The Ur-Quan Masters Home Page Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
December 06, 2024, 12:29:54 pm
Home Help Search Login Register
News: Celebrating 30 years of Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters

+  The Ur-Quan Masters Discussion Forum
|-+  The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release
| |-+  Starbase Café (Moderator: Death 999)
| | |-+  What PC game are you playing now?
« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 Print
Author Topic: What PC game are you playing now?  (Read 13177 times)
Razorback
Frungy champion
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 99


We are all *happy campers*


View Profile
What PC game are you playing now?
« on: November 24, 2006, 05:46:02 pm »

At the moment, I'm going through Secret of the SIlver Blades, and playing Space Cowboy a bit on the side.
Logged

Baltar
*Many bubbles*
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 109



View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2006, 02:31:41 am »

FreeCell Grin

Honestly there just aren't any PC titles right now that pique my interest.  I am hotly anticipating the following:

IL-2: 1946
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
Supreme Commander

I haven't seriously been into any PC titles for some time now aside from a brief stint with Star Wars Legos II several weeks back.  For the above titles I'll probably be building a new rig sometime early next year.
Logged
Novus
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 1938


Fot or not?


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2006, 01:24:04 pm »

Star Control 3. It's actually better than I remembered. If you can ignore the boring music, the shoddy puppetry, the plot inconsistencies, the pathetic colonies, the proliferation of aliens with speech defects and/or silly accents, the having to wait for timed events (everything interesting happens at 000.00 hours!) or fuel production, the bugs and the general lack of original dialogue, there's actually quite a good game there.

Star Control 3 would have been a much better game if Legend had fled to Alaska and finished it properly.
Logged

RTFM = Read the fine manual.
RTTFAQ = Read the Ur-Quan Masters Technical FAQ.
Culture20
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 917


Thraddash Flower Child


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2006, 05:00:41 am »

But no one would have hired the Pinkertons to find them...
Logged
Novus
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 1938


Fot or not?


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2006, 11:43:12 am »

But no one would have hired the Pinkertons to find them...
Never underestimate the commitment of Accolade to release dates. Cheesy
Logged

RTFM = Read the fine manual.
RTTFAQ = Read the Ur-Quan Masters Technical FAQ.
NamelessPlayer
*Many bubbles*
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 104



View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2006, 08:30:13 pm »

Games that I've played recently:

-Starflight (Amiga version through WinUAE, as it totally stomps over the IBM PC original)
-Beneath a Steel Sky (Just finished the ScummVM version on Wednesday. Can't get the CD32 version to work through WinUAE, though. It was inevitable that I'd play it due to constant comparisons with SC2.)
-IL-2 Sturmovik demo (I'm debating to myself as to whether to buy IL-2 or wait for BoB:SoW. And one thing-do I get anything from merging the original with FB, the AEP, PF, and soon, 1946? The compilations never include the original.)

I'm probably going to start playing Starflight again as soon as I finish a few more furballs to hone any piloting skills I might have.
Logged
Baltar
*Many bubbles*
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 109



View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2006, 02:01:14 am »

Quote
-IL-2 Sturmovik demo (I'm debating to myself as to whether to buy IL-2 or wait for BoB:SoW. And one thing-do I get anything from merging the original with FB, the AEP, PF, and soon, 1946? The compilations never include the original.)


I'm not sure why you would want the original.  FB is simply the original with additional stuff (updated flight model, graphics, additional planes and campaigns).  The soon to be released 1946 'expansion' is a DVD-ROM containing FB, AEP, PF, as well as the three new campaigns/expansions in the form of Sturmoviks over Manchuria, Pe-2, and 1946.
Logged
AngusThermopyle
*Smell* controller
****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 304


A paranoid android.


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2006, 02:01:52 am »

Heroes V: Hammers of Fate and Planescape: Torment
Logged
Zeep-Eeep
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 917


Good Grief


View Profile WWW
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2006, 05:11:48 am »

I've been going through the games in Fedora's repo. So far there isn't much there
that catches my attention. Maelstorm and Stones&Diamonds are kinda fun. And,
of course, UQM is in there.
Hunt For Gold was good, but it's unfinished. It's a Pirates remake which was abandond
a few years ago.
Logged

What sound does a penguin make?
Mugz the Sane
*Many bubbles*
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 159


need coffee...


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2006, 01:18:24 pm »

Right now I'm too busy playing Gentoo Linux - or rather it's playing ME!
Logged

I'm seriously considering going to Bali to paint nude women.
Culture20
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 917


Thraddash Flower Child


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2006, 04:15:15 am »

Right now I'm too busy playing Gentoo Linux - or rather it's playing ME!
Same here; I've been stuck on the level named "emerge -ev world" on a laptop for several days now.  What level are you on?
In the mean time, I've been trying to get BF2 to work online.  I'm pretty sure it's my ISP now... grrr
« Last Edit: November 29, 2006, 04:17:54 am by Culture20 » Logged
RTyp06
*Smell* controller
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 491



View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2006, 12:52:48 am »

Civ 4 of all things...Go Figure!

Also gota feeling Santa might put Battlefield 2142 under my tree this year.
Logged
Death 999
Global Moderator
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 3874


We did. You did. Yes we can. No.


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2006, 08:22:21 pm »

I was nethacking until I pissed myself off again.

And slowly playing on KingdomOfLoathing.com (going 'hardcore oxygenarian' does tend to slow you down a bit)

There's a special event going on right now... join before the 25th (WELL before, ideally) for the most fun!
Logged
Zieman
*Many bubbles*
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 151


Oh, and it burns...


View Profile
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2006, 12:24:52 am »

Rally Trophy
Baldur's Gate 1
Master of Orion 2
Foobillard
Logged

...and keep it under Lightspeed!!!
Arne
Enlightened
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 520


Yak!


View Profile WWW
Re: What PC game are you playing now?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2006, 09:59:11 pm »

I'd like to try StarFlight, it seems interesting. Kinda hard to find the Amiga version with b2r down. Cough.

Cough cough cough. I'm having a cough attack here, can someone hit my back?



I liked the GUI I saw here. Reminded me of M.U.L.E.
Clean and bullshit free. I couldn't restrain myself, so I did a font and font drawing func. Not so sure about the selleri dude though, even Bellsprout (Pokémon) is more enigmatic.



Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!