What are you playing?

[iconoclast]

Got a new Arcade 360 so I'm picking up where I left off. Started playing Silent Hill: Homecoming and just finished the first major boss. Not a bad game so far, but it looks like a Wii game and runs poorly too

Other than that I'm still playing some Raiden IV while waiting for Mushi Futari. On a good run I can make it up to the final boss in Arcade mode on one credit, but he is a tough som'bitch. Xbox 360 mode has two extra stages so I'm probably never going to 1CC that. And then the game has a second loop...

Played a few matches online in Tekken 6 just to check out the online patch and it looks like Namco came through   It's too bad they shipped the game with awful online play; I'm sure that caused some bad word-of-mouth...

Was looking to finish Fallout 3 as well, but no online rental service that I know of has the GotY disc in so I can get all that overpriced DLC. And of course no one has AC2 in either 

[Great Rumbler]

Got some Zeno Clash going today.

[iconoclast]

Got some Zeno Clash going today.

Is this game any good? I hadn't heard of it until Atlus posted some videos of the XBLA version on their YouTube channel the other day. Pretty strange looking game.

[Great Rumbler]

Got some Zeno Clash going today.

Is this game any good? I hadn't heard of it until Atlus posted some videos of the XBLA version on their YouTube channel the other day. Pretty strange looking game.

It's a fairly simple and straightforward game in terms of progression, basically just A to B with some enemies in your way. But, it's got really deep first-person hand-to-hand combat. It's $5 on Steam right now and well worth that small price.

[demi]

Zeno Clash is the only thing to Breakdown we're gonna get. I am so buying XBLa version.

[MCD]

dead space on impossible.

gonna play a chapter or so per day because game is a total chore. and even after beating it on impossible i still have to play on new game + for upgrading all the weapons achievement.

fucking bullshit but whatever.

[Mr. Gundam]

Finishing up the original Assassin's Creed while I wait for AC2 to arrive in the mail.

[OptimoPeach]

You can shinespark in shorter distances by only pushing the dash button on the frames when Samus' front leg touches the ground. But yeah, his precision with damage knockback and jumping is distinguished mentally-challenged. He is legit, though. I just attribute it to him being Asian

[Beezy]

dead space on impossible.

gonna play a chapter or so per day because game is a total chore. and even after beating it on impossible i still have to play on new game + for upgrading all the weapons achievement.

fucking bullshit but whatever.

so true

[duckman2000]

Assassin's Creed II, nearing the end (I think). Game is becoming a bunch of chores, so hopefully the last few chapters light shit up again.

[pilonv1]

Dragon Age and Team Fortress 2 mainly while my Xbox is in for repairs. Turned my PS3 on last night but had no interest in anything.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Warriors Orochi 2 (360) - Not really feeling this one.  The DVD drive continues to slow down.  It takes about 10 minutes from putting in the disc to having it load up.  By that time, I kind of lose motivation to play anything.

I do have Lost Odyssey waiting for me.  I'll play it when I pick it up.  I'm going to catass it this weekend.

[bork]

Warriors Orochi 2 (360) - Not really feeling this one.  The DVD drive continues to slow down.  It takes about 10 minutes from putting in the disc to having it load up.  By that time, I kind of lose motivation to play anything.

Time to get your system fixed!     Does installing help?

[iconoclast]

FUCK the attic puzzle in Silent Hill Homecoming. Just spent like an hour completing that awful crap. If half the pieces weren't double sized the shit would be easy. 

[Bebpo]

FUCK the attic puzzle in Silent Hill Homecoming. Just spent like an hour completing that awful crap. If half the pieces weren't double sized the shit would be easy. 

It's the worst part in the game.  It's also one of the worst designed sliding block puzzles ever.  And no reset button is ridiculous.

I had to walk out of the house, down the street, to the next LOADING AREA, then walk back to the attic where the puzzle had been reset, grab a faq, follow it step by step, beat puzzle.

Yeah. Fuck that puzzle.

[demi]

You didnt grind in the mines. Game is distinguished mentally-challenged fellow easy and broken. Borys sucks.

[demi]

Ok in FF12 there is a dungeon where a wall is suddenly coming at you. How far along is that in the game?

Very early

[OptimoPeach]

You can shinespark in shorter distances by only pushing the dash button on the frames when Samus' front leg touches the ground. But yeah, his precision with damage knockback and jumping is distinguished mentally-challenged. He is legit, though. I just attribute it to him being Asian

He seemed to defeat Kraid with one super missile and two regular missiles. How is that even possible?

It's 1 regular missile and 3 super missiles. The game is just hilariously bugged

[Don Flamenco]

bayonetta demo over and over.   can't fucking wait for this!

[ManaByte]

Finally started Dead Space. Fucking awesome game.

[archie4208]

Batman AA is so good.  It out Metroids every Metroid this decade.

[Joe Molotov]

[demi]

My boy's been turned into a Borys  :'(

[bork]

Samurai Warriors 3.  Finished new character Takenaka Hanbei's campaign.  He was pretty fun to play as and uses a bladed shield as his weapon.  After I cleared his game, I unlocked Nene and Maeda Toshiie (Kanazawa represent!), but the latter has no campaign mode of his own.   :'( 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Warriors Orochi 2 (360) - Not really feeling this one.  The DVD drive continues to slow down.  It takes about 10 minutes from putting in the disc to having it load up.  By that time, I kind of lose motivation to play anything.

Time to get your system fixed!     Does installing help?

They won't fix it for free and since I've only owned it for a year, it's bullshit that I need to pay a three digit sum so they can fix a part that most likely costs a couple of bucks.  Installing doesn't help because the problem seems to be that the disc needs to boot up.  After that, the loading is fine.  I usually just keep browsing on my laptop, hitting "A" whenever the 360 says "open tray" until it loads up.  Not a big deal but this kills impulse gaming.

[bork]

Maybe you can intentionally try to get a RRoD?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Maybe you can intentionally try to get a RRoD?

I haven't done the heating trick but whenever I do load up a 360 game, I keep it on for stretches of time if I feel like playing it again in an hour or two.  It's a Falcon at the tail end of its run so I expect the RROD is inevitable here.

I will intentionally heat it if the 360 DVD drive quits altogether, which might happen here soon enough.

[demi]

Sucks to be you bro, I've had my 360 on for the past 24 hours and still playin the vidya. Love my sexbox

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Sucks to be you bro, I've had my 360 on for the past 24 hours and still playin the vidya. Love my sexbox

Yep, it sucks, considering there are about 30 or so Xbox 360 games I want to play to catch up to where everyone else is now

[chronovore]

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SO GOOD

I'm stunned to hear it's running. I recall it used an early version of DirectX (maybe the first?) and any subsequent versions of it seemed to have trouble running the game. I'm still tempted to buy Skullmonkeys but it's too expensive -and- too freakin' hard.

Batman AA is so good.  It out Metroids every Metroid this decade.

That's what I'm playing tonight as well. Friend sent me his PS3 copy. Fun combat is fun; it's more like a rhythm game than combat... but it does make Bats look like a total badass.

[chronovore]

WORLD'S LEAST PRACTICAL DOOR

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in world's least practically developed game

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[archie4208]

Shock and Awe extreme

[demi]

Sucks to be you bro, I've had my 360 on for the past 24 hours and still playin the vidya. Love my sexbox

Yep, it sucks, considering there are about 30 or so Xbox 360 games I want to play to catch up to where everyone else is now

Dont worry, with PS3 you will be on the same level as everyone else

[FlameOfCallandor]

I bought my girlfriend a wii for christmas. I think i'm going to use the TRU deal and get her Wii play (For the extra remote) and Wii resort

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I don't know, FF12 seemed pretty freaking great until somewhere around the sand sea then I started to become less and less interested in it.  By the time the end rolled around I just couldn't give two shits about the game.  You can definitely tell that Square was rushing the title out to meet their deadline and/or they ran out of money.  IMO there needs to be a director's cut of the game because it seems to be missing huge chunks of the story.

But that's just me talking.

[magus]

i think of ff12 as an horrible horrible game but i really didn't want to derail the thread or something 

IMO there needs to be a director's cut of the game because it seems to be missing huge chunks of the story.

well there is a version with extra stuff released in japan altough i'm not really sure what it adds beside forcing character into jobs (therefore forcing specialization on your entire party)
 

[demi]

forcing character into jobs (therefore forcing specialization on your entire party)
 

This is why I hate 12, everyone does everything, no individuality. I would replay this International version if it makes the characters more unique.

[Kestastrophe]

I don't know, FF12 seemed pretty freaking great until somewhere around the sand sea then I started to become less and less interested in it.  By the time the end rolled around I just couldn't give two shits about the game.

That's a pretty good summation. I am in the minority that actually liked the game, but like you said it wore its welcome and became a chore to finish. The story devolved, but I don't want to get too much into it since Borys hasn't finished. But let me just say that I started rolling my eyes at the story when you get to Cid. I still really liked the license system and I didn't even mind the auto/gambit battle system.

[Purple Filth]

I don't know, FF12 seemed pretty freaking great until somewhere around the sand sea then I started to become less and less interested in it.  By the time the end rolled around I just couldn't give two shits about the game.  You can definitely tell that Square was rushing the title out to meet their deadline and/or they ran out of money.  IMO there needs to be a director's cut of the game because it seems to be missing huge chunks of the story.

But that's just me talking.

Supposedly that could be the point where the actual director (the same dude who did Vagrant Story) left (some say he was extremely burnt out) and the team had to finish it without him.

[Bebpo]

Matsuno didn't leave.  He was murdered by SquareEnix and subsequently revived as a zombie to appear in an early Wii promo video.

Similar thing just happened with FFXIII.  The battle system was made by the guy who did the FFX battle system.  Then SE didn't like it and they murdered him.  Now the battle system is by some dude who worked on KHII battle system.

FF is serious business.  Fuck up something and you get a shiv in the back.

[demi]

KH2 is one of the best games ever. Hype THROUGH THE ROOF

[magus]

here is a better description
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/939426/49691

Shortly after accepting Rogue Tomato hunt from Tomaj, you can start tinkering
with learning the licenses in order to improve your chrs. But what's that...
instead of one big LB there are *twelve* LB! Each LB represents a job in Zodiac
Job System (also note that shape of each LB is roughly the same as respective
zodiac sign).

The jobs at your disposal are: white mage, dragoon, machinist, red mage,
knight, monk, time mage, breaker, archer, black mage, samurai and thief.

Once you choose a job, *you cannot change it*! This is very important to take
into consideration, so think twice before choosing a job. Of course, you can
choose not to select any job and play the game that way, but it'll be extremely
challenging and you'll be missing out on bonuses from jobs.

You will see many "island squares" on each LB. "Bridges" that will connect LB
with these squares appear as you acquire espers. Again, you will need to
carefully consider who you will get to become a summoner with which esper -
once you select the esper license, same license disappears from others' LB.

[demi]

That's fine, as long as each character has a specific job rather than all being the same and boring.

[MCD]

KH2 is one of the best games ever. Hype THROUGH THE ROOF

+1

[magus]

By pressing L1 button at any time while roaming around, game's performance will
speed up. This allows you to get from one end of the map to the other in
significantly less time, and battles are also done much much quicker.

CURSE YOU SQUARE 
WHY YOU COULDN'T PUT THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE 

[Don Flamenco]

By pressing L1 button at any time while roaming around, game's performance will
speed up. This allows you to get from one end of the map to the other in
significantly less time, and battles are also done much much quicker.

CURSE YOU SQUARE 
WHY YOU COULDN'T PUT THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE 

That's in XII International?!  Fuck!    I rebought the game, popped it in, then got discouraged when I saw how much running I'd have to do just get to each hunt.

[Bebpo]

I never played XII international and honestly I have no interest in ever doing so because there are no story fixes and that is the main problem of XII.

But the gameplay fixes sound excellent.  If they had actually fixed the story as well it could've been the real FFXII and they could've even released it in the west.

[magus]

you can see the thing in action here around the 0:50 mark

really there are no word to describe how pissed i am at the moment 

[Bebpo]

Yeah, that looks sweet. 

Poor dead Matsuno  :'(

[Purple Filth]

KH2 is one of the best games ever. Hype THROUGH THE ROOF

+1

the beginning is completely boring though 

[Mr. Gundam]

Assassin's Creed -- I think I'm almost done. Assassin's Creed 2 hasn't arrived in the mail yet, so no rush.
Bayonetta -- Damn this game is awesome.

[duckman2000]

Bad Company 2 beta. So good. Really wish there were choppers in the beta, though.

[Trent Dole]

Wii Sports Resort
I need to send my fucking 360 out already.

[OptimoPeach]

I finished Secret of Evermore a while ago. Got tired of Golden Sun, but I'll probably pick it back up eventually.

Right now I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics v1.3. Tweaked items, skillsets, abilities, and difficulty. It's basically FFT for people that don't suck big fat cock at video games. Seriously though, it's surprisingly well done. The steeper learning curve and various modifications make the gameplay novel enough (especially if you're one of those people that always griped about how the original was easymode scrub trash), and there's none of the obnoxiously shitty changes (like new jobs, new sprites, new storyline) that typically ail these fan-made revamps.

Anyway, I'm about halfway through Chapter 1. It's pretty sweet so far.

[Don Flamenco]

tried out the WET demo.  wow, fucking horrible.  you basically can't shoot people without being in bullet time because the control is so wonky.   Max Payne is still king, apparently.

the best part was when that crazy red filter came on and you could run freely and chop the shit out of people.  They should've taken that, made it the whole game, added a bunch of more moves, a couple different weapon sets, put guns on all of her limbs, turned her into a witch, and handed the game over to Platinum Games.

[demi]

Wet

[Beezy]

I wanna play Machinarium, but finals are getting in the way. I tried the demo after seeing how much Bebpo liked it. It's a cool game.

[Great Rumbler]

Started playing some Mask of the Betrayer, although I still haven't beaten NWN2 thanks to a game-breaking bug that I came across about 10-12 hours in.

I've noticed that MotB has this weird glitch where the on-screen text in cutscenes flashes by before I can read, almost like some kind of auto-skip function has been turned on. I can't figure it out and it's kind of annoying.

[tiesto]

Still slogging through Shadow Hearts: FTNW and Valkyrie Profile DS.

[Bildi]

I was hoping to enjoy Dragon Age tonight while bitching about its undoubted verboseness, but the mailman had nothing.