Video Games What video games are you currently playing?

  On 11/1/2011 at 6:19 PM, Bubba69 said:

anybody pick up uncharted 3? Does it live up to the hype? Apparently target has buy 2 get one free deal going on right now so I might pick up, uncharted, arkham city, and something else.

fuck i don't know which game to get. BF3? Dark souls? ico/sotc collection? RAGE? Dead Island? INfamous 2? mass effect 2? dead space 2? resistance 1+2? resistance 3? LA noire?

fuck I have no idea.

okay uncharted 3, infamous 2, and batman. it's going to be a long night.

Onlive gave away 3 day rentals for a few games for Halloween, and I chose Fear 3. Was reeeeaaallly fun. I played through about 3/4 of the campaign... Wish I could afford to just buy it on there, but whatever. I hear the multiplayer modes are fun as hell as well.

got battlefield today its awesome.. anyone else play on xbox? addd me - smojphace303 and we will get the party going.

  On 11/2/2011 at 7:15 PM, chris moss acid said:

got battlefield today its awesome.. anyone else play on xbox? addd me - smojphace303 and we will get the party going.

been thinking about getting going on this. i think we should get the party going.

i think your right.

BF3's the bees knees. I'm going to love the shit outta that game for a long, long time.

i just dont like FPS single player/campaigns even battlefield3 singleplayer bored the shitout of me and i only got to sniper bit at the begining. multiplayer is super.. co-op i imagine would be the same as the single player, like shooting bots. just doesnt have the same effect as shooting another player. BFBC1/2 was fun though because it was quite funny. but idk maybe i should give the single player more time.

I'm to about chapter 11 in uncharted 3. Pretty awesome, it is a little bit more intimate than uncharted 2, hand to hand is a lot more fun. The game almost feels like heavy rain at times and not so much an action game, but then it throws ridiculous scenes at you. I don't know how far I am in the scope of the game but I haven't even seen any of the tech demos yet(like the plane level and the desert) except for the fire scene which was pretty amazing. Good game, I already think it is probably better than uncharted 2, except for

Okay, finished it. great, great, amazing game. It is kind of short though(took me around 11-12 hours or so), but never a boring, tedious, or dull moment in the game. I guess it is about the same length as uncharted 2. They certainly didn't make a worse game than 2, but I would say uncharted 2 is stronger in some areas and this game is stronger in other areas.

can't wait to play it again on hard... but now im on to batman

Has anyone tried this?

Looks amazing, but there's no bloody chance it'll work on my laptop - is there ?! *crosses fingers*

I have to agree with Bubba69, Uncharted 3 so far is brilliant. Nice action sequences, nice puzzles, amazing graphics, great gameplay, great sound. Really a solid game. I'm off to go finish it now. Eager to see how the rest of the story unfolds.

  On 11/3/2011 at 6:31 PM, mcbpete said:

Looks amazing, but there's no bloody chance it'll work on my laptop - is there ?! *crosses fingers*

Give it a shot ;)

You can play it from your browser.

http://1916.dadiugames.dk/

  On 11/3/2011 at 11:05 AM, usagi said:

bought MvC3 today

 

or MAVARU BASASU KAPUKON: FEITO OBU TU WARUDO as it's known in Japan.

You do know Ulitmate MvC3 is coming out soon, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGn5FKuwfY&feature=player_embedded

Just bought Lord of the Rings: War in the North... super stoked to play it, haven't played a good LotR game in ages.

I beat Uncharted 3 on normal. Fantastic game! I'm going through it now on Crushing difficulty. I'm following a guide to get the treasures. I think after this I'm gonna go back to the first Uncharted game and get the platinum. That is if MGS HD Collection and Skyrim aren't out by that time.

  On 11/3/2011 at 11:40 PM, Sprigg said:

Just bought Lord of the Rings: War in the North... super stoked to play it, haven't played a good LotR game in ages.

Be sure to tell us how it is. I'm thinking of getting it if it ends up being awesome.

Oh man, I'll have to buy Uncharted 3 tomorrow. Uncharted 2 was absolutely amazing. My favorite PS3 exclusive.

Getting a bit sick of Battlefield 3. Can't find any servers with decent map rotations (no conquest large 32 players, no rush with 64 players, no metro conquest pls) with people that do a bit of teamplay.

the multiplayer on uncharted 3 is pretty good too. highly recommended. I started playing batman and then I had a desire to play uncharted again all of a sudden so I started a new game on hard. batman is really good too.

The coolest thing about 'brand new' ULTIMATE variations on fighting games is that the ones before it that lack like 4 characters and 2 stages get cheaper.

  On 11/3/2011 at 11:44 PM, 747Music said:

I beat Uncharted 3 on normal. Fantastic game! I'm going through it now on Crushing difficulty. I'm following a guide to get the treasures. I think after this I'm gonna go back to the first Uncharted game and get the platinum. That is if MGS HD Collection and Skyrim aren't out by that time.

 

  On 11/3/2011 at 11:40 PM, Sprigg said:

Just bought Lord of the Rings: War in the North... super stoked to play it, haven't played a good LotR game in ages.

 

Be sure to tell us how it is. I'm thinking of getting it if it ends up being awesome.

Just finished the first dungeon, which took me about three hours. The game is pretty good... think Champions of Norrath/ Baldurs Gate: DA from the ps2 and you have the general idea of the game, but LotR style. It instantly has a very Tolkien middle-earth feel and they've tied the game in nicely with the lore from the books (and it follows the books rather than the movies; Aragorn decides he needs to travel to find the hobbits, rather than them showing up in Bree, so I assume I'll hear something about the barrow-downs or Tom Bombadil at some point). Essentially you play either an Elf from Rivendell, a human ranger or a dwarf. All three appear to be rangers who work as a team, who witnessed some stuff happening in the northern areas of middle-earth (I believe the book touched on events happening elsewhere but never went in depth) and come south to Bree to warn people/ meet with Aragorn, and that's how it starts.

It's fairly linear, and there are invisible walls galore, but the combat is solid and enemies to enough damage that dodging and blocking are actually necessary, which is rare in these games. Each character has a light and heavy attack and a few special abilities. Between stages, you can switch characters, but equipment can reset and the AI won't equip anything new really, so doing so might bollocks up your main because your equipment might poof away. I'm playing the elf mage character right now, she's tons of fun. She has a healing bubble/ arrow block spell that is extraordinarily useful, her ranged staff-bolts hurt a lot, and a couple of AoE melee spells get enemies off when she gets surrounded. There's enough loot to satisfy and most of it is decent, but i've seen complaints that there isn't enough (but i think those people expected Sacred or Diablo, and most loot in those games is crap anyway). Dialogue options all feel rather natural and I'm enjoying conversations quite a bit. It's a bit one-sided and the sidequests all boil down to 'talk to person x to get item y and give it to person z, to get something for person x,' but the dialogue is fairly interesting.

Levelling up, you get stat 3 points for your vitality, dexterity, strength and will and one skill point... pretty standard stuff there.

My only real (and fairly minor) complaints are that the AI will sometimes block my path so I have to roll past them, and that changing my chest armour doesn't change my appearance at all (could just be the character, or the fact that I'm not very far, but every other piece of armour [helm, shoulders, etc] changes appearance).

TLDR fun LotR game is fun. It's better if you're heavily into Tolkien's works. It isn't ground breaking, but it functions very well.

  On 11/3/2011 at 11:14 PM, usagi said:

I did know that but didn't really care enough to wait, I just wanted to try my hand at a fighting game as I haven't played one in ages. I still suck hugely at them.

Wow... any of the MvC would NOT have been my choice for wanting to play a fighting game if I wasn't any good at them... Super Street Fighter IV might have been a better choice, as I find the MvC games too manic to keep up with.

FreeSpace 2 because it's just about all my laptop will handle, and it's awesome.

  On 11/4/2011 at 4:44 PM, Dan C said:

FreeSpace 2 because it's just about all my laptop will handle, and it's awesome.

man, i bought that game for like $5 but can't get it to work with my MAC. the whole process is way too complicated for me.

  On 11/2/2011 at 9:26 PM, chris moss acid said:

i just dont like FPS single player/campaigns even battlefield3 singleplayer bored the shitout of me and i only got to sniper bit at the begining. multiplayer is super.. co-op i imagine would be the same as the single player, like shooting bots. just doesnt have the same effect as shooting another player. BFBC1/2 was fun though because it was quite funny. but idk maybe i should give the single player more time.

I just spent about a half hour on single play. cant be bothered. time for multiplayer!!! i'm going to get my ass destroyed.