What are you playing?

[The Legend of Sunblade]

I went through the same ordeal, haha. The first few jobs from Lamar unlock at Rank 5, so you have to do other stuff to get to that point before you can do those jobs. Or at least, I think that was the problem. 

[mormapope]

Eternal Sonata. Really charming game, combat is really fun even though its really simple. Excited to see where the story and combat goes.

Mass Effect 2. Imported my male character but wanted him to look different. Decided to scout for Shepards online, found Obama, loved it. Gonna play as Renegade Obama for this playthrough.



 

[The Sceneman]

Be so good if Obama did the VA also

[Rufus]

What class are you playing in ME2? I've had an itch to go back and try Vanguard. I only ever used it in ME3s multiplayer, which was really fun. I imagine it shits on everything in the campaign.

I think I'm nearing the end in SMT3. I'm about to find out the Manikin's "Reason". After that the buildup to the final showdown should start. I'm 50 hours in already and it might be another 10 before I see credits and who knows how long to get the TD ending. Not sure I want to do that any more. The last dungeon (or three mini-dungeons, rather) all had annoying gimmicks that wore my patience thin, the teleporting one especially. Youtube beckons.

[Positive Touch]

I'm still so mad that no dev went and ripped off mass effect 3's multiplayer. there were tons of great character classes and unique abilities that no one fucking uses in other multiplayer games. being a krogan that could teleport right up to some dudes face then headbutt him and finish him off with a shotgun blast to the gut was amazing.

[mormapope]

I've done a Engineer run in all three Mass Effect games. I did do a Vanguard run in Mass Effect 1 a long time ago. Engineer is my favorite class, but I haven't tried the other classes in Mass Effect 2 or 3. I did play as a bunch of classes in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer though.

Going to do a Hardcore Vanguard run in Mass Effect 2, and then change it again once I transfer Obama Shepard to Mass Effect 3.

[The Sceneman]

I'm still so mad that no dev went and ripped off mass effect 3's multiplayer. there were tons of great character classes and unique abilities that no one fucking uses in other multiplayer games. being a krogan that could teleport right up to some dudes face then headbutt him and finish him off with a shotgun blast to the gut was amazing.

That mode was so much fun. Bear in mind you were kicking NPC ass the whole time. But yeah sweet powers

[The Sceneman]

In SP Mass Effect arent all the classes the same? You blast bad guys and win and talk to people at the end

[Positive Touch]

different special moves but otherwise it's the same

[BrokenVerses]

In SP Mass Effect arent all the classes the same? You blast bad guys and win and talk to people at the end

Mostly. Each class has one signature power (Infiltrator = cloaking, Vanguard = teleport, Adept = black hole, etc.) and then an assortment of space magic powers.

[The Sceneman]

Yeah and IIRC your class upgrade paths will buff specific weapon classes. IIRC (heh) ME1 was way more specific in terms of which classes can use which weapons usefully and in ME2 it was more bonuses and stuff. I should get myself a copy of ME3 and play the overpriced DLC and knock out all dem cheevos. And of course play more multiplayer which I hope is still populated by various assholes

[The Sceneman]

I haven't "played" this game but the music came highly recommended so I checked it out. This shit is staggering:

[Freyj]

Eternal Sonata does a kind of unique thing where every story chapter introduces a new layer to the battle system.

I mean, I'd rather have had it all available as soon as possible, but that probably kept me playing where I'd normally get tired of fighting the same battles for the 30th odd hour.

[Positive Touch]

Yeah and IIRC your class upgrade paths will buff specific weapon classes. IIRC (heh) ME1 was way more specific in terms of which classes can use which weapons usefully and in ME2 it was more bonuses and stuff. I should get myself a copy of ME3 and play the overpriced DLC and knock out all dem cheevos. And of course play more multiplayer which I hope is still populated by various assholes

me3 360 still has a dedicated playerbase

[fistfulofmetal]

Girlfriend's got me co-oping with her in the new Tales of Zestiria.

It's co-op in the sense that I literally only have to do anything when we're in combat. I find myself playing Person 4 Golden in between battle encounters.

[chronovore]

I went through the same ordeal, haha. The first few jobs from Lamar unlock at Rank 5, so you have to do other stuff to get to that point before you can do those jobs. Or at least, I think that was the problem. 

It's actually a bug; or more than one bug. There is one problem where PSN Friend invites don't work, but R* Socialclub Friend/Crew invites do work, and that bug might be the reason I've not been invite-able to PSN Friends' lobbies.

There's also the "Tutorial bug," all the Contacts' "Request Job" choices are locked. The game suddenly decided I haven't done the tutorial. I have two characters, a transferred level 100 one, and one I made new on PS4, played the tutorial all the way to completion.

Oddly, I switched characters to my Transferred-via-Socialclub character, and it nicely dropped me into a full Free Mode and gave me all my Contacts back, with "Request Job" unlocked all over the place.

I can't imagine the complexity of having all their stuff working perfectly across PC/PS3/PS4/360/XB1, but the fucking Tutorial flag in the character database should not be causing this many people this much trouble.

[Bebpo]

I played through Call of Duty Advanced Warfare the other week, first CoD I've played since MW2 and man, this campaign did not give me a good impression of the non-IW development teams.  First of all the PC version was a total mess, was stuck at 59.94hz on my TV-out, so the framerate felt really jerky and I had to play it on my monitor at 60hz.  Crashed a few times (including during the credit roll at the end) and there were frame drops all over the place.  Outside of that the campaign was just this arcade shooter jumping around really quick from mission to mission without much continuity for the first half until it becomes Crysis and then it's super scripted linear arcade shooter with some continuity for the second half.  It was really badly directed in a way that it was tough to be engaged in the story or characters (especially in the first half), the shooting just felt like a shooting gallery where you couldn't see half the time so you'd end up using the guns that highlight the enemies from the background and the stealth stuff was just kind of ok diversions (the plane controls and mech controls were really really D4 publisher level bad; made me miss Red Faction Armageddon). 

Even if I complain about stuff like Bioshock 2's combat, at least FPS games like that and Metro 2033 (the latter which was really good) feel like I'm actually playing through a cohesive storyline campaign.  Here by switching up what abilities you have every mission, even the controls are scripted and context-sensitive so there's basically no consistent videogame throughout the campaign from start to finish.  It's just nonsense arcade shooting that felt made by a some developer that'd put out forgettable B-tier FPS games on PS2.  And on top of that the multiplayer apparently doesn't actually work on the PC version.  So all the only thing the game has is the campaign which is a C at best.  Definitely not going to play anymore CoD games by Sledgehammer.  Maybe I'll give the Treyarch Black Ops ones a shot one of these days since I hear they're fairly good.  It's not like CoD has to have a shit campaign.  I remember CoD1 and especially 2 were great campaigns, and the first MW was pretty neat.

[Positive Touch]

black ops 1 single player was about as fun as watching your family dog die

[D3RANG3D]

I started playing Oblivion, and by plying it I mean modding it.

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Im getting to old for this shit : Danny Glover

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[mormapope]

Does anyone else own this FPS gem on PS2? Played the demo on a disc more than a decade ago, got it for $3 at a book store last year and I made it to the halfway point:




Tommy Tallarico's studio did the audio and mixing
 

[tiesto]

I rented that game just to see the campiness behind getting into a fistfight with Bin Laden. It's horrible and wasn't even worth playing for that.

[tiesto]

Girlfriend's got me co-oping with her in the new Tales of Zestiria.

It's co-op in the sense that I literally only have to do anything when we're in combat. I find myself playing Person 4 Golden in between battle encounters.

I remember buying Symphonia for my friend for his birthday one year and he would play it co-op with his wife... the Tales games are really popular for couples to play co-op from what I've found. Maybe when my gf beats Pokemon Yellow I'll try Zestiria co-op with her.

[qq more]

I haven't "played" this game but the music came highly recommended so I checked it out. This shit is staggering:

I never played this game either but the OST is fucking ace.

The fan remix of this one track is soooooo good too.



 

[tiesto]

IIRC, Hyper Duel is one of the most expensive games on the Saturn... do want to eventually play that one of these days.

[Bebpo]

Started playing Arkham Knight.  Story and driving mechanics aside, I'm loving the improvements to the stealth.  Feels a lot like MGSV where it's incredibly fun, fast and smooth.  The movement and stealth options have really gotten polished.  Combat feels quicker too.

[tiesto]

Well, with that new MGS patch, I'm gonna try and get back Quiet and then listen to the last few tapes. Then I have off tomorrow so I'll spend it playing a post-apocalyptic western RPG with an actual fun battle system...

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Wild Arms 5

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[demi]

Playing Tomb Raider

twitch.tv/frostitution

[demi]

Changed my mind, I cant concentrate with a stream going. But still playing Tomb Raider

[chronovore]

Just Cause 2 doesn't seem to save progress when I expect it to. I thought it might have been an error with Microsoft's Cloud Storage Unit implementation not updating properly, so I moved it to the HDD. Autosave still didn't seem to keep up with my progress, so I'm stuck manually saving now. It's frustrating that it took me three 2-hour sessions to come up with such an obvious solution.

The game is lots of fun, but so much of it is grinding kills or vehicle finds or package collectibles... losing progress is unreasonably frustrating.

[Bebpo]

Man, really enjoying the hell out of Arkham Knight, but the game feels really short.  In like 5 hours and maybe 1.5 real dungeons after 2 evening sessions I feel like I'm halfway through the main plot and I've done a bit of every sidequest already.  Part of it is that movement and gameplay is super fast.  Everything feels like turbo-speed compared to the previous 3 games that were a little more slow and methodical in retrospect.  I love that since I like fast.  But yeah, pretty sure gonna finish this in like 4-5 nights.  Only real complaint I have is that the driving controls suck (car feels light as paper, no weight) for any kind of racing segment/challenge and while I like the dialogue, the story itself is pretty minimal (not much has happened so far), oh and there's too many screen pops up and somebody talks to you and stops you from playing moments throughout.  But otherwise game is a ton of fun.

Actually maybe it's just because every single game these days (or at least 80% of the games I'm playing this year) are like 60+ hours long that a <20 hour fast paced game feels really short to me.  Then again those 7 hours of CoD Advanced Warfare felt about 5 hours too long.

For comparison, also playing Ao no Kiseki (Trails of the Azure) and after like 8 hours I'm still in the first chapter and the game hasn't even started yet  But it's good.  I just found someone's misplaced umbrella and somehow they made that satisfying.  All these Kiseki/Trails games are slow and slice of life world development, but good.  Also about 2/3rds through Super Robot Wars BX after like 40 hours and it's ok.  Nadesico (the ship) just got an upgrade and it's been so damn long since I've seen Nadesico as a teen that I didn't even remember the ship gets an upgraded form.

[Mr. Nobody]

Finally started Bayonetta 2. The gameplay has not lost a single step 

[archie4208]

Just hit the 4th dungeon of Persona Q and I'm bored out of my mind. 

Probably gonna drop it.

[tiesto]

I played Tri Force Heroes with a friend (local) and a random guy online. I didn't like it, felt way too clunky and frustrating (most of the puzzles require you to go totem-style, and it's hard to pick up the other Links without accidentally throwing the ones you're already carrying), almost impossible to coordinate without voice chat, and you all share one life bar. Meh.

[qq more]

I played Tri Force Heroes with a friend (local) and a random guy online. I didn't like it, felt way too clunky and frustrating (most of the puzzles require you to go totem-style, and it's hard to pick up the other Links without accidentally throwing the ones you're already carrying), almost impossible to coordinate without voice chat, and you all share one life bar. Meh.

It's the one Nintendo online game that needs proper communication to even get anywhere. The emoticons don't help enough, I tried telling the Red Link to use his damn item against the boss and he did not know what I meant for the WHOLE boss and we died. Ughhhhh

[Trent Dole]

Had they never played a Zelda before? You always use the area item against the boss.

[mormapope]

Playing fighters a lot more, mainly in offline play so I can work on execution and discipline.

Marvel Versus Capcom 2: Found a team I really like. Silver Samurai, Spiral, and Captain Commando. Really high chip damage from Samurai and Spiral, excellent anti air from Captain Commando.

KOF98: Figuring out how links and combos in this work versus other fighters, trying to learn the base fundamentals behind KOF versus Street Fighter.

MUGEN: Downloaded full games that have everything set up when it comes to characters, stages, music/sound, screenpacks. The Jojo one I found is incredibly dope, found a great Xmen one as well.

Ultra Street Fighter IV: Working on my Decapre. Got combos and linking down, played on the hardest difficulty setting in arcade mode. Was easy and only lost a round or two until I fought Seth, who teleports like a mad man.

[Mr. Nobody]

Played quite a bit of Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance today. The core gameplay is standard Metroidvania fare but this game definitely has some problems. Difficulty was never too hard in a Metroidvania but there are some seriously braindead bosses in this game. Graphically, the game is kind of bad...especially with that blue trail Juste leaves everywhere.   And the biggest offense of all: the music is  . Like 2 memorable tunes in all of the 2 hours of gameplay I've put in here so far.

[Positive Touch]

protip: use a kitchen knife to slice off your own ears in order to improve your listening experience with harmony of dissonance

[demi]

Over the weekend I finished the new Tomb Raider. When I say "its more of the same" I literally mean its more of the same. The story might as well be interchangable with the first one. Exact same premise and everything.

If you got the Definitive Edition that was free a while back, you might as well be set on this series for now. People didn't really give the same flack for the Uncharted series, but in that case, Uncharted 2 took a leaping shit on the first one. Its like they didnt even try at all here.

Instead of a shitty fucking multiplayer mode, they opted for an offline Score Attack / Replay mode. In this mode you can use cards to change up the game, for humor or for points (you can make the game "harder" for a score bonus for leaderboards) You can also replay peoples top scores using their card setup to see if you can beat it. Oddly, they decided to include IAP for these cards. The way this works is that in order to get high scores, you need high value cards. Cards are expendable after every run, so if you want to try again, you need those same cards and need to either farm for credits or pony up the money. Some cards you earn can be "rare" which means they will never expire. As this is up to RNG, you can only roll the dice and hope the pack of 5 cards gives you what you want and not some shitty gun card.

[Mr. Nobody]

This 2 world/teleport system 

Make the main draw of Metroidvania games a chore brehs

[Rufus]

This 2 world/teleport system 

Make the main draw of Metroidvania games a chore brehs

That's what I hated about it, too. You eventually unlock teleporters that exists in the same spot in both versions of the castle, but there's less than a handful and by that time you're almost done anyway.

[The Sceneman]

I've listening to Hitoshi Sakimoto's earlier work as Vagrant Story has my favourite game soundtrack. His work on the Genesis is totally badass:



This game has real nice music too:

[Mr. Nobody]

This 2 world/teleport system 

Make the main draw of Metroidvania games a chore brehs

That's what I hated about it, too. You eventually unlock teleporters that exists in the same spot in both versions of the castle, but there's less than a handful and by that time you're almost done anyway.

It's ridiculous. I'm dashing through rooms like I'm recording a speedrun.

[The Sceneman]

I always found this song hysterical while playing HoD



The combination of Danny Elfman Batman riffs and fart noises

[Mr. Nobody]

I can just imagine some silent film slapstick done to this 

[tiesto]

Midnight Resistance GEN has a killer soundtrack... I had no idea it was done by Sakimoto!

I've been listening to this on repeat:



DJing a party this weekend, gonna smoke a lotta weed and play the most obscure game songs to entertain my other friends who will undoubtedly be even higher. I'll probably play stuff from Chip-chan Kick! too.

[The Sceneman]

Mean track. I've just been binge watching the Game Sack backlog and totally boned up on classic games and music. It's been kind of a watershed thing as I've eschewed classic vidya in place of cheevo farming and MTG for awhile now. Really re-ignitied my passion for classic games and stuff

[The Sceneman]

I can just imagine some silent film slapstick done to this 

I can just imagine having my dick sucked to this

[Trent Dole]

You got yourself some strange fetishes my man.

[The Sceneman]

Eh I'm just being a chump on a forum, I think in reality doing it to Castlevania jams would be too awkward and weird 

Final Toccata could work tho:

[parallax]

Playing fighters a lot more, mainly in offline play so I can work on execution and discipline.

Marvel Versus Capcom 2: Found a team I really like. Silver Samurai, Spiral, and Captain Commando. Really high chip damage from Samurai and Spiral, excellent anti air from Captain Commando.

KOF98: Figuring out how links and combos in this work versus other fighters, trying to learn the base fundamentals behind KOF versus Street Fighter.

MUGEN: Downloaded full games that have everything set up when it comes to characters, stages, music/sound, screenpacks. The Jojo one I found is incredibly dope, found a great Xmen one as well.

Ultra Street Fighter IV: Working on my Decapre. Got combos and linking down, played on the hardest difficulty setting in arcade mode. Was easy and only lost a round or two until I fought Seth, who teleports like a mad man.

CapCom is a lynchpin in any marvel team i make. even his captain sword is good for corralling dudes in front of you

jumping back and forth onto monster hunter 4 ultimate. its like crack

[Bebpo]

Just about finished with Arkham Knight.  I think with all the Batman games, the sidequests are fun as distractions that you do while you progress along the main story.  But when you focus on just cleaning up all the sidequests at the end game it's kind of apparent how they're just sort of alright time-wasters.  Like B gaming fun.  Whereas I think the main campaign in AK is pretty darn A quality.  It's a good length, it's paced great, it's constantly using new assets and not being repetitive/re-use (that stuff goes to the sidequests).  It's definitely the best of the 4 four games by a good amount in story & writing (looking back, man making Hugo Strange the villian in AC was such a bad decision;  AC really feels like a game where they tried to throw everyone in and didn't really have a consistent antagonist; Hugo was just way too boring.  Joker of course was great in 1 & Origins and Scarecrow's design and performance is freaking amazing in AK [probably one of the best character designs I've seen in general] and him and the Arkham Knight pull off a great antagonist duo throughout the whole game).  AK also has the best gameplay with lots of real fun stealth, and ok action everything else.  And it looks quite nice too.

I'm basically at the final boss so I don't think my opinion is gonna change, so for me, I'd put the games AK > AA > AO > AC with AC still being a solid B game.  It's been a real strong series and definitely the best any licensed series has been treated in the videogame medium off the top of my head.  Pretty happy with AK, Probably the 3rd best game I've played this year behind GTAV and Zero no Kiseki.

[Take My Breh Away]

I loved the beta so picked up the complete The Crew: Wild Run on PC. Whatever happened to Destiny happened here as well. It's a complete overhaul. The original game's dumb Fast And The Furious Troy Baker edition is a bit rote and silly (Though the soundtrack is actually really well done) and the takedown missions can go to the dick buffet and fill up. But the racing is really fun. The fact the map is so massive means between missions you have to go wander off to a new location you can't fast travel to which involves a cross country trip. Driving across the country in the rain is just so chilled with the better handling and there's a nice amount of Ubi-Shit to do like sight seeing locations and towns.

"Go to Fuckass, Texas from Vegas" they say. Hold on and I grab my Alfa Romeo 4c, grind some parts on the way and chill by going on a sight seeing tour

The only issue is the difficulty pace is weird. It's easy to grind out gold parts and over level your car for the missions. Also crew play doesn't net you much bonuses. Not really touched the Summit stuff either because I have to grind out some cars for PVP (And I haven't got any bikes yet) but I think I'm in this one for the long haul

[tiesto]

Star Trader, a Falcom shmup on the X68000... it's fucking great, a balanced difficulty level, decent graphics, and a stunning soundtrack (not that you'd expect anything different when you hear the words Falcom and X68000 together in the same sentence).

[Freyj]

After Asylum I started taking an personally unusual approach to the Arkham series: I don't worry about sidequests or collectables. I have a hard time enjoying them otherwise.

[Bebpo]

Finished it up with everything except a bunch of riddler trophies done.  Yeah. Great game.  My only real complaints are that every game they fuck up the combat flow with certain enemy types, here it was electric enemies you can't punch.  That stuff just makes the combat a pain in the butt and it stops being all that enjoyable especially with some of the endgame giant brawls.  I find the stealth much more fun than the fist fighting in the endgame.

My other complaint is minor, the dozens upon dozens of drone fights in the bat mobile all play fine, just there's not much depth to them so they all basically play the same and are fairly repetitive but still fun.

That's about it, otherwise it feels like this is the game Rocksteady always wanted to make with the series and this time they had the budget and time and they pulled it off.  Gj Rocksteady.

[qq more]

These Genesis/FM Synth songs being posted in this thread   

Soooo good.


Been replaying more Ace Attorney games. I'm upto Investigations 1 now. ...It's alright. Certainly not as interesting as the trilogy. Now I kinda remember why I felt bored playing it.

[Joe Molotov]

Bought a Steam Link and been playing some comfy couch Binding of Isaac.

[chronovore]

More Shadow of Mordor has only made me enjoy it more. I enjoy the difficulty curve they've introduced, where at first everyone was susceptible to everything, but now I'm encountering Berserkers who have to be stunned first, and Spear-Wielders who must be dodged. Yes, I know this is the same as Batman Arkham Whatever, but Arkham is a directed/controlled environment, whereas Mordor is an entirely open world with no limitations on where one can travel ("One can simply walk into Mordor..."), so it might be based on XP or skill-tree progression. Clever.

[Mr. Nobody]

Beat Harmony of Dissonance. Like I said before, at it's core, it's standard Metroidvania fare, but the terrible music and tedious 2 map travel really hurt it for me. 5/10. Maybe an extra point because I love this genre but meh.