What are you playing?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Finishing up Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, which is the Alan Dean Foster novelization of The Sands of Time.

Playing Thief for the first time. Um, it's awesome.

[magus]

best use of 80 music in a videogame ever!

anyway i guess i was a little unfair to the game,there are lot of cool missions (mostly the one involving stag) it's just there was a bit where the missions were so boring and dull and cut and dry and i'm really disappointed by the side-activities... i can't go for the 1000 since there is an achievement that require online but i can always stop at 990... i'll probably do everything except those challenge... those do sounds like the biggest pain in the ass ever

oh also gangsta in spaces = true ending

[Bebpo]

Glad you came around.

I had that feeling early on too, but yeah it's a game that definitely makes a name for itself by the end. 

[demi]

I was playing Risen, but then WHITE KNIGHT CHRONICLES 2 arrived from gamefly.


Last Story doesnt come out until next week, so I can fit this one in

[The Sceneman]

man I wish I had something else to play. I've been mopping up cheevos in various titles but I'm sick of all my games. Need something new to play on the Xbox!

[Timber]

Stalactites Of The Year

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/522653078661582188/?tab=public
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/522653078661583251/?tab=public

[MrAngryFace]

FF13-2, puttin hats on things- for all I know that could be its butt.

[The Sceneman]

getting back into Borderlands to max out the achievements after all these years. Does anyone have an uber character that can beat Crawmerax? I could use an EXP rush...

I got the Mad Moxxi DLC on sale ages ago and just checked it out. It's fucking impossible at level 50. I'm just gonna use the low level splitscreen expolit and blow through it for the cheevs.

The boss music is fucking sweet, however:

[Timber]

[iconoclast]

Yay. This run wasn't very good tbh, I can get around 800m if everything goes well. But I still got #6 with her, and I beat the previous western record by 170m or so, so I'm happy for now. I just have no clue how SIN manages 1.5 billion. That guy is my hero.

Casper is fun to use though. Her playstyle is almost the complete opposite of Lei, since she uses the lock-shot like 95% of the time whereas Lei milks enemies with his options, so she's a great alternative.

[magus]

got all the collectibles in saints row 3,missing only 2 instances of snatch and 1 helicopter assault... i think i'm going to use my "free out of jail" card on helicopter assault because it's sooooooooooooooooooooooo boring and snatch is super easy,and then maybe i will go for all the marks and car stealed and stop there

in other news somebody i know won't stop pestering me about dark souls,so even though the game gives me bad vibes (ex. everybody talks about how hard the game is it,yet i also heard many stories of stupid exploits like "go hide in a corner and hit the mega boss with your bow until he dies") i've decided to go for it,so is there anything i should know before starting?

[The Sceneman]

Dark Souls is casual. Just make sure you get the Drake Sword early, and dont fuck up your build. Basically get your basic stats like STR and END to a decent level early, then pump the majority of your skill points into your main damage dealing stat. I.e if youre a fighter pump your STR hard. An easy build is a caster. Put lots of points into INT, then forge magic weapons which scale with your INT stat.

If youre playing offline you can even resort to using the Dragon Head glitch if you need to

[iconoclast]

i've decided to go for it,so is there anything i should know before starting?

Go up, not down.

[Great Rumbler]

i've decided to go for it,so is there anything i should know before starting?

Go up, not down.

This.

[demi]

I can't play WKC2. This game is just so bad. Sending back tomorrow... back to Risen, waiting for Last Story next week.

[tiesto]

Just finished with chapter 5 in XIII-2. Amazing chapter, really love the story in this game. Gonna get some more fragments, beat the game, then go for the paradox endings/platinum. Any easy tips to get the 99999 damage trophy?

[demi]

Odinblade + Multiple Power Bracelets

Fight Long Gui, stagger when it's down, and beat it up until the meter is about to run out. Use Yakshini (or similar SYN who has Bravery) then cast Meteor Javelin.

Might take a couple tries, so save before attempting.

[Joe Molotov]

I can't play WKC2. This game is just so bad. Sending back tomorrow... back to Risen, waiting for Last Story next week.

Did you play WKC1?

[demi]

Yes, I imported my save to Part 2, which meant jack shit since they bumped my characters to a level above mine, and gave them better equipment

I just couldn't force myself to play it again. Turd, turd game.

[Joe Molotov]

So was it worse than WKC1 or just more the more of the same crap?

[demi]

More of the same crap

[magus]

allright got 100% on the city in saints row 3 and i'm at 890/1000,marks sound like a chore BUT MY ACHIEVEMENT WHORE SOUL IS BURNING

good thing there isn't any race or stuff like that... they put that kind of thing in every sandbox games and it's always soul crushing boring

[The Sceneman]

I'm right into Borderlands.

Just finished the Claptrap DLC and the boss was awesome, easily the best story, content and locations out of all the DLC and the main game.

I'm level 60 now and finally got a beast as fuck Legendary Revolver, "Pestilent Defiler". Fucks up pretty much everything. Almost ready to take on Crawmerax

[chronovore]

allright got 100% on the city in saints row 3 and i'm at 890/1000,marks sound like a chore BUT MY ACHIEVEMENT WHORE SOUL IS BURNING

good thing there isn't any race or stuff like that... they put that kind of thing in every sandbox games and it's always soul crushing boring

I liked that they included "Unique Jumps" but didn't make them count toward the 100%. SR2 had 72 of them, I think, and There was one which you could perform without it acknowledging that it had been performed (Marina: underground parking garage ramp to 2nd floor office building windows). Unfortunately, there was no "Already Performed This Jump" message, so it was really frustrating trying to figure out which one I'd missed or forgotten.

Actually, the "jump rings" in Crackdown were great for that. There were Rings all over the place, so if you didn't se a ring, you'd cleared that Unique Jump. I wish more games used that model.

[cool breeze]

playing Modern Warfare 3 online during this free weekend is remind me why I liked Black Ops a lot more than Modern Warfare 2

still fun, but so much more bullshit.

[magus]

i've decided to go for it,so is there anything i should know before starting?

Go up, not down.

you guys should have been more specific... i went "up" and it was full of skeletons which were super hard to kill and i tought the game was being "HUR DUR SEE IT'S HARD" but then i discovered i was just going into the wrong place

uh anyway i started with a warrior,since it seemed to feature mostly the stat i wanted (the other option would have been bandit but the village people look exuded a "i get killed easily" aura) i went,killed the first boss and got the drake sword as suggested,so far so good but i'm annoyed by a few things... losing all your souls when you die is stupid,it's meant to put a heavy price on death and cause tension but it just force me to grind near a bonfire because otherwise i can only spend my souls once in a blue moon

i don't like the fact that equipment breaks either... my longsword got all fucked up and i was lucky i got 2 other from drops but if they didn't drops what the heck was i supposed to do? hit the enemies with a chump weapon? at this point i'm not even sure i can use the drake sword without worrying... i wouldn't want it to break on a key moment

mmm anyway is there any achievement that i can end up missing? can i murder NPC without fear of consequences? i heard they drop sweet loot
oh and i'm just distinguished mentally-challenged and i can't find it in the menu or is there no map to use? cause a map would have easily solved my skeleton problem at the beginning

[Timber]

you guys should have been more specific... i went "up" and it was full of skeletons which were super hard to kill and i tought the game was being "HUR DUR SEE IT'S HARD" but then i discovered i was just going into the wrong place

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/down

You went down.

[magus]

i tried going down too and what i found were a bunch of scissor wielding ghost who i couldn't even hurt

[demi]

lol, magus is not going to like Dark Souls.

"this is stupid" "this is dumb" - no, it's meant to do that

that's like me saying it's distinguished mentally-challenged i lose everything if i die in Shiren.

[magus]

lol, magus is not going to like Dark Souls.

"this is stupid" "this is dumb" - no, it's meant to do that

that's like me saying it's distinguished mentally-challenged i lose everything if i die in Shiren.

nothing wrong with that,i tought the same before the game clicked for me

[etiolate]

Played through Dear Esther a few times. More an interactive poem/literature than game. Enjoyable though and I found myself going back looking for spots I missed or new items or narratives.

Also started playing Brawl Busters once it was put on Steam. It's a Powerstoney F2P. There's nothing necessary for competing in the game that costs money. All upgrades can be earned through in game currency you earn by playing. There's five classes and a leveling system. Level design for the maps is pretty good, as there's only one map I dislike. They have multiple routes and levels. The one problem seems to be level and class balance. Just a couple levels difference makes a huge difference for some reason. Upgrades unlock at certain levels. Plus, you have to earn enough of the in game currency to buy new armor and upgrade it. You can upgrade each weapon and piece of armor maybe three times? But then it comes to a game of chance on whether it upgrades, destroys the item or downgrades the item. You can only protect against the negatives by purchasing in-game currency that is equal to real money(The two are separate.) And class balance in deathmatch is mostly a battle between three classes, with the football player and rocker on the outside. The Slugger and Boxer dominate, with the firefighter serving some utility purposes. While in the zombie survival mode thats PVE, Rocker tends to dominate with its aoe.

[iconoclast]

mmm anyway is there any achievement that i can end up missing? can i murder NPC without fear of consequences? i heard they drop sweet loot
oh and i'm just distinguished mentally-challenged and i can't find it in the menu or is there no map to use? cause a map would have easily solved my skeleton problem at the beginning

No achievements are missable, since it will take at least two playthroughs to get all of them. There are important items related to achievements that only have one or two spawns in the world though, so try to explore thoroughly. You can kill NPCs if you want, but they stay dead for the rest of the game, and sometimes they are important. I wouldn't kill anyone unless you're sure you'll never need them again. And there's no map.

Oh, and be sure to buy a repair box from the Blacksmith before the two gargoyle bosses.

[Himu]

GTAIV

Oh my god. Fuck you and your children, Rockstar.

Three Loaf Clover. Again.

I get out of the train station, make up to the street level. I steal a car. I look at my map when I notice only one of my partners gets in the car with me.

"Wait. That dumbass is still down in the subway channel? Fuck this game."

So I bail out of my car, go down stairs, see one of my incompetent partners, he RUNS AWAY FROM ME and runs further into the Subway passage. What the ever fuck?

He finally decides to tag along and but then I realize the cops follows us down in the subway stairwell. I fight cop after cop, with little health and end up dying.

20 minutes down the drain, no check points, you don't even start at the bank but have to drive back to the bank all over again.

I'm starting to remember why I started to loath this game.

[Himu]

I hope the Housers contract AIDS.

[magus]

mmm anyway is there any achievement that i can end up missing? can i murder NPC without fear of consequences? i heard they drop sweet loot
oh and i'm just distinguished mentally-challenged and i can't find it in the menu or is there no map to use? cause a map would have easily solved my skeleton problem at the beginning

No achievements are missable, since it will take at least two playthroughs to get all of them. There are important items related to achievements that only have one or two spawns in the world though, so try to explore thoroughly. You can kill NPCs if you want, but they stay dead for the rest of the game, and sometimes they are important. I wouldn't kill anyone unless you're sure you'll never need them again. And there's no map.

Oh, and be sure to buy a repair box from the Blacksmith before the two gargoyle bosses.

my orientation really sucks... i killed down a giant butterfly but i can't find this gargoyle boss anywhere
is he somewhere around the church with the fire keeper souls?
the butterfly dropped some magic ember or something... can i just give this to the blacksmith without worrying?

uh anyway i got the boar helmet and on road to the butterfly i found a spiffy new armor,i upgraded the main body as it gave a great total of +8 defense but to be fair,i'm not sure it's doing much to cover damage
so far i got vitality to 14,strenght to 16 and endurance to 16,i haven't put points in any other stat... good enough for now?

[iconoclast]

If you're making a melee character, then those stats are fine. You should decide what type of melee you want though - strength is good for the slow, hard-hitting weapons, while dex is better for quick ones (generally).

And yes, give the embers to the blacksmiths whenever they ask for it. Those allow you to make enchanted weapons or unique ones (with souls from bosses). The gargoyles are in the church as well, they're guarding the first bell you're supposed to ring.

[demi]

Put in some decent time into Risen... up to Chapter 2. I have no idea what this game is trying to do. My guy washes ashore, and he still chats to people like "gibe money" then he's like "yes i will do it" cause he really has no idea why. I'm still level 1 or whatever cause I have to store my LP. Yet it doesn't seem to matter. I like dragging enemies to the NPCs and having them be meat shields.

This game is kind of doodoo overall though. I hope Risen 2... well, I hope Risen 2

[cool breeze]

two other things about modern warfare 3:  knifing seems to be nerfed and I can't find gun game.  at least I'm pretty sure I read gun game was in.  the wager matches were great in black ops.

[etiolate]

Orcs Must Die is pretty awesome

[magus]

allright i killed the capra demon,the drake sword really helps a lot,i killed him on my second try and the gargoyles in one single swoop,and now once againi have no freaking idea where i'm supposed to go,i'm really close to take a trip to the wiki and print myself all the maps just so that i don't keep getting lost...

the worst part of it is when i find a passage and then discover that passage just lead to a previous part i've already visited like the starting area (firelink shrine?)

[Bebpo]

So it's just better than 13.  Gotcha 

[The Sceneman]

allright i killed the capra demon,the drake sword really helps a lot,i killed him on my second try and the gargoyles in one single swoop,and now once againi have no freaking idea where i'm supposed to go,i'm really close to take a trip to the wiki and print myself all the maps just so that i don't keep getting lost...

the worst part of it is when i find a passage and then discover that passage just lead to a previous part i've already visited like the starting area (firelink shrine?)

the game world isnt that big, and all the areas are so distinctive you can always tell where you are.

You need to go to the depths now, which is past where the Capra Demon is.

[Himu]

Fuck GTAIV. Do a long ass mission, trying to shake off these cops. I make a sharp turn on a street, somehow Niko gets thrown from car, I have a quarter of life left. Police car or something runs over me. Wasted.

Retry mission? Yes.

Start from the beginning of the mission.

Fuck this game. I'm not wasting my time.

[Bebpo]

gtaIV sucks, stop playing it.

[Great Rumbler]

Most disappointing game ever.

[iconoclast]

allright i killed the capra demon,the drake sword really helps a lot,i killed him on my second try and the gargoyles in one single swoop,and now once againi have no freaking idea where i'm supposed to go,i'm really close to take a trip to the wiki and print myself all the maps just so that i don't keep getting lost...

the worst part of it is when i find a passage and then discover that passage just lead to a previous part i've already visited like the starting area (firelink shrine?)

This is an easy part to get lost on IIRC. I believe you get a key from one of the bosses you killed, and you need to read the description of the key so you know where it's used. The door is in front of the bridge with the fire breathing dragon.

[chronovore]

Fuck GTAIV. Do a long ass mission, trying to shake off these cops. I make a sharp turn on a street, somehow Niko gets thrown from car, I have a quarter of life left. Police car or something runs over me. Wasted.

Retry mission? Yes.

Start from the beginning of the mission.

Fuck this game. I'm not wasting my time.

gtaIV sucks, stop playing it.

Most disappointing game ever.

Did you realize that Saints Row the Third is fun, and decide to replay GTA IV? Because that's just crazy talk.

[Himu]

I'm trying to replay IV to make way for V.

I like IV up until the half way point when the missions get distinguished mentally-challenged.

[Bebpo]

I like GTA IV up until-

wait, I don't like GTAIV.

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

Playing through S.O.S. after watching the GCCX episode about it. It's fucking terrible 

[The Sceneman]

trying to play Fable 2. lol this is so bad, I cant even play this shit

[Bebpo]

Think I'm in the final dungeon of RAGE (looks like something from Mass Effect 2), will probably finish it tomorrow if so.  Game has some great combat. 

[G The Resurrected]

Since I was held back from my camping trip starting yesterday so I picked up Crysis 2. I had played a bit of it but never finished it. If only more FPS games were like it in terms of story/pacing. Weapons are limited and can be annoying at times but the main game is great. I loved the soundtrack for it too, that main theme!

I'm kinda depressed they didn't try harder to make SP dlc or make a 3rd game. They aren't rushing to make a 3rd one from the sounds.

[tiesto]

Brother brought home Saints Row 3 so I played that for a few hours... it's probably the most fun I've had with one of these games since the original GTA3, and a million times better than 4, even if technically it's a disaster.

-screen tearing is ridiculous and graphics are Xbox 1 level
-great mission variety so far, even if a few of the missions overstay their welcome a tad
-music selection is interesting - no where near GTA in terms of name power (seems like they blew all their music budget on licensing Kanye), and a lot of the artists are nonames, and wtf at having an Adult Swim themed station? but it's got a track from Grum
-game is a lot less punishing and frustrating than GTA
-customization is cool, made a voluptuous curvy girl with wavy red hair and freckles, then dressed her in raver clothes
-wrestling mission is amazing

[Joe Molotov]

I'm on Chapter 4 of Alan Wake, just escaped the nut house. I really like it, but I just wish the long action bits were broken up with more story bits.

[demi]

It has it's slow bits, but it ramps up near the end. The DLC is still the best chapters. Glad you are enjoying it, chubby hubby

[Joe Molotov]

I can't wait to get to the old, crazy dudes' Rock and Roll ranch, I know it's gonna be awesome.

[chronovore]

Brother brought home Saints Row 3 so I played that for a few hours... it's probably the most fun I've had with one of these games since the original GTA3, and a million times better than 4, even if technically it's a disaster.

-screen tearing is ridiculous and graphics are Xbox 1 level
-great mission variety so far, even if a few of the missions overstay their welcome a tad
-music selection is interesting - no where near GTA in terms of name power (seems like they blew all their music budget on licensing Kanye), and a lot of the artists are nonames, and wtf at having an Adult Swim themed station? but it's got a track from Grum
-game is a lot less punishing and frustrating than GTA
-customization is cool, made a voluptuous curvy girl with wavy red hair and freckles, then dressed her in raver clothes
-wrestling mission is amazing

"Graphics are so [insert previous gen console]" is one of my pet peeves. Go look at any original Xbox sandbox game and then tell me it's an honest assessment.

Crap, there were hordes of people claiming that inFamous 2 didn't look any better than the original entry. What a load of horse-puckey.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Bought Dear Esther.

"Played" Dear Esther.

Now figuring a way to get my 10 bucks back. 

[D3RANG3D]

Playing Shazbot!

Great Rumbler