What are you playing?

[Beezy]

Posted something in wrong thread.

Booted up Horizon 2 again. Game's still pretty fun though Storm Island is brutal hard.

Worth the price?

[Take My Breh Away]

Posted something in wrong thread.

Booted up Horizon 2 again. Game's still pretty fun though Storm Island is brutal hard.

Worth the price?

It was pretty good at $20 since it was a sizeable chunk of game for the price. Is it still half price? If it's $10 it's a no brainer. 

[Kara]

While I'm enjoying playing Demon's Souls, the writing is just dreadful--something I long suspected after seeing its story hailed by forum nerds for years. Characters routinely infodump and people try and say that this has subtle storytelling.

On an note, the localization team deserves a strong chastisement for pulling absolute Ren faire trash like using t-v distinction with modern lexical inventions like "occluded." Nerds don't read anything that doesn't have spaceships or dragons, who knew?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Dork Souls does the whole story thing better than Demon's. They reign in the exposition to almost non-existence.

[chronovore]

While I'm enjoying playing Demon's Souls, the writing is just dreadful--something I long suspected after seeing its story hailed by forum nerds for years. Characters routinely infodump and people try and say that this has subtle storytelling.

On an note, the localization team deserves a strong chastisement for pulling absolute Ren faire trash like using t-v distinction with modern lexical inventions like "occluded." Nerds don't read anything that doesn't have spaceships or dragons, who knew?

Never-ever play Aqua; there's a heap of dialog in it read by actors with UK accents, but using American colloquialisms and sentence structure. I was tearing my hair out.

[sarslip]

one time my dad carbon copied "Dork Farces" over my Macintosh big box copy of Dark Forces.  It was pretty humiliating / hilarious, fuckin Doom clones...smh @ myself

[Kara]

one time my dad carbon copied "Dork Farces" over my Macintosh big box copy of Dark Forces.  It was pretty humiliating / hilarious, fuckin Doom clones...smh @ myself

newsfeed pls

[Rufus]

Got 'im.

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[brawndolicious]

Played some Titanfall on the EA vault. It is a fun game but it feels slow paced compared to CODAW and the system of letting everyone jump in a Titan multile times a match doesn't really work for me. It has some great ideas and is truly a fun game but I feel like it could have been more.

I hope the sequel has different classes similar to the BF series that really do fundamentally different jobs and also more spread out maps would be nice (although both things require a lot more human players). Basically I'm imagining BF4 with free running sci-fi shit plus one or two titana per team that can spearhead everything but are very vulnerable left alone. The game just feels like you're way overpowered most of the time either when shooting drones or hulking around in a Titan.

[Beezy]

Played some Titanfall on the EA vault. It is a fun game but it feels slow paced compared to CODAW

 

[Stoney Mason]

Never noticed the speed thing. It feels fine to me in that regard. But then I think most shooters are slightly too fast which hampers communication and team play.

The titans themselves are probably the biggest divide point when it comes to mainstream acceptance. The reality is that the majority of shooter fans want to ran around in a shooter as a dude and play TDM modes. At least on consoles. That's the bulk of the COD majority and any competing shooter has to go against that reality.

Personally I loved the Titans and without them, the game would be just like any other shooter. The skills are so different that I think its great.

I think the worse mode in Titanfall is the attrition mode (TDM). The game functions much better in objective modes. I thought the Capture the flag implementation was the best implementation of that mode in a long time in any game. Especially once, they removed the ability to hop in a titan with a flag. It's a perfect mix of making the titans and the non titan gameplay viable.

What I would like to see in a sequel is more use of the AI in either a moba sense or the way Halo is potentially handling some of it in that warzones mode. The AI should serve more of a specific role like in a moba or something.

The problem is I think they will go the other way and try to cater more to the cod crowd. I really hope they don't do that. Making it more like COD would zap my interest in it.

This was probably my personal favorite individual game of Titanfall below and for me the whole mix just makes it unlike any other experience I've had in a shooter in years.

[toku]

Played some Titanfall on the EA vault. It is a fun game but it feels slow paced compared to CODAW and the system of letting everyone jump in a Titan multile times a match doesn't really work for me. It has some great ideas and is truly a fun game but I feel like it could have been more.

I hope the sequel has different classes similar to the BF series that really do fundamentally different jobs and also more spread out maps would be nice (although both things require a lot more human players). Basically I'm imagining BF4 with free running sci-fi shit plus one or two titana per team that can spearhead everything but are very vulnerable left alone. The game just feels like you're way overpowered most of the time either when shooting drones or hulking around in a Titan.

You're wrong and I hope none of the things you wish for happen. Have a nice day.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Got 'im.

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Man, id games had the best writing.

[Kara]

Aside from the perpetual textdump (which is an inherited problem from Quake 3) and the Zzz generic weapon aesthetics, this actually looks like a lot of fun. Like if Tribes didn't require a master's degree in physics to play. Still blows my mind that this is Source.

[Purple Filth]

Being playing some DMC4 Special Edition and its good.

Dat combat

The story

And i'm just going with the default characters (Nero/Dante) since i never beaten  the original DMC4 (the most i did was play some of it at a friend's house and never playing it again due to being a dirty poor).

So i still have 3 characters to test out 

The Warframe hold has been weakened somewhat 

[Bebpo]

Yeah, DMC4 is the best.  Gonna pick up DMC4 SE once it's on sale and play the game a few more times (already probably played it a half dozen times, same with DMC3).

[Freyj]

Fallout 3 Broken Steel 

"kill a bunch of dudes" great DLC 10/10 FPS-OTY

Only Point Lookout left. The Pitt's steelyard area was the only really worthwhile DLC content thus far. Zeta's npcs are okay I guess.

[Fifstar]

Started Borderlands 2. Game is alright. Hope the gameplay gets more fun with better guns becuase right now I'm watching the reload animations and run away to refill my shield most of the time in the fights. Cools chars and nice graphics though.

[bork]

Arcade games I've tried:

Left 4 Dead: Following the localized Half-Life 2 game from years ago, someone has brought this game to Japanese arcades.  It's the same game play but with new characters (like schoolgirls, naturally) and scenarios.  The cabs have mouses for aiming a Wii nunchuck-like thing for movement.

Tekken 7: Been messing around with the new characters.  I like Katarina the best so far- read that the character was designed for beginners and I would agree.  She has super-easy, effective moves and I found a good launcher with back+rp for easy juggles.  You can actually play this game online against other players, which is awesome since at every arcade I've gone to, almost nobody is playing fighting games apart from those Gundam Vs. Gundam games.    :'(

Nitroplus Blasterz: Sounds more like a racing game than a fighting game.  This is basically Arcana Heart HD edition with various Nitroplus characters.  It also feels unfinished, as even the cab had stickers showing characters with "coming soon" under them.  The home version coming at the end of the year will also have more characters added.  I don't really get why they released the game in this state.

Koihime Enbu: 2D fighting game based on the Koihime Musou series (Romance Of The Three Kingdoms with all the characters as females).  Played pretty nicely and had some interesting movesets.  This game was made by M2, who does the excellent Sega arcade/Genesis conversions for 3DS and did some for PS2.  There's an earlier version of this on PS3 that I might try to hunt down now, but this game is getting a home port in September on PS3/PS4 so I don't mind waiting.

Blade Arcus:  Another 2D fighting game from Sega based on all the recent "Shining" games.  Looked pretty bland, played decently.  I got bored of it pretty quickly. 

It's worth noting that the above three games were all playable on NESICA cabs.  NESICA is awesome -it's like a modern day Neo-Geo system- with games added digitally, IIRC.  There's various games from Capcom, Sega, and others playable, ranging from older games to newer titles like Ultra SF4.  Most of the arcades I've been scaled down on fighting games and it makes sense since you can now have 1-2 cabs with a ton of games. 

Also, I see that arcades are where Konami is still very strong.  Shitloads of music games and some Border Break-like mech game were all over the place.  Bemani lives.

[Positive Touch]

zomg there's a left 4 dead game with Japanese-designed levels and characters??

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'm about eight hours into FFX for PS4 and I don't like the game.  It was nice seeing the laugh scene again though.  I keep forgetting mentally that this is an early PS2 era game so there are a lot of sparse environments with small linear corridors that have an occasional branching path that leads to a treasure chest.  Good thing loading times are minimal.  I don't like the sphere grid, I don't like the unskippable cutscenes, and I don't like blitzball.  I also dislike having to swap characters in and out continually so I don't have anyone lagging behind on the sphere grid.  I'm playing this more out of a sense of obligation rather than anything else.  I saw that Jamestown is on PSN; that would be a fun game worth revisiting but deep down I know that it will be a PS+ free game eventually so I'm holding off.

[Kara]

Demon's Souls reminds me a lot of Nightmare of Druaga.

[thisismyusername]

I'm about eight hours into FFX for PS4 and I don't like the game.  It was nice seeing the laugh scene again though.  I keep forgetting mentally that this is an early PS2 era game so there are a lot of sparse environments with small linear corridors that have an occasional branching path that leads to a treasure chest.  Good thing loading times are minimal.  I don't like the sphere grid, I don't like the unskippable cutscenes, and I don't like blitzball.  I also dislike having to swap characters in and out continually so I don't have anyone lagging behind on the sphere grid.  I'm playing this more out of a sense of obligation rather than anything else.  I saw that Jamestown is on PSN; that would be a fun game worth revisiting but deep down I know that it will be a PS+ free game eventually so I'm holding off.

You don't need to swap people in. AFAIK the sphere movement points are tied to everyone so go with a party of three (pref: Auron), break one of them (see: Auron) by moving them around the grid and ignore the rest of the party unless you REALLY want them.

Yeah, DMC4 is the best.  Gonna pick up DMC4 SE once it's on sale and play the game a few more times (already probably played it a half dozen times, same with DMC3).

In combat for the series? Maybe. In actual story? Not even close. DMC3 is still the pinnacle of DMC for me. Vergil's tweaks in DMC4 (trick down being devil trigger only to give the stupid platforming shit in DMC4 a pass) is

Aside from the perpetual textdump (which is an inherited problem from Quake 3) and the Zzz generic weapon aesthetics, this actually looks like a lot of fun. Like if Tribes didn't require a master's degree in physics to play. Still blows my mind that this is Source.

I don't recall Quake 3 having a text-dump. I do know Call of Duty 4 had the problem.

[Trent Dole]

A Clicker Heroes clone involving waifus that I installed on my stupid phone earlier today

[chronovore]

Arkham Origins' Killing Joke flashback for Joker and Harley:


The pain of Joker rememberi his past, and realizing he's met his life partner, and Quinn misreading those social cues. I loved it.

[Yulwei]

Can't decide what to play next so I've been messing around in Forza 5 again. There's still a bunch of shit to unlock but I've considered this game beaten for a while now in the same way I consider gran turismo beaten after i've unlocked most of what i wanted 

I've taken a liking to the F355 Berlinetta recently. This thing fucking flies and handles like butter 

[Bebpo]

Yeah, DMC4 is the best.  Gonna pick up DMC4 SE once it's on sale and play the game a few more times (already probably played it a half dozen times, same with DMC3).

In combat for the series? Maybe. In actual story? Not even close. DMC3 is still the pinnacle of DMC for me. Vergil's tweaks in DMC4 (trick down being devil trigger only to give the stupid platforming shit in DMC4 a pass) is

Yeah, for combat.  Story is whatever and backtracking sucks, DMC3 has better bosses, but the pure combat in DMC4 is my favorite.  Really dug Nero's arm mechanic.

[demi]

DMC4 rules. Getting all 1000 on original release

[Kara]

Souls subtle storytelling update: I found the item banker's dead wife and daughter. I didn't know they were his family because both character models were dead men. His waifu dropped witch armor, she might have been a witch herself.

This fucking game.

[Kara]

Accidentally proc'd the Tower Knight boss fight. Beat it without dying. While in human form.

[Freyj]

Fallout 3:  Point Lookout

Much better. It's no Old World Blues, but it's probably the only "good" DLC for Fallout 3. Great area to explore, new enemy types, interesting sidequests with decent if limited options.

Fallout 3 in one word post New Vegas? Forgettable. Can't even say the main story is all that great as it basically disappears halfway through in the paper thin fight between the Brotherhood and the Enclave. Some decent sidequest storylines, but as always the choices are few and mostly shitty. Not even the Vaults are interesting, nothing even remotely close to Vault 11 and outside of 101 none are really inhabited.

[tiesto]

The Crystal Dynamics 3DO sampler disc. Picked it up for like $1 at the TooManyGames convention and was playing in the hotel.

Gex - video only.
Samurai Shodown - Looks beautiful, framerate is horrible with tons of skipped frames.
Star Control 2 - This is one of the games that I get recommended the most when I ask for 3DO recs. It's also $80 complete. But thankfully one play of this demo is enough to convince me it's not for me. It looks like an MS-DOS game and plays like a slightly more in-depth Computer Space.
Total Eclipse - It's a Starfox clone on 3DO, one of the better games on the disk.
The Horde - Pretty fun game, it's kinda like a tower defense game where you place traps and dig ditches to prevent your town from getting raided by demons.
Off World Interceptor - Janky early 3D car combat game that looks like it uses the exact same textures and engine as Total Eclipse, but is no where near as good.
Pataank - It's some weird 3D pinball game with tons of FMV in the background and some horrific camera work. My friend loved it, I wasn't that enthused...

[Shaka Khan]

Finished Stick of Truth. Pretty fun/funny game overall. But I feel I would have enjoyed it more if:
- I chose a different class (I went with thief but chose to equip as a warrior)
- I wasn't a SP addict in the past. Most of the jokes were too familiar

I also completed Her Story. Pretty interesting game. Though I thought my detective work would be more involved than search queries. Still, the concept and the dev's explanation of it were pretty neat.

Now I need another recommendation for my next game, based on length and quality/enjoyment:
- Transistor
- Valkeryia Chronicles
- Grimm Fandango
- Trails in the Sky (might want to wait for chapter 2?)

[tiesto]

Finished Stick of Truth. Pretty fun/funny game overall. But I feel I would have enjoyed it more if:
- I chose a different class (I went with thief but chose to equip as a warrior)
- I wasn't a SP addict in the past. Most of the jokes were too familiar

I also completed Her Story. Pretty interesting game. Though I thought my detective work would be more involved than search queries. Still, the concept and the dev's explanation of it were pretty neat.

Now I need another recommendation for my next game, based on length and quality/enjoyment:
- Transistor
- Valkeryia Chronicles
- Grimm Fandango
- Trails in the Sky (might want to wait for chapter 2?)

There were other classes in Stick of Truth aside from Jew? 

I've played 2/4 of those games, Valkyria took me about 30-35h and Trails took about 40-45h (but then again I am ocd and talk to everyone in towns and in Trails they say different things after every single plot point). Trails is a slow burner but it's really enjoyable, feels very much like a 16-bit RPG. Valkyria has a very unique combat system, great cel-shaded graphics, and a decent-enough story. You can't go wrong with either of them but it depends if you're feeling more of a traditional RPG or a unique take on SRPG.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm playing The Order 19.99.

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[Shaka Khan]

In retrospect, I think the devs intended for most to play as Jew. I mean, why choose mundane classes over teh funny? It's hard to resist.

If only I wasn't an antisemite.

[demi]

Finished Stick of Truth. Pretty fun/funny game overall. But I feel I would have enjoyed it more if:
- I chose a different class (I went with thief but chose to equip as a warrior)
- I wasn't a SP addict in the past. Most of the jokes were too familiar

I also completed Her Story. Pretty interesting game. Though I thought my detective work would be more involved than search queries. Still, the concept and the dev's explanation of it were pretty neat.

Now I need another recommendation for my next game, based on length and quality/enjoyment:
- Transistor
- Valkeryia Chronicles
- Grimm Fandango
- Trails in the Sky (might want to wait for chapter 2?)

The only thing you gain by waiting for Chapter 2 is burnout from playing Chapter 1.

[VomKriege]

Valkyria is great... if you have a tactical/strategy game itch (on top of not minding the JRPG stuff, of course).
Honestly couldn't remember how long it took but tiesto 30h seems about right.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, play Trails now.  The games are slow as fuck (but great), and you gotta put some months between them.


On topic, I'm kind of over playing a ton of games at this point in my life, so just playing a couple things at a time.  About halfway through GTAV and it's still really great, though I just did Trevor's sub heist and it was the worst part gameplay-wise of the game with all the slow crate lifting and slow sub driving.  Also getting near the endgame in Super Robot Wars Z3-2 and it's solid and gives me the hot blooded action I need.  There are so many hard work and guts characters in the game that it makes me happy, Gurren Lagann's Simon, Gunbuster's Noriko, Diebuster's Nono, Shin Getter's Ryouma, Dai-Guard's Akagi.  Hot blooded kicking adversity's ass in robots is the best thing ever.

[toku]

Sometimes I be on that bullshit



 

[Purrp Skirrp]

This backlog got me weak in the knees



Any recommendations to start with?

Alan Wake
Arkham City
BioShock 1/2
Fallout: NV
Portal 1/2
Sleeping Dogs
Metro 2033 Redux
Darksiders
Deus Ex: HR
Vampire Masquerade - Bloodlines
XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within

[archnemesis]

Portal is fantastic and you can easily complete it in 3 hours.

[Fifstar]

Portal or Arkham City

[demi]

Alan Wake, duh.

[Kara]

Bloodlines as a Malkavian.

[Joe Molotov]

Bloodlines as a Malkavian.

Melee + Stealth only, until you get to the end and it becomes impossible to win, then use a cheat.

[archie4208]

I've beat RE4 like 6 times since it came out, but never on professional.



Until now. 

[Stoney Mason]

If they make Resident Evil 4 compatible on xbox one, I'm definitely playing it again. 

[Himu]

Shenmue and Her Story. Likely FFV after Shenmue 2.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Went with Portal since it only takes a few hours.

I liked the minimal world building even though references to Half Life went mostly over my head.

Honestly thought the portal gun would make for some more moments, but things never got too intricate and there wasn't much of a challenge.

How does Portal 2 compare? Is there more complexity to the puzzles? If it's more of the same then I think I got my Portal fill (which isn't a bad thing, it was a fun game overall).

Final Tidbit: this cake talk will go nicely with the rest of my memes

[mormapope]

I'd say Portal 2 is just as easy or easier than Portal 1 but the puzzles themselves are funner. It definitely feels completely different than Portal 1 when it comes to pacing and story.

Portal 2 is also a lot prettier and more varied when it comes to art design. Unless you did all bonus challenge areas for Portal 1, you won't get burnt out playing Portal 2.

[Take My Breh Away]

Current heatwave is murdering my PC and the old ass Power Color in my PC is popping 80c. So Xbone backwards compatibility let me take a crack at Viva Pinata Trouble In Paradise again and actually finish all the quests instead of my garden becoming a lawless pit of Pinata mass murder

Through a combination of massive amounts of selective inbreeding, incest and force feeding and breeding. I have become a Bunny "Master Romancer" and bred a twin pair rare variants. I may be a monster but OH MY GOD LOOK HOW CUTE THAT BABY BUNNY IS

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Now to sell it for a nice price then sacrifice the rest of the Bunnies to the foxes to satisfy their resident requirements

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[Freyj]

FWIW I liked Portal 2's co-op a lot. I'd definitely check that out if you can rope someone else into playing with you.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Co-op Portal does sound fun. Going to try it out with my friend in splitscreen.

Next up is Arkham Asylum, followed by City and then Knight when the port's less flabby. Excited for this series

Not even a comic dude, but whatever, Batman is cool enough for multiple mediums.

[Rufus]

Dusted off my DS again. Trying to consistently beat the CPU at level 4 in Tetris DS. I keep fucking up the inputs because the DS isn't made for that kind of quick interaction, but I can get a win here and there. Level 5 is impossible though. Way too fast. Almost feel like playing it on the PC with my arcade stick...

Also played the Elf campaign of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes. Neat little game, but the gimmick fights (don't hit this guy, hit these switches at the same time, etc.) really suck with how the game is constructed. Got a bit into the human campaign and I'm losing interest already. Dunno if I'll keep playing.

Also tried to play Rebelstar: Tactical Command, but the tiny screen and controls hurt that game so much.  Scrolling through several screens worth of map just to get a sense of the situation is much too tedious. I thought we figured out how to properly scale sprites for the size of the  playing field, but I guess that didn't disseminate sufficiently. I also don't want to control a single unit to old XCOM levels of granularity with nothing but a dpad and four buttons (and even a mouse, tbh). It's agonizingly slow. I didn't even get through the tutorial. Gave up when they gave me three units to control. Wrong fucking platform, Mr. Gollop.

[archie4208]

RE6 is so bad. 

[Positive Touch]

RE6 is so bad. 

it really is. and yet you can see parts of a good game in it. if they woulda trimmed out like 50% of it and fixed the shitty mechanics they coulda had something workable.

[archie4208]

Yep.  The graphics are nice and controls are good, but everything else is dogshit.

-Bloated story.  It should've just focused on one character.
-No real sense of progression.  RE4 did a great job of making you feel stronger due to weapon upgrades.  The RE6 upgrades are lame.
-Progression is SLOW.  I'm halfway through Chris's arc and have bought one upgrade.  I was constantly upgrading stuff in RE4.
-No real encounter design.  It's just a clusterfuck of enemies.  When I was replaying RE4 I vividly remembered a lot of events even though I hadn't touched the game in like 8 years.

[demi]

Its fun with a buddy. Single? Not so much (I think you are forced to play solo with Ada)

[Himu]

Still haven't played RE6

I could smell a trash game from that demo.