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plus GT5 Prologue and GTA4 now!
I can't wait for GT5 ... looks like they'll 1up themselves with this one.
Pirates of the Burning Sea in the few moments I've had to game in the last month
Will start a replay of Bioshock soon.
Seriously contemplating re-subscribing to WoW again.
Susan stopped. Of course someone would be that stupid. Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
- T. Pratchett
Still WoW...
plus GT5 Prologue and GTA4 now!
I can't wait for GT5 ... looks like they'll 1up themselves with this one.
I have no idea how this actually happened but I've been playing Guitar Hero III lately... I once swore that I would never play these games but my sister got the Wii version and I had fun with it so I went out and bought the 360 version. It's a good game to play when you don't want to think too much. And the new Muse track pack rocks. Stockholm Syndrome is a lot of fun.
I'm also playing Final Fantasy X right now. In the past few months I've gone through VII, VIII, IX and now I'm on X.
There are other worlds than these.
I've basically stopped playing WoW, again, because I don't really want to play gear catch-up to compete in PvP.
So I went back to a game where I can compete regardless of gear - TF2.
GTA4 here
Currently taking a long break from Graffe.com
Wii Mariokart
Has anyone else had the experience with GH3 that it's not the same as GH1/2? The control interface is different. Perhaps it's just me - I'm hypersensitive about these things.
And if you have seen the difference, have you also tried Rock Band? Does it have the natural continuity of guitar-control from the original series, or is it more buffer-esque like GH3?
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC
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"I don't trust my government, I don't trust the people who work for my government, and I believe that the evidence suggests that it's irrational to offer such trust." - Ken White
"The first 90% of the project is done, now we're working on the remaining 90%." -SoylentNews
I finished Bully. It wasn't as deep as I thought it was going to be, gameplay or story wise. It was however, still a ton of fun. The variety of things to do was great, and the missions were highly entertaining.
Still playing both crisis core and the world ends with you on the side. Crisis core sort of annoys me because the optional stuff seems designed specifically to take freaking forever.
Got the Penny Arcade game that came out the other day. I'm a little worried it will be too short to justify the twenty dollars, but that probably won't stop me from getting the next episode whenever it comes out.
So far it plays like an interactive jrpg (think the handheld mario rpgs, pressing space to block, minigames to pull of special attacks, etc), but with an old school point and click adventure inspired non combat mode. I think it's important to note that it is an rpg and not an adventure game, it just has the same charm as one. You move around clicking on objects and get silly descriptions and actions. There haven't really been any really major puzzles to speak of.
It really is very charming though. Probably less so if you aren't a fan in the first place. The enemies have a lot of character. The fruit humping robots in particular are very disturbing in motion, heh. Can throw an orange into combat to distract them, very not right, not right at all!
The character creator is less extensive than I imagined, but I still found the options to be highly amusing. For some reason the guy options are far more elaborate than the girl options. Both get 3 different sets of clothing to wear, but the guys have far more facial expressions. I ended up making a guy that reminded me of Chief Quimby from Inspector Gadget.
Upon meeting the duo.
Tycho: Oh, were you the guy with his mouth agape in terror?
Gabe: Agape?
Tycho: It means open.
Gabe: You know what else means open? OPEN.
Last edited by Wool; May 22nd, 2008 at 02:57 PM.
I'd definitely be interested in hearing a review after you've finished it, as I was worried about the same thing. I played the demo, and it was pretty good, but I'm not so sure about $20 for a couple hours of gameplay with seemingly no replayability.Originally Posted by Wool
I binged the freaking heck out of this game. I got a good 6-8 hours of it, so I am pretty pleased with the value I got. I found the game to be highly enjoyable. A few of the fights were even somewhat challenging!
If a lovecraft parody with potty humor, simple rpg mechanics, and weirdness in general sounds amusing to you, then it should be worthwhile. If you are prone to rush straight through games and mainly care about meaty game systems skip it or wait for a discount.
Flow of the game goes like this: explore area - have weird conversation with weird npc - kill enemies for npc or find item for npc - repeat. With a few bosses and activated environment items sprinkled throughout. Flash movies appear at certain points to advance the story.
Characters level up to learn new attacks, and collect robot parts to upgrade their weapon. You also get permanent bonus damage (up to a point) if you kill an enemy with a perfectly executed special attack. That's pretty much the extent of the character upgrades and gameplay.
very much enjoying tf2, wow, elite beat agents and mariokart right now. playing REwii occaisonally too, thinking about getting a ps3 for re5 (also singstar/rockband) but don't really fancy going back to the traditional control setup.
looking forward to the remake / new version of ufo : enemy unknown thats apparently happening again.
Yes, me again. Yes I know, I know.
So I picked Crysis from Circuit City for 20 dollars. I figure I will beat it before Mass Effect comes out next week. It's fun so far but I swear it is the buggiest game I have played in years.
The installer and patching system in particular is without a doubt the WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN. Installing seems to take an hour and you actually have to enter the task manager and force some of the stuff it starts up to close manually in order to finish the installation. The patcher is also extremely sensitive, and refuses to install if you have altered any of your files at all. It took me awhile to figure it out, but it apparently thought my crysis beta folder was a sign of piracy, and I had to get rid of it to patch the game.
The worst part of the worst part of crysis (the installing), it doesn't install any shortcuts in the start menu. Fine, whatever, its a Games for Windows branded game so the shortcut goes into the my games folder instead. Only problem is, that shortcut doesn't actually start the game, it just opens the saved games folder.
Rest assured, there are normal bugs too. Sometimes the mouse pointer gets desynched on the menu screen, at one point it refused to load any of my saved games, sometimes it crashes while loading.
Right now I'm on the second level...anyone who has played the game nod your head knowingly upon reading that?
Fun when I get to play it, and the bugs aren't so numerous that they interrupt gameplay, but whenever I do run into one it takes a ridiculously long time to resolve.
I started up Lego Star Wars II again on the PSP and took over where I left it sitting weeks ago. It's so much fun I actually ordered the PS3 version (which has all episodes) to play on the big screen.
I've been playing Age of Conan these past few days, trying to decide if I'll stick with it.
GTA4 is on hiatus since I don't particularly enjoy the "later" (~halfway) missions.
I'm also trying to scrounge up the motivation to complete the 100cc class in Mario Kart Wii, but I find that the randomness factor that makes multiplayer games so fun annoys me a lot in single player.
I wish they'd come out with that version for PC.
castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and harmony of dissonance. Aria is better.
"Don't yell at S-D for using words you're not completely sure of, it embarrasses you. He's right anyway." - Alikat
That does sound pretty lousy, but IMO it still doesn't beat Blizzard's joke of a downloader. Any game that forces its players to get required patches from untrusted 3rd-party sites is unacceptable; when it's the 10-million-subscriber market leader, that's mind-boggling. Hopefully they've made some improvements over the past year, but that system needed a lot more than some tweaking.
Still playing GTA4, just unlocked Alderney.
Still playing rock band with the roommates.
Sadly, smash bros brawl sits unplayed as my roommates don't like the game.
Playing contra 4 on DS after beating phantom hourglass, i'm trying to beat all 40 challenges on contra 4.
I need a new PC to play any new games, I like TF2 but it takes 5 min to load to a server and then it's sitting at 20fps.
Tried TF2. Made me motion sick. Uninstalled.
Picked up Pirates of the Burning Sea for 12 bucks at Target. Will not be continuing the sub after 30 days.
Finally making progress in Lost Oddyset. Still scared by the fact that all the female characters have huge breasts, and that the Queen appears to have blue varicose veins on hers.
*shudders*
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