What are you playing? (Includes yourself as well as video games)

[AranchineD]

Playing Red Dead Redemption

Was going good up until I unlocked Deadeye level 2. ****ing Rockstar.

[AranchineD]

In other news

Anyone want a 3-day guest pass for Day Of Defeat?

[Ad-Rock]

Playing Red Dead Redemption

Was going good up until I unlocked Deadeye level 2. ****ing Rockstar.

Yeah, I didn't like the way the dead eye system was implemented.

[ElPresidente]

You can dead eye lock on birds with dynamite - how can anything be wrong with that. Soo much fun.

Also... love the avatar Ad-Rock. :)

[Natrak]

I thought Dead Eye was implemented really well. I didn't really have a problem with Dead Eye level 2, you could still influence where the shots were placed and when the switch to Dead Eye level 3 was first made it felt like a change for the worse - of course, it wasn't long before it felt right.

[Ad-Rock]

Wolfenstein 3D. <3

[AranchineD]

I thought Dead Eye was implemented really well. I didn't really have a problem with Dead Eye level 2, you could still influence where the shots were placed and when the switch to Dead Eye level 3 was first made it felt like a change for the worse - of course, it wasn't long before it felt right.

Except "oops, an innocent person standing between two bad guys, thank you clunky, stupid system for making it harder than it should be to only shoot the bad guys".

[Natrak]

I never encountered that problem, stop sucking.

Seriously though, you don't stick with Level 2 for that long, at least. You'll want to make visiting Landon Ricketts your first priority when you hit Mexico, Level 3 allows you to place shots yourself before firing them all off at once.

[sausage]

65 hours into Oblivion - going all 100 percent vampire up in this shit

[Nic Xtreme]

65 hours into Oblivion - going all 100 percent vampire up in this shit

It took me like eight hours to cure myself of that cluster****. I was kicked out of the Mages' Guild so I had to get back in with them and get the ingredients for the ex-witch. It was epic. Being a vampire is awesome, but I've ridded myself of it and settled down in my Cheyhindal house.

[Jay]

Playing a bit of Tiger Woods 10, because I didn't give it enough time when it came out and it's good for a bit of relaxing gameplay after the intensity of Black Ops.

[TAT]

****ing Sims 3, **** it all

[Jay]

Are things really that bad, TAT?

[TAT]

After the second hour I was ready to call it quits until I discovered Buy and Build modes ;__;

[Gunblade89]

It took me like eight hours to cure myself of that cluster****. I was kicked out of the Mages' Guild so I had to get back in with them and get the ingredients for the ex-witch. It was epic. Being a vampire is awesome, but I've ridded myself of it and settled down in my Cheyhindal house.

Apart from when you get stranded in a field at daybreak, and have to make a run for it :eek:

[Lazlow]

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage

Pure f***ing awesome.

[Natrak]

You're already dead.

[Lazlow]

Heh he says that like three time in the first chapter :D

[Slippery]

Civ 5

Playing an Earth map game, I'm in North America, there's no one in South America, the 7 computer Civ's are spread across Africa, Europe and Asia.

Not much chance for a domination victory - so I'm going space race! :D

[SOX]

Having been offline on the 360 for over a year I fired up Reach multi. **** I love Halo.

[sausage]

72 hours into another Oblivion playthrough and am on a serious alchemy addiction; mixing up super destructive poisons to dip my next arrow/sword with nearly 1000 damage over 30 seconds.

Love how you can name your own potions. Some of the names I've come up with are "**** off magic", "Assfinger", "Arse****", "Anal Death" and I named my first enchanted weapon "Penis".

It was funny when I put poison on my sword because it said on the screen "You have poisoned the Penis".



Love this game.

[AranchineD]

Classic sausage

[sausage]

I'll try and get some screenshots tomorrow and post them over there

[sausage]

Also my negroid redguard contracted vampirism and now his face looks like Michael Jackson's.

[Watchers]

VVVVVV is awesome.

[Lazlow]

NBA 2K11 demo

I really suck at this (lost 17-2) but I still want to buy it. And I've never owned and NBA game before.

[Lazlow]

Finally got a breakaway and Kobe layed it up into the side of the boards, out of bounds :(

[Lazlow]

Oka so I beat them that time 12-8 but I still can't take it to the hole.

[Natrak]

The demo's pretty crappy. Penetration's still difficult in the actual game, but at least you have more options.

[Ad-Rock]

Black Ops. ****ing awesome. I love/hate zombies.

Even the campaign is getting better.

[NetherWind]

Just started playing Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals on DS, real-time battles and allows you to overkill a monster to earn more gold, exp and shards that you can trade for items/weapons I guess. Pretty much at the start of the game after fighting Gades.

[AranchineD]

So Red Dead Redemption made a pretty good first impression.





Then did little to back that up. Missions get more exciting than "ride horse for 5 minutes to 10 second shoot-up, MISSION COMPLETE" at some point, right?

[AranchineD]

Man, I just got tasked with retrieving a machine gun from some mines, 'Push the minecart forward, and when you go fast enough, you'll automatically jump onto the back of it'

"Okay, cool," I thought, "There's some potential good times here."

And then...nothing. The game does absolutely nothing with it. I shoot three guys, "Thanks for the help, see ya!"

God damn.

[Cerebral]

The start's good, the end's good, but pretty much all of Mexico stinks.

[SOX]

Reach multiplayer. It's a long road to Inheritor..

[Rambo]

I've stopped playing red dead, Its just got GTA syndrome for me.

Playing Black Ops zombies, great fun and a good distraction from the competitive side of CoD.

[sausage]

So Red Dead Redemption made a pretty good first impression.


Then did little to back that up. Missions get more exciting than "ride horse for 5 minutes to 10 second shoot-up, MISSION COMPLETE" at some point, right?

It's an amazingly beautiful game on a phenomenal engine and they got the atmosphere just right but I always felt constrained for some reason; maybe it was the fact I had no real say in my character development apart from armour buffs.

And they can't really say the skill is in the combat because there is no real skill involved.

It's a fantastically polished game but for me, it got boring after ten hours.

[Ad-Rock]

The start's good, the end's good, but pretty much all of Mexico stinks.

This, but replace "Mexico" with "the rest". Except that grave digging freak - he was a laugh.

Playing Black-Ops mainly... The campaign has improved. It's fun, but not the best fps campaign I've played. The graphics are top notch. The games a little too fast paced all of the time for my liking. You're consistently dragged from one set piece to another, with no time for tension to accumulate or to appreciate the scenery and details. For me it feels as if the game is in fast-forward or something.

[TheMixta43]

Currently playing through Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1.

Completed the game twice now (once normally and then once again with Super Sonic). Only have one achievement left now also after getting the Untouchable one yesterday, where you have to complete the last level without getting hit.

Also unlocked both Avatar items found in the game the other day, getting one of them took a ridiculous amount of time due to the fact that you have to replay the final boss to even get a shot at getting it.

Finding the game fun though, took a while to get used to the weird physics and sense of speed but now that I have the game has definitely surpassed my initial expectations.

[Allick]

Been playing Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. It's pretty good, enjoying the realism, but it can make it frustrating, especially that coupled with the poor placement of checkpoints. Also pretty repetitive, but it's good some sweet graphics.

[sausage]

platform?

[BB2K]

Half Life 2

'To get to the next part, simply move this barrel that you can barely see from this obscure place that you would never think to go to and....' **** off Half Life 2.

[FX-GTZ]

Had a go at The Witcher, its fairly good. Having a character creator feature would have been nice, the game feels similar to Dragon Age in some ways, but thats not a bad thing.

[Silverwolf]

It is superior to Dragon Age in many important ways.

[Jay]

Half Life 2

'To get to the next part, simply move this barrel that you can barely see from this obscure place that you would never think to go to and....' **** off Half Life 2.

Hahahaha right...

[BB2K]

Apart from that, it's pretty great. A bit standard FPS-ey.

[Natrak]

****ing kids these days.

[AranchineD]

As long as he thinks Half Life 1 is better than he's allllllright

[BB2K]

Half Life 1 is so much better.

[sausage]

Shit grwphics

[BB2K]

Wait, sausage is right. HL2 is better because it doesn't look like shit.

[sausage]

plus ASS

[FX-GTZ]

I just had a go at Ridge Racer on the psp, it felt SO much like Ridge Racer 2 that i had to replay Ridge Racer 2 as well just to notice the difference between the two.

[Creedy]

Playing Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
I haven't played a strategy game like this for quite some time, I'm up to mission 5 so far.

[AranchineD]

Commandos isn't a strategy game, it's a puzzle game

[grimace06]

Been playing a ton of Pac Man Championship DX. Biggest surprise of the year and comfortably sits in my top 10 for 2010.

[McChimp]

Assassins Creed Brotherhood on PS3. LOVING it so far and can't stop thinking about it.......unless it's about Fallout NV, which I SERIOUSLY have to get back to!!

[sausage]

Crackdown is a really fun game.

[Nic Xtreme]

Decided to get a bit further into Call of Duty: Black Ops' single player. Despite the fact that I'm really enjoying it, I have a few issues:

- Someone mentioned this before, but there's really no time to stop and have a peek around. Not that you would want to, really. Neither the locations nor the setpieces offer much of a visual treat (except Hong Kong, which is brilliant). Modern Warfare 2 not only offered me these amazing locations and setpieces, but it also gave me time to enjoy them. Shit falling out of the sky + heavy rain, I'm looking at you. The graphics are also, IMO, a step down from Modern Warfare 2 - particularly in the environmental modelling and the textures. That said, some of the character models do look brilliant.

- There are less arena-like confrontations and too many straight lines. I don't want to keep moving forward all the time. MW 2's single player, aside from being just plain brilliant, had plenty of big, open battles. It also encouraged you to change weapons more frequently, whereas Black Ops doesn't. Can't remember why it did, though.

- The 3D's tacked-on-at-the-endness is really obvious. Aspects of the game like rainy puddles don't sit right, and there are issues when you go up close to something and it isn't sitting relative to your gun. That said, it's also really cool a lot of the time, especially when I was in the tunnel in Vietnam with the torch. Limited light + 3D looks amazing. The fact that the visuals drop in resolution also really stands out, which is a shame; it's going to be interesting to see how Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 go with the 3D, as they were built ground-up supporting it.

So, as much as I'm enjoying Black Ops - and I'm liking the multiplayer better this time around - the single player really just stands in MW2's shadow the whole time. Treyarch have definitely done a better job this time around, but they just don't seem to have the skill or artistic talent to match what Infinity Ward have done.

Hah, I wonder if even Infinity Ward still have the skill and artistic talent to match what they've done?

[TAT]

Decided to get a bit further into Call of Duty: Black Ops' single player. Despite the fact that I'm really enjoying it, I have a few issues:

- Someone mentioned this before, but there's really no time to stop and have a peek around. Not that you would want to, really. Neither the locations nor the setpieces offer much of a visual treat (except Hong Kong, which is brilliant). Modern Warfare 2 not only offered me these amazing locations and setpieces, but it also gave me time to enjoy them. Shit falling out of the sky + heavy rain, I'm looking at you. The graphics are also, IMO, a step down from Modern Warfare 2 - particularly in the environmental modelling and the textures. That said, some of the character models do look brilliant.

- There are less arena-like confrontations and too many straight lines. I don't want to keep moving forward all the time. MW 2's single player, aside from being just plain brilliant, had plenty of big, open battles. It also encouraged you to change weapons more frequently, whereas Black Ops doesn't. Can't remember why it did, though.

- The 3D's tacked-on-at-the-endness is really obvious. Aspects of the game like rainy puddles don't sit right, and there are issues when you go up close to something and it isn't sitting relative to your gun. That said, it's also really cool a lot of the time, especially when I was in the tunnel in Vietnam with the torch. Limited light + 3D looks amazing. The fact that the visuals drop in resolution also really stands out, which is a shame; it's going to be interesting to see how Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 go with the 3D, as they were built ground-up supporting it.

So, as much as I'm enjoying Black Ops - and I'm liking the multiplayer better this time around - the single player really just stands in MW2's shadow the whole time. Treyarch have definitely done a better job this time around, but they just don't seem to have the skill or artistic talent to match what Infinity Ward have done.

Hah, I wonder if even Infinity Ward still have the skill and artistic talent to match what they've done?
You'd better not be playing it on the Wii, I swear to christ

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

I couldn't play Half Life 1 for more than 30 mins, what a ****ing abysmal game. When is that redone version of the game in Half Life 2's engine coming out?

[Ad-Rock]

Played a load of Black Ops multiplayer on Friday night. Heaps of fun even though I really really suck. Can't wait to unlock some more toys and start customising a bit more.

[Creedy]

Commandos isn't a strategy game, it's a puzzle game

According to Steam it's an action game!!!
:P

[Stevorooni]

Got 100% in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare last night. The hardest part of the hunting challenges was working out how to kill a bear with a torch without being mauled, in the end I rode around on Pestilence and just started whacking the bear while I was still on the horse.

Also I now have a unicorn that farts rainbows.

[McChimp]

I couldn't play Half Life 1 for more than 30 mins, what a ****ing abysmal game. When is that redone version of the game in Half Life 2's engine coming out?

Half Life Source on Steam. Available now and, as far as I know, the closest to a 'remake'.

[9warbane]

It's called Black Mesa and it's coming out 'when it's done'.

Which is making me impatience. Sceenshots look great.

[Natrak]

Got 100% in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare last night. The hardest part of the hunting challenges was working out how to kill a bear with a torch without being mauled, in the end I rode around on Pestilence and just started whacking the bear while I was still on the horse.

Also I now have a unicorn that farts rainbows.

Yep, torched the bears on Death (I tamed it before the end of the game), gotta love having horses that are basically immune to damage. I did the same thing for the cougars. That method immediately came to mind because that's how I went about knifing cougars in the original game.

[AranchineD]

I'm up to the big mutant breakout part of Far Cry. IIRC, didn't pretty much everyone have a big whinge about fighting the mutants being different to fighting normal soldiers?

**** those neckbeards. Fighting mutants is awesome, what's wrong with having a little circle strafing and backpedalling alongside some stealth and cover-shooting gameplay?

[Rambo]

Far Cry? Did another one get released or are you feeling really nostalgic?

[ElPresidente]

I had 0 problems with the trigen bust-out. Nice change of pace.

[sausage]

haha the container boat that the Volk recruitment guy is holed up at in Crackdown is named "Mary Jane".


LOL

[sausage]

Aran, does Far Cry play nice with Win 7??

[AranchineD]

Far Cry? Did another one get released or are you feeling really nostalgic?

Nah, I just never played it before (the PC version anyway) and it was on sale on GoG, so I thought why not.

Aran, does Far Cry play nice with Win 7??

Yeah, seems to be fine.

Except...well, the game crashes if I use my mouse wheel. I have no idea what's up with that.

[AranchineD]

It's probably better than half the shooters released now so I probably WILL go back to it later on feeling a bit nostalgic anyway.

[sausage]

How far did you get with RDR before getting bored aran?

[AranchineD]

About 10 hours.

[sausage]

yeah same.

[Jay]

And yet you had no trouble churning through Oblivion?

[AranchineD]

to be fair even Oblivion is less repetitive than RDR

[sausage]

Plus its main combat mechanic didn't turn to shit after four hours.

[AranchineD]

This is true, Oblivion's combat mechanic was shit right from the start.

[sausage]

Reluctantly I have to agree; although brewing up some one-strike 1000 damage poison, coating your enchanted weapon then chameleon 108% + sneak melee making the damage 6000 over 30 seconds DOES have fun potential.

[Jay]

Plus its main combat mechanic didn't turn to shit after four hours.

No good at the higher levels of Dead Eye?

[sausage]

I would have had no problem with the mechanic if there was anything else to do with the character apart from armour buffs and meaningless achievements; but sadly, there weren't any so the combat descended into blah.

[McChimp]

Day off work today (one of two, actually), so I've been playing some NFS Hot Pursuit and AC Brotherhood. Also discovered the addictive awesomeness that is Flight Control HD on PS3. Cost me, what, $8.50?

[NetherWind]

On PS3:

Played G1 Jockey 2008 at a mates earlier on and all I can say is WTF, controls are weird regardless which setting you use and you get beat all the time unless you edit a horse and make it the best at everything (which defeats the purpose I know).

Gave Cricket 2010 a go as well and the likeness of players is pretty much spot on, Easy difficulty is well so easy it isn't funny, one could easily rack up at least 500 in a T20 game. Simulating doesn't let you get any trophies, achievements, etc either. So if you want to get one of those then you need to bat and bowl, which will suck if you are not good at bowling.

[Gunblade89]

Thinking of playing through Twilight Princess again, in abit of a Zelda mood. :p

[ElPresidente]

Why not replay a good Zelda instead like Windwaker? :)

[HiredMan]

I liked TP more than WW :p

*ducks*

[Stevorooni]

Why not replay a good Zelda instead like Windwaker? :)

I think I'm due for my annual replay of Wind Waker soon!

[Natrak]

Thinking of playing through Twilight Princess again, in abit of a Zelda mood. :p

Why not replay an overrated unfinished Zelda instead like Wind Waker? :)

[Second]

Why not replay an overrated unfinished Zelda instead like Wind Waker? http://www.hyper.com.au/forums/image.php?u=50&dateline=1289140054
Fixed

[SOX]

Has anywhere broken the street date for NBA Jam 360/PS3?

[AranchineD]

Monster World 4 http://www.uyac.com.au/forum/images/smilies/coolglasses.gif

I don't know why I didn't think to look for a fan translation earlier, those damn Japs aren't going to keep the apparently best title in one of my favourite series of video games from me!

[Gunblade89]

Why not replay a good Zelda instead like Windwaker? :)

I will soon, i borrowed a copy off a friend back in the Gamecube days and finished it. I'll have to get myself my own copy i think :)

But TP is still a very good game IMO.

[Australian Ninja]

I'm up to the big mutant breakout part of Far Cry. IIRC, didn't pretty much everyone have a big whinge about fighting the mutants being different to fighting normal soldiers?

**** those neckbeards. Fighting mutants is awesome, what's wrong with having a little circle strafing and backpedalling alongside some stealth and cover-shooting gameplay?

I loved the part where you first see a giant mutant going ape-shit like the Incredible Hulk.

"Time to run!"

[AranchineD]

Huh. Only took me 200 deaths to get Veni Vidi Vici! I thought the game would be harder than this.

[Xanafalgue]

Monster World 4 http://www.uyac.com.au/forum/images/smilies/coolglasses.gif

I don't know why I didn't think to look for a fan translation earlier, those damn Japs aren't going to keep the apparently best title in one of my favourite series of video games from me!

I didn't really like it tbh.

[AranchineD]

Yeah, I've played it for a bit now and I kinda agree with you. I don't know if it changes later on but so far it's just been going to and from dungeons from the one town, nothing like trekking across an entire world like in the previous game (which was ****ing awesome).

[borgster101]

Started Assasins Creed Brotherhood, great series! :)

[McChimp]

Have been juggling AC Brotherhood and Fallout NV, and just played an hour or so of Splatterhouse, plus I've got a freebie copy of Medal of Honor sitting waiting for me to get into. Seriously, too much gaming to do, not enough time!

[SOX]

Lucky for you MoH is 4 hours long.

[McChimp]

Lucky I got it for free, otherwise that 4 hours would have me cracking the sads! lol.

[HiredMan]

In my feverish sickness delerium I downloaded EVE Online: Tyrannis last night, so I'm playing that. It's bloody intimidating but is looking to be awesome so far.

[ElPresidente]

Say goodbye to life as you know it. It took me many years to kick EVE Online and still, everytime I see a screenshot a part of me is desperate to jump back into my trading ship and hit the heavens.

[HiredMan]

Yeah so I'm playing EVE and Age of Conan now.... I must be nuts!

BTW Prez you should play both of these with me haha

[Natrak]

EVE is for crazy people and ElPrez.

[HiredMan]

Say goodbye to life as you know it. It took me many years to kick EVE Online and still, everytime I see a screenshot a part of me is desperate to jump back into my trading ship and hit the heavens.

:p

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj87/phaedeback2010/EVE-Online%20Pictures%20Revelations/TheBeautyandtheBrutix-04.jpg

[AranchineD]

HiredMan: Boy I can't wait to take a ship into dangerous space by myself!

*HiredMan is soon found cowering in his escape pod after having been utterly raped by a fleet of 30 pirate capital ships*

[HiredMan]

That's the plan!

[Zombie_Plan]

Been playing a little Minecraft and TF2 today. Would be playing Fallout: New Vegas right now but I'm settling for watching an entertaining fellow on YouTube play through it with an interesting accent.

[NetherWind]

Up to Chapter 10 Part 1 in Lords of Shadow, pretty good game so far. Let down that there is no control on the camera as it likes to move into weird spots at the wrong time, which is usually during boss fights or critical moments.

Would be nice if they had used the right thumbstick for camera control, definitely would make exploring that tad more comfortable instead of having to suffer with this camera that does the aformentioned stuff.

[HiredMan]

EVE makes my brain hurt in the best possible way :D

I have a space ship!

[Zombie_Plan]

Pushing through a little more New Vegas.

I can never decide whether to be bad or good. I'm always treading that line of neutrality. It's too tough a choice to ever make.

[AranchineD]

DoDonPachi, via MAME

what a whimsical journey through pink

[immol8]

Pushing through a little more New Vegas.

I can never decide whether to be bad or good. I'm always treading that line of neutrality. It's too tough a choice to ever make.

Never seems to make a difference anyway. I generally do good, before stealing everything I can.

[NetherWind]

finished Lords of Shadow earlier this morning and the ending is interesting to say the least, sets up for a sequel easily and as long as they add in camera control it will be a good game.

[Natrak]

I don't think they need camera control, they just need to get better at camera placement and having the camera track the action. God of War has proven that if you know what you're doing fixed camera angles work fine for action games of that ilk.

[NetherWind]

That is also viable option, just towards the end of the game the camera has this awesome ability of panning out or switching to another point of view at the wrong time and made jumps and other actions go pair shaped.

[FX-GTZ]

Currently Civilization V, its enjoyable, but not when your sitting on 45 fps, might be time to take AA down to x4.

[Lazlow]

You must hate watching movies or television then.

[Zombie_Plan]

Playing Crash Bandicoot.

[sausage]

KOTOR


again

[AranchineD]

Currently Civilization V, its enjoyable, but not when your sitting on 45 fps, might be time to take AA down to x4.

yes I understand how inconsistent framerate in a turn-based game could be very off putting

[Zombie_Plan]

Playing an actual game of Alien Swarm. It's been fun coming back to this after that initial "awesome" period. It feelslike a new game again.

[HiredMan]

Currently Civilization V, its enjoyable, but not when your sitting on 45 fps, might be time to take AA down to x4. This is the silliest thing I've read for quite a while.

EDIT: I'm playing shitloads of EVE Online at the mo. 'Tis awesome.

[Jay]

This is the silliest thing I've read for quite a while.

EDIT: I'm playing shitloads of EVE Online at the mo. 'Tis awesome.

And that's saying something FX because HiredMan reads all of my posts, so the man knows silly.

Currently playing DKCR and Pac-Man:CEDX. They really should just rename it Crack-Man and be done with it.

[Natrak]

EDIT: I'm playing shitloads of EVE Online at the mo. 'Tis awesome.

This is the silliest thing I've read for quite a while.

[dinopoke]

Anyone interested in Portal 2 should play Tag: The Power of Paint (https://www.digipen.edu/studentprojects/tag/). Just like Narbacular Drop, these students have been hired by Valve so you'll be seeing these paint mechanics pop up in the Portal 2. Like Portal, the game is short (about half an hour), requires a bit of coordination and reflexes, and ends just as it was starting to get interesting. Don't expect any story or interesting characters.

[dinopoke]

Currently playing STALKER again. Up to X16 at the moment. I'm currently on vanilla and while it's a bit buggy, I'm still having a great time. Should I bother with the big mods now (Complete, LURK, OL) or should I finish the game first on vanilla and then use one of those mods for a second playthrough?

[Knuckle Children]

I'm playing Super Mario World on the SNES atm.

I know my skills are rusty, but shit, this game gets tough towards the end. Thank Christ for those few levels that feed a crapload of lives to you, otherwise I'd have thrown in the towel by now. Trying to find all of the secrets is giving me a heap of grief too.

[9warbane]

Currently playing STALKER again. Up to X16 at the moment. I'm currently on vanilla and while it's a bit buggy, I'm still having a great time. Should I bother with the big mods now (Complete, LURK, OL) or should I finish the game first on vanilla and then use one of those mods for a second playthrough?

Finish it then try a mod after. Get at least one of the endings then go with LURK.

[AranchineD]

Those mods pretty much make it a completely different feeling game, so play it vanilla first dinopoke

[ElPresidente]

I endorse the previous message. Visuals mods are fine but gameplay mods do have a drastic impact on the vanilla experience.

Think of those mods as extending the game experience once you've finished vanilla and want to play more STALKER (it will happen :P).

[FX-GTZ]

Team Fortress 2, feels alot different now. I liked TF2 more without all of the stupid extra's like hats and idle maps.

[AranchineD]

Man, the interface in Just Cause 2 sure is pretty

[enrique]

Im playing sims 3 on 360, its been a while since I've played a Sims game, Im just mucking around the house building atm, not really bothering about my Sim's actual lives as such.

[Australian Ninja]

Stayed up all night playing Castlevania: Generic Third Person action game with God of War and Shadow of the Colossus moments.

Don't know why, I don't like it so much.

It's a pretty game, but the level design is awful.

[Australian Ninja]

I'm playing Super Mario World on the SNES atm.

I know my skills are rusty, but shit, this game gets tough towards the end. Thank Christ for those few levels that feed a crapload of lives to you, otherwise I'd have thrown in the towel by now. Trying to find all of the secrets is giving me a heap of grief too.

I'd say SMW is tough but fair.

But SMW2 /Yoshi's just pisses me off every time that dumb baby cries and flies away, making you fall down a damn hole trying to get him back.

[Jabbz]

Just started new vegas, haven't gone too far in but very excited. And playing a little Black Ops multi when I'm bored and wanting a change.

[NetherWind]

about to fire up Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

[9warbane]

Prepare your self for a wall of text.

[Gunblade89]

Got back into Advance Wars: Dual Strike in the last couple of days, Trying to finish off some of my DS backlog.

[NetherWind]

Prepare your self for a wall of text.

Par for the course with RPGs, if there isn't a wall of text then something must be wrong.

[Xanafalgue]

KOTOR


again

Is this actually any good, or is it one of those games some people carry on about that aren't very good at all?

I've had it for about 5 years but have never bothered playing it because it's FUG.

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Playing GT5 for the next year. So much depth and good menus. I consider November 25 2010 the day I was born. Thank you God for this wondrful simulation.

[BB2K]

Par for the course with JRPGs
Fixed.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Uno!!

[sausage]

Is this actually any good, or is it one of those games some people carry on about that aren't very good at all?

I've had it for about 5 years but have never bothered playing it because it's FUG.

It's fantastic but; if you hate rpgs forget it, if you can'tget past the shit graphics then forget it..

Music, sound effects and story are top notch.

Think of it (and KOTOR II) as Mass Effect beta's

[Jay]

Do you mean betas or betters? :p

[sausage]

Little bit of column a little bit of column b.

[McChimp]

Epic Mickey. Considering it 'flawed genius'. It's far from perfect, but there's just something about it that's keeping me hooked. Maybe it's the 'Spector Factor'!

[Xanafalgue]

Stayed up all night playing Castlevania: Generic Third Person action game with God of War and Shadow of the Colossus moments.

Don't know why, I don't like it so much.

It's a pretty game, but the level design is awful.

DisGUSting.

[Xanafalgue]

It's fantastic but; if you hate rpgs forget it, if you can'tget past the shit graphics then forget it..

Music, sound effects and story are top notch.

Think of it (and KOTOR II) as Mass Effect beta's

Okay.

I'll give it a go if I'm ever in a horrible car accident and have to spend 6 months in bed (and another 6 months playing DanceEvolution for physio).

(and then I would totally recover but with super mutant powers like all the xmen combined)

(and take out new zealand)

[Australian Ninja]

DisGUSting.

Then played Fallout 3 all day the next day and forgot to shower.

Smelled like somebody had thrown me into the bog of eternal stench.

[VanAce]

I've been playing Chime a lot for the past 2 days. So far none of my scores would compete with Aran's

[AranchineD]

yea boi

[AranchineD]

Playing Multiple A's : A Reckless Disregard For Gravity right now

This game ****ing rules

[Cerebral]

I've been playing Chime a lot for the past 2 days. So far none of my scores would compete with Aran's

In a similar vein, playing Defense Grid has been a thoroughly depressing experience.

[AranchineD]

Chime Asshole time:

Hey VanAce, I noticed you went and beat my score on Markus Schulz, 9 minutes, by about 200k points.

I have rectified the situation.

[ElPresidente]

Playing Multiple A's : A Reckless Disregard For Gravity right now

This game ****ing rules

Not to mention the dev team are super dooper nice and funny. :)

[Cerebral]

Chime Asshole time:

Hey VanAce, I noticed you went and beat my score on Markus Schulz, 9 minutes, by about 200k points.

I have rectified the situation.

Look at this guy

[Cerebral]

Christ, what an asshole.

[Lazlow]

It's all he has though.

[dinopoke]

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days

Combat is much improved compared to the original. Gunshots sound better but weapons are still a bit inaccurate. The cover system works better now as well. There are no grenades, instead, you can pick up and throw gas canisters and shoot them so they explode. You don't have to revive AI teammates anymore and you don't have to crawl around slowly waiting for a morphine hit when you are critically hit, you can get up straight away. I'm quite a fan of the handy-cam art style. The artifacts on the screen and distorted explosions make it feel like there's a hidden cameraman taking record of the events. However, sprinting makes the camera shake quite a lot and that might be disorienting to some. The game is quite short at around 4 hours or so. The setpieces are also not as quite interesting although fighting on highways and busy streets is quite cool. The first game had some awesome, Michael Mann inspired, setpieces (pretty much the only reason I enjoyed it) but here it's only just set in Shanghai. There is a lack of pacing so it just feels like you're just moving from one level to another. Fragile Alliance feels pretty repetitive so I didn't play much of that. Overall, Kane and Lynch 2 was better than expected (I expected it to be horrible) but it's basically a very short stock standard third-person shooter. If IO Interactive had released the first game with this engine (and remade the last third of the game), it would have been much better received.

3/5

[grimace06]

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days

Combat is much improved compared to the original. Gunshots sound better but weapons are still a bit inaccurate. The cover system works better now as well. There are no grenades, instead, you can pick up and throw gas canisters and shoot them so they explode. You don't have to revive AI teammates anymore and you don't have to crawl around slowly waiting for a morphine hit when you are critically hit, you can get up straight away. I'm quite a fan of the handy-cam art style. The artifacts on the screen and distorted explosions make it feel like there's a hidden cameraman taking record of the events. However, sprinting makes the camera shake quite a lot and that might be disorienting to some. The game is quite short at around 4 hours or so. The setpieces are also not as quite interesting although fighting on highways and busy streets is quite cool. The first game had some awesome, Michael Mann inspired, setpieces (pretty much the only reason I enjoyed it) but here it's only just set in Shanghai. There is a lack of pacing so it just feels like you're just moving from one level to another. Fragile Alliance feels pretty repetitive so I didn't play much of that. Overall, Kane and Lynch 2 was better than expected (I expected it to be horrible) but it's basically a very short stock standard third-person shooter. If IO Interactive had released the first game with this engine (and remade the last third of the game), it would have been much better received.

3/5

I found this game to be really easy. Enemies don't throw grenades meaning you can sit in cover as long as you want and if you rush them down the AI loses the plot.

[Lazlow]

Rock Band Unplugged (PSP)

Been playing a lot of DJ Max Portable 2 lately (gotta order #3) and thought this would make a nice change from the ultra gay k-pop. At first I didn't like it, mainly the track switching. I'd rather be able to stick to one instrument.

Then I found two options; one that unlocks all the tracks (disables the ability to save though) and the other being Warm Up mode, where you can play through whole songs sticking to one instrument. Not making this an option available in the main mode is is a bit puzzling, but in the end I don't care. This game is for quick blasts, and I probably wont even touch the main mode.

[AranchineD]

Look at this ****en guy, not liking track switching

What a bozo

[Lazlow]

What can I say, I like to have fun.

[AranchineD]

It's not that hard

You play one track, and then you play another track, and then another

It's like you're actually making music

[Lazlow]

I didn't say it was hard you clod. I just don't like it.

[AranchineD]

TIME FOR AN AMPLITUDE POST l

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[AranchineD]

Ah, good memories

[ElPresidente]

<3 Amplitude and Frequency

[NetherWind]

Dark Dawn and a wall of text is an understatement, more like the great wall text 3 times the size of the great wall in china. But definitely a top notch rpg for the DS, the game makes you suffer if you haven't levelled enough. Up to the part looking for the Umbra Gear that will help me stop the eclipse tower from turning the world into a monster paradise.

[dimorphic]

I grabbed TFU Ultimate Sith addition for $28 from EB. The DLC missions are pretty rad.

[TAT]

Shatter - Bonus Mode

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[sausage]

you're just hopeless mate; man up and grow a less unattractive pair

[Surgeon.]

Shatter - Bonus Mode

**** this game


Yep. **** Shatter.

What an awful ****ing achievement. The actual game Shatter was alright, but this achievement is terrible.

Worse still, I got 11,200,000 exactly. I assumed that the achievement was done and clicked esc and quit game. For some messed up reason the score wasn't recorded when I went back to the main menu. I'll do it again, but it's super frustrating.

Also, just wish I could turn off the distracting shit in the background!

[TAT]

Also, just wish I could turn off the distracting shit in the background!
This. One million times this.

Also, You're doing too well so lets **** with gravity a bit

And then, Oh! Used to it, are you? Lets reverse it with no warning

[Natrak]

Shatter owns.

[Ad-Rock]

I'm looking for a really hard online game that was recommended to me, but I can't remember its name. I think it was a four letter word, starting with O or U.

I know that the unit for the score is m.

Ring a bell to anyone?

[Xanafalgue]

Ovum...

[TAT]

Shatter owns.
Shatter is good. The challenge is complete arse.

Like, I just noticed that in addition to everything I've already complained about, the ****ing field of play shakes and moves during the game. WHY?! What possible ****ing purpose does that serve?

[dinopoke]

All the talk about Skyrim has inspired me to boot up Morrowind again. Never really got around to playing it properly but I've always admired how well it was modded. Added a few more mods yesterday so here are some screenshots:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6152/mgescreenshot1.th.png (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/mgescreenshot1.png/)http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4926/mgescreenshot5.th.png (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/mgescreenshot5.png/)http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/258/mgescreenshot8.th.png (http://img155.imageshack.us/i/mgescreenshot8.png/)http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9092/mgescreenshot13.th.png (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/mgescreenshot13.png/)

I still don't really like the combat. Does it grow on you like Deus Ex does?

[9warbane]

It's pretty annoying at the start how it's like invisible dice are being rolled to determine if your attack hits but once you get a few levels up it's all good.

You could always change the combat with a mod.

[9warbane]

Reinstalling and modding the **** out of Oblivion, ****ing sausage and Skyrim being announced.

Edit: And dinopoke your resolution is shit.

[HiredMan]

HiredMan: Boy I can't wait to take a ship into dangerous space by myself!

*HiredMan is soon found cowering in his escape pod after having been utterly raped by a fleet of 30 pirate capital ships*This actually happened to me last night. Well, sort of.

Edwarb and I ventured into low-sec space to try and find some nice squishy bot pirates to kill. We were actually looking for a bot pirate battleship that we engaged night before last but didn't quite have enough firepower fitted to take down at the time (I was in a Moa assault cruiser and edwarb in a Carracal missle cruiser), keen to smash him with our new guns.

Anyway, jump into 0.4 sec space and I hear Edwarb say "oh no" about 2 seconds before I spot a **** off huge (player controlled, eep) battleship and all my systems are immobilised.

His heavy turrets had a bit of trouble targetting me but it only took three hits to vaporise my 10,000,000+ isk cruiser :( And I had shitty insurance :(

Then he pod killed me :(

[Ad-Rock]

WoW: Cataclysm

This game just gets better and better. Slightly annoyed by mobs respawning instantly, but it is better than if they were taking too long.

[dinopoke]

Edit: And dinopoke your resolution is shit.

Any higher and Morrowind will barely run at all because of all the mods. >_>

[Xanafalgue]

Reinstalling and modding the **** out of Oblivion, ****ing sausage and Skyrim being announced.

Edit: And dinopoke your resolution is shit.

Sometimes I wish I had a decent gaming PC. I would play through the main quest of Oblivion again if it was modded. Fallout 3 too.

On the flipside, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft/Bethesda announced TESV:Skyrim timed-exclusive DLC for the 360 :D

[VanAce]

Shatter is good. The challenge is complete arse.

Like, I just noticed that in addition to everything I've already complained about, the ****ing field of play shakes and moves during the game. WHY?! What possible ****ing purpose does that serve?

It was very disorientating. I guess it was to give another level of difficulty to the hardcore players. The kind of guys who get scores in the top 200. the leaderboard has some very impossible looking scores.

[Zombie_Plan]

Shatter is good. The challenge is complete arse.

Like, I just noticed that in addition to everything I've already complained about, the ****ing field of play shakes and moves during the game. WHY?! What possible ****ing purpose does that serve?

I finally unlocked bonus mode today and tried a few times before raging. It's so distracting >_<

I also bought Metro 2033 only to find out it doesn't work on my current computer, which is disappointing.

[dimorphic]

Gonna jump back into Fable 3 now. Never gave it a proper shot once Black Ops came out.

[Lazlow]

Game Dev Story

Its ridiculous how hooked I am on this.

[adam_91vn]

Game Dev Story

Its ridiculous how hooked I am on this.

Bought this today, haven't put it down.

[Nic Xtreme]

Wow, Morrowind looks great with mods. I'll have to research and check out if there's a fast travel mod and the like.

I'm still playing Oblivion atm. I'm 60 hours in and it is still amazing. I've done the Thieves and Mages Guild questlines, next up I'm going to continue the main quest.

[Xanafalgue]

Oblivion (Shivering Isles), Guwange, BFBC2 and just started playing Alone in the Dark (again)... lol, it's so bad.

[ElPresidente]

Wow, Morrowind looks great with mods. I'll have to research and check out if there's a fast travel mod and the like.

I'm still playing Oblivion atm. I'm 60 hours in and it is still amazing. I've done the Thieves and Mages Guild questlines, next up I'm going to continue the main quest.

You would be having a much better time if you were playing an RPG like Morrowind instead of Grand Theft Pony. </seething Oblivion hate> :P

[Nic Xtreme]

No way. I'm completely into the artistic design of Oblivion - particularly the rolling countryside, high trees, awesome weather, and gorgeous European architecture. Plus the accents.

[AranchineD]

yeah I'm wowed by generic fantasy landscapes too

[Xanafalgue]

I was just looking at the Oblivion voice credits and had no idea that the CEO of Zenimax/Bethesda is married to Lynda Carter, who voiced the female Nord and Orc NPCs :D

http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/lynda-carter-as-wonder-woman.jpg

[SOX]

Game Dev Story

Its ridiculous how hooked I am on this.

It loses it's lustre on the second playthrough - great fun the first run though :)

[Lazlow]

My company sucks dick (its called Dickhole Games btw, creators of hit games such as Robocock, Timecock 2, Old Fella, Cock of Duty, and Dickablo) and I don't have enough money to develop for newer systems. About 18y in and only have a license to develop for the PSP. :(

But I did read the Edge review where they said it can get to a point where you're so successful you can release any old bug ridddled shit and still sell 20mil copies.

[Nic Xtreme]

yeah I'm wowed by generic fantasy landscapes too

Please recommend me some other games set in generic fantasy landscapes that are as immersive visually and aurally, and are open world. I'd love to play them.

Also: Generic vs. Drawing influence from history/reality

[Australian Ninja]

I finally unlocked bonus mode today and tried a few times before raging. It's so distracting >_<

I also bought Metro 2033 only to find out it doesn't work on my current computer, which is disappointing.

You can get it for around $30 AU and under on 360 if that helps any.

[dinopoke]

Ketsui and Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou, considered Cave's hardest and best shooters, are nearly 100% emulated on MAME! Played a bit of both today and it's pretty insane.

[AranchineD]

Also: Generic vs. Drawing influence from history/reality

90% of fantasy uses this excuse, it's generic, case closed

And in fact it's generic 'Ye Olde Britain', how about you just go and explore the place in real life, it's much more entertaining

[Xanafalgue]

90% of fantasy uses this excuse, it's generic, case closed

And in fact it's generic 'Ye Olde Britain', how about you just go and explore the place in real life, it's much more entertaining

No, it really isn't.

Cyrodiil > England.

[9warbane]

Please recommend me some other games set in generic fantasy landscapes that are as immersive visually and aurally, and are open world. I'd love to play them.

http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php/Unique_Landscapes
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http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php/Harvest_Flora
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http://www.oblivionmodwiki.com/index.php/Better_Nightsky
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http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5434
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http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22819

aaaand Oblivions landscapes are fixed.

[TAT]

I also bought Metro 2033 only to find out it doesn't work on my current computer, which is disappointing.
I feel for you, dude. It's a great game.

[Nic Xtreme]

I just completed the 'Whodunit?' quest in the Dark Brotherhood questline. Absolute brilliance.

90% of fantasy uses this excuse, it's generic, case closed

And in fact it's generic 'Ye Olde Britain', how about you just go and explore the place in real life, it's much more entertaining

I wanted to and responded to an advertisement that gave me the opportunity to explore "Ye Olde Britain", but safety was not guaranteed.

[Zombie_Plan]

As per Steam's glorious sales, I picked up Bob Came (childish giggle) In Pieces, and Zombie Driver.

Played a little Bob Came In Pieces just now, and I kind of liked it. I'm not in a puzzle mood at this point in time, but it's interesting enough to stay installed on my computer.

Zombie Driver is just booting up, this will hopefully be decent.

[Xanafalgue]

I'm playing through Mass Effect 1 again, just about to hit Virmire so I'm near the end.

As much as I love Mass Effect 2, I think this is the better game.

[sausage]

Fallout: New Vegas on hardcore mode.

This is it


This is gaming

[9warbane]

Oblivion.

Ignoring the main quests for now, until I've levelled up a bit. Tried doing the first gate and got 4 rooms in till it was just too hard.

About half way through Shivering Isles, which I hadn't played before. Got some unique armour and weapons that I'll hold on to.

[Gunblade89]

Playing The World Ends With You up to day 4, really fun and innovative rpg, enjoying it alot.

[BB2K]

Playing The World Ends With You up to day 4, really fun and innovative rpg, enjoying it alot.

lol..

[Gunblade89]

You don't consider it an JRPG?

[BB2K]

You just called a game two different genres boy.

[dinopoke]

But you play a role of a stylus!

[Gunblade89]

You just called a game two different genres boy.

No i didn't

[Cerebral]

I enjoyed playing the role of

[Spazzola]

You zetta sons of digits!

[BB2K]

u level up in it so it is a rpg fagets

[Vindik8or]

Playing The World Ends With You up to day 4, really fun and innovative rpg, enjoying it alot.

So innovative that it's not even an RPG.

[Tukenstein]

Nothing really caught my eye at work after AC:Brotherhood, so I decided to look into this Minecraft thing all the kids are yammering about. I'm ashamed I hadn't bothered with it until now; sky castles are the absolute best thing ever.

Oh, I also gave Octodad a whirl (and gushed at any customer stupid enough to stand in one place long enough about it) and am looking at maybe dipping into some Game Dev Story or Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. SUGGESTIONS!

[AranchineD]

Dark Corners of the Earth

[Nic Xtreme]

Just started Halo 3: ODST. Initial impressions are: NATHAN FILLION <3

Seriously though, what's with the reliance on sniping? Any time I want to do awesome shit up close you have to wait till the ten billion snipers are dead, which only occurs after I walk through four boring stairs and corridors to get to balconies with the dropped sniping weapons. Or until there's only one big dude left, so there's nothing to kill me from fifty miles away as I dance around and slap him to death.

I've heard there's only six hours of it, which is good news. The hub world is awesome, but waaaaaay too dark. I want to appreciate it without the visor thingo on, and without raising my TV to maximum settings.

[Xanafalgue]

I still haven't finished ODST. I found it really difficult :/

[Jay]

Same. I should go back to it, but I found it far more difficult than any previous or subsequent Halo, and then my save got corrupted somehow and I couldn't be bothered revisiting.

[Dr Skinnybones]

Really? I found ODST the easiest to finish on Legendary.

[SOX]

ODST was far and away the easiest Halo of the series (at least with regards to Legendary).

[Nic Xtreme]

I'm finding ODST on Heroic harder than Halo 3 on Legendary.

Also: **** the AI is shit. Retard 'teammates' who can't drive or shoot for shit.

[SOX]

I'm finding ODST on Heroic harder than Halo 3 on Legendary.


You're entitled to your opinion despite it being very obviously wrong.

[SOX]

But this is you, so I shouldn't be surprised at all.

[Nic Xtreme]

Hell yes fortunately the level 2 checkpoints were easily exploitable.

EDIT: Yeah it's not harder anymore. It was just the shit AI on level 2. It's getting quite easy now.

[MacGuyver]

I've been meaning to go back and try finish ODST on legendary, did it on heroic without too much hassle.

[ElPresidente]

I love that I can come into a thread these days and the RPG argument has come and gone without my input. Huzzah! :P

Also TWEWY is an awesome game no matter what genre you consider it. <3 TWEWY

[AranchineD]

ahh crap, on anything other than 'Low' resolution Stranger's Wrath runs like ass

Guess I'll be playing this in window mode!

[grimace06]

I'm playing Enslaved and I think its OK. Up to the end of Chapter 5.

It looks good and the characters interact well but like Heavenly Sword it doesn't do anything interesting game play wise. I'll have to wait and see on the story.

[Jay]

I really enjoyed Enslaved, even the somewhat controversial ending.

I've gone back to Bad Company 2 and am tidying up the campaign. So much better than Black Ops.

The other thing I'm playing is Christmas Shopping 2010. Not as good as last year's version, and some of the boss levels are a bitch (namely my Dad atm), but nearly finished so that's good. Might be able to take it back under the 7 day returns policy if I'm lucky.

[9warbane]

They need to patch Christmas Shopping 2010. Any time I enter a shop there's too many people and I lag like a bitch.

[TAT]

lol you guys

I finished Christmas Shopping 2010 about 3 weeks ago.
****in casuals

[Jay]

:) Also just finished, taking out the ex-girlfriend and Dad using my Borders powerup.

Now back to Bad Company 2.

[Gunblade89]

Started playing Dead Space, it's incredibly unsettling at times. But the atmosphere in the game is amazing and is making me glued to the screen.

[dinopoke]

Plaything without shooting is a bullet is a bit more manageable on Modern Warfare 2 then it is on BLOPS. I'm up to the end of No Russian and so far I've only detonated a pack of C4 and used the grenade launcher once.

[Cerebral]

Plaything without shooting is a bullet

[dinopoke]

what have I done!

[Cerebral]

RIP Dinopoke