What are you playing?

[fistfulofmetal]

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fuckin trash

They'd do a better job at it than Nintendo could at this point.

[Rufus]

God of War Ascension just crashed 15 mins into the final boss fight.

DAT CRAZY GRAPHICS POWER OF SYSTEM EXPLODING

 

Ha. Happened in the first game as well.

[ferrarimanf355]

Anybody else playing Rise of the Triad? I only got through the first two levels, but I exploded several dozen mooks real good with the RPG missiles.

Can't wait to get my hands on the Drunk Missile.

[fistfulofmetal]

Wii has been found and hooked up. Once wiimote charges i'll be starting Prime 3

[Rufus]

So Castlevania: LoI is surprisingly ...OK? The combat system is actually quite interesting, although you'll be using the same combo over and over in the end. Every boss drops an orb that you can equip. Each orb modifies your subweapons in different way. The axe(s), in their unmodified form, fly out horizontally in an overlapping wave motion. The blue orb changes it into one giant axe that flies out, stays at the apex for a moment and then flies back to you, so if you space it right it can hit an enemy at least three times. The red orb I'm using right now could potentially be the most useful outside of boss fights, because it shoots out tiny axes in a circle around you. You can clear rooms with two or three bursts and it's especially useful for the hard to hit flea men which appear in hordes in this game.
Whip combos are less interesting (weak attack, strong attack, some air combos and two kinds of dive kick so far) and I'm not really sure how new ones are unlocked, but they are functional. I used the good old weak-weak-strong attack combo for a long while but some others are beginning to show their utility. It's still easier to just use sub-weapons if the go-to combo isn't enough, but they're there in case you run out of hearts, I supposed. Which you won't, because smashable candelabras line every wall.

Two things that massively annoy me so far:
The camera is terrible. It's functional, but it's stupidly designed to keep your character in focus all the time, which is not very useful. I don't need my character in the center of the screen at all times, I need to see what's going on around me so I don't get hit from off-screen. If it would at least lock on to the giant boss monsters... It's also disorienting as you explore the castle, which is why I check the map every minute. It's easier to see how many exits a room has and were they using the map than it is to walk in a circle every time you enter a larger room. The fuck were they thinking? Devil May Cry feels like the more modern game and it was out two years before this. Tsk tsk.

Next, the inventory system. You can only use potions and equip items in a real-time menu, which you open and page through by using the right stick or d-pad. And even though you can access separate circle menus for relics (magic) and orbs (sub-weapon mods) via R1 and R2 respectively, you have to use a more cumbersome page layout for potions. I don't get it. It even has redundant pages for the aforementioned circle menus. There's also an actual menu screen which seems to exists only so you can marvel at your stats and manually sort your items so you don't have to scroll to the bottom of your dumb menu when you need a potion. Why doesn't it autosort healing items to the top? Why does it even exist?


 

[magus]

Tales Of Xilia

meh

Plot!

at the start of the game you get to pick between the two protagonist,jude or millia... jude is a medicine student and basicaly your stereotypical jrpg hero (idealistic,somewhat whiny) who gets sweeped into something bigger than him,and millia is a stern no shit given character a-la lightining,she's also god so a lot of "HUMAN,HUMAN,HUMAN" conversation get out of her mouth... the two ends up breaking into a secret lab together (actualy i'm not sure why they let me pick one of them if it takes less than an hour for them to end up together) and become fugitives from the military,in the meanwhile they get joined by a third character called alvin,which plays the role of the older and cooler mentor... it's not as offensive as graces but it's so boring and flat and sounds like something i would read on the jrpg trope chart or if i tried jrpg mad lib

Combat!

it's tales! the gimmick in this one is that you link with another character and that character's follow you around in battle,combo enemies you are attacking and protect your behind from other attacks,each character has different link attack which are suited for different kind of enemies,millia gets a paralyze ability that works on "speed" enemy and alvin get a guard break ability that works on "guard" enemy... as you execute attack in pair you fill a bar which let you do a single super attack each time part of the bar is filled,when the bar gets filled full,you get to do infinite super for around 30 seconds and you also get to use new linked special moves where the two character attack together (jude spins millia around for example) it works pretty well but it kinda feels like it's there only because otherwise it would play like every other tales games

SubSystem!

everytime you level up you get growth points,you put these point into a grid system that looks like a spider web,stat up are on the actual lines of the web while skills are inside the web,when you get all of the stat up around a skill,you get that skill... so basicaly it's a more customizable sphere board

the other gimmick is with shops,shops don't get better by simply progressing the game,instead you level them up with materials you find around the world map and dropped by monsters... each material has a point value and giving them to a shop give them points and when they get enough point that shops level up and they stock new items or discount some of their older stuff... but wait! each shops like a kind of item at random and giving them items of that kind gives them double (sometimes triple!) the point,for example the accessory shop suddenly decided it liked plants and since i had a bunch of seeds around,i used them all and it gained like 8 levels in a row and it's now stocking stuff like attack symbols and the like even so early in the game... it's quite dumb and since there is no actual synthesis system a little bit suspicious too... there is also no cooking at all,you simply level up a cooking shop

oh and they added an option to quick save your game for when you can't find a save point fast enough

Other Stuff!

what else... i understand that they decided to drop cell-shaded character for graces since it was a wii game but this was done ground up on ps3 so why it doesn't look half as good as vesperia did? the enviroment are pretty dull too and i don't really like the music...
 
get dragon's crown instead

[demi]

Lol, ok magus.

[Rahxephon91]

I'm also not sold on Xillia. Yeah, the graphics do look very bland and when it comes to art all these Tales games are starting to blend together for me. Plus I heard it was just kind of boring outside of it's story.

Hope it's good, but I may wait a bit.

[fistfulofmetal]

Metroid Prime 3 seems pretty OK so far. The first two parts of the game are a little too linear for my tastes but not bad. I've just arrived to the first planet where the game "opens up" and becomes a Prime game. I'm not sure I like the level design as much as Prime 1... actuallu I'm pretty sure I don't. Plus all these extra characters and stuff are just weird and don't really fit in my brain. It's like someone has picked up Samus and dropped her into another universe filled with wacky characters.

But the gameplay is still there and I'm enjoying it.

[Trent Dole]

Prime 3 is where they went full Halo.

[Positive Touch]

i didnt hate prime 3 but it was easily the weakest in the series. as if mp2's levels werent linear enough...

[Great Rumbler]

Prime 3 is where they went full Halo.

Halo only wishes it could be that good.

[Eel O'Brian]

i'm playing "let steam games idle in the background so I can get the trading cards and sell them for a SRIV discount"

so far I am winning

[Rufus]

Done with Castlevania: LoI. It was pretty OK. Doesn't hold a candle to any of the 2D Metroidvanias, but it's pretty short so whatever. I never played the N64 games, but I can't imagine them to be more competent than this one.

Almost cleared it 100% but I couldn't find where the keys were that I needed and there didn't appear to be any hidden doors that I missed. The game unlocks a separate mode where you can play as Joachim, some schmuck vampire that doesn't hold a candle to the lord of the castle. Who is not Dracula, btw, but Walter. Fear the Walter, for he has a shoulder and an ass cape. I assume you can explore the rest of the castle (and find the remaining 7 spells I haven't found) using Joachim, but I didn't care enough to do it. I thought this was going to be a much longer game at first (and because Dracula hadn't revealed himself until the very end), but no, it just kinda ends with Leon Belmont swearing to hunt him down. Death is the last boss and he's no big deal. Kinda eh. The fight I had with some three story monstrosity that barred the throne room was more difficult.

The castle itself turned out to be pretty disappointing as well. Not only is it a hub design, but the levels are littered with superfluous corridors that turn any amount of backtracking into a chore. It would have been cool (not to mention useful) to find shortcuts leading from one area to another, but alas, that's impossible when the areas are self-contained.

I already moved on to Curse of Darkness. Good news: camera control. Bad news: y-axis inverted with no way to change it. They dare call it 'normal', even. Heathens. I don't expect to have to look towards the ceiling a lot and it's progress at least, so whatever. Gonna dig into it tomorrow.

[cool breeze]

Metroid Prime 3 seems pretty OK so far. The first two parts of the game are a little too linear for my tastes but not bad. I've just arrived to the first planet where the game "opens up" and becomes a Prime game. I'm not sure I like the level design as much as Prime 1... actuallu I'm pretty sure I don't. Plus all these extra characters and stuff are just weird and don't really fit in my brain. It's like someone has picked up Samus and dropped her into another universe filled with wacky characters.

But the gameplay is still there and I'm enjoying it.

I remember people complaining about backtracking in Metroid Prime 1 and 2, so that might've influenced them for the third one.  Metroid Prime 2 was worse about backtracking with the light/dark world gimmick and a fetch quest towards the end.  But I thought Prime 3 was fine with its streamlining, unlike Fusion.

Do you only own Prime 3 or the Wii Trilogy? if you haven't played Prime 2, it's worth checking out even with its bum rep.  I liked it more when I played it a few months ago than I did in 2004.

[demi]

AfteR SMT4, Persona 4 is a gigantic drag. You spend 88% of the game doing the stupid social crap. Ugggggh

[Great Rumbler]

Finished up Dishonored's The Knife of Dunwall DLC. It was pretty good, definitely a nice companion to the main campaign. I wish the last DLC was out already, because I'm ready to play it.

[Joe Molotov]

i'm playing "let steam games idle in the background so I can get the trading cards and sell them for a SRIV discount"

so far I am winning

I made $12.75 today selling DmC and Cherry High Comedy Club cards. 

[Rufus]

How much did the games cost you?

[Joe Molotov]

I bought DmC for $25 during the sale and I bought CHCC when it came out for $8.

[Rufus]

Not bad.

[fistfulofmetal]

I remember people complaining about backtracking in Metroid Prime 1 and 2, so that might've influenced them for the third one.  Metroid Prime 2 was worse about backtracking with the light/dark world gimmick and a fetch quest towards the end.  But I thought Prime 3 was fine with its streamlining, unlike Fusion.

Do you only own Prime 3 or the Wii Trilogy? if you haven't played Prime 2, it's worth checking out even with its bum rep.  I liked it more when I played it a few months ago than I did in 2004.

I got the Prime Trilogy.

Decided to stop playing Prime 3 and go back to my Prime 2 save which is roughly an hour or so into the game. A save I last played like a year ago. So basically it took me at least 20 minutes to figure out what I was supposed to be doing since there's no way to check your objective.

Managed to finish the first *section* and move onto the swamp lands. The light/dark mechanics aren't too bad, specially now that I have the dark suit.

Prime 2 definite feels more like Prime 1 than Prime 3 already did. Less enemies, more emphasis on maneuvering through the game world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, they could make one of these games that focused SOLELY on exploration, puzzle solving, and collecting upgrades and remove ALL of the major enemies (little creatures can stay) and I would be perfectly fine with it. Focus the entire thing on making the game world deep with tons of secrets and multiple routes. Would be amaze.

[tiesto]

Penny Arcade episode 4. It's good so far... just made it to chapter 4.

[Positive Touch]

Done with Castlevania: LoI. It was pretty OK. Doesn't hold a candle to any of the 2D Metroidvanias, but it's pretty short so whatever. I never played the N64 games, but I ca.........
I already moved on to Curse of Darkness. Good news: camera control. Bad news: y-axis inverted with no way to change it. They dare call it 'normal', even. Heathens. I don't expect to have to look towards the ceiling a lot and it's progress at least, so whatever. Gonna dig into it tomorrow.

i loved that game, for all its flaws & simplicity. i'd say the second quest is worth checking out - not with the other vampire dude, but with the harder difficulty. its WAY tf harder and has totally different enemy placement that is fucking brutal. even the little tutorial area at the start is pretty hard. feels really satisfying to go through.

the other ps2 game sucks anus. combat is stupidly simplified, levels are just as boring, bosses are easy, and the camera is even worse. i couldnt wait for that one to be over.

[Positive Touch]

metroid prime shit

mp2 has the most bonertastic graphics of any gamecube game. they made it more linear (theres a hub world with each of the levels branching off) but each separate world has lots to explore. and i dont think you'll be talking about getting rid of the boss fights in the series once youre done with this game. id say one of them belongs on any decent list of best game bosses ever.

[cool breeze]

I got the Prime Trilogy.

Decided to stop playing Prime 3 and go back to my Prime 2 save which is roughly an hour or so into the game. A save I last played like a year ago. So basically it took me at least 20 minutes to figure out what I was supposed to be doing since there's no way to check your objective.

Managed to finish the first *section* and move onto the swamp lands. The light/dark mechanics aren't too bad, specially now that I have the dark suit.

Prime 2 definite feels more like Prime 1 than Prime 3 already did. Less enemies, more emphasis on maneuvering through the game world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, they could make one of these games that focused SOLELY on exploration, puzzle solving, and collecting upgrades and remove ALL of the major enemies (little creatures can stay) and I would be perfectly fine with it. Focus the entire thing on making the game world deep with tons of secrets and multiple routes. Would be amaze.

Funny thing is I had that exact same takeaway after Metroid Prime 2.  Combat in those games feels like a speed bump to the joy of exploring.  And it's not just that Prime combat is kinda lousy to me.

mp2 has the most bonertastic graphics of any gamecube game. they made it more linear (theres a hub world with each of the levels branching off) but each separate world has lots to explore. and i dont think you'll be talking about getting rid of the boss fights in the series once youre done with this game. id say one of them belongs on any decent list of best game bosses ever.

don't know about fistful, but for me it's: keep the bosses, get rid of other enemies.

[Rufus]

i loved that game, for all its flaws & simplicity. i'd say the second quest is worth checking out - not with the other vampire dude, but with the harder difficulty. its WAY tf harder and has totally different enemy placement that is fucking brutal. even the little tutorial area at the start is pretty hard. feels really satisfying to go through.

Eh, I don't think I could take it with the camera the way it is. Going down the corridors towards the screen was annoying enough on normal. I was ready for it to be over anyway.

the other ps2 game sucks anus. combat is stupidly simplified, levels are just as boring, bosses are easy, and the camera is even worse. i couldnt wait for that one to be over.

Ugh, really? I didn't even spend five minutes with it so far. Gonna have a look at it tomorrow. Wasn't impressed with the sword though.

[fistfulofmetal]

don't know about fistful, but for me it's: keep the bosses, get rid of other enemies.

yeah, I can fuck with this.

[Purple Filth]

Went in a bit deeper with saints row 3 and 

That eastern European female voice is great

[chronovore]

She's got a thing for Pierce, I recall?

It'd be funny to use the female voice with a male character, and have him hitting on Pierce the whole game.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[chronovore]

Started Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. it is fun. It is also prettier than any other Lego game to-date. I'm stunned that they graded up their engine, as they've been phoning this series in for years.

My son has been adding new chapters to the "Superman is a dick" meme. Batman in this game is shown to dislike Supes in the cutscenes, and as I play Batman while my son flies around as Superman, I learn why.

The split screen camera for local co op is unable to deal with a character who can fly in tight, fast circles around the screen. When he dashes around, faster than a speeding bullet, I become immediately nauseous as I try to locate on which portion of the rotating, vertical, perspective shifting divide my character is on. When he's not flying, Supes is still a PITA: Batman is wandering across tightropes, across fall-to-death chasms, when Superman will fly in, show that he too can walk on tightropes... extra slowly... Preventing Bats from making any progress on the rope... when Superman can JUST FLY ALREADY!

Plus, he has a tendency to shoot everything with Heat Vision, assassinating minifig thugs wholesale.

Superman lost is power to fly, so I just now saw him steal a car from some Gotham City dweller, GTA style.

Superman is a dick.

[StealthFan]

Finishing up Ballad Of Gay Tony and it is tons of fun. Can't wait for GTA V now. Too bad Lost And The Damned isn't that good.

Gonnna finish Yakuza 3 after I am done. I quit playing it the second I got to the city. I know that's where it gets gud but I was sick of it by then.

[fistfulofmetal]

The light/dark world stuff in Prime 2 is finally start to get on my nerves. I'm in the Torvus Bog and need to find the final dark temple key and sitting here combing through both the light and dark world maps trying to find some place I haven't been to. I got the gravity booster for water and the grapple beam but absolutely no idea where I have to use it in any of the three areas.

Need a break to clear my head. Been playing all day and there's no way I'm gonna figure it out at this point.

[Trent Dole]

Yeah Prime 2's key hunting thing is kinda weird/stupid. The archive or whatever piece hunt at the end of Prime 1 was one of the worst and most annoying parts of the game SO THEY MADE IT ONE OF THE MAIN CRUXES OF THE SEQUEL. Proving the goodness of Prime One was probably just the result of Shiggy keeping a tight leash and upending dat tea table repeatedly.

..and of course it's worth noting that when they lost their hands on the series it somehow got even worse. Team ninja dog  :xbone

[Freyj]

Enjoying Dishonored, but wasn't particularly thrilled when the third level dropped me right back into the exact same environment from the second level.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Finishing up Ballad Of Gay Tony and it is tons of fun. Can't wait for GTA V now. Too bad Lost And The Damned isn't that good.

[Great Rumbler]

Enjoying Dishonored, but wasn't particularly thrilled when the third level dropped me right back into the exact same environment from the second level.

It doesn't do that too often, fortunately.

[StealthFan]

Finishing up Ballad Of Gay Tony and it is tons of fun. Can't wait for GTA V now. Too bad Lost And The Damned isn't that good.

I think the story is fucking whack. It tries way too hard. I'll give it another shot, but so far I think the characters are a bunch of crybabies.

[Positive Touch]

it also fell into the same trap as gta4: lots of driving n talking followed by an auto lock on gun battle. repeat over and over til the game ends

[StealthFan]

it also fell into the same trap as gta4: lots of driving n talking followed by an auto lock on gun battle. repeat over and over til the game ends

This. TBOGT cut to the chase.

[fistfulofmetal]

The boss battle for Torvus Bog was awesome. I loved how it implemented the various tools I'd collected up to that point and required me switching between them all quickly enough to successfully take the boss down. Lots of fun that was.

[Joe Molotov]

Finishing up Ballad Of Gay Tony and it is tons of fun. Can't wait for GTA V now. Too bad Lost And The Damned isn't that good.

I think the story is fucking whack. It tries way too hard. I'll give it another shot, but so far I think the characters are a bunch of crybabies.

Remember that time Himu stopped stanning for GTA? That was a great five minutes.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Finishing up Ballad Of Gay Tony and it is tons of fun. Can't wait for GTA V now. Too bad Lost And The Damned isn't that good.

I think the story is fucking whack. It tries way too hard. I'll give it another shot, but so far I think the characters are a bunch of crybabies.

I think the story is great, and I've gone on record multiple times as saying it is GTAIV done right, but tastes are subjective.

[StealthFan]

It is definitely above GTA IV in terms of gameplay.

[Rufus]

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is actually pretty fun. Crafting and leveling summoned monsters that fight by my side is surprisingly motivating. The monsters evolve and even have skill trees that they advance through by collecting tokens that drop from enemies. What kind of token you get depends on the type of weapon you're using to kill enemies with. It's unfortunately very grindy, so I won't be seeing every variation of any summon, but it's neat nonetheless.
Shame the levels are still full of pointless and time wasting corridors connecting every room arena, but I want to explore every corner regardless. I guess I'm just damaged as far as Metroidvanias go. I will complete these damned maps. Thank god there are teleporters this time around.
Sadly the combat is even more chaotic than in Lament of Innocence, controllable camera notwithstanding. The optional lock-on function somehow makes it even worse, but it's very useful for bosses (even though they are indeed pretty easy). The lock-on system's thievery mechanic (the reticule turns pink when you can steal something) is pretty fun though, even though it can prolong the often tedious fighting even further.

[Cindi Mayweather]

It is definitely above GTA IV in terms of gameplay.

I really like the story too. It's cool to have a GTA story where you're pursuit money, fame, or power. They're just a gang that's falling apart. I especially like how TLAD connects with IV, and some characters you end up liking are offed by Niko (that asshole).

[ferrarimanf355]

Started Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. it is fun. It is also prettier than any other Lego game to-date. I'm stunned that they graded up their engine, as they've been phoning this series in for years.

My son has been adding new chapters to the "Superman is a dick" meme. Batman in this game is shown to dislike Supes in the cutscenes, and as I play Batman while my son flies around as Superman, I learn why.

The split screen camera for local co op is unable to deal with a character who can fly in tight, fast circles around the screen. When he dashes around, faster than a speeding bullet, I become immediately nauseous as I try to locate on which portion of the rotating, vertical, perspective shifting divide my character is on. When he's not flying, Supes is still a PITA: Batman is wandering across tightropes, across fall-to-death chasms, when Superman will fly in, show that he too can walk on tightropes... extra slowly... Preventing Bats from making any progress on the rope... when Superman can JUST FLY ALREADY!

Plus, he has a tendency to shoot everything with Heat Vision, assassinating minifig thugs wholesale.

Superman lost is power to fly, so I just now saw him steal a car from some Gotham City dweller, GTA style.

Superman is a dick.

This post is made of win.

[Stoney Mason]

About Halfway through Shadows of the Damned.

What a fun silly great universe. Great characters.

The gameplay part of the package is average but the character of the game really carries it. I feel sad that its very difficult to make games like this that the general public will actually buy.

[Bebpo]

You haven't gotten to the terrible parts yet, I take it?


Game was ok.  Has some highs, but very forgettable.

[Rufus]

Yeah, have you tasted the big boner yet?

[Stoney Mason]

You haven't gotten to the terrible parts yet, I take it?


Game was ok.  Has some highs, but very forgettable.

The appeal here is definitely the universe rather than the gameplay which is okay but nothing amazing but then there are a lot bigger budget games that have the same flaws and much less of the charm.

[Cindi Mayweather]

The bosses are great and I'm not seeing why the universe was so appealing? I thought the gameplay was fine and it was a decent RE4 wannabe.

[Stoney Mason]

It was funny. It mixed in sex. It mixed in comedy. It mixed homages of other classic works of media. And its done it in a package that feels far more like a comic book than a typical videogame. That's an appealing universe to me. Far more than something like Metal Gear Solid which many video game nerds wank to. I've laughed more at it through the halfway point than I have for nearly any other videogame. I would like to see more with that character and that universe although that seems unlikely.  I liked the universe. Pretty simple.


Gameplay doesn't impress outside of the visual design of the world and the weapons and the bosses.

[magus]

decided to take my own suggestion and started playing dragon's crown again with a different character,i'm going with the amazon this time... she's a lot slower and frail than the warrior which makes the game somewhat harder but as she piles the hit,she goes into berserk and when she gets into full berserk mode her attack becomes crazy fast and her DPS goes through the roof... her skill tree is more interessing and features stuff like trading hp for the ability to go into berserk faster and higher attack when you get into critical HP

i should take a peek into the other character too,i know the dwarf get throw moves and some defense buff... and the elf gets elemental damage,the two spellcasting classes have the same attacks but they seems to differ when it comes to the skill list with the sorceress having more support spells

[The Sceneman]

It was funny. It mixed in sex. It mixed in comedy. It mixed homages of other classic works of media. And its done it in a package that feels far more like a comic book than a typical videogame. That's an appealing universe to me. Far more than something like Metal Gear Solid which many video game nerds wank to. I've laughed more at it through the halfway point than I have for nearly any other videogame. I would like to see more with that character and that universe although that seems unlikely.  I liked the universe. Pretty simple.


Gameplay doesn't impress outside of the visual design of the world and the weapons and the bosses.

Yeah Shadows of the Damned is pretty damn cool. Lots of laughs and just general cool shit all round.

I'm about 2/3rds through Bioshock Infinite, not sure if I can bring myself to finish it. The gunplay is average, the powers all do the same thing, and theres way too many bullet sponge enemies (I am playing on 1999 mode though). There have been a few nice moments, the Hall of Heroes was really interesting graphically. But really I'm not intrigued by the world at all, and there hasn't been one moment in about 8 hours of play that I was genuinely excited or having a good time. Gonna go back to Binary Domain I think (i.e. a REAL shooter without any art wank)

[tiesto]

It was funny. It mixed in sex. It mixed in comedy. It mixed homages of other classic works of media. And its done it in a package that feels far more like a comic book than a typical videogame. That's an appealing universe to me. Far more than something like Metal Gear Solid which many video game nerds wank to. I've laughed more at it through the halfway point than I have for nearly any other videogame. I would like to see more with that character and that universe although that seems unlikely.  I liked the universe. Pretty simple.


Gameplay doesn't impress outside of the visual design of the world and the weapons and the bosses.

Yeah Shadows of the Damned is pretty damn cool. Lots of laughs and just general cool shit all round.

I'm about 2/3rds through Bioshock Infinite, not sure if I can bring myself to finish it. The gunplay is average, the powers all do the same thing, and theres way too many bullet sponge enemies (I am playing on 1999 mode though). There have been a few nice moments, the Hall of Heroes was really interesting graphically. But really I'm not intrigued by the world at all, and there hasn't been one moment in about 8 hours of play that I was genuinely excited or having a good time. Gonna go back to Binary Domain I think (i.e. a REAL shooter without any art wank)

Best part of Binary Domain:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[Cindi Mayweather]

and



One is pulling major signs of rpg of the generation.

The other is the first half of my favorite game of all time.

Pretty good.

[Cindi Mayweather]

This fucking game. Fucking DARTS. Fuck YES.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Masterful song. Always gets me every time I hear it.



I can never get tired of the lives of the denizens of Dobuita. Eri and Nozomi are studying for exams. Too bad Ryo dropped out of school. Naoyuki, why do you keep going on about your motorcycle? Ichiro, yes I know Ine-san is worried when I come home late, don't bug me about it. Komine-san's sales have been dropping, bread just isn't as popular as pizza these days, especially when his own daughter prefers Bob's Pizzeria to his bakery. Kurita, Tom, Ryoko the girl manning the antique shop for her grandpa, Yuriko, Miki. I love the small town feel of 1, the stark contrast of feeling like a foreigner in 2 is done so beautifully.

Shenmue I'm so blessed

[StealthFan]

The final mission of GTA IV is so bad that I am not going to complete it. The bike physics are so wonky on that sand that I can't make that stupid jump. I'm just going to replay Lost & The Damned until I get Yakuza 3 tomorrow.