I sometimes indulge in a Doom 3 session when I'm not playing STO.
Other than that the 1st dawn of war with the expansions and War Thunder as well
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
I am somewhat erratic at times. If I stop playing a game, many times it takes a lot of time before I get back to it, but when I do, then I play a lot.
Right now, I haven't played SWTOR for a few months, although it's an enjoyable game. Will surely play again, just don't know when. STO is on halt for a few days now. Will get back to it soon, but I don't feel like playing much right now. I have TERA and **** installed, which are pretty, but a bit too grindy so I don't play them much. They're good for playing every now and then although it's so every now and then that when I get back to them I don't remember where I'm at or what I did.
I'm taking Neverwinter slowly, too.
More recently I've installed Fallen Earth and ArcheAge. Fallen Earth appears to be "Falloutish", but also looks like a lot of grind. ArcheAge has a nice character creator, something I like, and plays similar to TERA and **** (at least I think it does). Taking into account that I don't have a whole lot of time to play, I'me taking them all very slowly.
Oh and since ESO will become f2p soon, that's one more to add to the list.
P.S. There was D.C: Universe as well, but it stopped working and never got fixed, so....
I sometimes indulge in a Doom 3 session when I'm not playing STO.
Other than that the 1st dawn of war with the expansions and War Thunder as well
I used to love playing DoW but I upgraded my graphics card when I rebuilt my system and couldn't get it working again but Soulstorm and Dark Crusade still work and play that now and again. Just love my Raptors and Raven Guard running around and blowing everything up!
Steam:
- Valkyria Chronicles (with all the DLC included)
- XCOM Enemy Unknown Complete Edition (includes all the Enemy Unknown DLC and the Enemy Within Expansion Pack)
- Tomb Raider (2013 Reboot with the single player Lara costume packs and the extra single player tomb DLC)
- Sunrider Mask of Arcadius (free visual novel and turn based strategy game)
- Rising Angels Reborn (free visual novel game)
Other MMOs:
- War Thunder (only playing the British and Japanese planes at the moment)
- World of Tanks (currently on a break from the game due to the madness of some of the player base after the personal missions were added)
- Uncharted Waters Online (have it downloaded, really need to set some time aside to try the game out)
Other Games:
- Dragon Age Origins (got it for free from the EA Origin "On The House" program a few months ago)
- Super Robot Taisen/Wars MX Portable, A Portable, Z2 Hakai-Hen, and Z2 SaiSei-Hen (for some PSP gaming on the go)
Been playing a lot of Starcraft 2 and FTL lately when not logged into STO. I've had Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas on my "you really need to play these" list forever, but I'm scared because those are both big time commitments.
I used to love playing DoW but I upgraded my graphics card when I rebuilt my system and couldn't get it working again but Soulstorm and Dark Crusade still work and play that now and again. Just love my Raptors and Raven Guard running around and blowing everything up!
I play Imperial Guard,Tau and for the giggles da Orkz
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Dragon age Inqusition has really been an enjoyable time soak for me for the last few months. Moving on to GTA 5 afterwards. I got halfway through Batman Arkham city, but I will need to start that one over. I haven't touched it in almost two years.
On the f2p front a bit of warthunder its like world of tanks only more technical, also the physics can do some crazy funny stuff on you at time. Something else Ive also been wanting to get back into is vindictus. Its like sto over the years the game has gotten both better and worse. Still I cant think of another game that lets you kill a bad guy then kill his bad guy friend with his corpse. Then after that take whats left of both of them back to town to get a hat and gloves made out of them. For all its short comings the combat is visceral fast and fluid some of the best Ive seen in an mmoish style game. Really really wish tera would have been closer to its combat system. Love the artwork in tera just could not get passed the combat feeling so slow and drawn out.
As for the not so f2p a wee bit of elite. Got to about 3 mill in trading and have decided to wait till the devs put a bit more water in that ocean.
Single player wise Kerbal space program while its not for everybody and has a rather high learning curve. I can say its one of the best games Ive played in years on top of that the modding community has done amazing things with it. If you like science and scifi its very much worth checking out.
SWTOR a bud from this game daan2006 convinced me to try it out and its a decent game not to bad but its f2p system is a joke.
anyways not much else i play besides STO and SWTOR most MMOs i like are sub only and im a cheap old guy so paying over and over for a game is beyong my comprehension.
I beta tested it before it launched and enjoyed it then. Going back to it, there have been many changes and additions to content that I've enjoyed going through.
I started a guild for myself, Solo Artists (named for a guild I was in while playing EQ2), and have pushed it to level 20. Not a major accomplishment, but it has been fun.
I love the old style D&D and that game nicely fills the hole left from tabletop gaming days.
Other than that, I've been doing STO pretty steadily at least an hour a day. So long as life allows a small window for gaming, I'll keep gaming.
I play Life, the graphics are gorgeous and very realistic, but sometimes it can lag in social hubs, and it can get blurry, and your character will lag a lot, and sometimes crash an d the screen willl go black...One time my game crashed, and when I logged back in he had no pants.
Some servers are Very VERY over populated, while some are near empty, I'm on the New York City server in my game, and it's one of the most popular servers.
They update the game a lot now, use to take years before a major update took place, but now they update a lot more, and faster. From 1996, and now the updates have been game changing.
It's very grindy, very hard to make Gold in it
To make the most Gold you have to train from the lowest level for a long time, and longer you train the more you can make in Gold and not grind as much
Character customization is very limited, but you can change their facial features, but it costs a lot of in game money, But it has a the best clothing options and customization ever, but can be very expensive
Mounts are epic, but also very expensive
It has the most complex economy i have ever seen, but they tax you a lot on the exchange
You can own a house in it, but the maintenance is very expensive, but you can share it with other players
You can also marry other players in it, but there is a penalty if you divorce them, and depending on the faction you're in, they allow you to marry the same sex, but some factions don't allow it
Unfortunately you can't pick your starting faction it's random, but you can change later down the road, but some factions are strict on switching
Pvp is very limited, and only depends on your class.
The devs are very strict on exploits, and if you get caught you can get banned 3 to 6 years, or Perma-ban. On rare occasions they delete your account, but that happens a lot on the Texas servers.
I've tried playing that game. The graphics are pretty good, and the physics engine is outstanding, but it's hard to find questgivers (I mean, there are plenty of NPCs who'll tell you where to go, but it's not actually a quest), and the NPCs mostly drop meat. And it needs to shut down for maintenance almost every night, for hours at a time!
Games outside of STO? Firefall (FPS/RPG MMO hybrid) and Neverwinter. Now if only STO's ground combat was like Firefall. Hmm...
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I play Life, the graphics are gorgeous and very realistic, but sometimes it can lag in social hubs, and it can get blurry, and your character will lag a lot, and sometimes crash an d the screen willl go black...One time my game crashed, and when I logged back in he had no pants.
Some servers are Very VERY over populated, while some are near empty, I'm on the New York City server in my game, and it's one of the most popular servers.
They update the game a lot now, use to take years before a major update took place, but now they update a lot more, and faster. From 1996, and now the updates have been game changing.
It's very grindy, very hard to make Gold in it
To make the most Gold you have to train from the lowest level for a long time, and longer you train the more you can make in Gold and not grind as much
Character customization is very limited, but you can change their facial features, but it costs a lot of in game money, But it has a the best clothing options and customization ever, but can be very expensive
Mounts are epic, but also very expensive
It has the most complex economy i have ever seen, but they tax you a lot on the exchange
You can own a house in it, but the maintenance is very expensive, but you can share it with other players
You can also marry other players in it, but there is a penalty if you divorce them, and depending on the faction you're in, they allow you to marry the same sex, but some factions don't allow it
Unfortunately you can't pick your starting faction it's random, but you can change later down the road, but some factions are strict on switching
Pvp is very limited, and only depends on your class.
The devs are very strict on exploits, and if you get caught you can get banned 3 to 6 years, or Perma-ban. On rare occasions they delete your account, but that happens a lot on the Texas servers.
I've tried playing that game. The graphics are pretty good, and the physics engine is outstanding, but it's hard to find questgivers (I mean, there are plenty of NPCs who'll tell you where to go, but it's not actually a quest), and the NPCs mostly drop meat. And it needs to shut down for maintenance almost every night, for hours at a time!
I play this game! I love this game! I have a complete set of NPC's who rely upon me to pay for food and housing. Without my daily grind, they would be wandering around intersections holding signs asking other players for food.
The environment system is one of the best done parts of this game. When the weather charts say it is summer, I can actually feel the heat and humidity beating me down. When it is Winter in this game, my bones ache from the cold bearing down on my avatar.
I don't really like my avatar in this game, however. He used to be attractive a long time ago. Now, he is old and fat and grey. And no matter how hard I try, I cannot change his appearance without spending lots of time and money. And as soon as I am not looking, he reverts to his cigarette-smoking, boozehound ways. I put him in Detox once, just to teach him a lesson. Sadly, one of the Devs removed him from Betty Ford and said, "All he really needs to do is man up. That should take care of it."
Perhaps you guys could form a guild or something and we could all play this game together at the same time?
A six year old boy and his starship. Living the dream.
Not really a game... but Daz Studio for generating & rendering 3D stuff is crazy addictive. And the basic Daz Studio software is free! People have all sorts of free Star Trek bits (since they'd never allow it to be licensed for sale).
If I get bored, I'll throw up the Defiant or a Saber-class escort, bang some simple lights on it, and render it through Reality/LuxRender... but I have so much grinding to do right now
Probably easier for me to grab a free uniform & stick it on Victoria4 or Victoria6, though. Lighting up warp nacelles & deflector dishes in a "realistic" way is something I'd have to play with.
Not really a game... but Daz Studio for generating & rendering 3D stuff is crazy addictive. And the basic Daz Studio software is free! People have all sorts of free Star Trek bits (since they'd never allow it to be licensed for sale).
If I get bored, I'll throw up the Defiant or a Saber-class escort, bang some simple lights on it, and render it through Reality/LuxRender... but I have so much grinding to do right now
Probably easier for me to grab a free uniform & stick it on Victoria4 or Victoria6, though. Lighting up warp nacelles & deflector dishes in a "realistic" way is something I'd have to play with.
heh, i 'play' that one too. though for realistic renders and tweaks i tend to export to c4d (rendering, shaders, and general tweak options miles better than daz). have not run across the star trek stuff though have to google for those.
Dr. Patricia Tanis ~ "Bacon is for sycophants and products of incest."
Donate Brains, zombies in Washington DC are starving.
Hmm, I jump around quite a bit depending on what I'm in the mood for. Been on a big Trek kick lately, so I've mostly been doing STO.
Haven't played War Thunder in a while, but the F4F-3 is my favorite ride.
I'm working on an Imperial Agent in SWTOR. It's like being an evil James Bond. Pretty awesome.
Kerbal Space Program. Again, haven't played in a while, but I was having a blast with it. Many Kerbals died to get me into space.
Some oldies but goodies - Wolfenstein 3D, Star Wars: Dark Forces (probably one of my favorite games of all time), Jane's Fleet Command, F-14 Fleet Defender, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc.
Then, there's the Thirdwire games - Strike Fighters series. It's a "sim-lite" but I don't always want something with the complexity of Falcon or FS. It's fun to just jump in an F-8 or an F-4 and go bag some MiGs. I was extatic the other day when I actually killed a MiG-17 with an AIM-9B shot. Usually, those things miss if the MiG pilot sneezes and accidentally bumps the controls.
I'm also trying to get into some tabletop games. In the Star Trek vein, I'm trying Federation Commander. It's fairly complex and I don't get to play it often, but I enjoy painting the miniatures. I used to make plastic models with my dad when I was younger so I really get into painting up the ships to look nice.
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. Except for a T5 Connie. That would be f*%#ing awesome." - Mr. Spock
heh, i 'play' that one too. though for realistic renders and tweaks i tend to export to c4d (rendering, shaders, and general tweak options miles better than daz). have not run across the star trek stuff though have to google for those.
Yeah, Daz is cool for free. I have to figure out what I like working with before I spend more money on tools, although I'll probably mess around with Blender next (since it is also free).
http://www.sharecg.com/ has a ton of stuff for Star Trek. Uniforms, com badges, props (like phasers & tricorders), starships (Defiant, Intrepid, D7, etc). Then you can mix it with Star Wars, Mass Effect, other free stuff, and mess around rendering dumb nerd stuff like Star Wars versus Star Trek
There's a long-lived thread on the Daz forums about Star Trek goodies. The uniforms are generally built on V3/M3 or V4/M4 figures & outfits. I use Genesis 2, but the V4/M4 stuff works just fine.
"Free" is a bit misleading. Some of the "free" stuff needs to be fit on top of things like the V4 Bodysuit or the V4 Courageous outfit from Daz. The uniforms (a ton of STO-inspired things), TNG/Voy/DS9 pajamasuits, the skant, and so on... they modify the multifunctional stuff like the Bodysuit. I don't want to direct link since there are STO outfits out there, and I don't know how picky the mods would get about those things.
For anyone who doesn't know what Daz can do, here's a really bad image that I threw together in like 5 minutes. It's all just a matter of having stuff on hand that you can pose & move around... not much art to this image at all. http://fav.me/d8g1iic
A stock G2F character, hair, the V4 Courageous outfit with a free uniform modification on top, a free com badge accessory, and a free environment (a curved hallway from a Galaxy-class ship). I didn't even set up lights or a camera... it's just the basic render tool using the built-in 3delight renderer in Daz Studio.
Just imagine: You could bang out all sorts of horrible fanfic with this kind of thing! :P
If you like card games check out SolForge. It's free to play and they host tournaments pretty often. Check here if you're interested. You can even play it on your phone if you have a smart phone http://solforgegame.com/
currently tying off loose ends on swtor for the time being until i can get some money together to buy out a sub again but that can wait until my interest levels come back when the next xpack hits in april, destination? ziost.
anything else of interest? get back to that soon. maybe x3? will see where i land.
T6 Miranda Hero Ship FTW. Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
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Other than that the 1st dawn of war with the expansions and War Thunder as well
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
i tried all free mmos and im still playing some of them but not that often than those games.
Simpsons: Tapped out (anyone who complains about grinding hasn't played this game before..)
I used to play American Trail: Oregon Settler (The #1 game for grinding and ridiculous costs)
Angry Birds, Season, and Rio. The original and best AB games.
Right now, I haven't played SWTOR for a few months, although it's an enjoyable game. Will surely play again, just don't know when. STO is on halt for a few days now. Will get back to it soon, but I don't feel like playing much right now. I have TERA and **** installed, which are pretty, but a bit too grindy so I don't play them much. They're good for playing every now and then although it's so every now and then that when I get back to them I don't remember where I'm at or what I did.
I'm taking Neverwinter slowly, too.
More recently I've installed Fallen Earth and ArcheAge. Fallen Earth appears to be "Falloutish", but also looks like a lot of grind. ArcheAge has a nice character creator, something I like, and plays similar to TERA and **** (at least I think it does). Taking into account that I don't have a whole lot of time to play, I'me taking them all very slowly.
Oh and since ESO will become f2p soon, that's one more to add to the list.
P.S. There was D.C: Universe as well, but it stopped working and never got fixed, so....
EDIT: Why is A I O N censored???
I used to love playing DoW but I upgraded my graphics card when I rebuilt my system and couldn't get it working again
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Steam:
- Valkyria Chronicles (with all the DLC included)
- XCOM Enemy Unknown Complete Edition (includes all the Enemy Unknown DLC and the Enemy Within Expansion Pack)
- Tomb Raider (2013 Reboot with the single player Lara costume packs and the extra single player tomb DLC)
- Sunrider Mask of Arcadius (free visual novel and turn based strategy game)
- Rising Angels Reborn (free visual novel game)
Other MMOs:
- War Thunder (only playing the British and Japanese planes at the moment)
- World of Tanks (currently on a break from the game due to the madness of some of the player base after the personal missions were added)
- Uncharted Waters Online (have it downloaded, really need to set some time aside to try the game out)
Other Games:
- Dragon Age Origins (got it for free from the EA Origin "On The House" program a few months ago)
- Super Robot Taisen/Wars MX Portable, A Portable, Z2 Hakai-Hen, and Z2 SaiSei-Hen (for some PSP gaming on the go)
World of Tanks
SWTOR
I play Imperial Guard,Tau and for the giggles da Orkz
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
warframe
that's it for mmo's, until star citizen, black desert, and firefly launch.
non mmo
endless legend, age of wonder 3, starcraft 2, and shadowrun dragonfall.
Donate Brains, zombies in Washington DC are starving.
As for the not so f2p a wee bit of elite. Got to about 3 mill in trading and have decided to wait till the devs put a bit more water in that ocean.
Single player wise Kerbal space program while its not for everybody and has a rather high learning curve. I can say its one of the best games Ive played in years on top of that the modding community has done amazing things with it. If you like science and scifi its very much worth checking out.
SWTOR a bud from this game daan2006 convinced me to try it out and its a decent game not to bad but its f2p system is a joke.
anyways not much else i play besides STO and SWTOR most MMOs i like are sub only and im a cheap old guy so paying over and over for a game is beyong my comprehension.
I beta tested it before it launched and enjoyed it then. Going back to it, there have been many changes and additions to content that I've enjoyed going through.
I started a guild for myself, Solo Artists (named for a guild I was in while playing EQ2), and have pushed it to level 20. Not a major accomplishment, but it has been fun.
I love the old style D&D and that game nicely fills the hole left from tabletop gaming days.
Other than that, I've been doing STO pretty steadily at least an hour a day. So long as life allows a small window for gaming, I'll keep gaming.
If you like D&D, DDO is an interesting diversion.
^^^ I stand corrected
Some servers are Very VERY over populated, while some are near empty, I'm on the New York City server in my game, and it's one of the most popular servers.
They update the game a lot now, use to take years before a major update took place, but now they update a lot more, and faster. From 1996, and now the updates have been game changing.
It's very grindy, very hard to make Gold in it
To make the most Gold you have to train from the lowest level for a long time, and longer you train the more you can make in Gold and not grind as much
Character customization is very limited, but you can change their facial features, but it costs a lot of in game money, But it has a the best clothing options and customization ever, but can be very expensive
Mounts are epic, but also very expensive
It has the most complex economy i have ever seen, but they tax you a lot on the exchange
You can own a house in it, but the maintenance is very expensive, but you can share it with other players
You can also marry other players in it, but there is a penalty if you divorce them, and depending on the faction you're in, they allow you to marry the same sex, but some factions don't allow it
Unfortunately you can't pick your starting faction it's random, but you can change later down the road, but some factions are strict on switching
Pvp is very limited, and only depends on your class.
The devs are very strict on exploits, and if you get caught you can get banned 3 to 6 years, or Perma-ban. On rare occasions they delete your account, but that happens a lot on the Texas servers.
All in all the game is a 5/10
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I play this game! I love this game! I have a complete set of NPC's who rely upon me to pay for food and housing. Without my daily grind, they would be wandering around intersections holding signs asking other players for food.
The environment system is one of the best done parts of this game. When the weather charts say it is summer, I can actually feel the heat and humidity beating me down. When it is Winter in this game, my bones ache from the cold bearing down on my avatar.
I don't really like my avatar in this game, however. He used to be attractive a long time ago. Now, he is old and fat and grey. And no matter how hard I try, I cannot change his appearance without spending lots of time and money. And as soon as I am not looking, he reverts to his cigarette-smoking, boozehound ways. I put him in Detox once, just to teach him a lesson. Sadly, one of the Devs removed him from Betty Ford and said, "All he really needs to do is man up. That should take care of it."
Perhaps you guys could form a guild or something and we could all play this game together at the same time?
If I get bored, I'll throw up the Defiant or a Saber-class escort, bang some simple lights on it, and render it through Reality/LuxRender... but I have so much grinding to do right now
Probably easier for me to grab a free uniform & stick it on Victoria4 or Victoria6, though. Lighting up warp nacelles & deflector dishes in a "realistic" way is something I'd have to play with.
IKS Korrasami (Fleet B'rel Bird of Prey Retrofit T5-U)
heh, i 'play' that one too. though for realistic renders and tweaks i tend to export to c4d (rendering, shaders, and general tweak options miles better than daz). have not run across the star trek stuff though have to google for those.
Donate Brains, zombies in Washington DC are starving.
Haven't played War Thunder in a while, but the F4F-3 is my favorite ride.
I'm working on an Imperial Agent in SWTOR. It's like being an evil James Bond. Pretty awesome.
Kerbal Space Program. Again, haven't played in a while, but I was having a blast with it. Many Kerbals died to get me into space.
Some oldies but goodies - Wolfenstein 3D, Star Wars: Dark Forces (probably one of my favorite games of all time), Jane's Fleet Command, F-14 Fleet Defender, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc.
Then, there's the Thirdwire games - Strike Fighters series. It's a "sim-lite" but I don't always want something with the complexity of Falcon or FS. It's fun to just jump in an F-8 or an F-4 and go bag some MiGs. I was extatic the other day when I actually killed a MiG-17 with an AIM-9B shot. Usually, those things miss if the MiG pilot sneezes and accidentally bumps the controls.
I'm also trying to get into some tabletop games. In the Star Trek vein, I'm trying Federation Commander. It's fairly complex and I don't get to play it often, but I enjoy painting the miniatures. I used to make plastic models with my dad when I was younger so I really get into painting up the ships to look nice.
Yeah, Daz is cool for free. I have to figure out what I like working with before I spend more money on tools, although I'll probably mess around with Blender next (since it is also free).
http://www.sharecg.com/ has a ton of stuff for Star Trek. Uniforms, com badges, props (like phasers & tricorders), starships (Defiant, Intrepid, D7, etc). Then you can mix it with Star Wars, Mass Effect, other free stuff, and mess around rendering dumb nerd stuff like Star Wars versus Star Trek
There's a long-lived thread on the Daz forums about Star Trek goodies. The uniforms are generally built on V3/M3 or V4/M4 figures & outfits. I use Genesis 2, but the V4/M4 stuff works just fine.
"Free" is a bit misleading. Some of the "free" stuff needs to be fit on top of things like the V4 Bodysuit or the V4 Courageous outfit from Daz. The uniforms (a ton of STO-inspired things), TNG/Voy/DS9 pajamasuits, the skant, and so on... they modify the multifunctional stuff like the Bodysuit. I don't want to direct link since there are STO outfits out there, and I don't know how picky the mods would get about those things.
For anyone who doesn't know what Daz can do, here's a really bad image that I threw together in like 5 minutes. It's all just a matter of having stuff on hand that you can pose & move around... not much art to this image at all.
http://fav.me/d8g1iic
A stock G2F character, hair, the V4 Courageous outfit with a free uniform modification on top, a free com badge accessory, and a free environment (a curved hallway from a Galaxy-class ship). I didn't even set up lights or a camera... it's just the basic render tool using the built-in 3delight renderer in Daz Studio.
Just imagine: You could bang out all sorts of horrible fanfic with this kind of thing! :P
IKS Korrasami (Fleet B'rel Bird of Prey Retrofit T5-U)
http://solforgegame.com/
OMSI 2
Skyrim
Space Engineers
Saints Row IV
Team Fortress 2
and a classic: Sonic CD
anything else of interest? get back to that soon. maybe x3? will see where i land.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.