Author Topic: What are you playing? (Read 4357600 times)

demi · « **Reply #27360 on:** November 23, 2015, 09:29:13 AM »

Transformers Devastation is fucking amazing

archie4208 · « **Reply #27361 on:** November 23, 2015, 10:25:27 AM »

Life is Strange episode 2

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I couldn't save Kate :'(

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Rufus · « **Reply #27362 on:** November 23, 2015, 10:55:21 AM »

Nearing the end in SMT3. I ended up completing the Amala dungeon anyway, because why the hell not at this point (and also to see what Dante is like). Didn't take too long, though I was following a guide at this point.
I'm now two bosses into the final dungeon. The second one had a stupid cycling vulnerability thing I wasn't too well prepared for, so it took forever, but I got it done. Here's hoping the next bosses are more straightforward.

They're also nice enough to give you several full sized terminals in there (which offer fast travel), so I'm going to pop back out and get the last Magatama I'm missing, then I can get the 'actual' last Magatama (+10 to every stat) and finally finish the game. Going to hit 80 hours played by the time I'm done.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #27363 on:** November 28, 2015, 08:54:19 AM »

13 hours into the Witcher 3 and I don't get it? This is the GOTY? The combat is clunky as fuck, which seems to make up like 80% of the game, and the story is as dumb as every other generic fantasy game except with more titties. It's really pretty but it's so far has not been fun at all for me. What am I missing?

demi · « **Reply #27364 on:** November 28, 2015, 12:49:23 PM »

It was like that with Witcher 2 for me. I honestly dont get the hype either. I still fuck with it though

toku · « **Reply #27365 on:** November 28, 2015, 03:50:34 PM »

Quote from: seagrams hotsauce on November 28, 2015, 08:54:19 AM

13 hours into the Witcher 3 and I don't get it? This is the GOTY? The combat is clunky as fuck, which seems to make up like 80% of the game, and the story is as dumb as every other generic fantasy game except with more titties. It's really pretty but it's so far has not been fun at all for me. What am I missing?

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seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #27366 on:** November 28, 2015, 05:51:27 PM »

I mean I don't hate it, and I'll probably end up finishing it, but it's just a bit baffling to me how praised it is considering those things

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #27367 on:** November 28, 2015, 05:59:58 PM »

I mean to each his own. How somebody feels is how somebody feels.

I thought the combat was fine for that sort of game. Great? No. But fine in relation to the rest of the genre. I thought the quests and side quests were great. I thought the story in general and tone of the world was much better than average and relative to the other big RPG's this gen exceptional. It especially has some of the best side quests going imo. The scope of the world is massive and was fun for me to explore.

Imo it's argubaly the best open world RPG I've ever played. For me its head and shoulders above its peers. I mean opinions and all. Someone would have to tell me the other RPG's out there that are doing what the witcher is doing and at that level.

Rufus · « **Reply #27368 on:** November 28, 2015, 06:04:31 PM »

Open world games often leave me with a hollow feeling, even though I often find myself playing them compulsively (esp. Bethesda games). That's where I make the distinction for myself.

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And why you can play something for a hundred hours and still kind of hate it in the end.

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Stoney Mason · « **Reply #27369 on:** November 28, 2015, 06:09:33 PM »

For me I like open world when it comes to Bethesda Games, The Witcher, GTA, RDR.

Those games know how to pace an open world experience and leave it with nuggets worth exploring generally.

The bad end of the spectrum are a lot of the Ubisoft output and games that try to copy that approach (Dragon Age Inquisition) and have it end up feeling like a boring mmo.

toku · « **Reply #27370 on:** November 28, 2015, 06:33:38 PM »

I think I said something similar in the the thread but Witcher 3 reminded me a lot of the time I spent with RDR. Both worlds, especially Mexico in RDR, totally sucked me in. It's a god damn crime we never got a PC port of RDR.

chronovore · « **Reply #27371 on:** November 28, 2015, 06:55:56 PM »

Bought Infinity 3.0 digitally (so no Playsets yet), but that has me going back to 2.0.

I'm just mopping up Achievements so I can delete the HDD install. I'm down to 3% open space remaining. A few times I've deleted things to save space, and then been unable to re-download due to IP region lock, so I don't delete until I know I'm really damned done with it. $:-\$

I'm down to my last week of Premium Time on World of Tanks, so I'm trying to burn through my Tier IX research, and then I'm going to get away from the game for a little bit. (Ha, ha. Who am I kidding? I'm hooked.)

Raban · « **Reply #27372 on:** November 29, 2015, 12:21:25 AM »

So I beat Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and I'm pretty torn on this game. On the one hand, the more varied and customizable gameplay experience married with the open-world maps is a huge improvement over past titles, and to this day I'm still playing it just to Pokéballoon soldiers in an effort to max my platform ranks. It only helps this game in my eyes that you can recruit ladies and play as them in place of Snake, which I happily did for the majority of the game. However, there are a lot of weird issues. Enemies' detection is inconsistent, the scope is illogical about when it does and doesn't decide to scan enemies, and don't even get me started on the vehicle controls and the absurd way that they work (i.e. if you hold forward whilst horseback riding you basically won't ever stop, but if you just want to hold the gallop button your horse will rear up at a pebble on the ground). But honestly, niggling bugs and odd design choices are something I've come to expect from modern Japanese games, and sometimes it can lead to charming moments. No, the thing that has me so conflicted is the actual final mission. Here's where it gets spoilery, if you care.

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"A Quiet Exit" being the final mission in this game is a fucking travesty. Not only did I not give one iota of a shit about Quiet for the entire game (I basically had to grind loyalty so that I could even unlock this mission, because I never used her) but every story beat in this mission is forced, unearned, and ultimately hollow. The punchline is Stefanie Joosten's stilted voice acting as she delivers what is essentially the game's last lines. Quiet aside, this mission is just garbage by design. In a game that has, up to this point, tasked you with infiltration and subterfuge, someone decided right at the end to pit you against a dozen armored vehicles and like 50 soldiers in some sort of would-be tower defense. It's fucking awful. And don't even get me started on the tanks that can snipe you in the dark, from across the map, with a shell that instagibs you through just about any piece of cover the mission area offers. Maybe when I don't have such a bitter memory of this mission, I'll try it by extracting the vehicles instead of destroying them, but my experience with this mission caused me to question why I ever liked this game. I've read a lot of opinions on the game's end, like the Kingdom of the Flies mission, the Nuclear Disarmament cutscene, and I don't think I have the same issues. I just wish the game actually ended with Big Boss on his Triumph. That was the final shot, and they blew it.

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Outside of that particular business, I definitely recommend this to series fans, especially fans of 3 and 4. On GAF I remember reading something to the effect of, "this isn't MGS5, it's MGSV, for Venom" as if it's more of a side-story. Seeing it that way actually makes a ton of sense, if only the game wasn't marketed as MGS5 THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE GREAT SAGA BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27373 on:** November 29, 2015, 12:43:12 AM »

not sure how or why you'd req it to 4 fans. 4 fans seem to abhor it because where's mah cutscenes

Raban · « **Reply #27374 on:** November 29, 2015, 01:51:33 AM »

If you're talking about GAF, sure. But irl all the people I know who loved 4 wished that the deeper stealth mechanics had more time to shine. In V, they outshine everything else.

Bebpo · « **Reply #27375 on:** November 29, 2015, 02:05:37 AM »

Quote from: Mods Help on November 29, 2015, 12:43:12 AM

not sure how or why you'd req it to 4 fans. 4 fans seem to abhor it because where's mah cutscenes

I didn't think there were 4 fans.

toku · « **Reply #27376 on:** November 29, 2015, 02:09:25 AM »

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hey mods help I love your avatar =)

tiesto · « **Reply #27377 on:** November 30, 2015, 09:24:03 AM »

Got to play some Wild Arms 5 on my down time this vacation when I wasn't attending various potlucks. Am getting near the end, at the part where the game really starts opening up... the WA series has always had a ton of great sidequests and this is no different. So yeah, it's really overwhelming what you can do at this point, so for now I'm doing the Puzzle Boxes (block puzzles that give you good items) and collecting world map treasures before going to tackle the 4 main dungeons.

Story is quite interesting in this one (although its start is pretty much identical to Skies of Arcadia), unfortunately it's hampered a bit by obnoxious voices for the 2 leads. Dungeons aren't nearly as interesting in puzzle design and creativity as 4, but the awesome battle system is still there. Good game though I'm not sure where it stands on the ranking of the WA series. I've always felt the whole series never really got its due, since there's a LOT to like about it. Generally, fun combat, great puzzle-based dungeons, and tons of sidequests.

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27378 on:** November 30, 2015, 01:22:28 PM »

Quote from: Raban on November 29, 2015, 12:21:25 AM

So I beat Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and I'm pretty torn on this game.

me as well. I enjoyed it but a part of me wants to say "it's a great videogame but a terrible MGS game"

Raban · « **Reply #27379 on:** November 30, 2015, 04:34:04 PM »

I've seen that sentiment elsewhere when I was reading reactions and reviews upon finishing it. While I get that, I don't agree, personally. Peace Walker is my idea of a bad MGS game. There's not a single traditional boss fight, and the ones that are there are bullet sponge mechs that try and fail miserably to emulate Monster Hunter's bosses. Not to mention missions are short and unrewarding, there isn't a single memorable interior to sneak in, and many of the stealth manuevers present in previous games are gone. Even Portable Ops did a better job of translating console MGS gameplay to the PSP.

MGSV, outside of the aforementioned mission, doesn't burden you with gameplay elements that don't capitalize on what made MGS such a unique series to begin with. I still wish Kojima and his team could design boss fights of the same caliber as the ones in MGS1 and 3 without cheaply copying them (looking at you, MGS2 and 4), but that they aren't present at all is better than being there and sucking. I think it's reductive to say that V isn't a good MGS game, because a lot of things make up a good MGS game. Not just overbearing exposition, break-neck tonal shifts, and nuclear test stock footage.

Could the story be better and pay more respect to the established canon of the series? Sure. One GameFAQs poster talked about the missed opportunity of Snake enlisting the help of Amanda and the newly communist Costa Rica he helped birth to assist him in this game, which I agree would've been a lot more kickass than what we got. But my personal metric for games is weighted heavily on the "is this fun to play y/n?" question, and MGSV's answer is an emphatic yes.

The story still has some memorable moments, though, just much fewer than most MGS fans would expect. My personal picks (heavy spoilers)

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Your soldiers saluting you as you euthanize them during the quarantine outbreak mission, especially the part when you go to the basement and a group of guys are listening to the Peace Walker theme. Or Huey showing himself to be an absolutely despicable human being in every imaginable way who deserved to get cuckolded by his own son, and by extension humanizing the absolutely batshit crazy character of Dr. Strangelove. Or finally getting to see the real Adamska, as he's not playing double or triple agent in this game, he's just Ocelot.

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MGS4 shed a lot of light on what was going on between the events of 3 and 1. I, and I think many others, just wished that we got to play what we were told about instead of something that is practically meaningless in the grand scheme of the series.

tl;dr MGS is one of my all-time favorite video game franchises and I think about it way more than is healthy

Mods Help · « **Reply #27380 on:** November 30, 2015, 05:02:00 PM »

The last proper MGS was MGS3.

MGS4 was a terrible MGS.

MGSV's story just goes in the same ridiculous, dumb direction. Thankfully there's as little of it as possible. The intro horrendous and complete pap.

I'm perfectly fine with MGSV just serving a great stealth game. That's all I want from MGS at this point.

Given Fukushima left after MGS3 and the spiraling quality after his departure, it truly shows the series can't operate on any meaningful level especially with Kojima and his hacky ways not being reeled in by a partner in crime. Without Kojima? The series future is even more dire.

Konami says they will be making MGS6 without Kojima but honestly, I doubt it'll mean much. Who left at Konami is even there. All of their developers, designers, and writers of note have left.

MGSV is a great game. The writing is atrocious but that is more than I can say for MGS4. Being a great game is also more than I can say for MGS4 as well.

Since MGS has been, in spirit, dead since 3, I'm not sure why MGSV being "a bad MGS game" even matters. Peace Walker has The Boss as robot AI and MGS4 has Johnny and Meryl marrying and nanomachines. MGS has been shit for years.

Haven't played MGSV in nearly two months. I should go back to it if I can make time. stopped at mission 13 or something.

MGS3 the last real MGS

Fukushima reeling in Kojima's idiocy and narcissism

MGSV speed runs

Raban · « **Reply #27381 on:** November 30, 2015, 05:10:03 PM »

not enough

for that post. I happen to agree with your love of MGS3, I still think it's my favorite game in the series, but MGS4 is one of the most enthralling roller-coaster rides I've ever experienced. I mean come the fuck on, how can you not love this?

And if you disqualify an MGS game from being good just because it has a batshit, nonsense story, MGS2 is perhaps the worst offender in the series.

When people who have never heard of MGS ask me what it is, I always tell them "it's a Japanese, CG sci-fi military melodrama". If there is one consistent element through the series, that's it. Every game in the series delivers that. And that's why I love it.

mormapope · « **Reply #27382 on:** November 30, 2015, 05:33:41 PM »

MGS2 isn't good simply because its batshit crazy, its about all the meta stuff behind it combined with Raiden actually being a great character in the series. Digging the narrative is totally a love it or hate it deal, but I don't know of many games that go off the deep end with meta stuff like MGS2.

While this video has made the conversation about the meta stuff a lot more popular, its always been there.

Also, the boss fights in MGS2 were not copied from MGS1 when it comes to design. The harrier fight and last boss fight against Solidus mirror the helicopter and Liquid fight in MGS1 in thematically, but that's about it.

Raban · « **Reply #27383 on:** November 30, 2015, 05:52:17 PM »

If you want a real analysis of MGS2's plot, you should read this redacted interview with the woman who localized it; Agness Kaku.

And considering that there are so few boss fights in MGS2 to begin with, two of them being rehashes of old fights is disappointing. What's left are pretty boring fights where you're in a small arena waiting for a fair amount of time until the boss pokes his head out to whack-a-mole. Fatman was fun though.

Not sure if I made this clear but I love every game in this series a great deal (including the Ac!d games) save for Peace Walker which I couldn't bring myself to finish. I just think people who accuse MGS going "off the rails" at some point in the series are being willfully ignorant. The series defining characteristic is how off the rails the story has been from day one. Liquid Snake is trying to steal the remains of his father/clone by threatening to hijack a giant robot from the CIA with the capability of launching nukes undetected from anywhere on Earth in the first game.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27384 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:15:06 PM »

lmao

Why do most MGS diehards assume every MGS fan likes MGS for the same reason they do?

I'm not in it for the sci-fi Japanese melodrama and never really have besides MGS1.

Metal Gear Solid series has silly things, but not all silly things are equal.

Having a psychic dude take control of Meryl and use her to her aim gun at you, change the video screen to HIDEO, and have chairs fly around? Silly, but cool as fuck.

Having a dude get naked after being tortured and sneak around without getting caught while his boss spazzes out screaming SCISSORS 61? Silly, and pretty fucking hilarious.

Having a lightning dude chase you on you a mobile nuke tank? Awesome!

Everything in MGS4? Really fucking lame. Everything after MGS4? Really fucking lame.

Silly does not negate criticism. MGS4 is a terrible game, both gameplay and story-wise. It shits on the lore of the franchise while offering nothing to gameplay fans of the series.

Personally, MGS4 was so offensive in its story, that I gave up all hope on MGS5 having remotely a likeable story. The thing about MGS stories is that they're likeable, but just that. I'm not going to replay MGS for story.

Wanna know what I'm going to replay MGS for? Speed runnin', Big Bossin', S rankin', No killin', No alertin', Extreme modin', dog taggn' swagger. The people that equate MGS to, as you said, a roller coaster ride, ain't in it for that.

If that's the cutscene I think it is, where Ocelot unleashes nanomachines, or whatever, on the boat. How can I not love it? Because it's shit. It's not even entertaining. It takes itself so seriously, without a modicum of understanding its pretentious shittinness. Fighting Sniper Wolf is silly. Will love bloom on a battlefield?

Who cares, but it's cool as shit. The Sorrow is cool. The End is cool. Even at its most silly, MGS managed to be cool. Until Fukushima up and left and Kojima thought he could take the reins for himself. If it's going to be silly, it should be aware it's silly. If not that, it should at least be entertaining. 90 minute cutscenes isn't entertaining.

MGS4 was a roller coaster ride.

And that's exactly why it was a shit MGS.

MGS games are not roller coaster rides. They're stealth game where the roller coaster ride is merely the side effect. At least for me. S-rankin', elite stealthin', extreme modin', speed runnin' is my main priority in MGS. Roller coaster rides?

MGSV's honey bee mission on hard mode is a better MGS experience than the entirety of MGS4 for me. People say V is a bad MGS game, but the gameplay is what I define a good MGS to be.

Thank fuck for MGSV causing the story MGS fans to explode. Jesus Christ, it's about time they caught up with the rest of us. The rest of us are all about dat gameplay and have been since MGS2.

mormapope · « **Reply #27385 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:15:40 PM »

Its not about going off the rails, its about execution.

MGS1 is still the most solid when it comes to writing, due to its localization. MGS2 is a complex mess that's either incredibly endearing or viewed as the dumbest thing ever.

I'd pin MGS going off the rails in a narrative sense with MGS3. MGS3 has a very simple plot, with very simple characters, and the writing is just as awkward and stilted when compared to MGS2. MGS4's problem isn't the writing, its the characterization, lack of meaningful story themes presented, worse pacing than MGS2, character assassinations left and right.

MGS3 is a fantastic game, but that was the starting point where the series lost its way thematically. I enjoy whats presented in MGS3 storywise, buts its so shallow compared to MGS1 and MGS2. MGS4 is just as shallow, except people talk a lot more.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27386 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:18:12 PM »

MGS3's plot isn't even that good. Its enemies are boring. Even the boss isn't as well written as people say she is.

Where does MGS3 the best at? Gameplay.

Hmm, sensing a pattern here. Not to say, I didn't enjoy MGS for its zaniness, but it being the entire focal point of my enjoyment ended with 2.

1 is the only one worth playing for story and characters. A GI Joe episode in Alaska.

mormapope · « **Reply #27387 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:22:07 PM »

The Codec scenes in MGS2 alone trump anything in MGS4.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27388 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:25:38 PM »

JACK YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A TV!!!!!

That fucking game!

Really should get to MGSV. I never thought I could love MGS ever again until that game. I'm on like mission 13. Haven't played in like two months.

mormapope · « **Reply #27389 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:32:58 PM »

I don't know if you're a huge fan of character action games, but Metal Gear Rising is legitimately the best MGS game after MGS3.

The HD collection and Metal Gear Rising is what made me love MGS again

MGS V is a great game, but fuck, what it could've been hurts the most. Second half is so weak.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27390 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:40:01 PM »

Yeah, we got into this before. That Raiden game looks like the best of MGS cheese and character action. Looks up my alley. It even has a ranking system.

Someone posted a cutscene of Raiden and some dude on a train, and it was marvelously cheesy and fucking hilarious if I remember.

mormapope · « **Reply #27391 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:46:17 PM »

If or when you ever get it, the DLC for it is now free I believe. One piece where you play as a side character, another one where you play as a different side character, and I think you get more VR styled missions in a pack for free.

brob · « **Reply #27392 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:48:47 PM »

jetstream sam

Mods Help · « **Reply #27393 on:** November 30, 2015, 06:51:42 PM »

Bebpo · « **Reply #27394 on:** November 30, 2015, 07:21:08 PM »

Started playing Dark Souls again after finishing the Bloodborne Expansion since I was in the mood. Before when I'd played DS1, I'd been a soul arrow mage run from shit and shoot things from afar. It had been a really slow and calculated game until my PS3 died and I lost my save somewhere past The Depths like a dozen hours in and never went back to it.

This time I'm playing it like Bloodborne, with a sword and wooooooow game is so totally different. You just run up and smash smash smash and enemies die super quickly with a good 2H + 5 sword and stats going into END and STR or DEX. Even the bosses like the Gargoyles or Capra Demon, you do like 20-40% HP damage to the boss with a single 2-3 hit R2 slash combo. Coming from Bloodborne NG+ DLC where you gotta hit the bosses with like 15-20 2-3 hit combos to kill them all while they can kill you in 2-3 hits, melee seems way easier than what I remember Dark Souls being with ranged. Most of my deaths so far have been stuff like getting trapped in Capra Demon after rolling at the start and getting stuck between his dogs and him and my sword keeps bouncing off the wall so I can't do shit and die, or getting set on fire from behind with one gargoyle while I fight the other. But otherwise, things are going good and I'm back in The Depths in about 4 hours with my melee character. Also, I have to say going back to DS, it really feels dated compared to Bloodborne. Hope DS3 is more comparable. Man, Bloodborne is such a good game.

mormapope · « **Reply #27395 on:** November 30, 2015, 07:35:40 PM »

You haven't seen what true power is:

Greatclub +5/+10, two handed, doing the heavy leap attack will cheese everything.

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #27396 on:** December 01, 2015, 04:26:33 PM »

Beat Metroid: Zero Mission and going to play Fusion next

qq more · « **Reply #27397 on:** December 01, 2015, 04:56:56 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Nobody on December 01, 2015, 04:26:33 PM

Beat Metroid: Zero Mission and going to play Fusion next

Zero Mission is excellent. Never played Fusion but it seems to be a bit mixed? Mostly on the positive side though.

brob · « **Reply #27398 on:** December 01, 2015, 05:08:29 PM »

fusion is much more linear and has way too much narration, but X is very cool.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #27399 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:10:30 PM »

Fusion is super linear and has Samus a bit subservient to a male authority figure in unlocking stuffs and is thus arguably the start of the series road to utter fucking ruin, but it's a really good game anyway imo. Guess I can forgive it cause it's 2D?

Rufus · « **Reply #27400 on:** December 01, 2015, 06:29:24 PM »

The clone was really spooky for a GBA game.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #27401 on:** December 01, 2015, 09:17:34 PM »

yeah the linearity and unskippable text try to ruin the game but the fast-paced action and awesome boss fights save it. overall it's a great game ;just kind of sucks for speed running

chronovore · « **Reply #27402 on:** December 01, 2015, 10:04:28 PM »

Quote from: mormapope on November 30, 2015, 07:35:40 PM

You haven't seen what true power is:

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Greatclub +5/+10, two handed, doing the heavy leap attack will cheese everything.

Man, DO NOT make me want to take this game up again! PLEASE! I quit last time after unfortunately ignorantly choosing to lighting-enchant my Zwei /just before/ taking on the lightning-resistant bosses in the chapel. Tried four or five times to get them anyway, gave up.

A club, hm...?

No, just NO! Stahp.

Mods Help · « **Reply #27403 on:** December 01, 2015, 11:04:00 PM »

Zero mission is best metroid

qq more · « **Reply #27404 on:** December 02, 2015, 01:38:37 AM »

Quote from: Mods Help on December 01, 2015, 11:04:00 PM

Zero mission is best metroid

Yeah, that one is my favorite along with Super.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #27405 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:20:08 AM »

Quote from: Mods Help on December 01, 2015, 11:04:00 PM

Zero mission is best metroid

Like qq I would say Super but that may just be nostalgia for a misspent youth, they're both great. Fuck the zero suit tho.

qq more · « **Reply #27406 on:** December 02, 2015, 02:29:52 AM »

Quote from: Trent Dole on December 02, 2015, 02:20:08 AM

Quote from: Mods Help on December 01, 2015, 11:04:00 PM
Zero mission is best metroid
Like qq I would say Super but that may just be nostalgia for a misspent youth, they're both great. Fuck the zero suit tho.

I've actually played through Super for the first time 2 years ago. Definitely holds up very well.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #27407 on:** December 02, 2015, 12:09:25 PM »

2 is kinda neat in that is had lots of different types of metroids and it was one of the few early gb games that felt like they tried to make something more than a simple puzzler /platformer on gb. it's still really basic and rough tho and the lack of a map SUCKS.

and while super is the most groundbreaking in the series easily, zero is still my favorite. it feels like they took all the cool stuff fans had done with super over ten years, and made a game around it. there's so many cool shortcuts and sequence breaking paths. the level design is just mind blowing

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #27408 on:** December 02, 2015, 12:40:40 PM »

I spent hours looking for the last 2-3 metroids in Return of Samus.

brob · « **Reply #27409 on:** December 02, 2015, 01:17:08 PM »

the hardware limitations are pretty bad for 2. I don't mind the lack of a map so much as the inability to see more of the environment around samus and get a sense of whats where (metroid1 not having a map is fine for this reason imo).

In the same sense that super was a re-do of 1 I wish they would make a do-over of 2, going around and killing big bad metroids and scratching them off your hit list is very much what a space bounty hunter should be about tbh.

tiesto · « **Reply #27410 on:** December 02, 2015, 01:17:20 PM »

I started Metroid 2 last month and made it reasonably far but put it aside to finish up other games. Hopefully gonna pick it up again soon.

One thing I liked about the game was the repetition in environments, creepy as fuck ambient/noise/glitch soundtrack, and the feeling of getting totally lost made the game one of the most unsettling games in the series.

And as for some more stuff I'm playing, my GF has Kirby's Adventure on her Wii so when I'm over her apartment and she's cooking I'll put in some time into that... pretty far along, have 2 more worlds to go. I never beat it back in the day, in fact for some reason I always lost interest after the first or second world, but now I'm determined to stick with it.

bork · « **Reply #27411 on:** December 02, 2015, 09:43:17 PM »

I got Metroid II when it came out in 1991. I played a ton of it, then got lost and never found my way to the remaining Metroids. Would pick up and play it for the next several years and always ended up still lost. $:-\$ I kept hoping it would get a remake. A colorized version with a MAP would have been amazing.

brob · « **Reply #27412 on:** December 02, 2015, 09:50:51 PM »

AM2R might be out in a couple of years so just keep waiting imo. metroid2remake.blogspot.com

Am_I_Anonymous · « **Reply #27413 on:** December 04, 2015, 02:02:26 PM »

I tried ARMA 3 (2?) whichever the latest one is on my new PC.

What the fuck am I doing? I think I called an artillery strike on myself.

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #27414 on:** December 05, 2015, 02:43:13 AM »

Yeah, right now Super and Zero Mission are 1a and 1b for me.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #27415 on:** December 05, 2015, 11:01:43 PM »

lol was watching a stream of ff7 on ps4 and it actually did that thing where it blocked off the stream when aeris died

Mr. Nobody · « **Reply #27416 on:** December 06, 2015, 01:01:51 AM »

Started Fusion today. I'm enjoying myself but yeah, you're not going anywhere until that computer tells you to. And I just know it's going to turn on Samus before the game ends.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #27417 on:** December 06, 2015, 05:07:06 AM »

Picked up Halo 4 on clearance, seems... Different to Halo Reach. I've never been the biggest fan if the series but this game seems fine. Playing on Legendary because why the fuck not. There's been one bullshit part with stupid aimbot banshees insta killing me but been smooth sailing up to chapter 4 so far

chronovore · « **Reply #27418 on:** December 06, 2015, 05:50:30 AM »

I'm hitting a difficulty spike in Shadow of Mordor, where I can't seem to get Intel on any Captains without having the entire stronghold descend on me, and if I don't wrap it up quickly enough I get multiple new unknown Captains descending on me, with no Intel to help me rout them quickly. I guess I should bail from the fight and regroup, but I usually end up going down hard, stupidly. $:-\$

Going back to The Lego Movie Game, enjoying the extremely casual gameplay. Sometimes it's nice to just wander around and beat the bricks out of stuff.

XBL was busy shitting the bed this morning, but there was nothing on their status page. I spent half an hour trying to figure out if my LAN was off, or if it was them. It was them.

Bebpo · « **Reply #27419 on:** December 06, 2015, 06:52:52 AM »

Making good progress in Dark Souls 1 with my Katana wielding DEX/END/VIT guy. Just got to the Bonfire at Sen's Fortress, and done most of the optional areas/bosses available so far. Haven't had to grind yet, and running a bit underleveled at this point I think SL44, but it's fun. Blighttown was total shit awful map and drudging through the swamp at the bottom sucks, also annoying there's no simple elevator-esque shortcut to Demon's Tomb from the main hub since going back up all the ladders in Blightown -> Valley of the Drakes -> Londo Ruins -> Firelink is kind of a pain. Sen's Fortress was kind of nicely designed trap fortress. The level design and how all the areas connect is totally amazing. Even better constructed than Bloodborne. Also game is honestly 100x better as melee character than playing these games as a mage. With a good weapon, enemies go down fast, and just dodge and 2-3 hit combo and they're dead.

It's definitely a tougher game than Bloodborne though. My opinion playing them back to back is that Bloodborne has tougher bosses, but easier stages that are more like action game stages than death trap perilous stages; whereas Dark Souls stages (and the stages are the bulk of the game) are waaaaaay tougher and full of death around every corner, but the bosses are a lot easier than Bloodborne and most of their difficulty comes from jank like getting trapped and bad camera. Both are great though.

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