I have a lvl 19 Mechromancer and a lvl 9 Gunzerker, the Mechro is my main and the Gunzerker is just for fooling around, I just wanted a few achievements I missed early on the game and to try the class out but if you want to play we could maybe start from the very beginning? I kinda want to play with the new Siren, seems fun.

Hey Manco, mod recommendation: Dragon Souls for Perks. Since levelling gets so sparse later on, and there are only so many dragon souls you can spend, it means dragons continue being fruitful and you can get hold of more perks.

I dunno how vanilla you're playing, but if you're having perk problems this might help? I'm aware it probably sounds horrendously OP, but I thought it was a reasonable mod considering. I haven't used it yet, though, I am actually overstocked with perks and souls usually. Have only got about 6 shouts, only one with more than 1 word, and I am being very restrictive with my perk spending, only spending on Smithing, Restoration, Destruction and Speech.


... gah you guys have just reminded me that I still need to push through Borderlands. Friend bought me BL2 for my birthday but I'm refusing to touch it until I've completed the original. And I'm sort of wanting to play through with other people. I think my Siren's like, level 10? It's been a while since I played.

I beat Metroid: Fusion in 85 minutes today with 20% items. I thought this was pretty good until I found a guy who got it 100% in 95 minutes. I bet he's a real nerd. On an unrelated note I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now.

definitely. my wife plays the siren when we play together, so I think I'll give axton a whirl. let me know when you want to play.

If you've having perk problems I feel bad for you son, I've got 99 problems but a perk ain't one.

Some of the skill trees you can leave alone if you don't particularly use them much. For example I ignore the Heavy Armour and Two-Handed skills and just focus on Light Armour and One-Handed instead, If you aren't level 81 yet then running out of perks isn't really a problem.

I'm level 23 now, getting used to fighting Mammoths and Giants now. The best way for me to kill them is summoning Frost Atronachs and pelting them with Fireballs. Managed to get some Adept spells at the Mage Guild so that's going to help me. Not enough mana for the Fire Rune spells yet.

I've been running around major cities and using "Courage" on anyone to level up my Alteration skill, I've also got the perk which gives me a pickpocket bonus if the target is asleep. Pretty handy for looting from the town guards :D

While Borderlands was fun (especially with the guns), the bosses were too hard (doesn't matter if I played it solo, the game should lower the difficulty if there's just one person) and there wasn't really much of a story. It was like "do this, do that, do this" zzz.

borderlands was driven by loot, story definitely took the backseat. borderlands 2 is still about shooting and looting, but the story was pretty amazing. surprisingly dark and emotional at a couple of points.

if you had trouble with the bosses in the first borderlands you were either under leveled or you made some really bad skill tree decisions.

the borderlands 2 bosses can be a bit much to solo, though. especially on true vault hunters mode.

Wait you can spend dragon souls?

I have missed this the entire game, and wondered why all the nonessential Words weren't unlocking.

I purposely avoided saying this, aha.

Glad I could help. =p

I had my first PvP game of Smite today. Played Cupid. Got a few kills, didn't die as often as I did when I started playing League of Legends... I think having previous experience in MOBAs helps. Sad that our Ares didn't have that experience, but hey. It seems like a tougher game than LoL. About between LoL and DotA2 in difficulty and user-friendliness.

I've been playing a bit of LoL lately, too. I love Gangplank. Gonna be sad when he stops being free.

In at the end of the story quest of the Dragonborn expansion souls get a new use: they can be spent to reset and recover all the perks in a skill tree.

I beat the PSP iteration of Cave Story's normal campaign just now. It's a very cool game but the difficulty takes a bit of a leap during the final boss rush. There's just a little bit too much shit flying at you all at once. I almost beat it before on PC but accidentally entered the Hell door which is where all of the postgame content comes in. I immediately ran into some spikes and died, probably punched/slapped my monitor and yelled "FUCK YOU!" with mucho gusto.
I remember this all very clearly. I'm going to try and go for the 'complete' playthrough now. This involves ignoring the best weapon in the game which also gives you the ability to fly through 90% of obstacles once you get it and makes literally everything you fight incredibly easy, pick up an obscure item to prevent a character who gives you a life-saving tool from dying about halfway through, collecting the OTHER best weapon in the game (which requires not getting the aforementioned flyin heavy masheen gun), getting access to the super jetpack as opposed to the standard one optionally acquired on that has less flight time and ultimately take on the post-game Hell. Everyone who's played and enjoyed Super Metroid, Castlevania SOTN or anything else Metroidvania styled should try Cave Story. It's a really amazing game and the music is fantastic. I had it downloaded at some point (wayyyyyy back when I worked at the animal shelter) but lost it when one PC or another decided to crap out.

I played it a bit, but I got stuck on the big tank thing in the desert. What I could do I loved. I keep meaning to go back to it, but I need a better game pad and I have no money.

Oh cool. Was already looking forward to the Dragonborn DLC as it was, seeing as it adds some tougher fights from what I've heard. I could do with some of those, my game decided to wimp out after throwing me against two snowy saber cats below level 10 and not thrown me against anything more challenging than a blood dragon on average.

I busted out Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memorie because I never actually finished it, and because I got fed up with the story of KH3D on my super-hardmode playthrough. That's with skipping every cutscene, too. I thought it was a bit stupid the first time, but I just can't bare it now. I'm not even near the stupid ending yet.

My god did they have a great system in CoM with the cards. It was the best direction the series could have ever gone in. The system that the latest two entries use is essentially build on the idea of cards, but it favors attack-defend movement and positioning to spamming cards with high numbers on them and stacking cards to certain values only to have your AI opponent play a 0 card which beats everything.

The levels are tedious and annoying. Level grinding is a nightmare. The boss fights are fantastic. It's basically every Kingdom Hearts game but with no explorable environment and less interesting filler combat.

I'm using a deck of high level attack cards with a few high level potions and cures to the point where only bosses can cardbreak me, so it's really no wonder I'm hating the small fry. I wish I could just get to the OrgXIII bosses already.

Picked up Kid Icarus: Uprising today. It's a pretty enjoyable game with some lovely visuals on the 3DS, some of the best actually. The one problem I have at the moment is the controls. They work fine, it's just my hands kinda get tried after a while because you do quite a lot of multi-tasking. Flying is okay because the actual flying is rail based so you don't have to worry about the environment.

It's the ground levels that get me. Your shooting with the L button, aiming and also turning the camera with the touch screen and moving with the circle pad. After a while it gets a bit much for your hands. Maybe it's just me and I'll most likely get used to it.

There is a stand for your 3DS to go on which makes things so much easier, I can't imagine playing the game without it.

Oh and also, the voice lines are extremely corny. like, a field of corn, corny. Pit is talking to Palutena almost the entire time, making really bad puns and playful making fun outta each other. Bah, it's a Nintendo game, why i'm I surprised?

Anyway, it's a great game. It will surely keep me active on the 3DS until the release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf (which by the way, I am ecstatic for). E: oh and Pokemon X & Y, that's going to be amazing.

I've just been playing a game called "EnviroBear 2000 Operation: Hibernation", I found it out through Smosh games and it's really fun, it's difficult however, I almost did it but I didn't get to the cave in time to hibernate xD.


Download here: http://gamejolt.com/games/enviro-bea...nload/211/233/

You can't play GBA games on the 3DS right? yawn

Mass Effect - Awesome, I absolutely love travelling to different planets, I don't get why I didn't get this game sooner.

Final Fantasy XIII - Average but enjoying it nonetheless. I might enjoy it more when I get further than I went on my last playthrough, which isn't far at all.

Limbo - SO GOOD. I've been waiting to get this for a while and it is so worth it.

Pokemon White 2 - Playing through it slowly but having fun so far. Having Gen 1-4 pokemon in there is gr9.

No you can't which is a pain, but apparently Nintendo are going to release old GBA game on the downloadable shop.

Still waiting for that...

Having bought Civ 5 in the recent Holiday Sale on Steam, I was playing that last night with a pal.

And then I realised.

God damn the AI is stupid.

My automated workers travelling between two of my cities, instead of using THE DESIGNATED ROADS I BUILT THEM, decided to go through a city state I wasn't friendly with, and caused us to go to war with England and Greece. Both of which were surrounding me. And I wasn't building military. Guhhhhhhh.

Also you cannot have a quick Civ game. Painful. Fun but painful.


League of Legends has a nice sale on at the moment, so I decided to buy two new champions and skins (Morgana and Vayne), tried them out a bit. Both of them are kinda OP, especially Vayne. Who is also very fun. She's a hyper-carry both in that she's hyper-powered when played and built right, and that she's hyper-allergic to damage.

Picked up Anarchy Reigns yesterday and I started playing through the black side story first and am now on the second stage. So far I've beaten Big Bull and Blacker Baron, the boss fights are pretty fun but also hard if they get to use their killer attack combos on you first.

So, Abbey really likes Assassin's Creed 3. I don't like it as much. I feel like the gameplay is a lot more constricting than it should be for an open world game. But she loves it. Hearing "I hate you Charles Lee." and "Nooo. I don't want to kill Haitham. I love him!" is really funny.

I've been playing a lot of Gears of War 3 with my brother. It's fun, like any Gears game. Horde and Beast modes are great to play in long streches of time. I don't really play the other modes, especially not the campaign.

I've been playing Robocop vs. The Terminator, an old Gameboy game. It's awful. A real tragedy. My goodness is it a bad time.

The Civ AI always has its flaws, whether it's being too dumb or being a complete ass with regards to diplomacy (Declaring war on you every turn or making a threat each turn but never actually going through with it).

I just got Rayman 3 HD and

it's just

so

beautiful... .. .

I played through and finished Anarchy Reign's campaign mode over the past few days. Surprisingly heavy story for a silly brawler game.

A mercenary and ex-soldier discovers he has a daughter living at an orphanage, and he decides to take responsiblity and adopts her. However, during a hostage situation, the girl is accidentally shot by a police special forces officer. This officer ends up going rogue and suffers from PTSD, and the mercenary ends up taking a contract where he has to find the officer and bring him back alive.

I heard it's actually just the textures from the PC version.

Did you try out the multiplayer yet? I'm almost done with the white side campaign now (started on the black side) and have yet to test it but I've heard there's some strange glitch on most of the female brawlers that you can do infinite combos and it's really ruining the matches. Oh yeah and the story is actually pretty good, gotta agree with that.

Aren't "HD" remakes for the PS3 just the same game at a different resoultion? they don't change the textures in anyway?

Never owned the PC version, so I wouldn't be able to tell either way.

Regardless, I don't own a working physical copy of the game anymore so it's nice to be able to play it again. It's still incredibly aesthetically pleasing.

I think it varies from game to game.

Actually that's possible on most characters. And most characters can counter it.

See, they decided to make everybody OP, so nobody would or something. Oh, and to things more unpredictable they throw in all the campaign's giant robots and squids and shit to make it more of a silly toss-up.

So is Anarchy Reigns worth buying then?

So apparently Civilization V likes disconnecting LAN games mid-game, otherwise me and Eric would have utterly slaughtered the Siamese outright. I had the biggest army in the game as Gandhi. And we weren't even AD and had steelworking and trebuchets. He was grabbing all the wonders and all the tech as Egypt.

Hell yes I'm starting a war over you blocking my war elephants in a corner with your city borders. And you taking over our trade route by putting a city over it. You don't fuck with India.

And I normally play so passively too...

It's fun. Think 3D brawler with silly multiplayer modes in large stages.

There's a HD remake of that? do want.

Kingdoms of Amalur between Skyrim sessions. I'm not sure what to think about it. Part of the game feels really good, and another part drives me away, and I'm not so sure they're not the same. Combat is good, and the magical chakrams are one of the more unique weapons types I've seen in a fantasy RPG. I'm a real sucker for games with weapon crafting. I expect I'll have to get the new Dead Space when it arrives. Haven't played the others, but I hear this one has weapon crafting. Damn my secret desire to be a blacksmith. Or Q.

Are you training her to kill my countrymen? That's a mightily unsettling thing.

I loved all of the pre-release stuff for Amalur, but I hated the demo. It was fun enough, but the entire game felt restrictive. simply not having the minimap would have made everything feel much more open. It had lots of good brawler elements, but it wasn't a great brawler. It had lots of good RPG elements, but it wasn't a great RPG.

It was a Jack-of-all-trades kind of game.

Second runthrough of Pokemon White 2, with a deliberately shitey team. Serperior, Samurott, Emboar, Cinccino, Zoroark, Crustle. Individually they're all babies but together they're poopy

Just finished Dishonored for the first time. I managed to go through the entire game with out being seen or killing any one.

Overall the game was alright. I didn't hate it, but i didn't love it. I don't know why people went bat shit over this game.