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Just started Alpha Protocol, which I'll be replaying for the CHUD Gaming Club in July.
So fucking good. Heard a lot of complaints about the first stage and that it only gets better from there. Well, I loved the first stage: it's how I dreamt the more recent Metal Gear iterations would play until that dream was crushed by 45-minute long cutscenes and wacky coward soldiers literally shitting their pants mid-mission.
Can't wait to take on Taipei.
Got a chance to play the beta of Torchlight II this weekend. Pretty fun, a lot larger world than the first and they've taken out some micromanagement stuff (gem combining mostly) in favor of some other additions. Looks like it'll be well worth the $20 when it comes out.
Best part was - only reason I got to play the Beta was because I was registered at the Runic Games forum. No application, no begging... they just sent an email to everyone registered and let them in.
Back to Wolfenstein, as I never finished it.
Bit of a dreary slog.
Re: mongycore - I'm intrigued by the idea of sharing pawns between other players. I only put in a few minutes, but I like the look and feel of the game, even though it's in dire need of a roll button.
Every day I'm Witcherin...
Seriously, I reckon I should be finished with geralt of Rivia hopefully by the end of this weekend, if not mid next week, then it's head first into Alan Wake...
We (I) need more people to play Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Four player co-op and I'm playing by my lonesome. Buy dis shit!
Wolfenstein. Ugh.
You can tell they spent more time on gore physics than level design.
I haven't even seen a Griffon in Dragon's Dogma yet.
I'm currently in the middle of a quest to retake a stronghold that had 2 Cyclops in massive courtyard. a third on a narrow part knocked me off the top and to my death. Gotta plan my assault.
I've also been able to kill Ogres, not just the one who seems to fall off a ledge in the Everfalls, but the 3 in the Quarry and one I the Catacombs (which has a few doors I can't open yet). SO i've gotten over my fear of them, their flying missile drop-kick is hilarious and painful. It's also amusing with my all female team that Ogres target women first and get all giggity at the sight of you. Trying to abduct a pawn.
This game, owns me totally. 20+ hours in so far and I've only just begun. And I've just found wear to buy the Berserk armor they put in the game (Gutts and Griffith's Golden Age gear).
Plus how great is that title screen rock track?
I keep pausing on grabbing Dogma because it still seems to have the heart of a silly jrpg regardless of how slick the new coat of paint on it looks - and the whole storyline premise behind pawns is, well, even sillier. If these characters aren't real, they're essentially slave zombies I can swap in and out at will, just why the fuck am I supposed to care about a single one of them?
I thought about doing a healing spring run. Good idea.
Playing Portal 2 now, and feeling churlish that I'm not liking it as much as I thought I would.
What's wrong with me?
I fixed my XBOX this weekend, hopefully for good this time, or at least a couple of years. I think I put too much thermal paste on the GPU and CPU last time, but it seems to be working a treat so far. Anyway, I celebrated by picking up Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Mass Effect 3, and Max Payne 3 with some of my tax refund. I've only played Creed so far (it's only been a day), and it is what it is. I'm a fan of these games, and I totally heart Ezio, but the story feels really rushed here. What's there is pretty impressive for the turn around these games have had (About a year and a half between installments?). It's just not as immersive as AC2 was in terms of story, but I still want to see what happens to Ezio. Still, I'm really looking forward to AC3.
Now that my XBOX is back up and running, I think I'm going to be taking a little break from Diablo and let some of the updates that they've been talking about happen, and then work some different classes up to Nightmare (I've only played Monk so far). It'll be a good way to space out the games I splurged on this weekend, at least.
So I'm playing Alan Wake right now and wondering why it's not grabbing me like it is others. I can't consciously put my finger on the problem, it's got all the ingredients I usually love in a game yet they're not adding up to a whole I'm falling in love with yet. I do hope that turns around tho.
In the meantime while the nephews up and about I've rebought Rome: Total War off steam on my shitty laptop and have been having an utter blast getting lost in it again. After so many years it's amazing how well it holds up and what an epic time sink I find it to be. Seriously one of my favorite games of all time.
I just picked up the latest Humble Bundle, so I'll be playing through those games for the foreseeable near future. I've already started playing through Bastion again, and boy does it look great on PC, not that it was a slouch on XBLA when I played it before. I also started Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP. Previously I had only really heard the name, but I had no idea what to expect from it. So far I'm digging it.
At some point I'll get to Limbo (already played it, but it's short), Psychonauts, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I fully expect to give up on Amnesia partway in after it scared the crap out of me. I have a difficult time completing scary games sometimes.
I can honestly say, with absolutely no hyperbole whatsoever, that Amnesia is the single scariest game I've ever played, and it's almost all atmosphere. It's amazing how vulnerable you feel when you have to rely on your wits alone. Try it with headphones, or in a dark room with great surround sound.
I make my friends play Amnesia as a "rite of passage" around here and it's pretty fucking funny to watch big "tough" dudes squeal like babies. I still hate the water monster. I just got around to starting Dragon's Dogma. It's not bad but it isn't really blowing me away either, I think it would be more effective if the dragon's big, goofy ears didn't make me want to go, "Awwww!" and pet it. I caught The Darkness II at Best Buy for 12 bucks but I haven't thrown it in yet.
Darkness 2 for twelve bucks is a great deal. One of the few games of this past season I managed to actually finish. Big, goofy, violent fun.
Playing Portal 2 now, and feeling churlish that I'm not liking it as much as I thought I would.
What's wrong with me?
I take it all back. Great finish.
Space Core.
You've earned a reprieve from Gamer Hell.
I'm playing the PS3 port of Shadows of the Colossus. I've played it a couple of times before on the PS2, but I'm hoping to actually beat it this time.
AND FEEL BAD ABOUT BEATING IT!
Post game (then there is a New Game + after that) Dragon's DOgma has me by the balls. Well played Capcom, well played.
I ran through the Darkness II in one sitting, the "quad-wielding" is actually way more satisfying than I thought it would be. Around the middle of the playthrough I was pretty much Death incarnate, shooting and throwing things through guys, impaling them, shooting and eating hearts. Good times. I'm not really too interested in Vendetta mode or New Game + but it's nice to know I can go back to it and max out all of his abilities just to see how horribly I can peel people apart.
I've been sandbagging Dragon's Dogma, I'm not sure why really, I dig it so far I just haven't had a "OMFG!" moment the last few times I sat down with it. I think I might have to opt out of Mystic Knight and pick a new vocation, it feels really lazy for some reason.
Hey anyone who's playing Dragon's Dogma - what do you think?
I'm about to wrap up Mass Effect 3, and I need something to tide me over until Borderlands 2. 
I like RPGs and ARPGs. Playing Diablo 3 now, loved the first Dragon Age, not the second one so much.
Enjoyed Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur, but thought they both went on a bit longer than they needed to.
Thing is, I'm really not into Japanese games, as awful as that may sound.
How is this?
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Since I just posted I'll jump in and give you my two cents. It reminds me a lot more of Demon's Souls/Dark Souls than Dragon Age or any other game I can give an immediate comparison to. If you're going into it for the story you're going to pretty disappointed because it's about as silly and cliche filled as RPGs can get, the gameplay however is a lot of fun when you find a vocation (class) that YOU enjoy playing. I was having a really good time with the Warrior and then I decided to switch to Mystic Knight, because at least three of my friends were like, "OMG Iz teh roxxor!" And I'm just kind of like meh.
It's fun to grab onto stuff and chop at it, it's fun to find new pawns (NPC party members) and see how they function with you and your personal pawn (one that you actually get to customize from looks to class to voice). My biggest complaint is a silly one but the big bad dragon of the story is really goofy looking.
So story isn't where this is at but the gameplay really is a lot of fun.
EDIT: And before I forget, there's no fucking dodge/roll button.
I have begun partaking of Castlevania: Lord of Shadow. It's a lot more difficult than I expected. But the only past Castlevania games were Symphony of the Night, 64 and some of the DS ones.
So it turns out Jade Empire is a little nugget of last gen retro RPG gold. Downloaded this from xbox live the other night and had my first go at it last night. My nephews completely besotted with it as well. You can see all the beginnings of what Bioware would develop into their very specific style of RPG. It's also got a helluva great setting.
Alan Wake has well and truly stalled, I think I'm in Mr.Singers camp, in that it'll become a rainy day play for me.
Rome is still getting thrashed.
I'm very, very tempted to buy Planescape:Torment off gog.com, but frankly I'm scared that if I do, Stelios will hound me until it's finished.
Since I just posted I'll jump in and give you my two cents. It reminds me a lot more of Demon's Souls/Dark Souls than Dragon Age or any other game I can give an immediate comparison to. If you're going into it for the story you're going to pretty disappointed because it's about as silly and cliche filled as RPGs can get, the gameplay however is a lot of fun when you find a vocation (class) that YOU enjoy playing. I was having a really good time with the Warrior and then I decided to switch to Mystic Knight, because at least three of my friends were like, "OMG Iz teh roxxor!" And I'm just kind of like meh.
It's fun to grab onto stuff and chop at it, it's fun to find new pawns (NPC party members) and see how they function with you and your personal pawn (one that you actually get to customize from looks to class to voice). My biggest complaint is a silly one but the big bad dragon of the story is really goofy looking.
So story isn't where this is at but the gameplay really is a lot of fun.
EDIT: And before I forget, there's no fucking dodge/roll button.
So since you brought up the Souls games, let me ask - Is the game hard?
I'm not super hardcore when it comes to difficulty. I usually beat a game once on the default setting and call it a day.
I don't mind a fair challenge, but I don't like to spend my limited gametime banging my head against the wall.
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Playing Mass Effect 3. Finally. Had to wait to fix my Xbox (I'm like Dr. Frankenstein with that thing), but it's good to be rolling my Shep through a new adventure. I heard that everyone hates the ending, which means that I'll probably love it. After I finish ME3, it's Diablo III for the foreseeable future. Looking forward to partying up with some CHUD-folk when the time comes. I only have time for one game at a time, unfortunately.
Also, I still need to finish Witcher 1, Planescape, and get on Witcher 2.
So since you brought up the Souls games, let me ask - Is the game hard?
I'm not super hardcore when it comes to difficulty. I usually beat a game once on the default setting and call it a day.
I don't mind a fair challenge, but I don't like to spend my limited gametime banging my head against the wall.
That's a fair question.
So far, I'm not incredibly far in but I've had run ins with most of the bigger monsters so I think I can give you an honest answer. It's not, what I would consider, hard at all. You do need to be prepared for some of the bigger fights, so making sure you've got reliable equipment and a pretty nice chunk of healing potions/herbs is a good idea. I've run into a couple fights that, according to a few of my friends, I was grossly under leveled for but out of sheer stubbornness I got through them. There are areas that you get a pretty immediate impression you should come back to later but I think I've only been one shot killed in two or three encounters.
The lack of a roll/dodge button, not to sound like a broken record, is a really stupid design choice though because it fits with this sort of third person sword and sorcery stuff really well.
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I'm very, very tempted to buy Planescape:Torment off gog.com, but frankly I'm scared that if I do, Stelios will hound me until it's finished.
You want to get that one and play it to the end. Keeping a decently high volume for the soundtrack, too.
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, all day, every day.
Risen 2 (I'm the master of unlocking!), Max Payne 3, and probably some more Alan Wake over the weekend.
This weekend is all about Civ 5. I've had it sitting on Steam for a year and a half and really not played it a huge amount; I have this horrible habit of buying a new PC the same time a new Civ comes out, playing a bit and then getting distracted by all the other games I've bought to break the new machine in with. But am now back on the Civ train, and loving it.
That's a fair question.
So far, I'm not incredibly far in but I've had run ins with most of the bigger monsters so I think I can give you an honest answer. It's not, what I would consider, hard at all. You do need to be prepared for some of the bigger fights, so making sure you've got reliable equipment and a pretty nice chunk of healing potions/herbs is a good idea. I've run into a couple fights that, according to a few of my friends, I was grossly under leveled for but out of sheer stubbornness I got through them. There are areas that you get a pretty immediate impression you should come back to later but I think I've only been one shot killed in two or three encounters.
The lack of a roll/dodge button, not to sound like a broken record, is a really stupid design choice though because it fits with this sort of third person sword and sorcery stuff really well.
Roll/dodge is a skill you can buy for the strider/ranger/assassin types. Whenever you use daggers, so the Magical Archer can use it too if you bought it with one of the previous mentioned vocations.
That's how I... roll (I'm so so sorry for that one).
Love Civ 5. Expansion out on Tuesday - they're brought religion and espionage back, and how can you have a history simulator without those? I like the corporations from Civ IV too - hope we'll see them again.
Yeah, will definitely be grabbing that some point soon. At the moment though, the focus is on not getting steamrolled by the AI within 100 turns.
I decided earlier today to pop my copy of Fallout 2 into the ol' laptop after a several month hiatus. I had completely forgotten how much fun it is to roam the wastelands in my car blasting geckos, floaters, aliens, and deathclaws to gibs with my assortment of high powered weaponry, and my two sidekicks Sulik and Cassidy. I am currently in the midst of wasting every mafia goon I can in New Reno, and having a blast doing it. Nothing like blowing a HUGE crater in some goon with my .44 magnum, or blowing them to shit with my bozar. I just might have to check out Fallout 3 and New Vegas sometime.
They're both great, but Fallout: NV is transcendent. Load it up with the Old World Blues (and Honest Hearts, if you can find it for cheap, if only for the new map) DLC and prepare to willfully lose 100 hours of your life.
Trevor, I used to think you were kind of strange but lately man...total bromance.
New Vegas is buggy as shit but I think, after the dust has settled, I like it better than Fallout 3. If you're playing on PC Brick, which I'm sure you are, then New Vegas is amazing and the mod nexus has some really, really incredible stuff. And I don't mean the pretty textures or uber weapons. Some of the weather mods make it amazing, I'm looking at you New Vegas Skies and your deadly sandstorms. Not to mention New Vegas Bounties I and II that are like a great popcorn movie. The mod community is huge and really well supported with patches, etc and some of the mods actually make installing and uninstalling all your goodies as easy as checking and unchecking a few boxes.
Anyone up for a bro threesome? New Vegas was awesome, and sorely underrated at the time.
So I downloaded my first ever mod today (I'm a big boy!), Europa Barbarorum, for Rome Total War, giving the game a complete overhaul and making it far more historically accurate.
Holy shit its amazing, it's like playing Rome: Total War 2.
