Other games you play or have played.

[Drowner]

UO - until the pvp system became gear ( from Beta)

DAOC - shortlived, just something about that game that turned me off.

WoW until they raised cap lvl to 70 ( from Beta)

and finally the greatest pvp based game I have ever played is Shadowbane. SB was a face wrecking player talent based pvp game that could make people RAAAAAGGGGEEEEEEEE into retirement. Like chak said it was very much a group based game, but a lot more fun to solo a whole group farming with a high Def arac scout with shrine boons and a PoR Sapphire Bow ohhhhhh I can hardly wait. Although i like the building process in H&H a lot more so Shadowbane will be just log in during server mines and ruin peoples fun.

Most recently League of Legends but there is wayyyyyyy to much trash talking in that game

[Rhiannon]

I'm way too old and been a comp gamer geek for way too long to list all, so will cut it to the recent.

Currently :
Haven and Hearth : Hoping for the best

Atlantica online, Was there from day 1, play only occasionally now due to huge investment in RL money in main character. 8 Months into game company began massive extreme nerfs and overpowering for IM push. Player base jumped ship, game consists now of revolving door Newbies and day 1 elders who can't kick the habit.

Ragnarok Online : Still there after 8 years, play my private server more often then official server but still play RO ona regular basis.

Fairyland and Country Story (2 facebook games for mental break...lol)

Played for awhile and Quit :

Pheonix Dynasty : cool crafting system, no real complaints, just didn't hold my thrill.
Wonderking : Interesting side scroll, but after completing all 3 closed betas I refused to go with launch because it is ran by same company as Atlantica = waste of time.
NeoSteam : no real complaints but just cookie cutter and I'm tired of them
Fallen Earth : same ole same ole
Age Of Conan : Yawn cookie cutter
Aion : Yawn cookie cutter
EVe : ok, closet thing to sandbox until H&H but I don't really care for space setting or being a ship..lol

MAny many others in last year (about 15) all cookie cutter and yawnish.

Offline games I still play:
CIvilization series + Alpha Centauri
Heroes of might and magic series.
Final Fantasy Tactics (I keep a PS1 and that game for 10+ years now..lol)
Settlers series
City building series (Ceaser III, Emperor rise of middle kingdom, Poseidon, Zeus, Cleopatra)
Diablo II
Balders gate / Neverwinter nights
Dune 2000
Empire Earth and Age Of Empires
Majesty + Expansion

Those are a few online and offline that still register over the last year and that I have actively touched. Jeez...i play way too much and obviously have no life...LOL

[Caradon]

X3: + Expansion Bala Gi

[ryuzaki123]

Ragnarok Online (my first online game!!)
MapleStory (side scrolling 2D)
Luminary
Final Fantasy Series (all of em)
Final Fantasy Tactics series (all of em)
Diablo 2 + expansion
Dungeon Siege
MOH (fps)
Trickster Online
Dragonica
The Sims 1 & 2 (this game never get old XD)
And many more... Its kinda many... Lazy to write em down...Haha.. =D

[Chakravanti]

What sort of games are we talking about here, just games in general? online games? or specifically MMOs?

I was going to say just computer games...or online games...but I couldn't decide where to draw the line, so i figure just whatever you feel is either good enough or has at least had a significant enough impact on your gaming experience in general. As such I declined to say anything about limits.

But under that criteria I feel obliged to mention that which is my namesake.

Mage: the Ascension

Tabletop RPG with the most freeflowing rules and magic system ever devised. Modern era setting (and branches for historical adaptations, namely, Sorcerer's Crusade) this is set in the World of Darkness next to Werewolf: the Apocolypse and White Wolf's flagship publication, Vampire: the Masquerade. Crossovers are at player/Storyteller discration and I personally don't care much for vampire type shit. THey do have a much less well known Demon: the Fallen which I have written a few stories for but regrettably not found a group interested in playing.

Magic in this game is pretty simple, There are 5 human levels of understanding of the 9 basic elements that comprise existence. Forces, Matter, Entropy, Mind, Time, Prime, Spirit, Correspondence, & Life. The five levels are effectively: Sensory awareness, Subtle influence, Power to affect, Creation, and Large scale.

If you can justify any conceivable effect as being withing your levels of spheres then you can preform that spell. Unfortunately most of the world doesn't believe in magic. The power of their disbelief acts as a counterspell and 'witnesses' to vulgar magic can cause Paradox and even Backlash that can take as many forms as your storyteller is creative. The trick to magic is to achieve your result within your sphere of influence and keep the effect as if it 'could have just been a coincidence' or....coincidental magick.

Best RPG of all time and it will give rules lawyers headaches because it's so damn abstract. You have to genuinely be interested in story itself to want to play this game. It's not a roll playing game by any means and those who treat it as such will never find satisfaction from it.

And the only part that any of you may give a shit about. Each sphere has a historical tradition of mages that govern it. The Euthanatos govern the Sphere of Entropy. From those of their tradition with Hindu roots will be retold the tales of the Chakravanti. The Euthanatoi's Eastern predecessors. THe other traditions have, somewhat accurately, denoted the Euthanatos as assassins and not unjustly so but such connotations do not begin to give due credence to the mastery over death while remaining free of the maddening trappings of jhor. Indeed these Assassins are not above policing their ilk with their own art.

I have all 9 foil covered first edition tradition books. =D

[theTrav]

White wolf RPG systems are shit house.

The flavor behind the mage series is definitely the best I've seen from white wolf, and if you've got a good DM he can probably wring a decent game out of it, but mechanically there's practically nothing there.

I really dislike the "roll a bunch of d10's and 8+ is a success" especially when they add the crap around 10's and 1's. Glitches and fumbles are a terrible idea.


back on the game train.

Sword of the Stars for some 4x action

If you've got Battlefield 2 I thoroughly recommend checking out the project reality mod for some of the most intense team oriented game play I've ever encountered. Be warned though, you'll need a microphone and a LOT of patience. You get a lot of fairly irritating game play in between the moments of pure awesome, but once you get one of those moments you'll be hooked

[Brickbreaker]

'TA Spring' the predecessor to Supreme Commander.

[Tower]

Aside from this, not much anymore.

I'm pretty much jumping around online finding MMO's that aren't so... immediately boring.

Offline I'm still playing Left 4 Dead 2, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 3 DS, Persona 3 FES and Fallout 3.
To be honest, I play them all for like 30 minutes and power off.
Thinking of buying Torchlight though, thats rather fun.

Online, I'm playing Runescape, I dont even know why I'm playing this... just so bored.
I've tried various other games including Fiesta, Snowbound, Shin Megami Tensei Imagine, Soldier Front
There are very few games that actually keep my attention for long anymore.
Oddly enough, my friend (who I introduced many offline and online games too) plays them much more than myself. I created a monster.
As far as I know, he hasnt taken to H&H very well yet.

[kLauE]

- Quake 3
- HL1
- Natural Selection (HL-Mod)

bhop/strafejump ftw ^^

[jorb]

Vampire The Masquerade -- and most WoD games use basically the same, right? -- has the best basic skill system I have ever seen for pen & paper RPGS. It is simple, clean, elegant and extremely adaptable.