It's the Weekend...

[MengJiao]

Well, I really have is tonight for gaming.  Going upstate for the long weekend.  But, in my precious gaming time tonight, it will definitely be Ghost Recon Future Soldier and Iron Front Liberation 1944.

Big weekend.  Fixing up the board game loft so Roads to Leningrad is coming down just before Manstein clobbers the 34th army.

But on the computer -- hopefully -- Iron Front all weekend long.

[Jarhead0331]

^Where did you end up getting it from?  I was trying to hold out for steam release, but just couldn't wait and bought it on gamersgate. Then, I also figured the gamersgate version would be more mod friendly. 

[Martok]

Well I've finally got a solid four-day weekend with little in the way of a scheduled itinerary or responsibilities (huzzah!), so I'm definitely going to be putting some time in front of my computer screen. 


Games I'm playing for sure this weekend: 

1.)  Armada 2526 Supernova, both singleplayer and PBEM campaigns. 
2.)  Gonna see if I can get the Warlock demo to run. 
3.)  I'm (finally!) resuming my Romulan AAR campaign in Birth of the Federation. 


Games I'm thinking about/hoping to play: 

1.)  Baldur's Gate
2.)  Star Trek Online
3.)  Pride of Nations (yes really!)

Is Armada good then?  I remember it being regard as very "meh" on release by most people.  Is the expansion a requirement?

I bought it mind, but I haven't really played it.

I too wasn't impressed with Armada at release, despite my having looked forward to it.  However, it improved a great deal in subsequent patches/updates, and I now find it to be a very enjoyable 4x experience.  It's perhaps not a brilliant game per se, but it *is* a very solid one, and well polished. 

I wouldn't say the Supernova expansion is a requirement (unless you want to get into MP matches).  However, it does greatly increase the game's "fun factor" and replayability IMHO.  And given how cheap it generally is nowadays, I'm willing to bet you can purchase the expansion somewhere for £5-10 (if not less), which would definitely be worth the price! 

[undercovergeek]

3.)  Pride of Nations (yes really!)

good man - feeling the itch myself - tutorialed myself last week.

Good luck to the Iron Front players, it looks great, i would imagine its awesome when youre in one of the groups Chelco is always blogging about - i really really need to get a desk top!

[Gusington]

^Martok, you were having problems with the Warlock demo?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I seem to have bought a lot of games in the past 10 days. Shame I'm taking a guy's shift and going in to work tonight.  Oh well, tomorrow and Sunday will see me flipping between

Iron Front 1944
Red Orchestra 2
Dead Island
PT Boats
Assassin's Creed II

[Sir Slash]

Shogun 2 with Darthmod and Skyrim with Lydia.

[Gusington]

^Which Shogun 2?

[MengJiao]

^Where did you end up getting it from?  I was trying to hold out for steam release, but just couldn't wait and bought it on gamersgate. Then, I also figured the gamersgate version would be more mod friendly.

I'm planning on getting it from steam....hopefuly that will work out.

[MengJiao]

3.)  Pride of Nations (yes really!)

good man - feeling the itch myself - tutorialed myself last week.

Good luck to the Iron Front players, it looks great, i would imagine its awesome when youre in one of the groups Chelco is always blogging about - i really really need to get a desk top!

My online days are over for a while.  I'll be using the editor to come up with relatively tame battles late at night.

As for groups.  One of the best moments in gaming, I think, comes when a game first goes online and nobody quite
knows who is who or what is what.  When Arrowhead came out in the summer of 2010 was the last time I did much online
and then it was as a lone wolf with a rag-tag army of assorted AI scum.   These days I solemnly relish small firefights carefully
constructed for minimum difficulty on the editor.

[Toonces]

Well, I should be able to get in a substantial amount of gaming this weekend.  We've got a pretty good swell going on the windward side right now so I'll be hitting that today and tomorrow during the afternoon, but the evenings are looking fairly free.  So for sure I'll be playing:

Red Orchestra 2:  I really didn't play too much of this before, and last night really ignited my interest in the game again. 

Medieval 2: Total War:  I think my son is old enough to try some multiplayer hotseat campaign.  I never even realized that option existed in this game!

Keeping with the whole multiplayer vibe, I'm strongly considering starting up Madden '08 to play with my son. 

King Arthur 1 and 2:  I really want to finish KA1 before I start KA2, but I'm having serious analysis paralysis with KA1 whereas I hear KA2 is more linear and that might be what I need right now.

Rise of Flight:  Plenty of gaming left in this sim!

[JudgeDredd]

Well - I haven't had much time to fit iRacing in...so hopefully a race or two of that this weekend. On top of that, some Armada 2626 Gold (Amazon £10), more OOTP 13 whilst watching something that doesn't need all my attention

On top of that, I'll be doing my model Mosquito

[Sir Slash]

^Which Shogun 2?
  All 3 Gus. Right now I'm into the original game, just past Realm Divide seeing how much different Darth's version is. And in FOTS, my soldiers got bayonets now, and they use them in battle. Must be that fancy-pants British officer I recruited.

[Oche]

WINSPMBT, WINSPWW2, FSX, Strike Fighters 2, Mount & Blade Warband: Europa 1200 Mod. Maybe also some Red Orchestra: Darkesthour mod and Swat 4 online coop.

[Toonces]

I already got in a game of Madden, and just finished installing ARMA II so I can play the Day Z mod, so add that to the ever-growing list!