Exploding babies was a nice touch.

Just played some Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at a friend's house.

I want it now.

I want it too, it looks so much fun.

Downside is, it costs money. And I have no money.

I know your sorrow my friend. I even managed to pick my mains while I was at my friend's house too.

I've been playing Dragon Quest VIII again. I've been inconsistently playing it since March. I cracked 40 hours today.

The last 10 hours of the game have gone something like this:

You must go to the Dark Ruins in the north!
Dolmageous has put a dark forcefield around the entrance to the ruins! You'll need a special mirror from the kingdom of Argonia to get in!
You must help the prince of Argonia slay a lizzard before the king gives you the mirror!
The mirror seems to have lost it's enchantment over the years. Head west to some wizard to see if it can be re-enchanted!

No doubt the wizard is going to send me on some stupid quest.

Amongst these main objectives, I've been idly wandering to find new monsters for my monster team and treasure.

Me too.
Me too.
ME TOO.

Deadpool, Tron and Hulk allllll the way.

Hulk will probably be patched though, but Dante won't, despite being 100,000,000,000 times more annoying.

seriously
fuck that guy.

Sentinel vs Sentinel 3: Fate of two Sentinels

Sentinel? Really? But he's so slow! Like a cement pig.

Yet many people use him.

That's stupid. He was literally the slowest, most unfun to play character when I played yesterday. And he pukes lightning.

Dormammu looks badass in my opinion. I just want MvC3.

Been re-playing Ratchet and Clank 3 and I have completed Rayman 3: Hoodulum Havoc for the first time, The last boss was a bitch.

RAYMAN 3. That's the game I forgot! Thanks crashpunk, I need to start playing it right-fucking-now!

Shit, I remember the final boss, fuckin' hard. Reflux was his name, wasn't it?

What took you so long? I've been recommending that game for years!

Yes, Reflux is his name, and Beating You Into A Pulp With His Monolithic Fists is his game. R3:HH deserves recognition if only for having a final boss that was just perfect. Apart from the fact that the last bit is in the rocket car, rather than 'proper' gameplay.

I must have played that game through at least four times.

I'm not sure if you were talking to me or crashpunk, but I've played Rayman 3 through 3 times, it's so good. Can't wait for Rayman: Origins!

Also, the fuck is this, I can't install Rayman 3 to my computer because apparently, it doesn't work with Vista. Whatever, I'm gonna get it for PS2.

I Love Rayman. Fuck the Rabbids I want Rayman 4 like murfy said!

Oh and I never could get past the Hoodlum's Hideout bit. I manage to do it and then I completed the game :D

The Final Boss was so fricking long! The first bit was annyoing and the last bit was just a pain to complete.

Desert of the Knaaren was where I used to get stuck.

The first Rayman is one of the most difficult games I've played. I could never beat it.

I've beaten it once. I was stuck on Image World for AGES!

But yeah, Rayman 1 was truly hard, I only got to one of the boss fights. This guy:

How could you beat enough levels in various worlds to get to the Cave of Skops without being good enough to fight another boss?

I'm stuck in the Blue Mountains. Fuck long cloud ride sequences with blue spikeythings.

Also, Rayman 3 is really good. I've finished quite a few times. Despite having the story of a game you'd expect to drag on, the gameplay was solid and amusing the whole way through.

I couldn't get passed the place made of musical shit.

I was young.

I have the PC version, and at least for me, every world was unlocked at first and you could choose which ones to beat and when you've beaten every world, you get to fight Mr. Dark or whatever his name was.

I'm looking Very forward to Rayman Origins however its not Rayman 4 as its set before the first Rayman.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before that I'm unable to get scared by films, as the constant knowledge of the fictionality of events and my distance from the characters prevents me from feeling any genuine sense of personal danger.

In games, however, you are invited to inhabit the position of the protagonist, their body becoming your body, your collective wellbeing becoming unified. As a result, I am still capable of being scared shitless by games.

I'd heard a lot about Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I'd heard comparisons to Myst, The Ring, and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I'd been told that the art direction was fascinating. I'd been tod that the gameplay was innovative. I'd been told that it was very, very weird.

It later turned out that I'd understandably confused it with The Void, which shares many of Amnesia's qualities. As a result, what I had not been told, unfortunately, was that the game is really fucking scary. Proper, psychological, Oh-Shit-I-Don't-Know-What-That-Is-But-I-Bet-It's-Even-Worse-Than-What-I'm-Imagining scary.

As I started the demo, several things occurred to me, in this order:

-I've just been presented with several windows recommending how I should enter the game (with an open mind to narrative play), what to expect (darkness, disturbing imagery and sensory tricks) and how best to play it (with headphones, in the dark, at night).
-I'm now in what appears to be a controllable hallucination sequence. Cool! Like in Call of Cthulhu!
-I've just found a letter from myself explaining the current situation. This game is all plot-y and deep. I could enjoy this.
-Wassat?
-Wow, this game is dark. I'm barely out of the first area and I'm running out of lantern oil and tinder. This game has realism! I genuinely can't see! Shit!
-HOLY HELL OF ALL THAT BURNS, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CREEPY SHIT

Now I'm too scared to finish the demo, let alone buy the game. I've heard that you can see some horrifyingly constructed set-pieces later in the game, but right now I'm terrified of the monsters I can't see. The blood-slicked protoplasm that leeches at my passing leg in the darkness, the malicious shadow that extinguishes any glimmers of safety as soon as I reach them, and the water monster.

The terrifying, invisible water monster, the one that splashes in the dark and thrashes in the light, the one that I at first had hoped to outsmart with objects thrown into the water, that yet always manages to locate me and pursue me, the heavy, sloshing footsteps growing ever louder and ever closer as it pursues me through the flooded library, driving me witless with terror as I scramble at shelves and tables, anything to distance myself from this demon, before it drags me down beneath those clinging, icy waters, my vision warping, clouding, shuddering, and fading, before the game leaves me one haunting message.

Stay out of the water...

On a less personal note, what I did see before being overcome with terror and going to watch some nice, safe happy television was impressive. Graphics are well optimised for ropey machines like mine, pretty and vivid without causing any meltdowns. Slightly better than Oblivion in visual terms. The art style is nice, with rare spots of life and humanity presented in warm, rich colour and everything else very dark, washed out and drab. Didn't see so much of the puzzle interaction, what of it there was seemed like a weak point of the game, but it was still fairly solid compared to some of the crap that gets released.

So yeah, I've said a lot, but I am pretty surprised at being scared by something fictional, it's quite a first for me. It gives me the feeling that Abe's Oddysee gave me as a child, the sense that I'm not supposed to be here, and that the consequences will be horrible.

I expect Marble Hornets fans will love it. Lookin' at you OddHunter.

Also +1 point for having tactile door-opening.

I got about halfway through reading your post and went to download the demo, and then I saw this.

My only concern is that my PC is ultra-low spec, so there's a low chance I'll actually be able to play it. Still, at least the demo's free.

e: well shit, it requires OpenGL. Not a chance in hell it's gonna work for me - it's crashed twice already.

Does it matter? None of the stories are related, apart form recurring characters and none of the locations are the same. I think an insight into what the fuck goes on in the Ray-verse would be interesting, too. Why was Rayman created and such.

As long as Murphy isn't in it.

I'm trying to get the last Mass Effect 2 achievement, passing it on Insanity.

So far so good, I found turning off AI talents helpful, since I can use them in a pinch. Currently, I'm on Illium attempting to recruit Thane. Apparently Tali's recruitment mission is supposed to be hard as fuck so...I'll leave that for a bit.

Picked up MvC3, really fun. The online is a mess though, its near impossible to get into a ranked or player match with randoms. You can join a lobby with friends, but there is no spectate mode, so you end up staring a lobby screen a lot. Im starting to get the hang of some of the better combos the game has to offer, its easy to get into, but hard to master. Some of the characters can projectile spam like no fucking other though, some dickbag spammed Magento's beam at me yesterday online, I couldn't even fucking move.

Still playing Fallout: New Vegas to get the last few achievements + DLC.

I played MVC3 at a friend's house again yesterday. I don't understand why Sentinel literally became game breaking overnight. He was quit possibly The shittiest character on Tuesday.

Anyway, it's great fun playing with Jordan, who's really good at fighting games, using a team of Deadpool, Tron and Spencer and listening to him bitch on and on about how cheap my characters are, because he can't figure out that only stupid vaginas actually try to pull combos off in MVC. You button mash, fucker. You button mash until you bleed. Also, he uses Dante. Dante isn't hard to kill or anything, he just has a lot of bullshittily ranged attacks that take alot more health than they should. Especially that retarded laser one.

Oh, and he spams Hadouken as Ryu. Fucking loser.

Dante seems to be one of the best all around characters, he has range, power, and easy ass combos. I feel cheap using him, but I don't give a shit since most online players have one spam character anyways. Im partial to Ammy, Wesker, Chris, Chunli, and Dr Doom as well. One of my friends is annoying to play with, since he complains to no end about how others are cheap, but he himself employs cheap tactics.

My ideal Cheap Team would be Hulk, Dr. Doom (for his super attack or whatever, the one that coats the WHOLE SCREEN, he's otherwise useless) and Sentinel. Especially Hulk.

Hulk is pretty good if you know how to use him. I haven't played as Sentinel yet. My friend spammed him in our first match and I couldn't move, I still won after that from pure nerd rage though.

Been playing Splinter Cell: Conviction today and I like it better now, the interrogations are spot on and there are more sneaky missions now.

Shit, I might have to clean the dust off of my Pandora Tomorrow.

Still? Or am I thinking of someone else? What class, bonus power and weapon specialisation do you have? I strongly recommend one of the shield bonuses if you don't have one already, being able to recharge your shields or barriers instantly in a pinch (to a greater than normal level) is a lifesaver. Or even Tali's energy drain, damaging shields and synthetics' health while recharging your shields.

I just managed to get all of the ME2 achievements, including all current DLC. The first game for which I have ever done so. I'm well chuffed. The last one I got? Brawler. Not difficult, just very annoying with my preferred builds. I started a new guy with the vanguard class just to get it.

Quite possibly could be me, since I started playing ME2 on Insanity difficulty a month or two ago and I was around that part. After a while, I just quit and started playing other games since it was so hard. I might try to complete it later though.

I tell you what though. I had the best defences in the game, a great weapon selection, the majority of upgrades and a very balanced selection of powers, all fully upgraded, and taking down the Colossus on Tali's mission (without Kal'Reegar's help) was still one of the hardest gaming experiences I've ever had. Also, one of the most enjoyable. Every action of my own and my allies had to be entirely deliberate and planned in advance.

Soldier.

I'm using the Geth Shield Boost, which pulled me out of the shit a few times. I found Mordin very handy, just got Heavy Incinerate so that'll serve me well.

Miranda's also pretty good, Warp and Overload are a match made in heaven for Eclipse Vanguards and shielded opponents.

On the Collector ship now, a little stuck on the Praetorian. I never realised Harbinger was so god-damned hard on Insanity, he just unleashes a barrage of shit on me.

If I can get Heavy Overload for Garrus, I'll take him with me and Mordin to get Tali, I'm dreading the thought, though.

:confused: Why don't you like Murphy? He was hilarious in Rayman 3.