Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4670638 times)

bork · « **Reply #10680 on:** March 31, 2011, 09:50:55 AM »

Quote from: Raban on March 31, 2011, 01:17:30 AM

Batman: Arkham Asylum = Beaten.

Fantastic game. Really loved all the Scarecrow stuff. Kinda weak final boss, but that's not a huge deal.

EDIT: After that game I think I'm ready to take on the Splinter Cell games. Are there any games in the series I should avoid? Please, give me the scoop, EB! I've only ever played the demo of the first game, and I didn't like it at the time since I was a weeaboo who didn't appreciate gaijin trying to ape Kojima. How are the PC versions?

I'd check out Chaos Theory for the older games and the newest title, Conviction.

demi · « **Reply #10681 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:12:53 AM »

Avoid Double Agent... dear god was that shit

Raban · « **Reply #10682 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:29:03 AM »

I didn't mention that I've played a healthy chunk of Conviction but I didn't like it because A) it's too easy and B) doesn't really punish you for not being super stealthy.

But I'll check out Chaos Theory. Anything worth seeing in the first two games?

demi · « **Reply #10683 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:35:00 AM »

The fact that they dont suck is a plus

Raban · « **Reply #10684 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:36:19 AM »

Alright. Well this is nifty, there's a collection of the first three games. Gonna just play through them and call it a series.

Quote from: mojovonio on March 31, 2011, 10:35:21 AM

Conviction is really REALLY good. Had tons of fun with it. Let me know if you ever wanna do some co-op.

Is the co-op different from the single-player in any way? Also...do I even have you on XBL!?

demi · « **Reply #10685 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:39:38 AM »

Co-op is a short story, along with the Hunter and Stealth missions.

Raban · « **Reply #10686 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:16:24 PM »

PS3 version?

magus · « **Reply #10687 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:39:48 PM »

i just finished the ruin dungeon,vesperia seems really really really good,was this really made by the same team of abyss? there is an... abyss (pun intended) between the two games

it's a shame you can't rename the character,i so wanted to rename estell,princess derpina

tiesto · « **Reply #10688 on:** March 31, 2011, 03:46:34 PM »

Quote from: Borys on March 31, 2011, 05:42:17 AM

Fuck, gotta buy Nier. Thanks for the reminder.

Make sure to buy Resonance of Fate too... It is awesome, (just don't listen to demi)

Raban · « **Reply #10689 on:** March 31, 2011, 04:10:33 PM »

Oh. /foreveralone

Raban · « **Reply #10690 on:** March 31, 2011, 05:02:11 PM »

Yeah, sup?

Raban · « **Reply #10691 on:** March 31, 2011, 05:04:58 PM »

No, I'm broke right now. Sry

Raban · « **Reply #10692 on:** March 31, 2011, 05:41:50 PM »

Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 31, 2011, 05:26:11 PM

Quote from: mojovonio on March 31, 2011, 05:07:22 PM
Its like 20 bucks. I thought you Americans were always swimming in dough.
Swimming in "debt", Mojo, the word is "debt"

magus · « **Reply #10693 on:** March 31, 2011, 06:45:51 PM »

fucking giant wolf and his instamurdering the whole party dashing attack

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #10694 on:** March 31, 2011, 08:29:29 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on March 31, 2011, 10:35:21 AM

Conviction is really REALLY good. Had tons of fun with it. Let me know if you ever wanna do some co-op.

So the whole NO FAST TRAVEL IN DLC bullshit in Borderlands is starting to annoy me. Starting in T-Bone Junction and having to take 20-25 minutes to work my way over to Sunken Sea to do missions is incredibly tedious.

Yea, that killed our borderlands obsession too. We did get through zombies at least

iconoclast · « **Reply #10695 on:** April 01, 2011, 01:10:13 AM »

Vesperia is by team Symphonia I think. And the wolf is one of the hardest bosses in the game, that battle is an odd difficulty spike.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10696 on:** April 01, 2011, 02:00:28 AM »

The wolf was a bitch in the demo but I don't remember it being hard in the real game. Hmmm

choco parfait · « **Reply #10697 on:** April 01, 2011, 03:35:11 AM »

Wolf isn't hard to kill, but killing it while fulfilling the secret objective was super painful. $:-\$

magus · « **Reply #10698 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:09:58 AM »

fulfilling the secret objective wasn't hard,just have the plant stands between you and him and then spam azure fang,you'll hit both the plant and the boss and he'll get stunned

anyway one reason i was still getting killed is because i didn't stock on gummies and resurrect bottle,i tought i couldn't go back to town because "OH NO GUARDZ!!1!" but apparently i could anyway so i restocked and kicked his ass pretty swiftly

anyway when do i get to synthethize new equipment? i haven't seen a single weapon shop and the item shop only let me synthethize gummies which is boring

magus · « **Reply #10699 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:01:16 AM »

wow i realized only now after like 6 hours of playing that item shops DO sell weapons,you just had to scroll with LT/RT instead of LB/RB

well i guess that at least the good news is that i have tons of gald to synthethize anything i want,tough i will have to do some grinding to catch up with the skills

hope i didn't miss anything for the item achievement,i already forgot to scan one of the earlier boss but i guess there is always new game+?

also is it just me or is flynn basicaly the jrpg equivalent of suzaku? good thing he doesn't join in the 360 version!

maxy · « **Reply #10700 on:** April 01, 2011, 11:55:58 AM »

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wow i realized only now after like 6 hours of playing that item shops DO sell weapons,you just had to scroll with LT/RT instead of LB/RB duh

I'm replaying it right now

iconoclast · « **Reply #10701 on:** April 01, 2011, 05:16:34 PM »

Spinzaku > Flynn

Just got a free Torchlight 360 code, gonna start playing that now.

demi · « **Reply #10702 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:46:10 PM »

PSP version is a port of the GBA Version of FF4... once you hit the moon, the difficulty skyrockets. Everythink kills you in two hits. The fuuuuuck.

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #10703 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:04:24 PM »

Did you ever play the DS version? It's like that pretty much all the way through from what I can remember. I'll never play it again with that diarrhea 3D, though

Quote from: magus on April 01, 2011, 07:09:58 AM

fulfilling the secret objective wasn't hard,just have the plant stands between you and him and then spam azure fang,you'll hit both the plant and the boss and he'll get stunned

Haha there were secret objectives? What? Are they just for an achievement, or is there an actual in-game purpose?

Someone sell me their copy of Vesperia for $10 plz. My copy got lost at a friend's when I was only just getting to the meat of the game

demi · « **Reply #10704 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:14:44 PM »

I stopped playing DS version when I died from petrification outside of Baron.

demi · « **Reply #10705 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:33:58 PM »

LOL yeah it is. And you cant even skip them...

magus · « **Reply #10706 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:34:54 PM »

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Haha there were secret objectives? What? Are they just for an achievement, or is there an actual in-game purpose?

you get 5 gamerpoints and extra loot for every mission like the third boss only drops some lame ingredient but if you fulfill the secret objective he also drops an attack boosting ring

getting all the objectives it's also a requirement for one of the titles which also ties to another achievement that requires you to get every title

maxy · « **Reply #10707 on:** April 02, 2011, 05:44:43 AM »

^^

That looks horrible compared to Red Dead Redemption.

Even on PS3 it looks much much better than that.Get it and prepare to be amazed.

Corporal · « **Reply #10708 on:** April 02, 2011, 06:40:28 AM »

One enemy, one player character, empty plain with horribly stretched textures.
What am I missing. Is my sarcasmotron broken again?

...also, was the minimap supposed to be ellipsoidal? You sure everything's configured correctly, Borys?

Fortus · « **Reply #10709 on:** April 02, 2011, 12:06:07 PM »

Replaying Sacred 2. It's helping to clear the air of the stench of disappointment DA2 left behind.

Also Borys you need to drop Hope and go with a winning team. Light/Sazh/Vanille or Fang/Light/Vanille. "Operation Nora"...how can you stand that little twerp?

iconoclast · « **Reply #10710 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:12:18 PM »

Just got DJ Hero 2, about to start playing that. Looking at the back of the box, it has maybe 3 or 4 songs that I recognize and like. This should be fun!

magus · « **Reply #10711 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:13:37 PM »

just defeated that guy who wouldn't look out of place as a one piece villain

this game is really really really good,i can't say that enough,i wasn't expecting it considering how lame was tales of abyss

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It looks even worse up close (PS2 textures on ground, HORRIBLE enemies & decals pop up) but OMG FINALLY OUTTA CORRIDORS!

you guys are drunk

Raban · « **Reply #10712 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:28:30 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on April 02, 2011, 01:12:18 PM

Just got DJ Hero 2, about to start playing that. Looking at the back of the box, it has maybe 3 or 4 songs that I recognize and like. This should be fun!

Unless your tolerance for crappy pop music is lower than the depths of hell, actually playing the game is distracting enough that it's not too bothersome.

Quote from: Borys on April 02, 2011, 01:11:19 PM

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...also, was the minimap supposed to be ellipsoidal? You sure everything's configured correctly, Borys?

Hmm... how do I fix it? I have my TV set up to force 16:9 mode.

Turn off that setting on your TV. Hop into the video settings on your PS3/360 and just set the resolution to the highest available. Forcing widescreen isn't necessary really... since all the games you're going to be playing natively support it anyhow.

Fortus · « **Reply #10713 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:46:03 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 02, 2011, 01:11:19 PM

Can't understand a word from what you are saying. Skipping all cutscenes and dialogues made me not know anything about the characters for the first playthru. But indeed even his little face in the character menu background annoyed me. Pretty good healer though!

Also Fang is sexy-sexy Still can't beat Lulu

Ah you completely missed his utterly puerile "drama"...you may want to skip his cutscenes on your real playthrough

Yes he's a decent healer but Vanille is more than up to that task and her debuffs are unequaled. The best team is easily Fang/Light/Vanille but that only works once you've filled out their crystariums enough that you don't miss out on buffs. I beat the game on my first playthrough using Light/Sazh/Vanille almost exclusively. Sazh gets Haste well before anyone else and even later in the game when he started to lag behind in utility I just plain liked his character enough to work around it

iconoclast · « **Reply #10714 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:49:31 PM »

I love crappy pop music, so I'm like this game a lot so far. It's awesome.

Raban · « **Reply #10715 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:50:36 PM »

DJ Hero 2

Rman · « **Reply #10716 on:** April 02, 2011, 01:54:57 PM »

I've gotten back to KH: BBS. Really liking it this time around. Finally a KH game that finally gels with me.

Fortus · « **Reply #10717 on:** April 02, 2011, 02:10:14 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 02, 2011, 01:55:10 PM

Can't have Sazh in my party.

Also I gotta say even though FF13 battle system is streamlined as hell there are quite a few tough fights here and there. That surprised me.

When you go through the series of Cieth stone Missions on Gran Pulse there are a number of interesting fights, even a few that demand good use of Paradigm Shifts. Storyline fights excepting the Eidolan stuff are fairly pedestrian though

Positive Touch · « **Reply #10718 on:** April 02, 2011, 02:11:47 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 02, 2011, 01:55:10 PM

Can't have Sazh in my party.

why

magus · « **Reply #10719 on:** April 02, 2011, 07:54:23 PM »

i never tought i would see a ghost ship dungeon on this age,i guess some old tropes never ever really die

aaannnyyywaaayyy i went back to the first town,bought all the item i missed the first time and learned a lot of skills,i hope those warehouse puzzle don't get harder,they are already annoying enough

Diunx · « **Reply #10720 on:** April 02, 2011, 10:41:37 PM »

Lol they are still doing those? I hate puzzles that involve moving a bunch of boxes, so boring an annoying.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #10721 on:** April 02, 2011, 10:46:46 PM »

Japan's never met a terrible gameplay mechanic they didn't love.

Enl · « **Reply #10722 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:00:42 PM »

Finished up Gothic 4 and started on Risen. Gothic 4 was one fine looking game, but all those pretty locales don't hide how shallow and broken that game ended up being. Despite playing on Hard, pretty much 98% of the battles can be won just by simply stunning an enemy with lightning and slashing away at it. Nearly all the quests were the typical fetch quest fair, but I did like how the main character seemed to get increasingly aggravated by having to constantly run errands. The ending was a very brief CG cutscene that was nothing more than an advertisement for the expansion pack that was supposed to come out (which I read was put on indefinite hold due to legal reasons). I still had some mild fun with it, but mainly for the scenery and the main character's bickering.

Risen so far is looking much, much better. It seems to be a nice contrast to Gothic 4 as they both share a lot of things in common, but does those things in such a way that it doesn't feel so completely dumbed down. I'm liking the vibe of the world too. It has a bit of an old fashion adventure game feel to it. Very much looking forward to putting more time with it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10723 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:19:29 PM »

Risen is a lot more open and there's a lot more to do. The combat isn't very good until you get your sword skills all the way up to 10.

Bocsius · « **Reply #10724 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:21:13 PM »

Playing Baldur's Gate. Having a difficult time keeping my party alive in the early going. With so few hit points, it's not difficult for a single blow to kill somebody.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10725 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:23:58 PM »

Quote from: Bocsius on April 02, 2011, 11:21:13 PM

Playing Baldur's Gate. Having a difficult time keeping my party alive in the early going. With so few hit points, it's not difficult for a single blow to kill somebody.

The combat from those Bioware/Black Isle RPGs from the 90's was really brutal. It's complex and hard as nails, totally unforgiving. Basically, you have to treat every single battle as a boss battle and dig through each character's quirks and skills looking for the right combination to win.

Enl · « **Reply #10726 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:28:06 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 02, 2011, 11:19:29 PM

Risen is a lot more open and there's a lot more to do. The combat isn't very good until you get your sword skills all the way up to 10.

I'm only 2 hours into it but combat hasn't given me any problems so far. It's not as responsive as Gothic 4's combat but at least the enemies will attempt to dodge your attacks and pose some sort of threat, unlike Gothic 4 where they're just simply mindless fodder.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10727 on:** April 02, 2011, 11:31:58 PM »

Quote from: Enl on April 02, 2011, 11:28:06 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 02, 2011, 11:19:29 PM
Risen is a lot more open and there's a lot more to do. The combat isn't very good until you get your sword skills all the way up to 10.

I'm only 2 hours into it but combat hasn't given me any problems so far. It's not as responsive as Gothic 4's combat but at least the enemies will attempt to dodge your attacks and pose some sort of threat, unlike Gothic 4 where they're just simply mindless fodder.

It's not so much that there's a PROBLEM with combat, it's just slow and really simplistic and becomes really boring after a while. The level 10 sword skill is actually kind of fun though.

tiesto · « **Reply #10728 on:** April 03, 2011, 01:17:08 AM »

Quote from: iconoclast on April 02, 2011, 01:12:18 PM

Just got DJ Hero 2, about to start playing that. Looking at the back of the box, it has maybe 3 or 4 songs that I recognize and like. This should be fun!

I'm pretty much gonna stick to the Tiesto/Deadmau5/Kaskade stuff and forget about the rap. Hope that shit (especially 50 cent, Flo Rida and Soulja Boy) isn't mandatory.

Raban · « **Reply #10729 on:** April 03, 2011, 01:20:04 AM »

Oh it's mandatory. You bet your sweet little ass it's mandatory.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #10730 on:** April 03, 2011, 12:54:17 PM »

i finally figured out how i am meant to progress in AssCreed:Bro. the game won't progress until you start buying up property. i figured that was just for money to spend on upgrades, didn't realize it was actually necessary to progress in the game.

Himu · « **Reply #10731 on:** April 03, 2011, 03:43:50 PM »

borys is going to REPLAY ff13? I could only stand playing it once.

magus · « **Reply #10732 on:** April 03, 2011, 03:50:16 PM »

if he can stand FF12,he can stand FF13 too

spoiler (click to show/hide)

if he's replaying the game just to watch the cutscenes,why he doesn't just watch them on youtube? heck why did he skips them on the first place?

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anyway i am really close to being able to fly in tales of vesperia (gonna get that map achievement for first) i have seen JRPG making a lot of concessions since the ps2 days so i'm really surprised to see one done how it was done in YE OLDE TIMES in HD,it even looks better than other JRPG i played so it doesn't really make that much sense,did namco really made that much money to burn when selling extra costumes to the idol master crowd?

Bebpo · « **Reply #10733 on:** April 03, 2011, 04:46:42 PM »

Microsoft paid for Vesperia, that's where all their budget came from.

magus · « **Reply #10734 on:** April 03, 2011, 04:47:42 PM »

really? and nobody lost it's balls when they ported the game to ps3? that doesn't make a lot of sense....

Bebpo · « **Reply #10735 on:** April 03, 2011, 04:51:51 PM »

It was a one year exclusive moneyhat I think

iconoclast · « **Reply #10736 on:** April 03, 2011, 06:21:48 PM »

360's JRPG beta testers

demi · « **Reply #10737 on:** April 03, 2011, 06:33:47 PM »

> implying PS3 Versperia merits anything worth caring about

magus · « **Reply #10738 on:** April 03, 2011, 06:47:42 PM »

i'm actualy pretty pissed about it,i mean i understand adding optional boss,i can understand putting an optional area,i can understand them putting more items but when they add a whole character after you played half of the game,that pisses me off

it's like if they made a version of FF7 without cait sith

demi · « **Reply #10739 on:** April 03, 2011, 06:54:36 PM »

You didnt pay for it, so your opinion holds no merit. Enjoy your flailing arms. PS3 adds nothing of value.

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