I'm playing Demon's Souls. It's fucking hard, okay? It's really fucking hard.

Also Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Advance Wars 2. I forgot how obnoxious FFTA's law system is. I named Marche 'nigger' because seeing 'Look out, nigger!' and 'Let's go get 'em, nigger!' is totally upstanding and mature humor. Advance Wars is hard, but not as hard as when I little and didn't understand why an Artillery unit could attack Megatanks directly. The non-campaign AI levels are insane, too. The very first challenge level is a automatically a war of attrition because you and the opposing CO have the exact same terrain, factories and cities. Watching people get blown up while their CO's make 'WHOOPSIE DAISY!' faces is still fun though.

I am also playing Clive Barker's Jericho. More like Crap Breakers Jerkpoo. It's a fun game but it's dumb as hell and looks really gross.

Just finished Chpater 1 of the Witcher 2, such a great fucking game. It honestly reminds me of why I love video games. It's just so good, better than your favorite RPG. It's not necessarily too hard, but there is no fucking hand holding, which is fantastic. I also love the lore and the shape of the world the game is laying out, I most certainly am going to get the books it is based off of.

Also, did you guys plan out AD avatars without me? I just started watching the series from the beginning again.

Nah, I'm just being a copy cat. I was going to use one with Uncle Oscar but Buster made more sense.

Also, is The Witcher II worth full price? I was thinking of getting a new game and would prefer it wasn't Mass Effect 3 if I can help it.

You've played the first one? It's better than first one then
(Not Mass Effect, it was crap)

I tried out the Dragon's Dogma demo. It is pretty good but I hate the black bars that are constantly on the screen, it restricts your visibility of the area around you, I hate it. The combat is cool. It's a bit like Dark Souls mixed with a hack 'n' slash game. The character/pawn editor is really well done too, you can make a really fucked up character if you want to.

The boss fights are done extremely well, in the demo you fight a chimera (I think) and a griffin. Personally, I thought the griffin fight was a lot better but the chimera fight was fun as hell too. Also, this isn't an easy game, no no, you really have to watch your health since tiny goblins in groups can kill you if you aren't careful. Use healing items a lot.

The looting is a bit stupid though, most of the time I don't even notice any sort of loot, they should highlight it or something, not just make it a tiny object in the ground and pressing the B button at the right time.

Looks like I'm gonna have to pre-order this, the demo really convinced me.

Got Skyrim yesterday. Played around 3 hours of it since most of yesterday was spent riding around in my friend's car. Anyway, today it will be the focus of my attention.

Found a cave full of goblin-like dudes called Falmer. Some were pretty tough, luckily I had Lydia to back me up. Then after some delving, found one covered in armour. As I approached him, a big fucking golem activated and attacked me.

I wasn't for fighting that thing just yet, I'll uh... come back later.

No, but you're welcome to join us. We still need a Gob.

@Dixanadu That's pretty much the same thing that happened to me on my first day playing Skyrim. It was really good back then, now it's really boring.

I agree. I was in love with that game for nearly a month, but now I just can't play it at all without getting bored.

Though Skyrim can be forgiven on that part, every game gets boring at some point.

The real appeal is that you don't have to replay the same stuff when you come back to it.

Also, I'm hosted on Skins@HWT (Dawn of War mod site) now, bitches! Apparently it's their first new item for over a year.
http://skins.hiveworldterra.co.uk/Do...ml?version=1.0

A thousand times yes, especially if you're looking for an RPG. You get a quest guide and the soundtrack with it as well.

Plus, you get to see boobs.

Been playing Saints Row the third. A huge improvement over the last game. The gameplay is just so crazy and over-the-top that I love every minute of it.

You can even beat people to death with spiked dildos. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I recommend it if you're looking for hours of mindless entertainment.

Loved Saints row, I always wanted to buy SR3 but I can't unless I build a new computer.... I need more money.

Out of curiosity, how many of you guys have played Star Control II?

Ridge Racer Unbounded, one of the worst games I have ever played!

It's just a total rip off of Split/Second which was already a terrible game to begin with, Ridge Racer is full of bugs that make you not want to play the game properly, one of the goals of the game being to ram your opponents into buildings and walls ETC. When you take out another car, you see the car burst into flames and roll down the road being destroyed, but these scenes go on forever and ever and ever, you can skip them, but if you do skip them, you don't earn XP, so essentially you are forced to watch them just to progress though the damn game! which then throws you into another problem, the AI controls your car when you are watching your opponents car being destroyed, but the reason I hate destroying my opponents is not just because of the drawn out scenes, but because of the amount of times when the scene is over I've found my car crashed into a wall, or simply parked on the side of the road doing nothing! So the damn AI can't even control my car for me!

Another strange glitch seems to be landing from a jump, now and again, when you land a jump, sometimes your car will spin out upon landing, seems to be totally random and doesn't make sense!

The drift events just make no sense, the goal being to drift your car to earn a set amount of points within a time limit, when you perform big enough drifts, you can earn time extensions, but it seems completely random on whether or not the time extensions work! and in the rare occurrence that they do, it doesn't even give you all the time that your HUD tells you that you have earned!

Then there's the Frag Race events, where you are in a massive truck and you have to take down a certain number of police cars, again, because you are destroying opponents your stuck watching those drawn out scenes which you don't want to skip because you will miss out in valuable XP!

Unsurprisingly, it took me hours to find just 1 single person online on this game... it wasn't worth the wait, the online is even worse as it suffers from even more glitches! The worst one being if you crash into something hard enough that your car is destroyed, there seems to be a massive delay between your crash and seeing your car explode. My best example being that I accidentally crashed head on into a wall, I thought that it would kill me, but I hit the wall and I was fine, so I started to reverse and oh look, suddenly, my car explodes...

The tracks are just boring and really unmemorable, the track editor though, I'll give it credit, you can create tracks to the exact same quality as the ones already in the game, the only downside then is that it makes the default tracks feel really cheap.

Soundtrack is awful to, mainly consisting of, urgh... dubstep.

Anyway, rant over, fuck this game, it sucks! and even without the glitches I mentioned, it is a very very boring game.

Only you could write nine paragraphs about a racing game. A racing game that you hated.

I got a PS Vita two days ago. I tried out Rayman Origins on it, it was nice, really smooth gameplay and they added some new relics to collect and a few new character skins.

Unit 13 is a terrible game, I tried that one out too, it only stands out because of the graphics, everything else in it is generic.

I might buy some PSP games for it from the PS Store some day but for now, it's pretty useless. Oh well, got it for free.

EDIT: And by free I mean that I won it from a contest, not free as in my parents bought it for me. I didn't really even want it to be honest, might sell it for some cash.

Why did you buy a PS Vita?

I personally can't find any appeal in it.

CAN YOU FUCKING READ

Great reading you did there, genius.

Edit: WoF is a speedy shit.

What they said.

Woah hold on a sec! I put my post before he made the edit.

Not according to the edit time, mister!

But when you leave the page open for a long time and make your post, only then do all the posts update, I am adamant that the EDIT was not there when I wrote my reply.

The Vita is so amazing. It's really lightweight, the control set up is nice, nothing is really overbearing...it's great. It also has a Wipeout game on it so you should really have no beef at all.

Edit: Hey Dyna I'll buy your Vita if you end up deciding to sell it.

At this part I was convinced you aren't serious.

I totally am. I like the Vita a lot. I think it's neato.

No-one uses the word "neato" without irony. :|

If I'm going to sell it, I'm most likely selling it to a friend of mine, not that you aren't a friend, Mac, but you're really far away from Finland. If you're being serious at all, that is. Anyway, I'm keeping it for some time at least and maybe getting Mortal Kombat for it.

I spent the past couple of weeks watching eBay, hunting down copies of the Spyro games for PS1 (as my copies from my childhood were pirated and therefore don’t work on my PS2).

As of today, I now own the full trilogy. Original copies (not “best-of” re-releases), manuals, cases and inserts included. A bit battered in some cases, couple scratches and such, but fully functional (playtested each disc myself).

I plan to burn through the trilogy over the weekend, starting today. I fuckin’ love these games.

Spyro games are the best.

Vita is not the best.

@Mac Sirloin - is this your NG? and at which point are you right now?

After I killed Stockpile Thomas I had to restart the whole fucking game - 35h were lost.
After another 12h I was fighting with the Maneater bosses. when you fight with demons, you're stuck in the room and cannot pause.
suddenly someone rang the doorbell. considering that it might be my roommate, I dropped the controller and raced to the door, only to find the Jehovah's Witnesses. I immediately slammed the door, but it was already too late. I think they heard me crying and cursing

I got into the Hybrid beta. Its an XBLA game where you shoot other people. The difference is you don't really directly control your character, you just point to a place and they will go there. It works surprisingly well. Probably gonna pick this up when it comes out.

Soooo... it's a 1990's Point 'n' Click Adventure with Shooting?

I was thinking more like Frozen Synapse.

I've been playing a lot of Counter-Strike: Source recently. I'm not bad... It's hard to get kills though because most of the people on the server are better then you.

Oh man, CS:S. I gotta start playing that game again. Did you hear Valve is making a new one?

Cunter Strike: Global Offensive :tard: , wish I had the beta... Eh.

I can't wait till it comes out of beta.