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So Many Games, So Little Time

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Every day for the past few weeks I've come home to a tough question: What am I going to play tonight? 

Five games from my list of 7 have come out and I'm falling behind. I've played SupCom 2 and Bad Company 2 the most, but I haven't finished the single player campaigns of either. I haven't beaten Napoleon: Total War yet and I haven't even installed Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising! Fortunately I'm not going to pick up Final Fantasy XIII so I don't have to worry about fitting that in somewhere.  

Unfortunately, a couple of games managed to slip in there and take up a night each so far. I tried out Silent Hunter V the other night. I spent a lot of time trying to play it and very little time actually playing. I could really do without the first person perspective. That's not something I felt the previous games lacked. The R.U.S.E. beta also started this week. It wasn't something I was expecting to play but I thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm impressed with the user interface, but the actual gameplay is underwhelming. We'll see, maybe I'll get into it more when I have more time. 
  

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Next week God of War 3 and Command & Conquer 4 come out. I wasn't really expecting to get GoW but man it looks good. No time people, NO TIME!!
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#1  Edited By gpbmike

Every day for the past few weeks I've come home to a tough question: What am I going to play tonight? 

Five games from my list of 7 have come out and I'm falling behind. I've played SupCom 2 and Bad Company 2 the most, but I haven't finished the single player campaigns of either. I haven't beaten Napoleon: Total War yet and I haven't even installed Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising! Fortunately I'm not going to pick up Final Fantasy XIII so I don't have to worry about fitting that in somewhere.  

Unfortunately, a couple of games managed to slip in there and take up a night each so far. I tried out Silent Hunter V the other night. I spent a lot of time trying to play it and very little time actually playing. I could really do without the first person perspective. That's not something I felt the previous games lacked. The R.U.S.E. beta also started this week. It wasn't something I was expecting to play but I thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm impressed with the user interface, but the actual gameplay is underwhelming. We'll see, maybe I'll get into it more when I have more time. 
  

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Next week God of War 3 and Command & Conquer 4 come out. I wasn't really expecting to get GoW but man it looks good. No time people, NO TIME!!
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#2  Edited By CornontheCobbe

I feel the same way all the time duder! I always wonder which game i will play, whilst looking way up at the top of the mountain of games.
 
I think God of War 3 looks excellent, but however i have mixed thoughts about C&C4. 
 
What was R.U.S.E. like so far? Looks interesting.

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#3  Edited By MonkeyGekko

I feel the same way. I've got Heavy Rain, FF13, Darksiders and Bad company 2 on the shelf waiting and God of War 3 pre ordered. But I'm completely fed up with work at the moment.

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#4  Edited By End_Boss

The amount of games coming out is absolutely paralyzing. Thank god I won't be able to touch my 360 for the next ten days.

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#5  Edited By gpbmike
@CornontheCobbe said:
" What was R.U.S.E. like so far? "
It has all of your typical RTS elements like base building, unit building, and upgrading but it's all at a higher level. If you're zoomed all the way out the map looks like it's on a table top and the units are scaled up to look like toys or something. Unknown enemy units show up as tiles so it all has the feel of being some commander far away from the battle. But you can zoom in close to the action and watch the units firing at each other. 
 
The game is probably meant to be played at more of a zoomed out perspective with a full view of a battlefield. It feels more like a board game. Action and counter-actions Ruse and counter-ruse. I haven't played much yet but I'd say its strong point is its style.
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#6  Edited By ProfessorEss

This has been going on a for a long time for me now.
I have so many games I want to play but haven't that I'm pretty sure I'm well beyond ever catching up.

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#7  Edited By Claude

Damn, those games are long ones too, big time investment. I usually try and ignore the fact that I want to play every video game out there, my mind would explode if I thought about all the ones I've missed, so I don't mind staying a little behind the times.