What are you playing right now? [Archive] - Page 30

Dimnos

Nov 10th, 2011, 10:13 PM

Ok. I doubled back and found that doorway at the blacksmith in the undead parish that I had forgotten about. Killed the demon guy inside and went into the depths. Fought my way to some giant butterfly thing that quickly ate my ass because I didnt have any more bolts for my crossbow as I used them to kill a bunch of the lantern guys in the catacombs. :\ However I did get some sweet elite knight armor, so not all bad. Doubled back again in the depths and found some giant hydra looking thing that spit water at me and killed me. :( Doubled back again and found some black knight dude who I actually managed to kill in a straight up fight without being a total cheap ass. Fought my way on to the vally of the fucking drakes and those bastards suck balls. My axe doesnt seam to be doing much to them. :\

Fathom Zero

Nov 10th, 2011, 10:24 PM

The Depths are not the Darkroot Basin

Lone Wanderer

Nov 10th, 2011, 10:24 PM

Ultimate Doom

Zomboid

Nov 10th, 2011, 10:25 PM

Ok, go back to the butterfly, but make sure you're human. The last staircase before the fight will have a white summon sign on it. Summon that witch, and she'll fuck the butterfly up for ya.

I think that after that, I went to Blight Town, but I took the entrance through the bottom of the Undead Burg, which is through the depths. The depths was pretty easy, so don't worry too much about that part. Blight town is fucking horrrrrible, though.

Alternately, you can get to Blight Town through the Valley of the Drakes if you want to avoid the parts with all the falls and just deal with all the poison. You'd miss a lot of loot, though.

Dimnos

Nov 10th, 2011, 10:33 PM

Ok being human... How do you get humanity to do that? Also... What is the point?

Witch?

:lol

OxBlood

Nov 11th, 2011, 04:11 AM

Ok being human... How do you get humanity to do that? Also... What is the point?

Witch?

:lol

Some enemies drop humanity and I´m sure you have Items that give them, they´re like the soul items. Make sure you have at least 1 humanity (you know, the number in the top left), rest at a bonfire and turn human.

As a human, there´s a chance that a NPC-Phantom will enter the game in most areas. Beat them and you gain the ability to summon them for the boss battles. Most of the time, there are summoning marks right before a boss (goldish writing on the floor) but you can only see those as a human.

The point of being human is that others can help you, you can help others and the dropchance for loot goes up.

Skyrim is officially awesome. I just did the 2nd or 3rd mainquest and climbed a fucking mountain. Everything feels so organic this time, handcrafted. The caves, dungeons, Mines, everything has character.

Last thing last night, I took a carriage to Winter...thingytown to join the mages academy. Hopefully, I´ll some neat spells there :)

kahljorn

Nov 11th, 2011, 04:18 AM

im gonna pirate the fuck out of this game

executioneer

Nov 11th, 2011, 04:25 AM

im gonna try and only play like a hour or so but its almost readyyyyy

executioneer

Nov 11th, 2011, 05:22 AM

oh for fuck's sake, the interface on this game is shit

i can't reassign the keys for the lockpicking minigame so it's still on a/d when i'm using arrow keys for movement

press 'r' to drop stuff, huh? except it doesn't fucking work. GREAT JOB YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

k0k0

Nov 11th, 2011, 09:52 AM

I'm stuck waiting for the UPS man today. But skyrim shall be mine.

Dimnos

Nov 11th, 2011, 10:54 AM

Some enemies drop humanity and I´m sure you have Items that give them, they´re like the soul items. Make sure you have at least 1 humanity (you know, the number in the top left), rest at a bonfire and turn human.

As a human, there´s a chance that a NPC-Phantom will enter the game in most areas. Beat them and you gain the ability to summon them for the boss battles. Most of the time, there are summoning marks right before a boss (goldish writing on the floor) but you can only see those as a human.

The point of being human is that others can help you, you can help others and the dropchance for loot goes up.

ty sir. :picklehat

Phoenix Gamma

Nov 11th, 2011, 05:06 PM

SKYWARD SWORD :rock:rock:rock:rock:rock:rock:rock:rock

The intro is a little long but once you fly to the surface, it really picks up. The combat is really hard this time around, and even skulltulas take a little puzzle solving to beat. I also like that there's a dash this time around to speed up running, climbing, and swimming.

Also they're really pushing the whole "Zelda wants Link's balls" angle harder than they ever have. If he doesn't penetrate her by the end credits I'm gonna be miffed. Fi isn't as cool as Midna though :(

Zomboid

Nov 11th, 2011, 08:33 PM

You're probably gonna be the only one here discussing that, chief.

I just picked up Skyrim today, but I'm exhausted and don't wanna stay up all night playing.

Dimnos

Nov 11th, 2011, 08:34 PM

So I have fought my way to the gaping dragon. He himself doesn't seam so bad. The trouble is there is some guy on a ledge shooting some magic shit at me. I can't seam to find a way up to where he is and I can't seam to be able to target his ass with my crossbow. Do I just have to dodge this fuck while running around the dragon?

Zomboid

Nov 12th, 2011, 12:43 AM

Go up to the highest level in that area where you can look down onto the area where you fight the dragon, and as you get closer to the stairs going down, there's a spot where you can pick him off with arrows. He counts as a mini-boss and doesn't respawn. I suggest getting a longbow or something because you can aim from pretty far away with those. I actually leveled the shit out of my composite bow, and it ended up being really useful in a lot of situations. Poison arrows are great.

Also, I started Skyrim. Looks gorgeous and it's fun, but I restricted myself to under two hours. I killed bandits in a mine and got to that first town. I like the smithing! Oh, and I did some finishing blow where I spun around and buried my two-handed axe into a bear's open mouth. Fucking awesome.

Zomboid

Nov 12th, 2011, 12:47 AM

And Dimos, attack the dragon's tail until it comes off. Do that with all of the dragons you encounter (except for the undead ones, but including the stone dragon and the half-dragon bitch in the painted world).

k0k0

Nov 12th, 2011, 02:28 AM

Skyrim is great. That's pretty much it.

Fathom Zero

Nov 12th, 2011, 10:01 PM

Played Skyrim for several hours. I just scratched the surface of the game, and I know it, but my Game of the Year is tentatively Dark Souls, still.

There's not enough variety in the environments in Skyrim, to me. I'll see as I go farther into it, of course. Having a lot of fun with the intrigue involved in the mage's university storyline. Also, the random dragon encounters are quite silly. One showed up as I was walking out of the main hall of the school and ten mages proceeded to blow the thing apart in seconds. It was beautiful. The story is boring me, but the amount of power-players and factions in the game that are involved in the main story is really cool.

Also fuck Giants.

k0k0

Nov 12th, 2011, 10:09 PM

They should have made the giants the things fucking up everything. Those giants kill me a ton faster than a shitty dragon does. I wanna be giantborn.

Oh, and I know I said this before, but being a werewolf absolutely blows. I mean, you look bad ass, but you can't get any bonuses from sleeping and you can't use potions/items while you're changed. I am enjoying the hell out of the storyline for the werewolf clan though.

How do you get up to the top of the mountain? I've been trying every fucking spot of this fucking mountain so that I can talk to the graybeards or whatever about my dragon powers. I can't figure out exactly where to start the climb.

Dimnos

Nov 14th, 2011, 02:09 AM

Found my way up to that one guy shooting me. After cutting him down, killing the dragon was cake. Now... Blightown. :(

Have yet to get to Skyrim but its going to be hard pressed to hold up to Dark Souls. Loving this game.

Fathom Zero

Nov 14th, 2011, 02:26 AM

Just finished the Dark Brotherhood stuff. Gets pretty crazy at the end. Also, the return of Shadowmere. :O

I think I like Dark Souls more than Skyrim because I've just gotten so sick of being THE CHOSEN ONE in every video game. Even though you're the "chosen undead" in Dark Souls, it doesn't feel like it. You're meeting and saving all of these NPCs, running around, and meeting them again farther and farther into the game. It feels like you're just of many similarly skilled people running around. Everyone is doing their own adventuring toward their own goals and it's up to you to make your own way and eventually beat Gwyn, crossing paths with fellow adventurers as you go. And the sense of scale in the fights was real. You felt intimidated and it didn't surprise you if a badguy four stories taller than you beats you, whereas in Skyrim, you can take down Skeletons, Wolves, and Draugr like they were nothing, but dare to kill a Troll? PFFT. Hope you enjoy popping potions and getting chased down in seconds.

It's weird to say that Dark Souls feels less cheap than Skyrim. But I felt like I knew where I was going in terms of my character in Dark Souls and I'm just spending perks willy-nilly in Skyrim, waiting for the next not-boss to keep me from completing a quest.

Dimnos

Nov 14th, 2011, 10:38 AM

Aaarg

Nov 14th, 2011, 01:56 PM

i'm playing shiren the wanderer because shiren the wanderer is cool
http://s.uvlist.net/l/y2006/05/17951.jpg

Fathom Zero

Nov 14th, 2011, 04:08 PM

I have no idea where Im going in terms of my character in Dark Souls. Lots of str and end is all I got :lol

What is the deal with atunement slots and magic? For the first time at a bonfire I noticed Attune Magic. When I hit it, it tells me I dont have enough slots. How do I know how many slots I need? Do I need to bother?

Attunement slots is how they handle magic and other stuffs. When you buy the things, you equip them in a slot at bonfires. Some of them may require two slots. Level up the attunement thing and you get more slots. It's required if you're a magicky-type character, because you can double up on spells and get more of them. Otherwise, you're going to run out quickly.

Strength works well, but if you intend to upgrade your weapons down other paths like Divine, Magic, Chaos, etc., then you'd prolly want to put some into things like faith, magic, and dexterity. Dexterity is important because it affects most of the weapons in the game, sometimes moreso than strength. Good job putting a lot in endurance early. If I were to do something over again, that would've been it. It was a bitch not being able to move around properly in what would've been, to anyone else, light armor. As a result, I was knocked around like a pinball in fights because I had no Poise.

Dimnos

Nov 14th, 2011, 10:05 PM

Wtf is a raw weapon good for? I noticed I can do that or go up to +6 now.

k0k0

Nov 14th, 2011, 10:09 PM

They're only good for old dirty bastard. Cuz he likes it raw.

But honestly, they aren't good at all, from what I can tell.

Fathom Zero

Nov 14th, 2011, 10:31 PM

Raw is terrible. They don't skill off of stats, so once you upgrade them fully, they don't get any stronger.

Dimnos

Nov 15th, 2011, 12:15 AM

So what you are saying is... that no matter how much str I have, it will arl only do X dmg? Where as if I get the +6, it will continue to grow with me?

kahljorn

Nov 15th, 2011, 12:36 AM

How do you get up to the top of the mountain? I've been trying every fucking spot of this fucking mountain so that I can talk to the graybeards or whatever about my dragon powers. I can't figure out exactly where to start the climb.

FOLLOW YOUR MAP AND USE tHE JOURNAL

IF YOU LOOK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT MOUNTAIN YOULL NOTICE A CITY WHICH HAS A MARKER FOR THE QUeST
GO THERE

k0k0

Nov 15th, 2011, 01:03 AM

Yeah, I figured it out a few days ago. It was snowing hard the 3 times I went through the city trying to find the spot, but the last time I finally found it.

Fathom Zero

Nov 15th, 2011, 01:43 AM

So what you are saying is... that no matter how much str I have, it will arl only do X dmg? Where as if I get the +6, it will continue to grow with me?
Yuss, and if you get it to +10, there might be a legendary weapon in it if you also imbue it with a special soul.

darkvare

Nov 15th, 2011, 03:45 PM

saints row the thrid which has a button dedicated for ball punching

Phoenix Gamma

Nov 15th, 2011, 06:42 PM

Beat Skyward Sword this morning. I was going to wait until I got 100% of the stuff, but I reached a point in the story where I got really ancy and just had to see how it ended. I'll go back though because I think I probably have 80-90% of everything, which is a lot for a first-time playthrough.

After this game, I don't think I could play Zelda on a regular controller anymore. The controls are that good. (Except for the bird. That kinda sucked.) It's also hard as fuck because every enemy has specific ways of fighting them, and all of the puzzles are brand new this time. You don't even light any torches!

Nintendo LOVES torches!

Only complaint is that the Wii can't pump out the graphics that the artists intended. That and there were a little too many silly quests forced into the main game. For the most part, though, it was excellent. I'd say it's in the top three of the entire series.

Dimnos

Nov 15th, 2011, 08:41 PM

saints row the thrid which has a button dedicated for ball punching

Did you buy this?

darkvare

Nov 15th, 2011, 10:06 PM

yep also bought the halo remastered i would have bought dark souls but i haven't seen a single copy on my town

Dimnos

Nov 15th, 2011, 10:36 PM

Fuck yeah. Ill be picking it up by the weekend. I'm assuming you got it on ps3?

darkvare

Nov 15th, 2011, 11:03 PM

yep

Dimnos

Nov 16th, 2011, 01:29 AM

Beat blightown. Now I can't seam to figure out where to go. I have quite a few options but I keep getting my ass handed to me. Went back to the catacombs and finished it off. Holy weapons suck turd. They do to little damage. I was doing better just pushing skellies off cliffs with my axe.

Dimnos

Nov 16th, 2011, 12:07 PM

So i wondered my ass into the great hollow. Now I'm stuck at the bottom of a pit cursed. :\

Time to put it down for a little.

Picked up saints row Vare, lets go bust some caps.

kahljorn

Nov 16th, 2011, 12:26 PM

HOW ABOUT PLAYIN SOME LOL YOU SON OF ABITCH

THEY JUSt CHANGED ALL THE MASTERIES AND SUMMONER SPELLS AND SUCH

Revel

Nov 18th, 2011, 12:45 AM

Oddworld Munch's Oddysey :I

Pentegarn

Nov 18th, 2011, 07:05 AM

Been playing Knights of the Old Republic (not the MMO the old game) again. Still never finished it due to getting easily distracted, think I need to this time

darkvare

Nov 18th, 2011, 11:57 AM

So i wondered my ass into the great hollow. Now I'm stuck at the bottom of a pit cursed. :\

Time to put it down for a little.

Picked up saints row Vare, lets go bust some caps.
i'll wait to see you online so we can fly around in the jet i just stole

Dimnos

Nov 18th, 2011, 12:06 PM

I think I would have to join you. All I got is a cessna. :(

darkvare

Nov 18th, 2011, 06:56 PM

sorry i had to bail dimnos but i had to go, it was fun though and i got the season pass now

Emu

Nov 20th, 2011, 11:08 AM

Radiant Historia is a pretty good game! It's got an interesting layout to its story where you have to go back in time to certain 'nodes' which are points that history branches and you can make alternative decisions in order to affect the future. Battle system is also quite fun.

Pharmasweaves

Nov 21st, 2011, 10:52 AM

I had been playing Radiant Historia but now i cant remember what im supposed to be doing, its def something you gotta keep notes on

Phoenix Gamma

Nov 21st, 2011, 07:06 PM

I was going to play Skyward Sword's Hero Mode but then I decided to do it in real life

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/383180_668022401093_50206259_33828413_731029355_n. jpg

Also Mario 3D Land is what happens when Mario 3 fucks Mario Galaxy and they have a baby.

Hydraulic_Brains

Nov 22nd, 2011, 05:33 PM

I'm playing half-life 2 (on the orange box). It never gets old!

Guitar Woman

Nov 22nd, 2011, 09:22 PM

God of War for the first time. I really shouldn't have put this game off for so long because it's totally fucking awesome.

The Warriors is good too, although the levels seem kinda tiny.

Dimnos

Nov 22nd, 2011, 10:42 PM

I didn't care for god of war, any of them really. Ninja gaiden its where its at. :posh

darkvare

Nov 22nd, 2011, 10:58 PM

we need to go on more killing sprees on saints row i got a lunar bugy now and a fliying motorcycle and my character is dressed up even sluttier now :D

Dimnos

Nov 22nd, 2011, 11:08 PM

You got that lunar buggy? I had to go to work in the middle of that mission. I'm going to run around in a thong and lucha mask.

OxBlood

Nov 23rd, 2011, 03:32 PM

Just finished Saints Row 3...it was good but I was still kinda disappointed. The game is horrible in terms of story presentation, SR2 did a better job at that, everything feeled so rushed here...that and its too short, once you approach the last 3 or 4 missions it still feels like you´re about to finish Act 1 or something.

But, it´s still a great game :)

Dimnos

Nov 23rd, 2011, 04:15 PM

SR3 is all about the multiplayer.

darkvare

Nov 23rd, 2011, 04:55 PM

nothing beats cars surfing upside down and naked

Dimnos

Nov 23rd, 2011, 07:17 PM

Plowing head on into oncoming traffic to watch you go flying off the hood is pretty close.

k0k0

Nov 23rd, 2011, 07:21 PM

Shit I want saint's row badly...but then I really want Rayman Origins badly too. I can't decide and I can only get one since I got paid today.

darkvare

Nov 23rd, 2011, 07:35 PM

i also got my free digital copy of saints row 2 today

Dimnos

Nov 24th, 2011, 12:31 AM

Free digital copy what?

OxBlood

Nov 24th, 2011, 03:04 AM

SR3 is all about the multiplayer.

Hm, maybe but I really don´t want any other players in my City ;) So yeah, pure Singleplayer it is.

Besides I gotta get back to Skyrim anyway...

darkvare

Nov 24th, 2011, 10:28 AM

Free digital copy what?
is pretty smiple just go to downloadable games and since you cashed your online pass for the third find saints row 2 and it should be marked free

10,000 Volt Ghost

Nov 24th, 2011, 11:29 PM

Fuck the horses in skyrim. This asshole horse turned on me then chased me up a tower for 20 minutes. My gf asked me if I was fighting a boss because it kept whomping on me.

Zhukov

Nov 25th, 2011, 06:56 PM

I've been playing Far Cr 2. Everyone tells me it's rubbish, but I enjoy it.

k0k0

Nov 25th, 2011, 08:15 PM

I enjoyed Far Cry 2 until I got to about 72 percent done and my gamesaves corrupted. I replayed it to about 66 percent and got corrupted again. They may have patched that, but I will probably never find out. It was a good game but pissed me off because I could never complete it.

Zomboid

Nov 25th, 2011, 10:00 PM

Fuck the horses in skyrim. This asshole horse turned on me then chased me up a tower for 20 minutes. My gf asked me if I was fighting a boss because it kept whomping on me.
I had this really aggressive horse named Frost, and when I left this dungeon that I'd just cleared, he was laying dead outside. I found a frost troll a little ways away and killed the fuck out of him.

Fathom Zero

Nov 25th, 2011, 10:32 PM

Shadowmere kills things I can't even see.

Dimnos

Nov 25th, 2011, 10:48 PM

Far Cry 2...

I got about half way into it and just couldnt give a shit anymore. I had it on xbox though. I hear they have some sweet patches and mods for it on pc.

Mad Melvin

Nov 26th, 2011, 09:55 AM

Far Cry 2...

I got about half way into it and just couldnt give a shit anymore. I had it on xbox though. I hear they have some sweet patches and mods for it on pc.

You heard wrong. There are no modding tools or any playworthy mods for it. It's just as shitty and boring on a PC.

Dimnos

Nov 26th, 2011, 11:54 AM

Well there you have it then. I must have been thinking of another shitty game.

Zhukov

Nov 26th, 2011, 12:02 PM

:lol I bought it when it came out - stopped playing it when I was 15% in because my save was corrupted.

Came back to it yesterday - got 45% in and am now thoroughly bored shitless.

k0k0

Nov 26th, 2011, 01:03 PM

The level editor in that game was awesome though. If only people actually played levels online. I remember someone built a titanic using it. I mainly would just build giant towers you'd have to climb.

LordSappington

Nov 29th, 2011, 11:58 AM

I tried the Survival game mode on MW3 yesterday, and it's actually pretty fun. They give you a lot of maps, each with enough room to move around, but still small enough that there's pressure. I like how every map never makes you feel confined; there's almost always a way out of the location you're in, so you never feel like you trapped yourself.

Esuohlim

Nov 29th, 2011, 02:07 PM

MOTHER 3

OK I hit that point in Chapter 4 where Lucas has to push those tired clay dudes to the revitalizer thing and I'm honestly so bored that I haven't played in about two weeks. There was a similar mindless task like this in the last chapter where the monkey had to deliver boxes to four different houses on the map. That's not fun. Fuck that.

Instead of enjoying the game as I'm playing it I'm constantly in an impatient hurry to move on to the next thing. :(

Mad Melvin

Nov 30th, 2011, 07:14 AM

Gots me Saint Row 3. Should keep me busy for a while (in co-op mode, of course).

Dimnos

Nov 30th, 2011, 09:15 AM

Ps3 or xbox Melvin?

Mad Melvin

Nov 30th, 2011, 05:51 PM

PC. I usually use PC for co-op games, even though I do have an XBOX.

darkvare

Nov 30th, 2011, 06:14 PM

now you can't play with me or dimnos

Mad Melvin

Nov 30th, 2011, 06:22 PM

Do you guys usually use an xbox or a ps3 for co-op?

Dimnos

Nov 30th, 2011, 06:24 PM

Ps3 as it saves me $60.

darkvare

Nov 30th, 2011, 06:24 PM

if the game has co op i always buy it for console in this case we got the ps3 version

dextire

Dec 1st, 2011, 01:08 AM

Read Dead Redemption: GOTYE. I rushed beating the game when it first came out, so I bought the edition with all the DLCs and Undead Nightmare included so I can 100% complete it this time.

OxBlood

Dec 1st, 2011, 04:04 PM

I got Anno 2070 today. The theme is just awesome, motivates me much more than the medivalish one...

Zhukov

Dec 1st, 2011, 11:25 PM

Cool. I want that game.

OxBlood

Dec 2nd, 2011, 01:22 AM

I really like how the global-warming setting and the whole melting of the icecaps-stuff creates a scenario where I don´t question the factions´ decisions to settle on super-small islands all the time, it´s simply all that´s left :)

Now, I´ve never played the Anno-games very extensively but this feels at the same time a bit slimlined and more user-friendly but I can´t really say why...I guess it´s because of EVE, the AI telling you what´s wrong all the time, giving advice and managing the massive encyclopedia-function of the game.

Gameplaywise it seems to be how I remember Anno. Build houses, satisfy demands to level up your population and get access to more buildings.
It all just feels cooler this time around. Sure, I plant rice fields in the beginning to create booze for my Tychoons (stupid name btw) but later on, I built outposts on neighbouring islands to drill for oil, process and manufacture it into plastics on-site to ship it back to my main island.
It´s just plain fun to watch all the buildings operate as this game is really really pretty, no matter if you build a nice and green Eco-Island or some dense, smoggy Tychoon-Settlement. I haven´t tried out the military aspect so I can´t comment on that yet.

And hey, even the campaign is fun so far :)

All Hail Duke

Dec 2nd, 2011, 02:27 AM

a pirated copy of gta san andreas, never finished it on ps2
not fond of playing it w/ a keyboard but i'm getting used to it

Guitar Woman

Dec 3rd, 2011, 01:59 AM

I gave Serious Sam 3 a shot after preordering it.

Turns out I really suck at this game because I'm getting my shit handed to me on level 3. It's still fucking awesome though.

timrpgland

Dec 3rd, 2011, 11:48 PM

Batman: AC is pissing me off. Started up my new game plus save again and the autosave broke. Every time I go by the GCPD building Vicki Vale keeps asking to be rescued even though she has been. Then the autosave never kicks in after that point... Trying to figure out the issue. Hate losing playtime.

Playing Secret of Mana through on coop. Unfortunately I don't have the multi-tap so just 2 player. Been a long time since playing it. We're at the desert now.

Pentegarn

Dec 4th, 2011, 01:08 AM

OxBlood

Dec 4th, 2011, 07:36 AM

I remember the desert part really sucking, but it has been awhile. Coincidentally I am playing Sword of Mana which was a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure, which was called something else originally in Japan, which was the predecessor of Secret of Mana.

You mean Mystic Quest?

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy2/de/images/a/a0/Mystic_Quest_Logo.png

I´m playing Skyward Sword which...is pretty good to be honest. It´s just something about these Zelda-games that keeps me coming back.

stevetothepast

Dec 4th, 2011, 08:31 AM

final fantasy mystic quest is basically no fun at all. My Secret of Mana doesn't save anymore :(

zerothree

Dec 4th, 2011, 08:23 PM

King Hadas

Dec 5th, 2011, 12:09 AM

That's a common marketing strategy for Square. They released the first three SaGa games over here as Final Fantasy Legends, and the third Legends game is used as a template for Mystic Quest. By the way, Mystic Quest was localized in Japan as Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest which I can only see as a way of slighting Americans, which is pretty funny.

Dimnos

Dec 5th, 2011, 02:14 AM

Rage. It mostly blows. :\

OxBlood

Dec 5th, 2011, 03:12 AM

Final Fantasy Adventure is the first Seiken Densetsu, then comes Secret of Mana, then (the awesome) Seiken Densetsu 3, then I guess Sword of Mana on PS... or something, I guess. I dunno. There's probably more.

Theres Legend of Mana on the PS1 which I haven´t played very extensively yet but it seemed rather mediocre...

Kudos for mentioning Seiken 3 though, it´s my favorite from the series, way better than Secret of Mana, at least to me. Feels more polished and you´re not playing little Kids if you don´t want to.

kahljorn

Dec 5th, 2011, 05:45 PM

Legend of Mana was kinda fun

youd probably like it cause you can build your own weapons and stuff

darkvare

Dec 5th, 2011, 09:41 PM

i'm playing chrono trigger for some reason and i got stuck with the stupid bosses that masa mune guys build :\

MarioRPG

Dec 6th, 2011, 06:28 PM

i'm playing chrono trigger for some reason and i got stuck with the stupid bosses that masa mune guys build :\
Whenever I play through that game I get stuck on the Mt. Woe boss and stop playing.

kahljorn

Dec 6th, 2011, 06:40 PM

i just realized i have a supernintendo and the original chrono trigger here somewhere

Esuohlim

Dec 7th, 2011, 12:15 AM

I've never played past 12,000 BC or whatever. I don't even know how far from the end that is.

darkvare

Dec 7th, 2011, 09:59 AM

well i beat them and now i'm at magus castle triying to defeat a trasgender magician or something

Dimnos

Dec 7th, 2011, 03:36 PM

Batman Arkham City. Cool game although I am getting a little tired of missions that are "go hear and realize you cant do anything and leave." or the "race across the city to answer a dumb phone when you really want to be doing something else."

Fathom Zero

Dec 7th, 2011, 07:30 PM

Orcs Must Die.

I've been playing it for the past 5 hours and I think I'm going to keep replaying it. Love them leaderboards.

Pharmasweaves

Dec 8th, 2011, 12:23 AM

Ive been playing skyward sword for a while now got it on release day, i think im at the final boss now so now its time to go back and finish up all the side quests before beating it

darkvare

Dec 9th, 2011, 11:33 AM

i got killing floor someone play with me goddamn it

Fathom Zero

Dec 9th, 2011, 12:02 PM

Mad Melvin

Dec 9th, 2011, 02:53 PM

Saints Row - The Third has the single worst story of any game I've ever played. It's the most unimportant piece of garbage I've ever played. I'm so happy I didn't pay full-price for it and I'd dissuade anyone from buying it if I could.

You bought this game for the story? What the hell man? The story was stupid in the second one aswell, but that didn't stop the game from being FUN. SR3 is an extremely fun co-op game where everything is over the top and stupid. In a good way. If you're looking for a gripping storyline, I suggest finding a game where you don't slap people in the face with a giant dildo while wearing a string bikini and a trashcan on your head.

Fathom Zero

Dec 9th, 2011, 04:21 PM

The story in the second one was absolutely fantastic. The characters were all interesting and I can remember every one of them. It'd be pure luck if I could name any of the Saints in the Third, besides Johnny Gat and they killed him in the first ten fucking minutes. There's no conflict in the third game. I'm constantly unlocking more and more overpowered weaponry and I never feel like my character is being at all challenged.

Compare that to the first one where your character has to break out of prison and start with absolutely nothing, rebuilding the fallen empire. The same thing happens in the third game, except you get everything nearly everything back in the second mission and antagonist after antagonist falls until you're ultimately left with a shitty paramilitary organization.

If anything, it's made me more excited for GTA V, where I can do crazy shit and the story is actually shown some care.

Sam

Dec 9th, 2011, 05:03 PM

SAINTS ROW THE THIRD IS AWESOME, FUCK THE HATERS.

darkvare

Dec 9th, 2011, 06:04 PM

i'm getting all the trophies just a couple more and bam i have my saints row 3 platinum

Emu

Dec 9th, 2011, 06:40 PM

Been loading up on DS stuff. Playing Solatorobo lately, which is both very furry and very fun! It's probably the closest thing we're gonna get to Mega Man Legends 3.

King Hadas

Dec 9th, 2011, 07:43 PM

I've been playing through the first six Megamans. I remember them being so hard but, maybe because I've been trained on Super Meat Boy, I'm breezing through these game with relative ease. And I'm not using any energy tanks or exploiting Robot Master's weapon weaknesses (in MM4 these actually make the Robot Masters harder). I'm on the fifth game now and so far MM3 is still my favorite.

Dr. Boogie

Dec 9th, 2011, 09:16 PM

i got killing floor someone play with me goddamn it

I'm game. Steam tag is Flea Friend.

I think Lord Sappington has it, too.

darkvare

Dec 9th, 2011, 10:07 PM

i can't find that steam tag

Dr. Boogie

Dec 10th, 2011, 12:22 PM

Oh, forgot the underscore.

Flea_Friend

10,000 Volt Ghost

Dec 10th, 2011, 02:32 PM

Ive been playing skyward sword for a while now got it on release day, i think im at the final boss now so now its time to go back and finish up all the side quests before beating it

I haven't talked to anyone who played it. Why is Trunks from dbz the villian?

Fathom Zero

Dec 11th, 2011, 10:05 PM

About to play Dwarf Fortress. Will try not to kill myself.

OxBlood

Dec 12th, 2011, 02:48 AM

I haven't talked to anyone who played it. Why is Trunks from dbz the villian?

It´s a secret to everybody.

He´s just stupid, I don´t know who thought putting something like him into the story would benefit the game.

I´m searching for three parts of...meh, you know it´s the triforce anyway...so yeah, it´s still a great game though the game world is really too small for my taste. Then again it makes for a more streamlined experience which might be just what I need right now.

Pentegarn

Dec 13th, 2011, 07:40 AM

I haven't talked to anyone who played it. Why is Trunks from dbz the villian?

Is Akira Toriyama somehow involved in the game maybe? He recycles his 6 character templates into everything he does. Maybe he is in this as well somewhere.

Phoenix Gamma

Dec 13th, 2011, 10:45 AM

I liked Ghirahim. Zelda hasn't had an active villain before, so it was nice to have someone routinely antagonize you instead of waiting to fight you at the end of the game. The final dual with him in just fantastic. It feels great to finally put an end to that fucker, and the game really builds up that moment.

My only gripe with SS is that the sky is pretty empty. I'd like flying a lot more if there were fun pitstops to make. That, and Fi is a shitty sidekick from a narrative and a gameplay standpoint. Other than that, everything is very solid. Exploration is more like Link's Awakening, which was more like Metroid. So that's cool. The combat is fantastic. The dungeons are really, really good (except the second fire dungeon. Why is there a second fire dungeon?) Ancient Cistern and the pirate ship are easily in the top 10 of the whole series.

OxBlood

Dec 15th, 2011, 06:00 AM

I´ve been playing El Shaddai for a while now. From a atmosphere or design point of view, this game is amazing, really amazing, it feels fresh. Sadly, the gameplay can´t really keep up with the rest...

Dimnos

Dec 15th, 2011, 11:15 AM

The demo was a shit load of seemingly pointless button mashing.

Dr. Boogie

Dec 15th, 2011, 04:17 PM

Seconded. All I heard about that game was that it looked great, but then you play the demo and realize it's no fun. Also, low-res textures.

darkvare

Dec 15th, 2011, 05:15 PM

but is in favor of the art you guys geez

OxBlood

Dec 16th, 2011, 03:11 AM

Right, I should add that I payed 8 bucks for the game, I´d be furious had I payed full price for a game with such weak gameplay as this.

And I seem to be unable to beat the final (?) boss...fucknugget has some really cheap attacks.

LordSappington

Dec 16th, 2011, 10:08 AM

Restarted Deus Ex. My goal for this playthrough: Anyone and anything that can be killed, must be. There will be absolutely no survivors by the end.
And holy shit you get practically no experience this way

Nick

Dec 21st, 2011, 10:54 AM

I've finally got around to playing Skyrim. When I'm not wasting time doing that I'm doing art work for the next game from the Terraria team.

Fathom Zero

Dec 23rd, 2011, 02:10 PM

Thanks to Steam wanting to take all of my money, I'll be fulfilling my dreams of becoming a Soviet sniper in Red Orchestra 2 from after the 26th up until I go back to school. Hit me up if you happen to have the game - all none of you.

Esuohlim

Dec 23rd, 2011, 03:05 PM

For y'all playin earthbound hit me up I'm in Summers

executioneer

Dec 23rd, 2011, 03:16 PM

too bad earthbound isn't an MMO

Fathom Zero

Dec 23rd, 2011, 03:28 PM

For y'all playin earthbound hit me up I'm in Summers

S-siiiiiide

10,000 Volt Ghost

Dec 23rd, 2011, 03:40 PM

too bad earthbound isn't an MMO

I would be mm all o ver that.

Mad Melvin

Dec 25th, 2011, 07:44 AM

Got Skyrim for Christmas. Goodbye world.

Emu

Dec 25th, 2011, 01:50 PM

For y'all playin earthbound hit me up I'm in Summers

Go talk to the socialist in the club, he's funny. also make sure you explore all over because there's a lot of stuff there to miss.

Fathom Zero

Dec 25th, 2011, 02:04 PM

I'm playing the Have To Wait and Go Home so I Can Play Hard Reset, Frozen Synapse, Red Orchestra 2, and Dungeons of Dredmor Game.

Hard Reset gives me a murder boner.

Esuohlim

Dec 27th, 2011, 03:21 AM

S-siiiiiide

Are you confused? Yes means no and no means yes! Wel cometo Sidemoo nesidemoo nesidemoo...

Go talk to the socialist in the club, he's funny. also make sure you explore all over because there's a lot of stuff there to miss.

I'm just past the part now where I always feel I did something out of order. Summers --> Boat ---> Defeat the Kraken --> Scaraba --> Pyramid is locked --> Wait hold on a second you gotta go back to Fourside, enter the sewers from the dinosaur museum, "Your Sanctuary" #5, get Carrot Key, "Your Sanctuary" #6 --> OK, now we're back on track, go back to history museum in Summers and get the code to open the pyramid

I've played this game through about a dozen times and I always feel like this is how it plays out. And there's no real common sense way of figuring out how to progress during this section either, so I actually have to make use of the Hint guy a few times.

Phoenix Gamma

Dec 27th, 2011, 10:35 AM

I got Skyrim for Christmas.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Waiting for something good to pop up on the Steam sale. Everything so far was either bought already or didn't look that great. I downloaded the iOS port of Final Fantasy Tactics, which is just the PSP port, except it doesn't run like garbage, which means I might be motivated to play through it finally.

Chojin

Dec 27th, 2011, 12:57 PM

skyrim and wwe'12

playable JR, Michael Cole, and Vickie Guerrero are DLC
also the ability to change any wrestler's stats is DLC

99 OVR Michael Cole with the undertaker's entrance coming soon to an online match near you

darkvare

Dec 27th, 2011, 10:04 PM

is the rock dlc or pre order bonus?

Emu

Dec 29th, 2011, 10:01 AM

Are you confused? Yes means no and no means yes! Wel cometo Sidemoo nesidemoo nesidemoo...

I'm just past the part now where I always feel I did something out of order. Summers --> Boat ---> Defeat the Kraken --> Scaraba --> Pyramid is locked --> Wait hold on a second you gotta go back to Fourside, enter the sewers from the dinosaur museum, "Your Sanctuary" #5, get Carrot Key, "Your Sanctuary" #6 --> OK, now we're back on track, go back to history museum in Summers and get the code to open the pyramid

I've played this game through about a dozen times and I always feel like this is how it plays out. And there's no real common sense way of figuring out how to progress during this section either, so I actually have to make use of the Hint guy a few times.

Yeah that section of the game always confused me a bit. The guy in the museum seems to know Poo, or it's implied that he does, but there's nothing in the game to suggest that, and you get so little backstory on Poo compared to the others anyway that it kind of comes out of nowhere. I wonder if something is lost in translation or if there's just something I missed. I think the game expects you to have wandered around Fourside enough to be really really curious about that sparkly silver pyramid hidden in the white-trashed-out back yard of the department store and still remember it like 4 hours later into the game and then just sort of follow things from there.

Seconded. All I heard about that game was that it looked great, but then you play the demo and realize it's no fun. Also, low-res textures.

GameStop knocked El Shaddai's price down to 20 bux new a few days ago and I ended up picking it up and I have to say that after initially hating the demo, the full game is actually remarkably underrepresented by it. The demo drops you in the middle of chapter 3, which is probably the grindiest chapter in the game, with no context whatsoever about how to effectively fight so you just default to mashing buttons. El Shaddai's combat is actually much deeper than it seems at first glance. It's kind of like Devil May Cry in that everything is based on timing and rhythm, although from my experience you can at least kind of brute force your way through DMC by mashing buttons while you can't really do that so well in ES. The game uses an interesting rock-paper-scissors mechanic where one of the three weapons is more effective against another, which is more effective against the third, which is more effective against the first. It forces you to change the way you approach enemies on the fly since you may need to steal one's weapon to beat another.

There are also a lot of 2D platforming sections that are pretty fun and the LSD craziness is always a plus for me. The game is certainly not worth $60, but for $20 it's a fantastic little brawler that will undoubtedly go completely ignored by basically everybody.

Zomboid

Dec 30th, 2011, 06:01 AM

Just finished Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. I don't think I've ever been so ambivalent about a game before. At times, I found it incredibly tedious and annoying, but other times it was great. I also really liked the story, but you could tell that it was another IP that got the CV makeover.

Fuck, though, that ending, and the epilogue, were amazing.

Zhukov

Jan 1st, 2012, 09:22 AM

I'm playing Sonic Generations. Half the time I am feeling challenged, having fun and marveling at the good job done by the developers and level designers.

The other half of the time I am cursing life itself. When they put the two different aspects of the game together like this (i.e: the side scrolling old sonic versus the 3D abomination of new sonic) do they not realise that one is a good game while the other is a pile of absolute tripe? Everything about the new style of sonic is bad. Not just the gameplay; absolutely everything.

It just makes me so frustrated.

Babs

Jan 7th, 2012, 12:00 AM

Skies of Arcadia has yet found itself in my life again. I can't help but love to play the game but realize how predictable it is, I think that in itself is why I play it, it's dull like me.

I've been on a Dreamcast kick lately, way more affordable than anything my xbox has to offer which is the reason it has a thick film of dust on it. Fuck xbox points and their shit market, dreamcast is a pirates booty.

kahljorn

Jan 8th, 2012, 01:11 AM

Fuck xbox points and their shit market, dreamcast is a pirates booty.

so they're the same then

Babs

Jan 8th, 2012, 03:17 AM

NOPE

dextire

Jan 10th, 2012, 04:53 PM

http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/dextire/Imock%20misc/trex-hug.png

Esuohlim

Jan 10th, 2012, 05:10 PM

I'm playing FFX again because fuck it, I can't seem to get into a game unless I've played it before

Pentegarn

Jan 10th, 2012, 05:18 PM

FFX... fuck it

removed all those unnecessary words for you Thrillho :lol

Zhukov

Jan 11th, 2012, 03:56 AM

Comedy gold.

I'm playing Populous 3, which is amazing (for it's time, and still pretty good). Annoying, ancient controls, but really quite fun.

Back when it was released I only ever played the demo... again and again and again.

Pentegarn

Jan 12th, 2012, 12:43 PM

Comedy gold.

You know nothing about comedy or gold so your attempted sarcasm fails

Zomboid

Jan 12th, 2012, 08:35 PM

http://www.tasminerals.com.au/gold.htm

Zhukov

Jan 12th, 2012, 09:37 PM

Yeah, but that is canceled out by:

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

LordSappington

Jan 16th, 2012, 01:11 PM

Finally got Dark Souls.
I'm not so much bothered with the difficulty curve, if a major part of that curve isn't due to bad controls and horrible translation errors. That and it's formatted for HD tvs only, so I can barely read anything in it.

darkvare

Jan 17th, 2012, 01:00 AM

so i'm playing dark souls and i got to the blight town bonfire and thosse pesky assholes with the toxic darts are pissing me off but the weird fire spiders look tougher than they really are. so i'm good

LordSappington

Jan 17th, 2012, 03:30 AM

I haven't even beaten that Taurus demon or whatever in the beginning

OxBlood

Jan 17th, 2012, 05:50 AM

I didn´t even know you could beat the Taurus until way later in the game. Both my characters had him just falling off the wall and I thought it was supposed to end that way :D

Dimnos

Jan 17th, 2012, 05:53 AM

The drop attack?

LordSappington

Jan 17th, 2012, 12:08 PM

That's the Asylum Demon.
You can get him to drop off the wall? I've been wearing him down to 1/4 health, and then messing up and getting killed.

darkvare

Jan 17th, 2012, 12:12 PM

wait you are supposed to wait to kill the taurus demon i killed him in like my 5th try with a series of lucky rolls and double drop attack

OxBlood

Jan 17th, 2012, 03:02 PM

Yeah, he can fall off the Caslte walls. Both times he tried to flank me or something and...yeah he got too close to the crumbled-off part on the outside of the wall and gone he was.

Dimnos

Jan 17th, 2012, 03:06 PM

Yeah, the big bull guy on top of the castle wall, you can drop attack his ass easy. Once you come out of the door on top of the wall, turn around and look to your left. There is a ladder you can climb up after you lead him back there.

darkvare

Jan 17th, 2012, 03:18 PM

i've killed the capra demon, the taurus, the butterfly, gaping demon and two gargoyles i think that's it for now

Joe Musashi

Jan 18th, 2012, 02:13 AM

Streets of Rage Remake, Version 5. The one Sega doesn't want you to have.

I've played it more than 200 times now, actually, on an on-and-off basis. But SORR is this game I can't help but come back to every now and then for some thug-smashing. It really is that good.

LordSappington

Jan 18th, 2012, 03:33 AM

Killed the Taurus; made it a lot easier when I noticed the ladder.
Also killed two Black Knights and got one's sword, that boar, that huge-ass knight, the gargoyles, and a Hydra.
Then some asshole invaded us. We're both level 22; this guy was at least thirty above us. He kept fucking bowing nonstop, we made it clear we didn't want to fight, and he took me out in one swipe. My friend got a backstab in, and his health bar didn't even drop. It was pure asshattery.

Dimnos

Jan 18th, 2012, 09:32 AM

I got invaded once. The fag decided to attack me at the bonfire in anor landow (or whatever that place is called) where that sun knight guy is. I kicked his ass but I also hit the sun knight guy who got pissed and them attacked me, so now I'm a murderer too. :(

The giant blacksmith guy there too who will put lightning on your weapon... I had to set my controller down to do something after I had him do my axe. When I got back, I bumped my trigger button and baseball batted him in the face. Now I can't go near his room without him trying to destroy my shit. Dont do this.

OxBlood

Jan 19th, 2012, 05:50 AM

I´ve been playing the Demo for Kingdoms of Amalur all day yesterday.

I didn´t know much about the game until a few weeks ago but now I´m really excited about it. It does so many things right and it kinda feels like the game that Fable always should have been...besides, the Demo is really generous. The Tutorial plus a taste of the first Hublevel, explorable for 45minutes at your own pace with your own little character.

Zomboid

Jan 19th, 2012, 10:21 AM

darkvare

Jan 19th, 2012, 12:01 PM

i tried killing the ghosts in londo ruins or something and after a couple of tries i ran out of curse things, i tried magic and it didn't worked so now i need to get more of thosse to kill the ghosts, also my ninja suit looks cool but it's kinda worthless defense wise

i killed a zombie dragon too but the tiny blue dragons around him are more resistant i need a weapon thst does more than 11 damage to kill them

LordSappington

Jan 19th, 2012, 12:44 PM

I killed some lightning demon by spamming him with wooden arrows for a good ten minutes.
I also killed some golden knight who was locked in a prison; my friend said if he lives, he kills some cool lady. I knocked him off a cliff edge.

darkvare

Jan 19th, 2012, 01:34 PM

i released him and i must admit i had no idea that the firelink shrine had stairs going down to new londo until i got to the shrine from new londo also the golden dude gave me a medal of sorts

Phoenix Gamma

Jan 19th, 2012, 10:04 PM

You guys need to play Dustforce on Steam. It's like Super Meat Boy meets N (that ninja flash platformer).

Basically you're some crazy dude/chick with a broom/pompoms/vacuum who runs and does flips and shit off walls and ceilings and gets rid of dust. It's really hard but really addictive.

KZcpK3OU_bA

darkvare

Jan 20th, 2012, 08:56 PM

fuck this ghosts serioulsy i ran out of thosse curses i bought and i try running past them but they surround me and i can't move a i tried climbing the stairs but they just drop me since they can float

Nick

Jan 21st, 2012, 06:52 PM

Zhukov

Jan 22nd, 2012, 08:24 AM

Looks like crap. I'm sick of jumping and shit, thanks.

Nick

Jan 22nd, 2012, 11:01 AM

man, jumping and shit is cool

Zomboid

Jan 22nd, 2012, 12:13 PM

It was real nice when you weren't posting so much.

Nick

Jan 22nd, 2012, 11:55 PM

yeah wasnt it?

OxBlood

Jan 23rd, 2012, 10:17 AM

I finished Resistance 3 the other day. Way better than the first two, a lot of fun.

Also, I invested a little in my local indie developer (not really local) and bought Evochron Mercenary and E.Y.E. - Divine Cybermancy on Steam.

Evochron is a nice little Spaceflight game, think Privateer. Everything is being kept rather small, no Battlecruisers in this game but lots of freeform exploration. You can even land on planets and mine their stuff or dock at cities.

E.Y.E. on the other hand is...just plain weird yet awesome. It´s a...well a FPS/RPG/Mushroomtrip set in a highly dystopian future around 2300, you take on the role of some kind of cybernetic samurai-monk-enforcer-thing to do...something.
I honestly don´t know what the game is really about because it was made by a bunch of French dudes and...yeah, their english isn´t the best apparently (and no, I don´t speak french, english and german and that´s all I can do, sorry ;)).
From what I can gather, there are aliens and mutants and then there´s those samurai dudes that are generically enhanced by these alien genes and they can also do Ninja-magic and have Cybertech up their asses too.
So basically, I´m a gun toting Cyborg that can summon illusory Doppelgängers like Naruto all while hacking into someones mind to make his head explode. Unless that person counter-hacks me and floods my HUD with smilies and Ads... in which case I have to hack myself to get rid of all the Malware :D

I like it a lot but it´s a bit unstable sadly. Oh and it has 32 player Coop.

darkvare

Jan 29th, 2012, 02:06 AM

so i defeated the 4 lord bosses for the lordvessel all of which were pussies specially the undead guy who i killed while being toxic then i kicked gwyns ass. I thought man things are gonna get tough on new game plus so i got to the asylum demon and bam one hit kill then i got to the taurus demon and another one hit kill lol i think i over leveled my strength

LordSappington

Jan 31st, 2012, 11:16 AM

Still playing Dark Souls. I love this game, but there are some things that make the game less FUN hard, and more 'Goddammit Japan what the fuck is your problem" hard.
1. It has a habit of throwing enemies at you that you CANNOT beat. It's bad enough that most of the bosses are either piss easy or have to be beaten with an exploit, but sometimes the game decides to throw enemies at you in an area you just beat that are just impossible. After beating Ceaseless Discharge, I went on down to the cooled lava it just made, and immediately, some demon that ran twice as fast as me sprints up and one-hits me through my shield. Not fun at all.
2. Pitfalls. I wouldn't mind them so much if the game didn't throw them fucking EVERYWHERE. The Blighttown was the worst, because literally the entire level is hoping you don't get knocked off to your death.
3. Invaders. There have been way too many times when I've been trying to summon my friend into my game, when some meta-gaming asshole spawns in, decked out with crazy awesome gear I didn't even know existed and mathematically chosen stats, and immediately just rush up and one-hit me. I wouldn't mind it so much, but if you want to play with friends, then you can ALWAYS be invaded at any time. There needs to be a way to block them.
/bitching

darkvare

Jan 31st, 2012, 02:16 PM

are you talking about the capra demons (the guys with 2 swords) on the lava level?

Zomboid

Jan 31st, 2012, 03:00 PM

Those were annoying, but if you can get past that first part and get down to the bonfire, you can sprint past the rest and get to a tougher version of that asylum demon--but he has the same basic strategies, so it's significantly easier.

I sorta wanna play this again.

LordSappington

Jan 31st, 2012, 07:40 PM

I guess it's a capra demon. It's got some kinda goat skull and two bigass swords.
I don't like looking things up online for games like this, because it feels like cheating to me. It's not much fun if I know exactly where all the best gear is hidden.

darkvare

Jan 31st, 2012, 10:05 PM

i had to kill him as a boss to get to blighttown how did you got there?

Zomboid

Feb 1st, 2012, 01:26 AM

There's two or three different ways in there.

LordSappington

Feb 1st, 2012, 01:41 AM

I went in through the sewers, near that one place with all the undead thieves and dogs.

darkvare

Feb 2nd, 2012, 01:16 AM

i played killzones 3 single player and it's been a long time since a plot line made me so angry it's so idiotic and stupid

Esuohlim

Feb 5th, 2012, 04:00 PM

Playing Portal right now and having a grand time!

We're still in 2007 right?

Pentegarn

Feb 6th, 2012, 08:13 AM

We must be I am playing LOTRO again

OxBlood

Feb 6th, 2012, 12:20 PM

Well, I caved and got FF13-2 for ten bucks. It´s...not as bad as 13, that much is for sure. After 8 hours I´ve gotten about all the class-skills I need for both main characters and now I´m just looking for ways to spend my points.

Pre-Ordered Kingdoms of Amalur (my most wanted of 2012 of all the games I know of), Darkness 2, Wrath of Asura and Binary Domain...this is gonna be a busy month.

Chojin

Feb 6th, 2012, 02:19 PM

I finally got around to playing Quake 4 the other day and fully expected to ditch it soon after, but it actually turned out to be a really good game and a continuation of Quake 2's story--it felt like a 90s shooter, but modernized it well unlike Duke Forever. Then it got crazy repetitive, but I still finished it. Then I tried the multiplayer and it's exactly like Quake 3 and basically an entirely different game from the single-player and there's an experience there that just doesn't seem to exist anymore in modern multiplayer shooters. It's divine in a lot of ways. Also a ton of Quake 3 deathmatch maps are back.

Still wondering what Quakes 2 and 4 have to do with 1 or 3. WHERE DOES SHUB-NIGGURATH FIT?

So Quake 4 is really damn good and I recommend it. A cursory glance at wikipedia says it came out in 2005 which is exactly what my guess was, so I guess I can still stand by my claim that modern shooters suck buckets of dicks.

Mad Melvin

Feb 6th, 2012, 04:35 PM

Just beat The Doctor Who Cloned Me, the single player DLC for Duke Nukem Forever (PC version, the console version is quite crappy, I've heard). It was great. Very well paced and the levels were better than the levels in the main game. Couple of good jokes were thrown in there too. A bit too short (3-4 hours), but that is the world we live in now. DLC's up the ying yang.

Zhukov

Feb 7th, 2012, 02:18 AM

I really liked Quake 4, too. I thought it was really atmospheric, or I probably did.

My brother sold it, and still denies selling it, even though I saw it at the cash converter place and it was the exact same box, with the scratches in all the right places.

OxBlood

Feb 7th, 2012, 03:54 AM

Quake 4 was an awesome game, really underrated in my opinion, as is the most recent Wolfenstein-Game.

darkvare

Feb 7th, 2012, 02:14 PM

i'm playing yakuza 4 damn i love punching random fools in this game

OxBlood

Feb 8th, 2012, 04:19 AM

Been playing Kingdoms of Amalur for about 8hrs yesterday. That should say something about how much I like it I guess :)

It´s just a lot of fun fighting stuff with DECENT animations for once, not that lazy "I swat my daggers right through you like you´re some kind of Ghost...also, I´m swinging a Dagger instead of thrusting with it, I´m the greatest thief in existence!"...

Esuohlim

Feb 8th, 2012, 05:41 PM

I'm playing Oblivion now because I've always wanted to know what it was that occupied my sophomore college roommate so much that he had to drop out.

I'm bored and I don't know what the hell I'm doing :x I'm bad at video games

Esuohlim

Feb 8th, 2012, 07:38 PM

And there's so much stuff to accidentally steal. There's just so much shit lying everywhere that I can't talk to a store owner without accidentally grabbing a fucking apple on the counter and ending up back at the jail. >:

kahljorn

Feb 8th, 2012, 08:37 PM

haha

imagining that as a real person made me laugh pretty hard :(

Phoenix Gamma

Feb 8th, 2012, 10:50 PM

Been playing the first two Advance Wars games on my iPhone at work. Second one made me ragequit a few times. Not sure if I'm gonna play Dual Strike; I tried it once and remembered all balance went out the fucking window in that game.

Esuohlim

Feb 9th, 2012, 05:57 AM

haha

imagining that as a real person made me laugh pretty hard :(

It's like going into a 7-11 where wildly swinging your sword all over the place is fine but once you try to pick up a bag of Cheetos some asshole in a helmet gets all up in your shit.

And then they will just fucking POP UP out of nowhere. I'm in the basement of some rich dude, who was initially perfectly friendly about the city's finest Light Armor retailer and didn't seem to care about the fact that I picked the lock of his front door at 3:30am. And I'll be ransacking the place for TIN CUPS and CALIPERS when all of a sudden I hear "HALT!" and now I have to unfairly return 150 feather icons worth of useless trash I stole from six other rich homes. >:

Chojin

Feb 10th, 2012, 04:03 AM

Quake 4 was an awesome game, really underrated in my opinion, as is the most recent Wolfenstein-Game.

don't you get court marshaled or something in germany if you play wolfenstein

Zhukov

Feb 10th, 2012, 06:32 AM

They just have frowns instead of swastikas.

OxBlood

Feb 11th, 2012, 08:11 AM

don't you get court marshaled or something in germany if you play wolfenstein

Nah, you´re not allowed to sell or buy the game but I think there´s no law against possessing it. Even if there was, what do I care.

Funny thing is, the guy that sold it to me had it sitting on his shelf right in the open, he can still get in serious trouble for that :D

And there isn´t even a censored german version of the game, cause as the legend goes, they made one, but somehow one or two swastikas slipped through QA or maybe even the USK (our Pegi/ESRB) and there it was, the half-censored version and it had to be pulled from all shops and they never bothered to make another attempt at it.

There´s a lot of games that share Wolfenstein´s status. Condemned 2 and The Darkness too I think. Fuck, DOOM was just taken off our index last year, go figure :lol

Same old story. Tits yay, Violence nay.

Anyway, I took a brief break from the awesome Amalur to play through The Darkness 2 (which again has been censored for our beautiful Lollypopcountry so now there´s no dismemberments, no ragdoll and again the Darkness eats souls insteas of hearts. But of course, no one in their right mind would buy that, so we all get the austrian version) which is supposed to be extremely short, about 4-5 hours.
On one hand, it´s a shame, on the other the gameplay is not diverse enough for much more, same as with any shooter really. But the time you do spend with the game is a lot of fun, using the different Darkness-abilities and stuff like that. Oh and Jackie has apparently learned how to reload a gun, so we have that :lol

Pentegarn

Feb 11th, 2012, 11:33 AM

Same old story. Tits yay, Violence nay.

That is the polar opposite of how America handles censorship. Honestly most Americans think your way would probably be better here.

OxBlood

Feb 12th, 2012, 04:45 AM

Well, when I think about it...which of the two is more dangerous for children? Sex or Violence...it´s not like there´s tits on every corner here, I just think we Europeans in general deal with that specific topic in a more...healthy or natural way than the US, just my observation. Violence on the other hand...well, I guess that´s still because of the wars back then...

Anyway, on to happier thoughts. Finished Darkness 2 yesterday after about 7 or 8 hours I would say. Short but sweet game, a perfect rental title if you ask me.
Also, hour 20 has passend in Kingdoms of Amalur and I´m still loving it. It DOES feel like a SP MMO every now and then though, kind of like you´re the only one on a live server...but that´s okay with me, there´s more than enough to do there, everyone and their granny has a quest for you.
And after I tried being a magical Rogue for a while, I respecced back to pure Rogue, it´s just more fun that way since I don´t need spells for anything anyway, I either shoot everyone with my bow or stab them into next week with my daggers. And I finally found a better chestpiece, the old one looked really stupid...

Dr. Boogie

Feb 12th, 2012, 02:56 PM

Played through AC: Revelations. I did like ACII a lot, but if I wasn't getting these games for cheap, I think I'd have dumped the series by now.

I'll just go ahead and restate the obvious: they're just applying minor changes in the game that really don't enhance the gameplay at all, and at times seem to have just the opposite effect. I can honestly say, for example, that I never thought to myself, "Assassin's Creed is fun, but you know what it really needs: a tower defense mini-game!"

I'm mainly in because I'm curious to see how they're going to wrap up that framing device where Mr. Bland in the future is supposed to be doing stuff when he's not in the VR machine watching his ancestor gouge people's faces with a giant meat hook. They give you a little more at the end of this one, but the more they expand, the weaker and more strained the plot becomes.

They reveal that the super-advanced civilization that came before was wiped out by some massive solar flare that destroyed their cities and wiped out most of them. Not all. Most.

The head wizard, or whoever it is that explains it all to you at the end, goes onto say that the survivors worked with the surviving humans to rebuild. That their civilization was destroyed I understand. What I don't get is why there's no real evidence of their existence, in the form of ruined buildings or historical records (they built skyscrapers, I assume they knew how to make paper).

Oh, and when a couple of assassins are kidnapped, Ezio tells his team that they cannot negotiate with kidnappers. Then, when his girlfriend is kidnapped a few hours later, he can't cave to the kidnapper's demands fast enough. I guess being a hypocrite is supposed to be covered by his "nothing is true, everything is permitted" creed.

kahljorn

Feb 12th, 2012, 07:08 PM

i tried that kingdom of amular gme and i can't get over how big my characters ass is

Mad Melvin

Feb 12th, 2012, 07:43 PM

Since the sequel is in the making, I finally decided to see what Psychonauts is all about. I feel like an idiot for not picking this up years ago. Pretty much a perfect platformer/adventure. And even manages to be funny.

Emu

Feb 14th, 2012, 04:46 PM

i tried that kingdom of amular gme and i can't get over how big my characters ass is

male or female. this is important.

kahljorn

Feb 14th, 2012, 04:49 PM

female

but its stll too big. Like my characters face is all elfish looking and the ass looks all dwarven

it aint right

these are like 55 inch hips we're talking about here

Emu

Feb 14th, 2012, 05:28 PM

Is there a slider for it? Sometimes there's a slider.

kahljorn

Feb 14th, 2012, 05:56 PM

nah

i took the clothes off my character though out of curiousity and she looks normal/her ass is fabulous but her face looks little on her body and the shoulders are so huge

darkvare

Feb 15th, 2012, 10:14 AM

hey by any chance anyone knows where i can get a ps3 game case? i need it cause i got the batman collectors edition and the game is inside the artbook and i don't want to keep the art book on the game drawer

Emu

Feb 15th, 2012, 10:44 AM

Do you have a GameStop or equivalent nearby? They may be willing to sell/give you an empty case. Otherwise I think you can order them from Sony if you want to have an official case.

Alternative: Buy a cheapo outdated sports title and toss the artwork and keep the box.

darkvare

Feb 15th, 2012, 03:14 PM

i'm gonna go with the cheap sports game cause i tried the other option with no results

Dr. Boogie

Feb 15th, 2012, 10:36 PM

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Pack-Original-PlayStation-Replacement-Cases-Boxes/dp/B002LCA4K6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1329363272&sr=8-5

Ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-PlayStation-3-PS3-CLEAR-GENERIC-Game-Cases-/200713335695?pt=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item2ebb72738f

There's more examples on those two sites if you don't like the ones in the links.

darkvare

Feb 16th, 2012, 12:13 AM

they are good offers but the shipping costs make the crappy sports game a cheaper alternative but thanks

Dr. Boogie

Feb 16th, 2012, 12:46 AM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-Empty-Playstation-3-Replacment-Game-Case-/190640824712?pt=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item2c63142188

Last one, I swear.

darkvare

Feb 16th, 2012, 01:08 AM

the shipping is more expensive than the sports game i found

kahljorn

Feb 17th, 2012, 05:02 AM

anybody want to play titan quest online?

supposedly you can donwload it on the bay and play it for free/use this himachi program

darkvare

Feb 17th, 2012, 09:11 AM

for free? sure thing

kahljorn

Feb 17th, 2012, 04:25 PM

just get the one that says it has multiplayer ;o

darkvare

Feb 17th, 2012, 04:46 PM

lol i know i just need time to download it

kahljorn

Feb 17th, 2012, 05:06 PM

does it say titan quest + immortal throne multiplayer somesuchshit.

i hope you dont get executed

darkvare

Feb 17th, 2012, 09:50 PM

yeah that's the one it's already at 90%

kahljorn

Feb 17th, 2012, 10:07 PM

cool

Phoenix Gamma

Feb 17th, 2012, 11:11 PM

I got a PS Vita because I have a problem where I have to buy handhelds at launch >:

It's a fucking great system. The firmware needs some tweaking, but the launch lineup is probably the best lineup a handheld has ever had. Lumines, UMvC3, Rayman, and Uncharted are all really good. I love how you can add a custom soundtrack to any game. I plan on sticking to entirely digital downloads for all of the games because fuck carrying game cards.

It could be my favorite handheld ever if they just patch the firmware enough to get rid of a few weird design choices and keep the game library as strong as it is now.

Also, people need to hack this thing pronto. After playing this thing for three days, my iPhone and 3DS just look silly, and I want some emulators on this bad boy. Prettiest screen ever.

zerothree

Feb 17th, 2012, 11:48 PM

:sigh: I really don't want to buy a Vita. I bought a PSP at launch and didn't really play it much in the 3-ish years I had it, outside of the Megaman remakes. I eventually sold it and like an idiot bought another one when the announced the Ys games were coming out here. Sill, I don't play it that often.

Today at work I was able to try out a Vita and I have mixed feelings on it. I love the screen on it, it really is beautiful. I like the feel of it too, it's a bit larger than the PSP and I could see comfort in long play sessions not being much of an issue. I also like the idea of non-disk based games. The PSP had some really crappy load times in some games and I was always worried about games skipping. However, the few demos I tried out on the Vita had some pretty long load times as well. The analogue sticks feel crappy, they were very loose and didn't have much give to them... I don't really know how to word that better. To me it feels like you move it at all and you're already pressing it as far as it goes. (if that makes any sense)

Also, outside of two games (that are both already on PS3) I don't see anything really worthwhile to pick up at launch. I did check out a confirmed game release list though, and here's where I started the sighing.

There's a motherfucking Ys 4 remake coming out for it. I love Falcom games and I'm really happy to see their games come out in the states, but goddamn it. I really really don't want to drop $250+ for one game. Hopefully when it does come out over here the price of Vita will have dropped.

Phoenix Gamma

Feb 18th, 2012, 04:57 AM

The reason the sticks don't have much range on them is because they're stumpy because it's a handheld. If they added more physical range to the sticks, they'd be jutting out even more. Its actual input is a lot better than the old nub was though.

The only game I have right now with bad load times is MvC3. I dunno what the fuck Capcom did, but even the menus have load times. It's bad. The other games I have aren't anywhere near that level of bloatedness. (And for what it's worth, PSP games load faster)

The launch lineup isn't perfect, but it's probably the best any system has had (the PSP started off worse, the DS and 3DS started off terrible, and even the consoles have had poor launches). Uncharted, Lumines, Rayman, and Blazblue are all great, a good chunk of the PSP library is available (you can technically load any digitally released PSP game if you own a PS3. For some reason not all of them are on the Vita store so you need to transfer them. Not sure what's up with that.) Plus Gravity Rush looks fantastic.

OxBlood

Feb 18th, 2012, 06:39 PM

Just finished the SP of Uncharted 3 a few moments ago. This is one of the absolute WORST games I´ve played in the last 5 years. Absolutely horrible. The set-pieces are beautiful, the game looks nice and I like Nate and the gang but the gameplay? Incredibly bad and dated.
The strange thing is, I don´t remember UC2 being so bad, in my memory, it is a fun game...what the fuck happened between 2 and 3....?

Inaccurate and weak guns, enemies that take a whole clip to the chest before dying, Super-Enemies that just walk through a hail of your bullets like it´s nothing, spawning-mechanisms straight out of the early 90s placing enemies wherever the fuck it wants it seems...oh yeah and even an indestructible script-miniboss on the ship. Nice.
Plus, yes, we know Drake gets in sticky situations but the cadence of things blowing up or falling apart is so fucking high in 3 that I actually startet yelling at the TV to get the fuck on with it once I reached the ship.

Oh and what became of all the unlockable stuff like skins, weapons and things like that? I couldn´t find it anywhere...