Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4676734 times)

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #10140 on:** March 02, 2011, 08:56:28 PM »

I installed it....on my PC.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10141 on:** March 02, 2011, 09:04:11 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on March 02, 2011, 07:56:57 PM

The story quickly becomes dull and uninteresting after a few hours. Disappointing game.

I'm not really that concerned about the story, considering that most of the game is crawling through dungeons.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10142 on:** March 02, 2011, 09:31:59 PM »

Oscar, I get what you meant to say, but I think you should rephrase that

Wrpgs existed before the NES.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10143 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:06:23 AM »

I was in the middle of this looooooooooooong multipart mission in RDR in Mexico and the game froze. First freeze on my 2 month old X360-S. Freezes are always at the worst time where you lose the most amount of time played. Fuck this gen.

magus · « **Reply #10144 on:** March 03, 2011, 05:26:04 AM »

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SMT had "choice" well before WRPGs did.

that comment was a more of a "i'm so annoyed that everytime you get to pick a choice,people gets all wet" than a "who did what first"

chronovore · « **Reply #10145 on:** March 03, 2011, 09:07:29 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on March 03, 2011, 02:06:23 AM

I was in the middle of this looooooooooooong multipart mission in RDR in Mexico and the game froze. First freeze on my 2 month old X360-S. Freezes are always at the worst time where you lose the most amount of time played. Fuck this gen.

RDR once froze on me when I used the campsite specifically so I could save my progress.

You know about changing up horses to force an on-the-fly save, right? But don't do it if you're going for the "Spurred to Victory" Achievement (20-missions-completed-with-the-same-horse).

Quote from: tiesto on March 02, 2011, 11:31:25 AM

Playing Fable 2, just recruited the BBW lady with the hammer, and have done a few sidequests. It's a lot better than the first game in terms of scope and content, the sim features are much better too. It feels a bit more like a "full" game, while the original was a short, extremely linear "proof of concept". I don't like how the combat is extremely simplistic (at this point), the map systems suck (well I guess there's the golden trail to help you out), the game looks really blurry, and how the menu interface feels EXTREMELY sluggish.

Install to HDD and the menu problem goes away. It still looks blurry and the combat is still repetitive though. Also, why the hell can't you mount the BBW, or some of the other saucy tarts? It's like you have a choice of hairdressers or whores, and one Bride of Frankenstein.

archie4208 · « **Reply #10146 on:** March 03, 2011, 10:44:44 AM »

Strange Journey was one of my favorite games to come out last year. Sure the story was as bad as your average Bioware game, but it had grindan, crawlan and fusan so I can't hate too much.

magus · « **Reply #10147 on:** March 03, 2011, 12:45:55 PM »

i noticed that i basicaly missed everything when playing trough bayonetta so i restarted chapter 1 and went trough it a few times and i couldn't find what i was searching for

so i said "FUCK IT!" and printed myself a collectible guide,turns out one of the collectible wasn't appearing because you have to backtrack to a certain location but you have to do so AFTER opening the door to go the next section but BEFORE going to the next section,that's so fucking distinguished mentally-challenged,do they really need to sell you official guide that bad? isn't there a japanese equivalent of gamefaqs/xbox360achievements?

but anyway,one of the special challenge ask me to execute 6 torture attacks in a single fight,how the heck i'm supposed to do that? i can barely pull off 3 before time runs out!

iconoclast · « **Reply #10148 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:05:30 PM »

Taunting builds the magic meter quickly, as does dodging attacks IIRC. So just taunt and dodge when you are about to get hit. You'll probably need to do some combos as well to get enough points for a Platinum rating.

magus · « **Reply #10149 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:12:17 PM »

i'm not trying to achieve platinums anyway... is there an achievement other than the "get 10 platinum" which i have already got that involve platinums?

iconoclast · « **Reply #10150 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:51:06 PM »

I don't think so. Bayonetta is pretty easy to get 1000/1000 on.

I've mainly been playing Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets, and both games are godlike. I never cared much for Yagawa's games, but then again I never REALLY tried to play them right, so maybe everything else he's made is just as amazing.

YAGAWA

Pink Sweets arrange mode is great too. I've got a feeling Ikeda programmed it... Then again, one of the reasons I appreciate Pink Sweets is because of its simple scoring system, and the arrange mode basically adds a typical Cave scoring system onto it. Whatever though, still awesome.

And the stage 4 boss in Muchi Pork is fucking ridiculous. He's seriously one of the hardest bosses I've seen in the first loop of a Cave game. What the hell.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #10151 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:23:53 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on March 03, 2011, 05:41:50 AM

Quote from: magus on March 03, 2011, 05:26:04 AM
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SMT had "choice" well before WRPGs did.

that comment was a more of a "i'm so annoyed that everytime you get to pick a choice,people gets all wet" than a "who did what first"

It's just that it's kind of intrinsic to SMT. It's been there since the start. Admittedly, Strange Journey's is really simple, but when they pull it off well (like in Nocturne), it's pretty neat because it is more than just the WRPG "Save kitten/burn kitten" or the worse SMT's "Kill God/Kill Lucifer/Kill both".

Having choices affect the path of the game isn't inherently bad, it's just that it's usually done poorly. Like... in... Strange Journey. Yeah I dunno where I'm going with this.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10152 on:** March 03, 2011, 03:01:45 PM »

While I'm still pleased with all the advancements that Red Dead Redemption has made to GTA, sometimes they kind of MISS obvious shit and it feels like GTA all over again. I just did this train robbery mission in Mexico where you have to ride alongside the R guy and listen to him talk for 10+ mins to advance the storyline until you get to Chuparosa and then you have to stealth onto a train. I accidently alerted the guards and they killed me in 1 second with 2 shots and the game dumps me back to the world map 5 mins before I even got to the R symbol. So I had to ride to the R, skip the intro cutscene, do the entire 10 min+ horse ride all over again listening to the same speech just to get back to the stealth part.

Stuff like that is why I don't play GTA. It's like prehistoric game design. CHECKPOINT AFTER YOU DRIVE/RIDE SOMEWHERE and before the next set of actions occurs. That is called common sense. No idea why it took Rockstar like 10 years to figure that out with RDR and sometimes they still forget to checkpoint like this mission. :\

naff · « **Reply #10153 on:** March 03, 2011, 03:20:04 PM »

Yeah, I stopped playing the game just after that train robbery mission. Boring game was boring. I'll pick it up again and get through Mexico at some point but seriously Mexico suuuuuuucks so much. But I keep getting told it picks up afterwards, too bad I have heaps of much better games to play.

Raban · « **Reply #10154 on:** March 03, 2011, 03:25:39 PM »

I hope Rockstar has a plan to shake up the structure of the GTA series for V. Sure, mission variety would help, but I personally wouldn't be sold on just that. I'm really sick of GTA-style sandbox game design and I think Rockstar can do something better with that franchise.

Raban · « **Reply #10155 on:** March 03, 2011, 03:57:29 PM »

Decided to start Yakuza and see what it's like. This game is good.

EDIT: I don't know if it's just me, but I really like the voice acting and writing in this game. And that's saying something, because normally I can't be satisfied when it comes to english VO in a japanese game.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10156 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:06:14 PM »

Quote from: quietID on March 03, 2011, 03:20:04 PM

Yeah, I stopped playing the game just after that train robbery mission. Boring game was boring. I'll pick it up again and get through Mexico at some point but seriously Mexico suuuuuuucks so much. But I keep getting told it picks up afterwards, too bad I have heaps of much better games to play.

Surprisingly, even though EVERYONE says Mexico sucks, I haven't had any problems with Mexico at all besides a freeze on the train turret gun mission last night, and the lack of checkpoint in the train robbery mission this morning. Honestly, I love Mexico. It looks amazing. Gorgeous rock formations, valleys, towns. I love all the Mexican music. The strangers and missions are just as fun. The only difference I really see between the first area of the game and Mexico is that as you did the missions in the first area you'd keep advancing west and be discovering new towns/settlements/ranches, etc.. so it was very rewarding and it made you look forward to every few missions to see where the story would take you next. In Mexico, you basically explore the whole area in the first couple of missions for each side and so then the missions themselves just kind of go back and forth between areas you've already explored. And when a mission does take you to a new place, it's usually just a gang hideout town and not a real town with stuff to do. So yeah, the first area was more rewarding to explore, but in terms of the actual gameplay/story/visuals/music I'm enjoying Mexico every bit as much as the first area.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #10157 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:11:51 PM »

Bought the Stimulus pack for MW2. The junkyard map is probably the worst FPS MP map I've ever played. Yikes.

naff · « **Reply #10158 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:41:42 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on March 03, 2011, 04:06:14 PM

In Mexico, you basically explore the whole area in the first couple of missions for each side and so then the missions themselves just kind of go back and forth between areas you've already explored.

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Nailed it. Gameplay was already pretty boring imo, and dragging out a bland area like Mexico for so long (the rock formations and characters really don't do it for me) let me move on to something else

magus · « **Reply #10159 on:** March 03, 2011, 07:11:54 PM »

i reached chapter 6 of bayonetta... playing the game feels kinda tiring what with all the shit happening on the screen and all the stuff you have to dodge,and the fact that you have to mash button everytime you execute a torture attack

but anyway barring the "faq this shit!" stuff,this is really really good,the last action game i played on this mold was devil may cry 3 and i didn't like it because of the horrible lack of checkpoints and blah sequels but this one rocks

there is one thing i don't get... score talking what's worse,using a healing item or dying?

demi · « **Reply #10160 on:** March 03, 2011, 07:35:27 PM »

Dying

demi · « **Reply #10161 on:** March 03, 2011, 07:56:57 PM »

Why can't I access 1-3 (Penetrator) door in Demon Souls? It says I have to kill an Archdemon. Isnt that what I've been slicing up?

I guess its cool though. Being vague is just part of the game.

iconoclast · « **Reply #10162 on:** March 03, 2011, 08:15:48 PM »

An Archdemon is the final boss of a world

demi · « **Reply #10163 on:** March 03, 2011, 08:39:37 PM »

Seems a bit stupid to lock me out from whats not even the final level of the Boletaria Castle... THOSE CRAAAAZY JAPANESE

naff · « **Reply #10164 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:03:47 AM »

Yeah, they're kinda heavily implying you should go take a looksy at other worlds.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

World 1 is the end World also.... Dunno if that's spoiler worthy

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CAN'T STOP PLAYING SUPER MEAT BOY.... :spitzer

100% in the first 4 worlds, just the dark worlds on rapture, the end and cotton alley to go now. I imagine things are going to get ugly

demi · « **Reply #10165 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:07:38 AM »

I'm almost done with the game... what order should I do these:

- Flamelurker/Dragon God
- Old Monk (I read you have to play this offline because of some stupid ass Japanese design that forces you to fight another player, cause, thats totally what i want to do)
- Penetrator/False King
- Maiden Astrea

I'm probably gonna do Astrea next since you dont even have to lift a finger to beat it.

iconoclast · « **Reply #10166 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:19:17 AM »

I usually do Penetrator + False King last since they're the hardest. It doesn't really matter what order you do the rest of them in, all of the Archdemons are easy.

And being able to play as the final boss of a world is one of the coolest online features this gen. Plus you get a GODLIKE hat if you kill the other player.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10167 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:29:56 AM »

Finished Mexico, headed to Blackwater and did the first mission there. Pretty cool town, though framerate is definitely a bit lower with all that geometry ^^; Coming from Mexico, the swamps of Thieves Landing and the buildings in Blackwater are a pretty big change. Although, I gotta say I loved Mexico. I thought it was just as good as the first area of the game. To me, RDR has been very consistent at being immersive, gorgeous like a painting, and a story that's good and interesting as long as you ignore all the amazingly inconsistent writing and the fact you have no control over the character's story attitude at all.

I think I'm going to spend a day or two and clear up the stranger quests I've got left, the survival challenges, the couple of jobs/gambling, hidden weapons, gang hideouts, outfits, and tons of bounties; then I'll marathon the rest of the story to see how it all ends.

Quote from: demi on March 04, 2011, 12:07:38 AM

- Old Monk (I read you have to play this offline because of some stupid ass Japanese design that forces you to fight another player, cause, thats totally what i want to do)

It also can work the other way though. When I got to that boss, he just like...stood there and died in 2 seconds without doing anything and I was like "wtf, did my game glitch? The boss was a joke". Then I read that it was another player and went lol

demi · « **Reply #10168 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:32:02 AM »

I'll try it online and see what player I get paired up with, then. Otherwise I'll just unplug it.

Diunx · « **Reply #10169 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:57:58 AM »

WHY IS MY CHARACTER IN PERSONA 3 HANGING OUT WITH A 9 YEARS OLD HE MET IN A PLAYGROUND?

iconoclast · « **Reply #10170 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:03:42 AM »

Why wouldn't he? I do that all the time.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10171 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:18:36 AM »

Quote from: Diunx on March 04, 2011, 12:57:58 AM

WHY IS MY CHARACTER IN PERSONA 3 HANGING OUT WITH A 9 YEARS OLD HE MET IN A PLAYGROUND?

Because you directed him to?

demi · « **Reply #10172 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:49:40 AM »

lol, he comes home from work to play Persona 3

Bebpo · « **Reply #10173 on:** March 04, 2011, 02:42:05 AM »

Finally started playing Catherine. Man, the gameplay is so good! Freaking hard though. Also the level of polish is really fantastic. The visuals are nice but there's definitely stuff I want to see them improve by P5. The faces are really great, but the bodies could use some work and the animation seems very placeholder PS2. I would say I have faith that P5 will have better animation, but P3/P4 weren't exactly tech lookers and relied mainly on style

pilonv1 · « **Reply #10174 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:24:07 AM »

Finishing off my GFWL week with some Dirt 2. Another fucking awesome PC game with cheeves

magus · « **Reply #10175 on:** March 04, 2011, 05:47:11 PM »

i've reached chapter 9 of bayonetta,the driving section is horrible,you speed trough the road and then you fall for no apparent reason,so in short it's like playing modern sonic

Raban · « **Reply #10176 on:** March 04, 2011, 05:58:30 PM »

I wanna go back and beat Bayonetta but I keep hearing about these awful vehicle sections.

iconoclast · « **Reply #10177 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:00:01 PM »

The driving section is bad, but once you learn the route you need to take it becomes quick and painless. Just wait until you get to the truly awful Space Harrier stage.

Raban · « **Reply #10178 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:00:43 PM »

wtf was kamiya thinkinggg :'(

Bebpo · « **Reply #10179 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:04:58 PM »

Quote from: magus on March 04, 2011, 05:47:11 PM

i've reached chapter 9 of bayonetta,the driving section is horrible,you speed trough the road and then you fall for no apparent reason,so in short it's like playing modern sonic

What's your gamertag magus?

magus · « **Reply #10180 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:16:46 PM »

i'm not online bebpo $:-\$

Bebpo · « **Reply #10181 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:24:00 PM »

Because you don't have internet? Or because they ban hacked X360s?

demi · « **Reply #10182 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:39:53 PM »

Because XBL costs money

Bebpo · « **Reply #10183 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:50:16 PM »

Silver is free!

magus · « **Reply #10184 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:53:17 PM »

Quote from: demi on March 04, 2011, 06:39:53 PM

Because XBL costs money

that

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Or because they ban hacked X360s?

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Because you don't have internet adapter for 360?

also that

Bebpo · « **Reply #10185 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:19:42 PM »

;_;

I will miss comparing jrpg e-peen with you

magus · « **Reply #10186 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:22:10 PM »

i got 1000/1000 on lost odyssey 1000/1000 on resonance of fate and 920/1000 on FF13 because of that really really stupid collector achievement

that's all the jrpg e-peen i have so far

the resonance of fate "finish the game twice" sounds like a lot of pointless work but when you are skipping every cutscene and murdering every enemy simply by looking at him,you can finish it in less than 3 hours

iconoclast · « **Reply #10187 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:28:30 PM »

do Star Ocean 4 next, it's easy.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #10188 on:** March 04, 2011, 10:38:12 PM »

inching my way to rank 30 in Bad Company 2 (and Vietnam). just need 7k more points. all this way without resorting to medic spamming. feels good man

The Sceneman · « **Reply #10189 on:** March 04, 2011, 11:40:31 PM »

Quote from: iconoclast on March 04, 2011, 07:28:30 PM

do Star Ocean 4 next, it's easy.

joke? I heard it was a nightmare...

iconoclast · « **Reply #10190 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:00:13 AM »

It takes 250+ hours and at least 3 playthroughs. And it's also a terrible game.

I think some day I'll slowly work toward completing it over the course of several months. Just playing an hour or two each day won't be so bad...

The Sceneman · « **Reply #10191 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:17:53 AM »

lol, Tri-Ace be trolling

Robo · « **Reply #10192 on:** March 05, 2011, 02:49:47 AM »

Decided to jump on Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix and try to knock out some cheevs since it's the 20th anniversary of World Warriors and there's probably more scrubs playing than usual... except every other distinguished mentally-challenged fellow I try to play in Ranked is using fucking broken Akuma.

Why is that even allowed? And I'm not nearly good enough to beat the people in between who actually know what they're doing, so that one's going back on the proverbial shelf for another day.

I did manage to beat Akuma in arcade mode finally. Took me about 50 goddamn tries and a fucking fuckload of potty-mouthing, but it got done.

Raban · « **Reply #10193 on:** March 05, 2011, 03:41:45 AM »

~~Wanna play some HDR matches, Robo? I'm kinda sleepy, but I'm down for a few.~~

EDIT: Nvm, my stomach's acting up. Gonna go nuke my toilet and pass out.

magus · « **Reply #10194 on:** March 05, 2011, 10:13:46 AM »

"if you keep bringing me more halos i could buy a space ticket,i always dreamed of becoming a BALD SPACE MARINE!"

seriously i refuse to believe there is no connection between this game and god hand

iconoclast · « **Reply #10195 on:** March 05, 2011, 10:28:25 AM »

Oh no, there's a connection alright. Platinum = mostly ex-Clover staff. That includes JP Kellams, the guy who did the English localization of God Hand and Platinum's trio of console games (Madworld, Bayonetta, Vanquish).

They're just done by different directors.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #10196 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:46:01 PM »

>very ME2

no

iconoclast · « **Reply #10197 on:** March 05, 2011, 03:21:22 PM »

Just spent an hour or two playing Ketsui. Sorry Muchi Pork - as amazing as you are, nothing will ever top Ketsui. Game's a masterpiece. It's gotta be one of the most intense games I've ever played, and that's just the first loop! And scoring and soundtrack and theme and everything is just fucking perfect. Almost beat my old high score too; I was doing some ridiculous dodges all throughout stage 4. I should have died at least 4 times but I always got through it somehow. But still, I got destroyed by the boss because I'm woefully out of practice.

Ikeda is God. Yagawa is Jesus.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #10198 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:00:33 PM »

A friend asked me to get Medal of Honor MP to play with him so I game-fly-ed it

Good Lord I forgot how bad that MP is. I remembered it as being average. Really its complete crap.

demi · « **Reply #10199 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:05:27 PM »

Dead Space 2 is soooo sick. I like just sitting there stomping the floor while Issac goes FUCKER FUCKKKKKKKKKKK FUCKER

More games should do this.

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Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4676734 times)