So What Are YOU Playing?

[Tetsaru]

I'd kill for a new F-Zero game with online and a track/car editor

Shortly after I post this, I find this news:


While I understand Miyamoto's points, I still think there's plenty of ideas he could explore:

- Online races. To my knowledge, none of the F-Zero games have this feature yet.

- Bring back X's Death Race mode, and expand upon it. I think it'd be cool if they implemented some sort of Burnout-esque crash system.

- Bring back GX's machine editor where you can build your own vehicles from an assortment of parts, and add more customizations (something along the lines of ModNation Racers would be awesome)

- Introduce a custom track editor that players can go crazy with and publish online

- Introduce new track designs (pipe, cylinder, corkscrew, etc.) and hazards (mines, magnetic walls, jump pads, etc.)

- Finally (and it's a bit difficult for me to explain this well in words), I think it would really push it over the top if they could bring back the comic book/manga artwork style used in X and GP Legend, and further stylize it in a way that really captures the intense speed of the game and makes it look fantastic in HD.

But yeah, I'm a sad panda right now...

I need something new to play to keep me occupied until ARR comes out, but I just don't know what. I don't know of anything out at the moment that's really piqued my interest, sadly.

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[Kuishen]

"We don't want to rehash the same shit guys."

>Mentions Mario Kart 8 in the same fucking article.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Been playing Ragnarok Online 1 since it's free, dug up my old account, so much fun playing ranger.

[Nevermore]

Got an awesome run going in Binding of Isaac. Brimstone, 8 red hearts, a couple spirit hearts, homing bombs + big boom, deck of cards. Get to Moms' Heart for the first time and just demolish it. Game glitches when I use my deck of cards right before I open the big chest. Like 30 minutes of work lost. So sad.

[Moridam]

been chipping away at last of us here and there, but my bluray drive isn't cooperating today. i will say, the first few hours were pretty aggravating from a gameplay perspective, the game felt like an absolute chore until you actually start getting some decent weapons and the customization options start to open up. once that happens though it actually gets pretty fun.

since discs won't read, i've been working on demon's souls a bit. i didn't find the game overly difficult or frustrating until trying to clear 3-2, i've died and screamed fuck at the TV in the past ~2 hours more than i have in the rest of the time i've put into the game combined. i've lost count of the number of total bullshit deaths i've eaten in that area. just when it seemed like shit was starting to go my way, i turn a corner and get instantly steamrolled by some mindflayer looking thing. FUCK

[Kaisha]

3-2 is pretty horrible until around NG+/NG++ where you have the entire zone memorized and can bumrush through it while only killing 2-3 enemies at most.

Fuck that area and its claustrophobic spiral staircases.

[Souj]

i've lost count of the number of total bullshit deaths i've eaten in that area. just when it seemed like shit was starting to go my way, i turn a corner and get instantly steamrolled by some mindflayer looking thing. FUCK

Define "bullshit deaths," because I would challenge your use of the word bullshit on the majority of those deaths.

Got an awesome run going in Binding of Isaac. Brimstone, 8 red hearts, a couple spirit hearts, homing bombs + big boom, deck of cards. Get to Moms' Heart for the first time and just demolish it. Game glitches when I use my deck of cards right before I open the big chest. Like 30 minutes of work lost. So sad.

I got you beat. 4 different damage + upgrades, 9red hearts, at least 10 soul hearts, spectral tears, flying, meatboy lv2, Polyphemus, Gish, near if not max tear rate and quite a few other things I've forgotten. Over an hour spent, I make it to the cathederal and my game crashes.

[Nevermore]

Ouch, yeah I think I would've tossed my pc out the window lol. Right after my game crashed I tried again as Maggy then once as Cain. On my Cain run I kept on getting pills with pretty fly (I think that's what it was called). After the third one they didn't even do anything.

I think I've been spoiled by the brimstone upgrade. I feel like its going to be a terrible run unless I get a deal with the devil with brimstone inside lol. I have to be careful now though because sometimes I get Krampus to spawn and I suck at killing him. I'm always to slow for his four way beam of death. :/

On the topic of Demon's Souls 3-2, the worst part about that area was the final staircase up to the boss and the boss itself. That fight was so traumatizing I cant even remember how I dealt with it.

[Corrderio]

Deadpool - Fun game, but somewhat short with shitty PC controls. Dunno about the extent of its controller support, but I'm guessing the PC version's gamepad settings were coded with only the 360 controller in mind. Which sucks since I don't really want to buy a 360 pad.

Fire Emblem: Awakening - Tried on Hard mode and so far getting my ass kicked trying to train. Every place I use a reeking box on I get mostly mage Risen which tear through all my characters.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Mostly expanding my house and the city.

Guild Wars 2 - Grinding for my legendary. Good lord it's boring as hell doing the same dungeon run for money.

[Charismatic]

Haha, if you're dying on the stage... wait til you get to the boss of 3-2.
Good times.

God, I love the Tower of Latria. Also, going human form for the archdemon boss is one of the best things ever.

[Moridam]

@souj, the bullshit deaths i was referring to was shit like getting crossed up by gargoyles during lock-on and then inadvertently swinging myself off a ledge/staircase/etc. which happened a ridiculous number of times. eventually i learned that it was best to just avoid fighting anything until you reach the swamp and started charging through everything.

i had a fair few deaths down in the swamp due to garden-variety carelessness for sure though. after i got flattened by that phantom i decided to take a detour. hadn't played in a couple months previous to yesterday, and the last session i got to the end of 4-1 but didn't finish it. took care of that and made a meat cleaver, went back to 3-2 and demolished it, boss included, in one go. the boss probably would've been a massive pain in the ass, but i went out of my way to upgrade the physical shield spell, which makes the fight quite manageable (although i did have a bunch of close calls).

i think i've enjoyed world 4 the most thus far, finished that off last night and the archdemon area/fight was stupid fun. also finished off 2-3, but that felt like more of a set piece than an actual boss fight. still need to do 3-3 and all of 5, probably gonna work on those this evening.

[Fhloston]

Cheap gamer chiming in. Got Arkham City GOTY used and tore into that. Finished campaign, did Bane side quest and finished Catwoman's stuff. Also finished Harley's revenge. Great game, def in my top 10. Currently going back and forth w/pugilist and marauder on ffxiv ps3 beta. Also have saints row the third and deus ex sitting on my hd waiting to be played.

[Shraiden]

Fired up the old PS1 and put in FF9 to have another go at an Excalibur II run. Going pretty well so far, if nothing goes wrong I might have it!

Also poking around on XIV beta like most everyone else. Enjoying Gladiator a lot, and crafting seems a lot more interesting than I expected.

[Charismatic]

E2 is easy to get if you don't have any special side objectives. Shouldn't be too bad.

[sackings]

figured this would be the best place to post this, just in case anyone was still on the fence about PSN+ [link deleted]

[Charismatic]

[darkepyon]

Got an iPad as a belated birthday gift the other day and downloaded FF5. I forgot how much I liked this game's job system.

[Nevermore]

ugh.... Demons Souls 1-4. False King Allant. I think I'm just going to toss in the towel here. Everything about my character is terrible. Stats especially. I cant kill the Blue Dragon so half the time I don't even make it to the fight. This one guy kept invading my world so I would have to rush to the castle which made it even worse. I made a maxed out dragon long sword and a lava bow but he is resistant to magic. I switch to my winged spear and it does about the same damage as my magic weapons. (king Allant not the invader) I really wanted to beat this before I moved on to Dark Souls.

On another note, the sequel to 999 is now free on the vita for ps+ members. I downloaded it this morning and have been switching on and off with Demons Souls. Game is so good. Some touch controls are annoying and make me wish I had a stylus. There's a story map now also which I don't remember the original having. Getting all the endings is going to be so much easier now.

[Souj]

Well, if you really want to beat the game and don't mind being incredibly cheap about it; (also assuming you have the proper items...)

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you can kill the blue dragon with a bow and arrow from afar with no danger to being killed. I don't remember if poison arrows work or not.
And for old king allant, all you need is the thief's ring, and poison cloud, which you get from Freke (if you saved him) if you give him your wriggling demon's soul.
The fight is as easy as standing right in front of him and poisoning him over and over.

[Kaisha]

All you need to do for Allant is to just

Spoiler: show

Roll into him as he charges into you, then gtfo after you land a couple swings. Rinse & repeat, keeping your distance from his other charged-up attacks.