What are you playing?

[magus]

Who does it better, Trophies or Achievements?

achievements,i really liked having a list of games i 1000/1000 but there's no way to get a list of game you plat,when you get a trophies you can't see how you got it without going to the trophies menu but with an achievement as soon as you press the home button it will tell you how you got it,and lastly it's easier to keep track of your gamer score but there's no easy way to keep track of number of trophies got,even then the way trophies are divided into ranks is just plain stupid,some gold trophies in ayesha are easier than some bronze one for example where a point value is easy to get... achievements are also ordered in the order you get them but trophies are just in whatever order they are sorted

[The Sceneman]

Achievements are so awesome

I'm trying to play Castlevania: OoE

[demi]

There are 257 collectables in Dead Space 3. And about 10 of them require co-op, meaning you can't get any collectable achievements if you don't have an online pass, required for co-op.

Works for me!

[chronovore]

So buy the game new.

[demi]

Lulz, no thanks.

[cool breeze]

Malicious PS3 is pretty fun up until the final boss.  I fought it for 15 minutes and did no damage.  Apparently you're supposed to do something that you never do anywhere else in the game and you get no hints and it just expects you to exhaust all options until you stumble into the solution.  Of course, this is while the boss constantly spams you with various attacks, including a homing firebomb and an instant kill move.

Entire game is like an hour or two long.  You have can do six consecutive jumps.  Better than Alice Madness Returns' triple jump.  Not as good as Kirby's unlimited jumps.

[magus]

got all the wizard goals on bride of pinbot and theatre of magic,the next one would have been monster bash but...

10-011: Collecting Special from the outlane often does not fulfill related wizard goal
First reported: 21 Jun 2012
Description: Collecting a lit special from either outlane often will not award the related wizard goal. Chance of occurrence is increased if a multiball is active.
Devices: All
Status: Confirmed, open as of 25 Mar 2013

SO ANGRY

i've also played the la mulana remake,goddamn does this fucker looks pretty,this doesn't just play like castlevania,this looks like fucking castlevania,it's freaking amazing which puts me in an hard position because the game is still a quite frustating POS...

your objective is to kill 7 boss in each zone but the game never tells you this so if you didn't know before hand you would just wander around trying to find something to do,each boss is hidden in a room but finding the room (which by the way you discover by moving a bunch of blocks,but to make one of the block you need appear you have to kill a bunch of monsters in a completly unrelated room) isn't enough.

you have to find the switch to make the boss appear,the switch for the first boss is in a place high enough that you can't reach it with a jump,your first thought would be that you would find some sort of jumping shoes later in the game in some other area but nooooooooooooooooooope,there is an invisible bridge two screens apart... this is made worse by the fact that some room have items that you'd think you might be able to get on the simple basis that they are at the start of the game but nooooooooooo,they require stuff you find later in the game but you have no way to know that at all barring a trip to the wiki
the whole game would be amazing if it didn't have his head stuck in his ass trying to be "OLDSCHOOL"

i've also got neptunia but i still haven't touched it, so time to see how bad it is

[iconoclast]

I liked La Mulana A LOT at first, but the game takes a huge nosedive in quality after you start getting more abilities and more powerful weapons imo. When you're stuck with a whip, an unforgiving jump, and a small health bar, the standard enemies actually matter and the zones are fun to progress through. After you've picked up a bunch of health upgrades, an axe that does massive damage (and swings in an arc), and a double jump, the enemies become tedious filler and only the bosses remain fun to fight. The problem with that is how the bosses are few and far between, so you spend almost all of your time solving annoyingly obtuse puzzles.

[brob]

Playing Tokyo Jungle now, since someone brought it up in this thread and I realized I hadn't played it on the current ps3 I have so why not ~*do it all over again*~

Unlocking animals isn't the super chore I remember it being if I do everything in turn i.e. play the pom collect the papers and unlock the cat, then play the story mission I unlocked from collecting the papers, then play the cat collect the papers and unlock the [whatever], play the story mission I unlocked from collecting the papers, then play [whatever] and so on and so forth.

Still annoying tho. Unlocking new outfits (which would be highlight of the game) is slow and kinda boring. Would have been nice if they were all in the store from the get go.

[The Sceneman]

There are 257 collectables in Dead Space 3. And about 10 of them require co-op, meaning you can't get any collectable achievements if you don't have an online pass, required for co-op.

Works for me!

epic trolling on achievement hunters

I dont think I'll ever play Dead Space 3. DS & DS2 were some of the biggest try hard turds I've ever played. The writers and designers need to fired. Programmers were good.

[hampster]

I don't like playing Liberation Maiden. Using the circle pad and the stylus at the same time isn't comfortable for me. Plus the camera feels too zoomed it. At least it is on sale right now and the story is amusing in its own dumb anime way.

Presidents in mechs

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Alundra 

Just did the first real dungeon. Game's as good as the best Zeldas you can name.

[magus]

wow neptunia is more bad than i could ever predict,the dungeons are all short affair badly done without a single ounce of effort or love,they all have the same graphic music and bland looking enemies,the combat is super slow even when you have a button to skip animation,your character attack by executing combo but pressing skip only skip 1 hit of a combo so if you want to move along a 9 hit combo you have to press L2 9 times,i don't think i've mashed the L2 button so much in any other game... there are no MP at all or commands of any sort,all you can do is attack,all of your character have auto-potion which trigger depending on condition on them (like the first one heals 30% of your HP when you are below 50% HP) there is a system where you decide how often an auto-potion trigger instead of another one but there's no reason to not just pick your best one barring trying to spare yourself supplies,this is an incredibly stupid idea on par of something kawazu would think in a saga game and would make the game super easy and mindless if not for the fact that once in a while the game throws you a boss that hit so hard that he can actualy go over your healing (sometimes 1 hit killing your party member) then you have to replay all the super slow and boring battles before it

then comes the actual plot... the idea of having a gaming industry parody should be awesome but the game doesn't go beyond making a few cheap game reference and calling it a day,it's like being stuck in a bad videogame webcomic,or the longest cake is a lie joke ever



neptunia in a nutshell

i'm not sure why i'm still playing this

[mjemirzian]

What did you expect? It's Idea Factory.

[Joe Molotov]

LOL, I told you. If you really want to play a Neptunia game, at least skip to the 2nd one which isn't completely unplayable.

[magus]

LOL, I told you. If you really want to play a Neptunia game, at least skip to the 2nd one which isn't completely unplayable.

i was expecting the game to be playable (can't believe they made a game where you can only attack) and the plot to at least be amusing  but nope! the heroes have to get 4 mcguffin and on the road and to do so they meet ps3-chan,360-chan and wii-chan (who is at least a little amusing for cussing way more than you would expect from an animu loli) and they all act like annoying bitches while being recurring,repetitive and annoying bosses

i guess that's a pretty fitting description of an average internet argument though

spoiler (click to show/hide)

i also get a laugh everytime someone says "console war" with the uttermost serious tone they can muster

[close]

EDIT: the dlc of this game is also pretty shifty,they give you extra dungeons (not sure why you would want to do them when everything is so boring) but the required level for them is level 200-300 problem is... there is a level cap that stops you at level 99,that's it unless you buy the level cap DLC remover for only 0,99$! i'm also amazed by the fact that the game seems to have a tag function between your party members but you spend the whole game with only 3 characters...

... and of course all the DLC character you've bought

[Bebpo]

Metal Gear Rising

So finally playing this and let's talk about it for a bit.  After the first few chapters I watched some playthroughs on the highest difficulty versions of them to get a feel for how I should be playing and how the game flows. 

Now it's pretty good, but otoh it feels 2nd tier compared to great action games like DMC3 or NG Black/NG2 or Bayonetta so far (Chapter 4 now?).  The parry system is good and all, and decent variety of enemies and their attack patterns, but I've got to say there's a lot of stupid issues with it.

-talk talk talk talk talk and writing is fucking horrible and worse than every MGS ever.  Raiden is a zzz character (no personality) unlike Snake/BB who is a funny charismatic guy.  Also his support team is totally dull (Kevin and the Dog are ok I guess) compared to the usually quirky and fun MGS support crew and the enemies are all pretty terrible and uninteresting.  The game constantly interrupts you for codecs (and then the optional codecs go on and on and on about boring technical info) and cutscenes that drag on.  Luckily most of this will be fixed on 2nd playthrough when I skip it all, but still, waaaaay too much talky and it's all incredibly boreville.

-stealth sections.  From what I could tell playing and watching high level play, the game is at its best when you play it as a speed run.  Blitz through the stages, stealth kill enemies you can, slide 1 hit kill guys with guns, air kick 1 hit kill flying enemies, then take on the rest of the enemies while parrying their attacks.  This is pretty exciting and fun.  But then when they force you to stealth or WALK SLOWLY BEAT UP through an area...lame; totally kills the fun pacing wtf.

-Attacks & Weapons don't seem to matter.  Unlike DMC/NG/Bayo where it's fun using all these different attacks and weapons, because everything is just filler until you can parry...nothing matters.  I almost feel like the because of the parry system the combat system is non-existent.  All the unique weapons and many of the attacks are set to heavy attack which is WORTHLESS AND SOMETHING YOU NEVER WANT TO USE because you can't cancel out of it and they tend to have long animations and since PARRYING is so important and you need to be able to parry the second and enemy decides to attack...there's no point in doing anything other than light slashes; hence negating the entire combat system with all its attacks and weapons.  The game essentially boils down into just running around slashxslashxslashxslash and then when you see red flash, parry, if you see orange flash ninja run out of the way.  Repeat for the entire game and every boss.  Does it work?  Yeah.  Is there a fun and skill and satisfaction in getting the timing down to parry all the enemy/boss attacks?  For sure.  But does it feel kind of one note and repetitive and not very deep or interesting for a combat based game?  Yeah, pretty much that.  The only time I've found a unique weapon to be worth the uncancellable animations is the staff for the little hand guys because it's got crowd control and any weapon for their jump attack.

-Really boring environments.  It's just kind of drab and unimpressive until you get to the cool set pieces they throw in here and there. 

-Ninja run is a good idea but platforming is kind of shitty with it.


Otoh, the boss fights are generally great (Monsoon was kind of lame), the set pieces and QTE stuff is badass, the enemies are fun to fight against and all the upgrading and stuff is cool.  Music is great too.

At this point I like it, but it feels more like a B action game than one of the big boys.  I was under the impression the game was A+ tier Platinum action game, so maybe I was just expecting a little more.  Looking forward to playing it on Very Hard and higher.  Usually action games get better on the higher difficulty levels.

[cool breeze]

iirc Platinum was brought to make a video game when Kojima Productions couldn't internally.  Who knows how much time the people at platinum had to build the game, or what the any of the circumstances were.  I mostly agree with what you're saying, btw.


anyway, I played Tales from Space Mutant Blobs Attack on Vita after playing and enjoying Guacamelee.  I can't really articulate how I feel about it without damning a subset of indie games.  But it's fun... Guacamelee is a big step up from it.  Interested to see what Drinkbox does next.

[iconoclast]

I hated Monsoon until I realized you could instantly get through his 'I'm dodging everything lol' phase with an EMP grenade. It can get a little repetitive when he goes up to throw tanks at you, but you don't actually have to cut through them - you can just use the ninja run to avoid everything until he's done (makes getting the S-rank achievement easier). And you can parry the giant wheel to zandatsu it quickly. The fight gets way better once you know all of the little details to speed it up, otherwise it can be a slog.

The game is more about killing enemies quickly and efficiently, so combos aren't really a big thing. But one interesting thing about the combat system is how you can constantly reset your attack string. For example, instead of completing an XXYYY combo, you can do XXYY and then hit X again to restart your string. By doing that, you can attack the more durable enemies infinitely until you have to dodge an attack (X+A, not sure if you know about that move. You can also use it to cancel the recovery time from certain attacks).


I'm pretty sure that Platinum had less than a year to make the game. I agree that it's not amazing; it's very light on content and it doesn't have as much depth as the top tier action games, but everything that's in the game is pretty solid imo. They've got the foundation for an amazing sequel if they're able to flesh out & expand on their ideas.

[Bebpo]

Just finished it.  Holy shit the amount of cutscenes and QTEs before you actually get to the real final boss fight.  That was tougher to survive than any fight in the game.

I like a lot of things about it but I have seveeeeeere problems with this game overall.  Feels like a super super janky B-tier action game.  There's a lot of solid combat in there but holy shit it is a clusterfuck of everything else.


If the game had a bloody palace type arena wave fight mode it'd be the best part since the pure combat is the height of the game.  But it doesn't and I dunno how much I'll want to replay these terrible stages with awful camera and QTE every-fricking-where. 

Also the combat seems so broken on a fundamental level.  1 on 1 fights are a joke, I've never played an easier action game when it comes to boss fights like this.  All you have to do is attack then mash parry whenever a boss attacks and you'll either parry or at worst block it and take zero damage.  Then just run away for orange attacks.  It's like it's near impossible to actually take damage in this game which kind of takes all the excitement and tension out of it.  The Sam fight was so disappointing.  Was expecting something like God Hand 1 on 1 rival fight, but it was a joke.

The only time the game is hard is when you're being clusterfucked by enemies and you can't see shit because the camera sucks and you can't tell what attacks are coming from what direction to parry/block them. 


Also the game has like 5 enemies by the end and only a handful of bosses and it's like 4-5 hours long, which worked in ZoE2 because ZoE2 was freaking tight with awesome everything and an exciting story but here it's a bunch of drab levels fighting the same enemies over and over to one of the worst stories I've ever seen in a game.  It's like the worst of Kojima and Platinum mixed together in terms of writing/cutscenes/story.  It would be that typical Platinum so-bad-it's-good except it goes ON AND ON AND ON like the worst of Kojima's cutscenes so instead it just becomes terrible and difficult to sit through and being stupid tongue-in-cheek there's no substance or interesting bits at all in the plot like at least MGS has somewhere.  All the characters are a bore and the plot is just zzz.  The Senator speech before the final fight is like TEN MINUTES LONG OF NOTHING WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS GAME.

Oh and the mixing of QTEs into the boss fights everywhere is pretty awful.  Why can't I just have a great boss fight?  Why am I forced to GET TACKLED TO INITIATE QTE TO GET TO NEXT STEP OF FIGHT.  It's some of the most intrusive QTE stuff I've ever seen in a game and the worst part about it is the first playthrough you have no idea when the game wants to jump into and out of QTEs during bosses and set pieces.  ughggh


That being said the core combat is very fun and responsive.  The enemies feel good to fight against.  There's some good boss fights in there and 60fps is great.  It's a good foundation for a great action game with MGR2 but holy shit this game is a fucking mess.  Fun enough to be a worth a couple of playthroughs and buy at $20 game, but yeah, action game sure have fallen this gen.    :'(

[Bebpo]

Oh yeah and the QTEs cinematically were great.  Seeing Raiden toss around Metal Gears and stuff was very cool.  I  give them credit for their set pieces when they do them, it's just outside of set pieces it's kind of plain.  Also never really used the defensive offensive dodge in first playthrough and I see what iconoclast is saying.  Since it cancels out of anything it lets you actually use the heavy attack combos and then dodge out with it when you need to cancel -> parry.

New game+ seems ok, but also seems kind of boring since there's just not that many enemy types and it's just the same thing again with the same patterns but tougher enemies earlier and in larger groups.  Dunno if I'll stick with it for a 2nd run. 

[Bebpo]

anyway, I played Tales from Space Mutant Blobs Attack on Vita after playing and enjoying Guacamelee.  I can't really articulate how I feel about it without damning a subset of indie games.  But it's fun... Guacamelee is a big step up from it.  Interested to see what Drinkbox does next.

I liked Mutant Blob Attacks.  It wasn't amazing, but it was pretty good little platformer with a lot of charm.  Glad to hear Guacamelee is a step up, I'll play it down the line but I'm kind of shying away from buying anymore downloadable games because of backlog.  Still haven't picked up Sound Shapes yet or any other PSN exclusive that isn't free on PS+

Yeah, my understanding is that it was put together in about a year, as well.  But let's be frank about Platinum and the kind of expectations people should maintain.  Platinum started with two extremely talented proven directors and a very good producer.  One of those directors put out a fucking brilliant game and then checked out.  The other put out a fucking brilliant game, started working on a sequel, had it canned, then started farting around on something else yet to be released.  Every game Platinum releases that Kamiya doesn't direct is basically being done by  a new director, so expecting AAA is probably expecting too much.

Yeah, I know this and Madworld was the first real example of "oh, ok; these guys aren't exactly AAA combat dudes" and why I skipped out on Anarchy Reigns after the demo didn't seem particularly deep.  I think with MGR, I wasn't expecting much but being late to the game I'd heard nothing but "omg it's amazing" from the internet for the last month or two so I had high expectations, just like I will for Bioshock Infinite when I play that since everyone is saying that's amazing too.

[Eric P]

tomb raider hit that "sure, why not?" price so i'm messnig around with that.  it's pretty cool.  the hair efx and tessellation cripple my machine in 1080p.  it may be time to look at a new card especially as we have a new console gen coming up

[StealthFan]

Valkyria Chronicles

Fuck MGR. Platinum makes B-tier action games.

[fistfulofmetal]

Finally beat the Tower Knight in Demon's Souls

i remember when I struggled forever to get through the bridge when i first played only to have to fight THAT THING?! HOW DO I EVEN DAMAGE IT?!

in the end, it's stupid easy.

[StealthFan]

The stock reload sound in Valkyria :scusthov A blemish on an otherwise superb game. Shoulda kept that shit in Goldeneye.

[mjemirzian]

Bebpo, did you try clearing the VR missions? Lots of variety and some missions are arena style waves. Very hard and revengeance has different enemy layouts, you might like it more.

Try going for S ranks, it brings out a lot of the combat depth (assuming you don't go crazy with wigs and ripper mode lol). 2ndary weapons can be useful for getting S ranks/no damages on revengeance. You'll end up appreciating the combat more imo.

I liked Valkyria Chronicles, despite having a ton of balance issues.

[tiesto]

Project. Motherfucking. Diva. F.

[StealthFan]

[Trent Dole]

Guess we'll find out if Sega's putting out PDF in the west or not at E3

[Joe Molotov]

Guess we'll find out if Sega's putting out PDF in the west or not at E3

Waiting for E3, and then I'm importing.

[magus]

i'm done with neptunia,sometimes there is a joke that hits his mark or is at least amusing enough to make you smirk (like the programmer who wants to make a game as good as FF7 but then get all depressed and decide a cashgrab is better... or the fact that there are collectible and one of the collectible are cards representing piece's of the evil deity,exactly like Yu-Gi-Oh Exodia) and the voice acting is really good (i could hear neptune talk all the day) but otherwise it's a really awfull game no matter how you splice it

so i've been playing ar tonelico 3 instead,for those that don't know the whole gist of ar tonelico is that in the world of ar tonelico special singing magical anime loli called reyvateil exist and their power depends about how much lovey-dovey () they get with the main character,to do so the main character enters their mind (which the game calls cosmosphere) and deals with a lot of text while getting tons of kinky costume's (which double as equipment) unlocking new spells and making more risquè double-entendre the internet can stands (which is basicaly any number of risquè double-entendre bigger than zero)

this one starts out pretty blandly,the hero goes outside and she meets a special reyvateil being chased by an evil empire,the evil empire kidnaps her and the hero has to rescue her because he's the hero and that's what heroes do in jrpg,luckily the character are a little more colorfull,as he escape from the evil empire he meets a dude who beats enemies with a windsurf board (who seems to hold some secret about his voice,bet it turns he's a girl in disguise) and a doctor who shoots laser out of his medical bag,the heroine while being the sort of bland dame in distress heroine you see in jrpg suffer from an interessing trait,that's it,in this game instead of collecting costume's,you collect multiple personality so for example she has a knight persona which act all stoick and another persona which act more... well... whorish? then comes heroine #2... her personality comes as less stereotypical and more pro-active and she too also suffers from multiple personality,one of her persona is also a killer murder clown which makes her 100% more interessing than heroine #1,if the game ever ask me which to pick i know what i'm picking

the first ar tonelico was turn based,the second one used a system that sort of mixed valkyrie profile and paper mario (you chained attack together like valkyrie profile but defended yourself with time press button a-la paper mario) this one plays like tales of but it's a pretty lame version of tales of,all of your character only have a 3-hit combo and get some special attack but that's pretty much it,there are no jump attack,no long chain combo's,barely any special move,it's pretty barren... the only thing that makes it different from tales is the reyvateil,as you fight she charge a magic attack that you can release at any time with X which is usualy powerfull enough to end the combat,if the enemy get close to her you have to repel them by pressing circle otherwise she takes crazy damage,there is a system where you have to follow a rhythm to attack to fill a bar but the game doesn't seems to give much fuck about it so you can just mash to your pleasure,when the bar fills you can tell the reyvateil to get more nekkid (OH THE HORROR OF HYPERSEXUALIZED YOUNG GIRLS!) which in turn power up your magic,the magic usualy involve summoning something that always looks somewhat amusing,heroine #1 summons a bomb with sunglasses which get more heroic as the magic progress (complete with hero cape) heroine #2 summons a devilish girl with a mask (the kind of mask evolve with the magic,like level 1 is a diving suit helmet,while level 2 is a plastic bag) that burns enemies with a rabbit magical rod,it looks completly stupid and i love it

crafting returns,this time you also get to craft super move's,everytime you craft an item the character talks about it and the heroine you are using will suggest an alternative name item which is pretty awesome and gives tons of personality to the characters but there doesn't seems to be a lot of stuff to craft,also in the previous game deciding which heroine you would use would create different items but in this one nothing of sort happens (although you do at least get different skits for each heroine) there are also extra skits you can unlock by doing certain actions like using certain persona's in combat or finding certain items or spots,when you unlock more skits,you get to see more of the cosmosphere (and therefore unlock more persona's) in the previous game getting into the cosmosphere also had the benefit of unlocking more spells but in this game you only get one attack spells (which change depending on the persona,the whorish persona of heroine #1 attack with an elf-like thing for example) so this time you get hyouma instead,doll-like spirits which gives you extra abilities like buff's when getting nekkid

the 3d graphics are okay,the town all have super lovely pre-rendered backgrounds but sadly the dungeon are all in 3D which make the style somewhat inconsistent,i wish all of the game was done with pre-rendered backgrounds the music is not much to write home too,encounter are random but they go pretty fast and each zone has a limit to the number of encounter you can have after which you are free to roam around to your heart content,so they aren't much of a bother....

so far it's an :ehh i like the characters and i can see the love in all the dialogue put here and there but the rest of the game has been flat

[demi]

When are you going to finally play the good games?

[Bebpo]

Bebpo, did you try clearing the VR missions? Lots of variety and some missions are arena style waves. Very hard and revengeance has different enemy layouts, you might like it more.

Try going for S ranks, it brings out a lot of the combat depth (assuming you don't go crazy with wigs and ripper mode lol). 2ndary weapons can be useful for getting S ranks/no damages on revengeance. You'll end up appreciating the combat more imo.

I tried some VR missions and they seem cool.  I just wish there was an arena type mode where you could take your character with all moves/weapons into.  I understand why you're limited to stock character for VR though because of online ranking stuff.

What are good uses for 2ndary weapons on Revengeance? 

I think I'm kind of burned out on MGR already after 1.5 playthroughs.  Gonna go play God of War Ascension or Tomb Raider and then come back to it later for another run or two on higher difficulties/VR.

[chronovore]

Playing INiS' Microsoft Studios' Karaoke game.  Someone forgot to turn the "No Japan" toggle back on after a title update or something. It's been mysterious unavailable since launch, but I actually managed to download it. I like singing (I SUCK) and I am also MAD CURIOUS whether INiS, who is responsible for the monstrosity that is LIPS, managed to make improvements in their poorly considered front end/menu user experience, and also if their save/load stuff is fixed. So far, it appears to be a decent improvement over LIPS.

Also played more Tomb Raider multiplayer. I'm at lvl 21 or 22 now, and I'm not very good at it. It's fun; feels a little like a floaty version of Max Payne 3 multi, but the environment traversal stuff makes it fun despite what feels like more sluggish controls and less tuning than MP3.

[demi]

There are people trying to play Tomb Raider? lol. Gotta feel bad for CD or whoever came up with that trash, a zillion gamers just lugging salvage back and forth in a solo grind.

Fuck CrystalD.

[Bebpo]

God of War Ascension is ok.  The parry doesn't activate half the time when you press it which is annoying as hell cause you get hit instead and the camera can zoom out too far making it hard to see what's going on.  Otherwise it's got some nice set pieces and visuals and plenty of stuff to smash. 

[Trent Dole]

Magus why are you playing the worst shit ever? I like jrpgs but there's limits man damn.

Guess we'll find out if Sega's putting out PDF in the west or not at E3

Waiting for E3, and then I'm importing.

If it comes here I get a PS3 sooner, if not well there's still plenty of things I want to play on it and current gen is slowing down enough to justify going for it to get dem exclusives eventually anyway.

[chronovore]

There are people trying to play Tomb Raider? lol. Gotta feel bad for CD or whoever came up with that trash, a zillion gamers just lugging salvage back and forth in a solo grind.

Fuck CrystalD.

You rascally curmudgeon.

The sad thing is, there are interesting game types, but the only thing Quick Match ever results in is deathmatch, or team deathmatch if you're lucky.

The maps are not fun in free for all. Way too much danger around spawn points.

[demi]

I forgot the amazing balance involved where Bows > Guns

[iconoclast]

I've been playing Monster Hunter 3U on the 3DS for the last week or so. I've played Tri and MHP3rd before, but this is the first one that really hooked me. It almost makes me want to get a Wii U just so I can play in 1080p and go online, but I can wait until there's a price drop or sale. I also got Project Diva on the Vita, but I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet. Seems pretty good though, I just wish you could play the songs on Hard immediately. Unlockable difficulties in rhythm games are the worst.

My Monster Hunter addiction has also caused me to slack on Daioujou a bit. I'm still practicing a little each day and I've learned some new things since the last time I played (when I got a new high score - 1.377b), but it's been a while since I've done any full credits. I also think the game is trying to tell me something...

[Bebpo]

Tomb Raider is a weird weird game.  I have no idea what I am playing.  It's like some kind of cross between Zettai Zetsumei Toshi (Danger Report) x Dragon's Lair x Uncharted x RDR x horror film.  Still, it's engaging.

Also it runs SO BAD on my GTX580, I guess this is what next-gen is gonna be like.  With hair off it's like the game runs around 24fps which between the framerate and shakey cam can make aiming in combat a little tough.  Also the QTEs are wtf hard, I die on all the button press ones the first time 

[mjemirzian]

What are good uses for 2ndary weapons on Revengeance? 

I think I'm kind of burned out on MGR already after 1.5 playthroughs.  Gonna go play God of War Ascension or Tomb Raider and then come back to it later for another run or two on higher difficulties/VR.

Well the polearm is good for maxing your combo score. Pincers can destroy some enemies very easily, can glitch hit things through walls due to their reach, and you can even set up pincer juggles. Sais are good for keeping one enemy stunned while you work on the other.

God of War Ascension was allright, I'm 2/3 through a Titan difficulty run. I haven't had any problems parrying, you just have to get down the delay between pressing the buttons and the parry activating. Parrying typically isn't as effective as spamming magic and artifacts, though.

If you can get to daioujou BL loop 2 you're already farther than 99% of people who will ever try the game. lol

[magus]

Magus why are you playing the worst shit ever? I like jrpgs but there's limits man damn.

Guess we'll find out if Sega's putting out PDF in the west or not at E3

Waiting for E3, and then I'm importing.

If it comes here I get a PS3 sooner, if not well there's still plenty of things I want to play on it and current gen is slowing down enough to justify going for it to get dem exclusives eventually anyway.

i don't play games based on how much the internet tells me they are amazing especialy since the internet seems to think every jrpg on the earth is awful,i play them based on how interessing they sound,and i loved the first ar tonelico... besides this game isn't bad,it's decently paced,colorfull and it has a cast that doesn't make me want to punch things,i'd rather deal with loli's than nier magic cancer and stupid plot twist for example

it's just that so far the character have spent most of the time going in circle's so i still don't feel like it should be called good either

[Great Rumbler]

Also it runs SO BAD on my GTX580, I guess this is what next-gen is gonna be like.  With hair off it's like the game runs around 24fps which between the framerate and shakey cam can make aiming in combat a little tough.  Also the QTEs are wtf hard, I die on all the button press ones the first time 

Something's wrong there, because it runs really smooth on my PC and I'm just using a GTX460.

[cool breeze]

Tomb Raider is a weird weird game.  I have no idea what I am playing.  It's like some kind of cross between Zettai Zetsumei Toshi (Danger Report) x Dragon's Lair x Uncharted x RDR x horror film.  Still, it's engaging.

Also it runs SO BAD on my GTX580, I guess this is what next-gen is gonna be like.  With hair off it's like the game runs around 24fps which between the framerate and shakey cam can make aiming in combat a little tough.  Also the QTEs are wtf hard, I die on all the button press ones the first time 

Do you have the tressfx hair thing on? that's the main thing that ruins the frame rate.  The anti-aliasing solutions are either FXAA (low hit, kinda blurry) or SSAA (big hit, cleaner).  Tessellation and SSAO are the other big things that dump on the performance.  Also, if it's only slowing down in certain area, turning down level of detail helps.

[Bebpo]

Weird.  Could it have anything to do with refresh rate being set at 24hz?  I've never understood how refresh rate effects framerate.

I have tressfx off, everything on medium except textures at high and level of detail at high, AA is off completely, tesselation is on and SSAO is normal and yeah probably runs about 24fps on my 580 at 1080p.  I haven't updated my drivers since they fixed AC3 performance a couple of months ago so maybe updating them would fix it.  I just assumed the game wasn't very optimized and was pushing a lot of DX11 visuals which kills the framerate.

[Rufus]

Nope, refresh rate. Those sound like the settings I've used for my 4890 and that thing is several generations out of date. No way a 580 can't pull more than that. You'll probably be maxing the game out if you fix the refresh rate thing.

Hitman: Absolution. Sigh. These games have always been about the perfect kill, but this is the first time that discovering and practicing the routes and methods is this tedious. Load a checkpoint? Everything resets. Now you get to watch scripts play out all over again. Enjoy! In some spots, guards that you have incapacitated will be up and about again in areas you've just passed through, so even backtracking is impeded.
You do it perfectly the first time or you suffer. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Functional checkpoints or, god forbid, quick saves would alleviate the problems I have with the asinine stealth sections as well. It's a shame, really. This is a well made game. Whatever they set out to do it looks as though they did it to their own satisfaction, flawlessly and beautifully. They've even went so far as to lavishly model environments you're in for not even a minute and then they go and fuck it up with the save system of all things. This and the 'cinematic' bullshit make me feel like I should be looking at a script as I play. 

[Bebpo]

Yeaaaaah, I changed refresh rate to 60hz and now it's 60fps lol.  Feels like a completely different game.  You don't understand how hard it was to fight wolves with 24fps and a bow >_<


Why would a game ever default to 24hz when playing on a tv-out.  Games aren't movies.  Movies don't require you to aim!

[Rufus]

Beats me. Games still default to non-native resolutions as well. You'd think that wouldn't happen any more, but I see it all the time. 

[magus]

tried again to score the special in monster bash and this time the goal (and the achievement) unlocked,i kinda feel bad for cheating about lyman laments (it's a secret mode that you can trigger by hitting a certain spot 44 times or by inputing a code before throwing the first ball) but well what you want to do...

i've also continued ar tonelico,i do now understand what is wrong with this game,there is no plot,the character have to go to a location,then the game throws you a dungeon between the two location which doesn't feel boring because it gives you more items and skits (which really are the things that make the game going forward) and goes down pretty smoothly but still feels empty because the combat sucks and then after reaching said location,they conclude nothing and have to reach yet another destination where the same thing happens in what seems to be an hunt for an eternal mcguffin...

oh yeah,one thing happened,heroine #1 got kidnapped and rescued again,and then i had to watch a skit that was like "i'm sorry for getting kidnapped twice "

i've also discovered the 3 character you get at the start of the game,are all you'd get... that's really disappointing,one of the reason i didn't like the previous game was because they shrinked the number of playable character and now it's been reduced even lower to 3? bah! oh also big surprise it turns out the guy with the funky voice was a girl! what a shocking plot twist! who could have seen it coming... well at least it's more complicated than that...

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she's actualy a character from the previous game,at the end of the previous game this character got some other mcguffin and was supposed to do something with it so it's nice for them to remember and address this,though i have to question how she did become a windsurf champion in the meanwhile,there is also the fact that the character in question was an hyperactive 12 year-old girl,think anise from tales of abyss and those character are super annoying so i don't really care much... byt the way actualy there are a lot of returning character including two character from the original game who have now become a kickass pair of mercenaries,that's pretty awesome... talk about another kind of fan service

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the cosmosphere bits are also amusing,heroine #1 is somewhat boring and has a fairytale theme and is mostly about her being the sort of weakish character you would expect but heroine #2 gets twisted version of games where misery always happen to her

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level 2 is chess,level 3 is The Game Of Life (the japanese seems obssesed with it,i always wondered what's up with that) and level 4 is a 8-bit rpg complete with bleepy remakes of the ingame tunes and jokes about how EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN ALL IN CAP

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the game is not so bad that i feel like dropping it but it's not good either,considering the first two game were good i'm really disappointed and i have to wonder why there is such a difference in quality between this game and ayesha which is an amazing game

[mjemirzian]

overload

[StealthFan]

Valkyria Chronicles is simply too much game for one rental period. I like to rent multiple games a month and this shit is gonna take awhile. Don't like trying to cram all this into one week, takes away from my enjoyment and gets me frustrated. I'll rerent it soon.

Blood On The Sand is next, and I'm dling Vice City Stories to play during the wait.

[The Sceneman]

playing Deus Ex Human Rev again. Going for the 1000/1000 so no alarms/kills and side quests, collectibles etc. Lots of fun! I love this game

[recursivelyenumerable]

more Pinball FX2

[mjemirzian]

Finished with Battle Academy for now.. wrote a review.

Still have to finish GOW Ascension on titan and MGR on revengeance.

[chronovore]

I forgot the amazing balance involved where Bows > Guns

well, there's definitely some power in the bows, but they're limited ammo, and it requires a charge. Essentially, it's a sniper weapon, so it's good for campers.

[Rufus]

Started Romancing Saga. Seems OK so far. Glanced at a FAQ to look for general tips (didn't find any) and it seems I'm nearly done with Albert's story.

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I already saw his sister in the background of the second town I visited. I assumed her to have died. Interesting.

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I imagine it will become obvious how different this is when I start the second one.

[Himu]

I've been playing Monster Hunter 3U on the 3DS for the last week or so. I've played Tri and MHP3rd before, but this is the first one that really hooked me. It almost makes me want to get a Wii U just so I can play in 1080p and go online, but I can wait until there's a price drop or sale. I also got Project Diva on the Vita, but I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet. Seems pretty good though, I just wish you could play the songs on Hard immediately. Unlockable difficulties in rhythm games are the worst.

My Monster Hunter addiction has also caused me to slack on Daioujou a bit. I'm still practicing a little each day and I've learned some new things since the last time I played (when I got a new high score - 1.377b), but it's been a while since I've done any full credits. I also think the game is trying to tell me something...

One of us. One of us.

Where are you in M3U?

[iconoclast]

Just about to start the six star quests. I've been stalling for a while to try out the different weapons, farm some items, forge armor, etc. I think I'm going to settle on Long Sword > Hammer > Dual Swords.