What are you playing?

[brob]

Finished Symphony of the Night by beating Dracula. 170~%, nine and a half hours.

Real good stuff. I liked the inverted castle more than the regular one. By the time you flip over you have all the fancy vampire shit, and the RPG stuff starts becoming more apparent with fire/ice/etc affinities and you have more gear that impacts-/is impacted by stats. The inverted castle is also requires a lot of bat/fog/super-jump to traverse which I quite liked.

I had the Alucard shield and the shield rod, but calling it OP is a bit of an understatement as it was literally cheat-code tier. Tried it on the medusa boss fight but steamrolling like that didn't seem very fun so I didn't use it after.

[chronovore]

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition

This game is amazing. I love it and it's sort of simple but well down Metroidvania gameplay. Great music and fantastic art rule the presentation, which overall is top notch.

It's free on Xbone if you have that, if not get it for cheap on Steam or something.

It's also free with XBL Gold on 360 right now.

[CajoleJuice]

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition

This game is amazing. I love it and it's sort of simple but well down Metroidvania gameplay. Great music and fantastic art rule the presentation, which overall is top notch.

It's free on Xbone if you have that, if not get it for cheap on Steam or something.

It's also free with XBL Gold on 360 right now.

it's showing up as $15 for me

[Freyj]

Finished Symphony of the Night by beating Dracula. 170~%, nine and a half hours.

Real good stuff. I liked the inverted castle more than the regular one. By the time you flip over you have all the fancy vampire shit, and the RPG stuff starts becoming more apparent with fire/ice/etc affinities and you have more gear that impacts-/is impacted by stats. The inverted castle is also requires a lot of bat/fog/super-jump to traverse which I quite liked.

I had the Alucard shield and the shield rod, but calling it OP is a bit of an understatement as it was literally cheat-code tier. Tried it on the medusa boss fight but steamrolling like that didn't seem very fun so I didn't use it after.

I've been really wanting to play SotN again.

[Shaka Khan]

I replayed SotN last summer after finishing Super Metroid for the first time, mostly to see if my opinion of the game would change after playing the pinnacle of Metroidvanias. I ended up not only fully enjoying it (yet again) but respecting it even more after recognizing — with certainty — what it inherited from Super Metroid and what it introduced/innovated. I also remember grinding every last bit of item/equipment the game had to offer. It was a blast.

[CajoleJuice]

I got stuck in SotN on XBLA and just stopped playing (I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on even when I consulted a FAQ ). I need to get back to that some time.

[brob]

I feel like the game did a good job not hiding shit too much. Filling out the map you end up getting all the things you need.

Only thing that was a bit annoying was how some weapons had hidden special attacks. Like the ice sword which has a short range ice attack or one shield that, if you press square and circle at the same time, summoned a big-ass horse thing that I presume does some buff thing.

[chronovore]

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition

This game is amazing. I love it and it's sort of simple but well down Metroidvania gameplay. Great music and fantastic art rule the presentation, which overall is top notch.

It's free on Xbone if you have that, if not get it for cheap on Steam or something.

It's also free with XBL Gold on 360 right now.

it's showing up as $15 for me

Are you logged in on Xbox.com or viewing on the 360 itself?

Is your account for USA region (in case the deal is limited)?

All I know is I logged in at xbox.com, downloaded Guacamelee, Gotham City Imposters, and the new DLC for PvZ:Garden Warfare, and they were all free, and all waiting for me next time I turned on my 360.

[G The Resurrected]

Sniper elite 3: one nut shot at a time!

Almost had the elusive double nut shot.  I'm playing it on ps4 and am really enjoying it even if its not technically amazing.

[CajoleJuice]

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition

This game is amazing. I love it and it's sort of simple but well down Metroidvania gameplay. Great music and fantastic art rule the presentation, which overall is top notch.

It's free on Xbone if you have that, if not get it for cheap on Steam or something.

It's also free with XBL Gold on 360 right now.

it's showing up as $15 for me

Are you logged in on Xbox.com or viewing on the 360 itself?

Is your account for USA region (in case the deal is limited)?

All I know is I logged in at xbox.com, downloaded Guacamelee, Gotham City Imposters, and the new DLC for PvZ:Garden Warfare, and they were all free, and all waiting for me next time I turned on my 360.

I'm thinking it was a mistake that they fixed because on xbox.com only the Xbone version is free now (which is garbage).

Oh well, I actually already have it on Steam, it's just not this super-duper edition.

[chronovore]

I'm thinking it was a mistake that they fixed because on xbox.com only the Xbone version is free now (which is garbage).

Oh well, I actually already have it on Steam, it's just not this super-duper edition.

Crap. Sorry about that. How weird.

[Eel O'Brian]

Trying to give Arkham Origins another try, about to say fuck it.  Everything just feels off about it, from the combat timing to the grappling to the confusing layout of the levels/city. It's just a bad game and not fun. Kinda makes me not want to buy Knight.

[demi]

Why? Origins wasnt done by Rocksteady. It was the C-team up in Canada.

[Eel O'Brian]

Too much of the same thing over and over, I guess? I can't see Knight being very different, and initial impressions I've read have been pretty eh. Maybe they'll take the time to mix it up some. I wasn't that taken with City, either.

[Eel O'Brian]

Ugh, this fight with Deathstroke is miserable and goes on for fucking ever.  Delete local content.

[demi]

You want demanding? There is an achievement where you have to do the Deathstroke fight without getting hit once. Lol. Fuck that was annoying. There was a similar achievement for the Shiva fight as well.

Doesnt help I was paying on Hard mode, either.

[demi]

No, Plat isnt hard the first playthru. You can do literally everything with a few days leftover.

[chronovore]

[ferrarimanf355]

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I have this habit of starting Grand Theft Auto games (III, Vice City, IV) and quitting halfway through. Is this normal?

[Joe Molotov]

San Andreas is the only GTA I've ever felt compelled to beat. Must be because it's the best.

[archnemesis]

I have this habit of starting Grand Theft Auto games (III, Vice City, IV) and quitting halfway through. Is this normal?

That's the reason I dropped the series after GTA3. They're not compelling games.

[chronovore]

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I have this habit of starting Grand Theft Auto games (III, Vice City, IV) and quitting halfway through. Is this normal?

I think most people's interest peters out after they've done the umpteenth "Go here; now shoot that guy" mission. GTA IV was a chore for me to finish, even though OWGs are my favorite kind of game. The side content has always been my favorite bit of these games, and GTAV has plenty of it. But many boritos seem to buy the game because of the hype, temporarily causing them to forget that they got bored and didn't finish the previous games.

Ironically, with GTA Online, and now that I'm level 100, I finally have the rocket launcher, but with no remaining Achievements I'm on to the next game.

Which, in this case, is my re-play of Batman Arkham Asylum, which I originally played through on PS3.

[Himu]

GTAIV is the only GTA I had trouble finishing.

[chronovore]

GTAIV is the only GTA I had trouble finishing.

Same here. It really was a disappointment, especially on the heels of Saints Row. It was the only GTA for which I sprung on a Collectors' Edition.  :'( GTA IV and LA Snore are the worst Rockstar Games.

Yes, I know, Bondi, but they're the ones who published it, as well as brought the boat into port when it was dangerously wayward. It cracks me up that the technology for performance capture, while groundbreaking, was used to such poor effect and was such a poorly managed asset in the game that it hasn't been used since.

I may be talking out of my butt; the GTAV actors look a good deal like their in-game counterparts, so maybe Rockstar salvaged it?

[Himu]

Saints Row 1 knocked the crap out of GTAIV. Before GTAIV, I thought SR1 was good, not great. Then when GTAIV came out, I popped in SR a month later and it was night and day. Been a fan ever since.

[octopushover]

Started Arkham Origins the other day, but I can't figure out why it's not clicking with me. I enjoyed the previous two games, but it's just not holding my interest. It also runs like shit compared to Arkham City on similar settings.

[demi]

Origins is doodoo, made by the C-team for a cash-in. Doesnt add anything to the "story" either.

[Himu]

I think GTAV is better than SA.

[tiesto]

The Roulette table at Mohegan Sun... with the occasional Wild Arms XF. Game is looooooooong...
Gonna play some more Shovel Knight this week too.

[Himu]

Re-installed Dark Souls. Let's give this another go.

edit: doesn't work. Never fucking mind on that one. Shitty jp ports, I swear.

[chronovore]

Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition

This game is amazing. I love it and it's sort of simple but well down Metroidvania gameplay. Great music and fantastic art rule the presentation, which overall is top notch.

It's free on Xbone if you have that, if not get it for cheap on Steam or something.

It's also free with XBL Gold on 360 right now.

it's showing up as $15 for me

Are you logged in on Xbox.com or viewing on the 360 itself?

Is your account for USA region (in case the deal is limited)?

All I know is I logged in at xbox.com, downloaded Guacamelee, Gotham City Imposters, and the new DLC for PvZ:Garden Warfare, and they were all free, and all waiting for me next time I turned on my 360.

I'm thinking it was a mistake that they fixed because on xbox.com only the Xbone version is free now (which is garbage).

Oh well, I actually already have it on Steam, it's just not this super-duper edition.

Well, I'm an idiot.

The thing I downloaded from Xbox.com was a promotional video, so of course it was free. It showed up in my "Recent" tab with all my other games, so I didn't look all that closely at the icon, which shows it as a game video. I started it up, thought it was the opening video or "attract mode" movie, but NOPE.

Yeah, it's not free on 360. The website is showing US$14.99 there as well, now that the game is actually available for download.   

[demi]

It was a pretty shitty game, Borys. Hop off the tip, chip.

[Stoney Mason]

Finished Dragon Quest 8. Had never played it before (or any dragon quest game for that matter). Very enjoyable. Very long. Very charming characters. Bit of padding towards the end but overall I enjoyed it a lot.

[archnemesis]

If you want to play more of the series then I recommend that you pick up the NDS remakes of Dragon Quest 4-6.

[Himu]

^

[Rufus]

You can skip 4, it's wholly unremarkable.

[Stoney Mason]

I've read good things about 5. I'll get around to that one.

[Shaka Khan]

DQ5 is my favorite. I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did. I still have sealed copies of VI and IX which I was hoping to tackle this summer.

Which version of 8 did you play, Stoney?

[chronovore]

Gotham City Impostors (from Games with Gold thread):

(snip)
Buy a BONE already, Scenester. Ghotham City Imposters might as well be a sweaty nutsack to the face.
(snip)

I might agree with you there.

Wasn't this a discount game at launch? It's clear that they expected to make a ton of money on DLC unlocks by the impatient. Played for the first time yesterday, put in maybe 6 hours, am nearly level 10, but still don't have enough bat-dollars to buy new costume pieces. Unlocks for weapons, perks, mods, are really, really slow. It feels like a grind to get to the next stuff, and the lack of good stuff feels like it costs me wins, and not winning makes this feel like more of a grind.

Not only that, but as a FPS, all the customization items are not visible unless you're standing on the winner's podium, or watching your corpse get flung around the arena.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a heap more fun.

I think GTAV is better than SA. :yeshrug

I... might disagree with you there.

I spent 140 hours in GTA:SA but over double that in GTAV. However, I think I enjoyed the story, side-missions, weird little mini games (low-rider dance contest, anyone?), and voice acting more in SA. It was also way, way over the top. It had the feeling of outrageousness that I'd come to expect from III and Vice City.

GTAV is a superb game, but it still takes itself more serious than I'd like, and still needs more crazy side missions.

And GTA Online has yet to bring up their promised Heists. Very weird.

[archnemesis]

Yeah, I like IV and you can complete it in about ~25 hours.

[Positive Touch]

also playing thru dq8 right now and thoroughly enjoying it! how far into the game am i when i get to the snow area?

[Rufus]

I 100%ed that game and I have no idea. Fuck. Uh, walkthroughs suggest three fourths of the way, at a glance. (Red Scarlet wrote two guides. )

You can skip 4, it's wholly unremarkable.

4 is one of my favorites.  I'd give 6 the pass out of the three DS remakes.  They're all worth at least one play, though.

Eh, I got bored halfway through but finished it anyway. I don't really remember much of it. Getting the ship was rad though.

[Stoney Mason]

Which version of 8 did you play, Stoney?

I don't know honestly. I didn't know there were different editions.

also playing thru dq8 right now and thoroughly enjoying it! how far into the game am i when i get to the snow area?

Probably like 70 percent I would guess. 

[demi]

He's referring to either the PS2 or iOS versions. Since iOS version is shit, he clearly knew you meant PS2 version.

[Himu]

You can skip 4, it's wholly unremarkable.

4 has the best storytelling for an nes title. Its storytelling is pretty remarkable given the limitations. It is one of the best jrpgs I've ever played and one of the best in the series.

I also think that as a game, IV is much better than V. The only thing V does better  than IV is story. But wow, what a story, right? V isn't really the most balanced game, and if you get the right monster in your party it's a trip to never dying once-ville. It's almost Final fantasy level of vapidity.

[archnemesis]

Which version of 8 did you play, Stoney?

I don't know honestly. I didn't know there were different editions.

Not different editions, but different platforms. PS2 or iOS?

[Stoney Mason]

Yeah, no once I saw all the stuff the ios version was missing, yeah I decided to play the ps 2 version although via emulator. I bought the game when it originally came out. I just never got around to playing it.

[Rufus]

You can skip 4, it's wholly unremarkable.

4 has the best storytelling for an nes title. Its storytelling is pretty remarkable given the limitations. It is one of the best jrpgs I've ever played and one of the best in the series.

I also think that as a game, IV is much better than V. The only thing V does better  than IV is story. But wow, what a story, right? V isn't really the most balanced game, and if you get the right monster in your party it's a trip to never dying once-ville. It's almost Final fantasy level of vapidity.

I've played DQ1 (never finished, same as FF1), DQ4 and DQ8. I don't know where to place it relative to the other titles, but I know from those that I played that it got boring.

[magus]

You can skip 4, it's wholly unremarkable.

4 has the best storytelling for an nes title. Its storytelling is pretty remarkable given the limitations. It is one of the best jrpgs I've ever played and one of the best in the series.

I also think that as a game, IV is much better than V. The only thing V does better  than IV is story. But wow, what a story, right? V isn't really the most balanced game, and if you get the right monster in your party it's a trip to never dying once-ville. It's almost Final fantasy level of vapidity.

I've played DQ1 (never finished, same as FF1), DQ4 and DQ8. I don't know where to place it relative to the other titles, but I know from those that I played that it got boring.

DQ1 is the most barebone rpg ever, it's like watching citizen kane, you can feel the historical weight and how it was important for future games but you probably aren't going to enjoy yourself much...

so yeah DQ1 is the citizen kane of gaming

[Himu]

DQ1 is still good. Every DQ is good.

[Rufus]

I just wanted to go through the entire series after 8 and I foolishly started at 1. Then 4 came out on DS and it didn't really click with me so I took another 'break' from the endeavour. Oh, and 9. Just couldn't do it.

[Himu]

If I were to suggest a DQ to a DQ nub who has only played VIII, I'd suggest IV, V, and IX.

[tiesto]

In my circle of friends, we all seem to prefer 4 to 3 but it's always seemed on the internet that more people like 3 over 4. I understand it was a HUGE deal in Japan back in '88 and it was such a massive step ahead of anything that came before, but I think that by the time 3 came to the states, we already had games like FF1, FF4, Phantasy Star 1 and 2 that it looked a bit quaint... and the storytelling of 4 resonated much more with us.

[Himu]

Okay, I got Dark Souls working. THANK MICROSOFT!

*middle finger*

Anyways, I started a new game as a hunter. On my way to ring the church bell. So far so good. Minimal deaths. I'm following Kay's Let's Play of Dark Souls 1. It gives me confidence because she's so fucking bad at combat at the outset of the game, and seeing her improve allows ME to improve. For example, she takes out those skeletons at the grave yard near the main hub of Lordran. Before, I had never killed one, because the whole REVIVE AFTER YOU KNOCK THE SHIT OUT OF THEM" thing always freaked me out and I panicked. But Kay went after them and managed to kill them, so I went some and killed some too. Eventually got to a point where they're not a problem for me but I still need to watch out. Should ring the bell tonight, hopefully.

[Himu]

Made good progress in MH and Dark Souls tonight.

Didn't ring the bell like I said i would but I got to the undead berg in record time. Plan on summoning for the gargoyle fight because the fight is bullshit on solo.

[fistfulofmetal]

its pretty easy. put the gold pine resin on, run to the back of the first gargoyle and attack the tail a few times, rekt. then do the same to the other gargoyle when it spawns. double rekt. get gud, son.

[Himu]

What does gold pine resin do? I'm fine with the boss until the second one comes.

[fistfulofmetal]

adds lightning effect to the right hand weapon. gargoyles are weak to lightning. aka they get rekt.

[Himu]

Thanks

[magus]

i'm glad to see the incredible machine reborn but this version doesn't feel much different from all of the other (though there are a lot of life improvement like the ability to rotate piece by just dragging or the ability of seeing the trajectory of the item as you place them) and the graphics looks pretty bad

so honestly i'd rather play the incredible toon machine again



did you know they even made a g&g version of the game?



i guess on the plus side it has online puzzle sharing and multiplayer