They seem great so far. I downloaded the demos.  Makes me wonder if there's a lot of games like this that I'm missing out on...

I shelved Elemental after this whole debacle.  I'm waiting to try it again after this magical patch they claim will make it fun (or at least playable on my x64 PC)

So I'm playing the following with all my game time now (most were suggestions by friends or other forum members in response to my complaints about Elemental - ie "Well if you want lots of depth .. try this ...)

-> Dominions 3 (so ugly it reminds me of the D&D Gold Box games I grew up on - but I enjoy it and get that "one my turn" feeling I don't get from Elemental)

-> AoW:Shadow Magic (interesting .. fun tactical battles .. not really a huge fan of the HoMM-style worlds though, I like more Civ style setups)

-> Mount & Blade: Warband (another rough indy game .. I find it fun once in a while, got it direct download after playing the demo ... like Elemental, it is a game where I have my fingers crossed they'll add a patch and it'll just explode on the fun-o-meter)

-> X3:Terran Conflict (big space game with 1st person flying and a complex economic system ... I don't like tactical space games, but this style is fun)

Hmm .. also tried out Torchlight, Eschalon: Book II, Avernum 6, King's Bounty: Armored Princess, Dawn of War 2 (through Steam), and Star Craft 2 all within the past 6 months or so.  Those I haven't touched in a while.  The only one I was really saddened by was SC2 ... it just felt "meh" to me, I don't play it multiplayer so I had high hopes for the campaign, the couple MP games I tried weren't my kind of thing ... I'd rather play with a couple choice friends (they didn't buy SC2 yet) than random strangers.

I'm pretty flighty with my gaming tastes though, few things keep my attention for very long periods of time.  A friend of mine keeps talking about playing her copy of Elite from 20+ years ago.  Maybe I have gamer ADD.

Huh, it used to be League of Legends for me too, had no idea there was so much overlap between it and Elemental's fanbase - they aren't very similar games.

Lately been getting back in touch with my tactical FPS side, however (Red Orchestra, and its mod Darkest Hour). Sticking with the theme of "something as different from Elemental as possible," I guess.

SM's Pirates

Dawn of War II

Civ 4 complete<--- gave up on, weird no growth bug that manifested itself all of a sudden.

Sim City 4: Rush Hour

PS3

Red Dead Redemption

What ever gamefly sent me that week

Set aside MoM after some rollicking campaigns. Fired up the original Divine Divinity, Gothic 2 (w/NotR expansion), Alpha Centauri, and Kohan with a few hits off Homeworld 2. Yep, it's the end of summer and I'm in an oldskool state o mind.

I just gave Titan's Quest: Immortal Throne a shot with the Underlord mod...  holy crap, that's a workout

Played the original M&B a fair bit. The vanilla game was indeed a bit bland, but it really shone in mods (graphics, setting or gameplay), but looking at their forums it seems not all modders made the transition.

There was definitely a wave of modders that didn't jump to the newer version, and many who did, and went on to concentrate on tinkering with the MP aspects of the game (I don't play MP games with random strangers, so I never tried it).  Since the games are pretty much identical except for the MP aspect, I can see why many didn't want to shell out $30 for a half-arsed "expansion".

There are supposedly some good, solid, total-conversation mods in the works for Warband though, that'll change gameplay and give players a new map, etc.  I'm waiting for some neat ones, and still having a pretty good time with a lightly-modded version of the vanilla software. 

I only paid half as much for M&B as I did Elemental, so I can forgive more problems (plus M&B has never actually crashed on me), though it is the first game I got that people actually said to me, in the forums when I complained (Elemental being the second) that if I had an issue with gameplay being broken, I should just wait for a mod to come out.  That is where my open distaste for "theres a mod for that" (i.e. "just shut up and download a mod if a promised feature is broken")  responses began.

Torchlight, MoM and just spending time with my kids

Finished batman.  On to Fallout3.

Psychonauts - it's just great!

Civ4, Plants vs. Zombies, Eufloria, SoasE and from time to time a little Amnesia, but it scares the shit out of me.

I've been checking out Bioware's new DLCs that they've released for Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age.

Also just bought Mount&Blade: Warband, really good game (but yeah, I agree, a little rough around the edges).

Victoria 2 (also waiting on a patch before I play this one again)

The Guild 2: Renaissance (maybe I just have a thing for buggy games, okay? ) 

Besides bioware and maxis, I've been checking out a lot of indie gaming scene