Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4628977 times)

Purple Filth · « **Reply #16980 on:** July 21, 2012, 07:37:53 PM »

i need to stop fuck around and finish Halo 3

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #16981 on:** July 21, 2012, 10:34:05 PM »

Finished the first PA game- on the second.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #16982 on:** July 22, 2012, 12:46:02 AM »

Change of plans. I'm gonna start playing Ys first.

Portable gaming

iconoclast · « **Reply #16983 on:** July 22, 2012, 03:59:41 AM »

On one hand, 1 billion has been my goal in Daioujou BL for 8+ months now, so I'm glad I finally cracked ten digits.

On the other hand, this run was awful and I can do so much better, so I'm not at all satisfied. God damn this game. :'(

The Sceneman · « **Reply #16984 on:** July 22, 2012, 05:21:06 AM »

just started Alpha BONER-col. This is so good. Next level gaming

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #16985 on:** July 22, 2012, 07:23:33 AM »

Duuude I got a king as my prisoner.

And I unlocked an achievement called Holy Diver.

archnemesis · « **Reply #16986 on:** July 22, 2012, 09:12:59 AM »

You're almost ready for the cRPG mod.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #16987 on:** July 22, 2012, 01:57:39 PM »

Playing a woman is the best. At the start of the game the Vaergis king is all like "I ain't giving no woman any castles or nothin" but now like 15 hours later they just hand me fiefs on a platter and I'm like "fuck yes, I am woman hear me roar."

I crush armies with troop counts that triple mine. I'm the fucking queen bitch of Caldaria and it feels sooooooooooo good.

demi · « **Reply #16988 on:** July 22, 2012, 02:50:22 PM »

Just finished Asura's Wrath the first time... game is so enjoyable.

Need to run through like 3 more times though, but thankfully all the non-gameplay scenes are skippable.

Going to buy the DLC right now.

cool breeze · « **Reply #16989 on:** July 22, 2012, 05:25:30 PM »

Arkham City Harley Quinn DLC is baaaad. Might be the most worthless DLCs I've played.

When I heard it's short and reusing content, I thought it'd be like FEAR 2's DLC; a 1 to 2 hour remix of the main game for veterans. This Batman DLC is an hour of really easy brawls. No puzzles, real stealth sections, or anything interesting. It's not like you're playing as Robin for most of it either. What a lazy product. Feel ripped off at $3.50. And they charged $10 for this initially.

demi · « **Reply #16990 on:** July 22, 2012, 05:26:30 PM »

Well normally I'd say I told you so but I told you so

cool breeze · « **Reply #16991 on:** July 22, 2012, 05:28:57 PM »

I know

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #16992 on:** July 22, 2012, 06:15:27 PM »

I'm playing Yakuza 2 after finishing the great Yakuza 4.

tiesto · « **Reply #16993 on:** July 22, 2012, 07:41:08 PM »

Started to play Gunman's Proof for SFC.
Pretty interesting game, at first appearance, it looks like a LttP clone, even using a similar art style. But instead of an open-world puzzle game, it's a score-based action game. You get scored on how fast you finish a dungeon, how much damage you took, and how many of the hidden treasures you were able to find. I'm not huge on scoring aspects in games, but it's an interesting take on the top down action RPG genre.

Plus you fight semi-blackface-looking enemies.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #16994 on:** July 22, 2012, 11:02:01 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 22, 2012, 05:25:30 PM

Arkham City Harley Quinn DLC is baaaad. Might be the most worthless DLCs I've played.

When I heard it's short and reusing content, I thought it'd be like FEAR 2's DLC; a 1 to 2 hour remix of the main game for veterans. This Batman DLC is an hour of really easy brawls. No puzzles, real stealth sections, or anything interesting. It's not like you're playing as Robin for most of it either. What a lazy product. Feel ripped off at $3.50. And they charged $10 for this initially.

They lowered the price to $3.50? Consoles or Steam?

Bebpo · « **Reply #16995 on:** July 23, 2012, 02:42:22 AM »

Time Travelers

This is pretty much for Oscar since no one else is aware of what's going on with non-translated Visual Novels. But I'm about 33% through Time Travelers and while I'm enjoying it I don't understand why it exists as a "videogame". By taking a visual novel and making it non-stop cutscenes that you watch and occasionally hit O, they've kind of removed the barrier that separated a VN from a j-drama or anime series. There's no difference between me sitting and playing Time Travelers on my Vita and me sitting and watching the hypothetical Time Travelers anime on my couch between the screen size.

Just seems kind of pointless.

archnemesis · « **Reply #16996 on:** July 23, 2012, 02:44:46 AM »

Can you at least interact with it like in a choose-your-own-adventure novel?

Bebpo · « **Reply #16997 on:** July 23, 2012, 02:57:12 AM »

You get choices but if you pick the wrong one you get BAD END within 60 seconds of it. There's no real plot branching or anything. Just a bunch of lolz fake ends along the way.

cool breeze · « **Reply #16998 on:** July 23, 2012, 02:59:39 AM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on July 22, 2012, 11:02:01 PM

Quote from: Linkzg on July 22, 2012, 05:25:30 PM
Arkham City Harley Quinn DLC is baaaad. Might be the most worthless DLCs I've played.

When I heard it's short and reusing content, I thought it'd be like FEAR 2's DLC; a 1 to 2 hour remix of the main game for veterans. This Batman DLC is an hour of really easy brawls. No puzzles, real stealth sections, or anything interesting. It's not like you're playing as Robin for most of it either. What a lazy product. Feel ripped off at $3.50. And they charged $10 for this initially.

They lowered the price to $3.50? Consoles or Steam?

Steam (technically Games for Windows Live)

Quote from: Bebpo on July 23, 2012, 02:42:22 AM

Time Travelers

This is pretty much for Oscar since no one else is aware of what's going on with non-translated Visual Novels. But I'm about 33% through Time Travelers and while I'm enjoying it I don't understand why it exists as a "videogame". By taking a visual novel and making it non-stop cutscenes that you watch and occasionally hit O, they've kind of removed the barrier that separated a VN from a j-drama or anime series. There's no difference between me sitting and playing Time Travelers on my Vita and me sitting and watching the hypothetical Time Travelers anime on my couch between the screen size.

Just seems kind of pointless.

Tangentially related, but have you played that 999 sequel on Vita or 3DS? is it any good?

Bebpo · « **Reply #16999 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:01:03 AM »

Backlog. I'll probably play it when the US version comes out so I can join in the community discussion.

rodi · « **Reply #17000 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:23:42 AM »

I'm trying to play Day Z. Really trying.

chronovore · « **Reply #17001 on:** July 23, 2012, 10:27:54 AM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 22, 2012, 05:25:30 PM

Arkham City Harley Quinn DLC is baaaad. Might be the most worthless DLCs I've played.

When I heard it's short and reusing content, I thought it'd be like FEAR 2's DLC; a 1 to 2 hour remix of the main game for veterans. This Batman DLC is an hour of really easy brawls. No puzzles, real stealth sections, or anything interesting. It's not like you're playing as Robin for most of it either. What a lazy product. Feel ripped off at $3.50. And they charged $10 for this initially.

I enjoyed it but, yeah, it's not $10 worth of content. It was a neat little epilogue, and playing through with Bats' and Robin's differed abilities was enjoyable. Overall, very short.

Robo · « **Reply #17002 on:** July 23, 2012, 02:30:30 PM »

Got the Coldstrike DLC for Renegade Ops and playing through it again on Hardcore. I hope Avalanche makes another one of these—this game is fucking amazing.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #17003 on:** July 23, 2012, 09:42:47 PM »

I'm still pissed I didn't get it for 600MSP when it was on sale.

I really hope Avalanche is working on Just Cause 3

chronovore · « **Reply #17004 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:02:12 AM »

Quote from: Robo on July 23, 2012, 02:30:30 PM

Got the Coldstrike DLC for Renegade Ops and playing through it again on Hardcore. I hope Avalanche makes another one of these—this game is fucking amazing.

I don't think it sold well. Didn't Oscar say it sold for shit in the sales thread?

The Sceneman · « **Reply #17005 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:04:08 AM »

I'm playing Kinect games for achievements. Woop woop. Wanna hit 100k GS so bad. 8k to go!

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #17006 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:05:11 AM »

Just started up Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The augment system is daunting as fuck seeing as a good amount of them seem like they'd be useful. And I'm the type that takes years to choose an upgrade path and then second guesses myself. Great game so far though, I went with Deus Ex difficulty and its tough as fuck but I'm ok with that.

Also, the game allows you to change the FoV in the game menu. Every fucking non-competitive FPS should do this holy fuck. The default FoV of 70 is awful.

Himu · « **Reply #17007 on:** July 24, 2012, 02:16:30 AM »

Concentrate on legs and physical strength first. Make it so that when you fall you don't get hurt so easily and that you can lift up heavy objects asap.

archie4208 · « **Reply #17008 on:** July 24, 2012, 08:59:09 AM »

Got sick of Fortune Summoners. The clunky gameplay and overly uguu story did it no favors. I got about 4 hours of play out of it, so it wasn't too bad.

Now I'm trying to decide if I should invest time in Last Remnant or not. I've dabbled in it several times for an hour or so, but I always seem to get distracted.

Also trying to participate in a GAF Dota 2 league and there is a shit ton of drama after one day.

demi · « **Reply #17009 on:** July 24, 2012, 09:13:38 AM »

Quote from: The Sceneman on July 23, 2012, 09:42:47 PM

I'm still pissed I didn't get it for 600MSP when it was on sale.

I really hope Avalanche is working on Just Cause 3

It's 600MSP again...

Momo · « **Reply #17010 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:10:59 PM »

Playing that hateful story Korean space loli simulator thing

tiesto · « **Reply #17011 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:08:07 PM »

Quote from: Momo on July 24, 2012, 12:10:59 PM

Playing that hateful story Korean space loli simulator thing

Ehhhh? More details please...

cool breeze · « **Reply #17012 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:23:04 PM »

Space Marine

Game doesn't help you acclimate to the warhammer universe at all. Enough cool shit happens and overconfident orcs yell "MOAH SPACE MARINES TA KILL!" that it works without all the knowledge. I imagine it's like playing the Ghostbusters game without knowledge of the other media. Not a knock against the game or anything, because the plot is simple enough, but other times I'm watching a cutscene where

spoiler (click to show/hide)

a magic portal opens and another ultramarine comes out, only he's not a good guy. Something called Warp power opens a portal to allow Chaos forces to enter this dimension. And I guess Warp power is space magic and Chaos is space hell. And the Chaos characters are like Black Lanterns; dead ultramarines resurrected to be evil. And then there are Inquisitor Space Marines, who are the scientists and/or psychic power uses. And there's something called a Codex, which I assume is the Bible. And and the main character holds the Warp energy source and that means he might be corrupted by Chaos or something? I dunno. There's a rad ass giant mech and you smash demons with a huge hammer

[close]

I just came away more intrigued by the universe and wanting to know more. I have those warhammer rts games on steam so maybe those do a better job.

Anyway, the game is really fun. It's awesome how you regain health by playing aggressively. No need to hide behind cover. You can focus on smashing space orcs. Best parts are when you get the jetpack and do the ground pound attack that takes out a dozen enemies at once. Weapons are also really satisfying and powerful. If you get a crowd of orcs rushing you, one shot can take them all out. The visual and auditory feedback makes the game. An example is the sprinting since it's slow and pointless. But I do it anyway because the MC lumbers along and each footstep sounds like he's slamming down an enormous amount of weight.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #17013 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:37:28 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on July 24, 2012, 02:16:30 AM

Concentrate on legs and physical strength first. Make it so that when you fall you don't get hurt so easily and that you can lift up heavy objects asap.

Damn, I've been putting points into Hacking levels lol

cool breeze · « **Reply #17014 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:48:34 PM »

You're better off for the early game, assuming you're playing stealthily and don't hate the hacking mini-game. Hacking stuff nets you tons of experience, too.

Himu · « **Reply #17015 on:** July 24, 2012, 03:14:13 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 24, 2012, 01:37:28 PM

Quote from: Stringer Bell on July 24, 2012, 02:16:30 AM
Concentrate on legs and physical strength first. Make it so that when you fall you don't get hurt so easily and that you can lift up heavy objects asap.

Damn, I've been putting points into Hacking levels lol

hacking is good idea too.

Big Barry Jazz · « **Reply #17016 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:11:30 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 24, 2012, 01:23:04 PM

Space Marine

Have you tried the online stuff yet? I picked up 20 games in the steam sale and the only thing I've touched so far is Space Marine and most of that has been in multiplayer. Only thing I haven't liked is exterminatus mode as it kinda drags on too long and most the time your teammates think they're John fucking Rambo and end up wasting most your lives. Also, I swear the bonus round of Chaos Unleashed is impossible. Bunch of sadists must have come up with that.

brob · « **Reply #17017 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:17:50 PM »

space marine has multiplayer? like, team deathmatch n such?

Big Barry Jazz · « **Reply #17018 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:35:35 PM »

Hell yeah, and it's fun too, if you can find a game without serious lag.

One thing I didn't bother springing for was the dreadnought dlc. Looks like it'd be pretty dull having to be the one to face off against the dreadnought. That thing is completely broken.

brob · « **Reply #17019 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:47:18 PM »

cool. will check out when I tire of hearing orks scream SPACE MARINES or finish the campaign. the latter being the more likely.

iconoclast · « **Reply #17020 on:** July 24, 2012, 09:21:02 PM »

Starting to play Hard Corps: Uprising again. I used to be able to beat this game with 1 death at most, but in my first run I had to continue 5 or 6 times.

I think I'll just play casually until I relearn the solutions to everything, and then I'll start going for another 1-life clear with Sayuri and Bahamut.

Still an amazing game. One of the best run and guns ever.

rodi · « **Reply #17021 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:36:04 AM »

Quote from: Brobzoid on July 24, 2012, 05:17:50 PM

space marine has multiplayer? like, team deathmatch n such?

Yeah, but it isn't substantial in any way shape or form. I think they released an update for it since I last picked it up though.

treythemovie · « **Reply #17022 on:** July 25, 2012, 05:44:51 AM »

I've also been playing Space Marine. Except I don't follow any of the Warhammer stuff at all so its all just incoherent hilarity to me.

ULTRA marines who are SPACE KNIGHTS who still use their SPACE SWORDS to kill SPACE ORKS?

It would help if they bothered to explain the plot at all or even what I'm doing but it seems they've cribbed storytelling techniques from Gears of War as well.

brob · « **Reply #17023 on:** July 25, 2012, 06:13:14 AM »

AT LEAST I GOT TO SEE A SPACE MARINE BEFORE I DIED

treythemovie · « **Reply #17024 on:** July 25, 2012, 06:28:54 AM »

MY LORD

THANK THE GOD-EMPEROR

cool breeze · « **Reply #17025 on:** July 25, 2012, 11:53:09 AM »

I played ~10 minutes of a few games yesterday just to get them running because that steam start up redist shit is annoying when I actually want to play:

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit starts with an unskippable tutorial on how to use the gotdamn menu. shit's ridiculous. the game looks great and it's fun in free drive.

Alan Wake American Nightmare runs great with everything maxed (~50 fps when I opened fraps). The arcade mode is pretty fun. The 360 gamepad controls are as excellent as they were on the 360 and this is a rare case where I prefer to play with it.

Trine 2 saved my demo progress and automatically unlocked 5 trophies and 3 levels. cool.

Ys Origin I've played before, but this Steam version has true wide screen. good stuff.

Alice Madness Returns has nice hair physics. You have a triple jump.

Dear Esther I ended up playing this 60 more than 10 minutes. Definitely not a game but still enjoyable. Very nice looking and sounding. It all comes together by the end nicely.

Beezy · « **Reply #17026 on:** July 25, 2012, 11:58:04 AM »

Ys Origins is my first Ys game ever and I LOVE IT. I miss arpgs.

I've also been playing Jamestown and The Binding of Isaac. Both good games. I wish I knew from the start that Isaac was kinda like a rouguelike. I would've been more careful.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17027 on:** July 25, 2012, 12:32:23 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on July 25, 2012, 11:53:09 AM

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit starts with an unskippable tutorial on how to use the gotdamn menu.

Stuff like that drives me crazy. Burnout Paradise had the same thing, although I don't recall it being as bad. Just LET ME PLAY.

brob · « **Reply #17028 on:** July 25, 2012, 12:54:52 PM »

why can't I have infinite jet-pack? I'm a electric hammer death from above kinda guy you don't get limit me with your bullshit "out of fuel" excuses video game!!

Himu · « **Reply #17029 on:** July 25, 2012, 02:17:34 PM »

it took me to 10 minutes to get from loading up NFS: HP to actually playing it between the shitty logging in to EA servers, forgetting my pw, forcing to me reset my pw, using gmail cellphone code so I can log in to my gmail account to retrieve said email, changing my actual password, logging into NFS: HP EA servers, and finally having to sit through that awful tutorial.

And the game isn't that great anyways.

archnemesis · « **Reply #17030 on:** July 25, 2012, 02:19:21 PM »

I just had a similar experience with Windows Live when I tried to play Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

Bebpo · « **Reply #17031 on:** July 25, 2012, 02:40:05 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 25, 2012, 12:32:23 PM

Quote from: Linkzg on July 25, 2012, 11:53:09 AM
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit starts with an unskippable tutorial on how to use the gotdamn menu.

Stuff like that drives me crazy. Burnout Paradise had the same thing, although I don't recall it being as bad. Just LET ME PLAY.

They had those because on consoles they masked the game installs with those.

Huff · « **Reply #17032 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:05:01 PM »

Started playing wipeout 2048 (my first wipeout) today. I'm usually not too big on racing games, but really enjoying this. Just beat the first part of the campaign and found it kinda challenging but still fun and doable for a newbie like me.

Disgaea 3 just came in today. Got it cheap off of ebay. Not sure if I want to dedicate a lot of hours to this.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17033 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:32:41 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on July 25, 2012, 02:40:05 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 25, 2012, 12:32:23 PM
Quote from: Linkzg on July 25, 2012, 11:53:09 AM
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit starts with an unskippable tutorial on how to use the gotdamn menu.

Stuff like that drives me crazy. Burnout Paradise had the same thing, although I don't recall it being as bad. Just LET ME PLAY.

They had those because on consoles they masked the game installs with those.

smh

Fifstar · « **Reply #17034 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:36:35 PM »

Took a break from the endgame of Avernum and am playing Cave Story. Such a joy to play with a SNES controller.

Huff · « **Reply #17035 on:** July 25, 2012, 10:09:26 PM »

So wipeout got hard real fucking quick. Been a while since I've let a game frustrate me this much and kept playing

bork · « **Reply #17036 on:** July 25, 2012, 10:31:05 PM »

Got Persona 4 Arena. Brief impressions after a few hours of messing around, mostly-online:

-I'm not normally one to talk about this, but wow- this game has some great presentation. It really keeps the feel of the recent Persona games and has some familiar P3/P4 music on the menu screen.

-Lesson mode is a great tutorial for new players and there is ZERO load time going from one lesson to the next!

-There's not as much going on when playing on certain stages, but P4 Arena is easily Arc's best-looking 2D fighter to date- beautiful, clean sprites and bright, detailed backgrounds. I love the P4 main character's theme music, too. Wish more stage BGMs had vocals!

-Still not too sure what to make of the game play just yet. It almost feels too simplistic at times, especially compared to BlazBlue. It's fun, but it also feels too "easy" when you can just press the light attack button and watch your character do an auto-combo-into-super automatically if you have the meter available. But there's plenty of game play features and obviously if this game didn't have real depth, it wouldn't be so popular in J-arcades.

-That said, I think this game is going to be much, much easier for people to get into than some of the other Arc fighting games. Most of the characters' moves are also just quarter-circle motions and charge moves...nothing really more complex than that.

-I've only played against Japanese players online, so that's left me kind of locked into playing ranked matches-- almost every player match room was set to not accept lower-bar connections and everyone shows up with 0 bars, as I'm sure I show to them. Most of the matches I've played have been on the same level as BlazBlue and Arcana Heart 3...very, very good connection quality, and again that's with the connection bar showing as ZERO! There's no pre-fight sync-slowdown that I'm seeing though...you pretty much know right away if the connection quality is going to be good or not.

-Arcade mode has some brief story and dialogue sequences between the characters. Tried Story Mode briefly and it really feels like a different game. Very much like a visual novel...if it's true that this mode has 30-40 hours of content, I can definitely see it appealing to non-fighting game playing Persona 4 fans. It really is a direct-sequel to P4, taking place two months later. I'm staying away from this mode until I play P4 on Vita.

And this guy is my favorite character:

Teddie is just fun as hell to play as!

brob · « **Reply #17037 on:** July 26, 2012, 09:31:16 AM »

better crippled in body than corrupt in mind #YOLO

Beezy · « **Reply #17038 on:** July 26, 2012, 03:57:59 PM »

Just beat the fire boss as the axe girl in Ys Origins. I'm hooked. I might actually play as the boy afterward before moving on to Oath.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17039 on:** July 26, 2012, 04:12:02 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on July 26, 2012, 03:57:59 PM

Just beat the fire boss as the axe girl in Ys Origins. I'm hooked. I might actually play as the boy afterward before moving on to Oath.

There's also a third character that unlocks after you beat the game once.

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Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4628977 times)