Started playing tf2 over thanksgiving break. I have enjoyed it.:)

I mainly just do single player, lots of Kerbal Space Program and Roguelikes.

I love games, yet I've only recently jumped onto the Steam bandwagon (over two years ago) - because I finally have a computer that can play Portal 2 without exploding, and since Microsoft and Sony continue to shun backward compatibility (basically erasing the entire history of gaming and replacing it with the same but worse) I've decided that if I'm going to embrace gaming as an exciting new artform I might as well go to where all the exciting stuff is happening. Plus Steam is rapidly becoming an infinite archive that preserves the history of gaming for all to peruse...as long as you have a lot of money, or watch the sales like a hawk.

This being said, I hate how Steam gleefully informs both you and the rest of the world how much time you've spent gaming. Every time I want to play Team Fortress 2, I get a stab of shame as I'm told I've wasted 490 hours of my life on it. I could have spent that time writing a novel, or at least putting together a pretty good Brickfilm...

Also, whilst TF2 and every other Valve multiplayer game hugely benefits from sporadic updates - I remember the old days when you would expect a new game to not be a buggy mess. Bethesda in particular have mastered the art of releasing a broken mess of a game, then releasing a hailstorm of patches before letting the fans fix the rest of the game for them.

(I'm 'Alkami' on Steam, BTW - if you want to know precisely how much of my life gets sunk into video games rather than writing my bestseller or looking deeply into my lovers eyes)

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My Steam name is Sonjira (wow).

I'm not sure if there's really a game that I play all the time, as it's really whatever I feel like on a given day. My most played game is also TF2, though I feel a slight pang of superiority having only spent 70 hours on it. I'll take what I can get.

Other games I've played a lot of are Spelunky, Pacman Championship Edition DX+, and Awesomenauts. I've been considering getting into DOTA 2 and I've heard from a friend that Age of Empires 2 is great, but I've beeen really trying to step up my productivty with making brickfilms and the like so I feel like a new game would only hinder that.

But yeah, we should totally set up a Steam Group for BiM.

Youtube @TheRealSonjira I consider it a personal defeat if my pee is not perfectly clear every time.]

There is a brickfilmers Steam group, so go join it if you haven't already!

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I play Magic: The Gathering 2012 and it requires the SteamClient to play.

Who else plays Kerbal Space Program?

In Space Engineers, I built a gigantic hammer shaped ship filled with over a thousand gyros, giving it fantastic turnning ability.  the entire ship can be used as a weapon by turning itself and smashing other ships with little damage being done to itself thanks to its heavy armour.

I've also created a giant race track for testing out rovers which took quite some time to construct as well as a classic space LEGO styled fighter and a large battleship.

You can be quite creative with that game, and I like it quite a lot.  My family has been really wanting to get a second copy so we can play together in operations and prearranged combat scenarios.

Yeah, it's pretty confusing.  I usually create a custom class, which is nice since you can add a favored attribute of luck, which is a had, but important attribute to increase other than in that case.  It's also important to maximize endurance early on.

Though what most annoys me is that your character's movement speed is usually horribly slow.  Even with maxed out normal speed with a male orc's speed multiplier movement speed only feels barely reasonable.  Of course, with the Boots of Blinding Speed trick you can get to a delightful speed boot early in the game and block the blindness.
It's a nice way to get through the story more quickly and less disjointed without spending 100 days lost in the ashlands dying of blight with Cliff Racers and Dark Brotherhood assassin's on you all the time.

A good starting setup is a Breton with the apprentice brithsign, which gives you quite a fantastic Magicka multiplier.  And the Breton's resistance blocks the birthsign weakness, making them both redundant.

For some time my little brother Lee (also sometimes called Matt Damon Universe) has been working on a Source film called You Never Go to Four.  Though it's far from done, it's coming along quite nicely, particularly in terms of cinematography.  I've been helping out a lot on the project with advice, story, and direction.  I'm also supposed to remind him to work on it more often, but my mum's been playing so much of the new Dragon Age he rarely gets an opportunity to use the computer.

So that's who that is.