What's on tap this weekend?

[Rman]

Clearing out the backlog





And going back to an old friend....

[MrAngryFace]

[Joe Molotov]

[Beezy]

[JustinP]

[drohne]

MUST FORCE SELF TO FINISH NG2

MUST THEN FORCE SELF TO PLAY GTA4

[MrAngryFace]

I suck at NG2, I traded it in to run from the shame of being worthless. I suck at most fast action games these days. OLD PEOPLE

[Enl]

Tales of Vesperia- Sweet and tasty! Like milk duds or whoppers.

Rom Hacks- Back into digging for hidden gems.

Hacking- Going through several editors trying to find the right game to make my own. Always had a thing for making 2d games.

Gunner's Heaven- Tiesto suggested this a couple of weeks ago and was shocked that I never heard of it. Can't wait to play it!

Castle Crashers- If I can get an online game going maybe I'll be able to play this again!

[bork]

Lotsa fightin' n' shootin' n' slashin'

[bork]

Brave Vesperia!

Lytey, watch out, I have read reports that Orochi has the worst load times in the history of the Musou series! May be worth waiting for the dashboard upgrade so you can install it on HDD at least.

It's fine.  A little long, but doable.  About eight seconds to get to a battle from the final selection screen.

I AM considering "retrying" the PS2 version again however.  I don't remember it having as much slowdown as the 360 version.  Might end up getting it back instead if it's not as bad.

[bork]

Koei logo to Title screen- 5 seconds
main menu to story select- 2 seconds
Final select screen to story- 2 seconds
story to map- 5 seconds
map to play screen- 5-8 seconds (I remember 8 seconds before but I loaded up a save game and it did it in 5)

Not too bad if you ask me.

EDIT: I think the initial load must be the longest.  Cleared the previous stage and the next one loaded up in only 3 seconds.

[Kestastrophe]

Mercenaries 2- rented it and beat the first 2 missions. Pretty fun so far, but nothing special.

Too Human- trying to get more achievements 

[Bocsius]

I have the last two levels to finish this replay of Halo 2. After that, who knows. Might just be movies. Maybe Amped 2?

[Greatness Gone]

Tales of Vesperia and Fallout 2.

[cool breeze]

IU and Vesperia.

[Fragamemnon]

provided that the tropical storm doesn't knock out power/internets, then a weekend of warhammer online beta

[Tucah]

Viva Pinata DS
Suikoden, and if I finish it, Suikoden II

[GilloD]

VP2.

[tiesto]

IU, and Wild Arms 3.

[Tauntaun]

Some more DOD:Source and that might be about it.

[Grecco]

Viva Pinata (The old one) and probably some Rock Band

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Picked it up last night.

[hyp]

Infinite Bumdiscovery
Castle Crashers
Geo Wars 2
Bionic Commando Rearmed

xbla

[CajoleJuice]

TF2
Castle Crashers
Geo Wars 2

[Beezy]

TF2
Castle Crashers
Geo Wars 2

Hey, PM me or send me a message on Live when you wanna play Castle Crashers. I'll be home all day most likely.

[AdmiralViscen]

I really only wanna play CC, but I'm sick of replaying the same levels since it rarely saves. I'll definitely get some in with the gf on Sunday tho

The Last Guy has ruined me for everything else right now.  After that replay X-Com

Yea, I had never even heard of that game but it's groovy as fuck.

Did you snag my shit yet?

[AdmiralViscen]

Yup.

Take your time, but if something new comes out I'm gonna change my pw so I can add my credit card info.

We can keep tagging it off and on whenever we want to swap shiz tho.

[cool breeze]

I totally forgot about the SOCOM beta.  I will be playing that also.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I should probably get more progress with NG2 in. I don't understand it. It's a pretty decent game, and I have fun while I'm playing it, but I just never have any motivation to actually start playing.

[Mr. Gundam]

[cool breeze]

I got into the Battlefield Heroes beta and the SOCOM beta, and so far one of them isn't very good (Hint: It's the one I'm not supposed to talk about).

[Great Rumbler]

Some X-Com: Apocalypse and Lost Odyssey.

And Spore if I can find it tomorrow.

[cool breeze]

Surprisingly SOCOM beta is pretty good.

[AdmiralViscen]

Is this a qore thing or open?

[duckman2000]

Crackdown and COD4. What a generation.

Surprisingly SOCOM beta is pretty good.

I assume all the beta codes are long gone?

[cool breeze]

I got in the SOCOM beta by preordering, but I also am supposed to be in through the Qore episode.  If Qore gives you a code, then I will give that out here, but you need to wait until the 11th or something like that.

Graphically the game is pretty bad, but it runs smooth, so can't complain.

Oh, and fantastic sixaxis usage.

[duckman2000]

Wicked. I just got done playing a few missions of the original Ghost Recon, so graphics quality is not much of a concern. Performance would be, so that's good to hear.

What's the sixaxis usage like?

[cool breeze]

When you stop moving, you basically tilt it to lean around corners, lean low, or poke your head up.  You can even set it so it has dynamic horizontal something...basically, even if you are holding the controller is a weird way, it will recognize that it is the middle if you stop moving.

And people are actually talking, and by talking I mean they are doing some crazy deep plans about how to fight the enemy.  I just saw a sniper asking for targets to pick off.  It isn't a few people either, it is a lot of people, and this is on a random server in the beta.  Ridiculous.

[duckman2000]

Sounds awesome. I don't think I've come across a game this generation in which people were actually devising deep plans, let alone following through with them.

[Sho Nuff]

I am going to binge on the id Software super pack

nom nom nom

[jiji]

Backlog for me, as usual. NGB rocks.

[cool breeze]

Sounds awesome. I don't think I've come across a game this generation in which people were actually devising deep plans, let alone following through with them.

Yeah, it was really surprising for me.  I don't want to make that many generalizations here, but they did speak with a southern accent and did use military terms and all that.  I do question how much these tactics helped when I topped the scoreboard by going Rambo on the enemy.

Two more things I left out/didn't know before.  First, you can dance on your enemies corpse (I died doing the robot on someone...).  Second, and I don't know how deep this is, but environments can be destroyed.  Cars and things like that can be destroyed, then there was a bridge that got destroyed in front of me as I was about to pass it.  I know this bridge wasn't some scripted trap or game mode since I did pass it several times already, and it was team death match.

 

[fistfulofmetal]

Surprisingly SOCOM beta is pretty good.

oh shit

forgot about this. I got that episode of qore from PSM so I'm in the beta.


looking forward to playing it. I used to be a Socom nerd but dropped out after 2. Them Socom dudes are about as hardcore as console shooting fans can get.

[brawndolicious]

I'm playing Stranglehold right now but I'll also try and finish off Grid this weekend.  Makin' for a lot of testosterone.

[archie4208]

Hot Shots Golf Open Tee 2 and Suikoden 2.

Hacked PSP

[MrAngryFace]

Suikoden II so good on psp, I should put it back on mine and grind some POTCH

[Enl]

 :'( :'( :'(

[Joe Molotov]

Suikoden II is good anywhere. Best RPG

[MrAngryFace]

God of War II id think, do something without guns, then do something with guns again, then something without. Im going for the last gundam achievement this morning.

[muckhole]

I really need to open my copy of Tales for the 360, but I think the reality is that I'll be X-COM'ing it up any chance I get this weekend.

[Positive Touch]

I am going to binge on the id Software super pack

nom nom nom

does this come with dangerous dave?  'cause that game was fucking awesome.


i'll be finishing up on my big boss rank MGS4 run (finally), then i think i'll try to get back into ninja gaiden sigma.  of all the things they choose to copy off of dmc, why did they have to pick the stupid way the game forces you to go through easier difficulties to get to the hard ones?  


edit: i second picking god of war 2.  one of the most epic games ever made, and damn fun to boot.  plus it still looks good as fuck

[Eric P]

open war beta tomorrow

rawr

[The Sceneman]

Etrian Odyssey 2 - back to this after a hiatus of a few weeks. Just made it to the 5th stratum

BC: Rearmed - done all the challenge rooms (well all the ones required for the achievement anyway) so getting fucked up the ass on Super Hard

Infinite Undiscovery - wow, just wow

And I just picked up Saints Row for like 20 bucks while grocery shopping. Cant wait to play it. I hear its really good 

[Eel O'Brian]

i'm playing moh rising sun right now

hahaha, i forgot how bad this game is, it's the absolute worst of the moh series - enemies that spring out of nowhere and kill you with two swipes of their swords in a banzai charge, crappy graphics, mongoloid ai, HIDDEN SAVE POINTS (if i were a reviewer that would be an automatic 3 rating for me, i mean, seriously, what moron thought that was clever)

there has yet to be a decent WWII fps set in the pacific, fingers crossed for cod world at war

[Eel O'Brian]

man, 360 bc kind of sucks

i've been messing around with xbox games off and on all day, and most of them stutter and skip and are just generally glitchy as hell, it's really annoying

i may have to rebuy some of my favorites on ps2

[Trent Dole]

That reminds me, I was going to ask you distinguished fellows if there's any place that has a rundown on how well the various BC X1 games run on 360. I think such a site has been mentioned here before. Snagged some points today since some of the Katamari DLC is reduced and plan on attacking Bioshock tomorrow since it's rainy as fuck here.

[Eric P]

WAR opened early

i've been playing that

[MrAngryFace]

man, 360 bc kind of sucks

i've been messing around with xbox games off and on all day, and most of them stutter and skip and are just generally glitchy as hell, it's really annoying

i may have to rebuy some of my favorites on ps2

Yeah, PS3 BC sux now too tho, unless you got the AWESOME unit

[Eel O'Brian]

That reminds me, I was going to ask you distinguished fellows if there's any place that has a rundown on how well the various BC X1 games run on 360. I think such a site has been mentioned here before. Snagged some points today since some of the Katamari DLC is reduced and plan on attacking Bioshock tomorrow since it's rainy as fuck here.

Almost all of the ones I own have framerate problems (especially when there is a lot of action onscreen), fmv stutters, and varying graphical quirks

they are playable, but the problems are noticeable

Yeah, PS3 BC sux now too tho, unless you got the AWESOME unit

i got a 60 gig right before they quit making them, but if it ever craps out i am probably screwed

[MrAngryFace]

That reminds me, I was going to ask you distinguished fellows if there's any place that has a rundown on how well the various BC X1 games run on 360. I think such a site has been mentioned here before. Snagged some points today since some of the Katamari DLC is reduced and plan on attacking Bioshock tomorrow since it's rainy as fuck here.

Almost all of the ones I own have framerate problems (especially when there is a lot of action onscreen), fmv stutters, and varying graphical quirks

they are playable, but the problems are noticeable

Yeah, PS3 BC sux now too tho, unless you got the AWESOME unit

i got a 60 gig right before they quit making them, but if it ever craps out i am probably screwed

Ditto I should probably stop using it to watch normal dvds all the time