What games have you played recently?

Thanks Gilles! Yes, Skyrim does indeed look awesome. I have seen it before, and found it impressive. Not sure if my pooter can play it though. I recently bought World of Warcraft, and my computer couldn't play it, so that was a waste of money.

It's not that it's an old computer, it's only a a couple of years old, but I always just buy the cheapest computer I can find. This says: "AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 245 Processor 2.90 GHz" and 4 GB RAM. Not sure what that means though.

I will check out that gog.com site. I've often wanted a place to play old games for free.

Peter

That really isn't a terrible config to play games on, you have two processors (X2), I have four, but I suspect you have no dedicated graphics card that takes the load of the processor, which makes all the difference. If you only have the onboard graphics chip, well that is just enough for usual Windows use and playing 10 year old games on.



Well they're not free, but you'll see they're fairly cheap, and very often they have sales, so you can do some bargains once in while. What's more important, most old games will run on the latest setups, Windows 7 64 bit for instance.

Very difficult to recommend something, there are so many brands, models on the market, even I have a hard time to know which is what. They sure as hell didn't simplify this aspect by improving the technology itself. And adding a graphics card will most likely need a more powerful PSU (power supply) as well.

Hello fellow gamer Josh, I'm a bit of Zelda fan myself (Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are the only ones I've played, on the gamecube). They have a storyline, gameplay and charm that are up there with the best in the genre. I can go through them at any moment and become completely enchanted by their magic every time. I would like to go through Skyward Sword, but the whole Wii motion thingy is not entirely my thing.

I bought this racing game on Ebay from India. Turned out to be a fake.

Warning Signs:

1) It said the LIVE access code is already attributed to another LIVE account when I entered it for the online play.
2) The "Install" option is blacked out and there is only play or uninstall.
3) It's from India.

When installing this game, why would the "install" button blacked out? There's just "uninstall, play, help and exit". It's weird that the install button is blacked out. In the instruction manual, it says install the game. But it's not an option here.

IT'S A FAKE!

So the code the game came with is already in use. There are numerous websites (like this one) selling codes so that you can buy it for cheaper than retail, download it through a client (like Steam, Origin) use the key for verification and just play. This has been going on for a while now, and it's completely legal to buy such a code. I've done it once or twice, just to have the game in an instant. But no one knows where these codes come from and if the games they're attributed to are discarded when the code's been sold. Apparently not.

Resident evil 6 promo campaign, clever

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The last game I beat was Batman: Arkham City, which was a good deal of fun. I liked the music too, Zimmerish but with more complexity.

I'm currenly playing I Am Alive on PS3 ...
Not that far in the game yet ...

Ludo (unplugged)

I got caught literally the last instant before winning the game!



Volker

...I think actually only Steven is playing it.
It has no spaceships, nazis, dinosaurs or pirates, so utterly holds no interest for me.

GTAV is brilliant!

Still, it's a shame that it's been released on a console that's now 7 years old. I'd love to have seen what they could have done on the PS4. It makes sense to release it on the PS3 of course, especially as they were developing the game before the PS4 was even announced... but still. PS3 is ancient.

I recently finished the game Limbo, by Danish indie developers Playdead. The game is a very dark puzzle game set in, you guessed it, limbo. The puzzles are quite tricky and engaging, and the game is very creatively grotesque! The style of the game has been compared with film noir and German expressionism. The music in the game is by Martin Stig Andersen, and is electroacoustic and minimalistic. The whole soundtrack is very short, but it works so well with the images, and it gives the game an amazing atmosphere. This game takes only a few hours to complete, and I highly recommend this to people who are into games that are very focused on the visual art

Uncharted 4

This is by far the most impressive looking game I have ever seen on the PS4. Truly pushing its now-dated capabilities to the limits. It still suffers a bit from uncanny valley, but it's a minor quibble given the depth and detail to people and environments. Surely deserves every award for visual and design going.

...but it's an incredibly boring game. In fact it isn't a game; it's interactive cinema with the illusion of control. The creativity is completely spent on graphics and story, and little is left for any original gameplay. And the gameplay that is on offer completely takes you out of the story (that they take so much effort to set up) since you're seemingly able to transcend the laws of physics. The two opposing tones of a serious, quite involved story and silly gameplay is very jarring. It's just another third-person shooter with button commands. Press X to climb, press triangle to solve the puzzle, kill bad guys to get to the next level. This has all been done before in the previous three games, and many games before them (and no doubt many games after). I'm bored of them. Stop trying to make movies. Just make something that I can play.

Should have got a Nintendo...