I bought Fable 1 and 2 a few months ago because I feel I missed out on the whole FABLE vibe. I keep putting off playing them for some reason. Maybe I will GIVE THEM A CRACK on the basis of the fact that you ARE enjoying even if HATESELF.

it's been a long time since i played it, and my tolerance for games like this have gotten slightly more forgiving in recent years, but i didn't like fable 1 at all. i found the experience pretty tortuous, dull, and not particularly engaging. i didn't get terribly far into it before abandoning it completely.

i'm not sure why i even gave fable 2 a chance, but i kinda liked it, even if a lot of my gripes in the first one more or less were still present in this one. because the game consciously attempts to change depending on whether you're playing the game good or evil, it's all fairly amorphous and indefinite and without a lot of pure substance. still, despite this, i found the game to have a pretty good attitude and self-identity. the storytelling and writing in general is kinda effectively silly, oftentimes even reasonably witty, to the point where you have an utterly ridiculous, almost remotely interesting world. all this doesn't amount to anything singularly substantial, but i found that i was able to get into the spirit of it and take it for what it is.

i don't know why, but this strikes me as a game that you may superficially enjoy like i did. it's all about hedonism and absurdity, and it all kinda brushes by you fast enough that you don't particularly care that it's just empty hours spent in front of a television set.

also, and this is a fairly snotty reading of an otherwise kinda empty game, but the game does a pretty excellent jobs(at least as far as videogames are concerned) of evoking thoughts and images of genuine romanticism. i felt like it wouldn't have taken much structural modification to make it LORD BYRON RPG, which probably explains why i was able to get into the spirit of it. this probably isn't an invalid reading of the game, as it was pretty much where it ultimately ended up, even if it wasn't in the design document to take that much inspiration from that arena of creative expression.

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im surprised nobody here aside from me and DDay apparently are playing Dark Souls. This game is amazing you guys, you should give it a shot. The Redboxes around me all have copies so you can probably rent it for a night or two cheap.

The gameplay is pretty deeply satisfying, if you are familiar with Demon's Souls you know what I mean. The game is very difficult and unforgiving, but by contrast when you succeed it feels really fucking good. The game sort of makes you get better at it. It's actually possible to beat the entire game without leveling up or even upgrading your gear. Obviously it'd be difficult, but you aren't restrained by a stats system, only your own skill.

If you are familiar with Demon's Souls I have to say this game is absolutely better in every capacity. The open world format is a blast to explore, you eventually find shortcuts and it all links together. It's a great game.

Story wise it's pretty light, but still engrossing because it's so atmospheric. The world they've built is fairly impressive. The meager story elements kind of add to the feeling of seclusion and doom.

I dunno, I'm just digging this game hard and I've been talking about it with tons of people, I just think it's really neat and the devs did a great job and it really deserves more respect.

Theirs a few glitchs that break the game sort of like the inf. soul trick and also the diapering red dragon kill. needs some work still. also they should of had a install feature since I'm not digging the slow downs.

But all in all it's a good game if you don't know about these things.

Yeah the only slowdown issues I've seen seem more rendering issues than slow loading issues, I don't think installing would fix it. For instance blighttown is very open and there's fog effects and lots of torches/lighting effects. I noticed slowdown whenever the game would have to be rendering a large expanse.

I still think all games should let you install though.

The only good thing about the slowdowns is that it isn't just lag or something; when the game finally starts responding you aren't killed it just freezes for a second. I've even had it happen to me running under the Hellkite dragon, but again I think it was due to processing and rendering the dragon even though I could only technically its' shadow.

But still despite the issues the game is fantastic and extremely well-executed and it's not some dumbed-down hand-holding "auto win" game like everything else out there. I mean everyone here is always big on artistic value and true gaming and this game measures up extremely well. Like literally nobody has even mentioned it aside from me and you. Reddit and every gaming site is literally fawning over the game and here, a place whose opinion I value more than the entire rest of the internet apparently doesn't know the game even exists? It's weird.

I think it's more disc then anything since it keeps spinning that thing to much and since I played heavily and when I started a new game now it has lag where it wasn't. I might of did something to the disc/played to long. It has been so long since it been out of my drive in a long time.

I've been playing Dark Souls pretty much non-stop since it arrived on the Finnish shores last Friday. I'm now at the last boss with SL 85 wondering if I should just finish it and go to NG+ or do some co-op and farming while I can.

Dark Souls so far: GotY 2011.

I got bored and started Elder Scrolls: Oblivion over again. I have about equal love and hate for this game, as it is incredibly unbalanced, dull, and lifeless yet I continue to play it for hours on end. There's also something really fucked up about the character creation as my guy appeared like a normal dark elf when I was creating him but in the game he's fucking blue. Not just kind of blue but like crayon out of the box blue. It also amazes me (not really in a good way) how varied the difficulty is in these types games based upon the type of character you play. I played as a diplomatic thief character last time and basically got my ass handed to me in any intense sort of battle, and now I made a strong weapons/heavy armor guy with a lot of destructive magic and I'm pretty much dominating everything. I also got so good at the stupid lockpicking mini game from last time that I've realized how useless having a high security skill is.

I really hope Skyrim fixes a lot of the problems Oblivion had.

Decided to finish my first run through Dark Souls and check how much I learned in New Game +. Managed to get a certain vessel in about 6 hours, compared to like 50+ hours it took me on the first run to get there. I pretty much just plowed through the areas and aimed for the bosses, ignoring much of the loot. It felt great to notice I've learned a lot (and got some pretty bad ass gear, which always helps). Cant wait for NG++!

Been playing a lot of Dungeon Defenders on steam, lots of fun and all the classes play radically different so good amount of re-playability too.

Is there any kind of multiplayer in that? I watched TotalBiscuit play it some and it looked pretty solid.

it's not bad I got showcase/oneshot let's play of this.

Is there any kind of multiplayer in that? I watched TotalBiscuit play it some and it looked pretty solid.

Oh yeah, its all about the multiplayer. Has up to four player co-op online. Apparently you can do split screen and online co-op together though I haven't tried it out yet and I heard later on the PS3 version will be able to play with PC players and possibly even people playing the game on their phones(360 version is left out of whatever reason it seems).

Oh yeah, its all about the multiplayer. Has up to four player co-op online. Apparently you can do split screen and online co-op together though I haven't tried it out yet and I heard later on the PS3 version will be able to play with PC players and possibly even people playing the game on their phones(360 version is left out of whatever reason it seems).

Because 360 and ps3 don't play nice with each other so one had to sit in time out.

Dungeon Defenders is indeed awesome. I've only been playing that and Terraria (again) lately.

just played through liberty city stories, after playing saints row 2, it was refreshing to go back to a game with characters and story in it, instead of soulless photocopies of al pachino.
Also played the sonic generations demo and it is pretty fun. Check it out.

just played through liberty city stories, after playing saints row 2, it was refreshing to go back to a game with characters and story in it, instead of soulless photocopies of al pachino.
Also played the sonic generations demo and it is pretty fun. Check it out.

About the sonic generations demo I hated the fact the delay between button pressed and action of Sonic needs to be fixed.