Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4663677 times)

demi · « **Reply #11340 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:54:51 PM »

Ghost of Sparta takes a greasy shit on GOW3... embarassing

tiesto · « **Reply #11341 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:57:34 PM »

Lara Croft: GOL is fantastic... I'd love to play co-op with some of you folks - my brother sucks and he doesn't like the game very much

cool breeze · « **Reply #11342 on:** May 03, 2011, 12:34:32 AM »

Quote from: archie4208 on May 02, 2011, 04:29:53 PM

GoL is really annoying if you are going for speed run goals. Random physics and janky platforming are not a good combination.

They are more than generous by providing ample time to complete everything. That is if your amateurish fud was true! It's frankly too easy to get all the achievements.

demi · « **Reply #11343 on:** May 03, 2011, 01:33:53 AM »

Jesus mary and joseph... Ghost of Sparta was so good. Even the final fight was awesome. Awesome all the way through.

Diunx · « **Reply #11344 on:** May 03, 2011, 02:03:23 AM »

Be warned stoney, P3 has one of the worst final boss ever.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #11345 on:** May 03, 2011, 02:15:18 AM »

lol I never even made it to the final boss. I got up to the final day but never bothered plowing through the last dungeon $:-\$

Okay I have 93 of 95 cheevs in Red Dead now. The other two are pretty much only obtainable by boosting so will have to wait to get set up with appropriate boosting parties.

Have to get back to Sonic Unleashed or Dead Rising 2. I'll probably do an item collection run in DR2 tonight (ie. use all the objects in the game)

demi · « **Reply #11346 on:** May 03, 2011, 02:55:01 AM »

I can't take Persona PSP seriously at all. What an embarassing game... I cant believe they butchered it so bad.

Gonna put the PSX version on my PSP instead...

Hurry up and localize P2 PSP...

iconoclast · « **Reply #11347 on:** May 03, 2011, 03:27:51 AM »

P3 boss is awesome. Only thing that sucks about it is having to replay lots and lots of shit if you die to him. Solution: Don't die

iconoclast · « **Reply #11348 on:** May 03, 2011, 03:53:33 AM »

513m in 1.5 Maniac

Ranked #21 now. I think I can hit 550m, but 600 would require some reworked strategy that I can't be bothered with. Still choked on Larsa of course, and I died like 2 times in stages 4 and 5. It's so annoying - I can do every stage in the game without a death and no bombs (excluding stage 4 and the bosses), but I ALWAYS choke during a real run. Very frustrating, especially since I need as many lives as I can get going into Larsa. Oh well, I'll get the clear eventually.

Game's still fun after playing it for a disgusting amount of hours too. It's definitely a contender for Game of the Generation.

chronovore · « **Reply #11349 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:10:41 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on May 02, 2011, 01:03:19 PM

holy fuck i bought my ms points and added them to my profile via xbl, searched for xbla games i wanted and BOUGHT THEM OFF THE XBOX.COM site.

Can you do this with psn? GODLY.

Quote from: demi on May 02, 2011, 01:05:17 PM

You cant even browse the store online.

That's because M$ controls Windows, and won't allow them access to the SDK to sell items online. It's a lock out. Sony should take them to court for insider trading.

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pilonv1 · « **Reply #11350 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:16:47 AM »

1000/1000 Amped 3

Only took me 5 years

Positive Touch · « **Reply #11351 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:40:10 AM »

Quote from: demi on May 03, 2011, 01:33:53 AM

Jesus mary and joseph... Ghost of Sparta was so good. Even the final fight was awesome. Awesome all the way through.

can the ps3 emulate psp games yet? mine's been lost for years.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #11352 on:** May 03, 2011, 08:07:51 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 03, 2011, 07:10:41 AM

Quote from: Stringer Bell on May 02, 2011, 01:03:19 PM
holy fuck i bought my ms points and added them to my profile via xbl, searched for xbla games i wanted and BOUGHT THEM OFF THE XBOX.COM site.

Can you do this with psn? GODLY.
Quote from: demi on May 02, 2011, 01:05:17 PM
You cant even browse the store online.

That's because M$ controls Windows, and won't allow them access to the SDK to sell items online. It's a lock out. Sony should take them to court for insider trading.
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PSN is running on MS-DOS 6.0, they don't need no fancy windows.

Himu · « **Reply #11353 on:** May 03, 2011, 08:19:52 AM »

Enjoy Persona 3, Stoney. One of the most refreshing and engaging rpgs I've ever played.

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on May 03, 2011, 03:47:35 AM

Quote from: Diunx on May 03, 2011, 02:03:23 AM
Be warned stoney, P3 has one of the worst final boss ever.

It's not that bad if you know to fucking play the game, which I would hope you would have learned in the 100 hours leading up to it.

First you can't handle your booze and now this. You are like Lady Vagina riding a pink pony.

demi · « **Reply #11354 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:16:29 AM »

The old Persona music is so good. I really, really hate you losers for supporting this J-Crap we get now.

I'll just do the first dungeon and see which one clicks... the wholly Japanese translation of the PSP is really offputting though.

NANAO HAMAZAKI'S PERSONA "IBURIKI NAMAZANA" REACHED RANK 2

Himu · « **Reply #11355 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:35:29 AM »

persona 2 has j-pop too

tiesto · « **Reply #11356 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:38:48 AM »

I think this Christmas break I'll finally get crackin on Persona 3. I think I'm the only RPG fan to have never touched this series (apart from about an hour of #2).

demi · « **Reply #11357 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:39:34 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on May 03, 2011, 10:35:29 AM

persona 2 has j-pop too

You can switch between original or new music.

demi · « **Reply #11358 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:40:32 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on May 03, 2011, 10:38:48 AM

I think this Christmas break I'll finally get crackin on Persona 3. I think I'm the only RPG fan to have never touched this series (apart from about an hour of #2).

You are better off starting from the beginning. They changed the gameplay up huge from 2->3

P1 PSX->P2 IS (PSX trans)->P2 EP PSX->P3 (FES or Portable, your choice, but Portable has gameplay additions from 4 (aka doesnt suck dick))->4

demi · « **Reply #11359 on:** May 03, 2011, 10:48:52 AM »

I also tried "Mimana Iyar Chronicle"

aka Johnny Yong Bosch is a grouchy ass dude and tells Kids they're stupid

Awesome

Diunx · « **Reply #11360 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:32:54 AM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on May 03, 2011, 03:47:35 AM

Quote from: Diunx on May 03, 2011, 02:03:23 AM
Be warned stoney, P3 has one of the worst final boss ever.

It's not that bad if you know to fucking play the game, which I would hope you would have learned in the 100 hours leading up to it.

First you can't handle your booze and now this. You are like Lady Vagina riding a pink pony.

Sorry but I have a life and I can't bother to grind my characters to level 99 just so they can do some decent damage to that fucking boss, but I'm sure you do have the time to do that so your experience with that boss was completely different from mine.

demi · « **Reply #11361 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:33:34 AM »

You dont have a life. Get real.

Diunx · « **Reply #11362 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:38:10 AM »

Shut up demi.

Diunx · « **Reply #11363 on:** May 03, 2011, 01:00:52 PM »

I guess masturbating over video games sales data didn't leave you much free time for gaming.

magus · « **Reply #11364 on:** May 03, 2011, 01:22:38 PM »

the enemy in the secret zone gives bucket load of XP tough i'm not sure if you can access that now if you are playing FES....

there is also a secret move that deals 9999 damage basicaly letting you bypass a big chunk of the final boss but to use that move you need to have a particular S.Link maxed and if you didn't max it,you can't use it anymore

i wouldn't lose much sleep over it,finishing jrpg can be a chore sometime and when that jrpg was a huge chore to begin with,you might as well leave it unfinished,at least that's what i did

Himu · « **Reply #11365 on:** May 03, 2011, 06:41:26 PM »

you leave my oscar alone, diunx

demi · « **Reply #11366 on:** May 03, 2011, 06:52:55 PM »

Man... I tried the Hospital intro on PSP and PSX versions of Persona.

Unfortunately, PSP version is just... way more streamlined that makes it easier to play. It was like running on molasses on PSX version.

demi · « **Reply #11367 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:21:42 PM »

He's just jelly of us

The Sceneman · « **Reply #11368 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:41:07 PM »

lol.

But yeah I'm currently doing a sick run of Dead Rising 2. Using every weapon, doing all the clothes and sparying all the Zombrex posters. Only got a couple of items left to use on Zombies that pop up during scoops (comedy trophy and funny painting). Killing 1000 zombies barehanded in the meantime. This game is sooooo sweet. I'll have 1000 very soon

Himu · « **Reply #11369 on:** May 03, 2011, 11:42:54 PM »

ugh. been busy all week. Sigh.

No 360 time for me.

Wanna break it in with something short so I'm considering Mirror's Edge first.

Himu · « **Reply #11370 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:26:26 AM »

whta in the fuck are you talking about

the story is awful

Himu · « **Reply #11371 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:33:53 AM »

jesus christ you are trolling me

archie4208 · « **Reply #11372 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:35:44 AM »

I've been playing alot of Mount and Blade Warband. The game is janky as fuck, but it has a heart of gold and the online cRPG mod is pretty amazing. It is like ye olde Counter-Strike with persistent leveling.

demi · « **Reply #11373 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:42:54 AM »

13's story is better than 8...

demi · « **Reply #11374 on:** May 04, 2011, 10:02:16 AM »

Portal 2 is almost free now. Morons buying this 4 hour demo...

demi · « **Reply #11375 on:** May 04, 2011, 10:09:42 AM »

It's already $30 here in the states, a week after release.

It will be in the $10 bins by next month.

archie4208 · « **Reply #11376 on:** May 04, 2011, 10:18:31 AM »

Quote from: demi on May 04, 2011, 10:09:42 AM

It's already $30 here in the states, a week after release.

It will be in the $10 bins by next month.

That's a sale, not a permanent price drop.

demi · « **Reply #11377 on:** May 04, 2011, 10:32:30 AM »

lol.....

magus · « **Reply #11378 on:** May 04, 2011, 02:05:11 PM »

i think i'm getting near the end of just cause 2? i just did the three kings mission

spoiler (click to show/hide)

so old school and politicaly uncorrect and cheesy and overdone

,when the russian guy summoned a tank on top of the skyscraper i was dying from laughs

[close]

i don't think i'll 1000/1000 since it means finishing the game again on the hardest difficulty AND drive every vehicle in the game which i seems to understand it's praticaly impossible without access to DLC but i think i'll still try some of the achievements anyway... i'm getting really close to a 5 digit gamerscore anyway!

anyway easily the best sandbox game i have ever played,better than prototype and league beyond any of that gta crap! when you escort someone on a car and you end up flipping that car,you don't wait for the "MISSION FAILED" screen to pop out because the guy is smart enough to run away,and shoot bad guys for you! and when you die,you don't have to reload your save because of an awful penalty that magicaly takes away all your awesome,and you don't spontaneously combust as soon as you touch a puddle because your character is made of soluble sugar!

Diunx · « **Reply #11379 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:40:40 PM »

Persona 4 is soooo much better than 3! I feel like I wasted my time with P3.

magus · « **Reply #11380 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:41:27 PM »

what makes you say so diunx?

Himu · « **Reply #11381 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:51:13 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on May 04, 2011, 03:40:40 PM

Persona 4 is soooo much better than 3! I feel like I wasted my time with P3.

Himu · « **Reply #11382 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:52:19 PM »

Quote from: Billy Rygar on May 04, 2011, 01:45:43 PM

Yep, the smart money waited for the bomba on this one. I''ll be picking it up for 20$ next month.

yep, i never buy a game for 60 unless it's absolutely necessary

tiesto · « **Reply #11383 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:07:46 PM »

Quote from: demi on May 04, 2011, 09:42:54 AM

13's story is better than 8...

Totally agreed, though that's not setting the bar very high at all.

13 had some cool concepts in it, it's just that it was told pretty poorly (obfuscating a lot of important background info in the datalog, for instance)

Himu · « **Reply #11384 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:20:03 PM »

Quote from: tiesto on May 04, 2011, 04:07:46 PM

Quote from: demi on May 04, 2011, 09:42:54 AM
13's story is better than 8...

Totally agreed, though that's not setting the bar very high at all.

13 had some cool concepts in it, it's just that it was told pretty poorly (obfuscating a lot of important background info in the datalog, for instance)

13 does not have a better story than 8.

8 massacre's 13 in terms of:

world building
character goals
themes
villains

13 is awful. Oh hey, here's an interesting looking world. Except we don't tell you anything about it except in the datalog. So barren and lifeless. This is without mentioning that the characters have no goals and change what they're after almost every other chapter.

You are wrong, sir. Especially considering the vast history that FF8's world has that covers hundreds (if not thousands) of years. What does FF13 have?

A datalog, that's right.

magus · « **Reply #11385 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:22:20 PM »

ehy guys,i don't remember are fire monster weak to water attack? i need to know so i can get more money by walking around instead of.... you know.... fighting monster!

demi · « **Reply #11386 on:** May 04, 2011, 06:01:10 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on May 04, 2011, 03:40:40 PM

Persona 4 is soooo much better than 3! I feel like I wasted my time with P3.

3 is shit because of the battle system. The PSP version uses 4's gameplay, making it a much better experience. Though in terms of characters and world, etc. I would still give the nod to 4.

demi · « **Reply #11387 on:** May 04, 2011, 06:02:22 PM »

btw it's so easy to rile himu up about ff13. what a loser.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #11388 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:02:24 PM »

Now that I've got PCSX2 up and running properly, I've been playing some Persona 4. It's awesome.

Also played some Shining Force EXA, which is like Japanese Diablo. It's pretty cool, especially chopping through hordes of monsters and getting lots of loot.

Himu · « **Reply #11389 on:** May 04, 2011, 09:03:40 PM »

Quote from: demi on May 04, 2011, 06:02:22 PM

btw it's so easy to rile himu up about ff13. what a loser.

i'm sorry. I can't talk about that game without being riled up. I just can't.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #11390 on:** May 04, 2011, 10:56:26 PM »

Quote from: magus on May 04, 2011, 02:05:11 PM

i think i'm getting near the end of just cause 2? i just did the three kings mission
spoiler (click to show/hide)
so old school and politicaly uncorrect and cheesy and overdone ,when the russian guy summoned a tank on top of the skyscraper i was dying from laughs
[close]

i don't think i'll 1000/1000 since it means finishing the game again on the hardest difficulty AND drive every vehicle in the game which i seems to understand it's praticaly impossible without access to DLC but i think i'll still try some of the achievements anyway... i'm getting really close to a 5 digit gamerscore anyway!

anyway easily the best sandbox game i have ever played,better than prototype and league beyond any of that gta crap! when you escort someone on a car and you end up flipping that car,you don't wait for the "MISSION FAILED" screen to pop out because the guy is smart enough to run away,and shoot bad guys for you! and when you die,you don't have to reload your save because of an awful penalty that magicaly takes away all your awesome,and you don't spontaneously combust as soon as you touch a puddle because your character is made of soluble sugar!

one of the first rules of achievement hunting: if there is is an achievement for beating the game on hard - play the game on hard. Difficulty achievements almost always stack.

shit that pisses achievement hunters off: difficulty achievements that don't stack, and having to beat the game once to unlock the hardest difficulty. Thats a pile a of shit (see: Gears of War)

naff · « **Reply #11391 on:** May 05, 2011, 12:22:16 AM »

Peace Walker

It's nice Kojima put out such a great game on PSP. It's also sad that he cant do something of the same quality on a real console

Loving the structure of the game, the PMC management and RPG elements, and the traditional MGS espionage action and story work amazingly well together, and stealthing through levels is actually feasible and rewarding.

Chinatown Wars on the other hand was great in the beginning and kinda petered out slowly as the game progressed. About three hours in I had over 100k due to a couple windfalls in drug trading, which was good because tbh the minigame was pretty simple and boring. I wish there was more buying and building up businesses and wars over territories that weren't story based, none of the side activities they presented in the game were really that fun, basically I'd be more likely to put more time into the game if it was more like their original games, placing you in the city as a crim without allegiance and a few connections willing to do whatever to make it to the top, while also adding the better aspects of their PS2 games which made the world feel more interactive and that you were a real fucking crime boss. Basically R* need to weave the story around the gameplay not the other way around.

Diunx · « **Reply #11392 on:** May 05, 2011, 01:26:02 AM »

Quote from: magus on May 04, 2011, 03:41:27 PM

what makes you say so diunx?

It's like they fixed almost all my complaints about P3 the most important one being the gameplay YOU CAN ACTUALLY CONTROL YOUR TEAM MEMBERS IN THIS GAME!!!!!!

they still have all the weebo crap though.

iconoclast · « **Reply #11393 on:** May 05, 2011, 01:49:34 AM »

The AI settings were fine in P3 anyway. The only problem was Mitsuru's fetish for Marin Karin.

naff · « **Reply #11394 on:** May 05, 2011, 03:12:16 AM »

Quote

It reminds me VERY MUCH of how Memento was directed.

wtf man

demi · « **Reply #11395 on:** May 05, 2011, 07:42:04 AM »

Borys, ignore the losers. I am on your side. FF13 is amazing, and I said it from day one. I am enjoying your posts about it.

archie4208 · « **Reply #11396 on:** May 05, 2011, 08:18:56 AM »

I've played Persona 4 for over 30 minutes and still haven't fought anything. I'm getting too old to care about the wacky antics of some high school students and I just want to do some grindan.

I'm going back to League of Legends.

Himu · « **Reply #11397 on:** May 05, 2011, 08:24:34 AM »

the intro is 3 hours long.

Himu · « **Reply #11398 on:** May 05, 2011, 08:25:58 AM »

Quote from: Borys on May 05, 2011, 03:00:20 AM

What is so wrong about Datalog? Everything that is mentioned there regarding to the story is always presented in cutscenes or via Vanille voice-over. You have to pay extra attention to the dialogues and read between the lines to catch it all or if you are a loser like Himuro reach for Datalog where it is all nicely laid. Moreover people adore umm... logs and mails in games like SS2, Dead Space, BioShock etc. but dislike in FF13?

Hint: you didn't have Datalog in FF8 and the story was confusing as hell.

Datalog also has a very nice background on every character, mythos, locale etc. It is really an impressive part of FF13. Too bad the Enemy Intel sucks so much donkey ass: cannot rotate monster models, no FF12-like story on each monster etc.

As for the story in FF13 up to Chapter 7: it is really fucking great. I love having it unraveling between my eyes in full HD glory bit by bit, chapter by chapter, each time going back in The Thirteen Days timeline a bit and explaining something that caused another thing later on. It reminds me VERY MUCH of how Memento was directed.

You can hate FF13 for it's 100% distinguished mentally-challenged linearity and laughable maps when compared to FF12 but it's story is one of the top in the series.

<3 Fang
<3 Hope's Mom

And the graphics... OMG that's story for another post.

Datalog sucks and obscures every single bit of the world's history and just about every major tangent of plot development. How in the world can you defend it?

LET ME EXPERIENCE IT, DON'T TELL ME ABOUT IT

The game assumes you already know what the it's talking about and the only way to understand is by reading the datalog. That is fucked, especially in an rpg, doubly so for being a video game, which is about interaction first and foremost.

Finally, FF8 did have a datalog but it expanded upon things already known, it didn't hide important plot details.

In all FF's there's a sense of culture of the world, a history, and it's usually pretty interesting. In FF13 this is all tucked away in a datalog. In FF10, I know about the sending, the farplane, pyreflies and this thousand year long history going on because of npc interaction and exploration, just like how rpgs should handle world-building. FF13's way of handling things is fucked.

Even games like Bioware games have datalogs, but they never obscure important details of the world in it, they are only meant for extra shit. In FF13, the only way to get the full story is to read the datalog. How in the world is that a good thing?

magus · « **Reply #11399 on:** May 05, 2011, 08:58:15 AM »

i've never readed the datalog and i don't think i've ever missed anything out of the plot,really it's just more ammo for people to bitch about FFXIII right up to "IT'S SO LINEAR!!1!" (unlike the last jrpg i played which had dungeon so labirintine... no wait those were linear too!) and "THE COMBAT IS TOO DULL!!1! ALL YOU DO IS ATTACK ENEMIES UNTIL THEY ARE ALL DEAD" (which... uh... pretty much describe every rpg i played)

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Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4663677 times)