Burnout 3 - as I said in GA, it's Burnout 2 except with extra shitness.

Ninja Gaiden - despite its flaws, pretty much pisses over every sp fps of the last five years in terms of fun and interesting combat. Just goes to show what can be achieved when the emphasis is on "pure" gameplay rather than atmospherics and scripted sequences. 

MtGO - Great game, lots of people that play. Only bad side is I'm addicted to Draft, so I end up paying a $39 a week or so... but anyway, that's fun.

DoW demo - Can't wait for the real game, probably get it this weekend. Woot.

PS2 stuff - Lots of games here. Silent Hill 2, Onimusha 2, THUG, Megaman Anniversary, etc.

GBA - Like 3 Zelda games (Oracle games and the NES release), FFTactics Advance, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars 2, Yugioh card games... errrr nevermind that last one. Looking for Link's Awakening, and Tactics Ogre. 

I picked up Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero GX recently, but I haven't had much time to play them. However, from what I played both are kinda cool, but not great.

I'm interested in that Katamasi Damacy game too, but I don't have a PS2... 

Viewtiful Joe gets better, until it gets worse. Episode 5 (or is it 6) is really hard. Once I got into the controls and after I got all the special moves, it was pretty fun until that point. 

just finished and going back to play it again. it rules. 

I liked it too. Of course it brought back all the fun of playing Ultima Underworld and then some. It had some truly suspensful moments (you probably know what I am refering to stopping a human sacrifice while being persued by an invisble stalker) , yikes.

I'll probably play it again soon too. 

I started playing Prince of Persia (sands of time) recently. When it first came out I was still finishing my degree and had to resist temptation. It's a great game with attractive visuals, well though out levels, and excellent mechanics. I love not being punished for sloppy mistakes or misreading the length of a jump. It frees you up to really explore the game and try out wacky moves. And you still feel bad ass when you pull it off. I hope the sand dagger becomes a staple of the PoP series. 

Just beat Call Of Duty: United Offensive singleplayer. Its...ok. Definitely NOT as good as all the hype and previews lead it to be. Typical call of duty stuff with arbitrary ridiculously-hard to cakewalk-easy difficulty. Multiplayer is so far so good. Bigger maps, vehicles and cool new weapons. Here's to hoping they don't fuck up the weapons like regular CoD is now.

Also I bought Diablo II but haven't tried it yet as I STILL haven't finished doom3. I know I will get sucked in so I'm waiting for the right time to jump in.

Also been playing quite a bit of Point of Existence, a mod for Battlefield: Vietnam. Good stuff. Occasionally some UT2K4 (onslaught usually). 

Great Thread

I'm in a bit of a game slump and have mostly been playing Diablo 2 alone with the Amazon and Necromancer. I'd like to play more Half-Life, Deus-Ex and RtCW addons but nothing is calling me right now.

Games I Have On Que: Painkiller, DX2 - Invisible War

Games I Expect to Buy Soon (because they are becoming cheap): Prince of Persia - Sands of Time (I loved the 1st Prince - played on Hercules monochrome monitor with 8MHz 8088.; Thief 3 (I actually want to try it despite not going far with Thief 1.) 

lots of Robotron (we have it here at work.) 

Well I just played through Halo for the third time. Not because it was particularly spectacular (it is great fun, but it seems Bungie only had one level designer working there and all he could do to save time was c'n'p a lot), but simply because I'll be sitting in the living room with a sketch or assignment I have to do, and I'll look up and go "ooh, xbox!" 

Currently playing:

Wh40K: Dawn of war.

I am loving this game atm, the space marines just rock, and dreadnaught powerfist kills just bring up some sort of childish glee locked inside me somewhere, played a bit of skirmish too and the eldar rock. Purple explosions were never so cool :)

Burnout3

On my brothers xbox, really fun game (never played the prequels). Crash modes are great fun and the aftertouch and crashbreakers add some "tactical" proceedings to the chaos. Good sense of speed too.

Recently played:

Doom 3

Pretty much commented about this in the "offical" thread, loved the game bar some minor annoyances, am currently mapping like a fuquer for it too. 

Nethack, as usual.

http//www.kolumbus.fi/ville.nieminen/nethack.gif

May the RNG bless my samurai. 

http://www.kolumbus.fi/ville.nieminen/nethack.gif 

fuck yes. arx fatalis rules hell. agh. im on my 2nd play through it now. i love the whole feel of the game, everything feels so damn dirty, and it all looks like its gonna fucking fall apart! :)

sadly i never got to play ultima underworld, altho i have read alot about it and seen lots of screenies, but that doesnt really makes up for not playing it :(

agh. gonna go play some more arx 

... that sometimes, I play with my "old game" which are Granturismo2, Tomb Raider 2-4, , Nightmare Creatures I and II, Ace Combat 3, WipeOut 2/3, on PX1, and Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, WipeOut Fusion, Crash Bandicoot - The Revenge of Cortex on PS2... I've some others which are definitively lost and forgotten, because too much crappy... ;) 

am playing Tribes Vengeance Multiplayer Beta, soon official Multiplayer Demo
Wh40K:DoW which is just fantastic
a dash of Dungeon Keeper 2
and ive got games of Fallout 2, Dungeon Siege, Freespace 2, morrowind and SShock2 one the cooker (started too many cant focus on 1) 

V8 Supercars 2, and GTR Press Demo. GTR should be the nuts when finished, if they don't stuff it up. Grand Prix 4.

Waiting for Richard Burns Rally to show up 'cause Colin Mcrae sucks it big time :( 

- farcry FFA or Teamplay DM has been played weekly by myself since it came out. Now that the game has been out a while players are learning that camping away in the mountains never fares well, and so matches are alot more fun.

- Nethack awww yeah

- Soul Calibur 2 has also been getting a healthy dose of button mashing lately. Maxi vs Taki, 200% health, 4 rounds to win, standard weapons only. It's the trash talk between me n my friend come up with that just makes it so much fun. 

I'm looknig forward to both RBR and GTR. I've been liking the Colin demos but once I realised they are a balance between accessible arcade and sim, the allure isn't as much. Can still be fun though, I've been recording and uploading videos of runs and crashes. For some reason though in any series Colin demos the control feels different than it did a week or more ago.. I wonder if it's cause of GTR's realism warping my senses/reflexes or if my controller is giving out (the brake paddle has a weird feeling now). 

q2 DM at work, civ2 when Im really bored at home

but lately I prefer clubbing and socialising to gaming, barely have time for doom3 

Still Diablo 1 

I rented Burnout3 over the past weekend and could not put it down. I felt like a kid playing it. The Road Rage mode I thought was the most fun. Just trying to crash other vechiles was good times. And like someone mentioned it has a great sense of speed.

Besides that I've been playing the Sims 2 like mad as well. While it is good fun, I wish there were more objects to interact with. Currently I'm trying to make every sim Bisexual and sleep with one another, it's fun to see everyone get pissed at each other by breaking each others hearts. It's like a daytime soap, only with that guy from the Real World Chicago to ruin it.

I also downloaded the demo of Tribes Ven, and I can't say that I'm impressed yet. The user interface for the stations is ugly and clunky and just doesn't do it for me. Graphically it's great I guess, but with the PixelShader 2.0 stuff turned out, the blurness that is supposed to look like a perspective thing just kind of blends everything together. It doesn't feel like either of the Tribes games. Which I guess is fair, 2 never felt like 1 either. I need to play it a bit more. As a side note, the demo ships with 3 or 5 of the 11 TOTAL MAPS... That just isn't cool.

I tried the Rome Total War demo too, it was cool to see the epic battles played out in front of me, but at the same time I wish the character animation was a little more varied. I only played through it a few times so gameplay wise I can't see much about it. Worth a try if you looking for a demo to play around with.

I also am beta testing The Matrix Online right now with Monolith. I obviously can't say what it's like but a recent new patch really overhauled part of it, and actually makes the game fun... it wasn't before. I'm hoping if I test this and what not, maybe I'll call Jason Hall and be like "Hey remember that kid in Michigan you wanted to hire years back, well I want a job now".

With my roommates I've playing Mario Kart 64 and Mario Tennis pretty religiously. Also on my emulator for DC we've gotten back into Dr.Mario and Bomberman II. 

Richard Burns Rally demo is out!

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/rburnsrally/richardburnsrallydemo.exe.html 

My brother is playing that right now and the music is atrocious. It's making me live under my headphones.

Speaking of music, here's the latest and greatest illegal hiphop mashup: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2004/09/23/kleptone.shtml
Think Grey Album but good.