What are you playing: The Thread

[EVILNess]

Since they released the last DLC for Fallout: (Lonesome Road, but I recommend you get Gun Runner's Arsenal too as it has a silenced Anti-Material Rifle.:wtf:) I have finally got my vault-suit on and have been really playing the hell out of it. I got about 60 hours going into this current file, and am FINALLY about to beat the game. I have beaten Dead Money, Honest Hearts, and Old World Blues. Still gotta go do Lonesome Road. I am going to go with the Wild Card ending when I finish the last bit of DLC.

I finally picked up Mass Effect, and have gotten to the part where Shepard gets control of the Normandy and the game really opens up. Late to the party I know. Probably gonna save getting into the game full tilt until I have beaten Fallout NV to my satisfaction.

Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World are most excellent, and despite being something you can beat in a(n) (un)productive day are aces.

BATMAN ARKHAM CITY. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHY I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS, BUT HEY WHATEVER MAN. IT'S BATMAN. ALSO, CATWOMAN IS FUN TO PLAY AS.

Wild Arms 2 and Breath of Fire 4 are filling my jRPG cravings currently.

Also, playing through Warcraft 3 again. Have gotten through the base game, time to tackle the expansion.

[synkr0nized]

TripleA when possible

WoW

Gears 3

GW sometimes still

I, too, have been re-playing WC3.

MVC3, but I am quite horrible at it (I keep wanting to go back to BlazBlue/Guilty Gear)

I stupidly am getting impatient for STO to go free to play.

[Ryong]

PSP:
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II

PC:
A bit of Minecraft, TF2 and Titan Quest.

...Also Maple Story again.

[Azisien]

I might give STO a go when it's f2p too. At the very least to see how they did the space bits.

Lately I've been clocking a good number of hours on Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Also been dabbing in Batman: Arkham Asylum to refresh my memory for when Arkham City launches on PC next month.

Grabbed Forza Motorsport 4 as well. I really enjoyed Forza 3, and I've heard good things.

In a week I'll be playing Battlefield 3.

[Kim]

Playing Tropico 4. It's a pretty fun SimCity-esque game.

Beat Dark Souls. Strong contender for my Game of the Year.

Beat Space Channel 5 Part 2, which is a really cheesy, fun rhythm game that lets you team up with Space Michael Jackson.

Played some Guardian Heroes. Pretty okay brawler, but a lot of pointless elements.

Played as much of Ar Tonelico Qoga as I could. One of the three worst jRPGs on modern consoles.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I'm just waiting on Skyrim right now, and playing Space Marine online in the meantime. I was going to get BF3, but the beta was dissapointing and to be honest I don't really have the money to be buying lots of games right now.

Still haven't played inFamous 2 either.

[Loyal]

Fire Emblem (the one with Eliwood and co). Also thirding Warcraft 3.

[Locke cole]

Kirby Mass Attack. It's like commanding a swarm of pink, marshmallowy piranhas.

Plus, a bunch of fun minigames, such as a fully-functional SHMUP.

[Roland]

X-COM: UFO Defense (Ponychan's /pony/ Run)

Given that I haven't ever finished the game even once, it's just a normal run with theme naming, more or less.

... beyond that there's Fable III for the PC and, of course, Team Fortress 2. Also Terraria, I really want to figure out how to get a server running for that sometime (if only for practicing setting up and running a server).

[Azisien]

X-COM: UFO Defense (Ponychan's /pony/ Run)

Ah, a masochist I see. You would like Dark Souls (though it is much easier!)

EDIT:

I only play serious games. I'm a serious gamer.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a128/Azisien/DeadRisingisSeriousBusiness.png

[Bells]

I'm trying to play Driver San Francisco (awesome, BTW) but real life keeps getting stuff for me to do...

[Jagos]

Fuck Super Meat Boy World 4.

SMB can go to HELL!

[IHateMakingNames]

Backlogging.

Finishing Yoshi's Island DS, then the last chapter of FFXIII, then where ever I am in Ninja Gaiden II and Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door.

[MuMu]

Madworld and Wii Punch-out(Why you so pretty)

Ghost Trick

And always TF2.

[greed]

Dark Souls and Atelier Totori. The two outer extremes of good RPGs.

[Revising Ocelot]

As of the middle of October:

TF2 and L4D2, interspersed with an incredibly long playthrough of Fallout 3. Someday I'll get around to New Vegas. Maybe.

[EVILNess]

Someday I'll get around to New Vegas. Maybe.

You should, it's better than 3 in every conceivable way.

[greed]

I've been telling him so for months.

Also playing Rune Factory 3, it's good fun and pretty damned funny.

[Amake]

DeadRisingisSeriousBusiness.png
That is neither http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv324/immortalpictures/hazel_and_cha_cha_by_brodieman1000.jpg, but just as unsettling.

City of Heroes got boring fast, just like when it wasn't free. I finished Elastomania after about fifteen years. Well, I've still got five skipped levels including the final one, but fuck them. I won Magic the Gathering earlier today with a +5 hat of cheating called Retroactive Discard through Time Elemental and Hypnotic Armada. So I guess right now I'm not playing a damn thing.

[Melfice]

Currently going through Deus Ex: Human Revolutions. Just picked up the DLC as well. Probably going to finish the main game first, before I tackle that. I'm already past the point where it's supposed to fit in anyway.

Also playing Kerbal Space Program, and getting stupidly impatient for the next update. IT'S GOING TO GET A MOON! =D

Finished Ace Combat: Assault Horizon just yesterday. May go online with it soon.

And beyond that I'm just playing this and that whenever the mood strikes me.

[Revising Ocelot]

You should, it's better than 3 in every conceivable way.


I've been telling him so for months.

Hey, it's not my fault that I want to finish the preceeding game first. And that the playthrough is literally at 104 hours now.



Oh, and Deus Ex muscled in halfway through, too. Definitely not my fault.

[Token]

Finally got Red Dead Redemption and the Scott Pilgrim game. Playing a lot of Pokemon, as always, and considering getting into the SMT series. Also DCUO is allegedly going free to play soon, so I'm hoping that's less atroci(t)ous than CoH. From what I've heard on /co/, it's gotten a lot better.

[Donomni]

I've been playing GTA IV recently. Pretty... realistic compared to the other GTA games.

Also been spending time playing League of Legends. Not bad, but it's definitely a game you need to set aside some time for *specifically*, considering matches can be over 40 minutes long.

[Spooniest]

I've recently become re-addicted to Symphony of the Night. Must...get...Duplicator...

[Ecks]

If no one's noticed yet, Assassin's Creed.

I've moved from I to II and now I'm on Brotherhood. Which is good so far. Except for Ezio getting hit with the bag of spilling after Sequence 1.

I may also give Arkham City a try when and if my roommate ever pries himself off the xbox.

[Doc ock rokc]

I shouldn't be playing minecraft I should be working But after tonight I can play Arkham City with not a single trouble on my mind...except the group paper i have to write for my group (because they don't do SHIT)

[Kerensky287]

Dawn of War 2 has been occupying lots of my time recently. I'm not great with the ebb and flow of the metagame right now, but I'm trying to work on my Tyranid play.

My main focus has admittedly been DoW2 The Last Stand, though. I got a Farseer up to level 14, and a Hive Tyrant to around level 10, if I remember correctly... but they're releasing the Tau Commander as DLC tomorrow (http://pc.ign.com/articles/120/1200466p1.html) (if IGN is to be believed), and once he drops I'm not playing anybody else.

[Magus]

Hey, I've been playing Breath of Fire IV off-and-on too! I actually found a PC copy. It's pretty nice on PC, actually. Kind of wish more JRPGs were on PC...

Also I've been dedicating most of my free time to Morrowind. It will probably sponge up all my free time for the foreseeable future.

[Oron]

Getting in about an hour a week on a fresh (as fresh as "heavily modded" can be) Oblivion run (PC) in preparation for Skyrim. I'd definitely play more but school keeps me ridiculously busy.

Aside from that... I have some app on my iPhone called Dragonvale I check on between classes. Does that count?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

So I got bored yesterday and started looking through my pc collection for something to play, found out I have Thief 2; The Metal Age and for some reason I've never tried it. I probably bought it cheap as part of a collection. Never played any Thief game before but it's pretty good, though I'm doing pretty terrible. Just finished the 2nd mission and it took over 2 hours and I didn't even get half of all the cash in the level, and missed about 10 secrets.

How the hell are you supposed to get onto that ship in the docks?!

[Sage Harpuia]

Been playing Mount and Musket, a mod for Mount and Blade: Warband. The weekly line battle is the main thing that is tethering me into playing it; sometimes frustrating to get any kills, but when you do it feels very rewarding or gives a great sense of luck.

[Kim]

Just started playing Trails in the Sky today. One of the best turn-based RPGs I've played in a long time.

[Satan's Onion]

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. It's actually kind of neat, even though there are so very many quests and so much I can make with alchemy that I invariably spend like one-tenth of my playing time actually forwarding the plot and the rest either out hunting monsters for alchemizable goods, searching for spawn spots for alchemizables, or at the alchemy pot making stuff.

Also, whoever actually wrote or translated or whatever the text in this game had a huge hard-on for puns and wordplay and tossing in recognizably British bits of culture and slang and all. It's excellently written, and I like that. I really like that.

[Ramary]

Binding of Isaac.

Dear lord. Binding of Isaac.

No idea how to describe this game, but it is awesome. Maybe this trailer will help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFnMfJnI7s

...okay it doesn't

It is like this odd blend of Zelda, Smash TV, and a Rogue-like, combined with absolutely fucked up visuals and subject matter and made by the same batshit insane bastards behind Super Meat Boy (in other words, HARRRDDDD. although not as hard as SMB itself). It got me hooked, although you can't save or anything during a play though (which would take no more then one hour usually, shorter if you die) so there is a bit of a time investment per session. But it is one of the BEST 5 bucks I have spent.

Also trying to make a mass effect 3 save ready starting with ME1. Even if ME3 sucks, and I have reason to believe it will, I would like at the very least to see the end.

[EVILNess]

Just started playing Trails in the Sky today. One of the best turn-based RPGs I've played in a long time.

Are the other two parts of the game going to be released outside of Japan? I was kinda pissed when I got through about a third of the game and found out it was the end with a big fat to be continued on it.

Still otherwise, a pretty good game.

[Ryong]

On the second chapter of Trails in The Sky. (http://www.siliconera.com/2011/10/20/falcoms-president-on-localizing-the-legend-of-heroes-trails-in-the-sky-second-chapter/)

It's going to take a while. From what I've checked, the plot ends after the second game and then the third is just a mission pack sequel. Also, after the Trails in the Sky trilogy, there's Zero No Kiseki and Ao No Kiseki, too - Trails in the Blue series - if Xseed tries to bring the whole series outside of Japan, dang, PSP will still be getting games in 2013.

[CABAL49]

Saints Row 2

[mauve]

Started playing my DS Lite again; picked up my copy of SoulSilver after seriously like a year. Apparently I never beat the Elite Four on account of having a craptastic team (My starter and Lugia are the only ones above 40. Basically, up until this point my Feralgator finished off every Gym Leader by himself because I hate leveling, so he's at Level 55 and everyone else is in their 20's or 30's except Lugia. The last time I tried to take on the Elite Four, the Feralgator and Lugia managed to kill EVERYTHING by themselves except for Lance's last Dragon, and by that time I had used all my Revives and so we lost with his freakin' Charizard having only three HP.) So now I'm stuck trampling about Victory Road trying to get my other Pokes into at least the mid 40's.

I've also picked Okami Den back up. I'm kind of on the fence about this one: It started out really good, if a bit too easy, but now we've got giant baby space-whale magnet-gods hanging out in moon-spaceships and ancient Japanese diesel-powered front-loaders working on dig sites and people constantly calling me "Dude" and asking me "what's the haps" in ancient Japan. I mean, I'm cool with suspending disbelief for the moon-people and SUDDENLY ALIEN SPACESHIPS and blonde French guys who are actually from SPAAAACE in the first Okami, because the first Okami was fantastic, but ancient Japanese frontloaders and SPACE WHALES THAT ARE REALLY THE GODS OF MAGNETS (granted, they're supposed to represent the Yin/Yang fish, I think, which I GUESS you could apply to magnets, but still) is pushing it a bit.

Also Kurow is annoying as hell.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Dead Island. Thoroughly exploring the resort and city areas to snag IDs and weapon schematics I previously missed.

Between Dead island, TF2, and oblivion I'll be content until Skyrim.

[Drownball-Champ]

Currently playing through Xenoblade Chronicles. 20 hours in and I'm not even sure I'm a 3rd of the way through the game, my love of farming and grinding requires I do every itty bitty quest I come across. The british/engllish VAs are a nice change from JYB (no matter how much I love him) and Yuri Lowenthal. Since I have my Wii hooked up again, after almost a year of ignoring it, I may give Arc Rise Fantasia a try when I eventually finish with Xenoblade.

[Jagos]

... You're in Europe?

[POS Industries]

Last night I saw I could buy nearly every GTA game ever made for about 13 bucks on Steam and the offer was set to expire in 12 hours, so I went for it.

Long story short, they all play like shit because apparently Rockstar cannot into PC ports. GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas don't work right with control pads (that's right, ports of console games can't work with a console controller) and GTA4 has garbage frame rate despite my system apparently far exceeding the recommended requirements and no matter how low I turn the settings down it doesn't make a difference.

But hey, what a bargain!

[Drownball-Champ]

... You're in Europe?

Nope, good ol' USA.

[EVILNess]

You know what is a good Adventure game I wish I had played years before?

Broken Sword.

[Azisien]

Last night I saw I could buy nearly every GTA game ever made for about 13 bucks on Steam and the offer was set to expire in 12 hours, so I went for it.

Long story short, they all play like shit because apparently Rockstar cannot into PC ports. GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas don't work right with control pads (that's right, ports of console games can't work with a console controller) and GTA4 has garbage frame rate despite my system apparently far exceeding the recommended requirements and no matter how low I turn the settings down it doesn't make a difference.

But hey, what a bargain!

It won't make you feel better, but my rig specs are rated to blow the GTA games out of the water, enough to run the most advanced graphics mods out there. They don't even run at all. Fatal error on startup, and the list I need to go through to fix it is so much work I'd rather just play another game.

Huge friggin' shame too. I really wanted to install the photorealistic and Iron Man mod and fly around Liberty City.

[POS Industries]

Ah well, it's not like I paid much at all for them and now I basically own them forever for when I get around to the hassle of trying to make them work right. If nothing else it leaves us both more time for...

I might give STO a go when it's f2p too. At the very least to see how they did the space bits.
I've got max level characters on both Starfleet and KDF sides and there's at least a handful of us that might be getting together to make a NPFleet when F2P hits. The downside is that they're raising the unlock level for KDF to 25 to really drive home how much Cryptic hates Klingons, but the Defiant-class USS Garamonde is armed and ready to assist any new characters should they need it.

[Jagos]

Nope, good ol' USA.

... DIE IN A FIRE! YOU HAVE XENOBLADES YOU BASTARD!

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

You know what is a good Adventure game I wish I had played years before?

Broken Sword.

Yes, they are excellent games. Number 3 is not quite as good though, purely becuaue of awkward controls.

[Kim]

Remember how I said I was playing Trails in the Sky?

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to do that anymore. Game just characterized my entire party as homophobic assholes with nothing in the scene to frame that as a bad thing.

I'm not interesting in continuing to play a homophobic game on the off-chance that it maybe possibly in theory perhaps becomes less homophobic later on.

[EVILNess]

I'm not arguing with you, because I know the scene you speak of. I don't see it in the extreme light you Do.


I do want to point out that one of your self admitted best games ever has the most asstacular homophobes of all time.

IE Persona 4 and Yosuke.

[Kim]

When Yosuke is a homophobe Kanji threatens to beat the shit out of him.

If you'd like to tell me a scene exists in Trails of the Sky where blondie threatens to pound them into a pulp if they keep this shit up, perhaps I'll consider continuing to play it.

EDIT: I'm not even arguing that Persona 4 isn't problematic. It's problematic as fuck.

And boy-oh-fucking-boy finding a homophobic scene homophobic sure is EXTREME.

I'm just sick and fucking tired of every time a game is offensive and someone finds it offensive, people have to jump in with, "Well, just because the characters are offensive doesn't mean the game is!" or "There are worse games out there!" or "Well, I didn't find it offensive!" You didn't find it offensive? Good for you. I did. I bugged me. It caught me off-guard and made me feel like shit for the rest of the day. I'm not telling you to be offended by it. I'm expressing my totally justified frustration with it. So can people please stop leaping to defend every fucking thing that people find offensive, because I'm getting sick and fucking tired of this shit.

[Ryong]

It wouldn't be creepy at all if he said he wants to do the same things to Estelle, right? Nooope.

But yeah, it's part of his characterization, acting like a bumbling idiot and flamboyant to hide his true intentions.

Also, Joshua cross-dresses later on, as does Estelle.

[EVILNess]

I want to point out that I was actually agreeing with you, but my phone apparently deleted half of the post and replaced it with "Do." for some reason.

Basically, I was going to say that I didn't react the way you did but I see some justification for the outrage. Also that you probably should just go ahead and finish the game because it really is a good game, and you shouldn't let the one bad thing ruin the whole game for you. You have to remember that the main characters are teenagers.

[Kim]

Sorry for flipping out. I'm really sick of having to justify my rage and when a scene like that comes out of nowhere I'm not able to prepare for it and it totally wrecks me emotionally. I've been very short-tempered all day as a result. Sorry.

I might finish it. I just really don't want to right now. I know that when I take my PSP out of sleep mode the rest of that scene is going to be waiting for me and I just... I can't handle that right now.

[Giever]

Professor Layton and the Last Specter, Kirby Mass Attack, Civilization V, and heRO*.

*After RaiRO went kaput I basically just stopped messing around with any RO servers (Rai was the only one I ever gave a shit about), but in the past week or so I got bored and decided to give one another go.

Soooooooooo boring. Main is just:
S> +4 Boring of Boring [2]
LF> Boring Main Chat, 81 Boresin
PC> Bored Card

:| I miss RaiRO & RaiRO's people.

Also, I'm thinking of getting back into Little King's Story.

[Azisien]

I average six hours of Battlefield 3 a day now. It will become a problem.

[mauve]

Went back to Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift. It goes back and forth between "Hmm this is kind of lame" and "Woo this is awesome." The "woo this is awesome" bits usually involve Cid-related plot points and Hurdy the moogle bard being inexplicably badass in battle. He bashes peoples' heads in with a guitar! He can turn invisible! And he allows me to yell "PLAY HIM OFF, GUITAR MOOGLE!" at the screen whenever he kills someone!

[EVILNess]

"PLAY HIM OFF, GUITAR MOOGLE!"

This is the best thing.

[Gregness]

I've been playing Sequence per Kerensky's recommendation. Electronica's not usually my thing, but even my least favorite track is still pretty good. Also, the dialogue is essentially "Snark: the game" which is kinda cool I guess.

Also, still playing lots of Starcraft II. I just need to figure out what hurdle I need to jump to get from high diamond league into masters.

[Jagos]

I'm on the last level of Super Meat Boy. Right before I fight Dr. Fetus. You have no idea how many expletives I've created in the last three hours of this cornfucked ballstacular game that has maddening and frustratingly difficult jumps.

ARRRGH!

[IHateMakingNames]

Finally playing through The World Ends With You, except I want to stop and farm money to buy everything at the Shibuya Dept Store.

[phil_]

I'm trying to do a run of Twilight Princess where I run from plot point to plot point without getting distracted and goofing off. I keep getting distracted and goofing off. Like, I'm at Lake Hyrule and I just got underwater bombs, so I'm ready to do the third dungeon. Instead, I loop around Hyrule again getting two more bomb bags. That sort of thing.

[RickZarber]

I'm playing Zelda II, Four Swords, and Ocarina of Time -- all on my 3DS. Switching up whenever I get bored.

This is my first time playing Four Swords. I feel like multiplayer is probably more fun.

Zelda II I am actually just grinding for the time being. Got everything at lvl 4 right now, haven't even gone to the first palace yet.

[Kim]

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg861/scaled.php?tn=0&server=861&filename=zezlf.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

[Marc v4.0]

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg861/scaled.php?tn=0&server=861&filename=zezlf.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Every fiber of my all-consuming hate.

[Ramary]

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg861/scaled.php?tn=0&server=861&filename=zezlf.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Look at all the cares I give.

Now if that was Saints Row the Third, you would be a very dead person.

[DarkDrgon]

playing through Secret of Mana. a game I never actually got through as a kid, and i've found again.

That game cheats so bad.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Currently playing the closed Beta Test for C21 Steel Battle Chronicles (PC).

And Cosmic Break too.

[EVILNess]

I just beat Costume Quest + Grubbins on Ice and all I can say is "Why is one of the most fun, witty, and enjoyable RPGs I have played in years only 8 hours long and end on a cliffhanger?"

Man, I am really racking up the completed games here lately. That's unusual for me!

To Recap:
Fallout NV + DLC
Batman Arkham City
Costume Quest + Grubbins on Ice
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - Director's Cut
Breath of Death VII
Cthulhu Saves the World
Scott Pilgrim Versus the World

[Melfice]

Haha, oh shit.
I'm going to be playing DC Universe Online with a buddy of mine. On the PS3!

We even made matching characters!
The "Flying Dutchman" and "Flying Dutchboy" (who, incidentally, doesn't fly, but runs really, really fast.).

This is going to be brilliant or horrible.
Possibly horribly brilliant even!

[Meister]

Now if that was Saints Row the Third, you would be a very dead person.
He played that one like two weeks ago.

:argh:

[EVILNess]

Ok, I am at a bit of a crossroads here. I can't decide if I want to mainline Bastion or Mass Effect.

Mass Effect is Mass Effect... but Bastion is GORGEOUS.

[Token]

Haha, oh shit.
I'm going to be playing DC Universe Online with a buddy of mine. On the PS3!

We even made matching characters!
The "Flying Dutchman" and "Flying Dutchboy" (who, incidentally, doesn't fly, but runs really, really fast.).

This is going to be brilliant or horrible.
Possibly horribly brilliant even!

Also finally gave in and got it on the PS3 today, since it kept freezing on the fucking character creation screen on my laptop.

Now, I got in a couple of hours of successful playtime, enough to fight Scarecrow with Batwoman on my hero, decide I like the game, and pick up the Lantern DLC so I could make the League, the Legion, and Braniac alike tremble before my might, but since then it's been... a bitch. Kicking me and disconnecting a lot. Allegedly, that's because of all the new users since it went free to play, so hopefully that'll die down. It's definitely a lot of fun though, and in the short period of time I was able to use my Lantern, I enjoyed the everloving hell out of it.


Name: Blue Perigee
Hero
Mentor: Batman
Power: Ice
Weapon: Staff
Movement: Superspeed
he is awesome and i love him.

Name: Topaz Perigee (Shush. Like you've never had alts of the same character with a different layout)
Villain
Mentor: Luthor
Power: Light
Weapon: Hand blasters
Movement: Flight
he is also awesome

I'm finding Superspeed to be sort of crazy. Not in a bad way, but in a holy shit what is it gonna be like when i unlock the speed force trait jesus fuck look at this way.

[Melfice]

I'd look you up with a yet-to-be-created alt, Token, but unfortunately I'm on the European servers.

Name: Flying Dutchman
Hero
Mentor: Batman
Power: Fire
Weapon: Hand blasters
Movement: Flight

Name: Flying Dutchboy (my buddy's character):
Hero
Mentor: Superman
Power: Mental (I think)
Weapon: Don't know
Movement: Super speed.

[Arcanum]

Gave DCU a spin and it's pretty great so far, when it's not lagging like a mother fucker that is. I'm on a PvP server (dunno if it has a name, I just picked the PvP button instead of the PvE one) and I've ran into a few villains close to my level, and 70% of the time it looks like they are standing there doing nothing while damage numbers fly off me and my health bar drains. Also at one point a villain league decided to camp outside the police station in Metropolis, and while the fighting looked cool, as soon as I stepped into the action I was super molested by stun locks and knockbacks that looked like I was teleporting (because of lag). The worst I've seen it though was when I joined a Legacy PvP match, and I would see copies of allies and enemies kneeling on the ground in a downed state. By the end of the match there was probably a dozen lag clones.

Well anyway enough with that. I've also been playing The Binding of Isaac, which is pretty fantastic. Plenty of replayability to it too, which is always a plus.

Also, inMomentum (http://store.steampowered.com/app/110400/), a first person parkour-esque game. I say parkour-esque because you're mostly doing wall and air jumps, and rocket-boosting yourself to increase your speed and lower your time. It has a dozen or so levels in all and two singleplayer modes that are essentially the same with a tiny difference. Standard Time Trial where you rush from checkpoint gate to checkpoint gate as fast as possible. The gates are fairly spaced out, so you're given quite a bit of freedom on how you get from A to B. Sphere Hunt on the other hand has you collecting glowing sphere's in a pre-set path between each checkpoint gate while still trying to get the best time. There's also multiplayer where you race other people, but it requires some port forwarding that I haven't gotten around to yet. Still the game is pretty fun.

[phil_]

I'm trying to do a run of Twilight Princess where I run from plot point to plot point without getting distracted and goofing off. I keep getting distracted and goofing off. Like, I'm at Lake Hyrule and I just got underwater bombs, so I'm ready to do the third dungeon. Instead, I loop around Hyrule again getting two more bomb bags. That sort of thing.Ok, finished this yesterday. I even managed to never go fishing except when the plot demanded it. Well, except in the Water Temple 'cause I forgot if the bone fish count. And that one time in the graveyard 'cause I wanted to know if you could catch fish there. And also in the back of Eldin's spring because I didn't remember there being fish there... Anyway, I didn't go back to Snowtop to snowboard, so there's that.

It's kinda a weird feeling. This was the first game I played when I bought my Wii. My old save file was from 2006. And now probably the last game I'm going to play on this thing is Zelda again. I'm, like, almost an adult now, sorta. I felt more of a peer thing from the adult characters than from Link this time. It's not like I want some super adult old man Link to play as, but there was this distance that wasn't there before, at least during cutscenes. Running around bashing things was as fun as ever...

There was, like, a paragraph about blowing up monsters with bomb arrows here, but you've probably read enough. It was fun and these next two weeks of waiting for the next one are going to suck.

I think I'm gonna go fishing.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Tf2 and dead island still being the norm until skyrim hits. Until satisfaction is met most games i have are like ashes in the mouth. Unpalatable, unplayable, uninteresting.

The lack of skyrim excite 'round these parts disturbs me.

[Melfice]

Skyrim! =D

Got it today. Love it. I love how beautiful the land looks.
The people... could use some work. Now they've got an engine that could make the NPCs looks very great... and it's spoiled by stupid character designs. =/

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

The people... could use some work. Now they've got an engine that could make the NPCs looks very great... and it's spoiled by stupid character designs. =/

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10003158/seriously.jpg

Let me remind you of a time when cooking pan faces were the norm and torsos were mold injected. (http://i.imgur.com/EpSv4.jpg)

[Red Fighter 1073]

Also, inMomentum, a first person parkour-esque game. I say parkour-esque because you're mostly doing wall and air jumps, and rocket-boosting yourself to increase your speed and lower your time. It has a dozen or so levels in all and two singleplayer modes that are essentially the same with a tiny difference. Standard Time Trial where you rush from checkpoint gate to checkpoint gate as fast as possible. The gates are fairly spaced out, so you're given quite a bit of freedom on how you get from A to B. Sphere Hunt on the other hand has you collecting glowing sphere's in a pre-set path between each checkpoint gate while still trying to get the best time. There's also multiplayer where you race other people, but it requires some port forwarding that I haven't gotten around to yet. Still the game is pretty fun.

Gotta say that after taking a look at it, I'm really interested. I've been looking for another first-person parkour game for awhile now after Mirror's Edge and when I thought of parkour games, this minimalistic style always popped into my head too. Only thing is that I've heard the game is somewhat short. What are your thoughts? I'm really interested but I don't want to feel like I wasted money even if it's just $10. (Just spending $2 on Alpha Protocol felt more worth it than a lot of my other impulse buys on Steam)

[Melfice]

Let me remind you of a time when cooking pan faces were the norm and torsos were mold injected. (http://i.imgur.com/EpSv4.jpg)

Oh, absolutely. There's a huge improvement, but I can't get over the fact that you can cut and polish a diamond on most of the Nord women's faces I've seen so far. (Not gone farther than Whiterun yet. Maybe it's just a Whiterun trait?)

Also, the Jarl of Whiterun's Housecarl. The dunmer? Holy shit. It's like she had her cheekbones (or maybe her entire jaw?) replaced with very sharp daggers.

[Arcanum]

Gotta say that after taking a look at it, I'm really interested. I've been looking for another first-person parkour game for awhile now after Mirror's Edge and when I thought of parkour games, this minimalistic style always popped into my head too. Only thing is that I've heard the game is somewhat short. What are your thoughts? I'm really interested but I don't want to feel like I wasted money even if it's just $10. (Just spending $2 on Alpha Protocol felt more worth it than a lot of my other impulse buys on Steam)

It is rather short. There are only maybe a dozen courses in all (I don't have an accurate count right now 'cause the game's on my desktop) and at the longest they will take 3 to 5 minutes to get through on your first try, depending on how much you screw up. The replayability comes down to how much you like time trials and competing for a spot on the leaderboard. Usually that kind of stuff doesn't interest me, but rocket jumping to 300+ km/h and finding the perfect wall-jump route is pretty damn fun. I've actually managed to grab a spot on the top 10 leaderboards on a couple of the maps (though that was a few days ago so I might have lost my spots by now).

Plus there is always multiplayer racing if you can get it working (which I haven't bothered to yet, so all I see is a blank server list and can't join any games).

All in all I'd say get it at $10 if you're really craving some first-person parkour action. If it ever drops to $5 or lower though then I'd say you have no excuse not to get it. I hope that helps.

[Arcanum]

Oh Melfice, I haven't been following anything Skyrim since I'm not a huge Elder Scrolls fan, but what's the leveling system like? Because the leveling system in Oblivion (where leveling a skill related to an Attribute X number of times before resting to increase your level gives you the "optimal attribute increase") is what made me hate the game.

[Marc v4.0]

Oh Melfice, I haven't been following anything Skyrim since I'm not a huge Elder Scrolls fan, but what's the leveling system like? Because the leveling system in Oblivion (where leveling a skill related to an Attribute X number of times before resting to increase your level gives you the "optimal attribute increase") is what made me hate the game.

There are no Attributes.

You raise skills, and those skills contribute to your level up, and then you level up. Pick to increase Magicka, Health or Stamina, pick a perk(or save it). Roll on.

[Arcanum]

There are no Attributes.

You raise skills, and those skills contribute to your level up, and then you level up. Pick to increase Magicka, Health or Stamina, pick a perk(or save it). Roll on.

:aaa:

And suddenly I'm interested in Skyrim.

[Melfice]

Yeah, basically it's more of the same, except different enough to not feel stale.

Also, I do like the new lock picking. Well, I say new, but it's just been ported in from FallOut. Still, it feels nicer than the old lockpicking system.
Even though it does take away a bit of the difficulty of lockpicking.

[EVILNess]

So the leveling is medieval Fallout now?

Okay, then.

[Melfice]

So the leveling is medieval Fallout now?

Okay, then.

Except you always get a perk on level up.

So, say, you leveled up. You choose to upgrade Health, and then you go to your One-Handed skill, and pick a perk in One-Handed.

Every skill has it's own tree of perks.

[Arcanum]

Yeah I just watched that 20 minute gameplay demo and while part of me is thinking "it was a demo, the actual gameplay might end up like Oblivion where you slash at a dude forever and watch his health barely whittle away while he makes you his bitch" another part of me is screaming "You get to fight dragons! And not like in Dark Souls where the dragon stomps you into the ground in a single shot! No these dragon fights are like the old stories of knights fighting dragons!"

[Pip Boy]

j50u0zUeCmU

[Kim]

I may need to remove Skyrim from my house to force myself to stop playing it.

[greed]

Hey so guess what game had it's street date broken here?


Spent the afternoon killing zombie vikings and a dragon, then went exploring.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Goddamn it all of you stop getting me so damn excited about Skyrim, I still have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to play it! I haven't been this excited about a game release for a while now and the build up is killing me.

Gona go to the Morrisons on my way into college in the morning to make sure I pick it up as soon as possible, because I know it's gona be sold out if I wait until later.

EDIT; Incidentally how're you guys playing it? I intend to go full blown mage and learn every piece of magic available so I can become a god. And also be a werewolf in case a melee brawl ensues.

[EVILNess]

For those of you who have played Mass Effect, which one of the classes was most fun to you? I was thinking of going back and trying a different class, mainly because the Soldier is kind of vanilla.

[MuMu]

Infiltrator, hands down.

[Ramary]

Play Vanguard.

Throw people around and not give a fuck in game 1.
Charge EVERYTHING and fisticuffs/shotgun em in the second game.

[Arcanum]

Well if you want something completely different than the soldier, go adept and slap everyone around with your biotics.

[Azisien]

Tonight I will be partaking in much more Battlefield 3, with the goal of maxing out the Support Class, and perhaps tainting my lovely green class use dial on Battlelog with some Engineer. Because the Javelin launcher is wicked.

Then, at midnight, I will fire up Skyrim.

[IHateMakingNames]

Starting The Last Remnant, cause I bought it during some Steam sale and never played. But the weekend will mostly be Old Republic, since they are having a stress test and I want to see if I want to play that game.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Bandits were crushed and Draugr have been re-dead'd. In the morn Blacksmith in is the name o' the game. Pimp in out the mighty orc!

Fuckin love skyrim so hard right now, even the bizarre infrequent crash to desktop don't put a damper on it. Just gotta remember to quick save often.

[Krylo]

For those of you who have played Mass Effect, which one of the classes was most fun to you? I was thinking of going back and trying a different class, mainly because the Soldier is kind of vanilla.

Adept in ME1, Vanguard in ME2.

[Bells]

There are 2 Racing games everyone SHOULD own; Burnout paradise and Driver San Francisco.

Both are just... way too much awesome.

...also Blur if you like Realistic Mario Kart

[IHateMakingNames]

If it's ME2, it depends on what difficulty you are playing on. Hard or above, no Engineer or Biotic classes.

[Kim]

After waiting like two weeks for myself to get over the offensive scene in Trails in the Sky, I've come to accept that I'm just not going to, so I'm sending it back today. *sigh*

[Melfice]

...also Blur if you like Realistic Mario Kart

Oh, gods yes! EVERYBODY GET BLUR!
It's fun!

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I will continue to maintin that Wipeout is the best racing series ever made.

[mauve]

Just finished Bowser's Inside Story and am now getting back into Superstar Saga to get my Mario and Luigi fix. (Gasp! Playing the series out of order?!) It's interesting being able to see the improvements in gameplay and graphics from Superstar to Bowser's Inside Story.

Fawful is more awesome in BIS so far.

[Darth SS]

I'm on my second playthrough of Deus Ex. Also I've been playing Warhammer 40k Space Marine. The new DLC Exterminatus mode is just crazy crazy fun when you've got a group of guys that can work together. At first you're all "Pfft, a couple orks, no big deal," but then you're all like "Oh my god THEY COME FROM EVERYWHERE" and you're frantically trying to score some melee kills to keep your health up while your mates are pouring gunfire into the endless green wave.

[EVILNess]

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY UPON MY IMMORTAL SOUL.

I just bought Skyrim.

Whelp, there goes my life for the next 120 hours.

[Bells]

I will continue to maintin that Wipeout is the best racing series ever made.

Your opinion lacks this much awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672xhZDO23U&feature=channel_video_title)

[Revising Ocelot]

Just finished Amnesia: The Dark Descent.


Never playing it again.

[Kim]

Just beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 last night. It's actually pretty good!

[mauve]

Went back to Champions Online since the Aftershock storyline is free to play now. Running from the Kings of Edom was kinda cool, the horrible fake accents were horrible and not in a good way, the fact that one of the Avatars randomly changed voice actors mid-game (we'll have this woman finish up the lines for this character who was until now a man. No one will notice.) was lame, but getting to beat the everloving crap out of Defender as an all powerful avatar of chaos and destruction was quite satisfying. Stupid Defender.

[phil_]

the horrible fake accents were horrible and not in a good way,What does it say about us, as a people, that we need to clarify when "horrible" is a negative thing? I propose that it signifies our excellent taste in entertainment media, much like being members of a message board for a defunct sprite comic.

Double-tap for the "on-topic" target, I'm now playing "Make this car legal to drive and insured while also disposing of another car good only for scrap in a way that won't get me a letter from the DMV, all in the space of a week." Like anyone with dignity, I'm not using a FAQ, but this game's pretty tricky. I mean, the designers obviously put in little hints and stuff, but, as one unfamiliar with this genre, they might be going over my head. Same reason I suck at First-person shooters, really. Should keep my mind off Skyward Sword, at least.

[EVILNess]

Does anyone know of a fix for the first mass effect On pc to not make it look like ass? More specifically not touse all the shitty low res textures when I have the game on the highest settings?

I am trying to work my way through a backlog of games stretching back to 2002 and I know what mass erect looks like on the xbox and this ain't it.

[ZARAK]

After all the big stuff out these past few weeks, the simple yet challenging feel of Super Mario 3D Land is refreshing.

[mauve]

Welp, somehow I'm back to playing Champions again. I got my Grimoire up to level 25, which means I finally got to create a nemesis villain for her. So now she's randomly being attacked by an armor-clad war-mage who summons demons and manipulates gravity or something and has a goatee.

An evil goatee.