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

[Martok]

Sorry to hear about your Dad, Jason.  Here's hoping he pulls through and recovers quickly. 


Game-wise, I've mostly been playing Distant Worlds: Legends with the recent beta update the last couple days.  I'm continuing my game as the Foundation (Humans); things are proceeding pretty well so far. 

[MetalDog]

Sorry to hear about your dad, too, Jason.  I hope they can get things straightened out quickly.

I finished my first SP campaign of Warlock by casting the unity spell.

[smittyohio]

I'll 32 hours in on Kingdoms of Amalur as a mage, and I've probably seen 1/4 or less of the game so far.  It's just freaking monstrously huge, and has some really well-done storylines.   Best 11 bucks I've spent on a game in a looooooooooong time.   

[JasonPratt]

I've had my eye on Armalur, too, for a while. Good to hear! Not entirely sure it's the first new game I'll buy once I work down to it, but it's on my list.

(Along with several others. ;) )

[Grim.Reaper]

hhmmm.....wondering if now is a good time to buy this game...I know the complete collection is at gamersgate for $14....will have to sleep on it:)

[smittyohio]

hhmmm.....wondering if now is a good time to buy this game...I know the complete collection is at gamersgate for $14....will have to sleep on it:)

Just make sure you know what you're getting into... If you expect an old school RPG like baldurs gate, you'll be disappointed.   I just find it an extremely well done streamlined action rpg.

[LongBlade]

Sorry to hear about your dad, Jason. I hope he gets well soon.

[JasonPratt]

Very dangerous surgery tomorrow; riskiness for about a week afterward. Praying hard.

Meanwhile, spent several hours last night at the non-existent mercy of the Christless registration engine in Games For Windows, trying to get DoW2 to work. Finally succeeded, no thanks to the registration engine itself. Was unaware I would hate something more than Steam (although Windows 8 is fast approaching that dubious goal). I feel positive affection for Steam now as a perverse result.

Unsure if I'll get the first campaign finished this weekend under the circumstances, but I'll be able to give it a try. :)

[Staggerwing]

Your dad is in my prayers this week Jason. I'm sorry to hear about his illness.

[Bison]

Jason praying your father's surgery goes well.

[LongBlade]

Jason praying your father's surgery goes well.

Me, too.

[TheCommandTent]

Jason praying your father's surgery goes well.

Me, too.

+2

[Kushan]

Very dangerous surgery tomorrow; riskiness for about a week afterward. Praying hard.

Meanwhile, spent several hours last night at the non-existent mercy of the Christless registration engine in Games For Windows, trying to get DoW2 to work. Finally succeeded, no thanks to the registration engine itself. Was unaware I would hate something more than Steam (although Windows 8 is fast approaching that dubious goal). I feel positive affection for Steam now as a perverse result.

I'll keep him in my Prayers Jason. Hope everything goes well.

GfWL has always been crap. There was never anything good about it.

[Nefaro]

I hope everything goes well JP.

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As for 'Games For Windows Live', I had my first encounter after finding out that Batman: Arkham City GotY had it.   The infernal thing took numerous restarts and relogs to get it to finally work properly.  And then I installed DOW II and it kept crashing at startup, like clockwork.  After a short google search, turns out that it's yet another bug-prone DRM scheme taking a dump on us.  I had to navigate to the GfWL installation and start it manually, before starting the game, in order to get it to work afterwards.   ::) 

[Sir Slash]

I will echo my hopes and prayers for Jason's father as well. The last game I actually finished was Planescape Torment, and what a great finish it was. I also finished Baldurs Gate, after losing the original in a disk-crash, after finding it on GOG. I've won campaigns in Shogun2TW, RTW and M2TW. And way back when, I played and finished the original Might & Magic I. The ending didn't involve any kind of Boss-Battle, rather when you finally reach the "Inner Sanctum", you see a guy playing a computer on the screen and receive a score along with an address to send it to. I got back through the mail in a few weeks a certificate of game completion along with notification of scoring in the top 15%. I have no idea how the game was scoring my play but consider this to be absolute evidence of Honorary Nerd-Hood foreverlasting on my part.