What are you playing?

[surasshu]

oso is mindbendingly awesome. I don't know if you're into Touhou stuff, but he does some amazing pen drawings of Touhou characters. Hell, even if you're not into it, the sheer skill should be impressive. He does cool pixel art type stuff too! Definitely some amazing skill there.

[Ap2000]

[quote name='///' post='89388' date='Dec 17 2010, 05:04 PM']Touhou[/quote]



Get. Out. :| *points finger to door*



His artworks are well done though. But for some reason I only see "Œ´¡‚ÍŒ —˜“I‚É•s‰Â”\‚Å‚·BŒ_–ñ‚µ‚Ä‚éˆÈãŒ³ƒf[ƒ^‚Í–³—[

B" instead of Kanji and Kana on his site...

[surasshu]

I find his obsession with MUGEN more offensive, personally. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':hahaha:' />



The page is encoded with Shift JIS, you may have to select it manually, I guess? Works okay here on Chrome, though.

[Ap2000]

Just so you know, Steam started it's ridiculous winter sale yesterday and is throwing out bits and bytes for very low prices.



I haven't bought anything yet, but from today's specials I might get PuzzleGays, Lara Croft and Burnout Paradise.



I'm waiting for Borderlands, Arma II, Just Cause 2 and F1 2010 to drop.

I'd love to get BC2 Vietnam for ~8€, but that is probably not going to happen.



EDIT:

So I just bought these three;

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box

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10,35€

[neshcom]

[quote name='Ap2000' post='89602' date='Dec 21 2010, 02:34 PM']I might get PuzzleGays[/quote]

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(I actually liked Puzzle Quest on my old phone)



Burnout Paradise does look interesting, as does the new Lara Croft game...



Remember the pro-est of PROTIPS: sale prices will stay and may even fall further near the end of the sale.

[Ap2000]

[quote name='neshcom' post='89604' date='Dec 21 2010, 08:47 PM']Remember the pro-est of PROTIPS: sale prices will stay and may even fall further near the end of the sale.[/quote]



I bought that Puzzle Quest (not sure which number it actually is) only because I can't play on a desktop pc right now and not a lot of shit runs on my netbook.



Last day is usually a best-of of the best sellers during the whole special sale time, so if you missed a special-special sale of a game, you still have a chance to get it even cheaper.

[neshcom]

Bought SPORE (just the base) for $7.50. Turned down Just Cause 2 (demo doesn't run very well on my computer...) and Bully: Scholarship Edition (already beat it on PS2, probably easy to get "elsewhere"). I know SPORE was really controversial and the overall take-away from the mainstream blogs has been a resounding "meh," but I just need something to tide me over until the 25th <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... opcorn.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

[Ap2000]

I had to laugh when I saw you bought Spore. hah

I am going to buy Just Cause 2 and Bully on the other hand.

[neshcom]

[quote name='Ap2000' post='89682' date='Dec 22 2010, 08:29 PM']I had to laugh when I saw you bought Spore. hah

I am going to buy Just Cause 2 and Bully on the other hand.[/quote]

You laughed? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... pyeyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Did I make a big shitstorm about it when it first came out? Having played it for about 30 minutes, I can say I enjoy it <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /noway.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />



You will have fun with Bully though! Enjoy your boy-on-boy kissy-kissy love game <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... smooch.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='=3=' />

[Ap2000]

[quote name='neshcom' post='89683' date='Dec 23 2010, 03:16 AM'][quote name='Ap2000' post='89682' date='Dec 22 2010, 08:29 PM']I had to laugh when I saw you bought Spore. hah

I am going to buy Just Cause 2 and Bully on the other hand.[/quote]

You laughed? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... pyeyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Did I make a big shitstorm about it when it first came out? Having played it for about 30 minutes, I can say I enjoy it <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /noway.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />



You will have fun with Bully though! Enjoy your boy-on-boy kissy-kissy love game <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... smooch.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='=3=' />

[/quote]



Spore just seemed uninteresting from the beginning and I never understood why the media hyped it.

Watching a few minutes of gameplay made it clear it will only feature boring, bland and generic gameplay.

And then it rightfully got shunned by the media. That's why I laughed.



I don't know if you made a big shitstorm when it was released.



Just Cause 2 runs fine on my PC, so I bought it.

I've played Bully before, about 10h on the PS2.

[Zounder]

Bought Polynomial. I figured for 2.50 it was worth it, and while the actual gameplay is ridiculously difficult to follow, I really enjoy just cruising around the universes with some nice music. The editor is also pretty extensive as well.



And it wasn't part of the major deals, but I bought Riven for 3 bucks and it keeps crashing on me. >_<

[Ap2000]

After playing the Demo for about 3h, I've also decided to buy the full game of Recettear.

The overly-underaged lolis everywhere are somewhat annoying and irritating, but the game itself seems to be fun for a few hours.



EDIT:

New sales, hooray !

Bought Darksiders for 7,50€.

Wanted to buy (or at least try out) this game for a long time now and it was always ~20€ or more on amazon. (thought they did release it with the cool Hellbook Edition)

[Ap2000]

Today I bought Saint's Row II for 2,50€ and ArmA II for 7,50€.

[malakus]

hmm.. Been playing Fallout 3.. Pokemon Heartgold... Going to play Dragon Age again... On break from Mass effect 2... Waiting on the US pokemon White as well as 3DS...

[neshcom]

Got new games! Also, my PSN ID is neshcom. Friend me sometime!



LittleBigPlanet: Bunch of fun! I've been working through the story mode and I'm trying to learn all of the creation tools. I'm surprised at how detailed the creation tools are, though it's tough going in.



ModNation Racers: God does this game get tough. The difficulty curve shoots straight up after the third chapter or so. It's hard to reconcile how easily you can go from 1st to 5th at the last possible second. The CPU is very good at being able to use pick ups and keep them, but I don't get a reciprocated feel. I like the customization tools and the creation is easy, but it's not as big of a deal. Online play isn't bad. My biggest gripe is not that the game takes too long to load, but it seems like there's a lot of unnecessary loading points. Even just to return to career/race setup you have to load up. A good game that needs tweaks and optimization.



GTA: Episodes from Liberty City/The Ballad of Gay Tony: God, what a fun game. The characters are entertaining, the missions really try to change up the drive-then-shoot-then-drive mold. Plus, parachuting/base jumping is a great mechanic. It is worth noting that there is a lot that ends up chopped from the base game: comedy club, police/firefighter missions, some of the lesser things that totally get made up for. Managing Maisonette 9 is really a nice change of pace for a GTA. I would vehemently recommend it to anyone who remotely liked GTAIV. Good stuff.

[Ap2000]

[quote name='neshcom' post='90149' date='Dec 30 2010, 02:10 AM']GTA: Episodes from Liberty City/The Ballad of Gay Tony: God, what a fun game. The characters are entertaining, the missions really try to change up the drive-then-shoot-then-drive mold. Plus, parachuting/base jumping is a great mechanic. It is worth noting that there is a lot that ends up chopped from the base game: comedy club, police/firefighter missions, some of the lesser things that totally get made up for. Managing Maisonette 9 is really a nice change of pace for a GTA. I would vehemently recommend it to anyone who remotely liked GTAIV. Good stuff.[/quote]



I fully agree.

Tone was the funniest GTA I've played since Vice City.



Also, I gave minecraft another chance.



[quote name='Ap2000' post='85531' date='Sep 21 2010, 11:23 AM'][quote name='neshcom' post='85522' date='Sep 21 2010, 05:50 AM']Thank god the servers are down or I would've bought it already.[/quote]



I think it is hilarious how the developer makes other people pay for an alpha version of a game that he probably will never finish.

[/quote]



Though I still tend to agree with this, I can see why it already sold nearly one million licences.



I actually got the beta version running and not just the (pretty useless) "classic" version, which gives a horrible impression of the game imho.



Anyway, the beta version is pretty cool and there is so much more stuff to do than in that bland demo version. I'll probably buy it.



After ~4 days I've ended up with this so far:

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EDIT:

Oh man, you need to watch this video a few times, it just gets better ! bwahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydm4isLEpec

[neshcom]

Oh my god, you guys. Guys, oh my god. Serisouly, you guys. Game Dev Story (Android/iOS?). You guys. Best 400Y a girl could buy. It's a video game developer simulator. You hire coders, writers, designers, etc.; you pick a genre and subject; and you level up/train your workers. I finished my first run through and worried if I hadn't experienced all the game had to offer. I had gotten (I presume) the biggest office upgrade, I had sold 5M+ copies of a game, and I had a fair amount of money. Today I started a new run through and I was awash with a second sense of accomplishment. Granted, you roll over your levels for genres and subjects (but you still have to discover them), this game provides a nice replayability. And there's just a great feeling of thoroughness; there's a TGS/E3 convention where you can have a presence, there's a yearly game awards with prizes (and penalties!), and the faux systems and worker names are just the right amount of cheeky (I personally love how Lady GooGoo, whose comment even says "played piano from childhood" has no experience in sound engineering <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/rofl.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':weeeh:' />). Go buy this game. Right now.



Started GTA: Episodes From Liberty City/The Lost and The Damned and I am disappointed. Only partially in myself. I really should have played this first. You can feel how rushed this game is in it's animations, writing, and perspective of new ideas. A system where you're gang members can really die and become more "hardened" in gun fights? Giving the player passive control of a pack of AI bikers? Using such dull colors on the map? Having a dirt effect on the health/shield indicators? Tsk tsk. Also, this game is WAY too hetero for my palette. Case in point: I just used palette in a sentence. I hope the writing improves because I really want Johnny to either run The Lost MC or get kicked and destroy The Lost MC soon.

[Vikitty]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU NESHCOM I AM SO ADDICTED TO THIS GAME THANKS TO YOU OMG.

[Ap2000]

My Autismcrib is nearly finished.



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And my underwater lab:



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You other minecraft players show us your creations !

[Geof]

Pac-Fucking-Man-Fucking-Championship-Fucking-Edition-Fucking-D-Fucking-X. Game of the Fucking Year.

[YunkuShiraishi]

Little big planet (game of the year edition, ie just an excuse to dress your sackboy like a penguin)

Basiclly just wonder from costume guide to costume guide, wishing I had the money to get the pirates of the carribean set, and the watchmen one too.



Resident evil 5

One question, anyone got the cure for stupid? Sheva is a bitch to control, and gets herself killed or gets me killed while trying to save her ass. I can have THE PERFECT PLAN for a boss fight, but leave it to Sheva to fuck it up. Seriously can not wait till my gold edition gets here though. I Soooo want to play those levels!



Bur Sheva is little miss handgun nut

[neshcom]

Well, I finished GTAIV: The Lost and Damned and I feel a little upset at it. Looking back, the whole episode is trying too much the be the other side of GTAIV which is funny because, it seems like it ends about a fifth of the way into the IV timeline. Even the credits sequence follows a lot of IV's early and major sequences. I was completely sideswiped when I did the Libertonian diamond deal in a museum mission where the three main characters meet and not thirty minutes later, I was at the final mission. What's most jarring is that I feel like there were a ton of loose threads. What happened to Stubb's favor he mentioned in the final mission briefing? Doesn't Bruce run away after creating his own faction? What happened with Ashley? Crack heads don't just let you cut them out of your life like that. I guess that my real gripe is that the game wasn't so much fun or challenging; it was rough and difficult and frustrating, especially at the end. And I'm not exactly thrilled with the after-game options, not as much at Gay Tony's. "Hmm... I could do drug dealing missions and arm wrestling or fly a FUCKING GOLD HELI WHENEVER I WANT."



I suppose the whole Episodes package is good for $20 if you play TLAD first and get the IV tie-ins. le sigh... It seems to me that TLAD is the ballad and Ballad of Gay Tony is the real rock song in this bunch.

[Zounder]

Little late to the party, but I just finished 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors And it was amazing. The puzzles were a little easy but the storytelling was fantastic. The best part of the story was that so much was going on, and there were many plotlines, but nothing felt forced and I was left with very few unanswered questions at the end.



Some (every ending) spoiler talk:



Warning: Walls of black bars ahead.



Do you all think that Akane was dead or alive initially? If she died 9 years ago, how was she there in the present to set up the whole game? She must have lived originally, which makes perfect sense. She sets up the game in the resent to save herself in the past, completing the loop. But Seven, Snake AND Clover all said she died. There's also the hint at the end of the game that Seven was in on it, along with Santa and Akane, the whole time. It puts a bad taste in my mouth to think that over half of the 9 players were in on the whole thing, and 2 of them were in on the first game and at least familiar with what's going on. That would mean Junpei and Lotus were the only characters completely mystified by the game. I'm not happy with that. If that was the case, I feel like I was gypped out of a story where 7 of the 9 game players knew what was going on. Which means Seven, Snake, and Clover really -did- think Akane died. Which opens up all kinds of time-travel fallacies, which also irks me.



That's the only thing that really bugged me in the storyline, other than that, I feel very satisfied.



Some other thoughts:



-The voodoo doll Akane was carrying 9 years ago. First off, if she had just left that thing behind, she could have saved herself a LOT of trouble in not having to set up the second Nonary game. But other than that... Any significance to the doll? I thought maybe she was using it to control her future self, as when she leaves the doll behind sorta-kinda overlaps with when present-version Akane collapses in the incinerator, but I buy the theory that her fever was the resiult of her past life being in danger.

-Even after the revelation that Zero was Akane, everybody paints Akane to be this pristine girl who will end up with Junpei in the end, happily ever after, blahblahblah... completely ignoring the fact that Akane (and Santa) are both essentially co-conspirators for the murder of 3 people. Sure, they didn't murder anyone themselves, but they put all three in positions of being murdered knowing full well that they would. Yes, they wanted revenge on those guys, and those guys possibly deserved their fate, but it doesn't changed the fact that they essentially helped kill three people, to help her own self live. Now, that itself is debatable: Do you kill three bad people to let yourself live? My point is, I absolutely cannot see Akane making that decision, nor could I see her making that decision and living happily ever after as if nothing happened. I would have loved to see this aspect of the story developmed a bit more, along with some other dialogue/scenes in which Santa and Akane set up the game.



Anyway... thank you to whoever first brought up this game in this thread, that eventually led to me being interested in playing it!

[neshcom]

So, I just finished up a run of NIER that a friend is letting me borrow. I really want to talk about the game in-depth, so I'll compartmentalize it.

STORY: (This refers to the American NIER and Japan's NIER Gestalt) You play as a father whose daughter has a deadly virus and, so far, you've been dedicating your life to finding a cure. The world exists after the destruction of a human race similar to us now. Now, the world is a simpler place, a world filled with deadly Shades, monsters that seems to attack humans aggressively. After your daughter runs away in hopes of finding a miracle flower, she becomes kidnapped and you meed up with Grimmoire Weiss, the white book that legend tells saved the humans of past from total destruction. You also meet up with the foul-mouth, scantily-clad Kaine and the meek, yet troubled Emil. The storytelling is above average, but I wonder what NIER is telling. I think back to more classical RPGs and see them as these world-crossing adventures where you truly become entrenched with these characters all around the world and really begin to feel for these people. NIER falls short of that ideal. There are plenty of death-/near-death-speeches and final words speeches, but they become diluted by their constant intense drama. The tale you get here is more one-sided that any multi-disced adventure, but for a one-sided tale, it is multi-faceted (especially with multiple playthroughs that offer more insight into Kaine). I'm also curious about two natble plot holes: 1) the army from Facade joins you in a fight at the endgame (they distract the boss, you go on ahead, cry for a second, and nut up and kick-kick-kick some ass), but how in the hell did they get there? We're talking a dozen guys coming from a desert, finding the hidden entrance, and making their way up this tower and past the roadblocks. They just pop out of nowhere (unless this is explained in a Kaine story...which I doubt). 2) The game seems to take a 5 year intermission halfway through for no reason other than to have more story happen, but the only recourse seems to be that during that time, you didn't do anything or go anywhere or talk to anybody. It's a timeline skip solely existing to cater to the necessity of one character needing time to find information.

GAMEPLAY: NIER is God of War that occasionally likes to think it's Klonoa and has a love-hate relationship with bullet hell games. Your arsenal of physical and magical attacks never feel wasted or useless. There is a surprising amount of puzzle and platforming that is not cumbersome or blocky. There are actually two quests in the game that turn into text-based adventures! Yes, for realsies! This little village has become infected with a verbally contagious disease that you actually experience first-hand as your text box line becomes a full-on novel. The Kaine additional playthroughs also present backstory in novel form. Combats play with a good feeling of flow. I find some really explicitly "next generation" elements in the gameplay: the hybridization of gameplay styles that works seemlessly, the simple changing of the camera work to present a fresh experience, and the way narratives are conveyed mid-battle without chopping up the flow. Maybe it's a little same-y and maybe it's simple, but it is an understanding of fundamentals with additions in lieu of a complex system that would fall short.

MUSIC: I played through my first run in under fifteen hours (if the trophy I got for it is any honest indicator <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ohyeah.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':cryalot:' /> ) and I found three main points with the music. 1) The music is graceful in a way that you would expect of a bigger title. It is a Germanic-Celtic style that makes a simple run through a field level a whirling adventure. Battles become intense with a semi-rare fire. 2) There is a light-touch to handling audio transitions that almost gets lost in its subtlety. You walk to the fountain and you start to hear the woman sitting there singing to the soundtrack. You talk to her and her track stops. You leave a more general hub area into a slightly more somber area and the drums and faster tracks fade out. It's a small touch that probably will get under-written. 3) There is not enough music in NIER. At all. For a game filled with gigantic battles, dramatic speeches, shocking revelations, and heartwarming connections, the soundtrack is notably lacking in variety. The songs in the game are shorter loops (read: probably due in part to the multi-track engine) and there is rarely a situational music sting or per-situation track. It's a damn shame, because what's here is a remarkably fresh OST.

GRAPHICS: Tsk tsk Square Enix... The original NIER Replicant main character (an older brother in lieu of a father) was really well designed and the new father figure is ugly and rushed looking. There is also a tendency to be physically far away from a character until we're supposed to care about them like the twins. Didn't know there were twins in the game? Hint: it's the librarian and someone else. The world is really interesting, if not a little small and a bit...overly complicated. The graphical effects are just plain pretty. The Shades are really varied and well designed. But I can't get over how bad the father looks. You have to see his friggin face all game and he looks like Tarzan's grandfather. Look here and tell me which model you would want to control and follow. (Flash) It looks like Japanese players get the option of buying a small DLC that can change your character to the opposite version. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /noway.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':cryalot:' />



CONCLUSION: I finished NIER after an emotional rollercoaster that succeeding in fooling me, making me think, making me laugh, making me cry (well, almost, okay!?), and making me care about at least three characters. And while I chuckled at the almost childish amount of underhanded obvious sexuality, I got a solid and serious experience that offered a fantasy tale with the grounding of a full backdrop. With it's offerings of more information after the game ends once and it's current budget pricing, I could easily recommend this game to somebody looking for an RPG that won't bore and an action game with nuance.

[al kusanagi]

Need Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Dragon Age 2 NOW!!!



WoW is the only thing I've had to play for the last couple of months. I need some console goodness.

[Special Needs Tricycle]

[quote name='Zounder' post='91490' date='Jan 11 2011, 04:35 PM']Little late to the party, but I just finished 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors And it was amazing. The puzzles were a little easy but the storytelling was fantastic. The best part of the story was that so much was going on, and there were many plotlines, but nothing felt forced and I was left with very few unanswered questions at the end.



Some (every ending) spoiler talk:



Warning: Walls of black bars ahead.



Do you all think that Akane was dead or alive initially? If she died 9 years ago, how was she there in the present to set up the whole game? She must have lived originally, which makes perfect sense. She sets up the game in the resent to save herself in the past, completing the loop. But Seven, Snake AND Clover all said she died. There's also the hint at the end of the game that Seven was in on it, along with Santa and Akane, the whole time. It puts a bad taste in my mouth to think that over half of the 9 players were in on the whole thing, and 2 of them were in on the first game and at least familiar with what's going on. That would mean Junpei and Lotus were the only characters completely mystified by the game. I'm not happy with that. If that was the case, I feel like I was gypped out of a story where 7 of the 9 game players knew what was going on. Which means Seven, Snake, and Clover really -did- think Akane died. Which opens up all kinds of time-travel fallacies, which also irks me.



That's the only thing that really bugged me in the storyline, other than that, I feel very satisfied.



Some other thoughts:



-The voodoo doll Akane was carrying 9 years ago. First off, if she had just left that thing behind, she could have saved herself a LOT of trouble in not having to set up the second Nonary game. But other than that... Any significance to the doll? I thought maybe she was using it to control her future self, as when she leaves the doll behind sorta-kinda overlaps with when present-version Akane collapses in the incinerator, but I buy the theory that her fever was the resiult of her past life being in danger.

-Even after the revelation that Zero was Akane, everybody paints Akane to be this pristine girl who will end up with Junpei in the end, happily ever after, blahblahblah... completely ignoring the fact that Akane (and Santa) are both essentially co-conspirators for the murder of 3 people. Sure, they didn't murder anyone themselves, but they put all three in positions of being murdered knowing full well that they would. Yes, they wanted revenge on those guys, and those guys possibly deserved their fate, but it doesn't changed the fact that they essentially helped kill three people, to help her own self live. Now, that itself is debatable: Do you kill three bad people to let yourself live? My point is, I absolutely cannot see Akane making that decision, nor could I see her making that decision and living happily ever after as if nothing happened. I would have loved to see this aspect of the story developmed a bit more, along with some other dialogue/scenes in which Santa and Akane set up the game.



Anyway... thank you to whoever first brought up this game in this thread, that eventually led to me being interested in playing it![/quote]



I actually finished this game a few weeks ago and don't really remember some parts, but I'll give me theories. :>



The whole thing was some crazy time-space alternate reality meta shit. The concept was that morphonic resonance thing transcends through time, so Junpei helps Akane solve the sudoku puzzle 9 years later. (Which angered me. Who the hell doesn't know how to do a sudoku puzzle?) And because he helped her by being in the same situation, Akane had to make sure that said situation happened. In reality, you were playing Akane planning the Nonary game using morphonic resonance with Junpei. The bottom screen is all Akane, and the top screen is what's happening in said route.



I don't think Akane was either dead or alive during the 2nd game. I'm not really sure. I don't think Clover or Snake could've been in on it, if only because of the axe ending. If Clover had known that her brother wasn't actually dead, that wouldn't have happened. But they both claimed that Akane had died, which suggests that she had died, but if she was dead, then she wouldn't be able to set up the Nonary Game. If she was alive, Clover and Snake wouldn't have thought she was dead, unless they just THOUGHT she had died for some reason.



I'm not sure if the voodoo doll holds any significance other than symbolization of what happened.



Pretty sure that Akane makes Ace kill his 3 partners for revenge. I don't really blame her though. It's kill or be killed. :T I guess it may go against her character, but eh.



Akane's fever indicates her life being in danger, yes. The only ending where she doesn't get a fever is the true ending. Symbolization of her burning in the incinerator, I guess? That's kinda morbid.



The biggest thing that irked me is that they don't really explain anything about Lotus, which irks me. I originally thought she was Allice, but the woman hitch-hiking on the road should be her, and Lotus was in the car the entire time. Unless that's another time-shift meta thing. :/ Other than that, she seemed to be just a huge throwaway character. Like they had 8 characters all completely planned out and just needed 1 more to get to 9 and threw her in as 2 of the kids' from the first game's mother.

[aine]

After fixing an issue with my PC I'm back in the gaming business!



The first thing I did was rush Fallout 3 to the ending... Which was a bit anti-climactic. Or maybe it was just a too long of a break in playing taking its toll. Anyway, during the 70+ hours of playing I only discovered some 25% of the map and probably just about as many of the side-quests so I'm definitely coming back to it one day and squeezing a lot more fun out of it. And that's not counting the DLCs!



With F3 out of the way, I started with New Vegas which my bro-in-law kindly presented me for xmas (and it was CE, too!). So far it's going smootly. As always I'm taking my time so after 15 hours I've only just finished with Nipton. I'm still undecided which game I like better, F3 or NV. I don't really see that much influence of the original F1&2 crew, which could mean that either NV isn't that good or F3 wasn't that bad. Or that the plot is still to take off for real. I don't care much about the whole gambling setting. And I think I kinda preferred the DC wasteland, but that's a matter of taste. I don't like the glitches (mostly graphical) and that the faction system doesn't really work (eg. Powder Gangers hate me but then they don't care that I wander around their prison base, etc.). But then I could have had a lot of similar complaints about F3, but I got used to all of it. And I always want to go over that next hill and complete another bit of a quest and I never get tired of it, so all is good. Just one thing, HOW DO I PLAY FUCKING CARAVAN???



Also WoW, started a new character from level 1 to finally get some proper experience. Because so far I was playing (and still do) a borrowed lvl 60+ Shaman and had fuck all clue what I was doing. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> And it's still largely true when we're being ran through instances by bro-in-law's lvl 80 character and I just try not to get myself killed and pretend to be useful with my puny heals and not make a total embarrassment of myself.. I guess WoW is just largely incompatible with my severe complete-itis and limited free time supply. I wish I could say something significant about Cataclysm but all I can say is that some locations that I was very vaguely familiar with look very vaguely different because I wasn't familiar enough with them to tell the difference. Oh, and it had a cool intro movie. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... umbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />





PS. Fuck Steam.

[Ap2000]

[quote name='aine' post='91850' date='Jan 17 2011, 02:46 AM']With F3 out of the way, I started with New Vegas which my bro-in-law kindly presented me for xmas (and it was CE, too!). So far it's going smootly. As always I'm taking my time so after 15 hours I've only just finished with Nipton. I'm still undecided which game I like better, F3 or NV. I don't really see that much influence of the original F1&2 crew, which could mean that either NV isn't that good or F3 wasn't that bad. Or that the plot is still to take off for real. I don't care much about the whole gambling setting. And I think I kinda preferred the DC wasteland, but that's a matter of taste. I don't like the glitches (mostly graphical) and that the faction system doesn't really work (eg. Powder Gangers hate me but then they don't care that I wander around their prison base, etc.). But then I could have had a lot of similar complaints about F3, but I got used to all of it. And I always want to go over that next hill and complete another bit of a quest and I never get tired of it, so all is good. Just one thing, HOW DO I PLAY FUCKING CARAVAN???[/quote]



I thought NV's writing was much better. There was much more memorable dialogue and characters I'd say.



Caravan is extremely confusing, I agree.

Triple Triad (FF8) still remains the only good card game in any game ever.

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[quote name='aine' post='91850' date='Jan 16 2011, 08:46 PM']Just one thing, HOW DO I PLAY FUCKING CARAVAN???[/quote]

You try to get 21 in each caravan while playing the most hellish version of Uno. And then the face cards to things and you make you deck with however many cards you want. And if you don't get the starter deck at the start of the game (coughcough), even if you bought thirty cards, you can't play Caravan at all. There's an in-depth tutorial hidden somewhere in the Encyclopedia/Game Menu that explains all of this.



tl;dr: don't play Caravan.



Just got FF8 and BUZZ Quiz Player off of PSN. Will be trying them out soon. I also bought Folklore for $15 at Wal-Mart (yeah! really!) Seems...okay...



Also got Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (the new one) on PC. It's a good game, but to get it playable on my monster machine, you've gotta play on 800x600 resolution since you can't really lower the model quality at all. Also, you really get the feeling that it's a big car show, especially when you get an upgrade "Brought to you by Chrysler." I also want to play with a controller.



Now I am tired and going to get pizza and pack up some things.

[aine]

Ah, but I got the deck and I read the long in-game tutorial. It still doesn't explain why once in game I can only remove cards until there's none left and I lose. Not a big deal though, I don't care that much about it, but it would be nice to know.