Strangelove
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My fair collection of Japanese PS1 games will get me into a lot more trouble if that were the case.
Which includes Xenogears
What games are you currently playing?
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Which includes Xenogears
Alexia Ashford
SOMEONE IN THE CORRIDOR?
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- Konneh
I'm playing Wind Waker. XD
Saaailing saaailing over the bounding seeea.
Saaailing saaailing over the bounding seeea.
AvecAloes
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Yeah, Force actually has an account for each region, to get around all the silliness of things not being released in each region
Octo
KULT OF KERMITU
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- Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
I'm playing Wind Waker. XD
Saaailing saaailing over the bounding seeea.
Jealous....envious....
I lent my copy to my brothers friend about 7 years ago and haven't seen since
AvecAloes
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Does this thread include games I'm in the middle of playing and haven't touched in weeks, months, even years?
My PS3's hard drive took a dump a couple of months ago, so I restarted FFXIII in hopes of getting through it before XIII-2 is releases, but I haven't made a lot of progress yet. On one hand, it's neat to be playing through it and catching things that I'd missed the first time through that make the story make more sense, but on the other hand I kind of just want to get through much of it as quickly as possible, especially the beginning, as I was already on my second play through when my hard drive esploded.
My PS3's hard drive took a dump a couple of months ago, so I restarted FFXIII in hopes of getting through it before XIII-2 is releases, but I haven't made a lot of progress yet. On one hand, it's neat to be playing through it and catching things that I'd missed the first time through that make the story make more sense, but on the other hand I kind of just want to get through much of it as quickly as possible, especially the beginning, as I was already on my second play through when my hard drive esploded.
Rumpelstiltskin
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- L, Castiel, Scotty Mc Dickerson
Pokemon RED!
Oh yeah bby going old school with the original handheld nintendo lol
Oh yeah bby going old school with the original handheld nintendo lol
Rumpelstiltskin
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- L, Castiel, Scotty Mc Dickerson
Not turned mine on since Infamous 2 :/
Cthulhu
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They're suddenly realizing they're all five years old and urgently in need of replacement with something not as shitty and holding the gaming industry back.
I vote yea to having next-gen consoles be $1000 monsters with I7 hexacores, dual or quad GPUs, SSD's and 16 GB of memory. Should last them for about a year.
Hisako
消えないひさ&#
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- Satsu, BRIAN BLESSED, MIGHTY AND WISE Junpei Iori: Ace Detective, Maccaffrickstonson von Lichtenstafford Frabenschnaben, Polite Krogan, Robert Baratheon
SO UH
Portal 2.
Been going through the challenges. Really a great title. I can understand why it has the scores it has, and it has that clear undeniable Valve quality. Replay value to me seems a little higher than I thought it'd be, simply because it's so well-written.
I will say, however, that there were moments where they had that classic videogame problem of hitting a brick wall in a certain level or something. Some levels were hilariously easy to comprehend, while others took me about twenty minutes just to figure out what to portal where. Part of it came down to the problem that the levels in Portal 2 became far more organic (and far bigger) than anything in the first game, so that's just an inherent design choice that couldn't really be avoided. The levels in the first Portal game were scaled really nicely, but because of the way the story is written in the second game, the size, scale and difficulty of the game is all over the place, and progression becomes a bit disjointed. Replacing the elevators with loading screens, I think, is something I wish Valve hadn't done, because personally I really enjoy how it made the first game seamless. That's not a huge thing, but that's just a thought.
Still a great game, and a great sequel, but despite all of that it doesn't have that genius-of-the-moment that the original did.
Portal 2.
Been going through the challenges. Really a great title. I can understand why it has the scores it has, and it has that clear undeniable Valve quality. Replay value to me seems a little higher than I thought it'd be, simply because it's so well-written.
I will say, however, that there were moments where they had that classic videogame problem of hitting a brick wall in a certain level or something. Some levels were hilariously easy to comprehend, while others took me about twenty minutes just to figure out what to portal where. Part of it came down to the problem that the levels in Portal 2 became far more organic (and far bigger) than anything in the first game, so that's just an inherent design choice that couldn't really be avoided. The levels in the first Portal game were scaled really nicely, but because of the way the story is written in the second game, the size, scale and difficulty of the game is all over the place, and progression becomes a bit disjointed. Replacing the elevators with loading screens, I think, is something I wish Valve hadn't done, because personally I really enjoy how it made the first game seamless. That's not a huge thing, but that's just a thought.
Still a great game, and a great sequel, but despite all of that it doesn't have that genius-of-the-moment that the original did.
Super Mario
IT'S A ME!
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- Jesse McCree. I feel like a New Man
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Pimped out all recruits to Assassino levels 4-5 paces before the ending.
Pimped out all recruits to Assassino levels 4-5 paces before the ending.
Ryushikaze
Deus Admiral Parsimonious, PHD, DDS, MD, JD, OBE
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- Tim, Ryu
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
Trick to beating game- coherent playstyle
Trick to beating boss- OMFGBUTTONSMASH.
Also, Skyward, still. Making inroads to the final area, though.
Trick to beating game- coherent playstyle
Trick to beating boss- OMFGBUTTONSMASH.
Also, Skyward, still. Making inroads to the final area, though.
Hisako
消えないひさ&#
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- Satsu, BRIAN BLESSED, MIGHTY AND WISE Junpei Iori: Ace Detective, Maccaffrickstonson von Lichtenstafford Frabenschnaben, Polite Krogan, Robert Baratheon
APB Reloaded.
Free to play came out on Steam in the past week or so. It's been marketed as some co-op-slash-versus GTA MMO, and it's not far from the truth. So, my thoughts. Uh.
Most of the people who got hyped up by the marketing the first time around a few years back remember how the game picked up about a hundred thousand players on release and then bombed out in three weeks. It's got a stronger draw as a free-to-play, and I have to say I'm pretty drawn into the feel of the game.
One of the main issues it had (and to a lesser extent, still has) was that there was extremely poor management between all the mechanics it was trying to juggle. Driving and shooting is something they've tried to marry together and while it's a sound concept there's just such poor management of resources that when the servers start to lag the entire experience turns from fun to clusterfuck. For a game that lets you sit outside a car window and shoot an assault rifle accurately with one hand, the cars are surprisingly less arcadey than you would think.
Getting orientated into the game is also more difficult than it should be. Granted, there's a complete tutorial server for every region, but besides the obligatory "go here and do X action" the game doesn't really tell you much. The interfaces are a little more than jumbled and for a long time I had to google more than a few How-tos and forum links in order to understand how to what goes where. All vendors in the servers sell the same stuff; they're only there for A) the convenience of being able to purchase your things wherever you need them to be, and B) to unlock a more specific variety of items themed to that faction/character, ie. "pledging allegience". For a long time I had no fucking idea what pledging allegience even did.
Nonetheless, a lot of the core concepts are just too fun to ignore and once I got a feel for the game I found myself having more and more fun the longer I levelled. The shooting is solid for a third-person MMO, the co-operative driving-shooting business is great when the servers are lag-free, and the fundamental idea of what I think is an unlimited sprint gives the game a much faster pace, even as an open-world MMO. Getting from A to B can be a chore, of course, but not as much of a chore as other MMOs can be since cars are everywhere and you're entitled to your own right at the start.
The most immense thing about APB Reloaded is the customisation. It's probably the most indepth character creation and customisation system I've seen yet. Everything is sliders, from skin tone to all the obligatory body shape, fitness/girth, facial structure, etc. A really neat thing is they've added sliders for hair length as well as style. Clothing and personal car customisation is also crazy deep, letting you create custom decals from a set of shapes and symbols, as well as letting you choose wherever you want the decals mapped on your character model. It's just... it's fucking amazing. Go youtube it
Free to play came out on Steam in the past week or so. It's been marketed as some co-op-slash-versus GTA MMO, and it's not far from the truth. So, my thoughts. Uh.
Most of the people who got hyped up by the marketing the first time around a few years back remember how the game picked up about a hundred thousand players on release and then bombed out in three weeks. It's got a stronger draw as a free-to-play, and I have to say I'm pretty drawn into the feel of the game.
One of the main issues it had (and to a lesser extent, still has) was that there was extremely poor management between all the mechanics it was trying to juggle. Driving and shooting is something they've tried to marry together and while it's a sound concept there's just such poor management of resources that when the servers start to lag the entire experience turns from fun to clusterfuck. For a game that lets you sit outside a car window and shoot an assault rifle accurately with one hand, the cars are surprisingly less arcadey than you would think.
Getting orientated into the game is also more difficult than it should be. Granted, there's a complete tutorial server for every region, but besides the obligatory "go here and do X action" the game doesn't really tell you much. The interfaces are a little more than jumbled and for a long time I had to google more than a few How-tos and forum links in order to understand how to what goes where. All vendors in the servers sell the same stuff; they're only there for A) the convenience of being able to purchase your things wherever you need them to be, and B) to unlock a more specific variety of items themed to that faction/character, ie. "pledging allegience". For a long time I had no fucking idea what pledging allegience even did.
Nonetheless, a lot of the core concepts are just too fun to ignore and once I got a feel for the game I found myself having more and more fun the longer I levelled. The shooting is solid for a third-person MMO, the co-operative driving-shooting business is great when the servers are lag-free, and the fundamental idea of what I think is an unlimited sprint gives the game a much faster pace, even as an open-world MMO. Getting from A to B can be a chore, of course, but not as much of a chore as other MMOs can be since cars are everywhere and you're entitled to your own right at the start.
The most immense thing about APB Reloaded is the customisation. It's probably the most indepth character creation and customisation system I've seen yet. Everything is sliders, from skin tone to all the obligatory body shape, fitness/girth, facial structure, etc. A really neat thing is they've added sliders for hair length as well as style. Clothing and personal car customisation is also crazy deep, letting you create custom decals from a set of shapes and symbols, as well as letting you choose wherever you want the decals mapped on your character model. It's just... it's fucking amazing. Go youtube it
Hisako
消えないひさ&#
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- Satsu, BRIAN BLESSED, MIGHTY AND WISE Junpei Iori: Ace Detective, Maccaffrickstonson von Lichtenstafford Frabenschnaben, Polite Krogan, Robert Baratheon
It's shootery enough for the levellin to not be boring, plus levelling is pretty fast
about 10 hours played atm and i'm like level 40-ish, it's not particularly base-level intensive. The time invested is mostly focused on levelling particular vendors for unique gear.
about 10 hours played atm and i'm like level 40-ish, it's not particularly base-level intensive. The time invested is mostly focused on levelling particular vendors for unique gear.
Rumpelstiltskin
Banned
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- L, Castiel, Scotty Mc Dickerson
Just downloaded FFIII for my iphone lol
Hisako
消えないひさ&#
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- Satsu, BRIAN BLESSED, MIGHTY AND WISE Junpei Iori: Ace Detective, Maccaffrickstonson von Lichtenstafford Frabenschnaben, Polite Krogan, Robert Baratheon
Grinding, you mean
Grinding implies doing the same thing over and over again
Most of the time they mix up the game modes, so it's only grinding in the same sense if you considered any other repetitive multiplayer shooter to be grinding
ed: OT, capitalising on my early-game access to SW:TOR. God the end of the trooper prologue was probably the only interesting twist/plot development. The planet was fucking dreary imo, far from the dust-bowl backwater the promos would have us believe, everything was sort of desaturated browns oranges and yellows, etc. Trying out a Sith agent now, Nal Hutta is a far more colorful and interesting backdrop at the very least.
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