Uh, its the weekend and games are played 12/20/2008

[Tucah]

DISSIDIA.

Also some Prince of Persia.

[Cormacaroni]

Played the first act of Left 4 Dead (in SP, i am fail) and a few hours of Fable II.

I admit, I chuckled at the little kid who came into the blacksmith and said "These Arrows of Disappointment weren't really what I was looking for..."

[Kestastrophe]

omg, I must vent about Gears of War for Windows. I cannot express what a piece of shit this game is, but I am thankful that I experienced the superior 360 version when it launched otherwise I am afraid that I would have been permanently turned off of the series. Your AI teammates follow you........sometimes. Most of the time they stand in an area that you have already cleared and do not bother to progress. They put in this stupid fucking command system that works..........sometimes. My only guess is that they put in the commands to make up for the absolutely shitty follow AI. And as I said, it only works sometimes. And you can't count on your teammates to shoot at anything, even if there are locusts right in front of them. Several boss fights and areas have glitched on me, making me reload the checkpoint in order to progress. The enemies are super accurate this time around, and I have been killed several times while in cover. These things never happened to me on the 360 version.

There are only 2 pros to this port: 1.) The sniping is 2000x better with mouse controls and I can pop heads much easier. 2.) The graphics are much better (but even with v-sync turned on I get screen tearing like a motherfucker).

Oh, and to top it all off there were all of 3 people online playing the versus mode. What a fucking joke.

I cannot express how shitty this port is. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME 

[chronovore]

Played the heck out of some BULLY on Friday night, wept that it will never see a sequel, and then played too much Fable II on Saturday night. Also played 20 minutes of the Doritos dino-eat-truck game to get 200 Achievement points.

I fall in, then out of love with Fable II repeatedly over the course of a single play session. So much is done well that the stupid stuff breaks my immersion. I spend a lot of time bored while hammering at the blacksmiths, wondering why they fell so in love with that stupid semicircle on which they project every kind of job success, and why chopping wood is almost soothingly meditative, while 'smithing is as tense and un-fun as having an ex-girlfriend nearby and wielding a stapler while one's boy junk is exposed. Tense. Every time I get a decent multiplier, POOF away it goes. Spent 20 minutes off and on trying to figure out how to heal my dog when the context on the D-pad was refusing to offer "heal dog" in favor of the Archaeology side-quest note.

Cormacaroni, I'm up for F2 co-op if you like.

[cool breeze]

I decided to play through Yakuza 2.  It's better than the first game so far.  I walked down the street that these guys didn't want me to, so I beat them up; so their boss was like "look at the tough man! come get your dick rubbed for free".  I go in the building and it's an adult baby fetish place, so when you try to leave, they get offended and you start fighting a bunch of buff men in diapers.

[bork]

A friend came over and we played some Gears 2 Horde mode briefly, although it didn't last long.  Saturday night I played 5P with friends online and we got to level 47 on our second go-through.  Playing offline split-screen with one other player just wasn't the same; wish there was split-screen online guest multiplayer  like the original had.    

So we switched to Halo 3 and had a blast; it's actually been a couple of months since I last played it so things felt fresher.  Then it was some brief Soul Calibur IV, but I was destroying my buddy so we switched to most played game of the night--

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe!  Messing around with all the characters, trying fatalities (Liu Kang's first one is the best by far, too bad the rest aren't funny it is), and mostly just laughing our asses off at the art, voices, and character design in general.  This game is bad, but "good-bad."  Makes me glad I got it.  It's fun to screw around with sometimes.  The change to (mostly) 2D game play was a good decision, but it still feels quite stiff compared to other 2.5D fighters like Battle Fantasia, SF4, and Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom.  Typical Mortal Kombat I guess.  Oh and one of the fatalities we tried that is supposed to be censored was NOT-- perhaps playing this on a Japanese system has something to do with it?  I need to try the Joker's gun fatality and see if it too is uncensored.

[The Sceneman]

I decided to play through Yakuza 2.  It's better than the first game so far.  I walked down the street that these guys didn't want me to, so I beat them up; so their boss was like "look at the tough man! come get your dick rubbed for free".  I go in the building and it's an adult baby fetish place, so when you try to leave, they get offended and you start fighting a bunch of buff men in diapers.

okay Im buying this game asap

[Tucah]

I decided to play through Yakuza 2.  It's better than the first game so far.  I walked down the street that these guys didn't want me to, so I beat them up; so their boss was like "look at the tough man! come get your dick rubbed for free".  I go in the building and it's an adult baby fetish place, so when you try to leave, they get offended and you start fighting a bunch of buff men in diapers.

Holy shit I have to finish Yakuza 1 ASAP so I can get to playing this.