What are you playing?

[Positive Touch]

re6 is still better than re0 and cvx

[Himu]

For real? CVX is trash.

[Positive Touch]

re6 has some classic, awesome resident evil moments that stack up with the best of the series. unfortunately they're all buried in a shitload of filler

[Stoney Mason]

Remember trying the demo for RE 6 and detesting it. I bought it on PC like a year ago but still haven't worked up the interest to play it yet.

[StealthFan]

Why would you buy something you detest?

[Joe Molotov]

Why would you buy something you detest?

Steam Sales

[toku]

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=2942464209&characterId=2305843009214982895

Just had a 22.0 game in Destiny I am laughing my ass off right now.

[Stoney Mason]

Why would you buy something you detest?

Steam Sales

This of course.

Price definitely effects the value proposition. I'll give anything a decent shot at a low enough price.

[demi]

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=2942464209&characterId=2305843009214982895

Just had a 22.0 game in Destiny I am laughing my ass off right now.

I put the team on my back

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=2941774688&characterId=2305843009224597255

[toku]

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=2942464209&characterId=2305843009214982895

Just had a 22.0 game in Destiny I am laughing my ass off right now.

I put the team on my back

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=2941774688&characterId=2305843009224597255

lmao that carry

[Bebpo]

In Super Robot Wars (Z3-2) games, the stages start out being like 30 mins, then take around an hour towards the middle, then start taking about 90 mins towards the end with the occasional massive 2-3 hour long stage for major events.

Did the finale of Full Metal Panic (novels) the other day in a 2:30 hour epic stage, which was 2 hours of visual novel (which makes sense because FMP is based on novels so lots and lots of long dialogues and out of mech scenes).  Was pretty good stuff.  The novel portion of FMP which goes past where the anime covered has some great ridiculous mech designs and the game did a good job giving them animation and sprites.  The story was pretty jump the shark bad cliche, but the execution was real good, just like Gundam Unicorn's finale.

spoiler for post-anime FMP:

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becomes:



which is pretty crazy coming from the grounded mech designs of the earlier stuff:

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[Purrp Skirrp]

Got done with the intro of Arkham Asylum, up to the part where you first step out onto the cliff overlooking everything

Can't wait till the combat opens up more and I unlock some abilities.

I beat Shadow of Mordor and it's nice to see where that game got its combat influence from.


Did all of you playing Witcher 3 bother with 2? Worth going through?

Here's most of my backlog:



Any recs on what to play/or what to avoid? Also: Enemy Unknown vs. Enemy Within?

Is the latter the same game with updated features or a standalone expansion? I have both, and Enemy Within is categorized as DLC

[Fifstar]

I hated Bioshock, although that was probably mostly because it a much lesser version of System Shock 2


I'm playing Dishonored myself and I really like it from the start. Great art and graphics and the game does a nice job of allowing the players to switch between a run and gun and a stealth approach. For some reason I get the feeling those guys could make an awesome Zelda game. Btw. the thread on it here was awfully short, did the Bore not like this game?

[Purrp Skirrp]

I really liked Dishonored. Interesting world, fun powers (though people complained about Blink being overpowered), and different ways to play through it.

Excited for Dishonored 2. Still have the DLC from the first one to try out.

[Freyj]

Dishonored is a fantastic game that could have been even better without Bethesda's fuckery.

[archie4208]

Arkham Asylum -> Portal 2 -> Witcher 2 imo

Don't binge play the same franchise since that will cause burnout. 

[VomKriege]

Enemy Within all the way. Playing without the extension is just a gimped version now.
Deus Ex HR is a good game and the best of it is at the beginning. So don't sweat it if you leave the game halfway through.

[archie4208]

REmake is pretty fucking hard.  I'm enjoying it a lot though.  I like planning out my route and baiting zombies into open spaces so I can run past them.  The atmosphere is next level too.

[Himu]

REmake is pretty fucking hard.  I'm enjoying it a lot though.  I like planning out my route and baiting zombies into open spaces so I can run past them.  The atmosphere is next level too.

REmake IS hard as shit. And it's so fucking scary too. I can't play it!

[Kara]

After FEAR, play its sequel for one of the most  game endings.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Got done with the intro of Arkham Asylum, up to the part where you first step out onto the cliff overlooking everything

Can't wait till the combat opens up more and I unlock some abilities.

I beat Shadow of Mordor and it's nice to see where that game got its combat influence from.


Did all of you playing Witcher 3 bother with 2? Worth going through?

Here's most of my backlog:

(Image removed from quote.)

Any recs on what to play/or what to avoid? Also: Enemy Unknown vs. Enemy Within?

Is the latter the same game with updated features or a standalone expansion? I have both, and Enemy Within is categorized as DLC

You should play FEAR as it's the best single player first person shooter of all time

Play:

Witcher 2
Dead Space 2
DXHR
Sleeping Dogs

Avoid:
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
FEAR 2

I started FEAR earlier before reading your comment and I'm only 3 levels in, but the gunplay is very satisfying and it keeps surprising me for an 05 game. Game looks good maxed out too.

The gunplay still provides more feedback than most games I've played. Only thing so far is that the environments seem kind of repetitive, but I'm not that far yet.

Refunded FEAR 2 impulse buy and got my money back. Refunds are a crazy good feature, but I feel like that's something a battered customer would say.

Only Bioshock game I played was Bioshock Infinite and while it looked impressive visually, it wasn't really compelling in any other way.

Lot of people hype up the original two, but there's also people claiming System Shock 2 > all that so :idunno.

After FEAR, play its sequel for one of the most  game endings.

Ohh, I think I remember hearing about this.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Does Alma rape you or something like that?

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[Purrp Skirrp]

Getting out the Mio Cherry RIGHT NOW

[Kara]

I think u mean "allegedly raped".

e: The weird thing about FEAR's awesome enemy AI is that (iirc) it was a mistake. (But more than trash.)

[chronovore]

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/%7Ejorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf

I don't recall him talking about how it had come from an accident; can you be more specific?

[Purrp Skirrp]

Swear I'm not this bad with movies

Playing this at night, alone in the dark; wearing headphones, trying to self soothe on that triple threat challenge: Mio/Addy/Skurp

Having all this cac fuel but being too big a pussy to play the game

[toku]

I'm the same way Swisher. Horror films give me little to no problems but something about dat immersion with gaming just kills me. Beating Dead Space almost killed me.

[chronovore]

I've started Condemned like three times and never managed to unlock even the first Achievement.

[Purrp Skirrp]

With games I'm stuck, confined to some 3D space usually having to interact with whatever's trying to diddy bop me. Def more immersion and sense of agency.

Another thing I get more from games is that adrenaline rush, usually best in a PvP FPS. CoD still does it for me.

[mormapope]

Brehs, there's almost no reason to be scared for the majority of horror games. The worse that can happen is the main character dies a brutal, quick death or a brutal, slow death.

[Rufus]

I'm a complete wuss with horror games. Jump scares get me bad and good atmospheric noise freaks me out, too. Can't do it. I'll force myself through the Silent Hill games one of these days, third person isn't that bad.

[Purple Filth]

Back to Warframe.

New Prime Warframe/Weapon and Sentinel (aka a MAG from Phantasy Star Online) came out so i gotta get those shit

[cool breeze]

yeah, using PT as an example because it's the shallowest get spooked game I played.  you walk down a hallway over and over until suddenly a woman pulls you around and yells in your face.  and it's too inconsistent to prepare for.  you can't avoid it.  it's that jolt when you get spooked.
 

[chronovore]

I remember playing System Shock 2 when it had first come out. About halfway through the game, I had been in some shopping mall, on an overhead walkway. Looking down to confirm that I'd killed everything in the area, I was ready to go about looting everything. I heard a noise, so I backed away from the railing, and this black form with glittering lights in its face starts chittering RIGHT NEXT TO ME on this walkway.

I smoothly turned to level my shotgun at its chest while backing away tactically to keep it centered in my crosshairs.

Well, that momentarily was the plan, at least.

What actually happened was my motor nerves overrode my game nerves, and my feet shot out as I stood up abruptly, knocking my chair back a yard as it tipped over, and I threw my mouse somewhere off to my right.

I gave that game to a friend at work, and he claimed he could only play it with the lights on, and the sound off. Playing horror games in the dark with headphones is the way to do it, but it probably costs years off your life.

[Positive Touch]

paying Amnesia (in the dark, with headphones on) is still one of the best gaming experiences I ever had. i reaaaaallllly wish I knew more ppl that finished it bc some of the later parts are just unbelievable in their ability to make you want to crawl into a corner and hide irl.

[tiesto]

For some reason my gf and I were playing Sound Shapes. I bought it when it first came out and played through the single player... but forgot that I had it. It's an OK game but I'm not really into those checkpoint heavy platformers with weird physics like this and LittleBigPlanet. Deadmau5 involvement is cool and the Beck "Cities" level is really creative.

Also finally got the airship in Type-0.

[Kara]

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/%7Ejorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf

I don't recall him talking about how it had come from an accident; can you be more specific?

I did some web searching and no dice, but by my recollection they did some foundational AI programming with the intent of building off of it and when they started running it in their levels they discovered that it was much more robust than they thought it would be and voila we have FEAR's heralded AI. I can't substantiate this so I'd just like to say that I covered my ass with a weasel acronym with my original statement.

Love the pizza delivery infographic in this talk, BTW.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Rocket League is some wacky other level Dreamcast early 2000s shit with crisp presentation. Very polished and easy to grasp arcade like game. Has 4 player local co-op too for all those crazy gamer parties

This, Nidhogg, & Mount Your Friends are my go-to local co-op games (Road Redemption stay flabby). Am I missing anything good, PC wise? Have Portal 2 as well, but haven't messed with that.

[BrokenVerses]

Drakengard 3.

Damn this final boss "fight" is some bullshit.

[eleuin]

Started playing LISA since I got it during the sale. It's so far really good stuff. Depressing, weird and goofy. Also omg the soundtrack

Watched some gameplay of this including the ending


Pretty much 
  : the game

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Drakengard 3.

Damn this final boss "fight" is some bullshit.

I hate Yoko Taro.

I love Yoko Taro.

[brawndolicious]

Going through gta5, just got to the part where you kidnap the mexican dude's wife. Keep getting distracted by side quests. It feel like I still have about a third of the main story to go. Overall good game and really beautiful and immersive but I really can't stand Trevor most of the time.

Also playing Metro Last Light Redux and it feels cold and tight like I remember the last game being. Just playing it on the normal difficulty the first time though.

[Positive Touch]

good lord kingdom hearts 2 actually has more cutscenes than metal gear solid 4

[demi]

Makes more sense too than MGS4

[Purrp Skirrp]

Going through gta5, just got to the part where you kidnap the mexican dude's wife. Keep getting distracted by side quests. It feel like I still have about a third of the main story to go. Overall good game and really beautiful and immersive but I really can't stand Trevor most of the time.

Also playing Metro Last Light Redux and it feels cold and tight like I remember the last game being. Just playing it on the normal difficulty the first time though.

Metro

I played Last Light before playing 2033. Then the Redux came out so I'm looking forward to going through the original soon. I hope it's on par with the sequel.

[archie4208]

Legit great game.  Loved the atmosphere and having to manage resources.  It does have a problem similar to RE4 where it has an inverse power curve where you start out really weak and, assuming you aren't squandering all your resources, you become a walking artillery.

[demi]

- Finished Tales of Hearts R, did some misc. trophy cleanup, then shelved it. Enjoyable title, got all "friendship is power" near the end.

Decided to play some shitty indie games to clear some space on my Vita.

- MonsterBag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzKpw41PGU

This was a PS+ title a couple months ago. Art style is great, very animated. Plays similar to "Doki Doku Universe" thats also on Vita, but not as garbage. I liked this title, up until probably the last 4 levels where the designers just threw everything out the window and instead you get a maliciously fucked up level in terms of difficulty. Almost like a bait and switch. Up until that point? Awesome.

- Murasaki Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWYRIyWbqI

Another PS+ title that people were seemingly interested in. And it looks cool, very Tim Burton fucked up. This game was annoying as fuck to play. You use entirely the touch screen, both front and back, so you can already guess that playing this isnt going to be enjoyable. I forced myself to finish this one, doesnt take long.

- The Unfinished Swan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBwJANINonY

Another PS+ game, this is that artsy fartsy game where you splatter paint to reveal the path. Except you only do that for pretty much the first level, then it becomes this pretty boring first person visual adventure. I enjoyed this one as well, but it really isnt very meaty.

Currently playing CounterSpy, which surprised me since I thought it would be garbage. The problem with this title on Vita (?) is that its optimized horrendously. Loading times are unbearable, and in a game where you will restart countless times, it adds up. I think I broke the game as well, as trying to load a level seems to give me a critical error of some kind (with debug code included).

Also playing Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, but theres nothing to really say about it. Its just an expansion pack for The New Order.

[Positive Touch]

just finished up the story in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix in the remix collection.

man the final mix version is waaayy better than the original. you can actually die now! overall the combat is still weaker than the first game because relying on contextual counters is just no substitute for the parrying system in the original. however the new balancing along the with the  massive variety in the gameplay still makes the game compelling. there's tons of postgame content with fifteen new bosses and a new dungeon that seems pretty sizeable. and with the new story scenes and the Days movie from the first remix collection I can understand what the hell is going on!

overall a really fun and compelling game, and way more memorable to me than the original release. after I finish off all the bosses I'll move on to Birth by Sleep, which I only played a few hours of on psp

[bork]

Played some Persona 4 Dancing All Night over the weekend.  I like this game so much more than the Project Diva games and the like, because the music is so much better.  The game only has around 27 songs, but in addition to the difficulty levels, you can unlock in-game modifiers to change up the difficulty immensely, adding randomized button patterns, markers requiring diagonals/multiple buttons to be pressed, and more.

[Bebpo]

But how does it compare to the best touch-screen music game:

Ouendan/EBA

[archie4208]

Resident Evil 2 is much shorter than I remember.  I beat LeonA in 3:45 and I had forgotten most of the puzzles.  I know there is replay value in Claire's campaign and LeonB, but I remember the first run being longer.

[Rufus]

Been playing Dragon Quest V, my fifth start or so. Never got very far past the intro (before you even meet Bianca), so now I've finally done it with the DS version. Very charming so far. Every JRPG (and SRPG) needs combat this fast. Fuck long animations and pretty menus.

[chronovore]

But how does it compare to the best touch-screen music game:

Ouendan/EBA

Just before Vestal left Tokyo, that sonuvabitch showed me how to play Ouendan, because I was having trouble getting past a stage. Thanks to his example, I never played the game again because I realized it was going to become exponentially harder than the pitiful level with which I was having trouble.

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[close]

[chronovore]

Finished the Bane fight in Arkham Origins, and I'm impressed with the "Bane is an utterly terrifying monster" aspect of the fight. The writing in Origins really is leagues more impressive than both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. For one, I can actually recount the story, in the order in which I experienced it. In contrast, I really don't remember anything from City other than "Bruce Wayne is being incarcerated in Escape from New York what why huh?"

Just deleted Defiance from my console, freeing up 9GB of space. Everything remaining Achievement focused on co-op or PVP, and I think I finally understand why people play MMOs as solo games. I don't ever want to do this again. What a grind-fest.

Every time I delete a F2P from a device, I feel a sense of regained freedom.



I got so exhilarated that I also deleted Disney's Tsum Tsum from my phone.



I'm keeping Rovio's Retry though.

[tiesto]

Was playing Tomba and beat the first 2 bosses. Not sure if I'm really feeling the game... it's OK but not amazing. The controls are a bit weird and hit detection seems off, and the game's chock full of collectathons and western RPG like quest progression. It's like a game with a ton of wacky jappy but the gameplay feels like a dodgy europlatformer.

Also since I'm done with Lolo 2 I was trying to beat the Pro levels, only got "B" beat so far and came close to beating "C".

[OnlyRegret]

Blazblue chrrronooooophantagaaaaaasm

[Himu]

just finished up the story in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix in the remix collection.

man the final mix version is waaayy better than the original. you can actually die now! overall the combat is still weaker than the first game because relying on contextual counters is just no substitute for the parrying system in the original. however the new balancing along the with the  massive variety in the gameplay still makes the game compelling. there's tons of postgame content with fifteen new bosses and a new dungeon that seems pretty sizeable. and with the new story scenes and the Days movie from the first remix collection I can understand what the hell is going on!

overall a really fun and compelling game, and way more memorable to me than the original release. after I finish off all the bosses I'll move on to Birth by Sleep, which I only played a few hours of on psp

Interesting. Never really cared for KHII, but I'll give FM a shot. KH1 is my fave.

That platforming and exploration
Teasing treasure chests and ability unlocks
Learning to fly and flying all over the map to get loot
Defense oriented combat
Huge levels with branch paths

The more I think of it the less I want to replay KHII. It's so. Fucking. Boring. Compared to 1. I have huge amounts of love and nostalgia for the first game. I thought II was a bad step through and through. Crap game and one of the most disappointing sequels of all time.

[fistfulofmetal]

Arkham Origins doesn't seem too bad. The movement and combat feel a bit off but I liked the first objective and boss fight. (Penguin's boat, Deathstroke)

[chronovore]

Arkham Origins doesn't seem too bad. The movement and combat feel a bit off but I liked the first objective and boss fight. (Penguin's boat, Deathstroke)

So far, save a couple missteps, it's my favorite Batman game. The missteps are always where the developer tried to do a variation on an existing gameplay, but trying to change it up. I'd rather they reached for something interesting than staying entirely within staid gameplay, so -- yeah: GREAT GAME.

I happy to hear Deathstroke worked for you. It was one of the missteps for me; the enemies-can-counter-too thing isn't introduced until that fight, and there's plenty of other new ingredients in play. If the Martial Artist mook enemies had been brought in prior to Deathstroke, it would have been a more intuitive fight.

[Himu]

Been playing Ultra Street Fighter IV. I'm just now starting to play the game seriously. I love it.

Been replaying Shenmue II for my steam. I'm playing to do an all day stream on the final day of the Kickstarter. Look forward to it.

I pretty much quit games, and Ultra Street Fighter IV was the first retail game I've bought in almost a year, but ever since the Shenmue III announcement I've been really positive about games because I never thought it'd ever happen. With the re-emergence of Japanese gaming I'm gaining a bigger interest again. But so the months I didn't play games I wouldn't take back. This year has been very constructive: I've been working on my muay thai and focused on that, I've started to teach myself Spanish. I feel pretty good in life right now and it's wonderful to have a reminder like Shenmue to remind me why I loved games. I need to pick up a classical guitar still and start doing lessons, so games is still a hobby in the back burner, but it doesn't seem like something I can escape. I'm fine with that, but I don't think I'll ever be into games as I used to be or buy nearly the amount of games I used to, but I'm fine with that. Quality > Quantity. I think alternative games like Her Story and Shenmue and bread and butter no risk stuff like Street Fighter IV are pretty good games to concentrate on. I used to be the type to purchase even big budget games i really had no interest in, and I'm kind of past that. Due to my ever growing assortment of hobbies, I'm sticking to the games I know, and the genres I like. I think that's a good balance rather than outright quitting, but I still don't find buying much. Still, it's good to be positive about games again. After an announcement like Shenmue III, how could I not? I may even buy a ps4 because of that announcement just to be able to play it on more than one system.

[Positive Touch]

just finished up the story in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix in the remix collection.

man the final mix version is waaayy better than the original. you can actually die now! overall the combat is still weaker than the first game because relying on contextual counters is just no substitute for the parrying system in the original. however the new balancing along the with the  massive variety in the gameplay still makes the game compelling. there's tons of postgame content with fifteen new bosses and a new dungeon that seems pretty sizeable. and with the new story scenes and the Days movie from the first remix collection I can understand what the hell is going on!

overall a really fun and compelling game, and way more memorable to me than the original release. after I finish off all the bosses I'll move on to Birth by Sleep, which I only played a few hours of on psp

Interesting. Never really cared for KHII, but I'll give FM a shot. KH1 is my fave.

That platforming and exploration
Teasing treasure chests and ability unlocks
Learning to fly and flying all over the map to get loot
Defense oriented combat
Huge levels with branch paths

The more I think of it the less I want to replay KHII. It's so. Fucking. Boring. Compared to 1. I have huge amounts of love and nostalgia for the first game. I thought II was a bad step through and through. Crap game and one of the most disappointing sequels of all time.

kh2fm doesn't fix everything, but it's a way more robust package that forces you to learn details of it's combat system this time around. like you I was really disappointed with the original release; I could barely remember a single thing about it when I picked up this rerelease. however they put a lot of work into it you can spend a shitload of time now tracking down all the hard to reach items, fighting the games many many superbosses, or working on some of the new optional quests. hell, I just spent and hour trying to beat what I hope to god is the final battle of this new dungeon. it's a lot of fun.

I'd highly recommend both of the Remix releases for fans of arpgs. they're both great port jobs, and the Final Mix versions of both games (haven't played bbs yet) are soooo much more refined and fun than their original releases. I'm having a blast.

also where the FUCK do I find Charlie in Shenmue