Author Topic: What are you playing?  (Read 2211750 times)

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.

Joe Molotov

  • I'm much more humble than you would understand.
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5580 on: May 19, 2010, 08:31:57 AM »
The Penumbra dudes have a new game coming out later this year called Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The deal is over now, but a few weeks ago you could pre-order it for $10.
©@©™

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5581 on: May 19, 2010, 08:36:00 AM »
I'm currently playing the first Penumbra. I guess it's ok. Looks very low budget. But I'll finish it someday...

Stick with it.  As the story ramps up it gets a lot better and you learn how to get good at sneaking past enemies and running from area to area unharmed.  The WORST part is gonna be the water cave tunnels, so once you're past that it's all good.

Black Plague starts with the story ramped up from the start, in a more interesting environment and with better graphics/bigger emphasis on plot.

The Penumbra dudes have a new game coming out later this year called Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The deal is over now, but a few weeks ago you could pre-order it for $10.

Yeah that's actually what got me to finally play the series.  Wanted to know if I should drop $10 or not and after playing a few hours of Overture and liking it, I did.  Looking forward to a summer of PC horror gaming from Frictional Games!

Smooth Groove

  • Both teams played hard, my man
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5582 on: May 19, 2010, 01:59:29 PM »
Do I need to know the first game's story in order to play the second one?  I wanna just skip right over to the better looking game. 

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5583 on: May 19, 2010, 02:02:57 PM »
The story is trash, I wouldnt play it for that
fat

Smooth Groove

  • Both teams played hard, my man
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5584 on: May 19, 2010, 02:04:07 PM »
I don't care that much about the story but I don't want to feel totally lost either. 

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5585 on: May 19, 2010, 02:06:05 PM »
Trust me its impossible to get lost. The story is really simple
fat

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5586 on: May 19, 2010, 07:45:02 PM »
I haven't gotten to the part where the story sucks like demi is talking about.  Seems satisfactory horror game story/writing somewhere between RE and SH.  You pick up notes all around like RE games that flesh out the mythos through the stories of various people.  I like it a lot, but it's not for everyone.

The 2nd game starts with a recap of the first game so you could skip it.  They both run on the same engine and the main difference in visuals is just more interesting looking locations in Black Plague.  Eh, I'd recommend playing Overture, setting it on easy, and using a guide if you're unsure of what to do to blow through it in a few days.  Some of the puzzles in Overture are really good.  Plus some people say the first game is better, but they seem to be in the minority.

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5587 on: May 20, 2010, 06:06:06 AM »
1000'd the new Prince of Persia... big ol meh. I guess I would prefer it over the 2008 version but this one is still pretty blah. It's even canon with the Sands of Time trilogy. But since it takes place "between" the first two games they can basically make up whatever they want
fat

bork

  • おっぱいは命、尻は故郷
  • Global Moderator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5588 on: May 20, 2010, 10:31:14 AM »
Lost Planet 2: Still hadn't finished campaign yet, so a buddy online went through the entire game with me.  The story was laughable (expected), and the Chinese and Mexican stereotype voice actors they used for two of the factions are just  :lol

Most of the time it was just the two of us and the AI, although we did wait for a few others to join during certain missions.  Pretty fun overall; the game is certainly flawed, and frustration would come from levels where you could be knocked off a platform and die (the train in 3-3 comes to mind), be it from an unseen enemy attack or simply due to the recoil from the weapon you are using.  Now that I've finished the game once, I can use my own custom character in campaign and level up.  You can get a lot of experience in campaign, plus there are certain areas for point farming. 

My problem with the game's unlocking system actually isn't that it's a slot machine-style interface, but instead that you can only get the points to use in the slot machine through the campaign mode.  It doesn't make any sense that there are no ways to get points from playing multiplayer versus.   :-\ 

Anyway, certain stages were fun enough to the point that I wouldn't mind replaying them a bunch for grinding purposes.  Campaign is pretty short as it is (six chapters, further divided into sub-missions; there's usually around 3-5 per chapter) and definitely replayable.
ど助平

tiesto

  • ルカルカ★ナイトフィーバー
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5589 on: May 20, 2010, 01:46:20 PM »
Downloaded the trial of Mamotte Knight. I don't really like tower defense games (well, the passive ones where you place objects down on a field and wait for stuff to happen), so when I heard this game was a tower defense game I was worried... but it's not really like that. You have an avatar that you move around, killing shit, trying to protect the princess. It's pretty frantic, has a cool retro Famicom style aesthetic, and some rockin' chiptunes from The Man Koshiro himself. I also love the heavily Engrish tutorial and the faux-Famicom boxart/startup screen where you press "A" to blow on the cartridge to begin. I bought it once my trial was up (only 240 points) but haven't put time into the full game yet.
^_^

magus

  • LIKES FF7
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5590 on: May 20, 2010, 03:45:30 PM »
so it's like the knight mode of half-minute hero?
(in knight mode,you were a knight trying to protect a wizard,you could move the wizard around or place trap to slow down the monsters)
<----

Smooth Groove

  • Both teams played hard, my man
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5591 on: May 20, 2010, 03:49:59 PM »
1000'd the new Prince of Persia... big ol meh. I guess I would prefer it over the 2008 version but this one is still pretty blah. It's even canon with the Sands of Time trilogy. But since it takes place "between" the first two games they can basically make up whatever they want

Is the platforming at least better than the last game and could you actually die now?  How does the combat compare to Two Thrones?  Two Thrones had the best combat, imo. 

I'm fairly disappointed as I was a big fan of the trilogy from last gen.  But like you said, it's just a side story, so it's not really surprising that everything about it is just meh. 

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5592 on: May 20, 2010, 04:08:31 PM »
I'd say its better than the 2008 game, yeah. You can actually die, you can rewind time as well when you fall. There can be a lot of enemies on screen too. Usually it was maybe 3 at most in the old games, and just the 1 or 2 in the 2008 game. This one, upwards to 30 can be on the same screen at once. It's pretty wild. But the AI is dumb as shit though, so the combat is just blah.

I want to buy the old trilogy now, though, and give it a replay.
fat

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5593 on: May 21, 2010, 03:59:25 PM »
Well finished Peace Walker post-game stuff.  The entire game has little relevance to the actual MGS timeline and then in the post-game ending he throws in all the relevance of the game into a 5 min cutscene.

For those not planning on playing Peace Walker I summed up all the actual relevant events to the MGS timeline that occur in the game:
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Actual Game Story:
-Big Boss gathers soldiers, establishes a base for them (MSF)
-International crisis [bad guys have a Metal Gear with a nuke, MSF (Big Boss) gets involved and stops them], his sub-commander Miller brings the unfired recovered nuke back to MSF
-During all this Big Boss recruits Otocon's dad Huey who builds Big Boss a Metal Gear, after the ending they install the recovered nuke on it for safe keeping

Post Game True Ending:
-World takes notice of MSF because of their involvement in the international crisis and the fact they have a giant robot with a nuke now, Big Boss states this will make enemies of the MSF that will come after them
-Big Boss learns of a secret organization CIPHER likely headed by Major Zero that's out to control the world
-Big Boss realizes MSF will need money to survive so they'll have to be a hired gun and at times be an evil of the world
-Renames MSF to Outer Heaven.
[close]

Smooth Groove

  • Both teams played hard, my man
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5594 on: May 21, 2010, 04:01:48 PM »
Finally finished Mass Effect 2 yesterday.  Game shows that I completed it in 37 1/2 hrs but I spent at least 4 hrs more checking out the different options.  It's all I've been playing the last 2 weeks.  I can't remember the last time I devoted that much attention to one game.  Kudos to Bioware for making a game that overwhelmed my ADHD.  

Olivia Wilde Homo

  • Proud Kinkshamer
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5595 on: May 22, 2010, 02:14:11 PM »
Sent in DiRT 2 to Gamefly.  Completed 99% of the DiRT Tour but couldn't find the one missing event I needed.

Either way, I loved the game and was probably the best racing game I've played since Rallisport Challenge 2.  Everything was well done in the game although some of the voice clips would get repetitive if you played it long enough.  The race tracks were varied enough where it felt like Codemasters actually gave a fuck about putting out a quality product.  There were also enough things in the game along the tour progression to where you kept playing.  I live in the boondocks now so playing online isn't an option (slow ass internet) so I just sent it in.

Not really feeling DW Gundam 2.  The game feels floaty, which gets in the way of slaughtering thousands of robot punk bitches, which is the whole point of Musou games.  Everything else though is a dramatic improvement from the original, which I think was a hasty reskinning of Dynasty Warriors 3 (large but empty levels that you can lose yourself in and rack up insane KO counts if you so desire).

Thought about getting a Wii again for SMG2.  Although seeing Nintards gush over it disgusts me, so I'll probably get it and play it on the DL.
🍆🍆

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5596 on: May 22, 2010, 08:48:17 PM »
I'd say its better than the 2008 game, yeah. You can actually die, you can rewind time as well when you fall. There can be a lot of enemies on screen too. Usually it was maybe 3 at most in the old games, and just the 1 or 2 in the 2008 game. This one, upwards to 30 can be on the same screen at once. It's pretty wild. But the AI is dumb as shit though, so the combat is just blah.

I want to buy the old trilogy now, though, and give it a replay.
Man, how weird. I like the series overall, so I thought I knew what was what, but I didn't even know there is a new game out for it. I just assumed this was a LTTP posting about the 2008 game, which I only just recently picked up used.

Last night I played a mess of UFC Undisputed 2009, trying to pick up the KO 'cheev before the 2010 version comes out and everyone stops playing 2009. Got up to my 15 TKO/KO wins finally, and I'll be damned if the 'cheev isn't actually for ONLY KOs. :fml

TripleA

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5597 on: May 22, 2010, 10:29:49 PM »
Now playing Just Cause 2.

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5598 on: May 22, 2010, 11:12:02 PM »
I feel like I'm cheating in Valkyria when I don't fight most enemies and just sneak around to the enemy base with scouts, kill the 1-2 guys there, take the flag and win the mission.

iconoclast

  • レーダーマン
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5599 on: May 22, 2010, 11:39:11 PM »
I started up Borderlands today and played up to level 23 with a friend. Really fun game. Though I hope for Borderlands 2 they add armor and accessories to the loot tables.
BiSH

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5600 on: May 22, 2010, 11:40:30 PM »
The new Blue Dragon DS is really good. Curious how the online works
fat

Beezy

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5601 on: May 22, 2010, 11:41:48 PM »
I started up Borderlands today and played up to level 23 with a friend. Really fun game. Though I hope for Borderlands 2 they add armor and accessories to the loot tables.
I started playing Mr. Driller again because of your bitch ass. I was #1 in standard driller on my friend list until I added you. Your score isn't much higher though. It's going down this week. :maf

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5602 on: May 23, 2010, 12:50:19 AM »
Despite what demi says, Trine is fantastically good.  It's better than most $60 games this gen, I will definitely look out for whatever these guys do next.  The graphics/music/gameplay are so polished and nice.

The only people who will hate this games are people with OCD/Completionists because without a guide it's easy to miss something or even if you see it, sometimes you get 1 chance at a jump 10 mins into a stage to get it and if you miss it you are screwed for a perfect stage clear and have to start it all again.  Thankfully I got over my 100%ing early on in this game and I don't care if I miss experience bottles, I'm just enjoying the game.

Bitter X360-only people probably won't like it either :P

The new Blue Dragon DS is really good. Curious how the online works

Told ya. 
Online works great but you can only do dungeons you've already beaten or door bosses.  Main use is for door bosses since the harder ones are hell on your own. 

Jansen

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5603 on: May 23, 2010, 01:05:48 AM »
well now that alan wake is done i need to finish up heavy rain and forgotten sands,

heavy rain i'm having a hard time convincing myself to carry on. TFS on the other hand is pretty decent. it has some issues like input delay during battles and the prince isn't graceful, but so far so good. would recommend it as a rental!

after that it's on to nier (awesome game, haters be damned!) and RDR.


chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5604 on: May 23, 2010, 01:30:40 AM »
Last night I played a mess of UFC Undisputed 2009, trying to pick up the KO 'cheev before the 2010 version comes out and everyone stops playing 2009. Got up to my 15 TKO/KO wins finally, and I'll be damned if the 'cheev isn't actually for ONLY KOs. :fml
Need one more KO now, last bitch rage quit and then told me my 37-103-00 record is LOLworthy. I clarified that he is the one that ran away from a fighter with 103 losses.  :punch :wag Was on my way to doing pretty well against a level 70 player, and the postman rang up. I'm going to have to take a little time away from this game, it's like fate arrays itself against me.

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5605 on: May 23, 2010, 02:45:58 AM »
This chapter 7 giant tank fortress thing in Valkyria is freaking ridiculous.  Will try again tomorrow, fairly frustrated now.


hmmm, reading the faqs and apparently you can SAVE mid-battle and reload when things go badly.  Did not know that.  This should alleviate some of the frustration.  Nothing like an important do or die moment and all your lancers & tanks miss a target that is right in front of their goddamn face.
« Last Edit: May 23, 2010, 02:56:14 AM by Bebpo »

naff

  • <̽̎̏ͨͣ͞҉̯͔̩̩͕ͅ>̫͔͍̥͉̳͚͓͗͋̄̑ͧ̓̔̏ͭ̿͌ͫ́̒́ͩ̀͡͞ͅ
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5606 on: May 23, 2010, 04:07:17 AM »
I've just started playing Valkyria Chronicles too  :D Loving it so far. Just finished that giant tank mission, bet it first time  :smug Only just though. Nearly all my ground troops were killed by the end but.... You'll see what happens.

Playing through Resident Evil 4 Wii too, it's good. First real game I've played on wii and I really didn't like the controls at first but it's great now I'm used to them. Catchin up on old games is good, played some red dead for a few hours the other night (a friends copy), will pick it up later, pretty happy with my backlog at the moment.
◕‿◕

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5607 on: May 23, 2010, 03:11:06 PM »
Yeah, it took me a few tries but finally ended up S-ranking it with no deaths.  The main problem was when Selberia shows up she mows down your party.  But once I saw she couldn't attack your tank I retreated everyone except my 3 leaders and an engineer who I hid in a corner of the map.  Then I just took out the 1 lancer they had, which was the only thing that could hurt my tank and waited it out until the 3rd radiator popped up.  Shot it with my tank to expose the body and then just had Largo rail on it from a safe spot with the engineer at his side refilling his ammo every 3 shots.

Overall probably took me about 3 hours of attempts and figuring things out to get through it, but I think I learned a lot about the game on this map which should be useful for future maps.

The Sceneman

  • Did my wife send you?
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5608 on: May 23, 2010, 05:22:55 PM »
I've just started playing Valkyria Chronicles too  :D Loving it so far. Just finished that giant tank mission, bet it first time  :smug Only just though. Nearly all my ground troops were killed by the end but.... You'll see what happens.

Playing through Resident Evil 4 Wii too, it's good. First real game I've played on wii and I really didn't like the controls at first but it's great now I'm used to them. Catchin up on old games is good, played some red dead for a few hours the other night (a friends copy), will pick it up later, pretty happy with my backlog at the moment.

finally took my advice aye :smug RE4 is so good, its definitely one of my top 5 of all time. Have you met the big cheese yet?  :o
#1

naff

  • <̽̎̏ͨͣ͞҉̯͔̩̩͕ͅ>̫͔͍̥͉̳͚͓͗͋̄̑ͧ̓̔̏ͭ̿͌ͫ́̒́ͩ̀͡͞ͅ
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5609 on: May 23, 2010, 06:50:17 PM »
Yeah I met the big cheese, and that dude locked in a cupboard. Games real funny. Not really scary though, although when I met that first zombie with a chainsaw I didn't take him out in time and he just sawed my head clean off which was really hilarious. My gf kept laughing at me as I was trying to stab the farmers frantically thrusting that wii mote :lol

Selvaria pretty much took out all my dudes as I didn't have them positioned in a good place when she arrived with her reinforcements. I only had an engineer, a shocktrooper and a scout left after her second turn came around iirc, I then took out that last radiator and destroyed the tank in a single turn after that. Had me on the edge of my seat, that level really threw you in the deep end. Last time a played an SRPG like this was years ago when Hogs of War came out, this game is actually really similar  :P
◕‿◕

The Sceneman

  • Did my wife send you?
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5610 on: May 23, 2010, 10:08:23 PM »
lol glad youre enjoying the game. Just wait, some of the locations later on are awesome and the game just keeps getting funnier.

Leon, how're you holding up?

Bad question Hunnigan!
#1

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5611 on: May 24, 2010, 05:06:07 AM »
Played just enough DJ Hero to mess my wrist up again, but I did manage to squeeze out a 4-star rating on Hard, finally evening out my gamerscore to a multiple of five again. :whew :ocd

Went online for some matches but NO ONE is playing this. The DJ samples are only playing cricket noises. I mean, if anyone was playing it, it would be during Friday or Saturday night, right? Just how badly did this game tank? Did its pathetic sales end up permanently sidelining that Numark "Scratch DJ" game as a side effect?

A Slime Appears, did you play online? Want to boost with a particularly incompetent player?

tiesto

  • ルカルカ★ナイトフィーバー
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5612 on: May 24, 2010, 09:23:59 AM »
Made it to ch 7 in Resonance of Fate, still loving it. The story is actually picking up a bit too. Got to see the infamous cinema too, that was awesome.
^_^

archie4208

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5613 on: May 24, 2010, 09:32:42 AM »
Dragon Age is pretty awesome.  Kinda easy, though.  (I'm playing on hard right now.  Might bump it up to nightmare in the future)

Jansen

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5614 on: May 24, 2010, 11:19:53 AM »
i think i'm almost done with forgotten sands.

dunno if i should go back to resonance of fate or nier first.

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5615 on: May 24, 2010, 08:30:26 PM »
Finished Trine.  Such a good game.

The last 2 stages were tough, but the checkpoint system is so good that it never gets frustrating (although in the last level there were no checkpoints ha)

The game had some flaws, but honestly there is no perfect game out there and every game has some degree of flaw.  But what Trine gave me was an incredible experience that was filled with non-stop fun.  The combat was great and worked your twitch gameplay, the jumping worked your platforming skills, and the puzzles and secrets worked your brain.

I'd give it a 10.  Best XBLA/PSN style game and my new favorite 2d/2.5d action platformer that isn't Mario.


The soundtrack was soooo good.  I might go buy it now.

The DLC level was kinda weird though.  "A New Beginning" and it ends with you about to go SOMEWHERE and then........that's it!  Seems like it was supposed to be the start of a DLC expansion or something that never came :X

I like that if you want to go back to old levels for achievement completion, all the stuff you've already found is gone so you can just look for what you missed and it's cool that you keep all your abilities so you can reach areas more easily with your endgame skills/accessories.



I'd never heard of Frozenbyte before this, but now I gotta check out their Shadowgrounds game (I got it in a pack from some steam sale last winter anyways) and see if it's just as good.

Smooth Groove

  • Both teams played hard, my man
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5616 on: May 24, 2010, 08:38:41 PM »
^Bebpo's GOTY for the week of 24 May 2010. 

Bebpo

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5617 on: May 24, 2010, 08:41:26 PM »
It's not my GoTY :P

I've only said one game is my GoTY contender in 2010 so far and that's Kingdom Hearts PSP. 

OptimoPeach

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5618 on: May 24, 2010, 09:00:08 PM »
Playing Link's Awakening because it's been a while since I had some 2D goodness. :bow The best Zelda :bow2

I think I might start Shiren the Wanderer too, but I sorta want to finish FF13 before I start playing like 10 things at once.
hi5

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5619 on: May 24, 2010, 09:34:25 PM »
Tried to finish a boss in Conan, because I'm pretty sure that if I get Red Ded Rededtion before I finish Conan, I'm never picking Conan up again. Annoying boss is annoying, in a game where almost all the bosses have been annoying. The most fun is fighting a ton of guys, managing Conan's combos and weapon techniques, and generally being a Cimmerian badass. The one-against-many combat is intense and satisfying, but their mechanics don't translate well to the gimicky and glitchy boss fights.

magus

  • LIKES FF7
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5620 on: May 25, 2010, 09:13:48 AM »
Playing Link's Awakening because it's been a while since I had some 2D goodness. :bow The best Zelda :bow2

I think I might start Shiren the Wanderer too, but I sorta want to finish FF13 before I start playing like 10 things at once.

wait the wii version or the ds version?
in any case
DO IT!
<----

OptimoPeach

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5621 on: May 25, 2010, 12:32:00 PM »
The DS one. I was digging through my old PSX stuff the other day and came across Azure Dreams, and it reminded that I hadn't played a fun roguelike in I don't know how long. I have been meaning to check out both Shiren and Izuna, but I remembered you going nuts over Shiren a few months ago so I figured I might as well start there lol.
hi5

magus

  • LIKES FF7
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5622 on: May 25, 2010, 12:33:08 PM »
SOMEONE GOT SHIREN OVER IZUNA!
MY JOB HERE IS DONE!
*flies away*

<----

Raban

  • The baby...
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5623 on: May 25, 2010, 04:51:48 PM »
Been playing GTA IV to finish it so I feel prepared to play the expansions. A handful of missions away from the end of IV, and this'll be the first GTA game I've ever played start to finish. I came close to finishing them all, but I gave up about 75% through the story missions on each one. IV is easily my favorite of the bunch, however. With all its faults and lack of features in comparison to San Andreas, at least IV is always a blast to play. I got tired of playing GTA III and its sequels because of how limited the game mechanics are, and while IV's story isn't oscar-winning, I find it to be more captivating than any other in the series.

The scripted chases suck, sometimes the physics will outright betray you, but thankfully on the PC many of the graphical and performance issues that plagued the console versions are completely obliterated, and to top it off my PC can not only run the game better, but the graphics are superior. Can't wait to sink my teeth into LoD and BoGT, to be followed by Red Dead Redemption and my excitement at the chance of GTA V being unveiled at E3 this year.
« Last Edit: May 25, 2010, 04:53:29 PM by startselect »
SRY

brawndolicious

  • Nylonhilist
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5624 on: May 25, 2010, 07:21:46 PM »
The scripted chases suck, sometimes the physics will outright betray you, but thankfully on the PC many of the graphical and performance issues that plagued the console versions are completely obliterated.
I don't remember any huge issues but a lot of people didn't like the new driving physics.  The chases were pretty much the only real challenge in the game though, I remember on the first mission you drop off Roman to meet some Albanians and it's one of the few times in the game that you have a rear wheel drive car but you have to wait a minute for him to come out so I was peeling out and my tires blew up after 20 seconds.  Then he runs out and you're getting chased by the Albanians while driving on your rims..

Raban

  • The baby...
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5625 on: May 25, 2010, 09:07:05 PM »
The scripted chases suck, sometimes the physics will outright betray you, but thankfully on the PC many of the graphical and performance issues that plagued the console versions are completely obliterated.
I don't remember any huge issues but a lot of people didn't like the new driving physics.  The chases were pretty much the only real challenge in the game though, I remember on the first mission you drop off Roman to meet some Albanians and it's one of the few times in the game that you have a rear wheel drive car but you have to wait a minute for him to come out so I was peeling out and my tires blew up after 20 seconds.  Then he runs out and you're getting chased by the Albanians while driving on your rims..

It's just that sometimes if you clip an object at a certain angle some vehicles are vaulted as if they weighed 10 pounds. And I don't remember it being an issue in the console version, but the camera wigs out if I try to move it around a corner when I'm in cover.

And yeah, the chases do succeed in bumping up the dismal difficulty of the shootouts (I've never shot an enemy more than once so far, and I've only ever used the glock), but they do it in a cheap, poorly-executed manner. I wish it was more clear who I had to kill from the car and what enemies I have to hang back from so their car doesn't explode or if I just chase them until they crash. Half the missions are extremely ambiguous about their goal on the first run, and the lack of mid mission check-points don't help. Thankfully, the expansions fix that.
SRY

Enl

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5626 on: May 25, 2010, 11:20:15 PM »
Soldner-X2

This ended up being a nice improvement over the original. While the first game had its fair share of problems I still enoyed its less than traditional leveling/scoring system. This one keeps only a few elements of the original (some leveling items, chain meter) but it pretty much reworks everything else. Now it feels somewhat like a traditional Japanese SHMUP.

Improvements:

- The random patterns and cheap hits from the original seem to have been eliminated.
- Bullets can be seen more easily
- Mulitple ships with unique weaponry
- Chain system no longer focuses on switching weapons but collecting rings before the chain meter dries out
- Some nice looking, fast scrolling 3d backdrops (though I do kinda miss the hi-res 2d)
- Bosses have muliple forms
- Lots of unlockables (3 stages, a 3rd ship, challenge modes)

[youtube=560,345]jJ06n20AFbE&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/youtube]
mmm

ferrarimanf355

  • I have the cutest car on The Bore
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5627 on: May 26, 2010, 12:29:08 AM »
Blur is awesome.

:bow Bizarre Creations :bow2
:piss demi's taste in racing games :piss2
500

Raban

  • The baby...
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5628 on: May 26, 2010, 02:38:23 AM »
GTAIV? BEAT IT. Time for some Lost and Damned! :rock
SRY

demi

  • cooler than willco
  • Administrator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5629 on: May 26, 2010, 02:38:44 AM »
Finished 1000 Split Second. I think I'm caught up for May, now.
fat

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5630 on: May 26, 2010, 06:24:14 AM »
(snip)
It's just that sometimes if you clip an object at a certain angle some vehicles are vaulted as if they weighed 10 pounds. And I don't remember it being an issue in the console version, but the camera wigs out if I try to move it around a corner when I'm in cover.
(snip)
It's very possible the wonky physics are a function of the PC port, or having greater granularity in its hit collision. Some physics propellorhead will probably step up and explain it better than I'm about to, but: the effects of force applied are not defined just by the velocity with which an item strikes another, but also the area over which it is applied. I worked on one game where projectiles transferred not just damage, but force against the target. Every once in a while the target would just BOING, fly away. We eventually figured out it happened when the projectile struck the edge of two planes of hit detection, or the point defined by the intersection of three planes. The force was exponentially greater in those cases.

I'm recalling GTA IV has a playground toy that produces similar results, but it may be a different cause.

Philip Cardgage

  • #1 Creeper Lagoon Fan
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5631 on: May 26, 2010, 09:39:41 AM »
Been messing around with Terrordrome a little. Its pretty fun.

archie4208

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5632 on: May 26, 2010, 11:02:36 AM »
Beat Mass Effect.  Shitty game with fun moments.

chronovore

  • relapsed dev
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5633 on: May 26, 2010, 11:07:25 AM »
I can finally call myself "done" with UFC 2009 Undisputed, just as UFC 2010 comes out today.

I got the 15 wins by KO 'cheev tonight, fighting some guy in Australia. The guy's ground game was so much better than mine, it isn't funny. We actually got ranked matched twice; he won the first time by decision, and I was happy that I didn't my Cheick Kongo didn't get completely groundsmeared by his Minotauro.

When he popped up again as my next opponent, I took Mir, whose ground game isn't as sad as Kongo's. It didn't help much.  :lol I couldn't believe how often the guy reversed my moves, considering how laggy the connection was. Anyway, he was on his way to another decision win, so I pulled out the stops, barely manage to escape from ground to standing, and give him mixed high/low kicks. He's throwing BOMBS, and I get rocked... but there's only 15 seconds left, so I keep going with Mir's exceptional kicking, and BANG -- head kick, lights out for Minatauro at 4:49 of Round 3. Most exciting fight I've ever had online.

I'm hanging up my 2009 gloves with 700/1000. The rest of them are online -- I guess if I win 12 more matches, I can get the 50 wins 'cheev, but I'm pretty sure this town is coming like a ghost town.

OptimoPeach

  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5634 on: May 26, 2010, 01:20:49 PM »
I had to consult an FAQ for Link's Awakening because I couldn't figure out how to get the master key in the SECOND DUNGEON :-\ What the hell is wrong with me?

I can finally call myself "done" with UFC 2009 Undisputed, just as UFC 2010 comes out today.
Have you played 2010 yet, or just the demo? I know it only just came out officially, but it seems like a bunch of retail places were selling it early. I haven't read much about it so maybe I'm wrong, but it didn't seem like there were many improvements from what I played. I might get it just so I can play as Shaq though lol
« Last Edit: May 26, 2010, 02:56:18 PM by OptimoPeach »
hi5

Great Rumbler

  • Dab on the sinners
  • Global Moderator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5635 on: May 26, 2010, 01:28:33 PM »
Tomb Raider: Underworld, which is totally awesome.

MySims, which is like The Sims + Animal Crossing.

Atelier Annie, which is...something, I guess. It has alchemy, I know that much.
dog

magus

  • LIKES FF7
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5636 on: May 26, 2010, 02:01:38 PM »
i think i'm the only one here who played atelier annie (heck i think i might be the only one on the internet who played atelier annie!) as i'm a pretty big gust fan and personaly i tought it was veeeeeeeeeeery disappointing
the game is just a huge fetch quest after another with animu character bothering you every once in a while (sometime bothering you with a fetch quest)
<----

Raban

  • The baby...
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5637 on: May 26, 2010, 02:12:05 PM »
Tomb Raider: Underworld, which is totally awesome.

This is still in my backlog.

And I started playing The Lost and Damned this morning, got about 6 or 7 missions in. It's pretty good stuff. There's quite a bit more combat than I'm used to, and anything involving driving is a lot easier because I already enjoyed the motorcycle mechanics in GTAIV, and they have only improved from that game. I have to say though, the extremely homo-erotic bro against bro storyline in this isn't all that interesting to me, but we'll see where it goes.
SRY

Great Rumbler

  • Dab on the sinners
  • Global Moderator
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5638 on: May 26, 2010, 03:23:19 PM »
i think i'm the only one here who played atelier annie (heck i think i might be the only one on the internet who played atelier annie!) as i'm a pretty big gust fan and personaly i tought it was veeeeeeeeeeery disappointing
the game is just a huge fetch quest after another with animu character bothering you every once in a while (sometime bothering you with a fetch quest)

It's got stats and loots though. :omg
dog

Hitler Stole My Potato

  • The Pelé of Anal
  • Senior Member
Re: What are you playing?
« Reply #5639 on: May 26, 2010, 03:31:26 PM »
I think all the Blockbusters in this city are closing down because everytime I see one they're have a going out of business clearance sale.  After I worked out this morning I stopped by one and picked up Infamous and Ninja Gaiden II Sigma (or whatever it's called) for 30 bucks total.  It's so rare to find cheap PS3 games that I was considering buying a lot more but I just couldn't find anything else that caught my interest.
Tacos