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Skyrim and for something online i do gears and fighting games. probably will try to fit old republic in there too.
backlog: i hope to get through in my 3 week break from classes
-Batman(im a bit in now but skyrim just shut that down, batman ,tho, is really great. just to much shit to play right now lol)
-Dark souls new game +
-mw3
-perfect save for me2 on insane
-god of war 3
-on steam i got some stuff i feel bad i never got around to play yet- half life episode, bioshock, and assassins creed :)
-and while i promised myself i wouldnt get anymore games for some reason i did a favor a for a friend and got him gears3 at gamestop and i ended up taking advantage of their buy 2 get 1 free deal and got LA noria and N2 for myself. the n2 konomi game looks really cool. i couldnt make up my mind on the free game so just got that which looks like a hack and slash game(love those!) :)
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My flight sim bug has bitten me again...
and DCS Black Shark 2 recently came out... So, I'm trying to fly that squirrely beast. Emphasis on the "trying" part.
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I *finally* beat Puzzle Kingdoms. My opinion is still: one of the shittiest games made for the DS. Absolutely terrible. I powered through it, like the first bite of a Vegemite sandwich.
On the console, I'm enjoying Fallout 3. I plan on getting the Platinum Trophy :D I'm making good progress, so far. I might run out of Speech challenges, or terminals to hack, but I suspect I'll find a way to make it work.
On deck: Uncharted 3 (xmas gift), Batman: Arkham City (xmas gift), and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 (or whatever) on the DS.
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Couple months back I picked up Duke Nukem on 360 for $20. It was about what I expected, some good mostly bad but for $20 I can't complain to much.
CoD:MW3. played the shit out of the single player and solo spec ops missions. Don't have Live so can't play online.
Just picked up Skyrim so playing that now.
Being unemployed while going to school and taking care of my dad I can only afford a couple games a year so get pretty picky and Skyrim was a good choice because of how much there is to do in it. Should keep me going until I get my financial aid refund in March and buy a new game or two.
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Took my turn playing Duke Nukem Forever. It was pretty much what I expected. Crappy, dated game that wasn't quite as bad as everyone said it was. I'm surprised anyone expected anything more. My only real complaint is it went on too long, I got bored sometime around the mines/dam.
The best part was unlocking all the previous trailers from past E3s. They looked to have made this game four different times, with quite a lot of work done each time. Maybe Gearbox should have acquired one of those early prototypes instead. :grinyes:
Heck, if 3D Realms had the slightest bit of business sense at all, they would have released all 4 versions themselves, and might even still exist today.
P.S. I got a kick out of Duke saying, "I'd buy this for a dollar". I don't know what that joke was supposed to be referring to, but considering I got DNF for a dollar, it was an apt fit.
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P.S. I got a kick out of Duke saying, "I'd buy this for a dollar". I don't know what that joke was supposed to be referring to, but considering I got DNF for a dollar, it was an apt fit.
Oh my goodness, Robocop silly! Your geek membership may be in danger now.
:p
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Now I'm playing Rochard, a pretty cool sidescrolling puzzle platformer I got off Steam. The main character is a space redneck that works in a space mine (yes it's already awesome!). Story is meh but better than I was expecting. Humor consists of god awful puns and a mix of redneck and popular culture jokes.
Gameplay is pretty fun. The primary mechanics center around gravity. You have a gravity gun ala Half Life that allows you to pick up and project objects. You can also change the gravity in a room to low gravity, which makes you jump higher, lets you pick up heavier objects, lets you fling objects further, etc. The game is also continually adding new environmental objects to create interesting puzzles with. I'm only an hour in, but it's very fun so far. It's got a little bit of a very light Metroid flavor to it.
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Oh my goodness, Robocop silly! Your geek membership may be in danger now.
Ah, I was very young when Robocop came out. I remember it, but it was a little too violent for me, so I don't remember all of it. :p
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Currently going through Bastion and loving it. How did this game not get any love for GOTY 2011?
I'm also playing:
Binding of Isaac
Battlefield 3
In my backlog are:
Empire and Napoleon: Total War
Darksiders
Dungeon Defenders
Gears of War 3
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
LoZ: Skyward Sword
Skyrim
Gosh, that's a lot of gaming in my future.
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I finished Skyward Sword. I thought it was wonderful, I don't get what so many people were complaining about. In particular, I kept expecting this horrible slog of fetch quests and padded content near the end, and was shocked to find myself at the final dungeon without much extra effort. My final played time wasn't that much longer than usual either, and that was with me coming within 99% of completion (all items, hearts, sidequests).
Anyway, my next ridiculously short game I started (and will soon finish): Sonic Generations. This is actually my first 3D sonic, and it's very pretty. The controls can be a little quirky at times*, but on the whole it's pretty much the perfect Sonic game. Stages switch between classic 2D and ridiculous 3D courses. The levels and soundtracks are remixed homages to past titles. It's very short, but there are a ton of optional challenges.
*My only two complaints. 1) spin dash in classic mode doesn't work the way it does on the Genesis and I keep using it incorrectly by instinct, 2) analogue movement in 3D mode is sometimes off and I end up running or jumping off a cliff. There are also a couple of extra moves which are a bit awkward to pull off and could have just as easily been remapped to a more convenient context-sensitive location. (hitting y for an air dash, instead of just reusing x which serves no function in mid air)
It's very fast and very fun, and continually goes on sale for $10-$15. If you ever liked Sonic in the past, it's a great game for the price with no ridiculous garbage tacked on.
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Currently going through Bastion and loving it. How did this game not get any love for GOTY 2011?
It got several nods for best soundtrack, but typically very few indie efforts get recognized for GOTY. The extra polish, presentation, and hype for blockbuster titles always overshadows them. Even Portal 2, which was one of my favorite games of the year, was nominated but continually panned for not being all encompassing enough for GOTY.
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I finished Skyward Sword. I thought it was wonderful, I don't get what so many people were complaining about. In particular, I kept expecting this horrible slog of fetch quests and padded content near the end, and was shocked to find myself at the final dungeon without much extra effort. My final played time wasn't that much longer than usual either, and that was with me coming within 99% of completion (all items, hearts, sidequests).
I don't even know what the final temple is yet because the damn thing just keeps going on and on. I just got to and I hope that this is it. Frankly, I can't take much more of this.
As for padding, the thunder dragon challenges are pretty much the ultimate filler, imo. Doing all of the spirit collections and fighting all of the bosses again? No thanks.
Also stuck trying to
At this point I really just want to get it over with. Give me a classic Zelda over this one any day.
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A friend of mine lost his patience playing this game too, and he kept saying the same thing "I just wish it would end." Maybe it's like LA Noire and you enjoy it more if you play it less. I know a lot of you guys tear through games super fast.
I don't have the wii at my house, so my pattern for playing this game was timed in a certain way. I would play for 60-90 minutes a session, and would go something like this:
Day 1: play up until the dungeon and stop
Day 2: play the dungeon and stop
Day 3: do sidequests
Day 4: repeat the cycle
I thought the dragon quests were pretty short myself, but ended up doing only one a day due to constant interruptions from others at that time.
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As for padding, the thunder dragon challenges are pretty much the ultimate filler, imo. Doing all of the spirit collections and fighting all of the bosses again? No thanks.
Hmm, that's optional content. The only reason to do that stuff is for the challenge or for completion.
All in all, I considered the optional content far easier than in past Zelda games. It was less time consuming (looking at you Wind Waker) and there were less widgets to find (Ocarina of Time skulltulas).
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A friend of mine lost his patience playing this game too, and he kept saying the same thing "I just wish it would end." Maybe it's like LA Noire and you enjoy it more if you play it less. I know a lot of you guys tear through games super fast.
I've been playing Skyward Sword for a month now (to the day), so I wouldn't exactly call it tearing through :p
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Fair enough, I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it as much. :D
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Total War: Shogun 2
The AI is sometimes very dishonorable!
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Batman: Arkham City
I'm surprised at how GOOD this game is. Arkham Asylum was fun, but I didn't 100% it. Maybe I'll go back (though, going back after the improvements is always tough, right?) and try it out. In any case, B:AC is a lot of fun, and I'm enjoying even the tedious challenge-fights and campaign challenges in the Riddler side-game-thing. I'm going to try to Platinum Trophy this game, mainly because I'm already so close.
Top notch production value, and one of the best play-control games I've experienced in a long, long time. I'm glad to own this one.
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I just finished Donkey Kong Country for the Wii - it was amusing and I enjoyed it. I got it as a christmas present. Wouldn't say it's worth full price - but defiantely worth picking up on sale and playing through to the end.
I've also picked up Titan Quest to get a DiabloIII fix in - it was on sale for $5 on steam. I played through Greece, and was enjoying it. Then I got to Egypt, and about halfway through - just got sooooooooooo bored with it. Same environments, same mobs, same stupid slow wand casting spell. Very booring, and not sure it was even worth the $5 I paid for it. Which is odd because I know there's plenty of people who LOVE this game. /shrug
It won't get any more playtime...
So now I'm onto Skyward Sword myself. So far so good. I love Ocarina and aLttP, and I was kind of meh on most of the successors - twilight princess and wind walker being the two "best of the rest" Here's hoping skyward sword lives up to the hype.
In the queue is:
Batman AC
Skyrim round 2 modded to the max (first time through was vanilla)
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Finally finished Skyrim. Almost thought this one would go on forever. Well technically I guess it does, but I'm already master of all of the guilds and have very little motivation to do mini quests.
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I've also picked up Titan Quest to get a DiabloIII fix in - it was on sale for $5 on steam. I played through Greece, and was enjoying it. Then I got to Egypt, and about halfway through - just got sooooooooooo bored with it. Same environments, same mobs, same stupid slow wand casting spell. Very booring, and not sure it was even worth the $5 I paid for it. Which is odd because I know there's plenty of people who LOVE this game. /shrug
I had pretty much the same experience, but I was dumb enough to buy it at near-full price with the expansion and thus am not sad that the studio went under. If you play the other campaigns you pretty much run through the same lands in a different order.
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FFXIII-2 (That's a mouthful) got delivered last night. I put in about 2 hours so far (so like 1.5 hours of cutscenes and 30 minutes of game). Too soon for me to give deep thoughts on the game just yet but so far it seems solid. Very similar to the first one but a bit "cleaner." I'll have more of a chance to play it over the weekend.
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many youtube gamers are saying FF is a decent game and better than the other one but is getting vary low views for their let's play and few of the reports in japan is sales are not as good as they thought it'd be. this sadly might be the last FF for a while :(
