I'm still playing Dragon Age 2 (on the last act now) and the Crysis 2 campaign. They're both pretty good, but I'm having trouble making time for them with all the anime and visual novels I've been watching/reading.

Angry Birds

That's seriously it

I Runescape for 15 minutes a day. Because I am a piece of shit faggot and thats the only game I actually can access.

I'm still downloading ACB from Steam, and once it's finally finished I'm going to start playing it.

Recently, though, I've just been playing Minecraft.

Currently playing Lost Planet 2, stuck on the Mission 5 boss.

It's not bad but it gets repetitive fast. The story makes no sense to me yet. This game should be more like Monster Hunter and less like Lost Planet. It has everything to make a great monster hunting experience and you can definitely see the inspiration. It would need even bigger guns, bigger enemies, more mecha. Yeah. I guess it would be a lot nicer if I had someone to co-op with.

I've been playing lots of osu to increase my accuracy in TF2. And plenty of minecraft, of course.

Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, CS:S, BFBC2 and Minecraft.

Personally, i'm in love with the Metro 2033 atmosphere

Mass Effect 2, and soon Portal 2

AC Brotherhood was OK. My brotherhood was entirely made up of elite female assassins. They still forced you to have guys whenever anything story related happened though

Mass Effect 1 and Black Prophecy

Doing another playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas. My first playthrough was Yes Man/Guns, this one is NCR/Unarmed. I tried NCR/Energy Weapons but I got bored with it.

I'm close to the end, I'm over level 20 and have finished most of the NCR quests, already hated by the Legion.

Unarmed is fun, very different from ranged weapons and the little bonuses like the palm strike and the uppercuts really add to the fun. The only downside is the difficulty of dealing with enemies you're supposed to get the jump on at range, like Cazadors and Deathclaws. Other than them, it's easier than you might think.

>>2032
Unarmed is a very fun way to play through a lot of games like that. Love punching people and making them explode. NV also adds some nice weapons for it.

I'm doing another run through of NV as well, what with having Dead Money now. The last few times through the hotel have been at the start of the run, so I didn't have access to a lot of the stuff. Gonna level up a while first then go. Also, mute girl is so cute~

>>2032
>>2033

You guys had better be using the shojo race mod! The only thing better than beating things to death with your bare hands is beating things to death as a cute little girl

>>2034
I tried to install that (including all its pre-requirements), but it just gave error messages and I still felt like playing so I just went without.

>>2035
That sucks. It worked flawlessly for me aside from some missing hair models

>>2034
I wish I could be using something like that. I'm stuck on a console because of my computer.

It would also remove the need to go leveling, since I've always found that to be the worst part. I just want to explore and take everything in, not go out of my way to get EXP so I can do so.

>>2037
That's pretty much exactly how I played. I maxed out all my stats at the very start. Like you I mostly played consoles up until last year, and so far I'm really loving my new home.

i'd be failing at crysis 1 if my coworker would bring in the flash drive with it installed on it for me to use.

not counting LoL, the last game i played was one of my emulator games, can't remember which but it was either a GBA or SNES game.

>>2039
can't just download it?

Playing BFBC2 and the MAG demo along with GEB on ad hoc party.

I kind of miss KZ3, as scrubby as it was. I have a thing for games that let me live out my predator fantasies and cloak like a boss.I may try Crysis 2 if I can get a deal on it.

>>2040
It's 7GB and the cracks never work properly for me.
I'd rather have a season of anime torrenting then a game that might not finish downloading or might act up in some way.

>>2042
>the cracks never work properly for me
9 out of 10 games come with a "crack" in a separate folder (oftentimes you have to extract the files if the game is a .iso) you just copy the .exe and whatever files in whatever crack folder is included into your game's install directory, overwriting the normal launcher and other files as need me.
To avoid getting a bum download, just download the version of the game with the most seeds/peers, as this is usually a good indication of weather or not the game is riped and patched well, checking seeds either on the tracker site or on your torrent program within the first few minutes will save you from a game "not finish downloading" which is rather unlikely to happen unless you download a very old and or unpopular game.
Also, you can see what files come included in the torrent on most trackers before starting, so you can avoid downloading something slit up into files you don't know how to work with.

It's not rocket science.

Crysis 2, which has fully crackable online play.

I just finished the witcher which was around a 40 hour experience. Its a great rpg that puts any modern bioware game to shame.

I was thinking about playing crysis 2 next but i only hear bad things about it.

Somebody reccomend me a game. I'm kind of burnt out over rpgs after my morrowind , oblivion , and witcher marathon

>>2043
i've had games with 40-50 seeders and only like 10-15 leechers and my torrent will error out and not let me finish it.
it only happens sometimes, it happened with assassin's creed 2, but it happens to all torrents of that game i try.

>>2045
get it anyways, if i had money available i would just from videos i've watched of someone playing.

>>2045
>I was thinking about playing crysis 2 next but i only hear bad things about it.
From whom?

>>2047
I heard it got pretty consolized

>>2047
>>2046

1. I have no intention of buying it ever seeing what they did to both online and single player aspects of the game.

2. The game is really nothing like the first one at all. Single player has degenerated into linear map design without huge sandbox type maps. Online is basically cod with nano suits. No more vehicles or big maps.

Basically everything I've heard about the game is that its a cod clone and has even worse graphics than the original.

>>2052

>has even worse graphics than the original.

Probably because it was made for consoles this time around. The PC version's opening screen even said "Press Start" until it was patched out, right? That alone says a lot.

>>2052
>Single player has degenerated into linear map design without huge sandbox type maps

When did crysis ever have a "huge sandbox type map"?
they would corral you from one area to the other, it's not like you can go to the alien spaceship in the mountain or any of the towns on the island whenever you want.

>>2054
The maps in crysis 1 were huge and didn't limit you to only 1 road. You could explore a lot in the maps without even paying attention to the objective. There were also enemies everywhere which was great.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/04/spotlight-on-biscuit-crysis-2-impressions/

This summarizes a lot of my feelings. Crysis and Warhead weren't really sandbox, there were just lots of times when you could explore various parts of the level out of sequence, but that rarely amounted to more than attacking the guard tower before the beach hut and vice versa. Crysis 2 has a handful of areas somewhat like that, giving you the option of doing the cover-based shooter thing from the rooftops, stealthing along the ground, or some dangerous combination of the two on a highly exposed catwalk. The only thing from the first game I miss are the wholly destructible areas. Not making the buildings destructible makes sense, but why not allow grenades to remove parts of the CELL mercenary camps? They're clearly non-permanent structures, so it seems like they'd be perfect for showing how the engine handles that sort of thing, instead you get one or two pieces of cover that chips away under gunfire, rather than the huts you could drive through with a truck in the first game.

>>2056
True, but progressing from one area, "explorable" as it may be, to the next "explorable area" and so on, in accordance with the story progression, is still linear map design.

I just played 10 hours straight of Gladiator Begins for the psp. Only heard about this game a few days ago and wasn't expecting much due to the low reviews but man, I found this game great. Normally, I don't like these kinds of button mashing fighting games (ex. Dynasty Warriors) but this one was just... fun. Not really sure why myself either.

Just finished Killzone3.
Found the premise/story really silly for most of it, and down right stupid at other times.
It's kind of petty of me, but one thing that bugged me early on into the game, was the gun training you do as a helgas, the targets are their's, but they make you shut targets with thir hands behind their head, and avoid the targets with guns pointed at you.
I would think that they'd be trying to convince them the humans are evil, and you know, give their solders a reason to run into out bullets, but I guess enemy motivation is to much to ask for from a fps, they're evil becuase they're evil, that's all you need to know!
I also didn't care much for the overdose of macho alpha as fuck steroid party theme the game had going, but I guess they're the people that are mainly buying games like this..
During many of the earlier cinematics I couldn't help buy say "wow, that sure looks cool, I wish I could play that, but they wouldn't want me messing up the game by playing it..."
I was unable to comprehend why they would have a platoon of solders guarding a junkyard so vigorously, why we sent dozens of our men to their deaths to save four prisoners or why one one of the characters says "no person should die like that" after watching a guy get killed by some green ray stuff, but then they nuke the whole planet with the same exact stuff, after which the main character asks how many people they just killed, as if he cares, then cut to credits~
I also think their transports are very stupidly designed, what good is a troop transport if the troops all fall off the thing in air and die?

>>2160
>I also think their transports are very stupidly designed, what good is a troop transport if the troops all fall off the thing in air and die?

Haha, so I wasn't the only one who thought that.

Resonance of Fate. On Chapter 5 right now, and swapping weapons around to level up some more.

Not a bad game. Looks great, even on my 6 year old regular TV.

Well now that i've gotten my GW1 account back, i'll be playing that quite a bit.

This is probably one of the best RPG I played in recent years, the combat and graphics are top notch. It kind of reminds me of Ragnarok Online, if anyone played that. The only thing that bothers me is the narrative/dialogues which go on for reallllllllllyyyyy long every time, and this every 5 minutes of exploring/combat. Seriously these guys keep on rambling about stuff no one cares. You have to be really patient sometimes. I wish I had these games when I was a bit younger and had no Internet.

Ar Tonelico 2. It's a kind of RPG/VN hybrid. The gameplay/battle system is okay so far, but the real draw is the art, music (Akiko Shikata did a fair bit of the soundtrack) and character interaction, which is where the VN elements come in. It's also full of fanservice that it really doesn't need, because the characters and plot of the series stand pretty well on their own merits.

>>2485

That looks interesting, I think I'll pick it up.

Finished Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue just now.
Okay Diablo clone with some chuckleworthy dialogue from time to time. Becomes pretty addicting once you start getting the quests rolling and traveling all over the world.

Oh fuck I can't wait for the next Assassin's Creed.
But yeah, Persona 3 FES.
Atlus games and xanax are a deadly combination.

>>2485
I'm thinking about getting the third one. I haven't played any of the others but they look appealing. The only thing holding me back is the fact that it appears to have received a lot of negative reviews.

>>2488
Both DeathSpanks were addictive and they had good writing, if really mindless at times. I'd really like to see the IP expanded on a bit more. Classes, stat allocation, much more loot, more dungeons with bosses and sub-bosses, post-game content, which both sorely lacked. etc.

I've been playing Might and Magic Clash of Heroes HD which is a port of a DS game. I decided to try it out after seeing some positive reviews online. the way the campaign progresses kind of irritates me and the storyline is stupid but its a fun puzzle game. havent tried multiplayer yet.

Just started Golden Sun: Dark Dawn today. Out of the three hours I've played so far, I think a good 30 to 45 minutes was spent reading text. I played the original Golden Sun when it first came out, but I never finished it, although I don't recall it being so text heavy. Hopefully it's only really a problem in the very beginning, which I'm past now.

It looks great for a DS title, with really colorful and vibrant graphics. The combat's somewhat easy, because the Djinn's (collectible monster things that can be equipped and alter your characters' classes, use their own special abilities, and also be used to perform special summon attacks) really enhance your characters, and your Psyenergy (Golden Sun's equivalent to MP) replenishes pretty quickly as you walk around. Where the game really shines thus far is its use of environmental puzzles that are very similar to the Legend of Zelda series. The abilities you have can be used to manipulate the environment in various ways. It's good so far, and I'm pretty eager to see what new abilities I'll acquire and how they'll be utilized in upcoming puzzles.

Are you a bad enough dude to climb some rocks to save your waifu? The very idea of this game is just so appealing to me.

I'm at the final boss, and it's just...ridiculously frustrating to me. I haven't been throwing-controller frustrated in ever. I get onto his other hand, he moves it around too much, I lose my stamina, fall, climb back up, and repeat. I'm going to love the feel when I finally beat him.

>>2629
>I'm going to love the feel when I finally beat him.
Sure you are.

I ragequit End of Eternity. That fucking cardinal in chapter 11 kept kicking my ass, even after leveling up in the arena, alone, over 10 levels.

Started Rule of Rose.

>>2636
You made it farther than me, anon.

>>2642
How far did you get?

Just finished playing Bayonett and Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This is hands down the most fun I've had playing a game since... I don't know, Godhand or something. Ridiculous, over-the-top, hilarious, just how I like my videogames to be.

>>2662

Really? that good?
Everyone seems to have different opinions about that game, I guess I should give it a try.

>>2662
Agreed, Bayonetta is an awesome game. Looks good, plays good, got lots of things to unlock and it gives you a really good challenge on higher difficulties.

The bosses are over-the-top crazy fights and thanks to all the different weapons you can get there are lots of ways get you through the game, since every weapon has a different fight style. Gotta love those ice skates.

>>2663
Get this game! Totally worth your money if you like beat 'em ups.

>>2663
Yeah you really should. I've heard people complain that it's just boring button mashing or that it's just stupid/immature but ended up being really impressed by the whole thing. The presentation is excellent.

I'm quite surprised I actually liked it so much considering that I wasn't all that taken with similar games like God of War or the DMC series.

>>2662
Just finished that a few days ago also, the game was really awesome, like devil may cry without dungeons and item finding bs that kept me away from the games.

>>2666

You don't like dungeons or item finding?

How do you feel about Zelda or Metroid?

>>2667
Yeah not really, seems boring and tedious to me, and like a lazy way on part of makers to extend the length of time it takes to get past an area of the game.
But I don't mind it when the items are just sort of extras, things you dont need to get, but that do help out in the game in some way to collect, being forced to find a specific hidden key (in whatever shape it might come in) before I can move on, really makes me lose interest.
Same for endless copy/pasted maze like dungeon hallways, I find them boring..

Never cared much for zelda, and never played meteoroid aside from a small demo for it that came with my ds.

>>2670
You would probably HATE Metroid.

>>2671
IMO, only Super Metroid, and especially Metroid II, have overly complex map layouts. The original Prime does to an extent, as well, but the map is very useful, so it's not a huge problem. That's one thing I'd say the Metroidvanias have improved on over Metroid itself. The areas are more self-contained, and it's easier not to get lost or confused as to where to go next.

Fusion streamlined everything, perhaps too much, but Zero Mission nailed it. Nintendo really need to do a new in-house, 2D Metroid for 3DS. I can only imagine how great it would look with 2D sprites/backgrounds in 3D.

>>2652
Chapter 4 or 5, I forget. I quit more out of boredom than difficulty, though.

It's a shame because I really liked the characters and cut scenes. But it just wasn't worth the tedium at that point. Oh well.

I'm going through my old games at the moment.
I just finished HoMM II, probably going to play either Grim Fandango or LBA II now.

I got BF2, runs quite well on my crappy computer but go damn is it hard to hit anything. I also got Project Reality but it runs kinda slow.

I lost all my saves due to motherboard blowout right before I finished the NCR route in New Vegas, and yet I still went back and played through again. This time using Guns (instead of Unarmed) and with Boone and ED-E as my companions.

The main difference is that with the ability to shoot at range, I had a slightly easier time killing the Deathclaws in the Quarry, and I got stung by Cazadors a hell of a lot less when I encountered a swarm of them. Other than that, nothing was particularly harder.

I like shotguns, I wish they did better damage to armored enemies -- even with the Shotgun Surgeon perk, I still get the shield saying I'm not punching through, but with This Machine I don't get that.

>>2726
Really? I never had that problem. I always used the Dinner bell, as my shotgun, after completing the quests for it. Damn good shotgun, made even better with the shotgun related perks.

I've got to say that I'm fond of the automatic rifle from Dead Money, though. As well as the holorifle, once you fix it up, it's essentially a shotgun energy weapon.

Playing Ocarina of Time on 3DS. I can't recall exactly the last time I played Ocarina of Time, but I believe it was either the same year Twilight Princess was released or a year before. It's certainly made me realize just how much Twilight Princess' dungeons shit all over Ocarina of Time's and Wind Waker's.

>>3690

Personally, I liked WW's dungeons (and WW period) more than TP. Hard to compare it to OoT as I played it well over a decade ago.

Been playing the shit out of Pikmin 2. Just repaid the debt and got a gold ship.

It always makes me happy when the sequel to a game is better than the original. That is something that doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.

Just started Parasite Eve. First time through it, pretty fun so far.

Ocarina of Time 3D.

I was going to go for a run of not dieing once... yet last night, I managed to end up blowing it since I had forgotten how to beat Bongo Bongo.

I'm now at Ganon's Castle and hope to get it finished tonight. I want to play Master Quest soon as that's one of the thing on OOT3D that gives you a more challenging experience.

I just got Freelancer yesterday, because I had a craving for space action style. I remember it being pretty fun from playing it years ago, but the protagonist is kind of a boring jaded tough guy type. It just reinforces my opinion that every game would be better with a cute girl protagonist instead.

>>2629

I've been playing this lately.

Beautiful soundtrack.

Playing through Mass Effect 1 since I got it via the Steam sale.

It's like Fallout IN SPACE, with the quality knob turned down on everything.

I guess shooting Geth troopers from the vehicle is fun.

>>4059

It was never intended to "be as RPG as" Fallout, for lack of a better phrase. Mass Effect has always been a bit more FPS focused, they just added a lot of great dialogue elements (which IMO surpass Fallout, where you just click through text staring at a face), as well as minor experience points systems, that affect your performance, weapons and armor.

Though I haven't played ME2 myself, but from what I hear that had even less RPG elements than the first.

>>4060
The combat is probably the worst part of it, though.

I really liked mass effect 1 and 2 when I first played them, but I've played through both again recently and I didn't really have fun. I guess it's because the gameplay itself is dull as hell but the story/world is kind of cool.

>>4060

>It was never intended to "be as RPG as" Fallout, for lack of a better phrase.

Fallout (3 of course, because that's what we're talking about I guess) is barely an RPG, though. We talked about it a little on /irc/ a few days ago (or rather I was bragging how modern 'RPGs' suck).

I myself have played through Arkham Asylum a few weeks ago and I was absolutely shocked about how paper thin the gameplay was. If games like this are winning GotY awards now I kind of lost interest in games I guess. Apparently they are for the core crowd, too. I guess I'm just not 'hardcore'. It's the prime example of

>I guess it's because the gameplay itself is dull as hell but the story/world is kind of cool.

The game has nothing going for it except for nice graphics and atmosphere and the goddamned Batman. The only thing that was kinda nice were the stealth bits where you had to eliminate everybody in the room but despite giving you lots of choices after you've done it once it will stay the same throughout the whole game.

Fallout 3 was a little like that, too (it reminded me too much of Oblivion which was a massive disappointment after Morrowind) and Mass Effect (haven't played ME2, lucky~) is a prime offender. Of course it's not just 'RPGs' (I hope some day we can stop using this term to describes games such as these, I still hope to see some real cRPGs before I die), there are lots of genres that's even worse of (beat em ups with MadWorld and something I'll never quite get - NMH). Style over substance everywhere.

I said that for me RPGs died after they turned 3D. That's not far from truth but later I realized that the moment I really stopped caring about them was switching to the WSAD control scheme. Once they dropped the isometric view + point'n'click approach it was pretty much over for me (and I think that even if I were to go and replay Morrowind now I wouldn't enjoy it).



I'm currently re(rerere)playing Arcanum. I actually plan to create a separate thread for cRPGs in a few weeks, to reminiscent and talk about some ideas.

>>4063

RPG's didn't "turn" 3D. There has always been an RPG-FPS hybrid genre, dating back to 1994 when System Shock came out, and it really hasn't stopped since. Deus Ex is another example, from 2000. Ultima even delved into what I guess you could call "2.5D", which was as close as it got in those days. It's only one subgenre of the entire RPG world actually.

The reason I think you feel this hybrid genre has taken over RPG as a whole, is because there are so many of them out now. Whether for good or bad, developers aren't really constrained by technology or size limits as they once were, and powerful easy to use consoles can be bought cheap nowadays.

There are still loads of isometric or similar games that come out, they're just not as commercialized as like Mass Effect or Fallout, because not many isometric games are released on consoles. Plus, I think it's just the way things go. Give it 25 years and I'm sure we'll have games so interactive that they can manipulate human senses, and you could essentially live in them.

>>4066

>RPG's didn't "turn" 3D. There has always been an RPG-FPS hybrid genre,

I don't see many 2D (c)RPGs anymore and when I do they are small games developed by one guy or a small group.

>There are still loads of isometric or similar games that come out, they're just not as commercialized as like Mass Effect or Fallout, because not many isometric games are released on consoles.

There are a few every now and then but those are RPG-action hybrids/hack'n'slash. It's been a while since I've seen a traditional cRPG.

Played through LIMBO yesterday. It's really similar to NightSky. Somebody got ripped off I guess. Normally you'd just assume it's NightSky that ripped off LIMBO but I heard about the former as far back as 2007 (if not, 2008 at very least).

>>4071
>I don't see many 2D (c)RPGs anymore

Gamers today are too casual to play games that require small amounts of thought. There isn't anything you can do about it, just wait for indie devs to make the games you like because no game company anywhere else is going to invest in a low-profit venture like cRPG.

And I agree, where are all the isometric games? I want some new Fire Emblem games or something already.

>Gamers today are too casual to play games that require small amounts of thought

Not true at all. You could argue that the most popular modern RPGs are dumbed down but I would say that games like Dragon Age have simply removed some of the annoying idiosyncrasies of the genre.

Besides, most popular games of the past didn't really "require thought" either. And for every Mass Effect 2 there is a Class of Heroes, Diagaea 4, Avadon etc.

>>4199
Gamers are not any stupider, but to be fair the games that are going to sell, or in other terms the games that big name publishers and developers are going to push out, are designed to sell to the much bigger market of casual players that has emerged recently.

Sure, Dragon Age did remove some of the more tedious parts of Baldur's Gate, but it also removed any real difficulty the game had and had a story that was a much more stock standard fantasy than any of Bioware's earlier cRPGs were liked. Dragon Age 2 only exacerbated the problem.

I'm sure some day a big publisher will take some kind of ridiculous bet on something like a cRPG, a publisher that you could probably liken to universal in the film industry, but the chances for an actual big budget game of that type with hype is very unlikely.

>>4201

>Gamers are not any stupider

Yeah, they are not stupider. They just suffer from ADD. It's not thinking itself that scares them, it's complexity. If they ever hear the mere notion that it might be wise to look at the manual before playing the game they will stay away from it as far as it's physically possible.

The more complex the game is the less likely it is to sell (we could probably say the same about difficulty but that's a different matter). And even if there is some actual complexity there must be some good looking graphics to back it up and distract the gamers. I have no idea when I last played any (decent) Master of Orion like XXXX game. Most likely it was GalCiv II and it's been a while since it has been released; on top of that, even in GalCiv it's kinda obvious that they spent a lot of money on stuff like graphics instead of investing it development of the actual game. Also, the current trend in 4X is to make everything real time (as opposed to standard turn based). I think this fact speaks for itself.

There are tons of franchises that turned (or are slowly turning) shit because of average gamer's ADD (Civ, Elder Scrolls, Anno, Hitman, Splinter Cell and lots of other I'm too lazy to even try to recall) and it will only get worse. If there will be good graphics to distract them gamers will be fine with just about anything (bonus points if you can shoot somebody). Eventually we will end up at a point where there will be two genres left: shooters and movies with occasional QTE. The joke here is of course the fact that people who play them will call themselves 'hardcore' and complain about 1$ games from App store.

Of course I exaggerate but you get my point.

If you have an SDK game (HL2, TF2, Gmod, CSS etc), I highly recommend you try this mod/game:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable

It's called the Stanley Parable and it has a great narration (and music). It's a game about free will and determinism and the existence of a higher power and there's lots of different endings depending on what you do in the game.

Give it a try, you will like it.

I just saw this; looks promissing, at least because it's pretty and the control feels real good.

C79 trial-version + omake (vid):
http://doujingravity.blogspot.com/2011/05/fairy-bloom-freesia-c79-preview-ver.html

C78 t-v:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZ488DOR

Controls:
left/right arrow keys - move character sideways
double left/right - dash (wings, while jumping)
(up/down - combo tricks)
z/a - attack, decide
c - jump (double c - double jump)
defense - v

... or just plug in you control pad and figure (easier).

>>4216
That was a fun little thing, and I still feel like there's shit I haven't done. Thanks for bringing this to my attention

Just finished up on Manhunt 2 today, could have got the whole thing in yesterday had I started 2 hours earlier...
I never played it till now because of all the bs that surrounded the game, the delays for the release plus the pissed off overreacting parents that got this game gutted before it came out, at which point it had horrible filters over violent segments that could easily give you a migraine.
I even tried my hand at patching a copy of it and running the iso on my ps2, but that came out all screwed up (turned out to be the wrong region)
fews years pass, and I lean there was apparently a uncensored version released for pc some time latter (which is supposedly rated ao), hell yeah.

Anyways, about the game.
I must say strait away, it wasin't anymore gorry then the first I think, I dont really get what the big deal was, maybe becuase the exacusions are somewhat interactive? I think it was probably that/being on the wii, wii being a kids system, parents don't want a game on it in which kids play as a escaped mental patient as he brutally kills anyone in his way, that and performing the killing actions with the wiimote (such as stabbing at the victim, twisting around a crowbar implanted in their skull ect)
In the pc version that's all done with the mouse (wasn't able to use a pad on this)
I think it adds a nice level of interaction, and it's not by any means hard to do.
Still, I think they were all really overreacting about this game.

I really think the game would have been better if they didn't have guns/projectile weapons, or at least made them hard to come by.
It's a lot more interesting as a stealth action game, in which you lurk in the shadows, picking off enemies one by one as they get separated from the flock.
Sure, it might be the time of game in which one wrong move can get you killed, two guys beating down on you and you're screwed, but guns make it so stupidly easy, all it takes is walking from point A to point B and shooting anything that moves in the head, but at least it never failed to amuse me whenever I did get a head shot, seeing their heads blown off into chunks.
still, when they came out with the assault rifles, it was like I didn't even need to try anymore.
Something that kind of bugged me was how the graphics settings didn't effect the cinematic segments.
I had the game on max settings, yet when cutscenes come up, they play at the lowest settings, but I guess rockstar isn't well known for good pc ports...
Must say, I kind of preferred the character designs from the original, but this one tryed a little more in terms of plot.

The end felt a little sloppy/rushed to me, the way they made that alter ego into the villain as if he wasn't helping the main character out this whole time.
it was almost out of nowhere that he just came out with his "haha, I killed your wife, and now I'm gonna take over your body!" and almost as soon as that came out, the game was over.
I found the stage with all the shipping crates and security guards kind of amusing, it really reminded me of my old days as a security guard, working in a area like that at night, I could almost imagine it was my old coworkers who I was repeatedly stabbing in the chest with a broken glass shard, burning alive in a pool of gas, and stabbing in the face repeatedly with a pen.

also, if I didn't know better I'd swear that second chapter was based off the film Hostel.

Post edited on 11th Aug 2011, 5:16pm

>>4248
I think you might find this interesting, Tohno:

http://gtaivsa.com/

They redid the San Andreas map with the GTAIV engine and the first beta is out. It requires GTAIV though and you can only fuck around.

>>4250
Yeah I head about it, sounds kind of cool.
It would have been nice if SA had the physics IV does, but you can still make SA at least close to current gen with enough mods.
Gtasa hd comes has most of the game's textures redone, project oblivion overhauls almost all the plant life in the game, emb series gives the game some realistic lighting/shadows and much better water, effects overdose for effects that look tons better, namely fire/explosions, there's also countless car mods out there allowing you to replace every car in the game with it's real life counterpart, or at the least a much better looking car, I even came across some physics mods for the game, making for a ragdoll effect when you jump out a moving car or hit/blow away peds.
as for peds, moders have converted many of gtaIV's peds for inserting/replacing in SA.

with those combined, it's as good as a remake of the game.

for those interested:
nature mod: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=464367
shadow/light mod: http://enbdev.com/download_en.htm
Effects mod: http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=9226
HD textures mod: http://www.moddb.com/mods/gta-san-andreas-hd/downloads/gta-sa-ultrahd-mod-v20
Car mod pack: http://www.moddb.com/mods/real-cars-for-gta-sa

Post edited on 10th Aug 2011, 5:53pm

>>4250
Now I understand why Rockstar is beginning to ignore the PC market: Because modders are making them look like chumps. Seriously a professionally done remake of SA would sell a billion copies

>>4253
Yeah seriously.

Currently playing Catherine(deluxe editions boxers are unfortunately too small for my arse to fit right) I am five hours in and it has been a quite thrilling adventure so far but I seem to be "selfish" in my own actions.
Playing on easy at the moment but when I will take on normal difficulty I will be a complete asshole and spend all my time with Catherine.
The only minor thing I do not like are the controls when playing the puzzles the character is mirrored so have I to push the left direction when moving(seconds of life and death)to the right but not to annoying to quit playing.

Slight hijack (as creating another thread to ask a silly question would be a waste). I'm a guy who doesn't really care about video games but I play something every few months and recently I've been thinking about playing some Fallout 3. What mods should I download? If possible I want to keep it rather vanilla for the time being, just a little streamlined. So I'm interested in stuff like Project Beauty, texture packs (like NMC's), reanimations (like Alender's) and other stuff that fixes bugs and the likes (like Master Fix). I'll save stuff like Wanderer's Edition for later (if I'll feel like replaying it).

So, Master Fix, Project Beauty, NMC's texture pack, Alender's reanimations pack. Am I missing something essential?

Finished playing the baled of gay tony today, and played the lost and damned right before that.
The lost and damned was pretty much what I expected, short, pointless and the same repetitive crap from IV.
I think the lost and damned must have had all of 12 missions, if that, and almost all of them were the same repetitive cover based shooter missions that IV was made almost entirely of.
I was just so sick of that glueing yourself to cover crap, I just slowly walked into gun fire and I quickly as easily took down the enemies, as I ignored the ai teammates yelling at me to get to cover, I basically told them to shove that cover up their ass, and that I'll use it when the enemies don't all just stand there like idiots and let you shoot them.
I think only one out of ten ai enemies will take cover and shoot at you, the rest just act like target practice dolls most of the time.
and this is what most of the game is!!
I really think they should have had less enemies, but smarter and harder.
It kind of kills the impact and fun when you're fighting a army of idiots.
I mean, these games are supposed to be more on the realistic side, yet you have platoons of brain dead morons practically asking you to shoot them.
There was one mission in which you hunt down vans and blow them up, and another which is a rail shooter, the rest are just going from point A to point B and doing the old cover shooter thing when you get there, but sometimes you might get in a shoot out on your way to point C... heh...
The story seemed pretty stupid to me and poorly done, leader of the biker gang gets out of prison, and acts like a dick, the gets sent back, and the guys in the gang blame you for no good reason, and they make this big deal about you being in change now, but I'm sitting there thinking, what changed? what were they doing before their leader was released from prison? why are they ignoring this point? it's just going back to how things were a few days before.
So you kill the guys calling you a rat, then kill your old leader because he was talking to cops on the inside, and the club kind of disbands, end of story.
oh and there was some full frontal male nudity at one point, I guess rockstar really need a shot of controversy for this game, sometimes that seems to be the only way they can sell anything anymore.
Anyway, lost and damn had some new mini games added, but I didn't give a crap, arm wrestling and some card game, seems pointless.
It's what I expected, a very small addon to IV, just more of the same crap.

Now, the ballade of gay tony, that I can safely say I enjoyed.
Maybe I'm biased here because I like the night club thing they got going on, and the character's mom reminds me of my own, but I think it really was pretty decent.
the weapons were better, the music was better(in my opinion) and most importantly, the story and missions were better.
Those diamonds were a considerable part of IV, but they didn't fill us in on all the details, which is what the ballad of gay tony does.
I'd say this does a very good job of intertwining the story of the game with that of IV, yet still having it's own and keeping it it's own.
I didn't give much of a damn about the characters in lost and damned, but here the characters are flushed out pretty well, you can get to know them a little and maybe even care about the problems they face in this game, and how they deal with it.
The missions had a lot more diversity to them then IV and LaD did, by far, this game actually makes me wish IV could have been more like this, sure, some of them don't make much sense, like jumping onto the back of a train, and making your way to the front car as you fight off attack helicopters, so that it can be air lifted away, but whatever, fun is fun right?
although there are still those same old cover based shooter type missions, they make up only half the missions or so, for the others, you get to do things like literally scaring the shit out of a blogger by tossing him out a helicopter, then skydiving to catch him mid fall, or shooting down a tank being air transported and running from the cops in the thing.
Just the fact this instalment finally introduced the tank should make it clear that this was what IV should have been, even if it is a mini swat tank type thing.
this one also easily has the best weapon selection of the 3 installments, The remote detonated sticky bomb alone was awesome, but that actually kind of pissed me off a bit.
I mean, rockstar purposely held out on GTAIV, specific with weapons, just so they could use them in DLC like this, There's no reason they couldn't have had these weapons in IV, in fact, they did actually, with other things from the DLC, to think they had the balls to leave content you have to pay for to get at, in the game you already paid for... man..
At least it wasn't so bad in the vehicles department, sure the vehicle selection in IV sucked, but it sucked just as much in t.l.&d. and t.b.o.g.t.
t.l.&d. added some new choppers, but who really cares about that? they mostly look the same anyway oh and some van type of thing.
t.b.o.g.t. added in the tank and some gold car, but that's about it for that.
Money sure is useless in both DLC games, in t.l.&d., they give you max ammo before the last mission, and there's like nothing else to buy other then ammo in the game.
as for t.b.o.g.t., all the guns they give you are better then the stuff they sell in the game, which is all just the junk from IV.
I finished the game with only ever buying armor, and food here and there for health.
oh, something else worth noting here, in each DLC game, you only get one save spot for some reason, and also, the map is completely open from the start of both, yet both take place in the same time frame as IV, which had closed bridges, just thought it was a bit off.




Currently playing Amnesia, tad bit on the dull side... I tried getting into it and playing in the dark, that sort of thing, but meh, maybe main stream games have screwed ruined me a little, making me expect something to blow up ever five minutes.
Heck, I was even carrying around objects at first to use as weapons for a little bit there, but then this isn't that kind of game...
I think what I know about the game has kind of screwed with the experience.
I haven't seen very much game play of it, or know anything about the story, but everyone would always talk about how it doesn't have enemies popping up all the time, and it's more about what isn't there.
So I was able to go around without caring much, because I knew enemies were rare to pop up, although this might change as I get feather in, so far all I've seen is a quick glimpse of one walking down a hall, I chased after it but it was gone.
Yeah sure, it's got a lot of spooky noises, with the constant scratching sounds and the footsteps coming from nowhere, most of them I found more annoying then creepy or spooky, I started to tune out those foot steps and not care.
Well, although I haven't peed myself yet, I guess I should hold off on to much of the criticism until I've gotten father into the game.

>>4567
Yeah BoGT was awesome and the club stuff was cool because it really gave off a cool atmosphere. Getting the "tone" of things right is where GTA4 really excelled imo

^sounds interesting. I never bothered with the DLC since I havent even finished the main story yet. I think I'm supposed to be doing missions for some Irish guys but all I ever do is harass pedestrians and kill hookers. GTA IV has the best NPC dialogue.

>>4584
As I touched on a bit, the DLC games take place during the main story, a few of the missions are actuality shared with other characters.
For example, Nico does a drug deal gone bad along side the main character from the lost and damned, then latter again with a diamond exchange, which is broken up by the main character from the ballad of gay tony.
also, TBoGT starts off during one of those Irish guy's missions.

Post edited on 8th Sep 2011, 3:34am

>>4585
Tohno, this is a bit off topic but have you seen the mod in this youtube video? Seems like it would be right up your alley.

>>4586
Haven't seen it, but that's pretty cool.

I'm playing Arkham City. Apparently I can't play as catwoman because I don't have the "first owner" code, and I also tried to pick up a riddler trophy I found but it electrocuted me and said I don't have the DLC to take it. Is this common in console games now? I haven't played one in over a year.

Another funny thing: There's a part where you need to find out who sniped this guy, and the sniper's name is literally written on his shell casing. WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!

>>5045
>because I don't have the "first owner" code
Did you pirate it? The code comes with all new copies of the game.

>I also tried to pick up a riddler trophy I found but it electrocuted me and said I don't have the DLC to take it.
Was the trophy purple/pinkish? Because those are the Catwoman trophies and you need to have input the first owner code to pick those up.

And yeah, the first owner code/multiplayer code thing is a growing trend with games that started a year or two ago. Will probably be standard come next gen.

>>5047
>Did you pirate it?

rented

>>5047
Well that's the first I ever heard of it. Which game started this bullshit?

Just 1cc'd Lords of Thunder yesterday. Trying Batsugun Special right now.

>>5052
It's something the industry has been doing for a few years now to fight against piracy and used game sales.

>>5045
I beat it. Didn't like it as much as the first game, but still good. The game trolled me one last time when after it was over there was a "push x to play as catwoman" thing, so I figured maybe the first owner code only unlocks her early or something. Nope.

>>2003
Ezio wants to play in SCV

Dark Souls. Just got the Lordvessel, and now I'm not sure which lord I want to go after first, because they'll be a pain in the ass, all of them.

>>5664
Went after the Four Kings first, and now going after the fire one. Really don't want to try for Seath OR Nito, purely because of the trips to each of them. I'll take the bounding demons over the tomb or crystal cave.

metal gear solid graphic novel

Zoom in and out on Wolf ass with most satisfactory

Finished uncharted 2 great matine adventure but that is it and half of the gameplay time I was picking for bullets.

Devil Survivor and Cladun.

I love being able to create custom characters in the latter. Making one of myself and one of my waifu then going on adventures is fantastic.

I just beat The 3rd Birthday. It was great (for a Squee-nix game), had an awesome soundtrack. Also got the first two Parasite Eve games. I prefer the first to the second...There's something about the tank controls and the fact you have to push a button simply to go down stairs that irks me.

Bought FF9 from the PSN and started playing today. I had never played it before but I am really having fun, it has aged better than most JRPGs from that 1st-gen 3D era.

Just beat the first disc a few minutes ago. This little guy is pretty cool.

Got in the mood to play an MMO, so I started playing Aion again. Playing on the official servers, because private servers always seem too unstable and broken for my tastes.

I decided to start a new character, since I haven't played in so long. When I logged on my Sorcerer, the number of spells on my hotbars was overwhelming. So, I decided to make a spiritmaster, and I'm enjoying it so far.

I don't know if this will be able to tide me over until ArcheAge, though.

I've been playing the half life series (having only played HL2 on the xbox). I beat the first one and it's expansions and it was pretty fun, but I don't remember 2 being so boring. I just got to Eli's lab and I'm already sick of it

>>5851

From the thumbnail that looked like Flandre.

>>5861
Before I clicked it I thought it was a pic of a toho mod

>>5861
>>5862
I thought the same.
How disappointing...

Anyone else playing Tribes: Ascend here?

>>5864
I would if I had a beta-key, I really want to play it.

>>5866
If I ever grab an extra beta key I'll toss it your way.

purchased Dumbzoone thriie for a very cheap buck, If anyone want to ad me at PSN be my guest.

PSN: Lanz8o Silly name created in the early days of psn

Post edited on 15th Jan 2012, 10:59am

Replaying Dark Souls for the nth time

If anyone else is playing, post your gamertag and I'll keep an eye out for your summon sign

>>5866
>>5867
Actually, I just noticed that I do in fact have 2 keys that I can give out. Do you have something that I can use to send a key to you privately?

I just started Devil Survivor. It's a bit tedious so far(Only on day 2), but I like fusing demons and making better ones.

I really just want access to the higher level ones. Feels bad, man.

>>5882
I'll just post them for anyone who's interested.

A2E6C-27587-661E4-8CB9F-C8242
A2927-DE593-ACC24-F3187-2DC54

>>5890
Oh wow, thankyou so much! I left my username in the email section if there is some sort of friends list, I'd love to play together.

I used the top key, I assume the bottom key is still unused.

>>5883
Devil Survivor isn't a game that should be played for hours on end. So many long missions, one after another, is really exhausting. I still haven't bothered to finish it yet.

>>5892
I agree with this, I play it very infrequently.

I also kind of gave up after I got Keisuke killed ;_;

>>5892

Other SRPGs are like that but much more rage inducing

Cannot count how many times I've been playing a Fire Emblem game and I accidentally move someone within range of one of those bullshit long range magic users after I've been playing the stupid map for over two hours.

>>5898
"ALRIGHT! LAST ENEMY ON THE FIELD AND HE HAS A 1% CRIT CHANCE! LETS DO THIS SHIT, THE RNG COULND'T POSSIBLY BE THIS MUCH OF A BASTARD!"

Famous Fire Emblem last words

>>5898
The same kind of things happened to me with Front Mission 4. I fail to notice a recon unit with a sonar backpack (all enemies on the map can fire missiles at any ally unit in the sonar range) and the next thing I know two of my units are blown to smithereens.

Grim Fandango. I never got into adventure games and it seemed like a good place to start.

Deadly Premonition www.deadlypremonition.com
Quirky & Weird.
If Twin Peaks was a game, it would be this...

The Refined Geek enjoys
Star Wars: The OLd Republic mmorpg

Playing FF7 again after like 10 years and I have to say that I don't know what the hate is all about. I started hating the game since the internet and I was not even sure myself why. Conformist pretty much.

But hands down it's a great game. I love the music, I love the graphics as well, the plot, dialogue, everything.

>>6276

I've been replaying X lately and God, it's awful. I don't even think I'll finish it. It's shit. Not bad, just plain shit (and I like turn based system much more than ATB).

I imagine I would feel the same about any 3D FF. I kinda feel like replaying IX now to see if I'd hate even that.

>>6276
That game probably wouldn't take as much hate as it does if it wasn't for the shitty fanbase it has.

This game man, this game. It's something that could make an average philosopher's head explode.

Basically, it does everything almost perfectly. Sure, there are some minor details I wish they made differently but those shouldn't matter.

What you get is a great TRPG which is oh so very true to it's T part. All too often the TRPGs don't feel tactical at all, the grid doesn't add much to the overall experience and plain feels out of place. VP:CotP is a game of positioning. Unlike 99% of TRPGs where a turn spent without attacking could prove to be fatal later on (and is more often than not the worst thing that could possibly happen) a turn spent on nothing but getting to some place on the gird is what you'll be doing most of the time in VP:CotP - it's simply the best action you could take. Hell, arguably the most important skill in game is one that enables you to move additional 3 spaces at a hefty cost of 30 Action Points.

The rest of the system works in a way that makes you thinks 'well yeah I guess that works'. It's nothing to write home about but it's solid. The combo system made me raise and eyebrow at first and I can't say I liked it but it sort of grew on me (and it's a nice attempt to do something 38254 same-y TRPGs haven't done yet). I wish terrain was more important (which would raise this game to levels of tactician's wet dream) but that's probably my biggest gripe.

There's no grinding. And by that I mean there's absolutely no way you could grind. The free battles are very, very rare and are more often than not even harder than the normal, storyline related ones. That's a great way to control the game's difficulty and VP:CotP is very close to getting it right (it's a tad too easy for my tastes).

The story is okay, although not spectacular. It gets bonus points for not being another 'so how about you save the world' tale and a heatlhy dose of moral ambiguity. I'm a sucker for this type of story, too - vengeance is one of my favorite themes (or rather, the favorite). On top of that it's arguably the best game in terms on story braniching since Chrono Trigger (at least among those I played, I guess I might've missed something).

I bet there are lots of people (I mean some more casual gamers but then again that's usually the majority of people who play any given game) who thought Chrono Trigger was linear. There are 15 goddamn endings in that game. That's like, uh, a lot. Or rather, A LOT. It's a pretty long game too, I bet it'd take some 30h to finish it even if you'd blaze through some parts. Good luck getting all those endings. But I digress.
Basically it was pretty hard to tell where the story branched in CT. Sometimes it was obvious, yes, but more often than not it wasn't. It's not a game very all game long you get to pick one of two choices and in the end the result is the same either way (or in the best case scenario you get to make a single meaningful choice before the last boss battle - either you get a good 'save the world' end or a bad 'join the bad guys' end).

VP:CotP is very CT-esque in this aspect. There are 3 storylines (and by that I mean storylines, not endings) and I have no idea which one I'm currently on and how one should go about accessing the other ones. It branched somewhere but I have no idea when it even happened.

The thing that actually made me write this post is the localization (because I think it's mostly the translators' effort that needs to be praised, although the original writer obviously deserves some credit). See, obviously I haven't played all the games that ever got translated. I'm sure I haven't even played 5% of them. But I don't need to. This has got to be the best localization ever, hands down (PW games deserve a lot of credit in this regard but they don't come even close to this). Probably the best dialogue in a video game yet, too (I haven't thought about that before writing the post but again, the PW games had pretty good dialogue didn't they? I still think this is much better).

Just for the record I'm one of those guys who criticizes stories in games whenever he gets the chance. Video games just don't work as a story telling medium and I oh so wish we could finally stop fucking trying. Not only that, the quality of the stories is almost always absolutely terrible. The only thing that's ever worse than the stories is the dialogue. Lovecraft could write better dialogue than what you can read in 95% of video games out there. More often than not it's so bad I feel the pressing need to gauge my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon just so I wouldn't have to read anything this bad ever again.

So now that I've written it let me repeat: the story it okay (which is a huge compliment coming from me) and the dialogue is very good. Seriously, if you were to walk into a library and pick some random book of a shelf chances are the dialogue would be worse than what you get in VP:CotP. I shit you not (although I might be biased). If anything, it suffers from a relatively minor 'Strange in a Strange Land' syndrome and it sounds too clever and thus unnatural at times BUT because of the setting it actually works... and at the same time it sort of doesn't as one wouldn't normally expect mercenaries to be such orators. But it still sounds plausible enough.



You probably noticed already but this is a pretty long post. Sure, I've written longer ones but not all too often. Now's the time to get back to what it has to do with making a philosopher's head explode (and I bet you already forgot about that). Okay, here comes.

Despite all that praise the game doesn't work. It's amazing. Conceptually and objectively I have no doubts that this is a great game. But it's missing something. It's not that it's bad of course. It's good, fun and can be challenging at times. But it's just that. Good. Something I'd recommend if I knew you had so much free time it makes your head spin. The disparity between the sum of this game's parts and what it actually feels like is so mind boggling it's probably on the 'completely incomprehensible' side. As in, trying to imagine how big the universe is incomprehensible.

What should've been 2009 GotY ended up as a good game you're bound to forget within half a year (unless you're a fan of the Valkyrie Profile franchise; I'm not and I sure as hell won't forget this one). And I have no idea why.

>>6277
>>6276
I loved FF X and 7. Possibly even X over 7 because of the nostalgia factor (second or third game I beat by myself). I also feel sort of bad for X because it got a poor dub and localization. Looking at it with nostalgia goggles...

7 is excellent, too. The story is surprisingly complicated. It's your run of the mill RPG, but the setting makes up for that. And all of the optional stuff is cool to do - Optional quests are basically the only redeeming factor of FF12, I might add. I've always liked FF. My favorite being 8, if only because of how "unique" it is.

Playing SCV now. Character customisation is fun...

>>6292
Have you played or plan on playing the other two Valkyrie Profile games? They're a lot of fun, and both have amazing soundtracks. There's more focus on the combat than the story and characters (although every character you recruit in 1 has a backstory about what led to their death, which you see before you "recruit" them), especially in 2, but they're definitely worth playing.

>>6321

>Have you played or plan on playing the other two Valkyrie Profile games?

I definitely plan to, I have for a few years by now - at very least since Lenneth was released but I heard some praise for the original VP game way before that. I have undubbed Silmeria downloaded.

>They're a lot of fun, and both have amazing soundtracks.

Good to know because the music is horribly horrible in CotP. I'm usually rather easily satisfied with music in games, especially Japanese ones (although the quality of Japenese soundtracks dropped drastically ever since they stopped using keyboards for everything) but this is so bad I was close to muting it at times.

I´ve finally got myself Dead Island and naturally its pretty much all i play right now, i am kinda surprised that it is that great, even better than Left 4 Dead in my opinion.
One thing that i can´t get out of my head is that one of the 4 heroes, Xian Mei, really reminds me of one of the Assassins from Black Lagoon, Shenhua.
There are just so many simliarities, the white and red clothes, focus on agility and sharp weapons, martial arts, chinese ancestry.
I really wonder if the creators used Shenhua as reference for this character.

>>6332
>There are just so many simliarities, the white and red clothes, focus on agility and sharp weapons, martial arts, chinese ancestry.

It's called a stereotype, I bet they're also good at math but a shitty driver.

Currently playing Alundra (for the first time). It's a fucking masterpiece.

I was very bummed out when I learned the sequel got 3D treatment. Oh well.

>>6394

The sequel is just bad in general

>Confession time
>During misson briefing I felt lust of mounting the black spaceranger called Anthony.
>We met in the breeding room
>The galaxy coloured men from the outer galaxy were legendary
>in pleasuring all women around long perimeters in several starssystems.
>He went down on me with great joy smiling.
>The thrust from Anthony was euphoric and making me all warm and sweaty.
>Anthony whispered in my ear "Hey princess"

She is always talking about herself(greentext)

Currently playing between Metroid other M and
Super Metroid. Pic related. Other M story is awful but the gameplay can be sometimes fun but with some annoyances with taking down bigger enemies . Adam authorized it.

source pic: http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/user_id=64952/1

Post edited on 31st Mar 2012, 12:26pm

>>6436
I don't know why, but I had guessed you were talking about Metroid... Anyway, you're right, the story in Other M is like something you'd see on the "SyFy" channel (mostly the shit they make themselves although the other movies suck, too), but the gameplay isn't all that bad if you don't take into account the forced vizor moments.

Started up Dark Souls again. I'm actually pretty good at it now, even managing to beat a few BPs. Hey, fuck you, until this play through I only ever managed to beat one by myself.. Much, much better at PvE though.

Joined the Sunlight Warrior covenant and am working on getting to +2 so I can offer Gwyns soul, then I'll abandon it for Chaos Servant, offer 30 humanity, kill the chaos bugs, and then join Sunlight again, all to save Sunbro.

I'm around SL 100, and will be helping people through Anor Londo and the Forest(More serving as a distraction for the phantoms in the forest. No medal there, but someone did it for me, so I feel I should do the same a few times.) if you guys want to play a bit. PSN ID is thexombieking if you guys ever need help or see my sign laying around. Or just want to play games in general. I only have Dark Souls right now though, so you'll have to give me time to get a new game of your choice.

>>6436
"deep" reflection of the game.

>FINAL FANTASY XIV Welcome Back Campaign Kicks Off!

fuck it, reinstalling...

I have recently spent a lot of time with fallout online with the Anti Russian Wasteland Heroes.
They are a ragtag group from 4chan /v/, so a lot of them are pretty annoying. But they're still bearable and it's actually one of the most reliable groups out there so it's actually quite fine.
This is the best timesink I have ever found

Planescape: torment which lead to Baldur's gate which lead to Icewind dale. Probably going to try Neverwinter Nights next.

Dark Cloud. The first time I tried it (after playing Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle) I absolutely hated it for some reason. Now, trying it again, I'm almost finished and I absolutely love it.

Started playing Fortune Summoners after having it in my backlog.

It's cute and fun, I'm a fan of this side-scrolling RPG style like Popful Mail.

Just played through chrono trigger. Alread played through it once in English a few years ago, this time around in Japanese.
Not sure what I'll play next. Maybe another old SNES RPG, or maybe I'll add a new PS3 game to my collection (I'm looking at you, valkyria chronicles)

Playing Heretic right now. I've had it on my hard drive for years, but I've never actually played through much of it.

Playing Torchlight again.
It's funny because I'm farming up a gimped loot-whore on very hard, but it still doesn't feel hard at all.
Wonder how easy it will be once I start playing new characters with all the magic stuff I stockpiled.

I played alan wake. It was pretty dumb and boring for the most part but it picked up a bit toward the end.

Trying out the beta

Well, I was going to play Torchlight 2 beta after getting a key, but when I started it up, I got the fucking "failed game creation" error and since they are so clogged up in support they didn't email me back before it closed. Fuck my luck.

Been playing the Binding of Isaac lately. Just had a great run with Maggy. Fetus, nail, demon baby, sheers(For the first few floors), Ouija board, mini mushroom, Mr. mega. Fuck yeah. Only had 4 regular hearts, too. Feels good for someone new like me.

Just downloaded Diablo 2 for the first time, so I will probably be playing that soon, too.

I started playing the new Pokemon games. The VoltWhite hack, specifically (it adds all 600+ Pokemon and has decent rosters for the Gym Leaders - i.e. Elesa doesn't have 3 god damn Emolga's). I'm on my way to the first Gym now. It's pretty cool. I like how adventurous and shit it makes me feel. Like I'm a kid again.

My computer runs the emulator way, way better than I expected it would, too. It was a nice surprise.

Post edited on 26th May 2012, 6:27am

>>6710
Pokemon is still going strong? There must be a few hundred of Pokemon games titles at this moment..

>>6916
>There must be a few hundred of Pokemon games titles at this moment..
Yeah, there is so many that they ran out of colors and materials to name the games after, so they started smacking on numbers at the end of old game names.

Post edited on 19th Jul 2012, 5:07pm

I started playing Children of Mana again, after realizing I never did finish the last bit.

>>6917
They're only named like that because they are sequels in the same generation and region. If they were another generation or region they'd use something else.

>>6921

I think he was simply poking fun at it.

I'm playing San Andreas. I'm going to try to remain as fat as possible the entire time

>>6971

I have also been playing San Andreas. I've modded it so I'm now playing as Marisa, Master Sparking Ballas and then flying away so fast, the backdraft causes all nearby traffic to go flying. I can't stop laughing.

>>6972
I easily spent more time modding the game than playing it, and I've played the game from the first mission to last like five times, along with exploring ever inch of the map.
I modded almost all the vehicles and weapons into their real world counterparts, replaced all the greenery with much better looking stuff ported from oblivion, most of the textures replaced into higher res stuff, gave the game much much better looking fire/smoke/explosion effects, and turned all the people into touhou characters. also used enb to make everything in general look prettier, but there's only so much you can do with the base game in the end, like, there's nothing that can be done about the physics.

>>6972
can you give a link to that mod?

I just got done playing Spyro the Dragon. Loved it, but I thought the flight levels were annoying and the last boss battle wasn't very satisfying. That "secret" level was nice, though.
I think I'll give Ripto's Rage and Year of the Dragon a shot, too.

>>6993
The original ps1 games were awesome.

Not >>6993, I just got done playing Spyro 2 (100%) and 3 (I found this one a little more boring than the 2, so I didn't 100% that).

Been playing LA noir the last few days.
strange playing a open world game made in part by rock star that penalizes public destruction and doesn't let you kill civilians, only allowing you to pull your gun during specific events.
soundtrack was rather lacking, felt like I was listing to the same 4 songs when driving.

Story wasin't bad I guess, but I didin't feel the least bit sorry for the MC when he died at the end, he spends the whole game yelling at people, often times preaching about upholding the law and decency and morality and all that jazz, then cheats on his wife with a drug addict whore for some odd reason.
Also seemed strange to be that there was overwhelming evidence pointing at the guys you accuse of the murders and fires, yet they end up not having done it.
kinda makes all that investigating seem like a waste of time.

Boy did this game feel long.. about half way in I kinda stooped trying to figure things out on my own and just used a guide, but it was still taking forever.
was a bit less fun as well, kinda like just watching a long interactive movie.

>>7088

I need an open world time sink...I think I'll get this today.

Does it have mods at all?

>>7088

>long interactive movie.

That is where gaming is heading these days.

Anyway, I guess that they're trying to make hypocritical protagonists seem cool or something.

>>7089
LA Noire has one of the most boring open worlds I'v ever seen in a game, to the point where I don't understand why they even bothered

>>7089
>Open world
>Timer sink
>mods

Just get Minecraft or Gta 4

another thing I don't get about that game, why does shooting people in their legs or arms kill them every single time?
I kept trying to take people alive, but if they shoot at you, it seems imposable, I'd run up right next to them but there would be no option to arrest them or anything.

Car chases are almost all scripted, which makes it kinda annoying when all you're doing is following the guy on a set course and waiting for him to crash into something yet you have a guy in your car keep yelling at you to ram them or spin them out. at least he's able to end the chases early by shooting their tires.

I found it funny the guy's family didn't bother to show up at the funeral (or they did but the game just didn't focus on them at all) but the drug addict whore did. for that matter, the family barely got any screen time at all in the game, makes it a little hard to judge the guy for leaving them when you know nothing about them, she could have been a saint or could have also been cheating on him, who knows.

I wish the npcs didn't talk so much, they kept talking to themselves and saying the same dumb lines.
in a game this long they should have known you're gonna hear them lines 50 times each.
"I survived the war for this?"
"Top of my class back home, now I'm waiting tables."
"I say we bust in there and find the evidence!"
"hey it's that cop that from the news papers walked out on his family"

>>7089
Not that I know of, I was playing the ps3 version.

>>7091
the game feels like it's only technically open world, there's no gap between missions to mess around with, and even then there's not much to do other than explore the city checking out landmarks and trying out hidden secret cars.
they have collectible hidden filmreals but seems kinda pointless.

>>7093
>I found it funny the guy's family didn't bother to show up at the funeral (or they did but the game just didn't focus on them at all)

They did, they were in the first row

>>7094
Guess I just missed them then, my bad.

>>7093
>the game feels like it's only technically open world, there's no gap between missions to mess around with, and even then there's not much to do other than explore the city checking out landmarks and trying out hidden secret cars.
they have collectible hidden filmreals but seems kinda pointless.

I think I'll pass on it then. I get bored quick if there isn't stuff to just screw around with.

GTA:SA is good enough anyway.

Playing the original Starcraft now.
Kekekekeke

I've been playing a lot of Killing Floor lately. It's really casual, but it's fun. Just mindless zom-b killin'..

I found Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun last night, and started playing that again.

It's pretty fun...the last good C&C game before EA directly took over, in my opinion

Europa Universalis III

I recently started eu3 too!
Well, choosing Scotland for my first game was a big mistake... I'm still not sure how economy works but I'm going to give Portugal a try so that I can gleefully backstab english scum!

I've been playing Kaizo Mario World. If I didn't have savestates I'd probably shoot myself

I'm playing Binary Domain. This game is so awesome, why when SEGA finally makes a great game does everyone ignore it?

Tried playing Ace Combat Assault Horizon...
I miss the old ace combat games, when they were about jet fighters and not so much about pandering to the Call of Duty crowd.
I can't believe they shoved in rail shooter segments.

God damn dog fight mode.
during combat, you're required to enter dog fight mode with some (half) of the enemy jets (but can enter it with normal ones too)
in dog fight mode, the jet goes on autopilot, as they take you down to near ground for a cinematic style rail shooter segment.
it's very disorienting, and can exit into normal flight at any moment, I've have had it sling me straight into the ground and buildings upon exiting the mode multiple times, resulting in a failed mission.
yet they removed the damage indicator, and gave the jets health regeneration....
health regeneration, on a fucking jet fighter, are you kidding me?

half the game isn't even jet fighter combat.
after the first short mission, there was a lenthy railshooter bit out the side of a chopper, they didin't explain why I was suposed to be shooting at these guys, they just called them rebels, kinda felt sorry for them, I mean, you play as the US government and are supposed to bomb the shit out of poor people driving old pickup trucks. that supposed to be fun?
turned out you can die during those segment are stupidly easy, requiring almost no human input. I actually set the controller down half way in and just watched the game contine on without me. I did this the second time the segment came up and made it past the first check point without doing a single thing, and almost to the second check point without doing anything.

then there's the other type of rail shooter bit, with a blue screen that has you shooting at tiny white silhouettes of enemies, that shit went on for faaaar to long, and hurt my eyes every time they cut to something on the ground blowing up.

They also have helicopter segments, that are also dragged out far to long (becuase they just keep spawning units out of nowhere), and the things control like ass.
I really loved the old ace combat games, that feeling of being a unnamed hero who was a ace combat for a small relatively peaceful country on the losing end of a war, as a pilot who would not only turn the tide of the war but almost single handedly save the world from power hungry tyrant run country bent on global domination.

in this game, you play for that antagonising power hungry country Bent on global domination that starts fights with the other countries.
and as multiple bland and generic solders with different jobs but little personality.
Sure the 'rebels' in this game have huge bombs, but who doesn't in this real world they decided to base the game on this time?
with how fucked up shit is in africa, shouldn't they be helping the rebels? the Russians are at least.
but nope, they're rebles, that makes them automatically bad. or at least I assume that's the case becuase they don't really explain whats so bad about them, who they're rebelling agents, or why you're fighting them or your problem.
This game doesn't even look that much better than the old games, seems like the only part that looks updated for current technology are the character models and stupid ass cinematics I couldn't care less about.
The old games used drawings and maps and such to advance the story, and it worked just fine!

I know video games sometimes have to change to meet the times, but I don't think into a generic clone of whatever is popular (in this case call of duty I guess) is the way to do that.

Post edited on 20th Aug 2012, 9:03pm

>>7109

I started this again too. I picked up the Chronicles edition with all the expansion packs and it adds so much stuff.

Been playing the Byzantine empire myself.

after getting sick of ace combat and dropping it, I Tried playing gran-turismo 5, but the game didn't like my racing wheel, even though the thing works perfectly fine for the menus.
I mean, x button works on a normal controller for accelerate and accept in menus, x button works on the wheel in menus for accept, but doesn't work during the actual racing and pedal doubles as x, so... what the shit? whatever, screw this game, onto the next one.

I played GT5 a week ago and had that crap with the steering wheel too. Had to settle on controller.

anyone else get Legasista today? mite b cool. tutorial feels really long.

I got the mount & blade collection from steam, since it was 75% off.
It's a very nice game, though I only tried the original so far, and I heard warband fixes all of the problems this one had.
I very much recommend it.

>>7181
Seconding this recommendation. Mount & Blade Warband is my favorite game by far. Make sure you get the mod to increase the size of battles, it makes it a lot more fun

>>7185
And I'll third it. I've been stuck into Warband lately. It's fantastic.

There's also a very large selection of mods, although a lot of them are for older versions. Thankfully, you can download older versions from the website and use your steam key to activate them.

Picked up CS:GO and have been playing that a bit. So far I hate every aspect of it (at least compared to the old games).

The movements are just terrible. You don't really feel like your controlling a character. It's more like you're a gun floating in air.

The guns all lack any real recoil so everyone is just running around spamming. AWP is still annoying and everyone uses it. They all just feel the same too.

There are a lot of bugs and just little things that should not be in the retail version of the game (like spamming your gun through a 50 foot thick wall).

Wasn't expecting much for a 14 dollar Source re-skin, though.

figured I'd try playing dead space 2, but extraction came with it, so played that first.
Not 'as' bad as I thought it would be.
looks like something from the previous gen as expected of something originally made for the wii. voice acting was horrendous. and the game play was really annoying at times with it's shaking camera making it hard to pike up items (it's a rail shooter)
I thought becuase I was using a controller rather than a pointer thing, that the game would be a lot harder. but that was very far from the case, it was stupidly easy, monstor thing shows up, use power to slow it down, take your time to shoot it's arms off, repeat.
it's also certainly in no way a horror game, not 100% sure if it was trying to be or not.
I found it amusing how they made a ginormous deal about one character getting shot in the gut over the course of two stages, but when one character slices his own hand off and people point out the bloody stump, he just replays something like 'it's no big deal, we'll worry about it latter' and it's left at that.

Post edited on 26th Aug 2012, 5:00am

I just picked up the PC "port" of Dark Souls.
It runs like complete ass, even on my relatively new PC. I can see why the devs locked the frame rate (since upping it anymore would make the game run in turbo mode), but it seems a lot less than 30 frames. I literally get dizzy after playing a few minutes.
It's a shame because I really like the combat. It doesn't feel clunky like Bethesda's titles at all.
I guess I'll just stick with emulating PS2 games for now.

>>7275

Heh...same here. Tried it out (after playing it on PS3) and it's a joke. A little bit of extra content isn't enough to make me put up with all the other crap.

Guess this is why people laugh at PC gaming being nothing left but ports and bad indie platformers, because it seems like that's all it is.

>>7280
I guess when they marketed it as the "Ready to Die" edition, they weren't joking.

Trying NOLF2. I enjoyed the first game with its James Bond/Maxwell Smart plot. Going to see how the sequel stands up to the original.

I'm trying to learn DOTA2, though I'm really lazy about it and haven't really done much.

Neptune MKII

Very fun SRPG with a lot of cute girls doing cute things.

The only thing that bothers me about it is how every character in the game pretends the first one never even happened, makes me feel like there was no point in playing it at all.

I guess they wanted to forget and start over again, since they screwed up so badly.

>>7330
I'm currently playing the first one, and it truly is crap, story is convoluted and makes no sense. the dungeon crawling is horrid, the characters control like they're from a old 3D sonic game. the battles themselfs feel completely pointless, I was actually able to clear two dungeons with S rank, while working on a garage kit, since all you need do during the fights is tap a single button over and over, with characters who auto heal.
taking place in the video game world with the whole console wars thing seemed like a pretty cool concept, but I don't think they did a very good job at all with how they went about it, for one, the personalities of the console goddesses don't even seem to resemble the personalities one would normally attach to each system, wii should really be represented by a energetic loli for example, why is it even wii anyway? shouldn't it be Nintendo?
I gotta say though, the characters are hella cute, easily the only thing that makes me want to continue on with it. but if the second one truly has so little to do with the first, I may just skip it.

The cute characters are the only real reason to keep playing, so you have to really like them if you want to play the others.

>>7331

They completely ignore the true end of the first game where each one of the goddesses gives up her powers to become human.
Nisa and Gust appear, but they act like it was the first time they ever met with the characters.
Compa claims to be childhood friends with IF, which is not possible since they first met at the beginning of the first game.
Everybody seems to not know who Arfoire is, despite being the only villain they ever fought.

Anyways, Neptune V came out a couple of weeks ago, and according to many people, it's a lot better than Mk2, so since I'm liking this one so far, here's hoping V gets localized soon.

I am playing through The Last Story.

I don't find the fighting all that bad. I somehow enjoy it and think that I'll be able to grind a bit without finding it too tedious. The crossbow is different and adds quite a bit to the combat and "strategy" of the game.

Playing Double Dragon Neon, it's so 80's.

So hard yet can't stop playing....

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/why-super-hexagon-should-be-your-next-ios-gaming-addiction/

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/super-hexagon-for-ios-devices-is-training-by-indifference

Playing Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden.

Really good so far. Kinda has me interested in watching the 70s anime source material for some of the older mechs for some reason. Especially the weirder, more obscure ones besides the big three (Getter, Mazinger, Gundam).

Plot's getting a little confusing here and there, but my inner mecha fanboy doesn't seem to care.

I found Ninety Nine Nights 2 laying around yesterday, and began to play that. It's as awful as the first. I'm really surprised they even made a second.

>>7387
But it has OVER WAN MIRRION TROOPS! It's EXTREME!!

I started Valkyria Chronicles 2. It's probably the best game I've played in...a long while.

It's really hard to find good games for the PSP.

Just beat Black Mesa. It's funny how towards the end they make a big deal of you needing to go to Xen, even giving you the longjump gear you will need to navigate it, then the game ends 5 minutes later. I know they are gonna add in that stuff later but still, if you played it without knowing that you would be like what the fuck

>>7391
I didn't know that, and I was like, what the fuck?!

>>7390
to bad the third game will probably never be translated.

I played gears of war trii on "hardcore" more like babby mode.
Gears was always a fun cover-shooter but this game felt really stupid with its deepend storyline and massive plotholes for as a excuse for making prequels and new games. Nothing was explained. Worth the 9 dollar new though.

Doms death was such a missed opportunity

Playing through Chrono Cross at the moment,

And, for a second time, I ran into a boss that wipes the floor with me while I can completely annihilate any of the random encounters in less than one round.

Meanwhile, when the boss gets low, he starts doing his 1-shot combo, and when he gets near death, his aoe 1-shot combo.

There is a counter, yes, and it just happens to be in a hidden chest in his dungeon, but fucking hell it feels like every boss fight is eigher a standard boss that gets rolled because my chars are so over leveled or a hugely gimicky boss that requires me to go crawl the entire dungeon top to bottom for an hour because the path to the chest was right in fucking front of me and I couldn't find it and end up almost able to brute force through the gimick with all the fucking grinding.

I've been playing mount and blade for the past couple of days, with mods to enhance soldier scaling.
The number of enemy soldiers is usually fine, but bandits scale is just silly.

>>7390

I started playing it the other day. Pretty neat. I don't own a PS3 so it's my first encounter with the franchise.

But damn, I bought the PSP a long ass time ago but somehow I didn't play it much before. My (right) wrist is KILLING me. I don't play many games nowadays but I spent thousands upon thousands of hours glued to a GB, then GBC, then GBA, then SP, then DS. I really spent a lot of times with handhelds (way way more than with PC/consoles) and I never experienced any wrist pains (even though I heard about some people who did). The worst I've had to endure yet were some blisters after abusing DS for a longass time. But compared to this that was nothing, it's really hard to write right now. Had to take some pain killers yesterday, I'm not sure I would've fallen asleep without them.

>>7405

There are tons of (supposedly) great PSP games that never got localized. A damn shame. Looks like Type 0 won't ever get released, either.

Hard to figure out why they never bother to localize them. They might not sell a ton BUT usually Europe+USA combined sales > sales is Japan. Surely localizing something can't cost more than developing it from scratch, right? Then again I don't have any right to complain since I haven't bought a single PSP game (then again I only ever played like 3 or so).

>>7475
>Hard to figure out why they never bother to localize them.
>I haven't bought a single PSP game

>>7476

Just because I haven't bought any of them doesn't mean they don't sell period. In fact they seem to sell pretty well from what I've seen. And I didn't mean just PSP games, look at how long it took to localize some jRPGs for the Wii (and I know for sure that at least Xenoblade was a commercial succes, again, one has to wonder why it took so long to localize it).

It's just strange because while some jRPGs do flop pretty hard it seems there's still a large market for them and even someone as out of touch with gaming as I am could name a dozen or so jRPGs from this gen which sold at least as much in Europe and USA combined compared to Japan. So again, are localization costs really higher than development cost? Otherwise there's so money to be made there. EVEN if you take the possiblity of a complete flop into an account. I mean Natsume, XSEED and the like keep localizing and publishing niche titles and since they have been around for a while I'd wager they DO make some profit there.

Can't even say I'm biased and everything I say is related to the fact that I'd like to play all those untranslated games, VC II is the second game I played all year long.

>>7477
The only reason Xenoblade was even successful was due to the attention that everybody gave it. Even though all those Operation Rainfall retards did was give the game attention (and take money from people like the shitty jews that they are) it never would've received otherwise. The fact that they sold as much as they have is a one time thing that I do not believe will happen again.

Westerners (normals) rather play games with muscular males that destroy/kill things so that they can get off to their strong male fetish since most of them are closet gay.

JRPGs are niche and low in popularity when it comes to video game genres so they'll receive low priority no matter who it's from.

>>7477
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/86945/how-valkyria-chronicles-has-been-ruined-in-the-west/
You don't really think you're the only person in the west who pirates psp games do you?
The number one reason above all else why more japanese psp games aren't localised, and why production of psp games in the west all but came to a halt, was becuase of piracy. This is an indisputable fact.

>>7479

>This is an indisputable fact.

I don't really remember claiming otherwise. But it's kinda funny that you linked to that particular article since - if VGChartz numbers are to be trusted (and they aren't, they're asspulls 99% of the time) - VC II sold less than 200k units in Japan and more than 400k worldwide. So again, USA and Europe combined outnumber Japan. On a platform that gets hit by piracy more than any other platform out there I'd wager. Not to mention the actual sales in Europe and USA are probably even higher since a game that's been on the shelves for more than 3 weeks has like no chance of selling in Japan while they continue to sell at a somewhat steady pace in other regions.

Also that article is pretty terrible:

>Since its release the third game in series had barely cracked 160k units in sales, a far cry from the previous games.

Judging by the charts it looks like the first game sold ~250k units in Japan and the second some 180k. Doesn't look like a 'far cry'. Not to mention VC II was surely more profitable since the development costs were that much lower.

>The first mistake involved them trying to make a quick buck by churning the games out far too quickly on a completely other system as before. Granted, at the time the PSP had a userbase of more than 50 million users (a lot more than the PS3), but how many outside of Japan would buy it? How many had the first game?

Releasing the games two years apart counts as 'far too quickly'? Is he serious? There are tons of franchises that release a game on pretty much yearly basis (and I don't just mean Maddens and whatnots) and that much is no problem. 2 years sounds mighty fine to me. On the other hand any more than 3 years apart would probably be a bad idea since it'd be hard to capitalize on the success of the previous entry.
Also Japanese devs/publishers don't give a shit about non-Japanese markets, I guess they decided to release it for the PSP due to development costs and it looks like it was a success (not to mention they released a third game so surely the second one was profitable, at least profitable enough to warrant a sequel on the same platform).

Also all that stuff about VC being mature is uh... Yeah. I don't know if the first one was more mature than the sequel (I suspect it was) but I'm 99% positive it was infantile as fuck either way, not to mention the plot about the Valkyrie (at least from what I gather from the short flashbacks in the sequel) sounds cliche and simply retarded. I wish people would stop with that 'mature games for mature gamers such as myself'.



Basically my point is 180k units sold in Japan is enough to warrant a sequel, ~220k sold overseas is not enough to warrant a localization.

>>7478

>Westerners (normals) rather play games with muscular males that destroy/kill things so that they can get off to their strong male fetish since most of them are closet gay.
>JRPGs are niche and low in popularity when it comes to video game genres so they'll receive low priority no matter who it's from.

I realize as much but we're at a point where people make petitions aimed at publishers asking them to make some profit. That's just crazy.
Normal logic: the publishers release something and ask their precious customers to buy the product so they won't go bankrupt.
jRPG logic: the customers beg the publisher to release something so take can throw their wallets at them.

>>7482
So are you saying you think the reason Americans like big tuff manly men military games, is becuase they're told what to like?

>>7483

Woah woah woah, were did I say anything of the sort? Did you mean to quote >>7478 maybe?

But well, even though I didn't say (or imply in any way) that yet I can get behind that hypothesis. Sounds about right. Manly games for manly men such as myself. If you look at how they are advertised that much should be obvious. Can you think of any other reason behind the fact that Western (Americans in particular, didn't want to point fingers at first but...) audiences want manly men in their games while Japanese seemingly prefer 'whoops, I just pressed this big red 'nuke everyone' button; tehe~ I'm such a klutz' moekkos?

You could argue that the average age of a gamer in Japan is lower compared to pretty much any other territory you could think of but in the end the crowd that screams 'gives us blood, tits and gore' the loudest are usually kids.



Anyway, we're getting totally off topic here, I think I said all I had to say so I'll just leave it at that.

>>7485
Europeans are not in any way excluded from this when the biggest selling game there is FiFa. Which is men running around handling balls together.

Europeans and Americans are not that different because both of are stupid fucks, except Europeans tend to do most of the name calling because they're a bunch of hypocritical shits that try (almost desperately) to find reasons why they are better than Americans.

So, with that Westerners are closet homosexuals and Europeans are the worst, childish scum that have to resort to saying "not me, dur hur hur" while they point fingers at anybody around them in some conceited stupidity that they all uphold.

Arrrrrrr......

Piracy kills everything!

Just got Fallout New Vegas and I'm looking for the teikoku mod but I can't find it anywhere. I just want my lolis ;_;.

>>7486
>Westerners are closet homosexuals
Considering how much they hate femininity and want all women to be more masculine, I'm very inclined to agree.

>>7486
If you were to replace all occurences of "American" with "Japanese" and European with "Korean" and make the necessary adaptations(Westerner->Easterner, etc.) your post would achieve a frightening resemblance to a Shinden post. Frightening.

fuck you cave story how was a I supposed to know on on how to save that fat ass bitch Curly with a rope?! thought it was meant to leave her for another occasion and backtrack, BUT NO! I poked her five times before leaving!

Might aswell used magnets.

currently playing 3rd birthday quite fun bosses and amazing graphics not sure whether i will grind or not ,still.

>>7577
The 3rd Birthday is my favorite PSP game, I think. I was playing on Hard mode, and got to Madigan's boss form, which is just...retarded hard. Retharded...

It's not that grind-y, compared to PE2, where you have to literally do the job the game gives you and hunt.

PE1's encounter system is stupid, but the game itself is awesome. 3rd Birthday is the best, though.

The bonus costumes are all invariably adorable.

just finished playing Spec Ops The Line.
I'm not really that big on the type of propaganda war game this was was ripping on, but heard good things about it and found it rather interesting.
I'd highly recommend the game in spite of it's overly simplistic game mechanics. (although it's possible that was done on purpose to further add to the game's over all message.) I think a lot of it went over my head, but for the most part it's pretty clear what they're trying to say with it about how fucked up generic shooter war games are these days like call of duty and such.

>>7593
you might enjoy this
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spec-ops-the-line-part-1
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spec-ops-the-line-part-2

burn 10 mins and clap yourself on the back, if nothing else.

>>7597
I kinda preferred this.

>>7593
I just tried this, but man, console shooters. Does it get any better after the first 30 minutes? One-handing enemies from cover doesn't get any less exciting than this.

>>7606
Not really, the gameplay stays boring through all the game. I just completed it because I cared about the history.

>>7606
The game isn't really supposed to be 'fun' or 'exciting'. if judged for just the first hour of gameplay in itself, it's a very mediocre modern warfare clone and little more. they purposely made it like that to get players into the right frame of mind for the rest of the game. they want you to ask things about the game, things you normally wouldn't ask about games like this. such as why there's a seemingly endless swarm of supposedly highly trained soldiers willing to run into your bullets, why you're doing all this, is this something you're supposed to be enjoying? and so on.

>>7608
I can see that, but even so, shooting dudes is what 98% of the game is spent doing, and the modern console shooter genre with aiming, regeneration, and all the neat mechanics that slow the game to a crawl and don't encourage you to play faster and better just make it really hard to wade through.

>>7609
>just make it really hard to wade through.
Now you're getting it!

>>7610
Well, I did just notice that the game's scripted sequences are quite lenient, and that you can very often just run past enemies for the next event to speed things up, so it's not that bad.

>>7608
>The game isn't really supposed to be 'fun' or 'exciting'

Wow those are my favorite kinds of games!!!

>>7608
That's stupid.

This fucking game. The evils of violence are hammered down harder than life while the most rubbish console shooter garbage you ever touched blinds you with rage, bullshit scripted shootouts that provide no freedom of choice whatsoever are forced down your throat ever more heavily towards the end. Characters are given five minutes of screentime, only to be killed off right afterwards because that's just how evil the protagonist is. Every other line has to repeat the freedom of choice (or lack thereof) motif, because it wasn't fucking clear enough already the first fifteen times you said it.

Sure, I suppose some of the narrative is clever. That doesn't excuse the excessively shitty gameplay, constantly jamming in the game's message with the subtetly of countless piles of bodies. Fuck this game, at this point I just want to shoot the damn civilians and end the fucking game. Oh, right, I can still fucking drop this piece of shit. Fuck, why did I ever waste hours of my life on this shit.

>>7617
>Characters are given five minutes of screentime, only to be killed off right afterwards because that's just how evil the protagonist is.

reminds me of the latest walking dead episode

I dont know anything about this Spec Ops game because I have no interest in playing another military shooter but the response its getting here actually has me interested.

>>7620
it's boring garbage

>>7620
It's pretty good if you're not a brain dead moron with a complete disregard for narrative and who only want to shoot dudes in the face.

>>7622
Shooting people in the face is all you do. Putting HOLY SHIT SO DEEP narrative behind it doesn't make it any less dull

>>7623
It isn't supposed to be fun. Having super cool fun and exciting shooter action would undermined the point of the game. but I guess the game is a bit too artsy for someone like you, so I don't blame you for not liking it. you might have more 'fun' playing something more simple like a super Mario game.

You know, I think it's pretty funny how people on this site love deep meaningful symbolic metaphorical anime rich with social commentary and all that jazz while looking down on low brow stuff like SOL or harem anime, but will take a completely opposite stance when it's videogames trying some of the same things. I guess the only way you're gonna get anyone here to like a game about games is if it has loli mods and dildo weapons.
I'll be sure not to recommend games like this or The Stanley Parable any time soon (a shitty gay game cuz all you do is walk around)

>>7624
>you might have more 'fun' playing something more simple like a super Mario game.

There's a big difference between games and other visual media, and that's the element of gameplay. An anime series (or any series, for that matter, it makes no difference) only has to be engaging and have good plot and characters to interest us. For a game, that isn't enough. A game has the interactive element: it has to have good gameplay. If a game has a great story but shit gameplay, it's a shit game.

Going back to your example, there's a pretty good reason Mario is so popular: because it has really good and fun basic gameplay. Nobody cares that every Mario game has the same "Peach gets kidnapped" plot, because the gameplay is good. I've played some games with both good gameplay and interesting, engaging plot, but you can't go without the gameplay. Your game would be better off as a series or a novel in that case.

>>7624
>It isn't supposed to be fun.

Modern gaming must be in worse shape than I thought if things like this are considered valid excuses.

>>7625
I think mario games are shit becuase it's the same shit story in every game.

>>7625
>you can't go without the gameplay. Your game would be better off as a series or a novel in that case.

what about visual novels, would you consider them to be games?

What about Shenmue or the Yakuza games, I think they have pretty boring 'gameplay'. The main draw is the plot (I suppose you will respond with "thats why Shenmue 3 will never come out").

>>7628
I don't consider VNs to be games, no. They're a lot closer to novels than games, since the focus is really on the text, the plot and the characters.

>>7627
Well, hey, then we disagree. I don't mind Mario's dumb plots. As a counterexample, Sonic games were really good back in the early 90s when the plot was the plan old dumb "Robotnik is a bad guy" story, but when they started trying to have actual plots, they started to get a lot worse.

>>7625
I guess you must also find tell tail games, rpgs, and mmos shit becuase their gameplay sucks. I guess simulator games must also be shit and the people who enjoy them are just stupid and not actually enjoying themselves as much as they think becuase the game play sucks.

Post edited on 24th Nov 2012, 9:12pm

>>7628
also, I haven't played the Yakuza series, but yeah, Shenmue. If I remember right from playing it as a kid, the plot didn't make any goddamn sense.

>>7630
Yeah, I completely think those people are stupid. Jesus Christ do you put words into people's mouths.

I love some RPGs. Why are you suggesting all RPGs have shit gameplay? Because they don't. Some of them are pretty fun to play and use strategy in.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if a game isn't fun to play then it's not a good game. Of course, people can differ on what they consider fun

>>7632
RPGs have horrible game mechanics, and they're built good plots. I can't stand most RPGs though becuase I have better shit to do than run around in a circle for five hours after each boss fight killing the same enemy each time it spawns.

>>7634

What constitutes 'fun gameplay' depends on everybody's individual taste. You might think it's boring to run around and grind and that's okay. Me, the last FPS I tried to force myself to play was MoH: Allied Assault and I simply couldn't do it. I pretty much can't imagine a more boring game concept than running around and trying to shoot people in the face before they do the same to you. And don't even remind me of racing games, just recalling the concept makes me sleepy.

But that's what genres are all about. You shoot in shooters, race in racers, beat up all sorts of dudes in beat em ups and jump and shoot in Jumpandshootman. And there's nothing wrong with that. Be a little more tolerant guys. I won't ask you to like certain genres because I have lots I don't like, either but don't criticize something simply because it's a game from a genre you despise.
One of the funniest trends of last few years is that everybody and their moms are bashing the new Call of Duty/Battlefield or whichever FPS is popular right now and then they proceed to play their generic RPG #49202/generic RTS #40592/generic racer #30583/generic stealth #29382. I understand that fanbases of those games are rather obnoxious but come on, most people you're complaining about are like 12, let obnoxious kids be obnoxious kids.

BUT at the same time I just can't agree with someone who says that a game is good despite the bad gameplay. To me the very word 'game' implies games are meant to be played and if the gameplay is bad then that's that. No matter how good the music, graphics, plot and whatnot are the game will still be bad to me if the gameplay isn't fun. The opposite holds true, too - a game with bad graphics, physics, music and a horrible story can still be fun if the gameplay is good enough.

>>7624
I don't think this game is very artsy - there is no subtetly whatsoever, the ratio of cutscenes/narrative to shooting dudes in the face is standard shooter fare, and the utter irreality of a one-man death machine killing thousands while eating thousand of bullets makes the heavy-handed no-choice moral considerations somewhat moot. If you have godlike ability to slaughter and take punishment and retry every time you die, does it really matter what you choose? If you feel like you shouldn't have killed the dudes, you can just reload and have it your way.

I did finish the game just now. At least the true ending was a fitting one.

Also, the save mechanics were funny - near the end where you had to shoot something with an RPG and then had the game autosaved, the savegame erased whatever weapon you left on the ground when swapping, which cost me the precious Desert Eagle and induced much anger. At least the true ending gave you one to shoot the dudes on FUBAR with.

>>7637 cont.
It's a boring generic console shooter with shallow literary pretensions in its allotted 3-minutes-per-stage cutscenes. It's overtly self-referential and shoots for a fruit so low-hanging the branch is rotting on the ground and the fruit's all but entirely decomposed. It also entirely omits the parts about videogaming that aren't about reaching the goal, or shooting dudes in the face. Going faster, playing better, scoring higher, and having fun in unintended ways are all conveniently omitted in favor of attacking videogame violence when the violence isn't the central appeal of videogames.

I picked up the Trine 2 expansion during the recent Steam sale. It's just getting prettier and prettier.

I finally got around to playing Virtue's Last Reward. I wanted to replay 999 completely first so I was up on all the details.

Holy shit, this game is fantastic. Best adventure game/visual novel I've played in years.

Been playing GTA III through WINE. Must've fucked up something real bad, because the stuttering is bad and sometimes I just get teleported 5m away and lose a fuckton of life.
Some Dwarf Fortress too. It's amazing how every time I pick it up it's like I'm a complete newbie all over again.

>>7634

Have you only played RPGs made before 1990? Good RPGs require little to no grinding to beat the game.

>>7761
>Good RPGs require little to no grinding to beat the game.
No shit.
Now how about you go tell japan about your brilliant observation?

>>7762
I don't know, there's plenty of great games that are very difficult without some grinding and seem impossible to someone not very experienced with the game's mechanics.

I've been playing old console JRPGs on my phone, via SNES/Genesis/GBC/GBA emulator.
Busy with Pokemon Silver and Emerald right now.

I just beat MGS3 again, for the first time in a year. It was as good as I remember, but the ending didn't impact me as much as it did the first time around. I even got up to make a peanut-butter sandwich during the scene after you shoot The Boss. I feel as if the cutscenes were too long. Or maybe stimulants gave me ADHD or something, because last year, I had no problem with sitting down and watching the cutscenes. Eh.

Now I started Peace Walker on my shitty PSP (it's now missing the back piece, in addition to 25% of the screen being ganked). Tried to get Remotejoy working, but I'm using Ubuntu, so that's not going to happen.

I'm assuming it's just going to be a better version of Portable Ops. With cuter female characters, so that makes it that much more appealing to me.

There's such a dearth of good PSP games...

>>7773
You named it Penis. Good job.

Recently bought FFXI again, since the whole lot was 20 bucks on Steam and I felt like indulging myself in the nostalgia. I'm probably going to regret this.

Picked up Victoria II.
Got to play Holstein to figure out how the game works and see some bloody shit going on.
Denmark never got to start the Schleswig-Holstein crap and Prussia was fucked up by commies, Austria and France so Germany didn't unify even by 1920. The campaign was like watching grass grow.
Started a new campaign as Tibet and already got smashed by trying to pick up a fight with Burma. Gonna rollback a save and see what I can do.
Shit's addictive.

I just finished Dragon Quest V, PS2 version. I'm surprised at how long it was, given the time it was released originally.

>>7822
Isn't Tibet a satellite of the Chinese Empire? Or, heaven forbid, are you not playing AHD?

>>7863
Most WineHQ reports make it seem like AHD support isn't very good right now, so I haven't bothered installing it yet.

Metro 2033
I hope that was the last forced stealth section. I also did something completely retarded and started taking the most out of the way path possible, which didn't even lead to the end of the mission.
It's a fun game outside of that, though.

Playing AvP3 that I got cheap from Steam

Been playing a bit of Insane 2 recently. kinda fun in short burst. it's like a motorstorm clone which I thought was cool, even uses the same sound effect for the boost system, but unlike motorstorm it has more open tracks and some creative game modes(although some don't work very well in practice.) but it's not as good looking as motostorm was, Damage system is a joke. it's no wonder the trailer doesn't show any vehicles being destroyed, they're almost indestructible. music kind of sucked so I'd play with it muted and play other stuff.

This one
http://www.therefinedgeek.com.au/index.php/2013/02/22/strike-suit-zero-one-ship-to-rule-them-all/

>>8022
Is it any good? I haven't really heard anything about it but it looks cool.

>>8023
I liked it.

Antichamber, not yet finished. A fucking masterpiece.
It's one of those games that you MUST play. Quite an experience.

>>8095
What is kind of game is it?

<- Apparently the new Lara doesn't believe in bathing...

>>8133
Because that would be offensive to real women, don't you know anything you sexist pig?

Just finished Super Robot Wars OG2 a second time (mostly to go through and screw around with getting some of the hidden mechs and weapons).

I had thought the SRW games might've acted as a bit of a gateway drug for strategy RPGs, but I've only found a couple I kinda liked. Out of the ones I've tried, Front Mission was pretty good, Yggdra Union was fun, Ogre Battle 64 was really weird, confusing as fuck to start off, and had an in-game help menu the size of a D&D rulebook, and last I checked, I wasn't ready for the unforgiving nature of Fire Emblem.

Might finish one of the first two or try the Advance Wars series next, I guess.

Finished three games in the past week. Bought a 360, got BioShock and Bully given to me.

BioShock I didn't enjoy. The story was impenetrable and if you missed tape recordings you were missing out on vital exposition that might have improved proceedings. Gameplay was a bit eh, the Vita Chambers really removed any fun or challenge for me. The whole thing felt like a chore, which is going to sound like absolute blasphemy to any FPS fans within earshot.

Bully was fucking garbage. Mash X on things for 10 hours while you're assaulted by a soundtrack of dullard root chords void of melody, a story so fucking infuriatingly juvenile and badly paced you'd almost think it were set in a high school and aimed at 15 year old's WAHEY and a cast of fleshy cogs saying meaningless words at you to drive the "story" along parading themselves as human beings.

Okami, however, was an experience. Absolutely mind blowing. The colours(!), the soundtrack, the characters, the story, the gameplay, truly a one of a kind game.

I've still got a few PS2 titles I'm working towards finishing. Dragon Quest VIII, which I'm really enjoying though I've found myself VERY much underlevelled so I'm hesitant to pick it up again because it means grinding, Devil May Cry 1 which I really like, absolute stupidity be damned, Silent Hill 3 which I'm absolutely terrible at and Beyond Good & Evil, which is quickly becoming one of my favourites.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (released in 2012)
A reboot to 1994 game, UFO: Enemy Unknown ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown ).

I loved the original. This one had simplified combat controls and less base building options. However it has more suits and more aliens to make up for it. A good reboot that manages to keep the feel of the old game while adding new things to it.

I'm in love with Mount and Blade. I pirated it around July last year and put in hundreds of hours dicking around in the single player. I then bought it during the Steam winter sale and I've already put in another 100 hours — mainly multiplayer. There's a filled 200 player siege server up every night. It's just a great game.

Finished Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3. I was in a video store and saw the HD collection, so I rented it.

I can't believe how much fun I had with these games. I finished 2 in a straight 15 hour sitting. Within the space of an hour, between 1 and 2am, the game had taken me from Otacon deciding to tell me his dad killed himself because he fucked his stepmother to Colonel Campbell scaring me to absolute fuck. I was not prepared for the things this game did to me.

Metal Gear Solid 3 is now my favourite game of all time. Not much more to be said, really. The ending was absolutely heartbreaking. I cried quite a bit and started it all over again on Hard.

One of the better RPG's I've played in a while. Oh yeah, I've been playing Eufloria too, really good. Deep without being artsy fartsy as hell.

>>8206

>Oh yeah, I've been playing Eufloria too, really good. Deep without being artsy fartsy as hell.

Eufloria is what Dyson was called after it's commercial release, right? Great game, one heck of an 'RTS'. It gets rid of pretty much everything and only leaves one aspect of the game - swarming. Sending a couple of thousand units at one final planet in the center of the system feels great.

It pretty much plays itself and there's no difficulty whatsoever but I really liked it. Spectacular soundtrack, too.

I haven't been following IGF for ages (not since 2010 I think), did I miss anything besides Anodyne? IGF introduced me to some superb games (Darwinia and Aquaria especially), I have no idea why I stopped following it...

>>8203
>
Metal Gear Solid 3 is now my favourite game of all time. Not much more to be said, really. The ending was absolutely heartbreaking. I cried quite a bit and started it all over again on Hard.
That's exactly what happened to me.

Actually, I meant to play MGS2 once I beat 3, but I never got around to it. I ended up like, an hour into Raiden's route and got bored.

3 and the original are both good enough to keep me occupied.

I've been playing through the PSP port of FF3. Pretty fun. Wish all of the FF remakes got this treatment.

Been playing MicroVolts, a free to play team fortress 2 style game with figs/toys. It's not perfect but it's not bad..

I'm playing Lego City Undercover.

It's not bad and I actually laugh at some of the weird and stupid things that get said or done. I don't have much experience with Lego games, so I had no idea what to expect, but this game exceeded those non-existent expectation.

I've poured a bunch of hours into this game and I'm still not done with it. I've only gotten on chapter 11 so far and I managed to "save" Admiral Pom-Pom Boggins, who is a cat, and also the mascot of the fire department.

Most of the dialog is just hilarious and Frank may be one of the best characters to ever be in a video game.

I suggest at least watching videos of this game. The writing is pretty good.

>>8221
I wanted to play that but was really disappointed to hear it was a wiiu exclusive.

>>8232
If I could, I'd let you play it on my console. As long as you wash your hands and not eat during any play time to prevent the controller from getting dirty.

I'm really strict with my stuff and try to keep it as clean and as far away from any sort of possible problems.

>>8134
I know nothing
http://www.collectedcurios.com/howtoplay.html

I'm playing Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, really enjoying it so far (about 4 hours in).

I had previously played the first game for 5 hours but got tired of the gameplay and sold it. The story was fantastic though, I watched the rest on Youtube instead. I really love Neptune.

>>2003
I finished Devil May Cry 3, to see if it really is better than the fuck you edition or if people are just mad because they made the character an extremely unlikable douchebag and because everything is pandering to normals and teenies. Well as expected it is millions of light years better, and holy shit was that challenging. The number of fucking things I have nearly broken while playing that game... and I think during a few boss fights I was even sweating. It is kind of sad that video games have come down to pandering to teenagers, so far that they even ruined classics. What's next, Mario swag bros? Sonic 420: Smoke Every day? (Oh wait Sega already shat all over Sonic, never mind.) Spyro the dragon: nerd adventures? (OH WAIT, Spyro has also been ruined!)

I finished No More Heroes last night and now I can't decide what to play next.

>>8272
Play the sequel.

>>8273
Ok, I'll give it a shot.