(not sure if this has been done, had a quick look couldn't see anything)
What games are you playing right now, on what platform and what do you think of them?
F1 2011 (xbox 360) - lovely graphics, as an F1 fan I love the game. It's nice and simple to control but you can get really in depth with things or keep it simple.
Rayman (ps vita) - amazing graphics, its really vibrant and the funkiest music. It's brilliant platform I'd recommend it.
Ninja Gaiden (ps vita) - graphics are now, story is good. It could be really hard because it takes quite a bit to even get the 'pop up every few minutes' enemies to go down. I have it on easy though >.< And it is easy for me so far.
I have played UFC Personal Trainer today for the PS Move. I like the game and it does give you a workout. I've been working out on it for 3 days straight for over an hour and I am sore.
I've been meaning to play The Darkness 2 for the PS3 again but I've been so caught up in watching Sailor Moon. I'm going to take a break from Sailor Moon tonight to play again. The Darkness 2 is a good game but it's too short. I actually have a full review of the game in my blog.
Quote from: Malachite on August 02, 2012, 08:00:50 PM
I have played UFC Personal Trainer today for the PS Move. I like the game and it does give you a workout. I've been working out on it for 3 days straight for over an hour and I am sore.
I've been meaning to play The Darkness 2 for the PS3 again but I've been so caught up in watching Sailor Moon. I'm going to take a break from Sailor Moon tonight to play again. The Darkness 2 is a good game but it's too short. I actually have a full review of the game in my blog.
I heard about that game (the UFC) didn't read anything about it though. Is it literally like a fitness game just takin you through some training they might do or do you get to fight?
Quote from: Tom on August 02, 2012, 08:12:39 PM
I heard about that game (the UFC) didn't read anything about it though. Is it literally like a fitness game just takin you through some training they might do or do you get to fight?
It is literally a fitness game that takes you through some of the training and exercises they do and you can choose to work on multiple things like legs, strikes, core body, build endurance, build muscle, cut weight, etc. I wish I could fight in the game lol.
Quote from: Malachite on August 02, 2012, 08:23:29 PM
It is literally a fitness game that takes you through some of the training and exercises they do and you can choose to work on multiple things like legs, strikes, core body, build endurance, build muscle, cut weight, etc. I wish I could fight in the game lol.
Yeah it would be cool if they incorporated fighting matches into that training so you could build up to something and then you slowly get tougher fights so you training becomes more difficult.
Quote from: Tom on August 02, 2012, 08:35:08 PM
Yeah it would be cool if they incorporated fighting matches into that training so you could build up to something and then you slowly get tougher fights so you training becomes more difficult.
I know right! I'd drop money quick for a game like that. I imagine it would be extremely difficult to do something like that with so many types of fighting styles and moves. I can totally see it for a boxing game though.
Quote from: Malachite on August 02, 2012, 08:38:03 PM
I know right! I'd drop money quick for a game like that. I imagine it would be extremely difficult to do something like that with so many types of fighting styles and moves. I can totally see it for a boxing game though.
Yeah there's so many ideas I have for amazing games but at the moment there all too complicated lol. I'm hoping in future though they might be able to produce more complex games. I think the graphics are great now so maybe they might start focusing on that in the near future
Skyrim for the 360. If you have a soul and want to keep it, don't get this game. It will seriously devour it and you will never see it again.
Also, I want to be a Khajit. Just saying.
Here are a few games I have played recently. Not necessarily new games but I take what I can get.
Super Meat Boy: I have it on pc but I think it's on ps3 and xbox as well. Very fun, very challenging and very addictive. Just a chunk of meat trying to save his gf through hazardous courses :P
World of Warcraft: My only gripe is how far they are taking the community out of the game. If you have ever done lfr or lfd you will know exactly what I am talking about. No longer can you have idiots/ninjas/trolls blacklisted. Still I like the game, the graphics don't destroy my eyes and the lore is wonderful.
Fable 3: Pc. I was very very disappointed with this game and the series. It started off so wonderfully with the xbox version and then the second one actually made me cringe. The third one while better than the second falls so short of the glory that the first one had. The weapons are boring. The fighting is boring, the graphics are wonderful but you are on this little gold trail the entire time. The map system is clunky. Overall I was sad when this one came out. I mean it is still a great game and reaver just made me smile but compared to the first one with lost chapters it is pitiful.
Skyrim: PC. I like this game, I always wanted to see what the nordlands would be like. I wasn't disappointed to say the least. Oblivion was a miserable followup to 3rd one in my opinion. Morrowind was what I started with and I am still loyal to it :P Skyrim however did not disappoint me like oblivion did. I enjoy the kill moves and archery :3
Quote from: Snowpaw on August 03, 2012, 04:40:47 PM
Skyrim: PC. I like this game, I always wanted to see what the nordlands would be like. I wasn't disappointed to say the least. Oblivion was a miserable followup to 3rd one in my opinion. Morrowind was what I started with and I am still loyal to it :P Skyrim however did not disappoint me like oblivion did. I enjoy the kill moves and archery :3
Did you get the Dawnguard DLC? I love having Crossbows. >:-)
Quote from: ShadeOfGray on August 03, 2012, 04:46:01 PM
Did you get the Dawnguard DLC? I love having Crossbows. >:-)
Not yet.
Quote from: ShadeOfGray on August 03, 2012, 04:31:09 PM
Skyrim for the 360. If you have a soul and want to keep it, don't get this game. It will seriously devour it and you will never see it again.
Also, I want to be a Khajit. Just saying.
I wanted to be a Khajit but they don't have any Khajit romances so I gave that up. -.- Then I wanted to be an Argonian but it killed my immersion when the other Argonians treated me like a Nord. The first one I wanted to be was an Orc but then I hated being taller than everyone, lolz. Oh well, happy with my Redguard I guess. I didn't even play Skyrim for 6 months after I got it because it was confusing at first. >.<
Anyways, I've mostly been playing old games I haven't touched in awhile. I played Saints Row: The Third again and started a second character. Wasn't appealed to the Female 1 voice at first but now I'm a Laura Bailey fan (Also in Skyrim now!! She's teh vampire lady who keeps following you around). I tried Saints Row 2 multiplayer again for like 2 days but have since lost interest. I tried to play the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut but I got bored and didn't continue with it. I got into the Sims Medieval and I love it, but glitches are pushing me away. Same with Sims 3. I'm planning to get the new WoW expansion and I'm rly excited, haven't played WoW since January, lolz, but unfortunately it's encouraging me to procrastinate coming out more and I'm trying to fight that. I also wanna try Guild Wars 2 out. I tried to play Dead Rising again because at one point that was like my favorite game but the AI made me frustrated. Unfortunately the Japanese tourists didn't make it. :( Um that's it I guess lolz.
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on August 03, 2012, 05:04:40 PM
I wanted to be a Khajit but they don't have any Khajit romances so I gave that up. -.- Then I wanted to be an Argonian but it killed my immersion when the other Argonians treated me like a Nord. The first one I wanted to be was an Orc but then I hated being taller than everyone, lolz. Oh well, happy with my Redguard I guess. I didn't even play Skyrim for 6 months after I got it because it was confusing at first. >.<
Anyways, I've mostly been playing old games I haven't touched in awhile. I played Saints Row: The Third again and started a second character. Wasn't appealed to the Female 1 voice at first but now I'm a Laura Bailey fan (Also in Skyrim now!! She's teh vampire lady who keeps following you around). I tried Saints Row 2 multiplayer again for like 2 days but have since lost interest. I tried to play the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut but I got bored and didn't continue with it. I got into the Sims Medieval and I love it, but glitches are pushing me away. Same with Sims 3. I'm planning to get the new WoW expansion and I'm rly excited, haven't played WoW since January, lolz, but unfortunately it's encouraging me to procrastinate coming out more and I'm trying to fight that. I also wanna try Guild Wars 2 out. I tried to play Dead Rising again because at one point that was like my favorite game but the AI made me frustrated. Unfortunately the Japanese tourists didn't make it. :( Um that's it I guess lolz.
Wow, ya got some nice taste in games there, chicky. ^_^
Why thank you. :)
-Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
-Kirby's Return To Dreamland
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl
-Super Mario Galaxy 2
-Super Mario Sunshine
-Zelda of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
With the release of Resident Evil 6 about a month and a half away, I figured I'd play RE5 Gold Edition again for PS3.
What do I think of it? Well... it's a mixed bag. Firstly, most importantly, and the thing you have to come to terms with from the second you start this game up: It's not scary. It's not even close to being scary. Gone are the days of tentatively creeping around corners wondering when you were going to hear those chilling moans and groans which you just knew was the precursor to one or more undead denizens beginning their slow yet inexorable advance towards you. Gone are the days of knowing and praying that you had enough bullets in your puny little handgun for a headshot or two because if you didn't, you would get a face full of rotting flesh which you could do nothing about save push the lumbering brute feebly away, turn tail and leg it down the corridor.
Instead you get a veritable arsenal of guns, grenades, mines, stun rods, sniper rifles, body armour, and a set of melee moves which would make a Tekken character blush. Added to that, you get music which starts up once you meet one of the game's Nonbies (yeah, not zombies), and which continues on until you've obliterated everything in the vicinity, leaving only bloody red stains on the floor. That pretty much gets rid of any uncertainty about if there's anything left to kill. It's like Musical Slaughter - when the music stops, you're clear.
Considering RE games of old, this is a big departure. There's even a section shooting things from the back of a Hummer, for pity's sake. It's an action game, pure and simple. With a checkpoint seemingly every five steps, it removes the Survival aspect, and Horror has been replaced by 'kill everything which moves and then do a few QTE's before you get to the next map'.
Does this make it a bad game? No. It just doesn't make it a Resident Evil game. The areas themselves are gorgeous, the graphics overall are stunning. Especially the backdrops and the environments. The Manjini (the name for the misanthropic inhabitants in this game) are devious. And fast. Which, again, departs from the lumbering zombie theme of the first few games in the franchise. They will duck and weave when you aim at them, sometimes making it hard to get a shot in. As you progress, they get as tooled up as the characters do - gaining armor, firearms, riot shields, heck even miniguns. Cover mechanics come into play and the game drifts further and further away from its roots in order to purvey a very action orientated experience. Which, it has to be said, it does very well. And if that's your thing then you won't be disappointed.
The partner mechanic is good in theory, and in a co-op game with two human players, I imagine it's a fun experience. Unfortunately, the AI partner in a single player game can act like they've been at the tequila slammers, and do some insanely stupid and reckless things to the point where you have to take their guns out of their inventory because if they die, well... to quote Hudson from the movie Aliens: "Game over, man, game over!"
As you play you earn money which you can either find, or which is dropped by the Manjini once they disintegrate in a bubbling heap on the floor after you pump them full of lead/explosives/acid/big-fist-to-the-face etc. Added to this are a plethora of treasures you can find - gems, rings, jewelry etc - which can then be sold at the inventory screen brought up after each sub-chapter or whenever you restart a checkpoint. This money is used to upgrade your arsenal and buy more WMD's (Weapons of Manjini Devastation). However, you can replay a sub-chapter as many times as you like which not only breaks up the flow of the game but can be utilised to 'farm' certain maps containing a lot of treasures in order to power up your gear very quickly and overpower your characters for the rest of the game.
The boss fights are fun, though, and often involve more than just shooting until they're dead. They're also pretty epic in scale. The different environments are really nice, too, although as I said at the start - not scary. As the Versus modes and Mercenaries modes show (both of which I royally suck at since they're way too 'actiony' for me and I can't think ahead fast enough to react), the game was designed more like a series of multiplayer maps you might find in a first person shooter rather than primarily as a coherent, flowing game world. It does its thing well enough, and as an action game it has it's moments. Adrenaline junkies would probably love it. But for fans of survival horror like myself, the more traditional kind, it's a little lacking in the atmosphere and tension which gives you the sense of satisfaction. Especially since, as I recall, there are no RE-style puzzles in this game at all. None.
The DLC pack 'Lost In Nightmares' is actually closer to RE of old than the game it's added on to. And is a lot of fun.
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Yeesh. Didn't intend to write that much.
Final Fantasy XIII for the 360. I know it's an older one but my work was selling it for 18 bucks and with my 20% off I get for working there I couldn't pass it up. I like the Final Fantasy series, however there are SO many cut scenes which I understand do apply to the game, but they could do with a little less "movie watching" and a hell of a lot more action! 7/10
I'm not playing this game right now, but as soon as it comes in the mail I will be! Just ordered hook on the snes! I know that game is crappy as hell, but when I was a child it was pretty much the only game I'd rent from blockbuster. Yeah I was boring, but I'm stoked on the nostalgia this will bring me ;D
On PS3 busy playing The Walking Dead. I think the game is pretty amazing if you like role playing games with a small amount of puzzle solving. My only gripe with it is that the episodes take a month or longer to come out and because I'm in the EU region I have to wait for them to get past all the different countries before it is released on PSN.
On my PC I am currently playing Guild Wars 2. A very nice mmo, really enjoying the amount of story and how dynamic the events are. The next PC game will either be Torchlight 2 (a diabloesque game) or Borderlands 2 whose humor is just great. Although they both release on the same day so not sure which I will end up playing first.
Cave Story + for Steam (also available in 3ds and maybe Wii). With the lack of decent Metroid titles, is totally worth it. A game that took five years to be finished, by only one person, is something everybody should try.
Legend of Dragoon. I'm lame and play old RPGs. I love it but I forgot how unforgiving it is. Kids today wouldn't be able to play it without throwing it out the window. I will beat you, stupid boss that attacks 6 times for every two attacks I get because your AI is stupid and got lucky.
But, before then, I am off to spend some time with Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate.
Quote from: Crt.rnA on September 07, 2012, 01:51:45 PM
Cave Story + for Steam (also available in 3ds and maybe Wii).
Just a few weeks ago, I found my old Doukutsu Monogatari .exe file and tried playing 'Last Cave' to see how well my platforming skills held up. However, the gamesave I had was the one where I didn't trade for Curly's gun. It wasn't all that easy to just pick up and kick ass. The music was fun to listen to though.
When I heard they would make a version for the Wii (way back whenever), I was super pumped and pleaded with my Wii owning friend to download it. I got to play it, but I just couldn't enjoy the 'updated' graphics and the new version of the songs. I have a passion for 8 bit and 16 bit games though.
Today I played this weird game called Super Mario Brothers. It is for a system called the Nintendo. Let it be known that I found this game to be absolutely terrible. For starters it involves a tripped out guy in red overalls eating mushrooms and spitting fire at terribly animated creatures. I can not tell what these creatures were, I saw the turtles but they again looked terrible. This is 2012 and they are still allowing games like this to be made? I trucked on, I soon found myself coming up on a gap in the game. Surely I could have grappled across it or used a portal to form another portal on the otherside but no. This fat plumber who is easily over 250 pounds manages to jump clear across a hole that was over 4 times wider than him. No this was not the height of ridiculousness, no I soon found that at the end of the level you yanked a flag down the pole. Aside from being a silly thing unto itself it was blatantly anti American. It was teaching kids that jumping and kicking your enemies was the way to go and that yanking flags down poles was noble.
I found myself reaching the weirdness, I dropped down the hole and this conjoined creature was coming at me. I jumped on one and he smooshed but the other stilled continued after me. I hid on top of the glowing blocks. Clearly he was sharing a brain with his now dead brother because he just continued on like a dope. On top of this game being terribly animated, promoting violence against people and turtles, encouraging drug use and tearing up flags it was now encouraging me to beat up the handicapped. I had to continue to see what other horrors this game had to show.
I made my way to the big castle and found that it was also cliched. there was lava here and yep you guessed it, lava balls spitting out of the fire. Clearly this game was hackneyed and ripped off other better games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Halo. I crossed bridges, jumped impossible gaps only to find that I had broken into the home of a lizard man. Clearly he was infuriated with me and was spitting fire at me. Understandably so, I had stolen his "shrooms" and money. "This game is now encouraging breaking and entering...."I thought. I jumped over him to avoid him, maybe give him back his druggery and money that I had looted from his castle only to find that I landed on a axe that had killed him. This game is pure evil. I cannot even imagine what awaits next. I killed a lizard man for protecting his home. How sick is this game?
Then it happened, he had apparently kidnapped a child and stuffed him in a bag for some nefarious deed. Perhaps this game wasn't so bad, I just saved a child wearing a odd hat from a deviant lizard man. I felt better, then the child told me the princess was in another castle. Are you telling me that I must break more laws? Are there more lizard people out there kidnapping children? I had to find out, I continued on, wondering who this princess was, why was I saving her? Didn't she have a knight? Was I the knight? There was hardly a story to this game. Finally I burgled all the castles and defeated all the deviant lizards and saved the princess. I had beaten a very odd game.
So in short, I will give Super mario Brothers a 8/10, despite it teaching bad things to children, it let me beat up evil lizards who kidnapped children. You cannot put a price on that.
That may be the most amusing review of Mario Bros I have ever heard ;D
Quote from: Snowpaw on September 13, 2012, 11:40:23 PM
Today I played this weird game called Super Mario Brothers. It is for a system called the Nintendo. Let it be known that I found this game to be absolutely terrible. For starters it involves a tripped out guy in red overalls eating mushrooms and spitting fire at terribly animated creatures. I can not tell what these creatures were, I saw the turtles but they again looked terrible. This is 2012 and they are still allowing games like this to be made? I trucked on, I soon found myself coming up on a gap in the game. Surely I could have grappled across it or used a portal to form another portal on the otherside but no. This fat plumber who is easily over 250 pounds manages to jump clear across a hole that was over 4 times wider than him. No this was not the height of ridiculousness, no I soon found that at the end of the level you yanked a flag down the pole. Aside from being a silly thing unto itself it was blatantly anti American. It was teaching kids that jumping and kicking your enemies was the way to go and that yanking flags down poles was noble.
I found myself reaching the weirdness, I dropped down the hole and this conjoined creature was coming at me. I jumped on one and he smooshed but the other stilled continued after me. I hid on top of the glowing blocks. Clearly he was sharing a brain with his now dead brother because he just continued on like a dope. On top of this game being terribly animated, promoting violence against people and turtles, encouraging drug use and tearing up flags it was now encouraging me to beat up the handicapped. I had to continue to see what other horrors this game had to show.
I made my way to the big castle and found that it was also cliched. there was lava here and yep you guessed it, lava balls spitting out of the fire. Clearly this game was hackneyed and ripped off other better games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Halo. I crossed bridges, jumped impossible gaps only to find that I had broken into the home of a lizard man. Clearly he was infuriated with me and was spitting fire at me. Understandably so, I had stolen his "shrooms" and money. "This game is now encouraging breaking and entering...."I thought. I jumped over him to avoid him, maybe give him back his druggery and money that I had looted from his castle only to find that I landed on a axe that had killed him. This game is pure evil. I cannot even imagine what awaits next. I killed a lizard man for protecting his home. How sick is this game?
Then it happened, he had apparently kidnapped a child and stuffed him in a bag for some nefarious deed. Perhaps this game wasn't so bad, I just saved a child wearing a odd hat from a deviant lizard man. I felt better, then the child told me the princess was in another castle. Are you telling me that I must break more laws? Are there more lizard people out there kidnapping children? I had to find out, I continued on, wondering who this princess was, why was I saving her? Didn't she have a knight? Was I the knight? There was hardly a story to this game. Finally I burgled all the castles and defeated all the deviant lizards and saved the princess. I had beaten a very odd game.
So in short, I will give Super mario Brothers a 8/10, despite it teaching bad things to children, it let me beat up evil lizards who kidnapped children. You cannot put a price on that.
You should see the sequel:
Truncated SMB2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZdtgiKP2wA#)
Quote from: Sawdust on September 13, 2012, 11:21:00 PM
Just a few weeks ago, I found my old Doukutsu Monogatari .exe file and tried playing 'Last Cave' to see how well my platforming skills held up. However, the gamesave I had was the one where I didn't trade for Curly's gun. It wasn't all that easy to just pick up and kick ass. The music was fun to listen to though.
When I heard they would make a version for the Wii (way back whenever), I was super pumped and pleaded with my Wii owning friend to download it. I got to play it, but I just couldn't enjoy the 'updated' graphics and the new version of the songs. I have a passion for 8 bit and 16 bit games though.
New soundrack sucks, but remastered is totally worth it. And after having to restart because of the booster 0.8, I discovered about the magine gun and the spur...
Dragon's Dogma on the 360 is taking over my life, I know every inch of Gransys now & still can't get enough of this game.
I can't risk getting the DLC because I will never eat or sleep again!
I am no longer Jayne, I am the Dragonforged Arisen, protector of the realm
Lol today I think I only played words with friends :laugh:
I played Skyrim (PC) today. Got my house built in the Pale lol. only other games I played was Counter Strike.
Sonic Adventure 2 HD. Sooner or later I'm going to set the 360 on fire, if it doesn't do it by itself.
Quote from: Rotten Apple on October 16, 2012, 04:58:47 PM
Sonic Adventure 2 HD. Sooner or later I'm going to set the 360 on fire, if it doesn't do it by itself.
I've got a friend who is into double figures on his 360, many have had the red ring of death (sounds painful) just be patient & your 360 will probably burst into flames on its own.
I love the 360 more than my PS3 but I wish they'd make them a bit more reliable
I just recently managed to find smt nocturne, it's been devouring my time but reminding me just how good some of those old games were.
Oblivion. It's weird compared to Skyrim. >.<
Quote from: Jayne on October 16, 2012, 05:42:55 PM
I've got a friend who is into double figures on his 360, many have had the red ring of death (sounds painful) just be patient & your 360 will probably burst into flames on its own.
I love the 360 more than my PS3 but I wish they'd make them a bit more reliable
Jasper motherboard. I waited until the first "safe" 360 revision came out to buy it. In fact, my launch 60 GB backwards compatible PS3 has more chances of failing now.
But I hate that game so much. I told me that maybe I was to harsh with it during the Dreamcast era, but no, it is even worse. Specially the final acts, since it seems like you need to play 5-6 stages in a row without saving. I discovered it when I went back to the menu, exhausted after two hours. Baaaaadly bad.
Lets see....Mainly WoW at this point with some others like Dissidia 012 ((Tifa v.s ultimecia can go *censored*)) and DW7.
*edit* Silly me forgot the thoughts.
WoW's still same old same old really. Though I feel lvling's a LOT faster.
Dissidia is still fun when the enemy is NOT a pain *glares at Sir 'LOOK AT ME I KNOW HOW TO DODGE EVERY ATTACK YOU MAKE!' exdeath*
As for DW7...I think it's the best one to come out so far. Covering battles we usually don't see. Putting us in control of who had the most impact and even changing it up when the focus needed to. Like in one stage I was Zhou Yu to half of it then once I got the stragity going I got put in control of Sun Ce which was just awesome! I can't wait for the empires ver to come out!
Crusader Kings 2, because I just love trying to conquer Europe. The Duke of Poitou is giving me trouble though, and I can't afford any assassins! Argh!
Kilzone=it was okay
Killzone 2-can't say just yet- I was too tired to finish the first mission.
Video game discussion YESSSS. I've just finished playing Dishonored recently, its freakin' amazing. The plot might not be as good as it could be, but the game play is so much fun! On the go I've been playing Pokemon White 2, and that's probably one of the best pokemon games ever. Its got a lot of neat features, and all the pokemon from the old gens mixed in with the new one, so you can play with your favorites early on.
WWE 13
I hate the controls so much that I'm thinking about trading it in.