Dark Souls 2.

Just started.

The wand seems pretty cheap. I like it.

I got into the Evolve Technical Alpha on PS4. If you were in the Big Alpha you should have a code emailed to you.
Ill be playing it on the 17th when it launches, lasts 2 days. Should be heaps fun.

Played like an hour of Heavy Bullets. It was fun. Don't know if it was worth $10 yet, but it was fun. People who enjoy roguelikes and/or mindless shooters should check it out.


Fucking snakes.

I enjoyed Shovel Knight very much. I found games like Megaman and Castlevania too hard at times but the game does a great job at catering to newbies and giving players the choice of destroying checkpoints if they want or leaving them intact. It evokes that whole NES/GBC era while having modern features like achievements and save states.

The extra magic abilities are great and they are all useful in a variety of circumstances like the Dust Knuckles and the Throwing Scythe. The bosses are superb and have a good pattern of moves. Fantastic music and great replay value all round.

I want to play that. I may never get around to it, though. Weddings are expensive, and I feel bad spending any amount of money on anything that isn't the wedding, at this point.

It's so good, man. Well worth making yourself look/feel like an asshole for.

I'd probably place it in my top 15 or so games of all time at this point.

So I finally sat down and played FF7 for the first time today.

Cloud is a fucking asshole.

The most of any FF game ive ever played is 10 minutes of FFV, where I got bored and quit. Unless Kingdom hearts counts as a Final Fantasy game.

I was going to suggest making the wedding Shovel Knight themed as an excuse to buy the game and claim it as an allowable expense, but my mental image of you in a tuxedo carrying a shovel turned in to the Poopsmith.

It's hard to blame Cloud. His attitude and demeanor are a direct result of Tifa being massively manipulative to keep him nearby so she can stay in an emotional hugbox about all the stupid things she did. At one point after you leave midgar you're going to hear a story about a little old place called Nibelheim, but you have to remember that the narrator is tremendously unreliable and still kind of an asshole. Just wait, you'll just feel bad for Cloud once it becomes clear what really happened to him.

I've been playing gallons and gallons of TF2. Endlessly. I'd like to get off the TF2 bus, please.
Like I said in an earlier post, I've been playing Team Fortress 2 off and on since release. I can sincerely state I am very good at it. So good that I have to spend an hour looking for a game with people 'on my level' because everyone is either a vacuous dump free-to-player or some massive tit like me who's been playing for a million bajillion hours. Free to players just bump into walls and always play as snipers, but cocksure TF2 vets are giant assholes who need to stroke their ego every time they get a kill or score a point. The contradiction of course is that a quantifiable skill set is pointless when you've got dumb kids blundering around half the games making your leet skillz pretty much meaningless. Finding a comfortable middle is tough because as I said, I'm pretty darn good, but what's the point when half of my teammates literally don't comprehend the first word in the games title?

I've been playing Shovel Knight. Great game, definitely recommend it just as everyone else has. It has a firm grasp on what mechanics a game needs to feel fun and challenging without indulging either of the two. The pixel art (or whatever you call it, graphics) is just terrific. It's a really, really nice looking game.

I was enjoying the end of Psyconauts so much, but now I'm at what I'm guessing is the final boss and I'm about to ragequit. It's The butcher for the second time, with help from Raz' dad. It's so fucking ridiculous. I can't seem to reliably get him to slice at me close enough to tk the spiked clubs into his legs. If I do, he either slices between me and the club which for some reason seems to make tk'ing into him impossible, or he'll somehow be too close and randomly bash me with his right arm, which cancels the strike into the ground and the window to damage him. The most reliable way for me to dodge his horizontal sweep is to be on the levitation ball, but that makes kiting him 100x harder because I end up moving away from the clubs too much and I can't figure out a pattern to how I'm supposed to kite him in relation to how often Raz' dad throws them. I'm literally going 2-3 minutes without getting a good chance to damage him.

I can't save the game and come back later. If I quit now I'm probably not going to be fucked coming back to it. I really want to finish this game, but it's making it so hard for me :(

e: Ehhh I got it. My strategy was 90% right, I just needed to get lucky with the throws apparently. Pity, because the rest of Meat Circus was fucking awesome. I mean, even the name is great. Meat Circus. Meat. Circus.

Holy fuck though, Raz' hair in the ending.

I've just finished Grim Fandango Remastered. I have only good things to say about it.

It's really good.

Believe it or not, the wedding is actually going to be Pac Man themed! And that was Steph's idea! Instead of flowers, there are going to be vases filled with cherries, and the table cloths will polka dots. The cake topper is Pac Man, and Ms. Pac Man, my bow tie is covered in cherries, and my cuff links are Pac Man and a ghost. My wedding's going to be cool beans, man.

I didn't realise Pac-Man meant that much to you.

Of course he means. He likes to eat a lot.

When Steph and I started dating I didn't have cable, so there were two things that we would do at night: 1. Smoke pot, and watch Dark Shadows dvd's. 2. Smoke pot and play Pac Man CE DX. We love that game.

I love that game so much. Best "arcade" game I know.

Evolve. Non stop. Played for 12 hours straight today...


Non stop being an exaggeration

I've finally grown a pair and fallen in love with Demon's Souls. Beaten at least one boss in each world (except the diseased anus chasm, fuck that place) and it's got its hooks in me. Hard.

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Been playing Pokemon: Heart Gold. Pretty great so far, good remake of what's probably my favourite generation. Only thing that's bugging me is how the fuck is up with the bug catching contest? First time, I catch a level 18 Kakuna. Come in last place. Okay. It's a Kakuna. I get that, I guess.

Second time? Fucking Pincer. He's a beast. Hercules beetle. Or something. Don't know. Anyways, I catch that, think "fucking right I'm gonna win this with my Hercules bug". Lose to a goddamn Paras, a goddamn CATERPIE, and a first fucking place piece of shit Weedle. What the actual hell is this?

Great game though. I like how the Pokemon can follow you around now. They actually seem to scale in size to your sprite pretty well, too. It's cute. Just wish I could get my hands on a GODDAMN shiny stone from the bug contest to evolve my Togetic.

Ugh. Weedle. The hell.

Knowing Pokemon the contest is probably judged on something really obscure like EV points or nature or something. If it’s giving you trouble I would just go on one of the many wikis and work out how to game the system.

Either that or get a Scyther. Fucker always wins.

Recently I've been playing New n' Tasty, Abe's Exodus, Diablo III, and FarCry3. And I just finished a 42hr game of Final Fantasy IX, my favorite game of all time, and just started another.

I've bought and completed Star Trek: The Video Game. It was beautiful. I recommend it to nobody.

I just completed Bit.Trip Runner.


(Not me)

I'm still alive.

Mostly.

I gave up on BIT.TRIP RUNNER when I couldn't beat the first boss level on Perfect because of my slight input lag

I'm about to play a game called Catherine. I'm not quite sure to expect, but it's advertised as a puzzle-platform adventure game so I'm pretty hyped.

Oh and cleavage.

Catherines a really cool game. Its really weird though.

I still haven't played that but I know the characters 'n' the basic plot, seems great. I still remember seeing the main character in Persona 3 and being blown away when he's all like "Keep your eye out for me in a future game"

I know so many people who felt weird buying the physical version of this game, because the people on the counter inevitably thought that they were just huge perverts.

I played some of this indie platformer called New 'n' Tasty.

It was OK.

Why talk about Oddworld games in the "Non-Oddworld Gaming" section?

That's the JOKE

I thought the joke was meant to be the 'It was OK' part.

Yeah, I could see that. Thankfully at this point it's pretty much been accepted into the pantheon of cult/classic/really-good-but-kinda-underappreciated titles of the 7th generation, so the cashier at EB just seemed to dig the fact that I actually wanted to go out of my comfort zone for a more bizarre experience. Which is good considering how the Xbox version's cover art features the main character along with a bunch of sheep seemingly crawling out of Katherine (not to be confused with Catherine's) butthole. That even weirded me out.

But yeah, I'm really enjoying Catherine so far. The puzzle's are just mind-bending enough to feel challenging but not too frustrating. The real meat of the game seems to lie in the story and how you shape it. It almost reminds me of Heavy Rain in a way, only much less stressful.

In fact I'm enjoying it so much I'm probably gonna pick up another Atlus game as soon as I'm done (Persona 3 most likely). Great developers, from what I hear.

It could of been worse, you could of bought this at the counter.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2F81hKudW4...+PAL+cover.jpg

Let me guess, it's a game about putting letters (?) inside girls' cleavages

Actually it's a action, side-scroller with anime boobs everywhere.

So it's Catherine?

I bought Senran Kagura for my brithday last year and was physically unable to play it within two hours because my poor RSI ridden wrists couldn't keep up with the absurd button mashing requirements of the beat em up aspect.

Tits aside, it' a really solid game with fun characters and a great story.

I've currently been playing the Majora's Mask remake. I have a laundry list of problems I don't remember existing a decade ago but it's still a very good game.

Same here, I'm most glad they managed to nail the creepy tone honestly.

I've been neglecting Majora for Monster Hunter 4 U recently, however. If anyone's up for hunting let me know.