What are you playing?

[chronovore]

"Started" Army of TWO: Devil's Cartel after realizing that just booting the thing the other day gave me an axxidental 10 GS. I was going to delete it unplayed from my history, but can't because of that 10 GS. After playing it for an hour last night, I think I'm going to delete it just so I'm no longer tempted to play it again. At least Indiana Fifty Cent and the Crystal Skull had the good sense to take itself less seriously.

[The Sceneman]

Yeah, it just isn't worth it. I 1k'ed the game out of masochism and I cant recommend the game on any level. I used to think D tier TPS games were my bread and butter and I could enjoy them because they "were bad" but Army of Two: TDC is the perfect storm of mediocrity.

The "un-political-correctness" which attracted me to the first game in the franchise is gone, yet they still manage to make the game offensive on a lot of levels, by how they clearly tried to homogenise a game that depicts two men killing thousands of people.

There's no more bro emotes. I really wanted to play air-guitar on my assault weapon after I blew away several Jihadist suicide bombers like in the first game! The Devil's Cartel doesn't give you that option.

Thanks for pandering to those social studies warriors, Electronic Ass!

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Burn the entire franchise with fucking fire, videogames need to stop perpetuating idiocy to idiots that actually believe in the crap. Once, I laughed at these kinds of games and played them ironically. I cant do that anymore.

[close]

The 50 Cent game was awesome and I'm happy that I can die knowing that me and Chronovore wrecked the game in ONLINE CO-OP MODE

[brob]

the first army of two didn't have that neat video-artifacting censoring effect when you headshotted dudes tho, did it? that's about the only nice thing that can be said of army of two two tbh

[I'm a Puppy!]

Finished Majora's Mask 3DS (god that's a perfect game)
Also finished Undertale. I dismissed it early on as an furry indie "muh feelings!" meme-fest game and while it is sorta all that, I still enjoyed it for the most part. Needed some polish but not bad.

Booted up Chrono Trigger and am loving it. I also have Stardew Valley waiting for me. I've gotten past the first 3 or 4 days. We'll see how it goes.

[tiesto]

Did you beat Genocide in Undertale?

[I'm a Puppy!]

Did you beat Genocide in Undertale?

Hell no. My son has gotten all the endings except that one and I've seen him trying to beat Sans. After watching him try a few times I was like "Nope".

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Been playing a lot of rainbow 6 siege lately as games only take 5 minutes or so. Most underrated game so far this gen.

[benjipwns]

After playing so much of the alpha/betas I can't justify $50 or whatever for it and the season pass. Maybe when the base game hits $20 in a couple months...

There was something really nice about the match timings though. Very rarely did I have that old CS feeling where you're sitting watching like three guys circle the map with one chasing after another for ten minutes to end the round.

Even Terrorist Hunt seemed decently paced.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Did you beat Genocide in Undertale?

Hell no. My son has gotten all the endings except that one and I've seen him trying to beat Sans. After watching him try a few times I was like "Nope".

tbh this is one of the most appealing aspects of having children to me; spawning a yannopolis-esque cabal of genetically related/indebted interns through whom i can vicariously determine what is and isn't worth my time
/kara

[archie4208]

I busted open Xcom 2 on Commander difficulty (step below the highest) to the point that it isn't challenging any more.

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I save scummed twice when a good unit died :'(

[close]

[eleuin]

finally working through diablo 3 proper, just hit the 2nd arc

[naff]

Started my Japanese PS4 edition of Uocchi Doggusu. I am soon to be awash in Ubisoft-standard levels of collect-a-thon. Will post updates to the main watch_dogs thread so I can maintain my Thread Necromancer title. So far the game is crazy gorgeous. I remember being so hyped for this when the initial teasers came out, and so sad when the actual product launched. I'm sure I'll get ¥1500 worth of fun out of it.

Last time i was excited for a Ubi title was Prince of Persia (Prodigy? The ps3/xboks reboot). Game was gorgeous, and pretty fun but also quite devoid of substance. Classic Ubi.

Just started a 5th ed DnD game, first time playing a pen and paper rpg irl..... I've really been missing out, we're playing one of the popular pre-con adventures based around Phandalin and it's already outclassing any crpg i've played. I'm a high-elf wizard, xenophobic, elitist af but really just a 400 y/o hick that's wary of everything outside the forest. In three sessions we've cleared a single dungeon run a bunch of exploitative mercs out of town, uncovered the beginnings of a sinister plot, and instigated a change of leadership in Phandalin. Got really attached to a goblin I saved from some bugbears I've taken in and together we're on a gastronomic journey, healing his tortured soul with food. Often it's just me making food like mutton taste like prosciutto with prestidigitation. Nothing spectacular storywise, but the deep interaction, having a great dm and really being able to mess with the game world is so sweet. Gameplay was pretty clunky for a while but we smoothing it out, having the DM make all rolls was the best move, removing the 'tilt' people were getting when they rolled bad, and they seem to be roleplaying better.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Been playing wind waker again, which I haven't done in over a decade. Everything people knock it for is true but I love the shit out of it. Very relaxing, soothing game

[tiesto]

Played a bit of the NES port of Breakthru, a Data East arcade game. It's a pretty fun game, it's like Bump n Jump mixed with Jackal... never played it back in the day but got the cartridge for a fiver.

Also been continuing with Trails in the Sky SC. Up to the middle of the 4th chapter. Big story elements happen much faster than they did in the first game, though there are a few parts where the pacing slows to a crawl (followed immediately by huge events). My only disappointments were how much of the environments/monsters/music were borrowed from the first game, though there are some great new dungeons and some pretty intense battles. An excellent game and I'm sure I'll be eagerly awaiting the 3rd game once I'm done with this.

[archie4208]

I'm having more trouble in FE Fates Conquest than Xcom 2. 

[chronovore]

Started my Japanese PS4 edition of Uocchi Doggusu. I am soon to be awash in Ubisoft-standard levels of collect-a-thon. Will post updates to the main watch_dogs thread so I can maintain my Thread Necromancer title. So far the game is crazy gorgeous. I remember being so hyped for this when the initial teasers came out, and so sad when the actual product launched. I'm sure I'll get ¥1500 worth of fun out of it.

Last time i was excited for a Ubi title was Prince of Persia (Prodigy? The ps3/xboks reboot). Game was gorgeous, and pretty fun but also quite devoid of substance. Classic Ubi.

Just started a 5th ed DnD game, first time playing a pen and paper rpg irl..... I've really been missing out, we're playing one of the popular pre-con adventures based around Phandalin and it's already outclassing any crpg i've played. I'm a high-elf wizard, xenophobic, elitist af but really just a 400 y/o hick that's wary of everything outside the forest. In three sessions we've cleared a single dungeon run a bunch of exploitative mercs out of town, uncovered the beginnings of a sinister plot, and instigated a change of leadership in Phandalin. Got really attached to a goblin I saved from some bugbears I've taken in and together we're on a gastronomic journey, healing his tortured soul with food. Often it's just me making food like mutton taste like prosciutto with prestidigitation. Nothing spectacular storywise, but the deep interaction, having a great dm and really being able to mess with the game world is so sweet. Gameplay was pretty clunky for a while but we smoothing it out, having the DM make all rolls was the best move, removing the 'tilt' people were getting when they rolled bad, and they seem to be roleplaying better.

I thought I'd responded to this earlier; whoops!

I'm pretty sure my group is running through the same module right now. If you're playing regular-length sessions, you'll outstrip us in no time. We only play two hours a week over Skype, but we are enjoying it. Lots of fun side quests, so it feels pretty wide open, even with our largely-on-rails style of our DM.

[qq more]

From what I've played. Wind Waker is pretty great, even though the first dungeon was kind of annoying. Lost my Dolphin save by accident when I reformatted my comp though. Thought I've backed it up.  :'(

I'll just play it on my Gamecube or play the HD version.

[Bebpo]

Back from a couple of weeks in Japan.  Didn't play much, but picked up Theaterhythm Dragon Quest for $15 and had a ton of fun with it.  Enough to buy the cheaper US version of  FF: Curtain Call.  Coming back to Theaterhythm from playing a couple of Miku games (DX, and picked up X in Japan but X is just kind of alright), I'm liking theaterythm series a lot more.  The patterns might not be as tight and fun as Guitaroo-man/EBA or Rockband, but they're so much better than Miku patterns and they're at least fun to play (Miku patterns aren't particularly fun to play for a lot of songs which is a big negative imo) and DQ music is always great even if all of the music across 10 DQ games pretty much sounds like it's from the same game (one of my minor issues with DQ music despite it being quality stuff).

Otherwise was just continuing playing Trails of Cold Steel II/Sen no Kiseki II which, at about 40 hours/halfway, is still just kind of good, not great.  I definitely feel like Cold Steel being Falcom's first full 3d PS3 rpg suffers from the same thing every other jrpg developer did last gen where HD development was hard and the games took a few steps back at first.  It's a good rpg, just a step back from in a lot of ways from the Crossbell games.

And also was continuing playing SMT4-F which despite being a total asset/world re-use of SMT4 is a hell of a lot of fun still.  I think it just goes to show how enjoyable mainline SMT games are.  Saw some SMT3 screens the other day and kind of sad how 13 years later SMT3 is still the most visually impressive post-apocalyptic SMT tokyo game to explore.  I really hope someday we get a mainline SMT with graphics better than SMT3.  I mean, hey we're finally maybe getting a DQ with better graphics than DQVIII, so never say never.

[demi]

I finished Perfect Dark XBLA on Perfect Agent - shit is pretty difficult compared to today's hand holding games. Even with guides. I kept it installed since I might run through on the two other difficulties. Worked just fine via XB1 BC.

Then I played Conker's Bad Fur Day (Rare Replay) - always an enjoyable game up until the War segment, easily the worst designed segment and a complete stall in the toilet humor and such the game provides beforehand.

Then I fired up KAMEO - one of the first games I played on my 360 (as referenced in my achievements - 2006!) since I needed to squeeze our 100 more Gamerscore for the 750 requirement in Rare Replay. I even had my save file transferred to the cloud and it worked straight out of the box via XB1 BC, I was playing a save file from 10 years ago. Only things I needed to do was get all the collectables and get an A rank score on a level.

Xbox One BC is amazing, and it doesnt even feel any less different from a 360. And I didnt have to pay $10 for each game LOL

I got Naruto Storm 4 from gamefly, but havent felt like playing it.

Playing through the Bravely Second demo since that comes out this friday. But I will try and finish up Fire Emblem Fates before then. With all these 3DS games coming, it might be a while until I can jump back on the Vitor again.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Let's see

2K16 with the kids

Rainbow Six Siege still

World of Tanks with my buddy.


Yet to play: Tomb Raider and Rogue Galaxy

[tiesto]

Back from a couple of weeks in Japan.  Didn't play much, but picked up Theaterhythm Dragon Quest for $15 and had a ton of fun with it.  Enough to buy the cheaper US version of  FF: Curtain Call.  Coming back to Theaterhythm from playing a couple of Miku games (DX, and picked up X in Japan but X is just kind of alright), I'm liking theaterythm series a lot more.  The patterns might not be as tight and fun as Guitaroo-man/EBA or Rockband, but they're so much better than Miku patterns and they're at least fun to play (Miku patterns aren't particularly fun to play for a lot of songs which is a big negative imo) and DQ music is always great even if all of the music across 10 DQ games pretty much sounds like it's from the same game (one of my minor issues with DQ music despite it being quality stuff).

Otherwise was just continuing playing Trails of Cold Steel II/Sen no Kiseki II which, at about 40 hours/halfway, is still just kind of good, not great.  I definitely feel like Cold Steel being Falcom's first full 3d PS3 rpg suffers from the same thing every other jrpg developer did last gen where HD development was hard and the games took a few steps back at first.  It's a good rpg, just a step back from in a lot of ways from the Crossbell games.

And also was continuing playing SMT4-F which despite being a total asset/world re-use of SMT4 is a hell of a lot of fun still.  I think it just goes to show how enjoyable mainline SMT games are.  Saw some SMT3 screens the other day and kind of sad how 13 years later SMT3 is still the most visually impressive post-apocalyptic SMT tokyo game to explore.  I really hope someday we get a mainline SMT with graphics better than SMT3.  I mean, hey we're finally maybe getting a DQ with better graphics than DQVIII, so never say never.

What are generally considered to be the best Kiseki games? I've only played Trails in the Sky FC and currently in the midst of SC, though I do really like SC more than FC so far. Gonna try Cold Steel 1 later this year, and then next year TITS 3rd/Cold Steel 2 when they get English releases. Are the 2 Crossbells considered the best? Hopefully one day we get them in English (and Nayuta too!)

[eleuin]

Reinstalled Rome: Total War and tried out some mod overhauls

Still the GOAT RTS 

[Stoney Mason]

Replaying Dead Space now that its backwards compatible.

 

Game still looks great and the atmosphere is so top notch. It saddens me that Schofield and Condrey are tasked to made call of duty campaigns. What a waste.

[Bebpo]

Back from a couple of weeks in Japan.  Didn't play much, but picked up Theaterhythm Dragon Quest for $15 and had a ton of fun with it.  Enough to buy the cheaper US version of  FF: Curtain Call.  Coming back to Theaterhythm from playing a couple of Miku games (DX, and picked up X in Japan but X is just kind of alright), I'm liking theaterythm series a lot more.  The patterns might not be as tight and fun as Guitaroo-man/EBA or Rockband, but they're so much better than Miku patterns and they're at least fun to play (Miku patterns aren't particularly fun to play for a lot of songs which is a big negative imo) and DQ music is always great even if all of the music across 10 DQ games pretty much sounds like it's from the same game (one of my minor issues with DQ music despite it being quality stuff).

Otherwise was just continuing playing Trails of Cold Steel II/Sen no Kiseki II which, at about 40 hours/halfway, is still just kind of good, not great.  I definitely feel like Cold Steel being Falcom's first full 3d PS3 rpg suffers from the same thing every other jrpg developer did last gen where HD development was hard and the games took a few steps back at first.  It's a good rpg, just a step back from in a lot of ways from the Crossbell games.

And also was continuing playing SMT4-F which despite being a total asset/world re-use of SMT4 is a hell of a lot of fun still.  I think it just goes to show how enjoyable mainline SMT games are.  Saw some SMT3 screens the other day and kind of sad how 13 years later SMT3 is still the most visually impressive post-apocalyptic SMT tokyo game to explore.  I really hope someday we get a mainline SMT with graphics better than SMT3.  I mean, hey we're finally maybe getting a DQ with better graphics than DQVIII, so never say never.

What are generally considered to be the best Kiseki games? I've only played Trails in the Sky FC and currently in the midst of SC, though I do really like SC more than FC so far. Gonna try Cold Steel 1 later this year, and then next year TITS 3rd/Cold Steel 2 when they get English releases. Are the 2 Crossbells considered the best? Hopefully one day we get them in English (and Nayuta too!)

Crossbell games are probably the best though they still have their own issues.  They start breaking the formula by the 2nd one (Ao), and Ao probably has the highest highs in the series so far with really good exciting build up and payoffs for events.  Gameplay & story-wise the Crossbell games take a lot of steps forward from Sky and Cold Steel is a few steps back from that.

In a lot of ways it's almost better than English players are going from Sky -> Cold Steel, because CS is a few steps forward from Sky so it feels like progression whereas coming from Crossbell CS feels regressive and a kind of middling entry so far (Sen 2 second half and/or Sen 3 still has time to fix that though).  Also the Persona/Star Ocean-type "personal action" with each character break every chapter in CS is really bad for pacing.  Basically you stop the story/quests/game and do an hour of going up to each party member and watching a 3-4 minute conversation event, which is 90% of the time padded filler but 10% of the time has some importance so it's worth doing them all.

All good games though, hopefully Sen 3 makes some steps forward and if not, then hopefully we'll get the next country arc not too long after Sen 3 and it'll be a fresh start for Falcom to get back to kicking ass again (part of CS's core problem is the main playable cast is kind of generic compared to Sky's cast & Crossbell, so maybe a new cast is what they need).

Oh and The 3rd is a great dungeon crawler.  Best battles in the series, both best combat and best boss fights.  Some good story/character stuff too and good pacing. 

If you can understand Japanese it makes the most sense to just go in chronological release order of Sky FC/SC/3rd -> Crossbell -> CS1/2/3.  But if not, the English release is mostly fine though it spoils a chunk of Crossbell for whenever that comes out in English in 5-10 years.

[The Sceneman]

Replaying Dead Space now that its backwards compatible.

 

Game still looks great and the atmosphere is so top notch. It saddens me that Schofield and Condrey are tasked to made call of duty campaigns. What a waste.

The mute protaganist really, REALLY helps DS1. DS2 was terrible in comparison

[Stoney Mason]

Replaying Dead Space now that its backwards compatible.

 

Game still looks great and the atmosphere is so top notch. It saddens me that Schofield and Condrey are tasked to made call of duty campaigns. What a waste.

The mute protaganist really, REALLY helps DS1. DS2 was terrible in comparison

I honestly had forgotten that he doesn't speak. It definitely helps the atmosphere of it being bleak and scary with him being mute. I really like Dead Space 2 also though. Three is where it went off the rails for me. Series needs a reboot.

[chronovore]

Replaying Dead Space now that its backwards compatible.

 

Game still looks great and the atmosphere is so top notch. It saddens me that Schofield and Condrey are tasked to made call of duty campaigns. What a waste.

The mute protaganist really, REALLY helps DS1. DS2 was terrible in comparison

Mute protagonist is always the best protagonist.

[Yulwei]

Was playing Pokemon Omega Ruby just now. It's kind of appalling how Pokemon is 20 years old yet it still has no difficulty options or NG+. I actually think the core combat mechanics are fine and don't need changing, but things like animations and skill effects leave a lot to be desired. I got my 4th badge and I'm not sure I'll keep playing. Blowing through everything with your one Pokemon and his one nuke attack got old a while ago. There's no reason to use anything other than direct high damage attacks. 😪

[qq more]

Was playing Pokemon Omega Ruby just now. It's kind of appalling how Pokemon is 20 years old yet it still has no difficulty options or NG+. I actually think the core combat mechanics are fine and don't need changing, but things like animations and skill effects leave a lot to be desired. I got my 4th badge and I'm not sure I'll keep playing. Blowing through everything with your one Pokemon and his one nuke attack got old a while ago. There's no reason to use anything other than direct high damage attacks. 😪

EXP Share is so broken, I had that shit off for most of the game and just swap my Pokemon team around. They really do need a difficulty mode right off the bat, and not like how BW2 handled it (that implementation was completely absurd).

I want to hope Sun and Moon would have that fixed but this is Game Freak

[TakingBackSunday]

Enter the Gungeon

[toku]

Started playing Titanfall again teaser for 2 got me hyped. Actually took me like 3 matches before I found the groove again but then I started criss crossing walls and climbing buildings and shit.

[Bebpo]

Playing Dead Space 3.  Hated it in the early intro scripted stages, fighting humans and stuff with machine guns yuck.  Then after it gets past all that and it's all about getting loot and weapon parts and building cool crazy space guns and fighting monsters with them RE4 style...it's pretty fun.  At this part maybe 4-5 hours in, it's better than I expected and alright stress reliever.

[tiesto]

Up to the final chapter of Fire Emblem Awakening, and just about to start Chapter 6 in TITS:SC.

[fistfulofmetal]

Playing Dead Space 3.  Hated it in the early intro scripted stages, fighting humans and stuff with machine guns yuck.  Then after it gets past all that and it's all about getting loot and weapon parts and building cool crazy space guns and fighting monsters with them RE4 style...it's pretty fun.  At this part maybe 4-5 hours in, it's better than I expected and alright stress reliever.

Dead Space 3 is about 1/3 a good game. The early Earth stuff is dreadful. When you get into space and are exploring the derelict space ships it's 

then you get to the ice planet 

[demi]

The final scenes are pretty sick though. Didnt play the "epilogue" DLC but it seems like a bunch of old school mindfucks

[The Sceneman]

So I'm replaying Resonance of Fate because I never got the full 1000 first time. Game is Still such a cool battle system. I'm doing a second lap on hard mode and it is kinda hard, the enemies kick your ass if you bork your strat, thankfully the retry system is pretty forgiving.

 The weeaboo shit is very kawaii desu ne.

 

I forgot how bonkers the soundtrack is, they really went to town with an emulated Hammond Synth Organ here:

[The Legend of Sunblade]

Gunkata rpg 

all those non-dlc customization features 

the "optional" tutorial when playing it for the first time 

[Bebpo]

Well since Tri-ace is going to be dead after Star Ocean V, I guess we're allowed to call it the Last Good Tri-Ace Game(tm).

[Stoney Mason]

Playing Dead Space 3.  Hated it in the early intro scripted stages, fighting humans and stuff with machine guns yuck.  Then after it gets past all that and it's all about getting loot and weapon parts and building cool crazy space guns and fighting monsters with them RE4 style...it's pretty fun.  At this part maybe 4-5 hours in, it's better than I expected and alright stress reliever.

When I played through Dead Space 3 a couple of years ago I thought it was "ok". I mean I immediately knew I didn't like it as much as the first two but I didn't think it was quite as bad as the reception it had gotten. Now that I'm playing through the original again, I completely understand the reception it got. It just betrays so much of what was Dead Space. If it wasn't a game in the Dead Space lineup it would be okay and maybe people wouldn't judge it so harshly but all that shit they added like gun crafting and such and co-op just completely misses the point of that series.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I completely agree.

I really enjoyed the first two, they had this great oppressive horror atmosphere where you're always running low on ammo and having to cycle between all the weapons and their ammo to survive.  Dead Space 3 feels like an arcade action game...like RE4 -> RE5/6 or RE2 -> DC2.  Then again, it's fun?  And I like the arcade-y action gameplay of it.  So I can't hate on it (so far).

[D3RANG3D]

Been plying through DS1 I'm at "The Depths" ATM.

Copped Melty Blood, only played a little bit pretty legit.

[tiesto]

Beat Fire Emblem: Awakening while waiting for routine car maintenance. Just have to watch the ending... Fun game, even more so that I could turn off permadeath. Fantastic music, too.

Played more Trails in the Sky SC. While the first Trails was verrry slow (and only picked up at the end), it was worth playing since it makes all the events that happen in the second game hit that much harder. Seems like I still have a while to go with it...

Need a new portable game to play. Deciding between Dancing All Night, Danganronpa, and FF Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time.

[The Sceneman]

picked up that 2014 Strider game as it's 5 bucks on 360 atm. It's.... ehhh. It's doing what it's supposed to I guess but the game design is pretty sloppy due to the fact you HAVE to get hit all of the time but it doesn't matter as every dead baddie replenishes health. I like Metroidvania exploration even when it's bad so I'll beat this and have an OK time.

It reminded me that Outland was a game and that one was totally killer. Would've loved to have seen a sequel to that.

Some of the action music is pretty tight:

[Bebpo]

Ehhhhhhh is the best descriptor for that game.  It's not the worst thing ever, but what a waste of IP.

[The Sceneman]

Duck Tales is also on special and I was considering that. Never played the NES game (I grew up in Sega country). Is the remake worth scooping for a couple of bucks? I enjoyed Double Dragon Neon from the same devs.

[tiesto]

Naah, the remake borks the difficulty plus adds a bunch of nonsense cutscenes and dialogue that break up the momentum. You're much better off playing the NES game.

[qq more]

On a Pokemon spree lately, so I'm playing a colorized rom hack of Pokemon Blue and I'm on the 5th gym already. I've been also playing Picross e6, which I am almost finished with. Picross e7 was just announced yesterday, so I might pick up the earlier Picross e series games sometime before that one comes out. Never knew Picross games can be so addicting lol

[The Sceneman]

Naah, the remake borks the difficulty plus adds a bunch of nonsense cutscenes and dialogue that break up the momentum. You're much better off playing the NES game.

Yeah borked difficulty is not what I'm looking for. I should just play Mega Man 10 again. After beating Hell in Spelunky I'm ready for more nut busting platforming

[chronovore]

I went back to Saints Row IV even before Sceneman reminded me it's free this month. So I was playing on disc while it downloaded (note: technically, the download was suspended despite local play. That seems weird.) I'm torn between trying for full 1000/1000 on it or moving on to GAT OUT OF HELL.

[Trent Dole]

Gat out of hell is supposedly clearable in an afternoon, so could always take a day of ffom IV and then go back to it after.

[Bebpo]

Good to know.  I haven't got around to playing Gat out of Hell, but all this Saints Row talk makes me want to install it.

[Positive Touch]

On a Pokemon spree lately, so I'm playing a colorized rom hack of Pokemon Blue and I'm on the 5th gym already. I've been also playing Picross e6, which I am almost finished with. Picross e7 was just announced yesterday, so I might pick up the earlier Picross e series games sometime before that one comes out. Never knew Picross games can be so addicting lol

never played a picross game before pokemon picross installed itself on my 3ds the other day and goddamn it's addicting. that's actually a huge problem with this version of the game: it looks like it's free to play, but after the first 10 or so stages the in-game currency requirement to unlock new content gets RIDICULOUS. you'd have to grind for weeks just to get a couple more stages. it basically forces you to spend 30$ to get the rest of the game, which is more than i wanna spend. so anyone got good recommendations for a cheaper picross game?

[Fifstar]

There are lots of free Picross games on the web, I like this one a lot: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/413577

[demi]

On a Pokemon spree lately, so I'm playing a colorized rom hack of Pokemon Blue and I'm on the 5th gym already. I've been also playing Picross e6, which I am almost finished with. Picross e7 was just announced yesterday, so I might pick up the earlier Picross e series games sometime before that one comes out. Never knew Picross games can be so addicting lol

never played a picross game before pokemon picross installed itself on my 3ds the other day and goddamn it's addicting. that's actually a huge problem with this version of the game: it looks like it's free to play, but after the first 10 or so stages the in-game currency requirement to unlock new content gets RIDICULOUS. you'd have to grind for weeks just to get a couple more stages. it basically forces you to spend 30$ to get the rest of the game, which is more than i wanna spend. so anyone got good recommendations for a cheaper picross game?

My Nintendo has Zelda Picross for 1000 coins (easy to get in a week or less)

https://my.nintendo.com/rewards/e0bd3a7355ae978b

Picross3D
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/Q7zEAPseHhyAwhj3D3Ky0RWX2jlZt52S

PicrossDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross_DS

Theres a bunch of Picross games on eShop under the "e" series
(there's currently 6 afaik)
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/LIL6Uo6g5kQtstE7Ka_CT-02lDMfMvyA

Mario Picross is available on VC 3DS

[Positive Touch]

hell yeah thanks guys in about to buy the shit out of these

[D3RANG3D]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/385250/

[qq more]

Yeah the Pokemon Picross game is pretty much how I was introduced into Picross. Didn't like the F2P bs since it severely slow down the progress after a while. Was recommended e6 and had a blast with it. I think that one has a ton of puzzles (I think 150 Picross and 150 Mega Picross?) Really worthwhile for its price. I think you can get more puzzles for that game if you get the first 3 games too.

[bork]

Imported One Piece Burning Blood for the Vita, because there's no physical release coming out here (just PS4 and Xbone, IIRC).  The game will be available for PC in the States, too.

I've only had a chance to play a little bit of it, but I'm impressed-- this is a simplistic, arena fighter-style game, but it plays very smoothly and looks nice enough.  You have two basic attack buttons and can do different attacks (ranges) by hitting up or down.  There's a guard button that can also be used to side-step, a jump button, a special attack button (hit L plus Square/Triangle/Circle for special moves), a powered-dash button with R, and you can equip assist characters and use them with the d-pad.  When your meter is full, you can then use the right analog stick to unleash super moves.  The game lets you select up to three characters to use in battles and you can switch between them at any time.  Button combinations also give you two types of guard breaks.

There's a story mode and various offline battles you can engage in to earn money, which lets you unlock more content, including characters and assist characters.  You can also level characters up, but I'm not sure what this does yet.  It also offers 4P online versus (ad-hoc is up to 2P) and has PSTV support.

The game reminded me of J-Stars Victory Vs. in previews, but it plays much, much better than that game did.  Everything feels more responsive and smoother.  The game doesn't run at native res on Vita during battles, but still looks pretty nice.  I'm tempted to get it on PS4, but am holding off for the domestic release next month. 

[Beezy]

Shit, you just sold me on this game. I'll be picking it up for Xbone.

[archie4208]

Been stuck on chapter 10 in FE Fates Conquest for like 4 days.