Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4636187 times)

Timber · « **Reply #15780 on:** April 04, 2012, 08:22:10 PM »

Lost a marathon game of Civ 4 by not realizing that my seemingly friendly next-door neighbour MAO ZEDONG had spent the better part of human history preparing to wipe me off the map. Steamrolled me in the 18th century with all manner of modern infantry, and I just sat there with my quaint little aspirations of cultural victory and took it like a little Egyptian biiiiiitch.

Owl-faced Wizard · « **Reply #15781 on:** April 05, 2012, 01:48:56 AM »

OG Shinobi (arc). Fun game, even if it is just a Rolling Thunder clone.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15782 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:27:48 AM »

So great- rolling with Tachibana, Ryu, Wang Yuanji (replacing with awesome Yue Ying once I unlock her)

Bought the WHEEL and everything- glad it has an easy mode- will graduate to higher difficulties once I have the wireless wheel figured out- takes getting used to and sensitivity appears to different between driving games

After finishing ME3 I played through ME1, now im on ME2- WHYYYYYY

Trent Dole · « **Reply #15783 on:** April 05, 2012, 03:12:16 PM »

I've seen a few people on my flist playing ME1 lately, not that strange a thing. I barely remember the first two at this point myself.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15784 on:** April 05, 2012, 03:53:23 PM »

ME1 isnt that good a game though- imo its really a mess, technically speaking

Corporal · « **Reply #15785 on:** April 05, 2012, 04:07:04 PM »

It was a good first try, though. Riddled with shitty design and bugs, but a good foundation. I just wish ME2 and 3 weren't so shootery. I wanted more of an RPG experience, maybe even with lock-on targeting and extensive stat brooding. Oh well, not that I mind. ME2 was still enjoyable, and ME3 sans ending looks good enough, although I really tire of the whole uncanny valley creepy look thing. That reporter in 3. Scares the shit outta me.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15786 on:** April 05, 2012, 04:24:31 PM »

3 is insanely shootery yeah

cool breeze · « **Reply #15787 on:** April 05, 2012, 04:40:08 PM »

ME2 is my favorite because it was a shooter with a lot of rpg charm, but in retrospect I can appreciate ME1 more seeing how ME3 turned out. Not that ME3 is bad or anything; it's just less interesting to me because it's a full on shooter now.

ME1's action/shooting, side missions, elevators / technical issues were fowl, though. The times when it was most enjoyable were just running around on the Citadel or Noveria and doing talky rpg stuff. And I liked how any environment could be for talking or shooting. ME2/ME3 have combat and non-combat areas. The mako and exploring planets wouldn't have been bad if every side mission wasn't the exact same thing repeated over and over (unsurprisingly, this is the same problem with scanning in both sequels).

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15788 on:** April 05, 2012, 04:43:13 PM »

ME1 just had too much mako. WAYYY TOO MUCH. Also the AI and party command interface was horrible.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #15789 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:12:06 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on April 05, 2012, 04:40:08 PM

ME2 is my favorite because it was a shooter with a lot of rpg charm, but in retrospect I can appreciate ME1 more seeing how ME3 turned out. Not that ME3 is bad or anything; it's just less interesting to me because it's a full on shooter now.

buh? maybe im misremembering me2 but from what i recall me2 and me3 play almost exactly alike

Corporal · « **Reply #15790 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:27:27 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 04:43:13 PM

ME1 just had too much mako. WAYYY TOO MUCH. Also the AI and party command interface was horrible.

Nah, the worst was that abortion of an inventory. Who in their right mind designs something like that? It's a crime against humanity, that's what it is. I could deal with everything else, but that part of the game really got on my nerves.

Mako was just "find elevated spot, kill everything in range, repeat". Horribly boring, but at least manageable.

Himu · « **Reply #15791 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:43:16 PM »

from the demo, me3 had more rpg customization than me2 so i dunno what linkzg is talking about though i haven't played me3 yet

magus · « **Reply #15792 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:44:16 PM »

unlocked and finished the secret level of rayman origins,it was amazing,so hard and fun and they used new graphics for everything,i feel vindicated for everytime i played a sucky sidescrollers on the wii like wario land shake it or a boy and his blob

i don't think i'm going for the 100% tough,it sounds like a chore and i want to leave the game on a good note

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15793 on:** April 05, 2012, 05:44:28 PM »

Yeah but you dont have to do almost any of it. As long as your gun as the parts you want (that automagically upgrade when you find upgraded versions) and you headshot reliably, who cares what powers you have?

cool breeze · « **Reply #15794 on:** April 05, 2012, 06:05:27 PM »

Quote from: Positive Touch on April 05, 2012, 05:12:06 PM

Quote from: Linkzg on April 05, 2012, 04:40:08 PM
ME2 is my favorite because it was a shooter with a lot of rpg charm, but in retrospect I can appreciate ME1 more seeing how ME3 turned out. Not that ME3 is bad or anything; it's just less interesting to me because it's a full on shooter now.

buh? maybe im misremembering me2 but from what i recall me2 and me3 play almost exactly alike

without going into specific missions, mass effect 2 had multiple hub worlds / non-combat area, and not every mission was a linear shooter level.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #15795 on:** April 05, 2012, 06:54:50 PM »

yep. having the citadel being the only place to go to do stuff outside combat sucked. illium and omega were so awesome in ME2.

man me3... man... $:-\$

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15796 on:** April 05, 2012, 08:06:57 PM »

Outside of the ending, the lack of cool hubs [aside from the Citadel] was my biggest issue with ME3.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #15797 on:** April 05, 2012, 08:19:56 PM »

eh, i didn't really have a problem with it. there was still tons of story scenes, both in the levels and in the normandy, and it kept the action flowing better because i wasnt combing over towns over and over again looking for sidequest triggers

Positive Touch · « **Reply #15798 on:** April 05, 2012, 09:30:59 PM »

just beat me3. ending was... not as bad as i thought it'd be. yeah, a little more would be nice, but it's not like there was some nanomachine bullshit that came out of nowhere and fucked everything up. fuck the haters, this game was excellent. just as good as 2, prolly better because there were way more levels, bigger setpieces, more enemies, and a more satisfying combat tree. kind of want to play through the series again now

i will totally buy the shit out of any and all c-grade spinoffs that are released in the future

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15799 on:** April 05, 2012, 09:32:03 PM »

Quote from: Positive Touch on April 05, 2012, 09:30:59 PM

but it's not like there was some nanomachine bullshit that came out of nowhere and fucked everything up.

There isn't?

cool breeze · « **Reply #15800 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:08:33 PM »

Ghost Trick is a cool game (on chapter 7) but I'm having the same issue I had with Machinarium. Executing the solutions to these puzzles takes too long with all the style and character they're trying to get across. Waiting on that slow walking speed or extra dialog before I can just move on.

I like all the story stuff in Ghost Trick. The game already breaks up the story and puzzle sections, so I don't need it to interrupt the puzzle sections.

DS version, btw. Game doesn't need the top screen at all, and touch screen isn't necessary. Capcom could just put this on steam, xbox live, psn no problem. It's already on iOS.

iconoclast · « **Reply #15801 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:54:07 PM »

Finished Asura's Wrath yesterday. The story and characters are incredibly cliche, but it was entertaining enough to see it through to the end. Game has great animation too, as usual for CC2. Doubt I'll ever play it again though since the gameplay sections were pretty dull.

Got 9 million in the tonfa survival in Ninja Gaiden 2 as well. I almost made it the Master Ninja loop (aka the 4th loop) for the first time, but I choked on Genshin.

Gotta up my Kusari-Gama and Vigoorian Flails scores next.

demi · « **Reply #15802 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:55:10 PM »

I own all the old skool Sonic games on XBLA, sans Adventure edit: and CD. I decided to play them in order (1, 2, 3, S&K - or is it better to do S&K then 3)

I've finished 1. Horrible game.

2 requires an online partner for an achievement. Anyone have it here?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15803 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:55:23 PM »

I really need to focus on like, one game- just been all pensive lately so its fuckin hard to just sit down and finish something.

Huff · « **Reply #15804 on:** April 06, 2012, 12:12:24 AM »

Started Uncharted 3. Went to check out the online portion. Can't get on. "Problem Syncing Level Data" wtf

magus · « **Reply #15805 on:** April 06, 2012, 11:25:32 AM »

i'm in the mood for an rpg,i'd still have FF13-2 to play but personaly up to where i played (academya) was unimpressive,so i'm gonna pull off a shocking move and give a try to star ocean 4

i mean it can't be as bad as eternal sonata right?

iconoclast · « **Reply #15806 on:** April 06, 2012, 12:36:23 PM »

It's slightly better than Eternal Sonata. Slightly.

Kabouter · « **Reply #15807 on:** April 06, 2012, 12:51:32 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 04:43:13 PM

ME1 just had too much mako. WAYYY TOO MUCH. Also the AI and party command interface was horrible.

I wouldn't have had much of a problem with the Mako if the map design for the 'random' planets in particular hadn't been so poor. I love exploring, but give me fun maps to explore rather than terrible nigh impossible to traverse maps with a few boring bases scattered.

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on April 05, 2012, 06:54:50 PM

yep. having the citadel being the only place to go to do stuff outside combat sucked. illium and omega were so awesome in ME2.

man me3... man... $:-\$

On the other hand, the Citadel in ME2 was terrible.

Momo · « **Reply #15808 on:** April 06, 2012, 01:16:41 PM »

Just finished Bulletstorm

Holy fuck at this ending. BALLS

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15809 on:** April 06, 2012, 01:46:14 PM »

I loved bulletstorm

Momo · « **Reply #15810 on:** April 06, 2012, 01:52:32 PM »

Yeah I did too, but the ending man. I think the game bombed too, so wtf now.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #15811 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:32:08 PM »

Quote from: Kabouter on April 06, 2012, 12:51:32 PM

Quote from: MrAngryFace on April 05, 2012, 04:43:13 PM
ME1 just had too much mako. WAYYY TOO MUCH. Also the AI and party command interface was horrible.
I wouldn't have had much of a problem with the Mako if the map design for the 'random' planets in particular hadn't been so poor. I love exploring, but give me fun maps to explore rather than terrible nigh impossible to traverse maps with a few boring bases scattered.

Yeah, it was definitely the design of the planets more so than the Mako itself being terrible. They were all exactly the same and there was never anything interesting to find, do, or even look at it.

Kabouter · « **Reply #15812 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:35:16 PM »

Quote from: Momo on April 06, 2012, 01:52:32 PM

Yeah I did too, but the ending man. I think the game bombed too, so wtf now.

It just about broke even. So disappointing enough that it is unlikely to get a sequel, but not a major flop.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15813 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:47:16 PM »

Quote from: Momo on April 06, 2012, 01:52:32 PM

Yeah I did too, but the ending man. I think the game bombed too, so wtf now.

Yeah

Momo · « **Reply #15814 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:52:11 PM »

Bah

But now I have to tackle my 25 other backlogged games

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15815 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:03:08 PM »

I need to freaking play through some of my newer stuff- so much GUILT associated with playing through ME2 AGAIN

Momo · « **Reply #15816 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:05:36 PM »

These for me

Quote

PS3

Front Mission Evolved
~~Bulletstorm~~
Dungeon Siege III
3D Dot Game Heroes
Darksiders
Assassin's Creed
Dead Rising 2
Dead Space
Disgaea 3
Gran Turismo 5
Borderlands (4 DLC Packs only)
Nail'd
White Knight Chronicles I
White Knight Chronicles II
Tekken 6
Just Cause 2
Resident Evil 5
Vanquish
Sengoku Basara : Samurai Warriors
Lost
Rogue Warrior
Shadows of the Damned
Wipeout HD + Fury
Dead Nation
Soul Calibur IV
Alice : The Madness Returns
American McGee's Alice

XBOX360

Forza 3
Halo ODST
Need for Speed : Most Wanted
Sequence

PC/Steam

Evochron Mercenary
Empire Earth : Gold Edition
Portal
Sequence
Lure of the Temptress
Beneath a Steel Sky
Teen Agent
Tyrian 2000
Dragon Sphere
Fallout

Misc

Phantasy Star Portable 2 [PSP]

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15817 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:08:15 PM »

get crackin!

Momo · « **Reply #15818 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:28:54 PM »

I shall destroy the core vic viper style. Now I feel like playing Gradius V $:-\$

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15819 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:30:19 PM »

Wait, you've never finished darksiders? do that.

Momo · « **Reply #15820 on:** April 06, 2012, 03:40:59 PM »

I played it a fair bit but got detracted by life shit. Also a chunk of the PS3 games I have up there I finished on 360

tiesto · « **Reply #15821 on:** April 06, 2012, 04:52:25 PM »

Out of that list, definitely Wipeout HD... what a fantastic game. Then I'd say Sequence, Fallout and Portal 1.

demi · « **Reply #15822 on:** April 06, 2012, 05:54:44 PM »

You could cut all of that list off by not playing shitty PS3 games

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #15823 on:** April 06, 2012, 07:51:05 PM »

Why is the Lost game even on your list? Unless you need an easy 1000 points...

Nevermind, PS3 version, now you have no reason to play it.

Momo · « **Reply #15824 on:** April 06, 2012, 10:49:38 PM »

The shitty games are there for hilarity I needed to see for myself the wonders of Lost, Rogue Warrior, Front Mission and it's ilk.

chronovore · « **Reply #15825 on:** April 07, 2012, 02:27:35 AM »

Restarted [PROTOTYPE], and am finding it less enchanting than the first time I tried playing it.

By-and-large, it is a better version of Sega's movie tie-in HULK game, since that team basically aped Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, the game Radical had made immediately prior to PROTOTYPE.

The camera is incapable of keeping up with the building-scaling, particularly when corners are turned, or the player does anything other than run straight up them.

The third or so mission, having to destroy 4 or 5 increasingly large waves of "brute" class characters does not benefit from a reasonable learning curve. It was a pain the first time I played it, two years ago; it was a pain this time, even though I took a lot more time to learn combat and movement before attempting it this time.

Hopefully I stick with it this time, because if I step away from it again, I probably won't come back.

Momo · « **Reply #15826 on:** April 07, 2012, 07:12:28 AM »

started 3D Dot Game Heroes, two temples in already, the moving sand of the south east desert is annoying as fuck

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #15827 on:** April 07, 2012, 07:13:20 PM »

Thats a sick list Momo. I never understood people that work of a list of games they have to play, I could never do that.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #15828 on:** April 07, 2012, 07:22:08 PM »

I had a lot of fun with NFS Most Wanted. You'll really enjoy it I think.

I would be playing Gran Turismo 5 XL but it required a 2 GB install. Ok, fine. Then it prompted me to download about 600 MB of updates. Urggg, fine. Then I play and it wants me to install 8 GB to the HDD. I skip this until I started trying to play. Now I'm installing the 8 GB file, which according to the game will take 50 minutes. Rage

chronovore · « **Reply #15829 on:** April 07, 2012, 08:16:42 PM »

Being TheBore.com, we need a :lolPS3 emoticon.

Timber · « **Reply #15830 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:24:45 PM »

Past few days I've played through this.

Weird, distressing survival horror with a strong emphasis on survival as keeping yourself fed and rested is as important as not being killed by monsters. Lots of characters and scenes of the Twin Peaks Red Room variety. I got the blue ending, only fed the cat once, never figured out how to cook ham. Pro tip: don't eat the "irratiated orange." Great game.

Corporal · « **Reply #15831 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:38:46 PM »

Eh, the dev is giving away Steam codes for Lucid over at reddit, so I played that for a while. (If you're interested, send a message to this bot)

Game is pretty nice. Reminds me of Bejeweled since the music and jewels and general presentation are kinda-sorta similar. Wouldn't pay for it since I have enough Puzzlers to stay busy until the heat death of the universe claims me, but hey, free game. Why the fuck not.

(not me)

They do have a pretty Banging website. Yeah, with a capital B. It's like straight out of some Geocities-infested Netscape Composer nightmare.

Huff · « **Reply #15832 on:** April 07, 2012, 10:02:56 PM »

If you like puzzle games buy Closure (psn). Fucking Awesome. Really loved it. The style, music, controls, everything was spot on. The light and shadow mechanics never got old or boring.

And the ending had a similar vibe to Journey which was super cool.

Game gets fucking hard though. And getting all of the moths required me to use some youtube. I might just suck at puzzle games

To 100% it took me about 4 - 5 hours

Bebpo · « **Reply #15833 on:** April 07, 2012, 10:09:22 PM »

I played the Flash game a year ago and it was neat but yeah, the puzzles got pretty hard so I wasn't going to bother with the new one.

Huff · « **Reply #15834 on:** April 07, 2012, 10:12:48 PM »

The puzzles do get really hard. I don't get easily frustrated so I would struggle with each puzzle, and use a youtube guide if I got stuck.

Going to go back to Catherine soon and I'll probably apply a similar strategy

Rman · « **Reply #15835 on:** April 07, 2012, 11:25:00 PM »

Quote from: demi on April 05, 2012, 11:55:10 PM

I own all the old skool Sonic games on XBLA, sans Adventure edit: and CD. I decided to play them in order (1, 2, 3, S&K - or is it better to do S&K then 3)

I've finished 1. Horrible game.

2 requires an online partner for an achievement. Anyone have it here?

Do SK and Sonic 3 lock on? I know they do for the Wii.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15836 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:09:54 AM »

Finished Edna & Harvey: The Breakout.

Moral of the story: If all the reviews say the story is charming but still give it a 5/10, it's not magically going to this really satisfyingly good game with a charming story; it's going to be a 5/10 game that's not worth playing but has some good parts :\

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #15837 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:12:07 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on April 07, 2012, 08:16:42 PM

Being TheBore.com, we need a :lolPS3 emoticon.

Yeah, I thought this version was supposed to be the one that is bullshit free compared to the original. I guess I was wrong.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15838 on:** April 08, 2012, 01:37:36 AM »

Decided to start playing Telltale's Back to the Future games again. I'd finished ep1 & 2, but dropped it after that. If I wait any longer to play the rest I'll have forgotten everything that happened in the earlier episodes like how I played Tales of Monkey Island ep1 and can't remember a thing about it so I'll probably need to skim a let's play before getting back to that in the future.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #15839 on:** April 08, 2012, 05:51:25 AM »

i got given an R4 card recently, so I'm gonna be catching up on DS stuff I havent played.

What should I try first?

Radiant Historia
TWEWY
Prof Layton
Strange Journey
DQIX
Pokemans Black

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