What are you playing?

[tiesto]

Up to chapter 11 of Ghost Trick, pretty fast-moving game, but I've been playing a lot lately. Hopefully will have it finished (along with 4 Heroes of Light) by this weekend, to clear my schedule for Persona 3.

Also bought the latest Humble Bundle, gonna try Jamestown out tonite.

[MrAngryFace]

Raging at Golden Plains in BoF4. I can see the Volcano why can't I just GO to it? Fuuuu

[The Sceneman]

beat Dead Space 2. Was a fun shooter, but it had the lamest acting and story I've seen in an HD gen game.

It was just so cheesy, and not in a tongue in cheek way. You can tell they were trying for a deep narrative with emotional wallop and terror, but the whole thing just came across as adolescent angst, much like all the shit with Dom's wife in Gears 2.

Still, cool game, and I'll definitely go back to pick up more achievements

[Don Flamenco]

Hardcore? You mean Insane right

nope, hardcore. 

my squad is already dying on me on the most basic early fights...this isn't good. 

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I, Robot on MAME.  This game is honestly pretty staggering.  It's obviously technically amazing, but it's also really brilliantly designed and has a ton of content/cool game ideas.  A decade ahead of its time in the most creative period of gaming history.  Nothing else will ever come close.

[chronovore]

Finished Saints Row 3.

This game is everything you hoped GTA IV would be, and everything GTA V should aspire to be. I'll post further thoughts in the OT.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Get both endings?

[chronovore]

I didn't do the 2nd ending yet. I thought to try it this morning, but was too busy popping STAY CLASSY STEELPORT.



Tossing canned-farts and then beating the poor, puking bastards with a meter-plus dildo. Jesus. This game. NEEDS TO WIN MOAR AWARDS.

[iconoclast]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

[Mr. Gundam]

Started playing Last Remnant on the PC tonight. Very awesome.

[demi]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

Just play the third, the 2nd is total fluff and poo

[Bebpo]

Yeah, PW1 has a few good cases and 3 has some good cases, 2 is all filler like the non-good cases in 1/3.  Probably won't ever play #4 since the series bores the shit out of me when it's in filler case mode.

[Cindi Mayweather]

2 has fun cases. I like the circus one, and the intro case is fun, the final case is great. a heck of a lot better than AA4.

[tiesto]

Finished Phoenix Wright 1 last night. The last two cases were really good, and I remember liking most of the other cases as well (I haven't played it in a year or two), so I'll probably wind up going through the entire series. But I think I saw someone say that PW2 sucks, so I'm gonna play through Ghost Trick first. I played that for a few hours when it came out, so I think I'll get back to it and play it to completion.

Ghost Trick is really awesome, kind of like a rube-goldberg puzzle game crossed with Phoenix Wright. Great characters too! Up to chapter 15 in it now.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Anybody know a site that will ship Ghost Trick international (to New Zealand)?  None of the local shops even have it listed.  Preferably cheap :3

[brob]

for imports I use planetaxel.com, I live in Europe tho. Dunno where the shipping center for this site is, but they are usually good on prices, speed and costumer service.

[Bebpo]

So Orcs Must Die is pretty much the only Tower Defense game I've given more than an hour's interest in thanks to its heavy resemblance to Deception which I loved.

Since I have no real experience with the genre, the difficulty has jumped A LOT when maps started having several paths for the enemies to take so that there wouldn't be just a single choke point that you can load up with traps and hold them off.  Now I'm making multiple 1st & 2nd choke points with cheap spikes spread all around from the entry doors to the initial choke points in order to try to think them out at much as possible before the chokes.  It's definitely getting hard.  Could use some TD tips in general.

[iconoclast]

Tried 5 times to get the achievement for clearing Akai Katana Shin without entering nenshin mode. Every single time my Xbox froze - once right at the end when I was about to beat it. So glad I decided to buy a new J360, because I'm about to smash this piece of trash into a hundred pieces.

[magus]

for me all of the phoenix wright games are pretty much the same,i don't think i'll ever understand why people don't like 2

besides 2 introduce franziska which is a pretty important and funny character that pops a lot in other phoenix wright game

[Bebpo]

Finished Bad Company 2

Was pretty fun.  At least on easy, where I didn't have to worry about 1 hit sniper/rocket deaths out of nowhere all the time and could just run through the sets and blow shit up.  It felt like Call of Duty, but what really set it apart was the destruction of the environments.  I loved how holes would get blown through buildings and you could destroy cover and vice-versa.  Looked cool and made for an interesting dynamic.  A lot of the sets also had several routes to attack from and between all the weapons and vehicles you have some leeway in your approach. 

Might be because I only play a military FPS every 2 years but was fine popcorn entertainment.  Helped that it was 60fps and pretty damn good looking too.  DICE is amazing.  At times it was almost Just Cause 2/Crysis looking.  Like when you ride the buggies down the jungle mountain maps. 

So, if I enjoyed this campaign, what are the chances I will enjoy BF3's campaign?  How much worse is it?



Was fun having a firefight where chunks of everything were getting tossed around.

[cool breeze]

a lot worse

[Bebpo]

 

[cool breeze]

actually, take your definition of "a lot" and multiply it by a lot, and that's what I mean when I say "a lot worse"

[Bebpo]

One thing I liked about BC2 compared to CoD, was that even though the writing was terrible, at least they didn't take it seriously and it was pretty goofy at times.

[Great Rumbler]

Upgraded computer means better emulations, so I've been digging back into my PS2 backlog to put some time into games that I never really put that much time into before.

Final Fantasy X-2 - Easily wins the FABULOUS MAX award for Fabulousness. I like way the garment grid allows you to switch combat styles on the fly to meet the challenges of individual battles [even though spamming attack works nearly as well in most cases] and I also like the way the game is basically just about running around the world going on crazy [and fabulous] adventures with only a vaguely referenced impetus for doing so. It's a fresh approach and I don't have to take all that seriously because it doesn't take itself all that seriously.

Final Fantasy XII - Gonna make another go at it after making it through 12-15 hours on my last attempt. Vahn and Penelo is still dumb as rocks, with the best characters relegated to dying during the first five minutes of the game or playing second fiddle to the plucky teens, but I can deal with that as long as there is some huge, featureless expanse to wander through and occasionally fight monsters in, which FFXII has in abundance.

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter - The timer always put me off, I hate games with constantly-running timers. But I've determined not to let that stop me this time and intend to make it halfway through the game then start over from the beginning with my characters all buffed up for a smooth-sailing second playthrough.

Bonus game:

Xenoblade - Thanks you, Based-Intel, for your magnificent Sandy Bridge architecture. I can now play GOTY 2011 on my PC at a playable framerate and without sound stuttering! Sitting through all the early cutscenes again isn't particularly fun, but it'll be smooth sailing once that's out of the way and the game blows wide open.

[Cindi Mayweather]

How do the other characters take second fiddle to Vaan and Penelo in FFXII? Once you've got Balthier and Ashe, they're pretty much the main characters. The game even makes fun of this and the party (notably Balthier) questions why the fuck Vaan is tagging along anyways. FFXII is Ashe's story.

[demi]

I hope you plan on buying Xenoblade

[tiesto]

I bought and played through Crusader of Centy a few years ago, but completely blanked on the game... like I forgot nearly everything about it! So my friend was over and I showed him the game, he really dug it... then today I started a new game and am about halfway through already So I'm gonna finish it up over the next few days.

Also played through Sonic CD XBLA (amazing port)... but missed most of the 'cheevs. American Soundtrack

When aforementioned friend was over, we played a whole host of random games - Tales of Destiny R (PS2), Princess Crown, Sonic CD, Disgaea, and Astal.

Put in some time to Jamestown as well, pretty good for an American STG, very nice pixel art and music.

[demi]

Does anyone have Rage 360? I need a co-op partner for these stupid wasteland missions. Fuck I need real friends dedicated to the cause.

[Great Rumbler]

I hope you plan on buying Xenoblade

Yeah, I'll definitely pick up a retail copy come April.

[hyp]

sonic cd and cave story+

[iconoclast]

Started playing Espgaluda II Black Label. I think I know how the game works after reading a guide and watching a few replays, but it's hard to really get a grip on it since there are so many different systems working together. I'm guessing it's going to take a few days to get comfortable with this game. It seems fun though. Gotta be one of Cave's better console modes.

I'm up to Chapter 14 I think on Ghost Trick as well. That game's pretty good too; it starts out really slow (which is why I dropped it earlier), but it's pretty interesting once it starts to pick up.

And I've been trying to play Rayman, but I just can't get into that game. It's not bad, but it's kinda boring and not at all engaging so far (up to world 3 or 4). Same problem I've had with every Mario game since 64. I guess platformers are just dull if they're not hard enough.

[naff]

Spent some time in the new XBL store this evening. Man it suuuuuuucks.... eShop levels of suck, SMH Microsoft. Had 2240 points to burn after getting gifted 1500 so I got Crysis: Console Poor Edition and Guwange which worked out to exactly 2240 points

[chronovore]

Just shout at your machine, if you've got Kinect. This afternoon, I was just shouting "Xbox. Bing. Saints Row." and all the SR stuff showed up, so I tried "Xbox. Bing. Saints Row the Third." and ONLY SR3 stuff showed up. If you know what you want, it's pretty cool.

[magus]

i feel like playing some old-ass rpg,maybe i'll pick breath of fire 2... the official translation is so bad that someone made a better one fanmaded

[Bebpo]

i feel like playing some old-ass rpg,maybe i'll pick breath of fire 2... the official translation is so bad that someone made a better one fanmaded

You should play one I recommend!

[demi]

Play Brain Lord

[tiesto]

i feel like playing some old-ass rpg,maybe i'll pick breath of fire 2... the official translation is so bad that someone made a better one fanmaded

Play Traysia (GEN), Exile (Turbo CD) or Crusader of Centy (GEN)

[Beezy]

Play Brain Lord

this

[Owl-faced Wizard]

Play Dragon View.

[Great Rumbler]

Robotrek!

[Bebpo]

You know, I stuck in Motorstorm PR to refresh my memory on what it was like before I start up Motorstorm Apocalypse and then I remembered I kind of hate this series. 

Don't get me wrong, there's some good track design and though the graphics are kind of bad when looked at in stills, with motion blur it has a good arcade sense of speed.  But, man, there is no other racing game that is as random luck determined as the Motorstorm series.  You can be driving around when some pebble or bump slightly turns your car making it flip into a rock.  Or when you're driving and a monster truck FALLS ON YOU.  The physics are just complete wack and no matter how well you drive the race it's always so easy for you to be on the final turn and then something goes wrong and you lose the whole thing.  I love arcade racers, but most racing games tend to feel very skill based and the better you get and more familiar you get with the track, you do better.  But Motorstorm is more of just brute force keep retrying until you get lucky and take 1st.  Which is kind of bad design!

Will still give Apocalypse a shot since I picked it up when it finally dropped in price a bit.  But may just go back to Wipeout HD while waiting for 2048.

[iconoclast]

God, Espgaluda 2 BL is distinguished mentally-challenged. I made it to the final boss with 5 lives remaining (with Seseri), but I still didn't beat it because I completely fucked up her second form (died and missed the safe spot). If you don't go into her final form with 250-300 gems and instakill her in kakusei, you are absolutely fucked because your regular laser does pitiful damage, and when you die you respawn with 0 gems, so you can't enter kakusei period. I would be so pissed right now if I had a good run that ended like that, but I fucked up tons of stuff and only had 1.380 billion or something, so whatever. Still annoying.

edit: Practiced her for a while in training mode, think I can no miss her pretty consistently now. Training mode always solves every problem.

[tiesto]

Play Brain Lord

this

I NEED THIS GAME, always wanted it based on those cool EGM ads.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I changed my mind, play Metal Walker:



Is cross between Pokemon and billiards, which mathematically speaking makes it the best game ever.

[archie4208]

A bunch of shitty indie games so I can get 25% off coupons for Valve titles.

[magus]

I changed my mind, play Metal Walker:



Is cross between Pokemon and billiards, which mathematically speaking makes it the best game ever.

oooohhh yes i love metal walker,such an original game,they don't make them like that anymore

but i'm going with the brain lord suggestion since it's one of the few snes games i never played

[demi]

Play Brain Lord

this

I NEED THIS GAME, always wanted it based on those cool EGM ads.

I own it.  Great game.

One game I want to get is Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

[tiesto]

I changed my mind, play Metal Walker:



Is cross between Pokemon and billiards, which mathematically speaking makes it the best game ever.

Wow, never heard of this before, sounds really interesting!

[magus]

well as owl said the first weird thing about the game is the battle system,it plays like a billiard games and each times you bump into an enemy you deal damage,of course the reverse is true so it's actualy possible to kill yourself if an enemy bounce off a wall and then bump's into you

items don't get used instantly but instead they get throw into the field,if you bump into an item you get their effect but some items are nocive so in that case you want to bump the enemy so that he bumps into the item

the collection aspect comes into the fact that each enemy represent an item,shop don't sell potions and such,you have to capture the enemies by making them bump into an analyzing item and after that shop start selling the item related to that enemies,it's a cool idea but to be fair there are a lot of repeats

lastly there is a weak rock/paper/scissor element to it,as you progress the game you gain cores which let you transform your robot into ships or planes and ships are strong against planes and such...

[Bebpo]

I got duckroll Gray Matter for his birthday and he actually blew through it in like 3 days and enjoyed it. 

Makes me so happy to see people enjoying Gray Matter.  It's the most underrated game this decade and with no distribution and no one playing it, it's probably the last real adventure game we'll see

[cool breeze]

it had an Amazon sale recently and I was going to buy it, but thought "wait, Steam sale.  it'll be cheaper there."  then I realized it wasn't on steam.  I'll probably get it with all this Amazon digital game credit I'm raking up.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, it drops to <$15 regularly on Amazon downloads.  Unfortunately they don't let you gift games, so I had to buy it for $30 from the Adventure Shop to gift it digitally.

If the game was on steam I think it'd sell decently from great word of mouth.  Same if it was in some indie bundles.  But the euro distributor it has is totally euro janky

[iconoclast]

Finished Ghost Trick. Great animation, unique gameplay, good music, good characters, and a great story (up there with Nier and 999 as the best of the gen). Great game, might even be one of my top 10 of the year. Shu Takumi is a cool dude.

[Bebpo]

I might go back to Ghost Trick at some point.  I liked everything about it, but it was kind of slow and having to rewatch sections several times was boring.

[magus]

the breath of fire 2 re-translation is super professional,they went and hacked the menu so it has a scrolling inventory a-la final fantasy and they expanded the max letter possible for item so you have stuff like "copper sword" instead of "copperswrd"

it's incredible how capcom got it wrong twice and a random dude with too much times in his hand got it right

[iconoclast]

I might go back to Ghost Trick at some point.  I liked everything about it, but it was kind of slow and having to rewatch sections several times was boring.

Yeah, it starts off really slow. I dropped it at chapter 5 or 6, but it starts to pick up almost immediately after that, and the final stretch of the game is fantastic. I didn't like replaying scenes over and over either, but that's really only a problem in a few chapters where you have to wait for a specific point before doing a trick (or if you get stuck and fail over and over). Most of the time the solutions are pretty straight forward, so I didn't think it was a big problem. At least it's not as bad as having to mash through tons of text when you fail a trial in Phoenix Wright.

[tiesto]

Finished Ghost Trick. Great animation, unique gameplay, good music, good characters, and a great story (up there with Nier and 999 as the best of the gen). Great game, might even be one of my top 10 of the year. Shu Takumi is a cool dude.

Yeah the music in that game was cool. The organ instrument in this song is straight up 90's house:

[MrAngryFace]

Fair bit of Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Dynasty Warriors Xtreme Legends

[cool breeze]

wow Trine 2 looks ridiculously good.  I just played the first again for the achievement and that still looked really nice, but Trine 2 is drastically prettier.