What are you playing right now?

[kahljorn]

I'm still amazed you killed that tank after getting charged and smoked somehow by yourself. They were mad pissed after.

I GOT JUKES BABY

I liked tales of vesperia a lot but i felt disappointed at the end ;/. But i guess that's ok since they have new game+ ;(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Team Fortress 2 for PC. I had to turn the graphics waaaaaaay down so it looks just like Team Fortress Classic. Except they don't have escort the president :(

[Guitar Woman]

Instead, you can escort your Engineer into unsecured forward locations and protect him while he builds his sentry!

Be a bro, man.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Aaaand I've got Miles Edgeworth. Man, playing as him is WAY cooler than Wright. Some asshole puts a gun to his back in the first few seconds of the game, and Edgeworth just says "No one commits murder in my office and gets away with it".

Then the asshole backed away slowly like he just shit himself. It was great.

Oh, the game's pretty fun too.

...only Gumshoe would proclaim a door to be greater than himself.

:(

[dextire]

I just did the first few missions of Aliens vs Predator. And so far, it's a lot of fun!
Each race is much more distinct than I was expecting. And climbing along the walls as the Alien is a lot easier than it looked in the previews.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Instead, you can escort your Engineer into unsecured forward locations and protect him while he builds his sentry!

Be a bro, man.

The engineer doesn't have an umbrella though.

[Sam]

you weren't very good at escorting me Bill :(

[executioneer]

does that mean we're playing tf2 now instead of l4d2 :lol

[Sam]

we play all of them Willie :(

[executioneer]

well i'm just askin cause i kind of uninstalled tf2 recently :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

You get the Umbrella, then I'll escort you

http://paradisoinsurance.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/travellers_umbrella.jpg


Downloaded the Resident Evil 5 DLC last night but only got as far as the first hallway. TONNNNIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTTT!

[Sam]

:O I call Jill :x

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I call Chris. Going to do some Zombie stomping.

[Dimnos]

Whats the new RE5 DLC?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

It takes place in one of the spencer mansions when Chris and Jill find him prior to RE5 happening. That and new mercenaries mode with Road Warrior Chris....Barry Burton...Rebecca chambers and some other stuff added.

[Dimnos]

Sweet. How much is that?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think it was 400 pts. There's going to be another DLC that takes place as Jill and "that one guy who drives the boat" after you boss fight Jill in the main story.

From what I've noticed in the "Mercenaries reunion" is that you can't play against the characters in the regular merceneries. So its self contained with its own selection....so no STARS Wesker :(

[Sam]

HIS NAME WAS JOSH, YOU RACIST >:

[Dimnos]

Was it just me or did it feel like the game was setting up a plot twist where boat "boy" was going to stab you in the back but then they never went anywhere with it?

[Sam]

I was waiting for him to die the whole time. :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I thought JOSH was totally in on it. Just the way he showed up to help was a little too suspicious. I DO love the part where JOSH was all like "POSSSSIEEEEDDDOOONNN LOOOKK AT MMEEEEEE"

[darkvare]

i'm gonna get the re5 gold edition

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

From the 20 mins I did of playing it last night amidst making dinner and reading the diaries it already made me jump a bunch.

[darkvare]

that sounds great. are the main enemies zombies? i reached level 8 in mgo i love this shit i already got my sniper to master rank i just need a little more rewards for my bandana

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I don't want to ruin anything for you. It surprised me to say the least.

Also...Excella & Barry = Beatdown sandwhich

[King Hadas]

Borrowed a Wii and rented Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. I talked a lot of smack about this game and now I'm eating my words. I really enjoyed it. I can easily enumerate the doubts I had but the main thing was that this is a remake. "Re-imagining" conjures up a picture of some arrogant sack of shit who thinks he can redo and surpass a great piece of work simply because he has access to some modern tech but that's not what's happening here.

In fact the game uses your familiarity of the series to fuck with you. The sequence where you have to take photographs and then those photographs turn out to be of Heather, that shit grossed me out.

And I love all this gimmicky shit; the wheelchair, the car sequences and how phone messages are actually played through your Wii-remote.

I didn't like the chase sequences though, if you can believe that.

Sirent Hirr Spoirers
Although I think the "Heather is fucking completely insane" angle Shattered Memories might or might not present is pretty creative and dark and awesome, I'm not sure whether to consider it canon or not.
Canonical discussions are lame but it is hard to stick Shattered Memories in with the rest of the series. The aesthetics are almost completely different and there's no ambiguity.

This game is pure psychology. Total opposite of Homecoming which was literally about magical cults and demons.

I have to say, refuting the rest of the series is pretty radical and it's that kind of food for thought that makes Silent Hill so great.

[Guitar Woman]

The photographs got me too, although I still think my favorite part is the whole creepy runabout in the woods. It's the only part of the game that's got any sort of atmosphere beyond "there's nobody here."

[darkvare]

i was watching the endings and a dude posted a comment that made perfect sense they are not many endings but part of a forgotten reallity excluding the joke ending

[King Hadas]

my favorite part is the whole creepy runabout in the woods.
You mean the chase sequence?

I was equivocating a bit in my last post, this game is fucking brilliant.

Do the monsters change shape with your psychological assessment? I played through again as a total sleazeball and I noticed all the monsters were female, maybe representing the other women in Harry's life, but this was at the end of the game and I don't recall what they looked like during the last play through or any other time for that matter.

In the Cathouse there's a familiar face on the wall.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v444/foxamess/cherylfly.jpg

I nodded yes to drunk and bully, so the woman in the voicemail telling you to take photos is a bully and a drunk. So why is Cheryl asking me to take photographs of herself?

The Hawaiian shirt Harry wears at the end. What does it mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

[Guitar Woman]

Do the monsters change shape with your psychological assessment?
Yes, although I've still only played through it once

The deformities and wounds they had on mine were actually really creepy, I didn't like them :<

Also, the entire woods sequence, not just the chase part. I hate the chases a lot, but they're not dealbreakers. It just feels less like Clock Tower and more like the levels in Crash Bandicoot where you run away from the boulder.

One thing I thought was weird was when you examine the "ABCs of Drugs" poster at the high school, and Harry goes, "I do love my ABCs" in kind of a sly tone. Does that mean he's a massive cokehead or what?

[King Hadas]

The flashlight was making me motion sick while I was in the forest.

Also, the thing you said about Crash Bandicoot is exactly how I feel about the chases. They could almost be fun even but they add nothing to the atmosphere.

One thing I thought was weird was when you examine the "ABCs of Drugs" poster at the high school, and Harry goes, "I do love my ABCs" in kind of a sly tone. Does that mean he's a massive cokehead or what?
I bet you were a slacker in high school. You have to remember
You're not playing as Harry Mason or even really how Cheryl remembers Harry Mason. You're playing as Cheryl's ideal version of her father. Scenes where Harry is moaning about his daughter are pretty pathetic when you know what's what.

You notice how nervous Michelle is when you're about to leave for the Lighthouse. She only exists in context with Harry Mason so I imagine the bad feeling she gets is for herself since it's the last time they meet.

Does Michelle appear in any other Silent Hills? I don't think she does. What does that mean?

Some of the psychological changes seem kind of arbitrary to me. In my first game when I got to the hunting lodge there was an eviscerated bear corpse, next time their wasn't. The pawn shop changes names too and I just don't see the corollary between my psychological state and these differences. Some of them make sense though, like the movie at the theater changes. When I was playing as my real nice guy self it was "Mommy Dearest." ???. But when I was a mean drinking sex fiend it was "Bad Poison."

[MarioRPG]

The photographs got me too, although I still think my favorite part is the whole creepy runabout in the woods. It's the only part of the game that's got any sort of atmosphere beyond "there's nobody here."

For me that was like "oh christ where do I go." I actually felt 'lost'.

[darkvare]

anyone plans on getting heavy rain after playing the demo is just a rent for me

[OxBlood]

anyone plans on getting heavy rain after playing the demo is just a rent for me

Nah, I´ll probably borrow it from a friend, it´s nothing I would buy (as long as there is something else to play at least).

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I have to get Left 4 Dead now too. Once the Passing campaign comes out for L4D2 there's going to be a new campaign added onto L4D as well.

[Fathom Zero]

Really?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_Dead_2#The_Passing

:(

I've only played one campaign in the first one. I better get good at it quick.

[kahljorn]

its pretty much the same except you can hide in corners if you want :O

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm decent with guns but sometimes I rely on melee. :(

[Guitar Woman]

Nobody is worse at Left 4 Dead than I am.

As an example, one time me and my butt-buddies for the day were patching up in a health room, and as it ended up I got an extra health kit that some other guy wanted later. I wasn't sure how to just give it to him without using it on him right away, so I tried the method with pills where you approach the character and right click to hand it to them.

What actually happened was Francis ran up and punched Louis right in the fucking face. Fucking hilarious, but not entirely functional.

[Zomboid]

Going between RE5, ME2 (insanity playthrough), and Modern Warfare 2. It's a pretty good mix, because I don't like playing RE5 as much as I did RE4.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I just played some L4D2 with some assjabs who's every move was to "Go left. Go fucking left.....Lockeness why the fuck aren't you going left??~?~! This game is designed to always go left!"

You know what guy. Fuck you in your fucking mouth. You know why no one goes left.....because its the fucking predetermined path....where they know you'll be coming. If I wanted to fucking go left I would have hopped on your merry fucking back and gave you a damn reach-around. Fuck I hate stupid people.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That and just beat RE5 Lost Nightmares on Pro mode.....


PLAY IT AGAIN SAM :p

[Fathom Zero]

I just saw bits of Introversion's new game and it made me go back and play Uplink again. It's stupid to be this excited for a game that comes out next year.

[kamrinjacobs]

I'm currently replaying Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, and I'm trying to see how far I can go with 20 HP. Also, my boyfriend and I are currently running a co-op campaign on Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for the Wii.

[Sam]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/electric_shellfish/February-26_2302.jpg

YOU FUCKING ORANGE SHIRTED COW, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T PRY BRICKS OUT OF A FIREPLACE WITH A POKER, YOU CAN'T BASH THE SHIT OUT OF THEM WITH THE HAMMER (BECAUSE IT MAKES A MESS :FUCKYOUBITCH), AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU WILL REMOVE SAID BRICKS IS WITH A FUCKING LETTER OPENER THAT WAS HIDDEN IN A GODDAMN ONYX STATUE OR SOME SHIT >:

[Fathom Zero]

Hahahhaha

[executioneer]

hopefully she gets trapped in a magician's contraption that messily bisects her head later on ;(

[kahljorn]

hopefully you can use some of your objects on her to make her remove her clothing

[darkvare]

i finally tried uncharteds 2 mp is like playing gears of war but without chainsaws and executions me no likey

[Sam]

hopefully she gets trapped in a magician's contraption that messily bisects her head later on ;(

I'll probably watch that happen like 100 times because I hate this broad. >:

[MarioRPG]

YOU FUCKING ORANGE SHIRTED COW, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T PRY BRICKS OUT OF A FIREPLACE WITH A POKER, YOU CAN'T BASH THE SHIT OUT OF THEM WITH THE HAMMER (BECAUSE IT MAKES A MESS :FUCKYOUBITCH), AND THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU WILL REMOVE SAID BRICKS IS WITH A FUCKING LETTER OPENER THAT WAS HIDDEN IN A GODDAMN ONYX STATUE OR SOME SHIT >:

Welcome to adventure games.

[Sam]

I think I'm more pissed that the letter opener was hidden in a black statue with a black button you had to press that was hard to see on the black background of the item inspection screen. I spent the longest time walking around with the hammer looking for a nail to pry out of a wall. :(

[Phoenix Gamma]

I've been playing Robot Unicorn Attack for the last few days. Save for Cream Wolf, it's the only game on Adult Swim that isn't shit. It IS, however, really, really, really gay.

[Tadao]

I've been tempted to try it.

[captain516]

ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU
AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY HARMONY

[Phoenix Gamma]

Have you seen the music video for that song?

It's probably gayer than the game.

[Tadao]

I tried the game, I had a hard time playing it cause I was too busy laughing. :(

[OxBlood]

Finished AVP3 a few days ago...meh kind of game really, haven´t tried the Multi but then again, I don´t care about it, so...yeah. Glad I just borrowed it from a friend.

[Fathom Zero]

You're missing out on the better more-than-half of the game, considering the characters were balanced for multiplayer and not singleplayer.

[executioneer]

so were the characters in the original avp, and that game didn't have a sucky solo campaign

[Fathom Zero]

It's pretty bad, too.

[OxBlood]

Oh it´s okay, I´m not into Deathmatch-y games, I prefer simple co-op every now and then, everything else is VERY bad for my mood :D

[Fathom Zero]

Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Man, this game is righteous. I picked it up from Games for Windows when it was 75% off for the weekend. This is sweeeeeeeeeet.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Made it to Wily's fortress in Mega Man 10. Surprise! He was the bad guy all along! Again!

Game's alright. It's not designed nearly as well as MM9, and the music isn't as good. Having Protoman from the outset (and soon Bass) is pretty neat, but nothing too crazy (unless Bass plays like he did in Mega Man & Bass. That'd be pretty awesome). I do like using A and B to change weapons on the fly.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I would really love to see a new Mega Man X game that's in 2D akin to MMX 3.

[Dimnos]

2D Mega Man is the ONLY Mega Man. >:

[Phoenix Gamma]

Just finished Mega Man 10 on normal. I dunno if this is way easier or way harder. The 8 stages are pretty fucking annoying, but the Wily bosses are really fucking easy.

I'm trying out some of the challenges right now, then going back to play as Proto Man. The challenges are actually pretty cool, because you've got the regular achievement-type challenges from normal play, and you've got the challenge rooms, which are intense obstacle courses.

Oh, I'm also playing BlazBlue Portable. I kinda wish they redrew the sprites for the PSP resolution instead of just scaling them down. It's kind of disappointing.

[OxBlood]

Got Risen yesterday...and again, like with all german games, it´s rather well written but programmed like a piece of crap. I still like it though, since it was just 12 Bucks.

[Guitar Woman]

2D Mega Man is the ONLY Mega Man. >:

All 3 Legends games are fantastic, you great turd

[Phoenix Gamma]

Those weren't Mega Man games.

Watched a friend play Heavy Rain today while shouting commands at the TV. Which is kinda like playing Heavy Rain. The game's slow as fucking molasses, and some scenes feel like they're there for no reason at all. One minute, you're fighting a guy at a convenience store, then it'll cut to a naked chick being attacked except not really it's a dream and okay now we're back to some other guy.

And the kids in that game act like they're drunk. All the time.

[Dr. Boogie]

I saw a Youtube clip of a sex scene from that game where you have to manually input everything, from kissing to undoing a bra. It seems kinda nerdy.

[Phoenix Gamma]

That's how the whole game is. So yea, I believe it. Real mundane. It's only really fun to fuck up, like setting the table and putting the plates down hard to piss off your dumb wife. But then it doesn't let you fuck up everything, like if you want to slice your face off when you're shaving.

Oh, and I just got 50.5% of the challenges in MM10, so that's pretty cool. Beat the game under an hour, and without dying.

[LordSappington]

Still royally pissing people off on MW2. Ninja classes are surprisingly hilarious.

[darkvare]

i rented army of two the 40th day i'm gonna beat it with a friend on split screen

[Zomboid]

Shame about Hard Rain. I was thinking it'd be the game that'd make me get a PS3.

Edit: Because I could not fucking care less about shit like Metal Gear Solid and, uhh... Killzone?

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

i rented army of two the 40th day i'm gonna beat it with a friend on split screen

How is that? I really enjoyed the first one but haven't had time to play 40th day.

[Zhukov]

How is that? I really enjoyed the first one but haven't had time to play 40th day.

Worth a rent if you enjoyed the gameplay of the first. Way too easy though, and the basic tactics that you ease yourself into in the first few levels are thrown away for the rest in favour of just pointing and shooting anything and everything faster and harder than they can shoot you.

Rubbish use of "morals" to tell a story that isn't actually told unless you do extra curricular activities and learn Mandarin or some shit to explain the back story. I had no idea who the bad guys where the whole time.

Very cool art direction though, and would be way funner with two people. Unfortunately I have few friends, although I consider those who are to be much more important to me than throw away acquaintances that I merely chat small talk with in an effort to make me feel more important.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I would need to play it with a friend. I played through the first one with a few different people but tried it by myself and it just didn't feel the same.

[darkvare]

i think the games is way too short less than 2 hours and we were already at chapter 5 of 5 wtf

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That's really short. How is the customization?

[darkvare]

there is a lot of new add ons for the guns but you have to find some bags in the game to unlock them such things as soda can silencers are fun and a lot of camos for the guns
edit i just fineshed the game no end boss, and feels just like anyother of the morale choices :(

[Zhukov]

The customization has no variety to it. All the shotguns feel the same, all the machine guns feel the same. What's the point of a cordial can silencer or a screwdriver bayonet when a REAL bayonet and a REAL silencer cost a few hundred dollars more and, oh yeah, I have 300 million dollars.

[TheCoolinator]

I've been playing AVP as well. First game I've bought new in a while. Nice game and all but needs to be patched up a little.

There are already a ton of dedicated servers running for multiplayer so there isn't too much of a problem finding a non-ranked game. The problem comes in when your trying to find a Ranked game. Then you have to go through this "Quick Match" system which is an oxymoron considering your going to be staring at the face hugger animation for around 20-30 minutes waiting to be randomly placed in a game with 2-3 people.

[Guitar Woman]

I got to the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief 3.

Not fucking cool, man.

[timrpgland]

Dragon Quest 3 Super Famicom translation.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Resident Evil 5 Desperate Escape. No kidding it makes you feel desperate.

[TheCoolinator]

Resident Evil 5 Desperate Escape. No kidding it makes you feel desperate.

I'm still debating if I should buy RE:5 for PC. I heard good and bad things about it so I'm somewhat indecisive. :confused:

[OxBlood]

Bayonetta (GOD that game is so damn awesome) and

FF13 (not as awesome but still good)

[TheCoolinator]

Bayonetta (GOD that game is so damn awesome) and

FF13 (not as awesome but still good)

I must admit Sega is finally kicking some ass with there new line up.

Alien Vs Predator
Bayonetta

They are coming out with some quality software. I hope they keep it going and don't fall into that Sonic the Hedgehog treadmill they are so used to wallowing in.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Sega didn't make Bayonetta. They just published it. That's why it isn't bad.

[dextire]

Finally started playing Valkyrie Profile. Had the game for years but never even opened the case.
I don't really like timed-RPGs, but enough people have recommended it that I decided to give it a shot.

[TheCoolinator]

Sega didn't make Bayonetta. They just published it. That's why it isn't bad.

Sega developed the PS3 port of the game and it has input on every single game that they publish.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Sega developed the PS3 port of the game and it has input on every single game that they publish.

Yea, and the PS3 port was worse than the original. Sony had to help patch it because Sega can't program for shit :rolleyes

[TheCoolinator]

Yea, and the PS3 port was worse than the original. Sony had to help patch it because Sega can't program for shit :rolleyes

But they did develop it right? :confused: And they have input on most of the software they publish, it's irrelevant if you think it's good or bad.

Just look at Sega all star Racing by SUMO. Shenmue's Ryo wouldn't have been put there without Sega's blessing.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Sega just did the shoddy porting job. They took Platinum Games' code and totally botched it on the PS3, which doesn't even make sense considering the PS3 is the stronger console.[/Microshock] They didn't actually develop it. At all. They might have okayed a few things here or there, but the core creative team and all the people that really matter in the game's development are from Platinum Games.

Exhibit B: Dimps developed the PS2/Wii versions of Unleashed, which were better than the PS3/360 versions both in terms of programming and design.
Exhibit C: Pretty much every Sonic game up to 2006 has the same abysmal loading problems as Bayonetta pre-patch.

Sega's a fucking shitty developer. Decent publisher, but can't program or design for shit these days. And no one gives a fuck about Shenmue except all three people who played those boring-ass games.

EDIT: I forgot about SegaWOW. They're pretty good, but I think actually started as a separate company anyways.

[TheCoolinator]

Sega just did the shoddy porting job. They took Platinum Games' code and crammed it on the PS3. They didn't actually develop it.

I don't know what else to tell ya Phoenix. They are down as the developer for PS3 version of Bayonetta and like I've been saying, they have input (effect the final product) of every single game they publish.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonetta

At all. They might have okayed a few things here or there, but the core creative team and all the people that really matter in the game's development are from Platinum Games.

Sega's a fucking shitty developer. Decent publisher, but can't program or design for shit these days. And no one gives a fuck about Shenmue except all three people who played those boring-ass games.

EDIT: I forgot about SegaWOW. They're pretty good, but I think actually started as a separate company anyways.

lol,

I'm not defending Sega. I'm just saying that they still develop software (Bayonetta PS3 edition) and they have input on the final designs of every game that they publish. They work very closely with their developers. They supervise them and have a say on what needs to be done and how the finished product should look.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Right. They took Platinum's 360 code, since it was originally planned as an exclusive, and converted it to the PS3. Technically, sure, they handled the code of the game. They didn't design it, though. The content is still the same, just lower quality.

It's like if I wrote a book and you published it as a hardcover with these really fancy pages, and you took that and printed it on smaller pages as a paperback. You didn't write my book, you just formatted it differently.

[TheCoolinator]

Right. They took Platinum's 360 code, since it was originally planned as an exclusive, and converted it to the PS3. Technically, sure, they handled the code of the game. They didn't design it, though. The content is still the same, just lower quality.

It's like if I wrote a book and you published it as a hardcover with these really fancy pages, and you took that and printed it on smaller pages as a paperback. You didn't write my book, you just formatted it differently.

I understand your point but Sega and Platinum jointly developed the game. Hence why it says "Developed PS3 Port" and on top of that in Bayonetta there are all kinds of different things put in the game to make it more Sega-ish.

the issue is that they publishing is not just putting crap in a box and slapping the Sega logo on it. They have more involvment with their products then that. And I'm not just talking about Sega....other publishers are the same way....Sega has just gotten lucky as of late with a few great games. I hope they keep coming out with good stuff because as I said above, I can't stand it when they harp on the Sonic mascot.

[Fathom Zero]

Pardon me, but I have more faith in developers than publishers when it comes to betting on whether a game will be good or not.

[TheCoolinator]

Pardon me, but I have more faith in developers than publishers when it comes to betting on whether a game will be good or not.

Once again,

It's a joint venture. Most publishers work with their developers on what the final product is going to look like.

In this case Bayonetta was developed and published together. Both Sega and Platinum games had a hand in the final product.

[Fathom Zero]

No. Not always. Not most.

But for a more logical argument, please give some examples so that I may give examples of games without publishers that were picked up at the last minute.

[TheCoolinator]

No. Not always. Not most.

You're right, not always, but it happens, and it happened in this case which we are discussing. Sega the publishers and Platinum Games the developer worked together as what happens most of the time between publishers and developers to create a finished product.

In this case, Sega developed the PS3 Port while Platinum took control of the XBOX port.

[Fathom Zero]

You're right.

[TheCoolinator]

You're right.

No ! You're right!

:bestthread

[darkvare]

so in conclusion sega sux at making games porting other games an treating sonic with respect?

[Dr. Boogie]

Sounds about right.

[TheCoolinator]

so in conclusion sega sux at making games porting other games an treating sonic with respect?

Sounds about right.

Yes, Yes, and Yes.

But.......Sega did Develop the shitty Bayonetta PS3 port AND has helped in numerous other titles they published.

SEEEEGGGAAAA

[OxBlood]

Finished Bayonetta and it goes directly to my Goty 2010-List. I wasn´t even aware that they still make games like these in this dark age of gaming. Feels like a breath of fresh air and chainsaws riding a comet from Yuggoth.

Also, I´m about 28hrs into FF13 and...what can I say...it´s still just "meh" or if you want a funny german word: Larifari. The game just offers so little and even after almost 30 hours it still feels like I´m playing the fucking tutorial. Whoever was responsible for the way the game is paced, should be crucified. In Deep-Space. Naked. By Mecha-Jesus if you want.

Honestly, the game has such a bad...how can I describe it without using "pacing" again...I´ll say "Rhythm". The dungeons are WAY too long, the fighting gets horribly tedious around the 15-Hour-Mark, all the time you just want the game to open up but noooo you read the reviews and you KNOW you have to play through 30 hours of linear A-B-Sequence-A-B-Sequence...over and over and over again.

Granted, the quality of the story DOES get better after a while, as do the characters. But really, what grown up gamer has the time and the will to sink 20+ hours in a game, just based on the assumption that it might get good later on? You don´t design games like that. You just don´t.

Look at Suikoden 5 for example. That game spent 10 hours wasting your time before it really began. Ten. Final Fantasy 13 wastes over twenty.

Do you guys remember the time when you first got out of Midgar in FF7 and you thought "finally, now the game begins for real!"? That is the point you want to get to in FF13 but the fucking game just keeps going on and on with what still feels like the fucking Prelude.

Sorry, I´m rambling, but I thought I´d share my concerns for this waste of potential. Because that´s what it feels like up till now.

[MarioRPG]

So not sure if anyone remembers my escpades with a Sega CD (http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69699771), we recently got together with my friend and hooked up the beast. For some magical reason, it worked. My friend and I got to play some Sonic CD and Desert Bus. Pretty slick.

[Nick]

Pardon me, but I have more faith in developers than publishers when it comes to betting on whether a game will be good or not.

Always bet on Duke.

http://www.shacknews.com/images/generated/481610d8f303e_featured_without_text_duke4art.jpg

[TheCoolinator]

Always bet on Duke.

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Are you playing the fully rendered JFDukes? That's the one I have on my PC as well as the fully rendered Hexen, Doom, and Heretic. It's really good.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Got an invite to the Lego Universe closed beta. I'm so pumped; the game looks really fucking sweet.

Edit: Seems pretty cool. Looks like there might be a lot of platforming involved? Game started to lag around the first major area. Like the customization, but it needs more hair. I settled on Conan O'Brien because most of the other hair was kinda lame anyways.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finished Bayonetta and it goes directly to my Goty 2010-List. I wasn´t even aware that they still make games like these in this dark age of gaming. Feels like a breath of fresh air and chainsaws riding a comet from Yuggoth.

Also, I´m about 28hrs into FF13 and...what can I say...it´s still just "meh" or if you want a funny german word: Larifari. The game just offers so little and even after almost 30 hours it still feels like I´m playing the fucking tutorial. Whoever was responsible for the way the game is paced, should be crucified. In Deep-Space. Naked. By Mecha-Jesus if you want.

Honestly, the game has such a bad...how can I describe it without using "pacing" again...I´ll say "Rhythm". The dungeons are WAY too long, the fighting gets horribly tedious around the 15-Hour-Mark, all the time you just want the game to open up but noooo you read the reviews and you KNOW you have to play through 30 hours of linear A-B-Sequence-A-B-Sequence...over and over and over again.

Granted, the quality of the story DOES get better after a while, as do the characters. But really, what grown up gamer has the time and the will to sink 20+ hours in a game, just based on the assumption that it might get good later on? You don´t design games like that. You just don´t.

Look at Suikoden 5 for example. That game spent 10 hours wasting your time before it really began. Ten. Final Fantasy 13 wastes over twenty.

Do you guys remember the time when you first got out of Midgar in FF7 and you thought "finally, now the game begins for real!"? That is the point you want to get to in FF13 but the fucking game just keeps going on and on with what still feels like the fucking Prelude.

Sorry, I´m rambling, but I thought I´d share my concerns for this waste of potential. Because that´s what it feels like up till now.

Thank you for saving me time on that actually. I was thinking about picking up FF13 yesterday but I just don't have the time to play for 30+ hrs and not get anywhere awesome. That's how I felt about Suikoden 5 as well. I loved it but it took forever to get going.

[Kitsunexus]

I am emulating Blazing Star on my DS. Technology never fails to amaze me!

[captain516]

Attack of The Paper Zombies (http://www.indiebird.com/blog/?p=353), A fun, addactive game.

[OxBlood]

Thank you for saving me time on that actually. I was thinking about picking up FF13 yesterday but I just don't have the time to play for 30+ hrs and not get anywhere awesome. That's how I felt about Suikoden 5 as well. I loved it but it took forever to get going.

My pleasure. It does open up after around 30hrs (about 30mins after I posted my rant) but still....way too late for some people to still be interested at that point. There are some interesting battles on Pulse later on and some giant enemies and you get to do hunting-quests and later chocobo treasure-hunting. A lot of things are apparently supposed to be done after you finish the game, a mechanic I hate. I´m grinding to onehit the final boss, what´s the point of doing it AFTER I kill it? Ah whatever, I think I need a break from 13...might play some more Risen, that game is strangely..comfy in it´s presentation...just running around Harbortown, watching the weather, helping the Order to weed out injustice and crime and making the Don´s people my enemies...but what can I say, I want to be a mage and for that, I gotta help the order so that´s what will happen.

[Dimnos]

Finally popped L4D2 in the ole xbox last night. Every fucking game I got into though was full of fucking retards that would just run off and do their own thing and die. No one worked together for shit. >:

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Finally popped L4D2 in the ole xbox last night. Every fucking game I got into though was full of fucking retards that would just run off and do their own thing and die. No one worked together for shit. >:


I plan on playing tonight.....and killing stupid people.

[Sam]

Dimnos, you should play with Bill, Kahljorn, and I, we are a fairly strong team and have forced many ragequits. :posh

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

We even almost beat the JAPOCHEATS.

[Sam]

THOSE FUCKING JAP HACKERS

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I told my gf I'll be doing MANSTUFF tonight so I am gonna be on all night.

[Fathom Zero]

BATMAN STILL PLAYING BATMAN

[Zhukov]

I got L4D2 but I think it's a bit shite, although I haven't played multiplayer yet. They call the cricket bat a paddle bat, which is annoying.

Also playing Supreme Commander 2, which is worse than the original, but not as bad as I've heard.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Started up Final Fantasy XIII today. I've been real pumped ever since I got to try the demo way back last year.

They did a fantastic job localizing. Lots of subtleties in the dialog, lips have been reanimated, etc. Vanille's voice is really fucking weird, though. I mean, I guess it suits her super bubbly personality, but the choice of accent is beyond me. Everyone else is stellar, though.

Love the cast. I didn't think I'd like Sazh, but he's turning out to be pretty cool. Sometimes he's a little too "smart alec black man", but for the most part, he's alright. Even Lightning shows hints of likableness during the game's flashbacks, prior to when she cranked the emo level up to "Cloud Strife". Snow's the man, though. Total bro, totally pumped to beat the shit out of dudes and protect everyone. I like go-getter heroes. Hope's a fucking loser, though. Seriously.

Combat's pretty rad, but confusing as hell, and once you get used to it, it takes a long time for them to introduce something else. I wish they would highlight targets a little better, since spacing out area attacks is pretty important. No complaints about linearity; every jRPG is linear as fuck, this game just takes out the bullshit wandering.

So yea, really cool, bit of a slow start, but fun once you get used to juggling all the different systems.

[Fathom Zero]

NEW COMPUTER.
PLAYS GAMES.
GOES FAST.

[OxBlood]

40hrs into Final Fantasy 13 and by now it feels more like a FF-Game. Riding around on my Chocobo, collecting treasure, beating the shit out of Monsters while getting stronger by the minute and forging my pathetic little butterknifes into tools of global destruction...THATS what I want, not whiny self-reflection that leads to nowhere while standing around in a forest made out of wires and linear paths.

[Phoenix Gamma]

FF10 was nothing but linear paths. The whole time. And that game had Meg Ryan for a protagonist.

Actually, compared to most FF's, 13 is pretty tame in the bitchiness department too. Mostly cause Snow is always fucking psyched ad brushes off any doubt, and Sazh is always telling people they're whining more than they should be.

[Kitsunexus]

I'm playing Neopet Puzzle Adventure, because I was tricked into thinking it was DEVELOPED by Capcom. >_< It's actually not that bad, though. Pretty good multiplayer.

[OxBlood]

FF10 was nothing but linear paths. The whole time. And that game had Meg Ryan for a protagonist.

Actually, compared to most FF's, 13 is pretty tame in the bitchiness department too. Mostly cause Snow is always fucking psyched ad brushes off any doubt, and Sazh is always telling people they're whining more than they should be.

Someone´s watched Spoony´s Review, eh? :lol

Awesome as usual, that´s for sure.



Concerning the linearity of 10...10 had decent pacing, something that 13 completely lacks. Whoever wrote the story had no idea how or no intention to use proper structure in the setup and the execution of the plot...which is pretty sad since it´s not a hard thing to do and it´s even more sad because 13´s plot IS good, it´s just executed very poorly. 10 had this structure, it had the proper rhythm a story must have, at least that´s my opinion.

10 was structured really normally while having 100% linear Dungeons, Towns and tertiary places. Something EVERY Final Fantasy has. Problem is: 13 is nothing BUT dungeons, there´s nothing to break up the monotony in the first 30 hours, something 10 and every other FF since 1 have.
That´s something no one would care about in an action-game but when it happens in a JRPG (which are all pretty linear), it just gives you the feeling that something is kind of off or wrong.

Is a litte hard for me to explain in english and at this time of the night (00:47 here) but I hope you understand what I´m trying to say.

Oh and concerning the bitchiness: No one can compete with Squall on that one, we all know that :lol

Off to bed I go...

[Phoenix Gamma]

Huh? I just hate Tidus and his whiny voice, retarded clothes, gay hair, and everything else about that character.

And the whole point of FFXIII, from what I've played so far, is "oh fuck, government is gonna get us. Haul ass, you guys". I don't know any fugitive on the run who has time to play chocobo minigames or roam around doing nothing. If you look at any jRPG, they just do whatever the fuck. Aeris just died? brb snowboarding. Sin's gonna destroy everyone at any point? Water Polo!

Narratively speaking, I think FFXIII is spot on. It opens up right away with a big event and shows everyone who gets dragged into it. Then the setup with the fal'cie, then it's time to get the fuck out because it's us against the whole world. Gameplay-wise? Yea, the game could introduce mechanics sooner, but it's a nuanced system, and everything is built around the story and each situation. It's pretty thoughtfully designed around the characters and the context. I think it holds everything together a lot better than 10, which just kinda did whatever the fuck it wanted.

[OxBlood]

Oh okay, I thought you might have seen his hate-tirade about the game, that´s all. I can´t say that I liked Tidus that much but he was way less annoying as Squall, since he had a positive disposition, I like such characters like him or Zidane. There´s enough pseudo-thinky types around as it is, we need more "fuck that, let´s stick to the task at hand instead of overthinking things the whole day"-types :D

Wall-o-text again I guess...

Can´t say I see any advantage in handling things the way 13 does. It´s just tedious and boring to me. The whole thing is centered around the plot and the characters, sure. And it´s done in a more focussed way than many other JRPGs do it...but I don´t think that it´s a good idea since neither the story nor the characters are that special or unique IMO.

And then again the game goes on about that "whaaa, flee from the goverment"-thing way too long for my taste. 10 hours would have done it and they could have spared us two or three of the more useless regions like the first forest part with Light and Hope, that was totally pointless.

What the game does well though is, as you said, centering the gameplay around the characters at hand. It introduces different class-combos, sure, but again, it takes way too much time to do that.
Almost all the time in those first 30 hours before the game leaves you alone so you can finally start doing something sensefull (i.e. leveling your Characters and filling your wallet to improve your equipment), I had the impression the designers made a game for retards that needed to be taken by the hand.

I know what they were trying to do by focussing on these specific combos of characters but I (and everybody else) got it the first time, there´s no need to have these artificial slowdowns in gameplay for more than maybe 5, 10 hours max. Do they really think we need 28 hours to understand the battlesystem?

Yes, it´s very tight in terms of narration but it´s also way too restrictive in terms of gameplay (which is the more important aspect of a game to me).

10 on the other hand...let´s see if I remember it...it also had artificial stops in Character progression, just like 13 (the Spherestops they were called I think) but it never felt as forced as 13 does in the beginning.

I wouldn´t make such a fuss about it if they kept that phase of the game within reasonable limits but come on...30 hours on rails is more than enough to piss off even the most dedicated JRPG-Fan, at least one that wants to do, what JRPGs do best: Let you become the most powerful group of people on the whole planet and beat the shit out of everything.

Take the despicable Final Fantasy 8 for example. It´s story and cast was the most annoying and fucked up piece of crap in any FF-Game to date (apart from 12 maybe) but it was so much fun to play because you could just build your party from really early on. You could just say "shut the fuck up Squall, no one wants to hear your bickering, go onehit some bosses!" And he did. It was awesome.



To get back to 13:

I´m in about 46 hours now and NOW it is fun. Why? Because I can focus on building my party the way I want to, I can actively aquire Gil (not possible before you have access to chocobo-riding) to spend on my upgrading and I can watch Lightning become fucking powerful and air-juggling King-Behemoths without them getting any chance of acting. THAT´s how I like my JRPGs, not endless Render-Sequences interrupted by boring running from A to B...

[Supafly345]

I'm glad they've gotten to more sane and less shitty narratives. I was pleasantly surprised by 12 amazingly relatable and break away story. Leaving behind the traditional antagonist being sorcery, the end of the world, super beasts, ultimate evil, or unhappy thoughts, and taking on the refreshing and simple goal as preventing war was the biggest step in the right direction square made in that game of many good steps. The biggest step being a solid goal through the entire game, without a hundred plot twists and story derails that every game before it had a huge problem with. A solid consistent quest keeps the narrative grounded.
Another was making the hero as minor as he started, it was always irritating that some dumb kid somehow became the boring superhero of the game. Every other character was more important than he was, but he was the ultimate perspective, so the mission felt bigger than the hero and that made it feel more epic. In addition to every character being more important, every other character was more interesting- and just like a good book for young adults should be, the bland main character made it easier for the player to put themselves in place of them and focus on everything happening around them. At least this appeared to be their goal, despite it not being pulled off very well. But it was also in the right direction.

What I am getting at is that all my favorite parts of 12 that I thought saved the entire series and regained my interest in them appear to be passed on and improved in 13 from what I have been reading. I won't know for sure until I play it, and I probably won't play it for a while since there are a billion other games I'd rather play, but hopefully square is on its way to being a developer to care about again someday soon.

[OxBlood]

I'm glad they've gotten to more sane and less shitty narratives. I was pleasantly surprised by 12 amazingly relatable and break away story. Leaving behind the traditional antagonist being sorcery, the end of the world, super beasts, ultimate evil, or unhappy thoughts, and taking on the refreshing and simple goal as preventing war was the biggest step in the right direction square made in that game of many good steps.


I´m really suprised to read something like this, because what you said there is the whole reason I hate 12.
It´s boring, unepic, with a totally forgettable war-story that could have been told in a minor JRPG. Using a Final Fantasy for such a bland and uninteresting story always felt like a total waste to me. Honestly, to me, even FF1´s Story is more interesting.

FF12: "There is a war coming and we have these totally unoriginal Empire-guys that fly around in warships that are named after Summons that don´t appear in this game. Only an extremely bland and boring cast of people you don´t care about can save the uninteresting world of Ivalice that was already uninteresting when we used it in 3 FF-Tactics games! Get to it!"

Me: "...no."

I don´t know how many times I tried to play 12...I always quit out of sheer boredom or because the cast annoys the hell out of me. Of course the presentation is good, I like the settings you visit, like the jail or Rabanastre itself but...they don´t do anything interesting with it. There´s no "Fantasy" to it.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think I'm going to pick up xiii today :(

[TheCoolinator]

Just got done with the PC adventure game Post Mortem

Was very difficult to obtain the good ending.

[OxBlood]

I think I'm going to pick up xiii today :(

Why the sad face? Despite my complaining, I think it´s a good game, considering the times we live in ;)

Quite some flaws, sure but a good game. I wouldn´t be playing it for 4-8 hours every day if it wasn´t :lol

[Dimnos]

Anyone played this Yakuza 3?

[OxBlood]

Anyone played this Yakuza 3?

I gave up on that game as soon as I read that they cut around...what 15% of of the game - around 30 Sidemissions or something like that along with some Timepasser-activities like the hostess-bar.

We germans are used to take a lot of cut-crap in videogaming but that´s TOO much. Won´t play it, the way they took stuff out for the west.

[Kitsunexus]

I'm playing Castlevania Rondo Of Blood for I guess the third time (PC emulator, PSP, now Wii) and IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER! ^_____^

Konami for life man, Konami for LIFE.

[TheCoolinator]

Anyone played this Yakuza 3?

I still haven't played Yakuza 1 yet....>: I heard it's a more violent Shenmue.

[OxBlood]

56 hours into FF13 and almost content with my equipment and party-status.

Being able to farm the giant Adamantoises with the Death-Spell is a nice if a little tedious thing but it can net you two of the most useful items in the game, Trapezohedrons (to upgrade your weapons to ultimate-status) and Platinum ingots (to sell for 150k Gil)

Also I FINALLY beat Neochu (which is called "Küsschen" in the german version which in turn translates simply to "little kiss") for the ONE item in the game that doubles my CP after battle. Awesome.

The game really gets a lot better after Chapter 10 (or around 28 to 30 hours)...

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Why the sad face? Despite my complaining, I think it´s a good game, considering the times we live in ;)

Quite some flaws, sure but a good game. I wouldn´t be playing it for 4-8 hours every day if it wasn´t :lol

I'm on chapter 2 and I really like it so far. The sad face was for realizing the amount of time I just locked myself into. Vanille runs ridiculously though.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm on chapter 2 and I really like it so far. The sad face was for realizing the amount of time I just locked myself into. Vanille runs ridiculously though.
IF BY "RIDICULOUSLY" YOU MEAN "RIDICULOUSLY CUTE", I AGREE.

ALSO, SNOW IS THE MAN. DUDE DOESN'T SULK ABOUT SHIT, SAVES THE DAY, AND RIDES A MOTORCYCLE MADE OF BITCHES. THEN SOME PUSSY PRETTY BOY TRIES TO KILL HIM AND HE'S ALL "HEH WHATEVER I'M GONNA BE AWESOME AND YOU CAN TRY TO KILL ME IF I'M NOT AWESOME ENOUGH FOR YA...AND I WILL BE AWESOME ENOUGH FOR YA SO PUT THAT KNIFE AWAY".

I love this game so much. Halfway through Chapter 9. Shit's getting intense. Vanille with a machine gun?! Oh fuck. Wait, no, she's switching back to the staff now. Goddammit.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I also thought her weapon was a nerf slingshot when she broke it out:http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/pa/paladone-catapult--the-super-sling-shot-catapult.jpg
Instead its like a fishing pole combined with a dream catcher. Snow reminds me a lot of Zell which is a good thing.

[BatmanJohnson]

I am currently playing Pokemon SoulSilver. It is really odd, because I played the first silver when I was 12. Now ten years later I'm playing through it again. Gotta love timeless appeal.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I also thought her weapon was a nerf slingshot when she broke it out:http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/pa/paladone-catapult--the-super-sling-shot-catapult.jpg
Instead its like a fishing pole combined with a dream catcher. Snow reminds me a lot of Zell which is a good thing.

She uses it as a fishing pole near the end of chapter 9. Her and her lesbo partner reel in this giant robot bird thing. Shit's bangin'.

And Snow is way cooler than that cunt Zell. You take that back right now >:

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

:lol never

[darkvare]

i finally got my gow 3 ultimate edition i'm loving it

[OxBlood]

And that was FF13. Credits after around 58hrs. Now on to more optional and more fun postgame-content. I think that was the shortest final boss in a JRPG ever...took around 2 or 3 Minutes...not even the Persona 3- Boss went down that fast :D

[timrpgland]

I've been working on my online rpg... hehe www.dragonwarriorland.com (http://www.dragonwarriorland.com)

[Nick]

You had me clicking those fake buttons like a complete tard.

[timrpgland]

Heh, just a placeholder for now. Only the forum is up but not linked to. The forum is also blocked off from new regs at this time. It's still in dev.

[Nick]

At least now you can feel happy that you made someone feel stupid without even trying. Congrats.

[timrpgland]

That's not very difficult. :(

[LordSappington]

I've recently gotten addicted to Groov. It's this fun little Indie Game, that plays much like Geometry Wars. The catch here, though, is it's MUSIC BASED. The game immediately has a pulsing beat in the background, and when you fire, it plays music to the rhythm of your gun. Different enemies make different sound effects to the music, and pretty soon, you're making all kinds of crazy-awesome techno to the beat of your enemies DYING. It gets even better once your gun starts upgrading, changing the beat of the game entirely.

[Fathom Zero]

BEAT BATMAN

BEATING BAD COMPANY 2

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

And that was FF13. Credits after around 58hrs. Now on to more optional and more fun postgame-content. I think that was the shortest final boss in a JRPG ever...took around 2 or 3 Minutes...not even the Persona 3- Boss went down that fast :D

Only 4 hours into it but it seems really easy in the fact that there are save points every 20 feet and you can retry battles if you lose. I've game-overed a few times thought from lightning dieing and not blocking during the shiva battle.

[TheCoolinator]

Megaman music Remixes

My favs are Metal Man and Flashman. Sparkman's theme is in 3rd place.

[OxBlood]

Only 4 hours into it but it seems really easy in the fact that there are save points every 20 feet and you can retry battles if you lose. I've game-overed a few times thought from lightning dieing and not blocking during the shiva battle.

Yeah, there´s no "Goddamnit! I just lost 2 hours of my life thanks to this boss!" You only lose...I dunno 10 Minutes MAX. The longest regular fight that I had in the game was about 8 or 9 Minutes.

If you take the time to run around in the 2nd phase of the game and you max the crystarium before you continue the story, you´re set for the rest of the game. Granted I had one of the ultimate weapons by then, that helped a bit too.

[Guitar Woman]

Thief 2 on Expert.

I don't think I've ever hated tile flooring as much as I did during the entire hour I spent in the Bank mission.

[OxBlood]

Got Heavy Rain over the weekend and finished it yesterday. Not a game I would buy but a damn good rent I´d say. Interesting and well written experience.

[executioneer]

been playing a lot of master of magic. I'm not saying it needs to be remade, but there's still a lot of bugs even after the final patched version i'd love to see ironed out. online multiplayer would also be nice, i guess? and i'm gonna see how shitty this new king's bounty runs on my hard-drive-locks-up-at-random shit computer in a little bit

[captain516]

Wolfenstein on a gameboy emulator.. not bad.

[MarioRPG]

I started up Minish cap and have been playing Beatles Rock Band.

[TheCoolinator]

I just got the the remastered version of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening yesterday in the mail. I can't get enough of these adventure games.

[OxBlood]

I borrowed Metro 2033 from a friend...it´s...pretty meh, not really good, has some PC-like bugs going on, sometimes you can´t understand the people because they have such a thick russian accent, doesn´t matter if in german or in english, gotta read subtitles most of the time.

That, and the gameplay is pretty boring, just your regular shooter. Glad I didn´t buy it. Also ordered Magna Carta 2. Between that and White Knight Chronicles, Magna seems to be the better game...also the cheaper one with 17 bucks...

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I really wanted to play the magna carta games.

[TheCoolinator]

I borrowed Metro 2033 from a friend...it´s...pretty meh, not really good, has some PC-like bugs going on, sometimes you can´t understand the people because they have such a thick russian accent, doesn´t matter if in german or in english, gotta read subtitles most of the time.

That, and the gameplay is pretty boring, just your regular shooter. Glad I didn´t buy it. Also ordered Magna Carta 2. Between that and White Knight Chronicles, Magna seems to be the better game...also the cheaper one with 17 bucks...

Thanks for posting this. My next FPS was going to be Metro 2033. It looked interesting because it had the whole sci-fi angle to it but now I'll pass on it because of the boring comment and having excessive russian accents in it. I had my fill of Russian voice actors in COD5.

[Dimnos]

What does a Russian accent sound like in German? :confused:

[Fathom Zero]

The same, I'd imagine. :lol

You're better off getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Those games are hella fun.

[OxBlood]

True, russian accents always sound the same, no matter if they speak german, english or...chinese (?) you can hear the easter-european tounge in it. Same with german accents, those always sound the same too...or french accents (ugh, those are horrible, sorry my french friends, it´s true).

I woulnd´t say that Metro is totally boring, it´s just kinda bland. A rather straightforward shooter where you would really like something like Stalker. Which isn´t perfect either but at least it´s not just another shooter.

Metro is basically wasted potential as far as I can tell. My friend, who payed around 50 bucks for it, really ain´t happy with that purchase, I can tell you that.

[Fathom Zero]

STALKER ROCKS.

SUPER RUSSIAN.

[TheCoolinator]

True, russian accents always sound the same, no matter if they speak german, english or...chinese (?) you can hear the easter-european tounge in it. Same with german accents, those always sound the same too...or french accents (ugh, those are horrible, sorry my french friends, it´s true).

I woulnd´t say that Metro is totally boring, it´s just kinda bland. A rather straightforward shooter where you would really like something like Stalker. Which isn´t perfect either but at least it´s not just another shooter.

Metro is basically wasted potential as far as I can tell. My friend, who payed around 50 bucks for it, really ain´t happy with that purchase, I can tell you that.

Does it at least have a multiplayer mode?

[OxBlood]

Nope, just Singleplayer apparently around 7hrs long. Typical rent-game I´d say.

[TheCoolinator]

Nope, just Singleplayer apparently around 7hrs long. Typical rent-game I´d say.

You got to be kidding. In the year 2010 they develop a game with no multiplayer..........is there a shocked emoticon that i can use somewhere?

Fuck it....I will just use this one. ---->:x

[Zhukov]

Damn, I was really looking forward to Metro. Looks like I'll just stick to the book.

Colinator: :eek

[Nick]

I had more fun with Metro 2033 then I did with Stalker.


I enjoyed it. :(

[OxBlood]

You got to be kidding. In the year 2010 they develop a game with no multiplayer..........is there a shocked emoticon that i can use somewhere?

Fuck it....I will just use this one. ---->:x

I welcome that actually. Multiplayer is like a fucking disease, spreading over everything. There are games that don´t need multiplayer. At all. Like Bioshock 2 or Assassins Creed 3 for example. But some crazy person in the industry came up with the idea that every goddamn game has to have multiplayer these days. Stupid and horrible in my opinion.

Multi should stay where it belongs, which means RTS-Games, Shooters and MMORPGs...yeah and Sportsgames but those are stupid anyway ;) Seriously, I hate sports-videogames, what a waste of time and imagination...

How did I get so angry again...oh yeah, multiplayer in games that don´t need multiplayer :lol

[TheCoolinator]

I welcome that actually. Multiplayer is like a fucking disease, spreading over everything. There are games that don´t need multiplayer. At all. Like Bioshock 2 or Assassins Creed 3 for example. But some crazy person in the industry came up with the idea that every goddamn game has to have multiplayer these days. Stupid and horrible in my opinion.

Multi should stay where it belongs, which means RTS-Games, Shooters and MMORPGs...yeah and Sportsgames but those are stupid anyway ;) Seriously, I hate sports-videogames, what a waste of time and imagination...

How did I get so angry again...oh yeah, multiplayer in games that don´t need multiplayer :lol

Good point,

I think that a games multiplayer mode shouldn't out weight it's single player story mode. There needs to be a balance.

and I agree, Sports games are worthless.

[jhonnyD2]

zelda is the best legend will ever be played... try it on

[Fathom Zero]

WHAT ARE YOU

I'm playing LEFT 4 DEAD DEUX. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[TheCoolinator]

zelda is the best legend will ever be played... try it on

This guy is great. Please give us more! :rock

[darkvare]

still playing god of war 3 just one more trophy to the platinum

[Dimnos]

I hate sports-videogames, what a waste of time and imagination...


and I agree, Sports games are worthless.

http://www.vgblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/02/BloodBowlDS.jpg

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[Fathom Zero]

Thought about buying that today, actually.

BLOOD BOWL WOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Dimnos]

I love playing the dwarves and starting the second half against a team with only three players on the field because the others are dead or to wounded to play. :lol

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

WHAT ARE YOU

I'm playing LEFT 4 DEAD DEUX. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Have you gotten the Wing and a prayer achievement? I'm done it a few times but its not registering for some reason.

[Fathom Zero]

Don't think I have. These achievements are harder than the first's.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I've been able to just "get" most of them by playing but I'm lacking a few.

[Nick]

I would play the hell out of Blood Bowl if it was like Mutant League. :(

[Ant10708]

I loved mutant league hockey :(

[OxBlood]

I don´t know...I don´t really like Warhammer Fantasy OR A-Football, so I guess I´m not really the target-audience for a game like that.

I remember Deathrow, another Brutal-Sportsgame on the old XBOX...that was kinda funny for some hours...



A friend gave me a press-copy of Eye of Judgement Legends on PSP yesterday and...well, I somehow really like it. Never played the PS3-Version since Trading Card Games are known to be an aspect of the Infinite Chaos© (played a LOT of those when I was younger, don´t know how much money I spent on that stuff, but it was so much fun, especially Netrunner and the Shadowrun-TCG), but the PSP-Version is pretty decent as far as I can tell. No Camera-Scanning, just a regular ingame-cardshop to buy cards in with the money you make from winning (or losing) battles.

Interesting game mechanics too. Not too complex but not too simple either with quite some tactics involved and a lot of ways to build your decks, really like that.

One really stupid downside is, that you "use up" your cards when you build a deck, just as you would in real life. If you only have one "Stupid Owlknight of Dickwad-Country" and you put it in Deck A, you can´t put it in Deck B without removing it from A first. That is a little bit stupid in my opinion...but since Decks can only hold 30 cards anyway, building one is a matter of a few minutes mostly.

All in all: Kinda really entertaining...wonder what multi is like...gotta convince my friend to buy it. :D Good thing he really can´t stand UMDs anymore since he got a PSP GO...hehehe.

[kahljorn]

im not sure if i was paying the right amount of attention

but it seems like snow is riding on two women scissoring eachother.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

im not sure if i was paying the right amount of attention

but it seems like snow is riding on two women scissoring eachother.


I want to get to that part.

edit: :lol Oh, I totally know what you're talking about now.

[Fathom Zero]

SHIVAAAAAAAAA

[Guitar Woman]

Assassin's Creed 2. It's glorious!

I think my favorite thing to do is stab guards with the poison blade and then throw money at them while they're spazzing out so that they slice up a bunch of civilians :D

And hang from ledges and pull guards over the edge by the dick as they pass.

Also, for some reason getting behind people and running them through with the sword in gang fights is hilarious.

[Kitsunexus]

Cave Story is still beating my ass. It seems harder than the PC version... >_<

[Ant10708]

Boy and his Blob *hugs blob*

[Phoenix Gamma]

Pokemon SoulSilver and SMT: Strange Journey.

The former is pretty good. I never played Silver, so it's fun to play the best Pokemon game for the first time. I have my Pokewalker on me at all times at PAX this weekend and tons of people stop to link up. It's actually really fun, and the only time I'll be able to publicly wear it ever again. Once PAX is over, it'll go back to sitting in my pocket :(

Strange Journey is kinda strange in the fact that it's not that strange. It's the usual SMT stuff, but the story's kinda...I dunno. I don't hate it, it's just not the typical stuff. You're an American a part of this international crew going to Antartica to check out this weird kinda black hole-ish thing. I don't know if I like it or hate it yet, cause I've been at the convention all weekend, but it seems cool.

[darkvare]

i got call of duty 4 and resistance for my ps3 i'm playing them now

[Ant10708]

Sonic the Hedgehog. defeated with all chaos emeralds

[MarioRPG]

Trying out Battlefield Heroes, free FPS game.

[Kitsunexus]

Going to try and get the original Quake working via Classic (if not at least it's an awesome CD for my car).

Ugh. nvm classic is balls. Currently playing Tempest 2000 with my bro on an actual Jaguar. (AND IM LOSING BECAUSE IM TYPING)

[OxBlood]

Couldn´t resist and got Just Cause 2. Pure and wonderful fun. That´s all I have to say about it :)

[Dr. Boogie]

I tried the demo on Live and loved it. I wanted to get it for the PC, but it turns out it's the only new PC game on the market to not support XP.

[OxBlood]

Get it for the consoles then ;) It´s really worth it. Dropping from 6km height at full speed, landing only via the grappling-hook inside a camp, wreaking havok, blowing up their radar, then jumping off a cliff and paragliding to safety only to steal a military chopper and blow up some more stuff...and all that over the course of what...five minutes?

So good :)

[StuntDouble]

New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, and I'm about to hook up my Dreamcast and play some Airforce Delta and Crazy Taxi.

[Kitsunexus]

New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, and I'm about to hook up my Dreamcast and play some Airforce Delta and Crazy Taxi.

Would you happen to have VO:OT? I kick ass at that game.

[Sam]

Just Cause 2 is sweet, I can't wait to own it. :(

[StuntDouble]

Kitsunexus,

I wish. I'm just starting to get my Dreamcast library built back up

[MarioRPG]

Just Cause 2 demo is surprisingly fun and addictive for a game I've never heard of to be a sequel. :D My friend is prolly going to buy it.

[darkvare]

mah 360 is alive and kicking once more

[TheCoolinator]

Kitsunexus,

I wish. I'm just starting to get my Dreamcast library built back up

Zomg! Did you say .....Dreamcast? :love

[Kitsunexus]

Kitsunexus,

I wish. I'm just starting to get my Dreamcast library built back up

Make sure to get VOOT and Timestalkers!

[Fathom Zero]

-TvKUjgE6y8

[OxBlood]

Very nice...looks like the "unbreakable wire"-mod, right? Sadly the darn think breaks almost immediately on the consoles...

So all I have to offer right now is me dicking around on Panau...I really like the direct-to-youtube-feature on the PS3 :)

_SHe4Ws4Cjw

[Dimnos]

Very nice...looks like the "unbreakable wire"-mod, right? Sadly the darn think breaks almost immediately on the consoles...


What?! No!

[StuntDouble]

The Coolinator,

Yep. I said Dreamcast. I actually have two right now, one I won off E-bay a couple years ago, and another I picked up at a yard sale for about $15. The sad thing is that they've been sitting in a box in my closet most of the time I've owned them. I'm trying to remedy that though.

Kitsunexus,

I'll keep my eyes open for those two!

[Kitsunexus]

@Stuntdouble. I have owned FOUR of the fuckers. One white Dreamcast was fully functional and stolen, my black SEGA Sports Dreamcast has a burnt out GD-ROM power board, my other white Dreamcast has a fried maple board, and my current white Dreamcast works but I'm not trusting it.

What seems to make them go to shit faster is running CD-Rs (either pirate games or homebrew) on them. But it was worth halving the life of your system so you can play NES and SMS on the TV again (this was pre-Wii). Sadly, sbiffy! seems to be no more, as well as DCEmu. RIP. :(

[StuntDouble]

I tend to just use mine to play the official games. However, I use my Gamecube with SD Loader for all my retro gaming:rock

While I'm still thinking about it, I managed to score Virtua Tennis, House of the Dead 2, and Shenmue (with all four discs) at a nearby flea market for a grand total of...$9.45. Unfortunately HOTD 2 doesn't work that well, but I still think I got a good deal.

[Kitsunexus]

I tend to just use mine to play the official games. However, I use my Gamecube with SD Loader for all my retro gaming:rock

While I'm still thinking about it, I managed to score Virtua Tennis, House of the Dead 2, and Shenmue (with all four discs) at a nearby flea market for a grand total of...$9.45. Unfortunately HOTD 2 doesn't work that well, but I still think I got a good deal.

If the Shenmue has the original manual and case, then yes you did.

[StuntDouble]

No manuals unfortunately. :\ Still, it seems cheaper than I've found on E-bay so far, if you factor in shipping.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

YOU PEOPLE SHOULD BE PLAYING ZOMBIE REVENGE ON YOUR DREAMCASTS

[OxBlood]

What?! No!

Sadly it does. Try pulling someone behind your car. Works for about four seconds, then the cable snaps. Same is true for anything that is wired together, people on walls (1-2-3-4-snap), almost anything.

Edit: Wait, I stand corrected, if it´s not pulled too forcefully it holds for quite some time...problem is bolting things to the ground...is see.

Okay, forget I said anything ;)

Gotta try it with planes now! Or boats to helicopters!

[Dimnos]

So.... In the console version you can drag just about anything with just about anything that moves?

[Fathom Zero]

THINGS ATTACH, GO WOOSH

I think that's the lesson here.

[OxBlood]

The main problem seems to be bolting things down to the ground. The moving object gets a shock, the wire snaps and it´s free again. Pulling moving objects with other moving objects seems to work better. Bolting people to walls seems to work for a certain ammount of time, at least that´s the impression I get, didn´t test that out extensively enough, I just shoot the guys.

Haven´t tried the plane-plane and boat-chopper thing yet, I was busy sabotaging Panau´s Spaceprogram for the Ular...

Man this game is pure gold.

On another note: I really would like to have my SMT-Strange Journey...should come in from Canada any day now, I love those games...


AND: Infinite Space (DS) is...strange. Boring combat, novel-game-like storytelling and a very clunky interface. Oddly enough it was released over here...I´d rather have Strange Journey here and import Infinite Space but you can´t be choosy with these things...

[Dr. Boogie]

Just finished Divinity 2.

This game starts out ridiculously hard because of the shitty balancing, then you become a dragon and the difficulty slides way down, until you're getting hit for no damage by just about everyone. Then the final battle is tough again, and it's over.

Kinda fun. Kinda.

[Zhukov]

I just got Blaz Blu for Xbox, and it's alright so far.

The PS3 version came with an arcade stick. The 360 version came with two absolutely shite control covers. If you use them then you can't press the buttons properly. Sucks.

Does anyone want two completely rubbish Blaz Blu Xbox controller covers?

[darkvare]

i do :) at least a picture i wanna see them

[Phoenix Gamma]

Against my better judgment, I downloaded Street Fighter IV off of the App Store.

It's surprisingly fun. Needs way more characters, but the controls...work? I even saved two really good replays on my run through arcade mode. Lack on online play kinda sucks, but I'll have to try local versus sometime. But the rest of the game is still there (combos and Focus cancels and shit) even if there's only one punch and kick now.

[dextire]

As I reward for surviving a month long bout of the flu, I went and bought Final Fantasy XIII and the hardcover collector's guide.
While I don't use guides the first time through, the book is extremely well done.

I just stared playing it, and can already say I like the battle system much more than Final Fantasy XII.
Really looking forward to losing sleep with this game. :)

[Zhukov]

i do :) at least a picture i wanna see them

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/Vincered/DSCF3004.jpg

They are crap. I really wanted a free arcade stick, because I was thinking of buying one.

Instead I get this junk. PS3 version is better for that simple reason.

[TheCoolinator]

Last night I was playing my Pinball Machine and a little bit of my SCI Arcade cab. I now know why people have huge collections of these games. So addicting. Especially pinball.

[darkvare]

mmm i may get the ps3 version of blaz blu when super street fighter 4 comes out

[TheCoolinator]

mmm i may get the ps3 version of blaz blu when super street fighter 4 comes out

Are people who bought regular Street Fighter 4 pissed off about Super Street Fighter coming out ?

I know I would.

[Dimnos]

Whatever, he's right. It's a disk release, the stated reason is because the changes to gameplay are too deep to release as a DLC. But it will be at a reduced game price.

Not sure how reliable this guy is but...

[dextire]

Are people who bought regular Street Fighter 4 pissed off about Super Street Fighter coming out ?

I know I would.
I got over it about the time the fifth or sixth edition of Street Fighter II came out. :)

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I want to play some Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

[executioneer]

there's a MAME rom for it, you know ;(

[Sam]

WHO EVEN HAS MAME ANYMORE?

I'D LIKE TO KNOW SO I CAN GET MAME FROM SOMEBODY. :(

[darkvare]

I want to play some Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
i have that on xbox even though i wish it wassuper gem fighter

[Fathom Zero]

POCKET-U FIGHTAH

[Phoenix Gamma]

I only get to play FFXIII on weekends, so I'm hoping to finish it tonight. Unfortunately, my dad is playing it right now, and he can't quite wrap his head around the clusterfuck of mechanics. He kept swearing that the game was bullshit cause some boss was kicking his ass. Then I realized he hadn't used the Crystarium at all (read: he didn't increase any of his characters' stats at all).

That was a week ago. This week, I had to explain that, no, you have to upgrade weapons. That, and he was confused about "where I have to go" in the Crystarium.

I love my dear father, but he's really not very experienced with games that don't involve guns or have Zelda in the title, and he's 55, so he has no patience :lol

[darkvare]

if he made it that far without upgrading his characters does that means he is really really good?

[Phoenix Gamma]

I dunno how far it was. He said he was fighting some tank, and the tank would burrow underground, then shoot up and kill everyone no matter what. No clue what boss that was, or how far that was, but sure, we'll go with that. He didn't even know you could change equipment till I told him, and I think he's on Chapter 8. So yea, he's either really good, or he's had hours worth of dumb fucking luck.

I just beat the game myself. I didn't think I'd beat the last chapter this weekend, especially after seeing how fucking retarded some of the final battles are. You really need to come up with a set strategy for every fucking battle, otherwise you just get your shit pushed in. The ending's really weird, but overall, I liked it. The characters really turned out to be awesome, and I can't wait to start the sidequests. A-

[Emu]

Strange Journey is goddamn fantastic and is a worthy successor to SMT1 and 2 and you should go play it right now.

[Ant10708]

Super Smash Bros. for Wii