Mostly Bomberman Live and Carcassonne on XBLA, along with the occasional GTAIV (always Free Mode).

I am SO lame. I only play games on the computer, and they're old-lady ones - Bookworm, Bejewelled, Spider Solitaire and Mah-Johnng.

I don't understand how to play these role-play games, and I don't like fighting or chasing games. I used to love 'escape from the room' games and 'click and progress' games, like Samarost, but found them to be giant time-suckers.

Silent hill is kind of an escape from the room style game, with monsters thrown in. I like games like that, or prince of persia, where you need to look at ledges to jump from, moving cranks, or whatever to manipulate the environment or solve puzzles to progress. I may try God of War next, my roommate has the first two and he says it has a lot of that in it, too.

I love bookworm, I'm forcing myself not to get the phone version since I think I wouldn't put it down. a friend of mine got it for her phone so if she's out with her daughter and they have to wait somewhere they can play together. The girl has an amazing vocabulary for a four year old so I guess it's working on her!

box, how do you like gta? I got it used (blockbuster, of all places, had it for all of $11!) but got stuck on one of the missions where you have to chase someone in a car and gave it up. I think part of my problem is that our tv, while a good size, is old and not HD, so I can't read a lot of the maps in the corner and the like, and the colors look similar.
I love the thing, though... we got it free, a friend's mom was going to toss it since the speakers died and it was too old to bother fixing, and she saved it for us. The pic is as good as crt gets, it's about twice the size of our old one, and my roommate has a surround sound system so we don't need the speakers anyways!

Oh man, it's all about tower defense games and Company of Heroes when I want to get my game on.

I've also gone through a serious Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 phase recently, and before that it was all about SimCity 4 and Half-Life 2.

Anyone else here play Company of Heroes? Fantastic game, but hard as hell to win. Tips? Suggestions on skirmishes?

Gotta be the only game I've ever played knowing I'll get my ass handed to me each time but still fun to do.

Plants vs. Zombies
Discovered supersekrit HD mode for God of War II so playing that again on the HDTV
Sims 3
World of Warcraft
Infamous ... started strong but has become repetitive, as I find most open world games (GTA, etc).
The Bigs and Fight Night Round 3 in anticipation of their sequels
My brother and I have become totally addicted to 1 vs 100 on XBox Live
When I want to meditate and chill out I play the first and last levels of Flower
GRID

I could go on ...

Um, Scrabble? I'm such an old fart these days. I bought a newish Laura Croft game a few months ago, started playing it and realized it had more key commands than I felt like memorizing and shelved it. Never got passed the opening screen, sigh.

The Wii sits quietly, no one has fired it up in about four months, we don't really have space to use it right. All I've played on the computer lately is nethack (which I still haven't beaten). I've never really been into console games much and I don't have a computer that'll play new games so I've sort of lost touch with computer gaming. I'd love to play Fallout 3 but I don't feel buying a new computer just to play games and the laptop works fine for everything else.

GTAIV is pretty good, all in all. I played almost the whole way through the story, and appreciated it, especially compared to the older games in the series, but these days I approach it pretty purely as a sandbox playground kinda thing (I only play Free Mode, with a headset whose mic and earphone are muted), and, measured that way, there's more to do, and more people populating the servers at any given moment (which makes a huge difference w/XBox Live play), than any other game I can think of.

Do you enjoy torching a firetruck, then driving it off a pier? Or finding a group of people that are shooting it out with the cops, then crash-landing a helicopter on top of them? The freeform-ness of Free Mode adds lots of unpredictability, which I like in a game, and which I think adds replay value.

What do you think of the GTAIV radio stations, Kelly?

The stations in GTA are always amusing. I usually go with the reggae one, for a change of pace.

I thought the whole scene where he got the girl in bed was a riot. "Tell me interesting things!" is not something I think anyone, ever, has ever conceived of as proper bedroom sexxytalk.

I have been playing the everloving shit out of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, a DS port of a ten-year-old Super Famicom game that is itself a sort of stripped down Japanified take on Nethack and other such roguelike games.

It's fantastic. Whoever designed it really, really liked classic roguelikes and understood them. It's hard and brutal and full of weird discoveries and emergent behavior as the various enemies interact with each other.

Also, Oblivion has been getting another go. I sort of burnt out on it a while back, playing too many sidequests with a mage/cleric build that was terrible at combat.

Played Fallout 3 in the mean time, which feel really similar in a lot of respects (for sensible reasons -- same dev shop), and realized that maybe if I didn't have to fiddle with goddam slow-moving missile spells in Oblivion I might like it more.

So now I'm beating the crap out of stuff with a sword and shield and having a much better time. Though the combat system is still kind of meh.

My love for Fallout 3 knows no bounds. :D

My love for Fallout 3 is compromised by my devotion to those aspects of Fallouts 1 & 2 which are painfully absent from the otherwise beautifully constructed new entry.

Gemcraft, Civ 4. Like forever

Gamestop is having a sale on Xbox games, and I never owned an Xbox, but got a 360 recently, so I picked up a bunch. Currently working through Spiderman 2, which already feels super-dated, but is pretty excellent, and certainly superlative as far as super hero games go. Tops the original Incredible Hulk in that regard.

I also picked up the Orange Box, so I finally got to play through Portal, which was about as excellent as I'd been expecting.

Other than that, Peggle on the DS when I'm on the john.

Right now, it's all Sims 3.

Just finished Half-Life 2. Best game ever.

I tend to run about 12-18 months late on games (too cheap to by 'em new), so I've been playing World of Goo (Wii), Peggle (DS), and yeah, a lot of GemCraft Chapter 0 on Kongregate.

Ooh, yeah, the reggae station. I love that 'Badderdendem,' and 'Driver A.'

i dont play a lot of games online, but if i have a lot of time to spare , i like this site this site . i like games that make me think

...I've started mudding again. I always hesitate to mention this in a game thread because muds (or at least roleplaying ones) occupy a lower rung in the geek hierarchy, and none of my friends from school or work have any idea that I play anything at all. But the only video game at which I've ever really excelled was Duck Hunt, and I'm not much better at solo computer games. I like pretty graphics, but for me those games lack a certain something. I initially played this particular game- primarily h&s, original world based on real-world myths and stories, older pbase, free to play- back in 1996, then took a turn towards RPIs for several years, then quit entirely when it stopped being fun (translation: people are assholes). In recent months, I've wandered back, finding it an extremely relaxing way to spend time, particularly with my most advanced character, a very effective hitter. I kill samurai and ancient Picts with her during downtime at work. She's named after me.

Still Fallout 3 for me, its been a while since I've gotten this much into a game. I completed the main storyline and am playing dlc now. I too was a pretty big FO1&2 fan from the day (not NMA level) but its so different I don't really think of it in the same way. I mainly love the setting and the design. I do wish it could be played in a lot less heavy combat sort of way but what can you do? I should add that I do only play every so often which is why this has been able to occupy me for so long.

None a youse haz ever played Company of Heroes????

What the hell is wrong with you people? We're talking full-on crazy-as-shit WWII macho flamethrowin', mine-detonatin' goodness here and you all are still makin' with the swords and shields boopity?

Damn. Y'all don't EVEN KNOW what good is.

I keep trying to start a new game of fallout where I play evil so I can get those achievements. I just don't have it in me. I can't even make it to megaton without feeling bad and picking the nice option instead.

I wanted to play as true neutral but the system really forces you to either be the second coming or evil incarnate. I wish they'd had a lot more neutral options. However I have to say its worth blowing up Megaton, especially at night. Beautiful. I reverted to an earlier save after I did that though.

I'm with kodama. Fucking Fallout 3. When that shit came out I played it so much that when I finally put it down (after I finished it, then loaded my last save game and explored the whole fucking map) I honestly spent two months without playing ANYTHING else. I'd look at other games and say "meh, that's no Fallout 3". Then I finally started playing again, with Rock Band, then Mirror's Edge (50 bucks for two days of running through it, still worth it), then Simpsons (10 bucks on new egg, not worth it), then give it a rest again, for a couple more months (heh, started slow with Battlestar Galactica, which I had never seen, and ended up watching the end of Season 2.5, Season 3, Season 4 and Season 4.5 in an obsessive 26-hour straight marathon).

THEN THE FUCKERS RELEASED BROKEN STEEL. Just finished it. Two beautiful sunny weekends in fucking Seattle, and I spent them playing it.

Now I guess the line will finally move. Got Gears of War II and Fable II on the line, and am kind of tempted at Call of Duty.

The only game I really play at all is Geometry Wars 2. I'm playing a bit of Street Fighter IV, and a bit of Dead space but without a HD TV they're both a bit harder than they should be.

I noticed the other day that there's a new pack for Fable II, so I may get that. The last pack was a bit of a letdown, and to be honest, I haven't enjoyed the game so much since I had my sex change.

Geometry Wars is definitely my favourite. I've not got very high scores, but I love to pick it up for 15 minutes every now and again.

BTW. If anyone wants to share their xbox360 gamertags, that'd be awesome. I currently only have 2 friends.

My Gamertag is "SeanBamforth" (I think)

I was playing the Lego series (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman) for a while. It´s fun but not much of a challenge - great when you´re tired and don´t want something too involving.

I also got a UFC game that came out recently - it´s fun but it´s a little difficult to get past the basics.

Also, I´ve been replaying Fallout 3, trying to find more areas on the map. I´m hoping the DLC comes out soon for PS3, although I might wait for the Game of the Year edition.

concrete, the first two DLCs are going to be released on a single disk soon. Broken steel later, though, after the fourth DLC comes out.

I'm still playing Goldeneye.

The first two DLCs (Operation Anchorage and The Pitt) have already been released on disc and the second disc( Broken Steel/Point Lookout)is out pretty soon. The GOTY edition is the way to go if you haven't bought the main game yet though, its a great deal. What I did was bought the actual download of Broken Steel so the level cap and the game being over is removed and then I bought the disc for the other two DLCs. I probably will end up picking up the next disc as well as I'd like to be able to play without running through Games for Windows Live which as far as I'm concerned is just sucking up processing power for no benefit (to me, I know plenty of people love achievements and such)