What are you playing right now?

[Emu]

I can't find a Wii anywhere :(

I went to Blockbuster this afternoon and they had signs in the windows saying they were in stock. They told me they sold them all in two days :(

It took that long?

[Zombinatrix]

I can't find a Wii anywhere :(

I went to Blockbuster this afternoon and they had signs in the windows saying they were in stock. They told me they sold them all in two days :(

Speaking of the Wii I'm considering trading in my 360 for one. I'm pretty much done with the cavalcade of generic shooters and the d-bag kids who play them on Live.

BTW I'm playing good old Operation Flashpoint with a few mods.

[Esuohlim]

Why do you want one so badly?

Why does everyone want one so badly is the real question here >:

I want one because I kinda want to play the new Metroid, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Brawl, and the new Mario Kart coming out next week :(

[Guitar Woman]

So I was up all night playing Fallout 2!

I am pretty much the king of all awesomeland because of how instead of negotiating Vic out of the slaver's guild I just shot everyone in the building dead. :picklehat

[T-Rex]

Man, Mario Kart is like the funnest thing ever. I didn't think it would be as awesome as it is. It's fun for the people playing, but also, watching four of your friends hold a small piece of plastic and pretend it's a steering wheel is the funniest thing ever. Last night we were all sitting next to each other on the couch but soon realised that it's way too easy to cheat seated that way. If your buddy overtakes you over a bridge, just bump his elbow and see if he doesn't go flying off the side. I had 12 twenty-something-year olds in my house yesterday all playing this rediculous game. Seriously good times.

[executioneer]

So I was up all night playing Fallout 2!

I am pretty much the king of all awesomeland because of how instead of negotiating Vic out of the slaver's guild I just shot everyone in the building dead. :picklehat

oh i love to do that

did you talk to becky in the bar, she will give you a cash reward for it

[Chojin]

My biggest roadblocks in fallout 2 involved my problem with murdering all the merchants ;<

[executioneer]

i only ever murdered the joe pesci parody guy because he deserve it (and because he is otherwise unimportant)

fucking asshole and his swarms of child pickpockets >:

[Zomboid]

I killed everyone who SASSED me. I also became a slaver, which was really fun but everyone hated me. Super sledge ftw.

Milhouse - I have mario galaxy and smash bros brawl. I also have punch out, super mario world, harvest moon, streets of rage 2, ninja gaiden, and paper mario on my virtual console. Seriously, if you make a decent offer I'll sell it to ya. I never play it anymore.

[Guitar Woman]

I became a CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE by killing all the pimps and drug dealers in Reno :<

also is it just me or are the stealth skills not used at all in this game

I was a gigantic kleptomaniac in the original but now if I want something I just find a bad person who has it and kill him :<

[Zomboid]

Oh yeah, I also have link to the past on my virtual console :O

[Fat_Hippo]

I've started playing Sims 2 AND LIKING IT! Help me someone!:(

[MetalMilitia]

Been playing a bit of Battlefield 2 recently. It's really annoying the way most servers have vehicles disabled these days. I can't wait for a new Battlefield game to come out; Bad Company looks pretty good but it's only out on consoles. Who the fuck wants to play an FPS on consoles?
Battlefield Heroes should be a nice diversion but they really need to get cracking on a proper PC-only sequel.

[WhiteRat]

I was playing Battlefield 2 on a daily basis the last couple of months.

I read somewhere that they are developing BF3. The game is supposed to feature an mmo-like character progression system.

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah, there were some "leaked details" a while back for a new Battlefield game. Not sure how trustworthy they were though. My guess is they were details of Battlefield Heroes.

My perfect BF3 would have:
- Same time frame as BF2/Bad Company (modern warfare)
- Proper character development
- More unlockables (weapons, gadgets, abilities, skins, clothes)
- Better ranking system with achievements (Just rip-off CoD4's system but get rid of the cap and have more weapon-specific achievements)

[T-Rex]

If there's ever a way to have a FPS battle between console and PC, I want in on it. Everyone's all, "Oooh! FPS on PC is so much better than on console." I don't believe it. I got mad analogue stick skillz & drillz.

[MetalMilitia]

You can probably get away with a control pad in games like HALO and CoD4 but when you need access to more than about 6 functions you're screwed. For example in Battlefield you need stuff like the squad command menu, the squad communications menu, the general communications menu, all the weapon keys, sprint, switch kit, change fire mode, the list goes on. On a PC you can just bind them straight to the keyboard and mouse however you want. If you were to try and map them all to a controller it'd take about 30 seconds each time you wanted to switch to a different fire mode.

Which is all really irrelevant because the analogue sticks are to slow to aim with. :/

[T-Rex]

Okay, I can see how a stick would be slower than a mouse. However, if the sensitivity was high enough, I think that shouldn't be a problem. Sure, a pad is limited in function so that's why I think it would be interesting to see a match between only two people. Are console players limited to hardware? It'll be fun to find out.

[Guitar Woman]

I got San Andreas on my Pee Cee last night!

It's pretty much everything I've ever wanted out of a GTA title and a vast improvement over Vice City. I sorta miss the whole Scarface thing, but that game was impossible :<

[Dr. Boogie]

I admit that the times when the collision on the ground wouldn't load made the game a little tricky, but it's still totally doable.

I'm trying to play Overlord, but it runs like crap, but it runs worse than Crysis on the PC.

[Guitar Woman]

There were a lot of missions in that game that filled me with rage, the worst offender being the one where you had to get Lance out of the junkyard and I kept trying to use a helicoptor which would explode upon me crashing it to land because what the fuck were they thinking with the keyboard controls jesus christ

I simply cannot go any further, because now I have to carefully pilot a seaplane over the city spreading porn movie posters, and it controls like it's towing a huge african bull elephant.

[T-Rex]

GTA 4, son. It's insane how much detail they put into it. I car-jacked a dude and he just held on to the door handle of the car for as long as he could. I only played it for five minutes for the novelty last night but I can already tell how friggin' sweet it'll be.

[Zombinatrix]

I've started playing Sims 2 AND LIKING IT! Help me someone!:(

Yea that happened me too. I stayed up for days guiding the "Clandestine family" through all their wacky adventures.

[BlackHexen]

I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniversary while waiting for playstation 3 and Grand theft auto 4. This is pretty good game. These new controlls are awesome. I haven't before liked tombraiders, but this waked my interest. After this i gotta borrow TR 2,3 and Last revalation from my brother.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Doom, on Steam.

[Master]

I'm stuck playing Zelda: Windwaker at the moment because my PS2 died a few weeks ago, and the only other game I have for the Gamecube is Crystal Chronicles, which is a huge pile of shit. Looking forward to getting a PS3 with GTA 4 though.

[Fat_Hippo]

I've played Sins of the Solar Empire for a couple of hourse now and it's actually pretty good. The lack of campaign doesn't even bother me. I don't know how it'll hold up for long term play, since many games like this get kinda boring after a while.

What really pissed me off though: The save file of a round I had already been playing on for 2 hours (long rounds in this game) got corrupted, and my brother had played, so the autosaves were all for his game, which means I just lost those 2 hours of game time and have to start a new game. I'm just glad I wasn't further (as I said, loooong rounds) but it still pissed me off.

[liquidstatik]

FF9, it's my favvv :o

[Esuohlim]

I just got my PS2 back from my freeloading brother-in-law so I'm playing Vice City until I find something better to play :o

[Dorito]

I've been hooked on SSB Brawl practically since it came out. I don't even play online at all (you know, Nintendo online being the shitfest it is), I just CPU for an hour or so every once in a while. I've done it enough that the god awful sideways wiimote method almost feels....useable...

[Guitar Woman]

Pinball.

[stitchfan626]

Shock Troopers on the PS2 (Via SNK Arcade Classics). until i saw this game, i never knew that a "Mercs" type of game could kick serious as with plenty of rock music, an assload of weapons, and more importantly: more stuff getting blown up than on the 4th of july and new year's eve combined.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm getting my hacked versions of WiiWare's Dr. Mario and Star Soldier R working. Once I back up all my data I'll be good to go.

[Chojin]

I'm playing FF:CC on WiiWare and emily's playing Lost Winds on WiiWare :o :o :o

I've also been working on my DC collection lately and so far Shenmue is the most boring japanese town simulator I have ever played. And it was apparently designed on an engine meant for piloting TANKS. In hallways.

[WhiteRat]

I'm playing FF:CC on WiiWare and emily's playing Lost Winds on WiiWare :o :o :o

I've also been working on my DC collection lately and so far Shenmue is the most boring japanese town simulator I have ever played. And it was apparently designed on an engine meant for piloting TANKS. In hallways.

I'm looking for a sailor. Do you know where any sailors are? Are you a sailor? Am I a sailor?

[darkvare]

I'm playing FF:CC on WiiWare and emily's playing Lost Winds on WiiWare :o :o :o

I've also been working on my DC collection lately and so far Shenmue is the most boring japanese town simulator I have ever played. And it was apparently designed on an engine meant for piloting TANKS. In hallways.

is it true lost winds last 3 hours cause i read it in ign

[Emu]

I'm playing FF:CC on WiiWare and emily's playing Lost Winds on WiiWare :o :o :o

I've also been working on my DC collection lately and so far Shenmue is the most boring japanese town simulator I have ever played. And it was apparently designed on an engine meant for piloting TANKS. In hallways.

I've racked up about 8 hours in Shenmue and so far I've been in one fight and 800 conversations with people telling me they had a hard day at work and don't want to talk to me right now.

[Fathom Zero]

Hey everybody, guess what Emu's not playing!

[Emu]

;_;

[Fathom Zero]

Persona 2. :(

[Emu]

where it at man

[bigtimecow]

i think i'm going to start etrian odyssey for DS today. i've read reviews and it seems pretty good.

[Fathom Zero]

A buddy has it. Quit yer bitchin'.

[Fathom Zero]

Would you settle for Jade Cocoon? You could borrow it 'till I get Persona 2.

[Emu]

Nah, I'll wait for it.

[Fathom Zero]

Well you're missing out.

[stitchfan626]

KOF '94. still trying to beat rugal. he's easy at first, but damn his Genocide Cutter during the second battle. that's got to be the cheapest move in KOF history.

[caffman]

I'm on GTA4 and Mass effect on my 360, but still drop back on COD4 for multi

[Fathom Zero]

I'm gonna get back into Mass Effect and The Orange Box on my 360. It refused to play them before, and now that my 360 is supposed to be fixed, you can look forward to seeing me beat your asses in Team Fortress 2.

[bigtimecow]

mario kart wii and smash bros brawl are on and off everyday, but otherwise i'm playing FFXII: revenant wings on the ds. it's RTS, but it's quite fun. the only thing is there's a bunch of stats that i sort of "need" to take into consideration when playing and it's hard to keep track of all this on the field, but it's still early in the game so just grabbing a mass of people and sending them to attack and hope for the best is generally working.

[Chojin]

gamefly is sending me a copy of gta4 soon!

[Fathom Zero]

Are you looking at it hopefully, ready for it to suck, or indifferently?

[executioneer]

dang it i want to play that game but i dont want to buy a goddamn xbox or ps3 :mad

[Fathom Zero]

Buy one!

Or come to my house! :eek

[WhiteRat]

I'm gonna get back into Mass Effect and The Orange Box on my 360. It refused to play them before, and now that my 360 is supposed to be fixed, you can look forward to seeing me beat your asses in Team Fortress 2.

Can I look forward to playing with one of you I-mockery chumps in GTA 4? I have yet to do so.

[Chojin]

I don't have an AGENDA, fathom - I've played every GTA game soon after they've come out (bought the first one before it because controversial during a trip to Seattle this makes me OG you see so for my e-penis's sake I must point this out) and I think it's going to be a bunch of vapid fun. But I'm not really looking forward to it any more than I was the box of 6 genesis games I won on ebay ;<

[darkvare]

Can I look forward to playing with one of you I-mockery chumps in GTA 4? I have yet to do so.

wanna play free mode?
just add me and send me a message to say when

[Fat_Hippo]

I just played through all The Godfather's mission in TWO DAYS, and I am not gonna extort every piece of shit business in this game. Seriously, what the hell? I got about 10 hours of playing time out of this game, and it doesn't have much replayability either. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it.

Thas game was pretty lazily designed in the first place though anyway. It's got a total of about 6 car models or so, which is just sad for a game of its kind. And they could've made a couple more designs for businesses, rackets and warehouses, because as it was, it got boring very quickly. Going through the same halls, having enemies hide behind the same boxes and peeking around the same corners all the time.

[WhiteRat]

. But I'm not really looking forward to it any more than I was the box of 6 genesis games I won on ebay ;<

360=Genesis all the way. God bless Turrican!

[Fat_Hippo]

Oh, and Sins of a Solar Empire is a broken piece of shit. I wanted to play a huge game with 10 players, so that I don't get bored when I constantly have to start a new game. I started one of these, but after 2 hours it would just constantly crash. So I started another one, with the same settings, and again, 2 hours into the game, it will crash 2 minutes after loading, so I've decided to fuck that. And yes, I've got the newest patch installed.

But now I need a new game to play.:(

[Guitar Woman]

Bully.

This game is really, really good! I run around in the red ninja outfit all the time!

[darkvare]

lol niko el luchador
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/darkvare/IMG_1099.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Yo! Noid

[Ant10708]

Grand Theft Auto 4. If I fail a mission but later complete it, can I still get 100% completion for game progress or do you need to do that without failing a mission.

[darkvare]

yes you can

[Emu]

fathom is persona 2 coming today

[Fathom Zero]

Mailed off, as far as I know.

[Pub Lover]

Dragon Quest : Journey of The Cursed King

It had a long stretch of fun in the middle there, but now it's back to stupid. And I hate the alchemy bullshit.

[bigtimecow]

i just got a crap load of virtual console games: link to the past, ocarina of time, river city ransom, super smash bros :eek:eek:eek:eek:eek, harvest moon, something else i know... oh and lost winds.

[Fat_Hippo]

Medieval 2: Total War - Kingdoms

I'm playing the Brittania Camapign as the Norwegians and the invasion is well underway. Take that England!

[WhiteRat]

I played Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 for Dreamcast for an hour tonight. Surprisingly the graphics actually hold up pretty well considering the game came out 8 years ago. It gets pretty stale though after a few fights.

[Dr. Boogie]

The 360 version of Iron Man. It has proven to be a remarkably fun game, apart from the shitty CGI cutscenes and an abominable defend mission.

[MetalMilitia]

Duke Nukem: Manhattan project and Trials 2.

[darkvare]

i'm playing bully:scholarship edition and man does this game brings back good memories the only thing i never did was spit in my hand and rub it in someones face and i still haven't burned a backpack in-game but thats ok

[pac-man]

Barkley Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden. It's fucking hilarious and a really well made homage to a the 16 bit era RPGs. It's pretty much a must play if you're a basketball and RPG fan.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I just downloaded Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Street Fighter III Third Strike for MAME. I never tried the SFIII games because they don't have as cool of a character roster, but it's really fun and the animation is some of the smoothest I've seen.

Sadly, I got a giant blister on my thumb. Always happens after too much Street Fighter.

[Darmy647]

Legend of Zelda Phantom hourglass for the DS. They had it for only $17 on memorial day at Circuit City.

[kenny]

Me i'm playing gta 4. well i would be but my basement flooded, and my damn xbox broke.

[Esuohlim]

I'm replaying Ocarina of Time now.

It's weird how nostalgic I feel about a game I played for the very first time in 2002.

[Emu]

I was playing OOT a few months ago and I was loving the shit out of it until I got to the Water Temple.

[Guitar Woman]

Nobody likes the Water Temple, Emu, don't feel defeated.

[Darmy647]

Seriously. Thats one reason I was scared to play the master-quest version of Ocarina of time.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I remember the water temple being really annoying, I just got done with Twilight Princess and I feel like the whole game was a breeze compared to OOT.

[Esuohlim]

I uh actually like the Water Temple :(

I'm less of a fan of the Shadow Temple

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm not going to lie, I haven't played it in 10 years, back then I'm pretty sure I needed a strat guide for it. The one thing I always liked about water temples in Zelda games meant it was hookshot time.

The desert temples were always my fav through the series.

[Guitar Woman]

Shadow Temple scared the hell out of me as a kid :(

Forest Temple is probably my favorite, if only for the music.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

The barge creeped me out in Shadow Temple

[Chojin]

Now that i am throwing rockin' parties at my place, I will try to remember what we played the night before while I was in a drunken stupor and list them in order of most-played to least-played:

1. Genesis - Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (w/ Knuckles)
2. PC - O2Jam
3. PS2 - PaRappa the Rapper 2
4. Wii - Super smash Bros. Brawl
5. CD-i - Hotel Mario
6. PS1 - Um Jammer Lammy
7. 3DO - Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
8. Wii - Mario Kart Wii
9. Wii - Red Steel

PROTIPS
- Girls like Hotel Mario (!)
- The mission-based 4-person multiplayer game in Red Steel is awesome
- Schimid has the attention span of a retarded cat
- The 3DO has the best port of SSF2T ever
- Fuck the metropolis zone
- O2jam is terrible and no one should ever play it
- I hate smash bros, guys
- Schimid also never cleans up after himself for any reason
- Even, even, even, Alaskan.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I started up Etrian Odyssey. It's not fun at all, but I can't stop playing. I can't even start exploring the third floor because something always goes horribly wrong by the time I get there.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Didn't the Metropolis Zone have an extra act to it? I fucking hated that level.

I'm currently playing Street Fighter HF on Live Arcade.

[Fat_Hippo]

I've finished the Britannia Campaign as Norway in Medieval 2 Kingdoms and I completely pwned the Crusades Campaign as Jerusalem, and if I'd kept playing instead of fulfilling the victory conditons after 120 turns, the map would have been 100% mine. I was actually just buying regions off the other factions toward the end because I had so much money. About a third of my Kingdom was purchased.
I'm probably never gonna finish the Americas campaign 'cause I got pised off by the ridiculously boring battles. Sending one horde of indians against another is just not that interesting.
Unless Mass Effect comes in the mail sooner than expected, I'm gonna do the Teutonic campaign next, but I'm not sure what I should play as. I generally prefer well traned troops over large troops of shitty ones, so I might play as the Teutonic Knights, or maybe the Holy Roman Empire or Poland or something. I don't wanna be no punk ass Lithuania bitch.

[Esuohlim]

Metropolis Zone had that mile-high nut and bolt that you had spin up while avoiding about 50 of those exploding starfish. FUCK that zone

[MLE]

and O2Jam is not terrible, and I love it :< There was a line to play it at my computer. It's just a music game that's like IIDX that uses the keyboard. There are mostly shitty songs, but I like the game itself, and apparently tons of other people liked it enough.

[Guitar Woman]

I downloaded Dwarf Fortress and I must be a huge fucking idiot because I have no idea how to control anything in my Dwarf Fortress

or even look inside it :(

[executioneer]

i dont ever play the actual dwarf fortress, i just go adventuring and see how many cyclopes i can strangle to death :(

before i pass out in a slurry of blood and vomit and a pack of jaguars tears my head clean off :(

[Fat_Hippo]

Okay, Mass Effect DID in fact come in the mail a whole 3 days sooner than I expected, and so far, it's pretty nice. Nice fight system, though I wish there was a bit more to character creation. Very good voicework and overall good graphics, though there's something wrong with the dynamic lighting: Really weird facial shadows. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I imagine it will only get better as I keep going, so I'm looking forward to a good roleplaying experience like I haven't had in a while.

[Fathom Zero]

Sometimes the shadows look a bit grainy to me. But it looks like a moving drawing, so I can't complain. I can't decide if that's how they wanted to do it or not, so I just enjoyed it.

[Guitar Woman]

I'm attempting to OpenRPG some D&D with a few guys from Team Weeaboo but we have no idea how to work the program so we're just rolling hundred sided dice and yelling at each other over Vent

[pac-man]

I'm attempting to OpenRPG some D&D with a few guys from Team Weeaboo but we have no idea how to work the program so we're just rolling hundred sided dice and yelling at each other over Vent

http://2.content.collegehumor.com/d1/ch6/b/5/collegehumor.04e94a0b125e5f94b36c5dc5315d153c.jpg

Perry Bible Fellowship fucking rules. I plugged in the PSOne and tried to play Siphon Filter out of sheer boredom the other day. Now I'm back on GTAIV.

[Guitar Woman]

IF I GET MY SLEIGHT OF HAND HIGH ENOUGH I CAN HIDE DAGGERS IN MY NOSE

[bigtimecow]

PBF sucks now because it hasn't been updated in months. and the book is pretty retarded because it contains only i think 3 new strips? all of which didn't make it otherwise... and it shows.

i'm playing curse of monkey island right now on my pc, and constantly looking online for new builds of scummvm for the wii so i can run it on there. i also just got this audio/video to usb thing so i can play my wii on my computer screen? or make videos, or both. some nerd action coming soon i am sure

[Emu]

PBF hasn't been updated because the artist retired it.

[bigtimecow]

oh damn, color me retarded

my bad :(

[Fathom Zero]

Emu, you better be playing the fuck out of Persona 2 because I barely broke even when shipping was said and done.

[Lobo Tommy]

I just bought an Intellivision off of eBay. So I'll be playing that.

[pac-man]

I just bought an Intellivision off of eBay. So I'll be playing that.

Are you the patient type?

[Adarg]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for the 22nd time.

[pac-man]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for the 22nd time.

Christ! Are you the patient type?

[Adarg]

Christ! Are you the patient type?
... what, you mean it's a long game? But yeah, I'm patient.

[pac-man]

Once with Majora's Mask was enough for me.

[Adarg]

Once with Majora's Mask was enough for me.
*gasp*

Blasphemy! Once is never enough with a Zelda game! Except for the CD-i ones, which we don't talk about.

[Esuohlim]

Especially since I would have to debate whether or not it's a meme reference and I'm not stingy with the infractions if you catch my drift new guy.

Also hopefully soon in this thread I can be all "MOTHER 3" :eek

[Adarg]

Especially since I would have to debate whether or not it's a meme reference
If you're talking to me, no. A meme reference was not my intent.

[Emu]

Emu, you better be playing the fuck out of Persona 2 because I barely broke even when shipping was said and done.

How much did it cost to ship it?

And yes I am playing it between bouts of Nocturne. I plan to devote full attention to it when I finish that.

[Dimnos]

Did i hear something about a new earthbound or a revamped version of the old one or perhaps just a re-release on a new system? Or was i just dreaming? Anyone know?

[Emu]

Did i hear something about a new earthbound or a revamped version of the old one or perhaps just a re-release on a new system? Or was i just dreaming? Anyone know?

http://mother3.fobby.net/

[MetalMilitia]

Mother 3 looks a lot like Runescape's gay little sister.

[MetalMilitia]

...It's like guitar woman - the game.

[Fathom Zero]

How much did it cost to ship it?

And yes I am playing it between bouts of Nocturne. I plan to devote full attention to it when I finish that.

$22.50. Because my mom said she'd ship it for me. HAHAHAHA.

[omgsmg]

http://www.gameogre.com/reviewdirectory/upload/RuneScape.jpg

http://mother3.fobby.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/june8_a.png

pardon?

-BTC

[Emu]

$22.50. Because my mom said she'd ship it for me. HAHAHAHA.

She shipped it UPS. If you would've sent it US Mail it would've been like 4 dollars.

[Fathom Zero]

I realize that. I thought that was what she would use. But I know her mind is failing her in her advanced age, and she did ship it, so I'm not too harsh about it.

Oh well. Lesson learned.

[Guitar Woman]

So I played WoW today.

Do fans of this game know there's a free version called Fiesta that sucks slightly less?

[Phoenix Gamma]

I picked up MGS3:Snake Eater for 5 bucks today. Never played it.

Sadly, I'm even worse at it than MGS1, 2, and 4. I couldn't make it past the first bridge for the life of me. Then I figured out how CQC works and had an easier time.

[Emu]

There's a bee's nest you can knock down with your silenced gun that will scare the guards away.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Well I'm a lot further now :P Though I saw the nests during the Ocelot duel and felt really clever for using them. I just talked to that Russian guy that told me to backtrack to the warehouse.

Question: Any time I'm approaching a soldier from behind, he magically turns around and sees me (unlike MGS1 and 2). I go slow, and those fuckers keep magically sensing me. I know I'm doing something wrong, because I rarely pull off CQC at all. How I do suck less? :(

[Emu]

Use the D-pad to move instead of the control stick. I didn't figure that out til the end of the game. :\

[Phoenix Gamma]

Well shit, I'd have never guessed to use that.

Also, holy fuck is The End scary. I thought I snuck up on the guy, but when I got to the spot, he had moved, and when I investigated, the prick shot me. He was asleep, too, so I have no idea how he magically moved in the time it took to climb up there.

[Guitar Woman]

I've been plaing Halo Custom Edition online lately.

I don't care what anyone says, this game is SEX.

Although without voice communication, I'm having a really hard time strategizing with my teammates, especially when I have the flag and am desperately running in circles to get the attention of someone in a car that might possibly bring me to safety.

Not that that would help, the people who play this are probably idiots like every other online shooter ever. But anyway, this is a gigantic step up from any Source mods I've played so far and you all should download it so we can have a high larious battle.

[omgsmg]

i just got lego indiana jones for the wii and it is very fun!

-BTC

[Fathom Zero]

I haven't been playing anything lately. My brothers have finally broken/lost my last few games for the 360.

One of their buddies stole Grand Theft Auto and they snapped Halo 3 in half. However, this time without them has given me a greater appreciation for Shadowrun and I do unequivocally say that it is better than Halo 3.

I'm not buying any more games as long as I live in this house.

[Phoenix Gamma]

I got a leaked copy of the Spore Creature Creator demo and have been playing around with that. After succumbing to my inner 8 year old and making a penis monster, I started to make some...interesting things. It's surprisingly easy to make shit without needing to read through a giant manual.

I wasn't going to download it, but after watching that video of Robin Williams making a monster of his own, I had to try it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5TXEUiR1Xk

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think when I go home I'm going to make a Spore now.

[Phoenix Gamma]

It's kinda difficult to deal with the spine. That's one thing I'm frustrated with. That, and the demo's lack of body parts means there's no wings. I didn't realize until I was nearly done creating Trogdor.

I think I'll make a human next. One thing I love is watching the creatures move around, because they look so convincing, yet so stupid. If they're fat, they'll jiggle when they move. One creature ended up being pretty top heavy, so he would almost fall over when he turned. I can't wait to see how a person would look.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I tried the jetpack brontosaurus game you put up, kind of fun. I tried walking with him and it made me think of the secret garden with the kid with the wheelchair. My bronto forgot how to use his legs for walking after having a jetpack for so long apparently.

[ElPila666]

Do you guys played Mugen? a was playing a 700 characters version it's named Mega Mugen Ultimate, i had added some hillarious characters, i wonder if you guys knows about a site where i can download more characters, becase i can't affort a nintendo wii yet, so this is the more close that i get to play something like smash brothers brawl :(

[ElPila666]

Rog have you got the Pickleman character for Mugen? that could be an awesome one for add

[EisigerBiskuit]

Dungeon Keeper 2, Spore, and TF2. Thursday should be hilarious for TF2.

[Guitar Woman]

Silent Hill!

Holy shit, this game is ridiculous. The dialogue is even more badly written and delivered than in Silent Hill 2, and now I know that everyone thinks SH2 is fantastic in the storytelling aspect because they were comparing it to the first one. I can't skip cutscenes, either, and for some reason pressing escape immediately kills the game, no questions asked, so I get to sit through Harry meeting Cybil again, which I am pretty sure is the most horrendous thing I've ever witnessed.

Also, the PC port removes the PSX grainyness from the graphics, but for some reason they didn't do anything with the character models, so everyone looks like they're made out of jell-o.

The atmosphere is really topnotchly brickshitting, though. I'm willing to forgive any game's absolutely tear-inducing cutscenes if it manages to make my heart race like crazy before I've even played it for 5 minutes.


I also still haven't been able to play 3 because my video card isn't hardcore enough, but that's looking better and better every second :<

[Emu]

Have you been to the school yet? :eek

[Guitar Woman]

no, I got to about the DOG HOUSE LEVIN ST. note and now I am calling it quits for a while because fuck this game :<

This is a really lazy port. It's basically the PSX .iso running on an emulator, except you can't assign what keys you want to the buttons on the virtual control pad, and the ones the all-knowing and wise programmer picked out are awful. It's also got a savestate feature, for fuck's sake. Although I forsee that being useful, because running around the town being able to only see 1 foot in front of my face is really tiring. This is one of those games where I just have to go "OK, DONE" every so often and quit on the spot, then pick it back up later when I forget that I hate it.


Most of my time in Silent Hill 2 was spent wishing I was playing Resident Evil instead. In a similar fashion, most of my time in this game is spent wishing I was playing Silent Hill 2.

[Pub Lover]

Get the map in the entrance hall. I didn't and it took me forever.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Doom. I figured there would be people actually playing Deathmatches :(

[Guitar Woman]

I'm going to be pretty disappointed when the DARE YOU part from the movie isn't in here.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Yeah, it's an outrage that the programmers didn't retroactively insert that gem into the game.

[WhiteRat]

I've been playing Bust-A-Move 2 for Saturn for the better part of the afternoon now. I never would of thought that aiming bobbles to pop other bubbles would be so fun!

[EisigerBiskuit]

I forgot I had The Incredible Machine 1-3. BRB, making Lenny traps.

[Adarg]

Silent Hill!
Well, I'm glad someone mentioned it.

But yeah, like you said, ridiculously horrible dialouge/cutscenes, but oh-so-creepy overall game. Sadly, I sold it (along with my old PlayStation) a long time ago. Is there any way you could tell me of a good emulator for the PS, along with a good ROM of Silent Hill? It shall be appreciated.

[Pub Lover]

Fuck you! I talked about that for two whole pages of this thread, Dick.

[Esuohlim]

I just beat Dodongo's Cavern, dudes :x

I didn't play OoT nearly as much as I wanted to this week :(

[MarioRPG]

Lego Indiana Jones.

[bigtimecow]

Lego Indiana Jones.

me too, and it's a crapload of fun. that and ff7

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I think my fucking eyes are burnt out. I just went through 102 levels of the original gauntlet with my two friends. Never again

[executioneer]

gemcraft

http://armorgames.com/play/1716/gemcraft

yeah it's a tower defense game, but it's REALLY FUN :(

[Guitar Woman]

I would be playing TF2, but apparently to test my TENACITY valve wants to make me wait through a two hour update that hogs all of my bandwith.

Not happening!

Portal also steadfastly refuses to work. God damn you, Valve

[MetalMilitia]

VALVE HOW DARE YOU CONSTANTLY IMPROVE YOUR GAMES

[Guitar Woman]

While I'm at it HL2 Episode 1 is terrible

[MetalMilitia]

You're terrible.

[Guitar Woman]

Well you're a ******.

[EisigerBiskuit]

Well ur a obelisk :rolleyes

[Chojin]

to be fair, half-life 2 itself is pretty terrible.

[liquidstatik]

earthbound, tryin to beat it before the mother 3 translation finishes :x

[Guitar Woman]

Holy shit, my initial impression of Silent Hill has completely changed after the hospital, and this game is actually really well acted and interesting and great.

[executioneer]

played halo 3 until it started getting tiresome (about 10 minutes!) thanks to the general awfulness of using a controller in a genre of game that basically requires mouse/keyboard

[OxBlood]

I just finished Alone in the dark (360) so I guess, I´ll continue with Enchanted Arms.

[bigtimecow]

earthbound, tryin to beat it before the mother 3 translation finishes :x

:lol trust me, you're in no rush :lol

[Angryhydralisk]

Fire Emblem on Hector Hard Mode.

It feels like an old Final Fantasy game, where you don't just play it, you struggle and suffer through it.

Remember when Final Fantasy games actually had difficulty?

[Guitar Woman]

I saw "Reply 666" and hoped you had been playing something satanic

[Phoenix Gamma]

Fire Emblem is gold. I'd stay up till the wee hours of the morning playing that game. I'm convinced that Hector is a demigod of sorts. A demigod with an axe bigger than a person. Jesus Christ.

I tried Etrian Odyssey 2 the other day. The first battle (two butterflies) wiped out 3/5 of my party in one attack. Once I learned that FOEs don't give EXP anymore, I deleted it off of my R4. I'm convinced you can't have fun in that game, you just endure it. I've got better things to do (like cry about how much I suck at EO2)

[Emu]

Holy shit, my initial impression of Silent Hill has completely changed after the hospital, and this game is actually really well acted and interesting and great.

is this sarcastic

[Fathom Zero]

Mulling over whether to buy a PS3 or not.

'Tis a dangerous game.

[Dr. Boogie]

Wait for it to get a library of good games comparable to the 360/Wii.

[Guitar Woman]

is this sarcastic
no, I feel like I'm in my own big budget horror movie

and I love it!

some of the cutscenes still seem really stiff, but I guess I've gotten used to it at this point

[Girl Drink Drunk]

no, I feel like I'm in my own big budget horror movie

and I love it!

some of the cutscenes still seem really stiff, but I guess I've gotten used to it at this point
Wait till you get to the sewers.....

[Fathom Zero]

Wait for it to get a library of good games comparable to the 360/Wii.

I know. I wanted to get Uncharted, Warhawk, UT3, and maybe a few games off of the PSN.

Metal Gear Solid 4 looks fun too, I guess.

[MetalMilitia]

Just started Mass Effect on PC. Really like it so far, especially the conversation trees. It's probably the best implementation of conversations I've ever seen in a game. They've managed to cover just about everything you might want to say if you were in each situation. The voice acting and character animation really adds to the experience too.
The only problems I've had with the game so far are remembering all the character/race names and such and the planetary map not working, but that might just be down to my copy being a bit dodgy.

Still hoping that one day someone will do a modern warfare-based RPG but until then this should be a good time killer.

[Lobo Tommy]

I'm playing Wario Land: Super Mario land 3 for the original game boy. Why? I don't know, fuck you.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I'm playing Wario Land: Super Mario land 3 for the original game boy. Why? I don't know, fuck you.

That's a great game. Whenever a boss makes their entrance, pause the game, hit the buttons randomly, then unpause. It should unfreeze you during the boss' opening so you can get a bunch of free whoopin on them.

[bigtimecow]

just got rockband for the wii; it has 5 extra songs, a 20-song pack coming in a month, and i think DLC coming soon? either way, the new drumset is a big upgrade. not only is it white, but the drum pads register hits more easily (a major problem in the original drumsets) and the pedal is just easier to use / register hits.

and one of the extra 5 songs is rock rock rockaway beach :metal

[Guitar Woman]

Wait, that wasn't on the original version?

That was like, the first screenshot they revealed. >:

[bigtimecow]

are you talking about DLC? it's in the ps3 and xbox 360 version, but not the ps2 version, which i previously had

[Guitar Woman]

no, Rockaway Beach

[bigtimecow]

ohhh. as far as i know it's not in the other versions, at least ps2. but i know you can download it on the other versions

[Ant10708]

GTA 4
RE 4
Call of Duty 4

I sense a pattern

[bigtimecow]

next comes mgs

[WhiteRat]

I finally received my old NES and SNES in the mail today thanks to my sister finding them in my parents basement. Sadly, the poor NES will do nothing but flash that stupid blue screen and the SNES doesn't even have an AC adapter.

[Emu]

The blue screen can be fixed with a pin adjustment. You need a small screwdriver or nail file or something flat you can slip under the pins and bend them up a little bit.

[Guitar Woman]

guys, the last boss of Silent Hill is impossible

Unless there's some really simple and convoluted way to kill it, which I wouldn't not expect from this series

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Are you fighting Samael or Cheryl/Allessa? I beat both on my first try on normal mode. Fighting Samael on Hard was a different story.....

[Guitar Woman]

Whatever this is. No, I can't see anything either.

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/1479/cantseeshitcn7.jpg

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Just keep shooting at her in between running sideways in a circular pattern. If if you have enough ammo and health packs, you should be able to just plug away at her without really putting any effort into it. If you're low on ammo and can't kill her that way, then you're screwed. Also, fighting Alessa means you got one of the bad endings.

[Guitar Woman]

I know, I killed Cybil at the amusement park and had no idea before that I was supposed to care about Kaufmann, or how to save him at all. Also, yeah, I have no health packs and only one clip left in all of my guns.

God damnit :<

[MetalMilitia]

Just completed Mass Effect. It's one of the best games in terms of story, production values, design and uhh, "epicness" that I've ever played. I did it in about three sittings over three days and it feels like I've just watched a 30+ hour film. Can't wait to play it again and do a load more sub-quests.
Say, does anyone know - if you create a new character and start again do you get to keep all your stats (even items maybe)? It seems like you should but perhaps it would make the early parts of the game too easy.

[Fathom Zero]

It does, heh heh heh.

But if you're on a harder difficulty, it'll be harder. Obviously.

Running through the beginning of the game with all the Spectre class weapons is fun.

[Karmapolice]

Crysis multiplayer. Even my newly upgraded computer is struggling on this game :(

[EisigerBiskuit]

Penumbra, but 1, dogs make my computer sweat, and 2, those dogs rip out your throat.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Just got Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It's a little more fun this time around, but the story is even more bland. Naming my hero and clan obscenities can only add so much amusement before I want to get back to fighting.

[bloc partyin']

the legend of zelda: ocarina of time
...wish i was playing diablo 3.

[Chojin]

mostly age of conan still, though i'm beginning to slow down as I'm tiring of typical MMO quests:

"GO FIND X AND REPORT BACK"
"GO KILL # MONSTERS OF TYPE Z AND REPORT BACK"

So I guess you could say that every MMO is just like GTA.

[Guitar Woman]

You could, but you'd be wrong

[Chojin]

yeah, i guess gta has cops

[Guitar Woman]

I mean GTA's missions are generally universally interesting and varied; aside from a staple or two, you have to do the same thing twice, at most. The only really overused things are the CHASE THIS GUY ACROSS THE MAP AND GET HIM OUT OF HIS CAR missions, but I like those.

Races can go to hell and fucking die, though.

[ElPila666]

I like playing GTA as Tony Montana like in Scarface: The World is Yours, oh man, kids should learn how to talk listening what tony says in that game, it's a shame that they rated it Mature thou, damn Tony, i want some of your yeyo chico.

[Chojin]

guitar woman i am not convinced that you've actually played gta, judging from your review

[MetalMilitia]

Are you trying to say Guitar Woman doesn't actually play games before giving them her seal of dis/approval?

I find that difficult to believe. For example here is her in-depth and well researched review of Mass Effect:

"It's just Gears of War but more difficult to see what's going on."

[Girl Drink Drunk]

yeah, i guess gta has cops
The Imperdian Gaurdsmen in Oblivion are kinda like cops.

[Guitar Woman]

guitar woman i am not convinced that you've actually played gta, judging from your review
Ok, I only finished Vice City, but that's really the only one I liked enough to play all the way through.

Also I remain stalwart in my opinion of Mass Effect's gameplay and graphics

Seriously, does every game this gen have to be a fucking mud simulator

[MetalMilitia]

Ok, I only finished Vice City, but that's really the only one I liked enough to play all the way through.

Also I remain stalwart in my opinion of Mass Effect's gameplay and graphics

Seriously, does every game this gen have to be a fucking mud simulator

Mass Effect is actually a very colourful game. Not sure where you got the idea that it was GOW brown. My guess is not having played it must have something to do with it.

[Ant10708]

Ok, I only finished Vice City, but that's really the only one I liked enough to play all the way through.



"GTA's missions are generally universally interesting and varied" but yet you were too bored to finish the game? How do those two quotes even make sense together.

[Guitar Woman]

I'm at a point in GTA3 where I just cannot go any further as it is too fucking hard, and I go a little further in San Andreas every month or so.

Happy?

Also I played about 2 hours of Mass Effect, dogshit dogshit dogshit brown.

It might have been my cancerous friend's tampering in the visual options, he did that to GTA 4 too.

I do like Mass Effect's acting and story a lot, and the conversation tree gave me a nice sense of freedom in relation to how everything unfolded. I might consider pirating it some time in the future and playing to a point where everything is a happy rainbow of bright primary colors and tell you that you were completely right, ok?

[MetalMilitia]

Also I played about 2 hours of Mass Effect, dogshit dogshit dogshit brown.

If you started from the beginning you should've spent most of your time here:

http://masseffect.bioware.com/_commonext/images/me/screenshots/2007/masseffect_27_1280x760.jpg

and here:

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/29/masseffectpc.jpg

[HickMan]

GW is just plain stupid

[Esuohlim]

and I go a little further in San Andreas every month or so.

San Andreas is the only video game I've completed 100% in the last 10 years

[Guitar Woman]

more like ASS EFFECT

[Fathom Zero]

Jesus Christ. You make abused Ethiopian maids cry why their eyes aren't swelled shut from the beatings.

[Guitar Woman]

also it was that second screenshot, "Morrowind countryside" doesn't count as colorful

[liquidstatik]

DUDE JUST SAY 'OKAKY OKAY I DIDN'T PLAY IT I'M SORRY,' NOBODY BELIEVES YOUR EXCUSES

[WhiteRat]

Trying to finish Grandia 2 for Dreamcast. In two and half years of playing i'm finally at the half way point.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I wanted to try Grandia 2. I'm torn between starting that, skies of arcadia or Seiken Densetsu 3.

[WhiteRat]

Grandia 2 is pretty good, it's definitely worth a try. I've never played Skies of Arcadia but i've frequently heard that it's the best rpg for Dreamcast.

[bigtimecow]

i'm going through subspace emissary on ssbb going for 100%

[OxBlood]

Finished Dark Sector, getting back to Etrian Odyssey 2 and FF Tactics A2 on the DS. And waiting for Diablo 3 *sigh*

[Phoenix Gamma]

I finally got Marvel vs Capcom 2 working on my laptop, so I've been playing that like a madman. It's been so long since I've played it.

[RaNkeri]

Resident Evil Remake on my friend's Wii. We're gonna finish it today.

[stevetothepast]

street fighter alpha 2 and Dr. mario

[Guitar Woman]

So I've been in posession of an Xbox 360 for the past week or so.

I binged on Oblivion for two days and finished the Dark Brotherhood questline, then quit because everything that isn't the stealth system is broken and retarded. And even then the stealth system is pretty stupid, seeing as enemies put some kind of PSYCHIC MARKER into me when they see me so that they know where I am at all times.

I played more Mass Effect and quit right after the Citidel because it's KOTOR -Star Wars +a god help us Gears of War combat system. Oh, and incredibly boring. I liked Wrex, though. If the game had been "Wrex's completely interesting adventure with lots of fun combat" I would have kept playing.

I got about halfway through Bioshock and just really missed System Shock. Admittedly there were a lot of pretty fucking cool moments, but those were taken away from by design stupidity I thought we grew out of in the 90's.

Bioshock was probably the best thing I did, which doesn't say a lot.

[MetalMilitia]

I got about halfway through Bioshock and just really missed System Shock. Admittedly there were a lot of pretty fucking cool moments, but those were taken away from by design stupidity I thought we grew out of in the 90's.


You weren't even born in the 90s, Guitar Woman. :rolleyes :rolleyes :rolleyes

[Guitar Woman]

Curses! Foiled again.

[Emu]

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.

This is the first PS1 RPG I've been able to stomach in a long time. Thx Fathom :3

[Emu]

Picked up Persona 1 today, too. Playing them in reverse order is probably the worst thing I could do to myself :(

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I don't know what you're talking about, but this is more a game about committing crimes, rather than fighting them.


Crime fighter 2 is a 2d crime game that was poorly made, then poorly translated from German to English(Hence the English name "Crime Fighter". I think it was supposed to translate to something along the line of street fighter, i.e. in street fighter you don't fight the street.) with graphics reminiscent of 1995.

You commit crimes by either robbing a bank, "organize" cars, even stealing children from a local park. You can then either ransom the kids or sell them to a shop for child labor. When you start out you can't always strongarm your way out of situation so you have to raise your stats. Sometimes if you try stealing a car, the owner might be there who will fight you. I've fought Rambo, Trapper Joe, Granny with a Machine gun, Little kid with Machine gun, and Al Capone.

If you try robbing a bank you have to click on an up and down button till you hear a certain chime on 3 parts of the safe. Only thing is the correct chime sounds a lot like the default chime. This game will blow you away with its terribleness but it is worth playing. Which I am again.

[Fathom Zero]

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.

This is the first PS1 RPG I've been able to stomach in a long time. Thx Fathom :3

Is nothing, darling.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Secret of Mana 2

[bigtimecow]

just finished a link to the past on my wii, and for my total games played it said 20. i'm a bit lost, as i think i only beat it once?

anyway, i'm thinking of starting ocarina or majora's mask soon. i've never played majora, but heard wonderful things about it

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

just finished a link to the past on my wii, and for my total games played it said 20. i'm a bit lost, as i think i only beat it once?




I think that counts how many times you saved the game.

[Guitar Woman]

The counter is how many times you've died. You failure.

[Esuohlim]

I still have my first save file for Link's Awakening that says "932" :(

[Guitar Woman]

So I picked up Mario Strikers Charged again today

I said "One little game couldn't hurt" and then 3 hours later I've got the world's worst case of wanker's cramp :<

[bigtimecow]

fuck >: i am a failure

does ocarina have a similar counter?

[Guitar Woman]

All the ones before Majora's mask do, yeah

[EisigerBiskuit]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R

I have yet to here anyone to tell me to get out.

[EisigerBiskuit]

and then I stopped playing because it's maxed at 8fps.

[Guitar Woman]

Stalker takes a hell of a machine to run, but it's worth it.

[executioneer]

so fucking worth it :( i wish my gfx card wasn't glitching out, i'd probly play it a hell of a lot more

[MetalMilitia]

The thing with STALKER is it seems like it was on the cusp of being great but then fell just short. It's a very atmospheric and original game with tons of interesting stuff going on but the developers seemed to have forgotten to get the basics really solid before moving onto the fancy stuff. Specifically I felt the combat didn't work very well for a lot of the game.

Definitely worth playing though.

[Fathom Zero]

What about the prequal coming out? Any thoughts on it?

[Guitar Woman]

They didn't even finish Stalker before releasing it :<

Oblivion Lost and some other mods are musts when playing.

[MetalMilitia]

I think it's going to be good. STALKER was GSC GW's first go at an FPSRPG so it was bound to be a little rough around the edges. Now that they've got the experience of the first game under their belt they should be much better prepared to pull out the stops and produce a proper triple A title.

The new graphics stuff they're doing looks nice too.

[EisigerBiskuit]

I was reading about clear sky. Holy crap, time to dream of new parts.

As for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and every other game released after 2003 for that matter, do not favor me. It was fun while I was at 15fps without too much skipping. Reminds me of a Fallout FPS. Then when I reach the Garbage, shit gets bad.

Also, before Stalker got released, it just seemed like they were cutting shit left and right. It feels half finished.

[MetalMilitia]

Yeah they basically wasted YEARS on stupid features that never made the cut. At one stage they said that during the nights you'd have to barricade yourself inside a building to avoid being killed while you slept - you had to sleep regularly or you'd die or something. There was also all this weird stuff with the blowouts that never actually made the final game.