As I write this, it is 2nd September at 01:29. That means?
DRIVER!!! WOOO FINALLY!!!!!! IVE HAD THE DAMN THING ON PREORDER SINCE AUGUST 2010.:spin: Though my time playing it will be heavily reduced, first I was having 2 friends staying down, but now they can't, so I had all evening to play the game, but now I'm staying at a friends house, so, yeah, sadly I can't play alot of Driver since I got other things to do tomorow but staying at my friends house will take up most of my time. :( |
Whoo! I finally beat Deus Ex: Human Revolution yesterday evening and goddamn it was amazing. This is definitely one of my GoTY contenders easily.
Anyways, I was really expecting the twist that Megan and her team were actually alive but I was still really surprised by it. All of the boss fights were a bit difficult in their own way, Barrett wasn't too hard because you could just stun him and throw some frags at him. Yelena on the other hand was a lot harder. Probably the hardest out of the four because of the cloaking. I thought Namir was the easiest 'cause I had the grenadelauncher from pre-ordering and just blasted at him. And the final boss, Zhao Yun Ru, was really hard at first because I couldn't figure out what to do, but after you get what you're supposed to do it's easy as hell. I've got to say, using stealth in some situations is fucking hard and that's why I went guns blazing at some situations. Also, the last part of the game revolves around a facility in the arctic ocean called Panchaea and what makes it pretty fucking hard is that it's full of augmented people who had the new biochip installed and went insane. I had to save all the time in there, you died really easily too. Oh and about the endings, there are 4 different endings I think, I only got 2 to choose from because I could not find Taggart and someone else I think. I chose the Sarif -ending, it was pretty neat. I really enjoyed the game, I was a bit on the edge when I pre-ordered it, but I was really pleasantly surprised by it. You basically get to free roam around the locations (Detroit, Hengsha and the larger buildings) and search for side missions and such. I think I missed at least 3 side missions. :S Oh and apparently, your actions through out the game don't really matter in the ending which is a bit dumb. That's one of my minor gripes with the game, otherwise it's a masterpiece. Lots of cool easter eggs, neat boss fights, good story, great upgrading system and lots and lots of more = 9/10. A few minor problems I had with the game were that your inventory was a bit small even if you upgrade it to the fullest and the character models' faces are so dull with the exception of Jensen's, Sarif's and Megan's. Also, make sure to watch through the credits, you'll be surprised... |
God Dyna there are like 8 posts on this page already updating your progress on DX.
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I know, I know. And ffs why does everyone call me 'Dyna' all of the sudden?
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Because it's faster than typing your full username. People call me Bungle and Dixanadu Dix, and we don't complain.
I decided to buy Marvel VS Capcom 3. It's really, really fun, but I'm terrible at it. |
I guess so. It just sounds dumb in my head.
Anyways, I've been playing Deus Ex and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands lately and it's ok. It's the second PoP -game I've played. (The other being Sands of Time.) I think the environments look really dull and colourless for some reason, but the gameplay itself is nice. It's a bit boring but it's a game that you can play to pass time. Only paid 10€ for it so no loss. |
I did start playing the cel-shaded Prince of Persia game, but a combination of awful frame-rate (on my laptop at least) and just not really enjoying the game meant that I didn't get very far into the game at all. I have Sands of Time and Forgotten Sands too, both of which I haven't tried yet; I'm pretty sure I should play them, what with all the praise they get (the former in particular).
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I’ve had Forgotten Sands gathering dust on my shelf for a month or so now. Really need to pick it up sometime.
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Ocarina of Time 3D. Fucking awesome, I think I'm addicted. It's a perfect remake. I don't use the 3D much cause it gives me headaches.
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Resistance 3. I friggin' love this game, it's like the perfect blend of action and narrative!
The multiplayer is pretty much your standard 90s style arena shooter with killstreaks but the maps are some of the best I've seen in a long time! Of course I'm a sucker for any map with snow :P which there are two of. The weapons are mostly awesome and actually feel like they have recoil now. Oh and the melee is sweet, you actually lunge a few feet when you try to hit someone which makes it easy to kill them and there's even a cool little animation (not as epic looking as the melee animation from Killzone 3 or Halo Reach). Overall it's a cool game if you like Halo style shooters. 9/10 |
I beat Driver SF, Chapter 5 onwards get extremely trippy!
I thought the mission in the video was already confusing enough! Took me a while to figure out that you had to follow the ravens and then the game takes a twist and sort of involes time travel and you redo the part at the begining of the game with Jericho ramming you with the prison van. My brain was totally fucked! The part where you follow the ambulance and the cars begin to dissapeer totally racked my head as well! *WARNING* VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8AxD..._order&list=UL Just anoying that the devs bullshited us with claims of an 18 Hour+ Story mode and a rank 40 cap in multiplayer that would "take considerable time to reach". I'm already at level 33... |
Alice: Madness Returns. If you enjoyed the first Alice, worth a rental. If not...Meh. Madness Returns is full of broken platforming that lead to countless deaths/throw-your-controller-across-the-room-because-you've-died-trying-to-do-the-same-thing-15-times-in-a-row frustration. The in game graphics seem to shift from being pretty to absolute garbage for no apparent reason, and the story is pretty much a non-existent convoluted mess. Which, given the title, makes sense. Sort of. I guess.
Then there's the combat. It works quite nicely. Most of the time, it's actually fun. Until you're introduced to some sort of new enemy that has some sort of mystery weakness that, unless tapped, leaves the enemy a hard hitting pretty much invincible piece of shit. It gets better later on when you get more weapons, but when you start of with just the vorpal blade, it sucks. It sucks a lot. All of those complaints aside, I was a huge fan of the first Alice when I was younger, and have put up with all of the bad just for a chance to tear my way through this fucked up version of Wonderland again. Since it's just a rental, I don't really feel wronged, but had I paid full retail for it out of sheer love of the series [as I had planned on] I would have been pretty pissed. |
At the moment i'm not playing though anything, just playing random games on TF2 and relaxing with Minecraft waiting for the update.
I intrested in playing Deus Ex, Xenoblade Chronicles and Star Fox 64 3D However i don't have a PC good enough for Deus Ex and not enough money :( |
Haha, I just used the new trading system on Steam and traded a few TF2 items (Bill's hat, the combine-like mask for Pyro and some random weapons.) for Deus Ex: Game of The Year edition from some guy. And it's Friday, so I'll start playing it through tonight!
tl;dr - I got Deus Ex on Steam because I gave some guy a few virtual items for Team Fortress 2. |
I got Space Marine and Rock of Ages.
Space Marine is a really fun game which reverses the whole cover system and replaces it with a charging melee-killing thing. It's doofy, but it's fun. Rock of Ages is fucking hilarious. Download it now. |
There's been a bunch of games lately that I want to try but that Steam isn't offering demos for. Rock of Ages and From Dust come to mind. I wonder why they only offer demos for some games.
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Well it was pretty grand. I know From Dust's PC version was full of shitty bugs and framerate issues though.
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I downloaded Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection which contains Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, it's a really great package for just 800MS Points which is a bonus considering that once you could only buy Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 for the same price, the emulation has some problems though.
Mortal Kombat works fine apart from graphical glitches and missing music on Goros Lair. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 has the problem of not letting you enter kombat kodes on the VS screen, I know why this happens and I could explain why but I just really cannot be bothered. Mortal Kombat II has the most problems though, there are plenty of graphical and sound glitches and sometimes even the frame rate messes up. Sadly the online for all of these games is where is truely goes wrong. This is one of THE worst games I have ever played online, konnecting (sorry) to a game is already a difficult enough task, the next problem is that all of the games lag badly! I have played with people who have a good internet connection and still the games lag terribly, it's not even the case of the games running slower, I find myself being unable to actually complete combos for my characters because my button presses are too fast for the slowly running game to register. I find this problem very strange because Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (released on XBLA back in 2006 I believe) never had these problems online so I'm confused as to why it is suddenly plagued with these issues now, the online play was also better in the first release of UMK3 because you could have up to 4 players in a lobby, 2 players would fight, and 2 would spectate and the winner would play the next game whilst the loser would be put at the back of the line and had to wait for their turn, sadly when Midway went under all Midway games were removed from XBLA and the servers were shut down :( So if you are looking to play all 3 games offline then it's great, but I really cannot recomend the online part of this package though a patch has been anounced. |
Why don't the Kombat Kodes work?
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Perhaps a kreator kock up?
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Started playing Persona 4 a couple of days ago. I don’t normally go for JRPG-type games, but GiantBomb’s endurance run of it had me in stitches. The game just doesn’t take itself seriously at all.
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I finished my third and most likely my final playthrough of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I got all the achievements (1000/1000 Gamerscore, yay!) that I missed this time whilst playing it through. It was a lot of fun and I might play it through one more time before the DLC comes out and this time, I'll go all guns blazing and massmurderer -style, haha.
I need to get into PoP: Forgotten Sands and Deus Ex 1 now. |
I've started playing Paper Mario 2 and Zelda: A Link to the Past. Hopefully this time I won't become lost and confused as fuck at Zelda.
Almost finished with OoT 3D! |
I've started OoT 3D. I've completed the Deku Tree, which I've done about seven times before, even though I've never completed OoT. However, I'm gonna have to do it again soon as this was on my brother's copy, rather than mine which is due to arrive in the mail tomorrow.
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A bit more on Rock Of Ages
after using the 360 pad and the keyboard, I'd say use a control pad. The mouse sensitivity needs too much fine-tuning and the control pad's unit deployment stuff works better on a radial menu. that said, this is a wonderful game. The premise is that you're Sisyphus in Hades, and you're sick of rolling the boulder up the hill. So you and some friends use it to break out, and end up in Troy where you get to roll boulders against Agamemmnon, and then off to Sparta, and onwards through the medival art period where you face off against charlemagne or whatever his name is, then into renaissance, etc It's a cross between tower defense and marble madness, really. And some heavy Monty Python undertones. So much fun. |
Yeah Rock of Ages is a great little game, The humor reminds me so much of Worms and Monty Python
Anyway I started playing a few random PS2 games, I've started on Metal gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and what a epic game that is. I forgot how amazing it really is. |
Started to play Giants: Citizen Kabuto :fuzsmile:
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Been quite busy with games lately. Started playing El Shaddai. It's so purty!
Also started Epic Mickey, which is a fun little platformer. |
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I've had limited internet access for a few months, so I've only been able to play games on disc that don't require any network for patching, mods and the like. So I have been playing:
StarCraft Diablo II Spelunky World Worms Party Morrowind1 Oblivion2 Dawn of War3 Age of Empires4 Black & White5 Age of Wonders 1. Morrowind without all my plugins was frankly distressing. I played it for about two minutes. 2. Ditto, but two weeks rather than two minutes :P It's still got the knack for distraction. 3. Ditto but for skins and patches. 4. Quit after a few missions when I remembered that I didn't like Age of Empires. 5. Ditto, but also because I always found B&W to be very frustrating. It had so much potential and it wound up only marginally above average. Nice to revisit old classics. Ironically, I didn't worry about patching for StarCraft. But now I'm back online! Who hasn't played Portal 2 co-op yet? |
I'm not letting you say you don't like AoE, take it back damn it.
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Agreed. I love AoE, Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings is one of the finest real-time strategy games i've ever played. Speaking of which i've actually been playing it quite a bit recently :D (wow the timing is great). I ordered the Gold Edition of amazon since my version I lost ages ago. And I've also been playing Minecraft for obvious reasons.
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At the moment I can't see much fault with the game. |
I continue the war against MK's netcode, most of the time I lose though. So aggrivating having to wait 10 minutes to get into a match I wont get disconnected from, still its really fun.
Deus Ex hasn't captured me as much as I would have liked. Its fun, but Im just not gravitated towards it, I've just barely made it to Hengsha and have no will to finish it anytime soon. I haven't decided if I want to sell it yet or not. Its a fine game, but I wish there were more active augmentations and much less restrictions on them, I also feel that the obvious draw towards stealth gameplay is pretty fucking stupid. Why should the game punish me for wanting to kill as many people as I want? Why do the developers decide what is best in a supposedly "open ended" game, with one of its marketing ploys being "play how you want". Honestly I feel its a stealth game under the guise of a choose-how-you-play game. Yes, I just made up that genre. Anyways, I hope to finish it before Gears 3 comes out, because there is no hope of me finishing it after that. |
You can play it how you want to, but the stealth style definitely is the most rewarding, which is a bit irritating, I agree. And what do you mean by restrictions to augs? I mean, you can upgrade your sprint, jumping, cloaking and everything you basically need.
Sorry, I just like to defend the game because I really liked it, hah. Anyways, I started going through L.A. Noire's cases again and trying to get the "5 star every case" achievement which is a pain in the ass... |
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I started playing El Shaddai.
It's quite, uh, something. From what I gather, you're a man sent by God to the ancient Earth to break into a spatial rift which houses seven fallen angels and their human worshippers, in a tower surrounded by a city. The angels apparently loved Earth too much, and their human-crossbreeding has resulted in Nephilim, cutesy fluffy non-entities who feel nothing but pain at their aberrant existence. They eventually grow large and devour each other, transforming into gigantic shadowy monstrous creatures that will eventually destroy the Earth. And also your best friend is Lucifel who is constantly talking on his mobile with God. It's a very pretty game though! Also the combat is simple and fun, and the abstract style means it doesn't look samey at all. |
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