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Post by kitten on Mar 14, 2010 23:06:50 GMT -5
Okay. Literally, now, I've wanted to post in a thread like this several dozen times. There is a limbo between "latest purchase" and "last game finished" where a lot of things tend to happen that I don't feel like starting an individual thread over (heck, not to mention multiplayer games). A lot of us here even tend to not finish games or we forget interesting moments by the time we get to the end, too! I feel a lot of interesting conversation is lost because we don't have a thread like this.
First off, do not turn this into a spam thread. If you're going to list what you're playing, you're going to talk about it. Otherwise, don't post. Don't treat the thread like a twitter page or an updating list. I'm really surprised we don't already have a thread like this, actually. I haven't even seen one in the year and a half I've been going here.
Lately, I've mostly been playing some LittleBigPlanet and I've just started Okami. I'm incredibly impressed with the both of them. Despite only having played a few hours of Okami, the art style has really hit it off with me and the brush techniques help break up the tedium I'd otherwise be quite bothered with (like I am with other games in the genre).
Although I'm near the end of LBP (with almost all levels aced and all items collected), I've been taking it pretty slow and only playing when a friend of mine who bought it recently is available to play with me. I can't wait until we start getting to build stages and we've both still got loads of the GotY edition levels to go through. I mean, the content in the game practically never ends with user-made stuff, too, so it's something we can keep going back to. It's really an amazing game and a serious staple to any PS3 library.
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Post by Weasel on Mar 14, 2010 23:10:44 GMT -5
I've been goofing around with CyberMage: Darklight Awakening (interesting Doom-like FPS from Origin).
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Post by kyouki on Mar 14, 2010 23:34:34 GMT -5
I remember that game! Origin was such a great developer. They made some bad games now and then, but even in those games they were constantly trying new things. Quite possibly the greatest game company ever!
I am playing:
Red Seeds Profile Best game I have played since COD4:MW. I just reached the second episode recently and am hooked.
Everything is great except for a couple of nitpicks: -the puzzles are largely a waste of time and should have just been left out -the map is terrible. You can't zoom all the way out so it is hard to get a good general picture of the whole town. -the game tells you exactly where you have to go with giant red arrows. Sometimes I am in the mood to just follow signs, but I think this game would be really fascinating if they had made the map a bit smaller, improved the map feature, and took out the hints. -QTEs exist in this game. The only unforgivable thing in this game.
Anyway, outside of Siren this is basically the most perfect survival horror game ever (although even on hard the battles are way too easy). I remember playing Silent Hill for the first time and thinking, "wow, imagine if you could just explore all over this town and the countryside, that would be awesome" and Red Seeds Profile basically is that game.
Forcing my way through the dull Tekken Force like mode just to get it done with.
Tekken 6 In between sessions of RSP, I am forcing my way through the boring Tekken Force like mode. I think I am pretty close to finishing it. I don't know why I feel I must finish this mode, but there you go. Like, I can't even play the game proper until I finish it, that's how I feel.
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Post by thethird on Mar 14, 2010 23:39:18 GMT -5
I suppose my main gaming project currently is to finally complete the GBA version of FFIV. On my previous play, I had gotten right to Zeromus but for the life of my I just could not beat him. I figured that this was because I was horribly underleveled and so I grinded for hours, gained ten levels, and still got my ass relentlessly handed to me. So a while ago I decided to start all over and play through the entire game without running from a single battle. Unfortunately, I find the battle encounter rate for FFIV Advance to be fucking huge, so this has taken me a long, long time. I'm currently going through the dungeon to get Asura and Leviathan and what-have-you. It's going to take a while.
Seriously, does anyone else think that the battle rate in FFIV is goddamn massive? I seem to be running into battles every four or five steps. It's kinda nuts. I'm afraid to go dungeon trekking without maximum supplies (it doesn't help that 3/5 battles tend to be damn serious for me, since I'm pretty terrible at RPGs) nowadays.
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Post by jongoo on Mar 14, 2010 23:47:56 GMT -5
Practicing Third Strike and goin thru Shadow Hearts (can we get an article, already?). Best battle system I've seen in quite some time.
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Post by muteKi on Mar 14, 2010 23:54:09 GMT -5
Feel the Magic (XY/XX)
Actually pretty fun quasi-warioware title, but the current task I'm on -- which is a sailboat "don't blow on the touchscreen so hard that you overshoot the girl but don't get stuck as a shark goes by" minigame. Since I have to clear this to progress, I think I'll be stagnating for a while on it.
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Post by Snarboo on Mar 15, 2010 0:04:03 GMT -5
I've been goofing around with CyberMage: Darklight Awakening (interesting Doom-like FPS from Origin). I nearly completed Cybermage last year but the hard drive it was stored on died. It's a good game and definitely a forgotten classic. I'm currently playing M.A.X. and M.A.X. 2, which I got in a bundle from GOG. The M.A.X. series are turn-based strategy games that also allow for concurrent turns and real-time in M.A.X. 2. The original is considered a classic while the sequel was rushed out the door and plays pretty badly. I've played through some of the tutorials in M.A.X. and it seems to be a solid strategy game. It runs well and has an interesting back story about humans being used as sharecroppers for a consortium of aliens. I'll probably work my way through it slowly. It's a DOS game but GOG includes DOSBox as well as a config that runs it flawlessly. M.A.X. 2 on the other hand is really buggy, even with the patch I found. The game starts with no explanation for what is going on or where it picks up from the original. It's also missing the tutorial mode and menu tips that explain how to play the game. I decided to just start a game on the lowest difficulty and ran into numerous problems. The biggest issue I have is unit AI: they often forget what you tell them to do and have weak path finding, making constant micromanagement a necessity. This in addition to having units disappear and suddenly reappear, garbage appearing on the landscape and phantom units appearing out of nowhere. There aren't even custom colors for your units, meaning everyone looks the same unless you toggle an option that puts a hard to see circle under your units. It's obviously inferior to the original, and yet it should be a good sequel. It added a real-time mode, which wasn't necessary but is a nice addition. An entirely new race was added that plays differently than the starting race, along with new units and streamlined base building. It ran in Windows 98 and claimed to support online play, although I've heard multiplayer was broken with the last patch. It clearly suffers from being rushed by Interplay, which is a shame really.
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Post by Atma on Mar 15, 2010 0:13:41 GMT -5
Bayonetta
Just got through stage 6 and am going back and getting a bunch of halos and lollipop ingredients so I can ransack the store of its goods. This is one of the most pure fun type games I have ever played. Maybe it's because I needed a break from my 99% RPG diet but this game is really hitting all the right notes for me, from how fun it is to play, the music, the weapons, the self-aware humor, and of course Bayonetta herself. Also, Cereza is the cutest thing ever. Also also, Bayonetta in a tutu.
Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos
The desert is hot you guys. Menace and Dora almost ruined my ass so I'm grinding and upgrading everyone's clothing and attack power and making sure all my dinosaur girls are ready to go. I just got a super duper harpy though so I win. I'm naming all my monster girls after people I know, so you can see Ike-Chan the lovely spider loli run around poking girls in the boobs. IT IS AN HONOR. Anyways, this game is retardedly addicting for me. Maybe it's because it's an SRPG. Maybe it's Queen's Blade. Maybe it's both, but gosh darn it, it's a damn fine little game.
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Post by America Young Fusion on Mar 15, 2010 0:42:03 GMT -5
NMH2 again and again. It's the last new game I'll own in a while, I wanna take up this Mandarin class again and I'm flat broke.
EDIT: Ey yo this should be stickied.
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Post by muteKi on Mar 15, 2010 0:49:16 GMT -5
Also. At almost any time I'm likely to be mucking around in Perfect Dark (8 meatsims + all weapons proxmines = hilarious explosive insanity) and on most Friday nights it's quite likely we'll all be playing Alpha Centauri (love this game).
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Post by gumby on Mar 15, 2010 1:15:38 GMT -5
I've got a hankering for SRPGs lately, so I've been playing lots of FE:Sacred Stones (owned for a while, never played too far into), and after I finish this, I'll be playing La Pucelle. Also been playing a lot of Downhill Domination for the PS2, which is deceivingly awesome.
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Post by Feynman on Mar 15, 2010 1:40:45 GMT -5
Still focused mainly on FFXIII, which continues to be completely awesome. The battle system is a perfect blend of real time and turn-based. It resembles the gambit system in many ways, but shifting paradigms makes it a much more active, engaging system. Where gambits required you to plan in advance, the paradigm system makes you react to what's happening right NOW or you're dead. Pretty awesome.
Also been putting a bit of time into Mega Man 10 on the side. Love it, but wish Proto Man's shield didn't require you to jump to use it. It was annoying in MM9 and it's annoying now (yes, I realize that it functions that way because of his attack pattern in MM3. It still blows).
After both of those are done, I'm thinking I'll enjoy some Grandia, maybe make another Demon's Souls character.
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Post by kisai on Mar 15, 2010 1:58:38 GMT -5
Super Smash Brothers (N64) -Very Hard, No Stock, 5 minutes
Normally I don't play fighters, so I don't know if Polygon Fighting Team is actually really hard to get through, or if I just suck. They are monstrous to fight. Messing up and getting sacked by a dogpile can easily ablate 30-60% of your health. Getting bad luck with no health drops also really puts a damper on things.
Age of Wonders (Hard, Classic Mode, Cult of Storms campaign)
I should have beat this a while ago, but there's some stupidity inside of me that makes me take on spellcasters of the Earth sphere with my lone leader, even though I know they are going to spam Entangle and kill my leader.
Killer 7 (GC) Just died in the Hotel Union with Garcian. Didn't expect him to be in there by his lonesome, nor for his gun to suck against the Heaven Smiles. I hate cheap deaths, but oh well... Probably let this one rest a teeny bit.
There's still Bioshock (PS3) to finish on Easy and Insanity with Vita-Chambers off. No More Heroes on Bitter (damn Shinobu), and second quest The Legend of Zelda (NES).
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Post by ryochan on Mar 15, 2010 3:01:14 GMT -5
I've started my way into Suikoden IV, but am not really all that far along. About 3 and a half hours, and most of that was getting lost due to being told the island was EAST, when it was SOUTHEAST. Damn, I hate when they do that, and it reminds me of why I found the game a bit dull when I first played it; all you see is water.
Aw well, I'll play more tomorrow probably if I'm not feeling miserable like today, and see how far I can get.
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Post by justjustin on Mar 15, 2010 5:53:34 GMT -5
Raiden DX - I'm generally terrible at it, but enjoy making slow progress. Only thing I don't like is the sever difficulty spikes on bosses (especially 3) and occasional "sniper" tanks that roll out of houses or from under trees. Other than that it's a slickly designed game that epitomizes vertical shooters before the manic shift. It has a risk/reward scoring system that requires timing and putting yourself in danger, bosses that go down in seconds if you use smart tactics, great music, and three different courses to choose from. Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu Black Label - Just came out January, I tremendously suck at it. I'm okay at 1.5, able to get to stage 4, but I can barely squeak by the first boss on Black Label. I think it's designed by Yagawa, so it'll probably take me about 20 credits to grasp the scoring system (or a trip to cave-stg or shmups strategy boards). ESPGaluda II - I own the 360 version but can't play it so I at least try to play the original. Extremely complex, so extremely satisfying to play it for score (although extremely frustrating). Basically, with the press or hold of a button and depending on how many green gems you have, you can-- on the fly, anytime during the game-- manipulate the bullet patterns in four ways, each yielding different rewards. Almost mind-numbing, but still fun. It also looks amazing. Mushihimesama - The original, because the arcade nearby doesn't have the sequel. Still fun, though, although I prefer to weave through the intricate patterns in Maniac mode rather than the sparse, blazing fast bullets of Original. I have no idea how to score in this game. Other than that, various other arcade masterpieces like Rygar, Splatterhouse, Final Fight, Techi o Karau II, Daimakaimura, Gradius II and III, Same! Same! Same!, Batsugun, Alien vs. Predator, Metal Slug (1, 2, X and 3), Elevator Action Returns, The Outfoxies, Rolling Thunder II, Darius Gaiden, Strikers 1945 II, 19XX, 1941, Three Wonders, Ikaruga. Since I only have a DS and a PSP, 99 percent of games I pay are at an arcade. Everyone talks about Tokyo's arcades-- which are of course awesome-- but Osaka is pretty damn good, too. Only downside is I always smell like pure, concentrated cigarette ash within 10 seconds of entering one-- even hours later I can wipe my finger across my face and it'll smell like cigarettes! I'll probably get lung cancer and cut 30 years off my life but so far it's worth it.
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