What am i playing? What a silly question. Oblivion, of course. My husband would say that's all I ever play anymore (in terms of video games, that is mostly true). However, when Skyrim comes out, I'll have two games I play all the time, instead of only one!

Okay, I am currently torn between two titles for my next game purchase.

I have already decided it will be a driving title, but I need some help deciding. The candidates are:

- Forza Motorsport 3
- Gran Turismo 5

I already know that the strengths of Forza are that it is very forgiving, coming with a number of driving aids like showing you the ideal line through a racecourse, and also being a much better game online (minus the idiots you commonly get in popular Xbox Live titles). This is certainly the most polished of the two, with the downsides being that you can only partake in Grand Prix or Endurance style races on paved tracks and that it is not quite as refined a simulation as GT.

GT5, on the other hand, is a lot more hardcore, with a more accurate simulation, over 1000 cars to choose from, and more varied racing types than Forza (Forza only does Grand Prix style, whereas GT has rally driving and NASCAR, for example). The downsides are that GT5's graphics are wildly inconsistent to the point of being immersion breaking (only certain cars get modeled interiors, for instance, and I'm a die-hard cockpit driver), and the soundtrack (music and engine) is rubbish.

So, they both carry equal weight... which would you choose?

Just got through Portal 2 yesterday and I gotta say it was alot more challenging than I thought it'd be, much better than the first game, and also laced with plenty of humor throughout the entire thing. Very fun game, give it a rent if you like puzzle games.

Also gotta give props to Red Faction: Armageddon's demo for keeping me busy destroying stuff for as long as it did. Gotta say that I'm pretty excited about it coming out soon so I can break more stuff. I know it may not sound that special or look amazing in the previews but I was pleasantly surprised by how fun it was, can't wait for the full release, try the demo.

Fianlly decided to play Red Dead Redemption and all I can say is: "Why did I not get it sooner!?". I am in love with this game, even after completing the main missions I keep finding myself strolling along the northern forests in search of bears! Of course, I was on Oblivion this morning in a lengthy preperation for Skyrim.

Still playing TES, but I've got something new about it--I'm learning how to mod!!! It's so cool--I've only learned a couple minor things (special thanks to SubRosa for sending me the necessary links! They're awesome!), but it's a start, and I'm very happy with what I've done.

Currently, I am working on a mod to go along with Tandilwen's story in the fan fiction. It's pretty cool, and I'm very excited.

What world was I in, playing Oblivion without mods? Mods are awesome! I'm more in love with TES than ever before...

I hear ya!! Just discovered mods a little more than a month ago. Loving it, and missing it like heck since my Intel Mac is in the shop.

I've been playing RDR as well. Been on the multiplayer at all? The free roam can be a lot of fun if you get into a good server. I just played for 3-4 hours last night on one server with my cousin and we eventually got kicked out of it ( wtf?) because the rest of the server joined up in a posse against the two of us and we killed them all

Once you discover mods and modding you can never understand how so many people play the game without them, right? I finally bought GOTY edition for my PC in January and I can't even touch my Xbox version anymore.

I bought fallout new vegas a couple days ago and am totally addicted to it! My main character is a hitman-like guy who is mainly good. In other words, a skilled rifleman who is adept at lockpicking and science, fighting for the good guys. but things are known to "go missing" sometimes.

I'll try to get a picture, but it'll be really bad quality. Also, I like my character so much, I might have a bash at writing some new vegas fan fiction.

This post has been edited by grif11: Jun 2 2011, 10:38 PM

I played the first half of RDR but it didn't really do much for me, not sure what it was really. Slightly too much riding cross country and a plot I couldn't get into were a part of it, anyway suffice to say I got about half way and gave up.

After finishing exams I bought myself Dragon Age 2, I was a bit apprehensive after it's predessesor which was good in many ways but had massive weaknesses. I'm glad I continued, the plot is good, the characters are (mainly) good, the controls work (unlike the previous one). Only problem I'm having is that it seems to be pushing the xbox a little to hard and it stutters occasionally.

Learning to mod? Look no further!

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask! It's one of the reasons I'm here, after all.

(The thread is in the Mod Discussion forum)

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Jun 3 2011, 01:11 AM

Woot! Thank you for the link. And if I have questions, I will definitely talk to you!

Heroes of Might and Magic 5- strangely addictive, as is most of the franchise.

Morrowind- have to, in order to write my story. Not that I mind- I still love the game. And, by "holding" my character at a given point in the story, I can increas my own anticipation and sense of wonder at "what happens next".

Have only played all the way through Bloodmoon once, long ago- so this is quite revelatory even for me.

Ahh, Heroes! I remember when I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic III with my sisters, many years ago. I actually did pick it up and played it a couple of months ago. I've only tried the 4th and the 5th game a few times at my friend's house but I it didn't really leave any impression on me.

I myself have had short time periods where I would only play one game for like two weeks. Those games have been GTA IV, Battlefield 3 and I played through GTA San Andreas quite recently. San Andreas is easily the best game in the series in my honest opinion.

I have been on the multiplayer quite a bit, lot's of fun. Taking a posse into the mountains to hunt bears is a brilliant experience.

I hope it wasn't your posse I dyno-ed the other night lol.

There was like 8 guys on horses in a circle and I appeared right in front of them (fast traveled). Just stood there not moving for like 3 seconds and then tossed a dyno in the middle of all of them. Blew them all to heck

Well, several months and several patches later...

I can finally play Call of Duty: Black Ops on my PC.

What a let-down I had to wait six months before I could actually play it, especially since the game is actually performing extremely well with no major FPS drops even during the largest battles the game can throw at me.

I still do not think I will be getting MW3 after this, but hey... at least I can finally play the game I paid good money for.

Not the same developer so don't judge mw3 by black ops.

Still both made by subsidiaries of Activision. I've given up buying newly released games for this very reason - the industry uses the early buyers as unpaid beta testers then releases a patch (or several) to make the game work. Consoles have gone the same way, even if most aren't actually online.

If you just don't but the game until the second patch then it's usually ok...

Talking of not working I just finished DA2 (and very much enjoyed it, a vast improvement on the first). I got it for the 360 because I couldn't be bothered making it run on my PC and it stuttered occasionally. On a PC it's fair enough seeing as every system is different but on a console? Really?

By the merits of MW2 and the fact that this series has not changed in four years... I stand by my resolve.

CoD games aren't really even games anymore. They're interactive movies, since they are so heavily scripted. And the multiplayer is just a yearly update nowadays, too. Nothing new made it into MW2, so I don't hold my hopes high for MW3, especially after March 2010 when IW got dissolved and restructured.

I'll settle for a Let's Play first time around. If I like what I see, I will consider buying it.

I've been playing Supreme Commander and Sins of a Solar Empire.

SupCom would be better if it would take advantage of more than 1 core. I watched my CPU meters while playing and it put everything on core 1 and left all others untouched. It would also be better if it didn't cap itself on 2 GB of RAM because it needs more. I can't get any really big battles going before it crashes. Someone claimed they've fixed the crashing issue using virtual memory.

Sins of a Solar Empire is the first space RTS I've played and I really love it. The developer calls it a 4X RTS actually.

It's quite addicting. I love building a massive fleet and tossing them at some planet and watch them thrash the defenses and then nuke the planet from orbit. Capital ships are lots of fun because they have special abilities and attacks that can turn the tide of battle. This game has no issues that I have run into.