What are you playing?

[duckman2000]

Motorstorm PR. Damn this game is awesome.

[BlueTsunami]

I just acquired Dragon Quest V for the PS2 and am now applying the fan patch that was just released. I haven't played a Dragon Quest game in a good while 

[demi]

I just acquired Dragon Quest V for the PS2 and am now applying the fan patch that was just released. I haven't played a Dragon Quest game in a good while 

DS version is the same thing but without uggo 3d graphics... plus more. Enjoy your second rate Dragon Quest

[BlueTsunami]

:'(

[bork]

Unlocked all the characters in TvC Ultimate All-Stars.  So just to confirm, the fastest way to do it is to beat the game 16 times; finish it eight times with different Capcom characters (including Frank and Zero when you unlock them) and eight times with Tatsunoko characters (including Tekkaman Blade and Joe The Condor when you unlock them) and you will get the last character, Yatterman-2. 

I'm still working on getting the Lost Planet shooter.  I think you have to play the hidden credits mini game to get it.  When you beat the game and the credits roll, don't hit start to skip and hit an attack button instead, and you'll trigger a mini game with Doronjo and crew riding a bicycle.  You have to jump over gaps between hills and you can jump to collect the staff's names.  Occasionally you'll see gold letters and I think getting all of them (spelling out "thank you for") unlocks it.  It's tougher than it seems though.  Roll also has a different version that plays a new version of her theme music and you play as her flying on her broom.

All five new characters are pretty damn cool and have crazy level 3 super attacks.  Tekkaman Blade is totally    with most of his attacks, but he moves kinda weird.  He dashes like Morrigan (so he flies upwards), but actually has a start-up delay on his dashing.  Some of his special moves basically act as dash attacks to make up for it.

The top-ranked player right now is named "NOOB."  This guy uses Gold Lightan (think of enormous Mecha Zangief with better armor) and will rage quit if he is going to lose.  I was reading that people are clueless as to how to deal with Lightan, and they were right...I did some online matches and just destroyed a couple of people with 360s.  I think he has a major advantage in laggy matches.

[Nintendosbooger]

I'm beginning to notice the character development flaws in this game. For the exception of Nolan (axe guy), none of the pre-classed characters I've started out with are able to hold their own in a fight. None of them. This problem forces them to rely on the classed members to do most of the grunt work, which in turn jeopardizes the growth of the weaker characters.

Outside of getting cheap kills from injured enemies, these characters can't do a damn thing. If I put them too close to the action, it's good night. At least with Ike's crew in PoR, I could count on the members to handle themselves in a one on one confrontation with comparable foe.

[Third]

Finished Overlord II. The game was great.

Now playing Mass Effect 2 and Fatal Frame 4. Mass Effect 2 will make FFXIII obsolete, I'm afraid.

[MCD]

I'm beginning to notice the character development flaws in this game. For the exception of Nolan (axe guy), none of the pre-classed characters I've started out with are able to hold their own in a fight. None of them. This problem forces them to rely on the classed members to do most of the grunt work, which in turn jeopardizes the growth of the weaker characters.

Outside of getting cheap kills from injured enemies, these characters can't do a damn thing. If I put them too close to the action, it's good night. At least with Ike's crew in PoR, I could count on the members to handle themselves in a one on one confrontation with comparable foe.

try the best you can to endure the loli and her thief team, you will get better teams later on so right now it's just a matter of trial and error and saving after every turn.

[archie4208]

Up to 15-20-1 in League of Legends.  Not to bad considering my first 8 games were losses.

[cool breeze]

Red Faction G on PC is stuck running at 1.5x speed 

it's actually kinda better this way

There's a fix for that, swaggaz or so I read.

yeah, I've heard of three fixes so far that I'll try out:

one involves clicking your desktop as it launches to force DX9 mode, another involves downloading a cheat program that apparently contains a virus, and the last is some unofficial solution a guy made that has mixed results.

[bork]

Hey Lyte; is TvC worth a purchase?. You've probably already answered this already, sorry for the repeat question.

TL;DR version is yes if you like the Capcom Marvel Vs. games, but note that nobody is gonna have a real handle on how the online play holds up until tomorrow.

EDIT: All the matches I have played today have been lag free so far!

EDIT 2: Except for the guy I just played against...and I think it was intentional.  The first two matches were great, then after killed him Lightan, he picks Lightan too, only the lag goes off the charts and he just does the ground stomp move which is impossible to avoid with this much lag.  What a pussy.

[bork]

Sounds good to me. I'll pick it up later in the week then. Thanks, Lyte!

Just be sure to have a classic controller or stick handy!

[demi]

Should have been an XBLA release

[bork]

I just beat a guy doing Lightan's ground stomp and nothing else.  No lag to speak of.  He just kept walking right into me.   

Should have been an XBLA release

Yeah.  Would have had more players and better online too!     Most of the people I have been playing appear to be from Europe or Asia, so it's good to see that the lag is minimal with good connections.

[archie4208]

I played my first game of HoN where people were actually nice to me!   Even though we got curb stomped, it was such a pleasant experience to actually have people give out pointers and advice instead of calling me a cigarillo.

[AdmiralViscen]

I'm playing Mass Effect

[Bebpo]

Anyone think there are too many games at this point in the gen?  Like you hear about devs closing and publishers making less games because of a bad economy but it feels like there's way too many new games these days.

Kinda in the burnt out mode again.  Stared at my wii when I got home from classes and couldn't turn it on. 

It's also like I used to have time to school, to game, to social party.  But now I don't even have time to finish many games or social.  I finish maybe 2 games a month these days.  I think I blame it a little on playing only rpgs since like September.  For every 50 hour rpg I finish I could have caught up on five 10 hour games!  >_<  Why are rpgs so gooooooood though

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'm just getting into games after about a year and a half hiatus (except strolling through Musou titles)

Gaming these days just doesn't compare to the halcyon days of the Dreamcast where I got excited for games to come out or in the case of the launch, lost sleep a couple nights before its launch.  I like playing games since the Dreamcast's end but it has never been the same.  I've had a lot of fun recently with Borderlands but I'm at the point where nothing in gaming really excites me.

Fortunately there's Gamefly.  Otherwise, I'd still be on my hiatus, which will basically just turn into me giving up on games.

Can't even be bothered to fire up an emulator.

[demi]

Theres never too many games. People who make this excuse just dont have the time on their hands because they dont make time.

[bork]

Bebpo, just take a break from gaming for a few days or a week.  Or take a break from RPGs for a little while!

I played my first game of HoN where people were actually nice to me!   Even though we got curb stomped, it was such a pleasant experience to actually have people give out pointers and advice instead of calling me a cigarillo.

What's HoN?

[archie4208]

I played my first game of HoN where people were actually nice to me!   Even though we got curb stomped, it was such a pleasant experience to actually have people give out pointers and advice instead of calling me a cigarillo.

What's HoN?

Heroes of Newerth.  It is a DotA clone which is a RTS/RPG hybrid based off a Warcraft 3 mod.  It is pretty fun, but the community is made up of a bunch of l33t losers who call you a cigarillo if you aren't pwnin' scrubs.  I have been playing alot of League of Legends, its casual, microtransaction based sister.  HoN is much deeper and I want to try to learn it, but nearly everybody is a jerk so it is very offputting, whereas people are much more pleasant in League of Legends.

Edit:  In fighting game terms, League of Legends is TvC and Heroes of Newerth is Street Fighter 4.

Anyone think there are too many games at this point in the gen?  Like you hear about devs closing and publishers making less games because of a bad economy but it feels like there's way too many new games these days.

Kinda in the burnt out mode again.  Stared at my wii when I got home from classes and couldn't turn it on. 

It's also like I used to have time to school, to game, to social party.  But now I don't even have time to finish many games or social.  I finish maybe 2 games a month these days.  I think I blame it a little on playing only rpgs since like September.  For every 50 hour rpg I finish I could have caught up on five 10 hour games!  >_<  Why are rpgs so gooooooood though

Lay off the RPGs for awhile (and start playing Bayonetta )

[TripleA]

Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC), Mass Effect 2 (PC) in a few hours  !

[demi]

TripleA, you from GAF? Good to see you post here bro.

[The Sceneman]

FUCKING HELL YEAH

finally cracked a nutbusting Peggle achievement.



Peoples Ovation - win a 4 player peg party by 100,000 pts or more

I tried for like 8 hours to get this shit legit, but you either need to be really lucky, or play against people that suck. Its a pain to boost also cos you need 4 peeps.

But today I just got really lucky and got good shot after good shot, then I landed in the 50k bucket in fever then BOOM achievement unlocked.

Just got the Peggle Nights expansion so I will be playing a lot of Peggle I think. Might even get the full 250Gs. I already got the hardest achievement (100% all 55 stages)

[The Sceneman]

and I have almost finished my Mass Effect insanity run just in time for ME2. (releases Friday down-under)

Will just need to mop up the engineer/adept skill achievements after that.

Holy fuck Pinnacle Station was Pinnacle Ass

[tiesto]

Grinding in DQ7, fighting metaru-suraimu over in Krage. Will probably be finished soon, within the next few weeks. Then I'll give Mass Effect a shot - even though I hate Bioware, sci-fi is cool and I really like what I've heard of the game's soundtrack (music is very important to me in a game, more than gfx, I think)

[demi]

- Finished DQ4, shit ending and final boss
- Finished Professor Layton 2, shit twist/resolution
- 200'd Vandal Hearts, ok
- 1000'd Ninja Gaiden 2, shit

[Junpei the Tracer!]

- 1000'd Ninja Gaiden 2, shit

Straight up masochism.

[magus]

- Finished Professor Layton 2, shit twist/resolution

ahahahahahah yea,with layton 2 i didn't even bother to search for all the puzzle since a lot of them were either reused in the game multiple time or recycled from layton 1,it was a disappointing sequel and it kinda makes me shiver when i think in japan they already have layton 5

[archie4208]

I played the Blue Oyster Cult song Godzilla 6 times in a row on Rock Band.  Such an awesome song.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Still playing more Arkham Asylum.  I'm about halfway through the game if the FAQs mean anything.

I'm still loving the game.  I'm getting the hang of finding ways to clear a room of half a dozen armed guards.  Not that it was that difficult anyway but the ability to grab an enemy and let them hang off of a gargoyle is pretty neat.

I hope to get it wrapped up by the end of next weekend and continue w/ Borderlands.

[archie4208]

I played the funniest game of HoN.  There were two dudes harassing one of the guys on my team in voice chat and he had a meltdown and was threatening to drive to their house and fight them.   We got stomped, but I was laughing to much to care.

[AdmiralViscen]

- Finished DQ4, shit ending and final boss
- Finished Professor Layton 2, shit twist/resolution
- 200'd Vandal Hearts, ok
- 1000'd Ninja Gaiden 2, shit

Is Vandal Hearts worth buying? How long did it wind up being?

[Bebpo]

- Finished DQ4, shit ending and final boss
- Finished Professor Layton 2, shit twist/resolution
- 200'd Vandal Hearts, ok
- 1000'd Ninja Gaiden 2, shit

For DQ4 you have to do the epilogue.  It's where they explain the bad guy's motivations and flesh his character out.  Then the ending will be more satisfying.  The boss was a bitch though, indeed.

[AdmiralViscen]

I barely remember the plot of DQ4, but I do remember the epilogue just being lots of boring grinding.

[Bebpo]

I barely remember the plot of DQ4, but I do remember the epilogue just being lots of boring grinding.

I don't remember the epilogue having any battles ^^;  I thought it was just optional story scenes you could see if you went to the right area that explained the villain's story.  Then again, yeah, it's been a while.

[demi]

- Finished DQ4, shit ending and final boss
- Finished Professor Layton 2, shit twist/resolution
- 200'd Vandal Hearts, ok
- 1000'd Ninja Gaiden 2, shit

Is Vandal Hearts worth buying? How long did it wind up being?

It's like, casual. Know what you are getting into before you buy it.

[AdmiralViscen]

I barely remember the plot of DQ4, but I do remember the epilogue just being lots of boring grinding.

I don't remember the epilogue having any battles ^^;  I thought it was just optional story scenes you could see if you went to the right area that explained the villain's story.  Then again, yeah, it's been a while.

I'm talking about the DS version.

[Bebpo]

I barely remember the plot of DQ4, but I do remember the epilogue just being lots of boring grinding.

I don't remember the epilogue having any battles ^^;  I thought it was just optional story scenes you could see if you went to the right area that explained the villain's story.  Then again, yeah, it's been a while.

I'm talking about the DS version.

I'm talking about the DS version too!

I remember going to a town and then to a farm field or something and activating a trigger than opened a hidden entrance and then watching flashback memories. 
You're probably talking about an epilogue bonus dungeon which I'm sure there was but I doubt I did it.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yea, there was some shit with an alternate world and a volcano and shit, with a new final boss.

[Bebpo]

Sounds kinda cool!  Didn't see any of that.

[Raban]

Playing fuck-tons of TF2 and ME2. More TF2 though, falling in love again

[demi]

DQ4 post-game is nothing but a rehash of the same boss. Didnt bother.

[chronovore]

Tried replaying missions in Gay Tony for percentage improvement, since there are 'cheevs for all missions past 80% and another for 100%.

I finally got an early mission to 100%, then played "Chinese Takeout" several times: once to find out what the target performances are, four or five more times to try for them. I biffed 100% headshots by some shithead ducking at the wrong time so I hit him once in the shoulder. BYE! I missed the speed run by getting 5:44 on a 5:20 target, while waiting for Tony to slowly scamper his titular Gay ass to the car. So... yeah. Not going to go for even the 80% on all missions. Time to move on.

Prototype is likely next on the list. You guys bashed it a lot, so I was really apprehensive at first. But as the only guy here who played the hell out of the borderline-kinda-good movie licensed Sega HULK game, I can say this is a very similar game but doesn't make the same mistakes HULK did. When I played, it was very familiar, except the sense of danger and challenge. Maybe once I get powered up that will go away, but the mission where your hoodie-boy gets his claws was really challenging. I died several times while trying to figure out how to take out the Zuul-dog looking beasts.

[demi]

Just use cheatcodes when doing the goals beforehand (not during). Explosive Shotgun makes for easy headshots. Also use the auto-aim.

[duckman2000]

[bork]

Picked up a LAN adaptor for the Wii. TvC's online runs much, much smoother now.

[Mr. Gundam]

Spent the rest of the Saudi PSN card and picked up Critter Crunch. Fun little puzzle game.

Also snagged Braid for $7.50 off the NA Playstation Store. Seems really full of itself, but kinda fun.

[Bebpo]

Braid is a good game.  Pretentious?  Sure.  But the gameplay is there.

[Bebpo]

More rpgs need real-time difficulty selector like Tales games.  It's nice being able to play on like HARD#2 and then when you get to an impossible boss instead of going $^#^$@%@%@# you just retry and drop the difficulty down until it's challenging but possible.  Then ratchet it back up depending on the enemy strength / how long you're willing to let battles last.

I think I'm at the final dungeon in Graces now.  Gonna run around the world and do some optional stuff and then finish it out this weekend.  Still really fun.  Tales games might not have great plots but they are constantly fun games unless they are a disgrace like that ToS2 game by F-rank devs.

[demi]

Why bother playing on Hard if you're gonna drop to Normal anyway?

[Bebpo]

Why bother playing on Hard if you're gonna drop to Normal anyway?

I'm playing on hard2!
Graces goes easy/normal/hard/hard#2

Who cares if out of a 40 hour game on hard#2 you drop down to hard or normal for an hour of the game.
Would you rather spend the other 39 hours+ hours keeping the difficulty on normal and being bored in enemy encounters?

The whole point of real-time adjustable difficulty is that you can make the game fun for YOU.  If enemies are too easy in a dungeon, bump the difficulty up.  If too hard, bump it down.  You pick the level of challenge that is fun and difficult.

In Vesperia I played on normal for the first half of the game, was getting bored and then bumped it to hard and had fun for the 2nd half.  If I'd been stuck on normal the game would have been zzz.

[demi]

Sorry you hate challenge? Bosses are supposed to be hard. I see videos of people beating Kratos on Abyss difficulty or whatever.

[Bebpo]

Sorry you hate challenge? Bosses are supposed to be hard. I see videos of people beating Kratos on Abyss difficulty or whatever.

we can't all be demi  :usavich

[archie4208]

I played a game of HoN where we had 3 casters and 2 agl heroes.  I thought we were going to get humiliated, but we beat the other team in ~17 minutes (an average HoN game takes about 30 minutes.)  I enjoy playing support characters, but I really wish I had a core group of 4 other people to play with.  The game would be much more fun than going into random pubs and having to deal with 13 year olds who shout anti American slurs or people who have died 5 times calling you a noob.

[Bebpo]

PIECE WALKER ZOMGGG.  NOW I LIKE ONLINE GAMING

http://www.konami.jp/pw_game/

[Raban]

Mo' Mass Effect 2 and TF2. I want to start tackling my RPG and retro backlog, but it's so daunting.

[Bildi]

Picked up Portal as it's on sale and I'm a cheap bastard.

Cool fun.

[iconoclast]

Dragon Age - Finished at 42ish hours. Pretty good game, but during the final stretch I just wanted it to be over, so I passed on many of the side quests. I was one bar from level 20 too, so no achievement for me
Mass Effect 1 - Replaying this since I bought the DLC and felt obligated. Sunk in about 23 hours over the last two days, while doing the Liara and Tali ally achievements, so I'm nearly done with this. About to head to Ilos now.
Katamari Forever - Liking this a lot more than Beautiful Katamari so far. Should be nearly finished with it, but I can't really tell how many levels I have left. The graphic filters, while simple, make the game look a lot nicer I think.
Critter Crunch - About half way through the adventure mode. Really fun puzzle game; looks great too.

Played a few hours of Sands of Destruction too and I'm liking it well enough. Might finish that eventually since I read that it's fairly short.

Once I finish all that up I'm gonna dive into Mass Effect 2 (been sitting here sealed on my desk since Tuesday ), Tatsunoko vs Capcom (all I have is a Wii remote so I'm in no rush to play more of this) and No More Heroes 2 (can't wait).

[tiesto]

How long is Mass Effect to beat? I may play that when I'm done with DQ7.