It's Monday -- so what games did you FINISH?!

[Sparhawk]

I'm trying my hardest to finish FTL. I"m playing on easy so how lame am I?

[JasonPratt]

I want to jump this games bones so much because it is so hot but on the other hand I just want to bitch slap it so bad it ends up in another time space continuum different from mine.

Yay for your 1100th post, btw!

I've been hearing a number of "honeymoon is over" posts about that game, but also that there's some kind of glitch in the game that should be patched soon, where the computer gets extra resources it shouldn't and elite troops early, etc.

Personally, I'm happy enough to stay with my WW1Gold, even though I've been thinking about SC:WW1+BreakNO! NO I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT BUYING ANOTHER GAME!! STAY THE COURSE, STAY THE COURSE!!!

[JasonPratt]

I'm trying my hardest to finish FTL. I"m playing on easy so how lame am I?

From what I hear, even playing that game on easy is rather hardcore compared to other games. I wonder how it compares with Flotilla, though...

[JasonPratt]

3.1.4.) Games I own that I can't play yet because I don't have the hardware don't count as finished. (Obviously. And soon to be fixed with a new Falcon MachV soon to arrive.  ;D )

....just wanted to officially register my jealousy...

Power Supply --1500 Watt Modular
Motherboard --Rampage IV Extreme
Processor -- Intel® Core™ i7 3970X 3.5GHz (with 6 or 8 cores, I forget which, the max available)
Memory -- Elite 1866MHz 64GB (8x8GB)
Video Card -- GeForce GTX 690 (2x2GB)
Hard Drive -- m4 SSD - 512GB
Hard Drive 2 -- Caviar® Green™ - 3TB
Optical Drive -- 12x BluRay Writer
Optical Drive 2 -- 24x DVD-Writer
Windows 8 Pro 64-Bit

[sandman2575]

Power Supply --1500 Watt Modular
Motherboard --Rampage IV Extreme
Processor -- Intel® Core™ i7 3970X 3.5GHz (with 6 or 8 cores, I forget which, the max available)
Memory -- Elite 1866MHz 64GB (8x8GB)
Video Card -- GeForce GTX 690 (2x2GB)
Hard Drive -- m4 SSD - 512GB
Hard Drive 2 -- Caviar® Green™ - 3TB
Optical Drive -- 12x BluRay Writer
Optical Drive 2 -- 24x DVD-Writer
Windows 8 Pro 64-Bit

was this supposed to make me feel better?

...i'm going to go out on a limb here and say you should be able to handle most any game in existence with those specs...

[JasonPratt]

was this supposed to make me feel better?

No. Not at all.  ;D 8)

I only get a new computer once every seven years or thereabouts, so I like to grin about it while I have the opportunity.

...i'm going to go out on a limb here and say you should be able to handle most any game in existence with those specs...

Yes, I shall be "finishing" several games with this. Its specs are made entirely out of fear.

The actual purpose of it, however, is to run high-end drafting programs like Shade and Vue Infinite. It's slightly under-powered for that purpose!--but I've left some room for expansion in a couple of areas, mostly to do with extra/stronger video cards. (There really are video cards more powerful, so much so that games can't use them.)

[Arctic Blast]

Finished off Mark of the Ninja and Walking Dead last week. Highly recommend both of them.  ;D

[JasonPratt]

I rarely bother with side-scrollers (like Mark of the Ninja), but Trine, Trine 2 and the Orc campaign for T2 are all on my to-finish list. I've made a good start on Trine, but the sequel won't run on my old WinXPSP2 system.

An inequity that will soon be rectified...  8)


Incidentally, I did finish Portal last night although it took me longer than I was expecting.

So yay, my first game finished before I'll allow myself a new one!--four more to go. (I have Portal 2, but will have to wait until the new Falcon arrives. I'll probably wait until then to restart Half-Life 2, too, unless my save games were archived on the Steam synch cloud back a few years ago when I uninstalled.)

[Sparhawk]

I finally beat FTL on easy, time to regroup and play something else.

[JasonPratt]

This weekend, after a solid week of playing through it from scratch, I can say I'm fairly well finished with Fight Night Champion, aka Fight Night 3.5.

From a newly built fighter, with a pitiful reach (yet whose skills lend toward counter-punching and jab/straights), and with a humorous amount of flab for a minimal (200 lb) heavyweight, I advanced to winning one of the three world championship belts; and based on comparative athletic stats plus past experience with the game I'm pretty sure he can take Ali for another belt.

Theoretically I could run him further, but eh. Other games to be played.

Two games down, eight more to be completed before I buy another game.

(Note: normally it would be three games to go, but with Christmas coming next week I'm sure I'll be gifted at least one game--but I'll only treat whatever I receive as one game. This way I'm still reducing some bulk before buying another game, but multiple games received at Christmas don't count entirely against me since I'm not spending money on them.)

[Arctic Blast]

Finished my replay of Mass Effect 2 over the weekend. Now it's Alan Wake's turn, though I think tonight is going to be devoted to some of that 'reading' I hear people enjoy.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I finally beat FTL on easy, time to regroup and play something else.

No, no, no!  Now you have to try and get all nine ships.  And then get the variant for each one of those.  Wheeeee!!!!!!

[Staggerwing]

Power Supply --1500 Watt Modular

1500 Watts!?! Good Grief!
You could run a full size refrigerator with that and have enough juice left over for a window size air conditioner!

[JasonPratt]

IIIIII HAAAVVEE THE POOOOWWWWWEERRRR!!!

(Well, not yet. But it's supposed to arrive this week. Until then I'm working on finishing some downloaded PS3 puzzle-quest games.)

Edited to add when I just remembered: this rig has what amounts to an air conditioner built into it.  ;D

Decent single-room wall heaters also run 1500 watts. So when I get cold and lonely at night, I can turn on my computer and let it run for a while and... be warm and lonely I guess.

(Not many geekettes in my area of the country. :( )

[JasonPratt]

Well, my Dad has been in the hospital with... um... vegetables growing in his chest. (I kid you not, that's what the doctor says. His precise words were "It's extremely rare, but not uncommon." This does not fill any of us with significant amounts of confidence that they're going to get it out...  :-\ )

So he'll be in the cardiac ward through Christmas tomorrow and probably New Year's next week, too. :(


Notwithstanding this, I have managed to finally hook my new Falcon to the internet (after a mighty struggle yesterday in between hospital trips), and at some point in the past week I also managed to finish (both of them on my PS3)...

Puzzle Quest 1
and
Puzzle Chronicles

By which I mean I had already started both games a while back, and plugged along with them further to the point where I'm almost to the end of the PC story, and I'm sure I'm nowhere near the end of the PQ1 story, and I don't really care about finishing either one, and I'm sure I've seen all the relevant gameplay available. No doubt I'll plink away at each of them here and there in the future, since really the point of either game is to set up a reason to play jewel-matching games, which each game has a very different variation of, and which each game very cleverly integrates with fantasy rpg tropes: each fighter in a duel uses the gem-matching mechanics (PQ1 is turnbased, although a timer can be implemented; PChron is realtime simultaneous) to power up spells and abilities, earn extra gold and experience, and otherwise position to strike damage at the opponent. PChron even features a well-animated scene above the puzzle field which translates the action into the duel between the player-character and the opponent!--it's good enough that I kind of regret not being able to play the slightest attention to it, because for all practical purposes the player has to stay focused on the gem-matching mechanics!  ::)

Anyway. I can add them to my list--I've definitely cleared 25 hours each game (not all of which was last week but I did make significant progress)--which brings me to four games finished now.

Out of dozens.

But after another six games finished (accounting for Christmas tomorrow which I'll count as one new game regardless of how many I receive), I'll allow myself to buy a new one! :)

Meanwhile, having spooled up my Falcon MachV, which I have nicknamed THE PRESENCE (and which looks like the 2001 black monolith except with a FNW bird glaring at me), I think next I'll start a game fresh that I've had a while but never could get to run with more than slide-show stutters on my XP...

DAWN OF WAR 2!
(And then the Chaos expansion for the next game after that. Then maybe one of the Retribution campaigns.)

Merry Christmas to all fellow Grogheads!