I got Batman: Arkham City for my birthday and played it a few hours. I think it's pretty cool, I guess, seems fun so far but like any open-world game it'll probably get boring/repetative. I'm not too good on judging story or storytelling, but for someone who's not really interested in comics (why did i get this game) I'm at least interested to see what will happen.

For instance with Assassin's Creed 2 I just played the shit out of it because it was fun, I'm even trying to get the platinum trophy eventually, but I don't really know what's going on in the story or whatever, it was never very interesting or maybe it just seemed predictable? But the story or "finding out what happens next" was never a motivation in AC2, it was just fun and I liked doing the sidemissions. Of course the reason I haven't played it in months is that it's really repetitive, and you can only go on for so long doing sidemissions before you forget why you're even playing the game, and by that point you almost need to start over to try and get hooked into the story.

It's too early to tell how I feel about Arkham City in that respect, or how it will hold up as I play longer, but for now I haven't been inundated with a ridiculous amount of side-quests or things that divert attention from my current mission, and switching between Batman and Catwoman at least breaks up the gameplay slightly.

Several times now I've had a mission like "find the coldest point in Arkham City" and this temperature gauge shows up showing the temperature, and whenever you walk it gives a HOT OR COLD arrow showing whether you're going in the right direction. I have to say it's actually better than a GO TO THE SPOT ON YOUR MINIMAP that requires no thinking, even if it's vague and irritating at times. Sometimes I feel like you have to use batvision (what is it? detective mode? something like that) so much they shouldn't even bother with it. You get to the coldest place but there's nothing obvious about it, it's just a building surrounded by a bunch of other buildings, so I'm thinking "is this even where I'm supposed to be?", so i put on batvision and the door is bright yellow so I can go in there and I think "well I guess so..." and it just seems a little anticlimactic and confusing. I guess overall, it's better than a giant minimap icon and a flashing arrow bouncing up and down pointing to the door and you get an achievement "You found the door for the quest you are on" when you walk up to it, but I dunno, I hate just sitting there going "ok what am I supposed to do" and it's always something minor which might mean I'm overthinking/not paying attention or it's just not well executed.

But it's pretty fun. I haven't played it enough (maybe 3 or 4 hours) to make any real judgements to quality, but it's fun enough that I'm actually looking forward to playing it which doesn't happen often.


Oh and also I'm still playing a lot of Dark Souls. I'm kind of shooting for getting the platinum trophy, I just don't want to play the game to death, because I still enjoy it. My brother beat it a whole bunch getting the plat, he has one character that's on New Game +8. But he's played it so much it's not really fun for him anymore. So I kind of spread my time between a bunch of chars, helping people co-op and stuff. Love the game so much. Anybody here planning on getting the PC version when it comes out? I'm not super interested in playing it on PC since PS3 works just fine, but I might buy it anyway to support the devs and ensure they get a chance to make another game.

Whoa, that has changed since I last looked at it, it does look really cool! When i saw it it was just a couple rows of posts with a bit of text (date or something?). This is neat, although I keep my browser kinda narrow I guess because it's kind of cut off on the right. Are they just taking random/timed screenshots, or are you doing them manually? It definitely seemed like the posting was automated, but I can imagine you hooking it up to a "take screenshot" keypress or something.

Been playing Oblivion,

Minor SPOILERS:
I felt bad for killing the grand champion in the arena and wished I could explain to him why he wasn't evil in game.

be prepared to experience many more disappointments as you complete what quests oblivion has to offer

Playing a heavily modded Fallout: New Vegas. Waiting for Borderlands 2!

i'm playing through deus ex: HR right now, and it's sort of good.  i think it's missing something that the original had.  i'm at the second hub-world and already feeling sort of fatigued.