What are you playing right now? V

[Jordan]

I haven't played anything new since finishing Tomb Raider (fucking awesome game btw), but I have been playing Pokemon White 2 a lot. I'm working on the Post-E4 stuff, and occasionally the Pokemon World Tournament, which I'm obsessed with because you can battle all the old gym leaders. I've also started EV training a Starmie (my first). It's tedious but I hope it's worth it in the long run.

[Crashpunk]

Dragon Quest is owning me. I beat the first boss in the Waterfall cave and I'm currently at the this tower trying and find Jessica. The enemies have become much more powerful in a short amount of time which isn't fun at all but I suppose I need to spend more time grinding...

I also borrowed my mate's copy of New Super Mario Bros 2. It's alright, nothing special. I'm so glad I didn't buy this when it came out cause it's EXACTLY the same as the DS one or any other Mario game. The only difference being you get OCD about collecting coins.

[Jordan]

Have you played the Wii U NSMB? It's fun but it's getting very old now.

[Phylum]

Chris, are you using tension in the fights? It gets easier to buff up the Hero and Yangus once you have Jessica as a caster, but play around with some stuff depending on your skills. I can't remember when you start learning debuffs, but the game definitely gets easier after that.

[Crashpunk]

Have you played the Wii U NSMB? It's fun but it's getting very old now.

Yeah at the Eurogamer Expo last year. It was pretty fun. I think the New Super Mario games are getting old now though. They should move on and make something different, maybe like a Super Mario 3D Land or Mario Galaxy on Wii U

Chris, are you using tension in the fights? It gets easier to buff up the Hero and Yangus once you have Jessica as a caster, but play around with some stuff depending on your skills. I can't remember when you start learning debuffs, but the game definitely gets easier after that.

Yes I psyche up the characters, Yangus is a beast after he uses tension. My hero uses the Boomerang which is amazing and it's even better once he's psyched up the attack.

I just beat that sea monster on the boat, I don't know how long it's going to take to get Jessica into my party, I hope it's soon.

[Phylum]

Boomerangs are probably good this early in the game, but the one your probably using is pathetic. Don't invest too many points into them, because the Hero will probably be using spears for most of the game. Most post-endgame builds I've seen all use swords, but I never finished to game to find out too much about the best weapons.

Jesica will replace the functionality of the boomerangs, though, so definitely have your next weapon teed up and start putting some points into that skill.

[Jordan]

Yeah at the Eurogamer Expo last year. It was pretty fun. I think the New Super Mario games are getting old now though. They should move on and make something different, maybe like a Super Mario 3D Land or Mario Galaxy on Wii U.

Yeah I agree. The Boost Mode in the Wii U NSMB is a lot of fun but the game itself is just same old same old. I'm waiting for the day they scrap the NSMB franchise.

[AlexFili]

Have you played the Wii U NSMB? It's fun but it's getting very old now.

People need to stop buying them then. It's like Call of Duty / FIFA, people keep complaining that they're all the same but then people go and buy them. No sales = No sequels.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 was awesome. I doubt any Mario game would come close to that in terms of quality for a while.

[Wings of Fire]

I got up to the twist at the end of the penultimate chapter in Corpse Party and holy shit that was amazing.

Great game. The only shame is I had to wait two years to play it.

[Vyrien]

Corpse party yes, awesome game.

I'm interested to see which ending you get.

[Wings of Fire]

Seiko is the best girl


;_ ;

[Vyrien]

Clearly the best character.

[Dynamithix]

What type of games are the corpse party games? Is it something that even I could easily get into? I have heard lots of good things about them.

[Vyrien]

They're top-down survival horror/adventure games that are carried heavily by their story. There are a few puzzle elements too.

Here's some gameplay:

[Crashpunk]

People need to stop buying them then. It's like Call of Duty / FIFA, people keep complaining that they're all the same but then people go and buy them. No sales = No sequels.

Nobody will ever stop buying them though. it's a vicious cycle.

[Dynamithix]

I picked up Soul Sacrifice and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, both are very fun. I also started New Game++ on Dark Souls two days ago, still need to play through the game once to get my final rare weapon for the full 1000 gamerscore. Yay.

[Strike Witch]

Replaying Catherine.

Go buy it if you haven't already.

[DarkHoodness]

Game Dev Tycoon caused a tiny bit of stir in gaming circles lately - You play as a game developer. In an ironic twist, if you pirate Game Dev Tycoon via the torrent that the devs themselves put up as an experiment, your in-game company will fail through loss of sales due to piracy.

But yeah, I watched Crendor play it, then gave it a try myself. For some reason I find it fun even though it's basically watching bars and stats go up and down depending on your choices.

Also Kerbal Space Program is fun even though it's a bit unfinished while being difficult to master due to lack of in-depth tutorials: Designing a space ship that sent a crew into orbit, then to the "moon" and safely back without running out of fuel gave me a massive sense of acheivement since it took me 30 hours of play and several attempts to work out how its done - And that was with a rough text guide. Heh.

[Crashpunk]

Replaying Pokemon Gold.

Because that game will never get old for me.

[Strike Witch]

Game Dev Tycoon caused a tiny bit of stir in gaming circles lately - You play as a game developer. In an ironic twist, if you pirate Game Dev Tycoon via the torrent that the devs themselves put up as an experiment, your in-game company will fail through loss of sales due to piracy.

The funny part is that the game itself is a total ripoff of an iPhone game.

[Varrok]

I'm playing Titan Quest.

It's a game about clicking enemies, I've heard MM recommends it. I'm at 30% I guess. It's not very hard, to be honest it's really easy. I'm playing a warrior with a sword and a shield, every skill point I earned, I used on two or three passive abilities (dodge chance increase, battle rage or something and weapon mastery), so I don't really need to do anything than click on the enemies and hold that mouse button till they're dead (plus pushing "9" on keyboard to restore health). At this point most of the enemies die after 2-3 hits and I can afford more health potions than I can carry, so it's not the toughest challenge I've ever had. The bosses, however, are a different story: my index finger gets really tired from all that holding, and my mind can't stand the excitement from waiting till the boss's health drops to zero.... *yawn*

The NPCs are pretty dumb. I once had a side quest to rescue a guy from a monster-filled cavern. After a struggle I got to the place and killed everything beside him; he thanked me and convinced me that from now he can manage to escape.

After a chapter I returned to the cave. He was still there, in the same place. Whatever, this time I left him to rot... helpless piece of shit.

I also hate how the game disregards basic physics rules: I got a lightning-powered axe and I used it while fighting in water, and it didn't affect the fight at all. I think some physicists are now rolling in their graves.

Every skeleton liche is labeled "Frost Liche", despite the element they actually use. A frost liche shooting fire? He must be a horrible failure.

...zombies with swords?!

This game is awful sucky garbage

...

7+/10

[MeechMunchie]

;_;

[Wings of Fire]

I bought Fez last night.

It glitched spectacularly when I started it up (I had to restart it twice to get past the first scene where the camera spins round) and then I played it and it was actually pretty good but then I started it up this morning and found it apparently hadn't saved my game so I had to start again.

What the fuck.

[mr.odd]

I recently picked up the Command & Conquer ultimate collection. 17 games for 20 bucks, which is a pretty good deal. The only problem is you have to download them from EA's Origin client, which i'm not a fan of.

So far i have been playing the shit out of Command & Conquer: Generals/Zero:Hour. I love all of the GLA's units, like the rocket buggy and toxin tractor. I've also been playing C&C 3:Tiberium wars, which campaign is kind of Meh; But i just love playing as the aliens in skirmish mode.

[Manco]

I bought Fez last night.

It glitched spectacularly when I started it up (I had to restart it twice to get past the first scene where the camera spins round) and then I played it and it was actually pretty good but then I started it up this morning and found it apparently hadn't saved my game so I had to start again.

What the fuck.

Is that the Steam version? I was just five minutes ago reading that they’re having some issues with bugs in that version.

[Wings of Fire]

Is that the Steam version? I was just five minutes ago reading that they’re having some issues with bugs in that version.

Yes. I played it again just now and got back my lost progress and more. I'm honestly surprised by how fun and enjoyable the game is.

Phil Fish is still an ubercunt though.

I got an anti-cube. I feel so boss!

[Nate]

I killed my first colossus in Shadow of the Colossus.

Thus far I've been pretty disappointed by the crappiness of the graphics. Such a terrible HD remake!

Also, I hope the gameplay gets better. It needs to be good enough to compensate for my annoyance with the controls.





But then, I've only played it for 40 minutes, and that's far too early to really judge.

[Phylum]

I found the first colossus confusing and overbearing. After that you start to get a better idea of what's going on and can actually enjoy how much fun the game can be. The controls aren't perfect, but you'll adapt to them and they'll stop being an issue.

Mind you, I've never been able to sit down with it long enough to finish it, what with being poor/not really having access to a PS3, and the PS2 version being so hard to come by.

[Varrok]

Thus far I've been pretty disappointed by the crappiness of the graphics.

wwwhat?!

Such a terrible HD remake!

It's not a full remake. It's the same PS2 game with upped resolution and a HQ interface

[Nate]

wwwhat?!

Low res textures and lots of aliasing. Also, Wander's walk animation makes him look like a wood puppet with rubber band joints. Come to think of it, I thought the same thing about Ico.

It's not a full remake. It's the same PS2 game with upped resolution and a HQ interface

Yes, and that's the problem. Given that we've seen what JAW did with SW, this one is so much more disappointing.