What are you playing?

[Mr. Gundam]

Gonna start Arkham City when I get home tonight. Hopefully I'll get through a good chunk of it before Gundam Extreme Versus shows up.

[demi]

Depends how much side content/exploration/pvp/etc. you do in Dark Souls, but I'd say the game is at least twice as long as Demon's Souls. Maybe 3x.

Also, I've nearly finished the first Phoenix Wright. Just got done with Turnabout Goodbyes. I think I'll keep playing visual novels on the side like this, since I liked 999 as well.

Beside 999 and Phoenix Wright, the rest are complete tripe... (Time Hollow, Lux Pain, etc.)

Corpse Party is supposed to be ok, if you can tolrate the.. well, japan

[Bebpo]

Depends how much side content/exploration/pvp/etc. you do in Dark Souls, but I'd say the game is at least twice as long as Demon's Souls. Maybe 3x.

I usually try to fully explore every area, but I don't do any pvp at all.  Wow @ the game being 2-3x the size of Demon Souls.  Sounds like a lot of content.  I didn't expect that since the Wiki only lists around the same number of "stages/areas" as Demon Souls had.

[Enl]

dammit P.O.W. didn't work, so I played Rastan 

(Image removed from quote.)


this game stole so many of my quarters growing up.  never got past the first screen because it has like 4 different branching paths and they lure you to the harder ones with a bunch of different cool looking weapons.

I've died a many deaths when I played this back on my C64. I could never get past the boss at the end of 3-2. I didn't end up playing the arcade version until many years laters and remembering being stunned how well that game looked compared to its C64 port. I also blew through the arcade one much easier due to more responsive controls and hit detection.



Still love the music.

I didn't care much for the second game but the third game, Warrior Blade, was a fantastic beat'em up with an epic scope.

[cool breeze]

Depends how much side content/exploration/pvp/etc. you do in Dark Souls, but I'd say the game is at least twice as long as Demon's Souls. Maybe 3x.

I usually try to fully explore every area, but I don't do any pvp at all.  Wow @ the game being 2-3x the size of Demon Souls.  Sounds like a lot of content.  I didn't expect that since the Wiki only lists around the same number of "stages/areas" as Demon Souls had.

for some perspective, the place you mentioned you're at in 10 hours, I was at in maybe 14 hours.  Still took me 60 hours, and of that maybe 5 or 6 hours was PVP and an hour of grinding.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Rastan Saga III is an awesome beat 'em up.  Rad graphics.  Avoid II.

[Don Flamenco]

i remember 2 being shitty.  i will try out 3 of sho 

about places with arcade games-- i was a nut for that.  any store we went to, any hotel, I'd search for the game room. 

[demi]

Got RAGE in the mail today... and I just finished the grindy parts of NIER. On my way to the C/D endings so should wrap this up tomorrow.

[iconoclast]

So tired of stupid deaths on stages 5 and 6 in Galuda 2. I'm never playing a single-loop shooter that's longer than 5 stages again, unless it's relatively easy (like Galuda 1).

[magus]

Got RAGE in the mail today... and I just finished the grindy parts of NIER. On my way to the C/D endings so should wrap this up tomorrow.

you got all the material for upgrading all of the weapons? dayum demi i'm not worth of the title of achievement whore even with all the boring stuff i did!

[demi]

It wasnt that bad. Couple days tops...

[MrAngryFace]

Ill be playing Ass Crud games all day and every day in Dec- what have I done to myself

[Joe Molotov]

Ill be playing Ass Crud games all day and every day in Dec- what have I done to myself

Best bare-knuckle pope fight in videogame history.

[Don Flamenco]

can't get P.O.W. to run on FBAnext or PS3MAME

fucking cell processor is a piece of shit, i'm selling my ps3 for a 360.  THAT'LL SHOW THEM

[Owl-faced Wizard]

P.O.W. sucks, play Violent Storm.

[The Sceneman]

playing the SotN re-dub on PSP.

Not sure about the new voices, they're good enough but the old dialogue was timeless and all that.

Still, greatest game evar

I am interested in this.   

I am interested in this. 

I am interested in this. 

I am interested in this. 

TEEE HEEE HEEE THAYNK YOO

Ironically, the PSP re-dub doesnt have this dialogue. Alucard now says "how about this" for no reason. The entire game is re-dubbed with different voices. It's not as bas as the Akira re-dub but you get what I mean

[Don Flamenco]

P.O.W. sucks, play Violent Storm.

I am interested in this   

i'll see if i have it, but I have nostalgia glasses for P.O.W.  Loved the concept as a kid-- breaking out of a POW camp and killing the entire enemy army with your bare hands and few weapons.

Ironically, the PSP re-dub doesnt have this dialogue. Alucard now says "how about this" for no reason. The entire game is re-dubbed with different voices. It's not as bas as the Akira re-dub but you get what I mean

yeah, instead of realizing that fans love the bad VA's charm, Konami tried to make it "good" and failed miserably, without any of the cute charm. 

[cool breeze]

I don't think I'll ever understand why Spyro and Crash were popular.

Crash is like Donkey Kong Country in 3D.  Controls feel so sloppy and you're running through insipid levels fighting generic animals enemies, breaking boxes and collecting shit.  And the presentation of both is garish.  I can excuse dated swimming textures (or just the uggo DKC sprites), but Crash is just like...I don't know.  I get to a save spot and there's a female Crash, except her body has human proportions while Crash is just a giant head.  It's just like DKC and the humanoid bimbo monkey thing.  And I can't tell if something is wrong with the audio and music. 

I liked all the PS2 platformers from Naughy Dog and Insomniac, but their PS1 games always seem bad whenever I try them.  Spyro is just boring; the only good one is for the GBA.  PS1 even had better platformers like Jumping Flash.  Well I guess you can say the same about SNES.

[brob]

Similar situation to Sonic Adventure I guess. People just didn't know.

[Bebpo]

wait wait wait wait, Crash was good!

Naughty Dog have always been (well maybe not on 3d0) very good game designers with tight gameplay and good level design.  The crash games exemplified that.  I replayed some of Crash 1 a few years ago on PSP and it still was really solid pure platformer.  Crash/Jak were good platformers.

I couldn't get into Spyro though.  Thought it was boring as well.

[Bebpo]

Bad Company 2's SP campaign isn't thaaaat bad I guess.  It's totally uninspired; helicopter mini-gun stage, sniper stage, tank stage, etc....  But the destructible buildings/walls make the combat kind of cool since things are just blowing apart left and right.  And it looks fairly nice and runs really smooth 60fps.  Story doesn't seem worse than CoD games.  Music kind of sucks.  I dunno, I haven't played an FPS in a long time so I don't mind spending the 4-6 hours it takes to run through some pretty set pieces and shoot a million guys of foreign ethnicities.

Although, it does make me want to play a better FPS after this.  Maybe I'll play Crysis Warhead finally. 

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Naughty Dog have always been Sony's Rare on a faster release schedule.  Donkey Kong Country -> Crash comparison is dead on (Crash was clearly a response to the unfortunate popularity of DKC, right down to the most superficial details, people seem to not remember or notice that).
Giving Crash a spin attack was a real good design decision though - perfect way to introduce young players to wasting threats in 3D space.  Meanwhile Nintendo gave Mario a punch button, which was pretty dumb and useless.

[magus]

I don't think I'll ever understand why Spyro and Crash were popular.

Crash is like Donkey Kong Country in 3D.  Controls feel so sloppy and you're running through insipid levels fighting generic animals enemies, breaking boxes and collecting shit.  And the presentation of both is garish.  I can excuse dated swimming textures (or just the uggo DKC sprites), but Crash is just like...I don't know.  I get to a save spot and there's a female Crash, except her body has human proportions while Crash is just a giant head.  It's just like DKC and the humanoid bimbo monkey thing.  And I can't tell if something is wrong with the audio and music. 

I liked all the PS2 platformers from Naughy Dog and Insomniac, but their PS1 games always seem bad whenever I try them.  Spyro is just boring; the only good one is for the GBA.  PS1 even had better platformers like Jumping Flash.  Well I guess you can say the same about SNES.

they were product of their times,platformer mascotte's on a popular console without any platform mascotte
and besides they weren't that bad of game,spyro suffer a little from collectathon syndrome but otherwise it surely beat the shit out of stuff like croc

but the best psx (and ps2 too might i add) platform will always remain


good night sweet prince

[brob]

Monkey Soccer was my shit.

[Great Rumbler]

Uh...the original Spryo was AWESOME. I'm sorry that you guys are a bunch of loser N-tards that thought Super Mario 64 was the height of videogames and Spyro was just a dumb Sony game where you mashed buttons while drooling on the controller like a baby, but maybe you ought to broaden your horizons a bit and play a game that's actually worth a tinker's cuss instead of licking the malformed feet of Nintendo.



Spyro, fools, remember that name.

[brob]

I played and enjoyed a ps1 spyro game. dunno which one it was, but yeah. fun stuff. But I also liked the demo for 40 winks, so hey wtf do I know.

[Raban]

For the longest time I couldn't really get into Super Metroid for whatever reason, and happily enjoyed the rest of the Metroid series. However, I finally sat down to play some today and it got its hooks way into me. Not sure what was different this time than the dozens of times I've tried to play it and thrown the controller in disgust, but I'm having a blast jumpin' and shootin' all over alien country. Though playing only reminds me that it'll be a long time before we see another Metroid game, if ever again.

[Trent Dole]

I dunno who I'd want working on the next Metroid. Not Retro and certainly not the fuckwits at Team Ninja.

[Cindi Mayweather]

I don't think I'll ever understand why Spyro and Crash were popular.

Crash is like Donkey Kong Country in 3D.  Controls feel so sloppy and you're running through insipid levels fighting generic animals enemies, breaking boxes and collecting shit.  And the presentation of both is garish.  I can excuse dated swimming textures (or just the uggo DKC sprites), but Crash is just like...I don't know.  I get to a save spot and there's a female Crash, except her body has human proportions while Crash is just a giant head.  It's just like DKC and the humanoid bimbo monkey thing.  And I can't tell if something is wrong with the audio and music. 

I liked all the PS2 platformers from Naughy Dog and Insomniac, but their PS1 games always seem bad whenever I try them.  Spyro is just boring; the only good one is for the GBA.  PS1 even had better platformers like Jumping Flash.  Well I guess you can say the same about SNES.

What is this heresy? Spyro 1 and Crash 2 were GREAT.

[Don Flamenco]

I dunno who I'd want working on the next Metroid. Not Retro and certainly not the fuckwits at Team Ninja.

combat was the best part of Other M and that's all TN worked on. 

A "New Super Metroid" is what the series needs right now.  Make the budget in-line with hardcore sales expectations, hype it up...hell, rehash Super Metroid all they want, just make a 2D game for christ's sake.   

i'd definitely temporarily own a used 3DS/Wii/Wii-u for it. 

[Cindi Mayweather]

i think mix of 2d and 3d mario galaxy 2 style is the best route for metroid. I think we're at the point where a third person Metroid would really work well, Dead Space/RE4 style. The problem is, is the audience even there? Such a game seems like it'd be best handled on something that's not a nintendo console.

[OptimoPeach]

Metroid Dread plz

[cool breeze]

has anyone here played Muramasa for the Wii? how is it?

[demi]

I did. It's ok... can get boring. I wouldn't really go out of my way to play it. Needs to be in HD since the first day.

[cool breeze]

k, thanks.  it's $9 at newegg and I remember wanting to check it out but passed because Odin Sphere was mad dull.  still, $9 isn't that much.

[iconoclast]

Finally beat Espgaluda II; got 394,247,302 with Ageha. I've been playing it on and off ever since I got done with Akai Katana, so it took me a while to get through it. I'm glad I finally beat it, but I'm pretty disappointed with my run. I messed up a bunch of scoring areas and had a stupid death or two on stage 6, so I think I could get 450m or so. Oh well, I'll probably keep playing for a while longer.

Oh, and it's an awesome game. I didn't like it very much when it first came out, but I was still pretty terrible at shooters back then. I'd definitely recommend putting some time into it after leveling up on some easier games.

[magus]

i've decided to maraton trough all the classic megaman games because nothing beats fucking classic megaman

[Acosta]

Not much, trying to get the most of the beta from The Old Republic to get a solid idea of the game. And I put two solid hours into this marvel:



Fucking goosebumps. There is something about old beat'em Ups that makes easy to come back to them.

[Trent Dole]

Jesus fuck what is with the size of Link's eyes in SS? If they were out to make him look like incarnate they succeeded. Also love how diagonal slash recognition is complete shit. Whatevs, it's :zelda  so I'll play through almost the entire thing anyway shittastic grainy last gen graphics and all.

[benjipwns]

What is this heresy? Spyro 1 and Crash 2 were GREAT.

Spryo 2 is great. Might even be better in terms of level design than the first.

Not much, trying to get the most of the beta from The Old Republic to get a solid idea of the game.

Dammit, they sent me the code like the day of Thanksgiving and I forgot I was in that.

[Bebpo]

Gundam Versus Extreme

Everyone who ever liked Virtual On at any point should import this.  This is absolutely Virtual On's successor and it's just absolutely amazing 4 on 4 tournament arena fighter.  60 characters and 4 more coming in DLC, all with deep move lists and good balance.  Lots of stages, music, great visuals and pretty decent for Japanese standards online play.  Fun SP mode too.  I've already put 5+ hours in and I've barely scratched the surface.  It's so awesome to see what Virtual On would be like if it was still the king of robot versus in 2011.

[iconoclast]

VOOT still has an active community, though it's mostly just the hardcore players and whoever else wants to try to learn the game. But anyway, how is the online for Gundam? I figure it'll be borderline unplayable for Americans because 99% of the players are  going to be Japanese. And does it have 1v1, or is the main focus on team battles?

[Bebpo]

Online is ok.  The connections are usually yellow and occasionally red but you can't tell much when playing.  Feels pretty smooth.  Japanese players are ridiculously good though.  Everyone is tourney-level.

You can do 1v1 if you want.  But the balance is definitely for 2v2.

[MrAngryFace]

Assassins Creed mostly- snuck in some KoF XIII

[Beezy]

Gundam Versus Extreme

Everyone who ever liked Virtual On at any point should import this.  This is absolutely Virtual On's successor and it's just absolutely amazing 4 on 4 tournament arena fighter.  60 characters and 4 more coming in DLC, all with deep move lists and good balance.  Lots of stages, music, great visuals and pretty decent for Japanese standards online play.  Fun SP mode too.  I've already put 5+ hours in and I've barely scratched the surface.  It's so awesome to see what Virtual On would be like if it was still the king of robot versus in 2011.

No japanese necessary?

[Bebpo]

Only for certain win/loss requirements in the SP mission mode.  The main arcade game and online is just a fighting game.  Figuring out the movelists takes some effort though since everyone plays differently.  But Shouta is translating the movelists and gaffers will answer questions.  There's about 10 people on gaf who imported it and are playing online.

[Bebpo]

This game is ridiculous.  I haven't been this into a competitive fighting game in foreeeever.  So much fun.  I can see myself playing this for months.  Just gotta stop it from sucking up all my time.

Japanese players are crazy too.  Game just came out 4-5 days ago and people have 400-500 online wins already.  Argh.


Also this game makes a good argument for why the OO movie should exist.  Quanta Gundam is really fun to play as.

[Cerveza mas fina]

No Skyrim B?

[Cerveza mas fina]

What happens after 60 hours?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Plays like a dream on my laptop 

Shame PS3 sucks, but everyone knew multiplat games suck on PS3.

[Cindi Mayweather]

0 fps happens

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-ps3-skyrim-lag

42 hours on my 360 file and i'm starting to have lag

[Don Flamenco]

Dark Souls rpg of the year 

Skyrim

[Cindi Mayweather]

Dark who?

[Don Flamenco]

Dark who?

Dark Quality Over Quantity That Doesn't Break And Gets By On Its Own Merits Of Being A Good Game Instead Of Just Being A Large Game With Some Half Decent Fantasy Writers

mo'fucka


this isn't even an argument or a fair fight

[D3RANG3D]

Dark who?

Dark Quality Over Quantity That Doesn't Break And Gets By On Its Own Merits Of Being A Good Game Instead Of Just Being A Large Game With Some Half Decent Fantasy Writers

mo'fucka


this isn't even an argument or a fair fight

How bout those 5fps?

[Cindi Mayweather]

Dark who?

Dark Quality Over Quantity That Doesn't Break And Gets By On Its Own Merits Of Being A Good Game Instead Of Just Being A Large Game With Some Half Decent Fantasy Writers

mo'fucka


this isn't even an argument or a fair fight

I think people who use this argument haven't actually played Skyrim.

[Don Flamenco]

yeah, i'm pretty busted there.  but bethesda's past games took little to no skill, aside from right at the beginning when you're level 1, and on top of that it's not like combat is balanced or even anything more than just a little competent in all of their games.  The "hard" parts of Oblivion were wholly due to jankiness.  I'm somehow doubting it's suddenly Dark Souls quality gameplay the whole way through. 

[demi]

lol. quality over quantity. someone's been shoving fingers in their butt again.

[Don Flamenco]

everyone's favorite game sucks 

[demi]

Would you let Marn shove his meatfingers in your butt.