Video Games What video games are you currently playing?

  On 8/21/2011 at 1:16 AM, disparaissant said:

mighty jill off

i think this game is about me

also holy FUCK IT IS SO FUCKING HARD

Just beat this.. no way I can do that in 12 minutes to get to the second level

  On 8/21/2011 at 2:38 AM, Gravity said:

  On 8/21/2011 at 1:38 AM, oscillik said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F60KTRePP4U

 

Looks like fun, I'll check the demo out on Steam later.

Checked it out, superb. Great soundtrack too.

  On 8/21/2011 at 2:15 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/19/2011 at 2:43 AM, Bubba69 said:

  On 8/18/2011 at 10:49 PM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/16/2011 at 9:50 PM, Bubba69 said:

I picked up dragon age origins on a whim. It seems kind of cool, but there is a lot of dialogue right now which is a huge turn-off for me when it comes to rpgs. I'm also not so sure about the combat, it seems a little shallow. just hold down x and hope for the best, use healing when needed, use talents.... Obviously I'll still keep playing, I'm a dwarf rogue, commoner. Fun though, hopefully it will open up a bit more now that I am done with the open sequence, im about to do the initiation ceremony with the grey dudes.

 

Man, if you don't care for tons of dialogue... you may not be into this game once it gets rolling. You'll spend a very large amount of time reading/listening/choosing from options in dialogue trees... and if you don't pay attention, you can fuck up the story slightly or anger party members so badly that they leave you. That said, I found combat to be fairly dull unless I swapped between my main character mage and Leliana (my rogue) on a frequent basis, but the rogues don't really get fun till mid-to-late-game when they can backstab people from the side and turn invisible in the middle of fights.

 

 

Yeah I have been playing it more now and I am growing to appreciate the dialogue more, since it is actually pretty clever. I just had my first holy shit moment where a merchant in the next town was price guaging and I pretended to be on his side and made the angry folk leave, then he offered a reward to me but I just killed him instead(it was a dialogue option). Alistair disapproved but Morrigan liked it. I like to fuck things up in RPGs and not plan things out really and just see what happens, same as I do in fallout 3 and such.

 

Yup, this game had some of the best dialogue I've encountered in a video game, especially Alistair's. Glad to hear you're warming up to the dialogue, man! The story is fairly typical fantasy, but the characters (especially Alistair, Zevran and Morrigan) more than make up for it. Did you bother doing the Mabari Warhound stuff in the Warden's camp? I found him to be a very, very awesome tank for a great portion of the game.

not sure who that is. I rescued the guy who was being held prisoner in the first village place and I have him though. He seems like a bad ass. Apparently the guy in the camp requires some kind of dlc(is this who you were talking about? wanted me to help capture back this old warden stronghold?).

  On 8/21/2011 at 4:26 AM, Bubba69 said:

  On 8/21/2011 at 2:15 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/19/2011 at 2:43 AM, Bubba69 said:

  On 8/18/2011 at 10:49 PM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/16/2011 at 9:50 PM, Bubba69 said:

I picked up dragon age origins on a whim. It seems kind of cool, but there is a lot of dialogue right now which is a huge turn-off for me when it comes to rpgs. I'm also not so sure about the combat, it seems a little shallow. just hold down x and hope for the best, use healing when needed, use talents.... Obviously I'll still keep playing, I'm a dwarf rogue, commoner. Fun though, hopefully it will open up a bit more now that I am done with the open sequence, im about to do the initiation ceremony with the grey dudes.

 

Man, if you don't care for tons of dialogue... you may not be into this game once it gets rolling. You'll spend a very large amount of time reading/listening/choosing from options in dialogue trees... and if you don't pay attention, you can fuck up the story slightly or anger party members so badly that they leave you. That said, I found combat to be fairly dull unless I swapped between my main character mage and Leliana (my rogue) on a frequent basis, but the rogues don't really get fun till mid-to-late-game when they can backstab people from the side and turn invisible in the middle of fights.

 

 

Yeah I have been playing it more now and I am growing to appreciate the dialogue more, since it is actually pretty clever. I just had my first holy shit moment where a merchant in the next town was price guaging and I pretended to be on his side and made the angry folk leave, then he offered a reward to me but I just killed him instead(it was a dialogue option). Alistair disapproved but Morrigan liked it. I like to fuck things up in RPGs and not plan things out really and just see what happens, same as I do in fallout 3 and such.

 

Yup, this game had some of the best dialogue I've encountered in a video game, especially Alistair's. Glad to hear you're warming up to the dialogue, man! The story is fairly typical fantasy, but the characters (especially Alistair, Zevran and Morrigan) more than make up for it. Did you bother doing the Mabari Warhound stuff in the Warden's camp? I found him to be a very, very awesome tank for a great portion of the game.

 

not sure who that is. I rescued the guy who was being held prisoner in the first village place and I have him though. He seems like a bad ass. Apparently the guy in the camp requires some kind of dlc(is this who you were talking about? wanted me to help capture back this old warden stronghold?).

Sorry, I meant in the area where you're inducted into the Grey Wardens. There's a dog you can help rescue or find or feed or something, and if you do that quest, it joins you as a companion sometime in the first or second village... the guy in the camp with the dlc, I never bothered with but I've heard it's just like a half-hour quest or something. The prisoner int he village, Sten, isn't too bad... I used mostly Alistair, Wynne (a healer you meet at the Mage's Tower) and one of the rogues in addition to my main, but Sten is pretty badass, especially at that early point in the game.

American McGee's Alice

Fallout New Vegas

Mariokart 64, seriously I saw it at a thrift store (they wanted $16 for it, they charge like $20 for the damn 64 ) and pocketed it and ive been playing the shit out of it :sup:

  On 8/21/2011 at 6:59 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/21/2011 at 4:26 AM, Bubba69 said:

  On 8/21/2011 at 2:15 AM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/19/2011 at 2:43 AM, Bubba69 said:

  On 8/18/2011 at 10:49 PM, Sprigg said:

  On 8/16/2011 at 9:50 PM, Bubba69 said:

I picked up dragon age origins on a whim. It seems kind of cool, but there is a lot of dialogue right now which is a huge turn-off for me when it comes to rpgs. I'm also not so sure about the combat, it seems a little shallow. just hold down x and hope for the best, use healing when needed, use talents.... Obviously I'll still keep playing, I'm a dwarf rogue, commoner. Fun though, hopefully it will open up a bit more now that I am done with the open sequence, im about to do the initiation ceremony with the grey dudes.

 

Man, if you don't care for tons of dialogue... you may not be into this game once it gets rolling. You'll spend a very large amount of time reading/listening/choosing from options in dialogue trees... and if you don't pay attention, you can fuck up the story slightly or anger party members so badly that they leave you. That said, I found combat to be fairly dull unless I swapped between my main character mage and Leliana (my rogue) on a frequent basis, but the rogues don't really get fun till mid-to-late-game when they can backstab people from the side and turn invisible in the middle of fights.

 

 

Yeah I have been playing it more now and I am growing to appreciate the dialogue more, since it is actually pretty clever. I just had my first holy shit moment where a merchant in the next town was price guaging and I pretended to be on his side and made the angry folk leave, then he offered a reward to me but I just killed him instead(it was a dialogue option). Alistair disapproved but Morrigan liked it. I like to fuck things up in RPGs and not plan things out really and just see what happens, same as I do in fallout 3 and such.

 

Yup, this game had some of the best dialogue I've encountered in a video game, especially Alistair's. Glad to hear you're warming up to the dialogue, man! The story is fairly typical fantasy, but the characters (especially Alistair, Zevran and Morrigan) more than make up for it. Did you bother doing the Mabari Warhound stuff in the Warden's camp? I found him to be a very, very awesome tank for a great portion of the game.

 

not sure who that is. I rescued the guy who was being held prisoner in the first village place and I have him though. He seems like a bad ass. Apparently the guy in the camp requires some kind of dlc(is this who you were talking about? wanted me to help capture back this old warden stronghold?).

 

Sorry, I meant in the area where you're inducted into the Grey Wardens. There's a dog you can help rescue or find or feed or something, and if you do that quest, it joins you as a companion sometime in the first or second village... the guy in the camp with the dlc, I never bothered with but I've heard it's just like a half-hour quest or something. The prisoner int he village, Sten, isn't too bad... I used mostly Alistair, Wynne (a healer you meet at the Mage's Tower) and one of the rogues in addition to my main, but Sten is pretty badass, especially at that early point in the game.

Oh yeah totally I've got the dog, but I'm not using him right now. i'm using alistair morrigan and sten and Rasperjack(my dwarf rogue character). I named the dog Farty.

I was going to try the Age of Conan freeplay, but when I clicked to download it said, and I'm paraphrasing, "not enough space on HDD, need 26 gig.".

I'm not paraphrasing when I said "Fuck that.".

Just finished Portal and I'm downloading Portal 2 from Steam right now. Didn't think I'd like games like these, but after getting them both since they were so cheap on the summer sale I hit a jackpot!

Nnnnnice !

Just got done watching this postmortem presented by Chahi. He shows off the tools he wrote to create the game, and what's also interesting is it seems he didn't plan much out before he actually sat down to do it.

bastion - it's a breath of fresh air in the action-rpg genre, very original setting and tone, the constant narration is well written, a very good touch that makes the whole experience flow very well, great music and challenging combat. recommended !

  On 8/22/2011 at 6:13 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Just got done watching this postmortem presented by Chahi. He shows off the tools he wrote to create the game, and what's also interesting is it seems he didn't plan much out before he actually sat down to do it.

Ah nice, I look forward to watching that when I get home. I read a big 'making of' in Edge or Retrogamer and the improvised fashion in which he constructed the game was really refreshing in this era of uber-planning

Stuck at the end of Outland... The Sisters boss battle is a pain in the ass.

  On 8/22/2011 at 6:14 PM, eugene said:

bastion - it's a breath of fresh air in the action-rpg genre, very original setting and tone, the constant narration is well written, a very good touch that makes the whole experience flow very well, great music and challenging combat. recommended !

Absolutely, just finished it (the first ending with the first instances). I'll have to play it again, but it's really good. The best thing on XBLA since Braid and Limbo.

i was thinkin about trying bastion out since i got xbox live again but I DONT KNOWWWWWWWW

does any one want to add me on here that i addont have yet on xbox live ??? maybe i could play some games with you guys

i might get bastion does it have multi player?

No multiplayer. Get the demo.

i did get the demo and i liked it but i dont know if i 15 dollars liked it

im on the fence or so they say

I went on XBLA already certain I was going to buy something and I thought it easily beat the recent competition, From Dust (interesting, but the controls and camera-angles weren't good enough) and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (nothing special). It even got in ahead of Sam&Max (too expensive) and DeathSpank 2 (too repetitive).

ah ya thats the difference im not fully ready to commit to buying something yet ... but if i was i proly would get it. i guess ill just wait til i am ready

  On 8/21/2011 at 7:45 AM, Bubba69 said:

Oh yeah totally I've got the dog, but I'm not using him right now. i'm using alistair morrigan and sten and Rasperjack(my dwarf rogue character). I named the dog Farty.

Farty? Nice name haha... I dun remember what I named mine, penispusher or something like that... alistair morgan sten and a rogue should pretty much rape anything you encounter, so long as you make sure to give Morrigan a couple healing spells... and just fyi, some of the Entropy spells are absolutely phenomenal, especially if you use Nightmare on an enemy after using sleep, or cast a glyph of warding and then cast paralysis on said glyph (it'll paralyze every enemy in a massive radius)

Little Big Planet - 10/10

This, Halo 1, and Mario Galaxy are my 3 favorite games of the past 10 years. Bravo. All 10/10s.

Spyro 1 - was a genius game when I was a kid. now it's pretty dated but still fun. The music is among the greatest [some guy from the Police did it]

  On 8/23/2011 at 9:27 PM, vamos scorcho said:

Little Big Planet - 10/10

 

This, Halo 1, and Mario Galaxy are my 3 favorite games of the past 10 years. Bravo. All 10/10s.

 

 

 

 

Spyro 1 - was a genius game when I was a kid. now it's pretty dated but still fun. The music is among the greatest [some guy from the Police did it]

You really need to play Little Big Planet 2 - as hard as it is to believe, it's loads better than LBP1.

And you're thinking of Stewart Copeland, the former drummer of The Police.

  On 8/23/2011 at 9:27 PM, vamos scorcho said:

Spyro 1 - was a genius game when I was a kid. now it's pretty dated but still fun. The music is among the greatest [some guy from the Police did it]

I recently ordered Spyro 1 & 3 on the PS1 (I already own Spyro 2). This series is a classic.