What are you playing: The Thread

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Ramary

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

He played that one like two weeks ago.

[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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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.

My characters, for anyone bored enough:
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.

Also, here's the Flying Dutchman's info: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, 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_]

Originally Posted by 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]

Originally Posted by Melfice

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. =/

Let me remind you of a time when cooking pan faces were the norm and torsos were mold injected.

[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)