First one to one thousand (i.e. me) wins!!! 

That's the sound of me being uncontrollably sucked into the world of Oblivion again.

And you'd have thought 215 hours would have been enough for anybody... :{

(Also, anyone else getting excited at the news of the expansion - seems like a return to the phreaky high-fantasy mushroom world of Morrowind...) 

Looks like they listened to the folks who didn't want more semi-generic fantasy stuff. :)

And I've never really stopped playing Oblivion, although I usually only play for a few hours a week, and not obsessively, like I did with Morrowind... 

Hi all, stab in the dark here, but i have no where else to go,.... Does anybdy know how to extract audio from a .ffs file or a program that will open it. 

Gothic 3 - still brilliant and engrossing despite the occasional bugs and stuff. A lot more stable since the 1.2 patch. Only the slow running in busy towns is a real issue now. So much to do any explore, it rocks. Seems to be very few restrictions on what you can do. Unfortunately I lost my pet rhino somewhere. Last night, however, was very cool. I went back to the starting area of the game and swam directly across the ocean to a small island near the desert mainland (which I think I could have done first and completely ignored the normal progression). I got to this island which had a small fishing dock and a shack....went inside the shack and all there was was a decaying corpse, swarming with flies, hanging from a noose. Very bleak and cool. 

Need a game recommendation for someone (not for me, I'm purely addicted to G3!). For a laptop, mobile Celeron 1.6 ghz with integrated graphics and 1 gig ram. Said someone specified:

I want something I can play over the internet, that's continuous play rather than a game you complete. Should be more of an adventure game than a shoot 'em up.

Any ideas? I've dismissed WOW and EQ due to monthly fees, and recommended Guild Wars as a cheaper option. Clearly online adventure games don't really exist, offline pure adventure games or MMORPGs being the nearest alternatives. Would appreciate suggestions cheers. 

Tell your friend to get a 360. 

(sorry) 

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It's very old but it rocks and it runs on my computer. 

No i put 1000 u just put ebriviation hahah (i.e. I win) 

Any more proper suggestions? I know UT and QW are class, the person in question wants something more "adventury"... 

nuff said ;) 

Animal Crossing 

Anyone would think I was asking on a gaming forum or something... 

how about that Ragnarok game? 

Yeah so I've been playing too much games recently...

Gothic 3:
Started playing this a few days ago, it's nice enough but feels like it could have been alot better... Fortunatly I'm playing with the new patch, which means there are only half of the thousands of bugs that there were in the original version, yay! Still haven't had any major bugs, but mostly lots of little silly things like unfinishable quests and invisible monsters etc... The environments are nice as is the character building and all, and the quests. The combat sucks, it feels like whoever hits first wins, thank god for bow and arrows. I've died so many times against easy monsters it's annoying, wouldn't be so bad if quick saving wasn't so loooong.
Anyways, still a good game, it does alot of things better than Oblivion, but for now I think Oblivion is still superior... Maybe I'll change my mind though, who knows.

Farcry:
Yeah finally played this, a mixed bag. it was alot better than what I remembered from the demo, very pretty, lots of fun running around the jungle. Looks a bit cartoony though, which doesn't really fit with the whole military vibe, they seem to have resolved this on their next game. The gameplay can be nice at times, and just very frustrating at others... I like the freedom though, you can do things however you want, for instance in one map where you start in some fortress like building, I jumped off a wall and then off a 100 meter cliff into the ocean, and swam to shore, thus skipping a large portion of the map... It's just nice to know that you can. =)
Otherwise the designs and story are completely bland and fairly uninteresting, but I still enjoyed it. 

Who's playing WoWcraft? The expansion is hot. 

Me and Vondur (long ago) sold our souls to the devil and are playing the expansion, which is absolutely awesome (altho we are playing on different servers): http://jago.pp.fi/images/WOW/AgaUI.jpg 

 

Recreational activity helps rejuvinate a tired, stressed out modder who may be a bit burned out with his project but who is still willing to soldier on inspite of it all (I hope that preempts what I think is coming). 

yeah Im hooked on that atm... Got my paladin up to level 66 so far,all the new areas and content just rocks, Nagrand in particular is beautiful, with all the floating patches of land with waterfalls falling off them, and the bendy trees, great stuff :)

Loving the new shorter dungeons too, I just dont have time for 1.5 - 2 hour runs these days, so spending 45 minutes from start to finish is great.

Also, the different versions of the new tier 4 armour sets is a great idea, now you can really create the character you want to play with complentary gear rather than what blizzard thinks you should have.

raiding ZG with a group of 20 level 65+ players is just really easy now too :) 

Loving the new shorter dungeons too, I just dont have time for 1.5 - 2 hour runs these days, so spending 45 minutes from start to finish is great.

What a chore it could be to complete a dungeon from beginning to the end. That was a great game inspite of the chugging it out time. Though I've played a bit of both Marrowwind and Oblivion, and I liked what I saw, but neither one of those held my attention as long as Daggerfall did. Like you, the time factor is quite a bit different today than back then. 

didn't you uninstall it?

Just sayin'. 

Talking about individual dungeons inside the game. In Daggerfall, the minor mission dungeons were completely randomized but within a limited set of map templates so their was a great deal of monotony. The main mission was pretty good though, with the moody Lord of the Worms lair and good stuff like that.