So What Are YOU Playing?

[Chun Liroy]

I played it a while ago when it first came out for just a bit so I remember a bit of the story, Rapture and everything.

[Yuri-G]

finally getting around to playing Black Sigil. I thought it was pretty awful at first, but now that I've played Sands of Destruction, Black Sigil looks good in comparison. at least the combat is challenging and somewhat well-balanced, and the story/characters are a lot better.

[Caiyuo]

finally getting around to playing Black Sigil. I thought it was pretty awful at first, but now that I've played Sands of Destruction, Black Sigil looks good in comparison. at least the combat is challenging and somewhat well-balanced, and the story/characters are a lot better.

I believe I remember playing Black Sigil for about an hour and then eventually just raged over the fucking random battle frequency.

[Yuri-G]

The random encounters are ridiculous. The game kinda takes a Dragon Quest approach to them though, in the sense that you get very little exp and gold for each fight, so the high number of encounter is necessary in order to advance your characters. That's not an excuse, just my theory behind the reason they programmed it this way.

If you can get past the random encouter rate though, the game is really fun if you liked SNES RPGs. I like it a lot now that I'm finally giving it a chance.

[Tobi]

DJ Hero.

Will be playing FF7 for the first time ever in a week or so. I'm aware I'm incredibly late on finally playing FF7.

[Kaisha]

The random encounters are ridiculous. The game kinda takes a Dragon Quest approach to them though, in the sense that you get very little exp and gold for each fight, so the high number of encounter is necessary in order to advance your characters. That's not an excuse, just my theory behind the reason they programmed it this way.

If you can get past the random encouter rate though, the game is really fun if you liked SNES RPGs. I like it a lot now that I'm finally giving it a chance.

imo, the insanely high encounter rate is probably in place to make the game 'seem' longer. Personally I had enough of it after an hour, especially with how slow paced the fights are.

In other news, I'm still grinding away at Fallout 3, finally finished the main game yesterday night, currently working away at the DLC packs now.

[Hitoshura]

Having a hard time choosing between getting a Platinum trophy on Darksiders or finish up Valkyria Chronicles. I had almost beat the game last year but my PS3 bricked and I lost my save, had no motivation to finish. I had gotten to about Chapter 15 or so, pretty close near the end I hear.

It's a drag to play through all of it again but it would be cool to finally see the ending, which I hope is worthwhile.

[Sol-Blackguy]

Beat the shit out of Shadowrun as a Shaman and managed to find a hidden character by pure accident:
http://www.imagebeast.net/images/vs5kyo6vpn--.jpg
Might revisit the game in another week and make a Samurai, since that's the only other class I never played as.


Also, learned that most of the Shadowrun books and games are based off the William Gibson books that fathered the cyberpunk culture. This shit precedes the internet and a lot of the technology that we have now but it looks like a lot was inspired by both series: Lawnmower Man, serial Experiments Lain, The Matrix, Strange Days etc..

[Kouu]

Oldie but a goodie... Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II.

Doing a full light and dark run on KOTOR1 and then doing the same on KOTOR2.

Mass Effect 2 thrown somewhere in the middle.

[Hiryo]

Okay so last night I beat Zone of the Enders 1 on very hard mode in 4 hours 50 minutes with a B rating :D :D :D :D :D

Basically I wanted to get through the story so my gf can see it all in preparation to play ZOE2. yessssssssssssss

I can't believe my last save file for ZOE1 was from 2005. Thats 5 freakin years since I last played the game and I still made it through very hard. Granted I died at least 10 times to Nepthis, but I beat the brakes of Zombie Nepthis. She wont nothin but a lil bitch.

Last night I bought MAG and tried that. Game seems fantastic. I was doing pretty well in my first sabotage mission, then i died, like, 4 times in a row and the leader had the audacity to want to kick me. Okay, some people have 2 kills on our team and you want to kill me that has 8 kills and just so happened to get unlucky the last 5 minutes. Then the enemy came and killed my whole squad and I killed all 5 of them by myself. I was like, "what an ass".

[Kyo]

I would have kicked you too.

[Kaisha]

I *really* would like to play MAG, but I can't justify $60 for an online-only title, especially when my network traffic is sporadic at times.

Anyways, I'm taking a break from Fallout 3 for a bit after having basically spent the entire last week just playing it. Put a good 30 hours into the thing, which allowed me to beat the game (as well as getting my platinum trophy) as well as all of Anchorage's DLC, and part of Broken Steel. I'm just tired of the damn game for now, especially after Anchorage being a broken piece of freezing shit, on the PS3 at any rate.

Speaking of broken piece of freezing shit, I made the decision to reinstall Oblivion/add-ons to continue my old data from a couple years ago. >.>

Found my old data on a backup I did of my older PC, had a good 50 hours on it, which had Arena/Thieves/Mages/Fighters guild completed, and half of main story and Shivering Isles done. Oddly enough, I've not touched any of the DLC even though I bought the retail compilation of it all the same day I grabbed Shivering Isles (this was waaaay before Oblivion GOTY Edition), so I spent today working on Knights of the Nine, and as cliche as the story was, it was actually pretty damn fun, and a decent length, although I kinda speed-runned the quests, killing only two monsters the entire quest. (ex. the story-related mobs)

Love my 150 acrobatics and 110 Speed, I jump a good 15 feet, and run faster than a horse, nothing in the game can keep up with me, and shortcuts are a plenty with my light-armor setup.

I also specifically went out of my way and bought my dude a horse just so I could put armor on it, then ignore it for the rest of the game. >.>
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...MES/lolDLC.jpg


[EDIT] Oh hey, never knew there was a ninth DLC released post-retail compilation. Was originally a freebie too, shame I had to find torrent though since the link on the official Elder Scrolls site is dead. That would have made my retail pack a lot nicer though since it advertises "Knights of the Nine" on the front cover. Would have been more fitting if it included all 9 DLC rather than 8.

On further inspection this particular 9th DLC came out three and a half months after Shivering Isle, guess that explains why it wasn't in since all the content on my compilation disc pre-dates Shivering.

[zoobernut]

Currently playing:

MAG
MW2
L4D2


MAG is teh mega awesome if you like squad based online FPS's the teamwork is amazing and it actually works. They give you bonuses for sticking together and completing objectives set by the leadership so usually people actually pay attention and don't just run off like rambo.

[Caiyuo]

The random encounters are ridiculous. The game kinda takes a Dragon Quest approach to them though, in the sense that you get very little exp and gold for each fight, so the high number of encounter is necessary in order to advance your characters. That's not an excuse, just my theory behind the reason they programmed it this way.

If you can get past the random encouter rate though, the game is really fun if you liked SNES RPGs. I like it a lot now that I'm finally giving it a chance.

I went looking for this the other day just to give it another shot on a whim and realized I deleted it, BUT that lead me to both Castlevania: Ecclesia and Portrait which I left like half-started. Ran all the way through Ecclesia last night and jumped on Portrait today; I miss this style.

[Yuri-G]

We need a new 2D CV, I don't care that they were getting stale. That's what all the different replay modes are for. My favorite is PoR hard mode level 1 cap <3

[Caiyuo]

I'm so fucking bad at challenge modes like that, generally meaning those modes have like endless, if not fucking air punching fury, replay value for me. For Ecclesia I broke out my flash cart's cheats file to max out INT and ran through Boss Rush with the Nova Skeleton beam just to see how quickly it could be done. Very satisfying, if not completely fucking cheap. lol

[Arnwulf]

I just finished the single player campaign on Resistance 2 which finished up all my current games in anticipation of White Knight Chronicles getting released tomorrow. Can't wait to get that one and start it up.

[Kyo]

I just finished the single player campaign on Resistance 2 which finished up all my current games in anticipation of White Knight Chronicles getting released tomorrow. Can't wait to get that one and start it up.

White Knight comes out wed, its not street dated, the second is the ship date.

[Arnwulf]

White Knight comes out wed, its not street dated, the second is the ship date.

Are you 100% sure on that? That's what I thought too but the guy at Gamestop said they had it ready to stock on Tuesday. Either way it doesn't matter, I don't have time for video games on Tuesdays anyway lol.

[Kyo]

Yeah my friend at gamestop keeps me in the loop with this shit, going to be wednesday when they get it in, the game isnt street dated. Unless for some odd reason that gamestop is an oddity.