Nate's going to spank us so hard.

Today I completed Magicka's DLC named Other Side of The Coin. It turned out to be better and longer than I expected. And you can kill MLP ponies there

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Just the way you like it.

First impressions of Torchlight 2 are very good. I jumped into an engineer and I feel like I'm going to go down the 2-hander tank path at this point. I doubt I'm even going to touch the shield-based skill tree.

I'm playing on hard the first time through. This is keeping me from doing higher level sidequests and getting ahead of the level I should be for the main story, like I did in Torchlight. The areas so far have been really open and interesting. It's simple enough to decide which path will take you towards your objective and which will lead to sidequests. Alternate routes all seem to join up to each other and exploring has required very little backtracking. I found some higher level dungeons by accident and had my arse kicked, but I've tried to remember where they are for later.

Looking really promising.

I also picked up Torchlight 2 before release, so I'm doing a bit of catching-up with the first game. It's very good so far, playing as the Destroyer is very satisfying. Count me in if you want to play in co-op sometime.

I made it to the end of the Estherian ruins before I got bored of the first. The second is far more interesting. I'm actually really excited to see where my build is going, especially seeing that I've just realised that I'll have enough skill points to get some cannon skills.

Cannons are amazing, by the way. Anyone that watched the Yogscast playing the beta should remember Simon's love of cannons. I didn't really understand it until today. I picked up a cannon that had a really high rate of fire and I was tearing through enemies by swapping between loadouts. My boss strategy currently consists of kiting the boss around and shooting it whenever I can until I build up enough charges to tear through their health with the default slam attack.

Engineers are fun.

e: But I'm definitely up for co-op sometime. This kind of game is much better with another person. Sadly I have no friends to play it with.

Sadly I have no friends :(

I don't understand?
Really? So they're in the game, though?

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The game actually punishes you for not killing them by not giving you the achievement. And they look stupid and lame!

Pics or it doesn't happen.

I don't care that much. You can think it doesn't happen

I just googled it. They weren't MLP ponies.

Not that I... care.

You've started denying it?

God i'm sick of this useless pony related spam.

I'm sorry, I have no idea why I am still dragging it

I fixed it.
My idea is that if we keep correcting him, he'll get better!?

No, but even less people will like you if you'll be doing that

BTW.
What the hell is this? Is that a question? Then yes, I guess that is your idea.

I'm sorry.

Silent Hill Origins, not too bad for a handheld.

I bought Saints Row 3 at the start of the week and spent the whole week burning through the main storyline.

I dunno, I definitely enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, but I think Saints Row 2 was a better game. 3 has is moments, but I can’t help but feel like it goes too far with the silliness sometimes.

2 was silly as well, but I think the fact it was more grounded in reality (no lasertanks, luchadore gangsters or sci-fi bullshit) made the silliness stand out all the more. And 2 has a better plot progression.

3 was still fun though, and full of good humor.

The funniest character I've seen by far is a casually, sensibly dressed man who just so happens to be missing his trousers/pants and pants/underpants. It works especially well in dialogue situations, which are usually shot from the waist up until the closing shot.

I favor an otherwise-reasonably attractive woman with a rather sour face and a cockney accent. A male cockney accent.

Played Valve's DOTA 2. Against bots, naturally.

It looks pretty nice, but they've clearly gone for clarity over flair, which is sensible. After years of Steam, they know how to make an intuitive interface, and I quickly learned my way around until I was using quick-buy queues like a pro. The action is simpler than you may have been led to believe. While there are 50 different attacks that may be flying towards you at any one time, with 50 different potential effects, they usually have a common solution like "get out of the way".

I picked Venomancer to start with, who has simple poison burst attacks and plonks down gobbing turrets like some kind of Hydralisk/TF2 Engineer hybrid. He's good fun. My "build" consists of shoving all my points into the turret ability, then my poison spit. The turrets keep back creeps while I'm a low-level "squishy", and I use my spit to support them until I get tough enough to play a frontline support role with my DoT burst "ultimate".

My favourite item is the Power Treads, magical shoes that change the stats they buff when you click on them. Normally, they're on Agility, when I run out of mana I switch to Intelligence, low health I go to Strength and regenerate etc. How my giant snake thing wears boots I have no idea, though.

I've only played on Easy bots, and I'll be scaling them all the way up to Hard before I dare to go online.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a Diablo-style hack 'n' slash game with all grind and padding surgically removed. And that's a game I want to play more of.

I'd recommend this video for anyone who's curious, and shall also mention my two invites to give away, plus the existence of private co-op.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=nzYNyDF_nDk

Been having a great time with the WRC 3 demo, though, I assume that me and Boneyhead95 are the only ones who will be interested in that game.

I did quite recently get the opportunity to play the latest build of the game, it's amazing so far!

Boneyhead95 still posts here?

Who knows. Jenny is just saying who on here would be actually interested in WR3...

whatever that is.

WRC is the World Rally Championship, Boneyhead95 may not post here anymore, but he did PM me recently asking if I knew about WRC 3 being released.

So has anyone here played Borderlands 2 yet?

No but it's good good reviews, even better than Borderlands 1 since you auto-pickup ammo now. I'm actually going to install 1 again since I haven't finished it yet.

In terms of new games I've been playing Mount & Blade, which is very fun. Nothing like raising your army and then raising hell. I've also been playing GUN on the PC and the PSP version of Assassin's Creed. Also been playing Game Dev Story, great little game.

More like Boredderlands

I've been playing the hell out of FTL. Reached the last bit two times now, but never actually reached the flagship. COME ON, YOU KESTRELLY BASTARD.

I beat Crash Bandicoot: Warped just a few days ago, might try 100% completion at some point. I also started a new save on Rayman and am now in the first levels of Band Lands, it's so frustratingly hard that I have to grind the early levels for Lums to get more lives. Oh yeah and I just entered the Scarecrow Fields in MediEvil and have beaten two bosses already. Also some Kula World and desperately trying to get used to Resident Evil 1's painful controls and difficulty because it otherwise seems like a great game.

It's been a real PS1 week for me.

Fucking Rayman. I lost all of my lives in Allegro Presto my first time through, so I started again. I managed to get upto the Art World the second time, but I hit a hitch in one specific jump. It left me with very few continues and a really tough set of levels ahead of me. I just gave up at that point and I'm yet to go back.

By art world it was really about knowing the levels, because they would either just spawn random crap or have jumps that required really specific use of the helicopter. Nothing was intuitive and that was unbearable in a game where there are so few lives.

Yeah, these levels can really make you mad.

It gets better though, don't give up

I've never beat Rayman 1; The closest I've ever got was the last part of that Art Stage.

Nevertheless, it's still a good game.

Tonight in Albert's Late Night Sideburn and Art Game Club: Kairo!

It has a demo! Play it! Feel trendy!

Rayman is probably the angriest I've ever been at a game. But it's soooo good.

It's fantastic but damn near impossible at times. I've never finished it, and have had it since I was a kid.

Heh, I just bought it off Ebay to replace my original copy that my cousins obliterated years ago. Back then I ran out of Continues at the start of Picture City.

Me me, I'm a tan man and Monster Hunterman.
I reinstalled Monster Hunter Freedom Unite after dropping it somewhere around a year ago. I'm definitely enjoying myself a lot more, I kind of figured out that I didn't need every tool for every mission, and I crafted the Deathprize which is a kickass little sword that paralyzes real easy.

Unfortunately every other aspect of this game is very hard. And it does little things to really make you hate the critters you have to kill. The Blangonga, for example, is a giant ice Babboon/Mandrill that summons little baby Ice Mandrills, vomits freezing spray and occasionally just throws a big chunk of ice at you. Its cousin, the Congalala, is this dirty fucking thing:

Rest assured, if you didn't watch this video, that is a giant pink hippo-faced ape that uses fart attacks altered by what vegetation it eats. Literally 100% of the descriptions for a mission involving these bastards can be summed up as "I got pooped on by a giant pink fucking ape! KILL IT TO DEATH"

I'm thinking I'll pick up MH 2 for PS2 since that's in my price range. Seriously though, these games are in a league of their own. Nothing quite like them, and nothing with that same level of 'Be prepared or your ass is grass.'

E: Rayman Origins is pretty much 500 times better than the original. It's like drowning in cheese whiz instead of having some sliced mozzarella. Or something.

Yeah I have to agree. I enjoyed Rayman Origins more then Rayman 1 simply because it was more enjoyable to play yet it was difficult just like the original.

Can't wait to get my hands on Rayman Legands :)