What are you playing?

[Trent Dole]

Now play all the dlc (except the underdome, fuck that shit)!

[Eric P]

nah.  Uninstalled and will move onto something else.

[demi]

Playing Borderlands with no friends

[chronovore]

32 hours into EA's 2006 Godfather game. I'm still surprised at how engaging this game is, despite its ugliness. And it's quite ugly, throughout the entire world. The cars are pretty nice, for generalized period vehicles, and there are a few nice downtown areas, but there are these interstitial areas which are just mind-bogglingly warped "building hallways." They feel entirely unnatural. But the gameplay is pretty tight; extorting businesses and getting the maximum payout was interesting. Now that I've finished the main storyline though, that minigame succeeds automatically, which is kind of sad, but I imagine with 80 shops still to bash into submission, it would have worn thin pretty soon.

beat Borderlands.  got to level 36 doing support soldier class.  I had a lot of fun, but became pretty much unstoppable around level 20 or so.

Still playing this, with a friend in local co-op, but we've got it on two different TVs and using XBLA now. It's "local," in that we're in the same house. We almost tried system link, but because we are on XBLA another friend was able to see us playing and jumped in.

This new guy has a mess of high-level characters, but he joined with his lowest level character. This made the level harder on us, because the monsters were beefed up, but this guy couldn't do any actual damage to them. It was still pretty fun!

[tiesto]

Ax Battler - just got to the final "password" hut, I have resisted the temptation to save scum but if the end board gets too annoying I just might, just to get this out of the way. A mediocre Zelda 2 clone for Game Gear. Some nice ideas, but it's a bit frustrating.

Sylvan Tale - very good Game Gear action RPG. You get different monster transformations like the Wonder Boy games and the graphics are really good for the platform. Only thing that's bad about it is the annoying status screen music. According to the walkthrough, I'm halfway done.

Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3 - Zeboyd's best game yet, even if a few of the fights drag on for a bit too long, and the game is a bit lacking on side content like their other games (there's an arena with a few tough boss fights and... so far that's it). Up to chapter 9, a descent into hell or something. Seems like I'm nearing the end.

Nice to play some less time-consuming games after Xenoblade and TITS.

[magus]

been continuing unchained blades... in chapter 4,chapter 1 and chapter 2 party joins all together so now i can finaly switch party members around even tough the chapter 2 party is 5-6 level behind chapter 1 party.i've also been recruiting tons of monsters thank to my new super charming power,plus i got one special monster which i defeated in a special fight which is extremely stronger than the rest which has made that annoying monster battle's a moot point

uh other than that there isn't anything much to add,it's not the most various game,new dungeons sometimes introduce new gimmicks but otherwise it's always the same crawling affair

[demi]

Sounds pretty generic

[demi]

Catherine is way too frustrating to play. I'm just using video guides.

[fistfulofmetal]

Played some Sanctum.
It's a fun little version of tower defense.

[MrAngryFace]

Sanctum has so many free weekends I figure why buy it lol

[Raban]

Catherine is way too frustrating to play. I'm just using video guides.

Weak.

[demi]

When you have a job, playing games loses a lot of its luster when you can't dedicate your waking moment to it. Just a part of growing up. You will understand when you get older, Raban.

[MrAngryFace]

When you have a job, playing games loses a lot of its luster when you can't dedicate your waking moment to it. Just a part of growing up. You will understand when you get older, Raban.

Pretty much

[benjipwns]

Played some Sanctum.
It's a fun little version of tower defense.

All games need text to speech.

[magus]

Sounds pretty generic

BUT WHAT OTHER GAMES FEATURE SASSY GOLEM PRINCE?

Catherine is way too frustrating to play. I'm just using video guides.

so it's an atlus game?

[demi]

More or less.

[Huff]

Put about 45 hours in DWG3. It was really good for the first 30, but now I'm pretty much just playing for the trophies, but its going to be another 30+ hours for the plat. not sure if its worth it

[BlueTsunami]

Playing Wild Arms XF again. This is my second attempt, I remember feeling overwhelmed by the games insistence on having the gamer change almost everyones class to meet the needs of certain individual battles. But I've been sticking with it. Everything outside of that is atrocious. Every conversation touches on some sort of deep existential bullshit that makes me want to die.

[maxy]

RE6 demo

Deadly Premonition

[ferrarimanf355]

I'm gonna fire up Test Drive Ferrari: Racing Legends and see if it's any good. Still plan on getting to Lollipop Chainsaw and Max Payne 3 eventually.

[magus]

unchained blades is getting pretty boring,my party decimates anything with just normal attacks,the boss of chapter 4 was so weak i didn't even need to heal,the difficulty curve has took a huuuuuuuuuuuuge dip while the dungeon just become bigger and bigger,i'm having flashbacks of all the half assed rpg on psp i've started and dropped somewhere in the middle like brave story and crimson gem saga

[Fifstar]

Still playing Avernum, fucking huge game. Just killed a bunch of undead in an mildly annoying dark dungeon.

[The Sceneman]

started playing Gears of War 3. Disappointing, easily the worst Gears game. I'm sure it's great if you have some friends to play the campaign with, but single player it's awful. The campaign is obviously designed with multiplayer in mind, with constant bullshit incapacitating spam attacks from enemies. Since your AI teammates can revive you there is no tension or challenge. It's basically Horde Mode with a story, a real shame  Glad I rented it instead of buying.

Mechanically it's the tightest Gears game of course, but since I don't have a posse of bros to play with the game is worthless to me, since Epic didn't seem to wan't to offer anything to solo players. I know the first two games were better in co-op, but they were still engaging, fun and challenging as a single player experience. So far Gears 3 is not.

[Great Rumbler]

Have you played Binary Domain, Sceneman?

[The Sceneman]

no but it's on my "desperate to play list". I have been on welfare for like 6 months so gaming budget is more or less non-existent. I was gonna rent it but my local video store doesn't have a copy. It is cheap already so I will get a copy once I get paid for some work I have done recently.

One of the first things I buy when I get a job is a fucking gaming PC for dem cheap games.

Currently I'm running an iMac with these specs

2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

2.5gb RAM

ATI Radeon X1600 128 MB

can't run shit

[demi]

I've been playing Final Fantasy 4 DS, after being turned off from being turned to stone outside Baron Castle.

Now that I've forced my way in, shaft to tip, I am enjoying this version of the legendary classic. The voiced segments liven up a lot of scenes.

GIL is super hard to earn... you get like 60 GIL a fight. lol.

[The Sceneman]

oh yeah I've been playing SMT Devil Survivor on DS. It's pretty cool. Up to day 3 now

[chronovore]

started playing Gears of War 3. Disappointing, easily the worst Gears game. I'm sure it's great if you have some friends to play the campaign with, but single player it's awful. The campaign is obviously designed with multiplayer in mind, with constant bullshit incapacitating spam attacks from enemies. Since your AI teammates can revive you there is no tension or challenge. It's basically Horde Mode with a story, a real shame  Glad I rented it instead of buying.

Mechanically it's the tightest Gears game of course, but since I don't have a posse of bros to play with the game is worthless to me, since Epic didn't seem to wan't to offer anything to solo players. I know the first two games were better in co-op, but they were still engaging, fun and challenging as a single player experience. So far Gears 3 is not.

Will avoid, thanks.

[The Sceneman]

well after playing Gears 3 some more it's not as bad as I said. I just need to rustle up some friends to play it with. I might round up a few copies and dish them out to my IRL friends so we can have some co-op fun. I'm sure the game really shines with more people.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Gears 3 def gets better the farther you get. Some cool set pieces for sure.

[The Sceneman]

played some Horde mode as Ice T and had a blast. Will be grabbing Gears 3 + DLC soon. Since playing Mass Effect 3 multi I've discovered I LOVE co-op multiplayer games with leveling and unlocks and shit.

[cool breeze]

Mortal Kombat

Stryker   "spread em, giant cat monster" and then I smashed his teeth in with my baton.   

the larger enemies are such cheap shit, tho

[fistfulofmetal]

i just bought a HOTAS flight stick and played some RISE OF FLIGHT. graphics are pretty good. it seems like enough of a sim to be challenging but not too bad where it's annoying.

also tried Microsoft Flight which doesnt seem to have much sim in it at all. Not as fun since it only has two boring planes.

[cool breeze]

good boss design:  when repeating the down, up, back+circle button combo for 4 minutes is more valuable than the fighting system you've learned

[benjipwns]

Playing Borderlands with no friends

The downfall of co-op has been the recognition that my standard friends are incompetents who can't remember or recognize maps, let alone process simple mission details.

I played it co-op with two friends and both bailed at New Haven. There was UFC or something to play instead. And they were the ones whining to play co-op.

Playing solo to finish through the game I recognized the lack of their abilities, but I also recognized the lack of panicked sprinting back to warp zone, inability to approach enemies strategically despite demands they hold ground, and refusal to go bug a pack of enemies because we were 200 xp from a level up.

And don't get me started on them attempting to drive around Stillwater or Steelport. Though this is a theme with people I know as they can't navigate in real life either.

And then there's seedless watermelon!

[tiesto]

Sylvan Tale may be one of the best Game Gear games, yeah I know it's not saying much... but it's a pretty neat top-down action RPG. Where you change into different animals with unique abilities (like a slow moving turtle who can bash shit with his shell) to maneuver through the landscape. The world seems very small and the dungeons don't take very long, but there are a couple parts where things get challenging, and everything is interconnected/exploration gives you the choice to do things out of order. Graphics are some of the best on the platform too.

[MrAngryFace]

I blame EVO, but im on a fighting game kick:



Also:
I blame Jeff Gerstmann for firing this up again.

[magus]

finished chapter 5 of unchained blades,the boss actualy made me break a sweat,he had several turn in a round,an hit all spell which hit fairly hard and a full heal spell so i had to abuse group attacks to get over it,i think i'm getting near the end cause chapter 6 is titled "THE FINAL WISH" and there isn't much room for more plot to happen anyway

i really like the boss in this game because they are HUGE sprite that are so big they don't even fit the whole screen,they each have several parts that you have to break and each part get it's own attack,so group attack are incredibly usefull as they let you damage multiple parts

[MrAngryFace]

god DAMN forgot how fun split/second is

[bork]

played some Horde mode as Ice T and had a blast. Will be grabbing Gears 3 + DLC soon. Since playing Mass Effect 3 multi I've discovered I LOVE co-op multiplayer games with leveling and unlocks and shit.

You will enjoy Anarchy Reigns.   

[magus]

since i got really bored of unchained blades,i've been trying gungnir,stop me if you heared this,an evil empire called menacing empire name holds in subjugation the land of fantasy name but a group of rebels called heroic rebel group name has decided they had enough and decide to kick the empire ass,but before that the hero meet a mysterious girl called bland name and discovers he has the power of mcguffin name

man SRPG adlib is no fun i tell ya

so anyway being a sting game this game is full of weird rules and such which is what makes it interessing in the first place,there are a lot of gimmicks in this game,these include

1. character don't have stats,when they level up instead their carrying capacity gets bigger,which let's them hold more powerfull items,items give a character all their stats and skills
2. death is sort of permanent sort of not,it works like this,if a character gets finished by a really strong attack,then he's dead and you can't use him in battle's anymore,but if he gets killed by scrappy damage he retreats and you can field him the next battle with an HP penality,with enemies if they retreat you get a random item from them but if you kill them you can choice which one you want
3. there is a job system but there are no skills,each job just gets to hold different items,tough i fear this is going to make some jobs too similiar
4. each time you move,you gain tactics point,these points can be used to execute team attacks or activate special skills,but if you hold them some weapon get stronger so you have to balance it out,this also making holding out your position a bad idea as you constantly want to move around
5. at the start of each battle,you need to declare a commander,different commanders use different unit betters so say the hero is good at using archers while his brother is good at using knights,the commanders you can pick are fixed so there are some missions where you can't pick the hero and as such you need to balance your team
6. when you give a character a weapon he initialy suck at using it,but as you keep using it,it's attack power improve and when you have used it enough you can unlock additional attack which comes with area attacks,more damage and status effect
7. each attack has a number between 1 and 4,and each character also has a number and as such if a character keep using an attack with which he's matched,he'll gain some bonus like "improved chance of dealing status effect" or "more damage" and such,the number also dictates if your character can counterattack or not,as you can only counterattack if your pair of shoes and the attack number matches
8. spread over the map there are base's,holding more bases let you hold more tactics point,better yet it gives you more range when it comes into executing team attacks
9. each character also has an element,this is dictates by his initial element's,his equipment and mostly amusing the terrain where he's standing,so if you go into water there's a chance you'll automaticaly turn from neutral to water or from fire to neutral
10. there is an ATB a-la final fantasy tactics (game also takes the idea of spell charging from final fantasy tactics and as such is it possible to get out of the way before a spell goes off) but it works with it's own spin,you see when your turn comes you can use ANY character so if you want you can even solo the whole map with a single character,the catch is that after you use a character he has to cool down for a few unit of times,if you use his turn again before he cool's down,his max hp get a penality like if he retreated
11. another amusing way in which it breaks FFT,you can jump down from a height higher than your jump rating but if you do so,you hurt yourself and lose your turn
12. speaking of unit of times,you can instantly call your turn by spending tactics point = how much you had to wait+2
13. there are no job change,if you want new unit you go in a mercenary guild and simply throw money at it,if you want a unit in particular you can get it by wasting one of your weapons otherwise what you get it's random and you get a penality too if you don't find anything you want,so for example if you want an archer you can pay 10,000 gold and waste a bow

and uh... i don't think i'm missing anything,the cutscene too feels a little inspired by final fantasy tactics,i think it's the background that do it for me,i mean watch
#t=4m58s

[fistfulofmetal]

I downloaded DCS A-10C and decided just to jump into a quick mission and see whats up





...

[Joe Molotov]

LOL, those games apparently take hours of tutorial work before you can even think about jumping into a mission, at least according to GAF.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Playing Tribes Ascend and it's really great! I still hate F2P, and think it's sucky that this couldn't have been just a normal game, but it's so fucking fun that I can't help but give it a pass in that regard.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Grimrock, fucking stuck myself in a cell. Think the only escape is to load a save thats 30 min old.

[archnemesis]

Try looking for a hidden switch. I can't recall ever getting stuck in it.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Just loaded the save and replayed everything in 5 min 

Game is really nice so far, level 2 now.

[magus]

i'm really liking gungnir,which is weird because i usualy hate SRPG,there is so much shit going on,everytime there is a new battle i spend like 5 minutes just thinking into how i can reshape my party,and the best part is that since there are no character stat and everything is decided by the item you hold,i can just introduce a new character in my party without any grinding effort

the AI is a little bit dumb tough,i blocked a bridge with a knight and the AI just stood there dumbfounded while i was nuking it's unit with spells

a while ago i had 2 classes that both used daggers one were the assassin's and the other were the tricksters and as such i had no idea why there were two of them,well it turns out that trickster have special access to dagger which let them place traps around so it's another element added to the game

the weapons have tons of special effect too,right now i got a claw that make an enemy physical defense skyrockets but it 0% their magic defense,i guess this can be abused in a map where the enemy has a huge defense or such

[BobFromPikeCreek]

TRIBES ASCEND IS SO GOOD

bought the starter pack on steam LIKE A SUCKER (steam deal). what should i spend my gold on?

[cool breeze]

Sounds very decent.  I'm planning on getting it regardless since it'll be on Steam.

Just curious, is a day/night cycle in the open world hub? In videos I've seen it has the GTA4-hazy look.  I don't know if that's a constant or there are moments with clear blue skies or swinging at night.

[Bebpo]

Sounds better than I would have thought considering the rushed development and your thoughts on Edge of Time.

Might check it out after some price drops.

[magus]

moar gungnir! one of the stage is an assault at a castle,the stage begins with a pretty powerfull boss unit starting near you who attacks you first,on top of the castle there are 2 succubus who just chills out,but as soon as night comes they swoop down from the castle and start charming your guys so you have to beat the boss before the succubus come or else you are screwed!

the next stage has a pretty fun gimmick too,the whole thing happens on a chasm and most enemy unit have attack that knockback you,but if a unit get knocked into the chasm,he falls down below and die instantly,i got knockback attack from the previous stage and i made a massacre simply by pushing people into death and abusing scramble (the ability to call your turn without waiting it to come around) when you push someone into a chasm the game declares "GO TO HELL!"

[cool breeze]

Mighty Switch Force OK game.  Great music.  Levels 1 - 15 are pretty fun.  Level 16 rips off that mechanic from Mario Galaxy where blocks are controlled by the beat, only here it's badly designed.  It's a bad level and as part of the game complete.  It's weird too, since the game is about speed running and most stages have a 'par' time around a minute thirty.  Level 16's part time is 5 minutes.

Bulletstorm  I can't tell if I'm enjoying the game or taken by the compulsion to complete the skill shot dictionary.  I'm sure I'd still enjoy it if I weren't aiming for buttholes and wieners for m-m-m-m-m-multiplyers.  Kicking, lashing, and sliding are all fun to do.  The weapons are cool (haven't unlocked the last one yet).  I remember controversy surrounding the writing or story or something.  I dunno.  After Saint's Row 3 games it's hard to consider comedic/overindulgent set pieces as anything but tame.  Only thing that bugs me is that it does that forced walking thing and you can't skip it.

Wizorb It's Breakout with a classic jrpg aesthetic, currency, and magic/mana.  I like it but it gets into the aggravating parts of Breakout where there's a final block your ball keeps missing.  It's why Shatter letting you curve the ball made it so much more fun to play.  Wizorb has some abilities  that are tied to mana, so sometimes it helps, and others you're just as screwed. 

[The Sceneman]

getting paid shortly so I splurged on some new 360 games

- Dragons Dogma
- Binary Domain
- Alpha Protocol
- National Geographic Wildlife Quiz
- Deepak Chopra's Leela

can't wait to get that package in the mail

[Great Rumbler]

- Dragons Dogma
- Binary Domain
- Alpha Protocol

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Alpha P rules. enjoy.

[Bildi]

Plugged in the Wii for Galaxy 2.  I kind of forgot how good Galaxy is, this is ridiculously good. 

And here I thought Zelda would be all that would tempt me to buy a POS WiiU. Stupid Nintendo with their last gen hardware and handful of awesome games.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Spend my first hour with Civ 5.

So far, wtf, I can't put units back into town? How do you conquer cities? Strange stuff. Like the policies and streamlined look though.

[Rahxephon91]

Playing Yakuza 4. I haven't finished 2 and skipped 3, but I thought I could go straight to this one because maybe it would be stand alone. So far I'm enjoying it. Akiyama is a cool character.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Alpha Brotocol is so underrated. Can't wait to replay it in a year or two.