Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4646600 times)

iconoclast · « **Reply #15000 on:** January 16, 2012, 03:58:58 PM »

Started playing Death Smiles 2 again. Gonna try to beat my old 1 billion score, but it's going to be really tough. First I need to remember all of the shit I used to do, because I've forgotten damn near everything, then figure out how to improve on it. Would be easier if the game had downloadable or even savable replays, but nope. Off to nico I go...

At least I've figured out how to practice individual stages, since the game has no training mode. Rushed ports $:-\$

magus · « **Reply #15001 on:** January 16, 2012, 04:53:56 PM »

since i somewhat liked rune factory tides of destiny i've decided to check out rune factory 3 and so far it seems better,sure it's less streamlined (buy the seed,water them,feed your monster) but on the other hand the crafting system seems like to be less grind prone,material drop are plenty so making high level items to raise your skill doesn't seems to be so hard,there also doesn't seems to there be any easy money-making system and there is plenty of stuff to buy so i don't see myself outgrowing the whole system as quickly

it's also nice to have a combat system that feels more like 2D zelda rather than a low-budget clunky action rpg,there is even a difficulty selector,i'm playing on hard and the first boss took a lot of effort,murdering him was very satysfing

the character are the same kind of cutesy blandness but i find the one that speak in opposite somewhat amusing

Timber · « **Reply #15002 on:** January 17, 2012, 05:29:21 PM »

I just played some provisional GOTY janitorial simulation Dustforce. It's cheap and it's on Steam and you should buy it if you like challenging platformers.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #15003 on:** January 17, 2012, 06:41:02 PM »

Just getting around to playing Trials HD after I bought it months ago and it's fuckin RAD. I eat this kinda shit up. Endless restarts for that perfect run.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #15004 on:** January 17, 2012, 06:43:50 PM »

gonna try and wrap up Skyrim today then get back to mopping up achievements in Dead Space 1 & 2.

Some new games would be nice!

iconoclast · « **Reply #15005 on:** January 18, 2012, 09:48:56 AM »

Quote from: iconoclast on January 16, 2012, 03:58:58 PM

Started playing Death Smiles 2 again. Gonna try to beat my old 1 billion score, but it's going to be really tough.

Did it.

Made a bunch of mistakes here and there (some major and lots of minor), but I don't think there's a ton of room left for improvement. The world record on the arcade version is a little over 2 billion, but I think scores anywhere near that are literally impossible on the 360 port because of inaccuracies (the #1 Lei score on the 360 is 1.3b). Oh well, still pretty happy with this.

tiesto · « **Reply #15006 on:** January 18, 2012, 10:13:02 AM »

A few more floors in Tartarus to go... then I get into a battle with a mage. Try to scan him... but before that can be done, the mage attacks with a Megidola spell, doing 550+ damage to my party, wiping them all out... $:-\$

So close, yet so far. I'm at the point where I've been playing for nearly 80 hours and just want to be done. I hate this part of RPGs.

Timber · « **Reply #15007 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:42:17 AM »

Just got a top 10 ranking in Dustforce. FEELS GOOD MAN but there's no way it'll last long.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/648750789872644229/?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15008 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:52:50 AM »

I picked up dustforce but I cant get my 360 wireless pad to work- wtf

edit: I HAVE TO MAP MY OWN cONTROLLLZ WHAT YEAR AM I LIVING INNNNNNNNNN

archie4208 · « **Reply #15009 on:** January 18, 2012, 12:03:59 PM »

I had the most exciting and entertaining game of Dota 2 last night. EVILG.DeMoN is a pro player and his team was stomping us early game, but by some miracle we won.

Timber · « **Reply #15010 on:** January 18, 2012, 02:17:39 PM »

Got the bronze

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198054578465/screenshot/648750789875386934

Game is so good.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15011 on:** January 18, 2012, 02:29:04 PM »

I liked the TUTORIAL- ill play more tonight but im on dat company time right now...sorta

Timber · « **Reply #15012 on:** January 18, 2012, 02:49:21 PM »

It took me a while to get used to the controls. They seemed off at first with all the walljumping and dashing, but after about two hours it all clicked and became an A++ platformer.

Even the tutorial has leaderboards. Game don't mess around.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15013 on:** January 18, 2012, 03:18:09 PM »

Yeah its all about execution- not collecting

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15014 on:** January 18, 2012, 03:18:35 PM »

reminds me a little of Shinobi on ps2- mechanics wise

chronovore · « **Reply #15015 on:** January 18, 2012, 05:32:05 PM »

I'd not played any games in this first week back in America. But last night I played a metric fuck-tonne of Tobal 2 with my longest-standing Tobal comrade. Holy crap, it was so much fun. We had a long catchup/learning curve, but by the last 1/3 we were back on our game.

Eric P · « **Reply #15016 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:08:42 PM »

i'm playing "back up my purchases from Direct2Drive before they convert to gamefly" it's a lot of fun!

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15017 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:25:17 PM »

Dustforce IS pretty awesome- love the soundtrack- and when youre in your janitorial groove it feels so good

chronovore · « **Reply #15018 on:** January 19, 2012, 08:19:48 AM »

For the first time since arriving in the States, I tried to log in and access my Cloud Drive save data to play some Batman: AC. Not sure what I did wrong in Osaka, but my save file is at the 56% mark, where I think my progress was around 80%, from wrapping up Riddler Trophies and Riddler Hostages. I guess I'm going to wait until I can get access to the other save file before continuing. $:-\$

benjipwns · « **Reply #15019 on:** January 19, 2012, 12:53:06 PM »

GFWL was fucking up lots of peoples saves for that.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #15020 on:** January 19, 2012, 04:24:11 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on January 19, 2012, 08:19:48 AM

For the first time since arriving in the States, I tried to log in and access my Cloud Drive save data to play some Batman: AC. Not sure what I did wrong in Osaka, but my save file is at the 56% mark, where I think my progress was around 80%, from wrapping up Riddler Trophies and Riddler Hostages. I guess I'm going to wait until I can get access to the other save file before continuing. $:-\$

at least yours didnt get COMPLETELY DELETED after putting like 30-40 hours into it. i'll never go back :'(

magus · « **Reply #15021 on:** January 19, 2012, 07:56:11 PM »

rune factory 3 is so fun,i've actualy started playing tides of destiny again... but they screwed up once again,one of the option let you go inside random dungeons which feature random loot... now while this is incredibly fun as there is a bucketload of shit to find,it also completly destroy any reason to keep your farm going as a trip to a random dungeon makes you thrice the money you would get doing the boring stuff

i'm actualy amused that tides of destiny came after this one because it's pretty clear this is the game where they put the fuck

The Sceneman · « **Reply #15022 on:** January 19, 2012, 07:59:42 PM »

Quote from: Positive Touch on January 19, 2012, 04:24:11 PM

Quote from: chronovore on January 19, 2012, 08:19:48 AM
For the first time since arriving in the States, I tried to log in and access my Cloud Drive save data to play some Batman: AC. Not sure what I did wrong in Osaka, but my save file is at the 56% mark, where I think my progress was around 80%, from wrapping up Riddler Trophies and Riddler Hostages. I guess I'm going to wait until I can get access to the other save file before continuing. $:-\$

at least yours didnt get COMPLETELY DELETED after putting like 30-40 hours into it. i'll never go back :'(

my fucking Batman disc has a couple of tiny scratches on it and is now unreadable by ANY Xbox. I've tried 4 different units. I'm gonna get it resurfaced but I think the disc might actually be faulty. I which case I will try and get a replacement

chronovore · « **Reply #15023 on:** January 19, 2012, 08:19:03 PM »

Quote from: Positive Touch on January 19, 2012, 04:24:11 PM

Quote from: chronovore on January 19, 2012, 08:19:48 AM
For the first time since arriving in the States, I tried to log in and access my Cloud Drive save data to play some Batman: AC. Not sure what I did wrong in Osaka, but my save file is at the 56% mark, where I think my progress was around 80%, from wrapping up Riddler Trophies and Riddler Hostages. I guess I'm going to wait until I can get access to the other save file before continuing. $:-\$

at least yours didnt get COMPLETELY DELETED after putting like 30-40 hours into it. i'll never go back :'(

Quote from: benjipwns on January 19, 2012, 12:53:06 PM

GFWL was fucking up lots of peoples saves for that.

EEP! I guess I should count myself lucky! I will just mess around with other games; I wanted to just move from this to NG+; maybe I will do that, but I don't want to re-do the massive number of trophies I'd already cleared.

Himu · « **Reply #15024 on:** January 20, 2012, 12:47:48 AM »

Bump sensitivity up if yer using a controller.

Timber · « **Reply #15025 on:** January 20, 2012, 01:48:50 PM »

It took me an hour but I finally beat this monstrosity:

I'm number 8 on the leaderboard because only 16 people managed to beat it so far. Dude in the video is gooooood. I'm like 10 seconds slower.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #15026 on:** January 20, 2012, 02:01:13 PM »

back to samurai warriors chronicles. still the best 3ds game.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15027 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:30:15 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on January 20, 2012, 02:01:13 PM

back to samurai warriors chronicles. still the best 3ds game.

word

Bebpo · « **Reply #15028 on:** January 20, 2012, 06:02:09 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on January 20, 2012, 02:01:13 PM

back to samurai warriors chronicles. still the best 3ds game.

It's what's back in my 3DS after I ejected Mario.

chronovore · « **Reply #15029 on:** January 21, 2012, 02:10:34 AM »

Playing that new Rayman game. Holy crap, this game is GORGEOUS. Blew through several levels in co-op. Ver' naaahsss./borat

The Sceneman · « **Reply #15030 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:39:02 AM »

oooh I want Rayman real bad.

I'm currently mopping up cheevs in Dead Space 1 zzzzzzzzzz :'( I need some new games

magus · « **Reply #15031 on:** January 21, 2012, 03:34:10 PM »

i'm really close to finish rune factory:tides of destiny but there is some bullshit going on... namely,it's one of those game suffering from Nakamania the more S.Link equivalent you cleared,the more revive you get during the final boss and he's really quick about killing you so now i have to spend some times being buddy buddy with NPC so i can survive longer

even more annoying i have access to a really powerfull weapon but before being able to get it,i need a rare drop... so now i have to grind for rare drops too
i wish this game was already over

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15032 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:52:41 PM »

Ive tried a few rune factory games but there's always that moment where it stops holding your hand and youre all like 'now what the fuck am I sposed to be doing' and then after a few hours you stop caring

iconoclast · « **Reply #15033 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:05:47 PM »

Going back to Akai Katana now. Got three goals in mind: record a non-embarrassing replay in arcade with a higher score than my current best, get 1 billion+ in Zetsu, and get better with Type C in Shin. Should keep me busy for a while.

magus · « **Reply #15034 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:05:55 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on January 21, 2012, 04:52:41 PM

Ive tried a few rune factory games but there's always that moment where it stops holding your hand and youre all like 'now what the fuck am I sposed to be doing' and then after a few hours you stop caring

yeah that's how i felt about the first 2 but tides of destiny and 3 are more focused on that regard
anyway i finished it,since i couldn't find the drop i made like 10 levels,and after i did found the drop,my attack power increased by a bajillion... i upgraded my armor a little more and ended up trashing the final boss without that friendship stuff

there is more stuff to do after finishing the game (like taking a waifu and some sort of colisseum) but i'm not sure i'm going to do it

Timber · « **Reply #15035 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:39:42 PM »

Started playing The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and I banged some random peasant woman in "a nook" and now I have a card of her pouring water on her tits.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #15036 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:39:51 PM »

After loving New Vegas and all the DLC, I wanted MOAR, so I installed Fallout 3, and oops, Bethesda can't actually write a game for shit. Somehow I had retroactively forgotten how empty and boring the world was and how bland the NPCs. Pity. Is Skyrim actually any better in the narrative department?

I may give ALPHA BROTOCOL a try at this point!

magus · « **Reply #15037 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:57:24 PM »

Quote from: Timber on January 21, 2012, 05:39:42 PM

Started playing The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and I banged some random peasant woman in "a nook" and now I have a card of her pouring water on her tits.

Japa... err i mean Poland!

Bebpo · « **Reply #15038 on:** January 21, 2012, 06:00:33 PM »

Just finished OUTLAND

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHH

The final boss was like going BACK IN TIME to kickass challenging action platformers of the 8bit/16bit/32bit era. Took me 45 mins of retrying until I just baaarely beat it. SO HARD, but so good. I love how the overall challenge level of the game was maybe not Ninja Gaiden level, but was definitely above-average-game difficulty for these days. Some challenging spots all throughout and the boss fights were GOOD.

Definitely downloadable GoTY for 2011. Would love to see Housemarque do more of this and less of SuperStardust/Dead Nation. Stardust is cool but I don't think they need to do more of it, the Vita one looks like more the same and what I played of Dead Nation was kind of whatever. This, otoh, is ambitious and well crafted shoutout to treasure games of old.

And yeah, it's not really Super Metroid, it's closer to Prince of Persia SoT x Ikaruga.

cool breeze · « **Reply #15039 on:** January 21, 2012, 10:32:37 PM »

Armored Core 5 seems cool and deep but dammit I've become terrible at understanding imports.

The mech combat seems a lot slower than AC4 (not a negative) and the management and online seems a lot deeper. I'm hoping there is an English demo so I can understand it all.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15040 on:** January 21, 2012, 10:41:16 PM »

AC4 was definitely too fast and ridiculous. Made controlling it a pain. Might check out the AC5 demo.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15041 on:** January 21, 2012, 11:20:12 PM »

I'm digging Heroes of Phantasia. I don't get a lot of it, obviously, but the basics of the battle system are easy to piece together plus you get Lina in you first party and omg @ dragon slave. If this ever got localized I'd be so happy, but fat chance

cool breeze · « **Reply #15042 on:** January 21, 2012, 11:43:22 PM »

Medal of Honor

this is pretty good for one of these modern military shooter! I hated BF3 and Black Ops. Didn't really like CoD4, Bad Company 2, and most of MW2 (though it's was my favorite). It's surprising that it feels good comparatively.

Guns feel good, the scale is much smaller than the other games. You're fighting smaller packs of enemies for briefer encounters. The entire atmosphere is more like CoD4 instead of WW3 and each mission is killing a hundred enemies. The story is a lot of jargon and stuff but it seems grounded. It has a nice cover/lean system where you hold the left bumper and can move around with the left stick. And you can slide and shoot!

I don't like how much you rely on teammates to boost you onto a ledge (insulting when he follows without any help). Also, only a problem for the PC version and why I'm using a 360 controller is that the mouse controls are terrible. Horrible acceleration that speeds you up when turning but slows you down while trying to fine aim.

demi · « **Reply #15043 on:** January 21, 2012, 11:46:02 PM »

Medal of Honor and BF3 are doodoo, who is you kiddin.... All the COD games take a steamer on them

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15044 on:** January 22, 2012, 01:10:47 AM »

2 hours in i lost a fight- need to figure out how defending works- when to decide to spend the points, when to move people to different parts of the grid- also how people revive. Still cool stuff

Beezy · « **Reply #15045 on:** January 22, 2012, 01:56:13 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on January 21, 2012, 06:00:33 PM

Definitely downloadable GoTY for 2011. Would love to see Housemarque do more of this and less of SuperStardust/Dead Nation. Stardust is cool but I don't think they need to do more of it, the Vita one looks like more the same and what I played of Dead Nation was kind of whatever. This, otoh, is ambitious and well crafted shoutout to treasure games of old.

And yeah, it's not really Super Metroid, it's closer to Prince of Persia SoT x Ikaruga.

Good to see that you realize this. Also, I'd put Hard Corps: Uprising or Renegade Ops over Outland for 2011 downloadable GOTY.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15046 on:** January 22, 2012, 02:17:25 AM »

I'm playing Renegade Ops too and it's also awesome but they're different kinds of awesome. Renegade Ops has such nice gfx and rpg leveling yay.

Maybe I'll play Hard Corps after since you & I have similar tastes. I've had it sitting around for a while.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15047 on:** January 22, 2012, 04:12:31 AM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on January 22, 2012, 01:10:47 AM

2 hours in i lost a fight- need to figure out how defending works- when to decide to spend the points, when to move people to different parts of the grid- also how people revive. Still cool stuff

Hey MAF, what's the music like? Does it use the music from the 10 shows? Like the OPs/EDs? Like in Super Robot Wars when you attack with a unit from the show it plays a chiptune bgm version of the OP from that show.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15048 on:** January 22, 2012, 10:17:15 AM »

Yup. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of voice work, in fact what's weirder is that occasionally you'll get a voice clip out of nowhere. The other thing is that from what I can tell there's a lot of characters beyond the mains but everyone basically has a standard attack move which can be charged with additional power, and their special moves (which can also be charged). Game seems to focus on swapping between the different characters during fights to pull out dps combos or survive attacks and managing your action points/pp. You can allocate "Bravery" points to change a characters strengths but lol can't read Japanese so I'm not sure what these different stats effect yet.

The thing is aside from switching to characters that still have dps potential or can take heavy hits in a defense phase I'm not certain if some attacks are more effective than others. It might just be about keeping dps up through a fight. To be honest though that can be a challenge. I did barrrrely manage to beat that boss I was stuck on last night. All special attacks have a fully voiced skippable fmv clip.

There's a lot of story (that can be skipped) and a basic overworld. Also appears to be character gear of some sort, but I don't quite get how that works yet. I just set equip to AUTO for everyone I have so far (Lina, gourry, Amelia, zelgadis, and the crew from Rune Soldier)

iconoclast · « **Reply #15049 on:** January 22, 2012, 10:30:11 AM »

Started playing Cave Story+. It's okay so far and I'll probably finish it since I think it's supposed to be short, but the controls aren't as good as I thought they were going to be. I guess I went into it assuming it would have precise controls like Mega Man or any other good action/platformer, but there's some nasty inertia that I wasn't expecting.

Beezy · « **Reply #15050 on:** January 22, 2012, 12:01:15 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on January 22, 2012, 02:17:25 AM

I'm playing Renegade Ops too and it's also awesome but they're different kinds of awesome. Renegade Ops has such nice gfx and rpg leveling yay.

Maybe I'll play Hard Corps after since you & I have similar tastes. I've had it sitting around for a while.

True. You should know that Hard Corps learning curve is not forgiving at all early on in the game, but once you start getting upgrades and learning enemy patterns, it'll feel like one of the best 2D games this gen.

Timber · « **Reply #15051 on:** January 22, 2012, 02:51:58 PM »

YES. WHAT.

3+ hours of pure agony finally paid dividends. Beat this damn thing. Nearly had a heart attack.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #15052 on:** January 22, 2012, 03:02:58 PM »

Picked up Madden 12, Metal Gear HD Collection, and Space Marine in the 2 for 1 used sale at gamestop.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15053 on:** January 22, 2012, 03:54:30 PM »

Quote from: Timber on January 22, 2012, 02:51:58 PM

YES. WHAT.

3+ hours of pure agony finally paid dividends. Beat this damn thing. Nearly had a heart attack.

I want the soundtrack in my butt

Timber · « **Reply #15054 on:** January 22, 2012, 05:06:43 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on January 22, 2012, 03:54:30 PM

I want the soundtrack in my butt

I believe they're releasing the soundtrack soon, but I'm not sure if it's butt-compatible.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15055 on:** January 22, 2012, 06:39:47 PM »

I don't like this whole "leave your psp in sleep mode to level when you sleep thing" FF Type 0. This is the THIRD time I've forgotten to turn the power off when I start sleep leveling and put it in its pouch. So I take it out the next day and the pouch is like FIRE HEAT and the system is burning hot from being on and in an enclosed space for 12 hours+. I hope my PSP doesn't die. I still have a small backlog to get through on it

Bebpo · « **Reply #15056 on:** January 22, 2012, 06:40:36 PM »

Also dustforce soooo looks like my type of game. But I don't have time for a game like that in my life right now, so will wait until there's a steam sale in 6 months.

tiesto · « **Reply #15057 on:** January 22, 2012, 08:24:27 PM »

Beat Persona 3 @ 86h44m. Now started making some headway into Brain Lord. Hope to finish before GOTY FF13-2 comes out.

Tucah · « **Reply #15058 on:** January 22, 2012, 08:33:11 PM »

Fully in on Mass Effect 2, game is fun as hell. I'm definitely interested in picking up ME3 at launch now.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #15059 on:** January 22, 2012, 09:01:05 PM »

Quote from: Tucah on January 22, 2012, 08:33:11 PM

Fully in on Mass Effect 2, game is fun as hell. I'm definitely interested in picking up ME3 at launch now.

funny you mention ME2...

I just installed some of the Texture mods that bump up the texture quality on your squad members armor/faces also some other general texture mods as well and i'm thinking of re-playing the game before ME3 comes out.

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Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4646600 times)