Topic: What are you playing? (Read 140671 times)

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I think it's supposed to be an all-new setting and lore and everything.  It's got a new director, with the former director sticking around in a supervising role, and the new director has already stated that he prefers to be "more direct rather than subtle," which already has me a bit worried but it's way too early to tell anything yet.  Hopefully he's referring more to how to progress through the game and not storytelling or anything because the subtlety of the storytelling is what made Dark Souls so good (also literally everything else)
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like if there are actual exposition dump cutscenes in DSII I will be very disappointed.  but if he just means that it will be a little more obvious that you need this item to traverse this area then I'll be ok with that as long as it doesn't reach Zelda levels of hand-holding (which it most certainly will not)
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Yeah, it's really too early to tell and so I'm not getting emotionally invested other than "I'll play this game", I just hope it's another Souls game in a new world, that'd be awesome and a best-case scenario. I'm not worried about the mechanics, that's guaranteed to be good. But lore wise, I mean a prequel could be cool I guess, but having a fixed main character and cutscenes would be really ugh. I mean it wouldn't automatically be bad I guess, I'd give it a chance because I'm sure it could be awesome, but completely changing the Souls formula while using the hilariously unoriginal name Dark Souls II would be idiotic.
yes coulombs are "germaine", did you learn that word at talk like a dick school?
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Kind of pathetic of me, I want to play R&C:GC more than Blacklight but the fact that there are people close to my PS2 who would be irritated by me playing games in the first place keep me from going up and playing it. They'd tell me to get to work on something productive.

BAH! wish I could get away from that.

Anyway, so I've been spending my time downstairs, playing Blacklight instead.
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playing dwarf fortress again
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Completed "Going Commando" starting "Up Your Arsenal".

"Going Commando"s end boss was kind of a disappointment, it was far too easy. But overall "Going Commando" is one of my favorite games now.

EDIT: It seems my "Up Your Arsenal" disc is scratched up enough that the cutscenes often fail to load any audio. Going to see if I can't fix this issue. cleaning it did not work, may try something more.
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While I wait I'm going to play the first Serious Sam. I remember everyone cheering it on as a awesome game.
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ive been playing fire emblem and its really fun
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serious sam is a good game for running at 60 mph, jumping 20 feet in to the air, and killing a lot of shit
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serious sam is a good game for running at 60 mph, jumping 20 feet in to the air, and killing a lot of shit
Yeah thus far its been pretty fun. Very reminiscent of Quake 1, 2, and 3 gameplay-wise. Sam himself reminding me of Duke Nukem.

I torn though because while there ACTUALLY IS a decent variety to the combat scenarios I can't help but get that same feeling of repetition I got after many hours of quake 1 since the core aspect of it is basically always the same, strafe and shoot... a lot. I generally only play it for 1-2 hours before getting a little fatigued by it.
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Beat Serious Sam: The First Encounter. I'll play the second encounter later. For now I'm playing Metro 2033. Polar opposite type shooter.

The core shooting mechanics are kind of rough and collision is irritatingly bad at times but it has atmosphere in spades.
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pretty much the only game i have touched in the last month is far cry 3 which i got when it was released. definitely one of the best open-world games i have played. and not only is it fun as hell to play but it also has a pretty interesting cast (villains mostly though) and considering it's an open-world game, the narrative is actually quite good. when you aren't distracted by all the exploration and side-missions, pacing is spot on. it also has some rpg elements and platforming elements which is cool to have in a fps. i also like how stealth isn't downplayed and getting cool knockdown chains (basically special kills) is addicting. i haven't played many new games this year but i think fc3 is probably the best one i have played. soundtrack is nice too. it's funny how much i like it considering i thought it would be another boring, completely pointless fps until two weeks before release when i saw a preview of it. very glad i wasn't so prejudiced.
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Is it as bonkers fun as Just Cause 2?
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I got Dawnguard for half off on a Steam Sale. It's really mediocre. I got about halfway through with my mage character before I realized you needed to have gotten pretty far in the main quest to complete the DLC. My mage character was not even close to that part of the main quest, so I restarted with my shitty fighter that I played through the main quest with. Siding with the dawnguard or the vampires barely matters at all as you get the same companion, endgoal and boss no matter what and you can also decide to be a vampire at a few different times if you side with the dawnguard. I assume they made it longer because the DLCs for Fallout 3 only took a couple hours to play through, but they made it longer with a bunch of padding and subplots that just made everything more stupid and convoluted. I would have preferred it about half as long, really. After the end boss they basically just say "thanks for beating the boss, dude." No cutscene or anything, although every fucking questline in Skyrim ended that way so I don't know why I was still dissapointed. That sounds like I totally hated it but it was better than a lot of the quest lines in the main game.

Does anyone have an opinion on Dragonborn? I'm a bit more apprehensive to get it now, but at the same time those Morrowind throwbacks have me interested.
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Beat Metro 2033. It was pretty good, got the hang of it about halfway through, of course 'main course' of the game is the story and atmosphere rather than gameplay polish.


Playing Saints Row 3. Its pretty addictive, I've spent 12 hours in the past 2 days playing it which is a lot for me. Too much shit to buy in it though. Guns, character upgrades, car upgrades and body bods, clothing, business properties and I seem to earn money at a snails pace. Of course it might be because I'm playing The hardest difficulty.
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Eventually you'll get to the point where you have more money than you can ever use, and before that ammo, clothes, and car upgrades become so comparatively cheap that you don't have to worry about spending money on em. towards the beginning, just worry about what you really want. I don't think the difficulty setting changes income btw.

I'm playing too right now bc I bought some of the DLC (gangstas in space, purple ops). I'd suggest co-op but I'm on PS3 and I think you're playing the computer version
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Just played through Spec Ops: The Line. It's really, really super good. Fucking fantastic story that actually had me feeling some pretty strong emotions. Highly recommended. Not a bad third person shooter either.
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I am downloading Anachronox from GoG.com as it was on offer the other day. It's from the makes of Deus Ex and is supposed to be some western/JRPG/cyberpunk style game. It has some pretty good reviews on the site so I couldn't resist.

Our internet is very poor so I probably won't have it for a few more days but I am just posting out of the wonderment of how the heck did I let this slip under the radar all these years!?
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OK so yeah I have more money than I know what to do with now in Saints Row 3, but that still doesn't shake the feeling that early on the amount of money you get is far too slow. Like now I can basically buy all the upgrades, but early on I was like "god that part would have been a lot easier if I had just waited and bought the relevant upgrade(s) first"

Also I refuse to buy any of the upgrades that speed up the decrease in wanted level because that made the game boring in Saints Row 2.

Same can be said of the "You take no damage from bullets" upgrade. They basically have god mode built into the upgrade system. No thanks. Of course I haven't unlocked it yet for me to even buy it but I certainly wont purchase it when I do.
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Completed Saints Row 3. Going to start up Spec Ops: The Line which is apparently really good story wise.