What are you playing?

[a slime appears]

I beat Ryse. You know what? Fuck the haters, I really liked the game.

Sure it's combat is stupid simple and the level design is a goddamn straight line, but man is it awesome being able to play as a Roman fucking shit up.

[iconoclast]

Monster Hunter 3U
I just reached the 7-star quests in Tanzia, so I finally have access to the monsters I need for my next set of upgrades. I'm starting to get a little bored of the game, though. The lure of new gear helps, but in the end I'm still fighting the same damage-sponge monsters over and over (some of which are really boring to fight). Maybe I just need to try some new weapons and start playing online to break up the monotony.

I don't mean to complain too much though, it's still a great game that has kept me hooked for well over 100 hours.

[Himu]

Are you playing on 3ds? The lack of multi really ruins the longevity of the 3ds version.

[iconoclast]

Nah, I have the Wii U version now. I still prefer playing solo, but multiplayer is nice when you need to steamroll an enemy for parts (like Goldbeard). I'm looking forward to MH4U, but it's going to be hard going back to the 3DS. Hopefully Capcom does another HD version.

[magus]

Monster Hunter 3U
I just reached the 7-star quests in Tanzia, so I finally have access to the monsters I need for my next set of upgrades. I'm starting to get a little bored of the game, though. The lure of new gear helps, but in the end I'm still fighting the same damage-sponge monsters over and over (some of which are really boring to fight). Maybe I just need to try some new weapons and start playing online to break up the monotony.

I don't mean to complain too much though, it's still a great game that has kept me hooked for well over 100 hours.

yup yup,online is how i played the game for like 100+ hours... if it's like the wii vanilla version some content is also online exclusive so you really got no choice

personaly i stopped playing after i saw the whole game,the final boss is a real pain in the ass,the first time i fought it, i died several times much to the pain of other players

[Bebpo]

Ryu Ga Gotoku Isshin - Slowly progressing.  Main story is decent enough, but man combat is just not there.  It's mildly entertaining but really feels like a simple 2000 series slash slash slash game.  Even the fist-fighting feels dumbed down compared to RGG1/2 because of the focus on the other stances (for instance, my favorite part of RGG1 & 2 was grabbing people and doing different environment kills with heat moves.  So far, 3 chapters into the game, I haven't found a single environment kill besides smash guy's face into a wall).  Hopefully it'll get more interesting as the movelist grows but I feel like the combat is gonna be weak for the whole ride and really I'm just in for watching Kiryu overthrow the government in feudal Japan.  And yeah, the non-cutscene dialogues go on forever and the graphics are pretty shitty and still look like PS2 games outside of the cutscenes.

South Park - Awesome.  On day 2 now.  Still not sure how everyone is calling it jokingly easy (not that I disagree because it does seem to be the consensus, I guess I'm just missing the system-breaking parts of the battle system that make it very easy).  I mean I haven't died since one time in the beginning but I'm having to heal every round because you only have 1 or 2 party members and the enemies hit extremely hard on their turn knocking over half your life away in a single attack.  I feel like I'm surviving and not dying because I'm playing smart and strategic.  It doesn't seem like an "easy" game where I can just hit attack over and over again and steamroll the enemies.

Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 - Just finished the finale of Macross 7 TV in Stage 49.  That stage was ridiculous and like a 2 hour+ srpg map with so many bosses.  Watched the final 2 eps of Macross 7 TV cause I'd never seen it to enjoy it in anime form after playing through its story in the game and man what a ridiculous anime of singing and singing and battles of nothing but flying around singing.  Heh, enjoyed it but glad I never spent the time to watch the show.  Now there's about 12 stages left in the game, and at 2 hour-ish a stage for these end stages, that's another 25 hours to go and I'll finally be done with this after 3 years+ and 200+ hours sunk in.  Still have End of Eva, Gunbuster, Gundam SEED, Ideon storylines to finish along with the OG storyline.  Finished Gaogaigar Final, Dangaioh Final, Mac 7, Jeeg already.

The Yahwg - Played through this finally this morning and holy shit I love this game.  Played it a bunch of times and then read about different ways you can play it as a party game with other people locally, either each player taking on a character and reading their character turns aloud or playing as 2 characters and having everyone in the room vote on choices.  Can't wait to play it with friends.  It's also a game where the font makes such a huge difference.  The game, with a standard boring font, would be nowhere near as good.  Really nice looking text makes this choose-your-own-adventure game a fun read/play.

The Stanley Parable - Played through this right after and eh, I didn't really care for it.  Was cute the first couple of times I played it and got a few endings.  But it's so snarky and there's a lot of repetition and boring standing around waiting for narration and it's just not particularly fun, unlike The Yawhg which is consistently fun. 

[Bebpo]

Started playing Thomas was Alone - I like it, though I kind of hate how these games have like 100+ levels.  I get tired of them after 30.  The music and narration and visual design is all nice though.  I really like the presentation of developer quotes between chapters looking back at the events that happened.  Will probably push through the whole thing over a few days.

[demi]

Bought I Am Alive and Call of Juarez Gunslinger for $3.74 each on Xbox since they're on sale.

[archie4208]

Beat South Park.  Best RPG in years.  Too easy though.

Started Tales of Xillia.  Holy fuck this is as shit.  Haven't played a Tales game since Versperia so it seems fun.

Started trying to learn some more Crusader Kings 2.  My head hurts. 

Just kinda spinning my wheels until Dark Souls 2 hits.

[a slime appears]

Ryu Ga Gotoku Isshin - Slowly progressing.  Main story is decent enough, but man combat is just not there.  It's mildly entertaining but really feels like a simple 2000 series slash slash slash game.  Even the fist-fighting feels dumbed down compared to RGG1/2 because of the focus on the other stances (for instance, my favorite part of RGG1 & 2 was grabbing people and doing different environment kills with heat moves.  So far, 3 chapters into the game, I haven't found a single environment kill besides smash guy's face into a wall).  Hopefully it'll get more interesting as the movelist grows but I feel like the combat is gonna be weak for the whole ride and really I'm just in for watching Kiryu overthrow the government in feudal Japan.  And yeah, the non-cutscene dialogues go on forever and the graphics are pretty shitty and still look like PS2 games outside of the cutscenes.

And I was hype for the game coming to the US.

[demi]

I bought Borderlands 2 GOTY, and it's just not as fun solo. Need to find a group to run with to play these DLCs.

I'm in that "dont feel like playing anything" mood - waiting for the Twitch update to drop.

[magus]

Atelier Escha & Logy

played up to assignment four... the pacing of this game is soooooooooooooooooo slow, the characters go visit some ruin,they go there and find... nothing... then more time doing nothing passes and a village is in danger! good! let's go,they go to the village solve their water problem which was caused by... nothing... so more time passes and ehy it's finaly time to investigate the river from which the village draw it's water! so they go there and find the water has drained,what has caused the water to drain? nothing... it's such an incredible drag!

the issue is even made worse by the fact that you have 120 in-game day to complete all of your assignment,there is usualy one big plot assignment and 24 smaller assignment,doing the big assignment takes like 20 days so the other 100 days are left for doing the smaller one and the smaller one are all chorish stuff like

- get into 9 fight
- go into this zone and pick this item
- create this item
- create 6 item
- defeat this monster which is slightly stronger than the other one
- bring this item to this NPC

it just drags things even more!

but anyway more character have joined the party,these include

- threia, a woman archeleogist that acts all stern and professional like, i think they really wanted to make her a womanly character because she use magic earring in battle's and all of her attacks consist of making magic blast flashing off her earrings and brushing off her hair

- reyfer, a cowboy that fights using a shotgun, coolest character ever

- lucille, a timid loli that's into medicine, she uses a medic bag and syringe to attack, she's sort of lame but it's counterbalanced by the fact that she's the only character with healing spells (escha and logy can heal but they have to waste item to do so)

- linca, she's the only playable character returning from ayesha (wilbell is there too but she's DLC only) and she's still marion awkward unsociable sidekick

but anyway this game just doesn't have the same spark i got from ayesha,ayesha had better pacing,better music and featured tons of cool cities and place to visit,where in this game so far i got to like my 3rd forest in a row... the two best thing that this game got over ayesha is that one, there is a money manegement aspect to the game,stuff in this game is expensive and money is scarce so you definitely have to decide where to spend your money and two, it has a more enjoyable battle system made by the fact that you have a 6-man party member and can tag character in and out where you couldn't in ayesha
 

[The Sceneman]

Bought I Am Alive and Call of Juarez Gunslinger for $3.74 each on Xbox since they're on sale.

I Am Alive is AAA+, play immediately

[tiesto]

Up to the part where Bravely Default goes to hell. Disappointing since I was loving it up till that point. Now I'm just gonna power level through the rest of the game.

[StealthFan]

Now I'm just gonna power level through the rest of the game.

[chronovore]

Finally booted up the Games-with-Gold free copy of Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. Thought I'd do the tutorial, turns out the lessons are integrated to the story, and I played for two hours. Game is really relaxing and fun! I can't imagine anyone is actually playing this online. I may need Sceneman to help me grind out that cheevo.

Been trying to finish up some titles which have been sitting around doing nothing on my HDD. Gastronaut's Small Arms, the XBLA's unasked answer to Smash Bros. is now done. I could spend a couple bones to buy and finish the DLC, but NAWWWWWWW. I hate that Xbox doesn't show it as done, since I didn't purchase the DLC.

Went back to Spelunky, trying to remember how to play it. I was never very good at it, but I'm really bad at it now. I want to keep trying.

Went back to Alien Hominid, since I haven't finished it, and my last Achievement in it dates to 2007. I'm at the final stage, but playing this is pretty nerve wracking. People talk about how hard this game is, and it is hard, but it's also not that well designed. Behemoth's more recent efforts are better games which don't feel as... randomly punishing as this does. I continue playing it because I like the character, and enjoy the world they've put it up against.

[The Sceneman]

Clash of Heroes is totally:

Probably the best game I've played so far from the Games with Gold promotion

[chronovore]

Clash of Heroes is totally: (Image removed from quote.)

Probably the best game I've played so far from the Games with Gold promotion

Best emoticon, or BEAST EMOTICON?

Yeah, it's pretty compelling. It seems reasonably balanced as well. Trying to take out a lvl 7 foe while I'm lvl 6 is hard, but not impossible. Most of it seems really well explained, and it is oddly natural feeling in setting up attacks and defenses. It's pretty sharp!

[The Sceneman]

Haha yeah it's my favourite emote here and I commonly use that gesticulation IRL also, I was bored this evening so I made that.

Yeah what grabbed me about clash of heroes was the awesome blend of puzzle game mixed with RPG, it's a common hybrid nowadays but that game had a really unique playstle and presentation. Online competitive play is great too, a good deal of luck is involved as sometimes you'll get ideal unit set ups dropped for you, but I've had some real edge of the seat matches. A shame you didn't get amongst it when it was the free game! There were a lot of active players. Lets duel soon!

[CajoleJuice]

Clash of Heroes is totally: (Image removed from quote.)

Probably the best game I've played so far from the Games with Gold promotion

this emoticon needs to be added for threads featuring average white girls

[Joe Molotov]

Clash of Heroes is totally: (Image removed from quote.)

Probably the best game I've played so far from the Games with Gold promotion

this emoticon needs to be added for threads featuring average white girls

[The Sceneman]

And bad videogames!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Just finished Brothers.

9/10 what a beautiful little gem, def earned a spot in last gens favourites.

I never played Ico but I bet its a bit like this.

[magus]

so ground zero got leaked on the web, i don't care much for metal gear solid but between the fact that

- i'm not having much fun with atelier escha & logy
- i remembered all of the good time i had being fucking excited for metal gear solid 2 when it was the hot launch title showing the power of the ps2
- i remembered all of the good time i had being fucking excited for metal gear solid 3 when it was the next game from the kurazy mind of hideo kojima
- i never saw metal gear solid 4 and therefore do not know the horrible horror related it
- the download was very small,in fact metal gear solid 4 is as big as ground zero x 15 times

i decided to give it a try,i only had the chance to play for like 5 minutes (because obviously the first 5-10 minutes had to be some longass cinematic intro featuring this song) the thing i don't really get is the plot and yes i'm saying 5 minute in

spoiler (click to show/hide)

apparently you have to rescue paz from peace walker from some prison... why? i tought she was a minor character whose whole point was to be jailbait to promote peace walker... and now she has plot relevance? oh and you also have to rescue some spanish guy with some stereotypical name like pablo or chico or something

[close]

anyway i didn't even have the chance to reach the first checkpoint,just check the control and the like so i only made a very brief impression, but honestly it doesn't feel like metal gear at all, the selection menu where you could pick stuff like the socom and cigarette is gone or if it's there i couldn't find it even after pushing every button,you instead already start with a boring ass rifle,there is no health bar and therefore no ration's,if you get shoot instead the tv screen start getting these sort of burned spot like a film that slowly get fucked up but if you don't get hit for a while you regenerate health like every modern boring shooter ever, if you press start you get a pretty cool 3D map that show the whole area and if a soldier spots you the game goes into slow motion and you get a chance to gun the enemy down before they sound the alarm,they don't even do the typical "!" metal gear sound!



good night you sweet prince

but anyway if you guys want me to check anything out (himuro? i know he's pretty spergy about mgs) i'd be happy to do so

[Rahxephon91]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Paz was revealed to have more going on. Something about Cipher(Zero) using her. She actually hijacks the Metal Gear you build and you fight her. I don't know, Peace Walker is garbage.

[close]

But yeah the gameplay sounds about right honestly. They've been slowly stripping away past gameplay elements. Which has always been strange to me as they refuse to go back to previous MGS play styles. The handheld games would be much better if they used the old MGS playstyle, but I guess Kojima thinks "f that shit, you'll put control styles that don't fit one analog control schemes on one analog control schemes".

Shame about  atelier escha & logy. I was somewhat interested in playing it, but yeah I'll keep avoiding that series.

[Himu]

Wait, time slows down before they signal for their alarm? That's all I need to know! No buy. The dissolution of Metal Gear Solid continues! I should get the HD collection and end my MGS fan hood with a nice bottle of wine.

[The Sceneman]

So is the no David Hayter thing a hoax? If not - no buy. Removal of the iconic alert sound is wtf. Regen health

That basically wraps it up for Konami. They had a good run.

[chronovore]

Wanted something brain-dead and relaxing this afternoon, so I put in Shoot Many Robots for a bit.

I fiddled around in earlier levels, then had the bright idea to try and progress the as-yet-unfinished campaign. I ran into a boss I couldn't beat, with a nasty checkpoint a bit further back than I liked. In attempting to beat it repeatedly, I went from level 28 to 31 from the XP, shouted obscenities at my TV, but couldn't clear the boss.

I was going to have a stroke, so I quit out, only to find that I'm still level 28 since it won't save the data until I clear the last boss. So I almost had a stroke anyway.

My experience in WSOP and Zynga Poker remain disparate: I'm up to nearly $600,000 in Zynga, due to people not paying attention to possible hands. Also, bluffing in Zynga works frequently. In stark contrast, I continue to find new ways to give my money to others in WSOP, which also includes every single time I've ever attempted a bluff.

[magus]

So is the no David Hayter thing a hoax? If not - no buy. Removal of the iconic alert sound is wtf. Regen health

That basically wraps it up for Konami. They had a good run.

as character appear they get names and names of VA too, when big boss appear it says kiefer sutherland (who a quick google search reveals to be jack bauer,uh that's pretty cool)

EDIT: allright i just finished the main scenario in a hour and ten minutes, you just rescue chico,then you rescue paz and the scenario ends,there isn't even any boss to fight...

the metal gear classic alarm sound and red ! is still there but for some reason i only noticed it once! when it happened,the guard were already in alert so reflex (the slow time thingie) didn't trigger,and i was really close to the target so i'm starting to think the problem is that between the fact that most of the time someone spot you from far and that reflex has it's own graphic (more like motion blurrrrrrrrrr) and sound effect (whoshhhhhhhhhhhhhh) it just ends up being hard to notice

After finishing i got a score and a rank (C, i died several times trying to steal a tank,murdering the whole base with the tank was tons of fun so i regret nothing ) and one of the score condition was "No Reflex" so i guess it can be disabled for the joy of himuro though i have no idea how to do so (hard mode i guess?)

i also found that there is a weapon select menu! it's mapped to the digital button... other than the rifle you just have a tranquilizzer gun and a pair night googles,there are no item to find on field... but you seems to unlock more weapons depending on your rank at the end of each scenario

after finishing you unlock 4 side mission which i still have to try,a completition percentage saying 9% also appeared which kinda scream "dude there is content we swear!"

other than the intro,there is a cutscene when you rescue chico,another when you rescue paz and the ending... the ending is a little

spoiler (click to show/hide)

they find a bomb inside paz so they open her up and remove it while she scream through the whole ordeal with all the guts and blood

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oh also one of the side mission didn't unlock,i think i know why

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's supposed to be a mission that fellate all over the original metal gear solid with tons of callback's and the like

[close]

[Himu]

A C? Christ. I may have to buy this anyways. I can't trust your opinion on the stealth gameplay if you're getting C's dude.

[Raban]

Wait, time slows down before they signal for their alarm? That's all I need to know! No buy. The dissolution of Metal Gear Solid continues! I should get the HD collection and end my MGS fan hood with a nice bottle of wine.

This has been known for quite some time. I dunno, man. If you're going into this all critical of anything they change, you're going to hate it. This is Kojima's attempt to evolve the series beyond its PS1 roots. I know it's hard to let go of the things you may think are crucial to the series, but all of the changes sound like things that should've happened years ago.

Also since when do we seriously pay attention to magus' impressions about games?

[Himu]

Slowing down time when guards are in alert is not shedding psx roots. It is neutering a genre.  More than that, guards did not signal alarms until MGS2 when you could shoot out their radios. I refuse to believe shooting out radios is an outdated feature. It is practical and well established. Might as well slow down time before an enemy attacks you in Ninja Gaiden.

[Raban]

Yeah because getting spotted by an off-screen enemy and instantly going into alert was sooooooooh much fun. Ugh. Gonna go back to ignoring this thread until I get to play the game myself.

[Himu]

Getting alerted by off screen guards is a thing? That is pretty much impossible. Any alert you get in MGS will mostly be in your line of sight, and if they're not in your line of sight, it is your own lack of awareness especially in MGS3 and up. That's no reason to slow down time when you're caught.

[demi]

You can watch me play like a professional on stream when I get it for Xbox One

[magus]

Yeah because getting spotted by an off-screen enemy and instantly going into alert was sooooooooh much fun. Ugh. Gonna go back to ignoring this thread until I get to play the game myself.

someone sound butthurt

Getting alerted by off screen guards is a thing? That is pretty much impossible. Any alert you get in MGS will mostly be in your line of sight, and if they're not in your line of sight, it is your own lack of awareness especially in MGS3 and up. That's no reason to slow down time when you're caught.

most of the game takes part in this big heliport so there are several spot where there are no real corner to hide in it and soldiers move around a lot (some of them even go around jeep you can steal and drive) so yes it can happen to be caught by a soldier that you didn't see

there are a few features to make up for this,if you see an enemy with your binocular you get to mark them and you can see them even if they go beyond walls and the like,if you hold an enemy soldier you can ask him for info on other enemy soldiers and if someone is close to seeing you but still hasn't done so you get a white marker that indicates where that soldier location is

Slowing down time when guards are in alert is not shedding psx roots. It is neutering a genre.

nah it's not really a big deal,since the area is pretty big and usualy when you get spotted you get spotted my multiple soldiers so even if you gun one down the other still sound the alarm,the situation were i was able to dodge an alarm thanks to this feature weren't many,instantly tranquilizing people with the gun by hitting them in the head with the tranquillizer gun also doesn't happen anymore and the silencer on your rifle breaks after a while




you can see it here on 5:15 and on 6:40 you can see the player getting seen by some soldiers he didn't see

you can see on the second video what i mean when i said you usualy get seen by multiple soldiers,somehow the player in that one was able to abuse the system in a way i haven't been able to do... at mark 3:00 you can also see metal gear iconic alert sound and !

by the way the two video above are basicaly the whole main mission

anyway i did all of the side missions and each took around 10-15 minutes, the first require you to kill 2 soldiers but if you get spotted the soldiers leave and the mission fails (but they have to physicaly leave so you have time to catch them up if you are close) the second requires you to BLOW SHIT UP (by the way i got an A on my first try clearly demonstrating that at least i'm good at blowing shit up) you get to ride the helicopter and rescue some contact... at the end it turns out

spoiler (click to show/hide)

the contact is actualy hideo kojima because he's a narcistic asshole

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mission 3 requires you to contact some soldier by holding him up and mission 4 to destroy some anti-air artillery using c4... everytime you clear a mission you unlock challenge like tracking all of the enemy soldiers so it's pretty clear they want you to replay this over and over and over to get any value of it, otherwise you aren't getting more than 1-2 hour out of it
 

[The Sceneman]

You didnt know who Kiefer Sutherland was, magus?

[The Sceneman]

Just finished Brothers.

9/10 what a beautiful little gem, def earned a spot in last gens favourites.

I never played Ico but I bet its a bit like this.

Yeah, from what I've played of Ico I can say that the games are similar. Brothers was fucking awesome. I normally don't go for artsy story driven stuff but that game was so gorgeously realised and the gameplay was great.
my fave bit was:
MEGA BROTHERS SPOILERS DONT CLICK IF YOU DONT WANT A SPOILER

spoiler (click to show/hide)

When you get back to the village at the end and little brother cant cross the river by himself, and you use the big brother action button to invoke his spirit and motivate him to swim, was one of the most powerful moments in any piece of interactive entertainment ever. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it again.

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[magus]

You didnt know who Kiefer Sutherland was, magus?

nope, beside i tought they would pick another VA not like... a real actor!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Just finished Brothers.

9/10 what a beautiful little gem, def earned a spot in last gens favourites.

I never played Ico but I bet its a bit like this.

Yeah, from what I've played of Ico I can say that the games are similar. Brothers was fucking awesome. I normally don't go for artsy story driven stuff but that game was so gorgeously realised and the gameplay was great.
my fave bit was:
MEGA BROTHERS SPOILERS DONT CLICK IF YOU DONT WANT A SPOILER

spoiler (click to show/hide)

When you get back to the village at the end and little brother cant cross the river by himself, and you use the big brother action button to invoke his spirit and motivate him to swim, was one of the most powerful moments in any piece of interactive entertainment ever. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it again.

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The second half of the game was pretty dark. Made a big impression on me.

One thing that struck me was how beautiful the game looked, it actually made me say wow in one part.

Hard to believe this was Starbreeze as well.

[chronovore]

as character appear they get names and names of VA too, when big boss appear it says kiefer sutherland (who a quick google search reveals to be jack bauer,uh that's pretty cool)

Interesting; that's a convention from Japanese TV. When a central character appears for the first time, the character's name appears, and the actor's as well, usual in parentheses.

[Himu]

The new slow mo cam is legitimately awful as seen in those videos. It ruins the flow the game, and is the game makers winking at the player as if to say,"this is where you kill them" sorta like in that Splinter Cell Blacklist trailer where they say CLASSIC SPLINTER CELL IS BACK and then they show Sam Fischer diving in slow mo and killing three guys in a row.



This is not stealth.

Stealth is about not being caught, not being a badass killer. Being a badass killer is ONLY okay if it makes sense in a not being caught sense (i.e. Batman hanging dudes from gargoyle statues) rather than a this is your chance to kill people sense.

Is there an option to turn it off?

At the very least Metal Gear Solid V still looks like a STEALTH GAME despite some of the odd design choices.

[Himu]

Metal Gear Solid's always done that, hasn't it?

yes

[fistfulofmetal]

it's completely optional and can be turned off.

[Himu]

I watched those walkthroughs and I like what I see. No stupid hand holding like every modern stealth game ever. MGS3 design philosophy. unpredictable enemy patterns, emphasis on stealth  aka not getting caught - and not modern "stealth" kill everyone in a cool manner, and very hostile enemy AI behavior if you are caught - again, MGS3ism.

Now, if I can turn off the slow cam.

it's completely optional and can be turned off.

Thank fuck.

[magus]

it's completely optional and can be turned off.

I can confirm this... i didn't find the option at first because you can only access the options from the main menu... they should have asked you when you start a new game instead of burying it in the options considering you even get a score bonus if you play with it turned off

Anyway there are a lot of audio tape that you can listen giving a summary of PW and other stuff related to paz

They total 49 minutes! there is more content in this game in the form of people talking to audio tapes than actual game

[Himu]

It's mostly nostalgia. Many of them are like,"hey i played the mgs2 demo like a billion times in 2001!" so they think they'll get that amount of play from the GZ thing, forgetting the fact that we're not kids or teens with lots of time on ours hands anymore, and the fact that demos rarely these days incite the need to want to replay them over and over they latch on to this IDEA of "hey remember mgs2 demo?"

I'm waiting for the full game.

[Rahxephon91]

 

I don't care. I just like MGS and I want something to play on my PS4. Not like $30 is going to break the bank.

[Bebpo]

himuro, stop bitching.  Please.  You are an MGS fan, and so I am.  Yet you're also ridiculously anal and jumpy about changes to your favorites and I'm a bit like that too.

But MGS is pretty damn good and they don't make changes for no damn reason.  MGS4 is kind of shitty because Acts 3-5 have hardly any gameplay and suck on replays.  But Acts 1 & 2 and the "western changes" they brought were freaking great.  The game played fantastic during those arcs.  And Peace Walker had a lot of good stuff despite the bad repetition, lack of real bosses and shitty story that was still stuck on MGS3.

I think MGS5 will be good, maybe even great, and I'm certainly not going to jump on Kojima for making changes to the formula and making it a bit more "mainstream".  MGS has always been mainstream, c'mon.  It's just the mainstream changed and so he's changing with it.  Basically don't knock it and bitch about it until you play it man, you're better than that.


And to Oscar, yeah Kojima is the worst westaboo ever, but luckily the main is pretty damn talented in game design, cutscene direction/editing, and a lot of little details that even if he is always chasing the western shitty blockbuster feel, and his writing widely ranges from great to horribly dumb, his games are pretty damn fun and entertaining (outside MGS4 acts 3-5) and absolutely worth playing.  I know you bailed on the series and aren't a fan, but someone asked me the other day what the best games I've played in my life were and MGS3 was easily up there in the top5 games I feel have ever been made.  It's gaming perfection really, in both gameplay, writing, and cutscene direction.  And it's not like Kojima is a one hit fluke as MGS1 was pretty good and MGS2 though kind of ehhh, has a damn interesting ending which I respect.  Peace Walker's a great game just a shitty store and Portable Ops is a good story but a shitty game due to the controls.  Kojima is a good and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.  Have my Japanese Ground Zeroes on pre-order and will avoid all the threads (like I'm avoiding everything magus is posting) until I get to play it with my Akio Otsuka goodness.  MGS is kind of hilarious as the creator is so pro-american, but like 8 games later and I still can't stand the English version of the series as it's so cheesy whereas the Japanese casts for the MGS games are amazingly talented and really add so much to it.

[Bebpo]

I think I just overlook that last part.  It's like how I overlook that he's a westaboo obsessed with shitty american films.  I like the games he makes and feel like there's a lot of love, like you said, put into them and they're pretty good quality usually, so I enjoy them for what they are and don't look into the creator's tastes.  I think he's a very talented guy with kind of shitty taste, but what you make and what you love don't necessarily overlap...

And I think MGS3 has quite good gameplay.  There's so many viable ways to play through any scenario, it's really one of the most open-ended user-friendly sandbox games out there.  And when it does take away player freedom, like the last hour of forced on-rails gameplay, it's usually damn good and that's why he sticks you on the rails during those sections.  MGS4 even had really good on-rails exciting segments in Act 4/5, it's just that they're one time enjoyments and with that much on-rails (MGS4) it's no fun on replay.  Luckily MGS3 is a long ass game and only the last hour is really on-rails and scripted.

[Bebpo]

On a lighter note I finished up Thomas was Alone and you know, I liked it at first but a few worlds in I was like "oy vey, another 100 stage puzzle platformer that's fun for an hour or two, but overstays it's welcome" but then about 40% in the narrative (who would have thought for a platformer) becomes interesting and by 70% in it's gripping and I couldn't put the game down until I finished it.  As a platformer it's perfectly alright but nothing too special, but the fact that it draws you in, gives you the feels and makes you want to keep going just one more stage after one more stage to see what happens...that's the power of good narrative there.  The music and narration were fantastic, and they turned squares and rectangles into loveable characters that you actually cared about.  Impressive.

Was on the super skeptical train for a bit, but in the end this was a really nice little game.  Very glad I played it.

[benjipwns]

I was like "oy vey, another 100 stage puzzle platformer that's fun for an hour or two, but overstays it's welcome"

I was at that point, guess I should go back to it.

[The Sceneman]

Playing Dragon Age today:

[Cerveza mas fina]

Don't play Dragon Age 2 Borys.

Just don't.

[Rufus]

Do, then tell us at length about it.

It's much shorter than DA:O. You know you want to.

[magus]

you know what's the thing that bothers me the most about MGS5? they act like i'm supposed to give a fuck about the plot, but how am i supposed to do so when it's all so inconsequential? we already know that all of the important character involved made it through just fine because otherwise the other games wouldn't exist, there isn't any big mystery to reveal anymore because that was the point of MGS4, and we already know big boss had a shitty experience becoming big boss because that was the point of MGS3 and any new character that they introduce are going to feel unimportant because they never get mentioned in any other game,you know the one where the important stuff happens!

you'd think that the guy would either

A) make a new stealth series
B) reboot metal gear solid 1 as it's the most iconic game in the series
C) rework on the two first metal gear game so snake and fox punching each other on a minefield which sounded awesome back when it was part of MGS1 backstory doesn't look like this

[Cerveza mas fina]

Do, then tell us at length about it.

It's much shorter than DA:O. You know you want to.

[Himu]

himuro, stop bitching.  Please.  You are an MGS fan, and so I am.  Yet you're also ridiculously anal and jumpy about changes to your favorites and I'm a bit like that too.

But MGS is pretty damn good and they don't make changes for no damn reason.  MGS4 is kind of shitty because Acts 3-5 have hardly any gameplay and suck on replays.  But Acts 1 & 2 and the "western changes" they brought were freaking great.  The game played fantastic during those arcs.  And Peace Walker had a lot of good stuff despite the bad repetition, lack of real bosses and shitty story that was still stuck on MGS3.

I think MGS5 will be good, maybe even great, and I'm certainly not going to jump on Kojima for making changes to the formula and making it a bit more "mainstream".  MGS has always been mainstream, c'mon.  It's just the mainstream changed and so he's changing with it.  Basically don't knock it and bitch about it until you play it man, you're better than that.


And to Oscar, yeah Kojima is the worst westaboo ever, but luckily the main is pretty damn talented in game design, cutscene direction/editing, and a lot of little details that even if he is always chasing the western shitty blockbuster feel, and his writing widely ranges from great to horribly dumb, his games are pretty damn fun and entertaining (outside MGS4 acts 3-5) and absolutely worth playing.  I know you bailed on the series and aren't a fan, but someone asked me the other day what the best games I've played in my life were and MGS3 was easily up there in the top5 games I feel have ever been made.  It's gaming perfection really, in both gameplay, writing, and cutscene direction.  And it's not like Kojima is a one hit fluke as MGS1 was pretty good and MGS2 though kind of ehhh, has a damn interesting ending which I respect.  Peace Walker's a great game just a shitty store and Portable Ops is a good story but a shitty game due to the controls.  Kojima is a good and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.  Have my Japanese Ground Zeroes on pre-order and will avoid all the threads (like I'm avoiding everything magus is posting) until I get to play it with my Akio Otsuka goodness.  MGS is kind of hilarious as the creator is so pro-american, but like 8 games later and I still can't stand the English version of the series as it's so cheesy whereas the Japanese casts for the MGS games are amazingly talented and really add so much to it.

After 4, I reserve the right to bitch and be anal. It is one of the worst games I have ever played. I also don't think you can call me an MGS fan. Maybe in 2005 after the high of MGS3, but in 2014? MGS3 was ten years ago. Who cares. Konami have killed every franchise they've ever made except Metal Gear. Fuck MGS and fuck Kojima.

I also said nothing of making MGS mainstream. I clearly said neutered. It was an early slight, but hey, after MGS4, anything can happen, and the stealth genre as a whole is probably one of the most neutered genres available on the market. They are completely different in priorities than say, ten years ago. And not in a good way either.

[Joe Molotov]

Playing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F for the third time (JP Vita, US PS3, and now US Vita). I may try to Platinum it since the achievements look pretty easy, it's just that they're almost all for the stuff that I don't usually do (editing videos, playing the virtual gf minigame, etc).

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Beat Mom in The Binding of Isaac Wrath of The Lamb today. *e-flex* Guess I'll try to beat the womb next.