What are you playing 4/08 edition

[MizzouRah]

Has there been a better time to be a gamer?

Currently in my rotation:

PC
BM 2009
DDS: College Basketball
Fairway Solitare
Civ 4

360
GOW
NCAA College Hoops 2k8
MLB 2k8
NHL 08
Dead Rising

Wii
PES 2008
Super Mario Galaxy

Tons of great games right now and there's never a dull moment gaming wise at my house right now.

My 12 year old daughter plays one game every night... The Sims on the PC, talk about someone who gets her $$$ worth in a game series. :)

[Greyroofoo]

PC
Dawn of War (still)
X-Com (still a classic)

360
Mass Effect
CoD4

DS
Mario Kart
Advance Wars: Day of Ruin

[Groundhog]

PC
FBCB

PS3
CH 2K8

Macbook
Zelda 3 (ZSNES)

That's really about it these days.

[Flasch186]

PC

WWSM 2008 - in the SPL
I try to load up Civ4 but desperately need to start a dynasty incorporating the Crusader King's family lineage stuff. I think that'd be awesome but Im stumped.
PureSim 2007 on occasion for the '80's Tigers I started
Puzzle Quest (rarely now)
Crusader Kings (more rarely)

[sabotai]

Mass Effect (360), Assassin's Creed (360) and Company of Heroes (PC) have occupied most of my game playing the last week or two.

[Bearcat729]

World of Warcraft and WWSM08

[Oilers9911]

PC
WWSM 2008 - Wexford of the Irish 1st Division
DDS: Pro Basketball - Boston Celtics after being shitcanned by the Raptors

XBox 360
College Hoops 2K8 - North Florida Ospreys
NHL 08 - Edmonton Oilers dynasty
NBA 2K8 - Toronto Raptors association

[Noop]

PC
Front Office Football 2007
Solitaire

XBox 360
College Hoops 2K8
Lost Odyssey
NCAA 2008

[General Mike]

EHM 07 right now. Plus the stuff for my online leagues.

[Abe Sargent]

I loaded up DosBox last night and enjoyed a fun game of Master of Magic.

[Big Fo]

WWSM 2008

Super Mario Galaxy
PES 2008 Playmaker
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

[Izulde]

PC
Crusader Kings
Front Office Football 2007

Nintendo DS
Phoenix Wright: Justice For All, which is a hell of a lot harder than Ace Attorney.

I keep meaning to pick up DDS:CB and start a dynasty with it, but haven't gotten around to it yet, probably because I'm a) kind of broke and b) waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting some more to hear back from grad schools.

[Toddzilla]

Fairway Solitaire, baby.

[Eaglesfan27]

In my current rotation:

PC
Gothic 3
DDSCB
FBCB (getting the most play the last 2 weeks)
Civ 4
FOF 2007 (MP only lately)

360
College Hoops 2k8 (getting the most play the last few weeks)
Mass Effect
Lost Odyssey
Ace Combat 6

Wii
Fire Emblem (getting most of my Wii play)
Super Mario Galaxy

[Cringer]

Civ IV is about it right now. :(

[EagleFan]

PC
WoW
Medal of Honor: Airborne
OOTP 2007

360
NHL 2K8

Wii
PES 2008 - awesome beyond my expectations

[King of New York]

PC Gaming Only:

HPS Simulations: The Mexican-American War (I kid you not)
FM 2007
Silent Hunter IV is on the way.

I'm torn about what to buy next. Matrix has some games that look promising, but they either seem to be in need of a few patches (Empire in Arms, the new Frank Hunter World War I Game) or are months away from release (Bombing the Reich, World in Flames). Or maybe I should get a flight sim from Third Wire: Wings over Vietnam and Wings over Israel look interesting, as does their WW I flight sim.

[Mustang]

PC

The Witcher
Panzers Phase I


360

Rock Band
GHIII


About it right now... although I have an absolute surplus of games to play.

[INDalltheway]

PC
DDS: CB
Total Pro Golf
Front Office Football 2007

360
Call of Duty 4
College Hoops 2k8

[FBPro]

PC:
FOF 2007
DMB
DDCB

PSP:
MLB08 The Show

[JetsIn06]

PC:

FOF (MP)
FBCB

360:

Halo 3
MLB 2K8

Should be able to play some more games starting this weekend. I'll probably pick up BM09. I still have the Witcher to play, and Galactic Civ II as well. I'm just in a sports mood right now, I think.

[hukarez]

PC
Sins of a Solar Empire

360
Lost Odyssey

PS3
MLB The Show 08

Wii
Super Smash Brothers Brawl

PSP
Monster Hunter Freedom 2

DS
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth Remix

[Travis]

PC: EHM 07
PS3: The Show, NHL 08
Phone: Street Fighter 2

In a couple weeks that'll read pretty much exclusively GTA.

[Radii]

PC:

Medieval II Total War
FBCB

360:

CH2K8


DDS:CB looks awesome but for some reason can't hold my interest through the first offseason :( I've been really tempted to pick up the latest FM on PC, and also to consider COD 4 and one of the soccer games on the 360, but haven't sprung for any of them yet.

[TazFTW]

PC
BBCF

360
College Hoops 2K8
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III

DS
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice For All

[Phototropic]

360
College Hoops 2k8
Mass Effect (Pretty close to the end)
Halo 3

[Dutch]

Gaming Drought Continues...

PC
FOF MP
Up and Down the River (Haha...just kidding)

PS3
Guitar Hero III
Rock Band (coming soon...)

If PC developers ever made another Baldur's Gate styled D&D game I'd go back to gaming, but for now...I guess I'm just about all grow'd up. :(

[JAG]

Just a few browser-based MMORPG's:

Movoda
Goal Line Blitz
Cyberdunk

EDIT:

And a game of Chess Titans every now and then.

[Raiders Army]

PC:
FOF

360:
Madden 08 *ducks*

[MJ4H]

PC
Nothing

Wii
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Zack & Wiki
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Strikers

DS
Professor Layton
Mario Kart
New Super Mario Bros
Contra 4
Elite Beat Agents

[Pumpy Tudors]

Mostly, I've just been playing Lost Odyssey and College Hoops 2K8 on the 360. My only PC gaming right now is multiplayer FOF, but my team is so torn up by injuries, I feel like there's not a whole lot I can do at the moment. There are a few other sports sims that I'd like to jump into (restarting my WWSM career, EHM, or DDSCB), but I don't have the motivation right now.

I must admit that I am thisclose to starting a new "career" in Fairway Solitaire, but I'm not sure if that counts!

[Blade]

PC:
Sins of a Solar Empire

XBox 360:
Assassin's Creed
Rock Band
Guitar Hero 3
Mass Effect
All Pro Football
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

PS3:
MLB 08: The Show

Basically, I am rotating way too may XBox 360 games...

[MizzouRah]

PC
Sins of a Solar Empire

360
Lost Odyssey

PS3
MLB The Show 08

Wii
Super Smash Brothers Brawl

PSP
Monster Hunter Freedom 2

DS
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth Remix

WOW!!!

[Lonnie]

PC
Sins of a Solar Empire
Puresim 8 team league with 2007 rosters

360
Rock Band
Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Wii
Tiger Woods 2008
Super Smash Brothers Brawl

PSP
World Series of Poker 2008
Final Fantasy II

[gstelmack]

PC

FOF2k7 multiplayer (WOOF, office league)

360

Madden 08 (just got, Superstart mode with my NCAA 08 QB)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Rock Band

Wii

Hot Wheels: Beat That (my kids LOVE this game)

I occasionally get a chance to play MLB Power Pros on the Wii, and we just picked up Super Mario Galaxy but have not tried it yet.

[Neon_Chaos]

PC:
DDSCB
DDSPB
NWN Diamond
Black and White
Supreme Commander

PSP:
Patapon
God of War: Chains of Olympus

[TroyF]

PSP:

God of War
The Show
World Series of Poker

DS:

Nothing right now

Wii:

Sports (the GF loves it)

360:

Dead Rising (getting back into that one)

PS3:

The Show

[lordscarlet]

Just web for me:

Goal Line Blitz
TradeWars:Rising

[Klinglerware]

I don't really play "high commitment" games as much as I used to. Aside from the usual little flash & cell-phone time wasters, this is what I am playing a lot of these days:

n800:
Civilization (the first one) - via DosBox

Web:
FOFC-FBCB
Music Maven (It's really just mindless updating at this point. I really should stop, but I can't)

[path12]

PC:
WWSM08
DDSCB -- I keep restarting and still am waiting for it to really grab me.
Civ4 -- planning on getting BtS very soon.
Master of Orion on DosBox
FOF (MP Shiba & waiting for new league to start up)

[Kevin]

PC only.

Frequent:
Title Bout 2.5

Sometime:
CIV4
DDS Pro basketball
WWSM08
OOTP2007

Infrequent
EHM05
Links2003
TW2007
Virtual Pool 3

[hukarez]

WOW!!!

Well, obviously not at the same time!

Also, I've been switching between The Show and the PS2 game Soul Nomad & the World Eaters on the PS3.

[Big Fo]

just picked up Super Mario Galaxy but have not tried it yet.

You are in for a treat.

[Cork]

On the PC I am currently playing Civ 3, Sim City 4, and Total pro Golf. I am also involved in a beta test for a certain baseball sim.

-Cork

[Young Drachma]

Yeah, I'm beta testing OOTP9 and playing OOTP2007 still, when I get a chance. Other than that, nothing much these days.

[Honolulu Blue]

No console for me, so these games all for the PC:

* OOTP 2007 - 4th year expansion team, finally starting to develop a real squad. It's a good time between watching the babies grow up and watching them demand multi-zillion dollar contracts.

* Puzzle Quest - Promising career as a warrior. My character is making easy work of the opposition, but the game is still fun, so I keep playing.

* The Racing Breed - 3rd year stable. Making money hand over fist with the claiming game, not so lucky at buying yearlings (though one of them won a low-level MCL in his 11th race - yay me!)

Eventually I'll give Up And Down The River a try. No promises, but I do owe Jim at least a quick look.

[heybrad]

PC:
Total Pro Golf

360:
ROCK BAND!!! - just got it last weekend and it's taking up quick a bit of my families time.
College Hoops 2K8
Bioshock

[RedHawk00]

PC:
FOF, both MP and SP

Wii:
Sports
Mario & Sonic @ The Olympics

*playing Wii with kids is what i spend most time doing
**very much thinking about buying DDS:CB, just have not made the leap.

[billethius]

PC:
Civ IV (BtS at the moment, though I do still play an occasional game of vanilla)
The Racing Breed

360:
Mass Effect
GoW
MLB2k8
Oblivion (though much less since I got Mass Effect)

Wii:
Mario Galaxy

[Capital]

PC:

DDS: CB
Hellgate

[path12]

For those of you playing Racing Breed, can you give a quick review? The website looks god-awful, but I'm always looking for the holy grail of a good horse racing game.....

[chesapeake]

Nothing has really grabbed my attention recently. The only thing I fire up the PC for of late is to pay the bills and the FOFC-BBCF league. I actually read two books last week. Sigh...

[Honolulu Blue]

For those of you playing Racing Breed, can you give a quick review? The website looks god-awful, but I'm always looking for the holy grail of a good horse racing game.....

Very quick review: The game's graphics aren't any better than those on the Web site :( , but under the hood lies a solid game.

[path12]

Very quick review: The game's graphics aren't any better than those on the Web site :( , but under the hood lies a solid game.

I'll have to check out the demo then. Thanks!

[Crapshoot]

I don't think I've played anything other than FM for months - nothing else seems to hold my interest. Haven't turned on the Xbox for what seems like forever.

DAMN YOU MARC VAUGHAN FOR NOT LETTING ME GET A LIFE~!

[billethius]

For those of you playing Racing Breed, can you give a quick review? The website looks god-awful, but I'm always looking for the holy grail of a good horse racing game.....


This thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=63655) contains a somewhat longer post by me reviewing the game.

[terpkristin]

DS
Etrian Odyssey (can you say "grind")

PS3
MLB 08: The Show (rarely, not enough hours in the day)

PSP
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (this is occupying most of my gaming time, which has been extremely limited)
Disgaea
MLB 08: The Show
Pinball: The Williams Collection

Wii
just picked up Super Mario Galaxy (can't wait to try it out)

XBox 360
Eternal Sonata
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (not as much)
Oblivion (on hold for a little bit due to too much other stuff)

/tk

[Big Fo]

I missed out on Etrian Odyssey but heard great things about it, I'll be getting the sequel when it comes out in June.

[path12]

This thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=63655) contains a somewhat longer post by me reviewing the game.

OK, I spent some time with the demo of The Racing Breed today. It is ugly and the UI is pretty clunky, but the game itself was pretty damn fun, and even though it is an owner rather than a trainer standpoint I love the fact I can pick the races for my horses to enter, and the results and PP's seem realistic.

One question for you and HB -- do you find your horses getting claimed very often or is there more competition in the full game for claims? I haven't had any of my horses claimed yet, but have been able to pick up a couple standouts that I got easily.

It also seems that workouts are very indicative of a young colt or filly's ability, which I think might make it a bit too easy to pick off some prime horses.

All in all, at this point it looks like a buy. Am I correct that there is no download the full version option and that I have to go thru Paypal to have the full version shipped? That kind of sucks.

[terpkristin]

I missed out on Etrian Odyssey but heard great things about it, I'll be getting the sequel when it comes out in June.

There are a lot of great things about the game, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't have it's massive faults. It was recently listed among the hardest games for a Nintendo system, and it's no lie. It requires a LOT of grinding, for better or worse...

/tk

[BigDPW]

PC:
WWSM 2008 (I have my Stevenage Borough side up to League 1 with 2 consecutive promotions)

360:
COD4 (up to level 52)
CH2k8 (4th dynasty year with my NC A&T Aggies - Made the tourney all three years so far - lost in the 1st round each year except year 2 when I upset Indiana and lost in the 2nd round - I haven't signed a player that was not 3 stars since my second recruting class - I have turned down the Bradley job in the hopes to get a higher profile Mid-Major job - I hope I don't regret that)

[billethius]

OK, I spent some time with the demo of The Racing Breed today. It is ugly and the UI is pretty clunky, but the game itself was pretty damn fun, and even though it is an owner rather than a trainer standpoint I love the fact I can pick the races for my horses to enter, and the results and PP's seem realistic.

One question for you and HB -- do you find your horses getting claimed very often or is there more competition in the full game for claims? I haven't had any of my horses claimed yet, but have been able to pick up a couple standouts that I got easily.

You'll lose horses via claim and you'll also lose out on some claims that you try to make. I've been burned a few times by trying to drop a decent horse into a 50k claimer to get a win and ended up losing them.

It also seems that workouts are very indicative of a young colt or filly's ability, which I think might make it a bit too easy to pick off some prime horses.

Yes and no. Young horses with really good works tend to be good runners - but horses with bad works aren't necessarily terrible. I've got a filly who works very fast, but she can't run past 6f and she's only a minor stakes horse there. On the other hand, the best filly I've ever had had very pedestrian works.

All in all, at this point it looks like a buy. Am I correct that there is no download the full version option and that I have to go thru Paypal to have the full version shipped? That kind of sucks.

Nope, no download available. When I purchased, I think I did so with a credit card. The shipping is very quick though. I think I had the game 2 days after making the purchase.

[Honolulu Blue]

I'm glad you're enjoying the game, path. It goes to show that looks aren't everything. Since billethius answered your other questions, I'll concentrate on the first one:

do you find your horses getting claimed very often or is there more competition in the full game for claims? I haven't had any of my horses claimed yet, but have been able to pick up a couple standouts that I got easily.

I'm not sure if there's "more" claiming activity, but you can definitely lose horses if you keep them at the same level for too long. And I've lost the "shake" a few times for horses that I wanted to claim.

[Kodos]

PS3: Madden 06 PS2, NCAA 06 PS2
Xbox 360: College Hoops and All Pro Football, both very occasionally

PC: FOF 2007 (multiplayer), BBCF (multiplayer)

PSP: Daxter, Namco Museum Collection, Lumines

[path12]

Thanks for the replies, bill & HB. Placed my order last night.