Author Topic: What ya playing? (Read 8983 times)

archie4208 · « **on:** May 08, 2009, 03:51:45 PM »

Street Fighter 4 - Kickin' ass with Honda

Plants vs. Zombies - awesome

Defense Grid - just as awesome

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:52:55 PM »

i keep trying to play stalin vs. martians, and it keeps insisting on sucking, so it appears we are at an impasse

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:55:13 PM »

Dynasty Warriors 6 because its been years since I've played a Musou and I didn't know which were good. Apparently DW6 is considered to be shit, but I'm enjoying it.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:55:23 PM »

Infamous demo, which is

Also, Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Vizzys · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:56:54 PM »

plants versus zombies - i have beaten adventure mode, all the puzzles and all the minigames, 4 more survival levels to go and i will have the golden sunflower award. Im curious if it grants you anything other than bragging rights.
Dystopia - fun online fps less then 200 people play regularly

demi · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:05:29 PM »

galactrix - amazing game

Eric P · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:19:20 PM »

i am thinking of snagging age of booty fro $5 from impulse

bork · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM »

SF4- now back on 360, too!
Infamous Demo- Seems pretty good! Sony should think about releasing it for people to try, which will generate interest in potential purchases, rather than restricting it to pre-orders. That makes no sense to me.

Time to play some Death Smiles finally, too.

Enl · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:41:53 PM »

Home

Plants vs Zombies- On stage 3-6. Quite addicting. Love the music.

Street Fighter IV- Almost on G2 rank. Mains for CE are Chun-li, Bison, Gouken, Guile.

Dead Rising/Lost Planet- Slowly chipping away at these bit by bit for the first time. Despite all the hate it gets, I'm really liking Lost Planet.

Fallout 3- Currently trying to figure out what the heck to do with the 3 satellites in the northeast.

PS3 Repair: The Game- Amazingly good game where I box up my dead PS3 to ship to Sony for repairs so that way I can watch the Dog Soldiers bluray I picked up this week.

Work

Henry Hatsworth- Very charming, but jumping in and out of the puzzles happen more often than I would have liked.

TMNT:Hyperstone Heist- Been forever since I've played this. It still feels like a cut/paste job of the arcade games, but still very fun none the less.

Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM

SF4- now back on 360, too!

I was skeptical as to wether or not the Lyte Edge that sent me a friend request was you or not.

Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM

Time to play some Death Smiles finally, too.

:'(

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:55:32 PM »

Free Realms

Akala · « **Reply #10 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:05:47 PM »

Finally getting into P4 (was burnt out on the formula when it came out...)
SF4
Some of the glut I've bought off of Steam these past few months yet haven't had any time to play.

Maybe a bit of WoW.

Bebpo · « **Reply #11 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:10:10 PM »

-Fallout 2; Awesome.
-Fallout 3 DLC; ehhhh
-Persona ; Dungeons are getting big and confusing :\

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #12 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:12:18 PM »

Fallout 3
Diablo II
Tales of Vesperia
a lil bit of Banjo nuts

archie4208 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:49:29 PM »

annnnnd Defense Grid crashes every time I try to load the 'Focal Point' mission.

PC gaming

Brehvolution · « **Reply #14 on:** May 08, 2009, 05:57:02 PM »

In order of time spent recently:

MLB 09: The Show - Started up a pitching career. I just pitched in my first all star(AA) game.

Peggle XBLA
Civ 4 BTS - I play this daily. Trying different strategies on harder levels.
Gears 2 - on the final stage. I would love for someone to co-op with me on it so I can get it done.

cool breeze · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:07:11 PM »

Jak 3

The Sceneman · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:22:41 PM »

Grinding to level 30 in Fallout 3

Trying to beat Dishwasher on easy at least. Its a really well crafted action/hack 'em up game in terms of depth and the different combos and strategies you can come up with. A real shame the art sucks

And renting a 'mystery game' as detailed in my other thread. Silent Hill is looking likely

tiesto · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:25:08 PM »

SO4, DQ5, LBP, and gonna start with the 2 remaining Fallout 3 DLCs I have to beat (The Pitt and Broken Steel).

The Sceneman · « **Reply #18 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:33:42 PM »

Oh yeah and Im about 20 hours into Persona 3. Is the game meant to really easy? I got stuck on one tricky full-moon boss so next month I went to Tartarus every other night to train. I met beat the deadline for reaching the dead end by two weeks and by the time the next boss rolled around I was way overleveled and wiped the floor with his bitch ass. I figure it'll get a bit harder?

ManaByte · « **Reply #19 on:** May 08, 2009, 07:07:48 PM »

Bocsius · « **Reply #20 on:** May 08, 2009, 08:28:43 PM »

I bought Fable II, so I'll probably start that tomorrow.

Hollywood · « **Reply #21 on:** May 08, 2009, 08:33:22 PM »

Sonic/Sega Collection on XBox 360. I'm just going through the games to try them out, get the achievement in them. So much talk of how badass the Genesis was and stuff and there's so many 'meh' games on this collection. I think Sega's platformers are completely overrated. I'm going through some of Vectorman and Ristar, and there seems to be zero level design in these things. The whole shit where you get drilled by moving forward from something off screen that just pops up gets kind of old, although Vectorman is pretty cool otherwise.

Third · « **Reply #22 on:** May 08, 2009, 08:34:37 PM »

Klonoa Wii
Ape Escape PSP
Magic Ball PSN

brawndolicious · « **Reply #23 on:** May 08, 2009, 08:44:34 PM »

Started up Crackdown a few days ago...and I'm nearly done. Got everything to level 4 and I'm taking down the last gang. It's awesome but what is there to do after that you kill everything?

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #24 on:** May 08, 2009, 08:47:34 PM »

Actually played quite a bit of Soul Calibur 4 today. I like all the stupid extras, gauges I don't understand, and customization. Makes a pretty boring a fighter a fun one.

Quote from: am nintenho on May 08, 2009, 08:44:34 PM

Started up Crackdown a few days ago...and I'm nearly done. Got everything to level 4 and I'm taking down the last gang. It's awesome but what is there to do after that you kill everything?

Throw dumpsters off of high rises!

Third · « **Reply #25 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:08:07 PM »

And climb to the top of the police headquarter.

Bebpo · « **Reply #26 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:30:03 PM »

Drive cars off rooftops

Tucah · « **Reply #27 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:30:12 PM »

Jak and Daxter, Monster Hunter Freedom 2, FFCC: Echoes of Time (still)

Bebpo · « **Reply #28 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:30:25 PM »

Have a friend throw a car with you in it through rings!

Bebpo · « **Reply #29 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:34:18 PM »

Started playing Three Cards to Midnight, the new casual adventure game by the Tex Murphy guys. Under a Killing Moon was one of my favorite PC games growing up so I'm gonna give this a chance. I wanted to wait until it was on Steam, but I figure the guys need money at this point and they probably get a bigger cut just buying directly from their site, so I gave them $20.

Game seems interesting so far. It's actually less "casual" than I expected, but then I don't think I've ever played a casual game before unless Peggle and Mindsweeper count as "casual gaming", so maybe I just had weird expectations that it would be like Wii Music and have no actual gameplay. It's more like Layton right now with full voice acting and a moodier story.

patrickula · « **Reply #30 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:59:02 PM »

I've been working my way through Dawn of War II and Far Cry 2 on my PC for a while now. FC2 is pretty weird but I enjoy killing time in it well enough and the environment is great. Staying off the roads helps. DoW II kicks ass.

Also been playing through RE5 for the second time, this time in the (super shitty split screen) coop with my girl. Picked PGR4 up again recently too.
I've got a giant backlog of games I've been meaning to play so who knows what will actually get played.

bork · « **Reply #31 on:** May 08, 2009, 10:06:05 PM »

Quote from: Enl on May 08, 2009, 04:41:53 PM

I was skeptical as to wether or not the Lyte Edge that sent me a friend request was you or not.

I dunno if anyone noticed, but my gamer tag has changed from "Lyte Edge" to "lyte edge." Made a subtle modification. I got my account back last night!

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Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM
Time to play some Death Smiles finally, too.
:'(

duckman2000 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 08, 2009, 10:25:53 PM »

Assassin's Creed

demi · « **Reply #33 on:** May 08, 2009, 10:31:20 PM »

i just hit 99999 gamerscore so im gonna leave it there cause its so cool.

Beezy · « **Reply #34 on:** May 08, 2009, 10:45:51 PM »

I've stopped playing every other game for Virtual On. So far, I got 102 wins and 150 losses in ranked matches.

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #35 on:** May 08, 2009, 10:51:19 PM »

modded UFO : Extraterrestrials, Plants vs. Zombies, planetfall mod for Civ4 BTS

Enl · « **Reply #36 on:** May 09, 2009, 12:42:25 AM »

Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 10:06:05 PM

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Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM
Time to play some Death Smiles finally, too.
:'(

Those are tears for the potentially fun looking games that probably won't get released overseas.

drew · « **Reply #37 on:** May 09, 2009, 01:23:47 AM »

peggle

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #38 on:** May 09, 2009, 02:29:48 AM »

Playing a little Defense Grid. I kinda want to pick up Plants vs. Zombies too over the weekend.

Purple Filth · « **Reply #39 on:** May 09, 2009, 03:25:34 AM »

Quote from: the lyte edge on May 08, 2009, 04:34:10 PM

SF4- now back on 360, too!
Infamous Demo- Seems pretty good! Sony should think about releasing it for people to try, which will generate interest in potential purchases, rather than restricting it to pre-orders. That makes no sense to me.

They actually do that but normally a few days before it releases (SCEA) unless SCEE fucks them over an releases it much earlier on their side

On topic: Finally finished ZOE2 (never wanted to end it :'( ), played some Guilty Gear X2 vanilla (its an old version but hey) and some Star Ocean 3 (finally decided to continue)

bork · « **Reply #40 on:** May 09, 2009, 04:13:22 AM »

Played Soul Calibur IV for a while. I am unimpressed with the amount of "high level players" who are still on this game-- I won a large majority of the ranked matches I did, beating people more than twice my level, by doing extremely basic shit. I guess the real players are just doing player matches at this point. One idiot sent me some hate mail after I got a perfect on him in the last round. I love being able to send a snappy retort and then blocking communications, further angering said morons as they hurriedly type out a response, only to find that they can't send it.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #41 on:** May 09, 2009, 04:31:37 AM »

Quote from: the lyte edge on May 09, 2009, 04:13:22 AM

Played Soul Calibur IV for a while. I am unimpressed with the amount of "high level players" who are still on this game-- I won a large majority of the ranked matches I did, beating people more than twice my level, by doing extremely basic shit. I guess the real players are just doing player matches at this point. One idiot sent me some hate mail after I got a perfect on him in the last round. I love being able to send a snappy retort and then blocking communications, further angering said morons as they hurriedly type out a response, only to find that they can't send it.

lol, just made a similar post on gaf. I can't believe some of the players on this game-- 1000+ wins with no skills whatsoever. which makes you wonder not how they got all the wins (everyone sucks), but how they just didn't learn a single thing about the game in the course of getting to where they are. I don't care that much since the input lag is very noticeable in the game and I'm just going for the 100 matches/lvl 20 achievements

bork · « **Reply #42 on:** May 09, 2009, 06:01:37 AM »

Haha, the standout match set for me tonight was a player match in a room with three other players. I didn't have a headset plugged in, so I couldn't hear everything, but it seemed to be three huge animu nerds. Nerd A, Nerd B, and SUPER KAWAII OTAKU GIRL with XBL profile reminding you several times that she is indeed "a girl. tee hee!"

SUPER KAWAII OTAKU GIRL seems to be pretty good. She picks her custom characters (based on Sailor Moon, naturally, tee hee!) and wails on the two other nerds. My turn up. I decide to join in the fun and pick a Taki I made in the image of Krauser II from Detroit Metal City. Sadly for them, and perhaps awesome for me, the nerds do not seem to recognize this character. As I proceed to beat down SUPER KAWAII OTAKU GIRL, Nerds A and B are making comments like "YOU'RE SO CRUEL, KRAUSER!"

So Nerd A is up next. He picks The Apprentice and spams the typical shit, gets me one round and taunts at the end of the match. I come back and beat his ass down, then proceed to taunt-cancel over and over again as the other two idiots whine in disgust.

Nerd B is last. I don't remember who he picked; I think it was either Yoshimitsu or Mitsurugi, and again I take down another idiot. This guy is so bad that I'm having fun just messing with him-- I get knocked down and don't get up...just lay on the ground and roll from side to side if he comes close. The other two have no idea what to make of this. I put this guy out of his misery and exit the room as the whining continues. This was hilarious and I wish I could have recorded the matches and the mic banter. :'(

archie4208 · « **Reply #43 on:** May 09, 2009, 12:27:06 PM »

http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0 is another sweet tower defense game

Brehvolution · « **Reply #44 on:** May 09, 2009, 09:12:34 PM »

Quote from: Borys on May 09, 2009, 10:37:23 AM

http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/crush-the-castle

So awesome.

Took me about 20-30 minutes to finish. But once I started playing, I didn't want it to end.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #45 on:** May 09, 2009, 06:04:49 PM »

I'm gonna play some Mythic Brawl on Halo 3 to try to get the last two FFA achievements

I'm also doing some Gears 2 achievements and supposedly playing Lode Runner, Banjo Tooie, and Burnout Paradise

duckman2000 · « **Reply #46 on:** May 09, 2009, 06:21:07 PM »

Got Prince of Persia today, but I'm trying to get through AC right now so PoP is going to have to wait. Thinking about firing up BG&E later on.

On a related note, I just realized that 7 out of 10 Xbox 360 games currently in my possession are Ubi games.

Bebpo · « **Reply #47 on:** May 09, 2009, 07:13:47 PM »

Got Demon Souls, woohoo. Don't really have time to invest in it right now though. Maybe after I beat Fallout 2 I'll focus on that next.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #48 on:** May 09, 2009, 07:21:32 PM »

The laser achievement is fucking distinguished mentally-challenged, I'm gonna have to cheat for it.

cool breeze · « **Reply #49 on:** May 09, 2009, 07:46:01 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on May 09, 2009, 07:13:47 PM

Got Demon Souls, woohoo. Don't really have time to invest in it right now though. Maybe after I beat Fallout 2 I'll focus on that next.

Demon's Soul will make time disappear. You will be amazed by how little you actually accomplish with how much you play, but you will probably still enjoy yourself and still want to play. I rage quit the game at least 3 or 4 times now and finally managed to stick with it by using Jak 3 as a distraction.

One funny (sad) thing was that I originally planned to take a break from playing after I fought Dorian (an enemy from the first level you can't fight until later because of a locked door). The way it works is that you need a key from one character named Ost-something, who you are supposed to save 3 times in the first world to get the key (or just kill him to get the key). I saved him once from a bunch of enemies in 1-1, then I go around looking for him in 1-2, 1-3 and 1-4. It turns out that he died off screen and I lost access to this key for the game I was playing. It wasn't a glitch either since this happens to a lot of people who play the game. It isn't like Dead Rising where you'll just get it next time since I played for maybe 18+ hours and haven't even stepped into the the 3rd gate yet (I think there are 5 or 6).

So yeah, it's a tough game.

Eric P · « **Reply #50 on:** May 09, 2009, 09:15:26 PM »

once i got it all working, age of booty is a lot of fun, but kind of frustrating solo because you can't give any cues to the AI. the enemy ai will often act in concert while my friendly ai is spread to the four winds like some kind of special olympics piracy team

Purple Filth · « **Reply #51 on:** May 09, 2009, 10:27:11 PM »

Quote from: duckman2000 on May 09, 2009, 06:21:07 PM

Got Prince of Persia today, but I'm trying to get through AC right now so PoP is going to have to wait. Thinking about firing up BG&E later on.

On a related note, I just realized that 7 out of 10 Xbox 360 games currently in my possession are Ubi games.

Well thats certainly ironic

bork · « **Reply #52 on:** May 09, 2009, 10:30:08 PM »

LOL, there's no Soul Calibur IV Bad Loser Wall Of Shame, is there? I just beat a guy ranked higher than me (around 79, I think?) doing nothing but low kicks using Lizardman. He had a mic on and kept cursing up a storm, then rage quit on me in the third round.

The best part was that he had an MLG gamer icon.

Bebpo · « **Reply #53 on:** May 09, 2009, 11:07:06 PM »

Not liking Three Cards to Midnight that much. It's like Layton if every puzzle in Layton was the same puzzle with different objects/layouts.

Also it's a match object game and it runs in like 640x480 window resolution so it's hard to tell what a lot of smaller objects are. And the cutscene graphics are so PS1-CG bad they run in like 180x90 resolution in a little tiny window.

Story is decent. Seems heading in a predictable direction, but who knows. I'm not that far.

Oh and there is some serious filler design BULLSHIT. After you beat a chapter it shows you how well you did on each of the 3 mini-chapters that make up the chapter. It rates you on 1-4 stars depending on how many misses, hints, and restarts you had. So it'll say: 2 stars on section A, 4 stars on section B, 3 stars on section C. Having X amount of stars is needed for the true ending it tells you. BUT even though you can replay each section on its own, replaying a section won't up the star rating. You have to replay THE ENTIRE CHAPTER with all 3 sections to increase your star rating for each section. Laaaaaame. I'm not doing that shit. So I will beat the game and if I don't get the good ending they can go fuck themselves and I'm definitely not buying their next game. Right now I'm probably not, especially not for $20, but again it's early in the story and maybe if the story is great I'll be more persuaded.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 09, 2009, 11:58:23 PM »

And, apparently BG&E doesn't work on Xbox 360.

So I've been playing Prince of Persia instead, and I had to shut it off. It's very pretty, but that just makes listening to Prince Nathan Drake of Persia all the more excruciating.

Bebpo · « **Reply #55 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:10:52 AM »

The Uncharted Prince really is a love/hate divide between people.

I absolutely loved his voice acting and the writing between the two and it kept the game enjoyable since the gameplay itself was zzzzz. Sure he didn't sound like an authentic Persian prince, but he sounded like a likeable confident hero who woos the women and saves the day while being quirpy just like Nathan Drake (who I thought was awesome and carried Uncharted as well). I'm so sick of emo leads, anti-heros, amnesiacs, gar space marines, etc...that having a nice charming and funny guy as a lead is a breath of fresh air in these games imo.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:16:18 AM »

He sounds like a fucking dork, and the writing is absolutely fucking atrocious. When he suggested to the dude that he should have gotten the girl a pony instead of the apocalypse, that's when I realized that the game needed to go.

Bebpo · « **Reply #57 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:26:24 AM »

I think he's cool

duckman2000 · « **Reply #58 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:33:20 AM »

Quote from: Kosma on May 10, 2009, 07:09:37 AM

Quote from: duckman2000 on May 09, 2009, 11:58:23 PM
And, apparently BG&E doesn't work on Xbox 360.

So I've been playing Prince of Persia instead, and I had to shut it off. It's very pretty, but that just makes listening to Prince Nathan Drake of Persia all the more excruciating.

Get it on Steam.

I would, but I can't imagine playing this with kb+m.

cool breeze · « **Reply #59 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:40:22 AM »

yeah, the I bought the Steam version and it doesn't support gamepads. I need to download the pinnacle game profiler thing eventually to play it with my 360 pad.

I already have it on the Xbox, but it's not BC and I'm not willing to buy it on Gamecube or PS2 because those versions weren't too hot IIRC

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Author Topic: What ya playing? (Read 8983 times)