What are you playing?

[cool breeze]

replaying Wind Waker

the intro to this game is so much snappier than skyward sword.  granted, the first thing you do is a stealth mission, but the actual 'tutorial' is like a minute.  also forgot that the combat is basically "press A when it flashes."

[Joe Molotov]

If it wasn't for the Tri-Force hunting, Wind Waker would have been GOAT.

[Timber]

Man I played through LeChuck's Revenge and Day of the Tentacle by rote again. I don't know why I keep doing this.

[Great Rumbler]

Because those games are awesome?

[brob]

tri-force hunting is my favorite part of wind waker. just sailin and fishin. rewarded by getting to talk to Tingle. doesn't get better.

[Timber]

Because those games are awesome?

You know, I think you might be right.

[tiesto]

Gonna have Zelda done this weekend, the last few heart pieces require annoying minigames for me to get
archery

Still playing 4 Heroes of Light, collecting the last few Legendary Weapons. Game has its moments, but I don't really care much for its busted battle system.

Afterwards... gonna wait til break and then gonna finally play Himusona 3

[tiesto]

tri-force hunting is my favorite part of wind waker. just sailin and fishin. rewarded by getting to talk to Tingle. doesn't get better.

Yep, I loved that and the sailing, it isn't like the dungeons in that game were anything special anyway.

I thought the dungeon with the big fan in it was pretty cool... but yeah WW definitely had the weakest dungeons in the 3D Zeldas apart from Skyward Sword.

[brob]

presentation and sailing (and tingle) are the only things I like about Wind Waker. And I straight up dislike the controls.

[Trent Dole]

presentation and sailing (and tingle) are the only things I like about Wind Waker. And I straight up dislike the controls.

How can you not like Beedle? OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!

[brob]

I like most of the characters actually. Specifically for the little voice samples that they use instead of voice work. my favorite being the dude on top of the starter island that has a looking glass and is all like "HOO!". I cheated and considered that part of the presentation so I could shorten the list of things I liked.

[iconoclast]

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK

I was literally two pixels away from no missing Mushi Futari 1.5 Original. I died on one of the lightning fast purple bullets during Larsa's final attack, then spawned and finished her off immediately. I feel sick.

(score = 388,845,510 - ALL (Lx4) - N.Reco; ranked #9 on the leaderboards, so that's not bad at least)


edit: I actually find 1.5 Original pretty enjoyable now. It's a slow burn though - the game is it at its peak after you no miss up to the start of stage 5. That's when the adrenaline and nerves really kick in, because your entire run can go to hell at any moment. And that's the best feeling ever, which I can only get it from shooters because they're high-risk, high-reward. Best genre ever.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

got deus ex. can't wait to dive on in.

[The Sceneman]

I'm playing Super Metroid for the first time ever. Its pretty cool I guess. Coming off SotN it feels crappier or something, I dunno. Music and atmosphere are awesome but enemies mostly suck so far. I'll see how far I can get.

[Don Flamenco]

got soul reaver, never played a legacy of kain game before.  gonna try it out before bed

[MrAngryFace]

soul reaver series + LoK Defiance = win

[cool breeze]

I think I'm too impatient for Wind Waker sailing these days.


I was about to complain about how I had to sail across the world but as I left the game on behind me auto-sailing, I went into a tornado and now I'm at my destination.  It's nice the game realized I wasn't touching the controller and went the extra mile!

[The Sceneman]

was stumped for what to play on the Xbox so I stuck Shadows of the Damned in, as I realised that I never even finished it once.

Games pretty good, mindless fun. Up to the final boss now. Generous with the gamerscore too, but 3 plays for 1000 is BS. I doubt I'll go for 1000 unless I REALLY get strapped for shit to play.

I want Gears 3 

[cool breeze]

playing two 3D Zelda games back to back is pretty draining

although it's my favorite series, the isms get annoying.  like you go through this whole ordeal  to reach this chest, and you open it expecting an item.  instead you get a map to an item.  for some inexplicable reason there's an extra step involving several minutes of sailing to another location just to get the item.  the item turns out to be 200 rupees; your wallet is full and the rupees get wasted.  side quests: collect things or transport things.  which was fine in MM, but sailing is pretty boring when you just want to get somewhere; actually sailing to explore is nice (if you ignore the barrenness).  the 2D games were really concise and didn't waste your time.  Skyward Sword would actually be the best realization of that in 3D if you took out the overworld, tutorial stuff, side quests, padding in the second half, etc etc.

[Bebpo]

Why do you hate yourself so

[cool breeze]

I was originally planning on doing Wind Waker and then Twilight Princess 

yeah, I'm gonna do Wind Waker without sidequests (shaddap OCD), then hopefully on Tuesday I can catch the Dark Knight Rises prologue and get so jacked up on Batman hype  that I'd come home and start Batman AC.

I really should be playing new games, but I wanted something I'm familiar with since I have work to do too, and wind waker is brief enough.

crazy thing is just today I remembered I own Crysis 2, Dead Rising 2, and a few other games I haven't played...and I still need to buy Skyrim and Saint's Row 3   

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I disgust me

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[The Sceneman]

just played 6 hours of Ms. Splosion Man co-op with my brother. Just 5 more levels left and I'm done.

[bork]

Totally bought this Mini last night to ease the pain of waiting for P.O.W. 

Street Smart:

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super frustrating game as a kid when you spend quarters on it, but I sort of learned how to play it on its own shitty terms and found it enjoyable.  It's not a completely incompetent pre-SFII fighter, but the controls are pretty damn awkward.  You can sort of combo, but it's more like frame-trapping/resetting and all dependent on finicky button press timing.  Plus, you collect women as the prize for every fight.  The sprites are pretty nice.

I wanna compare the credits with KOF staff because it seems like there are a few character designs that are similar to KOF characters--- main character = Takuma, one of the bosses looks a bit like Mr. Karate.

I think some of the staff who made Fatal Fury worked on Street Smart...the games have a similar style of 2P play (both players versus the CPU, then each other) and the music from stage 1 is the 2P versus theme in Fatal Fury. 

[Don Flamenco]

nice


also, just found out the Street Fighter 1 director became SNK's main fighting game guy after SF1?  would explain things like Fatal Fury, World Heroes, Art of Fighting, etc. feeling like SF2 but not quite (the earlier versions of these games.)

[iconoclast]

Just got a 286m clear with Normal Palm in Futari 1.5 Original. The run was pretty crap, but it was one of the first times I've played with Normal Palm, so I didn't know what to expect. He's fun to use, but his laser is really weak (even worse than N.Reco's), so he sucks at killing bosses and some large enemies (the flying dragons in st5 in particular). His shot is really strong though, so he's not completely terrible.

Still gonna play a little more so I can get a decent Original score with Abnormal Palm. Might try to improve my N.Reco score too - 400+ million would be nice.

edit: Also, I think I'm going to resume my Bayonetta playthrough with Jeanne pretty soon. Gotta unlock everything and beat Normal + Hard, then I'm going to start a Pure Platinum Infinite Climax run with her. Some areas with Bayonetta were really hard, so I hope it isn't too much worse with Jeanne... especially since I'm really rusty.

[The Sceneman]

started playing Dead Space 2. Seems fucking superb so far.

[Bebpo]

Trails in the Sky FC was a lot longer than I expected.  Going to be sleep deprived tomorrow 

[tiesto]

Beat Skyward Sword, up to the final dungeon in FF: Four Heroes of Light (not doing the optional content), and was playing a bit of ESPGaluda II and KOF XIII last nite.

[tiesto]

Started Ghost Trick and just did the first 2 chapters...  DAT ANIMATION!

[magus]

Beat Skyward Sword, up to the final dungeon in FF: Four Heroes of Light (not doing the optional content), and was playing a bit of ESPGaluda II and KOF XIII last nite.

i couldn't finish the last dungeon of four heroes of light,the boss rush really soured it for me

anyway i'm continuining my megaman marathon and i've finished all of them between 2 and 6 and they are all as awesome as i remember,seriously best nes games evah! megaman 7 is more bullshitting than i remember

[The Sceneman]

play Megaman 10

[magus]

play Megaman 10

i have already done that a while ago

EDIT: the only megaman game i have never touched is megaman network transmission for the gamecube,i always tought it was supposed to be a crappy game?

i also did play command mission but i don't really remember a lot about it other than it really wasn't that impressive

[Joe Molotov]

What about Megaman Soccer?

[brob]

megaman soccer is grrrreat!

[magus]

What about Megaman Soccer?

well if you want to go like that,there is also that weird mario kart clone i have never played

and now that i think about it,i've never touched megaman x7 or megaman x8 since i heard that they make babies cries and stuff like that

[Don Flamenco]

started up a Mass Effect 2 hardcore run on PS3 without new game+.  Seems doable so far, though I'm guessing I have lots of bullshit deaths ahead of me and that I'll have to exploit bad AI a lot. 

i understand objectively all the problems with ME2, but once I get into the club on Omega and play out the conversation with Aria, I just don't care.  It's great. 

Bioware really knows how to make an alien bar in general.  I remember loving the atmosphere in KOTOR1. 

[Timber]

Have fun fighting those Praetorians. Squad AI goes full distinguished mentally-challenged fellow during those fights and the resultant frustration made me turn the difficulty down from insanity to hardcore, which makes them only slightly less annoying.

[demi]

Hardcore? You mean Insane right

[iconoclast]

Been playing more Futari 1.5 Original, with Palm this time. Got 358m with Abnormal and 305m with Normal. Abnormal Palm is a pain in the ass to play because his shot is so weak, so I think the stages are a little harder for him than any of the other characters. Normal Palm's shot is strong, but his laser is stupid weak so I usually have to bomb some parts of stage 5 and the a few of the bosses. He's still fun to use though, more fun than Abnormal Palm imo.

I'm right at the end of Phoenix Wright as well, so I'm about to finish that up. I was playing it last night, but I failed the last trial and had to mash A for 25 minutes to get back to where I was, so I fell asleep. Gonna finish it now.

[Bebpo]

Marvel Pinball is pretty good!  Haven't gotten really into a pinball game since Williams HoF, but I can see myself getting into these 4 tables.  The only thing I don't like is the ball moves too fast at times and sometimes does bizarro physics.

Also the Spiderman table has too much stuff blocking visibility.  Wolverine is not as bad in that respect.  Haven't tried the other two.

[tiesto]

Up to chapter 11 of Ghost Trick, pretty fast-moving game, but I've been playing a lot lately. Hopefully will have it finished (along with 4 Heroes of Light) by this weekend, to clear my schedule for Persona 3.

Also bought the latest Humble Bundle, gonna try Jamestown out tonite.

[MrAngryFace]

Raging at Golden Plains in BoF4. I can see the Volcano why can't I just GO to it? Fuuuu

[The Sceneman]

beat Dead Space 2. Was a fun shooter, but it had the lamest acting and story I've seen in an HD gen game.

It was just so cheesy, and not in a tongue in cheek way. You can tell they were trying for a deep narrative with emotional wallop and terror, but the whole thing just came across as adolescent angst, much like all the shit with Dom's wife in Gears 2.

Still, cool game, and I'll definitely go back to pick up more achievements

[Don Flamenco]

Hardcore? You mean Insane right

nope, hardcore. 

my squad is already dying on me on the most basic early fights...this isn't good. 

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I, Robot on MAME.  This game is honestly pretty staggering.  It's obviously technically amazing, but it's also really brilliantly designed and has a ton of content/cool game ideas.  A decade ahead of its time in the most creative period of gaming history.  Nothing else will ever come close.

[chronovore]

Finished Saints Row 3.

This game is everything you hoped GTA IV would be, and everything GTA V should aspire to be. I'll post further thoughts in the OT.

[Himu]

Get both endings?

[chronovore]

I didn't do the 2nd ending yet. I thought to try it this morning, but was too busy popping STAY CLASSY STEELPORT.



Tossing canned-farts and then beating the poor, puking bastards with a meter-plus dildo. Jesus. This game. NEEDS TO WIN MOAR AWARDS.

[iconoclast]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

[Mr. Gundam]

Started playing Last Remnant on the PC tonight. Very awesome.

[demi]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

Just play the third, the 2nd is total fluff and poo

[Bebpo]

Yeah, PW1 has a few good cases and 3 has some good cases, 2 is all filler like the non-good cases in 1/3.  Probably won't ever play #4 since the series bores the shit out of me when it's in filler case mode.

[Himu]

2 has fun cases. I like the circus one, and the intro case is fun, the final case is great. a heck of a lot better than AA4.

[tiesto]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

Ghost Trick is really awesome, kind of like a rube-goldberg puzzle game crossed with Phoenix Wright. Great characters too! Up to chapter 15 in it now.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Anybody know a site that will ship Ghost Trick international (to New Zealand)?  None of the local shops even have it listed.  Preferably cheap :3

[brob]

for imports I use planetaxel.com, I live in Europe tho. Dunno where the shipping center for this site is, but they are usually good on prices, speed and costumer service.

[Bebpo]

So Orcs Must Die is pretty much the only Tower Defense game I've given more than an hour's interest in thanks to its heavy resemblance to Deception which I loved.

Since I have no real experience with the genre, the difficulty has jumped A LOT when maps started having several paths for the enemies to take so that there wouldn't be just a single choke point that you can load up with traps and hold them off.  Now I'm making multiple 1st & 2nd choke points with cheap spikes spread all around from the entry doors to the initial choke points in order to try to think them out at much as possible before the chokes.  It's definitely getting hard.  Could use some TD tips in general.

[iconoclast]

Tried 5 times to get the achievement for clearing Akai Katana Shin without entering nenshin mode. Every single time my Xbox froze - once right at the end when I was about to beat it. So glad I decided to buy a new J360, because I'm about to smash this piece of trash into a hundred pieces.

[magus]

for me all of the phoenix wright games are pretty much the same,i don't think i'll ever understand why people don't like 2

besides 2 introduce franziska which is a pretty important and funny character that pops a lot in other phoenix wright game

[Bebpo]

Finished Bad Company 2

Was pretty fun.  At least on easy, where I didn't have to worry about 1 hit sniper/rocket deaths out of nowhere all the time and could just run through the sets and blow shit up.  It felt like Call of Duty, but what really set it apart was the destruction of the environments.  I loved how holes would get blown through buildings and you could destroy cover and vice-versa.  Looked cool and made for an interesting dynamic.  A lot of the sets also had several routes to attack from and between all the weapons and vehicles you have some leeway in your approach. 

Might be because I only play a military FPS every 2 years but was fine popcorn entertainment.  Helped that it was 60fps and pretty damn good looking too.  DICE is amazing.  At times it was almost Just Cause 2/Crysis looking.  Like when you ride the buggies down the jungle mountain maps. 

So, if I enjoyed this campaign, what are the chances I will enjoy BF3's campaign?  How much worse is it?



Was fun having a firefight where chunks of everything were getting tossed around.