What are you playing right now? V

[Manco]

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

[MeechMunchie]

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

[JennyGenesis]

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!

[Nepsotic]

Boneyhead95 still posts here?

[Crashpunk]

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

whatever that is.

[JennyGenesis]

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.

[Mr. Bungle]

So has anyone here played Borderlands 2 yet?

[AlexFili]

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.

[Strike Witch]

More like Boredderlands

[Wil]

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.

[Dynamithix]

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.

[Phylum]

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.

[Varrok]

Yeah, these levels can really make you mad.

It gets better though, don't give up

[Crashpunk]

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.

[MeechMunchie]

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

It has a demo! Play it! Feel trendy!

[Jordan]

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

[Mr. Bungle]

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

[Bullet Magnet]

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.

[Mac Sirloin]

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.

[Crashpunk]

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

[Phylum]

I would look forward to it if it wasn't a Wii U exclusive.

I started Kingdom Hearts 3D again on critical mode. It's like normal mode, except everything htis you twice as hard and you deal half the damage. It took me slightly more than 2 hours of grinding before I could beat the first boss as Sora and Riku. Even then he had attacks that would 1-hit me.

At level 8 the second word is really fun. I'm strong enough that I can mow through enemies fairly quickly, but nothing drops after one combo. If I don't time everything well it's likely that I'll get chained down to extremely low health. In Normal flowmotion felt like a win button, but now it's a necessity.

I've skipped every cutscene so far, though. Usually I can stomach some of them on replays of other KH games, but not 3D.

[Mr. Bungle]

Me me, I'm a tan man and Monster Hunterman.
.

I've never played Monster Hunter, but I hear endless praise about how great the games are. What's the best one I can find for cheap these days?

[Mac Sirloin]

Either Monster Hunter 2 for the Playstation 2 or Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii. You can probably find a copy of Tri in the bargain bin at a Wal-Mart for like ten bucks. It's the most recent iteration available in North America and quite good, but I haven't played it as much as 2 (and 2's expansions).

Monster Hunter 2 might be a little harder to find since it would probably be used, but it doesn't really lack anything substantial enough to justify passing it over to find Tri. They're both fantastic. If you have a PSP, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is what you want. (Or Monster Hunter Portable 3rd if you don't mind reading Japanese, it's basically a port of Tri for PSP. Also you'll probably have to pirate it.) Freedom Unite is the expansion of an expansion of a port for Monster Hunter 2.

These games are balls hard, so be prepared to do a little shameless guide-reading to get your feet on the ground. The best advice I can give (that another player who is much better at the games than I gave me) is this: You see those gigantic Anime swords they wield in all the trailers and on the covers and shiz? The impossible slabs of metal and the giant lances/cannons? Avoid those. Start out with the more basic weapons of Sword and Shield or Dual Swords. The big weapons have a use later on, but they're tricky and cumbersome when you're just starting out.

Basically let's say you have a Sword and Shield weapon that does 200 base damage (ignoring the bazillion other stats that affect things) and a Greatsword that does 400. Despite the higher damage for every single strike you'll get in with the huge sword the smaller, faster option can get about 2+ more attacks in. Eventually the Greatswords deal massive damage and it's a matter of preference.

AND ANOTHER THING
BE prepared to do a lot of grinding for specific weapons and armours. once you have a nice little arsenal put together you won't need to repeat some missions as much, but if you want to avoid being 1 hit KO'd it's a good idea to grind the hell out of Khezus, Giadromes, Nip Nips, Faaaahs, Spodaroos and Royligoils.



Oh yeah, this website is your bestest friend:
http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_Hunter_Wiki

[Daxter King]

Borderlands 2 is hella fun, yall.

[OANST]

It looks fun, but I want to play the first before I get it. Also, I'm still playing Darksiders 2. That game has me addicted.

[Daxter King]

I also bought Crysis on XBLA, it was on sale. Only an hour in so far, but I like the fact that you can approach pretty much any encounter however you please.

[MeechMunchie]

Only the first half is like that, sadly.

Yay!



That was fun. I don't play many casual games, this was something I could shift around homework and stuff.

[Wings of Fire]

Pokemon is not a casual game

How dare you

[Crashpunk]

That's a pretty good team Meech. However you could of replaced Beautifly with a fire or a electric type

[MeechMunchie]

Yeah, one of my friends said that. The lack of a good water counter really hurt at the end. I did teach Aggron Thunder though. Next time I'll use Magnemite.