What are you playing?

[Cindi Mayweather]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Got that Spiderweb Humble Bundle. Avernum: Escape From the Pit is a hundred layers of 

[treythemovie]

The new Tomb Raider is apparently a horrible game to play in front of the girl. Which is odd because the booby games of old didn't bother her.

[archie4208]

I'm at the endgame of System Shock 2.  I went into it expecting a nostalgic jankfest that you had to play in 1999 to appreciate.  I got a pretty fucking good game instead.  The atmosphere and level design are great and still hold up.

There are a few things that I didn't like me (the backtracking about 2/3rds of the way through and

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The Body of The Many

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) but otherwise, I'm loving it.

[The Sceneman]

The new Tomb Raider is apparently a horrible game to play in front of the girl. Which is odd because the booby games of old didn't bother her.

Did she witness the "rape scene"?

[Rufus]

Or the myriad of horrific deaths.

[chronovore]

Agrees. The first time I played that scene, it freaked me the hell out.

Of corse, at that time, those were state-of-the-art graphics.

[demi]

I beat Project Boob Zone

In the ending, everyone buys souvinirs from Japan to take back to their different worlds (Vashyron buys pornos, or rather "videos")

Everyone goes home, and the final two characters (Kogoro and Mii) go inside their house to have tea, and its heavily implied from Mii's words that she wants a nice fat cock, which Kogoro finally realizes and complies.

Roll credits.

[mjemirzian]

I gave up after Ch 11. How did you persevere?

[demi]

Cause I like boobs

[iconoclast]

Earth Defense Force 4 - Finished Hardest mode. I beat almost all of the stages at 1000 -1500 health, but I had to do some grinding in order to get through a few of the tougher ones (I'm currently at 3300 health, which is a little overkill. < 3K should be fine.). That's the one thing that I really don't like about this series: It's absolutely impossible to avoid taking damage during a few of the stages (especially on the higher difficulties), so you *need* to be able to take a few hits before you can go searching for healing items. Thankfully, grinding requires practically no effort whatsoever (you tie a rubber band around your controller(s) and collect a pile of items every 10 minutes or so), but I think these games would be significantly better if they were balanced around the player having a predetermined amount of health. Oh well, I still love them all the same.

I've been thinking of uploading a full Inferno playthrough to youtube, but a lot of the stages will probably be pretty easy & really straight forward, so it might be a waste of time... I dunno. I'll probably do it anyway for completion's sake.


Dodonpachi Saidaioujou - Starting to play this again. My best score so far is 21 billion with both A-S and D-S. There were a few mistakes in each of those runs, and I've learned a new trick since then, so I should be able to put together a 23-24B run. I'll probably start practicing Hibachi after I get that out of the way.

[chronovore]

Swear to GOD, Leela is the most rage-inducing meditation "assisting" software I can imagine, other than one that just plays poorly compressed drum-and-bass with random anime girl voice acting bits dropped in. Or a machine which shoots staples at my eyes.

[Stoney Mason]

Playing through RE 4 at the moment. Haven't played it in a long long time.

What a master class example of game design and terrific game pacing.

Finished it today. Played for a little bit each day and it was so good. I had forgotten most of the game as I literally hadn't played it since I originally played it back on the Gamecube.

Yeah it destroys Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite. Those games don't have the pacing, the variety, the cleverness, or anything that is on display here. They are modern games with good storytelling/voice acting and average design all over the place. Last of Us really suffers in comparison because that is trying to do a lot of the horror stuff. Its a bit sad how much we've lost in some ways from a classic from a prior generation and this isn't some nostalgia bullshit on my part as I hate that stuff.

[mjemirzian]

Dodonpachi Saidaioujou - Starting to play this again. My best score so far is 21 billion with both A-S and D-S. There were a few mistakes in each of those runs, and I've learned a new trick since then, so I should be able to put together a 23-24B run. I'll probably start practicing Hibachi after I get that out of the way.

Good luck with that. Whore out training mode shamelessly.

[tiesto]

Mamoru-kun Curse - it's harder than I remembered it, but my STG skills are pretty rusty.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Playing through RE 4 at the moment. Haven't played it in a long long time.

What a master class example of game design and terrific game pacing.

Finished it today. Played for a little bit each day and it was so good. I had forgotten most of the game as I literally hadn't played it since I originally played it back on the Gamecube.

Yeah it destroys Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite. Those games don't have the pacing, the variety, the cleverness, or anything that is on display here. They are modern games with good storytelling/voice acting and average design all over the place. Last of Us really suffers in comparison because that is trying to do a lot of the horror stuff. Its a bit sad how much we've lost in some ways from a classic from a prior generation and this isn't some nostalgia bullshit on my part as I hate that stuff.

It's funny how so many games try to emulate it and nothing, aside from maybe its sequel, and maybe Dead Space come close. And by close, I mean a girth as wide as shaka khan's penis.

[Stoney Mason]

Playing through RE 4 at the moment. Haven't played it in a long long time.

What a master class example of game design and terrific game pacing.

Finished it today. Played for a little bit each day and it was so good. I had forgotten most of the game as I literally hadn't played it since I originally played it back on the Gamecube.

Yeah it destroys Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite. Those games don't have the pacing, the variety, the cleverness, or anything that is on display here. They are modern games with good storytelling/voice acting and average design all over the place. Last of Us really suffers in comparison because that is trying to do a lot of the horror stuff. Its a bit sad how much we've lost in some ways from a classic from a prior generation and this isn't some nostalgia bullshit on my part as I hate that stuff.

It's funny how so many games try to emulate it and nothing, aside from maybe its sequel, and maybe Dead Space come close. And by close, I mean a girth as wide as shaka khan's penis.

I like Dead Space alot and the Dead Space series certainly has its strengths and emulates the RE 4 approach the most of any games on the market but now I realize there are still so many big and smallish things they never were able to emulator properly. The pacing and variety of those games suffer by comparsion. RE 4 is just amazing at switching things up everytime you get tired of doing what you are currently doing. And its not a gimmick switch up. It's a meaningful switch up. But those guys at least up to Dead Space 2 were clearly attempting fan-ish remakes of RE 4 which is fine. Why not try and copy the best. RE 5 was a game I liked at the time but I consider it a real step in the wrong direction even though it also is obviously trying to clone a lot of RE 4.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Yeah, even RE5 misses the mark on why RE4 was so good. Still love it though, one of my faves this gen.

[Stoney Mason]

I played RE 5 twice when it came out but I have no desire ever to play it again. And I feel its like an action game that is slightly hindered by all this survival horror stuff where RE 4 feels like a real survival horror title and a much more cohesive package. I could play Resident Evil 4 once a year I now realize to make me realize what I should expect out of a Triple AAA quality title.

The best compliment I can give is that I'm now going to finish Revelations and also play RE 6 which I kinda never planned to do.

[Cindi Mayweather]

try playing it on professional. The thing about RE4, is you can play it again and again and again. Game has so much going for it.

[fistfulofmetal]

Tried the Vergil DLC for DmC

Got stuck on some dumb platform section, don't really know how I'm supposed to make this jump? Figure it's some combination of using the evade move. Don't feel like figuring it out. Turn game off.

Edit: I see what I was doing wrong. Oh well.

[demi]

MORON

[Tucah]

Been playing a bunch of:
- Fallout NV - not very far in, never played F3 either but I'm having a pretty good time so far.
- Witcher 1 - Enjoying this a lot. Just started Act II, loving the fleshed out world and story and pretty much everything except for the sort of mediocre combat.
- Castle Crashers - I've played a bunch of it before, still some good beat-em-up fun and I always enjoy Behomoth's art style.
- Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - Fucking fantastic game, replaying it to psych myself up for the 3DS game. Intelligent Systems is responsible for the majority of Nintendo's good output over the past decade or so, IMO.

[mjemirzian]

MORON

If I fail at a game, it's the game's fault and it wasn't "real" difficulty anyway.

[fistfulofmetal]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Finished the main game of Dishonoured.  It was good to alright.  I would play a sequel if they do one. 

[Bebpo]

Barkley, Shut up & Jam: Gaiden Ep1

"I'm doing it so Hoopz can live in a world where a layup gets you applause, not arrested."


Sometimes the dialogue in this game is gold. 

[cool breeze]

Ghost stealth in Dishonored feels like the wrong way to play it, like you're handicapping yourself solely for moral reasons.  In other games it's an equally valid if not more effective tactic.  It's actually kinda strange how they aren't really humanizing the enemies; even the banter is related to their work.  I heard it's a short game so I'll probably end up replaying as a psychopath/typical protagonist.

Really fun game so far.

[Raban]

Barkley, Shut up & Jam: Gaiden Ep1

"I'm doing it so Hoopz can live in a world where a layup gets you applause, not arrested."


Sometimes the dialogue in this game is gold.

ftfy, also RIP Kurt Cobain 1967-1994

[The Sceneman]

Barkley, Shut up & Jam: Gaiden Ep1

"I'm doing it so Hoopz can live in a world where a layup gets you applause, not arrested."


Sometimes the dialogue in this game is gold.

Fuck yeah, I think that game had some of the best writing of all time. Sooooooo many laugh out loud moments

[The Sceneman]

Playing Capcom Arcade Cabinet, its pretty awesome. I hadn't played any of the games before (except for 1942) so I'm having fun. Gun Smoke is SO FUCKING HARD

[Madrun Badrun]

Ghost stealth in Dishonored feels like the wrong way to play it, like you're handicapping yourself solely for moral reasons.  In other games it's an equally valid if not more effective tactic.  It's actually kinda strange how they aren't really humanizing the enemies; even the banter is related to their work.  I heard it's a short game so I'll probably end up replaying as a psychopath/typical protagonist.

Really fun game so far.

Stealth is better in the last 3rd of the game when there are more than just 2 or 3 enemies near by. 

[Bebpo]

Barkley, Shut up & Jam: Gaiden Ep1

"I'm doing it so Hoopz can live in a world where a layup gets you applause, not arrested."


Sometimes the dialogue in this game is gold.

ftfy, also RIP Kurt Cobain 1967-1994

Nah, a lot of the dialogue is crap tbh.  Most NPC dialogue rambles and all the stupid ANIMU jokes at each save point fall flat completely and I FF through them all.  A lot of the constant swearing is just lame and unfunny and out of character.

There's good lines here and there for sure, but it's definitely amateurish writing.

[Trent Dole]

Playing Capcom Arcade Cabinet, its pretty awesome. I hadn't played any of the games before (except for 1942) so I'm having fun. Gun Smoke is SO FUCKING HARD

I had friends who had the NES version of Gun.Smoke and they could barely beat it using an Advantage's slow mo and auto fire.

[fistfulofmetal]

So I just got a racing wheel. A Logitech G27 wheel.

Giving a few games a try.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is pretty rad with it. Keeping the giant trucks stable and steering is quite a bit easier. As is parking. It's just a really cool experience.

Dirt 3 is a completely different beast. Closed circuit tracks on tarmac are crazy with the wheel constantly fighting back against me. I constantly have to make sure I'm not over adjusting when coming out of turns or I spin out. It's crazy and I love it. I need to keep practicing since I'm routinely coming in last now.

I tried Need for Speed: Shift 2 and found it unplayable. The wheel barely turns. I think this is due to sensitivity or some adjustments that need to be made. I'll come back to it.

I bought F1 2012 so I'll give that a try later tonight or tomorrow.

[The Sceneman]

Playing Capcom Arcade Cabinet, its pretty awesome. I hadn't played any of the games before (except for 1942) so I'm having fun. Gun Smoke is SO FUCKING HARD

I had friends who had the NES version of Gun.Smoke and they could barely beat it using an Advantage's slow mo and auto fire.

After 20 continues I couldnt even beat the first fucking boss

[Bebpo]

Finished Barkley, Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden Ep1.

For what it is, it's pretty damn solid.  There's some fun dungeons later in the game, the battle system itself is really good in a Paper Mario x FF way, and the story while short is entertaining enough.  The fact that almost no assets were made for the game and almost EVERYTHING is sprite ripped and music ripped from other games adds an extra layer of "Spot where this is from" hilarity.  Good use of Space Jam as canon.  Ending is a little rushed and the NPC dialogue usually sucks, battles could be a little faster, and the QTE stuff is TERRIBLE (as are most of the mini-games).  It's also pretty unbalanced and the first 1/3rd is challenging and then the rest is easy (kind of like SMT games!) when you have a wider selection of attacks and items.  I like that the game has some non-linear parts and a few sidequests. 

All the nods to classic rpgs are good and the humor is often hilarious.  Growing up on 90s Basketball and games like NBA Jam, it's definitely a cool experience but super amateurish (expected from a fan-game made of sprite-music-asset-rips); will be curious to see how the kickstarted Ep2 turns out.  I'm guessing they can't make Ep2 all super illegal full of asset rips like Ep1 since people are actually paying for it which sort of legitimizes it and I'm assuming they will charge money for the final product.  Will play it day 1 though, for sure.

Game kind of has a little too much weaboo in it:


The Disgaea sprite rip is a nice touch:


Ok, I can't hate on any game that references my favorite rpg (Xenogears):



Also the best music rip (and totally unexpected) was:

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Using the Blue Dragon boss battle theme "Eternity" for the Vince Robo boss battles.  So random, but so awesome.

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Overall, thumbs up.

[The Sceneman]

pretty much all the basketball related humour was awesome. and INCAN GOLD!

Best track in the game:

[Bebpo]

Wait, I didn't get the Incan gold reference.  What does Incan Gold have to do with Basketball or Barkley?


Btw, I just read up on some interviews about the game and watched the trailer for ep2.  Now that I know that the unreadable terribly long weaboo rants at save points are Actual weaboo rants taken off message boards and that a lot of the weaboo stuff is self-parody of rpg maker devs trying to make their own Final Fantasies...I definitely have a greater appreciation of the game.

[The Sceneman]

To be honest I dont think it was a reference to anything...

SPOLIERZ

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The other characters had history and meaning for their temptations and desires, the fact the Barkley was offered Incan Gold and grabbed it was hysterical. From what I gathered the whole point was how pointless and stupid it was

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[Bebpo]

Yeah, ok.  That's what I got out of it too.  Was pretty funny.

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Especially afterwards when they regroup and he's like "yeah, uh, I didn't see anything either"  "Ok, let's move on"

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The game definitely has some really funny bits.

[Bebpo]

Mark of the Ninja - Doing a no-alarm, no-kill run on my 1st go through has been extremely satisfying once I got the hang of it.  Great stealth game.  Looking forward to doing a ALL KILL run in the future to make up for all the annoying parts that I had to think outside the box to keep my no-alarm/no-kill policy but still hit main & optional objectives.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Mark of the Ninja - Doing a no-alarm, no-kill run on my 1st go through has been extremely satisfying once I got the hang of it.  Great stealth game.  Looking forward to doing a ALL KILL run in the future to make up for all the annoying parts that I had to think outside the box to keep my no-alarm/no-kill policy but still hit main & optional objectives.

How is a no kill run even possible? Items are far too limited for that and there are times where you are forced to kill, such as the guy on the first stage who's on the ledge and you're on a wall. He has a light shining on the wall, so the only to not get caught is to a ledge kill.

[Positive Touch]

i killed a dude in the first stage, tho i'm not sure if its the one youre talking about, but other than that i'm up to stage 6 or 7 and havent killed anyone yet. there's all alternate paths and ways to get guards to leave their posts; hasn't been hard so far at all.

[Bebpo]

The first stage was a pain because of all the points they want to teach you how to kill.  I had to use some tricky distraction stuff.  Like that part you can climb up the opposite wall and throw a dart at the far away light and when he walks towards it you trail him and drop down.  First stage is also easier on replay after you have a few distraction items from the following stages.

Watching this helped me figure out how to play the game no-alarm/no-kill style.  Did stage 2-4 that way on my 1st try, stage 1 took me a replay.

[cool breeze]

yeah, I'm maybe 3/4 the way through, never caught, and only 'killed' a boss because it leads into a cut scene.  Was even wearing the outfit without a sword and the ninja pulled one out for that scene.

and are you guys playing with a gamepad? what surprised me about MotN is much more I enjoy playing it with keyboard and mouse.  maybe that's just me.

[Positive Touch]

kb/m in 2013

[Cindi Mayweather]

it just seems like the game is based completely around killing and they leave in no kills as an after thought.

[Cindi Mayweather]

That video bebpo posted shows I'm not the only one who has trouble with item aiming. Aiming in the game is complete ass.

[Positive Touch]

the game plays completely fine with no kills and always gives you an opportunity to proceed that doesn't feel glitchy or half-assed. and the game freezes while you aim so you have all the time in the world   frankly i though an mgs vet would be better than this.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Just because time freezes doesn't stop the aiming from being atrocious. Like me, that guy tried to aim a dart at a light for maybe 30 seconds before giving up. It's annoying.

Also, on that stage, the player is using items you don't even get on stage 1, so it seems the best way to do a no kill run is to simply play the game regularly and then redo the stages and do a no kill run with a full item list.

In MGS, the game gives you everything you need to do no kills from the very outset: a tranq gun, and the ability to make noises and distractions without resorting to an item (knocking or running). Sorry, but I will always give shit to "stealth" games that place an emphasis on killing far more than not killing. You don't have to replay shit in order to be able to not kill in MGS. Meanwhile, that guy is using late game items in the first stage, suggesting it's impossible to do a no kill run on stage 1 without playing the later parts of the game.

[Bebpo]

Stage 1 is the only stage like that.  1 stage out of a dozen or so.  And it's mainly the tutorial and replayable.  Not a big deal.


Also the aiming has problems for throwing things, yes.  But the checkpoints are EVERYWHERE and you're not penalized for letting the guards kill you if you set off an alarm and restarting or hitting pause and restarting from last checkpoint. 


I dunno, seems like you're making a big deal out of nothing Himuro.

[cool breeze]

kb/m in 2013

that's why it's surprising.  you think it's like playing something on an emulator.  the interface and controls change to be something between a platformer and adventure game.  WASD to move around and mouse to interact with the environment, aim, etc.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Introductions make a lasting memory. If my first introduction to Mark of the Ninja is a stage where it's all about killing, and despite the fact at mission results, it lists NO KILLS, how am I going to treat the rest of the game? I replayed that stage five times to achieve no kills, and I never made it and was hampered due to my weaker item roll out. I didn't have those items so I can't do a no kill run? Certainly will make me lose respect for it. Any and all competent stealth games should allow people to not kill from the beginning of the game.

I don't think it's making something out of nothing when I'm trying to execute a specific strategy, and I can't because I'm trying hit this bell, but the game won't let me  because it goes to the guy instead, and the bells target lasts all of a frame of a second which makes it hard to hit. Doing this repeatedly in a stage, or even a play session, pisses me off.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Frying, you convinced me to play with kbm. Fucking gamepad targeting controls are terrible. Can you lock on to ANYTHING just by clicking on it?

[Positive Touch]

Also, on that stage, the player is using items you don't even get on stage 1, so it seems the best way to do a no kill run is to simply play the game regularly and then redo the stages and do a no kill run with a full item list.

WRONG. only upgrade i got was faster lockpicking, and then i stopped because i didnt want to make the game easier. you can get past every level with only the basic items you are given, and even then as far as i can tell it's still possible to get through each room without using consumables.

I dunno, seems like you're making a big deal out of nothing Himuro.

ding ding ding

[fistfulofmetal]

Looks like I collected all the Energy and Reserve Tanks in Super Metroid.

Now just need to hunt down everything else. I will 100% this game eventually.

[tiesto]

Started playing MG Rising, made it to chapter 2. Definitely don't like it as much as Bayonetta so far. It seems more "hit and run" than timing dodges... either that or I haven't fully grasped how to play. Graphics are beautiful at least.

[fistfulofmetal]

Started playing MG Rising, made it to chapter 2. Definitely don't like it as much as Bayonetta so far. It seems more "hit and run" than timing dodges... either that or I haven't fully grasped how to play. Graphics are beautiful at least.

I'll just say, learn to parry!

[demi]

Dont worry, Bayo takes a steaming shit on Rising. Horrible game.