Jeez. Now you're getting me worried. I just rage-quit because I got stuck on the bottom path of the 'Plain Sailing From Here On' screen. Which is apparently a hell of a lot harder than the top path.

I'll pick it up tomorrow and try to backtrack.

I actually found Veni, Vidi, Vici fairly easy. In fact, I didn't find out that it was an infamous challenge until a couple of months later.

I guess that's dumb luck for you.

My Far Cry 3 arrived today so I played a couple of hours of it. There are so many side-quests and objectives to do I'm not even sure where I'm supposed to go. I hope to see much, much more of Vaas, I already love and hate that character. I also did the first co-op mission with a friend, it was okay but the meat of the game is definitely the singleplayer mode.

Naturally some people just pick that kind of thing up really quickly for some reason.

It wasn't the hardest trinket, though, and it definitely wasn't as hard as I expected after playing Super Meat Boy!. Prize for the Reckless took me much longer to get, but I wasn't going to spoil that one for him.

Whatever the pink screen with like six floors and tiny gaps with red things flying through all of them was, that was the hardest.

Far Cry 3 looks to be shaping up to be the surprise of the year, really can't wait to try it out.

I've been playing Halo: Reach's Firefight mode a bit, it's really fun and is a great way to kill time.

I do recommend it if you want a beautiful open world to explore and plenty of optional stuff to do. Only bad thing I've heard pretty much is that when you beat the game and clear all of the enemy outposts, there really just aren't any human enemies left. That sounds kinda strange.

I've heard that the main character and all of his friends are unlikeable douches.

The developers themselves said that the characters are supposed to be typical spoiled brats and douchebags at first but as you play the game and get to see them suffer and barely survive in the jungle, you start to adapt to them.

Don't really know yet if that's the case as I'm pretty early on in the game story-wise, but they don't seem too interesting to me. It's weird that the main character, Jason, is unexperienced in pretty much everything yet he can master a gun at the first second he uses one.

A game about the guy who, thrust into a dangerous situation, picks up a weapon to defend himself and can't figure out how to use it would be very short and not very interesting. Can't fault the originality, though.

Well yeah, but it's weird how there's like absolutely no recoil while he's firing a light machine gun. Also, I'm now desperately trying to escort this guy called Rongo through a pirate-ridden village just so I can get some information for a guy who MIGHT know something about my friend's location. Great.

Are these pirates who actually commit piracy, or the kind of friendly pirates who don't do anything?

You'll have to play the game to find out.

So I've put about 11 hours into The Binding of Isaac, and I have to say it's probably one of the most addictive games I've ever played. It's so heart-breaking when you die and you've collected so many awesome power-ups, but it just makes me want to start again, STRAIGHT AWAY! Dammit. Definitely worth it though.

Got to agree on TBoI, I have played it quite a bit some months ago. Apart from all the different powerups and random items you can find, I also like the pacing and the fact that beating the game once doesn't mean you've seen all the game has to offer. Stuff gradually becomes more challenging and creepy.

What I've been playing recently is Killing Floor with friends, which is quite fun, and I also tried LOTR: War in the North in co-op with said friends. Game is a tad glitchy here and there, but the combat is OK and they have managed to create a rather neat story that doesn't cover the main plot of the books (mostly just making references to it, and you do meet the Fellowship in Rivendell at one point), so it provides you with a new side plot that fits well with everything else.

Started playing VVVVVV after seeing a few of you guys talking about it. Really fun game, the puzzles are very creative and the checkpoints are so plenty that you don't really feel bad for dying.

It can still be quite frustrating, though. But that's part of the charm of these games.

It's funny how bats are so horrible in most games, like Terraria. Strangely enough the Minecraft bats are friendly and make nice little squeaking noises.

Far Cry 3 seems really popular, I like the look of Dishonoured too. It makes me want to play Thief and Hitman.

Smashed through some more TBoI, I'm finally getting better at it. I've managed to get to chapter 5. Massive shame all my power-ups and shit have to be reset so I can get back to where I was.

That's the point

At the moment I’m kinda just fumbling through my Steam library. Got a Windows 7 partition on my Mac and it makes a pretty serviceable gaming PC. Saints Row 3, Far Cry 2, Stranger HD, Oblivion - it handles everything I’ve put to it so far, some even at native res (2560x1440).

I’m trying to justify buying PC versions of games I already own on console just because they’re cheap and they look better on PC than on my shitty TV. Like Sonic Generations!

Generations must look beautiful on a competent PC.

After getting the Humble THQ Bundle, I finally got the opportunity to play Darksiders. Until now, I've only played the PS3 demo and was eager for more.

playstation all-stars: it's awesome. way better than SSB because of the roster and well pretty much everything else

I dunno, man. Brawl has a pretty kickass roster, but that's coming from a Nintendo fanboy.

How are the actual game mechanics? I found Brawl's biggest drawback was how damn spazzy the controls were.

Well, it's not that I don't like Nintendo's characters as much it's just that I'm kind of sick of them, I really miss the Playstation mascots like: Sir Dan, Sly, Jak and Daxter. And they really are great characters as good as any of Nintendo's.

I honestly think the game is fun, I like how you K.O. your enemies by filling bars rather than knocking them over the edge, it really reminds me of Power Stone. The only problem I have with the game is some characters (Kratos, Radec, Raiden) are obscenely overpowered.

I think it has a good amount of content too, the cutscenes are low budget as hell but they have heart. Sir Dan's cutscenes are particularly poppin: the opening cutscenes has him sitting in the Hall of Heroes and the ending cutscene concludes with "Although he hopes this will be his final adventure, he knows in his gallant heart that it will not." SQUEEE!!

What's the single player like? Is it just arcade mode, or are there events and trials akin to Street Fighter or Smash Bros?

If I do get this game I'll probably play it online for the most part, but I do enjoy playing fighting games on my own as well.

Oh god it’s like night and day. My Xbox is hooked up to a 20" TV which is alright, but I often find that the picture is bit blurry and washed out. And since the Xbox only runs 720p anyway, it makes for pretty meh image quality.

Compare that to running 1080p on a 27" monitor. Apple really knows how to make a good display, the pixel density is absurd and colors are so much brighter. And I swear the framerate is higher.

Yeah, I've got XP running on my (well, my Dad's) Mac from 2008 and somewhat recent games still look really nice on it.

I remember hating on All-Stars because it looked like just a shameless copy of Smash Bros but I'm kinda wanting to play it and see for myself. How is Ratchet? I think I would play as him.

Seriously? No Crash Bandicoot, Abe, Spyro the Dragon, Rayman, Croc... hell, even Lara Croft and others I can't think of the top of my head. Smash Bros got as many Nintendo characters as possible and All-Stars are missing great PS1 characters.

Yes I know most of them are owned by different companies and that's probably the reason why the characters aren't in the game. But still, if you knew that a franchise you now own used to be a classic Playstation era game, why wouldn't you let Sony put them in a fighting game? I think I'm missing something. :confused:

And this is just coming from a self confessed Crash Bandicoot fanboy but Crash really should be in the game no matter what. He was the mascot for Sony back in the PS1 days. Same applies for Spyro.

You gotta remember that this is the first in what will likely be a series (well, maybe) of fighting games. Remember Smash Bros on the N64? It didn't even have Wario!

And a lot of those characters are owned by companies other than Sony, I don't think they could get the rights if they wanted to at this point.

And in Melee. I was forced to play as Mario with the colour scheme of Wario's outfit.

But then Brawl came out and everything was great. :)

I'm more irked that Raiden and Heihachi feature over Snake and Kazuya. Also, they used new Dante.

Ew. They did? Gross. Fucking Capcom, always trying to shove their new crap down our throats.

I finished Far Cry 3's story missions, didn't really expect it to be that good but it is actually really enjoyable, if a bit linear at times. I don't really want to spoil it since some of you might play it, but be warned: if you're waiting for Vaas (the villain in the cover art and in most of the trailers) to be a huge part of the story, prepare to be massively disappointed. At least I was.

I have still like 75% of the islands to explore, trying to collect a few rare animal hides and recover some of the lost letters. The letters are especially cool, they're basically small stories that reveal bits and pieces of what was going on in the islands during World War II.

Snake is already in Brawl and Heihachi is more the mascot of the series (See: Soul Calibur 2).

I completely forgot snake was in Brawl. That makes sense now.

You're right about Heihachi, but I still think Kazuya is more recognisable to people with little experience in the franchise, ie me.

Wrote this post four times but it didn't take.

Playing Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi. The first Budokai Tenkaichi, for PS2. It's a solid, very fun, occasionally buggy fighter with a huge character roster and no plot.

Ehh.

Halo 4 multiplayer, I'm getting tired of the lag though.

I remember that game! I used to play that round my mates house and we just spent the entire time laughing at it. Nether of us even watched Dragon Ball Z either so we didn't know any of the characters.