What are you playing?

[OptimoPeach]

Playing Super Metroid again and attempting to up my already GODLY SKILLZ to new heights of godliness in preparation for a semi-srs segmented speed run. My goal is to match the previous record of 36 minutes for a segmented any% run. Not shit compared to that guy's 30 minute single segment run, but I'm not Asian like him so I think such a handicap is reasonable.

When I complete it I'll post the YouTubes as fap material for anyone that appreciates exhibitions of non-scrub vidya gaming

[archie4208]

I was screwing around with a beginner game in X-Com UFO defense and the game is pretty scary.   The atmospheric sounds that play during missions makes me nervous.

[bork]

Lyte, I tried the classic controller in Reginleiv and it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo broken I don't know how Nintendo allowed them to release the game with the option.

When you move the right analogue, it is the camera AND the slashing pointer.  The game has to randomly decide what you are doing, a slash or a camera adjustment.  It gets it wrong about half the time.  lolol

LOL, never mind.  Another shitty Wii game.

[tiesto]

Played a ton of Mass Effect - did a lot of the optional missions, saved Dr. Tsoni, and beat Noveria. I don't even mind the Mako portions of the game (I kinda like the bouncy physics, but hate how long the shield takes to recharge), but the actual combat is still pretty ugh. It seems extremely random, my AI companions constantly get in my way, and there are times when I'm way more successful by just running around and firing blindly than by playing 'tactical'. The cover system never seems to work properly for me, especially after the smooth-flowing Uncharted 2 combat. Some of the early subquests were extremely annoying in this regard, when I was still underpowered.

The dungeons are also pretty lame, apart from Noveria. Most seem to be just straight lines connecting them, and there are only 3 templates that they use for every subquest dungeon in the game. Music is still godly tho!

[Beezy]

The dungeons are also pretty lame, apart from Noveria. Most seem to be just straight lines connecting them, and there are only 3 templates that they use for every subquest dungeon in the game. Music is still godly tho!

Think of it as preparation for FF13.

[iconoclast]

Finally completed the Medieval Madness wizard goals. Came back today with a troll bomb for the final battle and BARELY managed to take it down. AGAIN my final ball got stuck behind the troll on the right, but I managed to get it loose by tilting it up and down to knock it into the Merlin's Magic hole. With 4 seconds left on the clock I had to make the final shot with my right flipper - thought I had no chance of making it but I pulled it off. I almost made it to another battle for the kingdom but I fell apart towards the end; wound up with a final score of 408m and in the top 100, so not too bad anyway. Now I guess I'll play all the other inferior tables finally. I'm still missing basic goals on a bunch of them.

[EmCeeGrammar]

Sonic and Knuckles came out on the vc today. Its SO AWESOME
I missed out on it as a kid, but waiting so long to get to play it is like, i dunno, getting a real sonic the hedgehog sequel.  They even kept all the cart lock on stuff intact.  Knuckles kinda sucks though, his jump always feels just a tad bit short.  I end up drowning alot because of it.

[cool breeze]

you know Knuckles can glide and climb walls, right?

[EmCeeGrammar]

you know Knuckles can glide and climb walls, right?

Yeah but there was this one wall underwater that had a spring located on a ledge.  So when you climb up the wall knuckles gets nudged by the spring and falls back down.  So I drowned. 

[EmCeeGrammar]

And I finally get super sonic the legit way.  Ha.  Well I got all the emeralds in sonic 1 once.  But that doesnt do anything.
Its funny, playing as super sonic is almost how new sonic games feel.  Damn crazy directional influence notwithstanding.

[The Sceneman]

lmao

Wii only gamers: 16 years late to the party

[chronovore]

Flow PS3 is free on PSN until midnight tonight. I'm going to download it later.

Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.

I actually want ~flOw~, but haven't made the time to go buy points. I read your post, immediately made a US PSN account, jumped through all their hoops, and logged in only to find it is US$9.99. Then I realized I'd not checked this thread in a few days. 

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[EmCeeGrammar]

lmao

Wii only gamers: 16 years late to the party

Hey, fuck you buddy.

I had a genesis when I was a kid.  I just had sonic 1-3, but I always got stuck on that damn barrel in carnival night zone.

[chronovore]

Yea, that's why I bought it (for the kids! think of the kids). But it's frustrating to play a game when you know it could be something more and it's not.

I have a soft spot for them for a couple of reasons. I genuinely think they are funny or at least charming for the most part with their storytelling.

And I use to know a guy who had a developmentally challenged kid whom he could play the games with and they both got enjoyment out of them.

I seem to remember most people hating the Indy ones but I liked that one as it moved the action away from the action part of the game which I think is kind of poor to a more puzzle solving focus.

Yeah, the first Lego Star Wars game, the one based on the prequels, surprised a lot of people with being reasonably entertaining, combining two delicious licenses and somehow still not SUCKING. Tt seems to have accepted that as cart blanche to basically art-swap the game repeatedly, ad nauseum. Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy should have been pants-wettingly good, but it just was more of the same, with the 360 version being such a straight port of the PS2 version that the save/load flow barely changed their text messages.

I downloaded the demos for Lego: Indy and Lego: Batman and decided it was more of the same. It's a shame really; Tt's PS2/Gamecube Finding Nemo game was actually really good and had substantial replayability.

[Ichirou]

Tt = Traveller's Tales?  They actually did Sonic R on the Saturn, which was a really good racing game.

[Mr. Gundam]

White Knight Chronicles gets really awesome with a mixture of Studio Ghibli and Evangelion. AND THEN IT ENDS.

If Level 5 learns from their mistakes, the sequel could be really awesome.

[Ichirou]

White Knight Chronicles 2: White Knighting on the Internet

[Mr. Gundam]

An actual plot comes out of nowhere, but then the game is over. It's ridiculously abrupt.

[pilonv1]

Tried playing STALKER for the first time in years on my new PC. Got 20 seconds in before the extreme head bob made me feel ill.

[Bocsius]

Well, ME2 is different. It's more like Gears of Mass Effect, huh? Combat system totally overhauled. QTE-hacking system replaced. Weapon upgrades, stats, all changed. Not at all like ME1.

Back on this, the combat similarities are ridiculous (but I love it). Seriously, did they hand the game off to Epic with a note asking for help? Even some of the in-combat dialog is similar (scratch one?). This is my Gears 3 without being Gears. The only thing it's missing is active reload.

[demi]

So you're saying its a better game? Thanks for the reminder, enjoy your shitty Mass Effect 1.

[Tucah]

Went from playing tons of games to just Bayonetta. So so good, even if I don't care for the story. Everything else is fantastic.

[Eric P]

21 hours into Stalker CoP getting to the final segment now.

[iconoclast]

Espgaluda II being region free has motivated me to play more Mushihime Futari again. Going to work on clearing as much of it as I can over the next couple weeks. I'm pretty sure Stage 3 was designed by the devil himself, however. I can only no-bomb + no-miss it like 5% of the time... the second half of that stage is such a big leap in difficulty it's ridiculous. If I weren't a chronic bomb hoarder I know I could have 1CC'd this long ago, so from now on I'm going to start bombing like I'm part of the Taliban.

[Vizzys]

Been playing some Deus ex, mostly because I wanted to also play the nameless mod which is equally good

http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-nameless-mod

anyway dues ex for such an old game holds up well, the gameplay is solid and the voice acting is unintentionally hilarious at times, like the main character JC  denton has the most dry delivery ever, and you can get in the most random ass conversations like having a 10+ minute philosophical debate with a bartender in hong kong out of the blue

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sunuva!-

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what a shame

[ManaByte]

Playing the new EQII expansion with my guild. Exploring New Paineel and looking forward to diving into the Ruins of Old Paineel and The Hole later on.

Still need to finish ME2 as well.

[Raban]

Trying to do a no-continue Mega Man 2 run, and want to go back and finish Mega Man 3. Getting pumped for 10.

[AdmiralViscen]

Almost done with ghostbusters. Shocked at how good it is

[The Sceneman]

hooked on nasty old Peggle XBLA again, got 10 challenges to go for 200/200, then I need to do the Peggle Nights challenges for 250/250

Fired up Mass Effect 1 again to try out a female shepard and mop up the last few cheevs. The VA for the female is decent but I have to say I prefer the dude for the lolz

plugging away at Vesperia, getting there (around 30 hours in), amazing game will defo go for the 1000

hopefully getting Bayonetta tomorrow

picking away at Parasite Eve on my lunch breaks, almost done with it

Chronovore, we gotta play some more Saints 2 next time were both on, that shit was so awesome on Sunday

[tiesto]

Sceneman - does progress toward cheevs carry over in ME1? Say I use Lift 70 times my first play through, would I only have to use it 5 times in play through 2 to get the cheev?

[The Sceneman]

yeah Im pretty sure they do. I know that the weapon based achievements stack over playthroughs so I'd assume the biotic/tech based skills ones do the same.

I played as a soldier for my first 3 playthroughs so Im missing all of those, playing through as an engineer now to get my last two ally cheevs, the engineer cheevs, and to prep a female renegade save for my ME2 Insanity playthrough. Then Im just gonna make a throwaway biotic and grind out those skill cheevs. Completion is a bitch sometimes 

[bork]

Just played some Resident Evil 5.  I think the last time I played the game was before last summer, so it's been a while.  Could only find one versus match and got tired of waiting for a fourth to pop up, so I did the Mercenaries, which it's been even longer since I played.  It was a BLAST, and it helped that the guy I played with was really good...we kept getting S and A ranks.  Got me totally pumped up for The Mercenaries Reunion now.   

[Vizzys]

lol the nameless mod is pretty good

im in this abandoned bunker shutting down this evil AI when i go into a room and see a resident evil poster (the movie) and I think to myself how kinda relevant that is with the AI trying to kill me and all

then i step into another room and a wall of lasers kills me

[tiesto]

Did some more sidequests in ME1. Felt kinda weird helping a chick with my crazy Jesus freak ex's name (and first initial of her last name too) solve a dispute with her brother about genetically engineering her baby. But I wanted those paragon points.

[Ichirou]

Going through Magna Carta II before I start Mass Effect.  If JRPGs are wacky jappy, what would a Korean RPG be?  It's definitely a different beast than your typical JRPG...not necessarily in a good way.

[tiesto]

Going through Magna Carta II before I start Mass Effect.  If JRPGs are wacky jappy, what would a Korean RPG be?  It's definitely a different beast than your typical JRPG...not necessarily in a good way.

Krazy Korean? We'd have to consult Gillo on this matter...

[chronovore]

Tt = Traveller's Tales?  They actually did Sonic R on the Saturn, which was a really good racing game.

Yeah, that's them. Which would be another good use of the Tt acronym.

I think they were a small studio which transitioned to last gen with aplomb, and then hit a gold mine with the Lego formula and have been grinding it until it's bare.

[demi]

lol. the entire game is little sisters

[demi]

Its not required to farm adam, unless you going for plasmid achievements, etc.

[Cravis]

Bioshock 2 was ridiculously short. I think it took me around 8, maybe 9, hours max. The gameplay is still awesome but I felt like I was replaying the first in a lot of places. 

[Bebpo]

Bioshock 2 was ridiculously short. I think it took me around 8, maybe 9, hours max. The gameplay is still awesome but I felt like I was replaying the first in a lot of places. 

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

We are playing it very differently it seems.  I'm 9 hours and only midway through.  The game feels long as hell.  Doing every little sister adam run makes the areas take about 2 hours each.

[Cravis]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

We are playing it very differently it seems.  I'm 9 hours and only midway through.  The game feels long as hell.  Doing every little sister adam run makes the areas take about 2 hours each.

Unfortunately I did all the Little Sister Adam runs too. There were only 2 per sister, correct? There was usually a body right there when you liberated the sister from her Daddy and another in only a couple rooms over. I would just hang back and freeze/drill to smash all the splicers. I didn't have a hard time until the last few when the Alpha series would start showing up. Even then a couple of turrets would make easy work of them.

I beat the game in only 2 sittings which royally sucked. Oh well I'm sure I'll want to replay it on down the line. The whole "Big Sister can attack you at any time" hype was BS....

"A little sister is coming, prepare yourself!"
"The little sister is closer."
"Seriously the little sister is almost here!"
"The little sister is at your door!"
"We're not kidding there's a Little Sister right behind you!"

It reminded of a text based action game. 

[Mr. Gundam]

White Knight Chronicles is done. On to Star Ocean The Last Hope.

[Beezy]

Tried playing Splosion Man with my nephew earlier today. His timing is so fucking horrible. We got up to 1-9 or 10 before I had to stop playing. I didn't wanna end up yelling at him over a game.

[Bebpo]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

We are playing it very differently it seems.  I'm 9 hours and only midway through.  The game feels long as hell.  Doing every little sister adam run makes the areas take about 2 hours each.

Unfortunately I did all the Little Sister Adam runs too. There were only 2 per sister, correct? There was usually a body right there when you liberated the sister from her Daddy and another in only a couple rooms over. I would just hang back and freeze/drill to smash all the splicers. I didn't have a hard time until the last few when the Alpha series would start showing up. Even then a couple of turrets would make easy work of them.

I beat the game in only 2 sittings which royally sucked. Oh well I'm sure I'll want to replay it on down the line. The whole "Big Sister can attack you at any time" hype was BS....

"A little sister is coming, prepare yourself!"
"The little sister is closer."
"Seriously the little sister is almost here!"
"The little sister is at your door!"
"We're not kidding there's a Little Sister right behind you!"

It reminded of a text based action game. 

I dunno.  6 corpse defense missions + explore every area & get all the voice talkies + get through the main storyline takes me a while.  Patel was complaining about how the game felt slow because each area takes forever and I totally agree.  It takes me 1-2 gaming sessions to complete a single area.  I left Siren Alley at 8+ hours.

I guess some people can play it faster than others.  Even if there weren't corpse defense missions, just exploring the maps and making sure I get everything from every single room would probably take about 80-90 mins per location.  They're pretty big!

[demi]

I'm about to 1000 the game and it hasnt been a week

[Bebpo]

I'm about to 1000 the game and it hasnt been a week

That's nice.  You also play games like a man on speed.

[demi]

Bebpo owned...

[Bebpo]

because I don't 1000/1000 games in a day like you do?

  zomg what will I doooooooo 

[Ichirou]

What's demi's gamerscore?

[demi]

because I don't 1000/1000 games in a day like you do?

  zomg what will I doooooooo 

Wow way to miss the point but ok.

[Stoney Mason]

lol. I love the way how if you don't empty your queue completely and force 1 or 2 games on gamefly they will always just randomly pick from your list. In this case it was okay though because that's what I wanted this time. I put a whole bunch of games that I either haven't played or played a little and stopped playing. The dice roll came up on Fear 2, COD:WaW, and Sacred 2.

[Trent Dole]

Got my (or should I say our) first 1000 via Warriors Orochi a few days ago. Mai Waifu is big on the musou stuff and went crazy getting everything in it. Picked up Raiden IV recently and have been messing with that some as well, aaand threw DW5 Empires into the machine to try and polish that one off points wise, lulz.

[OptimoPeach]

Playing Super Metroid again and attempting to up my already GODLY SKILLZ to new heights of godliness in preparation for a semi-srs segmented speed run. My goal is to match the previous record of 36 minutes for a segmented any% run. Not shit compared to that guy's 30 minute single segment run, but I'm not Asian like him so I think such a handicap is reasonable.

When I complete it I'll post the YouTubes as fap material for anyone that appreciates exhibitions of non-scrub vidya gaming

Completed the first segment tonight. I know that probably none of you are interested this shit, but I don't play much multiplayer stuff anymore so my epeen has been itching for a good flex lately.

[youtube=560,345]cGdkxxiVwSo[/youtube]
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Tons of small mistakes, although none really bad enough that I felt like resetting. The in-game timer says I'm at 10 minutes played thus far, so I think I'm on track to meet my goal

[The Sceneman]

Tried playing Splosion Man with my nephew earlier today. His timing is so fucking horrible. We got up to 1-9 or 10 before I had to stop playing. I didn't wanna end up yelling at him over a game.

how old is he? Yeah a bro told me he tried to play it co-op with a friend who was ridiculously useless. n00bs luckily I had another bro who had the necessary platforming chops to beat the co-op game and get all the cakes.

looks like Bebpo got owned too

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Sent Borderlands back to Gamefly.  I love the game and after reading the missions, I'm like 35% into the game but I've lost a lot of interest in gaming recently.

I thought about buying a bunch of XBLA titles before I move away from a broadband internet connection.

[archie4208]

I'm playing Dragon Quest 5 on the DS.  Old school grindan

[Beezy]

Splosion Man is such an evil game. Just got up to level 3-3.

[Raban]

Really hype for SSF4 so I've been playing SF3TS on my PS2. I forgot how awesome it is. With SF4 there will be plenty matches where I just feel bullshitted, but in SF3, I can die for 20 straight rounds and still be having fun. Also the music is amazing. Observe:
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[ToxicAdam]

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon on the DS. It sucks, but I keep feeling compelled to play it.