The "What games are you currently playing?" Thread

**Wutang** · 03-25-2007, 12:12 PM

currently playing hitman blood money

**Mtv** · 03-25-2007, 03:35 PM

Far cry... again

**JunelBT** · 03-26-2007, 04:37 AM

C&C3 tomorrow!

**Kruger** · 03-27-2007, 12:28 PM

C&c3 :p

**sauly** · 03-27-2007, 06:05 PM

Im playing pro evolution soccer 6, half life 2,

**silent h3ro** · 03-28-2007, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by Wutang

currently playing hitman blood money

Fuck yeah, that game ownz!

**3RA1N1AC** · 04-05-2007, 06:55 AM

i have been playing a bit of guild wars and a lot of world of warcraft. i'm not really much of an RPG fan, but both of these games are incredibly well-designed as far as online RPGs go.

world of warcraft has lovely artistic direction, it's just fun to look around & see how much care has been put into the models/landscapes/textures/etc. and its gameplay is solid & brisk, despite having its fair share of traditional MMO time-sinks (stuff that you know has no other purpose besides distracting you & slowing you down in order to keep you from racing to the end of the game, and to keep you subscribing for months & months).

guild wars has decent visuals, but i think the combat (before WoW lets you have access to level 60+ raids anyway) is a bit more strategic & challenging than WoW's combat, and the fact that each character can play 2 classes simultaneously... it's more interesting/engaging overall. and the synch-up between experience points & quest progression is better -- it's almost transparent. you spend a few hours running quests in a region then, by the time you've completed the most significant quests, your character has enough experience & money to move to the next region. it doesn't give you so much experience/loot that your character outgrows the quests & they stop being challenging, and it doesn't give you so little exp/loot that you have to "grind" (walk around & kill random monsters for experience points) in order to prepare for the next region. experience & progress are so finely tuned in guild wars that you never really need to think about them.