What are you playing?

[Yulwei]

Beat 3:

Chrono Trigger - I know I swore off all RPGs from this era just a few pages ago buut I thought I'd make an exception just for this one. It still has all those same trappings which make these kind of old style JRPGs pretty samey imo, but the difference is that a lot of care was put into this game. It really feels like the developers wanted the player to feel like they've gone through this amazing epoch-spanning adventure, and they succeeded in doing just that. There is very little, if any, padding and there is purpose in every single place you visit. That made me appreciate the world a lot more. Glad I played this.

Metroid Fusion - I'd tried Super Metroid several times before but never got very far. Started playing this on a whim and it just clicked. The setup of the story is fucking awesome. You are on a space lab that was decimated by an alien parasite that has the ability to perfectly replicate its hosts body. One of these parasites gets a hold of Samus' varia suit and all hell breaks loose. There is a constant and deliberate tension throughout this entire game and it reminds me a lot of Alien in that way. The controls feel extremely responsive, the environmental puzzles always feel rewarding to get past, the action is constant and never gets old because you always have to change up your approach through either movement or use of your abilities, and the boss fights take that up several notches. Getting all your abilities is also very rewarding and "Space Jump" is the greatest thing ever. Amazing game.

Warioware Inc Mega Microgames -  Just a giant collection of distinguished mentally-challenged minigames all of it very fun and very addictive. I honestly didn't expect to get into this as much as I did but I found myself playing for hours until late at night. I beat the main game and am currently mastering all the individual minigames (which you do by beating a certain number of times). My only complaint is that the music could be better (the "Drifting Away" track from the sci-fi stage is fucking awesome though).

Currently playing:

Crisis Core FF7 - Only an hour in so far. Seems like it could be a cool game but that depends on how much they start recycling monsters/areas later in the game. My only experience with FF7 comes from reading the wiki page for it many years ago so I'm kind of interested in the story.

[Huff]

So at about 18 hrs into Mass Effect 1 I've had it with the terrible driving up mountains to reach some shitty artifact. Really enjoying the game and don't mind the repetitive side quests, but just going to finish the main story from here.

[Positive Touch]

that's the way you shoulda done it from the start

[Fifstar]

Arkham City and I guess I played a full season in FIFA

[Bebpo]

Xenoblade X - Finished it around 90 hours with most of the side content done.  Game is alright, but not too great.  Bastards didn't put "Episode 1" in the subtitle but now you know and the narrative or complete lack of narrative will make more sense as you're playing since it's just the very beginning framework for a larger sequel story.

Pros:
+World and scale is awesome.  Full time and day + weather + localized effects (heatwaves, sandstorms, snow, rain, rainbows) = absolutely gorgeous world to explore.
+Mechs are awesome. 
+Flying Mechs are most awesome
+Customization and visible player equipment is insanely complex
+Music is good
+Human battle system is fairly good
+Main city is cool beans and upgrades as you do quests
+Has some neat Dark Souls-ish passive online features

Cons:
-Not a lot to find in the world besides pretty looking areas.  A lot less interesting world than Xenoblade.
-Mech customization is pretty weak and mech battle system is eh
-Characters are paper flat and uninteresting outside of 1 or 2.
-Basically no story for 60 hours and then the entire game story in the last 2 hours and most stuff is left unanswered for the sequel
-Game has like 500 quests, 400 are filler crap; a decent percentage of filler required to progress the main story which is like 5 hours long but takes 60-70 hours to get to the end of it because of requirements
-Only one city, goes into the empty world feel
-Endgame side content is extremely power grind for dozens of hours grindy
-Has the problem I just saw WoW creators talk about with no flying anymore in WoW, once you get the mechs any semblence of level design is out because between mechs and fast travel you're just jumping from quest marker point to quest marker point and there's no "level" or adventure after a certain point; fwiw you don't get a mech until about 30-60 hours in, this could be a con for some people.

All in all the game feels like an MMO and should've been an MMO and hopefully Episode 2 is way the fuck better.  Solid game, but definitely not great and I liked Xenogears, Xenosaga ep1, Xenosaga ep3, Xenoblade and Soma Bringer a lot more than this one.  I thought those were mostly A-tier stuff (XS ep3 was like B+, but it did the best it could with how bad Namco fucked up the plot in Ep2), and this is more of a B- tier game.  I think it's the first open world sandbox jrpg?  So like every new genre Japan gets into, they take a little while to get good at it and they're going off of game design 10 years prior.  A lot of people are saying it feels like an offline Everyquest 1.

Worth playing, but keep expectations low and don't expect much of a plot and know that it's episode 1 of a larger game series.

[Himu]

I'll have you guys know that when I asked about X, people said their experience with the game was nothing like Bebpo's, especially his claim that there's not much story.

[iconoclast]

I liked the scale, world, graphics, art, music, story, characters, etc. in the original Xenoblade, but I couldn't get into the game because the combat and overall design made it feel like a stripped down single player MMO. I still want to like the game because everything else is really good, though. And now it sounds like they amplified the stuff I didn't like for the sequel.

I'll probably still get it because the Wii U is a wasteland

[Freyj]

So at about 18 hrs into Mass Effect 1 I've had it with the terrible driving up mountains to reach some shitty artifact. Really enjoying the game and don't mind the repetitive side quests, but just going to finish the main story from here.

IIRC the side quests are even worse / more useless in 2. I didn't bother playing 3.

[Bebpo]

I'll have you guys know that when I asked about X, people said their experience with the game was nothing like Bebpo's, especially his claim that there's not much story.

I should probably explain the no story bit. I should have said no major plot. The story is fairly simple as the characters are looking for something and it gives the players are reason to explore the planet. There's a few minor events that happen, but nothing really happens until the final chapter in terms of major plot movement. There's no flashbacks, no melodrama scenes of two people sitting talking person to person in a touching moment, no long monologues, no major drama, and no real big mysteries or twists for the first 60 hours or so. No real antagonists with any development or who do anything, no masked characters or surprises. The final chapter is more traditional Xeno-story and is good quality story telling for the last 2 hours.

Also about half the voiced cutscenes in the game are non-directed cutscenes where the player is given a free camera but can't move their character (so you can just rotate/zoom the camera) where the characters talk about the quest details of the quest they are about to go on whether it's one of the story quests or affection quests. Like "we have to go here and collect this item" but somehow it usually takes like 3-4 minutes for them to say that, and you can't advance the dialogue during these scenes. By the end I kind of hated them ^^; The real cutscenes are usually good and the non-voiced dialogues for smaller sidequests are filled with paragraphs upon paragraphs of dialogues with the various NPCs of the town, but you can advance the text quickly if it's uninteresting. But the voiced everyone just stands there and talks for 3-4 mins and talks really slowly about something usually uninteresting cutscenes kind of suck imo.

Because the whole game is based around one city and a search for something on the world, and because there's only

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main story quests for the entire game (which last from 30 mins to an hour usually with an intro scene explaining what the quest of the day is, 2 cutscenes along the way, and a wrap up talk about what happened in today's quest), the story ends up feeling very episodic. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, the narrative feels a lot like those TV shows where it's monster of the week episodic and nothing really happens for 24 episodes and then suddenly in the last 2 eps shit gets real and there's an actual plot and it's good and the ending is good, but you can't help feeling the show wasted the bulk of it when it should've had real plot like the last 2 eps for most of the series. Except because of XBX's length due to gameplay and questing, it's more like a 52 ep show where nothing much happens until the final 2 eps.

[Yulwei]

Everything I've seen about that game makes it look exactly as Bebop described, a single player MMO.

Not that I mind though. I like MMOs! 

[Himu]

I talked to Ryouga and he is exactly 180 on Bebpo's thoughts of the game. For instance, Bebpo basically said it was an mmo in his initial thoughts, and Ryouga said flat out that the multiplayer features are pretty insignificant when Bebpo made it sound like the game was Phantasy Star Online.

[Bebpo]

Himuro don't be dense, there are a handful of people who get up in arms when I use the words "offline MMO-style" because they are very defensive of the label "MMO" and it's somehow a sacrilage to put MMO and single player together because MMO = Online and without the online it's not an MMO.  But that's really dense.  If you went on an MMO and no one else in the world was online and you solo'd it, it would still be MMO-design.  There are games that want to be MMOs but don't have the online and so they are MMO-style single player rpgs.  I didn't play it but I read that Kingdoms of Amalur was an MMO turned single player, so Xenoblade X is probably similar to it in design.

When I said Xenoblade X was a passive MMO or MMO style, I was never talking about multiplayer gaming with other human beings.  At best I said it was like Dark Souls multiplayer.  The MMO style was referring to the style of game design.  FFXII and Xenoblade were wrpg inspired but not really MMO style, Xenoblade X is MMO style.  I'm trying to think of another jrpg like that and maybe White Knight Chronicles?  But I never played that either so I don't know.  I have played some FFXI and FFXIV and Xenoblade X is more like them than like a jrpg or offline wrpg.

And sorry if that sounded snarky, I'm not attacking you Himuro, just getting annoyed that I keep getting shit from MMO players every time I use the word MMO-design in a single player rpg.

[Himu]

No, you described it as a literal multiplayer game. You should go re-read that thread you made.

I mean, it's in your thread title. You said that Xenoblade X is a "Passive Online MMO". Which does not mean single player mmo or anywhere approaching. Your description essentially made it sound like Phantasy Star Online.

-Lvl.60 cap (to be raised in expansions?)
-Guilds (all online players connected like MMO; Guilds compete for daily challenges; game auto-pairs with 31 other players for completion of daily quests; think Chromehounds sorta)
-Can see other players in the world, but they're just standing around.  But you can recruit their "character" into your party and control their character.
-Huge open world, no real direction, just sort of "strong enemies here, avoid until you are stronger"
-Mostly focused on gameplay and questing, not much of a directed story focus.  To do story missions you have to meet requirements (have done this and this sidequest, have completed this % of continent content)
-Lots of junk quests
-Lots of useless loot
-Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

You essentially called it an mmo.

Everyone else has claimed differently.

[Kara]

My daily reward in WOWframe was a warframe blueprint.

[StealthFan]

I deleted Warflop from my Xbone Can't have that janky trash polluting my drive.

[Bebpo]

Finished Batman Arkham Origins - Was good.  Every bit as good as the first two games outside the difficulty being fucking hard at some spots.  Story was well presented and

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The Joker in this version was amazing, even without Mark Hamill.  Was just really well written version of Joker

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I didn't even miss Kevin Conroy as Batman, got used to this other guy pretty quick.  Game had a good length too, was about 12 hours just running through the main story (burnt out on open world games atm, so I just do the main story and youtube the major sidequests). 

These Arkham games are fun, though City and Origins are barely games imo.  More like interactive movies/comics.  They are so insanely scripted at every moment that it's like "walk forward through interactive movie" until you get to a punch punch room or a stealth room, then do that and repeat.  The punch punch and stealth are the two pieces of gameplay and the games are just walking through nice looking interactive movies between the punch punch and the stealth which both just tend to be the same over and over but tougher enemy setups as you go along.  I don't mind any of this because I enjoy the cinematic on-rails nature of the games and they're fun.  Just an interesting observation and I wonder if Arkham Knight will add more substantial gameplay besides just punch punch and stealth rooms.  It's also interesting because honestly I feel like these games can be watched on youtube instead of played if people want to save money haha, it's why I don't mind not doing the sidequests and watching them since it's faster.

I think each Arkham game is equally good with its own strengths:
Asylum - Hub design, tighter levels
City - Joker writing/story and the ending
Origins - Story/writing and pushing the combat and stealth as far as they can go in terms of challenge

Looking forward to Knight.

No, you described it as a literal multiplayer game. You should go re-read that thread you made.

I mean, it's in your thread title. You said that Xenoblade X is a "Passive Online MMO". Which does not mean single player mmo or anywhere approaching. Your description essentially made it sound like Phantasy Star Online.

-Lvl.60 cap (to be raised in expansions?)
-Guilds (all online players connected like MMO; Guilds compete for daily challenges; game auto-pairs with 31 other players for completion of daily quests; think Chromehounds sorta)
-Can see other players in the world, but they're just standing around.  But you can recruit their "character" into your party and control their character.
-Huge open world, no real direction, just sort of "strong enemies here, avoid until you are stronger"
-Mostly focused on gameplay and questing, not much of a directed story focus.  To do story missions you have to meet requirements (have done this and this sidequest, have completed this % of continent content)
-Lots of junk quests
-Lots of useless loot
-Probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

You essentially called it an mmo.

Everyone else has claimed differently.

Everything I said is correct.  Game has multiplayer both active (4p) and passive (32p) and it's constantly integrated.  But the MMO part is more the game design than that it's a big multiplayer game.

[benjipwns]

Origins also has the better bosses. Asylum's tighter because everything's contained and directly connected, the one issue with City/Origins and a lot of open world games is how interiors feel so disconnected from the world. At least in the Batman games you can come and go from them and they aren't locked into one mission or whatever. (Also have multiple exits.)

Knight is supposed to be much more open-ended primarily because of the Batmobile, City and Origins both have a few points where there's a bunch of stuff you have options to do but it's either random crap, a part of a side quest or the next story mission. And it feels like everyone else takes a stop and waits for Batman to finish with finding some Riddler things before continuing on their plan. The one preview of Knight said something like if you take on one side quest it'll adjust what other stuff is going on/available including certain story beats. Dunno how well they pull it off or if the Batmobile winds up wrecking it. "Teleporting" in Origins on the PC version at least was better than trying to back get across the map to the other half. Especially with the bridge.

Troy Baker's Joker was incredible, dude is having such a good fucking time even as his plans go to shit. Hamill would play it a bit angrier. Plus I love all his gambits, they're simple yet Batman isn't experienced enough yet to be one step ahead throughout. Speaking of angrier I liked Roger Craig Smith as the younger Batman, he sounds close enough to Conroy with a little more emotional variance, Conroy's Batman is all business, all the time because he's seen everything. Like he's riding his bike in the park and this police woman tells him he can't ride on the grass, and then her top falls off, but it's too late Kevin Conroy's Batman's already seen everything.

The worst voice acting is Gordon, he's changed in every single game and I think this one was the worst by far. And it's another voice actor for Knight:

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Jonathan Banks will be Gordon in Arkham Knight.

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The Riddler is the only one who will be the same voice actor in all four games. Though Harley has been the same since City.

[Kara]

I deleted Warflop from my Xbone Can't have that janky trash polluting my drive.

I broke my first quest today.

Less technically proficient than a game 5 people make at CCP Shanghai.

[Purple Filth]

My daily reward in WOWframe was a warframe blueprint.

Which one?

Also sorry to break it to you but you still need to acquire and build its components first (helmet, chassis, systems) before you can use that blueprint to build the entire thing (all of that taking F2P hours)  

I deleted Warflop from my Xbone Can't have that janky trash polluting my drive.

I broke my first quest today.

Less technically proficient than a game 5 people make at CCP Shanghai.

The Warframe team seems to be about 6

At least going by the dev streams they usually do.

[Mr. Nobody]

Took a bit of a break from Persona 2: Innocent Sin and played Super Metroid

I'll never get tired of that style of game 

[Kara]

Which one?

Also sorry to break it to you but you still need to acquire and build its components first (helmet, chassis, systems) before you can use that blueprint to build the entire thing (all of that taking F2P hours)  

Vauban, Tenno Partypooper. 

Vauban willingly sacrificed his own safety in the name of mayhem. Use him wisely, Tenno.

Sound like my kinda knickerbocker.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Friend lent me his Xbox 360 for an undetermined period of time. First time playing with a Microsoft console outside of a brief stint with an OG Xbox I won at a pool tournament. Friend has a few goodies downloaded digitally, but I'm completely new with this so I don't know what's good.

Shit I've never played before:
Alan Wake
Battle Block Theater
Crackdown
Dishonored
Fable III
Halo Reach
Penny Arcade 3
Skyrim
Tales of Vesperia

I'm gonna play Vesperia for sure (it was the main reason why I even borrowed it), but I dunno about the rest. I've got time to kill until the FFXIV expansion comes out.

[Kara]

Crackdown is stupid fun. Reach... well I wouldn't play that unless you've played a couple of Halo games.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Started Fable 3 because I hate myself and want to knock out the worst first.

Oh my god the writing in this is so painful.  I almost fell asleep with all this riveting "follow the gold lights until reach your goal" gameplay. For all my complaints about the original Fable, at least that game sort of let you loose the moment you got out of the Acamedy. I have a feeling this game isn't changing in the least anytime soon.

I knew I was in for a quality time the moment the "princess" at the beginning had no neck, and I started running into instances where NPCs would get stuck and I couldn't progress until I restarted the whole game.

[Positive Touch]

that whole list sucks except for tales, dishonored, and obviously skyrim. PLAY SKYRIM

[Purple Filth]

Which one?

Also sorry to break it to you but you still need to acquire and build its components first (helmet, chassis, systems) before you can use that blueprint to build the entire thing (all of that taking F2P hours)  

Vauban, Tenno Partypooper. 

Vauban willingly sacrificed his own safety in the name of mayhem. Use him wisely, Tenno.

Sound like my kinda knickerbocker.

Sorry it had to be done and while Vauban is pretty awesome (all his abilities are done by special bomb/orbs he throws out) he's also one of the worst offenders in regards to acquiring his pieces due to how fucked it is (i.e each piece is only available as an alert mission so it will take a while). I

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got the Warframe phone app to notify me when a part was currently up while hoping i was near the computer at that point or even awake

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So i'm gonna be a partypooper again 

[archie4208]

I've had Monster Hunter 4 for a week and already have 30 hours played. 

I got Majora's Mask in the mail a few days ago and haven't even opened it yet. 

[Kara]

Purple I bet you kick over sand castles at the beach.

[Purple Filth]

Purple I bet you kick over sand castles at the beach.

Nah i'm not that evil.

I have explained jokes before though   

[Positive Touch]

sperged out and spent ten hours doing all the the sidequests in the first half on Nier. then I checked the uncompleteable sidequests section and saw there was one I missed. fuck me. never shoulda tried in the first place.

[demi]

Played through RECVX on 360. Game was aight.

Playing RE4 on 360 now. Game is aight. Game feels very foreign and new having not played it in a long while. Coming off RE Revelations on console - RE4 tank controls are jarring.

[tiesto]

Started playing some Type-0 and I'm in the midst of chapter 3. The game is pretty fun so far, I like how the combat feels - lots of different characters with their varied move sets. The camera is giving me motion sickness, and the texture quality is all over the board - you have some redone, clean textures... blurry ones... others that they put an Unreal Engine-style bump map on... and some that look straight out of a PS1 game.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Gave Fable 3 a few more hours for anything to change. I got to Mourningwood Fort and I'm still watching people do things and being escorted to places instead of me actually doing things. Can't deal with even more hours of this, so I'm just gonna put it down.

I'll try Crackdown tomorrow.

[chronovore]

Flee from Fable 3 with all haste. You'll never feel accomplished.

What makes Fable 3 suck even more for me is that I really, really liked Fable 2. I never believed Molyneux's lies, I just found out to be a pretty well done game overall with tons to do. Fable 3? 2 hours in and I said fuck it 

Jesus, what crap, right? I really liked f2 as well, but 3 was just so dire.

[The Legend of Sunblade]

So the second game is decent then? Its only $3 at GS so I wouldn't mind buying it myself. I'll just give it to my friend as a gift when I return the console.

[Rufus]

That menu design is soooo 90s.

[demi]

So the second game is decent then? Its only $3 at GS so I wouldn't mind buying it myself. I'll just give it to my friend as a gift when I return the console.

Just get Fable Anniversary

[demi]

Friend lent me his Xbox 360 for an undetermined period of time. First time playing with a Microsoft console outside of a brief stint with an OG Xbox I won at a pool tournament. Friend has a few goodies downloaded digitally, but I'm completely new with this so I don't know what's good.

Shit I've never played before:
Alan Wake
Battle Block Theater
Crackdown
Dishonored
Fable III
Halo Reach
Penny Arcade 3
Skyrim
Tales of Vesperia

I'm gonna play Vesperia for sure (it was the main reason why I even borrowed it), but I dunno about the rest. I've got time to kill until the FFXIV expansion comes out.

Lost Odyssey. Blue Dragon. Dead Rising (1). Infinite Undiscovery.

[Trent Dole]

Fable III is really bad. If you thought II was blatantly missing some content you ain't seen shit (or lack there of) until you play Fable III. Don't play Fable III.

[Purple Filth]

I think i got Fable 3 for free as part a 360 bundle and never tried that thing 

[suppadoopa]

reviewing/playing re;birth2 for a second time 
 

[chronovore]

So the second game is decent then? Its only $3 at GS so I wouldn't mind buying it myself. I'll just give it to my friend as a gift when I return the console.

It's like 3 but with less important actors and more fun. Less backtracking. It may be nostalgia, but I was much more fond of 2.

[bork]

Man, how do they crank those Neptunia games out so fast?  There's been like four of them released in English this year already. 

[The Legend of Sunblade]

I imagine its a combination of remakes (so you already have a translated script), pre-existing HD assets and NISA having already set up all the groundwork and VA contracts for getting these games localized as soon as possible.

[Yulwei]

Man, how do they crank those Neptunia games out so fast?  There's been like four of them released in English this year already.

Remember Capcom in the 90s and early/mid 00s? Just massive reuse of assets

[Kara]

Think I'm burned out on WOWframe already. The game really bottoms out after the introductory story wraps up. (I assume it gets better later.)

Getting burned out on a F2P game before you dropped an ISK.

[studyguy]

Think I'm burned out on WOWframe already. The game really bottoms out after the introductory story wraps up. (I assume it gets better later.)

Getting burned out on a F2P game before you dropped an ISK.

I stopped Warframe altogether once W3 dropped.
It was I was freed from prison.

[Purple Filth]

Think I'm burned out on WOWframe already. The game really bottoms out after the introductory story wraps up. (I assume it gets better later.)

Getting burned out on a F2P game before you dropped an ISK.

You can do other quests that give some story (along with the boss fights where Lotus would explain why you need to eliminate them) but stuff like that intro (Vor plus grinner stuff and Darvo plus Corpus stuff, etc) are more in the global events DE would run for like a week or so (for example a character called Alad V has appeared in most of them since he's usually a piece of shit  ) and if you missed it you have to check the wiki

Think I'm burned out on WOWframe already. The game really bottoms out after the introductory story wraps up. (I assume it gets better later.)

Getting burned out on a F2P game before you dropped an ISK.

I stopped Warframe altogether once W3 dropped.
It was I was freed from prison.

I see stardust has failed....

he will be re-educated

[mormapope]

Fallout New Vegas with all the DLC.  Melee/unarmed character, level 25. 10 Strength, 10 endurance, 10 luck, hard difficulty with hardcore mode on. Wrecking shit with melee weapons, just got power armor, bout to explore fucked territory that has a bunch of deathclaws.

[benjipwns]

A while back they gave all the DLC for free to PC Titanfall (maybe the Xbox ones too) but some of the maps don't seem to have been balanced for Frontier Defense. Because of the paths the AI takes no matter where they drop one of them is I think literally impossible, while a couple others you barely need to do anything to win once you get turrets.

The impossible one, all the Titans will funnel into one path, which you think is great, which it is initially, but then it throws a wave of like 40 Nuke Titans and from what I can tell, the only defense that seems to get close is filling the alley with satchels during lulls and parking Titans that nuke/eject on defeat while popping electric smoke in it. Otherwise they basically line up to take turns exploding by the Harvester so you can't defend the area easily. The jerks.

Now if you could put turrets sideways on the side of buildings. That would be a different story.

lol talking about a tower defense like mode in a short lived game nobody cares about

If only that damn movement system wasn't in the game....

[Kara]

Playing dead, ambitious FPS.

[benjipwns]

Actually, for the three modes I most enjoy, it's not that dead. I can usually get a game in like a minute. And during busy periods could even do like five modes.

Then you fire up the most popular Call of Duty and the only thing you can play is Team Deathmatch or maybe Domination sometimes. And even then you sometimes sit there waiting because their system punts you into an empty lobby to wait to be merged after a round ends somewhere in the world.

It's kinda like CS/DoD (both regular and Source) for a long time before they got wiped out for whatever reason, seemed like you could always find at least one server playing a mode and map you liked. Even TF2 had people bailing on certain maps/modes early in its lifespan. It'd switch to certain maps and you'd go from 32 players to like five.

The bane of my FPS existence is 24/7 servers though. Bad Company 2 has been swallowed up by those last time I tried to play some of that. I should try again now that I'm thinking about that game, like tonight or something when it might be busier.

I love that cash sound when people use the health packs I throw everywhere. And also my near suicide runs to revive people just so they can die again in seconds.

Also spotting.

I've heard the game has shooting too.

[Purple Filth]

I actually dug Titanfall when that demo came out but it being mostly multiplayer only dropped plus the fact i would need time to get better killed whatever enthusiasm i had.

[Kara]

I love that cash sound when people use the health packs I throw everywhere. And also my near suicide runs to revive people just so they can die again in seconds.

Also spotting.

I've heard the game has shooting too.

We're like e-twins.

Though I only play support roles because the team generally needs one and no one is willing to take the L.

[benjipwns]

The only FPSin I've ever had people actually comment on my play is:
1. My BAR/STG44 rampages in DoD/DoD:S, often due to getting behind enemy lines, especially back in the day when I played on like regular servers so people knew you sorta
2. My Medic play in TF2 (Though when the Backburner was overpowered my constantly flanking Pyro was to be feared.)

After I get warmed up I seem to always finish on top of the scoreboard as Medic. Healing errybody in sight, toppin em off, watching the entire field and where the teams are and ranking the threats, just good enough with the blutsager to make strategic retreats to save Uber's. And surprise ubersaws from above. Using Kritz sometimes on both ends instead of just regular Uber on offense.

One time I was playin with a team that was like all scouts, spies and snipers, and there was this Chinese dude playing Heavy. We synced up and held the first point on a part of Dustbowl for an entire round just slaughtering everyone, poppin kritz's like they were boners and wiping out entire spawn waves in seconds. I had like 130 assists or something.

I've had e-friends and real life friends who tell other dopes bout my medic play in TF2, especially after it went F2P, so then they'll play with us all skeptical like and then they're all 

Yeah, I like me some medic play. If it's available.

Brink had an overpowered medic class. If you had two who knew what they were doing you could practically make the entire team invincible because you could not just heal and revive but buff like 200% or something and none of it was limited by anything (unlike other classes) so you could just do it constantly.

The one bad thing about Battlefield as a series is that often the weapons for the medic are like 80% garbage.

Oh wait, if Prop Hunt counts...
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Praise from strangers because you were hiding as a file cabinet on an exit sign 

[toku]

I was just playing titanfall the other day

[benjipwns]

Despite its flaws there's something about bounding across the environment, up and along walls, across rooftops, leaping to other buildings/platforms, riding Titans and jumping off, to get to overlooking the main battle.

And then dropping your Titan on top of it all.

[Kara]

Yeah, I generally like to play a "bothersome fly" and zip around the front, berserk into the enemy flank and kill 2 or 3 opponents before getting iced. Naturally Day of Defeat's sturmgewehr is one of my all time favorite weapons.

On a related note, for shits and giggles I just played a round of DUST using all cheapy gear in a stupid fitting that let me run and jump much faster and higher than normal which when paired with a sci-fi shotgun lead to hilarious results behind enemy lines. Destroying hundreds of thousands of ISK's worth of stuff with nothing but some reckless abandon and a stupidly strong gun for peanuts out of my own pocket.

[benjipwns]

The Source versions are even more vicious than the original DoD's. (Well, not the original original when nothing had recoil.) I mastered the recoil eons ago and when I pop in it doesn't take long to get that back. And when you do the BAR is two shots to center mass, and STG44 is three or four but you can lay down more if you want/need to be sure before any of the rifles can cycle shots. Especially the k98. (And even more especially if the person can't strafe-stop.) And with the STG you still have like 30 more bullets in the magazine. 

And none of the maps are long enough to have huge range drop off on those two so if you have the time and the shot you can pop off a one-shot headshot with those like they were the regular rifles. The BAR especially, and it's funnier because it often sends the helmet flying off.

So they kill from similar distances as the regular rifles, but you can put out more shots, and they do more damage than the SMG's (and you get an extra nade*) especially at range. Yet people run around with those. The bastards.

If you can chain series of those two or three person strikes together it'll make people hesitant as much as a sniper/MG. Then you just cry because nobody else is moving up and is just guarding your second flag.

Actually that last point is applicable to any game it seems like.

*Nading is a top favorite thing for me in any game with them because it totally fits in with that annoying everyone while doing objectives play. In DoD and DoD:S I got so I could cook the nades and throw them just over gaps and stuff so they'd land on center points and explode. Or my secret favorite, throwing them to hit the skybox which causes them to drop straight down, because fuck sightlines.

EDIT: Forgot bouncing them off walls. Or landing them on roofs so they'd roll down.

Definitely one reason for the rifle nades if you're gonna run with that class is bouncing them off shit so the other team doesn't realize where it went.

[Rufus]

I hope you tried Nader (5 shot grenade launcher that recharges) or Fragger (2 grenades that recharge) in Dirty Bomb. People hate Fragger for his grenades alone, but his standard loadout is an LMG that is still fairly accurate and he has the 2nd highest HP.