amazed at all the free time you'll have with which to live your life and you know, actually do things (things where your butt isn't planted in that computer chair!!) Oh, Ninja - that is the funniest video since LEEEEROY !

I still play Rogue, the origional, made it out twice! Ever!
I also play Stars! and Master Of Magic, both very old but better than much of what's out now.
Gary Grigsby's World At War is good too, Diablo2 is kinda fun now and then...

I still play Rogue, the origional, made it out twice! Ever!

Many wasted hours spent Rogue'ing here. I find the newer NetHack/Hack renditions too baroque.

Asteroids can keep me facinated for hours too - like a shiny scrap of tin foil.

I remember making it out of Rogue, but never going back in. I'm still a Stars! player, it's amazing the persistent community of players that Stars! still has.

The only current game I'm playing is Stronghold 2. I always loved making elaborate sand castles and this is all that and so much more.

The games that I just love are the V for Victory WWII series and the Sid Meier produced/influenced Civil War and Waterloo games.

The thing that kept me away from Rogue was the graphics. Nope, not kidding. All the versions I saw played in 40 character (as opposed to 80 character) screen modes. Your own symbol was, if I recall correctly, a giant klunky happy face (the same character that appeared when you hit CTRL-C on the application I worked at the time, which my boss assured me "reached right into the bowels of the operating system."Scared the hell out of me). Giant klunky happy faces visit me in my dreams.

There's something clean and abstract about the character set for Hack. And the way game elements interact with each other is so extraordinarily complex -- even by today's standards -- that it continues to hold my attention.

The commercial packaged version of Rogue did fine on an 80 col screen. For years all I had was non-graphics mono cards and green mono screens.

I've been playing [url=http://chaos.magma-net.pl/doom/]Doom, the Roguelike[/url] while waiting for Ninja Gaiden Black to come out.

Apparently I've been lurking so long that I forgot how links work.

I made it to worl 7-2 in Super Mario Bros. I'm starting to think that darn Princess isn't in any of these castles!

In Metroid news, I finally found the Morphing Ball.

Half-life 2 was pretty good, but I hate the steam engine and the graphic b.s. that locked you out. I reloaded that game several times and had some code rewrite before the bugs were (tolerably) gone.
It was, however the most creative use of objects I have seen yet.

Serious Sam II huh? That might be fun, but nothing compared to the humor of Duke Nukem.

Mechwarrior as you knew it, may be gone forever, since Microsoft got their grubby fingers on it. The plug-ins are pretty good, but your still playing the same game.

Not too many women posting in this thread.

Hubby finished HL2 a couple months back as well as Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I sat and watched over his shoulder, something I'll do when the story and action are interesting enough. He's playing Dungeon Siege 2 atm, which wouldn't be so bad but his surround sound is NOISY.

Later,
bbeck

Finished the Vale of Shadows and the Temple of the Forgotten God. Am now off to Dragon's Eye.

For the love of God, people, can't someone organize an intervention?

I spend a lot of time getting the sh*t kicked out of me on XBox Live at Halo2 by eight year olds.

Gah, I beat HL2 back before it was fashionable. I went back through and played ALL of the original Half-Life as well as the expansions, and then beat HL2 again. I can't wait for the expansion "Aftermath" and the Lost Coast tech demo.

Whenever I'm not playing City of Heroes, its almost always going to be Metroid Prime 2 or Resident Evil 4. RE4 is awesome

World of Warcrack here. F*ckin game has taken over my life :(

Don't s'pose anyone's on Kilrogg?

No Spiderweb love here?

Spiderweb's stuff is good: Geneforge 2 was fun, I have a couple of their other titles but it's been a while since I played one. Think they go for about 20 bucks, and they're not what you'd call hardware intensive.

Looking forward to the Warhammer: 40k expansion out this week, playing a lot of Burnout: Revenge on the Xbox and the Sims 2 expansion. Dungeon Siege 2 is also worth a look if you liked the first one, or any of those Dungeon Hack/Diablo types.

I love Blades of Avernum. The special skills system is just great.

Diablo2 has a new patch out for a few months now that has added some new quests and stuff to Online play only (battlenet & their Ladders), supposed to be incredibly hard.

Have to worry about hackers though.

I still play D2 offline still for the old, hack-n-slash.