What are you playing?

[HomShaBom]

Been playing SWTOR. 44 right now but I'm burned out already, barely want to load it up.

[The Sceneman]

started playing Skyrim.

Pros:
- soothing music
- giant scary world

Cons:
- game is 100% gay
- combat blows so much dick

I love big ass game worlds to explore, so I am looking forward to getting right into this.

[Eric P]

really enjoying Bulletstorm.  It's a lot of fun with a great presentation.

[magus]

wow i'm totaly digging that rune factory tides of destiny game,it really heavy more on the rpg part than the boring harvest moon like part,but the difficulty is a little too random,i found a ghost ship and one of the monster there one shotted me! also that RP bar is super annoying,one can manage by eating while on field but i seems to understand you are screwed with the golem? it's even worse because you don't know when you are going to get into a golem fight

[fistfulofmetal]

Driver: San Francisco is pretty dope.

driving feels pretty good. i love the in-cockpit camera. the missions are varied and fun. the storyline perfectly replicates a silly 70's style cop show. and the way they integrate the CG scenes into in-engine cut-scenes is brilliant. i don't think i've ever seen it done this way and it works real well.

[Fifstar]

Started playing Spacechem after some technical problems (to which the creator of the game responded remarkably fast, very nice). Game is good, will play until the inevitable jump in difficulty that these type of games always seem to have.

Also playing Issac, not really seeing what the fuss is all about with this one. It's okay, but seems more like a free flash game to me.

[tiesto]

Started playing Spacechem after some technical problems (to which the creator of the game responded remarkably fast, very nice). Game is good, will play until the inevitable jump in difficulty that these type of games always seem to have.

Also playing Issac, not really seeing what the fuss is all about with this one. It's okay, but seems more like a free flash game to me.

SpaceChem is pretty awesome, the inevitable jump in difficulty happened at stage 4 or 5 for me though 

Haven't played Isaac myself, what's it like? Looked like a twinstick with a Zelda 1 style aesthetic but is there something more?

[magus]

yeah it is a twinstick with zelda 1 aesthethic

other than that,power up are random and quite different between each other (for example there is one that makes it so you die in a single hit but you get 7 extra life as opposed to the single one you get normaly) giving it a sort of roguelike vibe and the monster looks super gross

[Eric P]

beat Bulletstorm and loved every over the top minute of it. 

Currently playing Dragon Age 2.

[Van Cruncheon]

i dug bulletstorm, too. not sure why it got such a backlash from the press. what did they want from it?

[Great Rumbler]

i dug bulletstorm, too. not sure why it got such a backlash from the press. what did they want from it?

It just wasn't a deep, emotional journey like Uncharted or Gears of War.

[AdmiralViscen]

Bulletstorm rox.

Fable 3 sux

[Bebpo]

I thought Bulletstorm got in trouble with reviewers because it was an FPS without Multiplayer and no one cares about SP in FPS games anymore.

[cool breeze]

I remember a lot of "the language in this game is adolescent and borderline insulting to the sophisticality video games should strive for; see: GTA4." I dunno.  What I hear about Bastion from the fans is "THE NARRATION" and the hatist "playing the game is boring."

I haven't played either yet.

[tiesto]

P3 all day, up to the Sept. full moon now... wow that Natural Dancer boss was the gayest fight ever, fucking charm spell on all my party members... there are a lot of parts where this game just pisses you off for no reason at all and there's nothing you can do about it (like "Mamudo" spells taking out the lead character)... but I must continue onwards. I like the SLink stuff a lot, maxed out the online game one, and the one with Kenji, and the one with businessman...

[Himu]

(like "Mamudo" spells taking out the lead character)

Have you played an SMT game before?

[Stoney Mason]

I don't remember the press back lashing over bulletstorm.  A lot of the press really liked it and it has a respectable 82 metacritic score and it even made some best of lists or most surprising lists. The no real multiplayer aspect of it may have hurt it in some reviewers and certainly with the general shooter crowd.

[tiesto]

(like "Mamudo" spells taking out the lead character)

Have you played an SMT game before?

Just Digital Devil Saga 1 (beat) and the first few hours of Nocturne...

[Himu]

Ah.

It's common in the series. You have to cover your ass as soon as you see a Mudo or Hama spell.

[MrAngryFace]

Or just have an immune type equipped

[Himu]

Well, that's what I mean when I say cover your ass.

[Bebpo]

The 2nd half of Uncharted 3 has way too much combat and the director is masochistic and keeps putting you in totally unfair bullshit situations.  You always have like a pistol and 6 guys are rushing you from every direction with weapons that kill you in 2 seconds while snipers and rpg 1 hit kill guys are aiming at you if you leave cover.  And the worst is when new enemies APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE BEHIND YOU when you're hiding in a spot taking out that you've cleared out, taking out guys in front of you and then BAM 1 hit kill shotgun blast from behind you takes you out even though behind you was only A WALL WITH NO ONE THERE.

I think there's good stuff in the 2nd half, but it's hard for me to appreciate the OMG CINEMATIC SET PIECES when I'm dying in 5-10 seconds over and over on the same checkpoint.  Balance just seems totally out of whack at 3 or 4 checkpoints in the 2nd half.  1st half of the game was perfect, no complaints 9/10, I'm at the last chapter now and the 2nd half is about the same quality as Uncharted 1 or maybe a little worse since the AI is more aggressive.

[MrAngryFace]

Orochi 3 is so badass thumbs up will double dip lulz

[Bebpo]

lol, got the computer stuck in Rock of Ages on a stage.  They literally couldn't figure out how to get past my blockade and advance in the stage so they just kept rolling in circles 

[iconoclast]

Serious Sam 3 is fucking awesome from chapter 4 (or 3?) onward. This is how FPS should be

[Timber]

Currently working on becoming the hardest Binding of Isaac motherfucker around. Still need to complete Sheol with Isaac, Magdalene and Judas and school thousands of soft bitches so they'll know not to step to me.

  me

[chronovore]

Accidentally finished Arkham City. Thought I should hurry to see Talia, and everything just kinda flowed right up into the credits. Great game, really well done. May or may not start NG+ immediately. I might want to savor it later on, and just mess around with something else for bit.

[Himu]

you can finish quests after you've beaten the game

[Positive Touch]

and new game+ carries over yr riddler trophies

[magus]

more rune factory:tides of destiny,i bought myself "my first blacksmith set" and then built a poison hammer with stuff i found lying around and then i went on a monster killing rampage and learned to make monster bounce like they are balls

metacritic score of this game?

56

fucking gaming journo's

[demi]

buy it and show your support.

[magus]

buy it and show your support.

if i had the cash to do that i would be playing this game in HD

[demi]

true. i'll buy it when it bombs to $10

[Joe Molotov]

The last Natsume game I bought was Chulip for $5 new at Gamestop. That seems like a good price point.

[The Sceneman]

moving my fat body freely with the Kinect tonight, in an attempt to work off my xmas spare tyre (sorry demi)

[Bebpo]

Finished Uncharted 3.  Yeah, uh, that was a lot of combat :|

That being said I took a look at what co-op maps were available and thought it was cool they let you fight in some of the non-combat locations from the story.  Will give the online some playtime over the weekend; U2 online was a lot of fun.

[Bebpo]

I picked up Edna and Harvey - The Breakout from Gamersgate during xmas since it was $4 and I'd been wanting to play it.  It's an adventure game that was super famous in the adventure gaming scene in Germany when it came out in 2008.  It just came out in English in the last year and while the translation is pretty rough, the voice acting really grows on you.

Anyhow, the game is extremely janky.  I have to use XP compatibility mode for it to even run, saving/loading take about 30 seconds each, and clicking on commands doesn't always work.  However since I love adventure games I can look past all that and am enjoying it.  What makes it really unique besides the quirky style and story of a bunch of insane asylum patients working to break out in a sam & max style comedy adventure, is that the game has unique voiced lines FOR EVERY POSSIBLE ACTION IN EXISTENCE. 

You can have a conversation with every inanimate object in the game.  Sometimes they even talk back like when I clicked "talk to brain in jar" and then wtf it talked back and was a telepathic esper brain in a jar named bobo and I had dialogue choices with it.  I don't even think it's part of the story, I just got it because I like clicking talk on inanimate objects. 

Not only that but every item in your inventory throughout the game has a unique interaction with every object in the game.  Like I have a mallet and I can use it on everything I see and she actually whacks it and sometimes it'll break the item or cause dents or do something else.  It's really amazing how much thought was put into the world.  There are hundreds of jokes in the interactions, so even if 25% of them don't make sense due to the translation process, you still get a whole lot of good humor.

Anyhow, so far it's living up to the reviews I read when it came out in English.  Mainly that it's super janky and amateurish (was actually started as a student project), but it has a lot of heart and charming characters and story.  I'm used to euro jank adventure games at this point, so none of the interface stuff bothers me and I'm happy with it.

[chronovore]

you can finish quests after you've beaten the game

and new game+ carries over yr riddler trophies

Oh, cool.

Does it keep the map data, with all the updated Trophy/Riddle/Venom locations and stuff?

[Positive Touch]

all marked riddler trophies stary marked.  all sidequests reset.

[The Sceneman]

you can finish quests after you've beaten the game

and new game+ carries over yr riddler trophies

Oh, cool.

Does it keep the map data, with all the updated Trophy/Riddle/Venom locations and stuff?

I would assume so, although I got all 440 Riddler items before going to NG+. The Venom (Titan you mean?) locations are all re-set, as all sidequests are tracked separately in NG+ (you need to do every sidequest in the game and again in NG+ for the Perfect Knight achievement, which sucks)

[tiesto]

Just beat the October Full Moon in P3. Not sure if I'm gonna finish by the end of break... but at least I'll have made great progress. Starting to get a bit sick of this game and the occasional shit luck you have with it.

[MrAngryFace]

Truth

[The Sceneman]

co-sign! P3 is cake for the most part. I got up to the final day, only to put the game down and never return  :'(

Might just Youtube the ending, or go back to P4 which I am a mere 20 hours into

[MrAngryFace]

just dont hang out with a persona that has full heal while fighting the last boss for too long- or LOL

[tiesto]

there is no shit luck, only shit preparation

your weeaboo powers are weak, son

Disagree:

-AI teammates making distinguished mentally-challenged decisions
-Enemy getting lucky with a critical hit and then following it up with an attack that demolishes the lead character
-Enemies you have been fighting consistently throughout Tartarus pull out a Mamudo spell out of midair that hits the lead character
-The (ugh) roulette wheel battle
-Party members getting consistently charmed (when there isn't any multi-charm cure item) and then deciding to heal the boss.

Don't get me wrong I like the game a lot, but a lot of the time when I die I feel like it's bad luck, not a lack of preparation or me getting cocky.

[Bebpo]

finished up Rock of Ages

Weird game.  Kind of good, kind of not.  Greaaaaaaaaaaat cutscenes.  Awesome art and music and humor.  Creative gameplay and the levels designs are alright.  You really have to learn the tricks to each level or the AI will keep beating you until you do.  The AI also is an asshole and constantly fucks you over along with the physics.  The boss fights between sections are very very terrible since the controls aren't that good and the game is designed around rolling, not boss platforming.  Worth playing for an hour or two, not really worth finishing.  Glad I played it but don't know how much I'll remember it in a year.  Then again I don't remember Zeno Clash either besides the kooky art.

Next up: Finishing Orcs Must Die!

[Bebpo]

Actually, you can save 4 hours and just watch this instead:

[Himu]

iirc the roulette wheel boss fight owns

[Bebpo]

Orcs Must Die is so good.  I still am not a big Tower Defense fan but I always love playing this game.  Once I learned that if you barricade all the paths except for one to the portal, that the enemies won't destroy your barricades and will all funnel through the 1 remaining pathway; once I figured that out the game became sooo much easier and handling multiple entry ways and portals is much more manageable now.  Game is balanced quite well!

[Timber]

finished up Rock of Ages

Weird game.  Kind of good, kind of not.  Greaaaaaaaaaaat cutscenes.  Awesome art and music and humor.  Creative gameplay and the levels designs are alright.  You really have to learn the tricks to each level or the AI will keep beating you until you do.  The AI also is an asshole and constantly fucks you over along with the physics.  The boss fights between sections are very very terrible since the controls aren't that good and the game is designed around rolling, not boss platforming.  Worth playing for an hour or two, not really worth finishing.  Glad I played it but don't know how much I'll remember it in a year.  Then again I don't remember Zeno Clash either besides the kooky art.

Agreed on all counts. I played for three hours and then uninstalled because I wasn't getting much enjoyment out of actually playing the game. Got very close to beating the story, too. Everything about the audiovisual presentation is excellent  (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/648750155744368690?tab=public) but the key to winning is like 90% speed and 10% strategy most of the time -- just roll like hell and pray you don't get knocked off a corner by a catapult balloon.

I'm sure it's a fun multiplayer game, but I'll never find out.

[magus]

Disagree:

-AI teammates making distinguished mentally-challenged decisions
-Enemy getting lucky with a critical hit and then following it up with an attack that demolishes the lead character
-Enemies you have been fighting consistently throughout Tartarus pull out a Mamudo spell out of midair that hits the lead character
-The (ugh) roulette wheel battle
-Party members getting consistently charmed (when there isn't any multi-charm cure item) and then deciding to heal the boss.

Don't get me wrong I like the game a lot, but a lot of the time when I die I feel like it's bad luck, not a lack of preparation or me getting cocky.

- if you've prepared properly, what your teammates do is irrelevant
- if you've prepared properly, you'll be able to handle a critical hit
- if you've prepared properly, a mamudo spell will bounce off your homonculus
- if you've prepared properly, there's nothing scary in the roulette wheel
- if you've prepared properly, charm is just another status effect

sounds to me like you're baww-bawwing when you should be batmanning the fuck up, princess

and how do you prepare properly to handle a critical hit exactly? atlus game are just cheap and that cheapness get confused for actual challenge which is why i fear everytime the internet decides that a game is HARDZ!!1!

my favourite one are the ones that explode in your face and kills you instantly without any sort of protection to save your ass! missed an attack? whoops! too bad,go to jail without collecting the 200$

[demi]

You should have played the superior PSP version, no distinguished mentally-challenged AI

[magus]

Have enough HP to survive.

Honestly, you kids are fucking milk-babies.  You wouldn't know hard if it balled its fist and shoved it up your lovehole, powderpuff.

the problem is not the damage,the problem is the enemy taking a turn twice in a row thanks to the distinguished mentally-challenged one more system,and there are enemy which will murder you in those two turn no matter how many HP you have

[MrAngryFace]

If I could beat P3 FES anyone can imo

[demi]

* With a guide

[bork]

You should have played the superior PSP version, no distinguished mentally-challenged AI

This is the correct answer.

[Bebpo]

finished up Rock of Ages

Weird game.  Kind of good, kind of not.  Greaaaaaaaaaaat cutscenes.  Awesome art and music and humor.  Creative gameplay and the levels designs are alright.  You really have to learn the tricks to each level or the AI will keep beating you until you do.  The AI also is an asshole and constantly fucks you over along with the physics.  The boss fights between sections are very very terrible since the controls aren't that good and the game is designed around rolling, not boss platforming.  Worth playing for an hour or two, not really worth finishing.  Glad I played it but don't know how much I'll remember it in a year.  Then again I don't remember Zeno Clash either besides the kooky art.

Agreed on all counts. I played for three hours and then uninstalled because I wasn't getting much enjoyment out of actually playing the game. Got very close to beating the story, too. Everything about the audiovisual presentation is excellent  (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/648750155744368690?tab=public) but the key to winning is like 90% speed and 10% strategy most of the time -- just roll like hell and pray you don't get knocked off a corner by a catapult balloon.

I'm sure it's a fun multiplayer game, but I'll never find out.

The catapult balloons are the worst.  Game would have been better without them.  Rolling along and then getting hit by a homing shot that sends you flying off the road gets really annoying.  Same with when the cpu puts heavy wind turbines on narrow roads making it basically impossible to pass without getting blown off the edge.  Computer is just a dick in general in this game.  I found my winning strategy 90% of the time was to just lose a few times and then copy what the AI does in their defenses and put them in the exact same spots.

[MrAngryFace]

PS2 version has the best soundtrack though - the new tunes for the PSP version are boring

[magus]

i actualy never finished P3,i stopped at the last set of floor,i was pretty sure all the annoyance of the last floors wasn't worth the ending and somehow i can't help but feel i was right

[Bebpo]

You were wrong

Megaten games have really cool final boss fights and good endings, and P3 was no exception.