What Games Are You Playing?

taylorig said:

Playing some Dirt 3 myself at the moment. Loving it so far and it's just as good as the second one. Actually it's a bit more professional than Dirt 2 due to only getting the silly "Hey dude!" talk when in Gymkhana. The rest of the time it's pretty well laid back voice overs that glide you in to the action, while of course reassuring you along the way.

Paired with a Xbox 360 wired controller and i happen to have access to my 42" LCD HDTV sat at the side of me has a second screen to play on while we wait for the living room to be re-carpeted. It's all good!

I've looked forward to Dirt 3 for some time but when I found out the US was one of those not getting a retail DVD I decided to wait and see where I might get an English version. Did you download or find it on DVD?

Playing Mafia : The City of Lost Heaven and Age of Empires 3.:)

for all those thinking about getting homefront, then i now recommend thinking twice and saving your money.

my first impressions were that it was a good fun game, singlepayer campaign was shortish but enjoyable, but after playing multiplayer for a while, serious problems soon became apparent, such as a severe lack of any teamplay (it has squads, but no-one can figure what they are for - you can't spawn on squadmates, nor can you voip with them).

yesterday it got patched, which only seems to have introduced more problems, such as screwing up the server browser (i can only see dozens of empty ones, and all my favourites have disappeared - you now have to hunt down the ip addresses to join).

in short, the game seems to be a camp-fest, greatly favouring hiding out on a rock and sniping. if you want to help your team by capturing objectives, then you are greatly outnumbered and are at the mercy of campers, whose weapons have been buffed and are now mainly one-shot kills. once they've got a few kills under their belts, they can buy an airstike, which rains serious death from above, earning them more points to buy the next airstrike.

oh, i forgot to mention the hackers and spawnkillers!

the game has been slowly dieing with so many empty servers, and the eagerly awaited patch seems to have killed it off completely.

r.i.p. homefront.

but don't just take my word for it - if you're thinking of buying it, check out the forum and see what others are saying. there's also a serious lack of input from developers on the forum too.

bring on bf3!

Wishmaster said:

Hydrophobia:
This game would probably be fine. Just need to turn down shadows and maybe particle effects.
(I believe this to be more of the game needing some otimizations) The gameplay was a little bit laggy in a couple areas but overall it ran well.

Very Good game, especially considering the price. Although a bit short.
If you are the type that hates games with water levels and swimming, probably not the game for you. Theres a LOT of it. Not that its a bad thing :)

Did you get through that last level - beat the game? How was it for you?

It kicked my butt a few times, then when I finally beat it..... crash to desktop - do not get achievements, do not pass credits, do no get unlocked time trails.... play it over again, and take this lag with it

BTW here's a thread on the issue I posted about SARA - How to arrive Mila? - Steam Users' Forums

Anyways I had really bad performance in that area and posted about it here - UPDATE - DARKNET DEV FEEDBACK - Page 3 - Steam Users' Forums but got no feedback so....

There's also a patch that was supposed to fix the SARA issue but I'm not sure Steam updated the game. Anyways I uninstalled the game and will reinstall another time in hopes that the performance improves.

Well I'm re-downloading the game right now to see if performance will improve, that last area was nearly unplayable for me. Updating my graphics drivers, lowering video settings made no difference.

I'm confused as it seems I’m the only one who complained about bad performance in that area. It also crashed there a few times as well

We'll see what the re-download does.