What are you playing right now? V

[Manco]

Is that a line from one of your animes?

[Mac Sirloin]

Stranger's Wrath HD


I'm pretty high on the leaderboards, but not high enough. Most of the complete times are hacked (the top score is hard mode complete in .151 milliseconds.)
I just finished the game on Hard in under eight hours which should put me somewhere around the 3rd or 4th place mark, but I'm not showing up. Gonna try to get the top score for Moolah collected during a playthrough since that is apparently unhackable. I was surprised to find I'm in the top 30 people for just about every bounty except for Packrat Palookah, which allegedly took me almost an hour. I remember it taking a lot less but oh well I can always try again.

[MeechMunchie]

Oh, snap.

[Strike Witch]

I'm listening to Joe play Persona 3. It's an interesting experience.

See, Joe likes RPGs, but he has a thing where he does everything in his power to prevent himself from losing a fight, so he'll grossly overlevel his party for every bossfight until it's laughably easy.

However, in Persona the combat system is full of spells and abilities that can charm or instant-kill your party with a 25% accuracy, so there's a 1/4 chance during the tougher bossfights that your overleveled characters might get fucked over. See, when that happens to me I think it's cool, so I will re-spec my party to block the light or dark instant-death spells or whatever, however:

Joe really really really hates luck-based mechanics. He views them all as being bad game design and artificial difficulty. So when a floor boss charmed his entire party with a Sexy Dance skill:

[24/05/2013 3:12:23 PM] Joe: It was still a terrible luck based boss
[24/05/2013 3:12:41 PM] Hime Hime: you're so grumpy when things don't go your way
[24/05/2013 3:13:01 PM] Joe: No, there should be a rule against all your party succumbing to one status effect at once
[24/05/2013 3:13:04 PM] Joe: If Pokemon has it...
[24/05/2013 3:13:07 PM] Hime Hime: why?
[24/05/2013 3:13:11 PM] Joe: UM
[24/05/2013 3:13:16 PM] Joe: BECAUSE IT RUINS THE GAME
[24/05/2013 3:13:21 PM] Joe: Boss casts instant die
[24/05/2013 3:13:23 PM] Joe: Everyone dies
[24/05/2013 3:13:24 PM] Joe: Wow
[24/05/2013 3:13:25 PM] Joe: How fun
[24/05/2013 3:13:37 PM] Joe: I really enjoy playing a game where I survive purely due to luck
[24/05/2013 3:13:54 PM] Joe: You can't defend this

He can get a bit twitchy.

But it's fun.

[Sekto Springs]

You and Joe should just fuck and get it over with.

[Wings of Fire]

You and Joe should just fuck and get it over with.

That's what I keep telling her.

[Strike Witch]

Sorry unlike the rest of the forum I don't do penis

[Phylum]

I usually dislike instant death mechanics, but Jade Cocoon 2 got it right. The highest % chance of death spell could only target one monster. The next tier up targeted your entire active side, but had a much lower percent than the other spells.

The strongest beastmaster in the game uses it lots, so to take him down you need to plan around potentially having a large chunk of your beasts wiped out at once. Lots of slowing spells and recovery water magic.

I really need to find time to play that game again.

[Mr. Bungle]

I've hit level 32 and Vanilla WoW is still fun. Something about killing mobs over and over again is just so much more entertaining than the forced enthusiasm put into the quests in the newer games. Maybe it's because a rogue, and I really like killing things, but the quests are simple, accomplishable (well, to a degree; some of them are near impossible unless you use WoWiki) and offer buttloads of experience. No gimmicks like the shit they started doing come Cataclysm (and maybe a bit of Wrath).

[Wings of Fire]

I'm one of those strange people who likes grinding, but I'd never call vanilla WoW fun, nor wish to ever do it again.

[Sekto Springs]

Never played WoW, but grinding in Dark Souls is downright therapeutic sometimes. If you're OP enough, that is. That's the thing about Dark Souls; unless you're an obscenely high level, even the world 1 enemies will fuck you up.

[Crashpunk]

I'm one of those strange people who likes grinding, but I'd never call vanilla WoW fun, nor wish to ever do it again.

I find you have to be in the right mindset to grind for any periods of time as it gets painfully boring fast.

However I do like grinding in Pokemon just because there's a chance you'll encounter a rare Pokemon; or perhaps if your lucky enough a Shiny.

The grinding in Dragon Quest 8 is pretty fun too.

[Phylum]

Once the world opened up in DQ8 I really started to get frustrated with the random encounters. Fighting a million jargons while walking to a distant chest only to find it was locked and my thieves key wouldn't open it was not fun. The grinding was certainly fun at times, like when trying to hunt down rare monsters or metal slimes.

[Wings of Fire]

Never played WoW, but grinding in Dark Souls is downright therapeutic sometimes. If you're OP enough, that is. That's the thing about Dark Souls; unless you're an obscenely high level, even the world 1 enemies will fuck you up.

Here is an example of how vanilla WoW worked:

Find eight xy. You get xy by refining x

Enemies drop x, but the drop rate is about 25%, so you could kill thirty enemies and only get about seven x.

After you've got your x, you need to refine it into xy, and here's the kicker: The refining process only has about a 25% chance of success. You can and will more than likely kill a hundred enemies to get twenty five x, and then just fail in getting enough xy because the RNG God hates you.

That's frustrating and horrible and gets old fast. Not the kind of grinding I like.

[MeechMunchie]

Poker Night at the Inventory. I have a decent grasp of relative odds and sensible ways to play my hands, but I suck at reading the less obvious tells. I think The Heavy scratches his nose when he has a good hand.

I win more than 1/5th of the time, which means I'm better than the AI. Considering I learned to play Texas Hold 'em on Saturday, that's not so bad.

[Bullet Magnet]

I started Bioshock Infinite last night. After the chapel, the sainted founders, the baptism and everyone walking around in their Sunday best I was feeling extremely unsettled. It wasn't until I realised that every face was white that I realised exactly why Columbia is so unsettling. And then the raffle, dear god. I've never been so angry at fiction before. I actually relished the ensuing slaughter. I really, really want to destroy that place.

[Wings of Fire]

I started Persona 4 and am just after the Shadow Yukiko fight. I'm in two minds on it after Persona 3.

On one hand, the characters and plot are a lot better, the gameplay is harder and more involving and the English voice acting is much much better (Special note goes to Chie's new voice actress Erin Fitzgerald, who has so much energy and vigour).

On the other, I dislike the ridiculous amount of free reign you get from the very start of the game. Persona 3 introduced new things very slowly and though the beginning left you feeling a bit lost and alienated (Like a school transfer student would), you always had kind of a feel for where you were once you got your bearings. There's so much stuff thrust on you after the shadow Chie fight in 4 (Not in the least 'Beat the first dungeon within twelve days or GAME OVER) that I just feel really lost and scared that I'm making wrong choices all the time. I hope things get a little more focused later on.

Also fuck the first dungeon. Not being able to level grind because I keep running out of SP, and need to waste a precious day to restore it is not my idea of fun.

[Strike Witch]

(Joe hasn't even finished persona 3)

[OANST]

What a fag.

[Strike Witch]

I know right

[OANST]

right

[Bullet Magnet]

I finished Bioshock Infinite. It was an unusual storyline, but I thought it worked really well. The original Bioshock had mad biotechnology as a central theme, and was set during the dawn of molecular biology (the last major revolution in biology) while Infinite had mad quantum mechanics as a central theme and was set during the dawn of quantum mechanics (the last major revolution in physics).

[Varrok]

What was the last major revolution in mathematics? *trying to predict the new Bioshock's storyline*

[OANST]

Addition.

[MeechMunchie]

Vertical addition.

[OANST]

I hadn't heard of that one yet. I must be a bit behind.

[Varrok]

It's gonna be a hit

[AlexFili]

Lately I've been playing Batman Arkham City (almost finished) and Walking Dead Survival Instinct. The latter may have received bad reviews but to me it still is a fun and challenging game. I still prefer it to ZombiU which only has a cricket bat, is too dark and has ghosts.

I think the level of Grinding depends on the game, for example I like building up my weapons gradually in Fallout New Vegas, finding new guns in Borderlands and raising my Multiplayer rank in games like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty

[Varrok]

I'm playing The Walking Dead. It's a game about dead people that walk.

EDIT: I finished it. It was cool. Play it

[jumper]

Just finished Fez with 64/64 cubes and the heart cube things. For obvious reasons, I didn't manage to get the latter without outside assistance.

I'm now playing Cave Story. I've owned it for a while now (from a Humble bundle) but never got around to playing it. That was a big mistake, because it's pretty awesome. I've actually completed it once (it's fairly short, taking me about 4.5 hours first time), but I'm going through it again for the best ending.