The "What Are You Playing Now?" Thread

I've heard good things about Undying, but with one fatal flaw, which I can no longer remember. Never got around to trying it myself.

Fear 3 ended up getting better, but generally only in the combat side of things. Almost all of the horror was gone, with only the background to the plot retaining a few amusing aspects (the plot itself was ridiculously thin). There was also a co-op mechanic where the game keeps track of how well you each do, and the person with the most "points" at the end determines the ending. I thought that was kind of neat.

Been toying around with the tutorial to Shogun 2 Total War. It's neat, but some of the UI mechanics feel backwards to me. Rotating your troops with the mouse for example does not work the same way it does in any other game I've played, so I find it difficult to get my units into the formations and directional facing I want.

Thinking of playing Bulletstorm over the weekend. Xenoblade still hasn't arrived. Turns out I chose the slowest shipping speed.

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Originally Posted by Wool

Xenoblade still hasn't arrived. Turns out I chose the slowest shipping speed.

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I picked mine up. ;)
Only 2-ish hours into the story (9 hours playtime, natch) and I'm enjoying it so far more than Star Ocean: Lost Hope. I need to find my Classic controller, though, as using the Nunchuk is killing my left hand.

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Xenoblade still hasn't arrived. Turns out I chose the slowest shipping speed.

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Did you have it shipped via an injured donkey?

Just finished the Platinum Trophy for Final Fantasy XIII-2. It's only my second Platinum with the other being from the first Final Fantasy XIII. Neither Platinum was overly difficult but both time consuming. The first took me around 90 hours but this one only took about 45.

I think I'm going back to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood now. I didn't get very far when I started.

I've done a few platinums, recently, and it's a new sense of accomplishment. I was close to the FFXIII one, but gave up when I got to the end and saw another 30+ hours to do a few things. I did chase down all of the hunts, though, and that was entertaining.

I'm in the midst of a huge retro-gaming phase. I've recently re-run through: The Goonies II (NES), The Goonies (PC10, ostensibly NES), Gradius(NES), River City Ransom(NES), Super Dodge Ball (NES), 7th Saga (SNES), Castlevania X (SNES), Super Metroid (SNES), and Adventure (Atari2600). I'm in the midst of going through all three Eye of the Beholder games (PC - DOSbox).

If I were doing any gaming on modern PC/console, it would be vague references to Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the Farm Frenzy series, but I haven't tinkered with them much lately.

If you're interested in retro games might want to check out one called Battle of Olympus. I don't know how popular it was but I really enjoyed it. It's a side scrolling adventure game not unsimilar to Links Adventure, only a lot more fun than that.


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Finished my first playthrough of Skyrim. I went a pure Mage build which worked for me (at least after I finished the Winterhold questline and gained access to some powerful Mage items). There were a lot of questlines I didn't do (Thieves Guild, Companions and Dark Brotherhood) as they didn't feel appropriate for my character. And it got to the point where I just wanted to wrap things up.

I'll probably go through again soon and do the questlines I missed the first time (and go with the Stormcloaks over Imperials). But right now I'm thinking of playing Aion during my PC gaming time.

Bulletstorm is so great.

Now, it had a case of consolitus, but I got it worked out. The fov wasn't as bad as Fear 3's, but it had a lot of stupid console options that get in the way of keyboard and mouse (aim assist, mouse smoothing, etc).

Once you get past that it's great though. My only complaint is my obsessive compulsive nature demands I try and get all the skillshots, but there simply aren't enough guys to kill. And of course, instead of simply enjoying killing dudes, I'm constantly stressing over killing them in ways I haven't done yet. :p Sure kicking a guy into a cactus is fun, but I haven't killed a guy by causing the guy next to him to fly up into the air and explode yet. Must obsess over accomplishing this before I'm comfortable to just play it naturally!

The weapons are great, and the different ways you can kill people are great. I just need more people to kill dangit.

The game is also hilarious if you don't mind gutter mouth talk. I imagine this is how people felt about Duke Nukem's crude humor a long time ago.

Guy meets girl: Hey, can you help us get off this planet?
Girl: F you, $*(&# %##, if you try and follow me, I'll kill your dick!
Guy is flabbergasted: W-what does that even mean?
Guy gets angry: Oh yeah, we'll I'll kill your dick!

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Did you have it shipped via an injured donkey?

Just finished the Platinum Trophy for Final Fantasy XIII-2. It's only my second Platinum with the other being from the first Final Fantasy XIII.

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That might have been an upgrade. Still don't have the package, and don't have tracking. This is what happens when Gamestop and Nintendo have the exclusive and you don't feel like paying ten dollars for shipping.

My only two "real" platinum trophies are for the two inFamous games, although I have a few PSN platinums too (flower, etc).

My next gaming sessions shall be spent playing EQ. Might even spend a few bucks in the store.

Just finished 2 play-throughs of Mass Effect 1 and downloading 2 now.

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Saw an article "10 Best Action RPGs that came out between D2 and D3" and got inspired to give Titan's Quest another spin last night.

Saw mention of an Underlord mod for TQ elsewhere. Anyone familiar with this?

Picked up Storm of Zehir for NWN2.

Trying to play through that campaign with my brother - Having a few audio difficulties we haven't been able to sort out yet.

I finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and have moved on to Revelations.

I started Brotherhood trying to do everything but about a third of the way into the game I happened to look at the achievements and saw that a good chunk of them were multi-player. As soon as I saw that I stopped trying to get 100% synch on everything and stopped doing a lot of the little sidequests. I still made sure to get all the big stuff like Subject 16 memories though.

Revelations, so far, is beautiful. They really did an outstanding job with the graphics and textures and the game looks amazing compared to the earlier AC games.

I cannot stop playing ME3 multiplayer. It's like a disease. Feels as bad as when I was playing Magic!

I, literally, just finished Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The game was beautiful but it was also, easily, the worst in the series. It was a bit too short and really didn't do anything new. It was also pretty short all things considered. Luckily I got it cheap so I'm not too disappointed and I'm still really looking forward to part 3 later this year. I like Ezio but I think he's a bit played out at this point.

I bought Might and Magic 1 thru 6 on GOG.com and I'm slowly making my way through the first. Back in the good old days of PC gaming, I played 3 thru 6 but never really got the chance to play the first 2. They're very dated at this point and they also suffer from the RPG game design philosophy of the late 80's where you really don't get a lot of information to go on so you just wander around from fight to fight exploring. Even the later ones have this but I remember that the story does start to come together.

I've also started my Renegade playthrough of Mass Effect 3. Even if the ending wasn't the greatest, the remaining 99.5% of the game is really good. My only complaint is that my Renegade Shepard is significantly less Renagedish than in previous games. I'm also disappointed that my actions in previous games don't have the same impact as a Paragon Shepard (like giving Cerberus the Collector Base).

Resurrecting this old thread.

I forgot how much I loved the Might and Magic series. I bought a pack that included 1-6 (and the fan made Sword of Xeen) a few months back. I finished M&M1 and am nearly done with M&M2. The last dungeon is just kicking my butt so I need to go grind some more Cats From Hell for levels and Doomsday treasure chests.

As I mentioned a few posts up, the first games are VERY dated. The graphics, by today's standards, are beyond terrible. The games also suffer from a severe lack of direction. Without a walkthrough, I don't know how people finished these games. I think the idea was to simply go out, level and see the entire world and eventually you would stumble on things. The first one was worse than the second in this regard. Once you're high enough level, you can finish the game in under a couple of hours if you know what it is you're actually trying to do. M&M2 is a bit more complex and you need to gather a lot of items, combine them. Gather more items, combine those. And eventually you will get to the end of the game. There's also Time Travel involved but it's poorly implemented and not explained at all. You only need to do it twice (once to get 4 elemental discs and again to re-write history by altering the outcome of an important battle in CRON's history).

Despite all of that, I love these games. They're just a lot of fun going around, building up my characters and exploring. Once you realize that there is, in fact, a storyline, the plot is a lot of fun. I still remember playing Darkside of Xeen and finding the downed spaceship and realizing that everything I thought I knew about the game was completely wrong. Back in the day I started with Might and Magic 4, then 5 and I, finally, went back and played 3. It wasn't until recently that I got to play 1 and 2. And despite not having a lot of screen time, Sheltem is a bad ass villain. I mean his hobby is to go around and throw Nacelle Worlds into their suns for fun.

Everquest.
I even subscribed. And I'm having fun!

Went from 76 to 82 so far, got epic 1.5 last saturday, 2.0 today.

I'm back to xcom: apocalypse :p

I'm a huge sucker for Final Fantasy music, so I picked up Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy the other day. Gave me an excuse to dust off the ol' 3DS. It's actually a pretty fun game. The songs are kind of hit-or-miss. Some feel perfect, in others I never get the feeling that I'm playing along with the music. I've never played Guitar Hero, Rock Band or anything like it so I can't comment on how Theathrythm compares.

Song selection is all over the place. Each game (main numbered titles I through XIII) has three songs (field, battle, event) plus an intro and ending song that you don't have to play along to (but can for extra points). Battle tracks feel the best as far as rhythm goes. Some choices are simply mind-boggling -- how can the event music for FF6 not be the opera scene? That has to be the most iconic event scene of the 16-bit FF era. Instead, they opted for a simple rendition of Rosa's Theme.

As far as music quality goes, Theatrhythm does benefit from the 3DS's enhanced audio capabilities. But the game uses neither the original renditions of the songs as featured in the first releases, or the modern orchestral scores (Distant Worlds et all), but instead opts for its own interpretations, most of which simply don't compare. In all fairness, the game is cartridge-based and there simply isn't enough storage space for dozens of songs in full CD quality (supposedly over 70 in total counting unlockable music). But for a music game to make compromises on the quality of the music just seems wrong, no matter what the platform is.

Theatrhythm is also the first 3DS game to offer DLC in the form of downloadable songs. Those aren't integrated into the main game but are available only in the game's challenge mode. They're also, in true Square Enix fashion, ridiculously expensive at €1.00 for a single song. I thought Dissidia was already pushing it with 3- and 5-song packs for €0.99.

On a positive note, some songs are accompanied by screenshots and videos of their respective games, so it's hard not to get extremely nostalgic as you're playing through them. Makes me wish at least of them were included as an unlockable extra.

I've so far ignored the RPG aspect of Theatrhythm and treated it simply as a rhythm game. But you actually have control over your party (there are 29 characters available, some of which have to be unlocked) and their equipment. I guess this may become more important at higher difficulties.

That said, it's a fun time killer, but unless you're a huge fan of Final Fantasy music, it's a questionable investment at full price (€40).

Just picked up the Uncharted trilogy.