Friday: the what youd like to play but will end up playing something else thread

[Greybriar]

I will be pretty busy with World of WarCraft this weekend since the Mists of Pandaria expansion went live this past week.

But I also plan on playing a bit of Soldiers: Heroes of World War II which I bought on sale at GOG.com for a mere $3.39 (sale ends soon, so don't put off buying it if you want it--GOG.com won't be offering it for awhile after this sale is over due to licensing issues). I bought the retail boxed version of this game when it was new, before I knew it had StarForce copy protection. That prevented me from installing it and the game has sat on a shelf for the past eight years. Now I can finally play it without worrying about StarForce doing harmful things to my PC.

[Huw the Poo]

I bought the retail boxed version of this game when it was new, before I knew it had StarForce copy protection. That prevented me from installing it and the game has sat on a shelf for the past eight years.

Good on you for taking a principled stand.  I never knowingly bought a Starforce-infected game.  I did have a couple of games installed that used it, but that was before I realised.  It wasn't exactly advertised on the box.  >:(

[Bison]

Borderlands 2  - Good lord is this a fun game.

[MetalDog]

Just had an INTENSE game of Atari's Axis & Allies RTS.  Both my buddies had their turn at trying to put me out of the game.  Both men failed.  It was a close run thing though.  CKII last night and Civ IV MP and CKII for the remainder of the day.  And the days slate of NFL action, too.  w00t!!

[Oche]

I always like to see what others are playing  :), I still don't know why some people just hate that, haters. >:(

[Kushan]

I will be pretty busy with World of WarCraft this weekend since the Mists of Pandaria expansion went live this past week.

How is the new expansion? Is it worth going back to WoW for?

[bob48]

^I've been watching the wife play - pretty graphix, but gameplay just looks like more of the same. She likes it, but there again, she's a dedicated WoW-Head.

[Greybriar]

I will be pretty busy with World of WarCraft this weekend since the Mists of Pandaria expansion went live this past week.

How is the new expansion? Is it worth going back to WoW for?

I have mixed feelings about it. I didn't like it when werewolves were made a playable race, and I don't like having pandas as a playable race either. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new battle pets are fun. Not so good was the continuation of the daily improvement of tradeskills (although I got my inscriptionist to skill 597, he still has to do the daily research in order to learn one new glyph per day); pretty much more of the same that we've had in the past. I haven't done any PvP at all, so I can't offer any experiences there. The new questlines seem to be well done for the most part, but I don't think much of the new gardening quests I did and started doing (you have to let the plants you planted grow and mature before you can complete the quests) in Pandaria. Although my first and only experience on the new continent was for a few hours last night, I liked it overall but hated the fact that you cannot use a flying mount there until level 90.

You've probably heard that the Talent trees were changed drastically. Glyphs received a little reworking and many of the minor glyphs are only for visual effects. Prime glyphs were done away with. Relics and their counterparts on other classes are no longer usable. Ranged weapons cannot be equipped at the same time as melee weapons anymore. Read the 5.0.4 Patch Notes for a more complete rundown.

I don't know whether it would be worth it for you to return to WoW or not. It depends on what you like. The graphics are top notch, if that means anything to you. The storyline seems to be about as good or better than most games; about what you would expect from a Blizzard game. I am a very casual WoW player and rarely do any raids or endgame stuff at all, so you'll have to ask someone else about that. You might want to renew for a month just to try it out.

Hope that helps you out.

[Kushan]

Kushan,
Make sure you post your impressions of Skyrim.  That was a really happy 20 hours of gaming for me.  I think I logged another 5 hours after Dawnguard was finished before I lost interest in Skyrim again.  Dawnguard really kept me focused and on-task.

I will. Right now I'd just like to make it through the main quest without getting a game breaking bug. I've been watching a YouTube playthrough of the vampire side, so I think I'm going to join the Dawnguard with my character. I haven't read/heard anything on their quests. I'm assuming it will be more or less the same as the vampire's just without getting turned into a vampire lord.

I have mixed feelings about it. I didn't like it when werewolves were made a playable race, and I don't like having pandas as a playable race either. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new battle pets are fun. Not so good was the continuation of the daily improvement of tradeskills (although I got my inscriptionist to skill 597, he still has to do the daily research in order to learn one new glyph per day); pretty much more of the same that we've had in the past. I haven't done any PvP at all, so I can't offer any experiences there. The new questlines seem to be well done for the most part, but I don't think much of the new gardening quests I did and started doing (you have to let the plants you planted grow and mature before you can complete the quests) in Pandaria. Although my first and only experience on the new continent was for a few hours last night, I liked it overall but hated the fact that you cannot use a flying mount there until level 90.

You've probably heard that the Talent trees were changed drastically. Glyphs received a little reworking and many of the minor glyphs are only for visual effects. Prime glyphs were done away with. Relics and their counterparts on other classes are no longer usable. Ranged weapons cannot be equipped at the same time as melee weapons anymore. Read the 5.0.4 Patch Notes for a more complete rundown.

I don't know whether it would be worth it for you to return to WoW or not. It depends on what you like. The graphics are top notch, if that means anything to you. The storyline seems to be about as good or better than most games; about what you would expect from a Blizzard game. I am a very casual WoW player and rarely do any raids or endgame stuff at all, so you'll have to ask someone else about that. You might want to renew for a month just to try it out.

Hope that helps you out.

Thanks. Think I'm going to resist and not get it. When I played, quit at the beginning of the year, I was really into it. Wouldn't say I was addicted, but it did have a way of becoming the main game I played. Toward the end I only played to do raids. My shaman used to be be ranked worldwide, for its class and spec. I've logged on a few times since the Pre-MoP patch was released, seem the same as it's been for the last 6 years.

[MengJiao]

- but im happy with my gaming right now, loving the CKII and CMBN with new adventures to be found in AoW and PrON BUT theres a nagging, itching feeling at the back of my neck to buy a new game - it happens every month, i dont need one, i dont particularly want one.

I just buy lots of crap and feel like an idiot.  But then I get something good and I'm off on a spree.

The Elusive Victory board game turned out to be a good buy so now I'm on a jet spree:

Back to Strike Fighters 2
Getting an ancient Lock-on: Modern Air Combat set of discs and starting down the DCS World Line

Old sprees that are holding up:
Some Dangerous Waters
Some Harpoon 4.1 Pen-and-paper
And Maybe:
some WWII online
some CKII

Jet Spree!

Victory proved elusive in Elusive Victory:  4 Vautours got a '2' (possible damage) on a torpedo boat in a dock and the Egyptians missed with their SAMs (though the evasion made the Neshers dump their bombs in the Red Sea).

Third Wire:  Back to the Falklands again

Lock-onMAC:  Strangely entertaining in a strange way -- the landscapes are better than Third Wire anyway

[Barthheart]

Probably some Civ IV Colonization - Started playing again after finding this cool mod (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=19763) that makes the game a little more interesting.
I really suck at this game but I can't stop trying to get better.  :P

Let us know how that is.  I wanted to like Civ IV Colonization but it just seemed broken to me.


I recently was suckered in by a STEAM sale and got Wargame: European Escalation so I'll be giving that a go this weekend when I have time to game.

Well.. I played Civ IV Colonization all weekend with this new mod..... and I still don't like the game.... just not fun to play. :P
Oh well... not like I don't 500 other games to play instead....

[W8taminute]

Thanks for sharing that Barthheart about Colonization with the mod.  What one thing specifically turned you off about the game?

[Barthheart]

Thanks for sharing that Barthheart about Colonization with the mod.  What one thing specifically turned you off about the game?

Hard to put it down to one thing really.... maybe just 'cause I suck at it... :P I really have no clear picture of how I'm supposed to go about winning it. It's different from regular Civ IV in that you really have to just focus on winning and not just playing the game.
Even on easy when I thought I was doing OK the AI shows up at my border with tons of troops that I have no chance of repelling... this happened with both a native AI and a European one.
So I obviously made some wrong decision many turns before and that's it... hours down the drain.
I've never even made it to the 'Declare Independance' part of the game... always get creamed long before that...
So... I'm done. Deleted it off my hard drive today.

[TheCommandTent]

Thanks for sharing that Barthheart about Colonization with the mod.  What one thing specifically turned you off about the game?

Hard to put it down to one thing really.... maybe just 'cause I suck at it... :P I really have no clear picture of how I'm supposed to go about winning it. It's different from regular Civ IV in that you really have to just focus on winning and not just playing the game.
Even on easy when I thought I was doing OK the AI shows up at my border with tons of troops that I have no chance of repelling... this happened with both a native AI and a European one.
So I obviously made some wrong decision many turns before and that's it... hours down the drain.
I've never even made it to the 'Declare Independance' part of the game... always get creamed long before that...
So... I'm done. Deleted it off my hard drive today.

Thanks for the input.  Looks like I won't be reinstalling this one after all.

[MetalDog]

I played it, too, TCT.  It's been some time ago and without the mod.  I wanted to like it, but I didn't understand how to win.  Hence, I could not plan accordingly.  And Civ tactics didn't seem to be to your advantage either.  Specifically, build lots of cities.